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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XUIJ.
MIFELINTOAYN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1SS9.
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General Greklet says the ruh-
lio demand mora weather predictions.
Now, to be candid, we might worry
Along with the present number of pre
dictions if some arrangement could t
made whereby the prediction would
predict.
It 13 difficult to understand on what
grounds the at udenta of Madison Uni
versity refuse to testily In a hazing case
which is now being tried Wore a Civil
Court, or hy their refusal should be
taken under advpement. If so-called
laws of tiouor are to be allowed t rule
in this case they might with equal pro
priety be applied in any other case In
volving assaults on the person.
The government kept its pledges to
men who risked their money by buying
its bonds; let it now keep them to the
men who rlfked their lives that it might
live. I hold it to be a self-evident
truth that to permit an honorable sold
ier who suffers from wounds or disease
incurred In the service, or whose health
is broken by reason of exposure in that
lervue, to want for food, clothing,
3licire or absolute xecessarles or life
' a national disgrace.
Reports of a severe blizzard in the
Tar Southwest will go a great way to
iintify the apprehension that the wln
r close upon us will be an unusually
"lianl" one. There is some conscla
:ion, though. In the assurance that cold
weather will make plenty of ice, and
that, ieihaps, plenty or ice will have
.; effect of increasing the size of the
Household piece next summer and de
ceasing the tuastodonlc proportions of
ilia bill.
A communication' from the "War
lepartmeut in answer to an inquiry of
-lie Oneiila Historical Society as to
here the eagle as an emblem of the
United States properly belongs, states
.hat the only I'nited S'atea emblem
ahlch has au eagle upon it is used by
:he Kevtnne Marine." The revenue
1 1; was created by an act of Congress
ipproved March 2. 179t, the Secretary
)t the Treasury prescribing in August
f that year that the ensign and pen
jant directed by the President under
'h.it act should consist of "sixteen per
iwndicular stripes, alu-rnating red and
shite, the uuiwn of the ensign bearing
the aims of the United States In dark
blue on a white field."
The I. S. Iepartnient of Agrlcul
inr bis issued a report regarding the
U ,li.-h simrrow. The report shows
ili.it from the few birds colonized at
Mxteeu different points of the United
States bet ween fifty and sixty they
have spreail over every State in the
I'nton eat of the Mississippi and some
points in the West. The weight of
testimony taken on the subject is
igamst the sparrow, and shows it is
Injurious to grain, fruits and grass,
i.t drives off other birds, while it is
not a destroyer of insects.
SrciESTot Universities and Col
leges have frequently acted as though
they supposed themselves superior to
the laws governing ordinary mortals, so
it is not surprising to find a student of
Madison University refusing to testify
in a case of assault and battery, other
wise known as hazing. The court, in
stead of sending the refractory witness
to jail, adjourned the case while be
considers whether it Is possible for a
tudent of the university to be guilty
of contempt or court.
Empkkor William evidently en
iys travelling, and, whatever bis
ulterior purpose may be, has motive
enough for his frequent tripe to other
countries in his love of sight-seeing,
lie ought to come to this country and
visit a few of the millions f sovereigns
here. He would get a splendid recep
tion, and would at no time be far away
from borne in point of time. It would
probably be a good tiling for bis people
and promote the peace of Europe if he
oliouKl come here and see something
ent.rely new to liiui, a nation of sixty
million of people with a stand ii.g
sriny of 25,1100 men scattered over
a continent.
A siu;estion as to the freshness of
fg;s is contained in a despatch from
Chicago that tells of the destruction by
tirr of a cold storage warehouse. It is
said that ten and a half million eggs
were cooked on the upper floor. The
facilities for distribution are no doubt
very great, but if there had been no lire
it would probably have taken a good
auny days to get the last of these ten
tad a half million ev'gs to the consumer
t i distance. Cold storage preserves
ihein very well, but the fastidious pre
fer ej;s produced near at home aud
promptly distributed, instead of those
aturtd up by the million in warehouses.
I r is doubtless true that physicians
w large cities do more work for noth
ing than any other class of professional
Ben, and It is not to be wondered at
U"t sometimes the doctors refuse to
uteud a patient when summoned, with
out the money being paid in advance.
It 4oes seem, however, that in a great
"ty like New York some way should
provided for relieving people who
In distf ss, regardless of pay. Quite
tweuMy a woman died in that city.
a, had !he hail proper medical atten
tion, would probably be alive now.
4 hemorrhage followed childbirth and,
u no doctor could be induced to look
tor her, she died. One physician to
whom a messenger went, said be would
not attend unless paid in advance, and
lien the messenger hurried to the
BUevue Hospital for an ambulance be
told that the call must con
through the police before the ambulance
&uld be sent. The woman Buffered
Q night without medical attendance,
f"! was relieved by death In the mora
". There is too much red tape about
U9 matters, altogether too much red
to
BUYINO THE BABY.
Two L,'",k Wh. Wanted,
sroth.r and got on.
"Three dollars and ten, eleven,
twelve cents," said Lncv; "what shall
we do with it, Grace?"
The children had their money-box on
the steps one warm morning in the
early springtime, and were counting
over the money that they bad saved.
"Gertie Snow has a baby brother,
and we haven't; so let's buy a brother,"
answered Grace, and looking down the
street, they espied the doctor's buggy
and little black horse coming leisurely
along. Out into the street rushed the
two children and shouted to the doctor
to stop, with voioes which gave good
evideno as to the strength of their
lung.
"Will yon have my money or my
life, or both?" said Dr. Graystone, as
he pulled up his horse.
We want a brother," piped both
voices at once.
"Well, upon hit word," said the sur
prised doctor. "Io you think I have
one in my pocket?"
"Have yon any at your office?" asked
Lucy, who being the elder, was by that
right spokes-woman.
