ilHSL SIlLSIIt islv
B. F. SOHWEIER.
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XUV.
. MIFFLIXTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1S90.
NO. 7.
New York
litverl a rural visitor or tloOO by repre
stctlri himself a1" the great grandson of
th Father of his Country,
Ita
was.
i.t Git in
heart of
tliat
eotuirrynian, wl.i the Co lasted.
ljtx t-TH oiTicer in . Yoik un
dertook t ignore -la gripi," but the
,1 we w.n ""t condderafe in re-tmn-
l-iv i: laid up tl.e riesldent of
tl.e I''1''1 ,r Healt'i and ti e Sanitary
,1pVriui'U'Mit, .tU'l attached Bo me of
ti.e minor eCu-hCs.
Tiie Ficnch Anti-Tobacco Society
dituia to have d.scoveeed by eipeii
merits that tobacco smoke poisons meat
n, vetables ready for cooking or
prepared for tl.e table. But as a
mkr when tie s ts down to enjoy his
c t or pre never fT1'' into the family
larder, it isditlicull to learn wherein the
;J danger consists.
The cruiser Baltimore la getting
paly to sail fcr Norfolk, where alie
m :.! take on I er ai man eat i-nd then le
r;itv to ! n'o seivirea the fl.igsh'p
of lie Ninth Atucruati Squadron Si
i p.iaMy tie f.i -test ve-isel of ber
I t'lx in the world, and eve:i
t!ioir!i the British gunlxNtl Gossamer
unl tilruu'-r Uu'diel recently, shonl I
reach rxi relations as to their sped,
she will still maintain this distinc
tion. To i;er an Idea of the Importance ot
the hi u! ir movement in Lisbon to
'Mown" I'.ii'aiid, one should remem
lr t! at it is only three-fourths tte sze
of IVim.-yivania, anl has about the
-ame l" pul.iti' n. It has, however, ex
pose ! pesesiions in Asia aud Africa
Hfiiiy iihici the jk'.i of the kingdom
un .per, which woulJ luniish a nice
rew.ud fT Great Britain if the latter
should le i;t -n the expense and trouble
uf t!;r.ilriij the l rtu juese.
viiif t m ao Mr. Edison said the
lur.ii,'of high tension electric light
wires wound not remove the dancer,
and it seems that lie was right. Re
ceutlv an underground wire, heavily
chained and badly insulated was the
c:i i'f an explosion in a New York
subway. Several munholi s were blown
out. hut fortunately no one was Injured.
Since lliei ' is no perfectly safe insulation
tlie comi i . a should be prevented from
overc iai ..i.g t w irr.
1 mi. ai tempt
, ,e
of the little kingdom
wt t n.lia l.- 1"" ieii.-.ieu oj, i'n'
Iclisoed Ly
Cliii.i" iinthoritie-, e-vcially as Cor. a
h.u re-eiilly i;rilcd sou e valuable ron
cessi. i'- b "". Two conspiracies
u,'ii n' life of ,,live recently
d.M-overetl, the conspirators
ailirjr aiming their nunibx two
court oilii'ials. China h;is a peculiaily
tnedi.iev.il way of dlinn with tho r
lio U.nJ iu the way of her plans or
w lilies.
r.i-ihr I'oTTEa, of Xw York, Is
i.leI to the comptilwry use of the
liil.le in the public schools. "Many
peoi'Ie." he said ;n his Sunday sermon,
"are ngitateil over the compulsory read
iuj of the Scrintuies in our schooLs. 1
il.i not lelieve th.it any good would
c une out of such legal compulsion. ()
wl.at eaitlilv service would it be to
ton e tf u lier- to lead a passage every
nioni.iur. unless we read It ourselves in
our fts, in our homes, upon our
knits?"
Tiie amicable settlement of the
famous contest in New York over the
ail! of A. T. Slewait closes finally oi e
of the mo t noted legal coutroveisili -rtf
nled i the hiiry of American
l:tl.';it.on. This ca e w as as reinarkabV
in its .'V as any chapter in the strar-tc
ri'inanrt-of the St- wart h. Story. The
Qiicalle oettleineut is, howeveer, al
lejje.1 to have cost fo.OUO," UO; so that
tl.e aiatter may be said to have em 'el
Id a hlae of glory in a legal sense. The
fact tl a' any settlement was reachel
short of the absorption of the entire
estate in the expenses of the contest Is
a cerliflcate of the good sense cf tl.e
lit'gant.
The law changing the Presidential
urcession m Mex:c, so that the Presi
dent rouM srv.- a seiond time without
another term intervening, was well
knows to have b. en drawn in the Inter
est of General Diaz, an 1 it Is now said
to be considt red certain that he will
ueceed hluiielf. The country is tran
quil, every contideni e Is felt in him,
atd there eeui.s to le no desire for a
ctHiige. Mexico's exper's for 1SS3 81)
rwche.1 the tut.il of tO,15S,4J3, as
i!nst Jt,s:..-, 9 S for t! e previous
fiscal e.ir. TU s is a remarkable
growth, mid one in which Amer.cans
ought to take more than usual in
tend t.
It is not Improbable that "nobody
as to M.ime "fcr the falling of a
hurch wull in Brooklyn by which two
persons eie ki le 1 and 5cveral injured.
Tl.e bu.l I i ir, who-e walls appear to
have loni ut.Ilt:ally built and of
Pf'Per report ions, was iucomple'e.
"a while m tlils condition, with the
inortar nst yet hardeued, it was caught
a violei t wind s'orm, whlcn could
lot b foremen or guarded against. It
U buiMing had lioen completed. It
igbt Lave withstood the storms of a
entury. We recal' the falling of a
rtmrrh wall In n.Iladelphia under
omfwimt situilar conditions teo?y
T years ago. it was rebuilt of the
oie diineusicns and materials, the
tructuie competed as orlgiiially de
fied, d.1 it iss'andiug yet. Acci
to an uiK-ompVte 1 structure from
winds do not nec'.ssHrily bring
oacU iiu.u ''es'gner or bul'der.
r mi Artist in
PHOTOGRAPHED BY NATURE
A rlc of Marbla on Which :ia Pic
tured a Mountain Scan.
