iiiiib twnt B F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. WAV MIFFIJiNTOWlS. JUNIATA COUNTY. i'KNNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE4. 1S90. NO. til. ip j p Ifip If C SStt Makyland's new cigarette law re ftuires the s-eler to pay an extra, tax of c, mid to make aflidavit that the cgattttes lie sells contain no Injurious drug. (ki.kok Francis Train has arrived Id America again after having alnioet c;r, le-1 the irlobe. He will doubtless W.d Nelly lily's time by several days, ami l.e will doubtless blow about It, like ii... :i v am t her man wouM under the cuuiustances. I'ui -inENT Harrison eems to have made up !-4 mind to put his foot down . . r i t' e unlimited building of tiew post ,,:11, es :ui! made a beginning by vetoing t!. appropr iation fir a costly building :it Dallas, Tex., where It d.ies not seem to l needed. It is a good beginning and we lun w ill be kept up until the -ci.en f of otin the public money for l-iil-i::s whete they are uot needed is 1 vi n. audit I ' cheeked. A !.u omotive, one of the greatest i f iiliing ageneits, has come to the i.ihf i f Kentucky and West Virginia ti..iu the llaUield - McCoy vendetta. 1 .nnl st r.it ton, one of the principals in ; In! feud, who is charged with the kill -.! vf four McCoys.h.va leon"removed" l.r a loom tive, ai d there w ill be no i..ed for the suivivitig McCoys to uve'.i bis crimes or tlie 11 at fields to mi k vengeance for his de.itlu Ai i wiil'lMi to the ruling of the law u. paitineiit at Washington, the United v.iti s government niu-t pay for the re turn hmue of Chinamen smuggled into ; liis cn.intry. This is bad for the con 1 1 y and good fur the Chinamen. AVheu l..!i'i wants togo home under this ruling ! e need- hut convince the government that l.e has no business here. China liii u Jo not intend to stay here, and it ii exactly t.i their liking to have their return parage paid. The law officers al Washington are kind. Mi-. .n ii. in wrestling with the prob lem of -iv il service reform and Indefinite lein:re of office, is begiuulng at the top .in 1 uoikiug down instead of adopting t r Ameiican plan of beginning at the bottom and working up. The Mexican t 'oiigress proposes to remove all restric ts -us to the eligibility of presidents for re-election. This means a life presi-il'-ncy. We haven't gone quite that far ia ili s eouutry, but we are discounting tiie whole-oute old principle of rotation a-i lap- !i as pos-.b'.e, an I will get there in I i,.?. Nnv Yii:k is still delating whethet it is lawful and right to execute a crimi nal by electricity applied in such a way us to he painless, but it -rmlts electric light companies to kill innocent people by the 9 ime means, accompanied by all kind- of torture. Half the energy de v hd t) savin? Keiumler from a de srrvnl death might preserve good men and true frou being caught in overhead i-lei trie w iies in Xew York City, and -lowly burned to death in the presence of a giping multitude afraid to touch tl e deadly w.res or to give assistance of .i' kind. Tim -riii.KN activity of the police In nuking street musicians would be uio re i ominen. table if it proceedel on the hues of the sensible ordinance to lennate street music recently lntro dm d m'o Councils. That was based on the principle that if the street music became a nuisance the ofleuder should be reiomed to move on, or, failing that, be in. i hi d by tine, but did not declare -f 1 1 et mus e a nuisance irr .. Such an Imauee intelligently enforceil would l e more effective for itixnl than a spas iiH 'lic raid ly the police lasting about a lh in a ilot-n years. Ai.i. r.Miiii-K Is prepared for a war .lad hi net views with alarm the speeches f the young Ktuperor W.lli.iui who d.H net s-eiu to I ent rely responsible '"i w hut he jays or else has no settled cy. C.iprivi, although a soldier, i.a- tlie dl-crettun ot a diplomat, and von Moltke'-s; ech liav ii.g been made for the sjecial purpose ot getting in cn a-ed aimv apptopriatlons, should not be looked upon as having political :g uu'ic m e. It is therefore the Kmperor's up.-ch alone that has caused the present disquietude and it is by no iu" -ins clear that l.e meant to do anything more than yet off some verbal fireworks. imk purely commercial art associa tions in New York have beeu c'oing a j rolilable busiue-s in competition with individual art dealers by taking advan tage of the prov isioti of the Tariff law permitting societ es for the promotion of science, art or Indii-try to import sin h articles free of duty by giving a six mouths' bond for export. Instead of paying duties and running the risk of sales like other dealers, these associa t'oi s paid duty only when the article was sold. If it remained unsold It was exported before the eu 1 of six months. It would l a good thing to have art objects admitted free of duty, but if ' hey are to be taxed at all the tax should be uniform as to all dealers. Assistant Secretary Tichenor has given a decision which will taka these commercial art associations out of the list of organiza tions, sui h as the Academy of the Fine Arts, entitled to this special privilege of importing iu bond for six months. A discontented man is like a snake who would swallow an elephant. 1!k useful to yourself first, your friends next, and the world afterward. The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of oth ers. It is better to sacrifice one's love of arcastn than to indulge in it at the ex pense of a friend. A hood conscience is the best friend we osn have, and a bad one the worst, LecHUse it never Jcwrtt is. AN INTELLECTUAL RACE. A Mln'onrv' Ideas Regarding th Maoris of New Zealand. Rev. James F. Taylor attended the meetings of the American Board of Missions held recently. He is an Kng lishman who I as see service in most parts of the world, aud though now too old to engage in active work he takes a keen interest in every movement having for Its object the conversion of the heathen. la a chat a reporter had with him previous to his departure for home he said that or all the natives be has come in contact with, those of Xew Zealand Interested him most. 