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Ta'l angels wandered to and fro, I pou wboM railiant faces Eli surM and pain, and want and woe. Had left no mournful traces. Con pare.! with them, I was tLe bush To the tail tree and stately; They put my earth-born pride to blosb, 1'bey towered o'er man so greatly. Vhst wonder that the skies should be Full of such glorious creature; Cli.l.lren of climes so grau.l and free, With heaven In all their features! Ob, man, vain man, subdue thy pridet The li.'avrn cnuld live without tueo; TLy good, thy ill, are not wi wide Ibry jar the KiiLeres about thee. ShcuI.Nt thou e'er pans away and die. Think not the worlds would miss thee; Bume er:iph tair miht breath a sigh 1'ercbance might bend and kiss thee. But tbat were all still wonl.l roll on. With countleits orbs atteuilanr. The miLit j spheres aroun.l the Throne, With angel shape resplendent. A SKA STORY. A little more than twenty years ago, I was the master of a proviuce built hark, called the Seatris. She had paid for herself twice over in the lime of good cut. on frelhu. and being built of spruce, was b.idly strained by the lm tuense pre.saure of the compressed cot tou bales, so that she had beea bought by Boston part ie. for a mere song, and put Into the lumber carrying trade. It was the middle ct lecduiber, and we weie lay In? out in the stream in St. Johii'd haibor, with a hold full of green deals and a deck-load of the same, two feet higher than the rail. Sailors were scarcer than lawyers are said to be m 1'ara.llse. Men were plenty, rather too plenty, I thought, as 1 watched the crew that had been shipped, while they were in the after caMu, siiiin articles for the voyage. We were laying eighty dollars in gold for the "run" to Liverpool. Ship ped in this manner, men are ouly ex pected to do such jobs about decks as are actually necessary; and beyond this, their duties are con lined to the wheel, lookout, working the ship, aud making or taking in sail. It wa.4 bitterly cold, the harbor was full of floating ice, and the piercing northwest gule penetrated the thickest wraps. The first man, who. with a very shaky hand, wrote down the familiar "John Smith," which covers so many well-known family names, wore a black stove-pipe hat, and a suit of al most new black broadcloth, consider ably the worse for Laving been slept In and otherwise maltreated. And as I found out later, though John Smith three weeks before had been paid off from the Ttuaw&.nda, with three hun dred and Qlly dollars, the remainder of his vutOt tor the midwinter passage consisted of a mattress stuffed with shavings, a thin grey blanket, a snare wooleu shirt, and a pair of socks. Tlieu, in the order following, came a tall fellow, a deserter from the citadel at Halifax; a Dutchman, a genteel looking young man, whose fattier was rector of a church in Birkenhead. Eng land; two Uu.isian sailors, who had run away from their ship; an amateur yachtsman, claiming Australia as his birthplace; a powerfully-built negro, named Bob; aud lastly, two well built young seamen, evidently 'chums," who signed their names respectively as Jerry Tepper and James Popper. Jerry was thinly clothed in ordinary seamen's garb, and was not entirely over the effects of a protracted spree. The fact tbat one of bis eyes had no pupil gave bim a strangely sinister look. Somehow I took an Instinctive dislike to the fellow from the first, while at the same time 1 was favorably impressed by trie appearance of Popper, who had one of thote frank, open faces that generally make the owner a favor ite with bis shipmates. Well, the tow-boat came alongside and took our tow-rope; the anchors were hove "p, and. leaving the harbor about noon, we made sail off 1'artridge Island, hauled our hawser in board, waved a good-by to the tug-boat, and went bowling oil before a free wind with t'gallant sails set, the bark beiug so "crank" with her heavy cargo, and having a list to boot, tbat we did not set the royals for the entire passage. The watches were chosen, and, as it happened, a pretty equal division of forces mai'e. Mr. Maddox, the mate, bad in his watch Smith, the yachtsman, the Dutchman, one of the Kussian sailors, aud the negro, leaving for myself Mr. Andrews, th second mate. Pepper and Pupper, the deserter (nicknamed "Halifax"), the rector's runaway son, who at once was dubbed "Birkenhead." and the other Russian sailor, called Peter the Great, on account of his huge size. By the next morning we had "sired up" the crew. The Dutchman who had leen Ureman ou an ocean steamer, hardly knew one end of the bark from the uther; Birkenhead, who wasdeathly sick, knew nothing at all; Halllix could tell the foremast from the maiu nust, while Australia had never been aloft iu all his life. This reduced our "sallorizing" force to six, including the second-mate, who could take regular tricks at the wheel, sud kuew the ropes aud braces or, lu sailor parlance, "could baud, reef and steer." The others had to stand all the look outs, and I fear that my flery-tempered little second mate made it very lively for the unfortunate four, in tacking ship or shortening sail, until they got a bit broken in, which was not until the passage was more than half completed. Popper and Pepier were fairly good ordinary seamen. During the voyage I found that they had been shipmates together Tor three years, part Of the time in West India trading schooners, a few months in a New York pilot boat, aud latterly in the blockade-runner Vixen. Popper was by far the better Bailor of the two. He had made three trips as second omcer, while Pepper bad &:ade two as Ureman and one as sea bian, la the same steamer. Bo'.h were iu love with a handsome, quadroon! girl at Nassau, as the stew ard learned from Beb. who hail lived there all his life, and of the two. Top per seeinea to be preferred. "iat Pepper good-look in' chap, ouly spend all the monev bo fast Iia vet it. cynical explanation of the pretty quad roon's preference for the latter. Though it was quite evident that they were not on the best of term.?, curiously