sito . meIiIoil. B. F. SOU WEI ER. THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLIV MIFFhINTOW. JUMATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APKIL23, 1S90. NO. IS. A Entire is Kir-pos"1 t lu a . ata'e'f unstable equhbrium, the wv- ' tzjst f diplomatic relations lelwmi rvia aud Bulgaria, though of little ixportance in Itself, la likely to be con- ' .dared by be croakers the first step In Eur'Paa wr- lur I. Great wmrl bve ha 1 their ne In less impor- j tut events. But on the other baud j aucu pteill'.e causes or war nave rifeu again anJ agala sloe the RiissrwTutk laB r an J Europe rtill rematas' peaceful. Ra 1 Q eh contradictory report coma from tue Mississippi Valley respecting t;.e damage by the floods, and there la reason to believe that the looses have been exaggerated. Oaly one appeal for rei.ef from aa orgauized body has been received at New Orleans, which b one food sign. At the same litre it is evi dent ti.at many plantations are under matei, and it may safely be Inferred that ti e damage to the levies will be com drrable, for they crumble rapidly ml.eo a break has been started. The destruction by Gie of the G lev h.msttad will 1 widely regretted. But oi.ly on sentimental grounds but because of tl e loss of Mr. Greeley's laitre colaction of letters. The great rl !. t's coirrspuudeuts included all the public meu of his time; and it is some Hi. at slraige that such valuable ruaU-r-ul for the h storlan and essayist should have len exposed to danger of destruc tor). All hopes of the apiar-.uice or a satisfacti ry bVgraphy of the foremost tf Auitrtcati editors may now be aban doned. MIC AM1KL lUkEK does UOt think uiiich of equatorial Africa, but he nev rithe'.ess mourns over the sacrifices u.ade by the Government of important positions in Africa won by the Individ ual enterprises or Englishmen. The ticiaians and I alians are taking ener getic measures to secure their FOsSt-s-gu.ns, while tl.e I'.:itU Government dors little more than hold on to its part of the coast. England will be there, however, in time to take toll from the t.eim.ir.s and Italians who, after the sacrifice of money and live-1, have suc ceeded in makiug anything out of their interior pos-assions. The Adam Express Company de serves credit as ril m the reward It will get in returned money for having followed up Cnwfoid, the man who stole J4 1 , n 0 from the American Ex change National Bank, of New York, two y us ago. The money was ia a P ' .ue sent to the Express Company, which was thus made responsible for the loss. Crawford, the bank messen ger, hail substituted a bogus package, but, as this was not known, suspicion was directed against various employes of the Express Company and the lank. The mystery has been all cleared up, however, by detectives employed by the Express Company, and It is probable that jU.OOO of the money w ill be re covered. The watchman stationed at Peep Hock Cut, on the Xew York Central and Hudson B tilroad seems to have been the right san in the right place and to have had the right kind of help meet. Tons of rock having fallen oa the track, he awakened his wife and sent her up the track in her night clothes to flag an express tiaiu, while be and his daughter tried to stop a freight train coming !u the other direc tion. The express was saved by the wife, and, though the freight could uot be stopped in time, it was slowed down and no lives were lost. The watchman and his wife deserve something more than newspaper acknowh dgmetit of their zealous devotion to duty and prompt action iu an emergency. President Harrison, who was himself a volunteer soldier, recently appointed three other volunteers to high place. General Lewis A. Grant, appointed Assistant Secretary of War, was the old commander of the Ver mont Brigade, and won the rank of Major General of volunteers, though his name was overshadowed by that of the commander of the army. Briga dier General Miles was also a volunteer during the war who attained high rank, and has since been a prominent oflicer la the regular army. He has been pro moted to the rank of Major General. Colonel Benjamin II. Oriers jn was a cavalry officer during- the war, and be came Colonel of the Tenth Cavalry at the close of the struggle. He is now promoted to be Brigadier General. Generals Miles and Grierson were both in the Hue of promotion, so there is no room for complaints from the graduates of the Military Academy at West Point. The list of war heroes is rap- illy running out, and the future Geu- cra s must be men of much les dis tinction on the field of battle. One might suppose that In the bouudlesi West ground would be cheap enough to make it unnecessary to erect high buildings, but nowhera In the country are tall structures more popu lar than in such cities as St. Faul and Minneapolis. The City Council of Min neapolis recently passed an ordinance prohibiting the erection in that city of any but ding over 100 feet high, and a strong protest has gone up from the architects against such Interference with their plans. There are only three buildings in the city which exceed that limit, but they are handsome structures, and pay their owners a good return on the investments mace. Real estate dealers are said to favor the ordinance, because it will require more ground to build upon for a given amount of oCce accommodation, but architects say that the limitation Is absurd, and will greatly Interfere with contemplated building eperaUous. WOMAN AND HOME. J Pin Monfy, Watn and lh Effect on BfwaOl Wtnnr. j Tl ere as t line it was tlio.iirht : ihit a iuaiiK-1 woman who worked for Ui..i.