mMlii:Mlif.l.-l t -'irfs k. ' B. F. SUHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE JVWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. WAY. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1.0. IS90. NO. 1). W w Tit k Woilus fair LommiUed ii j. i.t'-'l l y Scalier Heed is a five-sided I :a.r; two members favor New York, t,, ti: o-'o, tw M. Louis two Wash itigtoii, asi'l one riot jet expressed bis reference, if he has any. There is not l.kely to lie a m ij r.t report but at le.Lst U' T minority reports, and Con fres will lave Hi"; fun of chinning ot r V.i matter. Tin danger la that Con glr will talk It to deatlu IT we are tt h i' a f.tir in l-'.'"- more work and U-ss ta.k t- r quired. Work ou the Hudson river tunnel, CT.ii i" t.n' Jersey C.ty and Xew York, u iul to be really expedited, proba b;j with the purose of beading off ti.e i t bildge across tbe Hudson. 0:. f t:.e tuniels has almost reached tiic centie of the river, and by making a liberal connection to tbe line of the south tunnel it wl 1 Uj possible to pro Ti.ia four more working face from which t ) drive tlie tunnel to early com . :.f,.ii It is ni J that the renulied money has beeu provided, and that the nrw cor.tr.icl3 ca.l for I tie completion of the t ' -el lu about one year. If the tuiii.e; should begin to be used by the principal nilroa.1 companies, it would of c ur greatly iucrease the demand fr a In !.!.' across tlie Hudson, H'mr need there is for a Society to rtut- ct Children lrom Cruelty is sliowu hy a few figures from Us annual report, w'tiicli that 7.18 cases were lnveti gal, involving tlie welfare of 17G.J chiJ ru; that lo" cases wt re prooc-cuti-l, and tliat 4'iO children were r--nit'VrJ from brut.il parents or guard ui.s. It should le remembered in this connection that the society does not lire if remove the children, bnt can only ai t as the aent to bring proof before a JUiMf!fof cruelty that requires the inteifeieii -e of officers of tbe law. These 4t'.i children were real sufferer-, vr t!.ev could not have leen taken from t.icir parents or guardians. Think for a ineiiieiit of an army of little cues m.ire nutueroii than the soldiers of a regiment with as full ranks as are usu ally mri'leil. and all these little ones so cruel y treated by their parents or guardians that stiangers have to inr fere fur their protection, TnFenip'.oyes lu first and second class pot I'uii'es claim to the most over wmkf I an. I poorly paid iiersons in the tHivic e of the Government. They are low waking an organized effort to limit iJm'a WW to eiiiht hour, overwork to be rail I toi r xtia. They also aA for iv!ay v.u .itions, with full pay, and for ast.V'il n.cie;:- of salary up to a cer t : i 'l ui.it mum. To those who his.- eu a tent. on to tlie labors of -ixnis in tin- i otal service the demand h r better pay will not seem unreasona ble It is no adequate answer to tbs iieciai.il that thousands of applicants air rca.'v to lo the noik anil accept tbe pav n'T tiil hy law. Uncle Sa uul.t to Me uileiiuate compeusatlcu to tiio-e who w.'ik for hun, without meas uring tie sum by the necessities of t.'iuse ho aie an!oiis for plaie. W'o trust the 1 10(1.1 e I i h.inces asked tor j Buy r ve tlieaM-nl ot Vongress. Th-r I iwtiiieii are cei taioly as lunch eutit ieil j to ciM,i,."ia' inti as other derailment! nup:nes who have found favor in the jht of rvpit niatives. 1 What in i.i ai'iar strange la the :n.ti;c iiht accident at NewbuTjlb, Jitw Vo k, the ilc.tli of uu" man from tlie shiH k, while another man, and even th lu r-e, t:.rt knocked down, escaped. is eas-!y e; 1 ired t.v the circumst inct-s ! naiiate.) in the ili patches. Auelectr c l'iht w re is sai l Ui have been in con tact w th an lion toil leading to an awn ing post. Ti e Insulation on tbe wire wis saturated l y rain. In this condi tion the wire aed to be insulated, fur water Is a p. ki 1 conductor of elec tricity, nail the current in such a ca-H! oi.Iil rt.iw Iroiu the wire through the iron rui an. I aw nnm ot to the ground The hore, staii.lin on wet ground, uM divert a part of the current tliroi gh his holy when be touched hit n to the po-t, but only a small part; enough, however, as appeared, to knock him down. The man who went U Lis assistance u!so received part of th current a-nl was knocked down, but In fa'.liiiji his face touched the post, man :nc such "k''Hl contact" that be nxe.ved a fatal shock. Tbe man who went to I e!p him alfo nceivedpait Kit Leclnr-e, and, though knocked down. rKuvereil. I' is all a iucition of Jer fect or Imirrleot contact and of the relative resistances of d fferent brxlles tUii.ina which t" e circuit may be coin T'e'eu. If niact is in. perfect there is lnn-kthar is n .1 fatal; if It is pertect. wii! tie cur.eii is one u-ed Tor arc 1 -il t'i r s ai.i o t sure to lie deadly. tli th. -el-tiown facts it is an outrag 'l'..t n lies car.. vn. currents of dead!'. I'esne h ,,u , te a lowed to Im ' it tliiouli the streets of a grea To love if to ask ot another tbe bap Pwss that is lacking i ourselves. The most chaste woman may be the voluptuous if she loves. Toainii-e the public-wliat a sad VO Whon for a man who thinks. ".leu a wciuau Is no lonner attn l;v", she ceases to be inconstant. TVre is more merit in subduing Pivioti than aveiiifing an injury. litcS for :l '',l', ni,,r nioney and a ''H more time, hv, it's ten to one if wt. er or e or the other would make you wlut liapp.er. Itiswr.