gfefeggjfittf jafc nil Sen liStSui'iCwIi B. P. SOHWEIER. THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. MIFFJJNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14, ISS9.. NO. 31. yji. .a.jui i j . Peace reigns In Europe, but It takes a force of about 6,000,000 soldiers, under arms, to preserve the peace. Tbis ine1iliT .11 tka iKitWa . -y uu nKa year more men, more material and monev are required to keep these nation, loTBro.o', ' ne reached from drifting- into war. The contem-' "They married in war times and plation of this situation induces the 1 rt an hour, and before the tear reflection that the people of these Uni- ' 'oun brld were dry from the ted States are indeed blessed. 1 ftf,111 lb. V11 of tue" widow took I lnir Pl; but marrying went on. and - ( the Confederate government would THEremarlae growth of the cot- 5iVf " f0, erurlouS' to go home ton seed oil businL In the South is no'waV""0 CUlda 1 Ket UotDe ,ho.nbrth,hct that there are now, his own experience, 213 m-lts in U at section as compared j "Young folks will marry and there's with liSO. Until within the last year no use in talking to 'em. Tney won't or two the hulls of the seeds, after the nobody's word erbout this mat oil Is expressed, were supposed to be tby ar eer satisfied arter they worthless. Now they are found to' rJ au,d ,lhfv woulJn't rljia satined if posse, fine fattening quality and are Bnr widely n.ed as food for animals. j liave done something that you didn't , do and whatever you do you're sorry I you done it. It is now certain lhat there will be? '-Every time me and my old 'oman no race for the American cup this year, has er quarrel site swears that she could nor is it likely there will be another er married 380 fe lows tliat's er heap contest for it ery soon. The Valkyrie Jf lier, than nJ Vm keen 10 "wear may cume over enter ,. the d-b -2 races, but the New 1 oik 1 acht Club raising, but you needn't talk to er dcl;nrs to have the sham international womau when she gets n.ad with her old race piopoced by Lord Dunraven and man. for it's nature for 'em to think tl- club is right. When England baa i a y icht tliat is bflieTed to be fast enough to beat our flyers let them send lit-r over, and try for the only interna tional trophy. Ir h too bad that tne matches at Wimbledon ttween the American and English rifle teams cannot be shot without regard to the arm used. Why not have a test of rifles as well as of j expertness in shootiug? If the A men- can rille is superior, it might be a good thing Tor England to adopt it, and if ic is not superior why rule it out in a m.,fi. r... ,i.o i m...i..i. i fair test eyeii of marksmanship to requlre our s! arj shooters to use an arudeuly er few mouths arter I was unr they know little or uo'.hing about while ried. and she was singing, aud 1 stopped their opponents qualnted with it. are thoroughly ac- Tiu: Coroner's jury, which recom uieuded the building of more bath-hou-es for '.lie use of boys in the Dela waie, made a good suggestion. A policeman had testitied that he was obliged to jump into the river six or seveu times a week to save the lives of little fellows who went in bathing from the wharfs. lie thought more police luea thotild be stationed along the river fr' l't to keep the boys out of the swift i mining water. Tiie Jury hit a much better plan when they advised that more bath-houses be provided. The boys should be permitted to bathe, and means to insure their safety is what is needed. There is now little room for doubt Ciat the next woi Id's fair will be held in ew York in lH'J-2, and almost as little room for doubt that. If so, it will be the largest and mo.t complete exhibi tion the ot Id h-is ever seen. Nothing maiks the progress of Invention aud discovery so clearly as these world's fairs, at which are exhibited all the great inventions up to the time each is held. A careful Inventor of what is new In the exhibition of 139-2 as compared with that of l!?T0, at Phila delphia, will show that we are living in the most progressive age the world has, ever seen. ruuFESvUit Lister, the New York Mate Entomologist, has just made a discovery which will be good news for farmers. Ie has fuusd out A micro scopic My, wince especial business It is to destroy the clover midge. As th:s parasite gets in its fine work the pest of the clover field is gradually disappear ing, aud ia apparently destined to disap pear. We presume it will be found that every creature which does mis chief has an enemy that will in due ime destroy it. Perhaps some day cieuce may be so far advanced as to enable men to has" en the natural order iu such cases aud get rid or all their pasts; liut we shall, no doubt. Lave to j wait for the miuenium iioro ui cu be accomplished. About this time, to use the old ah- rnanac phrase, look out for reports or you are; in fact l think not Uui ae crop failures, as it is the very p'enteous . will be good natured." time of the year for them. I)are should 2 poly oontlu be taken, however, to observe that ! ue4Aunt Susan -jo-day your hus those reports ef drought, of the fly and ind was half way across the kitchen the bug.w hich play hvop with tbe crops, ! noor, bringing you the first ripe peaches do not come from the farms, but from and aU you did was to look on and say the cities, chiefly from Chicago. The J Just-J wheat crop of IhikoU, says a d.J;,1, me wxd have from that city, will be 30,000,000 bush- t,rowu the peaches out of the window, els short. This may be largely exag- i To-day you screwed up your face w heu gerated o- otherwise. "o one need lay he kissed you, because his mustache awake o' mgtts fearing that bread will ' was damp, and said. ! 'to kiss me again. hen lie empties dear next winter, even should the crops neTO bim not to spill it; of Dakota and some of the other States ( wue ne jjfts anything, you tell him prove smaller than usual. The present not break it. 