hEE YARNS FOR A prr Told 4 e Vu ln tw nr "iim. ' ,siii:lTi In r ll.u; of ;i mi place at t Ks li i ll is op lends tor sin liz.ard c:no 5, , - n unprovided tiienl. v a week. li, 1 SOU WEI EI J, ale house THE CONSTITUTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and. Proprietor. the aolitu le crowd v All thii VOL. XUI. MIFFL1NTOWX. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 20, 1SSS. NO. 2G. anyl t it itt. OW. vul; tin IU II ,' II. 1 .irk i .! A I. t'. git.it U.M1 t!;.' ' 1 t I tt lit ll .1 oiuiveu 1 -t - 1 won the prize. . v.;s truly wonderful, I t .iiipiuv Willi uiT ravto. I 1. night tlirm new in Jerv . ii-cl tlicni ti cart a load . . ; .i 1 .i.l' i . 1 1 U lull to my hoii Lining ilt.--iii.iliy as I loadedt .-is w.igon, and the r.iwh. g. t t : -r Miiilily soaked. Wt : . ly I ununited one of t . ,i ! '.i. ' t. the house. Wli tii i" 1 found th.it the wap : I . Ui 't. The wet truces b . ! !!. uholu half ruiV. Hi . i ..id fix, :ud us the fun cameo I tiL don Li think about sun got so Let I went iudovl ..- !,.-i-rs suinaing. 1 . i:n- out a minute b - v.. n- -tiainiirg lo Keeplij! . i i! .wu the lull. Lookll I . .. n,y l..ad of wooil rumb ll I .i j' illy late. 1 was M f i understand what wf . i! si i, in saw that as t : ... 1 1 . i- im tiny w ere contra. - ,:..i rale they had stretch. , ..;! .is the horses held t t.ip of the hill the was im to the horses. IaftJ i 1 a company for lifting si :v window. Jay Uoi :.i i.i'V and I put In tl ' . i ot!i got nch. The way r-. was in Irving to sou:: -prmg in i enusylvan. .. . ,l.t to one end and drti : . -in in-. As the weit t ! i- . l.'i.t iiri those tracesspi : i,t tln v l.ecame so finr a t utteiby chancing to 13 : . il l, it snapped snort uu .1. i ne.l "Chestnut:-' at t . f tins story. When the c . i Al Prune began. he said. "I haveh . v;.4 l lenci-S SUCll US JOU: s. .me gunpowder once W . i n in.ukal.le. 1 am sou :tn:iii as vou know. , . i .:u. iit.n with new brat' i 'u this occasion I pus . : : . t t ho k w der and pl; i . , f..,i :ivaw at a wb i i. .-t nwav. When tl : 1 didn't see a mark r . s.Mmpil ineonceiraf1 . i ui v lf that I can hit a tlirl t. 1 walked over an i w ' .1 a scratch on it, I ulleu 1 .t, and thought about . .l. e I could have m v. .lust then there w i - in the air and a rat 1 looked at it a: m u.I ad over with ah" .ii.-... It puzzled me. in uli broke upon me. v l.c.id and remarked but that's slowpo" i r, r -n.ed blankly at f . i... Corner. The taw afmVl piteoiisiy, aau ""-,n -t Tuesday's election inrA.J. .Prime wort 1 '.;. nbtion in his butt. l ,,i it was "-fri(,.J ,v tew intimate tnf .. showe.1 thetiwueu ,,. on it luinit ". il with a scam:, y m, .,,'.! was enu'raved oi I 1.. i-S I.I AII. -.ii.i n i.Y l'i:JSTUATB. "T J .w.i,,. .onveisaiuin occurred 1 1 -a two elegantly .?Xou7 ,-.n ore of tho most fasuioi I i. - i . . . i . a -mn-t room w i, iuilty wile irave her tesUoioij divorce suit?" , mt V.s, and 1 w as so rt'ocked. J ly prostrated by ire iatioVs that 1 couldn't et u I h, t&tf IrV f o Uie court room. i 1 H e court a.ljouruea j u to-ciorrow." M ..in l.T Cool. B"E'1,.i, I st for a waiter) WW " j ,.:.h hauteur- J A Woman's Son. Phe took hn song to beanty'a alda, Wbre rtrhra are, ami pomp aol pride; Ther In th world ami.Ut tlta crowd. Bhe foun.l out heartu by sorrow bowtsl; Ami nild.st a dream of licbt aoj lreaa fcte saw the pain of looeiineaa, Hi-r Toice' maiio held a tear, Sba mule the weary ones draw near And all tte iaioo of the throng AVere melted luto peace by aonsl She took her ons alonn the utieet. And hushed the beat of pawing feet, And tirvd toilen toppe.t to fill Tlietr hearts with mu-lc at her wIIL th sang of rent for weary feet, f m vmon, and of meadow-sweet: Her vntre'a plea.linj nulled the air. And little children wept with her; t all their sorrow, grief and pain She nufiened into love aaln. Phe took her song to those, who rest ciare in the clasp of Nature' breast. Amid the graves, along the shore, Washed with salt tears forevermiire; And then she san;. How long! How long! llefore we hear thai perfect song 1 hat angel bymnl That mystic strain, V hen th se who loved shall love again, When life's lonsr strnpg'.e shall be ble&t Wilh music of Internal Kestt MY MODERN GRlUDlH;ilTEC I am an old lady no matter how old but not intlrm; and I am also old fashioned euougti to prefer the old manners to the new. 1 never lean against the back of my chair, nor ap pear at the breakfast table In my wrapper, and no one, except my maid, ever sees my curl-papers. I was brought up not to take mr ease in pub lic. But my granddaughter, Ethel, is very different. She eays: "Oh, let's lie comfortable, grandma!" She has "given up" actually ziven up wearing- corsets. "They're not hygienic, grandma. Hygienic to a woman of my ae, who never Tia.1 a headache." "What kind of a figure do you expect to have? I asked severely. fJranduia," she answered, shaking her pretty head it is pretty "my waist measures just three Inches less than the Venus de Medici's." "Then all I can say is, that Miss de Medici would have been considered a very dump young woman iu my day," I answered. tlhel laughed. Times are sadly changed. The modem young girl laughs at her grandmother, ami does many other curious things. She learns curious things at.school, too. One day she rushed home from school, her curls all flying In the breeze. "(.truudma," she cried, "I've learned something wonderful to-dayl If you should cut your brachial artery " "liut I don't intend to cut my bra chial artery at my time of life," said I, with Home dignity. "Hut if you should, grandma, I could stop the flow of blood instantly, and save your life. See herel" and before I knew what the child was doing, she had my arm all tied up in a knotted handkerchief, with a broom-stick twisted through one end so tight that I thought she would amputate it on the spot. That is a very strange sort of knowledge to give a young girl. It doesn't seem ladylike. Then, too, she has such perfect self reliance! Why, my granddaughter, Ethel Starr Uiymond, sits down some times and looks into my eyes with such a level gaze, and talks to me with such reliance on the accuracy of her own views, that I might be the school-girl and she the old lady, for all the defer ence Blie pays to my views. More over, something that happened recently gives the child a great advantage over me; and as sure as 1 say, "Ethel, do be a little more feminine!" she has a roguish ghiaru iu her brown eyes, aud is sure to say: "liut, grandma, if I must be so soft and feminine, what will you do if the man-ln-the-nioou' comes