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B. K. SOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLIII.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. ISS9.
NO. 32.
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Ix HA9 been announced that the eld
est son of tbe Prince or Wales !a to be
married to a sister of the German Em
peror. Unfortunately these royal alli
ance', instead of affording- any guar
nii'.ee of peace between nations, seem
rather to increase political complications
aud to create ambitions which other
wise might not spring into existence.
Tiik Buffalo fly has made Its appear
ance in Luge numbers iu Middlesex
Sower- aud Mercer counties, X. J.,
mid in creutiug much consternation
lini ng the farmers and stock raisers
(here. On Friday three cows near
Kingston, Somerset county, died from
stings of the Ci s. A farmer of Sorrel
Mountain is reported to have lost six
Lead of c;it tie within a week from the
same cause.
T niK record of great rain storms
thi-i year, which is reu,aikab!e In sev
eial ways, must be added the experi
ence of tlie Island of Dominica, one of
t!ie Windward Islands. In e'ght con
iecutive days -jsj inches of rain fell,
slid the record fur the mouth of June
showed over 41 inches or rainfall. II ur
il. anes were frequent and of great vio
lence, and great damage Was doue to
propei ty of all kinds, particularly
roads, hedges and plantations. The
sun spot theory, whether well founded
or not, will be strengthened by the
"xperitnce all over the world this year
f great storms being associated with
big sun spots.
German Emulation. A Berliu
journal publishes a synopsis of German
emigration since 1871. The total for
the period is 1,7C'.,'MJ7 persona. Of
these emigrants, the destination cf no
fewer than l.CH.Slr, was the United
States; 3.1.4 4.1 went to Brazil; 13,.".yj to
other parts or South America; 10,341
to Australia; 4780 to British North
America; 4H7 to Africa, and 100 to
Asia. There remains unaccounted for
over 71, (x (i emigrants sailiug from
French ports, though it Is believed that
uearly all of these went to the United
States. The year of highest emigra
tion was lsl, when JJOJOJ Germans
left their fatherland. The lowest num
ber of any emigrants during any year
of the period Is found in ls?77, viz.,
2J,sys.
''m i ii ism of the government for the
p-i: lia. e of glazed bricks in England
does not seem to be well founded, if It
is true that, after advertisement, no
American lids were received. It is
true, also, that English-made glazed
bricks are, or at least have teen,
superior to those tuaile in this country,
for the reason that a great deal of
experience is required to get the glaze
just right and evenly distributed. If it
is not eveidy distributed the bricks are
uot true, and a nice job cannot be made
witli them. No doubt good enameled
bricks can be mode here, but the busi
ness is by no means as simple as would
appear at first sight, aud time is
required to pe rfect the manufacture.
A not n i-:it story oi" cruelty practised
upon tlie inane comes from lUleigh,
N. C. Every few months for several
years back there have been serious
accusations of cruelty in the manage
ment of some insane asylum, now In
one Slate and again Iu another. Tak
ing care of imbeciles must be a very
irksome business, and it is to be
expected that in many cases the persons
who are hast tit will be the most
ready to undertake it. They can make
tlie work much more easy by treating
their wards as if they were mere ani
mals, which conscientious people could
act do. That such a crime against the
helpless sutTeiers is possible, aud has
actually l.ecu often perpetrated, ought
to arouse the indignation of all humane
citiens to the point of iusistlng on a
strict and systematic supeivision of all
asylums, w hether public or private, by
thoroughly competent authority. Every
public-spirited legislator in each State
ought to make it his especial duty to
see that this is doue.
Tin: manner in which our schools
both public and private aie broadening
their educational methods is made man
ifest as often as their annual reports are
Issued or their commencement exercises
held, and a most encouraging feature of
this process of extension is the practi
cal character of it which is conspicu
ously shown in the attention that is
given to those technical branches of
education that help to equip our boys
for bread-winniug. The establishment
if manual training schools into the
public educational system is along, use
ful step towards a most helpful end. A
Highest ion of what our private schools
are doing is given by one of them, the
l'enn Charter of I'hiladelphi.i, sending
classes under the direction of accom
plished teachers to Europe, with especial
reference to the study of the arts and
sciences as their products are displayed
at the French National Expo; it ion. and
incidentally painting, sculpture, archi
ll tine as seen at the great European
galleries; commerce as seen in the Old
Woild ports; engineering, as seen In
tie roads, bridges, viaducts, dykes,
Ac, as sho-rn In England, France,
'erinauy, aud the Dutch countries;
history, as it is written in Its monu
ments everywhere abroad, aud archi
tecture, auclrct aud modern, as Europe
teaches it In its public and private,
religious and secular edifices. Other
classes from this school will spend their
vacatiou in the Adirondack under
capable teachers, where they will atudy
botany, geology, and live meanwhile
the wholesome tent life in the woods
aud by the lakes and streams. These
are common sorts of educational
methods in Germany and Switzerland,
acd they cannot be made too common
here. The beginning having been made
ty one of our schools it example is
pretty certain to be followed.
j SUPERSTITION AND BELIEF.
Superstition may se defined as a per
version or exaggeration of an instinct
common to liumaaitv: tha instinct
I namely: to believe in the supernatural.
l nat superstition has Its roots in hu
man nature ttelf, we may readily
enough admit, when we remember how
universally widespread it was now
desperately it has clung to mankind,
with what difficulty aud how many
years it has been practically subdued.
For its subjection has been only partial
after all, in spite of the prosaic teu
dencj of science and education, and,
although we sliall never return to the
gross and crude beliefs of former day?,
yet evidence is not wanting that, un
der modern culture aud modern leai u
ing, there still lies a vein of superst:
tiou ready to manifest itself upon occa
sion, of course, there are many who
are entirely proof against what they
call the folly of bygone ages; but, per
haps, these are the exceptions whic.l
prove the rule, while we must remem
ber that the free-thinkers like Etnp ror
Frederick IL were not uncommon even
in the most unenlightened aud super
stitious da vs.