'From morning until indications are that the aggregate yield night your sharp voice is heard corn will be exceedingly large, though it is plaining and. faultfinding. And last ,et too early to determine accurately ttp what its proportions will be. , to freeze, and took no notice when he ' said 'i was so anxious about you that I T..OM.S A. Eoison. tU-Mj" might not be accepted as a theoretical .jiarken, child. The strongest aud electoral expert for want of college m08t intelligent of them all care more education In the natural sciences ana r mathematics, U probably as with the effect, of electricity In higher fi..,,llw- . ny man living. Ills positive test!- moiiy tliat an alternating current could bo made to kill a man instantly and painlessly U therefore to be taken as entitled to the very b.shest consider.- tion. Mr. Edi-wn U accustomed to employ experts to make calculations for him, but he readily detects an error in results by his general knowledge or w hat those results ought to be. He is iu fact, though without scientific traln- Ing in the ordinary sense, the very best kin.i r .i.nri.t .xn-l can puzzle the doctors when he is Ueallnj with hli is a befter uxnpered woman In exist pecUlty. "" enca- SUCCESS. Old Man Plunkottt Tell What H Thinks about Young Folks Marrying. r i t -time? carrying uleJ ""J r married any fellow they Witntftl &ti1 thvfra mtfrl.lw ... .. t wanted and they're mighty apt to not mention any fellow in this connection but what has got to the legislature or done some other bis thing that is when they're mid. "The first few months of married life is mighty nice, very nice, and any fool in Georgia can have er good time then. But this Hurrying business ain't for er few months; it's for life. The pet words like my little petsy, sugar. appie uuuipnng, sorgnum lasses am I sic n ha e tJ give way to sich as I'm not able to get you er One pair er shoes, or dress, or hat, I've not got the money.' Er few weeks before I was 'married my sweetheart cut her eyes at I ne admiration, and I know she bought I was th( i. lil.r(Tr fulliiiv i?k Plke. but r uu to the house sud- Ilut now he', too (uuUl tor a family nun. "That was enough of tliat song. I cleared my throat and here she come and took on over me, but I couldn't understand what she was using sich words as the ones in the song for, and I was er little cold, jist er litt.e, but she noticed it, and I have realized since that big streams from little fountains tljw, etc, Never have the first quar rel. I don't see why everybody dout think of this, AFTER THE nOXEVMOON. "Arter the honeymoon comes the sea son of a more substantial love. The love songs of the young days greet your ear as you approach the house. . "I've axed Brown's wife with seven errouud her bel ering and follering her wherever she would go, with one laying on er pallet in the middle of the kitchen kicking up its heels and crow ing till ttie hound pup would grab the pieca of fat meat from its hands and set It to bellowing too, and I wouldn't her been in their place for all they had. I thought; but another stage had oouie, and now I look upon the same children, fine men and wimln, and as the old folks go down the hill, at every rough place stands one of these, who reach out their bauds and jump them over, and I would give the world to be liko 'em. "We never knew what is best, anil we are more than apt to be dissatisfied with whatever is, but the start that young folks make in their early mar. rifcd life has er heap to do with their future. Men should keep on courting their wives and wives should pet their husbands. Little hugs and kisses be tween man and wife is like sweet things among children they won't let on but they like it, and if er young cou ple will go off in er home of their own. never let the third party come into their affairs, spend one hundredth part of the exertiou to please each other at in their courting days, they will be happy, money or no money.children or no chil dren but U'a best to liave er few." Aunt Susan's Suggestions to a Fret ful Wife, "iresterl" exclaimed Aunt Susan, ceasing tier rocking and knitting, and sitting upright, "do: you know what vour husband will do when you are dead?" W hat do you mean?" was the start- 1 I.T?ply" n ,w marry the sweetest tem pered girl he cau rind. 'Oh, auntie'." Hester began. 'Don't interrupt me until I have fin ished," said Aunt Susan, leanir.g back ....I i.L-inv tin her knitting. "She may not be as good a housekeeper as for a woman's tenueru umu thing else In thef. 1 . .,. frtion in time. There may a few more men like Will as gentle as loving as chivalrous, as forgetful of self and so satisfied with $?iA'SSL 'um few yeara of fretfulness aud fauit-flndmg to turn a husband's love into irritated indifferen. 13. ...ntii "Yes; well, you are not dead yet. and that sweet-natured woman has not been found; so you u uu w come w ,-0 and weet that your K.h.ml can never Imagine that there MARRIAGE e TYPES OF WOMEN. The Quiet and Serious One and the Amiable One. Host wooien are neither angels nor nenas, but something about half way between, though there are some who incline a good deal from the perpen dicular to one side or the other. Well, without this variety life would be tame Indeed. They are mysteries to some people, and sometimes to themselves, surprises, too. And as for their char acter being formed at any age; as peo ple will tell you, it Is all a mistake. Character is changing every day; form ing, perhaps, but certainly changing, as every thinking woman will tell you. New experiences develop hidden quali ties that were hitherto unknown and entirely unsuspected. The quiet, seri ous woman, when thoroughly aroused, will astonish every one by her actions, as much as the calmness of an irrita ble person in time of great danger. How can a woman know how she will feel, or what she shall do, in er tain circumstances? They may say that tbey would do this or that, but there are ten chances to one that when the hour comes they will do just the re verse. Tnere is nut much that is new in the way of experience!), sensations, passions, thoughts or feelings, except as they are new to the individual. The amiable, sweet little women, pass through life without being per ceptibly affected by any Internal temp ests, but it may be because they have great self-coutroL There are hidden possibilities that may not always be read in the