"Well, no; I'm all out just at pres
ent," the doctor replied; "but perhaps
I could find yon one."
"How ranch do they cost," was the
next question.
"Boys are worth $10, and girls $S,
but I ran find a nice little black one
for .."
"We don't want a black one, we want
a little white brother, and we have $3. 12
now. "
"Well," said the doctor, preparing
to drive on, you let me know when yon
are ready, and IH try to find yon a
white one."
The children told their mother of the
bargain that they had made with lr.
Graystone, and in the summer she said
to them one day: "How much money
have you now, "children?" After con
sulting the money-box. thy declared
that the firm had on hand $7.25 cash.
"Then I think we ha 1 better be
about getting some new warm clothe,
to put on that little brother; so to
morrow we will go to Boston and buy
s-iue pretty things."
The next day tiring bright and sun
shiny, mamma and her little daughters
went to Boston, where they tiought
dainty dresses, heautif ully embroidered
flannels, warm little vests and lovely
silk socks, besides many more things,
(trace insisted npon buying a most lie
wildering monkey, that walked, climb
ed and jumped, as she said, "he must
have something pretty."
About Christmas time the children
had saved the desired $10, and it was
amusing aa well as touching to see the
singleness of purpose with which they
had turned their faces from all temp
tation of candy and Top-eorn ; for rath
er than not keep their contract with
lr. (Iraystone thev would forever have
renounced the e foresaid luxuries.
Christmas eve they went to their grand
mother's, where the Christmas tree
bore its wonderful fruit for all good lit
tle grandchildren there never were
any naughty ones in this family and
Lucy and Grace found many things
that they wished for, but decided Dot
to buy. because it would have taken
some from the precious $10. They
stayed all night at grandmother's, and
in the morning when their father came
for them he seenied very happy, and
laughed when he kissed grandmother,
and said, "it is a 1kv."
"Well, children." he said, "the doc
tor brought your tby last night, and
is coming this morning for his money,
so get your things on and come home.
OJ scampered the children, and had
their things on in a trice; and, as for
walking home! Why, they just flew.
Good Mrs. Bourne met them at the
door, and said: "Yon must be very
quiet, children, for the Why was so lit
tle and cold that mamma has to stay in
bed to keep it warm; but vou may
come qmetlv and just look at him."
So the children tiptoed into their
mother's room, and. sure enough, cud
dled down close to their mother's side
was a little, tinv baby, with the tiniest
hands and such a cunning nose! The
children paid the doctor for their leby,
and be invested the money in the pic
ture of a little baby who was born more
than l,fm years ago, and whose birth
day we love to keep at Christmastide.
Huston Ohtbr.
MOTHER'S CORXF.R.
1 trust there are very few mothers
whose hearts are not fillet with un
shakable gratitude at the gift of a little
life committed to their care and keep
ing, but as the mouths and years go by
the added burdens of her life are heavy
and her strength continually overtaxed,
then strong indeed, is she, if in some
dark hour of weakness and depression,
she does not feel them almost more of
a burden than a blessing. "I know all
atiout this life," says a writer for the
rJUMAorf.
I have borne the load through long
Tears of weakness and invalidism and I
know that nothing will lighten it like
the habit persisted in, of looking for
the good tendencies and qualities of
our children, and now and then a little
inlooking, a little analyzing and cat
echising, to see if we are not expecting
and demanding more of our chil.lreu
than we have given them strength of
character for. The first thing 1 should
strive to impress npon a child would be
the measureless depths of my love. Dot
that silly infatuation some mothers call
love, that is blind to the child's faults,
or if not blind, has not the firmness
and good sense to correct and eradicate
them. Such nonsense as this is un
worthy the name of love. But impress
upon vour child that yon think it a
beautiful gift from God, that you can
not love it too dearly, but that lie trust
ed it to you to develop and mould its lit
tle life into a strong and beautiful char
acter, which can only be done by con
stant watching and striving against evil
tendencies and wrong doing, and de
veloping and strengthening every un
selfish and noble instinct. I know of
few sadder things in life than a sensi
tive child hungering for expressions of
love, even once doubting that it is the
sunshine and jov of its mother's bfe.
I once saw the great brown eyes of a
cnild fill with te.irs and its lips quiver,
as it paid, "Mamma, is I always a trou
ble?" Ah me! how little that worldly,
selfish mother knew of the seed she was
sowing. , .,
Begin early to instill into your child s
mind an abhorrence of everything small,
mean, and selfish, and an admiration of
all generous and noble qualities. Im
press upon them, also, a strong sense
of justice, and with the beauty of doing
ri;ht. not aa a means of escaping pun
ishment by and by in some other world,
death and heaven are very far away to
a healthy ehUd e thinking, but because
nothing else i worthy of ua. no other
life worth the living, lo oe ire
ttt itr-;'-,'t'1 fault mam of jjiauoe.
and the doing right will have many
fians. ana nave to De nourly striven
for, but yon are stronger than 1, if vou
do not acknowledge we are onlv chil
dren of a larger growth.
Continually you w ill be reminded of
the old adage, "easier to preach than
to practice," but, dear mothers, onr
labor is vain if we attempt to train our
children in one path and walk in an
other ourselves. Very keen, verv
searching is the philosophy of child
hood, and before you think it, you
mothers will be analyzed and jndged.
Happy whose children can say:
"My mother was honest and trne. she
walked herself in the path aha strove to
have us walk."
It matters little what means you take
to correct and punish children, all are
alike Tain, unless you convince their
reason that you do it for their good,
and do it in love. I know it is some
times very hard to suppress your hot
indignation over some flagrant offense,
and wait till you have controlled your
own spirit, and then coolly correct your
child, from a deep conviction of duty
and justice. There is a very marked
difference in the characteristics of chil
dren, even, among the same family.