-y lu s,,nir way re!lU-d iiii crrU. upou ir hcsbiud. by iiupliratlou of Ins lack of aLT.ity to iipport tier aa she wish-d to live. That rilod to pa."t, both happily and u. happily. Happily, IwtuM ui.iny a luau li.m had du-w to bless the slender haiaU i.f the w ife, which, by their skill iu w elding )u, i ho brush or the ne-U;e, or in do n other womanly work, bav, backed by the w illing brain, feuded off want and dt.ta-.ter when he, the utual bread winner, has Ixt-u dis abled or prevented by loss of employ ment from t-uppiyuig the family with bn4d and bu ter. But the change of public opinion on 1 1. scote of hou:e livaig women word ing lor money has beeu unfortunate, be cause iu thestruggl-tfor funds with which to ludulge a taste for dre--- or for other luxuries not warranted by their hus bands' income, some women have taken .lit sowing tliut should Li:.ve b-e:i given l thooe poor creatures w ho liud in :t their sole ine-ins o ' sul.sistencf. The sheltered wives and diught-rs w'.inu lnisbauds and f.ilii rs support ca i ac- 0 pt work to pick up at ld moments' at rates that would mean scmi-starva-lion to tluise women to whom such woikistlie only means or supply ii i; themv.'les with loIguig, food, tul and clotlmn;. The wife of a small farmer wasliea d not lon ago recouutiug complacently the succe-w she had h id ill laying asuie a I eat little sum in the bank during the past winter. "We hail a oo-l deal of spare time evenings," she said, "and Jaue and Sarah and 1 thought it was a real shams we shouldn't make something by it. S wheu father weut down to M we made t'.iui go to a store there an I cet us some things to make. He brought us men's shins and little boys' kuee pants. They were all cut out and stitchel, and it was easy enough to Bnlsh them off, though it was kiud of tv-dious work. There were live gus.se I a and mue buttonholes to each shirt, aud it took the three of us pretty near all day working s.rady all the time we coul 1 spare from our house vvcik, to a dozen of the slnit-i. 1 could do t-vo jKiir of the tmu'sa d:'- " "And how muc'.i ..ere you paid?" (tieried an inteies'.el listener. "Oh, well, it wasn't much," admitted the oll.er; '"only thirty-live ceiit- a dozen for t lie shu ts, and a dollar and seveiity-ave a d zeu lor the pants. It did seem rather little to me at first, but 1 says to the gi.ls. "if we weren't doing this, we wouldn't le doing auy thing to earn money. And by keeping at it all winter we'd lindj fo.ty dol.ars by spring, ltw: en the three of us, an 1 that wa a good sight b-.lter lliau nothing." ''I should say so cjacu'ated the audi tor. T declare to goodiiess, I believe I'll try th..t same plan myself next w inter. I only wish I'd thought of it liet'ore." To neither speaker did the idei seem to suggest itself, that iu the city Iheie were struggling women to whom that forty dollars would have meant thrice that sum that it did to the well Clad, well fed wife and daughters who gave only their eisure moments to shop work. The degraded order of human ity possessed by the proprietors of "sweating" esraKidiu-ents is of a soit that makes them rea ly to take advant-:.g-of their ability to have the work done at the lowest possible tern s. Ev erything that by causing the supply lo exceed the deman !, has a tendency lo reduce wages is hailed with joy ly these human sharks. Still it seems rather hard to veto the earning of all wages by a woman siuii lv because she has a husband or a father. The gifts, the char'ty that the gains from her labors enable her to bestow, grant her double the gratiGcatlou she would derhe from niiylhin; bought with money that had b-eii given her. But let her seek some other outlet for her industry. That is au exceptional woman who has not some specialty, 1 e it ever to humble. To tins let her turn as a means tor earning her extra funis. Sometimes she may posse is an accomplish ment, oftener a knack at some branch of handiwork out cf the common l.ue of labor, the practice .' which takes employment fiom no body. Oue deft little w .man, who had no Income except tl e slender allowance that was all her husband could allord her, used to make the money for his Christmas and birthday gilts by cro cheting silk shaw's in a peculiar stitch or which she : loce held the secret. Auother earned all her donatloiis to chantab e enterprises by putting up pickled iu'Ii uoe1, by an old fauiiiy recie, for fr.eiids wlu could not obtain thee da.ulles elsewheie and were glad to pav her liberally for her tioubio. Mill another, a young girl, assumed the concoction oli touillou for a certain cat erer, achieving a preparation that be came famous lu the lit tie city where she lived. Home made French ca. dies an I salted almonds became the indus try of another. Such avocations ts these impover sh no one, aud their practice enables a worn -u to feel that iuo peudence dear to a'l, who are not content to till only ori.aineulal places in life. Mrs. Mopley's Extravagance. "I call it extravagance," said Mrs. Mopley, with some heat. "Mrs. lar row U well a'ole to bake her ow n cake and do her own mending, yet she hires Mrs. Tate by the day to mend stockings, and do such lidit work for her, and and pays her seventy-five cents apiece, or fifty cents, or eveu a dollar, as the case may le, for cakes. I call It sheer extravagance, for Mr. Darrow's none t well off." ' Mis. Ihirro v works bard, though," put in httle Miss Vest, niilJly. "Ve-es, I know, she always seems to be busy," admitted Mrs. Mopley. "But she seems to ha enibr ;idtring a great deal.' 'I have beard that she sells her work In the city, and gets a good price for it." U m," said Mrs. Mopley, doubt fully, "the market for fancy work is dreadfully overcrowded, I understand. I should hardly think anybody so far away as Bed Wing would stand much or a chance of selling thi .gs." "But I understanl that Mrs. Dar row is what they call an expert," 'At any rate, I would manage In some way to do my own baking aud mending. I call it sh'ft ess Lot to." Mrs. Mople spoke severely, and, as the richest woman in Bed W ng, she felt that her lnfluei.ee should be given itrongly against shiftiesst'ess. "But," went on Miss Vest, who was making a morning call, for business purposes, on Mrs. Mopley, "I mus not ! . . . . . . . ... . ' torrfei iiuu i warn you lo neoa me uo scnption lor the liums m n ionarles." I I wld do so plao.v," sad Mrs. M1 ley, who was proud of her chant able dtp tsitiou. "Iet roe are. How much did I give last year? I think it a. ten dollar." So Mrs. Mopley put down ten dollar?, and Utile M isa est moved ou. It was pei baps an hour later that a shab y. bill re table-looking woman rang Mrs. M..pi y's bell, aud was sho n into I rr parlor tnr the one bouse-; servant that Mrs. Mopley kept. It