enough. Pepper and Popper, as far as such things are possible on shipboard, were inseparable. They slept in one of the double berths, were always the first in the rigging, and side by side on the footropes in shortening sail; or, in beavy weather. If Popper was steering and another band was wanted. Pepper was generally sent to the lee wheel. What the poor, half-clad rellows for ard must have suffered on that passage, when we of the afterguard, with an abundance of warm clothing, could not begin to keep comfortable, can hardly be put Into words. Doctor Maddox, Mr. Andrews and myself sent every rag we could spare to the forecastle, but many a night I have seen Smith, who was worse off than any of the rest, standing at the wheel in a piercing nor'wester In his water-soaked suit of broadcloth, the long, double-breasted frock coat but toned tightly about him, its folds actually frozen stiff, while the crown of his tall hat, from which the brim had long since departed, was pulled downed over his ears like an extin guisher. Like most winter passages, gale suc ceeded gale, with sleet and suow, iced up rigging, stiffened sails and slippery .leck-load, forming a combination of misery in the shape of hardship and suffering which the mind of the ordi nary landsman can conceive. It was not until two or three days before sight ng Cape Clear tbat the weather moderated to a marked de gree, and even then we could carry nothing above topsails. Popper and Pepper had not spoken together for some days. The men bad heard them iuarreling together in an undertone while lying iu their berth in the watch beljw, aud a moment or two later Pepp?r was pitched uncere moniously to the floor, his head strik ing the corner of a sea-chest in the fall, making au ugly cut on the fore bead. At the sight of the blood. Popper's anger cooled in a moment, and in every way possible he tried to atone for bis sudden ebullition of passion, but without avail. Peppar sullenly refused every at tempt at reconciliation, selected an otuer berth, and iu various ways mile It plain that his former friendship bad changed to enmity. As is customary on shipboard, in reef ing or stowing the heavy mainsail or foresail, the strongest and most active men are stationed in the quarter of the yard ou either side of the secon J mate. who is in the slinsrs of the yard, in order to more readily pick up the "brunt" or heaviest part of the sail. We had hauled the bark's head up for the cape, which we were hoping to sight on the following day, when the wind suddenly shifted to the eastward. and began to blow as only it can to the Chops of the channel. Well, we could do nothing but lay to till the gale abated or the wind changed; so another shortening sail job was in order. The courses were hauled up, mainsail stowed, and all hands were on the foreyard battling with the slatting foresail, which was as stiff with ice as a bit of half-Inch board. Popper was next to Mr. Andrews and Pepper was beside bim. After nearly half an hour's hard fighting, the icy canvas was aecure.1. the "brunt" bundled up, and Popper, standing ou one arm o( the yard-trus, with his knees pressed against the sail, was hauling the gasket tight with both bands, when it suddenly parted, and be fell backward to the deck below. striking in such a way that his neck was broken instantly. The body was carried into the car penter's shop and laid on the floor, and by midnight the bark, under lower top sails and fore-stay?ail, was hove to i t as ugly a sea as can be imagined. I had sent the watch below, and was on the point of kicking off my boots and lay iiig down ou the cabin lounge for an hour's doze, when some one tappei at the outer door. "Come In!" I shouted, crossly. And in obedience to the summons, Jerry Pepper entere 1, bis oue available eye steadfastly refusing to meet my own. "Well, what Is it, Jerry?" I askel, impatiently, a ha stood twisting his soaked sou'wester hat between his fin gers, bis gazd directed ou the Door. "Cap'n," said be, in a dull, monoto nous voice, occasion i'ly moistening bis dry lips with his tongue in a furtive way, "Jim Popper, what met with the accident, was a chum o' mine this last three year. A couple o' days or so ago, we had soma words. I don't mind tell In 'you it began about a girl down to Nassau that we both took a llkin' to. But that ain't neither here nor there. I'd give the whole world, if I bad It, to biing Jim to life ag'in, and have him say he forgive me " Here Jerry stopped, with a face as pale as ashes, and gave a quick, nerv ous glance over his shoulder. Then drawing a Ions breath, be bent his eyes on the floor, and went on: "Maybe it sounds kind o' fool talk, but I'd like for to do what little there is left to do for Jim rather'n any of the others should. He was like a own brother to me, sir" and Jerry's voice was bard and husky "and I'd take it as a big favor if you'd gimme the can vas and lemme me sew poor Jim up ready for launcbin' overboard to nior rer." Well, there was no particular reason why I should refuse the request. The mate and myself had seen at a glance that the sailor's neck was broken, and death bad ensued simultaneously; and as some oue had to perform tue last services, it might as well be Jerry as any other of the sailors. So. calling Mr. Andrews. I told him to hunt out sufficient sail-cloth and give it to Pepper, who, after receiving it, took his palm, needle, twlue and lantern into the carpenter's shop, pulled to the door, aud began his unpleasant Toward daybreak the gale abated, and the wind backed into the north and west again. At eight bells we rigged the grating, and committed Pepper's body to the in i.a t.i.i fmuiner. But in his hurry or agitation his .Linmi. had miscalculated the weight of the old Iron at his feet, an I. to our horror; the shrouded form, ai tor ,uZ short distance, reappeared, staud ..... rr.ti, .rvt in the water. A sort of eddy current, caused by the Dark's lee drift, drew it near the ves sel's side, and as it rose slowly to the summit of a cresting wave, seeming almost to look down on our