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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMEXT OF THE LAWS.
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VOL. XLIIJ.
MIFFJJNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER IS, 1SS9.
NO.
3D.
MtjKUIs I!5K, .U It at a C oil of II.
7o,uo0, represents a larse expenditure
of money for the philanthropic purpose
of Improving the breed of horses. But,
as large aud expensive iurtrs have
bwn provided for ttie took makers, one
of the objects may be to improve the
l.rce . cf men by giving tbera object
lessons in the folly of gambling.
Foolish Skipper Charles T. Rogers,
who umlei took to cns t lie broad At
lantic In an eighteen-foot ljuat, mailt a
lucky escape with his life alter thirty
e.ght days of privation and suffering.
When it is considered that a man en
gaged in such an undertaking is prac
ticall in the position .f a shipwrecked
manner who has escaped the general
catastrophe iu a ship's boat, the fool
hartliucss of the Ventura becomes lnaii-
A iksike to save a conditional sub
scription by the city of Knoxviile to
the new Fast Tennessee Railroad was
the primal cause of the recent disas
trous accideut ut Flat Creek, on th.s
newly constructed line of track. The
railway company has saved Knoxville's
subscription of fJ-g.-i.iMjO, but in attain
ing that end the lives and limbs of val
ued citizens have leen sacrificed.
There shouM be searching investigation
if this allatr.
M.i:t'E engineers and constructors
'n the Kastern coast would doubtless
iike to look at the machinery of the
cruiser Charlestow n, with which the
Pa itio coast mechanics have been pot
tering for several months with dubious
results. Her latest trial trip was inter
mitted, after a two-hours run, by the
fltppn.il of an eccentric. It Is costing
the contractors a pretty suih to learn
how to put together a iu trine engine;
but if thev should get another similar
job fiom I'ncle Sam they may be ena
bled to do l etter work by reason of
their costly experience with the Charles
ton's luacliiucxv.
Tiik savings banks returns Tor New
York tate show that there were nearly
$-J4,nm i.tioO more due depositors ou the
1st if July, ls.S;, than there were on
tlie same date of 1SSS, and that the
average, amount due each depositor was
5.".si. These figures, no doubt, may lw
taken as an illustration of what is be
: ng done in other States, and such a
icalthy increase of deposits Is a cheer
ng sin. It has been said that no man
ho owns a foot of land Is likely ever
lo become an Anarchist; and it is
equally true that every man who has a
dollar put away is prompted to array
hitnselr on the side of the conservative
forces of the Republic.
An Ani'ikni' "oiv fh m. TrV
w.ird Kennedy, employed on the Sam
uels' faun, iu Windsor, Conn., lias
unearthed in one or the fields an ancient
silver com bearing the colonial stamp
of Massachusetts. It Is brijjht and the
d.ite and Inscription are as plain as ever.
I u one side is the n t me "Massachu
setts," with a tree In the centre, and on
the other "New England, VI"
'shillings). "Ti e com is one of the
rarest of the colonial pieces. At the
t ine it was struck the colonists had but
little coin, because they had to send
l eir money to England to buy supplies.
Trade was carried on by barter, wam
pum, Indian corn and even bullets
being frequently the mediums of ex
change. Finally, tn ltkV.2, the Massa
chusetts Legislature authorized the
coining of Pine Tree shillings, like that
lound by Keuuedy."
I N view of the fact that the people
or Great I'.ntain are discussing at this
late dav the qui stum of establishing a
Court of Cumin. 1 Appeal, it has proba
bly oecuried to many persons that iu
this country we are apt to go to the
other extreme - that suersedes, writs
of error and new trials for munlereis
lend to lioseu the grip of justice and
to lead the criminal element to lelieve
that human life may be taken with im
punity. Three years have passed since
Mr. Weeks, of Brooklyn, was shot and
killed in his house by a burglar, and
aitht ugh his murderer litis been twice
convicted he still lives, awaiting the
final action of the Court of Appeals.
Might not swift punish 1 ent iu his case
have deterred the murderer of Grocer
Lucas from committing a deed which
the law would seed ly avenue?
Xfw Voi:k has slatted with a com
mittee of Finance for the World's Fair
of ls!tj which Is fully capable of ear
ning it ou successfully, and as the
tin tubers have accepted service w th a
hearty spirit, the success of the enter
prise seemed almost assured. If the
selection of the site can be made to the
general satisfact on of the members of
the Finance Committee and the public,
every other difficulty, including that of
raining the necessary money, appears to
be easily surmountable. There is a
K'Xd deal of talk of erecting perma
nent bui'dings and maintaining a per
manent exhibition. It would simplify
matters to abandon this idea at once,
and it ought to be abandoned, for the
experence of the Crysta' Palace and of
the Philadelphia Permanent Exhibi
tion sufti.'ieutly demonstrated that
ne ther exh bitors nor the public care
for a permanent or continuous exhibi
tion. The fxpense toexhibitors if they
undertake to freshen up their displays
from time to time is prohibitory, while,
if they neglect to do so, the exhibition
loses all charms for the public. Illus
trations iu a small way may te found
iu tl e small attendance at permanent
free museums, a'though the collection
iu these If brought together for a short
season ouly wou'd draw crowds to ex
auiiue them. If the Idea of perma
nence should be abandoned, there
would be less trouble about choosing a
site, aud the estimate or cost coull
be reduced.
r . .
"hey Tke a Sunday Trip to the
Park.
"I tMnk wei z up to the park to
morrow," said Mr. Bowser the other
Saturday evening as be Uuislmd his
cigar.
"But won't it b? dreadful crowded?"
I quer ed.
"There you got You are alway
ie.nly to oppose anything I suggest."
I atu not opposing you, ouly you
knotv that thebjats are always crowded
ou Sunday, and tliat one is apt to meet
with man lawless characters. I have
heard you nay that the pl.ice was in
possession of a mob all dav Sunday."
"Never! Ou the contrary, I have
always boasted of how orderly it, was.
I guarantee that you can gj up there
alone ami stay all day aud you will b
treated like a queen.7
'Well, ir you think we bal best go,
who "
"Or course I do. I think a little
trip ou the water will do us all g.d.
aud at the island we will seek some
sylvan retreat and enjoy the beauties
of the surroundings."