'The Macris, as the aborigines of Xew Zealand are called," said Dr. Tay lor, "are a noble race, and offerastart ling contrast to the now almost extinct aborigines of the lieighloring island of Tasmania, physically and intellectually. The Tasmauians, if indeed if any of them are yet alive, cannot be taught to count beyond twenty, the number of their fingers an I toes, whereas the Mao ris are capable of a classic education. Indeed, many of them are in the Xew Zealand I'arli.iment, aud one of them at least Wireuin Otaki is an accom plished speaker. As warriors, lighting man to man. they are equal iu every respect to th British, upon whom they h ive often indicted disastrous defeats. L'nrortuuately, the white man's rum and the white mac's vices are driving them out of existence, and. though a dash of their blood will show itself iu the future Australian, as a race they are bound to go. The most erudite ethnologist cannot tell how the Maoris got there. The Islands composing Xew Zealand are SmJ miles rrom the nearest continent, and the largest boat tin. natives have is no bigger than an Indian canoe. Then they resemble neither the South American Indian nor the native of the Australian continent. 'J heir own theory is that the Great Spir.t was fishing one time, and threw Ilia line down from the sky to hook a whale. Tim hook stuck in the ground, and He pulled and pulled until He drew a mountain up to the skies, which is now called Itangariri. He tlew along the clouds in a rage, and tried His luck tK) miles away with no better success, for this time He brought up Mount Kgmont, a peak lO.OHl feet above the sea level. lloth these snow-capied peaks may be sen to this day by mar iners far out at sea as a proof of the cor rectness of the tradition. "It is not easy to convert the Maori, but once converted he is a pious aud in telligent Christian. They ail ride on horseback, aud are very fond of tine and bright-colored clothing aud jewelry. It is nothing uncommon to meet a Maori lady coming into town in com plete riding habit astride of a fine horse, pulling away at a suoit clay p I under her vail." Three American Beauties. Of late years the three most noted American beauties that have adorned European society have Veen Miss Cham berlain of Cleveland, Miss Adele tirant of Xew l ork ami Miss Mattie Mitchell ot Oregon, the daughter of tli? L'nited States Senator of that state. Vtss Chamberlain, now Mrs. Xaylor I a-viand of London, is eculialry grace ful and possesses ih-j sweetest of voices and the most winuing f manners. Her soft hazel eyes, ta 1, taper figure and delicate features make up a most fascinating ensemble. Hit debut iu European society was made during a summer sojourn at the baths at Hom burg, and she was afterwards the star or more than one Ixindon season. M iss Grant, who is a damiy an 1 dazzling brunette ot almost faultless loveliness, has been immensely admired uot only in London so-iety, lut in tlie tno-t brilliant circles at Cannes and Nice. When she goes V) visit the Kiviera she Is usually the gu-st of the liarcness von Hoffman. Miss Mitchell is the most .ertectly beautiful of all the American belles who in the last few years have created a sensation in European society. Her lustrous dark eyes, exquisite features and cauielllapetal complexion, joined to a neck and shoulders of statue perfect mould, comiMise an image ot delicate and dainty loveliness that is not to be surpassed. Sho Is one of the few women I have ever seen whose charms were independent of any aid from dress. Ladies' Home Journal. Miss or Mrs.? All women out ot their teens are en titled to be styled "Mistress." "Miss" is merely a diminutive, and Is propvrly ci nliu' d to young girls, just as "Mas. ter" is commonly con lined to school boys. In the days or Ipe, "Mrs." was the common appellation of unmar ried lades. Sir Walter Scott, to.-, speaks of Joanna C unman led) as Mrs. Joanna 1 lull lie. There are uowadavs, plenty of spinsters aud young spii.siers, too who insist on being adiin sse I as "Mrs.;" and at oue or two places in ussex, curiously enough, the mairied lady Is "Miss" and the unman ied lady receives the title of "Mrs." The same custom is found in many parts of Ireland. The form "Mrs." was at one time applied Indifferently to persons at ail agesi. A moug servants generally, the cook, whether married or single, expects to be c.dled "Mrs." So do housekeepers, though unmarrleiL In point of fact, Mrs. or Mistress is a title of respect that the plain "Miss" is devoid of. Why actress s who are married women should seek to disguise that fart by allowing the misleading prefix of "Miss" to be attached to their Lames is a mvstery that admits of no in.tlKgibie explanation. The Love of First Loves. The truth Is, to be spoken flatly and with confidence that it is the truth, that a man w ho does not love his first loves all his life long makes a great mistake and does injustice to h-s own pa-t. But, of course, lie Is to love them as they were. 1 he affection they In spired in him. when they did inspue it, is a part of himself for all time, and they, as they then seemed, are a part of him too, aud it Is as idle for him to try to eradicate them from his actuality as for the leopard to attempt to change spots with the Ethiopian. That lie should love what they may become with the lapse of years is manifestly Juexi d.ent and unreasonable, as well as usually' Improper, if for no other reason One roust not love anolher's. "The Point of View" iu Stribner. A Blind ManJs Glft. A true story is told of a wool dealer who, after the loss of his sight, becam a better judge of wcol than he was be fore, visited Melbourne iu 1SSI, and during ten weeks bought more than JLTIO.OOO wor Ii of wool, doing all the l,-ness it invo'.vd bauklnir.exchaiige and shipping- without a broker. THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME. Yhe Spells of Home. "Home of oar rhililtiood! bow affection ctlnc And hover round lliee nb her seraph wings! ih. happiest they. huw early loe urn-hanged, llup undissolved and friadhips uu en tranced. Tired of their wanderings, till shall deign to ee Love.hoi and fr.endahlp centering all In Ui-ou this subject there Is little di versity of opinion, and we have cita tions innumerable, g leant d from the words of the many who have made it their theme. Says