Colonel A. C ilawley. formerly
Adjutant General of Minnesota, walked
into the Grand raclflc Hotel recently
with a carious piece of stone under his
arm It was a slab of If eziean marble
about two feet long and a foot wide,
bearing upon its face a beautJul moun
tain landscape which had in some
strange way teea p c tared there by
natnre.
The picture is of a mountain river
winding along at the foot of high and
rocky cliffs. Above the cliff are pre
cipitous mountains clothed half way to
the top with pine trees axd stunte 1
hru!. In one place there are small
rapids in the river and In another place
it surface is as smooth as a mirror.
The outline of the mountains and
cliffs, and even of tne verdurw, is dis
tinctly shadowed in the still water.
The sbinuirr of the sun on the surface
of tin river and the white spray of the
rapids are ulainly brought out. A
larg pine tree stands at the top ot a
cliff, aud is so pe feet In detail that its
roots clinging In the clefts of the rocks
can be seen. When the sua shines on
the marble an I brings out the colois
the picture looks as if an artist bad
painted it on the stone, but in gas or
electric light the colors cannot le
sen.
The curiosity was given Colonel
Ilawley by Major Knappen, who owns
the quarry in New Mexico where It was
found. Major Koapen is au hority
for the statement that the picture in
the marble is au elegant reproduction
of the scei.ery on the side of the valley
'pposite where the quarry 's located.
The mountain aks In the background
of the landscape are the sentineiS of the
Uuadaloupe tann, and the river
which mirror the beauties ot tl.e
scenery is i the Uiopenasis.
One of the men working In the
luarry climbed lialf way up the moun
tainside oneday to prosiect for onyx and
noticed the rough s'ah of marble, which
was lylnir wit'i the suiface exposed,
lie examined it closely to discover its
quality ami saw the picture. After it
was roughly poll lied and the id.ture
liecaiue wore distinct Major Kuapien
brought the slab to Chicago and took it
to a marble nuisher, who groun 1 off
one-eighth of a-j inch of its surface and
p dished it. This last poiUhing brought
. ut the details of the nicture.
'La Crippe."
The medical fraternity if any of
them have the time to look at tlie pa
iiers now.iitavs may bs amused, and
iMMsihly remind -d f exp-rieiices of
their own, by an occurr.uice which
grew out ot the prevailing epidemic,
and which tbo Listener thus tells of in
the Boston Trantrrtfif A suburban
lady, who it a' w it an ardent part'San
of her family physician, as most ladles
r ' '-ir dav Ia '
ii .. it i'JJ W.n o-o
houx".
Mur-t think li. 'awfully the grip is
p-evailini! "by. these is Pr. Bolus,
our fair-vy physician; he U attending
in ist s of it liim?!f"
I " Two llious-iml cases!" The other
could not help loik ng i stonislied and
uii-redulous.
Hi, yes," said the lady, "I know he
N at tending 2 Jl cases."
"Perhaps," said the other; "but lie
Ills to g-t around very lively, Indeed,
t do It." Siie took a pencil from her
Kcket, and made a little calculation on
the back of an envelop. "Jet's see;
oli, no doubt he could do it, if be keiit
ijoing every minute of the 24 hours, as
Hunt of the doctors are doing; but if he
ave eac"i patient 2) seconds of bis
tune, that would leave him just 23 1-5
seconds to get to the next patient, and
h woul I have to drive pretty fast,
wouldn't her"
A Case of Hardship.
Senator Wilson, of Iowa, a few days
ago introduced a b 11 to remove the
rliare of desertion against George W.
Hardwick, of Bed Oak. Iowa. The
story of this case is peculiar. In 1361,
at tlie age of 16 years Hardwick en
1 1 -ted as a private soldier in the Forty
third Indiana Volunteer Infantry at
the little town of Bed I or I. lit- marched
away to the war aud terved in the
Army of the Tennessee, was at the seize
oi Yicksl'urg aud afterward was nius
teied out, having sufleied neither
wound nor disrate. He went bacK to
his home at Bedford and at the age of
IS married the little girl ha loved. But
his country called again and he re-en-listed.
lie was sent to the Army of
the Potomac and in 104, in the closing
o(Mrations about Kicbmon l, found him
self suddenly ordered with his command
to the frout.
Pi ve days before they moved young
Hardwick received a letter from his
w fa, Sh was 111 and apiealeJ to her
husliand to come home at once. He
obtaiued leave, a-id three days later was
in Bedford. That nuht a provost
guard in search of deserters invaded
Hardwick' home, placed him under
arrest and dragged him away. despPe
the piteous appeals of his sick wife.
The next day a daughter wa born and
the young mother learned that her bus
band had been taken back to his regi
ment. His case never came to trial,
for it was found he had W"en absent on
leave, but it appears the charge of de
sertion, which was entered at the time
of his arrest, was not remove J from the
record.
Shortly afterwards Hani wick was
mustered out, having fought through
tenty-tive bittles. He went back
hone to his wife and daughter and,
with them removed to Iowa. "t. Louu
Givlt-LtiH'crot.
Early Rlsinz Birds.
The thrush I audible about 4 50 In
the morning.
The quail's whistling Is heard In the
wco is aliout 3 o'clock.
The blackcap turns up at 2.30 oa a
summer morning. , ,
Bv 4, tin blackbird makes the woods
resound with his mel-Mly.
The house-sparrow and torn tit comes
List in the list n early .Lsing birds.
At short intervals after 4; W the voice
of the r jbln and wren are heard In the
U The greenBnch is the first to rise, and
sings as early as 1:20 on a summer
""TheliVk does rot rise until after the
chaffinch, linnet and a number of otbe,
he.lg.row folk bve beeu merrily piping
for a good while,
Concmit is a fool; deceit a knave
ThV n't deceive. Uself. the second
practice, deception upon otnera. Both
are intolerable.
THE INK-BOTTLE CRASH.
Who Cave tha Advloa.