"And you you won't get mad?"
"Mrs. Bowser, what do you mean?"
"If things do not go right you won't
scold and blame everything on me?"
"Have you gone mad? When did I
ever bUiue you? If you suspect that
you are getting softening of the brain
let me know and I'll Lave a medical
examination.''
After dinner next day nai made a
start, I think Mr. Bowser started
with the firm detenu n itron to keep Ins
good nature at every hazard, but
I something occurred almost iminuli
ately to upset him. The street car was
! j.i:nb-f nil and running over, but it
i stopped and we wedged our way in.
j In the squeeze some oue stepped ou Mr.
I Bowser's Corn, some oue else knocked
his plug hat off, aud a third person was
heard to remark that if lie weighed a
ton he would charter a special car when
he wanted to ride. This put Mr. Bow
ser in trim to say to the conductor:
"Ioes tlie mimager or this line thnk
we are a lot of hogs that we can be
Iacked iu an old car this way ?"
"Iout kuo, sir."
"Then you'd better find out! It's au
Insult 011 decent people, and I for one
don't proio-e to submit to it!"
"Thaz ri, olefel'r!" shouted a half-druuk-ti
man from the front of the car.
"(ioin, Md bay window!'' added a
second.
"Ten to one on old Bowser." yelled
a man from the rear platform:
V.i liuallv irot dowu to the boat. It
was black with humanity, aud I didn't
want lo go, but Mr. Bowser elbowed
people right and left aud 1 followed.
After being crowded, pushed, jammed,
spi-czel aud knocked about for t.'U
minutes 1 got a chair which a drunken
ina'i h id just falleu off. aud Mr. Bow
ser found standing room beside me.
"1 told you 1 thought the lioats
would be crowded." 1 remarked as
soon as 1 could get my breath.
'Well, that shows all you know
about it. There's no crowd on this
boat. She could carry as 111 my attain."
"But what a rough set of peoplel"
"No rougher thau we are. You
simply want to Und fault and make me
uncomfortable."
.lust at that moment a tough came
up, aud looked Mr. Bowser over from
crown lo heel, and then said:
" You look like the bloke who threw
mud at me little sister last Ma v."
"Sir! You are mistakeu!" replied
Mr. Bowser.
"What 'er you doin' with all that
stoile on?" demaude I the tough, as he
brought his arm around and gave Mr.
Bowser's hat a '"swat" wlnc.i sent it
tlytng to the de k.
Mr. Bowser grabbed I1I111 aud there
would have lieeu a tiht ha 1 not a uiiui
ber of nieu I rerfered. When the hat
was recoveielit had a slioulderlilade
and three rius broken, aud 111 the brief
clinch, the tough h:i I toiu away Mr
Bowser's necktie.
"I am sorry we came," I said as I
got a chanc to speak to him. "You
know I told you I thougiit it would be
very unpleasant."
"Y'es, of course you are very rorry!
You can't bear to sea me enjoying, my
self! I wasn't awara that anything un
pleasant had occurred."
In getting off the boat a" the island
some one steped ou my dress-skirt and
iieai ly tore it off, while Mr. ltowiier's
bat was crushed down over his eyes
and some one picket! bis cigar-case out.
of his coat-tail iMicket. We finally tot
out of tlie crowd and wand red away
until we reached a sliady spot, and
tlieu it did seem as if we might take
s .me comfort, I beg in to express my
suiypathy for Mr. .Bowser, when he
turned on me with:
"When I want to be condoled with
I'll let you know. Thus far we have
h ei a real good time, and I dou't wan.
to hear any more kicking about it,"
"This is the sylvan retreat you s:ke
of, I suppose? ' I remarked as I looked
around and saw cigar stubs, playing
cards, pretzels, beer, bottle corks an 1 a
111-ty old cork-screw lying 011 the grass.
1 1.3 didn't say. lie was going to,
u hen a couple of young men came that
way and stopped and asked Mr. Bow
ser for a match to light their clay
pipes. lie didn t have auy, ami oue of
tueiii s id:
"Well, yer needn't be so crusty about
it. W e are just as goo-l as you are.
I "And a blamed sight better, .1 uu.
added the other. "I've seen th s old
buuuee up here every Sunday this suui-
inei , and he's always Ua t a different
woinau with hlml He's up to snuff aud
don't vou forget it."
1 Mr. Bowser jumped up, but both of
them pded ou to buu aud 1 screamed
and brought assistance. They sp it lin
coat up the back, tote his collar off and
tore three buttons off bis vest, aud as
they went away they threatened to
come back aud tinisii him off.
"Mr. Bowser," I sail, after the
crowd had started, "hadn't we better
go liouie?"
"No, ma'am, we hadn't! I came up
here to enjoy myself, and I'm bound to
do so."
1 coaxed and argued, but he w is ole.
stiuate, aud pretty soou something else
happeued. A gang of five or six meu
came along riie for mischief, and one
of them halted before Mr. Bowser aud
inquired: ... , .
"Shay, ole feU I lost a dollar here
about au hour ao, aud you picked it
up."
"You are mistaken, sir."
"Course he did," put in a secoud
tough, "and he's got to give it up!"
"I haven't seen anything of your dol
larl' hotly replied Mr. Bowser, ami the
gaug was ma1""? threats, when I ran
lor help. , . . ,. ,
Before I got back they bad robed
Mr. Bowser on the grass, taken all his
change away, and cuffed him about
until bm presented a alaigt. Then
the police in m who bad come too late
advised him:
"Say. old man. you'd better go home.
You've hart live or six rows within vq
hour, and I sua 11 have to run you in if
you don t leave. You are evidently a
de-perate character."
Mr. Bowser beckone-l to me and led
the way to the boat. On the way dowu
he was pointed out as Sullivan and Kil
raiu, and every lady bad a gibe at him.
At the wharf he hired a hack to take
us home, and not one word would he
sak to me all the way up. U'lie i we
finally got into th. house be locked the
door of the sitting-room and sat down
in front of me and said:
"Mrs. Biwser. look at me!"
"Yes. it's awfuL I was afraid it
would turn out this way."
'Aud yet nothing would do but you
must go!"
