I 7 11 1'F THE CONSTITUTION" TH K UNION-ANI) THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LWVS. voi. xi.iu. MIFFLIXTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. TENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCIOHEU 23. 1SS9. NO. II. x A' All at."a r -fa v n i f 1 1 r 4 -u U, , M l- - Uke. l,Uc.. U ItiWeipt.Uauch lotu P yearly. m .M trttllU bean Ulr. out foe n UuctUH, f 7-a d-Ihnru I. ioU thera i fh,udrIphi 3.7V tWMto.d.fii, AtthalraUth Mw house fo, hich permits hav. granted would heller mora Um 43,000 people. What the American brass band mot needs la a managing alitor. Uu tlie occasion of the. UU serenade to Seuator Sherman by the Ohio Itepubllcans the tanl played '-Listen to My Talo of Woe" and "The Campbell are Com ing." When Geneial Mahone opened bis campaign the leader of the band got In his fiendish work by playing "Listen to the Mocking Brd." Tlie brass band needs watching. The building or the Eddystone light bouse on a reef of that name in the English Channel has always been re-1 garded as a triumph of engineering skill; but the proponed erection of a bvacou light ou the Outer Iiamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteia-, will be a task of far greater difliculty. The shoal is composed of Bhiftlng sand, into which a caisson will be sunk, aud tfie cylinder will then be filled with quick-setting concrete, thus making the structure practically a monolith. Work can only be done when the wind is off shore. In towing out the caisson it will have to bo lifted over an eight-foot bar, and when the site shall have been finally reached the difficulty will be in getting It sunk evenly and quickly into the sand. It would be difficult to decide which is the most wonderful, the tremendous force which necessitates such bulwarks, or the inventive skill and power that can triumph over oliMaclea. which at one time would have been regarded as insurmountable. The site for the New York Exposi tion seems to liavn practically been agreed upon. It has the merits of Central Park in Wing accessible by steam railroads, elevated and surface, and by many horse car lines, and it embraces some beautiful lands overlook ing the lludsou river. A it adjoins Central Park a portion of the latter mar be used for recreation purposes without erecting buildings thereon, and thus the general objection to the use of the Park itself for Fair purposes be avoided. The only objection to the site Is the ditticulty of getting title to all the mauy blocks of properly now in private hands and the added cost of the exhibition arising from the necessity of buying or leasing the ground. This may retard the enterprise, and there is very little time to spare as the commit tees will find when they get down to actual work. At least two years will be required for the actual work of con structing buildings and getting the grounds in order. AN iMTERFEREXfE NOT TlItOHT or. It is absurd to hear the roprietors of riding schools and "equestrian acad emies" making a protest against the u of Ceutral Park for the Columbus fair, on account of the ''rough and vulgar" element that will congregate about it. In a city where English fashions are followed so subserveutly it la true that the riding school, shelter ing, as they do, many road parties, are more conspicuously brought forward than the quieter ones in this city. The delicately minded young women should the Fair use the upper portion or Central Park will see their own countrymen in huge numbers, doubt less, but it is not likely they will be insulted by them. The baser elements of Continental cities will hardly be likely to cotue o cr. so it is only from New York's own population of low lustincts that the disastrous consequen- , cea of coming between the wind ana the nobility of wealthy rUleis is likely to be encountered. ArraRENTLT few luxuries have so greatly increased in value during the last century as battle ships. War has baa always been spoken of as costly, but a hundred years ago a Tery respec table war might have been fonght out between two first-class Powers of Eu rope at less than the present cost of a line of naval vessels. The Koyal Ueorge, which was launched from the Koyal Dockyards in England In 17S9, and which was the most formidable war ship of that time, cost in round numbers S333.000. and this sum in cluded the sum of coppering and cop per bolting, of masts, yards, rigging, sails, anchors, cables and all other boat swains' and carpenters' tools. The Royal George was then the terror of England's enemies; she carried 100 guns, was ItH) feet long. 52 broad and was 22S6 tons. The ship, which at the present time corresponds with her at the bead of the British Navy, is the Trafalgar, the original cost of which, exclusive of armament, was in round numbers $4,313,970, or nearly W.OtO, 000 more than that of the English 'dealer', after tb. lady bad d..arrareJ. uuu nun f,-,i.(.v,l- to a r-pW -bo .utd ir of ram- man-of-wxr of l.. This formidable, wU, lrln t., n.y engine of naval warfare is -- rert long and 73 broad, bavaig tooiuvge 11 V40. If It were to be a.aol that la of war are to tnciea-e aat.ag Teawiavt . . . . the SXt h.ndred 'n tsi mm tm Itrofrntioaatrrf as tWy rave dae X'rV. Urn Jdirg of savwa aioM tl taar Is aasrwt law w.U.- aau . It xnol:u la taw ui ii aa arfe ka t.