one: "It mat'ers little whe-e our geogra phy falls, since our planet is our post but for a century at the utmost, our inn for the night; yet the heart loves to as sociate itself with some spot, ancestral and dear, aud call it home." This presumably refers to our early home, whose associations can never be effaced, even though we become the denizens of another soil as the emi grant's i ever "the Fatherland." Alas, how unai preciate 1 until sepa rated from us by land and sea! Holm s pathetcally deplores the traveller's lot when, iti his own terse sty le, he a serts: "The world may have a million roo.ts for a man, but only one nest." It was less the ancestral spot," and its associations which Charles Uickens so regarde I, as the pre ent, living roof tre.', or would he have written: "The man of high descent may love the halls aud lauds of bis inheritance as trophies of his birth and power; the poor man s attachment to the tenement he holds, which rtrangers held liefore, has a worthier root, struck deep Into a purer soiL llii household gods are of ilc.-h and blooj, with no alloy of silver, gold or precious stones; he has uo prop erty but in the affections of his ow-u heart, aud when they endear bare floors and walls, despite of toil, that man has his love of home from God. and his rude hut becomes a solemn place." Other writers of less power than Dickens have sentiments of a like nat urepenned rather to gain a certain popularity than as their own beller. e may feel attachment for some little suburban cottage, with its strip of garden or ruder homestead or the prairie or forest, or even the log cabtu we have helped to raise, for over them sweeps tlie Tree air and sunshine that all may share alike, but name not that word "eudaruieut" with the city tene ment and its surroundings, its crowds and unceasing noise! We can but pity, while we ove our poor human flowers, compelled by stern necessity to wither there. 1-et us not omit Mrs. Sherwood's re marks, breathing her owu thoughtful tendernesa. 'Home, wherever and whatever it may be. Is sacred. Unhapp- it may be, sord d it may le. oor it may be, but we do not wish others to speak ill of it. Very few of us wish it broken up, although it may be our sad busi ness to leave it. It is an inclosure for which we are willing to make vast sac ritl.es. It is the one education which has lnlluenced us powerfully for good or evil. V hat our f-tthers taught us, what our mothers sang to us, we shall never forget. Popular People. The popular people, that ia, the jh?o ple popnlnr socially, lire the adaptable ones. The man who doesu't believe his host is resjK.nsible for the weather, or his luck of apiietite, or the fn -t Unit most of the people are strangers to hiiu, or that his clothes are uncomfortable, is the mHU who is going to be invited out often. The woman who d. u.-nt expect h.-r friends to be alwavs at the fever heat of affection, who iioesn't ei- Ix'ct them to keep a day liook of her ikes and dislikes, who doesn't want the lest scut in an oiiera box, and who doesn't complain if she has to entertain somebody who isn't as yet a celebrity, is the comfortable one and the one that everyliody is glad to meet again. She is certain to make even stupid people bright, or, better still, to make them think themselves bright, and fho is equally certain to lie a tolerably happy person herself, for there is a great del of truth in what one of the slum sisters so funnily said: "If you make other people 'appy yon've a 'appiness in your own 'art that cawn't come in any other war." If yon ask a man how yon had better dress to go to the theatre, he'll say, ')h, wear a black frock and a little bon net." Then, if yon tell him you haven't got a black frock that is fit to wear, he'll ask "if yon don't own some qniet little brown thing?" Yery young men and very old men, those nearing their second childhood, like to take out wo men who are conspicuous by their handsome gowning, but the real man, the liest type of the man of the world, prefers that, while a woman is well, she should still be quietly dressed. An ob servant citizen, whose opinions of men in general and women in particu lar are good, said he'd rather have, when he took ont a woman he cared for, a man say to him the next day. "Tom my, hit boy, who was that quiet little lady with yon last evening?" than to bave him rush nptoyou aud say, "Tom, jt,a can't keep that to yourself, you've got to introduce that stunning creature t me. Xever saw each a beauty in my life. What a lucky fellow you are!" Men are a hundred times more sensitive on the subject of refinement in women than women lielieve, and the yonng wo man who is given to cigarette smokinr. w ho "slings slang" like a nw-i, and w ho talks about the fellows, is apt in t nie to le relegated by them to tiie world in which she belongs. Men are decid edly the best jndgesof what is desirable in women, and they seldom have a deep seated admiration for the fast or horsey one. An Autograph Fan. The autograph fan Is coming again into existence as a fashionable craze fashion like history repeating itself. But the mere writing of one's name on a lady's fan is no longer considered enough. If you are a poet, or writer, an original verse or sentiment must ac company it- If you are a statesman, you are expected to deliver some great tl ouitht. If an artist, you wdl not tie let off short of a sketch done in colors, too. We hear ot English belles who boast of having captured Alma Tadema, Mil Ian and other equally celebrated French artists in this way. Xow, let me imagine a fan with veises or sketches by Secretary Blaine, (Jen. Sherman, Chauncey M. lvj;w. James Ku-sell Lowell. Will am lK'an llowells, George William Curtis, Al bert Hierstadt, Jmes M. liar'. Edwin t'ooth, Edward Gay, Thomas Xa.-t and Jiernhard Giilain. What lady would not be proud to carry itf A Woil.i lor Vi oi kers. This world is cood enough fur those who do tbt-ir part while in it. Who find the work tbey ought to do and cheerily begin it; tt'j far loo good tor those who rpend tbeir daya in mere coup aining. And better than, unless they change, the one they wilt l gaiuinigr The Latiesf, earnest toiler gels his ahare of joy aud money; The loud-menibed drones may rant awav 'tis work that wsm the honey. A LUCKY (JOIN. 