"Why, I didn't want to go one
step!'
"Take care! You are to blame for
this whole business! 1 have borne aud
borne, but the worm has finally turned
at last. Make out a list of what furni
ture you want to keep and let us settle
on the amount of the alimony."
We didn't settle, however. ITe felt
better next day, and 1 don't think he
will refer to the matter again unless I
bring It up.
Doing Men's Jobs.
It is always int -resting to see bow a
woinau does a man's work.
There is a slat oil the earden fence,
and the woman wiio owns the fence
thinks that she will fix it. She gets a
ha nuier, and a saw, ami some nail-i.
and some old gloves, and fastens up the
house for fear a tramp may come aloug
wh le she is out. Then she looks up
tlie street and down the street, to see it
anybody is in sight, and then she clnubs
bravely over the wall, and catches her
skirt in a sharp rock, and pulls down
half a hundred stones after her, and
springs to avoid them. She steps ou a
slick, aud thinks it is a snake, and
screams, aud scares the hens half to
death, aud some of them run under the
wood shed, and some of them ily up on
the roof of the barn, and some of them
scoot over the fence into Johnson's
yard. Johnson's dog pulls out their
tad, feathers, aud a feud springs up be
tween the two families w hich will ex
tend to the third and fourth genera
tion! of the tribe.
The woman gets the pail ing in posi
tion, and holds it at the bottom W.lU
her knee while s.ie ualis it at the top.
Auy tool can drive a nail! Why, of
course. She lifts the hammer and
strikes with a will. Ttie nail tunn dex
terously to one side, to avoid the blow,
and the wouiau's thutiib-iiail turns
blacK. because it was iu the way when
the bauimer fell. .iud because she didn't
happen to take it out of the way.
She has lo go back to the house to
get some arnica and some camphor,
aud by the time t iey have been applied,
a d that thumb has stopiel aching,
the tin peddler calls, and wants to give
her five cents for the rags she has been
idiisJTiously saving -t a year, and
which she lias felt ail ulom; It was such
au economical thing to do.
By ttie time the peddler has gone, the
m Ulster calls to talk to her about mis
sion work iu China, aud by the time
he has departed there is a boy to sell
blueberries, and a woman with the
"History of the Johnstown Horror,"
and by that time it is noon.
After dinner the woman starts out
once more to fix that palling. She
takes some more nail', and f els de
termined to conquer. S le pounds aud
pounds, and the nails all go in skewing
and break off, aud at last the hammer
dies oil from the handl-, and it lakes
half au hour lo put It ou ag t'u, aud all
the nails she has brought with her to
wedge it in place.
Then she applies herself to business
once more, aud attacks the pa. ling
Willi renewed vigor. She nails it this
time, and stands back to survey her
woik. Somehow it doesn't look just
ng.it, aud she discovers that she has
put it ou wrong end up. Sue will take
it oil. That is easier said than done,
Wheu a woman does a thing she does
it to stay done, and I ef ore she can get
all these broken, and crooked, hud
skewed nails out, t ie pal ing is spl t
into kiudliug-wood, and the rails to
which it is nailed look as if they had
been suh,ected to a fusillade from a
gaitiing-guu.
And as the List nail gives way before
her frantic endeavors, she lets go, or
r.ither the palling lets go, so suddenly,
that she loses her ba ance aud falls
backward into U14 ditch which some
enterprising devotee of thorough drain
age has excavated, and she wrenchej
her back, and tears her dress, aud wets
bo th of her feet, ami -crushes her hat,
and scrambles out, just as Mrs. Jones,
with whom she is at swords' point,
rides by with company from the city,
and laughs at her predicament.
Then that woman is mad, and hhe
s'i. ksa piece of wood iu that fence,
and vows it may stay there, for what
she cares, t il the crack of doom. Then
she gathers up her toots aud goes home.
Next tune when there is a fence to be
mended, she will g ve the carpenter
half a dollar for au hour's work, aud
leel that she is saving money. .
The Deceptive Hand-Baif.
'Would you mind going Into Silk &
Sattecn's store w.th me a few mo
ments, dear?' asked Mrs. Y'ounglove,
sweetly, of her husband the other
alteruoon after they had started out for
a hatf-tioliday. 'I just want to get a
few little things only what I can carry
in my hand-bag.'
The hand-ba was such a fl.it,
diminutive affair, seemingly capable of
holding so very little, tliat Y'ounglove
cheerfully complied with his wife's re
quest. When they emerged from the store,
two hours and a halt Liter, the liand
contained: Two yards orange ribbon, 1 yanl
dress lining, 4 yards Torchon lace, 1
card hooks and eyes, 3 spools sewing
silk, 1 spool twist, 1 spool basting
thread, a card pearl buttons, 3 yar Is
cardinal ribbon, 3 handkerchiefs, 1 pair
kid gloves, 1 yard tulle, f yard nain
sook, 2 pairs hose, 2 patters of pins, 1
cut-steel buckle, 1 yard watered ribbon,
3 fancy-work oruameuts, 1 skein em
uroidery silk, 1 pair dr-ss shields, 3
yards Hamburg, 1 yard insertion, 1 box
button-fasteners, I box hair-pins, 1
pair hosiery supporters, 1 hair net.
There, dear,' said Mrs. Y'ounglove,
sweetly, as they came out; 'you see I
kept my word, ami got only what I
could carry in my hand-bag. You were
a dear good boy to go In with me at all,
and I wouldn't have asked you if I'd
been a regular shopping round; I know
how men dislike shopping.'
Avoid an angry man for awhiv
nialiuus man forever.
Emma Oran's Mistake.
And this is your final answer?"
-
It is, sir."
Farewell, then; and may your life
I e one of uialloy d happiness! May
cu n?ver know what it Is to have high
lnies crushed, to love dearly and
vaiul.l"
And biwing low, Rbyde Darran
turned and strode down th- beauh, his
face w hite aud ghastly with the great
woe tugging at his heart.
At last the dream was over, and the
litne he had cherished of making Emma
Oran his bride was dead.
"Oh,. be cried, as he walked the
sands in mad haste," "she 1-ved me
wed till this Eugeue Eyre came to Sea
view with bis city airs and honeyed
words. He it is who has turaed her
love to scorn. And to-morrow she
will be his bride. This is hard, hard to
bear, as I know his great uu worthi
ness;"' And the strong man groaned aloud.
