1 i 1 B. F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIJIJ. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5. 1SS9. NO. i4. , 1 f J TO i liTH X. out itr xEncisn. : - - a. .,. ,'.,,,,...1 K,iv.,ri,T:p . .. -...r:itivi toriln and .. t t' :f I'ftri.'il t...-l...l i-""u or i-hanr-A by an eiDcriri. - . ii. i-.; .Tirui.lution. It b pUr32 ' " uny coudltion of thi Hem. r or overworked, "w0ra ;i .it dressmaker. Kmtmmi ( Mi- women generally, Dr ..rthly h..on. being unequalej a : i- tli- only me.Ilcitm for women, in tin- mimit'icrnrers, thiit it will refund.-.!. Tliis guarantee has My carried out for many years. i a i. .ri vvios. t'n.prli tori. qualities of mil nmlv-L 50 cents. m Ei fc k Waterproar ak fej is cost. fcj n m m DF PURE C03 LIVER OIL r irypopHOSpHrrxa host as Palatable as Milk. (-. y ' rWi r fttrr iMTWMi slisiTbrcatAffactisa f:r f Kir, NJ r t vi - l . D!JCCI3TS. frR ALL OTHEB FAIL CONSULT LOBB. NORTH Fir rttNTH STRCCT, ts. , Ci .o.ll St . Hhilidtiph.i. Pa. ' uffu. 62 Ci ntun Piact. Eighth Strt.; f Hi.-h! l'-tM.n. SH'n frnp ; ui: I l.vMiBl m1 Nnrol I :i,j..iu-in't ntrlctur - " f . i . ! h ft 1 1 trrtirt, no nukltM u n.i'l.'C or - r r:ow Ui)C n4 ;. i ui . M !' 1 n ul mi . t; (r-M of i hi worUl- wml -i ru-t. v -..nMtf nlUki, Wrt to .o,,,.... or (- 5f f J i.ii..wi.ni.:i AvS ""'' en u,.j,l.. U-....U. JBShAs. -.ti-t fit f ior ii.. ... u a m to a P. U . 7 u lO 1' W. n, .Fit I'. --I-.. Ft. I Vlll. . . n. ui (or c-tta.JiA v m 3 JRTHERH PACIFIC JJW P..ICc RAiLROlO HMDS I :E Covernment LANDS. ..NK., l.i s M m. h in Mlnn l. r.. Il l H " ' ,. U l.N .RAMAM P. CUVI n UMl.CV . 1 . . . 'I J.B.HOBEHSAGK, b06 N. SECOND STREET, I Hi. Ai'l.l I'UIA. I'V 1 . m I !V n Y III1M! IT WBt in. n -n i :n.- m: "Tt.i7o RAZER LE GREASE. tli(. W t! I V ,.l.-..nli i.rmr t'-j-. XT NSiQNSii . rx- ,U.i "wit .iJi JJa Thk cyrli lie is by no means going out of fa.ihi'n. Three Kansas counties uv- uiievously uiHicted anj as i ff aii'l liuil w.-ri? the sport of tha jriii . u of tlx- ,rr. it is little coiutolution bsiythat th.-i- -ie no crops to te d.v.L-tateii. Tiif iilows aud leiH-iiJfnt relatives vt tli-- urtii-era .uul sailors who lost their 1.l iii tli- riH-eut naval dixviter at C.i:u. .i hk lllin tht ir uplirationi for lu-iuiis I-et theui be granted at iuc ainl without any official huir st l.tT Ul mv the first four iuonths of 8S, lumilK't'uti 'o this country iiuuibered 113,ooG. For the same length of time tl.n vear. C.'.tCa is the couiit. AVhetbvr tb- working i-ople in the olj countries have U-j.1 n.-. I of the tlitliirulties that Lr?-t laln.r here, as e!.--vheie, or !i. t! l the .ix iii e .f the roiiimissiun ..( ii;.;nii at fa-lie iauU-ii luis to Jo w.tl.tl.e H-s.iIt. hits not 1-eu figured Oil'. Km Ks ri.v, the Iowa Stale of Health .( ! that alt. l H'Jl, inetlieal col-!...-. in t h.it M.ite will be required to p.- .i lour ear's course to "ure for tlieii ura.luates iini s un tn practice. Thii.hs-isli.il I'loinises to be beneficial to both the i.ittlical profession and the j.iibln- of that state. It will prevent u holt i.ile additions to the ranks of the 1 iu'-Iimii!; .h9iciaiis. and insure to th M. k the ail vantages of increased kuowl- t-tlli- and skill. Tiik John Ilopkiushospital, Piubrac n eeiiteeii builtlinirs, which cover tutu a it-s and which are surrounded by ten a.-res of lieaut if ul L'ro.uitls, is a gift to the Moiiiiuieiit.il City from the urn I.iti.-elit foiimler of the .lolui Hopkins l iuveinty. The ),..it.il w;ls liejfiiii in. re than ten years ao, and the total . ...it has 1 ecu uiore than ;.,OuO,ttlo. The woild contains tio such Iiioliu m. iit.i as these erectetl to his own niem o. v by John Hopkins. U the A loci I. :ui i eople are breaking iIovmi and ttyiiiu early on account of the i.ii:d way in whi-h tl ey live, sta-t:-tii.. not show it. According to tiiiirs re- tl by Ir. Todd, president of the I .eorj;ia Mate Medical Society, at id animal intt linu'. the average life i xt tan. y in the I'nited States is Oo i.-;."i. in Kuuhilitl anion-' f e urban ! , ..Lit ion it is .Vi and anions rural i.sts i, ui Russia it Is only '28, and in Kiance it is 4."J. The rush for newly oiwuetl hinds in the west HiigHcsts the thought that the time is not far distant when there will be no such lauds to rush to. llut this uced not brinn distress for a Ions time, een though iniinii;r.it ion should con tinue at the present rate. I-irjfe tracts land farther east, and particularly in he Southern Mates, have ls-n passed l- the Western settlers, and they will c.-iiie into the market when the public lands have all Urn taken up. Closer finning will follow, as a matter of i ". ie, ami it is not improbable that tins may prove an advantage to the lei! less roamers who have heretofore Inn accustomed to pull up stakes whenever they heartl of a new settle ment, ami uever settled dow n to a place the) recotiietl as home. At last a ta steamship has succeeded iu,'lu ,uu , ' . " Uiat.ii g the voyage across the Atlantic, t-etweell llleetistow II ill id W Vorli, iu It ss than six days. The new racer. City of Paris, the largest vessel now in s-r ice. has made the passage from iic -ustow n to Sandy Hook in five tl.ivs twenty-three hours, and seven iniiiiil! -t. beating the record by thiee hours, lacking eiht minutes, and the chancel :u that still faster lime Will el be ns-oiilctl before the summer over. The present champion ocean 'liver" h;is made but three trips across the Atlantic, and should improve with aue Otll. lor M-veral months. Moieover, r ureal and powerful steamships, , ..... ii i u almost liuished, will soon I coin- ting for the honor of making the - t it transatlantic voyage. In a current magazine article Profes s i li.iiiiiuoiid, a well-known English ri ...t-r iii Africa, apin-als to the I i.:ie.l St iti s to join Germany iu su.v ! ' i 1 1 if slavery in East Africa, ou the -lo.ui.l that this couutry owcj it to '-elf to patticttaTe in .he cosmopolitism t the age. If no U-tter argument for Anerli an c.-.-iTat ion can le educed : ..in this, those w ho brought it forward ir not hkely to seriously impress intel-l-ht-i.t Ameiitaus, who are jierfectlv sa'.kM.isl mith the tia.lltlolial policy of t!