J That man is natural'; a superstitious
annual me records or biography and
history show plainly euough; and, iu
our day, will any oua deny that omens
aud presentiments, for example, have
not still their believers? Do we not
constantly hear "authenticated" stories
of haunted houses? lh not spirit
manifestations aud eccentricities startle
us now and again, even ia this com
monplace century?
Men's minds are not yet ruled abso
lutely by the laws of exact science.
May that cast-iron desotlsm be still
far distant! But, iu truth, it is diffi
cult for the student to say where ra
tional belief ends and superstition be
gins. Until science has unfolded every
secret of the universe, until every law
u hich governs not only the physical
but the mental world has been clearly
enunciated, until we can explain the
reason of every apparent deviation
from what appears a normal state of
matters, there will still be room lor the
imagination lo wander amidst the re
gions of the occult
Why, we may ask, should It be nat
ural to believe iu an existence after
death, and superstition to believe iu
the possibility of apparitions aud sim
ilar phenomena? Or, why may it be
natural to believe in the existeuce of
power of evil, aud superstitious to be
lieve that there may be communica
tions between them and Imuran beings?
These questions seem difficult of solu
tion, and, indeed, no one will accuse
of credulity, L)r. von Ilartman, admits
that it Is impossible to set aside the
evidence for the truth of such phe
nomenal as those of presentimeuts,
wraiths, and apparitions, aud ac
knowledges that iheir existence is iu
perfect haruiouy with his advanced
philosophy. The truth is, that it re-
, quired a long experience lo decide what
l may be true in regard lo the super
I natural, aud what is uudoubtedly false
i an experience winch the close obser
i vanon and the fatal method of reason -
j ing prevaleut in bygone time was lu
cupable of using. For even if we were
j to a luiit that all things may be pos 1
' ble, it does not follow necessarily that
I all things actually hapieu, or eve i
1 kely to happcu.
Forgetf uiness of this simple rule be-
tiayed our forefathers into paroxysms
j of terror, which result iu the most atto-
cious cruellies. Thus, eveu it weie
j possible for misguided woman lo take
j ii iduight excursions ou a broomstick iu
' oider lo be present at conventicles of a
seine what unorthodox na'ure, yet it
I would require a considerable amount
( of evi.Ieuce to persuade rational beings,
w ho did not themselves possess that
power, or had uot actually seen it ex-
t-rcised. that human beings bad actu
ally done so. The lst exculpatory
evidence would have been that at the
time the accused were supposed to
have been absent ou their unlawful ei
ruiid they weie actually where they
should luive been, lu bed by the side ol
tlici." lawful husbau is. Hut this was
not suiticieut for the sapient Judges ot
intdia-val times. They were Jrfectly
certain that the accused were at the
witches' Sabbath there could te no
doubt of that, for torture had wrung
that confession out of them or th.ir
accomplices and the thing to be ac
counted for was their apparent pres
ence at home. This was easily done;
it was explained thai an obliging de
J nun assumed the apiearance aud took
1 the place of the absent wife in order
! lo pieveut suspicion falling upon her.
I Another thing which, iu less preju
' diced mm Is than thosa of mediaeval ec-
chsiaslics aud judges, might have
awakened suspicion as to the reality of
the witches power, was the curious fact
that they never used these powers to
escape from their persecutors, or to
bring vengeance upon them. This,
however, was easily explained. So far
from proving, or suggesting, that
i witches never had been anything elss
but harmless, this fact was rather evi
j dence against them. For Satan was
unable to resist lawfully constituted
authority according to the pouplar
I theory; and. therefore, the accused
I must needs be the servants of Satan,
seeing that they were incapable of de
fending themselves. There was one
case ou record, however, of a witch
who, when she was actually tied to the
stake, breathed lu her executioner's
face, with a terrible course; ttie result of
which was a hide us- leprosy broke out
upon the uuhappy man. and he expired
a few days later. Might Inconsisten
cies like this did not, however, as a
rule, trouble the minds ot that enlight
ened age.
Culture and education did very little
to emancipate men's minds from the
degrading superstitions regarding
witchcraft. It was at the dawn ot
modern culture that this belief reached
its higher development It required,
as before mentioned, an enlightened
exierience, along with a capacity for
reading that experience aright, to de
stroy so hideous a faith which lay like
a uightmare on Europe. Leo X was a
cultured and earned pontiff, uot over
credulous on religious mat ers, and
grievously suspected by hislorians of
latent paganism, yet he was ruthless lu
or-lering the extirpation aud persecu
tion of witches, and even issued a bull
to that effect. While on the other
Imud. what Is most curious of all, an
lush svnod, in the ninth century, con
demned those who believed lu the pos
sibility of sorcery and witchcraft, and
rt fuse I to admit such to communion
uutd they had recanted their error.
Although a belief in sorcery has ex
isted more or less in all periods of ec
clesiastical history up to comparatively
modern times, yet the ninth and
leventh centuries were comparatively
free from such belief. And tha sys
tematic persecution ot witches did not
begin until the fourteenth century,
while the nfteeniu and sixteenth cen
turies were famous for a terrible epl-
uemic or w llctirraftand for the frenzied
cruelty practice 1 upon the unhappy
virt trustor popular suDerstition.
The whole history of magic and ma
gical rues is Tun or interest, and is a
connecting link between nations widely
separate in point of space and time. W
find manifestations of sorcery curiously
similar as to details in Egypt, Greece,
and Rome down to modern times and
modern nations. The ghastly descrip
tion of magic rites given by Horace iu
two well-known passages might almost
serve as a picture of mediaeval witches'
meeting, while the wax figures of Greek
magic r--appear in the stories of malig
nant witchcraft of later days.
Marie Antoinette's Wooden Shoes.
