lllllfl '1 u 4. J I ii www B. F. SOHWEIEB, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND -THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and IrpTietr. VOL. XLIV. MIFFLINTOWIS, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1890. NO. 51. I 2J1 if)1 ss - a-sws It: 'c-v w'nds begin to b!cs, leus. black, the g!a uiotr, 5 ct 1 . . uon, ths spaniels alesp. : : V f;ca their cobwebs crepj the lua went pale to beJ, u la hnlosblj bur head; . ..: ; Lc-f -herd heave a slh, i. . a r-iuLoiv ipm th sky; v ..3 :ir u-iutp, thtdttcbw smell, . . t o rl.k-ycU pimpernel. , : 1...1 torij it dusk were scea, y i.i 1:; o'er the greea; . ...i ti.e Jacks, tiie peacocks ery, . t L:. am looking- nla; . uw v u.e clii. s sod tables eracxl ll.t:..'j(.i u a.t oa the rack; '. - -.- cu ru is. Low odd their flight, . - : :j t ie i ! Ua kite, . ..... ,vc:l; tatc U foil : ; i. : t-c jlcrcluit bad; t -re t.ie snortlag swtns! - . d.sturb tbe klae; ... .. '. Lv'v load afce slugs I i ' i ir:L. wua velvet paw. ,- o r her whiskered Jaws: : y ru n, I see with sorrow, ....... : tu ;--t be p.:t off to-morrow. I " ; I 1 :7 I wcr.t wtth Chart. -:r.ot;t ring- I had wo n v ilown to the little bridjn . t!.o 6:rea:a. to look lit ..;ja of tho moon In tu. !: wis for that; and a an a w;n always suppose to a: t jr moonlight effi -;ts Li' ..i !;, and all that jit l .' -AiiL'rioue has ouly b en . u'a.;, the uiidn of a ciiuls t .'...:s (iu Italy), is not ; iiiitest placti to stay in. i to oo alor.a fur a moui. nt is tho truth of the : tv. C. - ' or e; . .r . . , . . . CY '. f.."". we : Ik .: F ; b : I..- I i. . T , C' . : tu i" " -i tvo hril reached tho brld re, ..i u i- n tia not alone. The e. cv r t! e handrail, a pre.tv . I., r i c.:at!t dress, with 1..t ..iLia.ii hanjinj down .i i.:v l.j.idii maid, Fene 'a. . i--oJ a ui in a peutlein .... . lvs.-. in tiiat dim liht. He . . !..;: 1. and as xre pa? .-d .i ; .:. l.lper of endearm- :it. ... i((.i3 evidently, and i! e - , :i -m wmij aloue, li U i a: it. : i:i40T;cd ir. a little enr . - i li ly, and said n ti- : I I v.'..s not old euoujj'i t i I was quite roai: u . t -i h l.cvc that any getui'.' . : t'.i ;.i luve with beaut: :ul i Li -l l.ul to make her lit .: .! 1 Lava loved Chai Y : I-.. Mi been humble? :..o t!:ou;rht me less 1 I ij(.v:i a v:is i!!t girl? V'.; S I jok counsel of a. -. 1 w- d.vMed that it was il i dutiful, and that nil :i true as we were; :;:,-l ; -ir to the older ts,'. .: ':. ii lover. v t.:.it somehow Tenella rv.-i : .vj) J.'C'llr-il wli.1t We thoilp (i " v'-ii.:ed to heed ua Wi.i n . ; . . i.-l;.- s;ot. It was always 1 i. ever quite saw hi 1 j 1. . 1 a fine figure, br ii p.i;i:c.y, and beneath tin. c v. ore we saw the flash of iij w:is some one of wealth, f couaequeacc that was evi- --'-. 1 ia th.it old ril! only a -.f v. cvk. Those who had tii. i of t..e rs-rty whipked us awi . . -l.or places before we t- . i of it. Uut ere I parte i :.:.i:d Fc:ie.la (enpHgtsd on! :.;:.e of our sojouru) I ha i 1. r. lu-. Vr - I t I-:' 1., w? ST. fl- CO ..x !. V-.(.(.'.. if r. v. (!.:. W; i'rv i . d.r. ,.- tj : w- : . w.; . :.. fjr t..j .it j i.ue her very much, an I . j v I cor.M not help saying t Li !'. c braided mv hair for the la.-t tlr.r. Fenella, befoie next Summer .rr. - I shad bo married. You ca fir- who is to be my husband, of V." .u'.l you like to come t en w. :lve country and be my mai I I am t:i u ricd?" hi .-'.e l, aud gave ma that Uttl.. vf l.ev. cc;..- i atn g . id Ml'? Maria Is to s -hnr; .-. 1 should like to be her maid, li I w to a i o;u's; but Miss Mari . will tell imbcdy? I am married.'" 6.ie ; u' I cr hand ia Ler bosom and crew f-jith a ring. "My wed ling ring," shesald. "Do is veiy well horn, and we must keep it siac! a while; but he loves me very 3u:ch, atid I uh, how well I love Liml" So we excha-ijred confidences, I ard Oiv m:i: !, and the next rtav we parted. I tc-.ur-ied to L-.Uud, she remain. 1 ln Ler t a ive land; but it waS'long b.