deck's. fit, from which he did not recover tfll the bark, again on her course, bad left the ghastly spectacle a mile or two astern. Examination of the stamp of the gasket left on the jackstay showed that two strands and part of the third had been cut through so that it would take but little to part it, but whether by accident or design, when and by whom It bad been done, no one knew, or If any one did, he kept bis own counsel. But from the hour of the sea burial Jerry Pepper was as the rest of the crew declared a haunted man. He could not sleep without starting up with a horrified scream. He looked continually over his shoulder at some thing or somebody invisible to other eyes. Smith and the Australian, who went aloft with him to stow the t'gallant sails in a squall on the following night, declared that in the quarter of the yard where Pepper stood the sail was rolled up by unseen bands while the sailor himself was securing the brunt. At the wheel it was the same. In any kind of heavy weather it always tooktwo to keep the bark within half a point of ber course; but the slightest touch of Jerry's hand kept the Sestrls on her course, the wheel moving with strange rapidity. The men were ready to swear that when he paced the deck in the night watches, other footsteps kept pace with him. He grew pale, haggard and taciturn, ate but little, and, by all reports, did not sleep at all. Fairly inside of Land's End, we caught what old sailors call a "smoky south-easter." It blew heavily for a few hours, and in the eastern horizon were incessant flashes of lightning after the sun had goue down in a bank of dense, dark vapor. The clouds were surcharged with electricity, and when just before mid nieht all hands were called to shorten sail, I noticed some of the iron work on the masts and yards tipped with the soft phosphorescent p jints so often wit nessed in this peculiar condition of the atmosphere, 1 did not know It until afterward, but it seems that ever after the night of Jim's tragic death, Jerry could neither be coaxed nor driven near the clings of the fore or main-yard. He invariably made his way to the yard arm, where, banging with one hand to the lift, with the other he picked up the slack sail or hauled out the ear ring as easily as other men using both hands. The foresail was hauled up on the yard without much difficulty, and I was standing by the break of the quar ter waiting for the job to Le completed, when my attentiou was arrested by the sight of the largest and most luminous corposant I have ever seen, suddenly appearing like a ball of bluish, flicker ing flame on the iron jackstay of the lower topsail yard, where it remained for a brief moment, and then slowly gilding in toward the mast, seemed to rest for a moment ou or near tbo iroa band at the foremost cap, where the fore-yard lifts are booked on. Some one of the crew on the yard below noticed it, and called the atten tion of the others in a low tone to this quite common though always to the superstitious sailor unwelcome visi tant. "It's Jim's spirit,' uneasily muttered Smith, who stood next lo Pepiwr, who himself was astride the yard arm. Hardly were ths words uttered, when the conusant slowly glided down the lift with a strange wavering motion and rested almost directly bafore Jerry's face, which, in the ghastly glare ( Smith afterward told me) were a look that he should never forget till his dying day. Willi a shriek that rose above the howl of the gale, Jerry threw both bauds above his bead aud fell back ward as the bark gave a beavy lee roll. and by a sudden flash of lighting I saw his body plunge beneath the surface or the black waves, never to rise again. while the corposant, rising in the air. vanished out of sight. Our only available boat had been stove a fortnight before, and all that could be done was to cut adrift tha two life preservers over the stern an 1 toss over a grating, while the bark went reeling and rolling on her way. But when the wheel was relieved by B .b, he beckoned me to his side. 'Scuse me, eir," he said, in an awe struck voice, 4 but l'ae got somet'ng t tell. Dat Jim i opper have nrteen hun dred dollars In gold be wear about him, all time iu he money belt. I hear hiu tell Jerry so. Night Jerry sew him up In cauvas, 1 lay in my buuk and peek froo crack In p'tlon 'tween carpenter shop and forec'stle. I see Jerry take belt oil Jim and buckle it round nis self. Den he nnisli sew him up. Ebbei since J.m go with him, want he mouej I spec, and now bab got it. JJal's an, sah steady it is, sail." Restles.. He was a sour looking old man, and he occupied a flit with his bachelor brother on the tuuriu uoor or a mouesi uptown apartment house. They were having a quiet nana or wutst one even ing with two friends, when tho voice of a baby in the next flit arose In la mentation that penetratea tue tuiu walls and made the rumbling of the elevated railroad seem like the purling of a brook. They stood the uproar for some time, rtut when tha sour looking man trumped his partner's trick three times, he laid! down bis cards and weut and knocked on tue neignoor s uoor. i "Is your baby sick?" be inquired, as the father appeared. "Oh, no, my wife Is Just putting him to sleep." j 'I want to asi If his name Is Jere-j miah?" "Certainly not, why do you think, so?" I "I thought It might be, be comes out so strong on lamentious. What makes him weep so?" "Well, I don't know," almitted the half owner in infant property sally. "You see It's our first baby, and may be we don't bow to handle him right. We've tried soothing syrup, squills and ipecac, and to night I told my wife It might be malaria and she'd better try auinlne. so we gave mm iour grains, and he's been kind of restless ever since." Firenzl will be the hope o Llagein Stable for tie Suburban. the Five sons of Hambletoman have died since the beginning of the year. s"o vvt" air S tm Brawn's Blue Wing is training well and will soon be sent A WIFE HJR A POEBt. The Reward Napoleon III. Gave Sycophantic Verse Writer. When the Emperor Napoleon IIL was writing bis ''Life of Cicjar." and