awnoL,. Seilid jaik ill if A' rr s v AV B. F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XUV. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1S90. NO. Haymaking In Finland. A carious wj of making hay is Terr men who own do meadowa hare long Den accustoma.t t) cut what grass they Dan find la the forest glades and other t land. Owing to the lack of roads and farmsteads the hay was stuff ed iana the branches of netghb orin trees to await the winter frosts and now, when it conld easily be carried off I t sledgca. After a wet acssnu some farmer noticed that tire was actually better in quality ttiao that which they themselves had mad frtm much better grasa. The wild crop, ao to mil it, had dried much better in tha tree branches, expose 1 to a free circulation of air, than tha rich herbage which had laid long on the sodden ground. Hence it occurred to them to make temporary tree upon whioh their own crops might be. dried. Thia experiment waa attended by anch aucceae that the plan haa been widely imitated, and bide fair entirely to eupplant th oldfashioned methods. After the mowing ia done, a number of poles about ten fevt is length, and pro vided with long transverse pegs, are set tip at intervals, and the grasa ia loosely heaped npon them. The reanlt is aid to be excellent. F.ven in wet weather only a small portion formirg th outside of the pile ia diaoolored, wliile the inner portions, exposed to t;e air beneath and protected from the rain above, are dried in perfect condi tion. Mowing can be carried on in spit of wind and riiin, and when once the grass ia placed upon the drying pole , it may bo left without fear of -riotia damage nntil the we.vther rhanpea. The Wife of Plutus. The .V. .V'i ! .'u;3- ssye: "Our rich men Lave very faint notions at to wli:t women i re meant for. A mil lionaire merchant or bunker will rush down town to his otlice or conuting rHm, spend the day there grabbing up more umuey, rush back just in time for his apleodil. unscientific dinner, full asleep after it, and be It a dull as a hog or a log till it 1 time to breakfast and go to bo-mess agaiu. To a mail of this rt a wife is rnerelv au apparatus lor exhibiting hi weafth by wearing Sqk iliwi, rtding in Cue eqni. ages, presiding at superb banquet, lie haa no ideaoi lr ne in life but then lie haa no id- a of I'M-.wn. I bese opulent pen try, who :una-.s gold aithout any notion of how to spstid it. are like the 14s em ploye. i to hunt trnrtles; the ring in the pore ne n.i preserves the tuber for a daintier pa'ate; and the money these peopl grt ti-vcth-r and lavish in osten tation, rrsongh it brings them no happi ne, confers happ'nesa upon the hum bler people they employ. AcijnUitive pow. r seldotu ooeista with jower to en;oy: the runuey. maker resemblea a pnrrp which brings water from the depths of tha earth to ijiieneh the peo ple's tlorst. but has no palate OI ita ewn. Mercantile life can be of a far higher type th in this. It haa been no la other countries, why net in thia? There have been merchant prinoee in F.npland as well aa in Italy. Haste to (row rich and a foolish fondneae for h w nrx the tendencies which degrade the mercantile character in thia coun try." Pore Diamonds Are Rare. Atoiit iune-tenthi of the dlaiuonda offered for sale are. olT color; that 19, they have color in them. Ten per cent, only are absolutely white. The ill (Ter ence 111 the color makes the difference In the price of the atones. For instance, a canary-colored diamond ia more val uable tlutn the white stones. D1.m1011.ls of lira kind are called fancy stones. When set together they make a N-auti-ful contract. Ihere is no special fashion in diamonds. Mil -h depends on indi vidual taste. Necklaces are now worn a goo I ileal arid a tfood many pieces are ri ad up with small diamonds combined Wilu colored stones. Sapphires, opals, rubies and emerald Hud a ready and an extensive market. A fine ruby, weii:h 111 from two to three enruts, is worth more than a diamond. Fine emeralds are always as h gh prlced as the dia mond. Ebony Brldiio Timbers. "What do you think of a railroad usinif ebny and in thoany for bridge timber?" remarkd Mr. ). Tagt, the other day. "It seems stranire, but it is a f a U I have just recelveit a letter from a friend of n.lne in Mexico, aud he w rites roe that the Monterey and Mexican (iulf lUilwav is usin. these woods in the construction of its br'.dtfes.artd that tlie stations are belnc built of black luarl le. lb country through which this road runs abounds In those kinds of woods, whereas the cpiuiuoner kinds usually used lu cou struclinif bridges are wholly wautitiK. The railroads of Mexico, he writes n, import larjr' quantities of timlier from Texas, and List jear the Mexican Cen tral paid Jl.ii.i0 for Texas lumbT. Canary Rearlns Industry. Germany carries on a larfre trade in the export of canaries. Every year she sends uo fewer than 13tt.is.stof these birds to America, 3,t to Knlandand about to Kussla. The great nur sery Tor the breeding of canaries is the Haiti Mountains. Many of the peas ant aie engaged in the work of rear ing the bird-t, and receive wages of from i-X to f l-i a year for their trou ble, an Important addition to their earnings. Manv canaries coiue also from the Black Forest, but they Uo not fetch such hiK'li vrices as the Hartz blids, not lelng considered such goo I songsters. A Famous Bell. The Independence 111 was cast in England in tht year 17Y2. It was broken and recast under the direction of laaac Morris by Fuss & Stow, and placed upon Iudeprnce Hall. It was removed on the occupationof Phila delphia by the I'.ritlsh in IT... but was afterward ret uriied and used on slate occasion, t n the visit of Henry Clay in lfJH to that city it broke while be ing rung in bis i.onor. and was then placed in the ball, where it is still to be avert. FcoPt-a not only distress themselvea because others do not thank as they do. but are also diatresaed to know what others do think. Hili. your coufAdeuceat a Ligl) prioe, if at all; to be strong; keqp yOui ova wtBBiaJ. About eleven mites south w-et of Paris in the depvtment of the Seine and Oise. stands the maftniiicent pnl aoe of Veraaillea built by Ionia XIV., but which owes its origin to Iouia XUL From a recent number of the I 'ojimopolittn Mii;)aziiir we gleam the following items. There was nothing particular in the aite of the little village of which old Hugo Versailles was lord