-m:to bet, e-pecially when Jou bet wnmg. jrt"ilk,'y ri 'n:.ins a monkey, tbougli n,"m;,n fl'iires no eulogy she 'Paksfor herse'f. . JTeextingui.s'iie.l can be rekindled; ,uye worn out-never. Ursl 1 " S company for tlier.'rri",'r "1,lst 1:ave hi: eyf oa nort,r:ir''t wi..U as well as on the tU .r' U1 a k,nerd thing. Is either t,f a f'1 r the cunning of AFTER BLOOD. Threatens to Kill Hi. Shlrtmaker and Tailor. Mr. Bowser has been that way ever since we were married, and I aupr ho wdl keep it up to the end just like d o . er husbands, writes Mrs. Bowr iu tbe Detroit V. AVien he brliign home hal' a dozen collars I know that a circus Is about to begin and I prepare accordingly. After supper he goes upstairs t try the to on and I take a stat on tbe lower step, knowing full well the part I am to play, for a couple of minutes all is quiet. Then I lieur tbe mutter of distant thuude., loilowel by an eKclamation of: Hy the great horn spoon, bat if I bad bat man beie I'd murder himl" About Mxtv seoii'Ja later hla head an ears over the banlslex and hesbouU: i!r.s. lMwser, come up herei" "What's wau.ed', "Come up beret Look at those col lars, will yottt" 'What's the matter?" "Matter! That infernal ablrtmaker ought to be so k ell 1 told him 'o. 1"), and lie has male them all N o. 2u; 'Nousen-e! Here's tbe itimp on thein, and tliey axe all right. Try one on." He buttons one on and they fit splen didly, ludeed, be never had such a fit. Me looks in the glass however, grows red in the f ce an 1 shouts: "Look at it! I'll kill t.iat man before nuon to morrow I He has doue ' it to pile me!" -Mr. llowser, that collar is all right. You tiad never one that set " "Hihtl Hightl Look at it hunch up in the back! See how it aett iu fr. ill! Observe how it was sawing at my ears! You want rue to look lue a batoon, dou't you? I'll walk iu on that shirt maker after breakfast to-moi-row morning, and if I dou't slam the buttous ff'u him then I'm a bar!" 'But 1 can't seo anything ron j about them." "No, of course not! If tbey made m look like a bak-d owl you couldn't tea anything out of the way! Mis. Bows-r I've got to have a long talk with you. There are some tilings which must be settled! And the next morning be put on one of the collars without a wold and there is never any faull-Quding. They were a fit aud all right, but he wouldn't be an average husband if be didn't growl and k ck. It is when his new shirts come up that the whole menagerie is put on eilnb.tiou free gratis. They in variably come up of a Saturday night, aud be want! to put one on for Sunday wear. I kuow what is coming, and take my baby over to my mother's and 2 we tlie cook liberty to go out for the day. I am hardly ready for him wbeu the magazine explodes. "Mrs. liowserl'' he shouts over the banister. "Well?" 'Did Lynch bring hime my shotgun iast night?" "What o you want or a shotgun?" 'To kill the Infernal idiot who made these shirts! I'll have Ins life before the sun sets to-ui'Ut' I'll murder him right lfore bis wife and cuUdreu!" "Why, Mr. liower! What the mat ter witti the j-hb-l'?" "jdatior! b- yells, as be jumps up an! dj.vn. holding one of the lot at arm's length; 'everything is the mai ler! My l a d is fifteen inches scaut, and be has ma !e t u 4,(.X rods long! Look at that bosom! Look at th yoke. I'll folio that man to the end of the eaith but what I'll have Ins blood!" 'Why, the look all right to me The baud U tuff w.lu starch, you know." "I'll stiffen that ldi- t with soniethm besides starch! I'crple impose on me lcaus 1 never kick, but tbe worm l as turned at last. I suppose I'll le seat t Mate prison for life, but that sluui't aim I iu the wa of my revenge." "I'uton anoih-r and 1M come u. and see what the trouble Is." Ten minut s later l.e calls, and I go up to Cud hiru red in the face aud bieathing bard: I button tbe shirt in the back, pud it down aud it tits him like a glo.e; but all of a sudden he gives a jump, waves his hand after tbe manner of lioot i and exclaim-: "Yes! I'll hunt him down and crush th- life out or bini!" "Mr. lWwser there's nothing wrong with this shirt. You never had one u fit you better." 'Xothi"g wrong! Wby, it feels as If I bad put on an old coffee sack. Look at the way it bunches up in the neck. See how it binds on the shoulders. I wouldn't be found dead with this tibirt on." Well, as I aiJ before. I cant f e anviluug wrong with it." 'On, you cau'tl Anything Is good euongli Tor me, I suppose. If some fool sent me up a sheet-iron shirt you'd think it was albight. You caa go do an stairs." "But aren't we going to church?" "Church! D n't say church to me! I'm going ou! to con mit murder." A boot dinner time be feels easier, uud after supper his indignation has pHss-d away. "ext morning be rt u one or bis shirts, and it Isnt a week b fo.-e be is bragg ng of the perfect fl' It is the same about any other gar ment ha buys. A few weeks ago he. wauted a oat. He -elected the goods, got measured by a Iead.ng tailor, a:i 1 they made him try it on twice to Iw sure that it was a goo! fit. It came up :ii good time, and just as we were mak ing ready to go to a card party. He at ..cm decided to wear it. but had scarce ly untied the bundle when he exchiJU- "The sap-beaded soi of the gojse. but I dou't believe this la the gooJs 1 pkk.il up!" , "You said you got diagonal, and tun n that sort or cloth," 1 replied as I m itecteil It. , , But he's lintd it with cambric." "Why, no be hasn't. This is serge iinwl. That's what is commonly used. II- pu- it o and the fit was absolute ly tvrlect, but be hunched up on shoulder and then the other and "'Trttoa-hortwaisted. I told bin. id.i-n limes over to look out K i U "The waist Is all right, my dear. You never Lad a nicer fit." "But it's short -nx inches to-- shT, The wall-eyed idiot, but doe nt he knetv enough to read figures on a U' 'r" Bowser, the length is all rlcbt. I tH, you this coat can't be Improved ""-Isn't the collar too high?" Vo. "Ar- the? pockeU in right?" -ilo ' lii i eeves for length?" "Ju t rlgh'." "Io you like tbe buttons?" "I do.'' He was about to give in and be satis fied, when all at once he fiave a start and gasped: "Heavenit look at that sleeve!" "What's tbe matter?" "Wrinkles! Iook at 'em!" "But every toat sleeve wrinkles. You've got to have play for your arm, havent vou?" '.nay! play! I'U buv a thousand tons of canuon balls and fire every one or them at that tailor's head. It's a botch job from top to bottom, and I'll t-reac him in two be for a noon to-nior-n wl" "Well, let's be going." "Xever! Xot one inch!" "Aren't we going over to Mack's?" "No, ma'am. My safety is in stay ing at home. I'd commit murder if 1 went out." And we stayed home and turned that coat top to bottom, wrong side out and outside in, Mr. Bawser declaring with eve. y breath that be would have blood, but next day he slipped into it and has been wearing it ever since without a word of