-f Government. As for the humane c.'Muleratious aid to be involved, Ger ii .inv's conduct towiird Samoa teaches "s by plain analogy that ber professed crusade iigii'nst African slavery has leen Instituted for no other purpose it ... i. t ...... i .An nf ft fitr- v r vrrr " " : ,ur ""J Ir is said that the fire which de- troyed the Worcester (Mass.) theatre could nut be ascribed to the play, 'which was finished for hours before the tire broke out; but that is rather a lame conclusion. The play was Faust," as given by Mr. Lewis Mor riMin and company in Philadelphia. Among the scenic efforts fireworks on t!ie stage iu the last act played a prom Uftit part, d,l playg.vrs were made . . . iirrvous bv the Uisplav. fearing that uuk nntrht set tin a blaze that would "cwsiou a panic, or smoulder for a time . . i n destroy tlie U.eatre. i ne - a real one. ;in Splte of any precau- tions that might be taken. Such per- l..i n.ih..u .,..!. i r.i t. b abso- hitelv prohibited bv law. Under all the circumstance of the Wonrester de. ami in the absence of direct testi- ttivuii as i o us cause, i s uiw.i. -hkely to have been occasioned ty the firtwoik. illsnUv than by a eigarrtte, -.thi. ought t-t-arktbe end of aJ A k . f . . . 1 .... The Second Century. The nation havin now enmnTt.txt.1 the first hundred years of its existence under the Constitution, during which it baa not only made marvelous pro gress in every material sense, but has tuei anu overcome all dangers that threatened its continuance or Its integ rity, enters now upon its second cen tury. The turns are in eeneral Drooi- tioui, but there are elements of peril uow iuai were unknown in 17H'J. The population has become much more dense, aud although bv reason of tha vast ezleut of our territory, there is still more thai enough room for the activities of all the people, yet there are already a crowdimr and a strife in the race for wealth, aud. with mm. even for subsistence, that bear soma resemblance to the grinding auti cruel coiuietition among the people of the oiu woriii. liieie Is a rapidiy growui; tendency, too, of population t. the large towns and citie-i. to the depletion of the rural districts l-'nm imun masses of men are gathering within ottttut tuc.v- wiu una la a liumui source of turbulence and discontent. I.arge cities are the hot-beds of violence and revolution. Thu population is becoming mixed ami hett rogeuous. Foreign countries have sent us many industrious, intelli gent, well-meaning men, but at the same time have dumped upon our shores a plentiful supply of outcasts, paupers and, worst of all, anarchists. When Washington was president he ruled or more proiierly shaking, pie sided over a few millious of people who were comparatively simple in their modes of thought and in their pursuit and industries, slow going a-i their own stage coaches; now General Harrison is chief magistrate of our sixty millions of restless spirits, scattered over a vast expanse of territory, made impatient of restraint by long expeiietice of free dom, diverse in interests, iudeiiendeut in opinion. Further, there is now a great and steadily increasing disiurity anions the people in point of wealtli. We tl ive with us the very rich aud the extremely poor, and by virtue of the euoruioiis power of wealth and the pi' if ul weak ness of poverty we virtually have i til ing classes aud subject classes. The middle class is rapidlv diminishing iu nuibbers and the gap is constantly wid ening between the extremes. One House of Congress is already an assem bly of millious. Money dominates and plants itself iu bib places; poverty kulks and mutters ominously iu tiie slums. Corporatie oer rivals the ow r of the state. Capital and labor stand arrayed against each other with hostility, which yearly grows more bit ter. . Who shall say, standing at the threshold of the second century of our national life, tliat no dangers threaten the body politic. Who shall say that to bold the diverse elements of the population under control, U restrain the turbulent spirits, to reconcile war ring interests, to keep tne jealousies and antagonisms of diffeient sec tions of the country and of different clasaea of the people from violent out break, will not crucially test tlie ade quacy of our republican form of gov ernment! We lake a pardonable pride in the growth and development of the nation during its first century, and ex ult in Its lofty position among the great powers of the world. But In the hey day and glow of our self-congratulation it is well to take a careful view or existing facts and conditions, and to look ahead for possible pitfalls. Yea. Verily. What doth it profit a man? Iu the morning he ariseth and put tetli ou his new spring overcoat and Igoeth forth bummiug a jocund lay. And when noon is come, lo! the wind .....I ........ .11.. tl. nfti-olltli.it Autl the prevaleucy with which it prevoiletb Is mora prevalent than any other prevalency that hath prevailed in all time. Aud the wind beatetb upon that mail, yea, it suiiteth him sore. Also doth it rain, and when eve is come, lot the coat Is spoiled! Aud the man taketh unto himself a cold, and wist not what be is going lo UO auoui It. V.tt ...l tliA tn.-trr.iiir tlA ttllttetll (ill IJ .IV", vim .iiv ..v. . v , r ti.tt winter nverco.it lest, uerad venture. it cou even yet again and snoweth. , And, eveu as on the preced ing day, the weather shifteth itself about aud waxeth very hot. I And the man doeth likewLse, even as me weaiuer wa.eiu ue uoi. ( AjJ niauv daV4anJ m!)Lny nsUla doth tbis thing coutiuue. and no man kuow- eth the dav nor the hour wheu the weather changeth. Paper Making. "Few persons Imagine bow ruauy diffe eut substances have been used of late yrars in the making of papj". Itags, of course, still furuish the bulk of our paper." but, says an exchauge, "large quautities are a'so made ot uoutl. straw and Esparto giasi (Stipa teuacissima). and in various parts of the world successful ex peri ..,-..tj Lava been made with a multitude of mater ala that have not vt tkMtn brought into ceneral use. In Vv nm luwr lias leu manufactured out of leaves, which are cut, pressed into Llocks, and then steepen in nme r .ier L.i reduce them to pulp. In Ire- 1 . f I.a itHi.tr the bop vine, tne yei- ,ow anJ eten tue revi ciOVer. have f,,rnuhed ixuier pulii, and in Scotland the stems of the hollyhock, pe1. bracken flairs aud rushes of reveral t ndT i a t have been useJ in Europe, a.,d lu the East ramie. p.neapple fibre, bamboo suuks ana vue vl '"" The Power of Dinner. A distinguished lawyer came out of bis private omce a lew oats aru au.j i.,n.l ti.1.1 a reporter that bo did not care to disease the private affairs of I,;-eb-ntA. He said it was none of the . . i : . . 