Some will be influenced for good by
the very means which will strengthen
another's evil tendencies. Earnestly
strive to understand and appreciate
each child's individuality. The misun
derstanding, not to say ignorance and
stupidity of many mothers in regard to
their children is lamentable. How can
you expect either to wisely govern or
to have and retain the confidence of
your child unless you understand, ap-
Ereciate and sympathize in its very
fa.
ELECTRICITY MADE HARMLESS.
Electricity is dangerous, it is said;
the majority of na dread the very name,
l'eople are killed and knocked down
right and left in onr streets, and in our
very homes, and no one dares to call
his Ufa hia own. This state of things
surely must have an end; we are not
state criminals to be experimented upon
as fit subjects for the alternating or high
electro-motive force of the arc light
and other systems.
The most harmless telephone wires
even, are made dangerous, and we are
liable o be cooked alive in our inno
cent desire to have a friendly chat with
a neighbor. The explanation for these
trifling casualities aa submitted to the
bereaved relatives, is simply to the ef
fect that a certain Electric are light
w ire got crossed with your telephone,
etc.
The magnitude and prevalence of
these occurrences is due to the fact that
we have sanctioned the Electrical trans
mission of power and light, as conveyed
by the deadly high tension current, or
h gh Electro-motive force used in our
cities. That this system of lighting is
franght with the deadliest peril no one
can well dispute in face of 70 electro
cutions which have occurred since Sep
tember last. Unfortunately, however,
the misconceptions which prevail re
garding the varied applications of the
t'.U ctric tluid, tend to bring the entire
science into disrepnte, and to efface the
existing and vital points of divergence.
The masses of the uninitiated, are una
ware that they have art their command a
IiTfectly harmless system of electrical
ighting and transmission of electricnl
energy of such a nature that a child
could handle the wires without any d.s
agreeable consequences.
In the reduction of the terribly high
electro-motive force, to a minimum
pressure with the retention, practically
of the same results we have the out
come of Thoa. A. Edison's creative gen
ius. ISy a series of exhausted cx-l-riments
extending over a period of
14 years, he has perfected the Use of
a low electrical current in connection
with lighting it susceptible of the most
varied adaptation and absolutely devoid
of danger.
As an exemplification of the latter
point, 1 may state that whilst standing
in the large Edison Electric Light Go's.
Station, of New York, 1 closed my bare
hands firmly upon the hqge copiier ca
bles, nsed to conduct the current under
ground to theatres, business houses
public buildings and private homes,
and did so without exeriencing the
smallest inconvenience.
The pear shaped Incandescnnt lamp,
with the outline of which we are so fa
miliar, is extensively employed by the
mercantile classes of Europe and Am
erica, and I noticed, in the course of
some transatlantic wanderings, that the
Edison Electric Companies were mak
ing installations even in gunpowder fac
tories, a circumstance, which, in view
of the twin dangers ot fire and shock,
offers as convincing a proof of confi
dence aa could well be desired.
The Sprague Electric Railway and
Motor Co., so justly renowned for the
perfection of its system of Electric
propulsion, derives its current princi
pally from the low tension Edison Dy
namo. It is impossible, in view of these
and thousands of kindred facts to with
hold from the great inventor a feeling
of honest admiration, it is equally im
possible, not to recognize in his safe
and efficient system of lighting and
power, the only methods worthy of
popular endorsation.
If we are content with the elements
of legitimate interest, which the hum
blest career affords, and if we desire, as
the basis of oar external life, an under
lying sense of comfort, peace and eecur
ltv, we shall bring this senseless discus
sion to a close, and adopt the pure,
potent and beneficent principles of the
Low Tension System.
Beauty Pads for the Cheek.
Hollow cheeks and wrinkles are
awkward things. Ladies do their liest
to prevent tbelr appearance. The
clever ones seems to be able to ward off
the wrinkles, but hollow cheeks com
pletely baffle their skill. A gentleman
who lives at Islington is providing 1 -dies
whoee cheeks are hollow with
small pails. These pds are attached
to natural or artificial teeth by means
of liny gold spring. Tue price of a
face pad is a trifle lieavy, like every
thing else guaranteed to improve the
personal appearance. A pair of pads
cost something like 5. The maker of
the face pad said that gentlemen as well'
as ladies are wearing them. One gen-;
t eruan bad never looked anything but
cadaverous until he took to the pad.'
Xow bis cheeks are rounded like a
clierub's and he looks ten years youn-
ger. The curious thing about the'
face pad ia its inflexibility. It is made'
of the same material as the case of a
set of artificial teeth.
X Arras never hurries; atom by atom,
little by httle, she achieves her work.
The lesson one learns in fishing, yacht
ing, hunting, or planting is the man
ners of nature; patience with the de
lavs of wind and sun, delays of the sea
sons, bad weather, excess or lack ot
vater. patience with the slowness ot
onr feet, with the pax simony of tma
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Married An Gone.
FLOKESCS K. FBATT.
The tioae Is dretful lonesome lines Milly's
-rone sway ;
Tho she's only foot across the road It's cause
sbe'i ruoe to stay :
Aa' when she crimes to see me now she's full '
talk ' Fred.
Ten I d like to take h Im back the barn an" punch
him in the head.
It seems to aw the good old days Is over now
an' E'Hie.
An nutbin left but lonesomeness aa gray
hairs eonnn' on.
Why. I menib-r when she used to come a-tod-
dlin' to the gate.
An' be rat-hin down the lane fer me. an'
couldn't hardly aait
Tell she saw me eonie a-Uurryln' np the lane to
her an home.
An' then notuin' couldn't hold her, she's to
glad to see me coiue.
Then when old sand-man come around an'
sleepy-time would be.
No one could tell the stories right exceptin'
only me.