comp'aint. WOMAN'S COLD STARE. A Bad Habit Which Causes a Ores' Deal of Hard Fwelln. I have passed through a room filled with well-dresaed, well-educated and sapposably well-bred women, where I was a stranger to all, and I have felt that it would be a less painful matter I to ascend tbe scaffold for my execution. Afterward meeting these same ladies, perhaps 1 found them kind and tender hearted, and never consciously wound ing another. let this habit of coldly staring at a stranger had grown npon them without their knowledge. I have seen this habit carried to its extreme at summer watering places. Little girls aud young misses cultivate this cold and cr.tical stare, and I am often surprised to see the rudeness and terrible lack of care ful breeding which these elegautly-ap jiarelod small damsels from our "best society" exhibit on the streets in this resjMjct. I have noticed groups of yonng girls with their school books on some of our most fashionable streets, and have seen them haughtily gaze at the people whom they passed or met, and have heard them give vent to peals of laughter be fore the unoffending victim of their bud breeding was out of earshot. If the fashionable schools which teach young girls how to walk and sit, and the proper. manner in which to enter a room, would also teach them how to look at a stranger in a respectful aud kindly manner, or, at least, not to gaze with a cold and withering stare of criti cism, it would materially improve the manners of thj risiug generation. Affability, cordiality, kindness and amiability are wonderfully charming qualities in womon, an 1 we all need to cultivate them. There never yet was a woman so gift ed, wealthy, leautiful or high in social Iosition that a cold, distant snd super cilious bearing would not mar her charm. There are so many sorrowful things in hfe, there are so many hurts aud wounds for all of ns, it seems to me tuat every woman ought to cultivate a sweet manner and a kindly glance tor the stranger or acquaintance. It costs nothing, anil, lake a ray of sunlight, it warms and strengthens many a lro.-t-bitten life w hereon it lulls. 1 think some women or girls have tbe idea that a haughty and proud bearing impresses a stranger with a senso of their importance. This is a mintake. The truly great are never arrogant or cold, but modest and kind in demeanor, while the nnwortuy an 1 presumptuous oft. p a.Mime an air of supercilious dis dain with strangers to hide their natural deficiencies. -V. 1". J'sumul. An Important Decision. Jndire Clark, of the Supreme Conn of l'ennsvlvama, has rendered a de-1 cision of immediate interest and prac tical importance to the thousands of men in the Commonwealth wbo are members of 1-em riciarT organizations which have sickness ami death benefit features. These societies are pledged to the payment of many millions of dollars to the wives and families of members, and anything nffecting their well-being touches a very large proportion of our population. The Attorney General of tbe State moved, in the Common Pleas Court of Llauphin county, for the vacation of the charter of tbe Equitable Beneficial Association, incorporated by a I'hilt delphia court as a charitable organi zation, with t he object of paying beno lits in sickness or ut the death of moui bers. It was held bv the Attorney General, and so decided by the Dauphin County Court, that the organization was practically an insurance company. The case was taken up to the Su preme Court on appeal, and the ruling of the court below was practically re versed. Judge Chirk disenssed the qnention involved at length, and held that such societies did not, within the meaning of the law, grant indemnity or recurity agtinst loss lor a consideration; that they are purelv cba.itable in pur ltose, being both beneficial and pro tective, but have no capital stock, yield no profits, and therefore do not come under the laws governing the regular or old-line life insn ance companies. The life insurance corporations have long looked with a jealous eye upon these beneficiary societies, aud have made several unsuocebsrul efforts to break them down by having them suli jected to the same taxes as are levied upon the first-named class. But the law as against this aud pnblic sentiment strongly in favor of the societies, which have done and are doiug so much good in our own State, where the system carried out originated. PitUbury Ciron icle- Telegraph. A New Pacific Island. The last addition to the volcanic isles of the South Pacific hss been recently snrveyed and iuapjed by Captain Old bam, "of the UritUh mrveying ship Kv'cria. In the submarine eruption of lvi7 its nnclens was thrown np from a pnrt of the ocean floor 6, Out) feet deep, about 3(1 miles west of Namnka Island, one of the Friendly or Tonga archipel ig.K It is composed almost entirely of ashes, cinders and volcanic bom'os. The new land, now very much larger than when first discovered by the officers o.' H. M. S. Falcon, from which it is named, may yet become one of the finest au J most fertile isles thst deck the broad bosom of the Sonth PaciS-, arnt a bone of contention between rival nations. A". 1". Jicruid. Xerer ait down to nurse a grief. -! Sink. sun. in crimson far mT. Float oul- pale miMrti. arwivr we roar. White brown and silver, flame una gray. Round roek and tand tna wsiars pour; For night hats clew to ail the store O! wild a h.rmoiiT that rings, And earth hath not all her lor Such legends as ses-miulo Ininas. Jere s Hiring silver shallows fray The ruby tutted, froldeu floor. Here woudrous twuit foret sway 'Hoanu coral porch and corridor Where lurk but ail. why yet implore rhe npb-nd a dreiuu that iound them clings. Where the dead lie who heard I yore The legends that sea-music bring. fnl Is the sea that could not stay The tides of men. that evermore Bollea orstward still andcleft Its spray w ith hollowed trunk and dauntless oar; Here reclan trireme reeled before Rome'spurple Kalley : here sea-kiugs Lett led ou wave and blackened shore Tbe legends that sea music brings. Eaitti keeps not now the face she wore: The siuoke-lrails du-k. the wide white wings: No loLiter as