down again?" I suppo.se I must tell the whole story. I have been a great traveler in my day north, east, south and west. I haven't beeu to Africa yet, but there's no telling Imt that I yet may round the Cape of Good hope. Iast autnmn, when Ethel took a bal cold, which gradually developed intj bronchitis. J thought nothing of pack ing up and starting off for California with her. We stopped at a beautiful little town, situated in a valley not far from San Francisco Bay. with the soft hills of the Coast Itange all around us, aud taking a furnished house, settled down comfortably for the winter. .Now I have ient a great deal of time in my lire looking for somebody. It is a Man. No matter how incon venient it might be, neither heat nor cold, late hours nor early, company nor lack of company, could ever induce me to neglect the time-honored custom of looking for that man who hides under beds, shuts himself up in closets, folds himself behind doors, or doubles) up in dark corners, for the purpose of robbing and scaring peaceful and unprotected women. If all the precious hours that good women are forced to spend in this pur suit could be added up, turned Into dollars, and put out at interest. I am sure they would pay the national debt, with something left ovsr to put In the bank. Well, tne house we took for oor California winter was an old-fanh!onel. rambling house that had been "brought around the Horn iu Ml" in pieces, aud was full of hiding places. All around the front and sides wero wide verandas, shaded by great acacia and ever-green trees; then the orlglual house had various additions, wings, and U's up one step, or down two, or attached by Jong, narrow halls, full or dim outlines, that a lively fancy would easily turn into the shadow of a man. A stray black cat, which no persua sion in the way of sticks and stones could induce to retire, furnished many a nightly alarm, and caused a more thorough nightly search. My maid slept on the same floor with us, but the other servants, who, after the fashion of the country, were both nioou-eyed Chinese, roomed in a small detached house at the end of a large, neglected garden, beautiful wifi feath ery locust trees, fan ralms, great rose bushes, one or two orange trees, and beds of brilliant flowers, which grew with the wild luxuriance of a semi tropical climate. The garden was full of fragrant charms and full of hiding places. 1 never dared even look Into it after dark. , In the evening it was now April Ethel aud 1 usually sat on the upper veranda, and there spent the hours, drinking m the sott, delicious air, and feasting our eyes, if It was moonlight. on the lovely laudscainj, the valley clad S In th tender green of early spring. f Tua rounded, waving outline of the coast range vas lighted op off la the western foothills by the twinkling lights of a great turretted, pinnacled structure that looked like some beauti ful castle, transported from a roreign land, but was, alal only an asylum for the insane. One night, about ten o'clock, when the early moon had already gone to sleep, and a soft darkness covered val ley and hill, we went reluctantly to our rooms to prepare for the night's rest. It was so pleasant that it gave a guilty sense of wastins time to spend It iu sleep. I had just put on my soft flannel, dreeing-aack, and unpinned my hair It is my own hair, too ready for Ellen, my maid, to brush tt out, when Ethel, with a light rap, opened the door, and stood there for a moment, framed in the dark wood work, with the dusky hall for a background, looking "pretty as a picture." She had put on a long white cash mere wrapper, let down her bright auburn hair, which fell In curling masses to her waist, and floated around her head like an aureola. A wax taper held high up in the air threw a bright light on the blooming face, the saucy nose, a little up, and the rosy mouth; the graceful folds of the cashmere con cealed the fact that she had ''no figure to speak of." and altogether she looked so cunning that my heart warmed toward her, trying as are sjme of her ways. "Come, grand mal" said she, gaily. "We haven't looked for the man-lu-the-moon yet." This is a port name she used to de note her cheerful scepticism on the subject of my fears. She isn't afraid of anything. It doesnt look well for a girl to be so courageous. In my time, girls were afraid of everything, even a mouse, nowadays they dissect mice. I caught up the poker, and 'Ethel seized a lawn-tennis racquet, that had been laid a-nJe for repairs; El leu, my maid, brought up the rear or the col umn, armed with a lare, ivory-backed hair brush, and altogether we had quite the air of tint amusing painting of Toby Uosenthal'd, "The Seminary Alarmed." "I'l tell you what I shall do, grand ma, if the 'maa-in-the-moon ever does coma down," said Ethel. "Just feel of my triceps" (or biceps) and doubling up her arm, she put my baud on It to feel a place as hard as a door-knob. She got that going to the gymnasium, climbing upstairs on her bands instead of her feet, throwiug luuib-D2lls, Just like a boy. I don't approve of such things. In my days girls danced the minuet. "I should just strike out from the shoulder, so." And, suiting the action to the words, she "struck out." Away went the racquet right through the mirror, shivering it into a thousand fragments. We all stood aghast, but Ethel recov ered herself at oc.ee. "I tell you, graudma, if I should do that, it would be the last of ' him. wouldn't it? Come, let's go on, and then I'll help Ellen gather up the frag ments." Here Ethel droppal on her knees, and explored with the offending rac quet every nook and corner of the dim fecess under the bed. "Mr. Nobody here now," said she, getting up with flushed face aud tum bled hair; "don't say after this, grand ma, that I'm not attentive." We then gave the closet a thorough investigation, thumped on the walls with a poker, shook out the water proofs, that are certain to look as If the sleeves were stuffed full of arms, looked in old shoe boxes, and finally, standinz up in a chair, I rummaged along a shelf runulng the length of the Closet, where I was always afraid that some tramp would lay himself away through the day. Satisfied at last, we took up the line of march, in and out of the winding halls, up and down through vacant rooms, snaking old clothes, thumping dead walls, poking into broken boxes, and opening invalided trunks, until we reached the last room, a little bedroom, with a shelving roof, at the end of which was a low door, leading into a small closet, half-lilled with a box of