1 1 1. Ait I.. lMnnseil i- biu-k into bis private otbee and alaru- . .. Ia, imn wuxW a rvt tllHT "t., ,1J 7et the news, and LIMB Jvi d a $ wtmrth of cut exi-enenoin. , ' n At tlie lawver's bom that night The lawyer had jrutt w .ii.l he came inU nnihed and" be came into bia Jr - .mlng wllh g.,UAlity and ';.ftgmoatll He -hook t reporteP . hand and then t-aked to v A. k.tf n lmr uJ cave bia more information than he had any ne for. A aught know leuge el niman u- tare Ttr7 UAcfui. Ar Ir voa are lookuuf aXtAT hapvineas jt v. iK. turnruke: take om of th doat take tne P-; "TT r .7 ii .v- . .11 .- w.' 1 " 1 ' !, STRANGE IF TRUE. unny Antics of the "Subject" In i Lecture-Room. Promise, Dr. Hammond, that you won't hurt me." said a tall, nervous looking man In a medical school re cently. He was what is known to medical men as a "hypnotic subject," and Dr. Graeme Hammond, son of the famous specialist in nervous diseases, was about to hypnotize him for the in struction of a class of sixty men. "Why do you ask me not to hurt you?" Ir. Hammond askeJ, reassur ingly; "What are you afraid of?" "lJecause I was hypnotized before," said the subject as be wiped bis fore bead and rubbed bis clammy hands together, "and while 1 was In that state they pricked me with pins to il lustrate my insensibility to feeling. Wheu I came to myself 1 was sore all over. Now mind 1 don't want you to hurt me." "Don't be afraid. Just stand here and I'll be ready for you In a moment," lr. Hammond theu summed up the driinition of hypnotism as follows: "Hypnotism is the entire engrossment of the mind w th whatever may be for the time the object of its attention. It is the passive respectivity of the mind, the will of the patient being in :bey Hiiee. All his mental operations are at such a time directed altogether by whatever suggestions the operator may choose lo impress on his conscious ues. The subject listened attentively to these remarks, shifting from one foot to the other and at intervals wiping bis brow. Evidently be dreaded the or deal and was si uiuion ug bis courage to meet it. The lecturer's voice ceased and for a incuieut there was silence in the room as be fixed his eyes impera tively on the subject. Very slowly the mail lifted bis eyes to the lecturer's face aud the students leaned eagerly forward. "Look at this, What is it?" asked Dr. Hammond, taking up a snuff-box. "A suuff-box." "Are you sure?" asked Dr. Hatn moud, looking deeply Into his eyes aud passing his lingers slowly over his eye 1 ds. The subject looked at the box aad at him with ait irresolute, changing ex pression. "You don't know, see," said Dr. Hammond, touching him on the shoulder. At the touch the man became transformed. He looked con liJent and peaceful. "He Is now under my control. I can do what I please with him," said Dr. Hammond to tlie class. "In bis pres ent state I could use this man as na In strument in committing a crime, and after 1 bad withdrawn my lntlueuce and irlven him back bis will be would remember absolutely nothing about it. Dun t sou want to sit down?" be asked the subject. "lei, I feel tired," and he moved toward a chair. "llut you cant sit down. I say you can I, "Is that so? I'd like to know how you are goiug to stop me." l!r this time his baud was ou the back of the chair. He made an effort to seat himself, then struggled franti cally and at length stood up perfectly rigid. "Why dou't you sit dowu?" "I can't," be answered, helplessly. Neither could be raise bis arm or lower it when the oirator stated t'.at it was impossible. A silver dollar was flung upou the floor and be made a suddeu lunge fur it, "You cau't get that," sard Dr. Hammond; "It's a thXiusand miles awav." 'That's so, said the subject sadly. "It looks as if it were close by, but it's a thousand miles away." ben a student sent it spinning across the floor again, he ouly looked longingly after it without maklug any attempt to pick it up. " by don t you go and take a ride this beautiful afternoon?" asked Dr. Hammond. "I have no horse; I'm too poor to buy oue. " No horse?" Why, are you blind? What's that beside you?" be asked pointing to a chair. "Don t you see the horse? Jump ou his back an J go for a canter." A smile broke over the subject's face and he threw back bis bead. All right. Whoa there! Steady now:" he cried, celling asinue me chair aud rocking to and fro, "Now we are off. Get up! taster! raster! "llut my friend, you bad better be careful; that's a balky horse. Look out! H y Jingo be will surely throw voti." During these shouts the subject iiecatne very excited, and stood over the chair as If rising in his stirrups. At the words, "He w ill surely throw you," he flung his ha .ds upward aud rolled off the chair to the ground. lou're terribly hurt," said the phy sician bending over him. "You must feel verv sore; I kuow you do. "How's vour head?" "Broken answered tne subject, much to the amusement of the stu dents, and for a few moments be lay perfectly still, with closed eyes. After an imaginary bathing and bandaging he was told be felt better, lie iuiiy agreed with that opinion aud struggled to his feet. "Why, you're all tight again," said Dr. Hammond. 1 ou're looking as fresh as a June rose." "Never felt better iu my hie " re- ulied the subject. But 1 have a terrible piece of news for vou. Come over near me. No one must bear it." "What is it, whispered the subject. "You see that inau leaning against the wall near the door?" Look at him welL He is the murderer of your father." "Ye, you are right. Oh, 111 settle him." hissed the subject, as he stealth lly fastened his distended eyes ou the man pointed out to htm. An expres sion of hate flashed over bis face, and with a err he rushed forward. "Be careful," whispered Dr. Ham mond, dragging him back. "Take him unawares." After an effort be became calm and his express on changed to oue of in tense cunmng. He knelt down In corner, too a lead (enceil from bis pocket a'.d commenced to sharpen it upou the k'de of his boot, as if It were a koife. TTic students held tnelr Lreatn and watched bis eve J movement with excited eye. -What will be d j next?' wa the thought la every mind. II rose to his feet without making , sound, and drew the pencil along bu hoirers as if teaUog the edge. K was evidently .harp enough to alt him, tor he drew back bis fingers with an exclamation as if the pencil had drawn blood and commenced sucking his thumb. Keeping close to the wall be ciept up behind the sup posed murderer, who had purpose y lurued bia back. Tbete was a moment's n oa sbaaI ?f jufcdflcL then a glare came into his eyes, the pen 11 flashed through the air three times and I the deed was done. Absurd though it may appear, a t-h ver ran through the onlookers as tlie I encil struct. ! The subje-t did not wait to see the effect of bis stab'-imc, but bounded to the door and would have rushed bare beaded intj the street but that be was stopped by a couple of men. He strug gled like a madman until Dr. Ham mond's voice subdued him. 