of old shall soar lue legends tual sea-u.usic brings. Hortiiuer Whetlcr. QUKELN 'LIZBETIL Forty years ago the present ''Meadow avenue" of Van liuren was the "Old Back Road.". It skirted a broad stretch of marsh which was covered in summer with a clumpy growtu of rushes abd coarse grass, except where little proui- pntaries of partial upland jutted ag- f restively out mt j the marsh, and held he itosilion with tangled defences of swamp maple, black alder and cat brier. A dozen or fifteen acres of such dlt pu ed territory inclosed the old "Swamp College" on three sides, aud was the only play-ground provided for tbe young people who availed them selves of the disadvantages which the scho il afforded disadvantages so ob vious that the Dane, Swamp College, haviug been once ironically applied to it, was regai ded as such a happy bit that it became the ordinary name f the school. When 1 was matriculated at the in stitution, Mr. Eliphalet Gibbs was i:s president and faculty. lie bad been old and queer when he asKumed the po sition, and he was twenty-Cve years older and twenty-five times as queer when be relinquished it aud entered an imtituliou for tbe aged and Infirm. 1 regret that 1 have not space to de scribe Mr. Gib! is, nor bis methods of teaching, nor the old school-bouse, that was so suitable a setting for so rare u educator, that my youuger readers may compare the'r own school advantages w 1th thoe of their parents. My chum at the college of course you understand that it was merely a child's school was Tom McKelway, Farmer Simpson's hired boy. Tom's wages were board, clothing and a day's schooling now and then, aud his duti s were those of man, woman and boy all together. He was awkward, plaiu. badly dressed eveu lor tliose days, and so Mrs. Simpson Bald 'real back ward in his laiuin',' in which opinion her judgment was better than her gi am mar. for Tom was backward, ab solutely and relatively, too, compared with even Swamp College standards! 1 bad bee. i so unfortunate as to enter Mr. Uibbs' iuilituliui of learning with out garments s milar to those of the oilier puiuis. I wore ott.ro clothes, aud I suppose -I hoie, at any tale that I wo e Mime ot the mauu-is of l iv.1 zeJ oot ie; y, 1 r my gentle mother, until her death, a short time before 1 r-ame to live with my uncle at Van 4 J 'ire n. had been my teacher. Perhais fche bad guarded me too carefully, for I was a thoroughly surprised boy when 1 (ft uud myself sui rounded by Mr. Gibus' collect on ot hi man animals, all un caged aud utitetheied. Tbey made grimaces at me; they ;a led me 'Dandy ' and 'Miss Nancy,' aud would probably have laid violeul i.ands upon me bad not Tom come to my re cue. L 10k e 'ere!' be said. 'The feller as goes to bunliu' o' ibis 'ere little gieeny fifore be larus to hoe bis owu row '111 h.-.ve me to Laiuile,' and after that I was unmolested. There was no reason for Tom's championship of me except that 1 was a stranger and smaller than my tor menioia. and Tom was born a defender of tbe feeble. In those days no weak and i eedy thing came into liu way that be did not befriend il. He Would stop in tbe midst of the most exciting game to In t a turtle out of a wagon-rut and head il towaxJs the sw amps and sa.ety, aud be seemed to do such things with out thinking as naturally as be breathed. Nearly opposiw) the school lived Mrs. Sally Skilleit. This :ady owned a large and various stock of poultry, whit h the encouraged to open-air exeicise quite to tbe disadvantage of the school children. She had learned to her cost that tresspassers upon the upland were summarily dealt with, and, accordingly, she sedulously beaded off her feathere.t family whenever tbey turned their bills in that direction. But tbe load and the swamp she cou s dered as theirs, and defended their rights to the latt wag of her wicked tongue. Of course she regarded the chil Iren as interlopers. If tbey played in the road, she took tbe view that tbey were appropriately tbe sand-baths of her ch ckens; if tbey splashed through the swamp, that tbey were tresspassing upon the hunting-grounds of be. ducks. Singularly enough, the children, de spite her many uuj'U accusations, were not disposed to be t cious. lu deed, it never occurred to us that we had any rights where ducks or geese or chickens were concerned, and the mas ter's course, wh-n Mrs. Skillett made complaint agamtt us, was calculated to confirm us in our humi.iiy. For when the Skillett complained, some one was whipped forthwith, without trial or hearing. Still he was not a very cruel man, this funny o d master of ours. He be labored his pupi.s for tbe sake of con ciliating Mrs. Skillett, of whom he was even more afraid than we were, perhaps becauss, unlike us, he was not built for speed. Tom found me one day trying to set a snare to catch a rabbit. This we used to do by bending a sapling au l fastening Its top to the ground, and then attaching to it a kind of noos tlirough which an animal must put its he d In order to get at the ba.t. The nibble of the game sprung the trap, a:.d the tree rebound; d to its position, carrying with it the victim hangeJ h gh in air. 'You won't catch one. Max,' sail Tom. 'Them chaps from 3 ew Yoi k hex Leen combiu this place with a pack o' hounds fur a week an more.' 'Well, it'll do no harm to set the share, anyway. II .Id down the tree, cant yon, whde I lix tbe string.' I vow, Max, If there was any chance y your ketcntn a rabbit, I wouldn't help yen. said be, settling upon one knee and beading to the work. 