Many a night I have Iain awake in
terror, fearhi that tne truth ab ut the
Ink bottles would come out. But i
never did, and bow that the faar of
vanishment is I may aa well tell it
myself.
We had just got In'o th? new achoo'
bouse that winter and were all very
pro d of the edidce. It was painted a
brilliant white outside and he plaster
was a brilliant white inside, and there
was a door at the end wl h a small
platform, aud three windows on each
sid : of tlie building, one set of windows
looking over the big sw. mp and the
other a t looking over the village.
The teacher that we bad that winter
was articular!y hard on us boys. Per
liapa rhe was right about it, but we all
hated her, and taking it all in all, sh
had a pret J hard time of it thai winter
in the village. The ink that we us i
was brought In little stone bottles that
co t five cents apiece. There was also
a great deal of home-made ink in
vogue, which was concocted w ith sugar
and the bark of a certain tree whoso
n ime I forget (soft maple, 1 think), but
which, when boiled with sugar and
water, made a very b'ack and gummy
ink that had a glazed appearand when
it was written In a copy-book, an
which was apt, when laid ou too thick,
to have all the characteristics of copying-ink,
and to smear tne opposite ( age.
The trouble with our ink was tha it
would freeze so id on a cold night, an 1
after it was thawed oat we had a pale,
aggravating hue. Someone found that
il we heated the ink and evaporated
some of the water the ink became
black again. 1 was talking about this
with one of the boys, and 1 toll him, in
confidence, if he wouldn't give it away,
ttiat if he put his ink bottle ou the stove
an I corked it real tight the ink would
become very much blacker than it woul i
if he left the cork out. In the teiritde
calamity that followed, this boy, for
'unately for me, forgot who It was that
;ave him this interesting in ennui on
aul so for the time 1 escaid; bul I was
in terror for many a dav and night af
terward that memory would return to
its sway a d that the boy would tell the
teacher who had advised him to pat the
ink bottles on the stove tightly corkei.
One morning when the grta: box
stove was nearly red h t aud he teacher
was engaged at the other end of the
school-room with a class, this boy put
his ink bo" tie, tightly corked, ou the
stove. Other boys, see ng this aud not
knowing the reosou. asked him about it,
and he told them that made th ; ink
very mnch blacker and in a very miic.ii
shorter time than by the ol 1 method.
Thereupm, without thiuking of the
on lequences, each one drove the cor;
into each separate ink bottle aud put il
on the stove.
Some of the pupils who were rather
Inclined to be snobbish aud put oa style
jvi-r the re-t of us, had glass ink bottles.
UH3JT Bv Ilia m m m u n o( tlnils otM Ul.l
-Lauding in school society which we
other fellows who had the ordinary
stone bottles could never hope to attaiu.
The glass ink battles were not to be
purchased in the Tillage, but were
brought from a distant town. Shortly
iflf-r the first boy put bis Ink bo tie on
the stove there we.e a dozen or fifteen
bottles, both stone and glass, all tightly
corked, on top of the box s'ove.
If the teacher from her place at th?
Jesk at the fui titer eud cf the room
noticed the bottles on the stove they
iavo her no uneasiness, for it was a
common thing after a frosty night for
us to put our bottles o:i he tove and
evaporate some of the water an 1 get
i he Ink into its proper writing condition
again. Meanwhile, the whole school
was attending more or less toils lesson -
snd nothing broke the stillness but the
Jrowsy hum of the class which was re
citing its less-ins. From out the coruer
of my eye I wat bed with a gieat deal
of aux.ety the effejt of the hot stove on
he corked up Ink bottles.
Little spurts of steatn shot out now
and then f oru the edge of the more
loose corks and one glass bottle begau to
d .nee around the st jve in an od 1 man
ner, but this wa t .e ouly indication of
the disaster that was to follow. A natty
glass bottle was the first to go. It ex
ploded with a terrific crash, as if a can
non had been fired off in the sil;nt
ciiool-rooiii. It splashed the hot ink
all over the place, and the wonder to me
is that somebody wasn't hart or cut
with tl.e flying glass or scalded w ith the
shower of ink. livery one sprang from
nis seat iu terror. The teacher jumped
up and cried.
Gracious, what was that?" But
before any answer cou d be given
another bottle exploded, and then one of
the .done bottles siiot its cork clear up
t the celling and into the pure white
plaster drove a fountain of boilin hot
ink, which stained the celling with a
ragged, ugly black blotch that never
couid be got out to the day the school
house was pulled down. By this time
all the girls were crying aud the boys
were standing as faraway as possible
from the stove, with white faces and
trembling limbs.
The teacher quickly took in the situ
ation. She rushed down to the stove,
which was firing off a shot about once a
second, and with one fell sweep of the
pointer, which she held in her ban',
swei t the remaining bottles out on tlie
door, as she did 6o two or three of the
bottles went off and splasl ed the hot
Ink a 1 over the wall at that eud of the
ro m and on part of the ceding. The
pupi s who had been innocent vict msof
the aff.iT and who had lost fieir nobby
glass bottles, at once told w ho had ad-vis-
d them to cork the ink bolt.es to
blacken the ink.
This unfortunate boy admitted that
be had done so, but added that be bad
been told so by souieboJy els-. In the
excitement ot the moment, however, be
couldn't remember who had told h m.
lie thought it was one particular boy
who had the reputation or being ex
ceedingly bad. bat that boy indignautly
denied it and managed to prove an
alibi, and so for the first time now iu
history the tru.h comes out ab ut who
or guated that ink bottle ex.losion.
BOWSER FACES FACTS.
A Diary Spoils His Promised Eve
ning of Comfort,
"Xow for an evening of solid com
fo tl" tail Mr. Bowser the other eve
ning as he fell into bis eay chair nd
cut the pages i f a magnx ue, "Mrs.
Bow ser, did you ever real ize how blessed
we areV"
"Yes, indeed."
"While others fall by the wayside we
are spared."
"Yes."
t While others quarrel bicker and
we lore the
strni 't!- every day."
Yes."
He got up and came ever an i kisaed
me, and upon returning to his chair
seemed lost in reUt-ctiou for a moment.