'The police are comiuii that way. ! Hide here under this table." His teeth chattered aud bis limbs shook as he . crept into the biding-p'ace, bis wild -eyes fixed upou the door. "Look at ' that man's face," said Dr. Hammond to the class; 'guilt and terror are ! stamped upon It. You see a murderer, j haunted by the fear of detection and the remembrance of his crime." 'You may com out now." whis pered Dr. Hammond; "the police have gone." "Oh. are you sure?' he faltered. thrusting out his bt-ad aud then draw ing it lack. At length be was con vinced tha' there was uothlng to fear. aud he crept out. bis face ghastly aud beads of perspiration on bis for. head. When be had rt covered his composure Dr. Hammond touched him on the arm and whispered insinuatingly: 1 ou're a poor man. 1 can show you a way to make plenty of money just by the stroke of a pen. Will you do it?" 'Yes, I'll dj it, whatever it i ." he exclaimed. I "I want you to forge a check for S20.UU0. Just topy this signature and ! you shall have half of it," 'Give it to me. Give me a pen. . There you are. Mum's the word, re- , member that the check was forged.' Mind-Telegraphy. From time to time there are instances recorded of 'presentiments" that have been justified by the subsequent facts. If, however, a person should compare the number of presentiments which have sounded a false alarm with the few that did announce an approaching danger, be would be a skeptic as to their value as prophecies of impending evil. Yet tne few which really are prophetic suggest that there may be a mysterious connection between mind autl mind, so subtle as to elude our philosophy. A writer In C7i ambert m Journal mentions an Instance of "Pre sentiment," or. as be calls it, mind- telegraphy. He aays: 7 lie wife or the writer has a cousin, la.lv of extremely nervous and ex citable nature, who many years ago was staying with ber husband for the season in a part menu near Hyde Park. Ihe land lady was a middle-aged woman, apparently a widow; at any rate, she dressed lu black, anJ no oue w ho could In any way be regarded as a landlord was ever visible. Indeed, except the husband of my w ife's cousin and a lad who did oid jobs about the house, there was not one of the male sex upon the premises. r or some weeks, no untoward inci dent of any kind happened; the season progressed merrily, and my wire's rela tives, whom I may call Mr. and Mrs. enjoyed the round or JUudou gayities without stint. One evening, however, Mrs. v was dressing to go the opera. She was aloue in the chamber ber husband having, with the superior celerity that liertalus to the masculine toilet, com pleted his attire and descended to the drawing-room. lo use her own words: A strange sensation of terror came over me. For some moments 1 could not define the feeling; by degrees it appeared to as sume sliape and concentration. i rushed to the door, and opening it, called loudly down the stairs for my husband. He came up in alarm. Alfred, 1 cried, as I re-entered the bedroom upon seeing blm approach. 'bolt the door! quick! quick!' 'Why, my dear! What is tha mat ter?' was bis very natural question. Bolt the door; see that it is fast,' 1 rejoined, almost fainting with the weight of dread at my heart. There is a madman iu the bouse!' 'Of course Alfred ridiculed my fears. ascribing them to hysteria, over-fatigue, aud all the other sources from which 1 am aware a good many feminine whims tike their origin at all events in the estimation of the sterner sex. 'But, although soothed by my bus baud's presence, I was not to be ridi culed out of the intense and vivid con sciousness which seemed to possess me, that there was a lunatic beneath the same roof as myself. 'We went to the opera and returned in due course. No tragedy occurred, nor was there any episode of an unusual nature. 'But the next morning I heard a cab drive to the door, aud saw tliat it was entered by a gentleman whom 1 bad uever seeu before. I asked one of the domestics who the gentleman was; aud then learned that our landlady was not a widow, but that her husband was in Asylum. 'Fiom time to time, during lucid intervals, be was permitted to return borne for a brief visit of a day or so's duration; and he had paid such a visit the previous afternoon 1' A Little Logical Lass. A girl six years old was on a visit to ber grandfather, who was a New Eng land divine celebrated for his logical powers. Only think, grandpa, what Uncle Robert says." "What does he say, my dear?" "Why be says the moon is made of green cheese, "it isn't at all. ii it?" "Well, child, suppose you find out for yourself?" "How can I; grandpa?" "Get your Bible aud ten what it '"Where shall I begin?" "Begin at tlie beginning." The child sat down to read the Bible. Before she got more than half through the second chapter of Gen esis, and had read about the creation of the stars and the auimals, she came bock to her crand father ber eyes all bright with the excitement of discovery: I've found it, grandpa! It isnt true, for God made the moon before be made any cows." Newspapers. In tbe nineteenth century we wrote our books day by day, hour by hour, spreading thought with the rapidity of light. The only possible daily b ok or the newspaper. Eliza Cook very truly said: "To appreciate tbe value of newspapers, we liars only to suppose theui discontinued for a month." That brings the matter home to one's reali Celeste's Mamma and Mine. Celeste's nianima smys little rirls Shttuld go to UAticlii e-scboolAt three ; But my nininiiiA uyt fields aud mouds re ilir turil dxicltiA--4:hMl tor tue. Oeli-ste'j nianiniA v little lrl Miould dress lu w kite trie summer through ; Majuhia a)s iciiitcuaiii's ulce euougn ur girl. At lly, o 1 er blue. Celeste's minima avs etrls like us sn.Nild ueer romt. or climb, or run ; But A.v ntaiiituA sav riiuuuig's good For little left, a keu task, are doue.