'llondsl' said Mrs. Birr, explosively. She had come into the sitting-room round-eyed and evidently excited, had -ink down on the lounge opposite her daughter, who sat by the window mak ing a saucy Tarn O'Slianter to match her new fall suit, and delivered herself of this one word. Bonds!' she said again, still mere emphatically. 'You in.ght have knock ed me down with a feather when I Urst caught sight of 'em. Ada!' 'What ever are you talking about?' Inqulr. d Ada, after a silence spent In carefully setting her cap far back on her pretty, curl-papered head, to judge how it tilted. I'm talking about your poor father's cousin Mary Valdor's bonds, returned the matron, with much diguity. Vou know we both supposed she hadn't baldly anything when she caun here at the time he died, aud then wasn't well enough to go back, and had to btay on here. Ada nodded, with her mouth full of pins, and went ou arranging the puffy folds of her cap. Her mother's gossip ing excitements were too frequent to attract much notice from her. nor was her second cousin Mary a person In whom she took any special interest. Mary Valdor was only a poverty stricken old maid, failed aud broken down with loug years of work aud trouble, and why should Mi-s Ada, ab sorbed in her clothes, and her small social triumphs, care for such a very insignificant iierson. Theie had been a time. Indeed, when her mother was exceedingly proud of the relationship, and lost no opportu nity to inform her acquaintances that tlie beaut ful Miss Valdor, Hie Southern heiress who was so often mentioned in society news from Saratoga and Wash ington, was her husband's cousin, and that she herself had B(-ut a delightful winter at the great Valdor house, deep iu the pine woods of Georgia. But Mrs. Barr was one of the many txople who find it easy to change with changed times; aud the hospitable Val dor house had long ago been left a smoking ruin in Sherman's track, and its wlusoin young mistress had lost fortune and father and lover, and been obliged to eai u her own scanty bread for many a year. So Mrs. Barr had hitherto believed, at le.tst, but her discovery this morning shed a new light ou the situation. I went into i.er room just now,' she was going volubly on, 'and found she'd been looking lor something in her trunk, aud turned pretty near every thing ouL Ever since he gave yon that lovely old lace, I've been louginc to have a look through her things, to tee if she hadn't kept more of her finery; for such clothes as she used to wear you never did see, an J nobody could have a better right to what she's got left than you; for, of course, she'll ui ver e them. But she always was arully particular in her ways, was Mary I used to think she was a born old maid, for all the beaux she had when I knew her and I tever had a chance till to- lay. It seems she'd got tired stoopins and her heart troubled her so she'd had to lie down; and so when 1 offered to put things to rights for her she couldn't well refuse. And what do you think I found, Ada Barr?' She made a would-be impressive pause. Ada stuck a fancy pin through a cluster of loops, and critically regard ed the effect. 'I'm surel can't guess,' she at length dei trued to reply. Boudsl triumphantly returned her mother 'a great, big, brown-iaper package, stuffed to full of bonds tkat it had burst In one place, so I could see what they were. 1 didn't dale take any of them out to look at closer, for Mary's eyes were r ght on me; but. thank goodness I've found her out, and she doesn't know it. There must be a hundred or more of them, at the least. ' Ada's busy bauds fell helplessly on her lap. She sat astounded. But then,' she said slowly, 'If that's so, cousin Mary must be rich. And why she should wear such plain clothes, aud come here and act as if she were so awfully poor, 1 can't understand.' 'But I can" returned Mrs. Barr. "Haven't you read plenty of stories where miserly ricli people went to see their relatives and pretended to be joor. so they could find out who really liked them, aud then Iett all their money to the ones that were kind to them when they thought they'd never get paid for it? Mary always was romantic and sharp wilted, both together, and it would be just like her to play us such a trick. Aud here I've put her in that little back room up stairs, and grumbled about taking up her meals to her, when sli- couldn't come down to them, aud you've gone ou practicing right under her head, though you knew it ached, and hardly paid her decent at tention, when if we'd only known the ruth there wouldn't have been any thing either of us would have thought too much to do for her. And all the while Jessie has been as sweet aud nice to her as can lie. Ob, dear me, what a dreadful mistake she's led us into!' 'The mean old th'iigl' sighed Ada, with augiy desjiair. 'Of course she't cut us out of her will, even if she's not ;.ut in that sly cat ot a Jessie.' Xo, that she hasn't done,' reassur ii gly declared Mrs. Barr; 'lorshe told ne once she'd never made a will, and mil know f l.e doe -n't know we know. All we've g l to do is to be careful now, and make everything of her from this on, and she'll th.nk it's all disin terested, and won't lay up anything acainst us, tor she's real soft-hearted. As for Jessie, if you'll jjst tiy, yt-u can make Mary like you belter than her; for she's no relatiou to her only my own sister's s'ep-daui;hter aud jou'r a great ileal the prett est, and lo hush, ma!' int r. upted Ada. J ee Jessie at the door ' The outer door of the sitting-room, indeed, opened at that instant to ad in't Je-sie Grant. There are few women who seem al ways to brinz a v learn of s mshine and i breath of fiesli air w ith them wherevei they go, and Jessie was one of these. She lacked Ada's wax doll pret lines , it was true; but her tall, liihe, vigorous t.uuie was charmingly defined by bet trim gray owl aud j-ckct; Qd she was very pleasant to look upon, with curling, dark-red hair, a milk-white skin, and deep-blue eyes, under long, dark lashes. Just now, with cheeks flushed and hair tossed by her struggle with the kteu autumn wind, a smile lingering ou her delicious scarlet lips, and a clus ter of superb hot-house roses held pro tectiugly close to her breast, ehe was more than pretty. 