face, uor guessed at until the hour arrives that brings them forth. The most angelic face 1 ever saw be longed to a girl of l'J. and, to look at her face, one would not believe that she was a mischievous romp. Sweet ness of disposition she had, and just one month after I saw her she met her tragic death by fire with wonderful heroism. The women who always say and do just what you feel sure they are going to say ana do, are not brilliant com panions; novelties and surprises startle and please. I know a woman who said of a certain young girl that she en joyed her because she never knew what she was going to sy next. The girl was neither coarse nor vicious in her con versation; she was original. It is easy enough to cultivate a certain kind of flippant re par ee that passes for wit, but originality must be born in one; it cannot be cultivated. Women who are not original know this, and they finely steal the original idea of other women in dress and household decorations, us well as those concerning other matters, and pass them off as their own. This is so frequently done iu society that a woman often forgets aud ex hibits to another woman as her own the very Idea that she has taken from this same woman. Such an Instance is of common occurrence, as I can testify from actual experience. However, in social life such things ate of small con sequence. It is only in the "eve last ing war for bread" that the stealing of ideas counts, and women who depend upon their ideas for a living are learn ing not to give them away. It may seem selfish to keep a money-making idea all to one's sell, w lieu so many wo men need money, but it is no more self ish than a copyright. I know several women who make comfortable incomes by the manufacture of some specially. some dainty article ot fancy work, or some delicacy for the table, but they tell no one wtiat it is. Aud sjieakiug of originality, there is to be an attempt made to revive the art of conversation aul the saying of original things. Some fashionabla ladies probably those whose tauty is beginuing to fade, and who realize that they must bring the powers of their minds to the rescue or they will be left out in the cold are to organize a so ciety among themselves for the promo tion ot the noble art of conversation. After years of idle gossip I hope they do not expect to acquire brilliancy and wit at once; but their attempt is a Uubale one. To start a subject, touch it in all sides, skillfully draw in j out the opinions of lite person to whom you are talking, and then drop it at the proper moment and take up another, is indeed an art. and one well worth cul tivating. It is also one that a man ap pieciates In a woman, especially at a d liner party. To go from one subject to another before eiUier has been prop erly discussed shows an ill-regulated j mind, and is not conversation. But do not forget that with the art of conver sation must also be cultivated the art ot listening, for the one cannot be car ried on without the other. The woman whi listens well is quite as much sought by some as the woman who con verses well is sought by oth -rs. To listen with absorbing interest Is the most nattering attention a woman can pay a man, and a judicious question or ex pression of sympathy or interest, as the case may require adds an additional charm to the listener in the eyes of the sjieaker. iu speaking of talents once to a very young man he told me, that he did not care for tte "small talents," such as a talent for music or for paint ing; he cared only to possess the big talents, among which he mentioned oratory. Ha was a descendant of a distinguished lawyer, and was studying law, but as I have never heard of him as a public speaker, and as be shortly after our conversation married the daughter of a wealthy man, I conclude that he has become indifferent to the big talents as well as the little ones. A genius can afford to sneer at small things, but as few of us have geqius, we must cultivate the small talents and the small arts. And one of the neglected small arts is the art of being graceful. If you are I observing you will be able to count on ' the fingers of one band, and have a ; finger or two left over, the really 'grace j f ul women whom you know. Girls are I taught to danoe, to ride, to bowl, to play tennis, and other active accom plishments; but how many of them can enter or leave a room gracefully? One would suppose that so much exercise would make a girl graceful, but It does not. Tight lacing has something to do ' Willi this lack of grace, for a woman cannot move gracefully when tightly cased In bone and steel. Of course, ' some girls are naturally more grace! ul ' than otlu n; but the art can be cultiva ted. Many a fashionable mother la - menls the awkward movements of ber ' daughter, and the ungraceful way in I which she crosses a room, but they seem not yet to have learned how to ; remedy the defect. Why should not some gifted woman ' undertake to instruct the comiug de butantes in tills important matter r A pretty face is lost sight of if the should ers are round and the gait slovenly, while a plain v t forjotten If the owner carries herself erect and walks well. One of the plainest women I ever saw had a beautiful figure, and carried herself with so much grace and dignity that it was almost impossible not to turn rouad in the street to look at her. In fact, the man whom she afterward married fir it saw her in the street, and admiring her figure and the way she held herself, managed to be Introduced to her. and before much time had passed asked ber to be his wire. And not only should girls be taught to walk well, but also to take a seat, and rise from it. with ease and crrace. We all know women whom we are afraid to have come into our rooms for fear that they will upset some of cur bric-a-brac, push a chair hard up against the wall or do some other small damage by awkwardly rising from their seat. Actresses are trained to do these things well, this gracefully gliding into a chair, and rising not too abruptly; but why should we let the stage mo nopolize this fascinating art, the art of oemg gracelui r PROFIT IN