Then he contmu-d:
"How curious lire Is! Do you re
member the day I first saw you?"
'I shall never forget it,"
"I was on horseback, you remember,
and you stood on the veranda of your
father's house."
"You are a trifle mlHaken, dear.
The torse bad tin own you off Into a
mudhole, and I tdiall never forget the
picture you presented as you approached
the house. At first I took vou for "
"Whatl A horse throw me off!" hs
interrupted.
"Certainlr. Don't you remember how
father "
"Mis. Bowser, are you crazy? I was
never thrown from a horse in my life!
I'd like to tee the horse which could
throw me off! You must be thinking
of some one else."
"Why, dear, you lost your watch in
the mud and rather fi-bed it out. Don't
you remember lmw our negro Tom
scraped the mud oil or you?'1
".Not by a long shot! No nier ever
scraped me down! You must l th nk
ng of that yellow-haired dude you u od
to I 3 with."
We were both silent for a time, and I
hoied it was the List or It. My experi
ence although dating back over a few
years only, has satisfied me that nothing
aggravates a husband more than to
bring up the silly things be said and did
during his courtship. It seems to be a
raw rpot with the majority of them
after the honeymoon is over. But Mr.
Bowser was not satisfied. After four
or five minutes, he broke out with:
"It's curious what a dunce a man
can make of himself with his eyes wide
open."
" Y-e-s!"
"The idea that I should ever fall in
love with youl"
"Or 1 with you!"
He glared at me over the top of his
book, and there was another painful si
lence, broken at .ast by his saying:
"Well, I'll admit that I was in lve;
but I Hatter myself that 1 di lu't ex
hibit any schoolboy nonsense."
"You were just like any other young
man in love, Mr. Bowser. They have
always been that way and always will
be, au 1 it's no discredit to them."
"Do you mean to say I 'mooned'
around like a calf?" he demanded.
"I don't know how calves 'moon' as
you term it, but you wauted to hold my
hand, put your arm around me "
"Hold your baud neverl"
"But you did!"
"Never never!"
"Mr. Bowser, I have one of my old
diaries. Walt until I get it."
"Not much! Vou cau't produce no
old diaries nor forgel documents on
me. 1 anticipated an evening cf solid
comfort, and you can see how it has
turned outl Is It auy wonder that so
many husbands seek the saloons and
gambling bouse, of au even ng?"
-At Una moment the cook, called me
out to ask what she should prepare for
breakfast, and a quarter of an hour
later, when 1 returned to the back par
lor. Mr. Bowser seemed deeply inter
eoteJ in bis reading. I was glad of
this, for I relt a bit cousc.eiice-tetiickcn.
but I scarcely got seated when be asked:
"Was Enima Davis here to-day?"
"Yes."
"I low was she look!n;?"
'Very well. I wanted her to stay
until you came home, but she had to go
at 4 o'clock. She asked to be remem
bered to you."
"Yes. I hope sue has fully forgiven
me."
"What for, Mir. Bowser?"
"Vou kuow."
"I haven't the least idea."
"Ha! ha! ha! What dissemblers
women are. It was always a sore spot
with yeu though you would never ad
tn t iu How you do blu-h-hal ha! ha!"
'Mr. Bowser, what do you refer to?"
"Why, there's no doubt that the dear
g rl once foully expected to be Mjs.
Bowser."
"Nonsense!"
"What! '
"Nonsense!"
'Vou say that s mply for revenge,
but know better. We were as good as
eugaied whru 1 met you."
'Trash, sir! She w as engaged to Jack
Smith long before you ever saw her,
and they are to be married as soon as
nis tiie is out in the navy. Don't
natter
seek the divorce coaris.
;er our If that, she lias anything J'-hequoU is mud- up.'
up a".iinst you." j 1 kuow that, but now that they a
Mrs. lio ser," be besran. as he cot J" tho po'"t ,"f tl two or ll"
... .alt. ' "I if t limit uiilllil 1 . . . irnt as aiirti-
laid
up ami crossed his haihrtuuder his coat
tails, d3 you kuow who you are talk
ing to?
"I do."
"You are talking to a man who could
have beeu Kmma Davis' husband twe
years ago."
"I'll prove to the contrary."
"How ?"
"By one of my old diaries."
'Diaries a.'aiu! Always holding
something over me. Now produce! I
waul to see one of tbost diaries you
tulk alM.uL"
1 ran upstairs and got them out ol
one of Mr. Bowser's old boots, in whlct
I keep them for safety. There were
two of them, each for a separate year,
aud as 1 came down with them b
lok-d puzzled aud stammered:
' W why. I I thought I "
"Yes. you thought you had burnoj
them, but you were mistaken. The
books you got bold of the other Sunday
when I was at church were two old re
ceipt books of no particular value. 1
found everything turned toDsv-turvev
and I knew what you bad been up to."
"Mrs. Bo!-er, I "
"WaitI Let us look up the Eunmi
Davis matter. Heie it is. Under tbi
d tte of the loth of July 1 write: Deai
Emma was over to-day to congratulate
ni on my engagement, though sbi
addei that if Bowser was the last mar
ou earth she woulJ not have marrleti
him. She says his hair retoitds her o!
pumpkins, and tl at his legs seem to U
badly warped.' The dear girl also ''
'Stop!" shouted Mr. Bowser, hi'
face as white as death.
"Ves, dear, but you made a certai:
assertion. I want to disprove it. I
-jira. .Dowser, i planned ror at
Pi-pn 1 n 'r nf .1 t . .1 .. i...llimw1
made it an evenlDg or tortures and re I let 808 s'tow-ed her Inherent good
greU If I never spend another evening j se'". bv passing thm all by for hon -st
at home you alone you will be to blanx i ?oan Arkright who, though he took
Tor it." "er to I11" generous heurt, as a most
"But you" dear nd precious gift, loving hsr as
Stop right Lere! This Is the limit uU;T rong uatutes can love, not
The worm has turned. To-morro ,M y 84 w t,",t Bn hail failings, but
morning I go!" TOU!u hare lelt that he was fal e to tho
Bui he is with rue yet, and 1 have n trn8.t rel'cd in him, had he not done
fear but we shall bve out our lives to u best make her conscious of them
gtther. L-
- 1 et if Susan was most to blame, it
Thi Tuuty ot most men iz so xnntci ' also tre that John did not always
more than a mutch for their experience !make due allowance, either for her
that they seldom learn, eimjtluiie bllnipulsive temperament, so different
experience, from Lis own, or her youth, for ahe was
A Street Traaedy.