snd master, about the beginning of the eleventh century, to recommend it to a court so fond of romantic amusements as that of France. Louis XIII. himself loved as residences the vast palaces of the Lonvre and the Tnileries, of St. Oer maia and Fontainebleau, better than Versailles, even after he Lad establish ed hie luxurious shooting. box there. Saint Himon telle ua that it was during one of the stag hunts in which the king ao rarely indulged, that his atten tion waa first called to the idea of au establishment ia the wood of Versailles. Worn oat withjhanting, the sovereign found himself obliged to take refuge at the close of the day in a winuniill, where he was most uncomfortable, a'nd soon afterward he caused to be erected what the courtiers of hia time some times called his chateaa des cartes. In the p land id sketch of Ixiuia XIII. which Victor Hnpo has given us in his drama called ie Roi a' amuse, we find that that monarch was passion ately fond of faleonry. his delicate con stitution not permitting him often to indulge in the wilder sport of limiting the stag and the boar, nor allowing Lira that rongh riding for whioh so many of his roval predecessors had been famons. ilia sjecial delight was to flv the faloon, and to wa'ch the ca pricious swoop of the trained birds after their prev thronch the wmdy aky. Had Loms ill I. not been a pood fal coner and a devoted one, the world would probably never had the palace and the maj.-Le purk of Versailles. It waa in 1'2T that l.onis Mil. built on thia aite the tir.-t royal chateau. The bouse was finished in I although the laud waa not bought till l'. l'Z. Un the day that the house was tini.-hed, I-ouisXIII. gave a reat fesat to the qneens Maria dc Medicis au 1 Auue of Aostria. Uo even waited at the table, according to the custom of the time, serving the first dish to his royal guests; after which he sat at the feet of the queen. Thia was the "hanging of the crane," and ileroard aks of it as remarkable for the decency and good order which prevailed an indication that royal festivities in the seventeenth century were not wont to be governed according to those rules which to-day govern nearly all courts. In l he bought the land from the neighbor ing gentry who ini)oaod npon him, by demand; ntf double its value. The old chroniclers tell ns that Ijoiii XIII. drw the plan of his house; and judging from the representations which oave ootne down to ua, be did himaolf n6 great boner on that occasion. We need not weary the modern read er with an elaborate description of Louis XIII. 's castle in the wood. It bad one quaint court of marbles, hand somely ornamented with seven arcades filled with gilt iron work. It possessed balconies in which were ranges of mar ble bnsta representing the Koman em perors, and the roofs and chimneys Were decorated with vases and other ornaments colored blue, thus with the white atone and red bricks reproducing the colors of the bouse of Konrbon. The roofs were all gilded, aaj on ac count of their splendor may possibly bave suggested to Napoleon I. bis fa mous notion of gildiuft the dome of the Invalides. All the fcta'. reuses and balus trades were of marble. The gardens were as elalorate, as artitiend, and yet none of them were ao splendid, as those of some of the aristocratic neigh bors of the king. In the wood of Versailles birds of all kinds were plentiful, and the kintf waa never happier than when there. When he was not engsced ia falcoi ry, ho whs fond of frnit-gardening, and offered to the qneen, to the Princess of t'ou lc, and to numerous other court ladu-s on the 2."th of April. In! 1. only a few days before hia death, a collation composed of his own preserves. There waa bnt one really imposing historical event at Versailles in I-om-i XIII. "s time, and that has 1-een made familiar to na all in Bulwer'a play of Richelieu. Versailles during bis time was far more healthy, morally and in every other sense, than in the dissolute reign of his successor. Ixmis XIII. loved not merely hunting; he was a good mu sician, liked to play npon the violon cello, and even composed songs and motets which were brought out with care by bis chapel choir. The le I'rofundis, which be bad written, and which was performed at the court on Ash-Wed needs t, was chanted leside his bed after his death. He sometimes wrote in the journals of the time, and especially liked to write for the tiazette de France. Now and then he touched the pencil, and drew some very decent Portraits of bia friends. Saint Simon, inq-Mara, M me- de Hautefort. and Mile, de Lafayette were his pnncijsl fav ritee. H at butt visit to Versailles was made early in the spring of i when he gave a grand dinner in honor of Car dinal Mazarin and other notables of the time. In February of this year he re turned to St. Iterinain. disoonrairr-d and broken down with the anemia which he bad hoped to got rid of in the pare air of Versailles, and in the fol lowing year be died, worn out, at forty two. When Tie Xolre began hia work un der Lonis XIV. 's direction, in ItidJ, many of the plans of Louis XIII. were changed, and so rue of them were spoiled. It is said that when the palace was completed and all the improvements finished, the acconnts were given to I .on is XIV. to inssct. When be saw the enormous sum that had been ex pended be instantly tore np the ac counts, actuated, let us hope, by a sense of shame that so many millions of franca were spent for pleasure, while thousands of bis poor subjects died for want of food. The old Sieur de la Baroderie, who occupied the proud post of intendant geueral of the gardens aud royal resi dences of the king, spent bis declining yesrs in embellishing the gardens of Versailles; and to bis skilful band is also due moch of the beauty of the Luxembourg Hardens in Paris. It was this good and simple-minded man who wrote the celebrated treatise on gard ening, printed most luxuriously by or der of Louis XII., and filled with great numbers of maps and designs representing every known and some unknown varieties of terraces, bos qusts, groves, plantations, and foun tauna. Soft of the features of Lotus XiLL'l borne were afterward,! aw bodied lXoaa jJV.'i (Uaj 4D94 U&1 b ing the celebrated Oraogerie and the Pare aux Cerfs. In order to give our readers a !etter idea of this vast palace we subjoin a short sketch of it for whioh we are in debted for the main facts to Encyclo pedia