On ihe outskirts ot a little village of
the proviuce of Auvergne, where the
w hole population existed ou the manu
facture of the beeches and chestnut
trees of their forest into articles of do
mestic use, there lived, iu the reign of
Louis XVL, a young "subotier," or
iu.tl.er of woo leu shoes, no oue wearing
any other iu those days, aud indeed
hardly iu these, in Auvergue. He was
an orphan who lived alone and spoke
little, and so the country people reck
oned turn something ot a simpleton, and
making a puu ou his name. Kaisou
(Sense) called him Deraison (Folly.)
ihey also called bun me queen's
Sweetheart, because, in his little hut,
he had stuck up on the wall, below a:i
old musket which bad belonged to his
father, a little picture of the beautiful
Cjueen Marie Antoinette.
Now. the chateau of the village be
longed to the famous General, Marquis
de la Fayette, who. wheu he came to
stay there, liked to walk about
among the cottagers, aud gossip w 1 h
his tenants. You may le sure that
they wanted to kuow of all the grand
things he saw at Versailles, and he told
them how the beautiful ljueeu aud h I
fair ladies had a faucy lo live in a little
house arranged like a farm, Willi a
dairy aud pultry yard, carrying crooks
like shepherdesses, wearing short
tucked up gowns, straw hats aud
wooden shoes. "Wooden shoes!" ex
claimed Deraison, who always had his
ears opeu when the 0,ueeus name was
pronounced, "lioea the luern wear
wooden shoes? Oh, if I might but
make her a pair!"
"Well, well, make her a pair Derai
son, and I will take them lo her," said
the General, good naturedly.
The very uext day the young fellow
set to work, aud on the eve of the Gen
eral's departure for Paris, he presented
himself at the chateau, carrying care
fully the loveliest little pair of wooden
shoes which were ever seen. They
were made of the finest chestnut wood,
covered with the most delicate and ele
gant carviug. Ou the front of the
shoe) was a heart surrounded by rays,
aud above, iu a garland ef flowers, were
four letters "T. T. L. V."
The General smiled, for he knew the
meaning of these letters, and iudeed
such woodea shoes delicately carved,
aud with these mystical letters, are
given by the sabotiers of Auvergue to
liieir belrothed, worn at the bridal and
kept as treasures when ihe youDg
bride is the gray-haired grandmother.
The tirst time Geueral I. a Fay elte
presented himself before the Ijueni at
Trianon, he ollered her the delicaUi
Kiho'.s, and told her the story.
i he lueeu was delighted with these
real t-as.iul's shoes, made by a gen
uine saboiler of Auvergue.
"liut Marquis," she said, "wliat
may be the meaulug of these mysteri
ous letters?"
"Your Majesty alone can give me
permission to sav."
Tell me. Marquis; I permit you."
"In the Auvi rgue patois, your Ma
jesty, they mean T'aimerai Touta It
Yida; iu other words. I shall love thee
all my lite,' " aud the Marquis burst
out laughing.
liut the lueen did not laugh, and
the tears stood in her eyes, as she said
"i'oor rellow ! I'oor boy!"
She s;M'e a lew words to the l'rln
cess de liiuballe, who left the room
with the sabols, and presently returned
with theru full to the brim of gold
louis. The 0,ueen emptied the money
into an elegant casket, which she gave
to the Geueral with her thanks aud a
kindly message to be transmitted to ihe
poor cobbler.
Tlie Queen would willingly have
worn the sabots along with her coquet
tish shepherdess costume, but, alas,
serious matters were driving ail such
fanciful caprices out of her head. The
Ke volution was carrying all before it
iu its resistless tide. The fatal dates
of 17s'J-ir2-03 succeeded each other
with terrible swiftness. La Fayette
bimselt had been impeached for treasou
to the nation; the fair head of the Prin
cess de l-balle had been borne on a
pike for her fidelity to her uiistress;that
royal mistress herself, dethroned, de
graded, widowed, parted from her
children, lay in a miserable, filthy
prison. AH thesd terrible stories grad
ually reached the distant mountains of
Auvergue, aud the indignant ears of
the "Queen's Sweetheart"
One day he could bear it no longer.
He sewed the louls d'or inside the lin
ing of his jacket, he hung the Queen's
portrait round his neck, he threw his
musket over his shoulder, and he
started off on foot all the weary, weary
way to Paris, full of the tender and in
genuous thought that somehow or
other he must save his Queen.
It was the 17th ot October, 1793,
that, worn out, aud footsore, he at last
reached the capital, and on the Place
de la liostiie, where a short time before
tlie great fortress had stood in its
strength, he spoke to a "patriot,"
wearing the cap of liberty, and armed
with a stout stick.
"The way to the Temple, if you
please," said he.
hat do you want there?"
"To save the Queen!" the poor soul
replied, ingenuously.
"The Austrian! she was cut short
yesterday," said the patriot, with a
brutal laugh and a ferocious, expressive
gesture.
Tlie Auvergnat turned deadly pale,
and suddenly pointed his musket
against the patriot, who. however, left
him no time to lire, but with a tre
mendous blow of his club stretched
him dead on the ground. "An aristo
crat! Down With all aristocrats!" bel
lowed be. A crowd collected in a mo
ment, they opeued the dead man's vest
and there round his neck was the
Queen's picture with the mystical let
ters "T. T. L. V." "A traitor! A
traitor!" was tlie cry. lu au instant
the corpse was dragged to the Seine,
and in a moment more the waters had
closed over the body ot "the Queen's
Sweetheart" wlln the louis d'ors still
inside his jacket nd the sacred picture
on his heart.
Tha Baby of the Future.
NC1HI.
How doth tbe little busy br
Improve ejic-h shifiiiir hour.
And gAlber honey .11 Ihe day
Fruui every unening flower";
Babt (ColdlT.)
Bow does tbe Utile bee do this?
Koby. by an unpule blind.
Ccae, then, to praise good works ol such
An automatic kind,
NlRSI.
Let dogs dellrht to bark and bite,
I or heaven imth made them so:
Let bears aud lion growl and fight,
For 'Us their nature to.
Babt (ironically.)
IntleedTA brutal nature, tlleD,
txruM brutal wa.
I'liiluiikirm Kri: v.ni little know
Ihe problems that you raise.
Ncksb (continuing.)
But. children, you should never let
Your anry passions rise:
Your little hands were never made
lo tear each other's eyes.