was the height of luxury iu Bed Wing to keep one ho'ire-Hervaut aud a ci ach-UiO-Mrs. Moplet's -estaMIsliineut." "Good morniug, Mrs. Tate," said Mrs. Mopley, rather reservedly, as she entered the parlor. "1 hope your hus band is better." Mrs. Tate and Mrs. Mopley had Nen to school together, but that was a long time ago, too long for the friendly old relations to last, vo l they hal nol seen each other often of late years. "N'o, he is not," began Mrs. Tate, her voice trembllug a little. "We had saved up a little. "We had saved up a little something, besides paying for our hou e, but this lung il uess has used up everything we had. I have sewed a g -od deal. Mrs." Uarrow very kindly employs mo for oue day each week, and I coul 1 do eveu moie than that, if there was anybody else to em ploy me. Then, you know, I have paid a good deal of i-tlention to cooking, and if you want anything done In that line, I wish you would let me try to do it," j Mrs. Tate's voice had grown firm be- fore she tiuishe J. t-he had thought the mat er over so much that she had hoped to get through without an in stant's wavering. "I am not oue of the extravagant kind, you know. Mrs. Tate;" said Mis. Mopley. sonieah.it coldly. "XJ .1 1 can not see an old fiieu I sutler." She drew her pur e from her pocket. Mrs. Tate rose with Uiguity. "I do not ask for ch irlly," she said. 'I merely wish for work," "But 1 cauuol afford to put out my work," insisted Mrs. Mopley. "Very well, then," said Mrs. Tate. I do uot wish for anything but work." 'l I wish you would Lake this five dollar bill, leally," stammered Mis. Mopley. T used it badly enough, heaven knows," exclaimed Mrs. Tate, wi ll a burst of tears, which she could no', help. "But I caunot take it without returning something for it. Why should it cost you any more if I should give you five dollars' worth of work foT lt thau if I gave nothing at all? Is it not a truer charity to give th ioor work thau to give them money, and so take away their self-resiiect?"' Mrs. Mopley stood irresolute, holding Hie five dollar bili In her hand. "I I don't know but you are right. Esther," she said, her frien l's heart biokeu eloquence levelling for the time ths barrier's between them. "1 have been trying to do something for you for a good w bile. I thought i would send you a basket of thing" " "But I am well and strong," inter rupiel Mr. Tate. "My children aie old enough to take care or themselves, and to go to school alone. All that I want is work. I am a fair seamstress and a good cook. There ate my baked beans mY fishballs, my crullers, and ditleient orts of cake aud pies. I think I could suit you with any of them." "You may send me up some fishhal's and baked lieans every Saturday after noon. Esther," said Mrs. Mopley, has tily, as though she was afraid her reso luliou would g.ve out before she finish ed speaking. "Aud I have promised to contribute two cakes to the sociable t -morrow evening. Make me two ol your nicest, idea-. And I have a silk dre-s I am just ripping and sing lng for a comfortable. You might do that if you like; I'll sen 1 it down to yonr house. Uul I can't help feeling as though th s were rather foolish Toi me, who am so well able to do it all myself.' "I don't want to urge you to extrava gance," said Mrs. Ta'e, rising, aud locking haras-ed and nervous. "No, no," exclaimed Mrs. Mopley, fcizing her hands impulsively. "I am sine you aie right. I believe I have had some v.un and silly notions about 'charity' aud helping others. 1 aiu always complaining that 1 have no time lo rem!, nor to practice my music, nor to entertain my friends. I have done too much of this work which others might do, and ii ch would help them and ti.eii 1 have given money, ana thought I was doing all I ou.'ht. But you havt mi id just the right thing to me. I shall ki.ow better how to help people artei th.s." Vou see what we poor people wanl Is woik, and that Is let'er for every' lKIy than just the money, don't yoi. ee that it is?" said Mrs. laU hei worn, anxious face lignting up w.tl. earnestness,. 'I am sure of it," said Mrs. Mopley How to Keep Your Friends. A girl I know said: I'm a great one for making friends." It souude i as if she ought to be very happy, bul when I had a minute to think I won dered If she were good at keeping them. Making friends is easy to the girl win is bright aud happy, whose society giv i Pleasure and who is genial. But tht keeping of them demands more than this. If you want to keep a friend, don't gt t too intimate with her. Have your own thoughts, and permit her to have hers. Do not demand too much of her in the way of confidence. And do not be too aggressive, w int- mg to know why she hasn't doud ih.s. and why she don t think as you do. If you Ihiuk your friends style of dress is not beautiful, don't tell l.er: you only offend her, because deep in hei heart she is convinced that she knows great deal more about it than you do. Do not Gnd fault with your fiiciid't friend, and do not expect to be the oulv oue given a corner in her heart. Be as considerate of her feelings as i! she were a stranger, aud remeuibe: that politeness is an every day gar ment, and not one intended only for high-days and holidays. To sum it ur iu one sentence, preserve the courtesy of the beginning if you wish to kcer your friendship to the end. M ra. Browning. "Mrs. Browning was far more of t poet than Mr. Browning," writes Henry Labouchere, "and if it had uoi been that a number of silly person: were desirous to pass for clever eopU by pretending to understand the uu-uu-derstandable In the case of the husband, and that ths wife was too clear an 1 poetical in her writings to have a gang cf these esoteric worshippers around her, this would bave been recouized long ago. Hy MAN NATURE. j Waak Side, of Mankind Revealed In ' Many Habits and Movtmtntt. Listening to some people tell a story is equal to judging a view by what you can see through a dusty window. Some people think that tbey pay a debt by telling their creditors every other day that they have not forgotten that they owe it. Extend sympathy to some people and they bein to cough all the more loudly, to show bow bad their are. Let to-m