-J a grst-c.aaa wvf if a m a ' ala.t a ,r r- f tax aawaa. a.larv ... t v-i - - a ha a h w t- t I -. I" ft- .1.Wil iAr OuttN or kots. A a-ov.i-.an Wrv vary Oth.r Day rU4 4N SirHir- That Vwf vim tmmm hair and of tnaay different eulura ther. la cverv rwuua to believe, tiuabeth ia known to have had a euUactioa of eiht y wig, mad her do euaaia. with the aua.ua! advantage, of ma aiauy iwiimi in Paris, u nut likely to have been far U hind her. Among the statement of the account of her personal expenditure are numerous items of perroque de eheveux, and Sir Francis Knollia, ant ing to Burleigh of the ever faithful "Miatres Mary Seaton, the finest bus ker, that ia to Bay the finest dreaaer of a woman's head' of hair that is to lie seen in any country," mvi; "And among the pretty devices she did set such a carina hair upon the tjueen that was said to le pere wy ke that showed verv delicately. And every other day she bath a new device of head dreiwing, withoat any cos-t, and yet setting forth a woman gay lie welL " This variety and eccentricitv of coiffure naturally adds to the confusion, and makes gTenter the difficulty in identifying positively any of the portraits or descriptions of her. Historians sav that her mother was tall and l-autiful, that her father was digni fied, having a fair complexion and light hair; and others and contemporaneous hintorians say that she inherited niost of the characteristics of her parent. "being abont the ordinary size, with fair complexion and (irecian features, and a nose somewhat longer than a tainter would cure to er)etuate; er face was oval, her forehead high and fine." Froude, in later days, pictures her as graceful alike in erson and in intellect, and as possessing that peculiar leauty in which the form is loot in the expression, and which every painter has represented differently; and Brantome one of the ancient chroniclers, summing np all in one line sentence, describes her at her marriage to the Danphin as being "more leauteous and charming than a celeatial goddess." "An angel is like you Kate, and you are bke an angel," was a very prettv speech for Shakespeare's "Henry V to make to the French king's daughter, bat it gives as of to-aay no tetter notion of Katherine's beauty than do all the composite portraits by painters and historians of the wondrous loveliness of the Queen of Scots. Laurance llutttm ' the Century. Mothar's Responsibilities. Few mothers reflect that the family ia merely a school for husbands and wivea, says The Kural New Yorker. What sort of men make the het bus bands? Those who as boys had the best mothers. The boy who will criticise his mother's speech or dress, who will find fault with her coffee, or bread, will do the same with the woman who may be so unfortunate as to give her life's happiness into his hands. A selfish man may be drawn out of his selfish ness through a few weeks' courtship, but wait until the wear aud worrv of married life come on. aud he will in evitably settle back into it. Love sel ilom radically changes a nature. Only the grace of lod ran do that, and it takes more grace, I often think, than nianv people get hold of. "The best husbands I ever met, says the author of "John Halifax." "cuuie out of a family where the mother, a moot heroic and self denying woman, laid down the absolute law, liirlo flrt;' not in anv authority, but iirt to be thought of in protection and teuder nem. Conoeqiienty the chivalrous care which those lads were taught to show to their sifters naturally extended it self to all women. They grew up true gentlemen gentlemen, generous, nn exacting, courteous of S(eech, and kind of heart." It was while reading the above that it xcurred to me how truly the mother molds and forms the future husbaud. It is a fearful responsibility. I grant you, iters, but the reward is a glorious one. If you teach your sons to yield generously to their sisters, to shield aud protect them manfully and loving ly, not only do they make better hus bands, but the sisters who have been ao cared for, will look for the same courtesy, chivalry and tenderness in the men they marry, and will be satis fied with nothing laws. Right here I want to give a quotation from Shakenpeare which occurs to me. There isn't any special connection or sequence in it, except that mothers would do well to have their daughters commit to memory this single passage, if no other, from the world's greatest poet. It seaks for itaelf, aud com ment is unnecessary: "And while thou livetit, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and nncoined constancy, for he perforce must do the right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places; for these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves into ladies' favors, they do always reason themselves oat again. What! a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme ia but a ballad. A good leg will fad; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; acurlou pate will grow bald ; a full eve will wax hollow; but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and moon, or rather the sun and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps it course truly." HOW BABIES FEET ARE SPOILED. "Now stamp down your foot, dear. That's it. That s'loe is too large. Let me see a size smaller." Keallv, madam, if you take my ad vice." began the shoemaker, but madam cut him off with "I want a smaller shoe. That one fits like a sack." The smaller shoes were put on the child, a prettv bttle tot of about 2 years of age. They fitted tightly and .howed that the foot was a very small one. bat they pinched the child and made it cry. "Mothers exhibit more vanity than in.lmunt in their rlertioa of shoes tor a , , Ukrir fnpi ruunrrn. " Mij trT k Imlr 0f h.. ua it that k--k Teal . i know iui that aaa aad aas always sorry U the ' tb-. - J, aa aAlKit aa aa 4d aaaid T,,, ,to i i.wried w.ta. , ( a . rat trit J A , mm Ur tWa ta ara, bal t I a; W 4 " -- wa mmm mm - -T " y - r t-mmi bmw 1 aa . .; im us iaa( -! . ,t t Am b4 t-- fa aiiw ki aat. II aMt. t a I w U- ' - ' sVa 4 ' objarta by a.ina'lnig. Rlt save the seraph ia kaalhuig or Laaa't had its aaual nap, and declares xh shoe are jus lovely and papa will be delighted. Tha rhaneea are that when she want another pair she will leave the baby at home, and bring down the old pair Uterally burst oat at the toe. She want several pairs to taka home for trial, and I notice that the only ones I consider unsuitable she aelecta. Chil dren would have better looking feet if they had wiae mothers, and the fault lies in the first shoes worn. One pair too short will rain the feet, no matter how looo subsequent ones may be." Then some women aocept your ad vice?" "Yes, after the little people have hud the foundation