- Xoi-e I lorgot iitir pretty face a d pleasant wn. s. indeed, I cannot aiy truly that I ever quite forgot them, but I heard no :-:-in? of her. I was ni ii rled before the next spring an;'.', in;.! ( lived a happy life with t: huband tor five plecsant years. Eve. pii:. ' wo spoke of Italv, and planned to V met hi: real a b, qua :u lin tiio town where we i.'ui 1 learned to love each other; it wa not u:uil the sixth that we carried out our plans, and after i-f ti nvel found ourselves in tho l..t old placj where Fenella had mv maid, and where I bad I'm- I mv iuvc-cLeaai. and knew ilii fia 1 ii va:n: I: The old vi r. a in which we had dwelt eu-.p-y that summer, and, tJ ";r viMt sr.ll more full of swid ic v.-e hired it for the seaso:i. v e ul-o hired the same old mnu 'ii in who had ministered to the (:' t ie lat sre party of tourisis .1 i crowd. -d the viiht daring th-t (! Mumner. tuak P"-l: wK; and r. who vi; i : ' ." ,JU"1; """"" ' -' 1 in two or three of the many j fvj onlr lud returned to It, an1 vjuin- ,:i a sort or nunemua isuuuu f-'uad vcrv Dlcasaut. Tin very tirst day 1 had questioned 1 v .-fcian abiut Fenella, and sh tlie ua . l-c C-Cl I. "A X Old TVH iiere u her l.ra.l. a : s ,1 ,,t a1a aaid. "eht c in : : r r.tus sg. u-hand.'" J aked. kinws where he is," the : :i a:d. "While madame was Ii her partv, so long ago, Fe- i i wee: neart; but lie vanish- , r i on- kin w how or where. T aea i i w..s verv tmbannv; bx 1 "!d no one anv thing. She. lived here In ibis hi u-e with an English lady. who tor'- ! , r l,. rnii-l. nntil the ..or.in ck. nui ill by uix u i . i .... ... . v. . . 1...7. pnnm uu 1 . . . . . .. T . 1 Ve . i i .. i . v.n. .ha navar '; l have seen her; but . Sia, and depart, d kit jhenward iv 'StoVT Tk Ycr Poor "4"". I H of miue. i: was & . mall apartme.. , with a jj. Je folliin. tua iu the n-imluw great box. la -which jrreTr ome plauti. P" crcepii.3 vi:ic, -tvhicU c.uni quit curtain. Whenever I entcrea this room I felt chia creep throui'U ce, and grew sad. I h4 noticed that t:om tho hrs-t. nd -uPsca k to oe because tLo story the old woman had told me Lad Lad a stronjj effect npon me. f The Image of Fenella Trcc-nlnT at tV window seemed to have 'impressed Itself upon my mind, so that 1 coulj almost see her sitting there. I wakened oue night with a strarr". chill npon me. I: was not the chT.l that precedes an Illness wo all know It very well. A thought giveu to tuose mysteries, which all sensiJle people profess to doubt, wiU send it cree;jiug through the blood of almost anv huuiuu being. I had been thinking cf uoth- ( lug, dreaming of nothing ; bat I waS- . eued with this chill upon me, and look ing through the door of the little room , I have spoken of, which I naturally did whenever I opeued my eyes. I saw , Fenella. Yes, my maid, Fenella, J ist es she had looked when she lived with ni-j. Her black petticoat, her r-d bodice, tlie white sleeves of her chemisette were us plain as though they had been tatm.hle garments. Her black braids feil to her knees. Around her neck hu:i the black velvet nob n on which 1 knew she wore her wcdditii-ring. She wus weeping bitterly, ami" betidiny as ihe wept over the box ia which trrcw the vines and Cowers which iidag their shadow on the moonlit floor, so that she seemed to water them wiih hor tears. My first thought was that the old woman was mistaken tLut leneha lived and had returned to Uie villa iu the nlpht without gueaiuj it was Li habited. , FenelIa,', Ica'.led. "renclla, it is UNs Maria; don't be afraid." But, as I speke, she was pone gone without moving from tiie rvt gone as a bubble bursts and vanishes. ! I nttered a scream rh-t arouaed mr j husband from his siutni er. i I was advised to believe the whole I scene as a dream, and trie 3 my b-.--.t tliink it so; but before tiirte da 1st paed I saw Feuelia ugiln. This tlmo I was nsi sT"r'-r-. 2 ' was in the garden hm 1 looUcc ;---n-rh ! the window, and wh.it I uw tui-. ti.nu was Fenella kneeling besid-i t!;e :.