Mti tit 'ana-?' Jlll-Ur Th . Sn.lT' B. F. SOHWEIEE, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and. Proprietor. -'l-rl m mtras() J VOL. XLII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1SSS. NO. 52. IV I IV. II ' k II ai riMirn v..... - U' til. I. i.jL.j ' 'rl"' firrni IS tr-Y. . - ---i ani IC . 1 k n a i bi r .1" HhMEOY " ti. N. ., . .'""" Sllil What Scott's EmTEjJg Over 23 Pounds Cain In Ten xc- I took aSj1 my chest and luni01 pot give it Poperatten?1,111 it developed intn k. ctentlon; and in the fi& ofbS year I was threStoSSsanie consumption? Phyf,! Uored me to a morll30 rancisco.' SooaTft?,? arrival I commenced taffi oco 1 1 -s Emulsion of Cod LwS ALL PaucciSTS. I-'b-'s ( roam Balm Trie .-.O '.u. Irn r ... J " ii. I. v L KE ICATARRH -irr'y Halm into rmchooittL i ISO pw C0NSUMpTiSf. u i t.1 All U i iiiri jilt - DR, LOBB'i 1 v.i st . beiow CallowhUi. 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V ,...,.nlTbTth jTZZLal Itl.-i t:i :.l.t .tli . tllXa. 9- h 'i iur. . ,i!:.-k.. 43T " " " ,K l f I ::i.-n .r n i, i-r I li b' r- "r 1C EEHLES3 DIES i-S- . nKnnT iSTSs ITam-on-'s rowing days tie eytdentlj ever. II" bas affain been beaten by JUuch. Ten jrara appears to be the I!m tof prime condition for oarsmen, ani Ilanlan bad bis day, though lie Is s'.l'.l a young man. An oM observer tells that one's eye l.ruTva are an infallible guide to bis ut. Xo matter bow yoang looking the ptrs- n may be, if his eyebrows lack p!os3 and do not lie flat and smooth he Is no longer a young man. Tur. steamship Indiana seems to Lave proved the value of oil on troubled waters during the recent -vere calis. ome of the officers at ti.l ute the safe arrival of the vessel in j.uit t i U:e liberal use of fish oil dls trilutt I cvt-r the sta. ilt-NKKAL W. T. SUEKMAN l.avc t!. sympathy of a nation in bis f.muly till cti ;n Uie leas of a wife to wlnini la was married thirty-eight yt;i!j i-.jo, and who, in her own modest way, "fousM the itiwdCght" as bravely th'j General himself. A rec ent traveller in Labrador is authority for the statement that there exists there a waterfall that eclipses Niagara Falls in reveral ways. It is located, he says, on the Grand river, which connects Lake retcbikapon with Gowe Hay, at the head of Hamilton Inlet. A Sr. I.ol is man furnishes a hint for Uud-l.eaJi-il people. A lew years a'o, litnUi n that he was Kt'ttirig bald. ho Uiseiiiitiiiueil wearing his hat while in his cliikv. Tiien he began a system. utic "iliy M-rub"of his head daily, with a coarse brush, lie has now, it is to'd, a very satisfactory crop of new hair. TiiK TUAMr nuisance has reached a pietty ias3 near Olean, New York, where a company of mil'tla was ord ered out to aid the police In breaking up a gang of between 40 and 50 in solent thieves in the guise of tiamps They lied ou the approach of soldiers. and will no doubt be beard from at some other point before they are landed in jail. The false pen.ilon claimants, re cently convicted in the United States District Ciiurt. got off witn light pun ishment, considering the nature of their offence. The principal was only sentenced to one year in the Peniten tiary, and his perjured witnesses to six moutls' imprisonment and 5100 fine each. Vet their crime was a deliberate attempt to defraud the Government, and of a kind difficult to detect and expose. With a tidal wave off the East coast, an eartfciiuake on the West coast, and a cold wave ruuning down its tack-bone, this great American Continent Is having a lively time of it. But all tie great elemental dis turbances serve a good purpose. They remind us what a minute and Incon sequential thing a man Is; and when a person begins to feel that way, he be L'ins t. love his wife a little more, his children a little more and his neigh Imrs a little more. Un. J. Smith "FVTHET. of Ches ter county, who uied suddenly Jioveca ler 20th, was a hard worker, devoting almost all his leisure time to historical researches and to literary work. His torians are indebted to him for much Information about the early history of Chester county, which he obtained by careful search of county and church records. Such work was to him labor ot loe, done for the public good. The report of Chief E. O. Graves, of the IJureau of Engraving and ITintmg for the Escal year 1SSS shows not only that the production of securities during the year exceeded that of any previous year in the history of the bureau but that the results have been accomplished bT the adoDtion of simpler methods of doing business, the discharge of super- Cuous employes, the abolition of un necessary places and the exaction of greater diligence In the discharge of duty and of a higher standard of qnall- Ccatlous. A it f.c ext decision banded down by the United States Supreme Court is particularly Interesting to widows and orphans. It holds that the proceeds of a lire insurance policy made payable to a man's wife or children cannot under any circumstances be attacked by his creditors attei his death. In the case acted on the claim of the creditors was that the man was Insolvent when be took the policy out, and that the money that was raid as premiums upon it was not his owd, but k ..-longed to his creditors. In Adecisltn as to reasonable rail road rate3 ou cotton the Inter-State Commerce Commlsslon'goes to the root cf the matter, when it says: "Whether railroad companies combine or act separately in making rates and charges is not so important, the essential requirement is that, however made. thev shall be reasonable of themselves and so fairly adjusted as to be reason able in their relations to each other and in their results." In other words.pools and combinations to Ox rate are not evils per tc. but evils only when they result in ucjust discriminations and overcharges. Though one might sup- rose this to be an obviously true propo sition, demazozues have so broadly denounced all trusts and combinations of eaDltal that it Is necessary to restate it occasionally in the interest alike of truth and justice. Evil habits are webs which re too lint. t tnha nntlwd until theT are tOO 1119 UOLIDAV. Sir. Sparks Attends to m Number of the Ball Uttle Thing Berore Matcb. Marie,' said Mr. Sparks to his wife Joyfully, 'I'm going to have a holiday w-monov. 