iiiilli mm Mill trail. B, F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLIV. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 5, 1S90. NO. 11. Is i '-mi no e'.eairers report having lighted great Icebergs but none of the -ap tains have the gumption to tow one :( the things iulo port and put aa end to the Uik of an ice famine. tw Hampshire proposes to do a lenaible thing, and that ia to create a rwit State park, or parks, so as to pre vrre the forestry of the White and fraucoma Mountain districts. Private jreeU will soon destroy them if th y us not thus protecteJ, yet the fun s if the State, merely for their I eauty ind vu'ue as attractions to tourists, are worth preserv ng. Th Portugese peoplt are gttting tired of the Impotent demonstrations af the uiobs ia the street t,f I-btbon, who probably represent chiefly the dis arderly elements to be found in all $reat cities, ready to about for or (gainst any policy. With the subsi lence uf the mob excitement the Gov ernment may be able to flx up some rt of an agieeuieut with Great I'.nta m us to African postessions. N:w Oulkaxs, though prohib ting j.r.ic tights, lias determined to permit j,,vr c ntesls under the management of lejulai :y organized and chartered ath Irt.c clubs. No great harm would fol low tins umendment to the law if it coiil. 1 I- carrie 1 out in ita proper spirit, t,ut wln-u gove contests re permitted in rer-i'-taKe clubs, others not so re spectable :i be formed to evade the law, tlie gloves w.U be dimi 'ished In s.ze, aud ullinately prize lighting will be n-Uued, minus the name. Max o'Kfi.l, who is shortly to lec ture in Toronto, compares America with Trance, and he says the people heie have not learned to enjoy life like the French, ''who are the happiest peo ple iu the world. They are satisfied to take a little at a time in all undertak ing lit re th-re is such a pushing and crowd. ug for wealth uud power that men do net know what happiness is. You must keep pace with the proces iIoq or drop out and be lost." Max appears to be a tolerably close-observer. The Amrrican Forestry Association is proving that it in not merely an or namental Society, but Uiat it was or ganiaed for service. An urgent memo ia! bas teen addresed lo Congress, asking that something I done at once to pre nve the f.reMts of the public domain. The fact is well known that many mil lion !". u s worth of timber is destroyed by tut: and stolen by thieves each year, the estimate being (hat an annual lues of Il0,uo0,00 is sustained in this way. 5o attention, worthy of this important matter, has been paid to it. and Con gress should promptly take such action as is necessary to preserve the iorestf New Yi:k"3 Slate Commission in lunacy conies out strongly in opposition to county care for the insane, and in favor f State institutions. A quartet of a century ao county houses wen advocated, on theoretical ground , culedy because It was thought to be an advantage to put the patient in the country, and not to gather a large num ber in a single Institution. Tbe ex per iruce of 20 years, however, is wh lly in favor of Mate institutions; indeed, the patients In county houses are very likely to be maiie wore by carelessness, neg lect or iguorant treatment; while large Stat iustltutious ran afford to employ tl' highest talent for the care ot insane patient. Tiir ui.thracite coat mines are Idle because bituminous coal is cheaper. All the combinations, consolidations, taint U.atiou and reorganization in th world will not alter this inexorable fact The I'laiU, the capital and the labor ol the anthracite mines were arranged ten and fifteen years ago in ignorance of th !.' of bituminous suppl.es, and in th belief that authracite could keep pact with their production. It has not, Eltumiaous coal steadily drives out anthracite, which does not keep pac "With the growth of the country, and tlx result is that no rest or peace will come In the anthracite regloni until the Inevitable scaling down takes place. The West coast of Afric is gettinf to he as attractive a place for commer cial adventures as America was twe centuries ago, and the manners and methods of the u w -comers are much the same as that of the French. Eng lull, Swedish and Dutch settlers of thi country. Kach nation acquires posses- ou of as much available territory a Poaib'e, conciliates or drives out tb native, and then prepares for a strug gle with its Christian neighbors. There, as here, Ureat Britain demands, and ii likely to get the lion's share, and, il must l confessed, she deserves it, foi her ptvp have sustained the greatei part of the eipense and danger thai have attended early explorations, and have made a settlement possible. Is ISt'.l China supplied ninety-seven nt. or the tea used in the worlJ, m1 ladu three per cent. In 13SS she supplied fortv-three oer ceat and India fifty-nine per cent This decline is rel- iv?, and not real, owing to increased consumption. But the India grower prospering Immensely and going h'ad rapidty. the result of superior in telligence, the introduction of im proved machinery, and betur methods. lnl China ha kept up her old sys tem. It is said that popular Indian Planters have expressed the belief that within a few ars Indian tea can be ld ia the European and American markets at ten and fifteen cent per Puund, e,j,ial iu quality and flavor to Chu ese tea now selling at from live to tit time this sura. LEGENDS OF THE WEST. The legends of the west are as sturdy. .