'Et Sea-Music. here's a little cotton-tail left, I'd like 'o see him git fair play." I had made one or two unsuccessful attempts to adjust the string, when Tom suJdenly allowed the tree to fly l ack to its position, and exclaimed: 'Let's make it a king snire, MaxI Tuere's a tnumplu' youug birch tliat'U bend like a bulrush!' In a moment be was half-way up the tree he bad pointed out; then, s wringing bis feet away from the pole, be bauil-over-handed toward tbe top, coming nearer to mother earth with every measurement as the slender stem bent with his weight. When his feet touched terra fir ma I was able to help, and to gether we bi ought the top to the ground and adjusted tbe string. I laid plans for an early visit to the swamp on the morrow, lest some other boy should discover and steal the pi iz i which 1 felt sure o having taken witli the snare; but early ou that morning my unle requested me to a -company him to Oldtown, our nearest market, saying that he would leave me at the school on his way home. By the time we reached tbe town my rabbit had become a reality that weighed not less than nine pound I contrived to add to my miseiy by in quiring of a dealer what rabbits were 'worth a pound,' aud I wondered what the mean scamp wbo bad got mine would do with the money. Then I suddenly remembered that, by good rights, Tom was entitle 1 to half tbe avail v. I deel led to offer him three-quarters of it if he would assist me in compelling the thler to disgorge. I resolved that when I was left at the school-honfe door 1 would make a fly.ng excursion into the swamp, to see what game bad come to my snare; but, to my disappointment, my uncle got out of the wagon, accompanied me to the door, an 1 explained to Mr. Gibbs the cause of my tardiness. When I settled myself at my desk, I saw Tom at work manufacturing, with his crippled old jack-knife, iniuia'.uie baskets cf peacli-stoues for distribution among some Utile girls. 'How about that rabbit!' I whisp r ed. 'What rabbit?' be asked. 'Oh why, Max, you won't ketch auy thing.' I opsued my book mechanically. It was tbe season when the woods wear that 'sunshine of their own.' which glows brightest, aud richest in the low land foliage. My eyes wandered out. of the window along the path I had taken the day before when I set out ou my trapping expedition. Just where that dead cedar grinned, a skeleton at a magnificent feast of foliage, I had turned off into a dens -r thicket. A little further on was the maple I bad unsuccessful y tried to bend, aud 1 thought 1 could a the branch I had broken banging limp aud dismantled. My snare was just beyond. It had been one of the group whose yellow tops, a little higher than their ueigh bore', I could see waving lazily in t1 e quiet breeze. Tbeie was one top, 1 noticed, winch was not so yellow as the others, having been partially strlpied of its leaves. It haJ a peculiar moilou of its own; it bent and lifted and bent again, aud could it be that a we'glii. was peudant from it' Supporting myself upon my elbows, and my elbows upon the form before me, I managed to altar my a gle of vision. Something was hanging to no, not yes, it was, too U was my klng-siiarel Instantly I lowered myself and jam med an elbow into Tom's side, ill eyes shot into mine, and, with them, out over the wilderness of leJs and yellows to where my prize ill pied dis consolately into its gay surroundings. by jingo!' be exclaimed, with dan gerous emphasis. But our neatest ueighbors were hobnobbing over a game of f ix and geese. 'That's a slasher!' What boy could sit quietly at bis desk with au uuat propriated fortune of his own winning dangling so dai.g- r ously in sight of forty uuscrupuio-.s claimants? We begged leave to go out, and in another minute Tom an J I were creep ing close under the windows, and ttieu slinking away Into the bushes. Ou e out of sight of mates and master, we scampered over bogs and ibrouu briers, too hurriedly for general con versation, but I managed to tell Tom of my inquiries at tlie market, 'and whatever it brings, Tom, half is jours, you know.' W'y, I ain't got no claim onto it. Greeny I' he called back, for lie was distancing me. 'AU 1 done was 1 1 bold down the tree an' help clap ou the string.' He got ont of my sight before we reached tbe snare, aud wneu i came up to it be stood, with bunds iu pockets and mouth puckered into an unvoiced whistle, gazing up not at the nine pound cotiou-tail, but at one of Mrs. bkillett's big gray geese, 'it is wed tor jou. Tom.' 1 thought, that you have already repudiated a 1 proprietorship iu the king-snare!' We walked awa to where tbe excavated soil of a ditch formed a high, baid path. "T looks 's if I'd got myself into hot water with my blamed old k n; snare!' he sail. 'I can stau'' Gidbs lickln' an' Mr Ski licit 's jawiu', but Simpson's only waitiu' fur a chance to cit red o' me without showin' up too small among the neighbois, fur they all know that I've worked fur him faithful all summer. I've beerd him blow about Mi' Skillett 's live geee timj an' agin, but he'll bless that tl ere dea ! one ef she complains an' gits him a 'scuse fur sackiu' me jlst t-z wint r's coin in' on. In summer a boy kin hang up bis bat 'most any wa'es, but iu win ter it's diffrunt. He s tootie i even then a id thre w ou. a leaf p auk to a dr wning grasshopper. I tried to assume a share of the re sponsibility, but be lgnoieJ me as if I bad been the veriest baby -1 was only tin ee years bis junior. Besides, what could I do? My uucle seemed unap proachable, I was scarcely acquaiute l with him, and I felt as friendless as Tom himself. As we stood there we beard voices fait her up tbe ditc'. It was rexes-, and our companions we e searching for u. We went to meet them and led th.-m off the scent of our game. We had been in school an hour, per il ays, and Tom and I were still laying our beads together to decide upon a course of action, w hen there was a gen eral uprising and lookirg out of win dows. Along a swamp pa b galloped Mrs. Skillett, bearing down upon tbe school bouse like an avenging fury. One hand grasped tbe neck of that luckless goose, while the other hand held in place a diriy BTubounet. She threw open our door with a bang that overturned a bench, whose occu pants generally kept it wavering in unstable equilibrium, depositing those small philosophers up.