'Are you?" said Mrs. Sparks. That is nice. There are a number of little things, about the bouse I want you to do for me. ell-er, said ilr. Sparks dubiously rather thought I'd co to see the baseball match. I haven't seen a game for I don't know when." Well, you know yourself. Mr. Sparks, without my having to tell you,' said his wife calmly, 'that the wind comes Into my window in a whistling cyclone without the weather strips. I expect every night the baby will wake up with the croup. And it seems a pity to have a plumber's bill to pay for fixing the sink when you could do It yourself in ten minutes." Oh! if that's all you want done. Mr. Sparks exclaimed, cheerfully. I can do those in the morning and go to the match afterward.' It isn't quite all,' replied his wife. guardedly, 'but they are all trifling things.' Mr. Sparks woke in the morning with a delightful consciousness of not having to hurry about getting up. It was quite 10 o clock berore he finished his breakfast, and then he drawled over the paper an hour before he went to work. Then he put on his old coat. hunted up all bis tools, and said to his wife, courageously: 2iow, Maria, just tell me ail there is to be done so you won't be saying afterward that you wish I had dune this and that that you didn't even men tion to me." Very well, Mr. Sparks,, replied his ife, composedly. I'll ted you all I can recollect. I want you to put on the weather strips in my room, and while you are about it you might as well do them all over the house. Then you'd better ax the sink, and while you are down in the kitchen see if you can mend the wrinner. Sarah says it won't work, aud 1 think she'll leave if she has any more trouble with it. Then there's that picture that's been standing in the parlor for weeks wait ing to be hung, and I want you to stop up that hole in the uimngrooin with putty so the mice can't get up. Then you'd better Cx the caster on the dining-room table. You know you said a good deal about It wnen you were carving the roast beet and the t ib'.e wobbled so. Then there is that shutter that flips so at night, and " Great Scott, Marlar exclaimed the master of tha house. i didn't say I had a week's holiday, i told you I wanted to go to the baseball match. You don't want to go at 11 o'clock. do you?' Inquired bis wite, cuttingly. it doesn't begin until , x oeueve. And the loacer you fool round the Later you'll bo setting done.' Mr. Sparks saw the torce ot this reasoniug and went to work at once. While he was uxing tne weaiuer strips bis wife reminded him that the springs of the shades were all loose. He did not receive this suggestion very amicably, and be was quite sav age when she came Into the dining room and suggested that the stove ouht to be set up at once while he was grovelling ou his hands and knees under tne table trying to get the cast ers even. During ait- nis vicissitaoes the wary Mr. Sparks kept his eye on the clock, for he was by no means weakened in bis determination not to lose the baseball match. At 3.30 he dropped the nammer aud Licks and da-itud hurriedly upstairs to change bis coat Why, James, are you through?" asked his wife, mildly. "Won't you look here at the sewing machine a minute?" 1 can't indeed. Marie.' gasped Mr. Spark, ai he struggled into bis coat. 'It is halt-past three now and the match begins at 4 " lI;Ur-pait three?" said Mrs. Sparks. Wbv. it's hall-past four. The din- lni-roooi clock lost an hour. 1 didn't ask you to fix it when I came in there, for you seemed annoy eo, oat Mr. Shirks waited tor no rurther explanation, but tore mal'.y oil to t! e match. He was t x lale to pet a seat to see much of the unue, lu'. his reel ings found a bligiit veut in savage shouts of disappioval or every error of the G Lints. Driiikin r vvn'or Ter-t. We are giving mora aal more atten tion to the purity of druiKiug water as It liecomes more apparent that infec tion of almost every kind travels by water. It becotuas of the highest im port itico to kn w whether the tests usually resorted to for the detection of organic impurities are trustworthy. If dangerous impurities sli? past these tets. they afford no proleoti'm against transmission or disease germs. "The S miUrlau" prints a paper by Dr. J. A. Tanner, of Boston.- giving results of some of his experiments in this direc tion, which may almost be cailea start ing. D. Tanner declares bJldiy that the chemical processes relied upon for test lug water are "as apt to condemn a good water as they are to commend it. and to commeua an impure waier wuen they should condemn it," and bis state ments go far to support nis meory. K.r examDle. It Dve per cent, or mut or any beef extract be added to a gal lon of distilled water the processes will condemn it as Impure because it con tains organic matker. Aaa a tew mil lion of disease germs to a gallon of dis tilled water aud noue of the processes will discover them, because the quant ity of organic matter is not large enough. Yet the one mixture is en- tirelv harmless, and the other. If we accept the germ theory, is dangerous. The combustion process relies upon tbe proportions found of carbon and nitroTenr the ammonia process npon the presence of free ammonia and al bumold ammonia; the permanganate process upon the amount of oxygen re quired to OX1U1Z9 UIO Olgauwi iiuikkci. All of these tests are extremely deli rat. and a slight inaccuracy is enough tit r.in an imuure water to be rated u nure. or the opposite. The fact that they disagree wildly in their their results with the same water la enouzh to shake faith in ail ot mem. Dr. Tauner sh-ws this by reference to tbe investigation conducted by Profes sor J. W. Mallet for the National Board of Uealih some years ago, with which he was connected. Nineteen samples of natural water, believed from actual use to be wholesome, were ex amined by these processes. They agreed that ten were potable, and three were not, but as to six, or one-third of the number. LheT disagreed totaUr. Than nineteen samples were tacea of ''nat ural waters which there seemed to be fair grounds for believing have actually caused disease." But only four of these were rejected as unwholesome, as to nine, or one-half.there was no agree ment, and