-epeuuem uu u rorciDie as the createa mem, and for this . " no otner, deserve more than passing mention. What could, for Instance, be more poetic than the atorv f ih. i Iee,' which was related to the writer not long ago by one of the oldest sel tiers r xastera Iowa? The tale or to -ipesde more properly, the legend is uaaea ou an oaK iree, for mauy years ine ooiy one standwg within a radius e gnt or nine milev How did tlie lre come there? That tlie unsophisti cated pioneers could no- explain; so they resorted to invention, and gave -uiipucj to a sxory wnicn wiu live long ifter tbev are forzotten. Earlv in th year 1840, so the report goes, soon after the so-called Blackhawk purchase bad tieen consummated, a joung couple em- urraiea rrom ew lork State to I he west The man (BUI Brewster was his uame) was open hearted, hospitable and jourageoos, and hiswife was a represen -alive American woman of the middle lass, industrious, kind and faithful. vi er weir arrival in Iowa the two lfoung people went out "prospecting" ; ooking for suitable land) every day in J finally reached a tract of fat prairie and which pronrssd to yield rich . . . . . . jropa. iiere mey aecuiea to take up heir abode; and the woman relieved of dl anxiety and worry, then and there rave birth to a son, and at the same noment to commemorate the event tu oak vappling sprang up, which was jver afterward called the "Lone Tree. The sapling. In course of time, became i siout oaa tree, ana stood lor many ears in its isolated position, a mystery O ths uninitiated, an object of never xasing curiosity to the old settlers, and tnd a monument of interest to the stu- lent of American life and manners, an til a vandal cut it down, f ur or five ears ago, to obtain a supply of fire wood without the necessity of hauling t nine or ten miles. Scarcely less interesting is a bit of egendary talk current in the region of .he Wyoming II Ills a chain of mound ke elevations located on the Western i'lore of the Mississippi river, between .he towns of Davenport and Muscatine, la. These hills were once the ru-etlnsr Uce of thousa-.ds of Indians, and hun- ireds or their dead were buried in gi gantic mounds constructed on the crests f the elevations. When the while el tiers first appeared, they received a ld welcome from the red men who jrandered through the country which was once their own. but had b-.-en ceded o the United States government by .heir chiefs. The savages carried vengeance In eir hearts and murder iu their eyes; tnd many a bold agriculturist, who had waved tlie hardships of pioneer life to tcquire some land lor his family, never returned from bis cornfield, an i the wailing and lamentations of widow! jromen and fatherless children were t hoed from one farm to the other al n at every week. One of these imt ut one Sunday morning to collect bis saltla. lie ascended one of the sloping lill, not noticing tlie form of an Indian hi was lying cone aled among the all weeds growing on the summit T.ie wttler'a foot never crosed the threshold f his borne gm. He was murdered jy the hidden foe, and his body thrown n the waters of the Mississippi. His wife, growing anxious about bis welfare, at noon sent out her little laughter to hasten her father's return. The child, inured to danger, undertook Mt task, but had not proceeded far wiien she noticed a red man on the bill, tnd, turning ato ind. one behind ber. K scape seemed impossible; but just at Uiat moment a crevice large eoojgh to souceal ber opened In the side of .he hill. She sought the refuge alus providentially offered, and as toon as she had concealed ber telf the opening closed, and to wr startled sight was revealed a cavern f large dimensions, of which she was ihe only occupant Not until ine following evening did the crevice open again. The girl, al most famished by this time, crept out :f ber biding place, and, seeing that all lauger was past, ran home, where she related ber strange story to a number jf neighbors who had met at the cabin to solve the mystery of ber disappear ance. Subsequent search ra led to re veal a cavern anywhere near where the girl had been so miraculously saved; but it woulJ nevertheless, be a dangerous thing to doubt the veracity of this tale in the presence of the few survivors of Uiose stirring times; and popular taste has applied to the hill, which will sooner or later be made famous by th s story, and the very euphonic but very significant name of "1'rovidence Hole." Another and scarcely less interesting instance of providential Interference w.tU the affairs of meu has mauy be lievers among the good folks inhabiting the bottom bands of the Cedar near its confluence with the Iowa river. In the early days of Iowa this part of the ter ritory was inhabited by a wild desper ate class of people, who lived on what they could steal from more industrious ueighbora. Horse stealing was the favorite pursuit of the male portion ot this community, anJ many enterprising meu saw the fruits of their toils des troyed for want of live stock which dis appeared at the most inopportune times. Horse thieves In those days expected no mercy when they had had the misfor tune to fall into the hands of the sett le: s; and when one bright June morn ing in the year 1S40 nine of them were caught by a detachment of outraged farmers they prepared themselves to meet death with bold faces. The gang was conducted to a huge oak tree on the banks of the Cedar river. whose nine branches Invited the settlers to finish the work of vengeance, one man after the other was supplied with a hempen necktie, and arrangement? were made to send them to kingdom Mum nt the same instant The signal was ffiven. A fierce stroke of light ning and a deafening roar of thunder followed the command which was to mi tlie earthlv existence of nine human beings. Eight bodies dangled in the aie. The ninth was lying on the grdMn 1, ..vmI bv the lizhtning. which had 'ripped the branch on which be was ' fmm th trunk of the tree. It I -u m miracle, for the man, after recov 'exing from his stupor, proe 1 his inno Icencetothesatisraction of the "W,P- lanta." The eight tnieves nai mm ti.-(r fmt but nrovidence iuterfeied in ' a wr.y that could not be misuud.rsiood to se the me or uie juw . I Th tree made famous by this incia-ni ' is still standing at least it was two an.i th airanffe tale here ie- has become a treasured legend . ih. m ttipra of the vicinity, auwui . ... , . which Is no longer the hiding place of desperadoes, but a veri'-able Eden -hab ted by Intelligent and prosperous farmers. G W. Wtippiert Journal tf Amend rulX-Lor. ABOUT BILLIARDS. Also About Soma of the Wall Known Players. The game of billiards Is attracting more attention in the three countries where it is played thau ever before. France, England and America can truthfully be said to be the beadquar lers ot the spot t. but the game is ex tending to South America, Australia and other regions, where all kinds ol sport is taking bold. The intricacies uf billiards continually amaze old play ers as well as novices. The numerous combinations seen in an ordinary game never weary an onlooker, and once in a while some shot la made that will start tie the oldest enthusiast, who may ix-ver have seen a similar one before. It is needless to say that billiards is a won derful game and if one is skillful at it the fascination of knocking the balls around takes a firm bold, and physical fatieue caused by playing several hours is with the expert seldom thought o'. 