- Celeite's mamma Is proud to say Celeste bas Deter learned to sew ; but my iiialultia uli uer-dlework Is an uuportaiit thing to knots. Celeste's mamma says little girls should bate a Frencb or German maid; but iiiy mamma sayl must learu To help myself aria others aid. Celeste's mamma says her Celeste Shall never sweep make beds or eook ; Mamma says these things should be learned As ttell as lessons from a book. Tis very punling! Which mamma Is In the rinhl. Celeste's or miner 1'tir both are lovely, though mamma Neter has hals and gowns so hue. 1 wish 1 knew why two mammas About sii.-htliii.gs should disagree; llut mine is Iteaulilul and wise Aud must know what Is best for me. Emma c. Down. THE HAUNTED CHAMBER. There Is a great deal of senseless twaddle about ghosts,' said Elder Boo die, one evening, in bis autocratic way. and in a tone of voice calculated to annihilate at oue fell swoop the whole theory of the canny visitants of another world, who are restlessly bent, iu con sideration of Fome outrageous murder. never clearly brought to light, to be content ouly by revisiting at particular seasons, as the immortal Will Shake speare has it, 'the pale glimpses of the moon.' I have seen people, very sensible peo ple, too,' concluded the elder with addi tional impressiveues", 'who would sit for hours together, with wide-open eyes and wouder-ftlrickeu countenance, listening to the idle suierstitionsof big ger fools than themselves, aud swallow ing every word of it, I have lived fifty years in the world and have never yet seen a ghost, and no sensible rson ever did or ever will see one, in my opinion.' Tell us the story of tbe haunted chamber, father,' said Ellen Hoodie, a charming girl of seventeen, who was busily knitting at a light stand near Iter motlier. 1 think that is a good one. for it shows how easily ople may be deceived by appearance. If they fail lo investigate.' It Is the nearest I ever came to see ing one of the disembodied dignitaries we read of,' playfully remarked the elder; 'but if Mr. Chilliugworth thinks it worth his bile lo listen to a practi cal exposition of the theory, I don't mind relating the story of tlie haunted chamber, as we call it,' ' Mr. Chilliugworth (topographical en gineer, to whom I was attached as assislaut) signified his interest in the proposed narrative, aud the elder began his recital: 1 was teaching school iu Calais in tlie winter of '42, and was boarding round in the district, as was then the custom in tlie more rural townships of Maine. X was booked for one week at Dea con Grail's. He was a well-to-do far mer, residing In a large, old-fashioned, weather-beaten house, situated but a short distance from the school-house. His family consisted of a wife, two sous, and a niece. With the exception or the niece. Miss Susau Childs, who was an orphan of twenty aud 1 thought her very pretty at the time' here he glanced signilicautly at Mrs. Boodie, who dropped her eyes confusedly 'the junior members of the family were my pupils. At every place where 1 had previously boarded, it was mysteriously whispered in my ears that Deacon Grail's house was haunted or, at least, one particular chamber of It the same iu which the Widow Childs (Susan's mother) had died. The room ha 1 al ways been kept since exactly as at the time of the widow's decease. The same bed, the same hangings, the same fur niture all exactly the same as on the day of the funeral, seven years before, Ou the first evening of my arrival to board at the deacon's my mind being full of the prevailing supeistition, for 1 was not then thoroughly disciplined to a better understanding of these things the conversation naturally turned upon the subject of ghosts, with a view, on my part, to the elucidation of the haunted chamber. 1 readily saw that the deacon and his wife both bel'eved in them. They were a good-natured, narrow-minded, superstitious couple, aud It was soon manifest from the tenor of their conversation that they religious ly believed every word that I had heard said by outsiders. Being naturally skeptical on the subject, I Ignored the idea altogether; aud to fhow my bravado, as well as the sincerity of my belief, I proposed to take up my quarters permanently in the haunted chamber. This was at first objected to by the deacon, who was an exceedingly timid man. on the score that I might receive some personal Injury from too close a companionship with the mysterious spirit tliat was supposed nightly to haunt that particu lar locality; but I overruled his objec tions on the ground that ghosts wire generally presumed to be mild and inoi feusive, rather than beligerent or de structive. At length curiosity got the better of his timidity, on hearing me talk so confidentially of my prowess, and so deprecatingly of the ghost's, and he finally consented to the arrangement; though I could see by his looks that he still entertained grave doubts of the safety of the enterprise. Tbe haunted chamber was accordingly assigned to me, and at half-past nine I retired to rest, with some very curious feelings agitating me. I do not imagine It was positive fear, as the term is literally in terpreted, but a species of awe ot shrinking dread of an uudetlned some thing, very closely allied to it, I first took a cursory glance at the room and its appurtenances, with the candle elevated above my bead, so as u throw a reflection upon every object therein contained at once, and then zaref ully examined each article of fur niture separately. A rug carpet of heme manufacture adorned Ibe floor, which was evidently a work of unre mitting Labor and perseverance to some body. A chest of old-fashioned drawers "tood in one corner of the room, long since grown dusty from disuse and neglect, with festoons of cobwebs pen iant from the ceiling above it. Two X three high-backed, antiquated chairs at primly back against tbe walls, with stuffed cushions of faded crimson that. At some by-gone period of tbe family history, might have been justly esteemed as pretty specimens of home-made aaadiwork. A maU. round Usht-stand stood near the head of tbe old-fashioned high-posted French bedstead, which. in Its ancient appearance, was in per fect keeping with everything else I have described. Before preceding me to tbe haunted chamber, the deacon inquired if the