. rbe duk of renlnr barf nettled down.
People went hurryii.g througn tha (own;
A ea.rele driver, a currluire so near.
And a und a dark lay upon the stiwt
Btuod ana torn ppr. marked the fall
Ota crippled iicuj that was alii
The took htm where d' cor and nnrs.
Coold a-tend to h m aa he rew worse.
Tbe doctor examining a d to those br,
dune all 1 can; the boy w tl die!"
Tne aur. with holv thoughts Intent,
- ' A-ked a pray r tor ihe hie soon spent.
"My !ear little Ud. trr to say a prayers
They must all b iw I who t-t up there."
Rhe pleaded wuh U'ars In her eyes.
But be moved bis h-ad with w.-ary slf-hs.
it may i ave be n lever, or mav be oain.
That smote the reason lrom his bi ain.
With T..oe low and soft as he did stir,
"I l-pat. h. miner- nioruin' p.iper!"
. Portly broke upon h;s waiohers ears.
j Whoqiii klv turned to hide their tears.
All about the eleet.en:" calling hieiier
, "Uere's yur pa;er latent ab .ut the tire!
' An.1 this la the story, truly related.
Making- us wo der why was he created,
. or poverty, turmoil, sin and strife
' Waa .,11 th it o.nposed hi9 lonely life.
" Bui tohmi who mrk- :he sparrow's fill,
3 Is it more than a uewsboy, or is that all?
1
K LESSON FOR LOVERS.
Self-wll'ed and ill-tempered! I'm
nuch ob iged to you for your good
pinion of me, Mr. Aikrlght.'
If anything coul I have made Susan
Jay's pretty face positively ugly, it
vould have been the look and tone
vhich accompanied these words. The
mail re 1 lips bad a most unbecoming
out, the deep violet eyes an angiy and
rnful flash, while the delicately pen
:i!ltd browK were drawn so closely to
gether, that tlie arches almost met.
The individual addressed, to all ap
ea ranees, took this outburst very
wolly, though inwardly very much
uiiioyed.
'You need feel under no paiticular
bligatious to me, be said, qui.'tlv,
vithout raising bis eyes from the book,
chose leaves lie was turning w ith no
'ery definite idea of tbe.r meaning. 'It
s my candid op nlou, I am veiy soriy
o say.
Indeed! Miss Agnes Ward is not
11-tempered in the least, I suppose?
Miss Agnes Ward is what you can
e, when you choose a very amiable
roung lady?'
'Why don't you ask her to marry
ou? . I should think you would, she is
such a paragon of perfection!'
'Be- ause 1 don't love l.er, and I do
ove someboey else.'
That somebody else ought to feel
rery much flattered. But if you mean
ne, let me tell you th t th" sooner you
rausfer your affections to her, or some
Hiier lady, the better 1 shall be suited.'
Vou don't mean what, you say, Su
ian? Yes, I do mean what I say,' replied
e young lady, her cheeks growing
ery red. 'And what is more, I am
uinvinced that we are not suited to
iac other, aud that it is best that vie
ra i-
i.r. Arkrlght arose. He had turned
l.jhtly pale and ti ere was a grave
ooic, u his eyta, and a quaint expres
lioit of the lil. full of significance in
mi? so habitually calm and eelf-con-ro'X-d.
He deliberately buttoned up
lis roat and drew on bis gloves. T..cu
-aklng up his bat, he said:
You will be sony for what you
ave said, bye-and-'oye,' and left the
lou.'.e.
Frank Ray, Susan's brother, bad
)een sittiug upon tiie piazza, during
.li s conversation, aud the windows
Jeing open, bad beard enough to under
tnnd Its import, and if he had not,
Mr. Arkrlght 's crave, absent look, as
as passed him, wou'd have given liiui
iu inkling or the truth.
Entering the hall, be pushed open
.he door of the room, w here his sister
was sitting, in an as thoroughly uncom
fortable slate ot mind as one could jkm
nbly conceive.
'You'll lose John, if you are not
careful, f?ue,' he said, after looking at
aer a moment without speaking.
I wish you wouldn't meddle with
y affairs, Frank,' retorted Susan,
petclautly. 'It would be no great loss
I 1 should.'
You wouldn't care, 1 suppose, if l e
I'uoald enlist, as Beit, Laura Dean's
jetiothesl, has?'
The memory of Laura's palo, sa l
Taoe rose up before her, and she looked
Jit lie startled.
nllst? lie has i o thought of en
listing. All his brothers aie iu the
irnv, aud be would u t be likely t j
1- ave bis mother all alone. Besides,
are
ee
A them would be glad to get a substi
tute. Hjl:s Burt would, I know, fur
tie told me so.'
Frank turned carelessly away as be
said th.s. but his words bad aroused an
unpleasant train of thought in Susan's
mind, which she strove vainly to dis
pel. 'Ni nsense! she said to herself.
'Frank is ouly tryluz to tease me. He
kiiows better. I wish 1 hadn't said
what I did, but John is so provoking.
If he would ouly get angry like other
op!e, aud no- sit there so cool and
L-a'ia, and say such disagreable things.
I wish he wasn't so pertec, bim-elf, or
Jul n't expect me to be. One don't like
ti.be always in the wrong.
Vl'lie hearts of John and Susan were
irwn together by a strong bond of
mutual Fjmpathy aul affvctioii, and
lo' ini posesse 1 many excellent qualities,
yet scarcely a week passed without
some scene as the above, though Sus.n
ha 1 1 never allowed herself to speak
such) bitter words before, and never had
Joba parted from her in such au un
gracious manner.