Britannica. "The avenues of St, Cloud. Psris snd Scean converge in the Place d' Amies. To the west of this large square magnificent, gilded iron gat a and a st..ne balustrade shnt off the great court of the Palace. At the high est lxiint of the court is an equestrian Ktatue in bronze of LonisXIV. To the right and left of this, stretch the long wings of the palace, while behind it stand the central buildings one behind the other as far aa the Marble Court. The rooms of Louis XIV. were here. To the north, his Chapel Court aud to the south Prince's Court; on the latter the inscription: "A Urates lea gloires de la France which inscription Louis Philippe justified by forming a collec tion of 5,kNj works of art valued at 61. tlU i,000 francs, commemorating the great events and persons of I rench history. In the north wing is the theatre where Marie Antoinette was married in May lt.th, 1770 to Lonis XIV., at that time I'anphin. This was the first time that the thea tre was used. Ia the south wing, on the ground floor, are the Imperial Oal cries occupied by the President of Congress when the two legislative bod ies met at Versailles. Also, the room where the Chamlier of Deputies met from INTO to ls7C, and where Congress haa since set to revise the constitution of 1 75 and to elect tho President of the Republic The gardens were planned by Le Notre. The ground falls away from a terrace adorned with ornamental basins, statues and bronze groups. Westward from the palace, extends a long avenue planted with trees and having along its centre the grass of the "Tapis Yen" 1 green carpet 1, which is continued by the (irand Canal 200 feet wide and one mile long, and which ia still used for nautical displays. On the south, two splendid stair cases of 10:1 steps and Cti feet wide lead past the Oraugerie to the Swiss lake which ia 1312 feet long and Jul feet wide. Beyond this is the wood of Satory. u the north side an avenue, with twenty two groups of three children each; each group holding a marble basin from which a jet of water rises, and slopes gently down to the basin of Neptune remarkable for its tine sculp ture. The Orangeri. which was one of the marked features of Lonis XIll.'s time, was rebuilt in I6H0 by Mansard and is the finest piece of architecture ia Ver s.nlles; the central gallery is &M feet long and 42 feet wide and each side gallery ia 375 feet long. Here can be seen 1200 orange trees one of which is said to le over 4oo years old. lhree hundred other va rieties of trees are also to be fonn.l here. In the time of Louis XIV. the (irand Canal w as covered with gondolas, and the evening entertainments were usually closed with a beautiful display of fire works. Now, the chief attractions at Ver sailles are the fountains and the water works, both made by Louis XIV. in imitation of those he bad seen at Fo quet'a Chateau of Vaux. Aside from the palace, there are now no buildings of interest at Versailles, but it may not be kuown to all our readers that thia place should have for every American one strong point of interest, as it was here that the treaty of peace, by which Englaud recognized the indeendence of the United States waa signed, iu 17s-t. A Meal With the La dps. I waa taken into one of the Lapp's huts, says a writer in an P.nglish journ al. In the centre a wood tire was burn ing brightly on some stones, and at first the smoke was very unpleasant, but soon one Iwoaiiie accustomed to it, aud it serve! the useful purpose of driving away the winged plague, which hud followed ua all day. The men pro ceeded to boil some ooffee, which iu a few minutes was set before me, together with a wooden bowlful of reindeer' milk. The cotiee was not very palat able, bnt under the circumstances worse tare would have proved acceptable. 1 he milk I found to be too thick and rich to driti k much of. A sugar loal was produced from Wueathsome cloths in a corner, and a few pieoes were chipped off and banded to me. I ac cepted thsm with my politest smile, acccompanied by a bow, but when I proceeded to sugar to my coffee in tha orthodox style, the action caused much amusement to the juvenile Lapps, who rMred with laughter, and appeared to enjoy the fun immensely. I found that 1 ought to bave eaten the sagai separately, as they did, and they eV dently considered my way of sweeten ing coffne inexpressibly funny. Cakes were then served to each one. These were alaut the size of a penny bun, but of the consistency of putty or dough, which tbey somewhat resemble in apearance. Sour cream was eaten with them. So nasty were they that a mouthful gave me what Mrs. Brown would call "unite a turn," and I was glad to smuggle the remainder under neath the rug on which I was sitting. I did not like to throw it away, for fear of offending my hosts, but trusted to the sharp nses of the dogs to get ni out of the iif!ii-nlty. Hot Water to Relieve Thirst. It is a mistake to suppose that cold driuks are necessary to relieve thirst. Very cold dnuss, aa a rule. Increase the feverish condition of tlie mouth ami stomach, and so create thirst. Ex perience shows it to be a fact that hot drinks relieve the thirst and "cool off" the body wben It is in an abnormally heated condition better than ice cold drinks. It is far better aud safer tc. avoid the free use of drinks below CC degrees; 111 fact a hither temperature is to be preferred; and those who are much troubled with thirst will do well to try the advantages to be derived from hot drinks instead of cold fluids tc which tbey bave been accustomed. Hot drink also have the advantage of aiding digestion, instead of causing de bility of the stomach and bowels. To herd baisIns. Take one cupful of raisins at a time, put them in a bowl, and pour tailing water over them; let stand a moment, then proceed as usual to remove the seeds, which will easily drop out of the raisins perfectly dean, without sticking to the fingers in the usual way. It saves time and labor, and you do not waste a particle of the raisins. A dripping pan half full of Cold wf vr en the upper grate iu the oven will prevent cake or pies from burning. SUNSET. to tlie ann!'OU i en the ot-ran 9 breast I ay t lie- Mm up. ii Hi. tletfp. Ulle llir f.ilr 1 utll tiles flom t he crilitsmi ftklea A. h- slow Iv Ailik- to ! !. Anil the die.liio half 1 li;s crilusou klaS 4s out ot Hi- Hiiinir.i-1 air: Atiil ve Ihe clill ttty f.tucirs drift i o a cllu.e a uli,ul a caie. 11 