rrow take care of itself, aud you will find that it will let you take care of yourself when It gets here. Many girls get married because their folks are not able to keep them, and find their husbands la the same fix. It is hard for a woman to please. If she makes apple pie her husband asks for lemon; If she makes pudding the children cry for pie. ir she bakes her Iotatoes to suit the children her bus band w ill not eat them. A womau who has to cook to suit five or six appetites has a hard time of It. Tiie smaller the deposit a man lias in the bank the oftener he walks by to see if the bank's doors are still open. Every mau believes that, though be can count those lie likes ou one hand, it would take both hands to count those who like him. You see my mistake; I see yours. A child in North Atchison the other day asked thirty qestons in five ruiu utes, aud the average is greater than that. A worn in never blames a man when she can pons nb y blame a woman. Boast of your w.ie's good cooking to a guest and you will have the poorest dinner you ever bad wheu yju get home. If a man abuses one woman iu the presence of au tlier she distrusts hiui, and if he compliments some other wo man it makes her inad. ltr'ore marriage she sends little notes to the office inquiring after his health; after marriage she sends little notes in quiring after his pocketbook. It is easy for a man to be a model hu-ibaud when be has no wife. There never was a mau so humble or obscure that bis biography would not be interesting. It is only on the first trip that he takes away from home that be writes "notes by the way." If the room is too warm, and you open the door, evtry man who comet iu w id think it Irs duly to close iu The same legs that dance lor hours without tiling give out iu five minutes carryiiur wood. In asking for an impossible thing you only waste additional time. Some men must have new friends every month lu order to bave any friends at all. lid vou ever see a boy go out at a gate wheu he couid climb the fence? Some men are kept so busy bluslnnj for ethers that they have no time left to blush for themselves. It is the wonder of a pretty woman's life that her husband does uot realize that lie is envied. If tome men succeed only in raising a big overhang .Lg mustache they are satisfied. Every sorrow is partly wrath. i ne rerieui nome. That woman who, as wife and moth -r, thinks l.er life tarrow compared to that of some friend who has chosen as her field of work the lecture platform or one of the professions, may see grand p.i-s.billties in tl.e following sketch of a perfect home by the late Helen Hunt Jackson: The most perfect home I ever saw was a little house Into the sweet in-cen-e of whose fires went no costly things. A thousand dollars served as a yearly living for father, mother and three children. But the mother was the creature of a home; ber relations w ilh the children were the most beau tiful 1 have ever seen; every Inmate of the house Involuntarily looked into htr face for the keynote of the day, and it a!.ays rang clear. From the rosebud or clover leaf which, iu spite of her hard housework, she always found time to put b -s.de our plates at breakfast down to the story she had iu hand to lead iu tl e evening, Iher was ii Intermission of her influence. She has always been aud wid always be my ideal of a mother, w ile and home maker. If to her quick brain, loving heart and exquisite face had been add ed the appliances of wealth and en largement of wide culture, hers would have Ixt u absolutely the idoal borne. As it was, it was the be t 1 have ever seen. Always Get the Llht from the Lett. Americans are great readers, and hosts of tiiein Si end their evenings a home engrossed in the work of some f.ivori'.e author, or in many casgs with jieriodicals of every description. Gen erally this occupation is persued In a n cumben itosiliou and without any re gard to lights and shadows, and the realer Is con'lnually complaining of dull pains in the head and loss of vi sion. This can be remedied in a sim ple maimer by holding the book or magazine iu such a iosition that the Ii ht from the gas or lamp i will fall over the left shoulder, and there will be no further cause of complaint by bud eyes or sick headaches by readers. Ap plvuig the rule on wet, dark niuhts when crossing the streets it will be found that hidden po 1j of water will be revealed and the pedestrian's jour ney made much more eudurable and with !esi provocation lor swearing. Emperor William's Proper Title. There was a stranee blunder In the Queeu's stieecli, which can only be at ttibuted to haste and carelessness on tlie par. of the Minister, and I hear that it has greatly anuoyed ber Majesty, who. like all Iloyalties, is a r'gid marll net on all tutling questions of style, piecedence or etiquette. The einr lu question is in the sixth paragraph, where the Empe ror William is described as "Emperor of Germany," whereas bis title is Ger man emperor, aud experts in such matters will tell you that there is a vast difference Del ween the two styles. Longevity on the Island of Lesbos. The village of Dafia, on the island of Lesbos, has a woman said to be 135 years eld, wbo still bas the complete use of all ber senses. The same Island contains three other inhabitants wbo are said to have passed their bundretti birthday Ismail A pa, 110 years old; iv uanlil Apa, in bis ll'Jih year, and Aschik Baba, aged 115. AU three of these centurians, it is said, earn their living by daily work- Trial, of a Tw.n. la form and feature, faro and linib, I grew ao like my brother. Him folk, gut taking me for him. And eacuoo. for another. It puzzled all oar kith and kin It reached a fearful pitch; For one of aa wan boru a twin. And notaeoul knew which. On. day, to make the matter worse. Before our name, were tixed, Aa we were being w.uhed by nurse. We got completely mixed. A mi tliui. you - , by tate'e decree. Or, rather, nurse 'a whim, 21 y brother John got christened me. And 1 gt christened him 'll.is fatal likeneaa even dogged. My fojUt ps when at school. And 1 was aiwaya getting flogged. When John turned out a tool. I put this qaeetlon fruitlessly To every onel