An' then w hen she was older how her purty
cheeks would giovr
When she'd say -she'd stick to lather, 'n want
no other beau."
There's no one now to scold me ef I wear a
shatiby coat.
There's nobody to lead me In the way that I
should vote
There's noihln but remember tell suthln's like
to break.
Though I try to seem as chipper as old times
lent fer lier sake.
O Mil" y. ef you only could be little once again
Jest niy four-year-olil, tliet didn't love uu one
but falhe'r then
Jest to keep ye so unehangln' tell the sleepy
man come round :
An' you an' me. my baby, slept together under
ground 1
Judge.
UXCLE JOE'S MISTAKE.
A mid-summer moon was shining
down on the uneven surface of the wild
mountain plateau; the lights of the lit
tle settlement shone like yellow dots of
name, here and there. To-night the
barracks mere rude wooden enclosures
they were, at flimsily; constructed as a
child's card-house were in restless
commotion, for the men were to break
camp on the morrow.
Six months they had been stationed
at Omayo. When first the straggling
settlement sprang up around the moun
tain mine, w hose hidden treasures bad
attracted the inhabitants, there bad
been trouble with the wandering In
dians w ho haunted the slopes higher up
as much the fault of the whites as of
the red men, it is but just to say.
But the United States protects its
own, and a body of men were stationed
at once at Omayo, until the settlement
was strong enough, figuratively speak
ing, to stand on Its own feet. And now
the emergency was over, and the sol
diers bad been ordered to a military
post a hundred miles or so to the north
west. Old Joe Jernigan sat smoking his
pipe on the board platform in front of
his "ueneral Supply store."
All the evening it had been full of
customers; but now. as the bauds of the
wooden clock neared the figure nine, he
was at liberty U.Jeoroe out lo bis splint
chair and smoke his pipe aud stare at
moon, while Captain Irving Istnay sat
on the cracker barrel, inside, and talked
with Lily.
Lily was Jernigan 's niece aud book
keetier, and in addition to this the very
apple of his eye a tall, dusky-eyed,
handsome girl, with a peachy complex
ion, and hair full of bronze glints and
gleams.
"Tiger Lily," the miners called her,
sometimes in reference to a fine spirit
of her own that she had, and a self
assertion which she was very apt to
show if once she S'lspt-cled that any of
them were not treating tier with due
resi ct.
Lily was adding up the books for the
day. (Old Jed was no scholar, and
knew nothing of bookkeeping by double
entry. "The gal knows enough for us
both," be was won't to say, with a cer
tain pride, as he looked toward the
wooden-railed desk where she wrote
down the various items of sales and
barter with an eagle's quill pen, dlpied
in ink made of pokebTiy juice.) And
Cj plain lsinay was bidding her good
by. "She'll miss him, likely, will Lily,"
said Joe to biuis If. still staring stead
fastly up at the moon. ''lie's been a
deal o' company lor her. It ain't as If
she could bring herself to associate with
every fellow at the Omayo Mines, for
Lily always was pa-ticular. But then
a hundred miles or so don't cou-:t for
much out here, aud if he asks permis
sion to come aud see her once iu a
while, I shan't say no. My poor little
Tiger Lilyl I brought her out here
because there didn't seem no place to
leave ber in the State of Varmount,
aud she's been r?re and useful to me,
there's no denyiu' that. But it's a lone
some place for a gal to come to; yes. it
is. And the captain's a line fellow, but
he ain't no hand:omer for a man than
Lilv is for a gal. So fur's I can see, 1
shall be the on'-y man who will be the
loser by the bargain. Eh? Is that you,
lieuben Doisavr Set doivii a spell. .No,
we ain't shut up yet. but the post bag's
been one twenty minutes and more."
"Gone, eh'f'said lieuben Dorsay, the
young foreman of the force now em
ployed in establishing telegraphic com
munication between Omayo and Center
City. "Well, it's no great matter. To
morrow will do very welL .Nice night,
Jernigan, isn't iff"
"Yes."
The old man smoked on.
"The military division is getting
ready to move to-morrow."
"So I'm told."
'The captain's inside, isn't he, talk
ing to Lily?"
Jernigan nodded, without reinov.ng
bis pipe from his mouth.
Ltorsay half ro-e, then sat down again.
"Weli," said be, "I guess I won't
disturb them."
Jernigan answered only by a sort of
sly chuckle.
"A nice man, that young Ismay?"
Once more old Joe noJded.
They'll get moie civilized quarters,
I've heard, at Morton's Fass," ob
served lorsay. leaning back aga ust
the cedar post that formed one of the
columns of the rud iwrtico. "Isinaj's
wife is to meet him there,"
"Ismay's which?"
"His wife. From Sacramento City.
Didn't you know be was married to old
General 1'urviance's adughter? A run
away match, two years ago. Quite a
romantic story.'
".No," said Joe Jernigan, "I sever
beard it."
.Dorsay talked a little longer, but old
Joe paid no sort of attention to bis
words, lie did not even know when
the young foreman went away.
"ismay's wife!" be kept repeating to
himself "Ismay's wifel what will Li y
say poor Lilyl wlien she knows it?
By gum! I've a mind to pitch the fel
low down into the galley when be
comes outl What business has a mar
ried man lurking around here, talking
nonsense to the giilsf But he'll find it
won't pay to fool with my Tiger Lily.
No, that it won't!"
Captain Imay went away presently,
with a careless, good-humored adieu.
The old man gl-red at him, as he
departed, with red, aavaga eyes, Uka
those of a Spanish bull who faces the
matador.
Tie moment be had vanished behind
the madrona thicket, Jernigan sprang
up and made for the solitary road by a
short cut which would be sure to inter
cept the wayfarer some quarter of a
mile below.
la his hand be grasped bis open Jack
knife; his heart beat like a muffled
drum.