After a while, when he had grown
more calm, he said;
"1 have nothing to bind me to this
place now; father and mother sleep in
the old church-yard, aud I will go
abroad and study my glorious art, and
strive to forget this."
And wheu on the morrow the old
church bell rang out its summons for
the bridal paity, Khyde Darran, a sad
aud grief-bowed man. entered a car
riage aud was whirled away toward the
metuqiolis.
Three years have been numbered with
the inighiy past.
It is a bitterly coll January evening.
From the frowninir sky the thick snow
is falling, and the tempestuous wind
howls disma'ly through the city streets.
Iu the pale, sad-faced woman who
cowers over the feeble fire, and bus ly
plies her needle, in a wretched garret iu
New Y'ork, one would scarcely recog
nize the proud and beautilal maiden
who had scorned the true love of Kiiytle
l'arran so short a lime ago.
Y'et she it is. Want and sorrow have
blotted out the haughty look from those
inagiiillceir. eyes, aud the smile of
hcoru is gone fiom her lips.
Too late she learned that she had
discarded gold for dross;for he whom she
man led proved to be a mere adveut
11 er, who descried her when she had
1 een a year his wife, taking with iinu
the fortune she inherited at her fa tier's
death, and leaving her aloue aud nearly
peuniiess, with a balie scarcely two
weeks old.
A few mouths later she learned of his
suici ie, 111 a gambling den, where he
had iceu tleeced bv some of bis com
panions. Without the courage to face
poverty after he had once eujoyed the
comfoii.sof wealth, he put a pistol to
his ear and ended his life.
Soon after this tragic occurrence, the
young widow's child died; then life
seemed a bitter mockery, and she
prayed that she, too might die. But
her life was iared; aud an humbled,
sorrowing woman, she strove to gain a
living by needle-work, earn lug a
beauty pittance, for her employers were
harsh, cold-hearted men.
"At last the work is done," she
sighed, wearily, as she laid it aside,
"and 1 must hasten out with it, for I
have not tasted ftod since morning."
And wrapping a th n shawl about
her. she hurried out into the night and
storm.
While waiting for her pay in the shop
of her employer, she suddeuly became
interested in the conversation passing
between him aud a customer.
She felt her heart beat quicker as she
heard Kiiyde Darraii's naiuj pronounced
coupled with the warmest praises of
bis genius aud skill as au artist; that he
had wou a high name and princely
fortune 111 the city, aud ou the morrow
would lead to the altar one of the weal
thiest ladies iu tiie land.
More like oue iu a dream she re
ceived her pay and passed out, almost
uuiiiiu llul of the cold aud storm.
What a iowcr these word had to
stir that woman's heart, and bring
back memories of the time when she
had dt arly loved Khyde, and to show
her that that love was far from being
dead.
Occupied with these thoughts she
beetled no: whither she went, and at
List discovered tliat she had lost her
way.
And a startling discovery it was, for
the storm grew more furious as the
hours went by, aud the woman, being
so thinly clad, was nearly benumbed
w ith the Cold.
But she struggled resolutely on. At
last, however, nearly exhausted, she sat
down to rest ou a step somewhat shel
tered from the chill blast, and then all
was blank, till site awoke and found
herfelf lying on a downy couch, sur
round -d by countless luxuries which
we.ith alone cm procure, while a
well-known face bent over her, and the
j .yous impassioned voice of Rhyde Dar
i.'ii cried:
"Thank God, the crisis la past, my
darling, an I you will livel"
Ami he tenderly kissed her.
'then crlei t..e bewildered woman:
"Do 1 dream? Can it be that yon
forgive me? Can it be that Still you
love me as hi the olden time, after
what lias iassed between us?"
"I can and do forgive you, deal
Einiiia," he answered. "I love you at
iuthsseoli days, knowing the severe
trials through w hich you have passed,
aud if you will be my wife, I shall be
the happiest of men."
Keadiii the truth of his words In his
In n. st 1 r vvu eyes, ..nd leebly saying
that find was far too good to her, she
;laced her hand iu his.
Then it was that he told her of his
wanderings in Italy, and his vain ef
forts to forget her; of his return and
1 mg search tor her, on bearing of her
sorrows, and how he had at last found
her ou the steps of his own residenoe,
nearly frozen to death, and of his great
fear that she would not survive the se
vere illness that followed.
Aud when she asked him of the wed
dim; of which she had heard, be told
her the story was false.
So joy looked out of the blue eyes of
the woman once more; and when her
health was restored there was a merry
bridal, aud a happier pair than t e ncii
and talented artist and his lovely wife
cannot be found in the land.
The Nickel Trap.
The automatic weighing, electric,
and lifting machines and otner devices
for getiiug the public to drop nickels in
a slot seem to be as popular as ever, and
the company owning them is making a
barrel ot money every day. The best
patrons of the weighing machines, ac
cording to a collecting afieut, are actors
and actresses. Many of the latter in
sist ou being weighed at the ferry every
night on their way home and often
induce their escort to give up two or
three nickels so that tiiere can be iu
mistake.
When Ho Comes
BT SC3AS COOLIDGE.
II I were totil that I must the to-morrow
Ttiut the next sun
Wlileh sinks sUtmld bear me past all fear and
sorrow
For anv one:
All the Jlpht foulit, all the short Journey
through.
What should I do?
I do not think that I should shrink or (alter,
Hut just t:o 1.11
Doing my work, inir seek tochane, nor alter
Audit that is tone.
Itut rise and in..e. and luve and smile and pray
For one more day.
And lyin down at niuht for a last sleeping.
Say in That ear
Which hearkens ever: -Lord, within Thy keep
ing, Ht.w should I fear?
And when to-morrow hrins Thee nearer still,
lo Thou Thy will."
I miht not sleep for awe : but eai'ef ul. tender.
My soul would he
All the niiiht long; and when the morning
splendor
Flashed o'er the skv.
I think that 1 could smile euuld calmly nay,
It is His day."
But If a wondrou hand from the blue yonder
Held out a sen. II.