for corns and bunions. I know many children between the ages of two and three years who have both these afflictions because their mothers wanted them to look cute." "Is there no change in the shape of children's shoes?" "None. There can't well be, because the sole must be sufficiently broad to stand the wear and tear. Square toes are preferred to round, lecause they allow freer development of the toe. In European countries they make very stylish shoes for children. They will have heels, pointed toes, patent leather tips and so forth. Some mothers buy them here, but the plain common sense shoe is the best, and the children when thev grow up, will apj reciate the fact by having perfectly formed feet, free from corns. The spring heel intro duced a few years ago is now worn by children as young as two years old, but is more fashionable for children in their teens. It is nothing but a strip of leather inserted between tlie sole and that part of the shoe pressed by the wearer's heel. It is seldom that a smal ler than No. 8 is made with a regular h.-el, and that on the common sense plan low and broad." "How are babies' shoes numbered?' "No. 4 is the first size out of baby hood. No. 0 has a soft sole of white kid and pasteboard, and is the succes sor of the knit wool boots that are worn by babies in long dresses. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 have what is called the turned sole, sewed together on the wrong side turned out. There are from four to five buttons on the side, and a black tassel is now fastened at the top in front. The Iate&t is to have a vamp of r rencn km, with call upers, or, what is still better, a half boxed round toe, tinned with patent leather." Stu Yrk .tdi ' and Krire. Josh Billings Latter. Money iz like charily, kovvers a mul tit iil' e of sins. Yung men, larn tew listen! I don't mean at a keyhole. Trew liberty konsists in making good laws, ana obeying mem. A "gentleman about town" iz one who pays cash for everything except Liz debts. One of the hardest men in the world tew collekt a debt ov iz the man who Iz ala us willing tew pay, but never re Idy. When I dfekover that all hatred, ava rie, ambition, vanity and envy have left tlm world, then I am going tew hunt for a Christian. A pedant Is one who fills himself in a cellar with the klam broth ov literature, and then picks his teeth in the society ot the learned. I sui'poze we never shall kno in this life how big a phool a man kan be be kause he iz not allowed tew have all his wants and vanities gratified. When yu And a man who lz very sol 1st us about the welfare ov everybody, you kan rafely put him down as one who lz bunting for misfortune. Thare is but little, if any, ceriuiony between two w ze men; but between a wize man and a pliool ceriuiony is the only thing that will make a phool feel re-pec table. Thare iz plenty of happiness in this life if we only knu it, and one way tew find it iz when we have got the old I u ma tic tew thank heaven that It ain't the gout. The devil iz probably the best judge ov human natur that ever lived aud he must hav beleaved in the dockriue of total depracity or he wouldn't have undertook tew tempt the Saviour. Authors' Manuscripts. Macaulay wrote on foolscap and in a very large band. Ueorge Sand wrote neatly upon nicely ruled note paper. Kobert Louis Stephenson's manu script verses are easily deciphered. Ciiailotte Bronte wrote lu the minut est of charac.ers in a d'niinutive note book. Mis Alco'.t did some of her best work ou the back of her father's old manu script. Charles Dickens covered every Inch of his manuscript, as though pair were scarce and dear. Some of Mark Twain's jokes are said to have originally occupied entire sheets of cardboard. Douglas Jerrol-JL jotted down Hs witty Inspirations' on narrow, ribbon like strips of blue paper. The novelists, Charles Reade and Victor Hugo, preferred Immense sheets of paer and the coarsest of pens. Bartley Campbell scribbled off his famous play, "My Partner," on com mon wrapping paper, with a blunt lead pencil. Both William Black and XL D. Blackinore cover dainty sheets of note paper with their almost microscopic c urography. Shaking Hands. Who doesn't enjoy a good hearty nand-shake? Did you ever think of the different modes of doing it? First, there is the very genteel way, in fact, ao very proper and po'lte that one can scarcely realize it at all, and it looses its identity. Next is the firm grasp, denoting strong, friendly and sympa thetic feeling, but without any shaking motion of the hand. There are people who do not seem to have strength enough to shake bands I do Bat mean invalids they simply loach yoar hand for mere ceremony. Thia sort of a skake makes one feel de ori ! at oace- Tba kvearty, aionrre hand -ahake seems tu .aa to ba" of a a tar. lo rkwer and nbtri the awtkrra of th. haa-la. Some lian a prrw au eatbaataatir. sxC to M aarafc, " it awau a. if tha haad a. ia a vwa. aad a ains-t axaooata to m.ttmi paa 4nag Uus treaaaadoua 1 k aftM haard at amid "Xumt tha mm f m 1 ia wea ia taw aa4t ot ati mmb tm ww. Vba wa tawy la VJ. lj ,1 ,4 Wuti. varyia. ot rw. witk tjm J-- MM t,i ai ik " I 4,i.latt II. a fmmrrmi rmtm. t.J mm.tm - a fmrtm-mt mmi K J a...a ti -a k H.atorlcaJ Andot,. of th. Tabba. Nobody Els. The other examples of royal luxury ' wiuwg UB VJ AUHUtrUI who i thooght to be the same aa "Artaxerxes Long-Hand. This prince entertained for six months, all the princesses and Kovernors of his 127 province and kept for the seven following davs. the tables spread for all the people of his capital. tne great city ot busa. Ihe tapestries, white, green and finrple, were suspended by cords of fine men with rings of silver attached to the mar hie pillars; the couches of gold and of silver, were arranged upon a pave ment ot porpnry, jasper, alabaster and inlaid marbla. He gave his gnests golden vases to drink from and served their food upon different plates. The royal wine, by order of the same king flowed in abundance. The place of honor, which, with the