1 lie question has often been asked, "What trait or quality does one need to become an expert with a cue?" A'rong the great professiona's of the present time men of all ages, sizes, and, appar ently, dispositions, may be fouud. AU sizes of cues concerning length an I weight and nearly every variety of stroke are displays, so it can be readily seen that it would be pretty difficult to say exactly what does constitute a good player. A good billiardlst must have Kood eyesight, judgment and a full con trol of the arm, and yet to see tlie vari eties of strokes used, one might suppose that firmness of arm was not im portant Some players, in making a shot lean very far over the table, aud seesaw the cue many times, sometimes fast and ot! ertimes slow; sometimes the seesaw movement will look unnecessary, aud at other times it impresses a spectator that it had to be indulged in to enable the player to even come near making a -hot Some players bold the butt of the cue almost at arm's length, an I do uot give the stick a straight forward and back motion, for the bult some times df scribes a curve, and a front view of the stroke would lead one to hink that sending the ball where the player wished it to go was simply a natter of luck, so irregular does the cotuse of the cue seem to be. Some players hardly lean on the table iu making a stroke, a though they put the cue far in front of them, making a long bridge with the band resting on the table. Their bead may be directly over the butt of the stick, and many iaight think that If a person with that style would only stoop a little lower in I get down near the point of the tick, a far more accurate shot could be I.tyeJ. Many players while "strok ing" move the.r cues forward and back ward and forward for a distance of at least two feet, and others will not cover over six inches. Several experts claim that a player who can make a shot and cover the least ground with bis cue will be more accurate than one who seesaws ver two feet of space, for the act of -eesawiug will thuow one's aim off Mam ice Daly says that one reason why Ja- ob Shaefer Is so accurate is that be lakes aim and simply gives his cue a little forward motion, just as though. as the com pa risen is drawn, "you held a hammer a few inches over a tack, could you not bit that tack much more squarely t'ian if you raised the rammer higher. The mam thing,7' Daly continue J. "is to get force euough on the cue without drawing it way back, and thereby lose your aim. All t-haefer eeuas to do is to give the ball a little uat, and enough force is imparted to drive it further around the table thau plenty of players could by slamming it with all their might Miaefer has a pe culiar snap to his stroke which must be born in bim, for 1 have never seen tny oilier player with it lie gives a hail an invisible force which carries it through many peculiar angles, and when it comes to draw or masse shots he is unsurpassed, although Vlgnaux, the Frenchman, usel to be very hue on iraw shots. I once saw the Fren ;u man make the opeuing th t of billiards by a direct draw several times ia suc cession on a wager, and ai better illus tration ot bis powers at drawing a ball could be g ven than that "speaking of Miaefer and V Ignaux, did it ever strike you what a difference in size then is between theui.-1 ig naux is ti feet 1 inch tall and we.ghs about 23 pou nil i. Shaefer is about 5 feet 6 inches tall a-id weighs about 100 pounds less than the Frenchman, and yet Shaefer can give a cue ball much morefoice thou Ike frenchman can. and at the same ti ixj w.th less effort. It is a hard matter to expla n, and. as I said before, Shaefer must have been torn with tue ab My lo give that won- snapat the cue.'' ben aske 1 what hot be considered the most important iu billiards, Daly said: "in my opinion these light little draw shots determine a man's plain strength. I know that if I am off at all It shows itself more in those than iu any other. It may b perhaps because a good player will use a ore of them than any other style, out wnaiever me reason is, they are the ones 1 1 la e mot importance in. The difficult part in the ordinary draw shot is to make it and only impart to the object ball a certain amount of force which will cause it to land where you wish to have It go. Many amateurs can draw a ball well enough, but they have to hit a cue ball so hard that it is impossible for them to deter mine where the object ball will go." In answer to the question regarding who, in his opinion was the b -st all around billiard player, Daly said: "Shaefer, most assuredly, although it would be a close rub between him ami George Slosson. Shaefer has knocked about a great deal and played under many different conditions. lie not only is a born billiard ist but practice has developed bim wonderfully. Slosson. of course, plays a beautiful game, and his knowledge of all-around billiards can hardly be excelled, still, simply on general principles I would say that Shaefer can control the cue ball in all manner of way better than any one I have yet seen." When asked what the symptoms were of being out of condi tion for playing billiard. Daly said: 'L.ck ot confidence. It is a very funny feeling. "You know bow the shot should be made, and nave often made it and1 you dont dare try to make It in that way, but may take some way where the chances are le in making it, simply because you can use a certain stroke which you are not afraid of. In mak ing these follow and draw shots oie needs a great deal of confidence, for the least bttle wavering may cause a mis cue, and you not only miss the shot, but the balls are Set up' for your oppo nent How often do you see amateurs, in playlnf tx a little money, get dowu to tbe clore of the gtme and then eacu one makes a miscue at almost every other shot Tbe reason It that tbeli nerves are a little affected, which makes their aim and arm nnsteady. and, of course, a good, firm stroke can not be made then. They can't help it There is no question that to play bil liards in an uphill game tests a mau's nerve wonderfully, for. no matter bow skillful one may be, nervousness will render his knowledge of tbe game al most useless. If you don't believe it. try making a shot for fun, and then try it again aud bet $3 on it" X. F.