six, or one-third, were pro nounced wholesome by all the pro cesses. Then twenty samples were taken of natural water of doubtful but suspected character, and as to these the results were really more unfavorable than as to the waters known to be dan gerous. The most remarkable of all the tests were with twenty samples of good water, to which were added va rious pollutions, such as sewerage from various sources, black vomit and like offensive and poisonous substancss. Only eight of these samples, less than half, were condemned by all the pro cesses, as to nine the reports did not agree and three the processes actually concurred in pronouncing good. Handiwork, la i ho t'ublic School . In these days, when the struggle foi bread grows constantly more severe, it Is of the greatest importance that the youth of the country shall bs sent into life properly Ct'.ed for the struggle. It should be the purpose ot a public or free school system to so prepare and fit them. Do public schools do this? Every body, even those who form the vast ring which mismanages them, knows that they do not, but that, on the con trary, the whole tendency ot the sys tem as It is mismanaged is to disable the pupils, to send them out in the world unfitted for the task before them. Our public schools ought to breed men and women. As they are now and have long been misused, they breed clerks aud shop girls. That is to say. they prepare millions of youths who at tend them for avocations which are al ways overcrowded, and unfit them for any others. The system has thus be come a vast Injury to the country. A proper public school system would teach spelling, reading, writing, geo graphy and drawing, and having ac quired these fundamentals the pupils should then be drawn into free tech nical schools, where both boys and girls should be thoroughly taught the use of tools of all kinds. In that way they would be really fitted for practical life. In Sweden and some other European countries boys are thus taught to be gardener s, carpenters, blacksmiths. They are made, ai part of their school education, to know useful handicrafts in many branches. The girls are taught to sew, to cook and housewifely duties in general. The result is that the youug men and women so taught do not lack employment wherever they may wander; they do not drift Into factories; they get on In life. Well in 10 of the 70 Brooklyn public schools, after two years and a half of struggle, a yoong girl may give one hour of ber Saturday's ho (jay to being taught sewing. It is quite wonderful. But at any rate it Is a beginning. Capt. Caster and tbe Chief "It Is a source of wonder to the whites," says Mr. McFadden, "that the bodies of General Custer and his brother Tom were not mutilated in the massacre. It is well known that the treacherous chief liain-ln-the-Face bad sworn that be would eat Tom Custer's heart. The way he came to make that threat was this: 'Itain-in-the-Face bad committed some depredation in Nebraska for which be was wanted by the United States officers horse stealing, I think it was. He took refuge at Standing Kock, and Gen. Custer sent a sergeant with a detail from lort Lincoln to bring bim in. The sergeant was com pelled to return without his prisoner, rhe General tben said to bis brother. 'Tern, eo to Standing Kock and bring back ltain-in-the-Face or leave your own body there. Tbe captain, who never refused to obey orders, started on Lu errand with a detail of cavalry. "It so happened that the day be reached Standing Hock was the day on which rations were issued at the agency, i here were I uny ouuu Indians at, the place. Capt. Custer placed his detail so as to surround tbe trading post. He dismounted, and with a re volver in one baud and a sword in tbe other, entered the building. When be got inside be asked, 'Where is ltain-in- the-r ace?' Silence feu on the room which was crowded with friends of tbe chief. The captain then told tbe interpreter to point out Rain-in-the-Face. This was done, and stepping up ti him the intrepid cavalry officer placed tbe muzzle of his revolver at the Indian's head and said: "Itain-in-the-Face. I want you. If you make an attempt to escape I'll shoot you. If your friends interfere I will blow your brains out. I have but one life to lose, and if they shoot me you will die also.' "Kain-in-the-Face said he would submit, but on going out at the door he said: it is your turn now, but some day I will eat yoor htart.' " Merchants anil the Agencies. As the business of the mercantile agencies is becoming better understood the attitude of the merchants toward them has undergone a very great change. It used to be that the agen cies were regarded as pernicious spies in the commercial world, and the po lite interrogatories of our agents, ask' iuz for statements of business standing, were looked urio-a as impertinent. Very often the business man, when so ques tioned, would flatly refuse to answer, Of course this fact we communicated as in duty bound to tbe creditors, who had made through us, the inquiries. and the enecl was not to quiet any alarm that might have been felt about the debtor's condition, but often an un comfortable squeezing of the merchant resulted. uhln the last ten years the agencies have been recognized as powerful and legitimate aids to the mercantile trade, and the qnestions of our agents touching the condition of this or that firm are met with answers that are straightforward and. in the main, candid and satisfactory. When ever a business man is known to desire a concealment of bis affairs, tbe mani festation of that desire creates more suspicion than even a lame statement. Duces usually begin to lay in Feb ruary, and until that time they may be kept at but little expense. Cooked turnips, with a small amount of corn meal, make good feed for them. After they begin to lay they should have proportion of animal food. A child In Cleves, Ohio, bad the end ot its tongue eateu oil by putUng some caustic lye in Its mouth while its mother's back was turned. Old Maid's Music All down tha Icrag, narrow street Tbe windows were wide ail day; The mtuki and the pinks smell sweat In the boxes over the way. Tbe eight is a night of Jane, When tbe Summer flowers are born And, above a