Greeks, was at the end of the table, was with the Persians in the center. At state festivals the women were separat ed from the men; thus during the feasts given by Ahasuerns, queen Yashti had the invited ladies on her side. One rememlers how the king, his heart warm with wine, in order not to fail in national traditions, ordered the seven eunuchs, who served him, to bring Vashti to him, that he might show to all his guests how Iwautif ul she was, and she refusing to have such an exhibition made of her charms, was set aside, and replaced by Esther. The monarchs celebrated with much pomp the anniversary of their birth. Th. repast that they gave on this occa sion was called tyxta, that is to say "finished." The king was the only one ermitted to hare his hair perfumed at this festi val; and he made all sorts of presents to his officers and his people. It was not possible to elude the demands which were presented to him during this festi val, and it is for this reason that Xerxes was not able to refuse his wife, Amestris, to surrender to her, her beau tiful sis'er-in-law, of whom this queen was furiously jealous, and whom she mutilated without pity. All Persian celebrated also the day of birth by a feast; the rich displayed an ox, a hi rse, an ass or a camel, roast ed whole in a furnace; the poor con tented themselves with serving iion tneir tables the head of a small beast. The Persians borrowed of the Assy rians the use of couches at the table, but they made an important inovation in the construction of these seats; they in vented the footstool. Like the Carthagenians, the Greeks and the Romans had the custom of eat ing boiled meat with nee. The latter, moreover, was not wanting; for from olwervations by SprogeL Oliver and other naturalists, wheat and the most of our grains were indigenous and not from Sicily, as the Greeks pretended, but from uper Asia and especially from tne norm ot fersia. The Persians used oil of sesame. They obtained from palm trees wine, vinegar, si rup, rlour, etc In oue of their songs that Strabo the geographer mentions, they number three hundred and sixty different articles which this tree pro daces. Herodotus made a u lous re mark concerning the repuaU of the Per sians. "They observe," he said, "the follow ing customs, they delilerate while drunken over affairs most worthy of attention. The next day, fasting, the master of tho house where they assemble submits to them again what they have resolved njon. If they ap prove it they execute it, if they disap prove it they reject it. On the contrary, what they have decided niton fasting, they revise when drunken. One attributes to the Persians, neigh bors of the Medes, the invention of light bread, but we know alreadv that this invention has been attributed to the Cappadocians. The butter of Partha was celebrated, and fifty years after Aristotle, the Greek's supplied themselves with it at great exiense, not knowing how to pre pare it themselves. The Caramaniens, whose country bordered that of the Persians, had a strange custom. In order to show a sincere affection, they opened, at their festivals, a vein in the forehead, and mixed their blood with wine, then offer ed the cnp. This was for them the proof of jierfect friendship that of drinking reciprocally their blood. After thev drink they annomt their heads w itL ointment, sometimes of roses or of quince, sometimes of iris or of nard, in order to obviate a little of the effects of the wine, and to prevent the fumes of it from becoming injurious. They were not the only barbarians who had extraordinary customs. The Illyrians when they drank bound their stomachs with girdles. The Thracians seated themselves in a circle in order to eat and placed before each guest a table with three feet; these tal des were covered with cut meats, to which were attached by pegs large loaves of fermented bread. The Illy rians and the Thracians dwelt in that part of the country called to-day the peninsula of the Balkans; this will per mit us then to pass into Greece without having recourse to a tradition less natural and less legitimate. An Easily-Made Gift. Among my lovely holiday gifts, came a box that has been a perpetual comfort; a plain, Quakerish little affair, but daintily put together, and full of possi bilities in the matter of suggestion to people who have but little time; and perhaps less money. Materials: A square paper box a six inch one is preferable for handker chiefs let it be two or three inches in depth; sever the parts with great care in preparation for covering. Cover each piece neatly inside, ami out with pale, fine linen, ecru-tinted or brown, as one likes. "The sewing, overhand stitch, must be done with great neat ness. Arrange in due order the bottom and four surrounding pieces; join them, with sewing silk of same color, then add the cover, sewing firmly its entire ength to the back section of the box, band around the fonr sides a eontrast ing nblon abont an inch wide (satin preferred I. Commence this in front, w here a handsome bow should cover the connection; if intended as a work tket. rat inside the cover a few neat ly adgvu flannel leave for needles, and Inittoa-buled luopa for tape-needle, ldkin, aad srtaaora. A dainty bow on tba cover adda a pretty finish, or one bit, with ewihrotderv silk to match th nbVwa. work a few attaint deeigna, or 1m -tikce, arowaa th b.; aim if ruav.uaat. f -ar fuod-aised "beil-bat-V wilk taa . ssay be passed iafw-k th Ivwr eurwara iby aaing a U-ia-a aad waii faal mt oa th la aid, w a are svwMy to lasdard. Tai-a aa wk4 mtm IW ra-uac aaav In iaa mwi I. Skiaa. 