-n tha floor in various ims'uresof f Ijht and amaze ment. Then fehs whirled herself across the room, aud when that old goose descended upou the master's desk, ink bottles, slates an 1 ferules left it for a hurob'er position. She oiiened her mouth and the cyclone burst. The poor old master! No wonder be held on to bis wig as if he expected it to be consumed in that hot blast of bue. No wonder his shivering voice playel him false as be came down our line from boy to boy inquiring who had set tbe imp. Expressions of relief began to ieer out of the furrows of bis worried face as, having nearly reached the end, ha still met with denials. He supposed that some of us wire lying, but be could easily forgive us. so anxio s ras he to evade the responsibility w hich lie would incur with our conviction. He cam e to me. "Yes, sir, I- answered, quaking all over, 'the trap was miue. 1 meant to catch a rabbit.' Than the relief fled to cover, for, by virtue I think of my good clothes, be had been used to exempt me from the rougher discipline of the school, liiu Tom provided for him a way of esca. e Tom who had no rights, no relatives, no distinction of any kind that anybody was bouud to respect. - 'Little Greeny didu'town that snare,' said he, s cowling frightfully, 'it was my tree- I found it, au' 1 but it dowu, au' I sot the snare, an' the whole busi ness was mine.' 1 believe I know that I tried to re monstrate, but Tom was dragged out into the arena iu frout of Mrs. Skillett. And she she raged, her face blazing her eyes bulging, ani her fists thrash ing the a r. 1 can not reproducs any tirade of old Sally's, and 1 am glad that I can not. One thing, though, that she said 'ras tha . if Tom diJu't 'sh .w up with an other goose before he was an hour older she'd tee that l.e didu t lay bis pauper bones iu Simpsou's garret anotner night.' Just then two or three empty hay ricks went raitllug by, routing a pro testing flock of poultry. She urabbed bv the legs her untimely dead Tuauk giving was turee weeks lu the future and brought it thumping about Tom's ears once, twice, and then rushed out to the rescue cf its squealing survivors. Gibbs' vocabulary of abuse was so meager In comparison with that of the retiring teruiageut that he did not a: tetupt to follow her line of argument. He picked up a great hickory stick au 1 began limbering il in a very cruel way. All eyes were upon bun, and no one saw little Harmony Cushman slip down off her seat. Few saw her making her way falterinuly toward the stage of ..cllon, steadying her tiny, trembling foiin against the benches as she passed. But every eye, wiJe open w th aston ishment, was upon her as, with one i i tile suppot ting hand upon a beiicn, sli4 plucked at the master's cjat, with the oilier. He did not notice her be was still manipulating the instrument of torture so the brave little creature stepped to where she could look directly up into Die angry, distorted face that, from her tiiliptitiau point or view must have seemed tbe face of a Mo och. 1 I would five Tommy my Queen 'Lizbelh, I would,' she said, panting aad swallowing, as she clasped and un clasped her tiny bauds. Wha-at's that? What d'ye say?' Slid Gibbs. I would give Tommy my Queen 'Lizbeth, an' he could give her to Mi' Skille U Queen 'Lizbeth's weal pwetty, pwettier'n Mi' i-killett's gway goose. She's all white,' she went on, the color flashing only once or tw ice in'o her baby-white face, 'au' she's got a wed wib'jou wound 'er neck, an' I I would give Tommy the wed wibbou too, I would. The master looked puzzled. But Becky Build, a big, good-uatuiel giil, jumped to her feet, snapping her fin gers for permission to niieak. 'I know. Mr. Gibbs, she cried, Q icen 'Lizbeth's a big tame goose o' Harmony's. It follows her all round and eat's out'u her iiand. I 'spec she wants to give it to git Tommy out'n this scrape.' Little Harmony sidled close to Tom and stroked pitilully bis ragi;eJ sleeve. She was so pale and shook so that bo forgot himself and bis danger, and, io.)ping, lifted ber to a bench. But she could not sit still, aud Flipped to her feet a;aiii as the master said: "Tiie goose may be yours to play with, little girl, but I guess she aiu't ynurs to give a-vay. 1 guess your father'd tell you that mighty quick.' Q ieen 'Lizheth's my very own. I briuged 'er up my own self ever since she was ou'y on'y so big,' holding the lips of her tiny index lingers a half i ch apart, and gradual. y iujldasiui the distance bet wee u them as her truth fulness overcame hereagerness. 'Fapa'll let me give her to Tommy.' 'I'm 'ft aid not, little girl,' said the master. Poll,' put In Becky; 'Cushman'd givi Harmony a cow if she wauled it!' 'May I ifo home and get ' 'Kin I go witu lei'f' interrupted Becky, eager to be the first applicant for a possible honor. As usual, with out waiting for permission, she jumpeJ upon the bench aud got her p.nk log cabin sunbonuet. Soue one banded ber i s dainty miniature in white, and having tied it over Harmony's pretty head she took the child's baud and led ber out. A half-hour afterward it was tele graphed around the school that Becky was returning, aud wheu she opened the door, and deKisitiug a great basket nsliie, lifted Harmony in besiJe it, there was no lack f attention on the pait of ber audience. Swingiu the log-cabin by its strings she pauted a speech, the burden of which was that Cushman stld that Queen 'Lizbelh was hern (Harmony's), an' she could give her away if she was a min' to. ' ' Little Harmony meanwhile tugged at the basket until she got it at 1 om's fee', and removed the cover. Q ieen 'Lizoeilt blundered out upon the floor where she went pitching about, charg ing upon tbe pupils ludiscriniluat-ly, stretching out ber long neck with its gay decoration, and hissing in a way that created quite a panic At the command of the master Tom recaptured her, and helJ her while be received iirtruct ions for her delivery to Mrs. Skblett. No one was behind b in but H nnony and 1, au l none but I saw the little creature stroke softly Queen 'Lizbeth's p ettj white wings aud lay her face against them. None bat I saw two or three bright tears roll off of the glossy feathers, and 1 did uot tell Tom for fear be would carry th jrr"y" tmck to Cushman's. The wh ile school waited upon Mrs. Sklilet, and the master watched us Iron tha doorway. Nilly skillett jiwel,of cour-e. .ti t T nil did not seem to bear. As lie sol j Qu eu 'Lizbelh ou her webs, 'Hold her still a minute. Max, will you?' he said, and while i pinioned the strong wings he untied the 'wed wibbou. When tbe captlveQueen was released she went pludging and s u.iking about t' e iuclosure into which we had intro duced ber, and ber new owner slowed a little to watch her. 