sickle moon Hangs o'er the soming corn. No sigh of tbe past is there. And tbe silence cpellful feels, Wben ont on tbe dreamy air Tbe Old Maid's music steals. It set mi like a story told That must fill tbe eyes with tears Eo sweet, so wistful, so old, That iliujof fifty j ears! Even as I listen and bear, Tboxe years roll back between, Ami the long ago draws near, Till I look on what has bee a. And a Bonn J of footnteps rings. And the shadows move below While she lifts her voice and sings Tbe ditty of long a;o. . lnd I see two figures pace Together with lingering feet; And now 'lis a pirl's white face That looks down tbe empty street. And I see her lean and gaze. And the crowd Is black below But tbe Old Mala sits and plays That ditty of long ago. .. Tis light In the narrow street. To-day is tbe longest day; Tbe musks and tbe pinks smell sweat In the boxes over tbe way. THE XAKED ASSASSIN. When Fierre prison be found Lnrier came out of himself without work or bread. He bad teen condemned for the burglary of a bouse which be bad en tered as a valet de chambre. In prison be bad been taught to make tags for shoe strings. Naturally, in tbe little city of the prince in which tbe surveil lance of the police obliged him to dwell, it was absolutely out of tbe question to utilize this special business on the other hand, it was out of the question to think of returning to his life as a domestic Fierre Lurier, then, bad nothing in prospect but hunger and misery. He reflected, and told himself that by working early and late, if by chance be found work, he would only arrive at tbe point of not dying like a dog. If, on the contrary, be committed a new crime, be would doubtless be able to gain at a stroke a supply of bread, and aiso riches. He hetitated.no longer he elected to commit a new crime. What crime should he commit? That was the question; but the first thing to do was to fly from tbe eyes of Justice. Fierre Lurier left the city where be bad been Imprisoned. ithout reference, without money, e dragged along for six months tbe bard and miserable life ot a vagabond. walking always before him. begging in secret, sleeping under the beautiful stars or in an open barn, haggard. emaciated, waiting an occasion, refus ing it when it failed to offer security or wealth enough; but enduring every thing until tbe propitious moment when be could indemnify himself for bis youUi by devouring the prey always hoid for. One day be perceived that he was in Champaign, bis native country. He bad been drawn there by I know not what fatality possibly, however, by that bestial instinct that brings back tbe bunted animal to tbe wood that bas been bis borne. He was seized with fear at first. They would recognize him I He bad thrust himself into a hornets' cest he wa3 lost be must retrace bis road I Inflection reassured him. How could tbey recognize bim? He had left the country at twelve years of age, a child rosy and blonde. He bad returned at forty years, with bronzed skin, long beard, hollow laws aud gray hair. He reasoned with himself, and very sens! bly. How many occasions had failed him along the route be bad passed. through ignorance because he knew not the places nor the people? Here, in spite of the changes during his absence, be knew everything knowledge that was a weapon ready made to bis Land. He required only to recall bis memories. l'ierie Lurier recalled bis memories! Ten leagues, perhaps, from the spot where be then was there had been in ot! er time;, in a village called Nizy-!e- Comte, a household rich and childless a man and wife by the name of Eerlot, and whom they nicknamed in tbe village Comte sous (count sous). 1'ierre bad known them well, for In tbe times be was a lad and peasant be bad filled in tbe household the office of a domestic errand boy. He was familiar with all the habits and arrangements of the dwelling. He knew that tbe big door that opened upon the road was stout and armed with solid bars of iron, and that tbe walls of the garden at the back were covered always with broken glass. but be knew also that the trees at tbe end must have grown up, and that from the exterior, by climbing these trees, one could penetrate the garden without touching the walls. He knew that from tbe garden one did not enter Immediately into the kitchen, closed invariably at the same hour every evening, but be knew with equal certainty that tbe wash-house was only separated from tho outside by a very tbin layer ot bricks. This wall would be very easy to throw down, and once in the wash-house one was the same as in the kitchen. From there one passed to the lower hall, where, under the face of the clock, bung tbe double key of tbe staircase. At the top of this staircase was a closet, in which it bad been the custom to keep the dustpans and brooms; after that tbe sleeping chamber of tbe Berlots. Here be could recall bo more. He bad never entered that chamber, and had only seen through the half opened door that the bed was at the end of beside a tall and solid armorie of oak jrith copper hinges. At this, the first memory that bad returned to bim, his design had taken 6bape he bad found, in short, tbe occasion patiently awaited. He must no there without letting himself be seen, to find out if anything bad changed, to take all tbe precautions demanded by prudence and to act with daring. He made In two nights the ten leasees that separated bim from Nizy le-Cctate. He passed an entire day concealed in the woods at the bottom of a wet grotto, bis feet in tbe water and without eating. But for all that. when be arrived, about two o'clock in tbe morning, at the house of tbe Ber lots, he was very sure of not having encountered upon the road a single ; person. In the lace that ran along behind tbe garde a be luckily found Held of carrots; be gathered some, and in a manner appeased his hunger. Then, meagerly ballasted, but sustained by the desire for success, he climbed the wall that fronted the back of the Bcr lot's establishment, gathered himself together for the effort, and with a pro digious bound cleared the lane and fell into a tree of tbe garden. a he noise of bis plunge into tbe branches aroused a dog of the neigh borhood; it began to bay, answered, it seemed to Lurier, fr-m