Babt (contemptuously.)
Not "made'' to tear? well, what Ot thatt
No more, at first, were claws.
All comes by adaptation tool!
No need ol final cause.
And if we use the bauds to tear.
Just as the nose to smell.
Ere many ages have rone by
They'll do it very well.
Ncb.se.
Tom. Tom. the Piper's Son.
btoie a pig, and aw ay be run t
Babt (reproachfully.)
Come. cornel Away he -run!"
Grammar eotidnmis what you've Just Mono'
Should we not read: "Tbe piper's man
tstole a pig, and away he ran!"
NCE8I.
Hush a-by.saby.
(in the tree top:
When the w ind blows
The cradle will rot-k.
When the Umirh breaks
The cradle will full:
Down will come baby.
Cradle aud all.
Babt (slyly.)
This but a truth
So familiar you see.
As hardly to need
illustration in me.
Nrnsr.
Twinkle, twinkle, little start
How 1 wonder what you are!
Haby (pityingly.)
Io you really wonder. Jane?
And to me all seems so plain !
;odown stairs, mv girl, and find
book wherewith to Improve your mind.
And if heavenly lnidies then
still remain beyond your ken.
You had better go and ax
(ood Professor Parallax.
NlKSt.
Bye. baby -bunt inc.
Kalber s gone a tiu
liun tine.
ah to get a raooit s skiii
To wrap the baby bunting In.
Babt (sternly.)
The cruet siiort of hunting
To moral sen.e is stunting;
And since 1'apa's oh)ectloU
To use for V ivisection
Convlrls him. as it seems to roe,
tf signal inconsistency.
I must with thanks, dec fine tbe skin
For wrapping bahy-buntllig in.
(l'uls Nurse to bed. scene closes.)
M HS. SINCLAIR'S SELF-DENIAL
What is this you tell me Itobert
Sinclair going under? I thought he
was a sound business mau. lie cer
tainly is promising aud upright.'
'Ves that is what makes it seem so
hard. If it were his fault I should not
Teel so much pity for him; but it isn't.
It is the extravagance of that silly doll
wife of his.'
'Then Sinclair isn't well married?'
- 'No, far from it- - His ciarriace was
tlie only foolish move I ever knew him
to make. His wife is a frivolous,
heartless, but beautiful, woman. 1
suppose it must have been her beauty
that attracted Robert, for I don't be
lieve she has any other quality that
could have won him. But she is a very
lovely creature. I am a great admirer
of beauty myself, but when 1 marry.
give me a wife with heart and brains.'
'Yes, yet, beauty thai ins us all; yet
it avails a man but Utile iu times of
trouble. I never yet knew an instance
w lien it took the place of common sense
and sympathy. Whom did Sinclair
"lurry
'.Nellie Lawrence, lou remember
John Lawrence, the iron manufacturer?
Kobc-rt married his daughter.'
'Didn't he leave a fortune. He was
supposed to be very wealthy when 1
leit here.
'So he was at one time, but reverses,
speculat'ous aud extravagance stripped
him, ftnd he died a poor man. In fact,
it was poverty that killed him.'
'Did he die before his daughter's
marriage'r'
No, he lived just long euough to send
her oil in the most maguiiiceut style,
with no end of jewels and Cue clothes;
but aside from tlie.-e she was penniless.
Lawrence died about six mouths after
the marriage, not worth a dollar.
Everything went under tlie hammer.'
And his wife?"
'She soon followed her husband. She
was much after Nellie's style, or rather
Ntllieistbe prototype of her mother.'
'How does Mrs. Sinclair bear her
misfortune?'
'The reaction hasn't come yet. Rob
ert has mauagel, so far, to maintain
considerable style, aud as to the loss of
her parents, she hasn't feeling enough
lo care much for anything outside her
self although I will give her credit for
considerable aflectioii for her husband,
liut a woman must be devo d of every
human quality who could know Robert
Siuclair and not love him; he has very
few equals.'
Toor Sinclair! I am much more
soriy yes, much more sorry for his
domestic misfortune tlian for his liuau
cial embarrassment. Young men are
not half careful enough in the selection
of wives. Too much glitter, too little
reality. Too much impulse, too little
judgment.'
Yes, that is so Ilo't-rt made a ter
rible mistake. How dl.lt-rent it would
have been with him if he had only mar
ried Agnes Fielding! There is a young
lady worth her weight iu gold.'
'To what extent is Sinclair involved':"
'Ttiat I do not know, but I should
say it could not be a very heavy
amount, probably not more than five
or six thousand.'
'How long do you thiuk he will hold
out?'
'I hardly see bow he can keep on his
feet more than six months at the long
est; and he may go under at any day.'
Of course he is aware of his situa
tion?' 'Ills looks show that he is. He is
dreadfully careworn and haggard.'
'Are Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair keeping
house?'
'So, they board Iiere in this hotel
have two suits of rooms, aud pay fifty
dollars a week for the luxury.'
Whearl no wonder Siuclair can't
ttand tbe drain!'
Nellie Sinclair, sitting in her room
at the Arlington Hotel, heard every
word of the above conversation, which
took place upon the balcony directly
under her window. The speakers were
George Lalhrop, her husband's luti
mate friend, and an acquaintance just
uow on a visit to his native city.
The flush ot indignation which bad
risrn to her cheek while listening to the
touvtrsation was still theie, aud her
beau if ul eyes flashed angrily at wnat
she considered unjust calumny.
The WTetch! My husband's friend,
and to use such language about me!
It's perfectly outrageous!' she burst
forth vehemently. 'Silly, heartless, un
feeling, were the terms be applied to
me. lie even Went so far as to say that
1 have ruined my husband, and that if
he had married Agnes Fielding he
would have been a different man.
As she proceeded In her soliloquy the
soger gradually faded away from her
countenance, to be followed by a
thoughtful, troubled look as she evi
dently tried to solve some difficult
problem.