COSMETICS. Immense Fortunes Built Up by the os ui race ruw uur. "Cosmetics" was the topic of an in teresliug paper read bv Professor Al bert K. Ebert, president of the Illinois Board of Pharmacy, at the annual meeting of the women's Physiological Institute, at No. 45 Randolph street, recently ays the Chicago Herald. Un fortunately for the public good, and es pecially for the good of womankind. there was but a small audience of some fifteen or twenty ladies. The professor laid out before his hearers a small drug store stock of cosmetics, consist ing of a box or a bottle of almost every noted make, and then proceeded to tell what they were made of, and what they actually conU, and what they sold for at retail, prvivlug that the whole business was au outrageous swindle as regards price, to say nothing of palm ing off on a confiding public as an in nocent and harmless lotion, or powder, a nostrum made of dangerous aud hurtful drugs. The common parts of the most widely-known face powders are chalk, starch, magnesia, bismuth and oxide of zinc, some of them being a combination of two or more ingredi ents, while others, and by loug odds tiie moot or them, are nothing but Pmnch chalk, pure and simnle. What the Professor said was not so much a condemnation of the use of cosmetics as it was an explanation of the swindle practiced by manufacturers. "There are 10,000 of these prepara tions," he said, "and one firm alone iu this city lists 4.000 of them. " Then he read seven simple formulas and gave the names of a half dozen elements. aud said that every compound sold, un der whatever name, contained nothing he had not named. "This little pot," he said, holding up a "cream," "has at present a wonderful reputation on the strength of the secret formula, said to have been the secret of a fauiout French woman's beauty. What is it? Common zinc oxide, ground in equal parts of water aud glycerine and per fumed with rose. I will give you the formula," and he did So. "it has a pretty ribbon about it, aud it sells for 1.50, or ltf a dozen. What does it cost? Tea cent?." Then he showed the ladies what they were buying when they purchased another cream of wide reputation. "You pay il.50 for it. It is a pretty bottle and holds eight ounces; seven of them are pure water, the other is calomel. Cost of calomel for a dozen bottles, 35 cents; cost of bottles, zo cents; filling and corking, b cents; tot il, 00 cents; retail. Sits. .Magnesia, the professor stated, is not nearly so commonly used as is gener ally supposed; it is too fluffy and hicks adhering properties. One name for a face powder is "flake white." and if a lady goes into a drug store asking for tliat article she gets nothing but the orJin-ary white lead, made from zinc, in chalk lime is a predominating fea ture, and cannot help but be injurious to the skin. He produced a box of pop ular powder that sold at retail at SLoO and said It was nothing but French chalk, pure and simple, and that one cent would be an extortionate price for tiie amount contained in the box. lie was very sarcastic over the recommen dations from noted chemists and printed on the labels and over the testi monials from actresses and singers. nd while on this subject elicited a laugh as he mentioned the name of a well-known and popular down-town clergyman. "I he danger arising from the use of cosmetics" said tlin il.wlnr "la rratlv overdrawn. Face preparations have a j legitimate use, and, properly used, are 1 no more harmful than perfumes. Zinc, when present in powder., possesses some curative powers, and bismuth is only slightly Injurious. The principal trouble is the continued application of powders and the stopping up of the capillaries of the face. Most face ' powders are only ziuc, bismuth, mag ues a aud chalk. Lead and mercury seldom enter into them. These are mure frequently found in washes, ' whicli get their merit from the glycer ine or oil in which the elements are found. In all of them there is no dif- 1 ference except as to name." j Dr. Ebert had some figures which ; showed that $02,000,000 were spent in America each year for cosmetics, of which S2o,0o0,0u0 were reinvested for advertising, aud the remainder $7,000.- 0J0 was profit. A Useless Protest. 'Two cents for an applet' he ex claimed, after asking the price at a street stand. 'Why, sir, that is au outrage! -Oiily two cent a, replied the Italian. 'I don't want It! You are a robber, sir! Apples could be bought in this Mate last fall, for 20 cents a bushel!' No lak-a two cent-a?" 'No, sirl You are a monopoly, grinding the life-blood out of the poor.' "I no griud-a. You want shears gri:id-a?' 'No, sir! I waut to protest against this monopoly. You are making 2 JO per cent profit. You are a trust which should be suppressed by law.' No trust-a anybody. Sell-a for cash. Want-a apjde?' I said not I aru here to protest! As a maq who earn his bread by the sweat of h's brow I do solemnly protect against this soulless mouopolyl' Frotest-a who? Only two cent-a. No trust-a anybody,' Oh, rats' shouted the protestor as 112 drew away. 'AU right-a. I keep-a no rats. Cold day, ain't he. The railways of this country employ more than a million people. A Comparison. I'd ruther lay out her among the tree. W 1th the sluirin' birUi an' the bum Tbees. A-kuowin' ttirt I can do as I please. Ilun to live what folks call a lite of easa Up thar in the citv. Fer I really don"t 'lactly understan' w here the comfort is fer any man lit walking hot bricks an' umu' a fan. An' eiijuyin' himtelf as he says he can, I p thar In the city. It's kinder lonesome, mnte you'll say. A-li in' out here day alter day In this kinder easy, careless way: But a hour out here is betler'n a uay t'p thar in the city. As for that. Jus' look at the flowors aroun. A-jieeplir their heads up all over the grouu'. An' the fruit a-bt-niiiu' the trees way down. You don't find such things as these in town. Ur ruther iu the city. As I said afore, such things as these. The flowers, the birds, an the bumTbees, An a livln' out here anionie the trees. Where yuu cau take your ease an' do as you please. l.tke It better'n the city. Sow. all thet talk don't 'mount to snuff. 