was casting ambitious glances - at a chair In the Academy, a poet, whose name iall be unknown to fame, wrote a few verses on the Emperor's work. referring to bun as the "tireat Cae&r of these later years." It was absurdly sycophantic in spirit, says a Pans correspondent of the Chi cago Tribune, but it was so exquisitely phrased -that it attracted wide atten tion. The writer, sent a copy of it. engrossed on parchment, to the Em peror. In return the Emperor sent bim a splendid diamond ring and an invitation to call at the Tuileries. When the poet came the Emperor received him affectionately, and after some conversation asked him if he was married. "No, sire." "And why don't you get married? See here. Would you marry a lady, young, beautiful, of ardent disposition, and with a handsome dowry, if you met such a oue, who was willing to have you" i "Yes, sire, I should be only too happy." "Well, then, come here to-morrow night at 10. I will present you to her." At the appointed time the poet agrln presented himself at the palace and was admitted to the Emperor's pres ence. The Emperor was in street dress, and at once put ou a large cloak and a hat that concealed his identity, and led the poet to a side door. There they entered a coach and were driven to a bijou villa that stood In the midst of spacious grounds in a retired part of tLe city. Tney entered and the Em peror said: "Wait here until I prepare her for your coming." So saying he ascended the stairs, leaving the poet in a small reception room. In a few minutes he reappeared and beckoned the poet to follow bim. They went upstairs and in a luxurious boudoir found the lady. She was all that the Emperor had said, young, beautiful and charming. "My dear Marie," said the Emperor. "allow me to present M , who comes as a suitor for your hand." Then be abruptly left tha room. The poet did not repent his bargain. He found the lady ready to accept his wooing, and, knowing tbat the impe rial favor dependod upon bis discretion he did not seek to learn her past his tory. They were quietly married a few weeks later, the bride's dowry being f.300,000. The poet was never again Invite! to the Tuileries, however, nor did he ever again have a personal interview with the Emperor, but he soon received, to his surprise, an appointment iu the dip lomatic aurvice Lu a distant part cf the world. This he accepted and weut there to live, his wife, of course, ac companying him. His career there was a prosperous one. and he remained there until bis death, which occurred six or seven years ago. His widow then returned to Paris, aud became the wife of a Rus sian nobleman. On the occasion of the poet-diplomat's death a remark was made by General Fieury, the conlidentlul frieud and business agent of the Emperor. "He was a lucky chap," said Fleury. "to get such a wife; and it was a hard bit of luck for the Emperor to have to pay such a price to get rid of so rh arm ing an incumbrance." "Had she," was asked, "'incum bered' His Majesty long?" "No," said Fleury, "the Emperor had not known ber a month. Bat the Empress had got on ber track, and you know Eugenie was a regular Tartar when she was jealous." OUTSIUK WAKIXU. A Sketch of Life anil Death Among the Vicious of New York- In Baxter Bend, the very heart of the Five Points. Is a flourishing under taker's shop. There Is little or no style about the place. The plate glass wiudows and exquisite cabinet work which mark the establishments of up icown "mortuary directors" are un known here. But there are lots of com mercial grief, substantial, glaring, and -Above all cheap. Pictures in which a-j rotund female bends in a manner un known to anatomy over a weeping 'tvillow and a cigar box like tomb deco rate one wall. On another are assorted Ira wings of all faiths; gaudy chromos if saints holding gory hearts in their lands, wood cut reproductions of Dore, md even the queer banners used by Chinese and other eastern races in decorating a death room. Large cases are packed with comns, the dearer ones standing erect and alone, the chnaner lvini? in nests of a half dozen. I Collins for $10, for SS, for to, and evea for $3. In this district, where epidemics itireed unceasingly, death loses its ter rors and its paraphernalia lire every where regarded as ordinary commodi ties. The little sign, "bargains in cof- dns," tells the life history of the neigo- ;uornooa in a manner stronger wsii : words. Beneath the store is a half cellar, half basement, the like of which can be found nowhere outside the Five Points. The horrible marsh which once covered the few acres where the tall tenaments now stand still shows its existence in the mold it forms below the street levels, in the ooze tbat trickles through walls, and the fetid smell with which it fills all subterranean rooms. This basement is the favorite place of the denizens of the district for (''outside waking." 1 had often passed the place in the evening and had heard the hum of voices and the murky glire of lamps streaming up the stairway, but had given It no particular thought. The last time, however, it was long after midnlgtt. 1 wo tired policemen who were chatting on the street, and a trio of royterers who apparently pre ferred the sidewalk aud gutter te a civilized ted, alone disturbed the soli tude of :he neighborhood. As I ap proached the place, two men and three girls crtssed over and went down the stairs, une man ana one woman were dresses in ordinary working apparel. The uther man was attired in flashy style, while the two remaining girls wore very aecouette and dirty siik dresses with long trains. My curiosity was excited, and so I climbed down the steep, filthy steps and found myself in tie low saw-dust covered room tbat constitutes nearly all the basement floor. It was crowded with people who sat around the four sides, and In the J centre, obscured by the throng, lay a J cheap coma of stained pine upon two carpenter's horses. In it lay the body oi some dead criminal. Over the open top bent a young woman whose face, once handsome, was disfigured by the marks of sin and