&'ua. Geronlmo ana the Sunday Schools Readers of the Tribune may remem ber Gem imo, the distinguished Apa che, who, a few years ago. created a sensation down in Xew Mexico and Arizona neighborhood. Geronimo ap peared at that time to be sowing bis wild oats. Xot only did he disturb the .settlers and kill a good many of them, but he actually bad the audacity to whoop at the United States army. And while the army thouzht it was chafing him up a canon to avenge the insult, the irreverent savage used to come down another canon and woop at it again. In fact be led ths army a long chase, but be was caught at last and transferred to Florida, where the Government could keep its eye on him. G?ronimo is probably an instance of a cian who went West too young. While he was attracting attention in Xew Mexico, he showed evidence of laying been in bad comptny. He had learned to drink and scalp his fellow men. But at heart Geronlmo was, in the words ot the political procession, "all ritrht.'' His intimate friends knew '.his all the time it was only casual acquaintances say, fur Instance, those who had met him once only and b en scaliied who insisted that Geromtn did not mean well. Xow, it would seem that even they must be convinced that his heart was in the right place. For, s'ned his residence in Florida, we are told by a special despatch that be has "last all beatrel of tbe wh te peo ple." More than that and even bis triends may be surprised at this Gero nimo is "leashing a Sunday-school class." It is said to be a rare and beautiful sight to see this dangerous savage en gaged imparting Sunday-school instruc tion. He is much attached to the boys and girls who make up bis class. He ovet to lay bis hands on their beads and toy with their curly locks. Once or twice, on such occasions, the Super intendent of the sch 10I has noticed him make a quick, impulsive movement arith bis other hand toward his belt, but, finding it empty he only siirhed and went on with the lesson. Great diili;ulty was experienced with Gero nimo at first, from his desire to revise tbe creed and otherwise make changes in not only the forms and the le son. but, even in Scriptural passages. In deed, he has not g it over it entirely yet, and only recently the Superintend ent was astonished to hear hi ai explain ing certain points to his class, it ap pears that tbe lesson was in St Mat thew, and one ot the girls having asked some question, Geronimo an swered without referring to bis Testa ment and became sadly confused be fore he got through. "The old Mosaic doctrine," be is reported to have said, "was, as you know, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. That, my chil dren, is now passed away, aud we have sometni ig much more beautiful and practical in its place. It is this: If ye smite a man on the right cheek make him turn likewise the other that ye may smite that also. And if ye take away a min's coat take ye his cloak also. This is the new dispensation, children, and, rude savage though I was, I live 1 up to it in Arizona." The suiieiintendeut interrupted bim at this point and took him into a liack room and read bim tbe chapter be was try ing to expound and illumiuated the whole subject for him. When Gero nimo came back to his class he admit ted bis m stake, but still insisted that Ins plan seemed the better. But those having bim in charge are conli lent that he will oon get over these little eccentricities aul become a model teacher. He loves to employ pictorial art in bis class, and recently, when the subject of Samson and the Philistines was under cons deraroi, he drew a re. lly striking picture of the scene on the blackboard. There was a great crowd of the Philiitines running away as fast as their legs would carry them, while Samson, alone aul brandishing his well-known weapon, was coming c!oe beh:nd. The only possible fault that anybody could have found was that Samson was made with feathers in his hair and a string of scalps around his waist, while the Philistines were all in the uu form of the United S ates Army. Bit though Geronimo may occa sionally make a little mistake, we are sure that everybody will be g'ad to hear of the great change which has came over him. It is better to draw Samson with a scalping-knife In Ii s belt than to be using it on a South western settler. Chief Geronimo is eu titll to all praise for the new life he is leading. Aeto l'orfc Tribune. The Meanlnarof Hebrew Names. A mode of bringing to notice the barbarian stae of the Israelites at the time of consideration is to trans'ate into English familiar personal names from tbe Old Testament, such as the Dog, the Dove, the Hyena, the Lion's Welp, the Stro ig Ass, the Adder, and the Hunuing Hind. This brings iuto immediate connection the English translation of Indian names, such as lilg liear. White Buffalo, Wolf, lied Cloud, Black Hawk, Fox. Crow, and Turtle. Such Israelite names were probably of Gentile origin, that is, from the clan or gens, for the Israelites were surely Gentiles in the true sense, although later they abjured the charge. But individuals among them may also have adopted such names because they could be represented objectively. S ich selection is made by some Indians apart from their totemic designation. Indians possess very few names that cannot be represented in plctorapus; and the very large topic of tattooing is connected with this device antecedent to writing. The compilers of the Old Testament probably desired to break down a former practice, as is s!.own iu Leviticus xix, 23: "Ve shall not print any marks upon you " And there are other similar indications. Frees pee oh I se Dr. Lodly's church has given bim a three months vacation. Fogg Why, does be need so ljng a rest? Frees peech Xo -but if you had ever heard him, you'd know bis con gregation does. The Drummer's Dream. a little room In a little hotel. Iu a little country town. On a little bed with a musty smell, A man was lying down. ! 