'Bout this kinder life a-beiu rough. An' I'm sure it's plenty good enough. An' 'tween vou an' me 'taint hall a tough As litm' in the citv. Jamcs Whitcomb Kii.et. CHANCE Oil FATE. It was 4 o'clock on a depressing Autumn afternoon. ' The railway station at one of our most popular watering places was not so crowded but that the noisy mirth of a group of yachting men. assembled to take leave of one of their number, at tracted considerable attention among the passengers, porters and loiterers collected on the platform. In one Instance this notice was wholly of a condemnatory kind. ' Oposite the spot where the young men stood a gentleman sat alone in a first-class compartment, from the win dow of which he cast frequent glances of contempt and disapproval at the loud-voiced men outside. These last were typical Englishmen; four tall, well-built young fellows, with fair skins burned red or copper-color, gathered round a fifth, still taller than they, and evidently older a yellow haired giant, with a fine figure that was beginning to tend toward stout ness, a good-looking, red face, and a manner that was at once genial, didac tic and self-asserting. Whether from instinct, or from the fact that he was diametrically opjosed in type to this particular individual, the solitary traveler before referred to took au especial dislike to this ponder ous fair man. "Great bumptious brute!" he said to himself. "Fancy being married to such man!" With this second reflection, the blood rushed to his sensitive, dark face. He was rattier under than over the middle height, with a slight, boyish looking figure, a face rather interesting tnan handsome, and delicate, restless hands, with which he iucesoantly stroked his mustache. His nerves were strained to their utmost tension, doubt, uncer tainty, pity and passionate love were blended in his mind, with a great de sire for solitude; aud, in this phase of nerve tension, the noif.y laughter of those four bronzed yachting men and the self complacent platitudes of the fifth Irritated our traveler almost beyond endurance. Suddenly the door of his compart ment was burst open. The yellow-haired man jumped in, directed a porter where to place bis portmanteau in a deep bass voice, suitable to his large frame, tossed the man six-pence with an air of princely patronage, then rattled down the window and leaned out for a few valedictory words to his friends. I shan't go Northward until to morrow," he observed. At which there was a laughing cho rus of: "To-morrow, Teddy?" 'Well, they don't expect me yet," he went on, smiling with a radiant. superior calm. ! say, boys, we really have bad a most excellent time to gether!" "Pity you didn't keep up that diary. Might have interested them at home," suggested one of the four. "You might compile an amended edition in your spare time in London Gilpin," put in another. "I can't make you boys believe it, but I shall only stay in town long enough to see my lawyer " "And then take the next express back to the bosom of j our family. We know, Gilpin." 'And, afterward?," the big man went on, imperturbably,"I shall perma nently settle down in the .North and put together my experiences into book form." The train was moving off by this time. The four yachting men ran alongside of it, waving noisy good-byes until it steamed more quickly out of the station and the fair man, after re peatedly nodding to his friends, sank heavily into a seat and gazed around him with an air of patronizing benevo lence. He evidently wanted to talk, and, what was more, be meant to. First, be asked concerning the win dows, whether his travelling companion minded having them down; next he grew discursive on the fact that it was not a smoking compartment, but that he meant to smoke. After which, observing with a genial smile and a North county Inflection: "Eh, but it's good to be In England again." He stretched out his feet across the seat opposite, took several whiffs at his pipe and prepared himself for conversation. It was in vain that the other man shut his eyes, opened them with a stony glare, took out letters to read, or af fected to te absorbed in making calcu lations in his note-book. Teddy was resolved to talk, and was soon in the middle of a slowly delivered descrip tion of the perils of one of bis last yachting excursions, ami of the heroic bravery he himself bad displayed there in. Getting used to the deep, monotonous voice, his fellow-traveler's thoughts went off on their usual journey. Ills eyes were fixed on the cushions facing him, but his mind conjured up the vision of a woman with soft brown eyes full of radness, a voice like the sweetest notes of a violin, and a touch so charged with magnetism that bis very soul seemed to quiver at the memory of it. He was on his way to her. and once in her presence he would scatter ber objections, Ler protestations, to the winds, by the force of his passionate pleading. She was miserable, misun derstood and neglected; eating her heart out among dreary aud unsympa thetic surroundings. For four years she had been beating her wings against the coldest and dullest of cages; and he was oa his way now to set her free. It would be injustice to her for hiai to listen to her remonstrances, and "Yes, marriage for the man of intel lect, as well as for the man of action, is most undoubtedly a distinct fab lire.' So lectured the big, fair man, happy in the sound of his own voice; and his words struck upon his fellow-traveler's ears with a curious significance. "And how about marriage for the woman of feeling, of passion, tied to a cioa woo underrates her value aud overrates his own?" be snavoed out. Teddy put down his pine and turned his somewhat expressionless light blue eyes with mild surprise upon the speaker. "Women of feeling and passion, as you call them, are happily rare among our marriageable girls," he said, didac tically. "A woman's capabilities. either of head or heart, are much more limited than a man's. Her sphere is tne narrow content of the domestic hearth; and " "Domestic fiddlesticks," Interrupted the younger man. "You talk as though women were au