knew: "What would you do, if yon were me, To prove thai yon were you?" Our clone resemblance turned the tide Ol our domestic life; For, somehow my I u tended bride Became my brother's wife. In fact, year after year the earn. AbsurJ miMakaa went on. And when 1 died the neighbor, came And buried brother John. JIM. THE TRAMP He was a bad lotl Magistrates, jail chaplains a d police had all at various times told him so, and he quietly ac cepted their judgment, knowing it to lie pretty near the truth. An outcast from his viry babyhood, what chance had he ever had I Left by au unfeeling mother iodie in a roadside ditch, he had been taken to the nearest union, to be brought up a household foundling. until be was old enough to be bound 'prentice and the guardians could wash tneir hands of him entirely. A drunken saddler covenan'ed to clothe, board and teach him bis trade; and at bis hau ls oor Jim had a dog's lite, until, goaded to madness by every species of ill-treat ment, he struck his master and tied. For awhile he tried hard to get work In the villages through which be passed; but no oue would take ou the strange friendless lad, and so he made up his mind to enlist tor a soldier. It -niy he had reached York an hour or two cailier. Her Majesty's army 1 ad gained a useful recruit, and poor Jim wo dd have had a chance to rise aud become a credit to the service. But ill-luck would not let him go. He was routed out of au old stable by a zealous member of the city iolice, aud charged next day wiili sleeping out a night or sonu equally heinous crime, the result being that he vras committed to prison for seven days. This broke down his last shred of self-ie3; ect; and when that happens lo mau or boy, Ileaveu help b in, for his doom is sealed. Jim came out of jail utterly reckless, with a wild haired of every body and eveiything. He thought no more of soldieiing or getting work, but let him self dritt reso.utely to the bad. He soon got into vicious company, and be fore many weeks were over was agaiu in the clutches of the law. The down hill road is au easy one and the pace always rapid, and so at thirty years of age he was pretty widely known to the authorities as a coufirmed rogue and thief who would not stop at trit'es when once he was rouse 1. Yes, there was no doubting it, be was an out-and-out bad loll Aud he looked it, too, as he slouched along the ccu.i try lane with hands deep in his empty pockets aud his head X. ut to meet the rain, which the Jfoveinher wind drove in his face. But he wiu too much used to discomfort to heed the weather, and plodded sullenly ou through the pud tiles in the declining gloom, half asleep, aud so utterly careless of every thing around that ho never beard the leat of hoofs until a cheery voice cried: 'ow, my good fellow, if you do not want the whole road to youiself, per haps you will let me pass.' Jim never looked around, but slunk closer to the dr.pping hedgerow, ex lecting the horseman to ride on with out another word, but something quite unexpected happened, tor the cheery voice said: 'Thuuks.1' It was the first time any one bad ever thanked the good-for-nothing, aud he stated up In blnk amazement, and saw a man of about his own age, in red coat aud top-boots, plentifully bespattered with mud, looked down at him from the back f a w eight-jany lug hunter without the least gleam of aversion or suspicon on his pleasant, fiesh-colored face. 'You look rather done up; been long on the road?' A week an' morel' Tl.e reply was surly t nough, uot that Jim resented the quest ion, but simply because he was so used to insults and rough speaking ti.at the idea of a 'blooming snell spakimr civilly to such as he took him utterly by surprise. 'Going borne?' Jim gave a contemptuous grunt. '.Never had yan, Guv'nor" "'oor chap! But you live some where, I suppose?' Oh, yes' with a grim chuckle 'I lived some w hei es anywheres, l'se not l.ke some folks, must have everythiu tip-top. Xo; that's uot my style. Ye've a big house, iu curse, aud lots of slaveys to wait on ye. I lives just where I cau, and has to fend for my sen. and don't otten get my meals reg'lar.' And the cruel contrast between him self and bis companion filled the tramp's heart wiih bitter thoughts. AVhy have somn folks all the good things of life ii n 1 others none of them? IK re was a man no older thin himself with tine clothes on his back and a horse to carry him; whilst he, poor fellow, bad to ii uiige a'ong ankle deep in the mud with scarcely a w hole t'nead to cover him. Why, the vry horse was a long way better off and more cared for; it at least had a warm, dry s'able and plenty of food waiting lor it, whilst be had uever a resting-place nor a crust of bread ti eat Aain the cheery kind tones startled him: 'But you have frieuds somewhere, I euppose? M'o; uot nit! There's never a single Joul, guv'nor, in this wide world as cares a rap for me; and when I lies tlown some day and dies in a ditch, lhere'11 noau be, man, woman or child, s 'Jl miss me. Soue '11 be sorry, 'ceptin' the parish bums as '11 bave to put me under ground, and they'll rudge doing of that even.1 Jim gave i short, ugly lauh and slouched on, the water squish, squish, squishing out jf the gaping rents of his old boots at every step. II- q.iite expected the swell to ride oil now aud leave him to the rapidly-deepening gloom and the ild, cbeeiless unzht; but the horse was ept steadily alongside of him, and bis rider Epoke again "Can't you get into regular work and in ave ibis tramp business?' Xo, there's none'll have the likes of me. I don't hxik resiec'able enough. 'Nonsense, man. Don't get down on your luck, but pi'k yourself up. Xow look here; I will give you a chance my self, if you will take it. Jim could not believe bis ears. Some one actually talking to him as if be was an honest man, and not some sort of vermin or venomous beast. A real 'tip-top gentleman,' too. lie must be muddled. But the brown eyes were looking coolly enough at him, and their owner was saying: 'Well, what do you say?' 'Yer don't know what I be; I'm a bad lotl I've been in quod oft enough, ' blurted out Jim, feeling somehow he could not take bis new-found patron In. 