"My Tiger Lilyl" be kept repeating
to himself, "my own little ewe lamb!
There is but one way to deal with the
scoonlrel who comes here to make a
football of her heart. Ne captain In
all the Uiil.e 1 States army can do that,
and hope to escape alive?"
lie stood there waiting, but Is may
did not come that way.
"I'm baffled for once," Jernigan
muttered. "lie lias taken the lied wood
road this time. Xo matter! I'll hunt
him down yet.
He's to tie in the place twelve hours
longer. They'll have to detail another
captain for duty at Morton's Pass,
that's alL I shall hear him when he
conies don past Echo Rock, and I
shall be ready for him!"
lie returned slowly still drawing his
breath quick and fast to the wooden
platform all steeped in moonlight, and
sat down once more iu the old splint
chair.
Inside the at ore he could hear Lily's
light steps moving around, as she locked
the cash drawer and put the ledger aud
day-bo k away.
As she did so she murmured a snatch
ot some tune. The sound went to old
Joe s heart.
I'oor child 1 how innocently happy she
was!
In a minute or so she came out into
the clear, white moonshine.
'Well, Uncle Joe!" she said, gaily.
"Well, my lass!"
The words were almost like a groan.
She sat down beside him, leaning her
head against his arm.
He stroked down the bronze, gleam
ing hair with a dumb strength of long
ing tenderness In his heart.
Her cheeks were unwontedly red; her
dark eyes sparkled beneath their long
lashes.
"How shall I tell her?" thought the
o'd man. 'My pet lamb, that I
wouldn't hurt for a king's ransom! I
never was one to pick and choose my
words, like a preacher or a lawyer.
But she'd ought to know yea, she'd
ought to know!"
"Uncle Joel" said Lily, after a mo
ment or two of silence.
"Yes, my girl!"
"There there's something I want to
tell you."
"Is there, Lily?"
His heart sank within him. Was it
coming now?
"You won't be vexed. Uncle Joe?"
she whispered, nestliug her bead closer
against his arm.
i ve;-d with you, my girl? That
ain't up-and-down likely, is it? But
I've done wrong, Lily I've forgot
that a great, rough man like me ain't
the sort to look alter a tender chick
like you. I should 'a watched closer,
Lily that's what I should have done."
"What should you say, uncle."
whispered Lily, "if if I am to get
mariied and leave you?"
"To get married, Lily?"
"Haven't you suspected this, uncle,
of late?"
He drew a long breath.
"Yes, I have," said he. "But, oh,
Lily, is your heart very much in this?''
"Uncle!"
"Has be asked you to marry him,
Lily?"
"Yes, Uncle."
"Then" the old man flung bis clay
pipe down upon the ground, where it
broke into a score ot fragments, and
muttered a deep execration under his
breath "he's a villain, that's alii"
"Uncle!" cried out the girl.
"And a double-dyed one at that!"
said the excited old man. "Lily! TL-lyl
he has a wife already, at Morton's l'asd
He's goinit to her now."
Lily had lifted her head and looked
earnestly at her uncle.
'But, uncle, he isn't going to Mor
ton's I'ass."
"Yes, he is to-morrow. And I wish
he'd fallen dead before be ever came to
Omayo with his epaulettes and bis j'ng
ling spurs, and his false, handsome
facel"
"Uncle," cried Lily, "whom are you
talking about?"
"About Captain Isuiay, to be sure.''
"But what has Cai tain Ismay to do
with it?"
"Everything, hasn't he?"
Lily knit ber pretty brows In a puz
zled fashion.
"Nothing at all," said she, "except
that he's been an excellent fr end l j
Beubeu, and we're both ever so much
obliged to him. Only think, uncle
he's got the contract for lieuben to be
chief electrical engineer at North Ma
rino in the new works there, and when
ever you can spare me, uncle "
lieuben!" burst out Joe Jernigan.
"Yes, to be sure Reuben Dorsav.
We have been engaged a long time
now. Do you mean, you dear, datling,
stupid old uncle, that you never sus
pected this?"
"Never!" said Uncle Joe, smiting his
knee with his fist. '"But look here,
Tiger Lilv, do you love him?"
"Yes, Uncle Joe."
"And he loves you?"
"Of cousse he does."
"Then," said the old man, "I haven't
a word of objection. '"1 shall be awful
lonesome without you, but as long as
you're both happy, why, it's sll right."
And as he kissed her forehead, she
tliought she felt the touch of a tear
tlrop on ber brow.
"But it can't be possible." said Tiger
Lily, to herself, "because who ever
heard of Uncle Joe shedding a tear?"
But Tiger Lily did not know that this
tear was not one of grief, but rather of
thankfulness that there was no blood
guiltiness on bis hands.
Handy.
The cold of Siberia is so great in
winter that many kinds of provisions,
which are wita us either sealed or
salted, are there kept by simple freez
ing. The appearance of the markets at
that season is described by Mr. Lan
dell: Frozen chicken, partridges and other
game are often thrown together in
heaps, like bricks or firewood. Butchers
meat defies the knife, and some of the
salesmen place their animals in fantas
tic positions before freezing them.
Frozen fish are piled in cakes, and
milk is offered for sale in cakes or
bricks. A stick or string is generally
concealed into a corner of the mass to
facilitate carrying, so that a wayfarer
can swing a quart or milk at h:si le,
or wrap it in hia handkerchief, at discretion.
WONDERS OF INSTINCT.
The Curious Powers of Animals
Who Do Not Reason.
When the naturalist Ruppell ex
plored the highlands of eastera Africa,
two Soudanese emirs or chieftains once
permitted him to deposit his baggaee
in their military camp while he pur
sued his inquiries in the glens of a
neighboring mountain range. On his
return he presented necklaces ot beads
to the emirs, and, having observed
that there were just twenty tents in
t'.ie foitilh d kraal, and thiit every tent
was occupied by exactly seven men, he
handed the emirs a bag containing 14J
glass buttons, with the request that
they give one button to every warrior
In the camp.