worm-eaten books. "Thus endeth the farce," said Ethel, throwing wide the little door, and There he was! Low-browed, villainous, a shock of coarse black hiir bristling on his bead, r. fierce black eye, glancing out of li s his htad, a bunch of false keys In one hand aud a pistol in the other. Ethel entirely forgot about "striking out from the shoulder." As for me, th- poker fell from my limp and trembling hand, and I said of all the abmrd things that a wjinmi could say on sues nn occasion I said, as if he were a long-expected friend, "II-o-w, how do you do?" At this strange salutation, a grim smile lurked round the corners of the nun's mouth. "Itather warm in heie, thank you," he replied, with a mocking air of politeness. "With your permission I'll step out." There was an ominous click of the pistol, and the man stepped out. The Ilowly Virgin save us!" cried Eln, she wears a French cap, but speaks with a Dublin accent and she forthwith fell upon her knees, and began to tell her beads. The burglar wiped the drops of sweat from his ugly brow, and looked gieedily at thedtamond scarf-pin which fattened my lace kerchief. "Pon't be afraid, old lady," satd he, familiarly;. "I shau't hurt you, but I'll trouble you for that pin." "If It had Ceeu to save my life. I could not have moved my trembling hands; but Ethel stepped forward to unclasp it, and. if you'll believe me. that chili was as cool as a December morn lug. First water," said I the burglar, grasping the pin, looking at it, aud then stuffing in into bis pocket. "ow, old lady, your watch." That cut me to the heart, for Ethel's grand father had given me that watch for a wedding present. It was Bet with pearls all around the face, and on the back, enamelled in blue, was a forget-me-not. In small diamonds. I value! It next to my wedding ring, but mercy! In a twinkling that went, too. "Bather thin," said he, "but will do to melt up." Dear mel I would almost as soon have my withered old heart melted up. "Xow" said he, turning to Ethel, ''we'll take the bureau-drawers." Ellen was lying on the floor, where she bad gone from devotion to insensi bility, so Ethel lighted the way back to my room; and, if ever a woman suf fered, I suffered, while this thief's coarse hands tossed about the cherished keepsakes of my life. Spoiling the JSgyptians," said he, with clumsy wit. "And now, old lady, I'll take that bag of twenties you got at the bank this morning." Too truel I had that very morning drawn a quarter's income all In dou ble eagles. How had the wretch found it out? For a moment I hesitated, but that ominous clickl and quickly the canvas bag came from Its hiding place, the middle of a long bolster, that I always slept on. The burglar counted it leisurely he was in no hurry. "An J. now, little miss," said he, I'll trouble you to show me the family silver." Without a moment's hesitation, Ethel led the wretch down the winding staircase, through the square hall with its dark red walls, into the parlor, a dim, old-fashioned room, with a great, open fireplace. In which a wood-Ore still smouldered on the brass andirons. On each side of the fireplace was an arched niche; one filled with the books of a small library, and in the other hung an exquisite copy of one of Raphael's Madonnas. Will you believe? As his eyes caught sight of the virgin, this robber his pockets full of stolen goods made a sign of the cross, and muttered an Ave Maria. The parlor led into a long, oak-panelled diumg room, divided through the middle by a crimson portiere. Two large closets opened from it; one, the first, for china, and the other for the storage of the house-linen. To my surprise, it was the door or this second c'oset.hat Ethel opened, and pointed to a black box, shoved back on th9 top shelf. I remembered then that a small part of the family silver had been stowed there, to be used only In case of necessity; the rest had beeu sent by the family who owned the house, to the Safe Deposit. In the corner next the door was a step-ladder used for house-cleaning purposes. Just as the burglar snzed this, a tremendous noise, like the tramping of armed men and the mad rolling of cannon balls, made him drop the ladder aud cook his pistol quickly. We thought of rescue, but the noise came from a colony of rats iu posses sion of the neighboring attic. Seizing the ladder agaiu, the burglar set it against the shelves in the farther corner of tfce closet, climbing heavily to the top of it, and laid his hand on the box. when, presto! changel quick as lightning, Ethel shut the door with a crash, turned the key. shoved the bolt, and there he was, a prisoner. "I've got him, grandma! I've got him! she cried, "1 meant to get him all the time!" The man struggled like a caged lion. Kicks and blows rained on the door, curses loud and deep filled the little room; frantic poundings with his huge lists were thrown away on oaken planks felled in the old Bay State, and thoroughly seasoned by coming "arouud the hora in '49." But what shall we do, now? Ellen, who, at the culmination of Ethel's daring, had sat down on the floor, and bumped her head, not very gently, against the wall, now struggled to her feet, and we held a council of. war. It was talf-past eleven. The night was black, the streets dark, the super visors had just decided, in a fit of economy, not to light the street lamps for the next six mouths, and our house was the only one in the fifty yard lot forming the square. The garden was full of hiding places, where some con federate might even then be lurking, ready to pounce out upon us if we ven tured out. On the hole, it seemed best to hold our prisoner until morning, when we could arouse the Chinese servants and send for help. So we brought out the lamp aud victualled the garrison. Ellen made some strong coffee over a spirit lamp, and we sat there all night and waited, paying lit tle attention to the fierce threats and thundering blows again.st the wall that emphasized the rage of our cap'.ive. With the first morning light, we aroused Ah Lung, the cook, and, hav ing satined his moon-eyed wonder, sent out for the officers of the law, who soon bad our prisoner handcuffed and caged m the county jail. You eee now why I find it up-hill work to discipline my grand-daughter EtheL I have told you how sh-f an swers me when I try to reprove her. But there's one comfort at least. 