'Is there truth In Mr. Latbrop's as
sertions, and can I be as he has repre
sented? Silly? I do care a good deal
for dress and style. I was born to it
I cannot do without it and yet. per
haps I could; otheis have, and why not
I? Yes. there is my old friend, Mabel
Grant; she had as elegant a home as I;
accustomed to ;uxury from her birth;
and still, since her husband's failure,
she seems as happy and contented in
her humble home as when she had
ample means at her command. I do
not understand It, for Mabel was proud
and very foud of dress. Would Agnes
Fielding have made Robert a better
wife than I, and would he have been
any happier with her?'
Then her thought turned from her
self to her husband.
" 'Robert has not seemed happy of
late. What was it Lathrop said about
his going to fail? It cannot, cannot
tie! Ob, what if it should kill him, as
it did poor father? Then what should
I do? What would become of me?'
y But all thought of self was forgotten
in the more absorbing oue of her hus
band's danger.
'Oh, if 1 only had some oue to tell
me what to do! Something must be
done to save Robert dear, good Rob
ert! Whatever may be my failings,
uo one can accuse me of not lovinz my
husband; arid I will find some way of
proving my love some way to help
him out of his trouble. Mr. Lathrop
ana the world snail not always tbink so
badly of me. I will first go to s e
Mabel; perhaps she may give me some
light, as she has passed through similar
trials.
Mm. Sinclair went to a closet and
took down a costly cloak, but quickly
replaced it.
'No, 'hat is too elaborate for Mabel's
modest little home, and I may as well
begin my sacrifice, at once. This one
will do better.'
She took down a less costly garment,
elected a modest hat, drew on her
gloves, and set out for Mrs. Grant's
house.
'Why, Nellie, this is quite a surprise!
I am glad iudeed to see you once more.
I did not know but that you had cut
me from your l.st of friends,' said Mrs.
Grant, as she ushered Nellie into her
simple but tasteful parlor.
'No, no, Mable, dont thiuk so un
kindly of me as thatl I know I am
rain aud silly, but I hope there are
borne womanly qualities in my nature.'
'Those who know you best know
there are, dear Nellie, though perhaps
they may be a little too much oucealed
by yur love ot luxury and ease. You
know the world is very liable to mis
judge people, and to censure them too
severely for traits of character they do
not understand. I suppose that you, as
well as others, often wonder how 1
manage to exist at ull iu my humble
way.
'Yes, Mabel, I do. Y'ou seem just as
happy here as when you were society's
favorite, and glittered with silks aud
diamonds.
Much happier, Nellie; I feel here
none of that eunui always experienced
in fashionable life. My time is fully
aud pleasantly occupied, so that I never
have to rack uiy brains to devise some
way of killing it."
'Do you never long for your former
life?'
'No, never; I would not return to it
if 1 could. My husband, my home, my
books, my few proven friends, limit my
world. No, Nellie, I am perfectly
couteuted as I am.'
'But, Mabel, you were so fond of
dress how could you give that up?'
Mrs. Grant smiled as she replied:
That enters but slightly into one's
happiness; dress gratifies tlie vanity,
not the affections; aud too, I have ac
quired that very desirable quality, ap
preciation. One new dress now af
forJs me more pleasure than my dozeus
used to do. Don't thiuk, dear Nellie,
that happiues3 depends upon surround
ings; far from it; it lies withiu.'
Nellie Sinclair left her friend's home
much benefited by her conversation,
for her eyes had been oiiened to see
things iu a new aud very different as
pect. When her husband returued at night
she noticed that his countenance bore
a troubled look; that the lines about
the mouth were growing heavier; that
his manner was more abstracted. His
whole appearance stoke to lier the one
word, trouble. She sat watching him
some time in silence, but at last she
said:
'Robert, do you enjoy hotel life?'
'Why, yes, very welL But why do
you ask?'
I have been thinking lately that I
should like a change, there is so much
bustle and confusion here.
'But I thought you were fond of
excitement.'
I am, but not the kind we have
here. I should like to see how it seems
to live where all is quiet; it would be
so different, you know, from any life
I have ever known, that perhaps I
should enjoy it.'
Mr. Sinclair saw looming up be fori
him the expense of house furnishing,
which he knew he could not sustain; as
he quietly said:
'I am afraid, my dear, that I cannot
afford the furnishing of a house at
present; perhaps by-and-by we can
make the change if you then wish it.'
'Oh, 1 do not nieau to keep house,
but to board in a more quiet place.'
'Where would you wish to go?'
'Why would not Mrs. Delong's be a
u:ce place? They are; very pleasant
people, aud quite aristocratic
'If jou think you would be better
contented there than here, aud if we
can secure board, I shall be very glad
to CO- '
In a few days they were well settled
at Mrs. Delong's, in a very pleasant
suite ol rooms, at tbe moderate sum of
CI teen dollars a week.
A step in the right direction,' said
Nellie Sinclair. 'Thirty-live dollars a
week saved, one hundred and forty
dollars a month, and iu six months
eight hundred aud forty dollars. Oh.
dear, what a small sum! How can I
ever manage to get five or six thous
and dollars?' And the pretty face wore
a doleful, puzzled look.
After a long pause she arose from
her chair and went towards her dress
ing case.
'I will, yes, I will do it!'
As she spoke, she opened a drawer
and took from it a jewel box. from
which she selected a cos'ly diamond
set. ear-rings, brooch and bracelets.
'It is awfully hard to give them up,
but I must, for Robert's sake. I am
glad these were not papa's last gifts,
for I could not part with them if they
were. I wonder how much they are
worth. I will take them down to Mc
Lane's and see. 1 know they must be
quite valuable.'
She returned from Mc Lane's the
following afternoon, a very happy little
woman, tor did she not carry iu her
purse, carefully tucked away In her
dress jacket, the sum of three thousand
dollars?
'Why. what makes me feel so happy?'
she said, as she placed the money In
her jewel box. I have just iarled
with my beautiful diamonds, and yet I
feel as glad as though I had just re
ceived them. Let me see. 1 have
saved eight hundred and forty dollars
ou our board, and have three thousand
for my jewels. I still lack eleven hun
dred and sixty dollars ol reaching five
thousand, and how can 1 evt-r get that
much? 1 caunot sell papji's last gift,
or Robert's wedding gift to me. What
shall I do?' And she burst iuto tears.