etiit-t to shrink from th very brink t tf Ihf Ulill horizon's lltie. , Out slid aaav ur tt-e edue of d.tj T a iaiel Ilia! lsriiv tie. fit Kililed ailh Is-iou" ! KoMen streams 1 US f!lMit;i(ft llH!l 11,e llpltt And then old Inn, with a love sublime, jAi lus aoi Id au IU r nilit. - How a an 0. Taipp. Kixoai it low j. Ism. THESTORY OF THE FORT. BT ISABEL SVIITHSOK. Six little girls were sitting under an apple tree. The eldest held a large book on her lap, and turned the pages alowly while the other children looked at the pictures of Indians and log cabins and all manner of exciting scenes. Presently they came to a fort made of posts, with a stream of water run ning near it, and woods on either side, while on the banks of the little river were women filling ails aud jugs. "What is it abcut?" asked the chil dren, and Mabel, who was at the head of her class in historv, answered blow- "There are Indians hiding in the woods; look, there is a face, and there's another between the trees." While she was eaking, an old feeble lady came out of the house and walked sloalr towards the children, support ed on each side by one of her sous w ho were white-haired, wrinkled men. " irand mama wants to sit with you, children," said Cucle John, and Home of the youug faces clouded over ut the interruption. MaVasl exclaimed quickly, however, "Perhaps she will tll us a story," and the thought of that made the children start to their feet and greet the old lady joyfully. "Here's a nice seat, iirandma," they cried, "and a stool for your feet." When her sons hail at -a her nicely settled on the rustic bench with a shawl ou r her knees und her grand children and g.eut-graud-childreu clustering round her. they went back to the ver anda to have a smoke aud talk poli tics. OrauJma HavwurJ had only just come to live at rairri. Id and to most of ti e children she was a nw acquaint ance, tier home for many years bad been with Uncle John aud his wife, away oft' in another state. L'ncle John's wife had latelv died, and as she left no child rea. her husl and and his mother found the house very sad aud lonely when they were left alone, and so it was decided thtt they should come and make their home with Grandma's other son who lived in a great farm-house with his daughters and their children. So now there w ere four generations of one family at liazelhurst, and a very bappy household it was. The younger children were very much surprised when the gieat-graudmother arrived to see that she did not look very ditlereut from other old ladies, although she was close on to a hundred years old Indeed, little Bessie, the five year old, had se oretly made up her mind tb it such a very aged person must lie as big as a giaut, and she waa not little surprise! to find out her mistake, it was iu tho summer of Centennial ear that (i au.l ma 11 ay ward cume to Ha.elhurst, and before she had been there many weeks, the children discovered, to their great delight, tnat she could tell the most de lightful tales about the days of her youth, when her family were "eurlv set tlers," and lived in a log-cubln, and In r j father aud brother took their guns to I the hsyflcld with them, for fear of In dians, Tho only drawback to the en joyment of these narratives was th it the old lady would often, when in the most interesting part, stop suddenly and sit looking straight before her us if in a dream, entirely forgetting her young listeners. She had a wonderful memory for things that happened many years ago, and seemed to grow young again while she talked alstiit them, but when the tale was done, she changed completely, and could not recollect tho names of her grandchildren or tell what day it was, or which of her two sons had gone to town. Vet, in spite of these occasional interruptions. Grand ma's narratives were intensely interest ing to the young people, and they look ed Uon her as a perfect storehouse of valuable curiosities in the way of recol lections. It was therefore with feel ings of delightful expectation that the children saw her eyes turn to the big book on Mabel's lap. "Indians, Grandma," they said, per suasively, "and this ia a fort, and the women are getting water at the brook." The old lady looked fixedly at the picture for several minutes, and then nodded her head and said slowly, "It was at Bryant's Station, down in Ken tucky, 1 reinemls r it so well!" "Were you there?" cried the children in amazement, but Mabel signed them to be silent, aud the ohl lady went on. "It seems such a little while ago. Very early one August morning, my brother Charley and 1 were playing in the dirt near our cabin, and making little forts out of chips. Mother was cooking breakfast in a great hurry be cause father and the other men were going down to Hoy's Station; a patty of twenty Wyandot Indians hud been there and ltejiten Captain Holder's men ao Itadl v that he had sent to us ! r help. While we were playing Charley eaid that lie wished he was old enough to have a gun and go aud drive away the Indians, but I only went on sucking my thumb and looked at him without speaking, for I was secretly glid he could not go, to le shot and scalped as some of the men had been, or stolen away and never brought back again, ike little Tommy Blair at ttie next station. We had a very hurried breakfast that morning, and then father kissed us all good-bye, took up his gun and told lis to tie sure not to go far away from the fort while be was goue, aud mother, taking ns by the hand, followed him out of the cabin. Our fort was n.s.le of forty log-cabins standing in four rows and the outside ones joined together by a high wall of thick wooden stakes, with a strong gate in each side. We found a crowd of people standing by one of these gates, and in a few minutes father went out with forty-seven other man, all carry ing guns ready loaded. Just as some of the boys were going to close the gate, we beard loud, terrible yells out side and then the sharp crack of rifles, and the next minute the men came hurrying in again, the last ones shut ting and barring the gate behind th.m. "The red -skins are on us!" cried my father, and mothe torned as white as a sheet and drew Charley and me to her as if to hide us from the savages, and then seeing the frightened faces round us she took us to our cabin and rocked and petted me until I fe asleep in her arms. When I wakened, she had gone away and Charley told me that we were to