'Mr. Skillett,' I shouted, tkini advantage or the lull, 'if you make trouble for Tom up at Simpson's, we'd catch that goos aud carry her b.tck to Cushnian's. Wou't we, fellows?' I had called upon them at a venture, but they responded right boyfully; re sponded with a perfect pow-wow of threats. Tbey would 'cram the swamp with snares,' tbey would 'hang every feather she owned if she ever peached.' And she dtdu't. MODERN LANGUAGES. They Are Now Tauzht Scientifical ly as Parts of Scholarship. The real change that has come a'.xtnt in the point of view from which the jilnce of the modern lanunires in edu cation is regarded was well Muted by Mr. Lowell, when he said that the mod ern 1 inguages used to le thought "un worthy to be taught at all exoept as a social accomplishment or as a commer cial subsidy," whereas they are now taught thoroughly and scientifically as parts of scholarship, and the existence of the Modern Langnage Association, composed of teachers of them, helps to show the new basis upon which the teaching of them has been put. We are all pretty well agreed that our re spected grandfathers, if thev were col lege bred, attached too much import- J aOce to the traditional "humanities" aud too little to any thing outside of them. 1 he restriction was evert more marked in this country than in any othor, because "the education of a gen tleman" was less regarded, nobody in this country, at least in the Northern States, being educated with an exclu sive view to follow that pursuit, though the education of a gentleman in rJng land for nearly two centuries meant mainly the ability to read Latin. In New Kngland a college education that would fit a man for the ministry, and this involved the power of reading tiio Scriptures in the original tongues a d the standard commentaries upon them, which were for the most part in Latin. At present a knowledge of Oermia would seem to be important for a min ister, unless he be content to take bis Biblical criticism at second band from ltobertson Smith, but its importance has scarcely leen recognized by the theological seminaries, aud even less by the colleges. The English university training has Wen said, by a man who lias undergone it, to fit the receiver of it very weil for tho trude of gentleman, uud for no i it her. If the sneer means merely that liberal education is not .in d.istr.a!, tln-re ia not much point in it. A man who has been educated to ap preciate "the be.it that has beeu thought in the world'' is a much mure worthy a .d capable huiiiau being on that account wuetuer tue appreciation is airectiy helpful to him or not in the work of getting bis living. Perhaps Matthew Arnold's phrase which we have just quoted is as good a summary definition of culture as could bo made. A ceu- tury ago n would nave oeeu taken to , August, Here reposes ihe famous and mean that a man mu t kuow Oreek and j oble Inau Mllor j.lC(,i K.niiaro. the Latin. ben i generation ago it yeuetlan (Count Aibskv). elc. By the meant this much more than it menus Te's desiie, the ambassador am con tlus now. Lord Bacon s saying of bis g(ll iu T-le Hu,, tl,e wl c.Ulltrv of own essays that "the Latin volume of j uka. je wuere he d.ed. May b.s soul them (being m the universal language) JmJ ,lis JuJt ro t m ejw lunv hist as long as books last, shows a v.eW r litjiruturn thut lt.l aim. ..it,. - - A 1 aris pair recently offered au our own time, ludicrous as it is w hen applied to a work that now, uea lv three centuries later, is known to i ll scholars as one of the monuments ot Knglish prose, while the veision of it iu "the universal language" is known only to a few antiquaries. This view is now pretty thoroughly exploded. Lord Macaulay s saying that Knglish liter al lire was of far more value in every way than all the literature of antiquity limy be an exaggeration, while bn I Sherbrooke's insistauco upon tho ad vantage of being able to lead a French writ, r iu bis own langungo was greuter than tl at of being able to read ttiu 111 d tuid the -lliicid iu tbe original is o-viou-dy perverse. Nevertheless, be tween two men, one of whom was fa miliar with the literature of France and ( ierniany and the other of Greece and Home, iu addition to that of bis ow n Liu-Huge, there would not now lu much question that the former was the lietter educated man, nor can there be any real doubt that the literature of K;irope since tlie revival of learning is of more educational value than all tu it w.ia extant at that epoch. 'Ibe teach-r of modern languages is now able to ns sert himself as a scholar, and not us something bke a dancing-master, en gaged in inculcating a "social accom plishment," or a "commercial subsidi ary." It is recognized ihut his em ployment has to do with scholarship, and that he is as respectable a figure iu the world of letters as if be professed Greek. X. Y. Times. Her Resolutions. In looking over a woman's list ot good resolutions for the new year, we fail to find tlie following. jn o. l. ever to stop a noi se car on I a curve or on an inclination. No. 2. Always signify t the diiver or conductor iu some way save by un upl.fted eyebrow, that she wants the car t ' stop. No. 3. Never get into deep conver- sa! Ion with a friend, and forgetting h t street, UHlil she is a block farthe , blame the conductor for not stopping more quickly. No. 4. Never lay her wet umbre la down on the silk goods counter in a s'ore. No. o. To carry tbe same umbrella up and down an I not iu and out. No. 6. To buy more thau two post age stamps at a time. No. 7. T mend old clothes before bhe gives them to the po ir. No. o. lo refrain from joining any more committees. " No. 9. To refnin from tellinz every one sue meets wnat ber grippe symp toms were and what she did for them. No. 10. To refrain fro-n wrlfng 1S9 any farther than Into March 18'.U, A young Harvard graduate is get . . ..... .... r r. nrxA in cerTs at Boston to keep the poor out of con the saloons. The adniis-lou t cket en- titles the bolder to a bun an. a cup of ff Vl Mi.