'That man" I have been laughed at a great deal of my life for looking for him was "caught at last." Why Corn lir-al is Scarcn. Corn Ureal, once a staple and com mon articls of food. Is coming to be regarded as a luxury. Not only is this true of the north, but also of the south, where Indian corn was at one time preferred to wheat for making bread. A Georgian said iu explanation of the change: "The complaint tnat a really prime article of corn or Indian meal cannot be obtained in towns aud cities is general. A country miller told me that he could not produce good corn meal by the use of modern grind in I machinery. The soft and best flavored meal is made from new corn. This the proprietors at large mills refuse to grind. To get good cornmeal the grind ing must be done slowly, and it must be given time to cool properly before It is moved. This can only be doue in country mills, and tte supply is far behind the demand. "Besides this, cornmoal cannot be kept long without deteriorating. It is not in the matter of bread making alone, however, that cornmeal has fallen into disuse; it Is less used for cooking purposes generally. The great increase in wheat growing and the im provements in the flour making line, together with the high price of com aud low price of wheat, is in part re sponsible for this state of things. Few persons now use corn for economical reasons. Many, however, would prefer it for a considerable portion of the time. If a good article could be pro cured. The southern corn is preferred of all others, although the flint corn raised in New Englacd Is an excellent article; but It requires a large amount of cooking. Corn that grows In the prairie regions of the west is the most undesirable, and as this represents most of the cereal that is for sale- it is not used to any great extent.' Sealing; Wax Caosinjc Trouble. In a notice recently issued the post office recommends the disuse of sealing wax on ordinary letters for countries over the sea. It often happens that the wax Is melted by the heat under the tropics or by the fumigations to which mad bags are subjected. Ia La Plata, for instance, the letters are found to stick together so that they cannot be separated without injury to the address, and are in this way often lost. Ordinary letters are quite sufficiently sealed with gum or wafers, and registered letters, for which wax seals are required, are carefully handled on the way. TOE KING'S DAUGHTERS. A Picturesque Koligioua Order of Xuese Tunes. Perhaps the most wonderful religi ous organization which has ever sprung up In this country is that of the "King's Daughters." Its members already number about 40,000, and are increas ing all the time. It is wonderful, be cause it is so simple. It contains no long drawn out code of ethics, and its simplest precept is the golden rule. The motto of this order Is "In Uis Name," and it means that any mem ber shall "lend a hand" to her fellow creatures when necessary. The idea was in a measure suggested by Edward Everett Hale in his book "Ten Times One is Ten." The book also contains these mot toes, which he gave to the world: Look upani nut down; Look lorwarJ unil not back; Iook out and not in, uud Lvnil a hand. The society of "The King's Daugh ters" was first started in New York in 1SS0 by Mrs. Bottome. Ten ladies met to consider how they could give more help for good by uniting together than by each trying to work separately. They adopted luxl 10 Idea, and called their band "The King's Daugh ters." They chose for their badge a little purple ribbon to be worn either with or without the Maltese cross, and adopted the lend a hand mottoes printed above. Their watchword was "In His Name." Ech branch or the society (chapter) consists of at least ten members, and the general sooiety In cludes all branches. Anything, how ever small or simple, that helps another human being to be better or happier is proper work for "The King's Daughters," and every branch may therefore be left to choose its special work, (according to location and cir cumstances. Each ten may organize and elect officers, though this is not es sential in so small a body. There is nothing of a secret society character about the organization, but not even the Masonic sign meet the readier rec ognition than the tiny silver Maltese cross with the initials I. II. X. or the significant bit of purple ribbon in the button hole wins for its wearer. The signilicance of wearing this cross is that its owner has adopted the motto into her daily life; that, "In Ills Name" she is willing to serve any other woman, stranger or friend, wherever, whenever and however she may; that she recognizes practically her sisterhood with all other women; that any reasonable request made her "In His Name" will be readily granted. Mrs. Bottome is the president of the central couucil; Mrs. M. Li. D.ckinson, of 2:0 West Fifty-ninth street. New York, is the secretary, and to her all applications for the establishment of chapters should be addressed. The fee of membership is only ten cents thus bringing It within the means of the poor, though not limiting the con tributions of the rich. Perhaps the objects of the order Is be3t stated by Mrs. Dickinson in HINTS AND IlELrS FOIt TIIE ORDER. Each branch consists of at loast ten mem ber. The ff.-ncral society includes all branches. Any woman may lorui a branch by uniting niueothcr wiimi-u with herself for joint effort lu duiii good. Each branch may choo?e its special work. Anything, however small or simple, that helps another human bein? to bi better or happier is proper work for the Daughters of the King. There should be frequent meetings of each ten, at such intervals as they may choose. Such meeting should open with a passage of Scripture or a hymn and prayer. Reports should be given of the good accomplished, and plans for future work discussed. "Whatever special work may be doae all branches have the common work of increasing the number of tens. Every member of a ten may form any number of tens. One may be the King's Daugh ter and unite with no ten. Ou the other hand, tens may be formed with aut adopting the order's chosen name. Each ten may organize and elect offi cers, but in so small a body it is not essential. The one who forms a ten should keep a list of members and lines af work, and such Interesting features ind incidents as mark the growth and purposes of the branch. It is contrary to the spirit of so elas tic an organization to define the routine f what each ten shall.be aud da These points each must settle in ac cordance with its own conditions. The tame suggestions would not be belnfu! jo all branches, and auy question that may arise In the practical working of a aranch may be addressed to the secre- ; ry. The secretary. Mr.. Dickinson, re ceives