-.vfr-grown box, making the of tlio cross above it. II-r face wa- like t!.e face of death; her hands waxen vii;c, like those of a corp--'. j The sight was so terrible that I lo : my senses, aid was found by Charles ! ing in a death-like swoou upon the grass ten minutes af:cr. ! Weeks had passed. I had accepted my husband's version of my virion. I looked npon myself as the victim of optical illusion. I saw Feud. a no more. I laughed at myself for having seeu her, or for having fancied it. Ai.d the time had almost come for our re turn home, when one night we ento tained one or two Er.glUh friends ia our little villa, and between the pauses of song and cluitter, some curiosity that ' we picked np in our travels ws spoken . of, and I ran into my room to get it. i It was a dark night. No moon fluny . its radiance through the window. Ouly a little swinging lamp ilium"-- : my apartment, but that inner ror.n, once my maid Fcncila's, wa. bright with a strange silvery light, txat seemed to grow as I looked vvjn iu And, as I stood motionless, gazin; towards It, I caw my vUioa once Hgaiu. Fenella, paler than ever but this lima strangely occupied. She was digging in the earth about the roots of i he vines, and heaping the mould into t.ie form of a new-made grave. ' "Fenella 1" I said- She did not vanish. "Fenella!" I screamed. She turned toward.- me. I saw that a new born babe lay npon her breast. She made the sign of the cross above it, mud was gone. i I crept back to my gnests without having screamed or fainted. I had de termined not to be scoffed at as a ghost seer I even kept my secret from n:y husband; but that night a strange thing l. innened. A tempest swept across the country, and took our villa in its way. It demoiisuea a cuimuey aiiu ui window of Feuella's room ; with it tho fiower-grown box and the great, ! ixnriant vines. "We sent for workmen to clear away the rubbish, and this is what they found among It, deep down in tho mould from which the vine Lad grown a little box. In which lay the tiniest skeleton human evc ever rented upon, and about its neck a little golden chain, to which hang a heavy, plain, gold wedding-ring, with this name ciigiaved within It Fenelia. Both Shot In the Air. I Fltx Greene Washington, a (Treat great grand-nephew of Gcot pe Wush Unzton. has recently deserved the I Hamilton-Burr duel as it was oen oy ' bis grandfather. Captain Fitz Huguts. lathe following words: ' "When Captain Hughes d;scivered ' that his friends had gone to fizht, he took a boat and a couple of slaves both of them good oarsmen-and I rowed as fast as possible to the batt.e- .. .i it rot there in uma to see IIV(" - o- , .... trt fh fla-ht occur as fonows, oui was his hope: Ham; I0UOW9, uui uu. top it, as was ms nope. misy . . thrice Burr were eacu i "' - ! it one another. At the word of com ! mand for the first fire Hamilton bred M Burr, and Burr fired in the aar UamUton, of course, missing Burr i but at the -second firing Ham. n Rixi I? .v' " Kurr shof Hamilton. i th air ana un Hamilton thought Burr . ., tn till meant to kill Borr; there- mm ------ ... fr.nSm ""SKS'ha'rV. Burr, "deling VT-mSiton would, tt course, a' a' toe , j.-nr araiu to shoot n ra, . .K.nd his tactics auJ l-ot ox Hainiton, wishing not to H" bv Burr, and prcsumi.i ?ra -m .-riin make no cfTrt "":. "hi cistol off in the tBOuuk" - l - . t - , of the - . . T., faaJ,ht by W WHY CUES ARE WORN. OEDEUED BY A FOR3TER EM. PCHOK OF THE COOTBY. Tlzst TTcm by Compulsion, and Later bj CLoice. Every one knows that a Chinaman d ea not care to return to his native land if, while in this country, he has for any reason become separated from his cue, or "pigtail," as it is more com monly called by the Americans. Most people believe that cuelcss Chinamen are prohibited from returning to the scenes of their childhood under penalty of death. While this is an exaggera tion, it is nevertheless a facf that were he to retur without that national em blem he would lose the respect of his countrymen, and, through unofficial but just aa effective persecution, be compell d to leave the Celestial Em pire. As every remit has a cause. It will be iuiere-iliiig to know the reason why a patriotic Chiuauiau must wear a cue. Dress, like other thin undergoes its change iu Chinatown, and fanhion al ters th-rc every now and then; but the style of the "pigtail" has remained the same for centuries, and is handed down from parent to child without f(.