After a while she calmed herself and
began to think. Presently all the cloud i
cleared from her face as she grasped an
idea which presented itself to her mii.d.
'I have heard of women earulug
money to help their husband., but what
could I do? I never earned a dollar iu
my life. Have 1 any accomplishments
that I could turn into money?' Here
her countenance brightened up agalu
with a sudden thought. 'Yes, I have
il! I know how Mr. Black once ad
mired my crayon portraits, and asked
me if I would like orders to fill. How
iusulted I felt! I will now say to my
pride, 'Get thee behind me,' and go to
see Mr. Black, But I must keep this
from Itobert, for he would never allow
such a thing.'
The next day, habited in a neatly fit
ting cloak, witli hat to match, Mrs.
Sinclair vis. ted the studio of the artist.
She had determined that unless it were
necessary she would not reveal her
identiiv, therefore she simply inquired:
Is this Mr. Black?'
It is, madam. What can I do for
you?'
Are you in need of an artist?'
'I am sadly in need of a good artist.
I can get plenty of half-finished ones,
but no real artists.'
'Are you wiling to try me?'
ln whose employ have you been?'
No one's. 1 have worked only for
myself.'
'I hardly thiuk you would meet uiy
requirements; still, if yu wish it, you
may try. When can you commence?'
As soon as you desire. What are
your terms?'
1 will pay fifty dollars a portrait if
you suit me; 1 cau supply you with all
the orders you cau (ill. 1 would like
you lo commence work at once.'
'Very well, sir, I will u-giu to-morrow.'
After a tew more business arrange
ments, Mrs. S:nc air took her depart
ure, feeling that, as she hal received
the artist's approval in years past, sli;
would not fad in securing it uow.
Mr. Black was more than satisfied
with Mrs. Sinclair's ability, aud showed
his appreciation of it by allowing her
to work in her owu room a privilege
rarely granted to any ouu. How ani
mated and interested she became! The
. work was real pleasure to her, and she
fouud that by applying herself closely
she could complete atorlrait iu a week.
A few weeks after the engagement
with the artist a lady m.tde her apiear
ance in tlie studio, who desired a pic
ture made of a scene on a tropical
Island. She had nothing for tiie artist
to copy from, but would give him a
description of w hat she desired, as she
had seen it ou a recent voyage.
The lady was referred to Nellie, who
did the work so fully to the stranger's
satisfaction that she rewarded her sub
stantially for it, in connection with the
lif ty dollars received from Mr. Black.
So absorbed was Nellie in her pict
ures, and in the object for which she was
working, that the days were not half
long enough. New life seemed infused
into her being; the Ixjred look had en
tirely disappe;iiL-d. Her husband
uotit.'intr this change, said, oue evening:
Why, Nellie, I believe humble hie
agrees with you. You grow more
beautiful everyday. Had 1 known It
would affect you so favorably, I should
have advised the change some lime
ago.'
"l'erhaps I should not have been so
willing to make ii 111011,' saM Mrs. Siu
clair, with a meaning sin:lc.
As the days sped on, Itobert Sinclair
giew more aud more desimndeiil aud
haggard. Nellie watched hi 111 with au
aching heart, and worked harder that
she might place all the more money in
his hands when the time came for her
todifso. The crisis came sooner than
she expected.
One evening, about four months after
the conversation between Lathrop and
his friend. Robert Sinclair returned
home, as he believed, a ruined 111.111.
To-morrow would maturelbills to tlie
amount of four thousaud dollars which
he could not meet, Ktiiu and disgrace
stared him iu the face. For himself
he cared not; but Nellie, the thought of
reducing her to poverty wrung his
proud heart. Had she uot already given
up her luxurious Miireundiiigs and
been content to live iu a less preten
tious home? And no v he must drag
her still lower. Oh, miserable man!
He threw himself across a chair, his
head bowed upon the back of it, lu
utter abandonment to his despair. In
this position Nellie fount iiim wheu
she returned half au hour later. As
she entered the room he raised his head
and looked at her. His deathly pallor
aud woe-filled eyes struck terror to her
heart; she feared she had waited too
long. She sprang to his side.
'Robert, what dreadful thing has
happened to make you look like this?
What is It? Tell me al once.'
0, Nellie, would lo God I could
shield you?'
'From what, Robert? Speak tell
me what you mean.'
'From rum, Nellie. I am a ruined
man or I shall be to-morrow, which
is the same thing.'
Nellie's heart beat fast. No, it was
not too late. Calmly seating herself
beside her husband, she laid her hand
upon bis arm, sayiug:
'Tell me about It, Robert, I dou't
understand business, you knnv.'
'To make short work of it, Nellie, I
will simply say I have beeu livinz
beyond my means. For Ihe past two
years my expenses have exceeded my
income, aud Ihe money 1 should have
used for my business has beeu sjieut in
living. Now J fiud myself iu debt,
with no money to cancel my obligations.
I have notes due to-morrow which 1
cannot meet. Noth.cg renairis for me
but a failure. I never thought to bring
yon to this! Would that 1 could have
died before It happeueul'
How much do you owe, dear?'
'About lour thousaud dollars, and I
cau raise oaly five hundred. It might
as well 1 forty thousand for all
the good I can do,' he bi terly an
swered. Nellie quietly arose, went to hei
bureau took something from a drawer,
nd coming to his side, placed a roll ol
ills In his hands.
'What is this, Nellie?'
'Look aud see,' she said, while joy
danced iu her beautiful eyes.
He ojieued the roll.
Money! Nellie, what does this uieau':'
counting the bills. Thirty-five hun
dred dollars! Tell me what it all meain.
Where did you get this money?'
Then Nellie cave the bewildered man
a full account of what had happened
from the hearing of the conversation
to the present tune. As she finished
her recital he clasjied her inhis arms,
aud bowed his lie. id iu thanksgiving
over her golden hair.