all directions: it was a concert of yelps and bowlings that little by little died away. Nothing was beard at last but tbe far-away voice of a shepherd's dog watching his nocks below there, in the darkness of tbe quiet fields. Fierre Lurier felt bis limbs to see if anything was broken and began to consider. It was not much to have entered the garden it was really nothing. He bad come. In truth, for something more, to throw himself heart and soul into the adventure, pushed by an irresistible desire to finish with bis bad fortune; but he knew not as yet if the Berlots still lived or still inhabited their old dwelling. No matter; he was right to have come; it would have been imprudent not to inform himself, and to inform himself be had only to pass a day in tbe top of a tree. If the farm had new proprietors, he must depart again tbe following night; if the Berlot's were there, their money would repay him for the trouble it gave bim to regain it. While waiting for the morning be descended from bis perch to get some thing to eat. lie was not afraid of a dog. for in tbe concert of a while ago none'of the bowling had come from the house. He walked then toward the poultry yard. It was exactly the same the house for the pigs to tbe left, the stable for cows and horses to the right. In the trough of tbe pigs his band encountered a loaf ot bread which be stuffed into bis pocket without the slightest feeling of disgust. It was provision for the morrow's repast. Then be gathered some fruit from the garden, discreetly, so as not to show. These precautions made, be decided to put off until tbe following night all that bore upon the crime, and be sought a bed where be could rest tbrougb the day. He eyed the oak, thick acd knotty, by which be bad landed. Toward the m'ddle of the tree the twisted trunk, hollowed by a stroke of lightning, formed what was called In that country a creute. Fierre Lurier went to bed there. The sun bad gilded the spiders' web3 that hung between tbe branches of the peu trees, and the dew dried irom the vegetables, when be awakened. Tbe first thing be faw across the leaves of bis oak was Father Berlot himself, engaged In attending to tbe cares of bis poultry yard. The heart of Fierre Lurier beat with joy. les, the old man was there, coming and going, and distributing bis grain aud bread crumbs to bis noisy fowls, their breakfast to tbe grunting pigs. This reminded Lurier that he, too, was hungry. He drew bis bread aud fruit from bis pocket and breakfasted silently. Things were turning out to bis satisfaction, for truly, since Father Berlot cared for bis poultry yard with bis own bands, be bad no domestic and must be alone in tbe bouse with only time. Berlot. Until eleven o'clock the old man re mained in his court and garden, clean lug, digging, clipping and putting in order. At one moment Fierre Lurier was afraid. Berlot was attentively considering bis fruit be bad perceived that some were lacking. Mechanically he turned bis eyes to the wails and trees at the end, seeming to suspect that some one bad entered there. But the contemplation of his broken bottles, so sharp and jagged, reassured bim. He shrugged bis shoulders with an air of saying: 'No, wrong; it's imuosaibler Still, be was plainly tormented, and to be assured, called loudly: 'Fierrel Fierre I here, I say!' Lurier trembled at the sound of bis name, as if bo called bim. He buried himself still deeper in bis creute. At the shout of Berlot the kitchen door opened and a child came out, a boy ten or twelve years old, rosy and blonde. Lurier trembled still more It seemed to bim that it was be himself bad come from the kitchen. It was tbe same little peasant gamin that be bad been iii other days. 'Fierre,' said Berlot, 'thou hast been stealing my pears.' 'Oh. no, ni sieu,' responded the lad, I swear to you. How could I steal them? I have only just come from the fields and pasturing tho cow, and you yourself opened tiie kitcheu door for me to go to the stablo, and the big door for me to go to the fields.' 'Thou art a little rascal. v hat is It that prevents you coming in the gardea at night?' Oh, ni s'.eu, impossible! Everything is closed in the house!' 'Ta, ta, ta. prove to me that thou art not a thief I' I swear It, m'sieu; behold tbe proofl' Fierre Lurier shuddered with fear, fancying the little one had seen bim. But no, the proof that be wished to give was only the solemn vow usual with children of his age, which consisted in making the sign of the cioss. elevating his right band and spitting upon the ground. Berlot con tented himself with pulling bis ear. and returned with bim to the bouse. Twelve o'clock struck. Tbe cracked sound of the village bell was the only noiie that troubled that silent hour. Two or three chickens picked here and there In tbe dunghill by the stable. The P'.gs bad emptied their box and retired to sleep in tbe bottom of their pen. Tbe sparrows bad left the fruit and gone to tbe fields, and tbe peasants had drunk their soup and were at work again. Nothing stirred in tbe hamlet, and there was only a vague rustling and buzzing in the country as If the earth sighed while sleeping in the sun light, Fierre Lurier felt rise within him a singular peace. It was good to live In this;tranquility. The chickens were happy, the birds content, the existence of tbe little Fierre charming In spite of the growlings of Father Berlot. His ears were pulled sometimes, it was trne, but be could drink, eat, sleep, walk in the grass and under the wood without fear, without looking behind bim to see if he were persued by a tricorne. And Father Berlot was rich; he had his fowls, his pigs, bis pears what a happy man! Why bad not he, Fierre Lurier, bis share of happiness, too? Ab, wby? Had be only remained here in tbe fields like bis father. But was it really his fault that be bad gone? They bad told him they bad more for tunes In the city. Could be have gained that fortune? rerhaps; who could tell? He bad good chances; a patron bad taken a fancy to bim on bis arrival, but bad advisers bad preachei to bim the pleasures of idleness and excess. One year, two years, many years the pre cious time of youth rolled miserably away, and be had done nothing but exist from day to