bed bad been mxde since it was last tumbled. And here 1 might as well explain the nature of the strange visi tation. After the death of Mrs. Grail's sister Mrs. Childs no one bad ven tured to occupy the chamber as a sleeping-room, notwithstanding every morn lug It was discovered that the bed bad bad a mysterious occupant over night. For a time this circumstance was a source of great perplexity to the worthy deacon and his family, but not till some weeks after the death of Mrs. Childs did they attribute these noctur nal Intrusions to a ghostly visitant. The ghostly revelation, as I was told, occurred iu this wise. When it came their turu to board the teacher the ensuing term, the haunted chamber was assigned to her. She retired to test that night, uninfluenced by any superstitious dread, for nothing had been said to her regarding the myste rious visitations. This remissness on the part of the Grails might be attri buted to the fact that the family had already settled upon the conviction that, the bed must have been disturbed by the nightly visits of a bat of enormous size, which had been a great pet and favorite of the late Mrs. Childs, and which had mysteriously disapeared up the chimney on the night of her de cease, aud had since kept Itself strictly aloof from the rest of the inmates of the house, refusing all attempts on their part at the establishment of familiar or friendly relationship, and ignoring its late place of abode altogether iu the day time. 'On the night iu question, after the teacher had retired, and, as near as she could judge, uot far from midnight. she was aroused from her slumbers by the painful consciousness of some mys terious and ghostly presence In the room. She slatted up lu affright, aud gazed at tlie intruder a while epeclral form standing by her bedside, gazing down on ber with a blank, stony gaze. She shrank back to Ihe wall, shiver Ing. while a cold sweat stood out in large drops on her forehead. She closed hei eyes, and drew the bed-clothes over her face, oppressed, as one might be. by tlie weight of souid horrible incubus. The last distinct impression that she recollected was that the hgure advanced upon her, and forcibly removed the bed-clothing. It was the last act of the apparition tliat she could recall, which was in evidence that she must have become insensible at that very moment. How long her swoon continued she had no definite meaus of knowing, but when she recovered consciousness, she was sensible that the ghostly presence had vanished from the room. She saw nothing further to disturb ber that night, but in the morniug she noticed very distinctly the impress a of a human form cu the fore side of the bed. 'As you may supiose, this story pro duced a powerful effect, not only upou the inmates of the house, but upon the public mind generally; aud hence it was that this unpretending, commonplace old farm-house came to have the repu tation of being haunted The room, from that time to the present, had never been occupied either bv a visitor or any member of the Grail family, o lar as tlie Grail lauiily had any knowl edge; but. strange to relate, neaily every day, for the last seveu years, the bed iu the hiuuted chamber had been found tumbled in the morning in a fashion that would have convinced any rational mind that disembodied spirits were not fo impalpable as to be devoid of a certain amount of specific gravity. 'Had they dared to give offense to the ghost, they would have shut up the chamber altogether, and thus put an end to its nocturnal perambulations through that particular part of the house; but so long as the strange visit ant was coutent to confine itself aud its doings to this particular chamber, they felt a degree of safety that they would not have experienced had they rashly attempted in any way to interdict its ghostly rights and privileges. The room was never visited, except on the lord's day, when the worthy deacon, screwing up his courage to the highest pitch, aud piously armed with a well thumbed copy of the Bible, would stalk in in advance of Susan aud her aunt, and while they were hurriedly making up tl e bed, would turn to a certaiu chapter which bore esiecial reference to supernatural visitations, and read aloud iu a tremulous voice, till the much-dreaded task was performed, when they would all three hurry from the room, as though they dreaded au actual collision with the ghost in broad daylight. As 1 have said, in spite of my as sumed skepticism on Ihe subject of ghosts, and my vaunted indifference of their power to molest or injure me, 1 felt far from being comfortable lu my new quarters. An air of gloomy deso lation seemed to pervade the deserted chamber, and the very silence of the oom became painfully oppressive after the first few minutes. I hid extin guished the caudle before getting into bed, and now iu the darkness and silence which surrounded me I was beginning to regret that I had done so. In my restless excitement, and the vague expectancy of a something yet to come, which I shuddered at inter nally but could not clearly define, I louud slumber Impossible to court. The leaden fingers of sleep refused for a long time to weigh dowu my eyelids. 'I think it must have been near mid night when 1 at last sank Into a half unconscious drowse. How long I might have remained in that semi-unconscious condition I do not know, when of a sudden I became fully aware of a slight rustling movement near me. It was like the faintest possible footfall, ac companied by the imperfect sound of moving drapery. I opened my eyes with a start, aud a sudden shiver ran through me. lightning-1 ke, as the electric current is conveyed along the wires. The room was not so dark but I cou'd distinctly see a white object moving toward me, about half way between the door aud the bed. It approached with a silent, slow-measured, uncertain s ep; and with an indefinable sense of dread stealing over me, and scarcely daring to breathe, 1 shrank back closer to the wall. For a moment tbe white figure re mained immovable after reaching my bedside. Then It deliberately turned down the bed-clothes and crawled in. The soft, regular breathing that now followed convinced me that the intru der was no ghost, but a veritable bumau being, of genuine flesh and blood, like the rest of us; and I was not long in arriving at the conclusion that my quondam bed-fellow was some member of the Grail family also, and the prob able visitant that bad so long disturbed the equanimity of the household an habitual sleep-walker, whose nocturnal perambulatious had extended no farther than this particular chamber, aud which had been kept up nightly for a space of seven long years, without coin ing to the knowledge of the family. satisfied with this, 1 began to breathe easier. 