'I daresay you bave, and deserved it, too, but I believe you can pull round yet, if you like; aud, as I said, 1 will give you the chanco of regular work and pay. "Will you take it?' In the depth of Jim's waried nature there glimmered something like a spark of gTatltude and a dim longing alter a new life, for a moment; but old habits were too strong for him, anJ the clouds closed darker again, as he shook his head and said in tones which tried to be civil: 'Ao, guv'ner; yer mean well; but it's no go now. I'm no good for anything but cadging and tiamplng, an I doan want to work for any mas teran' won't lieyther.' He expected an angry leiture and round abuse for refusing; but the other said, quietly, stroking his boot with the handle or his hunting-crop: 'That is a dangerous way of thinking, my triend, and will get you into trouble again. You are a tool uot to try aud pull up a bit; but you know your own affairs best. "Well, here is supjier and a lied for you, anyway. L ok out.' He tossed a half-crown to Jim with care less, easy good-nature, and, shaking up his horse, trolled off with a nod and 'Good luck.' How cost'ess a word or two of sym pathy are, and jet how priceless they may become. How easy to be gracious, and yet how far-reaching the results. We scatter kludly greetings here and there as we journey on Life's roadway, and lo! they spiing up bright flowers to gladden some sad, weary wayfarer. We Ierform thoughtlessly now and a .in in trivial services ol courtesy and forget them; but they shine In loue loveless hearts as glittering stars to cheer the midnight sky. Hugh Boynton. smoking his bigh priced llavaumi after diuufr that even ing in the luxurious ea-e of his favorite lounging-cha r, had utterly forgotten all about the lew words and the silver coiu which he had thrown to the tramp whom he hal overtaken as he rode home from hounds. Jim, curled up under the lee of a clover rick, turned the half-crown over and over in his hand, and thought of how for once in ins life he had Leen spoken kindly to by a real gentleman. Five dreary years had passed over Jim's luckless head, their monotony brokeu by police-court, prison-cell and vagrant-ward experi uces. lie had waudered up and dowu some doz-u counties aud seen the inside of most of their jails, and now, as Christmas drew near, bad drifted toward York; not that he had any particular reason for get ting there, but because it lay in his way north, and he happened to be making in that direction; why, not even he himself knew, for north, south, east and west were alike to him. He had had a run of bad luck lately. Once or tw.ee he had found a casual's welcome and slept under cover; but he had a routed objection to lis concomitants, aud chose rather the col l and exposure of the ojien air. He had scarcely tasted food for a week, and had almost forgotten the feel of a cojjprr coin; for somehow the near approach of the fe-tival of peace aud g tod w ill seemed to have shut up men's pockets, and sharp re fusals i.nd scorui ul silence were ail he got from those of whom he had asked help. The afternoon was closing as he found liun-eli lu the long, straggling village of Marstoli, footsore and done up. The lights at the giocer's shop threw a broad band of brightness across the road, atiu Jim could see a man in a white apron busily piling up a pyramid of loaves which a boy had just Lfonght j in crisp and hot fio n thd bake-licu -e. ! The sight was too much lor the lam- : lsin u ieiiow, ana no pusueu ins wny inio the shop. Xow, then, what is it." ciied the shopman, sharply, as he scanned Jim's tattered apjfearance. Wi.l yer give me yau ov them little uns, guv'nor? I'm n'gh clemmed;' aud lie nodded toward the bread-pile. '.No, certainly not; 1 never give to begg.tis or tramps.' 'I've not tasted bite nor sup this blessed day, tiod knows.' 'Can't help that! Come, get oul of the shop -do you hear? or I'll set tiie constable on to you. The likes of you ought not lo be allowed to go about the country. Come, oil with youl' So the social outcast went forth into the night hungry and insulted, aud the sleek tradesman rubbe l bis bauds and struck his 1 aves, congratulating hiiu se'f the while ou hisrclusallo count ance a worthless vagabond who, re garded from the lolly stand-point of political economy, had no right to live on the earth. Aud yet Mr. Jonathan Binner was want to iKse on political platforms as the lleavvii-seat champion of the masses. Then, indeed, his sym pathy flowed out in such a mighty 'or ient towards the universal brotherhood ot man tiiat there was not so much as a drop left to give a crust or even a civil wo.d to a starving tramp at his door. Three times did Jim try his luck down the length of the village street, with no better success; and then he gave it up and b.lterly left the houses of his fellow-creatures behind him aud faced the bleik open country again, lie dragged himself 8long for a few weary miles, then opening a gale, crawled into a hail-ruined cowshed and Hung himself down upon some bracken and straw litter in the farthest corner, atid dozed off. "Wheu he woke up, the moon had lisen. and was shining in through the chinks of the roof, aud Jim could see the country -side was whit? with snow. He shivered, and buried himself completely in the bracken an I tried to sleep again and forget the cold and his hunger, lie had almost suc ceeded, when the sound of voices came to him ou the still night-air, and a minute later three men entered the she-1. Cures the cold!' growled one as he drew back just withiu the shadow. 'Curse him, you inea 1,'said another, as he leaned a thick oak cudgel against the wall and begau to blow upon his numbed fingers. 'I'll do more than curse him when th' time comes,' atisweied the first siieaker. 'Ay, he'd best not have taken us 1 band. Says be, when with the rest of th beats he sentenced Tim an 1 Jeff. The poaching rascals shall be stopped. It 1 have to do it sinale-handed. 'Well, he'il be single-handed to-night anyways, for he's no groom wi' him. So he cau try what he's gooi for wi' three of us; eh. Jack?' He'll find it a tough job, I'm think ing.' 'Is t'wire right. Bob?' 