Saved, saved! Oh, my preceous,
noble wife! what a sacrifice you have
made to save your husband's honor!'
'Tlie sacrifice, as you term it, counts
for luiujlit If you enjoy using the
money half as much as 1 enjoyed earn
ing it, the word sacrifice loes its mean
ing.' Many years have since roiled on, aud
Nellie Sinclair uow enjoys an elegant
home of her own. Precious jewels are
aguin hers diamonds ami pearls yes,
God's 1 tear Is, two lovely children, f.t.
more beautiful iu her eyes than all the
jewel, iu the world. She is constantly
urged to resume her sitiou in society,
but her reply is always the same.
'No. no! Not for worlds would I
again become a slave of fashion. Let
those follow such a lif'j who wish. I
have found a true one. Leave me tc
n y happiness.'
Josh Billinirs Philosophy.
The way to cit ennvthinir iz to :ickt
just az tho yu didn't kare whether yu
got it or not. Ihislza first-rate wa
to cit a cold too.
It iz az dillikult to define a suckcees
az il iz to ackount for the mea.les.
It iz diedful eay for a man to dis
pize ritches who ha, gut about tut
hundred and 50 thousand dollars well
invested.
If Fortune haz enny favorites, it j
not the in.lilirent, but it iz thoze whom
she haz to pay to git rid ov their teaz
i"g. Luv ilike the nieazles; if we hnv
really got them, they are sure to sho.
When a man iz pulled up with a
harmless kind ov pride that don't h
ennyboJdy any hurt, it iz a krewel
piece ov blzuess to take the koiisait
out ov hi'u; it iz az krewel az to pull
the feathers out ov a j-kok's tale.
The hai te iz a misU'i ious thing; we
kali aliiiio-t ullwas find out what iz i:.
a man's lied, but the things that slet-j'
iu the heart are often unknown even to
tlie pOiStfssor.
Lvery one who trades with the devil
exi-ekts to git the best ov him, but i
never hav seeu It did yet.
One reason why advise costs so little
iz bekause every haz sum of it to spare.
We are so avarUhus that eveu when
we trade with ouisclfs we go for git
ling the liest end ov the bargain.
My philosophical krued iz "(iiv it
1-ear the whole ov the road if he will
take it."
My sentimental kreed iz "Straw
berry and kreain if they are hand) ; ii
not, kream anyhow."
It may be dillikult to decide which
men perse w the m ist eagerly, interest
or fame.
Yu kan find men who wiil sumtiine.--repeut
ov a sin, but seldum ov a blun
der. Thare iz nothing so mitral az to lie,
and then dodge behin 1 it.
Mankind kan be divided into two
heaps, and not wrong them mulch a
heap ov ueesu and a heap ov g inders.
I observe more Illinois among the old
men than I do among the old wiuin.in.
I think I am honest when i say thare
iz 110 man who luvs to be pra!z-d more
than i do, or who ha i-s to be llatu-n-d
worse.
I would rather watch two raska'.
tli.ui one phool.
To kuo lutie to talk is a grate art, but
to kno tr,'ic;i iz a grater.
The only sure way to keep a xekret ;z
to torg't it.
The Talmud.
Rabbi K. L. Hess, of the Mount
Zion synagogue has some valuable book?
111 his library. He has, what compara
tively few persons possess, a compleW
copy of the Talmud, In twelve vol
umes, folio, of the Frankfort edition ol
16-i'j. This enormous woik, embody
ing the accretions of ages of .k-wh
comment and exegesis on the law, ha
never been translated Into English in
its entirlty. A very small txirtiou 01
il. indeed, is accessible to English read
ers. '"There have l)ch reports of com
pute English translations forthcoming,
but you should receive such reports
with Incredibility," said Rabbi Hess.
'1 uoii't believe the Talmud will eve,
b completely rendered into Euzhsh.
Yo 1 see in the original Hebrew, 01
rather Aramaic, it is not compressed
Into less than twelve volumes, and to
render it into an English equivalent
would take many more volumes, foi
tiie Hebrew language Is si condense:
in expression that there are small sen
tences on a page which would re)uiie
several pag-s of foolscap iu English U
properly and clearly render. There aie,
moreover, comparatively few who have
really read the Talmud through.'"
Rabbi Hess has also one of the onh
four copies in existence in the world ol
Yakouo Ben Shemrneth's Commen
tary, published in liy. This rare iook
is worth several hundred dollars.
The Platte River.
The Platte river is a queer stream.
It has a very large circulation, but very
little influence. It covers a good deal
of ground, but is not deep. In some
places it is a mile wide aud three-quarters
of an inch deep. It has a bed of
quicksand, which assi ts it very much
in drowning people. The Platte make
Very little fuss about it. but succeeds in
being quite fatal. You might cross
that river without eveu getting youi
hjse wet, aud then again you mi-ht
find that in crossing the stream you
had struck an entirely new country,
from whose bourne uo traveler returns.
The best teacher Is time.
Ernest Schilling, the coachman who
once achieved notoriety by his marriage
with Victoria Morosini, is eiruing his
living as a painter at Sleiaway. L. L
NEWS IN It KIEF.
A shock of earthquake was plainly
felt at Furiuiiiitou, Mi'., recently.
Cable cars are run at the rate of 16
miles an ho:ir i 1 parts ot Chicago.
Connecticut has a tramp bearing
the hist Ji ic name of Daniel Webster.
The Shah of Persia is reporteJ to
wear jewels valued at a million and a
half dollars on his person when lie is
fully dressed.
The tea crop of Amoy is reported
to be so inferior in quality that "it
will find a market only in the I uited
States; other people will not drink it "
It is reporttd from the Pa- ilic
roast that a gang of counterfeiters
there have been employing two la
anese coiners, unable to speak E glisli,
to help tliem in their work.
At the decoration of the giav- oi
Lafayette 0:1 the Fourth by Amen aus
in Paris a brief address was ma do by
Ediuond.de l..itavet:e, a member o; t'ic
French M-u.itc au 1 a grandson ol ti o
General.