4 ywua I M r. mmA I wta tali y a W U yf tb kt llW Two little h&ndft, fto careful mnd brisk, Puttinc th tt thin tern iwit ; hito nuMbeM ia resting awhile In her chair. For sh has been buf all day. And the dear little fingers ar working for love. Although they are tender and wee. TH do it so nicely. sh said to herself "There's nobody be, you see.' Two little feet lust scampered up-stairs. For daddy will quicklv be here ; And his shoes must be ready aud warm by the tire. That is burning so bright and so clear. Then she must climb on a chair to keep watch, "lie cannot come in without me. When mother is tired, I open the door There nobody else, you see." Two little arms round daddy's dear neck. And a soft, downy cheek 'gainst bis own ; For out of the newt, so cosy and bright. The little one's mother has flown. Bhe bruhr the teardrops away as she thinks, "Now he has no one but me. I mustn't give way; that would make him so Kid And there's nobody else, you see. Two little tears on the pillow. Just shed, lropped from the two pretty eyes: To little arms stretching out In the dark. Two little faint sobbing cries. ''Daddy forgot I was always waked up Vt hen he wliiered good -night to me. O mother, come back Just to kiss me ia bed There's nobody ele, you see." Uttle true heart, if mother can look Out fnun her home iu the skies. She will not pass on to her haven of rest" While the leant dim her little one's eyes. If .od has shed sorrow around us Just now. Vet His sunshiue is ever to be: And He is the comfort for every one's pain There's nobody else, vou see. May Hodge. OUR TA.NDEM. "I say, Bea," criel Mel Howard, springing into my room at the academy, "get on your clothes quick, there's" The slam of the door arowne 1 the rest of the sentence, and his footsteps rould be heard retreating rapidly down the hall. I here s Ore around here. ' v: as my hasty thought. With vest on wrong side out, hat hanging on oce ear, collar snapping. nke the star spangled Banner on a windy day, and my coat sticking straight out behind, I fell half way down the stairs, tore out the front door to And my chum contentedly chewing gum on the gate post, while waiting for my appearance. "Takes you au awful long time!" he growled. "Where's the fire? Whose Is it?" I gasped. "Nobody said anything about a fire," was the cool reply. "How much money have you got?" I stopped, appalled at this question. Was this what be wanted when he called me in such a hasty manner? I looked at him closely to see if he was clothed in his right mind, and, finding he was, mechanically thrust my band Into my pocket and drew forth a dime. "Is that all you've got left out of your quarter's allowance?" he in quired, in tones of astonishment. "I 'orgot I had that, or" "You'd have bought that jointed fish pole of Davis' yesterday," he finished. "Well. I kaiir you can put up twenty five, and I've got tweuty-two fifty. I think we can rake up two aud a half among the boys." "But what's it all about?" I asked, in bewilderment. "Didn't I tell you when I called you that there's a fellow over at the hotel with a tandem for sak:?" "A tandem!" I repeated, in dismay. 'Now, Mel, what" "Oh, yes; what do we want with a tandem? Maybe we want It for scrap iron! I am informed that it Is a device like a tricycle, destined to carry two persons you and I, for instance. You said last week you wished you had something to make the fel'ows euviou. Xow, here's your chance." Did I go into the scheme? To be sure I did, head over heels. While he started out to "rake up" two dollars and a half, I returned to my room to finish my hasty toilet. "Are you sure he'll take fifty dol lars?" I asked, as 1 joined him a few moments later. "He'll have to, if he sells it to us," was the wise reply. "Here, you take charge of the chink and I'll do the talking." "Mr. Morton's not up yet." replied the omVious clerk in response to Mel's inquiry for the gentleman who possessed such a wonderful piece of mechanism as a tandem. After a tedious wait of fifteen min utes, be called to Mel and pointed to a gentleman s tainting near tlie dining room tioor as tliu party we wished to I"Well, yes; I've got a tandem for , sale." be said slowly, after a few pre liminary remarks bad been exchanged, eyeing us with a view of making cer tain cumulations on our combined capi tal. It was on the top floor. "There it is," remarked Mr. Morton, cautiously, as he threw open the door of a small room and pointed to a five foot concein standing in one corner, the light from the window glistening on its polished nickel and enamel. "It's ball bearing all around, with automatic steering bicycle handles, forty-two inch drivers twenty inch steering wheel," he went on glibly. "Axle is driven from the center by two detachable link chains and sprocket wheels, fitted with an automatic bal ance gear, composed of three bevel wheels aid a shaft, by which the power is equally transmitted to both wheels." (Pause tor breath.) "It has been used but few times; original cost two hun dred and fifty; will take one fifty. Wht do you think of the bargain?" We had been examining the machine, titit . 1 lha tnAnllii nf li i ti Atir hundred and fifty dollars! If be bail said f 1,500 our surprise could not have been greater. "Heml" said Mel. cautiously looking very critically at me over the machine! "Is that the very least you'll take?" "Ob, I couldn't Bake less than that!" replied Mr. Morton, decidedly. What's the reasons for selling?" I inquired, running my hand over the tires to keep up appearances, seeing be looked at us rather astonished. They were cut in a great many places, to show it had been run rather recklessly, if used but a few days. Xever mind the reason for selling." answered Mr. Morton, sharply. "It has nothing to do with the sale." Neither noticed the short reply, or perhaps we would have thought twice before proceeding. "We'll give you $o0; that's the best are can do," was Mel's offer. -Oh. be couldn't do it! Why It cost two fifty; but after twenty minute arjulng, and numerous false starts for i be door, he suddenly changed htr aiind. accepted th $-VJ, and we became th bapi y puwi saurs of a tandem. "Mr. Brooks, tb proprietor, sire :? Ajieeird t mj btlnglng It in. U. Mtartoa, as couilJ Uh. money before placing it in his packet. so he may object to yeur taking it out. as " "Oh. no, he won't!" burst in the Im petuous MeL "I know Mr. Brooks." "Oli. very wellr lie replied witn a peculiar smile, as be picked up a valise. "I hope you'll have no serious trouble." "None at all!" I responded, cheer fully. And then his footsteps died away down the halL After a great deal of "see sawing" we got it through the door. I carried the front, Mel the back, aud down the stairs we went. All went well until we reached the bottom flight, leading through the office, when we received a startling check. 