day. Then, one morning, weary of the struggle, taken with remorse, wishing at last to work, and not knowing how, be became again a domestic. There still was a chance for bim to make bis living, but be was soured, full of de sires and regrets. He had bad acquaint ances, a lady-love who was a bad woman, a friend who was a pickpocket. He had listened to the friend in order to satisfy the exigencies of the miPtress; in short, be bad awakened one beauti ful day betwern two agents of police He was a thief I He was tried, condemned, and passed fifteen years in prison, and now all, now be was a rascal, a vagabond, food for tbe galleys, and that evening would be an assassin; to-morrow, perhaps. would be arrested, aud soon would be tried again, condemned to death, to have bis head cut off I Fierre Lurier, with staring gaze, saw neither the garden, the court, nor the bouse, but a place full of people, a guillotine, in the bole of which be grimaced. He uttered a cry. That cry brought bim back to tbe present. I'ardieur he said to himself: I am mad; I dream with mv eves ooen! It Is stupid; had Father Berlot been here I woHld have been done fori' To chance bis ideas be returned to his memories of the prison, the boasting of bis comrades of thefts skilfully made. assassinations whose authors have never been discovered. 'See you, my lads' bad said an old rascal, many times condemned, 'never throw yourself into a game unless you are sure of success; three things only are necessary to Insure it; first, to be in a country where tbey do not know you; secondly, to work alone; thirdly, to work as naked as when you came into the world. To work alone and as a stranger in a country, one bas neither to fear the sheep nor the wolves; to work with nothing but your skin as covering, you leave no pieces of con Victlou' behind you.' ihese were the counsels that rang like a battle trumpet through the bead of Fierre Lurier. He was unknown. be was alone, and be would be naked. be was certain to succeed. Evening had come; the people were returning to their dwellings; steps were heard in the lane, and the cows lowed in regaining their stables. Dogs barked, and every one was preparing to eat bis supper before going to bed to sleep. Berlot came out of the kitchen and opened the door of tbe court. The cow, driven by the little Tierre, took ber place in the stable. Hurry yourself, rascal,' cried tbe peasant to the bov, 'and go up mid change windows for Mother Berlot The dust blows from the front; put her by the one above us. ' Tbe child obeyed, and some minutes later a window on the first floor lookiug to tbe court opened, a big chair was rolled to the front, aud Mother Berlot appeared. She was motionless rigid In her face the eyes alone seemed still to live. 'GoodI' thought Lurier. 'The o'.d woman's paralyzed, it will be more con venient! One thing disquieted bim the child. In what part of the house did Fierre sleep? Would be be compelled to pass him when be went above? Ma foil so much the worse for bim be would bs forced to clear the road I It began to be daik. Night stretched itself Inch by inch about the house, the court, the garden. Soon Fierre Lurier could dis tinguish nothing from bis perch in the tree. Only the stars shone between tbe branches. Nine o clock. A light reduenea a window upon the sleeping floor. Old Berlot was counting his money, as l.e did everf evening. The lignt n not extinguished for nearly an hour. There were lots of ecu3 in the board I leu o'clock. But It was a long wait. The hours were as many nights. Eieveu o'clock- All was quiet in the distance The moment had come. Fierre Lurier descended from bis lice, .mil arrived at the wash-house, begun to feel in the wall to find a cia-k iuto which to insert bis knife. The first brick was bard to unsettle; but the bole ence made, the opening enlarged quickly, and at last the body or 1'ierra Lurier was able to make the passage. He remained a moment motionless, accustoming his eyes to the darkness. When he bagau to see things a little he recognized that he bad not deceived himself in bis memories. In front of bim wa3 the laiched door that entered the kitcheu. But before entering there be must take precautions that Is to say, strip to the skin, prepare a lantern and secure a weapon. The knife that bad served to break the wall was neither long enough nor strong enough to kill a ui.iu. Still feeling, be fumbled la th baskets of implements that encumbered the room, and fixed his choice uikju a short pick, with a solid handle aud a bead heavy and pointed. The lanterns were aiso In their racks, one tor the carriage, the other for the stable. The first was tbe one for bis aSalr, because it was smaller and furnished with a reflector that made it like a dark lan tern. The matches were in the kitchen, but he needed to light it only when he ascended to the room above to see how to strike aud seek the money. Matters arranged, Lurier undressed himself. tied bis clothes iu a bundle, aud at tached them by a cord to his shoulders.' Had he forgotten anything? Yes. His clothes were rolled un, he was naked, be bad no pockets! What was he goina to carrv the gold of Berlot's in? He had uiauy ecus and franc pieces, a'l of it heavy and hard to manage. He f umb'e l a;aiu iu the baskets, and smiled with pleasure as bs drew from one filled with oats a cjuvas muzz.e. one of those nose bags that Iarmei3 u e to feed horses on a journey. It was just the thing. He hung it about his neck, and with bis bundle of clothes at his back, began the trip. Half past eleven sounded! His lantern hookid to his finger, his pick grasped in his band, he lifted the latch of the inner door and passed to the kitchen. A soft and regular sound announced the sleep of a child. It was, in fact, the little Fierre upon a pallet bed, the covering drawn to his ears, and sleeping heavily. Fierre Lurier began to raise his pick. 'Bali!' be said to him3elf; 'he sleeps so sound! Nothing wakes children. When 1 was bis age the thunder of God wouldn't have stirred mel If be does when I'm up there poou but he won't, it will be time enough if be does! Ma foi! no; I'd see bun as a bloody ghost!' He took the matches from the chimney-piece, p.issad to tbe hall, and felt beneath the face of the clock. Oh, joy I the key ot tbe stair case was there as in other tunes. In three minutes be would be tear the board! The steps cracked under bis tread! 