alcohol. In a corner of the room was a keg of beer on a trestle, and a couple more untapped beside it onthe floor. In a second cor ner, on a table, were bottles of raw. spirits labeled whisky and gin, and at the head of the coflin, as if in satire of its animate and inanimate surround ings, were two candles and a well worn crucifix. A man who seemed to be bartender, mourner and undertaker in one moved about the place, alternately wiping a dirty face with a still dirtier handkerchief, and serving beer and yet more liery liquids to those present. I asked him what the occasion was. Ha removed a cigar from bis lips and said: "What, this here affair? It Is a S10 wake. You see the fellow in the pine overcoat there was one of the boys. He used to be a 'green goods' man, and then after that he worked flimflam. He was pinched by the police in Janu ary on suspicion. They could uot prove anything, as we scared the complain ant away, but the judge sent him up to the Island for sixty days. His family went back on bim and the ward de tective made it lively for him. He got sick and he had knocked around too much; so he got worse, and died night bafore last. His family would not bury him, and the church would not touch him, because he was brought up a Catholic and he died a crook and wouldn't let a priest come near him when be turned bis toes up. So we raised a pool and gave him this sendoff. We boys chipped in, and all the saloons where we booze had to come down with a couple of dollars apiece or a keg of beer. We pay the undertaker for the box, the lights and the room rent, bring our beer and whisky, and do the whole business without any priest or missionary or nonsense. "Does it often happen? Just you bet it does. It happens here and at a lot of other places 1 know in the neigh borhood. There are ciooks and crimi nals in bard luck, aud girls who have been thrown out because they could not pay tbelr room rent. These make the most of them. Then there are fellows who live in a single room or a lodging house, or in the ten cent beds. When they die the landlord bounces the body to make room for a new tenant. They've got to go to Potter's Field or else deieud on the boys. And then there are a good many people who live lu two rooms and haven't the room to have a wake in. They sand the corpse around here and have a good time. "What does it cost? Well, it de pends upon the style. We pay the undertaker anywbsre from to up for the coffin, aud $.' for the rent of the cellar. The candles are usually thrown In aud the crucifix is lent. That cru cifix there is a lucky one and we try to always have it at our wakes. There's a black cnicinx I know that brings bad luck every time it is used. Either the people get Into a fight, or the coffin is dumped, or something goes wrong. Then the hearse and a carriage cost f 10, and more carriages S3 or $5 apiece and the grave $5 upward. This racket stands us in all about 555, and it's a first class affair something we boys are proud of. If you want more style you can hire professional mourners; we call them 'keeners.' They are old Irish and Scotch women, and some times English, who cry aud howl aud and drink all night for a dollar and their drinks." ' Daylight was beginning to make the smoky lamplight a ghastly yellow. Ths festivities were at their height. The mourners stood and sprawled about the room in all conditions of intoxication. A few were so overcome that they lay like logs upon the floor, hardly distin guishable in appearance from the in mate of the coffin. It was with a great gasp of reli -f that I reached the street and inhaled the cool, fresh air of the early dawn. At the Woman's Meeting. At a meeting of a dozen ladies the 'other day to organize a lodge of the King s Daughters, the utter uniamlliar lty of women with parliamentary law or even with the general idea of or ganization was somewhat humorously illustrated. After they had sat looking at each other a trifle nervously for awhile, one of them said: "Well, here we are. What are we going to do?" "Oil, dear," said another. "I don't know, but let's do something." At last a young lady suggested they might try not to say mean things about other people until next meeting, any way. Everybody thought that would be nice. Just as they were adjourn ing, two hours later, a lady exclaimed: "Oh, I suppose we ought to have a president?" "Why, of course, we ought," said another, "I don't suppose anybody will object to Mrs. Brown for president," said a third, "let's have ber." "All right, let's,' echoed the rest. And nobody objected to names proposed for secretary and treasurer, either. A tew days later the fair secretary consulted a gentleman acquaintance as to bow she should write up the minutes of the meeting. "Well, you ought to begin by saying who was chairman of the meeting." "Why, we didn't have any chair man." said the girl,' "Who, then, put the motions before the meeting?" asked the gentleman. "Oh. we didn't have any motions Somebody would say eheithought such a thing would be nice, and all the others would say they thought so too. That was all." "If that was the case," laughed the gentleman, "you will have to set It down in the minutes that such and such measures were informally ap proved. But you must state clearly that the club was organized and write out the name of yonr partlcuiarTiranch or lodge and the constitution and by laws you adopted; ana men " "But we haven't got any name." Interrupted the girl, "and we didn't adopt any constitution ana Dy-iaws. What was the use? We all knew what we were there for. Besides, wa didn't think of that." It is important that the sheep sheds be well supplied with racks and feed troughs, so tbat the sheep will not crowd each other in their endeavor to get their share of feed. Often the smaller and weaker oues are crowded awav entirely and do not get any grain and only the refuse hay. Abundance of room should be given, so roar, eacn animal may eat its fill at its leisure and without crowding. A L.IVIXO DEATH. jPecullar Outcome or the Environ ments of Our Great Cities. On these