and files the vast number of let ters which come in the shape of inqui ries and reports, aud an attempt is aeiug made to organize the society into itate associations and chapters and to prepare from these letters some classi lied report of the work accomplished. These plans are not yet perfected, but is soon as they are they will be given to the order and explained bv those authorized to those w.shlug to join the order. The Legion Is another society which has grown out of the King's Daugh ters, aud embodies the same idea. The two orders are, however, somewhat different in their manner of work. The Alabaster Uoi; or. The Secret or tbe lcad. We bad often begged Miss Saphore to tell us the story of her life, but she answered it should never come to light until she was dead and the ala baster box was opened. This casket, which contained the secret of tbe old lady's past, was carved with quaint flowers, and the key to its contents she wore about her wrinkled throat by a slender chain of gold. At last the time came when all that was mortal of Miss Saphore was laid away to rest, and a manuscript ad dressed to the oldest of us told the tale we had so longed to hear. It ran as follows: "The past is past. there Is no need or concealment now. Yet I wonder if 1 shall meet him first in that spirit land to which I am jour neying. I know he will come to meet me If he can, for be has been waiting these many, many years. Hawdon and I loved each other as children.and in after life renewed the pledges we bad made to each other as boy and girl. "Eighty years ago, and I was one-and-twenty then, only one-and-tweuty, but I remember I had hair like amber, I bad eyes like black velvet, I bad a waist one could span with two bands, and a bust like liebe'a, I was beau- tiful; but he was divine Apollo Belve dere come to lite. 'One day be said to me. "'Will you be my wife?' and I said, 'Yours or no man's.' And we changed rings. My gift was a pearl, his an opal. So we defied fate for pearls mean tears, and woe to love that is pledged in opals. "Bury my opal with me, and his hand on my heart with the pearl upon its finger. Yes, his hand. I see you shudder, pretty ones. I did not shudder. I took it. cold as it was, and kissed it. I have kissed it every day for eighty years. I dared not tell you I could not tell you but now you shall know. T,eo came from India yellow, splendid with jewels, panther like In movement, wilh a panther's eyes, and he asked my father for me. "Leo was a cousin far away, far away but a cousin; and oh, how rich be was, and Rawdon wa3 not, and mv father bade me marry Leo and my mother forbade me to meet Rawdon and I wept and besought, but in vain. And I even told Leo that 1 loved an other and begged him to leave me. But he was of Ignoble soul. He laughed. ' I love you,' he said, 'and I will have you If I can, whether you love me or not.' 'And those were days when girls were given by their parents, and were not their own mistresses as they now are. And Rawdon, forbidden the house, used to meet me in lonely spots, until they found us out, and I was locked up in my chamber, when one day my maid brought me a letter. It was signed with Rawdon's name, and it told me that, losing all hope of win ning me, he had left tbe country, never to return, aud that his advice to me was to marry Leo. 'Oh, at that I went quite mad for a while, and when I was well of the fever that fell upon me, I cared not what be came of me. So they told Leo I should be his, and they set to work on my wedding garments. And 1 did not weep. I sat thinking and thinking. One thought oftenest in my mind, my secret meetings with Rawdon. We had one place of rendezvous that we thought no one could discover. It was a cave to which strangers sometimes came out of curiosity, but of which the neighborhood took little heed. It was deep and dark, but within it was a spring. Of the water no one drank, as it was sure death to do so; but as suredly It had a strange property. Whatever lay within it for a time was turned to stone. Little crawling things, fish, and even toads bad been found there all petrified. Here in the hush of evening we wended our way. lit by our dark lanterns. The place was cold and murky; but our hearts were warm, our love sweet and bright. Happy, happy had I been there, aud I longed to go there again. 1 longed for days and for hours, and at last when the very eve of my bridal had come I donned my old nurse's cloak and hood and stole away over the misty mead ows, where will-o'-the-wisps danced before me; through the woods where the owls hooted; down into the hollow where the cave lay. As I entered the cave bats flapped their wings in my face and I felt a suake glide by; but 1 opened my lantern and tbe light fell upon the stone?, and the water of the spring caught its rays, and tha stalac tites that hung from the roof glittered, and I thought a white spirit form glided by me perhaps it did; and I heard a voice call me by name, and a horror fell upon me, and I was kneeling by the spring. Something lay beside me. It was a skeleton uow a skeleton clad In garments blue with mould, but with a dagger still sticking In Its breast that proved tha. the man had been murdered, but as It fell its left haud had dropped into the petrifying water of the spring's pool and lay there still, a hand of stone with a ring upon its nger aud stone lace upon its wrist. The water could not change gold and gems. 1 knew the pearl ring I had given Rawdon. Pearls for tears paarls for tears. Eighty years ago but I shudder, I tremble, I quiver all over as I write and I know as I knew then that Leo had murdered Rawdon; and I took the hand of my love to my heart, and fled through the niht, waking it with shrieks for help. They came to me, they gathered about me, they went to the cive, they saw the sight I had seen, they found on the dagger Leo's name, they found in the cave a letter forged to lead him there eigned by my name, and they knew it was Leo who forged it. But lie was a kinsman, and he was wealthy. He lied aud they did not pursue, and they left me alone with all that was left of my dead lover, aud spoke never more of wedding me to any one. This is the story 1 could not telL You know it now, and 1 know all that death can tea?h me. Adieu." A Joke ou Cabby. Did you every try to play on a cab man that old j ke of "the lost sove reign?" Its lots of fuu A friend of mine tried it last summer In Loudon, and bucceeded, too, in spite of the rather chestnutty flavor of this pract. cal joke. He took a "growler" (four wheel cab) after midnight