'Purely! His mare steps high; but I'x-e 'lowed for it, aud she'll catch beau tifully. It's past twelve now; he oughtn't to be long.' 'Hist! mate; there's wheels. Xow for't. Come on.' . The three men went out quickly, aud Jim following to the door, saw them leap into the road and hide in the hedge on the opposite side; then he stole down to the gale, out of mere curiosity to watch what their game was. in a few minutes the ring of hoofs grew louder, and a high-wheeled dog-cart spinning round a corner came rapidly dow n the lane. It was occupied by one figure only, the red glow of whose cigar e learned In the frosty air, and just as the scent of it reached Jim, he saw the horse suddenly plunge and stagger for ward. The wire snare had doue its work, the animal fell heavily, and the driver, thrown off his balance by the shock, shot out ou to the snow. Before he could ri-e the men were upon him; but somehow he managed to shake them clear aud struggle to his feet, lie faced them boldly, and met their rush wilh a right and left bander which sent one to ground, but the other two closed In upon him. Jim looked on with languid interest. Evidently It was some magistrate way laid by tliue men who had a store to settle against him. It was no business of his, anyway, and though three to one was hardly fair, he was not going to l.'iteifere. The gentleman fought well, whoever he was, and again sent an assailant backward with a well-gol-in blow. But the odds were too heavy aud tiie cu Igels told, 'ti ive it to him, lads, if we swing for 't,' cried the tall est of the three villains, jumping upon him, mad and blind wilh rage. A ray of moonlight fell upon the up turned face of the fallen man; it was that of the gentleman who five years ago had talked with .Inn iu the lane! lu an instant he was over the gate aud at tiie men like a tiger-cat, and so sud den was his onset that they gave ground; then, seeing he was alone, they rushed at him with oaths aud threats. i eak from want of food and half dead with c. Id poor Jim liad never a chance. 1'or a few seconns he held up doggedly against the shower of blows; then leel mg he was done for, stooped suddenly, flung his arms round the senseless Squire, and, wilh one last effort, man agt d to roll into the deepditch, keeping hiiusdf uppermost. The brutes jumped down aud strove to make him loose his hold of their victim; but stunned and blinded with blood, he cluug fiercely to Hugh Boynton, sheltering his body wilh his own. The world began to spin round au other and another heavy blow a chim ing of far-off bid's a hollow buzzing aud th;;u black night forever. Next morning they were found to gether iu the t ample 1, blood-siueared ditch one living, the other dead. Hugh Boynton of leu wonders, as he looks at the white cross which he put up over a nameless grave, who his pi server was. But the recording angel will one day tell Low Jim the Trau p, the 'out-and-out bad lot,' gave his hie tor the man who oi.es spoke kindly lo him. Sheridan's Account of the Win chester Poem. Referring to the poem of "Sheridan's Bide," 1 asked the General if he had ever met the author. "Yes," he leplied, "I knew him well. I first met hi.ii before the battle of Stone Hiver. He was a guest at the headquarters of tieneral Hostncraus, aud staid wilh us a gool while." "IJo you knjA how he happened to wiite it?" "Yes. 1 have heard lilm tell about it a great uiauy times. There are ;v num ber or stories tloalin. aronti b it I'll g.ve you the true one, a? U-'ad toid it to me. James E. Murdock suggested Hie id( a." "Murdock, the elocutionist?" "Yes; he was au actor at one of ti e Cincinnati theatres at the time, aud a e. real friend of mine. He Inst a son at the battl? of Missionary Bidge Mur dock did a:id came dow n here to get the body. The enemy occupied the place where the body was buried, and the old man remained there a guest at my headquarters. He used to ride the lines with me. and always used the black horse 'Bitnzi,' that was after wards called 'Winchester, and became very fond of him. Things were very exciiiug down there, and Murdock saw a good ileal i f war. Sundays he always read and recited poems to the troops around headquarters, and theie was one poem of Browning's that was al ways called for. It was a great favor ite with the soldieis and with me, and we never let him off without reciting it. It was the ride 1 1 om (ihenttoAix you remember it. "Well, after the battle of CeJar Creek there was pub lished in Harper's IVcrklya. story of my ride from Winchester, and a picture of me ou the black horse Bienz.i. Mur dock saw it and look it up to Head, suggesting that it was a good theme for a poem. Murdock hud just seen au officer who was there, and gave him a description of the affair, and li-?ad jumH-d at the idea. He shut himself up in his room, wrote the poem that afternoon, had his wife make a copy, and sent it over to Murdoch's house as soon as it was done, to see how he liked it. Muidock was very much pleased, and that nigtit read the poem between the acta. So it got Into tue newspapers, where I first saw it." Effect of a Cobra's Bite. The taxideruii-t of the Victoria Mu seum, Ixnidon, was bitten i i the hand by a cobra, from which the poison-bag had been extracted, wliile feeding it. Supposing ti e b:te to be harmless, be took no notice of It till pain and nausea began. Then all the usual antidotes were tried without effect. The man lost the power of speech, became para lyzed in his muscular system, and ceased to breathe. Artificial respiration was applied f r eight hours, after which be began to breathe agaiu and gradually regained consciousness. After two days he was able to tell bis friends thai he had been fully aware of all that was going ou during the efforts lo restore him, but bad not beeu able to move a muscle or to make his feelings known. He could see aud hear and feel, but not move or twitch. He was afterwaid at tacked by u gh fever and inflammation of the lungs, froiu which he died ou t e Su' day folk-win; the Wednesday on which be was bitteu. NEWS IN 151UEF. A meteor that cmt a shadow an tppeared as large a the full moon was recently seen by the people of Nobles ville, Ind. A quantity of fish shippel