4 ereat bit man. with a gret bin ft nor V r uc ho ! vii un u.H. Jim wtj, Ai d a peaceful look on hi lace be wore, For imod asleep was he. In Ms Areant what marvellous trips he made. What heaps of Muff he sold! And no body failed, and ererv one paid. And his or-ers were euud as (old. He smiled and smothered a scornful laugh Wueu his fellow commercials Mowed. For he kuew no other had sold the hall Ol what his oider book showed. He pot this le'ter from home one day "leariiir We've no fitier term lo use in Tonr case than simply lo say Henceforth you are one ot the Una,'' And a glorious change this made in his life. lie now from the rosd withdrew. And, r.-atly. soou got to know ha wife. His sou MUdliis daughter, too. But, with a thump bang whang thump bang acaiu. The "Ixjols" had knocked at the doors 'It a very near lime for tbe 6.1u train !" And the commercial's dieam was o'er. MY OFFER. An offer of marilage is a delicate thing to Indite; but when I had written mine to il ss Marian I-ee, 1 felt that it was, take it all in all, a very tolerable 'composition. It was a warm day, and I bad no particular faucy for the iong walk to the post-oQice, and just then I beard my bister Augusta call to the nursery maid, whom she always addressed as 'Bobbins, though, of course, she bad some baptismal name of her own. 'Take these iuvit lions to the post office. Bobbins,' chs said. If you hurry you'll catch the last maiL' I was not anxious that my sister should see the address on the letter and comment on it; so I wai'ed until she returned to the house, and then slipped out of the library and called Jack. 'Jack,' said I, Tun after Bobbins and give ber this le ter.' Jack snatched it and obeyed me. I jaw him hand tne letter to Bobbins. I saw ber turn and look at me. Even at that distance the sly look in her blue eyes struck me, aud I saw her put it carefully in ber pocket uid walk on. My heart began to t'Cat furiously. I had done tbe deed. I bad cast the die. A 11 1 could do was to wait I d d wait A day passed two three and ?-tili co reply. Und-r ordinary cir cumstances 1 should have called; but, with that letter pending, of course that was impossible. I endeavored to possess my soul with patience. Being so occupied with my own thoughts, It was some t.me before I noticed that Bobbins was behaving lieiself in a vry l eculiar way. At last, one evening, as I sat upon the porch in the twilight smoking a cigar, and wondering when 1 should gel a reply to my letter. Bobbins 11 ut tered out in a miraculously fluted cap and apron, and sidled iuto tbe coiner behind me." 'It's Master Jack's hat as be left nout 'eie,' she expla ned. But thoug i she fouud the hat, she still remained iu the corner. I moved my chair that 6he might iotss more easily; but this was evidently not what she wanted, for in a mo ment a small pink claw rested on my shoulder, aud the voice of its owner sid, Ot Mister Iteginald, 'ow 'appy 1 ham, to be sure!' 'I'm very glad to hear it, Bobbins,' sai I I. 'And don't you think, sir,' said she, 'that when a young person 'as not the jieu of a steady wilier, answers b wold of uiouth is far more satisfactory to them as is in love, aud waiting for ibetu anxious like?' 1 knew that Bobbin i had a sweet heart, who did something athletic in sugar warehouse, and was spoken of by the other servants with admiration on account of his size, but I had net ex pected to receive ber couudence in the mat'er. Was it possible that lie dis cerued in me that fellow-feeling which makes us all akin? At all events, I could answer ber as one who knows. 'Yes, Bobbins,' said I; 'never eutrust to tbe postman what you can do with your own tongue.' 'And if you think so, sir,' said Bob bins, 'the ditliculty of a want of bearly hkdueaiion 's bovercome, and I kin ieply werbatum, as I heard my master y the other day, and my reply is this: II if you loves me as 1 lotes you, no knife can cut our 'arts in two.' lio h sensible and poetical, B ibbins,' said I. 'On, what a love you are!' fa.d Bob bins, patting me on tue cheek. Bobbins was an absurd little crea ture; but she was a cirl and I was a young man. It seemed to me at tha moment tbe proper thing to kiss Bob bins, aul I did it At that moment tlie voice of my b -loved nephew Jack soundtd behind me. 'Where is my hat?' it squealed. And Bobbins fled, with much show of trepidation; while I dusted my lips, contact with Bobb'iis' cheek having prov. n to them that she was not behind ber belters in the use of violet powder. That evening Jack distinguished himself by making a statement that 'Uncle Ileggy had a mash on Bobbins,' for which vulgarity, 1 am glad to say, he was promptly sent to bed, explaining between his sobs, however, that 'he saw him kiss ber.' My sister was very grave with me that evenii g; but Bobbins was so curi ously prim and so positively plain, and ray opinion of her appeared so thor oughly esUbl.biied, that I was not long under suspicion, and having escaped this time, I was determined not to ..How Bobbins to pla.-e me in a faise (losition again. And this was why ben I saw ber the next day 'niggling' up tbe garden path in a more than usu ally affected fashion, I bid behind the carriage-bouse. She bad just parted from her athletic sweetheart, and was coming towaid the gate in what seemed to be a rather unpleasant state of mind. However, -hat was nothing to me; and I came from my retirement In an unconcerned r'.isbioa, whistling, and expected that IJjbbins' young man would be sensible uough to steer himself out of the way. low ever, be did not He i-ame straight n, his fist doubled, his brow bent, his ower jaw protruding, and our toes met. nd my eyes on a level with bis'scarf in a small golden hogshead. Then e stood still; and as it was my Icten .im that he should t rn lo the right, s the law directs,' a-iJ not 1, I stool .Lid also. 