On which uiv life was wr t. and I with w-jnder
lteheM unroll
To a long centui v" emi its mvstlcclue.
What should I do?
What could I do. o blessed Huide and Master,
Oiher than tins-
Still to go on as now. not slower, taster.
Nor fear to nils
The road, although so very lmc it be,
y hile led by'Thee?
Step after step. feelinpThee close beside me.
Although unseen ;
Through thorns, thr.-uuli flowers, whether the
tempest hide Thee.
Or heavens serene
Assured Thy taitlilulness eauuot betray
Nor love decay.
Let me keep on. abidine and unfearfng
I by w ill always.
Through a lon century's nj.e fruition,
Or a short day's;
Thou canst n..t come too soon ; and I can wait
II Thou come late.
MY FATHER'S DESTROYER.
It was a soft, balmy evening in June.
The full moon shed a Hood of meilow
light over every stick and stone, until
old, familiar objects shone with a mauic
beauty, and tlie sleeping earth became
a very paradise of loveliness. Now and
then some wakelul bird broke into a
subdued twitter of joy, and a gentle
breath of wiud just stirred the leaves
into languid, fnful rustling; all else was
hushed aud still.
Suddenly the clang of the bell ia the
old church tower broke upon the
silence. It was striking the hour, and
solemnly tolled out twelve; but 1 could
not think of sleep, lor the blood
coursed through my veins with all the
wild joy of a happy passion. On that
veiy eve 1 had held beautiful Viva Ia:
May in my arms, and heard her whis
pered confession of love. I must think
and think, before 1 could sleep, must,
calm my ecstacy of bliss; tliat was all
I could see clearly.
I turned asuie into the garden.
There, seated 'neath a rose-embowered
arbor, I rehearsed again and agaiu the
scenes of that happy evening. Again 1
felt my sweet love tremble in my arms.
j aud again I heard the murmured words,
I Ves. I . love you. Seldom" Oh, the
1 thrill of joji that tilled my heart at the
I remembrance!
1 hen I fell to dreaming of the future.
Having won my peerless Viva's love. I
feared no optiosiliou. We were equals
In position and wealth, and our parents
were on most frieudly terms. 1 was just
planning a bridal trip to Kurojie, when
an uncanny feeling that some one was
near woke me fioiu my blissful dreams.
Mechanically I directed my gUuce to a
large syriuga bush that stood optiosite
the arbor. Something peculiar about
its shadow caught my attention.
Breathless, I gazed intently at it. Yes,
there was a man standing there. He
evidently had not seen me, shaded as I
was in the arbor, but was listening for
any suspicious sound before making a
stealthy advance upon the house.
My lirst impulse was to order him off
the premises, but relit cling that he was
most probably a burglar, and well
armed, 1 kept silent.
Five, ten minutes passed away lief ore
my neighbor stirred. Then he silently
stepped out Into the gravelled walk.
His lace was distinctly revealed in the
bright moonlight.
iJark hair, blue eyes, long nose, scar
on right cneek,' I noted us I made a
rapid survey of his features. 'Good, 1
think I sha.l know you if ever I see you
again, my fine fellow. Hut what ou
earth do you want? Vou are no com
mon housebreaker,' lor his whole ap
pearance was totally different from that
of a thief.
Even as I thought this, l e quietly
vanished up the walk.
"Felt slippers, I suppose; be knows
bis business,' I soliloquized, as I matle
a rapid detour across garden and lawn
to the front door.
It was unlocked, and the hall lamp
was burning brightly, though the
church bell had struck three. At the
sound of my step, my father appeared
in the door of his study, which opened
directly off the hall.
'Is the back of the house fastened up,
father?' I askeJ, at the saute time lock
ing the front door behind me.
"Tes. I suppose so, Seldon; w hy do
yon ask?' be replieJ.
'Because I sw a man hiding in the
shrubbery as I came in,' 1 answered.
'Did you see him plainly ' What did
be look like'r" queried my father with
some agitation.
'Yes, I saw his face in the moouliitht.
He had dark hair, blue eyes, a long
nose, and a scar ou the right cheek. He
did not look like a burglar, but more
like a professional man. say a lawyer,'
1 concluded. 'But let us go over the
house together, aud make sure that the
fastenings are all secure.'
Silently we made the circuit of the
doors, and saw that each one was safely
locked and bolted. As we returned to
his study, father remarked:
I wished to consult you to-night
upon an affair of much importance, but
it is too late now. However. I shall
slip a paper under the door of your
room which I wish you to look over
before you come down in the morning,
as I want your opinion on the matter
as soon as possible. It is not quite pre
pared yet.'
'If you intend to sit up later, let me
stay with you, 1 said anxiously. 'That
fellow whom I saw may make some at
tempt against the house to-night."
No, go to bed, my bjy,' father an
swered calmly. 'As long as my lamp
is burning no burglar will attack us. I
have some more writing to do, and your
presence would ouly disturb me. If I
am later than usual In rising in the
morning, don't let them disturb me. I
lost a good deal of sleep with that last
! fever patient, and would like to get a
little extra rest, tiood night.'
All right,' 1 rephed. Good night.'
My father was a physician with an
extensive practice, and siDce my mot. 1
er's death he had kept very irregular
hours; so I thought nothing of his re
quest that he should not be disturbed
on that particul ir morning. If I had
but known why be asked!
Once iu my room, I rapul'y prepared
to retire. I did think, two or three
times, of our mysterious trespasser, but
having rven with my own eyes that all
the fastenings were secured, appre
hended no danger from that quarter.
It must have lieen ten o'clock in the
morning when I awoke, for the sun
was shining broadly in at my w indow.
I rose lazily upon oue elbow aud glaueed
out at the summer sunshine. Suddenly
I rememlere i the paper of which my
father had spoken, aud looked to se if
it were under the door. Yes, there it
was.
'What can it be?' I thought, and
sprang out of bed to get it. Throwing
011 my dressing gown, I sank into an
easy chair, and prepared with much
curiosity to read this mysterious docu
ment. It was written in back baud, wholly
different from my father's fiowug
character, and was dated six mouths
previous, but bore no addre-s. It was
as follows:
'When 1 was a young man, I entered
a lawyer's otlice. While there, I chanced
to be the only person in the otlice one
day, when a well-dressed stranger en
tered. 'Where is Mr. Smith?' he asked.