alike. Is every man fond of drink and bad company? No! Li every woman content with domestic drudgery? No. again 1 There is as much difference between them as there is between us." Teddy gazed at him with a kind of fatherly protest, and then he inquired if tie was a married man. His companion changed color and remarked haughtily "that he did not see how that fact bore upon the ques tion-" "But it does bear upon thequestioa." said Teddy, with tho same irritating senialtty. "I am, I should say, a good deal older than you, and I have been married several years to a woman of quite tne average intelligence aud of more than the average looks and ed u cation. I was very fond o her; she was Incapable of understanding a man. She disliked my friends; failed to ap preciate my literary tastes and my love of travel; grew pettily jealous and teased me with iucessant questions as to how I spent my time; and finally took refuge in sullen silence or treated me to scenes Just when I required my mind clear for the composition of political sjeeches and pamphlets. My dear sir. I grew perfectly wretched, and the end of it wa about a year ago 1 went on on a tour for political purposes in Ireland; tnere picked up with some old bachelor chums; passed from one excursion to another, always intending to travel home the next week, aud am now at length returning Northward a new man, restored to my pristine, contented state of mind and all the more anxious to see my wife that I have plainly shown her I can get on excellently without her." "And may I ask how your wife has been employing herself a 1 the time?" "I have only had brief notes from her," Teddy returned. "She knew it was discipline. But lately she has more than once begged tue to return. So 1 am going back a little earlier than 1 had intended as a surprise for her." "And you think Blie won't have con- soieu nerselli"' sneered the younger man. "lour confidence in your own powers of retaining a woman's affection must be considerable!" Teddy's stolid face changed at last, and it was with the peculiar coldness which only light eyes can assume that he turned upon his companion aud re marked: "I have confidence In my wife, sir." The other gave a short laugh, which he intended to be offensive, and which succeeded in being so, and to his in tense relief silence was at length estab lished between them. Even the but slightly sensitive mind of Teddy had at length received the impression that his travelling companion had no great lik ing for his society, aud meant to make himself disagreeable. He did not know Bella, and therefore could not estimate the impertinence aud absurdity of his suggestion that she could by any possi bility have "consoled herself" for her husband's absence. Bella was just an ordinary woman. quite happy pottering about the house, writing letters, or buying little things he did not want. Then there was a course of reading lie had marked out for her, which, if properly followed if pro lrly followed " Teddy had closed his eyes and hail fallen into a light doze, the duration of which be could never afterward esti mate. From this he was roughly awakened by being hurled forward upon his bauds and knees, and then flung against the side of the carriage with such violence that the glass of the window was shiv ered into a thousand pieces. He heard tho crash of glass and a terrible roar ing, as of some hungry monster some where In the distance. Opening his eyes, he found himself in complete darkness. A rush aud rattle of whir ring wheels mingled with the sound of long-drawn whistling and women's despairing shrieks. And from some where close to him came a groan of agony. He was stunned at first by the force of the concussion. In the confined space in which he found himself he could at first hardly d more than real ize that he was alive. Presently, by a little stretching and pulling of his large limbs, be learned that they were all un broken, and before the relief party ar rived Mr. Harry Edwardes, for such was the true name of the man known among his chums by the nicknames of "Teddy" and "Gilpin" had crawled out from the ruins of his compartment, bruised and shaken, but without any seri us hurt. HrizzKng rain fell from a leaden sky upon the svene of the disaster. Signals misunderstood, and the un expected shunting of a coal truck across the line such were tiie theories ad vanced afterwards as the cause of the accident. But this Harry Edwardes did not learn until many hours were passed. The results were what he now realized a confused blockade of windowless carriages, flung off the line or hurled one on top of the other, pyramid wise, across the rails; shrieks and moans of injured or terrified passengers, he him self standing upright and unhurt, and at his feet the body of a dead man. Sick and giddy w ith the horror of the scene, he knelt I eside the prostrate fig ure, and, unfastening his coat, placed his hand above the still heart. It was his fellow traveler, with whom he had been wrangling, as it seemed, only a few short minutes ago. His back had been broken by the collapse of the ar riage, and the purpose of his journey, good or bad, had been frustrated. A folded letter rustled beneath Harry Edwardes hand upon the uead man's breast. Tears rushed up to Ids eyes at the sound. It was probably from some woman who loved him, aud to whom the tidings of his ghastly death must be communicated. "Is be dead?" asked a man, stopping I-fore the two figures, note-liouk. in hand. "Yes. He was In the same compart ment. Its au awful aght," "A friend of yours. What is bis name?." ;UcT':"c V.