'Hold on there!" shouted Mr. Brooks, hurrying across the office. "Where are you going with that machine?" "Home," was our intripid answer, in one voice. "I guess not!" was the emphatic re sponse. "I've got a (30 board bill tacked onto that vehicle." "I felt a sickening sensation come over me. Thirty dollars more eighty dollars. What next? Everything swain for an instant; then I was aroused by Mel's awe struck voice from above: "I say. Ben. can we stand it?" Involuntarily I glanced back at the shinning enamel and glittering nickel Its silent persuasive powers were too much. "Ot course; we'll have to stand it!" I burst forth. "Then here goes," was the mournful reply. And we once more descended. Mel aas a brilliant conversationalist; but it took our combined oratorical powers and the signing of two nous, each for fifteen dollars, before Mr. Brooks would consent to let the ma chine pass over the door sill. "No wonder Morton changed his mind and let us have it!" cried Mel, indignantly, as we pushed it into the btreeL "Eighty dollars is all its worth." "And hoped we'd have no serious trouble." 1 added, sarcastically. Then we mounted, I in the front saddle, Mel a foot higlir-r behind. What a sensation we created, spin ning down the smooth streets. How our hearts did beat witli 1G y ear-old boyish pride, as we noteJ ieo- ple stop to sttre after us; but how qu'ckly they sank when a crowd of small bovs gave chase! "Don't hit 'em wid de rock, Jimmy," pleaded a voice from an alley. We both dodged to escape the imagi nary missile, to be greeted with boistei ous laughter. Then followed a series of cries that m ide our ears tingle. "Who owns 'em? "Head 'em off from the hall, or we'll be out a clock!" "Who sai l it breathed?" "Is it tag ge.1?" "They use it to haul brick!" 'Hurry, please," cried a girlish voice. "iKm't let tny dog see you, or he'll have tits again." That settled it. With faces the color of an auctioneer's fl.ii:, we turned down a side striet and made direct for the academy. All thoughts of vanity had fled, leav ing in their stead mortification. Davis met us at the porch with a genuine stare of astoiiishineiit. "Hello!" he cried. "What have we here a tindein? Well, now, a n't that iust jolly ?" We look d at each ot er. but neither could ste anything amusing. KvideuLly, Davis had never rottea taudeui through our town. "They'ie One for coasting," he x plained. "Wouldn't it be a grtal s;-heuie to try it on Five Mile hill to morrow It's Saturday, you know." 'Just the thing," 1 cried, enthusias tically. "What do you say, Mel?" Same thing." Therefore, all present being unani mous ou the subject, it was agreed that we should push the tandem up live miles of steady grade for the pleasure of coasting down. I turned out bright and early next morning, to find Mel excitedly walking round and round the tandem on the lawn. "1 say, Ben, there's something tlie matter with this machine," be cried, excitedly, as I came up. 'What is it?" "That's it," was the rueful reply. "I've looked at It for ten minutes, and I can't see what it is, though there's something wrong." I lookfd at it, too, with the same reft ill-. What ccild it lie? Everything looked all right, yet there was au Indescribable sensation that something was wrong. Coming to the conclusion that we must be laboring under a hallucination, w mounted and rode slowly out of the grounds. How invigorating it was to skim along the roads, packed as hard as flint, lined with orchards and hedges, with occasional long, shallow ruts that gave you a wavy, springy motion 1 Two miles of these ro:id ami then we reached tlie foot of Five Mile hill. A railroad curves around the left side, going up, crosses the road, and strikes off to the right. For two hun dred yards above this, the road has its steepest grade. Here we found it nec essary to dismount and push the ma chine. A quarter of a mile farther we came to what is called the "Hollow" a kind of ravine, a couple of hundred feet broad, with slanting banks fourteen feet high. There are places on Five Mile hill that comparatively speak tig, are very near level. On these we would gather strength for another exertion, and then, toiling, panting, we would creep slow ly up. There were but few turns, broad and far between. Just two hours and thirty-five min utes after leaving the academy, we stopped on the crest of Five Mile hill, the perspiration streaming down our dusty faces, our hands bliste ed aud cramped with holding the handles, our feet nearly paralyzed with the strain. But in spite of the above drawbacks, we managed to make a victorious as aaul. ou an apple orchard. Seated on our tandem at one side of the road, we amused ourselves by plac ing the fruit where it would do the most good, recounting the trip to find what pleasure we had derived from it and found none at all and deciding whether to return or make another as- ult. We decided on tlie former. Pushing the machine into the middle of the road, I mountel. Mel held a driver in one band to prevent Its starting, bis watch In the other to time our down ward journey. "Ready?" And receiving an affirmative reply, t e sprang into his saddle. To or three turn on tba pelals b us a start, and with feet (Hevd firmly oo the rubber foot rwt, .an l clasp ng the vibtallu2 handle balk, wrj prepared for a quirk run. It was quicker than we anticipate 1. ! Down the road we went at a fat In-' creating ijieea. lieu we reartwM , wnal l considered ainr.