'Such a time as I've had coming home!' she said, gaily. She was a look-keeper in the B .nk of Fort Kay nor, aud ei joyed the ad vantages and Inconveniences of a home with her dead stetwinot her's sister, at a price that would have paid her bills at the best boarding-house in the town. 'There's a regular Kansas blusterer abroad to-day,' she went on. 'We were nearly blown to pieces, my roses and I, glancing, half tenderly, naif defiantly, down at the flowers, which she knew would be noticed and commented upon. Ada arched her brows brows not so well marked as when she was in full toilette of an afternoon. 'Hum I Conrad .art man, I suppose?' 'The same,' replied Jessie, with a lit le lift of her tirm, dimple-cleft chin. 'There are advantages,' murmured Mrs. Barr, n having a Dutch gar dener fur an admirer. I'erhaps you have made a mistake in always looking rather higher, Ada.' -I fail to see how a girl can look higher than to a man w ho is handsome an I well educated, and good and true, and workiug honestly for his living,' declare! Jessie, aud then left the room with her head held even more proudly than nature had poised it. But her stormy face grew bright again as she rau up stairs an 1 entered the sh..l.bily-f urnished room w. ereMary Valdor s'.ill lay o:i the bed. 'See what you and I have, Miss Mary,' she said, showering half her ro-es down beside the gray head and worn, refined face. Mis Valdor gathered them lovingly to her lips us she lay. There were drops bright as dew on them when she looked up. 'You generous child, you shouldn't rob yourself so,' she cried. 'But, oh, how lovely they are, like a breath of summer, like a sight of the South. They grew so freely in my own especial irarden there, years ago. I 1 aven't seen any like them since I came to this town. 'They're the Urst, I believe, that ever were in this town.' said Jessie, smiling and blushing, where she sat comfort ably perched ou the low foot-board of the bed. 'Conrad sent for the bushes to some famous rosery E ist, and has been coaxiug aud nursing them for mouths. These are their very first blossoms, and he declared that no one but me should enjoy them; but I de clared 1 should share.' Mary Valdor knew all about Conrad, and she smiled also, as women do when the ouiy brightness of their lives is the leilection from the youth and joy ol others. 'You are to be married soon, are you not?' she asked, geutly. Jessie's face fell. Mie turned away, a sudden mist blinding her eyes. 'Xot soon; teri'ai9 never, she said. Oh' vehemently 'it's nothing hsV done; but three years ago, just before his father died, he the father, I uieau borrowed i none 7 on his place. Con rad has kept up the int-rest, and paid off part of the mortgage; but the re-t falls due next month, and il he can't pay it everything will have to be sold, and of course won't bring half its value at a forced auction as times are just now. It's a thousand dollars he needs, and it might as well be a hundred thousand lor any chance he has of rais ing it in time. If he could only hold ou to his gardens a-id greeu house a little longer, be could be sure of doing well; but if he lo es all he has like this, he says he will go away anil try bis for tune s mew here else, and we will be separated for no one knows how 1-ing, and p rhaps never be able to marry a alL So both of us will have to be mis erable for the waut of just one thousau.i dollars. And the way poor Con has worked aud saved to get out of debt, and all in vain! 1 felt as if 1 oughtn't to even let him give me these ro es, instead of selling them to somebody; but It can't matter much now. It seems as if nothing mattered much any any. The girl's voice broke forlornly, af ter her passionate outburst, aud her face vv.is still turned away; but before Miss Valdor could speak, Mrs Ban entered, and Jessie hastily made hei escape, saying she must set her hair to rights in t me for dinner. Mrs. Barr had come to Inquire after aud sympathize with her poor d -ai cousin Mary. She must not think ot 'oii g down stairs after being so ili iu the morning; they would briug her up a tray with anything she could fancy to eat. Later ou, Ada would come and read to her. or brush h-r hair, for the dear child was so anxious to do whatever she could for her, but h id not liked to risk distur ing her while she was resting. Aud perhatis to-n ght she would be able lo move into the room with the bay-window and the southern exposure; it would be pleasanter since the weather had set id so col 1 and dreary. They would have liked to have had her take it when she first came, but It was eally not fit, after all the dust of sum mer, till it had had Its fall cleaning. Xow that was well over, and they could settle themselves down comfort ably for the winter. Though Mary Valdor was irliaps rather overwhe med by this sudden at tention aud care, she showed no sign of anv feeling other than courteous grati tude. But she did not care for any dinner, she said; she would rather lie quiet than have Cousin Ada stay with her, though her offer was very kind; and she did not feel like nioviug, even froru one room to another, for she was used to this, and It didn't seem worth while to make them so much trouble. By the next day it was evident that the gentle little lady would make no one any trouble very long. She had a terrible attack of spasms of the heart during the night, and the hastily-summoned doctor looked grave when he left her, aud graver still after his call in the morning. 'It can only be an affair of a few days now,' he told sorrow-in.; and sympa thetic Mrs. Barr. 'I don't think she vill suffer much more, but she wl.l never rally from this, for her constitu tion teems co-nplet'.ly worn out.' If anything were to be done about the bonds, Mrs. Barr felt that 'twere well it was done quickly. Y'et even she was half ashamed of terself, wheu, Without telling what -he doctor had said, she cautiously broached to Miss Vul Jor the subject of a will. To bar mingled surprise and relief, Mary met her more than half way. 