Truth compels us to acknowledge
that Susan was te one at fa dt. To
gether with a warm, loving heart, she
had a quick, impulsive temjier, which
often betrayed her into language win -h
siie afterwards deeply regretted. The
only daughter among a ho t of sons, au
amount of petting was lavished upou
her by both parents and brothers, that
would have completely spoiled a less
kind and ingenious disposition, and
possessing unusual personal beauty,
when she reached the age of woman
hood, she drew around her a circle of
admirers, who would hava fain per
suaded her that her very faults were
six years younger than hlrtself. Neither
were his admonitions always well
timed, and though kirdly meant, they
sounded harshly to the ears accustomed
to the language of affectionate appro
val. 'He said I chould Le s rry; 1 wonder
what he meunt?' was Susan's inward
inquiry, many times during the long
afternoon, which seemed as though it
would never end. At last, weary with
combating the troubled, self-reproach-frl
thoughts, that she could not alto
gether silence, she threw down her
work, and sinking back upon the wide,
easy lounge upon which she was sitting,
fell aslee
Her dreams took the coloring of her
thoughts. She thought she was upoa
a vast, extended plain, red with blood,
nd covered with heaps of tbe slain.
The fierce clash of the arms and the
shock of battle had given plase to the
groans or the wounded and dying.
With tre-nbtlng steps sl e moved heie
aud there, seeking, yet dreading to find
the form that had not been absent one
moment from her thoughts during a 1
these terrible hours of suspense. At
last she found him, with stiffened
limbs, pale lips and ashy cheeks, his
blue, sightless eyes turned up to the
musky heavens.
"The foiehead of her upright one, and
just,
Tired by the hoof of battle to the
dust."
The sharp cry of agony with which
she threw herself upon the dead body of
her lover, aroused her. She ra sed up
I her head, and looked bewildered upon
the familiar objects around her.
"Thank God, it was only a dream,'
she said, with a long sigh of relief.
Sie tieut out upon the piazza to get
rid of the heaviness and lassitude tliat
oppressed her. Tl e sun was down, but
the clouds upon the western horizon
were t nged with crimson aud gold.
John had promised to walk out with
her in the cool of the evening. Had lie
forgotten it? Or was he still angry
with her?
As these questions passed through
his mind, she heard the outside gate
ojien, and turned her eyes eagerly to
ward the path that led to it. But il
was only her little brother Arthur. He
came running up "the walk, neaily
breathless with haste and excitement.
'Oh, Susan.' he exclaime 1, as soon as
he observed her, "the seventh regiment
is goln.; to start in the morning, and
the Ashland band will be here, and the
tiremen are ceinin out! Aul only
thiuiv! Wyllis Burt isn't going aft-r
all. John Arkright has takeu ins
place and '
But Susan was gone. Witli a face
from which every vestige of color ha 1
fled, she reached her own room. So lie
was going, she said to herself, and she
was the cause of it. if he had decided
that it was his duty to go, it would not
have seemed half so terrible.
She thought of the stiengtli an I
nobility of his nature, the tenderness of
his heart. Never bad he e med so
dear to her. Never bad she reali.' d
how much, or in bow many ways he
should miss Mill. She recalled her
dream, and felt that it was a prophecy,
tliat she had seen him t poll tho held of
battle, as be would lay eie long.
'And he was going without bidding
her good-bye. She could not have it so.
She must see him!'
As she said this, she arose, and tyinz
ou her hat, covering her light muslin
dress with a large dark mantle, stole
out of the bouse. She passed rapidly
along the nearly deserted streets, until
she came lo the pieas ml little cottage
whe e John lived with his widowed
mother. She had never beeu inside of
it, but bad often looked ar it iidiinring
ly, as it stood emoowered in fruit and
shade tiees, rose-bushes and clustering
vines, and never before without think
ing that some time it w.is to be her
home as well as bis.
She mounted the steps and rang the
bell. Jd is. Arkright came to her door.
Susan almost dreaded to look into le i
face, feeling that she might justly re
proach her with being the cause of the
lo-s she was about to sustain, the sup
port and championship of her only
child. But to her relief her counte
nance wore the sa ne kind and placid
look that was its prevailing expression,
though she seemed somewhat turpris.-d
at her unexected appe.irauee.
'Is John iu?' Susan inqui.ed, falb r
ingly. ' Ves. He complaiced of a headache,
and has been ai home nearly all the
foie-oon. Come into tho parlor, and
I'll speak to hm.'
Susau rose to her feet as she heard
the sound of that step, along tlie had,
and a moment later, the door openei
and John entered. The cold, stern
look faded from Up aud brow as he
looked uj,on her pale, agitated counte
nance. 'What has hapjiened, Susau?' he in
quired, in a tone of concern.
'Oh, John!' exclaimed Susan, 'as
though you did not know, and that it
was toe worst thing that could hapjen.
Not that I mean to reproach you, lor 1
know it is all my fault!'
It may seem uumaldenly in me to
come here unasked,' she continued,
raising her head from his shoulder;
but 1 felt as if I could not let you go
away without telling you how sony,
how very sorry I am for what I said to
you th.s morning. That wherever you
go you will take my heart with you.
That if you are killed, I shall not care
to live!'
Here her head again dropped upon
his shoulder. The expression upon
John's countenance as he looked upon
the weeping girl, was singularly cou
flicting; the eyes had a 'orld of love
and sympathy in thi-ni, while a half
pleased, bait roguish smile lingered
around the mouth.
So you really love me a little? lie
said, making a vain effort to lift hei
forehead from his sliouluer, so he could
look into her eyes.
'I love you very much, John. I never
knew bow much unlil now,' 6he re
plied, still keeping her face hid from
him.
'And you don't wan't me to propose
to Mies Ward?'
'O, John, please don't allude to those
foolish words,' said Susan, in such a
tone of distress, that John was lnbtai.tly
sobered.
'Well, I won't again,' be said, in a
very different tone. 'But, Susan, when
and how did you htar that I was going
away?'
Susan told him.
'And did it never occur to you that I
hare a cous.n by tliat name?'
Susan started, her eyes flashing with
surprise and joy.