-e minute ga t I thought it about time to stop the in crease. My fingers closet over the break lever; it came in nearly to the handle bar, but no slackening in the speud as perceptible. "One isn't enough," I t'.iougl.U Watt till Mel puts bis on." The next moment Mel leaned forward an I shouted for me to put the brake on. hat could that mean. I looked back and saw his fingers were clasjied fo tightly around both bar and lever tint they were white. As if by instinct, we both looked down at the axle where the band brake ran on a small, smooth wheel. It was gone! The rods were neatly bolted in fie holes made for the band, where all the power in the universe exerted on the levers could never affect the speed. I saw it all in an instant one of Davis' practical jokes. He had le- moved It, no doubt, to cause us an in citing hunt tor the missing article. That was what had caused our un easiness in the morning, yet we had been unsble to determine what it was. Oh, that we bad investigated! What would be the result? There was nothing to stop us from going at that headlong speed clear to the bottom five miles away unless, of course, we were thrown off at the ho'low or fell off at once. Tree, flumps and rocks flew past with lightning like rapidity. A straight stretch of road we covered with the seed of a passenger train. A long curve, that in spite of the ample space, caused us to run so near the outer edge and a ditch that my heart rose Into my mouth. Then came a dark shadow in the road, a warning cry from Mel, and we described an arc over the top bank, to land with stunting force in tlie holhnv. A great sweep, a quick rise, and we ilew high up, to laud with similar force in the road aga'n. In that one second in the air I glanced off to the left, and there hor ror! was a long freight train coming swiftly toward the crosdng. Would it cross before we did, or would it " Two long and two short whistles for the crossing. I shuddered. To go down that last slope, directly into that line of flying cais, meant instant death There was no turning aside. No; we would either have to beat the tram over the crossing or hold back and let it pass us the former one chance In a hundred, the latter an impossibility. As we started down that last slope we caught sight of the powerf ul loco motive, its connecting rods flying like a high sped dynamo engine, its solil mass trembling with every defect in the rails, and coming toward us with a rpeed that tbreatenel to cross before we could. Oh, how slow the tardem seemed to move! Yet, in reality, it was flying along at ircre.tsej, rather than dimin ished spec 1. A short, shaip, e.ir splitting whistle, calling for "brakes," denoted that the engineer wanted to stop. lie reversed, gave It sand and ste.im; but, although the oiilrous drivers re luctantly turned, crushing, grinding fie tine sand into a semblance of Hour, forty-tuo lcKi'N-l cars were not to be Mopped on such short notice. We weie veiy close now, our relative positions In regard to crossing being about equal; that is, we would meet directly In the center of the track, where, as a matter of course, the stronger would be the vi -tor. The engine was on the crossing there was but few feet of the road to cross we were in front of her! 1 clung desperately to the handle bar; my breath seeme 1 to come from t'.ie region of my toes. Oh, how slow we were moving! I could count every bolt in the smoke box; felt the beat from the boiler; her pilot was touch ing There was a horrible, grating, jing ling crash! 1 dimly remember of being thrown high in the air. of lighting on the edge of my saddle, of clinging despairlLgly to the handle bar to keep from falling off, and of bearing the jingle of the three broken spokes in the driver as we flew along the now level road. The s, eel was fast slackening, ami soon it slowed up enough to enable us to get our feet on the ped .-.Is; then the stop :n speedy. As I toie the tire loose to pull out the broken spoke, I beard Mel say solemnly: "Eight minutes, Ben. Five miles In eight minutee!" Eight minutes! I could only stare at him. It had seemed at least eight hours from the hollow down; yet, according to reckoning, it must hare been made in less than half a minute. Without speaking another word, we mounted and rode those two miles In silence. Davis was on the porch with a crowd of others when we rode in. He was playfully tossing a circular object in the air our brake aud pre tended not to see us until we stopped before the orch. Whether his surprise was real or feigned when be saw our pallid faces and haggard looks, I am unable to say, although I believe it was tlie for mer. "You don't mean to say you come down?" be gasped.'" "You don't mean to say we're up there yet," retorted Mel, grimly. Every one was smiling at our ex peuse, for, of course, Davis had taken care to inform them of the joke; but their faces became suddenly grave when we related our narrow escape. Of course they had to examine t he machine that bad made five miles In such a short space of time, and its riders became heroes In their eyes, from the fact that they had stayed on the frail looking contrivance and rode to the bottom. Bet wee a you and me. I am inclined to think, had they been iu our posi tion, with the same chances to dii, mount, that tbey would have stood a fair show for a share of the praise. We have it yet. It stands in one corner of the lecture hall, covered with a tarpaulin whose sombre color serves to strengthen the lustre of the enamel and nickel that peep tbroueh iu places. All who have ridden it declare it per fect in every respect; and, in conclu sion, I will state that there are no two firmer, faster friends than the joint owners of "Our Tandem." Bass calls his wife phonograph be cause she tells everything that is told her. NEWS IN UUIKF. Aon legzftj aparroa th other ons M probably loat tc a tiap boi regularly for Its meals evrrv dav to tb house of John Fulton, in V.