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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
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VOL. XLII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1SSS.
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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.
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