at Picca dilly circus to go to his lodgings in 15 lys water. Remembering the stateness of the 'lost sovereign" dodge, lie thought It would hardly "go down" with a bright and cunning Loudon cabby, but resolved to try just for the fun of it. Just as they came in front of a public house a few doors from his home the fare" stuck bis head out of the cab window and ordered lhe driver to halt. "I say, cabby, I've dropped a sov in the straw on the bottom of the coach; just pull up at that 'pub' till I run In and get a match so that I can find the coin." "All right, sir," said the cabby, and pulled up opposite the door of the tavern. My friend alighted and had taken scarcely three steps of the "pub" when lo! Mr. Cabby whipped up his horses and flew away Into tbe foggy night, carrying with him (as he supposed) that sovereign snugly concealed In the straw. The gentleman having now reached bis lodgings and without expense, smiled a smole "like unto the neighing of all Tattersall's," and wickedly gloated over the brilliant success of the ancient sell. "Advertising is to business," says Macaulay, "what steam is to machin ery, the grand propelling power." "My son, deal only with men who advertise; you will never loose by it." Benjamin Franklin. "Yes, sir," said Skaggs, "that is a picture to brag about. That picture, sir. cost me $25.000 1" Ah," aaid Blimber, "I suppose, then, it is what is generally known a? nigh art." THE. TIf KSSIXO ROOM. Great Actresses and Sincere Prepar ing for t he Stae. To me there is no particular spot in that unknown region behind the foot lights toward which my thoughts turn with greater curiosity than the dress ing ro?m of the star, and I think this is true of most women who entertain any interest in the dramat'c art. This curiosity is even shared by the first lady in the laud, who, I am Informed, visited the dressing-room of a great artist during her engagement at one of the principal theaters of Washington. Marie Roze was the one who first In vited me to her dressing-room while she was dressing. As every oue knows, she is a most beautiful woman, and when, iu response to her hus band's kuock, sho had the door opened for me to enter, as she stood with a bright red shawl thrown over her bare shoulder and arms, I thought she was more beautiful than on the stage, writes a lady to the Chicago Mail. She Is known as a woman of lovely disposition, and, unlike most siugers, not at all given to small vanities and large jealousies. When her husband had gone she threw off her shaw 1, aud without aiiology or comment went ou wi"h her dress me. Her arms and neck were perfectly bare, as for the next scene her dress of Grecian drapery required that not even a baud should cover her shapely arm, and to be able to use her arms unre stricted she was obliged to finish her coiffure without more dressing, and as her white hands gleamed in her dark hair and the pretty mouth rolled out Iu soft Parisian accent her native lan guage. I could not but think that the entrancing picture she made was that much more striking in that she was utterly unconscious of her charms. The mo-t deliberate, quiet dresser Is Genevieve Ward, and oue of the most independent. Accustomed all her life to a maid, she calls upon one in the dressing-room scarcely at all, aud leaves her little to do but pack her costumes when she is through with them. Oue eveuiug I spent all the time between the acts in her dressing room aud marveled more aud more as I watched her dress and make up. She is so deliberate, yet so quick; she never makes a movement that is not ncossary. The superb Worth costumes were all made without a whalebone, and all worn over what women will recognize as a baby waist. She never wears her drosses low In the neck or the sleeves so short that slid needs to tuck a n ay the sleeves of her underwear, as many are obliged to do. Genevieve Ward has a peculiar method of making up her face. Wheu she is all dressed for tbe next scene she sits ilowu at the dressing-table i r ielf diguilled with that name and puts a liuhtedjcandle beneath her face. Where the shadows come she darkens her face, and lu a few seconds and with a few strokes she la made up. Iu putting her hair up or in fastening her wig her fiugers seem scarcely to touch her head, aud her dressing is done. Another independent, almost indiff erent dresser is Minnie Maddern. She waits on herself, even to pulling on her stockings and shoes after she is dressed. Her dresses are what most women would call frightfully loose," but they might well imitate her In that respect if at the same time they could acquire her grace of movement. She snatches her pretty hair in her two hands, rams a hairpin on each side, and then pulls away at it almost savagely, and lo! her hair is dressed in her odd, yet becoming style. The most characteristic, interesting person in her dressing-room is, per haps, of all I have known, Emma Ab bott. If there is one place more than another where this little woman is at home and altogether her enthusiastic self, it Is in her dressing-room. You can always count on hsr burst ing out into a trill or a cadenzt at any instant in her dressing, and that seems the one thing that never detains her or causes a break iu her thoughts and at tention. She never needs to make up for shoulders or arms; when she tucks the possibly reliellious bauds of her under garment in her corset or gets ready for a boy's costume there Is no woman living could resist the temptation to pinch her arm; they are more like a baby's in color than a woman's and are as smojth as marble. She has all her underclothes made after ideas of her own, so that when she is reduced to two garments and is ready for her boy's costume in "Mig uon," she is perfectly modest in her ap pearance, although her neck aud arms and marble-like bust are bare. .V Hurried Man's Happy Tlioulit. The inability of professional men, and especially physicians, to be regular iu their time of taking meals conduces to the early ruin of the digestion and the breaking up of the system. Not only do such persons suffer from want of food at the proper time, but, after being out many hours, they become too exhausted to digest tbe full meal they are tempted to take when at length it is obtainable. Recognizing this fact. an eminent doctor has devised a plan which he says has answered admirably and has been adopted by other doctors. He provides himself with a small bottle of lime water, to which, wheu pas-ting a convenient -dairy shoj, he adds milk, or he puts a small Mask of the mixture into Lis pocket. He finds