The glittering keepsakes were at
once distributed, and Ruppell had Just
reloaded his baggage cart, when one of
the chieftains removed the professor's
bat, and gravely examined the top and
rear of his head.
"Verily, oh, friend," he said, "you
must have an extra eye somewhere or
other, for else you would not possibly
have discovered the exact number of
our men.
The honest emir himself could proba
bly count up to seven, and with the aid
of his fingers and toes, perhaps could
count even to twenty, but evidently did
not think it possible that the human
mind could grasp the vast product of
the two factors.
A similar mistake may often tempt
us to misconstrue the abilitiesof our in
stinct guided fellow creatures. The
supposed "sixth sense" may often be
nothing but an uncommon development
of a common faculty.
Take for examp'e the deerhound.
which pursues his game through brush
and br.ike, and returns safely h-me,
even after be has crossed waters that
would prevent him from retracing his
steps by the sense of smell. A few
years' practice, however, enables the
hunter himself to remember the general
direction of bis rambles through a path
less forest where a novice would surely
lose his way.
By hereditary transmission of the
traits of countless generations of dogs
that have hunted, and which include
the wolf-like ancestors, the domestic
dog may have perfected the ability to
rind his way to an apparently preternat
ural degree.
Individual experience, indeed, often
wholly fails to explain such faculties as
the "protective instincts" of certain
birds and animals. The British zoolo
gist, Spalding, once procured some
newly hatched turkeys, and in order to
make an experiment carried them into
a hall adjoining a room where he kept
a pair of pet hawks that had not been
fed that morning, and which now and
then vented their impatience in a shrill
scream.
The young turkeys had hut just come
out of their egg shells, and had never
seen a hawk or heard one before; but
at the first sound of those screams they
all started to their feet and toddled off
with every sign of terror.
At sight of a snake or rat my pet
baboon will retreat to the farthest cor
ner of her cage. I ascribed the precau
tion to a nervous dread of all unknown
animals, until I made the experiment
with a pair of guinea pigs. Jenny was
eating her breakfast when the squealing
little strangers entered her cage, but iu
this case her only dread seemed to be
that she might have to share her me.il
with the uninvited guests.
For a minute or two she watched
their movements with an air of puzzled
curiosity, but then, instead of taking
to her heels, she made a grab at the
Intruders, aud without further ado hus
tled them out, and discouraged a repe
tition of the visit by giving each a
parting pinch in the back.
Jenny had received her zoological ed
ucation in the Abyssinian highland,
while guinea pigs are natives of South
America, but somehow the sight of the
waddling pigmies seemed to satisfy her
that they could be no lighters.
This baboon had a strange appetite
for insects. She appears to recognize
the difference between the harmless
northern centipede and its dreadful
tropical relative, but she handles craw
fish with evident suspicion, either on
account of tbelr pinching apparatus or
because of their resemblance to the
overgrown scorpions of the tropics.
With snakes she absolutely declines
to take any risks; the non-poisonous
varieties include too many dangerous
straiiglers.
Hereditary instincts sometimes con
tinue to assert themselves under circum
stances that seem to make their assist
ance rather superfluous. There was a
time when the aucesto s of the dog
found it a useful precaution to bury
the remnants of a good meal, and thus
provide against possible times of scar
city, and that old race habit still
prompts their descendants to bide bones
and old crusts even where the bounty of
their masters supplies them with regular
and abundant dally meals.
Lapdog9 that have never left the
premises of a fashionable residence
"hunt" in their dreams, which proves
that their minds retain a latent aptitude
for the favorite pastimes of their fore
fathers. During a summer tour In the Aus
trian Alps one of my neighbors bought
a young shepherd dog and brought him
to a suburb of Cincinnati, where sheep
are seen only in the form of mutton;
but every little while the young herder
would try to earn his board by collect
ing a troop of stray geese, and, in spite
ol their hissing protest, drive them
along the street like a fl x.k of restless
sheep.
CAVALRY MARCHES.
How Mounted Trooos are Moved in
Times of I Peace and War.
Owing to the peculiar nature of the
service demanded of the cavalry force
of our army service for the greater
part in a new and unsettled country,
and against thf most wily and expert
of savage enemies the experience
gained in the moving of mounted
troops has been ot such a varied nature
that probably no other army can boast
of superiority over our trooters in this
respect, and the proper conduct of the
marches of cavalry commands requires
experience and judgment, intelligence,
activity and endurance of a peculiar
nature on the part of both officers and
men. Ordinary marches are generally
made at the rate of about twenty to
twenty-five miles a day, this being ac
complished in from live to six hours,
although there are times when the
day's journey may be shorter or longer,
owing to the distance from one another
of desirable camping-places, the im
portance of good grazing and sweet
water for the horses beinir evident.
The start for the previous night's camp
is usually mad between su Vti aevta
o'clock, although in some ef the hottest
parts of the country an earlier time of
day is considered advisable by many
cavalrymen, iind the first halt is mai'e
after the column has been an hour or
so on the road. This is generally t: e
longest bait or the day, when sad.l es
are adjusted, and the horses allowed to
rest aud giaze for a few moment".