'Wooden bead!' said he to himself, 'you are too heavy! He lis tened a while. The bouse was quiet from below came the snorting of little Fierre. Stnl two steps to go, and be was on tbe landing; then at the broom closet; then at the door behind which were the Berlots and their gold I If only tbey would sleep like Fierre lie would content himself with thieving! 1'ardieu? 'twas useless to think of it the old man bad a keen ear be slept with an eye opsu. He lifted tbe lantern and pushed the door! At the grinding ot the binges, rather than at tbe stream of light suddenly entering bis room. Father Eerlot sat up in bed to fall again instantly with out time to utter an 'Oh!' the Iron sank deep into bis skull! Mute, motion less, ber eyes wide open, the paralytic regarded the frightful deeJ, but only for a second once, twice, thrice tho pick bad entered her bead! All this passed quickly, I lerre Lurier bad only to empty the armorie. A turn of tbe knife In the lock aud the door opened one, two, three sacks, and a fourth still smaller. His rum maging fingers found franc in the throe first, louis in the other. It was enough. No use to turn out the armorie. Hi must My with the four sacks buried in the mu7.z'.e. It was heavy about his neck. Aud the pick? He must take it too. should the child sleep no more! He turned to go; for a second only, the second that it bad taken bim to open the cupboard lock, had bis eyes left his victims. At that instant a cold chill bad racked bis body. He moved hur riedly now, feverish, the light of the lantern, always upon the bed. He was nearly at the door that by its own weight bad closed behind bim. II-j raised the light to Cud the knob, to Uy from the room, be wrenched bis gaze from those stiffening corpses; a cry of horror escaped bis throat; he moaned with terror;a man stood before him I Without stopping, without reflecting. without looking, without seeing, evt :i, that this man was like himself, naked. with a lantern in one hand, with a pick in the other, with a sack bung about his neck Fierre Lurier bad but one idea to slay the apparition. He threw himself forward with uplifted weajon to encounter a sheet of glass; his bo ly carried by its own impetus, bis bead bowed under the weight of the gold, lie fctageered and plunged face down ward; there was a splintering crash. The child, wakened by the noise, and believing, iierhaps. that Mother Bi-rlot was ill and they needed bis assistance. ran with a caudle. At tbe landing be stopped with a shriek of terror; ho fell to his kneei Twenty-four hours later, when the people ot the neighborhood, puzzled by the shut-up appearance of the bouse and the crying animals, entered to solve the mystery, they found: The door that led to the Berlots' sleeping room with a gaping bole in the panel of glass that had formed the upper half or It. Through that bole they saw the pillows of the bed a mass of blood aud brains that bad run from two opened heads. In that hole rested a naked man, bis body rayed with cuts from the broken glass, a pick In his hand, bis legs iu the air, his stomach upon the wool of the door. About his neck, aud that kept bis body in position, a heavy bag with gold pieces and clotted blood that bad run from the arteries severed in the struggle. The. wall was bespattered from side to Hile, the floor soaked, and in the corner of the closet on the stairs a child was crouching, a child with distended eyes. with hair on end, and who responded to the questions put to hlia with fright ful laughter. Little Fierre was an Idiot. Ir'indinir a Fortune It was ou JuneO, lSS'l, that Fraua E. Daugett, an enterprising prospector, was climbing the side of Lynx Creek Mountain, about twelve miles east ot Frescott. The usual kit of a prosector, consisting of a pick and shovel, were swung over bis shoulder. When we'! un the mountain be stopped beneath the projecting boughs or a juniper tree to rest. He fell Into a slumber, and. on awakening, gathered up his pick and Hhovel to pursue bis journey, bis ob jective point being a gold-bearing quartz claim on the other side of the mountain, which he Intended to pros pect. In throwing bis pick to bis shoulder it slipped, and, falling behind bim. Its sharp point struck his ie', causing great pain. He picked it up, and, with a vehement oatb, sluok it into the ground inipetuoudy, saying that it could remain theie. Walking on a few steps, and the pain easing somewhat, he changed his mind u-ni returned for bis pick. On pulling it up some shining metal was raised with it. He bad accidentally struck his pick iuto a blind leJge, which is now known as tho Amulet Mine, and from which there has been shipped So'J.OW worth or high-grade ore. He took i:i as a partner J. W. M. Moore, an as sayer iu the district who has recently purchased the discoverer's interest in the mine, and is now sole owner or the property. The main shaft of tho pro perty is l'J I feet deep. At the 03 feet level a drift was run on for 00 feet, and the oie all stoped out, from that up to the surface. At 100 feet drifts were run lu both direc tions, one 20 feet and one 50 feet. There are also two other shafts 50 feet deep, aud an open cut running from the face of the iiiounta:n to one of them about 00 leet. From lh;e open ings the above amount of first-class ore bas been tak'.'ti and s iipppel, the sec ond-class ore remaining on the dump not bearing transportation. The owner and Charles A. Girdler. a miui-ig ex pert, visited the property recently, and made careful measurements of the dumps, estimating that tbey contained 2OJ0 tons ot sec oud-class ore, A ton of it was taken promiscuously and sampled and assayed, giving a value of a-Ti 00 per ton, or an aggregate value of i"l,0o0. Orism of Sub-Itosa. Most curious of all the sights iu Bremen, i3 a cask 20 J years old called "the Uose," because it stands under a large painted rose. It is said this is the spot where the oil burgher council lors held their most secret meetings, the proceedings of which were never divulged; hence, perhaps, the saying, "under the rose." It must be