Tl.o City or l'ans consumed ii Ins
and i!0 bouts on her last trip tins v j.. ,
and it is spolieii of as vlo" and
"tardy."' We are gradually assumi'.ig
extremely rapid Ideas 0:1 the sui-ject L t
transportation.
Sixty years -go the London Time
used to give leader W: Iters even better
pay than it .Iocs now. 1 limes, the
editor at that time, gave i l.-J M for a
set of twelve lea I. i s. IulJii h,- ent
the poet, 'J'0111 Moore, i-V.hi lor a
Squib.
All is not joy and sweet coiitc.il.
even at the seaside resoits. llcie is .-.
IioUi culled from an Masleru pav.
"The saddest summer resoi t iu Maun,
this week is Iliggiu's Beach, where a
dead w hale came without any invita
tion an I occupies altogether ton lunch
of the air to suit other summer visi
tors." The annuai ih :'..-it of the Vienna
0K-ra House is stated to have lieeu
about j.MiK i. This is made good by
the Eiupei or of Austria. The h isoii
ntd of the c.stahlishiiii-ul j,,,.- ,1, ;,.s lit
choristers. Ins orchestral plaseis, a
-tage band ot l!l men, two cou.t uclors,
two assistant conductors, and a largo
army of solo .sis.
John 'J. Win I tier, who habitually
goes asleep when people piaise his
poetry w itliin his healing, i,ets wide
awake wheu he believes his fi lends are
unjustly accus. d. He has doubled his
subM-ript ion to the Hampton Institute
as a le.slinioiiy of lus 1 oiiiidcte e in eii
era! Armstrong, whose management of
tlie establishment has Uin made tho
subject of some discussion.
Important discoveries have been
made by the Italians on the site of
Adulis, in Africa, where, in the sixth
century, the monk Commas 1 ndlco;ieus
tes loiiud the Maiinoi Adiililanuiii,
which records the conquests of I'toletny
Euergeles. So far the .-oliimns of some
public budding and a i. imlier of an
cient coins have b.cn bicight lo light.
The enterprising Aus'.i in journal
ist who went fioin Vienna 1: Pans iu
a cab would have accompbsla d Ins feat
a day sooner hud not his iliin-r pei
sisted that :t would be '.inlie ky to ter
minate a journey mi IVidiy, and
stopticd j 1 i.st outsid" the wahf of Paris
tiil Satuiday morning, whoo Hie Vi
enna "liaher" rumble! t n itiiph.iutly
up lo the gates of the Eh h lion.
Physicians at many ciiits along
the 1 1 miaou Valley report that scores
of persons ar- all!. co d with a peculiar
disease, wli.ih is vaiioiisly called
"'muscular 1 hen m-.tism" and "a new
manifestation of liialina." One phy
sician in New burg says he has 7'J cases
on hand. Iu tint, vi. iuily the com
plaint seems to U- epidemic. Iioctots
at Kondout believe that the wet
weather all through May, June, and
dill ing the lil st week of .Inly, together
with the intense humidity of the at
luospheie, is cli.u g able with much of
the illness.
A rare fish was exhibited at t.'uincy
Market, liosbm. It was e.iuglil near
Virginia JSeach. It was labeled ".-liver
Dollar Fish" a 11 uuc which w.is
thought decidedly appropi ia'e, as the
"curio's" scales .Weie Composed ot a
large circular substance winch had tin
apM-:n ance of a bone. They w i ro a
little larger than a trah- dollai. and
were coated with a substance which
closely re-euiblel sliver. The lish
weighed Js-1 pounds, measure I 1.3 teet
in length, and had a well louulcl
body.
Queen Vlc'mi.i is in the habit of
keeping rooms wi.n h have been 01 cu
pied by decea-e.i relative lockeil up.
Tiie apartments at CI are., .out in winch
Princess Charlotte died mme than
seventy years ago are ;...;, and no
body is allowed lo use th .11. Fiiiiee,
Albert's apartments at Windsor, Os
borne and Balmoral an: all kept pre
cisely as they weie when he was alive;
and on tho wall of ti e 100,11 111 which
he died there is a tablet, with au In
scription recording the la -t that "this
apartment was tho scene ol Ins det
inue." John Biou u s loom, ut Wind
sor have also bc-a clo.. d since his
h ath. J
"si niie important excavating work
will I undertaken at -alaum (au
island of Greerej next spung under the
auspices of tlie Hellenic S cn-ty and
the British School f An! a- logy at
Athens. "There Is eveiy teasou to
hop-j for some unpoitanl lesiili.s from
the first serious attempt to lay bare tha
foundations of thistown of ol 1 renowu.
At all events it is certain that the work
will be done thoroughly, and that what
ever there is to find will 1-e found.
Meanwhile the work of cxploi at ion and
excavation lu Cyprus, which has ;d
rcady lx-eu so productive, will U.; con
tin ui.-d."
There is a claim in the patent
ollice fur a patent 011 li,e E n I's 1 "i ayei ,
the specifications be.ng that Ihe n -p ti
1 1011 of the same "i.ipidly an I in a 1 u 1
tone of voice" w ill cuie stammei ing.
Among oJd Inventions are "chicken
hopples," which walk the chicken right
out of the garden when .she tries to
scratch; "the bee moth ex l iler,"
which automatical. y shuts up a l the.
bee hives when the hens c to roost;
"the tapeworm fish-hook," which
Pieaks for itself; the "educational hal
loo:!," a toy balloon with a map of the
world on Us surface; "side-h.ll anm
bllatolV stilts to tit on the dowu-hiU
legs of a horse when be Is plov. ing along
a side bill, and the "hen surpriser," a
device that drops the newiy-lald eg
through the holtotn ol tlie nest, with,
intent to b-gu.!e aud wheedle the lieu
into at once laying another.
ido eornbs of tortoise shell, topped
with tuiquoi.se, surmounted bv semi
circles of -earls, are among Jau hovelt
ties iu the jewelry laic. ,