-. -:. , .; . , -' 1 --, -il;ni.ij,l;ff ''rv- -'V v, "I don't know. But here Is a letter that may tell us." Even while Edwardes drew out the letter his questioner had been called away. Harry would have followed him, when his eyes fell on the handwriting. Did all women write alike, or was he the victim of some delusion acting on hi overwrought brain? He looked at the letter again. It was the distracted appeal of a ruarr.eJ woman, tempted, but striving to resist temptation, to the honor and chivalry of a man she hadfgrown to love. And the writer was his wife Isabel Edwardes. "I have been wrong, terribly wrong," she wrote. "I know it now. These dying visits to London, and the friendship that has grown up between us during the past few months, so nat urally, from your relationship to my sister's husband, aud constant presence at her house, have all been a mistake. Your letter proves it. Ah, Gerald, pity me and forgive me, if I have given you pain; I have been so dull, so uuhappy, for fo long that your sympathy, and your thoughtfulness and kindness made me forget the dangers of my position. If you knew the life I lead at home; if you could tell what it is to a girl, brought up in Paris and London, among surroundings that were bright and beautiful, to be transplanted to a dreary manufacturing town, with a Loueliold of au old man and three good, narrow-minded old maids, who have hardly ever been outside their native town, and who think the bliss of being married to their brother ought to keep any woman happy. Of course, I should have protsled long ago; but wheu I married 1 was IS aud he 3.'!. He had been single too long and had been taught to think of women as of two kinds only drudges or toys. And as I was neither one nor the othtr I was a failure. And they have obeyed him so long at home that his manner at once puts me in the wrong. Besides all that, Gerald. I loved him. I have ntver complained of him before. You know it. But my heart has been dying iu me for four years. Aud any man who treats me as a woman w ith a heart and head has power to raise more ten derness in me than the thought of my husband cau ever do again, 1 am afraid. " You have often told me how you honor and reverence me. You must prove it by keeping away from me now. You liave your work, your life, before you, Gerald. Let me go back home with feelings of gratitude, as well as friendship, toward you. Don't try to see me again; for my sate I ask it. Don't even write. 1 can hear about you from my sister. And wheu, later on, you marry some gooi woman, as 1 hope aud pray you may. remember all I have to'.d you, aud that women and men are not so unlike in their natures as husbands too often think. Good night I am crying so much I can't see what I write and good-bye. Harry Edwardes read this letter twice through, and then destroyed it. As axon as he arrived in Loudon he drove to his sister-in-law 's house aud asked for his wife; and when Isabel Edwardes pale and fragile looking, with startled, dark eyes, and a shrink ing constraint iu her manuer made her appearance, she was lifted in her hu.'-baud's arms aud einhraced w ith the tenderness of a man who recovers what lie has nearly lost. They live iu London now, and the next time Harry Edwardes eoes abroad Isabel is going with him. He has real ized at last that a man may have other duties toward his wife than providing her with money to sjieiid and a house to live in. Aud he has had the aston ishing discretion to let the past dead bury its dea 1, so that Isabel has never learned how a neglected husband was tauuht a lesson iu a ghastly and never- to-lje-loi gotten lashion, by Chance or Fate. Laura Briugeman's Occupations. Of Laura Brldgemau, the wonderful woman, who, though blind, deaf and dumb, yet lived a long and liannv life. only recently eude 1. lr. Jos. Jastrow relates the following in tho current number of .St. Aickoliis: M.my ladies learned the finger alnlia- b t simply to be able to talk with her. and she wrote ami received many let ters. Her room had a window facing south, and she often headed her letters mutiny Home. " .Mie took pleasure in arranging her room aud read a great deal. Vou know that quite a number of books have been printed iu raised letters tor the blind. The letters must be large and are printed on one side of the page only, it takes sixteen large volumes to print the Bible in this way. Most blind persons cultivate one finirer for reading until it is very sensitive and cau feel the letters very readily, but f course, not so rapidly as we can read w ith our eyes. Miss Bridgeman lincame quite an author, too. Almost from the time she learned to write she began to keen da'.ly journals. Those she wrote during ner lirst live years in Boston form quite a large pack, aud are full of many in teresting tilings. She recorded all her little daily doings, and in going through them from the earliest to the latest entries you can see how she gradually used more and more words, and began to use capitals, aud wrote more clearly. S .e hail also written a few poems. Tnese have no rhyme, of cour.-, be cause that dependsou the sound. Wtiat she says in her poems is in great part Liken or imitated from the Bib'e. Her spare time was devoted to knit ting, sewing, crocheting lace and mats and talking. I have a very pretty cro cheted mat which she made in one evening. Though her life was generally a peaceful and happy one, It had also its severe trials. Several of the teachers, to whom she was much attached, died; her closest tie with the world was always her constant teacher and com panion, who was eyes, ears and tongue for her. Her teachers naturally learned to sympathize with ber condition more than others could, and the loss of one of these dear friends was a great afflic tion. She even had to endure the lass of her benera.-tor, Ir. Howe. He had lived to te her grow up Into what lie had hoped she might become wheu he took her from her home in Hanover. His death occured In 187(i, and affected Miss Brtdgeman so seriously that she was very Ul aud weak for a long time afterward. So she lived her quiet life, so the days grew Into mouths, and the months into years aud so, also, quietly aud peace fully she passed away on the 2ith of May, I jura Brideman's days of darkness are over. 2d any, many persons will for a oug time to come thiuk or ber. and will often speak of the patience she showed in her a miction nd the earnest ness w th which she laboied to make the most ot her life. i -'n i : --i-i-.u-.."