to Read ing, l'euii., from Maryland were found to i alive when unpacked, and when tnrowu into a tank of water darted around as lively as ever. A London confectionery store gives to every purcliaser of a shilling's worth a ticket entitling the purchaser to have one photograph of herself taken at an establishruent up-stair. Some unknown person bas been sending one thousand-pound notes In anonymous letiers lo various chaiities in England. The Czar ofLIiussia has never worn the uirforiu of a lluss an Field Mar shal. It is oi. e of the forty four uni forms he possesses, and by family tra dition can only be worn in t e field af ter a victory. The largest sing'e pension which has ever been aw arded in this country has just lieeu drawn in Indiana by Charles Flaherty, an engineer on the Vandali.i roa I. It auiouuts to S13.070. Sending pictures by telegraph is one of tl.e latest inventions. The salient poii.ls of the picture are estab lished by a previously ugieed tqon sys tem of co-ord.i'ittes, and the de ails are filled in by the descriptive words addt d. It is estima'ed that the Florida oraiig" crop f the i rescnt season will exceed ti.t o'J.U 0 boxe-, au 1 may reach 2,5)l,0u'. It has bet n a prosperous season for the growers. East 3 ear the number of boxes was 1,9i,0i .. From the sear the l'atent Office was established tip to tl.e pns-nt time, Soi'O patents have been granted to fe males. The Ii: -t woman patentee was Mary Kies, who invented a machine for weaving a mixtuie of silk and thread. Young Abraham Lincoln while abroad nice wrote to a friend in Chicago: "I am enjoying myself here, anil have hail a go d time in England and Fr-iiice since I left home; but there is 110 place like America for ine. 1 long fi.r a game of base ball w ith the boy." Scientific farming in Italy is to be undertaken this year by a company owning a capital or ?,tJO,OUU. If the oicrati' in prove successful the old wooden plow, pulled by oxen, that has held the Held since n era before the Bomau Casars, will probably have to go. The latest attraction of the Lou Zoo is a collection of monitor lizards, the largest animals of their class. They are so large and strong that it is sai l in India, buiglars sometimes makes use of them seizing hold of the lizard's tail and b -ing drawn by it to the upjier windows of a hoii-e. The first submarine telephone line running between Montevideo and Buenos Ayres Is thirty-miles long, the entire length with the overland line be ing lsn ui lies. There are five inter mediate stations ail of which can tele phone aud telegraph simultaneously with the other stations. P.eaantvil!e, X. J., has a citizen with tM uly five fingeis and toea. Soma of them ba l to be cut off because they resti lcted his f reeduiu of action. The freak in ibis case appears to be a family one. his father and bis broth ers and sisters Laving had seven toes each 011 the left foot. The 1-cent stamp In the new Uni ted States tiosial series is the object of much -ut sue ciithisiii. It Is said that Franklin's proille p' riniit ou the stamp is a '1 utty faced personification of sen ility," and a 1 Ih-1 on the good old printer who.-e memory all Americans delight to honor. A company has been formed in France for the 1 urpose of diverting the (iniero Hiver to St. Chnstophe, where a fall of .oO nieti rs would be thus ob tained, represent ng a force of 4000 horse power, which would lie utilized i i developing electricity for the produc li n of : 1 'i 111 11 i u 1 11 by a new l-iocesa from the clay there found. Max O'lb ll tells a story to the ef fect that Alfred Tennyson, when a young poet, called 011 bluff, gruff old Thomas Carlyl and together they sat near the fireplace for hours, neither sieakiug. Finally Carlyle accom imnted Tennyson to t .e door, and, sh. iking Irs hand warmly, bade the joung liniii coma again, for he (Carlyle) had enjoyed such a pleasant time. At Kansas City recently, it was an nounced that Thomas A. Kuison would deliver an address, though he was thou sands of miles away. One or his iua pioved phonographs was set in opera lion, and though it did not deliver au ad ire-s. it sike the inventor's apology for not having piep.ired one, arid spoke it so loud that every word was heard d stinctly thioughout the hall. There is a cut ions bit of interest ing information that will bo new to many readeis. In Airica the prefix serves lor the purpose that the affix serves for the Kuro(-au languages For example: Spain, Spaniard, Spanish so in our mother tongue; but In Africa L'ganna is the iianio of a slate, Wa iMiida are t he inhabitants thereof, aud Maanda the language, The eiupMon of Krakatao, East Indies, in ls-s.'J, destrryed all animal and vegetable life in the sea around it, mid covered the coral reef of the shore under a bt d ot ashes and pumice stone over sixty feet thick. Nevertheless, decor "ing to the obseivations ol Ur. Siinter, a Dutch naturalist, a young sh' ie reef is 1. oa-forming ou this vol canic layer, and has already altaliied the breadth of a n.e'.er. The smallest, simplest, and best I rotectv-d post office In the woi ij is in the St ait of Magellan, and has been tiiere for many years; it consists of a sma I keg or cask chained to the rocks of the extreme cajie, lu the straits op posite UVrra del Fuego; each pass ug snips sends a boat to take the letters out and put otheis in, the JMj-t ollice Is self-acting and unprovided with a ' osi nuister, and is, therefore, uudci the protection of all the Davies of the world. Cardinal Feed, brother of the pope, wtio rl ickil rer4iil!v lwlnncrt.il fit I'.d j order of the Jesuits. He was a mau of j s in pie habits, great learning and ex- emplai y chaiacter. but a trifle eccen tric. Af'er Leo XIII. bad been elected he rent for his biolher and told him ' that he had decided to confer upon him ; the dajnity of a luonsigtior. "Very well, 1 thank you,-' he said. "But nun I, I waut no more honors, nor will 1 accept them." And it w.isouly with ' the greatest d.fiulty lhat lie cou d af 1 ter ward 3 be persuaded to become m cardinal. (iiasiuim iliiMJilMI''nfH disai iwtuaUtfijtta MsmoauBMa iftSf-'V t' !" srt t-fi
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