that this with a water biscuit keeps him harm less on a long fast and enables him to digest a meal when he can get it. Faith Illustrated. A business man on the Hudson had his children down with the scarlet fever, and one of the little ones was put in quarantine apart from the res'. It was a mild type of fever, and her grandfather used to go upstairs and sit with the child. The little girl oue day took her grandfather to a corner of the room, and showed him Borne alphabet bricks arranged to spell out: "I want you to get me a box of paints." Next day be brought the paints from town, but left them In his over coat pocket when he went up to see his little girl. She didn't say anything, but she took him to the corner again, and he read: "I thank you, grandpa, for the box of paints." She had faith in him. Success depends uion a liberal patronage of printing ofiices:" J. J. As tor. THE RAO BUSINESS. Five Clawes of People Identified with the Industry. There are five groups of classflica tlons of labor and handling In connec tion with rags and their utilization: 1. The ragpickers, nearly all Italians, who gather the refuse of the street and the shops. 2. The dealers in rags, papers and old junk, of whom there about 500 lu New YorK City. These are In the main small dealers, and employ indi vidually but a few hands, the major portion of whom are girls and boys. It is difficult to ascertain the entire force, but a fair estimate will not exceed 2,500. 3. The rag cleaners form the next group. They are also small dealers, as a rule, who buy from the rag and juuk shops the rudely assorted rags aud go over them again, dividing them luto woolen and cotton goods. These dealers are self employers, have from two to four men In their employ aud some younger hands. The entire force so used may be estimated at about 1.000. 4. The wholesale or large buyers and contractors form this group. These houses employ from 60 to 200 hands, of whom three-fifths are girls, many be ing of tender years. There are some thirty large dealers in the city, about ten being handlers only of woolen rajs, bought directly from tailors, clothiers, woolen and dry goods houses, etc. Probably there are 4.000 hands em ployed. 5. This group comprises the agents of the paper ehoddy mills and the im porters of rags, of which there are a considerable number in the city. The business to them Is a profitable one. A STIFLING ATMOSrilEUK. On Tike street, a little east side thoroughfare near the river and down town, which is probably not known to the great majority of New Yorkers, is a dealer in woolen rajs almost entirely. He is a busy dealer, keeping four large trucks constantly moving aud having a working force of about 100, of whom forty-nine are girls. The age of at least one-half of these may be ques tioned. They do not look, as a rule, over 12 years old, though in reply to questions they declared themselves to be 13 or more. The premises are dirty in the ex treme. How can they help being so in such a business? The two houses are occupied from basement to garret. The floors are cold and cheerless; the air Is .l,.VIn. f.ill .,uf .lir rr ..II kinds; it is thick enough to cut with a knife. Down there in the basemen' ten dirty, slippery steps to it there are fourteen girls at work amid a stilling atmosphere. The floor is boarded, but tbe walls are damp. Under the side walk Is a stove, and this is the source of all the heat in the shop. The upper floors are a little better, but tbe place is unwholesome and filthy beyond, it would seem, what is unavoidable In such a business. The wages paid are : For the women and girls 82.50 to f." n J per week, the larger portion receiving from .'J to f 3.50. The hours of work are ten ; a half hour is allowed for din ner, which the girls generally get at home, as they mostly live in the vicin ity. The wages of the men average 1 per day, the truckmen acd a few others receiving more. In this place, which is typical, the rajs are received direct from workshops and stores of all kinds engaged iu the manufacture of clothing and handling of dress goods. They come in baijs packed closely and weighing from 3j0 to 500 pounds each. The l'ike street luju sucauiiKs uuku iium uiuuniju lo Newark. The meu handle aud empty the bags on large tables with heavy frames and stout network of wire, liav- ing orifices of half au inch or so. Over this network the ras are moved by haud so that dirt, etc., fails to the floor 111 great clouds which fill the eyes, ears, mouth aud lungs, ON THE SOitTI SQ TAP.LKS. The rags are sorted on these tables and'divided into woolen, mixed and cotton goods, each being placed in sep al ate barrels. The colors and quality are also noted iu sorting, and when a?ain bagged are arrauged thereby. The cotton and silk goods are sold for paper stock aud the woolen aud mixed to the woolen mills, chiefly in New England, where they are manufactured into shoddy. Mixed woolen and cot ton goods are not In demand, but when used the cotton la burned out by some process. It was not a pleasant place,. this Tike street warehouse, with Its squalor, dut and dust. Even less inviting were the hands employed. Tbe men naturally were rough, sturdy, ragged; the girls and women the latter being mostly elderly are generally Irish-Americans of the poorest type, with a few Jews among them. The Italians keep out of the warehouses. They content themselves with the w rk of gathering aud live while engaged in the open air. The dealers among them are control lers Of labor padroues In fact; or they have got into the city swim and con tract to handle Its refuse. But the little ones at the l'ike street warehouse, begrimed, ragged, rough, hollow-eye t, pinched of feature, dirty of course, all coughing more or less from the con stant irritation of lungs. The cleansing shops are no more In viting to the eye or nostrils, but the d ust is not as Intolerable. The rags are bought from the junk and rag dealers, who buy direct from the Italians, or they are gathered direct from small shops and factories. The rags are p aced iu great pans and washed by stirring until the worst filth is re moved, when they are sorted aud divided roughly by material, colors and quality, and when dried are again disposed of to the wholesale dealers. An Odd Bird. A cnrlons wader Is the thick-knee or Norfolk 1'lover I'Kliciumus crenil'in), a bird of the wilds and downs. The two stone-colored eggs are laid ou the waste, in the midst of which they so exactly resemble actual stones that it would be almost Impossible to detect them from a little distance. The