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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.
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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."
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