Once every hjur after that a shut
pause of about five minutes, the men
insarlably dismounting, is made. The
gait is, as far as the writer's exierience
g'es, habitually a rapid wak, although
General Merritt recommends a trot for
leu or lifiecu inin.iies after each halt,
when practicable, w hich appears to be
the custom iu most of the Euroixran
services. In a count ty where the near
presence of an enemy is known or sus
pected marches are conducted with
great caution, and every precaution
taken by careful soldiers to guard
against surpr se. Advance guards and
Hankers are thrown ou- in front and on
the sides of the column, and every ra
vine, coulee or c-inyon, every rock and
bush, or group of tiees large enough to
conceal a. lurking foe, is carefully ex
ainine.l. It is while making a forced
march, when perhaps the safety of
ime li tie community of settlers or de
tachment of comrades, cut off and sur
rounded by savage foes, depends upon
the speedy arrival of the relieving col
umn, that the training, the pluck, the
er?evei'auce and endurance of the
American cavalry are shown to the
greatest advantage.
In the rapidity with which such
marches have been made, the distan
ces that have been traversed, the rough
and iiihoxpital couutiy often swarm
ing with savage toes over which the
journeys have been accomplished, it
has proved itself the equal, if not the
snjHTlor to any troop of the kind In the
civilized world. A column of the
Fifth Cavalry, under the command of
General Wesly Merritt, marching to
the relief of Thoruburh's brave fel
lows in the Ute campaign of 1KTW,
made oue hundred and seventv miles
from 11 a. in. October 2d lo 6.30 a. m.
on October 5th, without losing or dis
abling a horse, ar.d was lu good light
ing trim on iu arrival at its objective
point. Among many instances of the
kiud that have cun.e under the knowl
edge of the writer, the following cases
of hard and long marches by individ
uals may be quoted to show the ster
ling qualities often exhibited by our
troopers.
In 1870 the present commander of
the troop of c.tvahy attached to the
brigade of the National Guard lu New
York City at that time a Lieutenant
in the First Unite 1 Statei Cavalry
rode with dispatches over a rough
broken country one bundled and forty
miles iu twenty-two hours, including
halts for rest and lefrcshuieiit. He
was accompanied by a sergeant and one
man of bis own Hoop. Alter resting
one day, the journey back to his post
was made in a little over two days, the
marches being from Olty live to sixty
miles a day. This teat was accom
plished wit:. out any preparation what
ever, the officer and ins meu being or
dered out without any warning. Teu
years afterward L euteuant Robertson
of the same regiment, with .-ergeants
Lynch and l'rlce, rode one hundred
aud two miles iu pursuit of a debeiler,
through snow and ice, between ten
o'clock oue night and 8.30 the next.
On the next day they started on their
return journey from Fort Walla Walla,
W. T., to Fort Lapway, Idaho, which
wasreuchtd in two days.
Fruit Between Meals.
My hired mnn was about to cut a
fine large muskuielou. I said: "You
are not going to eat that melon now,
are you? It is only an hour since you
ate a hearty breakfast; put it away till
noon and take it with your Uinuer."
Hired Man: "Walter is lure and I
would like him to help eat it." I said:
"Your friend Walter appears to be a
nil e young man, aud you ought not to
treat him outrageously by enticing him
to load his iioor Hoinacli w ith another
burden, when 1: already has all it can
carry and take care of." Hired man,
"Oh, a ripe melon or a ripe peach wou't
hurt anybody any time." I said:
'That idea has indicted more dyspepsia
on mankind than all Christendom's doc
tors can cure."
Multitudes of people agree with the
hired man. They are sure that a little
fruit, a cup of coffee, a doughnut, a
little cake and candy, won't harm you
any time of day these wme people
don't think it nece;ary to eat slow,
masticate their food well, avoid mdi
jjestibles, and eat sparingly; but some
how or other they have headaches ami
numerous other ailments, aud are
always taking medicine. ISecause our
vital powers don't give out entirely
with the first indist lelions, but woik
to repair the mischief, we jump to the
conclusion that i o damage is done, and
st ck to that belief till we are hopelessly
diseased. The weakest of our weak
nesses is w hen by a slight and transient
gratification ot appetite we bring uiion
ourselves days and nights of pain and
life-long tribulations. Excess is scarcely
worse that irregularity. That w is- and
good man. Charles Downiutr, said to
me: "Neither fruit nor anything else
should be eaten between the regular
meals." He had suffered from early
indiscretion of this kind, and was
anxious to leal the young in the right
way.
The Fly Was There.
'iA funny ming occurred here the
other day," raid a barber, as he was
putting the finishing touches on a Sat
urday evening haircut. "A fellow
came to be shaved who was somewhat
under the influence of intoxicants. He
took his seat in the chair and all pro
ceeded well till I had shaved one side
of his face, when lie stopped me:
'Hold on, 1 want this thing 'splained.'
"I asked him what was the matter,
and he replied: "There's a fly on my
cbetk, and you have shaved the lather
and whisker off, but the fly didn't
move. Now, what's the mazzcr with
him?"
"I told him there was no fly on him,
but be pointed to the mirror and sa d:
'You think I can't see him. I am' so
drunk that I can't ee a fly.'
"All right what is itb"
I turned to the glass, and there
stood the fly on the mirror and in such
a position that from my customer's
range of vision it enied to be on his
cheeic He afterward said that he had
elt that fly tickling him ail the time,
and wondered how I could shave under
it aud not cut its le.'sofl. "
Povebtt may bring ill-health in its
train; but it ensures quick treatment
by the doctor.
Food may be a raw recruit, but it
readily falls in to linei
! NEWS IN BRIEF.
Some Idea of the Shah's traveling
expenses may be formed from the stat-a
iment that Coik's charge for whet
railroad and hotel expenses hs had dl
burvd on the Saab's account was
I -5,(H) i.
Bavaria's mad monarch ha a
wonderful fondness for eigarcttea,
smoking almost a hundred or them
a day. He delights in sevin; blazes,
ana after lighting each cigarette be
ignites the box of match.
The board of racers examining
the Uuitfd States training ship New
Hampshire, at Newport, are findlsg
considerable evidence of her unfitness
for use, and may advise condemning
her.