only way to Dud the egg Is to watch the movements of the old birds from some distance with a field glass, as the hen- liirri tn leavintr llm ecr!7a ninn f,r KAma A tot . rrrA ritatner tfttia lnrirxr in. intruder into the belief that the siot from which she rises is the position of the eggs, unless with his trusty bluocu- lars be has watched the progress of the manoeuvre. Another curious habit of the thick-knee la to crouch along the ground. Perhaps, like the ostrich, the bird Imagines that it Is not seeu. XEWS IN BRIEF, The l'rlnce of Monaco is 70 year old and has an income of OuO.000. The largest fish market in ttl world is Billingsgate, London, where 132,000 tons of fish are sold a year. Sir Morell Mackenzie Is really a Ilebrew, assert some German papers, and his rightful name is Moro Marco witz. An egg of the extinct great auk was recently sold in Indon for f 1100. It is said to have beeu bought for an American. More than f 13.000 has, It is said, been already collected for a preseut to Alexandra, priucess or Wales, for her 8Uver wedding. Arkansas and Texas claim that tho immigration into those States during the past year has beeu greater than lu auy previous season. Norway has a battalion of armed skaters, who maneuver readily on the ice or snow. Their skates are six Inches wide and nine long. The English call an elevator a "lift," and the French call it a "help," while the Scotch put m their oar by referring to it as a "drop." Cork is the latest material pro posed for making railroad cars. The idea is that in case of collision It would simply bound off lhe track. Tea cultivation. It Is said, is to lie tried by a rancher at i'.lko, New, who proposes employing Indian women aud children to gather the leaves. Mrs. C. II. Moore, of Philadelphia, wears the most costly diamonds of all the society women of the Quaker City. Her jewels are said to be worth about SwJ.OJO. The l'rlnce of Naples, crown prince or Italy, is, it Is rumored, a candidate for the hand of I'rlneess Sophie, daughter or Emperor Fred erick, of Ueriiiany. lhe profession of "chirrunner" has been brought before the courts. A chirrupper eucourages the singers iu music halls, and one has beeu sent to jail for blackmail. A convention of lawyers was held iu Washington on May 22 to form a national bar association and to urge upon the several States the adoption of uniform marriage and divorce laws. A woman in Tennessee fouud a bombshell the other day and decided to use it as a hand-iron. She put It on the stove to heat and went a'ootit her cookinsr. The funeral was larct-lv nt . J teudeJ A thief stole the rrult trees one night last week that .lohn dxiper. a farmer living near Abilene, had planted during the day. It is still customary to leave the railroads in Kansas out over night. Mrue. Janauschek's naiue is pro nounced in three or four different ways, but her own way Is as though the name were spelled " Vau-ovv-sheK," wiiu eacn syiiaiil plainly sounded, aud the accent upon Hie llrst. One of the most enterprising or : the newspapers of Buenos Ay res is ledited by Winslow, the Boston foiger. Since he liecaine a citizen of the Argen tine Republic lie 1 sail to have amassed a fortune of j." j i.iwO. The North American aliongiiies recognize no greater delicacy than boiled dog, the annual U-ing immersed in the pots without the formality of skinning or otherwise cleaning, and regard the intestines as the choicest lrt of a buffalo or steer. Wonk Konz. a Chinaman, who lives 111 lianein and has a grocery store in New York city, thinks he can beat champion "Jim" Alliert 111 a walking match. "His confidence i-i based on the fact that he always walks down to business, and freouentlv cets to Chatham Square before a hoise car with which he starts even." The health of New York compares very unfavorably with that or London. The annual mortality 111 tiie British metropolis is aliout 2J in looo. while iu New York it is 2d in 1.0O0. The po- . uiatiou or .New ioik is also much more crowded, there lieing an averag of 10 ieisons to a dwelling, while in IxMidoti the average is only 7. ! Trees long retain the scars in flicted upon them by rllie balls, and trees are standing on the old ludiau battleground near Dawson, Ga , that still bear the scars of the rilld balls fired into them during the futht of July, lS.'Jij. The pine tree that one of U11 soldiers ascended to spy out the move ments or the Indians is still there. The decay of American teeth, and to :oiue extent the loss of teeth of all civilized races, has been accounted for by the ablest Kuelish authorities 011 the score of the heavier draughts made by the brain on our general physical and nerve systems. It is supjiosed that the lorce that would 1 applied to re pairing the teeth is used elsewhere. : The high license system in Florida is a rigorous one. Under its provis ions an applicant f.ir a license must have his application signed ty .'Suu cit izens and pi int. J in the county pai 1 at his own expense. He miisi p;iy f,,r Ins liceu-e il".u to lhe State. Jl."k to tlie Couuty Treasurer, and J1.VJ to tho town or city iu winch he proposes to sell. Mr. Ar.shetoti Smith has planted the side of a mountain on his estate at LUnd teluoleu with forest tiees soar ranged as to display the wolds "Ju bilee. lsf," in letters 2i n yards long by 2" feet wide, to al the surrounding cuntry. The letters are winked iu trees of light-coli.red foliage planted amid others forming a daik back ground, and '. j0,AM have beeu used lu the undertaking. I According to the Chigago M-til, Mr. H. W. Seymour, the new editor of lhe JUrall of that city, used to be telegraph editor of the Chicago Timts, when thai paper was notorious for its sensational headlines, and it was he who put the caption "Jerked to Jesus" over the news of a hanging. But he did it only at Mr. Storey's dletation, and far from lie ing proud of It now regrets that he ever did such work. There are said lo be several gyp sies iu New York that are worth over tlOO.OOO apiece. In a certain reference suit In Lon don tha cost 011 one side has already amounted to lu.mxj. Tlitt revivul'Vf tha ancient Ct rer I u n and lloniaa cu.,f .m of sj fitting up the house roors as tomake them available children's playgrounds, or breathing . spots for older iiersons during the summer mouths, is advocated by a few Yoik physician. He argues that the scheme would le an especially happy one for the more crjwded cities. ii . 1 ; COUU II V.w , 1, very cool sir. maaM1, l V tuest lta.iiuvv"- is for the V0UU2 lJy r i A"
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