'What do you mean by this her?' aid he, in low and awful tones. 'Come, ow I want to know.' 'What has t.appened to you, my good aan V I asked in as sarcastic and exas--crating a manner as 1 could assume. 'lo you knew who I ham?' aske i be I have understood that your reason foi being ab ut the premises, now and then, was Bobbins,' said L 'Hot' said he. 'And ain't there noth in saycrid in your 'rlstycritic beyes? Hain't a poor man's young lady has much 'is own as a swell's is?' 'llather more, generally,' said L And then the honest look in the wrathful giant's eyes touched me. I was a lover also, and krw the pangs that doubt of his chosen fair may make a man endure. Come,' sa d I, "I cannot pretend lo misunderstood you. You are talking about my sister's maid Bobbins. Has somebody told you that I ' I paused; 1 scarcely knew how to expiess myself. 'She's that uplifted,' said the ciant, bis under lip quivering, 'as 1 don't know her. She was willing enough to have me six months ago; but now that you hollers 'er the hopportunily of rising babove ber station, ber hairs are borfuL 'Owever, if she takes you, she takes you spiled as to beauty -bof that I warns you.' 'My good friend,' said I, 'I'm not afraid of you; but I assure you that I don't want Bobbins to take me. I've no made love to her; she is quite mis taken. Nothing could induce me to marry her and I have no wish to be guile ber into impropriety. Now you mention it I remember .that ber man ner did indicate some such suspicion. She's an idiot to dream of such a th ng. The giant's face relaxed. II if it's all her vanity, and you swear to it, 1 don't rare a snap of my finger tip habout it!' said he. 'Hi'll play the eame game hon 'er, aud she'll be glad to summon me back when she finds out her tolly.' 'No doubt,' said L 'And she'll 'ave to summons,' said the giant I ain't goin' beggin' my self. Women folks Is alters up to somethin' Mgh or low. Don't you find it so yourself, siri" 1 do,' said I. 'No lioffence, then,' said he. I nodded, and we parted. Bobbins was certainly a very Imagi, native young womau, but I was warued and therefore armed against her. When I met her I looked over ber head; when she threw herself in my way I walked the other. I wo:e a doleful countenance, I imagine, for my lett-r to Mar an bad never been au s we red. and I had decided that this was her gentle way of declining my offer; and I certainly felt as miserable as I looked. However, 1 could not t scape my fate. Oue morning, when my sister bad taken Jack, Robby and their maid out for a ride, I sai in the library, writing home business letters, when tbe door o(ened softly and a little old woman entered the room. She carried a large and bulgy blue umbrella in one band, aud a palm-leaf fan and an immense pocket-handkerchief in the other. She coiirtseyed to me, waving the fan and l.andkeichlef as she did so, shut the door and advanced toward me. There is always heaves-droppers in a great 'ouse like this,' said she, 'and what I 'ave to say is couferdeushuL If 1 am not mistooken, you bar Mr. Itcgynuld Thompson?' 'That's my name,' said I. 'Ho!' said she, lacing ber umbrella in an upright position against my desk, and setting herself iu an arm-chair; 'vtry, well. sir. When 1 tel. you that I am Missus Bobbins Miss Bobbins' mar you will understand why X am 'ere.' 'Not iu the least, madam,' said I. 'I should have supposed that that relation ship would lead OU to the uur.ery, uot to the library. Mrs. Bobbins waved ber handker chief. 'My darter toll me you was as 'ard us a stone. No matter; she 'as a par ent as will see her righted. Air you trifling with my darter's affections or air you not?' Certainly not,' said L 'I have ex plained to ber sweetheart that I don't want to cut bim out, and it's all right,' Oh,' said Mrs. Bo bins; Jiin is bat the bottom of it, is 'e? No doubt,' said I. I am not, at all events.' 'Hoi' said Mrs. Bobbins; 'hoi You are a wiliin', tnen? You air trifling with 'er young 'art 'Apply, the law 'lioffers bus redress. She has proofs against you, sir; and she will go into Ccuit of jus ice, sir, and constitute a case of breach ol promise and wlu carn ages and publish you, sir, to the hull world fur what you air.' 1 never saw or heard anything quite so abominable as this,' said I 'never 'My lawyer fori 'ave one shall call on you before tlie sun 'ets to-morrow,' said Mrs. Bobb ns. 'You shall rue the day you trifled with a poor but honest gurL Hi leave you to your conscience.' She waved her fan and handkerchief at me, caught up her umbrella and de parted. 'What I tool I was to kiss that girl!' said L 'Aud what an idiot she must be!' That evening my sister and sister's husband followed me to the library with such an evident in ten iou of see ing me that my heart sank iu my bosom. They closed the door and tea ted themselves before me and Au gusta began tbe attack. 'Iteggy.' she said, 'what does this all mean? You haven't really fallen in love witb Bobbins? You don't want to marry ber? What would ma say, and Aunt Pellicoand brother William? Oh, Iteggy, say it is not sol' Why the deuce should I want to marry that little fright?' said I. 'Have I given reason to fancy my taste so poor? A girl who never opens her mouth without making a very ludri crous mistake, too, and your children's uurserymaidl Marry her. Indeed!' I am relieved, said Augusta. 'But, still, you have done very wrong. You have made love to her;. you have led her to believe your intentions honor able. Sbe was confided to my rare by a widowed mother, with excellent ref erences from a London clergyman, and I am responsible for ber safely to a cer tain degree; and she assures me that you have made solemn offer of your heart and band to ber, and after leading her to bestow care-ees upon you, jilted her.' Very wrong, Reggy very wrong!' added my brother-in-law. Shocking, you know shocking!' 'At all events, it is all a lie. Your respectable young woman is a black mailer of tbe worst sort,' said I. 'She has proof, Reginald, said my brother-in-law. Ah!' said I. 'Ring for ber, and let us see what she has to say.' -It's too cruel!' said Augusta. 'She has a heart if she is pjor.' But I had rung the bell and requested tbe girl who answered to send Bobbins to the library. 