'If it is necessary, I can easily make a will, she sa'd, 'but I have so very little to leave that it has always se -med rather absurd to be fo formal. But I suppose it is as well to have things set tled, and there's not much time left. Oh,' as Mrs. Barr would have inter rupted her with voluble reassurances, 'that is good of you; but I kuow thu end is near, and,' with a little smile, 'I'm neither a "raid nor sorry. 'To return to my valuable earthly possessions. You and Ada are my nearest relations, aud, of course have the first claim,' she went ou, true to the old Southern feeling that held dear every twig of the family tree. 'And you would care more for some of my things, because of the kinship, than auy oue else, perliup. If I ha I more I should like to leave Jessie something; but uot less than a thousand dollars would do her much good, aud I cau't leave her that, you know.' Mrs. B.irr's mind Hew to the stout package of bonds she had seen iu Miss Valdor's trunk, aud she wis lost iu wouder at her cunning in still keeping up the farce of poverty. But then she knew rich people were often very ec centric. 'So you and Ada must have all there Is,' Miss Valdor was saying. 'You will find iu my desk more than enough money to bury me, and the rest you ua i share as you chose. Ouly there is one thing I waut to give Jessie myself.' 'What is it?' asked Mrs. Barr, with dil'iculty concealing her devouring anxiety as she thought of the bonds. Would they, jierhaps, be handed over bodily to Jessie Grant? 'Only an old chain and coin for a keepsake, patiently replied Mary. 'I'll put that d wu iu the will, too. 'For 1 somehow- didu't like either of them to bave th s,' she told Jessie that same evening, 'i'hey have been very kiud to me especially of late but I want nobody but you to have it.' This' lay in her hand as she spoke a hmz, threadlike chain of soft, pure gold, to which huti, instead of a locket, a tiny satin case, coveiel with exquisite embroidery, as if to do honor to some treasuie within. 'I have worn it next my heart more than twenty years,' confes-ed the little old maid, blushing faiutly as she looked tenderly down at her, 'and valued It more than anything else ou earth since I lost my engagement ring. For I was engaged once,' she went on. 'It was just before the w.ir, and when that came, Dick enlisted and our marriage had to be put off. The last time I saw him he was visiting his family on fur lough; and when he went away, he brought me one of the first coins the South had issued, and we tried to break it between us, like the lovers iu an old song we used to sing together. But'it wouldn't break, aud so he said 1 uiuit keep it for a luck-piece to remem ber him by. And then he rode away through the moonlight, aud three weeks afterward be was killed in battle. I have kept it ever since.' She had taken it out of its case now and put it iu Jes ie's hand a piece of silver, shining aud iierfect as the day it left the mint. Its owner gazed at it for a loug mo ment before sh spoke again. 'It seems as young and pretty as ever, does it not? Aud, oh, how strange it is tj remember how I used to look at it, and dream over it. aud fancy I could see a happy home In it, as in a magic mir ror of prophesy! Well, all that is over long ago. But I think you will value it a little for my sake!' 'Oh, 1 shall indeed! I will always keep it as carefully as yon have. And, dear Miss Mary, it I could only tell you how torry I am, how I sympathiz ' 'I can guess, aud that Is why 1 wanted you to have this. But never mind trying to tell me. Though it was all over loug ago, still I can't Lear lo talk much about it. But 1 don t want you to promise to keep the com. Souie Ihiug might happen, you know. I have parted witli thiugs I meant to keep always, and I would rather you il t took it with my love, aud felt free o do what you pleased with it. And low I must ask you to leave me to rest. iooil-nlght, dear. A good night it was to Mary Val dor, for it was her last on eartli. Mrs. Barr and her daughter made a ;ie t display of their grief and their black gowns; but it was Jessie whose teuder hands robed the dead woman for her coffin, aud arranged about her there drifts of Conrad's loveliest white blossoms. rome of its youthful beauty had come back to the peaceful face, and the sw-eet lips smiled as if in happy sleep. Few formalities were needed to ad minister the estate. The day after tlie funeral Mrs. Barr pr iceei'ed t unlock the trunk that held most of it, while Ada looked eagerly on. There were plain, well-worn gar ments, just saved from sliabbiness by their careful mending and keeping; an old-fashioned chain, with seals, aud a little Swiss watch. Its gold d al and in ner cases eucraved with tiny landscapes; some few fine laces, a faded silken fan, that had first fluttered at Washington's inaugural ball; small family relics, and trinkets of trilling value. 'But the bonds?' demanded Ada. peering over her mother's shoulder in impatient anxiety. For answer, Mrs. Barr held up the stout package, which had been at the very bottom of the trunk. In auo. her moment it was torn open; and in another moment still A cry of angry disappointment broke from lioth women. For there, in big, iiold letters, on the lirot of the bonds, they read: Confederate States of America.' 'It can't be!' said Ada, after a des pairing silence. But it wes. Old Colonel Valdor bad inveite I lu them every dollar be could raise, and his daughter had treasured them w.lh her other relics. But I can't see why Mary should have kept them if they weren't worth anything at all!' declared Mrs. Barr, resolutely reviving her hopes. 'And I saw awhile ago in some paper that some English firm or other was buying up all the Southern bonds to be had. I shall send Tor old Mr. M din, aud get him to examine these. He's always collecting queer stamps and money, and rubbish of that sort, and he'll know where we can sell them. And when Jessie came home from the bank that afternoon, she found the sitting-room table littered with valuable-looking papers, aud Mr. Malin, a brown-fac d, wliile-hai:-ed enthusiast, engaged in lively argument with the two heiresses, who would not believe the bitter truth. 