'Is it your cousin who is going?' she
exclaimed.
It isn't I,' said John, smiling.
'O. John, I am so glab It seems at
if I was never so happy before!'
, too, am very happy, Susan. Shall
1 tell you why this mistake lias made
me happy?' said John, looking down
earnestly into the eyes that were lifted
to his.
Susan guessed something of his mean-1
Ing, ror tbe lashes, still wet with tears,
drooped, until they rested upou the
flushed cheeks.
'It was because I was beginning t.i
doubt, not my love for you, but yours
for me. Because I was beginning to
distrust my ability to make you as
lnppy as I should wish my wife to be.
Do you understand why, Susan?'
'I understand, John." And I will try
never to give you reason to entertaiu
any such fears again.'
John kissed the sweet lips that spoke
these gentle words.
'Dear Susan,' he said, 'you have
such a kind, lovicg heart, and such an
earnest desire to do right, that I nm
sure you w ill succeed; and as for ni, I
feel sure that I have never fully under
stood you until now, and will. Co l
helping me, be more patient with you
thau I have been.' Aud they both kept
their woid.
Dear reader, a word inyourear. All
lovers' quarrels do not terminate so
happily. If you have won the love of a
true and faithful heart, try it not too
far. As the constant dropping of w ater
will wear the hardest stone, so will fre
quent altercations, though followed by
reconciliation, weaken the strongest af
fection, often planting lu its stead indif
ferenco if not positive avers on.
Decorative Needlework.
For yenrs past, ladies' taney
it was called, seemed to ruu
.rk, ns
in olio
groove, in which neither tasto in color,
art in designing nor originality was I
shown. Says the JInnic SI irminr. i
Berlin wool-work wastho popular fancy,
with its indifferent patterns, crude col-
ormp, and almost total absence of art is- j
tic merit. Sometimes colore ! glass or
metal beads were introduced to make
what was already ngl y, htill more hide-
ous, and to crown all, the only part of i
the work which might have furnished
scope for taste or skill eunie from Ger
many already worked, or was executed
at the fancy stores, while the ladies
who purchased tho designs, contined
their efforts to simply working in tho
ground in long uninteresting stripes,
or set figures, afterwards pointing to
the completed cushion, or chair-back,
as a rpecimen of their skill or industry.
Fortunately, these specimens of decora
tive ( '!) needlework, are seldom to be
seen at the present day, although cross
stitch, which is one of tl e moht ancient
forms of embroidery, is again coining
to the front; not, however, in the inar
tistic and unmeaning firm of tlie Ber
lin wool-work, but as really effective
embroidery, by the judicious direction
of the stitches, and the harmonious
blending of the colors.
So too, tho manufacture of material
has become greatly improved, better
crewels can be had, and as for the silks,
flosses and arrasones, they arc all that
could bo desired. There are, it is true,
many inferior kinds offered for sale,
d.ved with aniline, fugitive dyes, which
not only will not w ah or clean, lint
will in some cases actually give off a
coloring matter to everything thnt
comes near it, so as sometimes to alter
the very shade of the ground on which
it is worked, as well as the surrounding
colors. Within the past few yenrs many im
provements have been made in tho
manufacture and dying of silks and other
material, which have almost revolution
ized it. The richest, and at the sime
time the most delicate of colors have
been produced, and are rendered abso
lutely fast in color, vegetable colors be
ing used in place of the aniline odors,
winch it is absolutely impossible to
render fast. In addition to this, purer
silks are used instead of the inferior
kinds once offered for sale.
The revival of interest in needlework
has been so complete that it has reached
nil classes, and lias become one of the
acknowledged industries for women, in
which the advantages of a refined edu
cation and the more delicate manipula
tion of fingers unaccustomed to rough
lalxir are obviously great, "Art needle
work," as it has cuuie to be called, al
though we rather deprecate the term,
lias become tho fashion, and takes pre
cedence iu one form or another of almost
all other forms of needlework. This is
a hopeful sign, but it should l.e remem
bered that fashion ought to have noth
ing to do with its popularity, indeed it
should le treated as an art, and not as
a fancy, in order to give it its right
standing iu the world.
So instead of looking ut many of tho
branches of needlework as novelties or
the popular craze, we should remember
that embroidery is one of the most an
cient decorative art, and many of these
"novelties" are but revivals of the old
time needlework, the beautiful em
broideries of former days, that rery few
rememlier or have in fact ever seen.
Perhaps some of our readers are the
proud jiossessors of some of these heir
looms hidden away in some old-fasb-ioned
chest, rarely seeing the light of
day, for of course in our old families
some rare specimens may occasioinillr
be found!
The drawn work and lace work
now so iMipular is but the reviv
jud
il .
one of these old-tashioued
very lieautiful one it is too.
arts, aud a
it appea-s
now uiiuer various names, suoh as
I toman and Spanish embroidery,
Kichelieu work, etc. There are com
binations of many of these similar
styles, which are most bewildering and
charming, as for instance a combina
tion of Roman eujbroiderr and drawn
work with many of the lace stitches
used in point applique, or in Irish
point. Drawn work is a good founda
tion for much of this pretty needle
work. Ropes Made of Women's Hair.
Speaking before a meeting of the
Methodist ministers. Bishop Fowler
told of a new heathen temple iu the
northern part of Japan. It is or enor
mous size, and the llmliers were hauled
to and placed in their present position
by rojies made from the hair of the
women of the province. An edict
went forth calling for the long hair of
the women, aud enough was obtained
to make two monster roties one 17
inch-s in circumference and 1,400 feet
long, and the other 10 to 11 inches
around and 2,0 0 feet long.
Fr-m personal experiments Dr.
Speck n aiutai us that a cold bath, be
s d. s causing a very perceptible diminu
tion of the temperature of the body is
it.e direct influence of producing a
moderate increase In the respiration
w ith, ot course, a corresponding altera
tion in tbe absorption or oxygen and
excret on of carbonic acid, and a very
si ght increase In the activity of the
oxidation processes in the bod.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Yerestchajln pictures will
probtbly remain in America perman
ently. T.iey were entered in btmd,fre
of duty, and the time allowed by the
bond having expired, duty has been
paid on the entire collection.