'Well, Bobbins', I said, facing ber as she entered, 'it appears that you nave circulated tbe report that I a-xed yo to marry me. What do ou expct to gain by such a monstrous falsehood? Indeed, mum, said Bobbins, tul-Ire.-slnir my sister, I can prove tb fact I was engage.! to be married, bindeed I was, baud it's roke off oi account of 'is doings. Hi never would have thought hit, being brought up u keep my pi ce, but for 'is words and deeds, and 'ere it Is, mum, bin black and white, as plain as your prayei book, band 'is name at the bend, whicl yo'i may read it for yourself. She took a note from her pocket as she soke, and offered it 'o my sister. This is your writing, Reginald. ' slit said. I dashed forward, and gazed upoij the missive, it was the offer of mar riage 1 bad written to Miss Marian I-e nearly a month liefore tbe one I hai sent to the postollice by Bobbins. 'What are you doing with this?" asked 1. I i is an offer of marriage; 1 admit it Y'ou have all read it, but it is intended for some one else. I have been waiting for an answer to it evei since I gave it to you to take to tb post office. This is a pretty trick, in deed!' Bobbins looked at me solemnly. It was tbe day you sent your invita tion to the lawn parly, Augusta,' I sat I. 'I told Jack to give tbe note to Bobbins to post. She bas kept and opened it and taken advantage of its contents. A note addressed to Mist Marian L"e was ' 'So, 1 beg pardon, sir!' said Bo'jbius. who was now a pale shrimp-pink from chin to crown, 'hit was not addressed to nobody. Master Jack bonly said, 'Here's a letter bas Uncle Reginald says hi'in to give you;' h .nd, 'having no baddress, I thought it w us to me.' Is your name Marian?' I asked. "No, sir,' said Bobbins 'bit hit is Mary Hanu, and I thought 'Marian, my hangel,' was your petical and morautlc way of writing iu a boffer of your 'and aud 'art. 'tre's tlie envelojie b auk.' This was the explanation in my agitation I had forgotten to direct my love letter. My s.ster's sympathy was all for Bob bins. I wasted none on anyone but my self. How I bad Buffered that weary mouth. Thai very evening I made my offer verbally as all offers should be made and Bobbins long ago married ber dis c irded giant and even condescended to rece va a wedding present at my bands. A Highlv Disresoectfu.1 Bull. General Buinblethor, Is certainly a very big man big In stature and big ger sti 1 in h:s own conce t, brimming over, as he constantly i, wi'h hit own importance. General Bunible thorpe was never in tbe army; he nevei was even in the Militia. Bui he was Surveyor General once, a good while ago, aud has of cou sa worn the tit'e of General ever since, aud has always in sisted upon it. He bas been a Bhade more overbearing since he became a General in this way, though lie was sullicieully overbearing before that. One fine atleruoou last summer Gen eral Bumblethori e was taking a wa k through the outskirts of the couutr) town whicli be had honored by cho mlng it as his place of summer sojourn. In Ihe course of bii wanderings be came upon a pair of bars leading into a grassy and inviting meadow. The bain he Jet down and walked into the meadow. He had but hair crossed the meadow when be saw, lo his h rror, a great black aud white Holsteiu bull emerge fro n the dark shade of an atpl tiee and alvauco towaid bim. Gen eral BuinbIethorie is not au active man, b t the stea ly advance of thi. enoimoi.s a imal stimulated him foi the moment lo Krea' activity. And hit uwu rapid flight a!. so sel V d to tliiuu late tbe bull, who lowered his head ami charged furiously, bellowing tbe win e It was a mad chas", but G -imiai Buiublelhorie had some good lo s i advantage in the start, and tlie Opo aite fence of the field was not far away The General ran wildly a id succeeded In turning a somersau.t over the tenet just iu time to escape the iufuiiateii animal. Aud then it was G -nera! Bum" lc thorpe who was inlunate l. From l;.. safe side of the lence he stormed au ia;ed at the bull, an I, s eni a i.tim bouse not far away, he stalked over I it. Tiie farmer was chonug around the ba; n when the General rushed up to him. 'Is that your bull over there, sir? exclaimed General lSuuiblelhorpe. Wal, 1 guess 'tis,' satd the farmer. 'Weil, sir, do you know what it't b -en doing?' Chasm' ye, mebbe.' 'Yes, sir, chasing me; and it is an outrage that 1 will not tolerate au out age, I tell you, that 1 should be pursued and humiliated iu this way!' 'Wal,' said the farmer, 'it's a thing that bulls will do, ye can't help it, yt know.' 'Help it!' said the General, black with indignation, 'do you know who I am? 'Xo, I don't.' Well, sir, I am General Bumble Ihorpe.' 'Is that so?' said the farmer with great deliberation; 'is that so? Why in hunder didu't ye tell Ihe bull, Geu' raiv Recipes for Beauty, Nowadays, when a woman's well kept dressing case abounds in silver corned bottles containing ro e water, glycerine, camphor, sceute I powders and creams, and if she 'coirects' her face still further iu a porcelain pot of some well advertised patented rouge, it is curious lo real the following, as given in a western paier, de cribiug some of the recii es lor obtaining beauty very much prized by the belles of three centuries ago. They were formulated by a certain shrewd Mast-i Alexis who lived in the early part of tue Sev enteenth century. The following is sup osjd to keep off pimples: 'Taks rock salt and break it Into small pieces and get the freshest laid eg possible. Put both into a dish over the lire and when It begins to boil stir with a stick. A preventative for wrinkles read: 'Take a couple of calves' feet and boil in river water until half consumed, a pound of rice an 1 boil wltb crumbs af fine bread, two pounds of fiesh butter and the whites of ten fresh eitga.' Here is another sugge tion, economical atl -ast : 'Take flowers of rosema y and boll them in white wine, then wash your face with it Afterward use it for drink thus you make your face fair and your breath sweet' Good Master Alexis uuders ood the amazing crelulity of women, but if they followed his advice bow direful the resul s must have been, an 1 bow much said good Master Alex s bad to answer for. NEWS IN BRIEF. After three years of the incandes cent light in the bouse of a gentlemen in England, in which was a collection of fine water -'olors, lie fin Is that some of the more delicate pigments have be gun to faue. A duck belonging to a Rockland (Me.) man was frozen into a ond re cently and was found with just ber head out of the ice. The ice was broken and the duck freed, apparently none the wor.