1 reached out cautiously and touched the sleein-r. It was a soft, plump, warm arm that my baud came in contact with velvety aud smooth to the touch as a piece of satin. I had heard that a too suddeu awaken ing from the somnambulistic state was sometimes attended with daugerous or fatal consequences to the subject. I was therefore very cautious in my movements, lest 1 should disturb the sleeper. My fingers were as light and unnoticeable in their advances to the soft little hand, whuh lay motionless at the sleeper's side, as the breath of the south witid, or the touch of a fall ing snow-Make. The unconscious sleeper gave no start, nor other recog nizable sign of awakening. There was a heavy plain ring ou the forefinger of the baud In question, and that I adroitly succeeded in removing. I tried it on my owu fingers, aud found it an exact tit for the little one. 1 knew it was a woman, for no man or boy's baud could have been as little. 1 con cluded not to replace It, for, with this tell tale evidence in my possession, it might not be uitlicult the next day to Identify the owner. Although 1 had aliea.lv formed un suspicious, which ultimately turned out correct, the chauilter was souaiklhat I found it luiiossible, for a certaiuty, to recognize who was mv transient visitor and tied -fellow. After trans ferring the ring to my owu tluger. 1 lay quietly awake, anJ without moving, a long time au hour or more wheu the sleeper began to move, and murmur softly: "I must go now, mother, I will come again to-morrow. X will kiss you now' theie was a sound and movement of the lips iu imitation of the imagiuaiy s.Uut.itiou 'Good-by!' At the conclusion of this touching proof of au affectionate nature, dwell ing on a by-gone memory, the sleeiier crept softly out of ted. and stole noise lessly out of the room. X weut to sleep after his, and my slumbers were uot disturbed either, by the appearance or the thought of a shadow of a ghost. When 1 awoke in the morning, I lay for a long time ruminating on my novel a.iveuture of the preceding night, and did not get up till the deacon called me to breakfast. '1 found the family all up before me, and waiting to sit down to the table. I glanced at Susan Childs. She lropied her eves demurely, but I thought there was the shadow of tome recent trouble on her face. I could easily guess what. There was a narrow while circle ou the right forefinger of the little brown baud. It was w here the tell-tale ring had been removed. It was clearly explained now. No ghost had ever found ingress 10 that haunted chamber. It was ouly haunted by a pretty sleep walker in the person of Susau Childs. We all sat dowu to breakfast, aud after the deacon had asked the customary blessing, they were all curious to learu if I had M en the ghost. I shook my head In the nega tive. 'Did you hear anything?' I answered: 'No! nothing thai, would pxss for a ghost. The family iooked relieved, and the Conversation soon drifted into other channels. 'Don't mind it, dear,' said Mrs. Grail, turning to her rinse; and then glancing up at me, continued: 'Susan is out of sorts this morning. She has lost her gold ring, and cannot tiud it,' 'Indeed!' said I, displaying the ring on my little linger. 'Is this it?' She gave a joyous little cry, and reached eagerly for it. 'It was my mother's, aud 1 prize it very highly. Where did you find it?' 1 told the st ry with additional zest, iu consideration of Susan's bin- lies, llut the shock upon her sensibilities cured her of sleep-walkiug, as 1 cau testify for she became my wife after, and theie) siie sits, ready to answer for herself." Hans Markart's Beautiful Models. Talking of pictures recalls an inter esting bit of information regarding tin: late Viennese master Hans Makart. Ii4 comparing the works of the greai, painter one cannot help being struck with the recurrence of two istaU-ly fig ures, usually the mo.it important ot the picture. In his "Diana." his 'Charles V. Eutering Antwerp" and many others these figures of surpassing lieauty occur agaiu and again. The oiigiuals of the pictures are low living in Vienna. They are the two daugh ters of Herr Kliukosch, a leading trol 1 and silver smith of the city. Klin kosch, the father, is an exjiert In his profession. Most of his work cenfiisU m designing presents for the royal family and the government, as gifts to for eign embassador. Makart was his in tim.ite friend, aud, receiving jiermis siou, painted his daughters as the hero ines of liis great paintings. Instantly they became the rage, aud the Viennese court, usually so punctilious regarding questions of birth, freely welcomed the beauties immortalized by the brush of the iiaiuter. It is some vears now since Mat art died, but the beautiful Klin-ko.-tch sisters, although a little pas.--, are still seen in Vienna society. They ar both unmarried. A Child's Love of Nature. There are many places of sheer good fortune for children of luck iu t:iis world: it is well to have been born rich or handsome, or to have the talents which command the price of life. But it is perhaps no less happy and su preme a gilt to have been burn a chil 1 of the universe; to have knowu iu ear.) childhood brooks, mountains, and sea-, to have felt the championship of the sky, aud in listening to its thunder to have heard deep calling unto to deep. Ther ii often an incommunicable and haif uncouscious sense of these things iu the heart of a chill, wholly apart from any training or habit of observation. It is aseedwhlchanys.il will quicken; the commonest landscape will be food for it as fine as tbe Alps. I u fact, there is sometimes with the chill as with the artist a sort of instinctive sel-iction of the thunder phase. Among the mem ories of a journey through rsw itzerUud iu my childhood, tliat of a woodland bank at Kosenlani, covered with moss and with tiny pink flowers, remains, to me as bavins afforded at least as keen a pleasure as the glacier itself, and the image of Mont Blanc had no power to efface the delights ef the "spring lot. Tbe power upon us