Max O'Rell (Pari Blouetl, who
has spent some t me in Ireland, says:
"I have often leen asked why I have
not written a book on Irel.iud. The
answer is this: I liKe to write on the
faults of people, and I never could find
any in the Irishman." O'Hell has beeu
at the blarney stone.
An audience In an Indian village
in Michigan, becoming disgusted at the
tameness of a theatrical performance,
chased the actors out of the theatre
and organized a dance. The orchestra,
who were not a little sc.ired, consented,
without any coaxing, to provde the
music.
The recumbent statue or the Em
peror Frederick for his tomb has been
finished in the clay by Professor Begas,
of Berlin. Frederick is clad in the
cuirassier uniform, and lies in his
dealt on a liu :e sarcophagus. The
hands are crossed on the breast, and
hold a laurel wreath and the hilt of a
sword.
The terror of the Sultan when he
liemd the particulars of the Brazilian
revolution led him at once lo distribute
a large sum among his Albian and Nu
bian gnai ds, and the arrea a of pay
which are due to the Turkish Army
are lo be paid off at once, though no
one knows where the money is to come
from.
A Nuremburg firm is bringing out
a new kind of sole for boots and shoes.
The sole consists of a sort of trellis
work of spiral metal w re, the inter
stices being filled with guttapercha and
ammoniac rosin, which give them both
stiength and suppleness. They are
lilted with special n.iils or two oidi
n iry s iles, au 1 can lie produced 50 ier
cent. In-low- the ordinary prices for
leather on
According lo a desp itch from Vi
enna "the star of Bethlehem will again
be visible in this year, which will make
its seventh appearance since the blrlh
of Christ. 1 1 comes once iu 315 years,
and is id wondrous blilliance for the
space of three weeks, then it wanes,
and disappears after 17 months. It
will be a sixth star added to the five
fixed stars m the constellation Cassiopla
while it lemaitis insight."
A cold spring has lieen discovered
on a farm at Stoii ngton, Conn., wtiose
waters have a p-cuiiar but trauf it iry
effect on the iierson partaking. The
veins swell, and one feels for about ten
minutes as if he were about to explode.
Then the sensation gradually subsides
to a buzzing in the ears and d sappsars
entirely. The water is the talk of the
neighboihood, and, as there seems to
be no liaini In it, many hav tried it.
A sum i 'e has been sent to Boston for
analysis.
A remarkable find has just taken
place at St. 1 'a bu, l'inisterre. On re
moving a granite block to the nu'!i.
west of the village a I!o:ua: f!:
tile was observed, which had, a; ; ...
en tly, served as a cover to a box of
wood now fallen into decay. Inside
were found over lO.lcK) small plated
Kom.-in coins of Valerian, Diocletian,
Constantius, Maximus, Lucinius, Con
stantino the Great, and Coiistaiitiuus
IL They are well-preserved and date
from 200 to 300.
The American Art Association has
purchased ground at Foity-secoud St.,
tietween Broadway aud Sixth Avenue.
New York, where it will erect new gal
leries ot art to l used by the Associa
li n and to be known as the "Angelus
Galleries." There Mil el's "Augelus"
will remain. The famous pcture,
however, soon after the present Barye
"Angelus" exhibition closes, will be
relumed to Europe for exhibition in
London, and probably Berlin. It will
then be brought back, and it will be
kept here, as long, doubtless as the as
sociation lasts.
"War" said Moltke. the great
German war general, "is an element of
the Divine order." "War," says I'rof.
Lueder, of Erlangen University, "is a
good and beneficent and holy institu
tion ot God." "Blood-letting," known
as war, S.i'd Joseph dn Maistie the
great Catholic controversialist, "sems
to bo a in c.e.ssily of mankind." We.l,
well, theso be gieat aut'.orities. Nov
eitheless, we piu our taith on General
Grant, who knew war intimately, when
he sa d: "Let us have peace."
New South Wales is aliout to make
some extensive and very iinjtortant ex
periments by sinking ailesian wells,
"Drought Is the great lague or Aus
tra'ia, and the dark spot in its future
has been the fear that, owing to the
scarcity of water, the land could never
support a large iopulatioii. But, ac
cording to exitrts, it has now been
discovered that there aie several rivers
flowing under the suifaee of New
South Wales, and If this nat -r can 1
'struck,' and then stored, the whole
face and future of Austria would be
changed."
A cable despatch rather dublous'y
involved the name of ".Stonewall"
Jackson recently as the reputed author
or a phrase quoted by Mr. I'arnell, a i
follows: "There are times when t' e
insignillc.ince cf the a tcuser is 1-st in
the ingratitude of the accusal ion." Mr.
Carmack, a Nashville editor, (Hunts out.
that Jackson never had occasion to Use
such words, and that it was Henry
Gra'tsn, who, in a specb in lS.-s.i, did
say: "There are times w hen the insig
nificance of the accuser is lost in the
magnitude of the accusation."
The value of the refuse of a great
city is very much greater than It is
usually supposed to I. Charlei Dick
ens's gohlen dustman is i ot a figment
of ihe imagination. It is said V at an
enterprising Italian in New York no v
pays $15"i2 r week r.r the privilege ,T
picking over the city's dirt or near!,
O.iKX) a yea'. And be does not .!. -peud
upon finding diamonds or gold .
money. His reliance for profit is hi .,
bones, rags, tin cms. etc A few e i .
ago the city paid rnen to trim th du
then a man was induced to pay for t.
labor out of his findings, and then com
petition for the plac-s set in, with t e
result that the city derives considerable
revei.ue from letting out the privilege.
riaitnum heated In a forge fire i:i
contact with charcoal becomes f us b', .
Boussingault has shown that this is
due to the formation of a solicnie or
platinum by means of the reduction of
the silica of the caibon by the metal.
Two German savants have produced
the same phenomenon by beating t-
white heat a Blip of platinum in tun
centre of a thick layer of iauii-blavk
free from aiUca.
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