-i t'heat.i. l'a. Preparations are neaily completed for the construction of a telegraph lln from Fen-Ting Foo, near 1'ekln, through Sbansia, to connect with th Russian telegraph system at K'.ahta. A physician of Salem. N. J., has a morning glory growing in his yard that is quite a phenomenon, a reed in oue of the blooms having sprouted and grown a vine of considerable length ou the end of which there is another bloom. Charles Dickens, the son ot the fa mous novelist, has a long novel In manuscript which he has never had the courage to publish. He realizes that bis work would be compared with his father's, and he does not dare to brave tlie test. A dilapidated safe that stood out doors in Adrian. Mich., for teveral years was recently sold for old iron. On breaking it up a set ot account books and a good gold watch weie found in side, and no one knows to whom the watch belongs. "Grace" was a title assumed by Henry IV. of England in i:w. "Ex cellent Grace" was assumed by Henry VI about 1425. This continued the title jy which the king was addressed till 1003, the time of James I, when it was succeeded by the title of "Majes ty. " The Mayor in France who has the smallest constituency is in the com mune of Morteau, it Is said. He is Mayor of 12 inhabitants, and the taxei last year amounted to t'J.-'ti. But be was invited, all the same, by ttie Gov ernment to meet his fellow Mayors at the 1 a lis banquet. An interesting incident competed with the departure of the lion. Fred erick Douglass for tliclal ost as Min ister to IIati. which is related In tlie New York 'J'ri'mnf, was the courteous visit of Junior Lieutenant Edward I.lojd t Mr. Douglass and his family before the Kearsargo sailed. Lieuten ant I.lojd is an oflicer on the new cruder Boston, and is a gieit-graiidson of that Colonel Kdword l.loyd who was the owners of Mr. Douglass and his mother when they were slaves, and is a son of the piesent owner of ttie old plantation in Talliot county, Maryland, where Mr. Douglass was lsru. Adesputch from Chicago says: A ieculiar accident occurred recently in the Eibby Prison. Many eisous wrr frightened and souieconfu ion resulted. Besting against one of the pillars were a number of old war muskets. No one was nearer than five feet to them. Sud denly oue of the muskets was dis charged, the contents tearing a ho e In the ceiling above. The report was ter rific, and several jieople were greatly excited ov i Its suddenness. How tba old musket was exploded no one can ex plain. It hud done service during the late war, and some soldier ha 1 loaded It iu reaillne s to lire. The charge must have been in the rifle at least -.''' years. An extraordinary story is being told in Berlin ul'Oiit tlie miraculous es cape of a woiii:m and a little boy at Hrieg. "Dunn,; the uiauii'iivres there they got in front of a regiment of cui rassiers which was riding at full gallop. It was impossible for the woman to es ca and for the soldiers to halt. The public raised a shout of horror, think ing the woman and child would be trampled to death, and the foremost officers called to her to lie down. This she did. placing the boy underneath her. The whole regiment rode over her, aud, as the horses were all made to leap over her, she was, to the aston ishment of everybody, uuhar'sad, though for some tune she w i sjieech less with terror." On going to the top of the Eiffel Tower, Mr. Edison wrote in the visi tors' book as follows: "Top Eiffel Tower, September in, 1SHH. ro. M. Eiffel, the brave builder of so glgantlo and original a 8?ciuien of modern en gineering, from one who has the. great est res;ct and admiration Tor ad en gineers. Including the Great Engineer, the bon I lieu. Thomas A. Ellison." He subsequently wrote Ids name upon Mile. Eiffel's fan, which forms a valu able collection of autographs, learing the signatures of all the piinces of the blood royal and the prluees of scleu e who have visited her father's chef d' (L-uvre. A remarkable mistake was made at the opening of ti e Industrial Fair at Toronto. Sir John Macdonald bad made his opening speech of congratula tion, and before calling upon him to press an electric button startling the machinery, President Withrow lDVited one or two other sjieakers to deliver ad dresses. Oue of them was Mr. John Leys, M. P. P. for Toronto. He ad vanced to the front and laid his heavy white hat right on the top of the elec tric button. Instantly there was a shrieking of whistles, ami the ma chinery in the building liegau to run. The crowd roared with laughter, and after much gesticulation and running about the maiiageis btoppi the pro ceeding, and the maihinery was re started by Sir John and Eddy Macdon ald. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has as cended the Eiffel tower. Jshe iierformed this feat on the same day as Mr. aud Mrs. Gladstone, who met the great act ress descending ou their way up. Mdrne. Bernhardt was dressed in the deeest mourning, and kept her veil down, only lifting it when she reached the third story. In order to enjoy the view. Her widow's cap is a Marie Muart, with a h'lig veil almost reaching the ground, but she has disensel with the use ot craie.assertiujr that it Is villainous stuff w Inch catches the dust, and ought tc lie condemned by all reasonable people. On descending to tne first floor of the tower Mime. Berh-irdt took luncheou witti she directors of the "eoro, whe entertained Mr. and Mrs. oladstone about au Lour lat-r. "At one of the symphony rehearsal last season," asys a coriespou lent ot the Boston TV'mari i,t, my attention was drawn to an elegantly attired young woman who occupied a biah prlced seat not far from where I wa stauding. She held In her jewel'd baud a book. In which she seemed com pletely absorbed. SupjHis'ng the book was giving her an idea of t' e music in store I gave her no further thought. The Symphony began aud ended. I bad been transjiorted into realms of har mony, only to be called back by the turning of leaves. Taking a seemingly casual glance at the young woman my curiosity carried my eye sti.'l (uifw, when, to my astonishment and disen chantment, I found si i had Ui u iNJ ing throughout that glorious iuum; The OjUick or th DeaU,' J ... . , "i - t- t ... i, t ' "' ! m mh - f i
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