'Smith was my employer's name.
'He has none to Spriuglield, I an
swered, 'and will not be back till to
morrow. Can I do anything for you?'
'Well, no. You see Mr. Smith gave
me this check the other day, and I now
owe him eight dollars for making out
some legal pajiers. It is after banking
hours, and 1 am about to leave the city
for some mouths, so it struck me that
I Mould pay Mr. mith with his own
check, as 1 have nut little change, and
hate to leave small bills standing. But
as he is not here, 1 suppose the matter
will have to rest. And lie turued as
if to go.
'L-t me see the check. Perhaps 1
can cash it lor you,' 1 interrupted, as
his hand was 011 '.he door-knob.
'lie liuii'led it to me without a word.
It was for tell dollars, and bore my
employer's signature. 1 could have
sworn to the writing, for I hail seen it
olteu betore. The upshot of the mat
ter was that I took the check, gave the
stranger two dollars iu change, au 1
promised to pay Mr. Smith the remain
ing eight dollars.
'As luck would have it, a fellow-
clerk, named Will Howe, entered as the
stranger left, aud said to me:
'Would it trouble you to let me have
a ten? 1 promised to meet a little bill
to-niht, and forgot all about it till just
now. .
'.No, I am sorry to say that I can't,'
I returned, 'unless a check ou old
Smith will do.'
'That will do a- well as the gold.
Thanks I'll do as much for you some
time.'
'The next morning Will came up to
my desk aud said:
'Do you know that check you cave
me l.ist night was a forged oue? "What
is this?' he continued, drawing out a
sheet of paper from the pile tliat lay at
my elbow.
'On it were a number of imitations
of Mr. Smith's signature ot varying
degrees of excellence, iuteruiiuglexl with
sciaps of my own w riting. 1 sank back
lu my chair, utterly bewildered.
This matter must be looked into,'
said Will, sternly, as he started toward
the door with the tell-tale sheet of paper
lu his hand.
'The fear of publicity gave me Kwer
to move.
Stop!' I cried excitedly. 'My mother
has heart disease. She must not have
the shock of knowing tliat I am ac
cused of this this.'
'Forgery,' added Will, coldly.
'After some conversation I agreed to
iay fifty dollars to Will if he would
keep the matter quiet.
"To this day 1 have never known how
that sheet of par came on my desk,
and 1 swear that my hand never
touched it, nor put a 'U-uiark ou it.
Sniitn's signature and my writing alike
we e cleverly forged. To resume my
story:
'From that time forth I was in Will's
power. He lias never ceased to dog
111 v footsteps and dem.uid heavy sums
ot hush money. Once 1 did not hear
from him for over live years. I had
left Mr. Smith's otlice, and begun prac
tice as a physician. I was successful.
My persecutor had disappeared, and 1
ventured to liojie he was dead. It was
then 1 marrn-d. Hut before my honey
moon was over. Will came back an 1
demanded moie money. My wife was
a delicate, fragile little tiling, and 1
dreaded tor her sake the dlsclosuie that
would follow the lefusal of Will's de
mand, so 1 paid lii 111 what he asked.
"I had ever lived iu dread tli.it some
day he would yet reveal my secret. Ou,
how I have suffered, and yet I am in
nocent! Many,. many plans have 1 laid
to rescue myself lrom this tharldoui.
but dared not risk a failure that would
kill my wife an 1 blast my reputation.
But now my dear love is gone and our
boy is well provided for. I shall not
suffer much louder. I have thought of
a safe plan '
Here the writing chainlet! abruptly
to my father's usual hand, and con
tinued thus:
To-day I received an intimation that
I must have two thousand dollars for
Will tj-mght. It was he whom you
saw in the shrubbery. This determines
me to do what 1 have so long intended
depart from a life that contains so
much misery. Be culm, my son, and
real carefully the lest of this letter.
For the sake of uiy reputation and your
future, I shall take care that my death
shall have tlie appearance of a murder;
but I charge you to produce this con
fession if au iunocent person lie iu dan
ger of being convicted for my murder.
.Let no man, no matter how low, suffer
as I have suffered for another's c ime.
LiHiAK L. Ballantvne.'
I had just finished this startling com
munication when Green, my father's
valet, rapped at the door.
'Mr. Seldon, Mr. Seldon!' he cried.
'There's a man come for the doctor to
go to a life and death case, but 1 can't
make him hear me when I knock. I'm
afraid he is ilL'
Hastily concealing the confession, I
spiai.g to the door and ran down stairs.
The door of father s room was locked,
anl no answer came to my repeated
entreaties to be allowed to enter.
'Bring an axe, Green,' 1 said un
steadily. 'We must force the door.'
By this time ail the servants had
gathered in the hall, but as the door
gave way to the blows of Green's axe,
they all sprang back as if afraid to look
within. With faltering step I crossed
the threshold.
A strange odor of chloroform j-er-vaued
the room. Upon the lied lay
something. Was it my father? An
other step took me past the table, and
I siw a pool of dark red blood ou the
carpet at my leet.
1 could bear no more. Staggering
out into the hall. I managed to staui-
mer 'Send for the police,' wheu 1 fed
In a swoon.
When 1 recovered consciousness 1
was lying in my own room, and p.or
Ureeu was beuding over me, applying
restoratives as well as his trembling
hands would permit. The sight of his
white face brought back that still fig
ure mullled iu the lJ-clothes, and that
horrible pool of blood.
"They think they'll catch the mur
derer soon, Mr. Seldon,' said Green, by
way of cousolatioti. 'A policeman saw
a man come out of the yard early this
morning, aud collared him; but the
fellow got away. He aw him plainly,
though, and the description Is all over
the country by this time.'
'What did the man look like?' I
asked, w ith a queer teeling at my heart.
What if it were my father's prosecu
tor? 'He had a scar on his lace, a long
nose, and dart; hair,' Green replied
promptly.
Yes, it was h-; I at once resolved
that if suspicion coukl be thrown upon
him 1 would do all iu my power to have
him convicted. Was lie not virtually
my father's murderer?