'I tolJ you, the old man was saying, emphatically, 'and I tell you again, madam, that tho e bonds are not worth the paper they're printed on. It's all uouseuse about auy "Us'a buying them. The thing was a hoax. There are valu- j able finds sometimes. It's true, and I know a man. for example, tliat would give a thousand dollars dowu for one of the Confederate halt-dollars; but you couldn't sell the whole outfit of those bonds for a thousand cents.' Jessie's bead fairly whirled. A thousand dollars for one of the Confederate half-dollars, aud Mary Valdor's luck piece was one of them. I A thousand dollars of her own to bring Conrad a dowry that would make smooth the troubled course of their triie lovel ' Aren't you joking? 19 it possible it's true, she cried, recklessly Interrupting ' about the man that would pay so much for a coin, I mean?' I never joke!' snapped the collator, quite losing patience with the surpris ing ignorance of his audience. 'It seem? to me any sensible person ought to know what rare coins are wortii, and 1 this is rare euough, for only four ol ' them were ever issued. As for the man, , he's a rich numismatist in St. Louis, ud wants a Confederate half-dollar to complete a set. He tried to buy one that's owned in Arkausas for a thou sand dollars, but it's owner wouldn't sell, aud my man has a standing offer ou' for one at that price.' So Mary Valdor's girlish fancy of seeing a happy home in the magic mir ror of her lover's keepsake proved pro phetic, after all. Ouly it was uot her home. That, perhaps, she had found in tho wo' II lieyon I 'the world that sets this rieht.' "PLAYING WITH DOLLS. A Passion as Strong In the Hearts ot Women as in Those of Girls. Two cultivated women, whose llvef are devoted to study aud philanthropic pursuits, recently siient a summer at their childhood's home, where a distant relative now lives, says the Youtft'i Vimipitniun. the host, knowing their Ksillon lu the world of action, half dreaded entertaining two such import ant personages. "But I got well over my fear the sec nd day after they came," said she. What do you suppose they did? They weut up iu the attic where their old playthings were stored, and unpacked their dolis' clothes. Then they took tlie little undergarments down into the kitch-n, washed them aud spread them on the grass to whiten. "After that they did them up care fully, and packed them away again with sprigs of lavender in the little truuk. 'We can't bear to have them grow yellow,' said Miss Martha to me. 'We were so fond of our dolls, aud we did have such a fine time making t)ioe clothes! Mother's stitches are in them, too.'" The womanly instincts of love for children and love of doilsare iutimate'y connected. A girl of seventeen was one day found by a school friend, busily sewing on a child's dress. "It's for the hphans' Home," she said, iu explanation. "1'ou't praise me. I am not doing it for charity. I simply cau't forget my play with dolls, and now that I have packed my little family away, for very shame, I want to amuse my.-elf by making clothes for dol's of flesh and blood." A middle-aged woman who adopted a child was oue day asked by a friend, prone to look ou the melancholy side of life, if she expectel some time to enjoy her. "Expect.'" cried she; "why, the very first time I took her lu my arms, I felt as if Mehitable Aritella, my old rag doll, had come to life. I haven't had such a h tippy minute in thirty years." A Round Dozen of Don'ts. Ijn't deceive or frighten children Into obedience. Uoii't tell the faults or cute-sayings of your child in his presence. Ilou't manifest a spirit of partial. iy. Children are sure to delect this. Don't encouiage iu a small child that for which you w.ll punish him when older. Don t trample mercilessly under foot the wishes o! a child, but respect them as far as possible. lMu't do aud say things for the sake of csiis'ng him to show aniter aud then scol 1 because be does so. Don't pun sli a child In anger, but let him kuow that you dislike the task, but lerform it for his good li.in'l ever let him see iu you a trace of the "I 'm-bigger- thau-you-and-you've-got-to-mind" spirit. Don't be constantly menacing a child with "I'll whip you," or "I'll put a stick over you." Ix't your promise ol chaslis .meiil and infliction of the same be of seldom occurience, but if you promise, keep your promise. When you promise a child something, don't forget to fulfil the p oinise to the letter. If you are not scrupulous to do just u you agree you may exjiect the little one to set you dowu as false, and learn to be thus himself. Don't feel it beneath your dignity to give a child the reason for a refusal, it practicable so to do; If it is not, your former conduct should have inspired such confidence toward you that be wii. cheei fully submit though be does no' understand your motives. Don't say "Oh, do hush up!" or, "don't bother me with so many ques tions," when a child questions you. If he asks for the sake ot know ing, answer hiiu though he a-k "seventy times seven" questions per day, aud leach him to remember what you tell him. Varnish for Confectionery. Take half a poun I or more of gum benzoiue put it into a lttle aud cover It with fourth proof alcohol, cork up tightly aud let it digest for at least two weeks, shaking up once or twice a day. After which lime you may pour gently eff any quantity you may require for present use. it should be the thick ness of thm sirup; if used too thick, it is apt to apiiear iu streaks on the work when dry; If too thick, dilute It with alcohol. This varnish is perfectly harm less and very rragran', resembling some what the odor of vanilla. 1 1 will also keep for years, growing letter wit'i age. It Is a nice varnish for all kinds of chocolate work and candies; pulled and clear. It forms, when dry, a thiu, glossy film or skin over llr ui, which prevents the access of the moisture of the surrounding atmosphere, ami tends to keep them from becoming sticky for a much longer period of time. "What is t e news in the piper this morning, my dear?" asked .the Presi dent. "You are laid up wl'hthe Influenza." "Keally? 