of a scene or thought lies partly ia the extent ef our intimacy with 1L NEWS IN HRIEF. An ex-couvlct namnd Monroe died Iu Eusland r.s?eutly, and In bis will be bequeathed t KK),Oii to the warden of the Manitoba jieiiitetitiary, where he was confined at one time. Kiinn.i AbKt t has contracted for an i'sG.ottO monument to be erected over the grave of her late husband, Eu gene Wetherill, at Gloucester, Mass. The vault underneath will be just large enough for two 1 d es. When Miss Abbott dies her liody will be cremated, and the ashet will Ik) placed near the remains of her husbatM. At the top or the Eiffel Tower, lor a fts?, specially prepared note pajier, dated from the summit of the tower, is provided, and the writer can have the letter posted on the sjmt. This will appal the adv. n ates of the lower post age. l.'ueen Victoria, on her recent visit to Biarritz, commissioned the Ameri, can paiiiUr, William Gedney Bunee fornieily of Il.titfoid. ('.mm. and lately of New York and Venice, to paint a picture for her. This is the first time, it is said, tha' the t.hnssn ever gave a commission to an American artist. (lut of lOO.iHH) isii.l who cross the Atlantic from New York to Liver mhi1, the loss of life is not as great as among l.H..iJ w ho travel lictween New York and 1'ittsburg by rail. A game of base ball at long Branch recently was suddenly termin ated by the (filler fielder fulling head foremost iuto a nest of thirty-two garter snakes. He picked himself up, but again sank to the ground almost prostrate I by ti ight, and it was half an bout ts-fo:.; he recovered sufficiently to walk. II s companions kliicd the rep tiles with their bats. Bees took txissessioti of a grocery store iu l'lamiield, N. J., recently, swarming upon a quantity of comb honey in one of the show windows. There were thousands of the little in sects, and their presence destroyed trade for the remainder of the day. When night came the grocer aud his clerks smoked the store with sulphur, thereby killing the hout-y makers. The New Oilcans Woman's Club, which started with twelve members and itlJ, now has 3u0 members and fre quently disburses f2.Hi in one year. The club has us own building aud op erates au employment bureau in con nection with other ( Inn liable enter prises. During the Mississippi over How last year the ladies ot the society put up Ki.ikh) rations in one day for the sufferers. The home of Henry G. Manjuand on Madison avenue. New York, is said to be the handsomest private residence in America, not even excepting that of the Vauderbilts. There are rooms in Mr. Marquand's house that cost hun dreds of thoiis mds of tlollors to deco rate aud f urn sh. ( if these the Japanese room is thu most famous. There are beside this a Moorish loom, an Italian room, and a Grtn-k room. Then- Is a mania among fashion able Worn ii, says the Table Tnlk, for finding words or plu.iscs With which to precede the sicuatuies to their letters. The gt iier.ilii v of women use "Vours Trill) ;" ii lesser tiumlier, "sincerely yours," and a few moie, "As ever," or "Cordially." It is luteiest ng to learu that Mrs. ( It ve'.aiid and Ann lie Kivea both conclude their private ronespond ence with the b'lef "Cordially." Vice Piesi It. tit Mm ton, in response to the request of the l'r.iii' o-. inei lean committee in ehaige if the erection of a duplicate "I. il s-i ty Enlightening the W oild," at the Paris l.xns.tioti, has sent the following insciiptiou for the iie.lestal: "Noli exeieitns l eque thesauri praesidla sunt veinni amici" "The monuments of a liat. on aie not its armies nor its tn-asures, but its friends." Collectors of literary treasures an ticipate some spirited bidding for the M manuscripts from the llauilllou col lection in the Bi-rliu K-.iyal M aseaiu. They are to be sold in London. They date from the seventh lo the seven teenth centuries, and among Ihcm are manuscripts that had belonged to Charles VI, ( hall's VII, Louis Xll and Francis I, of l'lance, tlie Duchess of Orleans, daughter of .lames J of Scotland, .Maxniiliaii and Chailes V of Germany. It is reported that an ofler of i'-". K"J was made lor the collection by a syndicate of bookscileis, and i o f used. A curious wooden vessel has been received at the Caliloima Stale Mining Bureau from au island in tlie South Pacific. It Is a shallow vessel, meas uring three feet In diameter across Ihe top, and stands ou four solid logs or supports, the entire vessel b-mg carved out of a solid block of wood. Around the edge of tiie bowl a delicate tracery la carved, and this unique sa-ciiuuii of uativo workmanship Wars the discol oration and luaiks of age and constant usage. The IhjwI is supposed to have been used to hold uv.i j-nc, a tavoiiUj drink with the natives of inoil of tno Pacific islands. A new scheme to induce waim hearted eriOus to open their pocket books has beeu exposed in Atlanta. The scheme was woiked by a man and his wife. The latter wei. l fiom house to house asking for money with which to bury her Iiusi.aiid. Slu received several contributions, but one lady doubting her stui y said: "I'll go to your homo with y..u." she did so, and to her great surprise found too hus band laid out on a table with a white sheet throw n over him. she was much moved by the sight and pulling out her purse gave the "widow' ' seveial dollars lu small change. After leaving the hou3 the lady d.scovered thai she had forgotten her handkerchief and re turned to get it. L' p. n re-enter. ng the room she was shocked to ses the "dead man" sill.i.g upcuuuting the money. The historic piece of proirty iu Elberuu, N. J., known as "(tAitieiJ Cottage," iu which the murdered 1'ins: tlcnt passed the Last weeks of his Uie. was sold on Tuesday, May Hth, uu lei foreclosure proce-dinirs. and Is now the pioperty of Mrs. McLveu Gosling, sis ter of Sir Bach Cuuaid, of bt-aiuship fame. W ith the coltaue the furuiluro used by President Garfield during his last Illness ul passed into the i.Hse lon of Mrs. (.osimg, as did the Hotel Elberoti and all Us furniture. There were only two bidders Mr Van Pelt, of New Yoik, who represented . r. Francklvn, the former r- er and Lav, v. i Guthrie, also of N York, The ftage to who represented Mis. Go-j.ii. hotel biouk'ht S-VVJ(J and " an I fui ui'.nre $Jo,U 0. ' ..in -a pi ior mvi tgage of c .0 o, the w hole price paid f 125,Mk I - Mwiyw a. i r n "nr.
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