-s Stoney Keally, Mr. Nogoole. your friend Charlie Blank has mailt an impression ou my heart. Nogoode (who has been rejected) Naturally. Blank is a marble cutier. The girl of fourteen, in Columbu O., who created a sensation lecenily by eloping with a man nearly 3 times her age, is now a widow, ber husba-jd hav ing died from pneumonia, the outcome of an attack of the grippe. It Is stated that a hotel to contain 4iX) rooms snd to cost $l,xO,Oi.) will lie erected In Chicago at the corner of Dearborn, Quincy aTid Jackson streets. It Js to be fourteen stories high, exclu sive of the basement. There were five Hungarian wed dings in one bouse, iu East Bridgeport, Conn., recently. Tbey were ach cele brated in c -btume and accorJii.g to the custom of Hungarians. Import mt batiks r marine sponges, including all thi km Is most valued iu commerce, have lneii discovered ot the southern coast ot Sicily. They ex t n I from 15 to IS in nine leagues in length , and are from 0 to 31 ells in depth. Greeks and Italians are hasten ing to the spot. Outside Salonica another ctnetery lias been found, or ancient Thesiiiati times, with many sarcophagi still un opened. In many of the ipu.chra) inscriptions is inserted a clause thst whoever opens the aaicophagus. and places theie.u another corpse, shall pay a heavy fine. An a'ei t correspondent of a West ern journal, who feels that the pro tracted spell of mild weather justifies hitu in worKiugoff some summer litera ture, has "found" in Kentucky "a 3-nioutbs'-old child who can talk plainly, and who could, at the age of three weeks, utter a few words." A company has been formed iu London for the purpose of erect nig a tower in that city on the Kiffel plan. 1 he lower is to be 1 SjO feet biiih. Five hundred pounds aie offeiel as a prize for the best design f.ir the pro posed lower, and JL'2-1 1 for the second best design. The competition is opMi to the world. The iJre-s worn l y Mrs. Roliert Ballatine at the wedding of her da.'gli- i ter ltouerta, to J -dm O. 11. l'ltney, of Mornstown, iccei tly, was, it is said, made a p.ece o' silk especially woven fur the Fmpress of AU'lnt. I'tiutigh was manufactured for two gowns and theu the pattern was detro)eib Worth designed liotli gowns. Burglars recently broke into a house iu London, but obtained little booty for thdr pains. A newspaper, lu giving ac, ouu of ibe aflaii', upoke of mu ll valuable propeity they over looked. Acting on this bint the ras cals paid a second visit and made a treat haul. They left a note express ing their obligations to the newspaper reporter. A party of surveyors In the wild Cgat ui. ru conn ry in New Zealand have discovered aud brought back to civilization a white woman, wbo has been identified by a scar ou her body as the daughter of a s -tiler, stolen 1'ifteeu yeais ago, when a cu 11, by the Ma nia. She Was living w all a .d.mil as his w He, and could nol reincuiocr a of Kng!i-di. A' marble tablet possessing mien-st for a: ci.a-..logi s has j fou j j,, Agalf, Ci imea. u It is the i0il0Waii ,,1Sc, pU(,i,: "l.iii: word great Ix-eu tl.ere .llili ! eminent Frenchman fcl.UO l..r his au tobiography. He accepted this offer. aim lifter gelling a ch ck for lha atnoust, MMit on Ins biography, which was a follows: "1 wa.-. horn al Lyon iu Iti.i'J, and since that tune I cau recall nothing of any account, except that 1 have not been killed in any of the up- isiiigs. " An undertaker, in Burlington, VL, has Completed a remarkable contract w.iich he began about two years ago. A man who reai.led ne.ir tin le bad a i.iigeoak Iree ou h .- place t ut down and transformed into lumber. An ar rangement was theu entered ii.lo with an undertaker to uiiiiiiif.ict ure a casket out of tlie lumber it: d euelnse it in an outer ca-'.e in readiness lor the d solu tion of the owuci. Ills d.alh (I d In. I occur until receni ly, wu.-n the oaken casket was tliulicd a... I trimmed aud the deceased buried iu iU Tbe Rv. Ilfnry B. Kliot, a Pres byterian clergyman of New Vork ci'y, thinks he has in his k . seas on U. hae.1' "Madonna del I'opolo," or "T. e Madonna of the Veil," which was thought to have been loit for many jeara. Mr. Eliot's reason for bis le liel in the authenticity of the canvas s that when be lirst secured it. twenty jears agi how, be (hes not state it was teen by an Knglls i expert in tlie s'udloof a picture restorer who pro nounced it a geiium-j Iltphael. Why be now makes pub! c his bc-hef for th first time is not st.it e I. A coincidence that is very r. mark able is re. orted from B s on. A team ster who had bt en hurt by a car i mi ning into h's wagon brought suit fur daniRges against tne railway c mpauv. The case came up recent. y, and th jury decided to Vis.t tin- scene of t!:e j collision t Sleep hill. They eiuKu Ke l I in a car belonging to the ! teu lai.t and I bad just reached the hill when the ear rao into a furniture v. .gnu, breaking two of the windows a:.d shaking up the ! '"'"in"16 tea,"jler "l ver diet for lll-X. A relapse of Tie grip; in the case of an Indianapolis g rl was attended with a spell of sneezing that la-ted, with the exception of a short lime she was under the Influence of chloiofoi ui, for 48 hours. The sufferer, lew bouts after the siell set m, became weak that she would fall almost lifeles-i on the pillow after each paroxjsm of sneezing. Her throat swelled ter. iblv. ana ior a time it was I eared fie opera j t on or tracheotomy would have to be I iriormed. Alter the si eezing ceased, j the girl gained strength r.i idly, and at i last accounts she win well advanced towards r.-covt ry. The amending doc tors declare the case i. w ithout parallel. A. novel cure was effected by the uso of a dynamo a Wesigate-on-Ses, Eng ln L A Mr. II. owe while trimming a giate to make a Ut, deta'-hed a small ' "'j"ti 71 . I, . ' , "-"-""- ,D"m , ". K'""lly "Uer took hiintoae.yn.tin that was work- ing near by. TSrown plat ed hiiejea close to the machine as posMi ie, and tl,e mugn' tlc attraction was sum le .tly Int-use lo withdraw the splinter of iron ficm Ids rye. which was lus'anily relieve J aud gave no 1 uithcr trouble. r" fr fit 1
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