The mate of a Long Island Sound
steamer, getting caught in the rope of
the anchor as the latter was being
dropped, was whipped overboard and
drageed under. A boat Was lowered
and the mate taken aboard, but he died
Ave minutes later.
General Daniel l'.utterfield, wh
recently saw in Norway the ship of the
Vikings that has been excavated and
set up, says it is of black oak, about 7A
feet in length aud in lines quite equal
to anything const! ucted in these days.
The cigarette habit is Increasing
faster than the ciar habit. 1-ant year
taxes on 2,151, .rl."..S0O were collected,
an increase of as;.7S9,'Jfi0 over th
year lefore. For the same period 3,
So7,3S5, (."') clears were taxed, an in
crease of 22,ojS,y'.'J.
Fought under Napoleon. A vete
ran who fought at Waterloo under Na
poleon is still living in l'arana, Brazil.
His name is G. Schanewerb. He was
born in 177s, In llatiov. r, and he ra
tal us his facilities, works a little, and
even rides horseback
Aft last Venice is to lie made s
subject of mimic pal improvement. Sh
is going to have new boulevards ot
new canals hiid through her. after tb
manner of the nw loulevardsof 1'arii.
and there Is a tit nieudous hubbub ol
alarm auiong llioe des ring to keep hei
as she has always I een.
At a wedding in C'hlselhurst, Eua
land, I he officiating clergyman left out
the words, "With thn ring 1 tliet
wed." etc. The omiss;on us not re
fei red to until the bridal party werv
assembled at breakfast, aud then tin
party repaired once more to the church,
where the ceremony was performed a
second limo.
A fanner of Jefferson county.
West Ya., recently found an interest
ing relic of the late war. While cutting
corn in a tie'.d a few miles below
Charleston he .saw the glitter or silver,
and picking up the object he found
it to be a sliver badge in the sha of
Maltese cri.ss. It had handsomely en
graved upon it this inscription: "Cor
Ioral Thomas McKeuii, Co. G. lHtt
N. Y. Volunteers."
-Nearly 9J0 women appeared as ex
hibitors at the l'ar s salon this year. Ol
this iiutnlior 'A 17 sent oil pictures, l.'t
apiear as sculptors and modelers, 4'J4
send water color diawiuirs and pastels,
while 05 apjH-ar as etchers, engraven
and lilhogiapher. Among the eutirt
number six third class medals and
fourteen honorable mentions havi
fallen to their share.
The heart of Queen Marie of Ba
varia was renwved from her body soon
after her det!i at Munich, several
nioliths ago, a nd embalmed, aecoidinn
to a custom which has piev-Hlled in th
royal house since the middle ages. Re
cently it was placed In a silver urn ami
taken w ith much Minp and cretnon)
to the ancient Chapel of our Lady o!
Mercies, where It now rests in a nlch
of the chancel wait, near the hearts o;
Kings and tueens w ho dlei cent in lei
ago.
An advance in the price of natural
gas by a company having heaibiuarten
in Jamestown, X. Y., has resulted ii
orders lieing received from consumer!
in Jamestown, Krie, Warren and Corrj
to shut off the t:as from no less thai
SJ-jU stoves. The people are highly lu
dignant over the increase, and they d
clare that they w ill not again use th
gas unless the old rates are restored,
They apear to mean what tin y say,
too, for many of thcin have laid 4
enough coal and wood lo last the win
ter. "Kestless," the fatuous chargei
owned by Col. nel aiu Fowler in th
late civil war, died of old age r
cently, and was given a mil tary burial
at the stables of Chaplain A. A.
Ilaii es, in Hamburg, X. J. The sev
eral public schools of the town partici
pated In the exercises, and address
suitable to the occasion wer made. O
the retirement of Colonel fowler from
the service "Ib stless" was presented tt
C: aplaiti Ilaices, of the Fifteenth New
Jersey Infantry. He was in nmie than
30 engagements, and was M yean
old.
A remarkable an 1 unusuil case ol
homicide has just taken place in War
saw, Russia. While a iea.saiil ws un
del going an o(eraton, alter being
chloroformed, he suddenly sprang uj
from tin ojierating U-nch, and, in a
frenzy of ra;;e and ter or, mortall)
staid 1 tl.e doctor and a Sister ol
Mercy. The patient was then removed
to another hospital, w here the opera
tion was successfully performed with
out the aid of cliloiofonn. The auth
orities iu Warsaw aie now debatinji
helhcr the mail should Is tried loi
the murder ot the doctor aud ti
nurse, both of whom have d.ed fron.
the effects of the wounds they received,
which were Inflicted by one of th
surgical Instruments belonging to tb
unfortunate physician.
Elvira Villano, a snake charmer,
while giving a H-rfiirmance at a Boston
iuusum recently was bitten by one cl
his reptiles through the thumb. An
attendant, who was standing closely,
rushed to the wounded man's assist
ance, and bound a strap tightly around
his wrist to keep the poisoned blood
from circulating, poured about a quart
of whinkey down his throat, and ap
plied ammonia lo the wound. A doc
tor was sent for, and, when he arrived,
found Villanu's hand badly swelled.
He says the prompt action of the tfe?
attendant saved the man's life. Tb
doctor cauterize 1 the wound, and left
his patient in a comfortable condition.
General Nelson A. Miles, com
manding the d. vision of the I'aciflc, in
his annual report touches upon the sub
ject ef desertions. He recommends
enlistments for three years instead of
Lve;an increase of pay for non-commissioned
otlicers; that enlisted men tie
permitted to select the division ia
which they wish to serve; that men
found qualified, after five years' ser
vice, be made second lieutenants or re
reive lionoiable discharge; that the
European three-batttlious system be
ailopted, tliat fifteen years' continued,
service in one rank entitles an o25cei
to be promoted one grade,
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