-e for her night out Explorer Stanley refuses to lecture or talk about his travels. He cannot be blamed for bis silence. It would cost him exactly 52JO.OOO to on his mouth. This means that bis publishers have offered him that sum for a bo k, and he is under contract lo put all his good things iuto It. Tuileries is derived from the word tuile. a tile, becau tiles were made ou the spot where the palace now stands. Catharine de Medici be?an tlie build ing In 1.1 54, and Louis XIV. comp'eteit it in 1054. The grounds and gardens were laid out by Lenotre, a celebiated gardener. The weight of the great Greenland or right w hale is said to be 100 tons, or 220,Ot)O pounds eiual to that of eighty-eight elephants or 41 i liears. The whalebone is such a whalt) may taken at 3'MVJ rounds, aud the oil at from 140 to 170 tons. In the year 1SS9 there were laid in the United States 5,HiiO miles of track, which means an investment of fluO, 000,000. This seems large, but it is estimated that Americans abroad in ISS'J spent $100,000,01)0. Gladstone is t0 years ol I, but bis mind and body are in as fine a condi tion as when be was only three-scare. His voice is still clear and ringing, and be is never thrown off his guard. He is tall, slim and bony h is been all his life fond of healty, out of door exer cises, and to this ho attributes his vig oious old age. The Bank of Cabforuia has a h:rnt force of mon at work conducting an Irrigation canal fourteen miles long, to irriuate a tract of 50.000 acres that the bank owns In Fresno county. Tbe canal will be sixty feet wide and fix feet deep. This tract of land w ill lie cut up in twenty-acre farms and placed on the markat. Snownaues the size of the human hand fell over a small area in Carson City, Nev., during the recent cold spell. They didn't, however, come fiom the heavens, but from a factory's steam pie, whence they emerged in the shape of steam, being converted into snow by contact with the cold air. Victor Hugo, when writing "Notre Dame," prepared on the first day a bottle of ink, the last drops of which were exhausted with the last line of the novel; this gave him tbe notion of naming the book "The Con tents of a Bottle of Ink;' he departed from this idea, however, an I made over the title to Alphonse Karr, who has sent out several novels under this de signatlon. Pontiac, the famous Indian chief, during the war which he wa;ed against the English iu 1702 issued promissory notes or bills t f credit, written upon birch bark, to purchase .supplies for bis warriors, and such was this chieftain's reputation for integrity that the French readily received the-e bills, which were subsequently all re leemed, in tlie latter res-ct being unlike tin Continental bills of credit -The hangui in in New South Wales is looked upon with such horror that be recently found himself completely b ycotted on reaching Wagga-Wagita to perforin an execution. 1 lie cabmen refused unanimously to drive bim from the I ail a station; the porteisalso de clined to carry his b.ggage, and the unlucky executioner was oblige I tc trudge off off on foot, struggling with bis various traps. A letter from Port Spain, Trinidad, speaks of the recently di-s-overed cura tive qualitiesof a plant locally known ai cousiu niahoe, whose botanic name it the triumfetta semitrilobt. Iu cases of dyspeisla, indigestion and liver com plaints the tlieraieutic effects of thu plant have been s methiiig wonderful. Tbe doctors on the islam! pre-crile il largely, knowing its va'.uab'.e pioier ties. A French savant c ilculated tin time required for a journey around the earth, and lias obtained the follow ing results: A man, walking day and night, without restiiur, woul 1 take 42t days, an express train, 4 ) days; sounc at a medium temperature 3:! hours; a cannon ball, '21f hours; 1 gut, a l.ltli over one-tenth of a second; and elec tricity, passing over a copper wire, a little under oue tenth of a second. Mutilated bank notes to the valui of half a million dollars are frequently destroyed in one day at the Treasury Department in Washington. They art thrown into a large hopiier and ground to a pulp, wbicu Is afterward sold by contract to a paier manufacturer, m that the da;nty sheet of paiier on which a lady writes ber invitations may rep resent what was formerly a hundred thousand dollars. Among the exhibits at the Conven tion of the Westeru Packers' Cauueo Goods Association, In Indianapolis, were two cans containing beef soup, part of a lot prepar d for tha United SUtes navy in 181'J. "The content are supposed to be In good condition If not, the fermentation and creatioc of gases within would break the seal. The soup to-day is, therefore 71 yean old." Correggio's "San Giovanni," cited in the biographies catalogues as having been in a church and subsequently lost, is thought to have been found. A gentleman bought the picture lately foi a very trifling sum from a poor family in the town of Correirgio, and, after submitting it to experts, it has been pronounced the real t e real tiiiu.', a picture of great vigor and spoutauiety and in Corrieggo's best style. A blind sculptor, Vidal by name, is among the wcuders of France, lit Is guided altogether in his work by the sense of touch. A dog, horse, human face or anything alive or dead be mod els with as much ease as any of tlx dozens of Parisian sculpiois who still retain the faculty of sight. From 1S53 to 1871 Vidal received, it is said, more medals than any othe exhibnor oi works in tbe Paris art exhibition. Many of bis works, made in the soiitude of his perpetual mid nig it, were at the i aris .CKhlDilion, were the blind woud 1 er contended in frieudly rivalry witb bis leas unfortunate brother &i lita flir"-'r"tto"' tau iHiiin
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