"Send the policeman who saw him up
to me. Green,' 1 said. '1 want to as
him a few questions.'
The officer's account of the man he
saw tallied exactly with tlie appeal ance
of the fellow w ho Was hiding behind
the syringa bush.
'Here is fifty dollars,' I said to the
loliceinan, 'and I will pay live hundred
to the man who arrests the scoundrel
and 1 rins him to the jail.'
All that day 1 was in a fever of ex
citement. 1 reuieuiU-r but two inci
dents. One was that the doctors re
IKirtcd that my lather had been chloro
formed and then staboed.
Good!' 1 thought. 'X11 one w ill ever
think he killed himself. That scoundrel
shall swing et.'
Tlie other incident was a loving, sym
pathetic note fiom my sweet Viva. 1
dashed off some kind of a reply, then
waited waited.
At nine o'clock that night came the
Welcome nes, The murderer is
caught.
'When will thev bring him in?' 1
asked.
'On the eleven o'clock train, was the
reply.
When the news came that he was
safely lodged iu jail, my overstrained
nerves gae wav, and 1 reeled upstairs
to my room staggeruu; like a drunken
man. Throwing myself on the lied
without undressing, I tried to think,
but all iu vain. My thoughts would not
obey me, aud 1 soon tell into a heavy
ideep.
Iu the morning I was awakened by
Green.
'Here is a note for you, Mr. Seldon,
he said, 'and the messenger savs it is
very Important, so I brought it up at
once. '
'All right. Green,' I replied, ami tore
open the envelope.
It contained a half sheet of pH'r ou
which was written a few words to the
effect that I was wanted at the jail im
mediately, and 1 lost no time in I "elat
ing myself thither. In Kplie of Gieeu's
urgent request that 1 would take a cup
of coffee before I went.
The prisoner wants to see you,' said
the ollicer iu charge, and conducted mo
at once to his cell.
To my surprise, he retired and left
me entirely along with my father's
destroyer. I recognized him at onee as
the man whom I had seen iu the gar
den. He began abruptly:
"1 did not kill ur lather, lie 00111
mitte 1 suicide liecause I have certain
paiers which prove hi in to be a former.
1 had couie to your house the night lie
lore last to receive some money, au I
saw li 1 111 stab himself, ."vial 1 tell mv
sto y and produce my evidence?'
Too astounded to answer, I sal.
silent. Alter a moment's pause the
man coiannie.1:
'Or do you prefer to help mo break
jail and to pay Inc. live hundred dollars
to give vou tnose papers and leave tne
couutij ?
At la t I found my tongue.
'What, pay you live hundred dollars
mote for hounding my iior father t 1
his death?'
So he told xou his little crime, did
he?' the wretch said wi h.a dialolieal
smile. 'Good! vou at least know ol
your own knowledge that I have the
paiers of wliicn you Hjieak, and can
judge, what would lie the effect if 1
were to produce them.'
I. ike a Hash I saw myself the sou of a
proven forger! Thought of my
lather's reputation blasted, ay doubly
blasted, for the suspicion o. suicide
ivoul 1 rest upon his name. I tiioiul.t
of uiy proud Viva and the paia it
wouid cause her to know that her lover
was nve!oied 111 such a disgrace. I
thought of all the-e things, and I
.elded. I. ike my unhappv lath r le
lore nie, I was a mora! cotvard.
'I accept vour terms,' I s.u.l iioai ely.
'How can 1 h' lp vou to es ape?'
A gleam of triumph shot from the
fellow 's eyes as lit; leplied:
"1 thought you would see it that way.
t ail ou me again to-morrow, and bring
a Couple of hue stee. s.iws so that 1 can
cut tlie bars. Mail tins letter for me.
! and there will be help wailing 011 the
outside. When things quiet down a
little after my escape, I'll send y.ni
word where to meet me with the
money, and will give you those papers
then.'
1 put the letter in my pocket and left
the cell. Ou the way nouie I had but
one thought, one wish. I longed to
rest with my father. 1 must help his
persecutor escajie. Oh, tliat I were
dead before 1 did suen a deed!
But 1 was spared the crime to which
my cowardice bad consented. That
night a fearful storm raged over toe
city, and the jail was struck t light
ning. On.y one man was injured, and
lie was killed instantly. That man w a"
my father's destroyer. He had fal.en
by Heaven's veiig-auc-.
Americana and Money.
The American is constantly accused
by Eurojieans of worshipping the "al
mighty dollar," and great was my
curiosity to judge for imst-if of the jus
tice of this charge. Alter calm obser
vation of the ways of men in America,
I came to tlie conclusion that the dollar
was certainly not only the unit of the
monetary s stem, but that it was als 1
t lie unit of tiie ujetr.cal system. How
ever, I soon saw that, if the dollar wad
coveted aud held in gieat respect, it wai
not so much for itself as for the luxury
it was the key to; 111 other words, that
avarice was a vice alaiost unknown 111
the land. There is a lavishness in the
American's way of expending his money
that redeems his trick of taking off his
bat to it whenever he sees iu Maj
O UtlU
NEWS IN BUIEF.
M. Eiffel, whose name has been
fxalted by his great tower, is fifty--ven
years ol I. His real name is said
to be liomckhauseu, and hib reasons for
Changing it are unknown.
Something new in these automatic
Vendors is reported from Germany,
w here machine has beeu introduced,
tuat sells art.cles at six pfennigs a
price for which there is no single coin.
It Is operated by inserting a ten pfen
nigs iu cliauge together with the pur
chase. A new work on "Ila'f a (.'entury
of Music in Kuglaud" diaw the Inter
esting contrast lietweeu tlie time when
laird Chesterfield warned hi oi
itgui'st liemg a fidd'.er, even iu the
amateur sense, an 1 the present, when a
I'rince of the royal blood is the most
note i amateur 111 ICngland.
It is announced that M. Court on, a
chemist, produced recently at the sil
ling ot the French Academy of Science!
a seali tl envelope containing a desci 1. -tion
of an appaiatns by means of wh ch
objects may Is' seen at vast distances,
the vibrations of light being transmit
ted through a w iie.
A singular craft is at Newport, 11.