stay in until he came back. So we played ball contentedly and forgot everything else, (for we were har.llv more than babies,) until we heard the men tramping about and calling to each other. T hat worried us, and we ran to the door and peeted out; we raw sotne of the men busily mending the wall, and trying to strengthen the weak places in the palisades, while others were posted at the port-holes with their rifles in position for tiring, and the women talking together anxiously. Then we knew that an attack was ex pected, and young as we were we re joiced to think that the Indians hail shown themselves just wben they did, for if tbey Lad waited but a little the fort would have been without protec tors, every man, except a few very o'd ones would have been on the way to Hoy's Station. After a little while, mother came in and gave us some bread and cold meat to eat, but there was no dinner cooked that day. Father could not leave his roet at the port-holes for he washed to eep on the lookout for the enemy, so mother carried his lunch to him. As a great treat Charley aud 1 had sugar on our bread, but we had only half a cup ful of water each, and when we asked for more, mother shook her head gravely and said that the pail was emp ty. We children did not then realize what a serious trouble it was that emp ty paill Every family in the fort was iu the same trouble, for no water had been brought from the spring all day, aud who would go and fetch some when it was known that a hand of murderous red-skins was hidden in the bushes? If Indians stayed there much longer we should all be dying of thirst no won der that every one looked anxious! The enemy did not show themselves again, but our men knew they were still in ambush aud they would try to make the whites come out of the fort. All of a sudden our next door neighbor's sou, Frjuk. came running into our cabin to tell mother that father and the others wanted her for a few minutes, and when she had gone he set to work to amuse Charley and nie, and calm our fears. He told us that two of the young men had crept out of the side gate and made their way through the bushes without Wing seoa by the Indians, and tlmt thov were going as fast as they could to Lexiugton, to get a whole lot of men with guns, and they would all coiue and drive the Indians awuy but ho said not a word about the empty water pails! Frank Hay ward was a good ileal older than we, and ao we thought him almost a man, aud he was sich a brave merry little fellow that we loved to hear him talk, aud before ho left us we were laughing gaily. Thou we thought we would go aud find mother and tell her what he had said. We ran out to where the grown folks were standing, and no one noticed us for every one was either talking or listen ing, and we saw by their faces that a very grave matter was being db cuss ed. "We can not possibly do without water until the men come from Lexing ton," said my father earnestly, mid the others seemed to agree with him, aud after a short pan so some one else said iu a decided tone. "Our first plan is tho only one to bo thought of now who will go?" One of the youug women exclaimed directly, "I will, if lnv cousin -Mary will," but auother gir anid with a frown. "I don't see why the Indians should w expected to let us puss any more than they would the men " "Xor I," said another, "they never ninke any diflerouce between niiile and female scalps!' Some of the older people then explained to these timid oucs that the Indians would be sure to wait for the men to conic out of the fort. It would be uo use for them to shoot at a few women, but if they eoiil.l kill all the men, then it would be e isy to sieze the fort and put the women aud children to death or make them prison ers. At the thought of lieing carried away by the cruel Indians, Charley aud 1 were so frightened that we bean to cry, and one of the women turned and bade us go back to our cabin. So e went home aud waited there trembling until mother came. She clasped us in her arms, soothed us with more than usual fondness and kissed us again aud again, then taking np the water-pail she went out, saying that she would !e back soon. Suddenly it dawned upon ns that she was going for water to the spring, going with a few other women right into the dutches of those terrible savages I We were so frightened at the thought that we could not cry, but stood looking at each other in dumb dies ay, and then Charley ran out of the cabin. 1 followed him slowly, and saw that a dozen or so of women ami girls were gathering at the gate, each carrying a pail or pitcher, and all look ing grave but determined. Just as they had taken down the bar, Charley rau to mother, and catching hold of her skirts implored her not to go. "We won t ask for any more water, we don't want a drink at all," he soh led, but father came up and carried him away, and the next instant mother and tha others had gone and the guto was barred behind them. The men returned hurriedly to the port holes, especially to those which looked towards the spring, and I was left alone. I had just turned to go hack to our empty cabin when Frank Hay ward came up and took me by the hand. "Ilon't fret, Sadie," he said coaxing ly, "be a brave girl and your mother will soon come ba.'k." He found it a ard ta-k to cons de me, however, and at last be said gaily, "I tell yon what we'll dol We'll go and watch t'.ern come back I know where there's a splendid crack that we can look through." Then I followed him gladly to a place in the wall where there was a long crack between two stakes, and here we crouched aud peered out eager ly. We were almost on a line with the spring so we could plainly see the group of women near it; we heard their clear voices, for tbey talked, laughed and eveu sang as unconcerned ly as if they thought there was no In dian within miles of them. The grass and trees were green around them, the rie corn waving, and the bright blue sky of summer overhead. I was not thinking of all that just then, however, but of my mother out there exposed to deadly periL "rt hv does not father go with them and take his gun?" 1 asked, aud Frank explained quickly, "That would show they were afraid. The red-skins know the women go to the brook every day and if thev do not seem frightened, the India us will think w do not know they are there, and tbey will wait for the men to come out too. You see, it is necessary for