sunny mornings, when the atmosphere is cool and bracing, one sees here and there on the streets a man crawling along aided by a crutch or a cane. He is usually bent forward. his progress is slow, difficult and pain ful. His feet drag with a shuffle on the surface of the pavement. His ban- Is gray, although bis countenance may not Indicate more than middle age. There are evidences of pain In bis features. There are wrinkles and con tractions that are the cicatrices of wounds Incurred in fierce life strug gles. The eyes express a comming ling of weakness and despair. His shoulders droop, and his entire figure has a batrgluess suggestive of a col lapse. On bis shrunken lips are hints of a pleading helplessness. When he speaks it is with hesitation and a muffled tone. His utterances come with difficulty; they are low, choked, broken. His speech halts at short intervals as if at a loss for the proper word. Often he caunot bud it. and frequently an unwanted aud strange term, wholly without meaning. will thrust itself in the hiatus, i'os- sibly one arm dangles at his side, looae and limp as rope, l'osslbly one leg is dragged along as if it were a foreign body. Perhaps one side or the other of bis mouth is drawn up with a line that spreads o.;t fan shaped Into a se ries of scar like shrinkages. His glance, like hi gait, is wabbling aud uncertain. Over his face i:i spread an expression that is a combination of imbecility and hoie. He is an object with qualities so peculiar, so individu alized, that one easily recognizes him as the victim of some one of the nu merous forms of paralysis. These specimens taking the morning air, assisted by cane or crutch and shuffling along the sidewalk, are get ting to be a frequent exhibition. Whether or not characteristic of other points, they are getting to be an in creasing feature. The men who no longer crawl out to catch the glow and warmth of the summer sun ate nerveless as new born children. Their limbs are inert as masses of gelatine. They are power less to move their muscles, aud have to be lifted, turned, taken up aud down like babes. They must be fed, aud the wants of nature cared for as if they were pulling infants in the nurse's arms. This new disease is a peculiar out come of the environment of our great cities. The atmosphere or this region is filled with a malaria which ex hausts, prostrates, paralyzes those whose overworked bodies are forced to ii.ii.ile it. Its victims are not the old who have reached the allotted span of their life, nor those enfeebled by age or hereditv. but the meu wmi active brains, Intense energy, boundless ambi tion uutl restless effort. It is lu the nature of a rot whick affects not the preen, the immature, but the ripened fruit. It attacks the wen who labor by day and dream of work by night; it is a sting which pierces uot the drones, but the workers iu the human hive-. The idler slowly disintegrates and disappears. He passes from a lethargic life into death with as little conscious ness and suffering as attend the natural demise of a mollusk. He is an imple ment that rusts from disuse; the t re less brain worker is a machine, driven at a high rate of s-ieed, with no stop pages for repairs, which carries a tre mendous pressure, and so-ne day ex plodes and is blown into fragments. Over a quarter of a century ago there came a young man from an eastern State, who iu time located in Chicago. He was finely educated, am bitious, industrious, energetic and ready aud willing to devote himself to any honorable employment. He soon secured a situation as principal of oue of the public schools. Further on he gave up teaching and connected himself with journalism. He was for several years a valued at tache of tUs journal, during which time he showed himself capable, inde fatigable, prompt, and the possessor of a hiirh order of intellect. Of a religious nature.he later accepted an offer to take charge of a prominent denominational weekly issued iu this same city, and became its chiet writer and managerial assistant, and for many years filled his place with credit to himself and the periodical with which be was connec ted. Such was Leander Stone, principal of a public school, reporter on the Chi cago rimes and afterward one of the powers tbat controlled the great Meth od 1st lournal. the XortlM-cstcrnCUrU- tian Advocate. The face aud figure of no man in Chicago were better know n than those of Leander stone during an thpRA vears. A few months ago, having just passed into a ripe middle age and in the verv height of his popularity and usefulness, he felt one day a numb ness in one of his arms, it extended slowly till the whole arm was involved, and then It crept Into the other arm, aud so on and on, a little at a time, till it had permeated and possessed bis entire limbs and torso, nis head alone escaped. The last time 1 saw bim, all below his neck was a dead mass so far as motion is concerned. Like one of Dante's damned, he was Imprisoned in ice to his chin. And yet the savage destiny that has thus imprisoned him aid not nave tne mercy to deprive the inclosed mass of sensation. Along its nerves travel in cessant poignant pains, which are be yond reach and beyond remedy. Strangely enough, in this grotesque, unparalleled Infliction bis head and face remain untouched. His brain is as clear as in his palmiest intellectual days, and he reads with his old avidity and thinks and reasons with hi3 old time clearness. His Distaste Made Him Sick. We have Just heard a story which ; serves to show tbat whether a distaste for certain kinds of rood is notional or not, it is well to beed it. A Boston man had evolved an instinctive theory against eel and could never be induced to try it. Some friends who liked the ' dish were determined be should, and , having the eel cooked in a disguised , manner, invited him to dine and had him partake. He ate the fish with , relish and commended it highly. Then, having enjoyed bis discomfiture, they told him what it was. Before twenty- four hours the family doctor was at his wit's end to relieve that man's