- NEWS IN itUlER A quick thinking lad iu Florida, who could not swim, on seeing a baby fall into the river, grabbed up a casting net, and throwing it over the child, naulod him safely out of the water. During the last ten years Ameri cans have contributed J'J0,0O0.OO0 to relieve sufferine caused by disasters or epidemic. .Not such a very bad record for a nation of money-worshipers. There are now Young Men's Chris tian Associations in thlrty-niue coun tries. Among the latest founded is one at Tarsus, the birthplace of the Apostle Paul There is also one in Jerusalem, and another at Nazareth. In his report on New York harbor. Colonel Gillespie says that to complete the removal of Flood Hook and the connecting rocks iu the neighborhood of Hell Gate will occupy four vears longer, at a iossihle cost of J4O0.UO0. Brownstown, Ind., has a baby 16 days old that weighs only one pound. "An ordinary finger ring will pass over its hand, while a pint cup will cover its head, body and limbs." The par ents are of average size and in good health. Policeman James Kane, of Brook lyn, New York, told a reporter on July ISth that he had a presentiment .that he would die, and asked him to be sure and write a good obituary notice. On Sunday, 21st, Kane dropped dead from apoplexy. The clock in the station house from which he used to time the men at their post stopicd the uiiuute he died. hie of the a'leged sea serpents has been captured at Lake Wiunetiago. aud proves to be a sea lion, eleven feet long, that escajied from a circus some years ago and had ttt-u foi gotten. The IK'ople who had seen it while it was at large are now trying to iccoucile their exaggerated stories as to its dimen sions with the facts as now ascer tained. An unusual numlier of deaths by drowning are reported from summer resorts on the Atlantic coast. Com nienting on tins fact, the Tieutou Times says: "There seems to be even a large quota than uual of smart swimmers tins season. The life guards men who go tmt to M-.e them from drowning thereby risk much more valuable lives than the one they design to rescue." A newsp per syndicate recently of fered William I-:. Gladstone the sum of S".ik.O for a series of twenty-live art icles on subjects of current interest. The following leply to this proosilioii has just been received: "At my age the stock of brain over does not wax, but wanes. Ami the public calls uku my time leave mo only a fluctuating residue to disjm.se of. Ad idea of a series of efforts is, therefore, I have finally decided, wholly lieyond my Iower to embrace." A dispatch from Maine reiorts the discovery of "a plumbago nuue near Augusta. Specimens have lecn ana- lv7jd nd ? nni -'rr-jt black lead. The mine was discovered accidentally. Tho road lau over a por tion of the deposit mid the dirt would not remain m place. Digging down the mineral was found. A mile square of land has U-en leased by Augusta men, and tho mine is to bj oi-enud at once." Uecenl references to the origin of the Stars and Stripes recall the fact that the present form of the national flag was decided upon by a Congres sional committee iu c .ii-iiltation with Captain Samuel Chester Keid of New Yoik city. The latter, who was a dis tinguished naval ntlieer, suggested the design, and Mis. keid, assisted by sev eral of her friends, made the lirst flag. It was a handsome fabric, of silk, and was placed in the House of Representa tives on April 13, lSI-i. Captain ltnd died in 1-H)1. The last memorials of Napoleon Ill's long sojourn at Camden House, at Chislehuist, in England, have now bee H disjiersed by public sale. Napo leon sjient some tiainjinl years there and ditd in H-ace, alter all his miscon duct and misfortunes. Eugenie lived there eleven years, and only h it Cam den House to I'd to 1 arnhoroiigh, whither the remains of the ex-Emperor and his sou were tiatisb ried some time, ago. A pood many aiticles of furni tuie which had Ui u used by the Km p ror were bought by Americans. It is stated that President drbin, of the Keadiiu Kailro.id Company, and also r the Kapid Tiansit Meainshlp. Company, has purchase,! an extensive waterfront at Montauk Point, Long Island, wh'ch is to serve as a landing place in this country of a transatlantic steamship line. The new vessels, which are to be constructed in this country, are exjected to make the v yige be tween the American and Irish coasts in live and a half days. They will carry no freight except express and mail packages, b ing intended solely for pa-secer trailic. At a circus exhibition, July 17, in Mllford, Mass., two sections of seat gave way, and almut fVMi jieople fell with a crash; sevtral jiersons were badly hurt and hun lieds more or less bruised. Physicians were suTimoned, and the broken seats and injured peo ple removed. T' i fi.rm nice had just been resinned, uh-n half of the re served feats, w.th 2) more sectatois, fell in. This created a panic, and it was with much ditlicultv that ordor was restored wit hout serious injury to more jieople. It was found thai th supports of the scats iu the wet irtouud had been forced dowu by overcrowd ing. There is an old man in Washing ton, named K .gur Evans who claims to have polished the boots of every President since the time of Jackson. He has been oblige 1 at times to resort to peculiar devices to accomplish his designs on the shoes or a new Execu tive. "L'p to a few weeks ago he had not ln able to capture President Har rison's feet, but he met the President one day recently about a block from the White House. The President's shoes were dusty, and in au instant Evans had Ins Ikjx on the ground, and, before Mr. Harrison realized what had happened, had begun to wield his brushes vigorously. " A swindler in Vienna, who ha I borrowed large sums of money and bad collected a great deal of jewelry which was unpaid for, knew he could not get away from the city by train, so he ad vertised a balloju ascension and a para Chute performances. He got the bal loon made on credit, also, and, in com pany with bis wife, not only went up, but went off. His capture was as curious as his escape. That evening a pigeon came to Vienna tearing a dis patch from a correspondent to the Car rier Pigeon Club announcing tho de scent of the balloon, and the man was soon caught. r ,.. f.
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