the women to go alone there, they have got to the brook and are filling their j a ls!" 1 peeped throi gh the crack again and saw them stooping over the water, aud theu I looked anxiously at the brush-wood on either side, but there was not au Indian iu sight. I d d not know theu las the others did; that nearly five hundred blood-thirsty savages were lurking there and watching every movement of the helpless white women I did not realize that if they thought best to fire from their hiding-place our men could not defend their wives snd daughters without leaving tha fort unprotected, and it was ju-t as well for me that 1 was too youug to fully understand all this. And yet, I could not keep back my tears, w hile I watched my mother's leudiug form as she filled her pad, and then helped one of the young girls, whose courage and strength seemed to lie giving out. Some of the women called to each other gaily, and even splashed the water as if in mirth, and then at last they all stood up and turuwd their faces towards the fort. Oh, how slowly they seemed to walk! Would they reach the only place of safety be fore the Indians suspected them of trickery? If they had hurried then, all would have been lost, for not only would the precious water have been wasted, but the enemy would bave seen through the plot, and revenged them selves with fresh fury ou the women. As they came nearer, oarrying their heavy buckets, I could see my mother's face; it whs quite pale, but brave and smiling, for she knew she was saving her dear ones from the lingering death of thirst. In a few minutes the de voted pnrty reached the fort; I started to my feet and running round to the gate-way, got there just as the door swung open and the women came in. The young girls were first, with their pails partly emptied, for in their haste they hud crowded a little at the lust moment and the water had spilled over, and then, more calmly, oame the married women I rushed towards thorn, the gate closed behind the last ones and the next instant I waa clasped iu my mother's arms. Oh, what a hap py moment that was! I oared for noth ing else when I felt those dear arms about me, aud those loving kisses on my face, for it seemed to me that it did not matter whether tho Indians were out there in the bushes or not, now that my mother was inside the fort a'aiu, and the gate barred." The old lady stopped speaking and wiped her eyes thoughtfully and her youug audience begau to fear that she was not goiug to tell them any more. "Well (iraudma, what did the In dians do theu?" asked the children eagerly, "did they come out and shoot?" "No indeed, they stayed in hiding and pretty soon some of our men dis covered that a party of 'red-skins' were on the other snie ol us, near the Lexing ton road. Father and the others made up their minds that this was only a de coy, and that if they were to leave the fort to chase these Indians, those round tbe brook would sieze the opportunity to rush up, climb over the palisades, fire the cabins aud kill the womeu and children. So thirteen active young men were choseu (Frank's two brothers were among them) and when every thing was ready they rushed out with guns loaded mid attacked tho decoy party, firing very rapidly and making as much noise as they could so that it sounded as if every luau had loft the fort. Meanwhile, all tho rest of our men had stationed themselves at the port-holes nearest the brook, and wait ed with their guns cooked for the maiu body of the enemy. Charley and I were standing at tho door of our cabin holding tight to mother's hands lest she should leave us again. We heard the quick firing of the youn' meu on the Lexington road mid it grew fainter aud fainter until it censed on tirely.and the next minute there rose a terrible war-whoop on tho other side, aud five hundred paiutod warriors, sprang up and came running towards the fort, thinking to find it undefend ed. Frank was looking through bis crack and saw them aud he told me all about it. We heard their savage yells, as they came and then saw father and the other men discharge their rifles the dusky mass stopped a-tonished, several Indians fell and after a minute's hesitation the rest turned and ran back to shelter, followed by volley after volley of ride balls. At the same time our young men came in at the other gate, breathless but smiling, snd de lighted with the success of the trick. Then the Indians gradually spread themselves rouud all sides of us, sud there was firing from time to time, but no one was hurt, and in the afternoon we heard a great noise on tbe Lexing ton road. It was the hurried galloping of horses, and iu a few minutes sixteen white men on horseback dashed up to the gate. When they were safe inside the fort they told us that our messen gers. Bell and Tomlinson had reached Lexington just after all the fight ing men had left for Hoy's Sta tion, but had ridden atfull speed after them, and persuaded them to turn back to Bryant's where they were needed most. Besides the horsemen there were nearly fifty others, and just as they were hurrying down a lane be tween the woods and the corn fields they were attacked by an immense body of Indians; the horsemen man aged to breaa through and reach the fort bnt the rest ran into the cornfield and there was a skirmish that lasted au hour. Two of the whites were killed, the others got away, and then the In dians came back to besiege ns. Our men kept a sharp lookout for them, and thank to the bravery of the women tiiere was plenty of water for everyone, to we were comfortable, and felt quite secure. The afternoon passed quietly, and just as tbe sun was setting, a man was seen creeping on his hands and knees to a tree-stump noar the fort, and here he stood up and called to our Osrrison. He said he would give his word of honor, that if he surrendered at once not a hair of our heads should be hurt, but that if not, we would all be blown into the air by tbe cannon which he was expecting every minute. On hearing this, some of our men were in doubt as to what ought to be done, but others said that this man was Simon liirty, a rascally white who had joined the Indians, aud that we could not trust the word of a renegade, and after a minute's pause one of the bravest of our young men, named Reynolds, stood up ou a bench, looked over the palis ades, and defied Girty to do his worst. The latter then went back to his red skinned