agony, ' and saved his life at a close pinch. i Bohach or Parslan insect powder it now advised in beans kept for seed, to prevent damage from the bean weasel. EGO OT TOAST. A Dissatisfied Huaband Who Went la Despair to a Restaurant. "What I egg on toast again!" thund ered Mr. Jenkins as he approached the breakfast table. We've had egg on toast every morning for a month, and I told you yesterday that If you had it again I'd go to a restaurant!" and with tbat Mr. Jenkins slammed out of the house and headed for Delmonl co's. By the time he got there, how ever, be cooled down and was thor oughly ashamed of himself, and bis conscience pricked him so for the way in which he had spoken to bis wife that be didn't want any breakfast at all; however. It was too late to back down now, so he fell to studyiog the bill-of-fare with a worried aud per plexed expression on his faoe. "Lemme see," ruminated Mr. Jen kins "JUaiiuertau frais iute fines heroes; fervhe au lltu, Kperlan frits. Humph I don't know what any of those things are, and wouldn't want any of them If I did! Home a la crente dear me! 'moroue' means 'dead,' I believe! Don't want any of that certainly! Escalope tie Veau a la M'terechal; ixiufif s'tuie a P ,1ricaiie. Well! well! that must mean African parrots! I wonder what they'll be having next! CVo quette de Pommes; liecfslealt aux truffles beefsteak and mushrooms! And that means toadstools and the coroner! Bah! Carte de jour, Saneissnn lie Lyon Oh bother all these French messen! And why can't they talk United States, I'd like to knowl" And with that Mr, Jenkins threw down the bill-of-fare. and began to cudgel his brain to Dud something suitable. Beef steak and fried potatoes was the only thing he could think of, and that was altogether too formidable for his pres ent appetite, so at last with a sigh he turned to the impatient waiter and said meekly: "Give me a cup of cof fee and er an egg on toast!" When Mr. Jenkins returned home he begged bis wife's pardon like a man, and nothing further was said on the matter at the time; but, that night. Just as Mr. Jenkins was dropping off to sleep in a very contented frame of miud, his wife said in a whisper: "John!" "Yea." "Are you awake?" "Yes." "What did you have for breakfast this morning at the restaurant?" Pasaulni's Favorite Instrument. Paganinl purchased many other vio liues, particularly several Stradavari, and was continually buying and selling fine instruments, but nothing could in duce him to part with bis "Joseph del Jesu." He kept it constantly with him, aud watched It. as a father might watch a delicate child. Once it was si.k, appearing suddenly to lose all Its quality, aud he took it to Vulllame, known as the most famous repairer of liddles in Europe. The expert said that it must be taken apart. Paea- nini insisted tbat it must not go out of bis sight, and be compelled the work to be done in his own apartments. Vulllame told afterward that Paga nini watched him as he put in the knife and pried the delicate wood apart, aud started at every fresh thrust as though the knife were going into his own body. Afterward Vulllame had to take it to his shop to put it together. When the work was done Pagauiul gave him a gold box set with precious stones, which Paganiui said was exactly the same as one be had to give to his physician, and that the doc tor of his body and the doctor of bis violin were entitled to equal consider ation. The box was worth several hundred dollars, probably ten times as much as the original maker received for the violin when It was new. While the viollu was in his shop Vulllame made measurements of its exact dimensions down to the very un evennesses of the varnish, and from these he subsequently made another violin that was the exact duplicate of Paganini's, but w hen the latter beard of It he insisted that it should be sold to him, and so no oue ever had a violin like that of I'agannini until dying, Paganinl bequeathed the copy to Cainillo Sivori, who has ever since played upon it. The original violin Paganinl left to his native city, Genoa, to be kept forever in remembrance of him. It Is kept with scrupulous care, and only the most famous artists are or have been allowed to touch iu Once before the honor has been ac corded to Sivori. This time iandro Campanati, the director of the Milan ese quartet, shares the honor with Sivori. Where "Ben-IIur" Was Written. General Lew Wallace's study In his borne at Crawfordsvllle is not fur nished and decorated in the latest mod ern style. It Is a barren room with no furniture In it but a table and a chair. On this table are pen, ink and paper, and a pile of books most for reference, the others a copy of the New Testa ment, a life of .Christ, and Ivanhoe. When General Wallace is at work, the door is closed; when work Is over it is opened for play. General Wal lace's methods of writing are different from those of most authors. "Ben IIur" was first written on a slate, then on soft paper with a lead pencil. The final copy was made on large unruled paper. In violet ink, and written In a copperplate hand that was as easy to read as print. When the weather per mits General Wallace writes out-of-doors under the big tree that surround his house. What Did lie See in the WcU? Young Wright Grant, who killed nimself accidently at the picnic at Scott's Crossing, In Bibb County, Georgia, had a singular experience on May-day. There is a custom followed in the country of looking in the well on the 1st of May with a looking glass, as on Hallowe'en, and then see the future wife or husband. Grant, with a number of young people, ob served the custom, and when be looked into the well be saw something that evidently disturbed him very much, as Le came near dropping the glass in the well. Recovering himself after a mo ment, be handed the glass to a friend, jumped into his buggy and hurried off. From that time to his death be refused to tell what he saw in the well, or to talk about it. except to say that what be taw caused him to almost drop the glass. The more superstitious of his friends say that be saw