I. It is a 3"i fo it cedar three-masted
rocker-keel boat, ai d is the cult in
which Us owner. Captain Sltieuui, an l
his wife came to tlos country a leu
m .nths ago, after being wrecked at
B.ilaiiquilla lu Angus:, l-sti.
1 here is a whistling well at l.ogan
county, Kansas, which wiuii- people ot
appioai hlng stouns from tl to 12 h mis
in advau e. It i l i". btt deep, ai d
sends out a .strong 1111 lent of an , hu h
as it escapes through ti e apei'iir 1
about the fUinp, whistles In a lo d,
llute-liketoneth.it isdistnctly aiidd..
to every person 111 the toaiiship.
A n.'Vel service was he'd rec-utlv
bv the congregat ion s.iie.11 all.-1". ilid.-h,
of t.hang., N. .1. It wasth- c.eisecia
1 1011 of a sci oil of the book of la- in
presented ttl the coligrejal ion. T i
scroll is written ih' hIv bv land, 111
lleurew, upon p.u cniii.'i.t, anl is Is
inches iu w dt h .to I .hit .ii t.s-t hi
length. It contains lie.1 enl.ie l'eii.a
tench.
The luggage of all travelers cross,
ing the Sw iss 1 1 01 it a-r into Germ my .1
being subjected. 11 Is lepol'.ed, to a
rig. .I'ous inciiisil on at the hands of tl.
German Custom olli. ia s a measure ot
Which the German papers arc complain
ing as iuj uriug t i.-i many 's own mieresti
by driving foreign passengers to av ii
Germany altogether, and to travel t
and fioui Switzerland only ly way ol
Fiance, Austria au I It il.
A leinarkalile s!ght was t itnessed
at the lialley depot, l ass t 'oiiutv. Mo.,
leeently. The sun was getting lo
when a train pulled in, and the engim
liegaii to let till' steam. As s .tin as re.
leased the steam I" g, hi to bu m, and it,
a short time a complete rainbow coulil
be seen a few feet above the engine,
and reaching to the ground on eithel
side. It was a lieaut iful sight, and le
uiained as long as the engineer released
steam from the engine.
A reporter of the Columbus ('ia,
r.itfjutrer knows of two hog that ail
colililUled tobacco cheweis. They In
can the habit scral months ago, anl!
since have U-en putting tin lat rapidly
"At first the poikcs did not ii i ar t
relish the weed, but soon thev it callll
Veiy fond of it, and imw they se. ni t
be rlectlv Inlsei able when their ow ih i
neglects to give them their daiiy allow,
ance of tobacco. "
A man woo has been woikiti
country towns in K.t-t New Jersey wnj
the old swindle ol selling hlleg d golij
rings and making pusejits of golj
watches began I 1 1 1 .ess from his buggj
III Believilie le.ihtlv. Af'el he ha. I
gotten well und i way some peisou n
tne crowd cut i i:e tiaces of Ins harness
and when the lellow attempted tin
trick ol til iv ng suddenly away hii
horse stalled, but left the buggy Ihv
hind. The man was coiuiielled to ro
tund the money to his victims, auij
finally slunk out of town dragging hu
buggy al ler him.
A despatch from (jniou. West Vir
ginia, says: While John Alle was w.u k.
ing o the road, lu Wmf distict, he dug
una Lot ! le t hree b et I -! .w t he sin face.
The bottle contained a rude m.ip o)
t hat sect Ion of t he count) y and a pie. t
oi paichuieiil tlated lg, on winch if
was set forth that a "tieasuie ol g"Itl
Was bulled at Cold Spring, m ar Balmy
Johnson's cabm. ' The dl-coveiy soo
h"came known, and, the locality of the
o.d-tline cabin hav.ng been p untei)
nit, many peisoiis having lieen Uiegii.i
there day and night lu tlie h'ie of
linding the money.
I. Lichtenstein &. Son, dry gnodi
dealers 111 New Volk, leeently receiv. cj
a letter fiom .s iu i iaiicisco, signe-j
"II. P.. I tanner. A' ' umiist i a! or,'' say.
ing that J.V ilKJ h id U-en l-i .eathed !fl
an employ e of t he i.im i.ained 'ilat.
lie," and asking that her luil name a .)
ad .less be sent to Ma;.or l'ond. of .iq
Fiaucisco. The money wan lift by a
'aiitorma'i, lately deceased, who tw
.-ais ago bought goods fiom the hi m.
He was wailed upon b. "Ilatiie," ainl,
according to the lei-ier, liecame v-tj
no nil smitten w.th her. M"ih,
1-1 lilenstein Conclu led ' hat Miss H tt.
tie -M n.Zesheiiiier was the young wo.
man wanted, and have wiilun .M.ioi
l'ond, enclosing her name and addie-s,
an I also a copy ol Iiauuei's li t er. A
remitter of the .Sun quotes Miss Mm
sheiuier as sa ing: "I tlou't kii. any
thing about this .'sari I i au' :s. o a 1 m er.
I'd uke to see the i'iil i'1 t;oie I put
any tiust in the stoiy."
A girl tramp, wearing male attire,
was attested in Cincinnati recently os
suspicion of Ix-ing a ciook. At tl,
station house she told this story of her
life". "I came here fiom 1 iilianapoi.i
on a fteight train. Ko .e all the way
on the bumpers. I've been a tiampf I
two years, working when 1 had to. and
begging a living w. en it was p is-il.le.
1 never had a home and never lived lu
a hous. My father was a horse trader
and peddlei, and tiaveled 1 over t Im
country iu a wagon with my mo h-i
and myself. I suppose I was born in a
wagon, as I never knew wiiat it was tu
live in a house. While on ttie road I
took lo wearing men's clothes for con
venience, and have kept it up evei
since. About two years ago, near Vm
C lines, my mother died from old age.
'My father sold his out fit to pay nm
doctor's bill, and soou died himself. I
was left aloue aud had to strike out for
myseif. So I've lieen tramping ever
since. I 've no relatives in the world
that I know of, and nobody else that
caies for me. I like the !!: I lead and
intei d to keep at it. I got iu th:
morning on the train, and, leaving u
at the yards, started out to get some,
thing to eat or do. A stable man of
fered me a job driving a team, but I
was 'fraid they'd find nieouU"
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