troops, and nothing more was heard of them. Watch was kept all night long, and the next morning the evening's fires were found still burning ia the woods, with bits of meat on the roasting-sticl s, bnt not an Indian was to be found." "Ah!" said the children with a igh. of.re.lit!, -the, ft M Vj- did story. Grandma," and the old lady added with a proud smiie, "'Whenever you hear of the heroines of Bryant's Station you will remember that your gr at-great-grandmolhcr was one of them." "Isn't there anv more?" asked one of the young listeners w istfully, "what be came of your brother Charley, and of that other boy who was ao kind to yon?" Grandma looked at the speaker for a long time in silence and then answered slowly, "Frank and Charley went fish ing one day and it was nearly a year before we saw either of them again Mother waa half broken-hearted at the loss of her only boy, and I cried myself to sleep evert night, for we made sure fie lads had Leeu oaught and killed by the Indiana. One night, however, they came came back, and told us that some W van dots bad swooped down on them while they were fishing, and taken them away off to their village, and kept them pris oners. Charley told us too, that Frank could bave run away aver so many times bat that he would not go without his companion, and that Char ley himself would never bave got home but for Frank, who had taken care of him all the way, and even carried him when be waa tired." "What a good kind boy! ' cried the children. Grandma put her shaking bands to an old-fashioned brooch, which she always wore.opnneditand displayed the portait of a young man with curling brown hair and laughing eyes. "That ia Frank, when he was twenty-one vears old," she said "and this is h a lew ysara before be died;" as she spoke she pointed to another portrait a white-haired wrinkled man. Tha child ren looked at this iu amazement for there was a picture just like it in tho parlor and they knew it whs the like ness of their own great-grnndfathci I Popular Science. SOVND OF THE At'KOKA. The following letter to the May num ber of "Knowledge" is dated froi Tyn ron, Uumlrieshire, England, and sign ed J. Shaw. It says: "I am iu the singular position of being the only person I know of who has heard the sound of the Anron. 1 communicated my experience in a let ter to 'Nature" fully nine years ago. I think it was during the Winter of l8i when there was a magnificent Aurora pulsing across the zenith, with bright white light that my father (since dead) and I listened to the sound with great wonder. It was like the rustling or switching of silk, and rose and fell with the brightness more or less of the light. It caused us some discussion, and we felt all the surer of our exper ience when we found written in Burn's fragment, entitled "A Vision.' Tb cau.14 Was north w.-vs sti.amlna forth Her I iu n is wr kissing eii din ; Athort the rift tiisy start aud -tuft, l.iks fortuus'n favours, tint an hoii.' Taoitua, in llermania," 4A, alludes to the sound of the Aurora. Fanny Ken bit, in her 'Record t)f a Girlhood,' vol. i., describe a splendid Aurora which she observed from a baloony in Edin burgh, whioh had a crackling sound like the flickering of binning fire, the light being white. A gentleman, writ ing under initials in the New- York 'Weekly Evening Post,' referred to the communications in 'Nature,' and stated that in 184rt, orossing the Atlnntie from New Fouudhuid to Greeuook in the brig Amanda, near the Southern He brides, they listened for four hours one night, while a most maguirlceut whim Aurora was overhead, to 'a sound, ns if tho folds of heavy silk were shaken, sometimes sharp and quick, and theu receding until tho sound was lot, ac cording to the intensity of the fl ish.' Whether any more evidence has lucu Collected, during the lust nine yeuis, of this rare experience, I do not know." Mistress and Servant. A writer in the (tbieiu says: You c:m not have a feeling of home in a pl.ico where, to put it mildly, you are not. comfortable aud cared lor, so how can you expect servauts to be so? To put it on the lowest groun d unless uo remedy this state ot tilings we shall find our foes to be they of our own households. I'nearod for, uncom fortable, aud hence discontented, ser vats become restless, crave for change, lose all interest iu their employers, and most fatal of all, learn to seek outs.de for some compensation for the dreari ness of their lives in the house. 1 shall never forget the speech of a girl, who, having left a house of this kind tb rouph ill-health, had to take sn ap parently much inferior one on her con valescence. " Well, how do vou get on, Nolly, iu your new place? Von feel the change a good deal, I'm afra d?" "Change, ma'am; yes, I should think so!" she replied heartily. "Why, it's like being at home, its comfortable. Of course, there's no servants' hall and all that; but, ma'am, mistress orders our dinners herself just like she does for the dining-room ; aud we have real china tea cups and plates, not great ugly, thick things like we had over there; and the kitchen's a real treat, with tbe nice clean blinds aud the flowers in the window, and a book sheJf for our books and comfortable chairs to ait on I" This was the key of it all. -'Missus" was the ruling spirit of the kitchen as well as of the drawing-room, her influ ence was felt as much in the one plac as the other, and she never deputed her duties to a-jother! PlneapD es for Tea. A pineapple cake is an excellent layer cake. Make a nice cup cuke with one cup of butter, two of sugar, four eggs, a cup of sweet milk, three large cups of flour and two teaspoonfuN of cream tarter and onj of soda. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs, then the milk, in which the soda has beeu stirie I, and finally the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff. If the cake is made in this way it will be fine in grain and rich as pound cake, but if it ia careless-.l v stirred together it will bo a coarse, poor eake. Bake it in 8 'ven layers for a pineapple oake. Chop a pineapple fine and oook it with three-quarters of its weight of sugar; add to it while hot a quarter of a box of gelatine, which baa been soaked an hour in cold water When coll, the pineapple mixture should be thick enough not to run. Spread it thickly over layers of the eake, place them together, and ioe the top layer thickly with a white icing flavored with lemon. If you wish it for a party you can decorate it with a wreath of confectioners' icing, and set a bright plume of the pineapple leaves in the centre of tbe oake. If there is more pineapple preparation than can be used for the oake, let it form in a bowl and heap it ia shining pieces around a white blane-manga for a des sert. It is a very dqlioious and pretty I NEWS IN M.il'.F. i ! The po-ii:.;!!or of the trorld doubles il-e.l e.t iy .' i wars. I In Bulgaria on'v 7; i r cent, of the popuiu' ion cm ie.nl and nte. 1 A new ili po t of li e c te has just been touicl lien l; ooinsliuig, I'enna. The st i av 1 i"T rent -tins !