1'ui very sorry to hear It." XEWS IX BKIEF. During la'.l slightly over flOO. 000, (XX) worth of gold was dug from the earth on the four continents; the largest quantity came from Australia, California and South Africa. The most elevate I tow n In the United Stales is lied Mounta u, Owray County, Cob, which is at an altitude f 11,123 feet. The lowest laud is Saltou, San Diego County, Ca! , which is 2t i feet below the sea level. Young Japs are regarded by A ineri cau naval ollicci-s as the le-t kind of servants ou shiptiuard. They are mar vels of neatness, intelligence, otedienoe aud courtesy. Some Japs of excellent position at h me are iN-rformnig such services on Aiuei icau-iueti-of war. The cistliest bor e barn in tlie world lieloug to D. 11. 'rouse, aud is located at Syra.-use, N. Y. It has now cost the owner something like S7!H,m n). Incidental exjieu-e 111 make the sta ble cost little short of a loiiiid ;1.mo,- ooo. It Is said thai the annual iuceuie of John D. I lock feller, the fouiidar of the Standard Oil Company, is six mil li iu d.. liars. If this statement Is cor rect, six hundred and eighty-four dol lars roll lu upon him every hour, night and day. In a few sections of Iowa rats have liecoue a ten .hie nuisance, and the faruieis have organized to hunt them. Around Milton over 4, ii"0 of the pests have been driven out of then hiding places aud killed, but the farmers are not satisfied, and intend keeping up the crusade until the town has been freed of the rodents. It is not generally known that Wagner wrote the libretto of "The Flying Dutchman" for a Fans mana ger, who entrusted the comtiosiug of the music to one Dietsch. His iqieia was a failure, and a year later - Wagner set his own music to his own poem, lir-t writing the spinning chor s. The world knows that the Wagner "Dutch man" was a triumph. -In TitlM, Ku-sla, a club of IJ.'i families, hired a doctor for fi.d a year, who agreed to visit tlie families regu larly and i:ive them advice as to how to keep healthy, to tend them if sick, and, besides, to give the dub occasional short li cturi s iqiou hygiene and physi ology. Each family pays litty cents per month for this service, and twenty live poor families aie admitted free, similar arrangements have bo. n made with the druggists. The admirers of Frince B smaick in Germany are developing plans lo found a Bismarck museum in I'erhu on the next birthday anniversary of the Chancellor. Collections have lieen made already and requests sent out for all relics pertaining to the I'rince or his family. It wii, in all piohah.hty, 1 c arranged somewhat alter the stile of the Weil-known Hoheiizolleru Mu seum, which is one of the palaces of Frederick the (treat. The tian-elor is flattered by the idea. Tho survey of the mouth of the Columbia l.'ivcr, recently male under authority i f the Secret aiy of War, shows that great and Lt-iicticial changes have talii-n j.'ace upon tlie bar since the survey of lss.1, about the time of the cuimenceuient of the construction of the jetty. The same channel depth ovi r the bar which was available for a width of i miles m l"'S."i is now available for a width of r mili s, uitli i rut icj.it ions that a much i'eeK-r channel is foi Ining thiotigh about the middle of tl c bar. A po.slal caid, written in an uncer tain, juvenile Sort of penmanship, cou taiuii.g an important me-sage U-t ween its up I. ill lines, found its way to .lus tice Taintor, in the 11-scx Market (limit. New Yoik, lecent 1 , and caused his Hot. or to smile gene i oiiMy. This is what the mc.i-ago s.ud: "Deal Friend.-: l'lense ccio for my s.-tei, llosa id weit. -Js I Mat Third stiect, because she does not want to ko Ui school and she Kiivieis her inolhoi back. Sue lights w lh all the ch ldnu. M ax G Kit w ki: i . " lu France dining 1-Sir, an shown by the ollielal tigu.es just published, the unuiarr ed represented fifty-two per cent of the entire population. ( 'elihacy continues undei the republic a- .m 1,-t the empire the strongest fnet..i ,u r, progressive diminution of the popula tion, tiaceable al-o to Intense -eltl-h-ne-s and penuriouMiess. Schemes to tax the unman led have lni discussed by French lem-hiton hin.-t: the threat levolut ion of IT'.IS, with the resullinif admission that such tax ttion w. u. I b; Impotent as a stimuli:: to mai- liae. A new genius lu the be -:ng line has made li s appearance on the bu-v !ov u town streets lu New Yoik. He is dressed like a lespectable longshore man, IS careful lo keep l.ini-elt neat and clean, and always cai i n-s a t.uucli i f cotton an I two dimes about h.m. Ho st nils the Cotton in one cheek, assumes an expie-siiin of in'.en e nusei, puts the dimes in the hand that Is l. t en gaged in rubbing his swollen , l.eek and asks the first bene ol- nt looking man lie meets for a mi-l.el ' complete the sum of J" cents m i s.-iu y to have a tooth, extracted. His decent appi-ar-;ii:ee, evident agony, and the signt ot lliet-'.o dimes aheady in his hand, 1 rings he iisked-f..i i.n-kei iii'm ly every time. A startling ii.cide-it is the ta!K of iniliUviy circles in (ieriitany. Lieuten ant von Ilarby, of the Twelfth liu-sar tegimetit, was tiding Willi ti.- Hoops iu tlie neighborhood of the galiisoii of Merseliurg, when sud lenly his hoi-..; took fright ai d bolted. All effoits l.j restrain the animal were fiuitlfass. (jiving the hor.-e the rein, the ofli -et-waited his op;ioi tiinity to sp; it,g liom Irom the saihlle. To Lis d'suiay the an mal sweived suddenly it, tVe direc tion of the plati-au ovt-i halig'ng a hioud expanse of water, the sho.e benealu being dotted vit!i fisher cr.iit. A few moire ts and Uith h-ir-e ..ml n h-r would I e iver the edge. But a bi ght flash was Been for a moment, and the sabie of the otficer fell with deadly ef fect upon the head of his ste d. The hf uteiiaut then leap' d ftotu Um saddle and so escjped. Arn'.i r j, ix Tram w hich many er-fiim- s are made, aud w hich is sometime- ued to flavor wine. Is tne.ely tho moibid secret i .11 of the livei of a sick spermaceti whale. P. Is a fatly, waxy substance, disagreeable to sight or touch, but eveu in its crude slate ex haling a pleasant odor. Kill-; HAD NOTii kd lie "Love Is a inadneH. " She "I have noticed that when two Jieople have beu married for a few years they generally se -m to be mad Willi each oilier pretty nuuily ad the time." "?g W l!ll!!H'"il'"W" PtiffSskWLif-aniiHr 'Tnwprr
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