cou fessed tbey cbose a fine, dark, damp hole for their deliberation, aud fully deserved the rheumatism that without doubt they caught, though the contents of the rose" were duly and frequently called Into requisition, you may be Quite sure. 1VEWS IN BRIEF. Isaac S. Demeut, or Chicago. Ii tbe fastest stenographer in the country. He recent'y took down 1,337 words it five minutes. An aged turtle was picked up neai Kingston. N. Y., tecently that bad the following Inserinlion on Its back: "W. D. Wbittaker, Aug. 10, 177L'- The chrysanthemum is a plant ot such recent date in this country thai many will be surprised to know that next year will bo the centenary of its Introduction in England. Henry Goode. ot Malison, Wis., Is the owner of a cat that bas (.truck up a grat fr'.endhl.ip with a bi'.Iy-gnat The two are together night and day, and the cr.t occasionally takes a rhit on the gou'-'s 1:ilk. I'alti is losing Jti'.utu iu the re vival of Gounod's "Komeo and Juli ette" at the Grand Opera House li: l'aris. She is to receive J.'1'JnO anight lor Lcr services, and one of the clause? n her agreement stipulates that Gou nod himself shall conduct the or chestra During a lire in a hospital at Cleveland, Oiii , the lejjs on one end of a dissecting tat 1 wer-. burned off. precipitating live subjects upon the heads of firemen who were at work upon the floor below. A man in Jackson, Mich., has a small blaci:-and-lati that phis the mouth-organ. His rt iforiiiance, though not remarkable !n a musical way, seems to dt-nght lha dog, and be whines for the organ several times a day. A wel!-to-ilo ritizi n of Macon, Ga., uses for :i bath tub a zinc lined coffin box. It was intended to contain the coffin of his i.eighbor, but proved to be too lare to enter ti-.e grave, and was bought l y its present owner foY a song. As a rpsnH of heavy rains, a Los Angeles house floated o.T to a consid erable distance, and finally brought up where it now completely blocks a street. There is talk of hitching a tug to it and dragging it back where it be longs. Tha Empress of Austiia ii'id the Empress or Japan will lie in If is coun try about the same time. The former has the more beauty and Is the better horseback rider, but the Mikado's Wife will possess the creator charm as a novelty. Sir John Lester Kaye bas eleven farms in Manitoba, all supplied with buildings and machinery, lie raises better flax than Uie Irish, which is worth S3o0 a ton. Next summer 33.000 sheep now in Oregon will be trans ferred to his farms. ".miff-dipping" Is .id to ie f row ing quite the fashion in I'W itlon, Me. 'lhe devotees don't inhale the snufT, but make what is called "a smear" with castile soap, and apply it to the nostrils. A species of nul l intoxica tion is said to result. Dtadwood, I). T., some tough citizens, was digging into a h must contain One of them I between two projecting bowlders when ono or the rocks, weighing 3,1 00 pounds, Tell and pinioned him to the other. He was extricated only shuht'y Injured. The piliiuVil remains of a huge monster have been discovered near Knoxville, Inv.a. The body was be tween fifty and sixty feet long, with a head almost four leet long and two and a half feet wide, with four eyes. The sockets of the eyes are eight Inches in diameter. Michael Mootiey of the town of Erin, Washington county. Wis., found a prehistoric copper spearhead eieveu inches long and one and a half inches broad at its widest place. It Is nicely finished, having the customary socket, and Its edges bevc'el and sharp. San Francisco p.iers are discuss, lug the wonderful stiength of Hans Hansen, a seaman on the revenue cutter C irwlu. I or raising a disturb ance on board a s'.np he was put In Irons, but giving his wrists a sudden wreLCh he snapped the touli Hteel bracelets as if they had been made of paper. A queer incident took place Rt A. Lower's Iidiim at Griffin, Ga. A col ony of Mack bees had been living ieaco ably near a trilm of Italian ln-es for years until recently, when the black bees attempted to rob their yellow neighbors. A fierce tight w-as lhe re sult in which hundie.ds of the black robbers were killed. Eugene Oiidm, leading tenor of the McC.tiill Company, is composing the score or a new opeia. Those who have heard the I. umbers already fin ished aie enthusiastic over the lieauty and graeo of the melodies and the skill and oiigmality displayed in the seltiug of the ensembles and the or chestration. Some firty models have been sub mittel for the Grant monument in New Yoik, but the committee is not yet satisliel and the lime fur competi tion bas been extended to January 1. Tbe models all fall for a .V)0.ijm shaft, but only SI 30, 00' J has U-en col lected by the committee, and Curigress will be urged to appiopriato i-i-Vj.000 for the work. The patronaj? of the Boston Sym phony Orchestra m its own city has surpassed even its t cedent or furuier Bea-sona. Mr. Gi-i Icke has secured addi tional talent when; it could be judic iously used aud his oi chest ra is in the best possible condition. At intervals during the season a wn-k has been re- ''Prved lor a concert lour, which in cludes New York, Fbliadelpbla, l'a'.ti uiore aud Washington. A curious button was made alout a century ago ud worn by the Eng lish dandies of the period. It con sisted of polished brass, and was ruled with lines so fine as to be almost mi croscopic. The roughness of the sur face thus obtained broke the reflection of the light falling on it and gave It prismatic colors. The beauty of mother of pearl and its iridescent brilliancy are believed to be produced by three plates overlapping each other unevenly, and thus they disiieise the light as ll.ey re flect It. Tliere is in a Southeri. insane asylum an eight-year-old boy ho bas never been awake since the lit 'r of bis birth. He was the child or 3 par alytic mother, and has delicate fut ures and a high, white forehead, with long, black curls. His arm is not larger than an ordinary man's thumb. He lies on bis bed year after year, tak ing no note of anything that passes. Twice a day be is aroused enough to take a little nourishment, and then re lapses into sleep. ttroog to be broken. j1fflffii:"r irl, e II I !
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