(I..V2 per cent, water aud :.4S ;-r cent, dry uiat Ur. The American Con.'ifssional 11') .r;irv now includes t'-l "..7 S I volumes aud about 200.hMi p mil leis. I The National Library in Paris Is to be cie itlv enlarged. It contains ueaily a in. limn vmuuies. A double-ilTk electric car, capable of carrying 17." prron, is l,eliig ex , pi riiLented with in I'llt.sbiiia. Tennysoi does the greater part of i his literary work iu the luoinmg lm- tween breakfast and lunch aud loafs tho rest. A iie-v electric brake recently ex pei imeiited with, stopped a car tiavel ing at the iato ol thirty miles au hour I in -UU letu Experiments made in Austria show that the addition o! s ida to Port land cement enables it to withstand i tbe action of f -ost. The baryta deposits on M. krllai's Island. Csnada, are n v I, iug winked. ' Experts pronounce tins to ! t in- fluest dejoslt iu Aiueiica. I Trees do rot si; ;. lights as las l.erii r fiom electric siippo-ed. lh. . S emeus Is said to ha .i pi oved I h.il the v eeia' ion. electric light re.i.iy a: Thus) noii-eiM'.ei who realize that moth millers on the :n uie m longer dangerous to clot long me lin y who are Rpending a happy a.ci i vvu Jo; ous sum mer. A new ino.lel s h " in tiertuanv, which has been bui.l .. a cost of f2S5, I'O contains a laie dininc-room w here 70 J poor e!i!l ; i . :i can be fed in xviuler. A somewhat unusual deposit was made with the Nitre Jianio saving's .bank in Montreal some t un' gn f I safe keeping. It consisted of a Hihie , 221 years 0d. A "lady tyj.n' ' ndvetti- for a situation In a London paper. "Tynist." it is lo be plenum-.!, i- short for "type writer." The tXf'lisii have a knack of abbreviat ii.g everything. To 111! up cracks in a I. ...it, ire t equal parts of pit. -It m.d gut ta p.-i. !i iu an 1 1 on j I. .i , i uoi o.i i 1 1 u i, i sin -' ing. Mahe up in sties ! and ineU ir.tu j the cracks with a wa; m i.on. I he I .uiperor of i te: :c iv Ua-i Is sued nea iegul.it ion, Py n:,;oh oiiiceis are fot hidden to ill" '. hoi .es at races bill those tlmt ale I elr OIUI piopuity oi lh.it. o1 lu. 'ii :ii "is. Lord Aetna Is . !. i I ' :' most leal ne.l man in lu :- ' II. is a l. iiein t 'at ! lid e. lis r i?mi no less th.l:l lo I.OO I ... , ., ;,,J ,,f which are i-aitii.v ! .in.; iniiii- ber alliol.g ti.el.1 .-..,11." I, uc boohs. The rose bovi. :(, '. ; k . a globe, conies in Hi'tv si-. Ii ii I hi.t of an egg to lh.it ,, a j imps,,'!, I' may bt cut With siiiac e:.' i t ' i !! to cot te, 1. A Kussiaii f v !: I .in the public.an.iaot a !,. -;. pi London Ciil.cil I'lec ! ii'..;.i . ;s dsiiinisl to influence I .' .Il ..j' iron 'II tavoi ot constil ii ; i. .n ii oi. city in Kusaia. The Li. it. . - i .-VP.- - ! I hat I lie P.ock Island a';-1 i a . i to ,- which bet ii ii, I o l.ien ' .o.i tie KiK'k shlHd trai l,-., h :- de. l.ied to c'CVaU the t ra -:s ... -i ,. ,,i -., as iu Lon don, and w ii. ia l ten I itute com mence '.pel a. . I. - I t ,.l i end. Ail lil d e ' is- lo- ale now splen didly lighted P. i . ii :. ,!y. Ttie vile, dim litii.- I, m.p in a . ub! y li.de at tht side oft he p is-en i "s berth, making t lie d 'inite-s s' ill nioi e chast Jy and the smells yel inoif" h.ci nie, is no more, and good lld.lai'.. e to :t. Count diaries I lion, who died it. Paris recently, was on" of the foui sin vi vois nl t he l Hurt ot Charles -V. to whom he was psge of honor dur ii", the lait four ye.ns of his reign. The Count had lived iu England and spoki English lluenth. Iu au Kngpsh town there is a shop wheie gun llints aro fashioned, and from which . i,ihi0, mo of them havt been sent to the west coast of Africa j iu the las' 'en years. '1 he savae tribes in the int. r.or use tneiu in their old fashioned hrrarius. Mr. W illiam Morris, the poet, i? robust and square built; he his slnis , hail and he delights in l nde appiiol. lie loves the sr.t, mi l nothing !i as. him moiettnin to L" nn it'ii f... a lailor; in fact, hn app' aian. e is some what nautical. More postal cards w. re shipped from factories of "AT' I i.ig.-tt at he!t .n j Conn., in the month oi .June than at j any other aimdar pei io I. 'I here wsrt . over 1M0 tons, making t.ii,iMij,iiini cards. The demand n iiho.it 1, i,i Ji a i day. There are .Vli". ant horie.l guides in I lit ' Alps. One hundred ami ninety-four ol them have taken a ! ,'iilar coins - of in struction 111 their feoles-iou -..ml havt received diplomas. Thirty-live of them are tietween ',.) and 7 i years ot age and 8;X are over 70. Iu accoi dance with a cuiioin Aus trian custom one of A tch 1 ii chess Va lerie's wedding guts was a collection of articles of eh thing worn by her In her days of babyhood. Her lirst us pair of boots, preseiv. d lor this pur pose by her uuisr, was brought to her at Vienna by that worthy woman. wo had traveied a long way to place thetn in her nurseling'? hands. I il iss Elaine ro idale, the poetess, Is Government suiiervlsor of education among the Sioux. She lives in cauip or reservation in the most pnmltive way, traveling from one Indian village to another on hor'c'oack or in a "prairie schooner." s;,e deliberately prefers this life to fi e social success which a woman of her tali r.t aud cul ture might eoniniiiiii. It will bo remembered that duriug his tour ill America, will. I;, e 1'alll company hf-t winter S.g. Toinaguo. although earning $1. o i I a week, piac tised economy tothe exo-i i uf i inn lous ness. lie lived in a le an r.ioiii and cooked his own nnais, eve.i Imvinj his beer by tho pitcher to reduce expenses. He Carried a una, I oii-stove in the. sleep i; car on whcli he boiiid eggs and made his cidlee, lo !i i!;-g,isl of other pa.s imers. lie l.as la'.e.y put a'.l his vi-gs into a handsome reoideuce, and will retire from the s'.aga,
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