a coffin, thereby predicting the sad and early death to which he (ame so soon afterward. NEWS IN BRIEF. -New York horses are said to rep resent $12,000,000. Mr. Isaac Pitman, the "father ol shorthand writing," is now seventy-six years old. The archbishop of Gran, the Hun garian primate, has an income of $400, 000 a year. The Prince of Wales is lust under 5 feet 7 inches in height. He weighs iso pouncis. Lester Wallack. the actor, owns 200 suits of clothes, and none of them need patching. Sneaking of International conv- right, there is a multitude of Ameri can aathors who would be delighted If England would steal their books. Henry Irving Is thought bv some of the more acute critics in London to have bad bis accent distinctly Ameri canized by his tour lu this country. A British shipmaster at New Or leans reports that while off the coast of Patagonia, butterflies were blown aboard his vessel at a distance of 150 miles from land. There is a gentleman in Boston who wants to give a dinner to the twelve greatest American authors,- and uo uuiu like ior me public to decide for him who they are. Greece gained her independence, from Turkey In 1329. and bv protocol of London, 1S30, was declared a king dom under the protection of Great Britain, t ranee and Russia, Prince Bismarck's paper mill at Varan, which was burned last year, has been rebuilt at a cost of $250,000. and is now producing fifteen tons of paper daily. It is the largest in Ger many. Eight hundred and thirty-five mine cars were hoisted in a day re cently in the Central mine at lljde Park, Scranton, which is 4H feet deep. This record has perhaps never been beaten. Half mourning is now vigorously condemned to eastern society. The idea that a widow should say at the eud or a year that she now mourns only half us much as formerly was always a matter of ridicule. An animal having a head aud fore feet like a squirrel and bind feet like a coou has been killed near Augusta, Kentucky. Several hunters of that section, wheu shown the carcass, de clared that they had not seeu oue like it before. There will be divided amoug the superannuated preachers, and widows and orphans of preachers, of the Meth odist Episcopal church, next year, $100,000 out of the profits of the Methodist Book Concern. The book concern will be a ceutury old iu 18S'J. The steamer Iowa, at Boston, on her last trans-Atlautic trip, was sur rouuded by a school of whales, which indulged iu all sorts of capers, until Dually one of the bolJer of the mons ters unwisely attempted to cross the vessel's bow. It was completely cut in two. Edith Thomas, the poet, is very generous Iu distributing her poetic favors among her friends, writing to them directly, and without thought of publication, some of her chosen lines. They contemplate gathering up kouio of these waifs and having them pub lished. Probably the oldest employe of the government in term of service is Lind sey Muse, au ancient colored man w ho has stood guard at the door of the sec retaries of the navy fcince 1S2H. He is 80 yeais old, and growing so feeble that he will probably bo forced to relinquish his p t, Rev. Dr. K. W. Dalu tells ..f a sagacious deacon, who fcaUI.concerniiig bis minister: "The trouble Is not that our minister Isn't orthodox, or that ho isn't earnest, but when he is earnest be Isn't orthodox, and when he is ortho dox be isn't earnest." In Mexico City a few days ago. they tried a mau's courage by shuttiug him up in a room wiih six rattle snakes. At the end of six hours they opened the door aud he was standing iu a window sill, and the snakes had fought and killed each other, A female demagogue in Chicago tried to get up a strike among working girls, but she couldn't find oue who would plead guilty to doing house work. All those who came to hear her speak were carrying library books or music rolls under their arms. De Voe predicts a hot, dry sum mer. The season has been known to turn out that way before, once or twice, and a prophet who has any re gard for bis reputation Is much safer with predictions like this than be could be by De Voeting his talents to the foretelling of unreliable storms aud unconnected earthquakes. Almost contemporary with an Im mense falling off in his trade a New York baker was deluged with com plaints aboti.t tacks, hair pins, shoe buttons, boot heels and other such un healthy articles of diet having been found in bis bread. At once he con cluded that be was the victim of a conspiracy on the part of his assistants, and several of them; therefore, now languish iu jail. The common expression, "Mind your p's and q's," had Its origin in the ale houses in the olden time, when it was customary to keep each man's account upon the wall or door. At the head of the bill would be the initials P and Q, which stood for pints and quarts, and as the numbers mounted up, we can imagine one kindly rustic saying to another, "Mind your p's and q's, man; mind your p's aud q's." Father M or Lara, a priest who is at tracting considerable attention in Madrid, by his fervent preachine. is de scribed as a "delicate-looking ecclesi astic about 27 years of age, whose thoughtful and worn face bears traces of severe study." His eloquent ser mons hav8 so moved the tiieeu Re gent of Spain, the Princesses, and the ladies of the aristocracy, that they have resolved to assist bim with funds for the convent chapel he lias built at Onate, in the Basque Highlands, amid the mountaineers. Jo.ph Tucker, of Marion, Ohio. owns a sey cow with a very remark able appetite. The animal eats every cat tbat comes within Its riaclu This spring she has eaten five tats, and whenever a feline comes within ber range of vision she is wild until she catches, kills, an 1 eats it. In all other respects the cow appears to be normal in ber tastes and disposition. She is ' three years old, and has had this pecu liarity eve, since she was a calf. I'. Hultl... for 5.oo; bf ain St.. BUFFALO. N. Y. Popper save 'em aU up," was Bob's jerry gave a yell of terror and fell Iu a to the post. i
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