-r of iu being adopted or fancied by any other nationality. For many yearn prior to the year 1C14 the uutive Emperors of the Chi nese dynasty compelled the Chinese subjects under them to wear long hair over the whole head and wear it in a tuft or coil, something after the man ner iu which ladles wear hair switches it the piesent time. The first Emperor of the present dy dasty, who ascended the throne iu llii. determined to make the tonsure of Manchuria, which was his native country, the token of the submission of the Chinese of the entire country to his authority. Shortly afier his accession to the inroue ne issuea a general order met earned the greatest consternation with it throughout the kingdom. He or- dered his subjects to shave all the hair from their heads except on the crown, and to adowthe hair on that particular I art to grow long and dress it accord- jug to the traditional custom of Man- chuiia. His proclamation was received With universal manifestations of dis- approval, r-anicularly among tbe more esthetic Mongolians, and it required e-ns:denible time for them to become fully accustomed to the change. Bdt the CUStOm finally prertllcd throughout the leugth and breadth of t:.e great Chinese Empire, aud the style that was then adopted as a duty is. worn now by choice. As a reward for their punctuality and obedience, those wiio were fli-st to conform with tho new capil'ary rules were presented with a tael of silver. Then the present wu reduced to only a tenth of a tael, and later on only an egg was triven. Finallv the cgz was dispensed with and no prcseut given as soon Is the custom became widespread and general. The law that required the people to shave their heads aud braid the cue wts not often rigidly enforced by the penalty of Immediate death, but i: was soon an established fact all over the Empire that those who did not do as the ELiiperor desired would never be come successful in a law suit against those who did conform, nor would they succeed iu their business or other en terprises or undertakings. Some time ago when the Empress snd oo-rcgent died the whole nation went into mourning, and ln memory of the deceased the law forbade the Chinese shaving for a month. In the city of Foochow the Mayor of the town made the discovery that the li-crVmr nowor were beinc disregarded. and he accordingly made a raid upon tlie barber shops and sixty Chinese were caught in the a;t of being shaved. Thev were arrested, taken before the chief magistrate, heavuy nnea ana then severely bastinadoed. More than this, their heads were painted a bright blue, which is the color for mourning iu China, and a coat of viinish was put over the paint, ivery wees wune the mourning ceremonies lasted the cuiprits were compelled to present them-elves weekly to receive a fresh supply of paint and varnish. The ancient Chinese wore their hair aft; the stvle of the Soohowaus, and taking pride in its glossy black called themselves the "Black Race." The members of this peculiar sect believed that without the aid of the "pigtail" they never could be saved, as Confuci- us would find it an extremely difhcult task to lift them Into tbo blissful crown tnat Mauley should determine regions without the aid of this flowing to rescue Emln, aud should Ui capiliarv adornment. umphaiitly fulfil his purpose. j As U "is to Confucius and the "pig- We had learned from former dis- ' tall," the Chinese look for salvatiou, patches that when Stanley, af ter ac it may not be out of place to say a few complishing the long aud difficult as words of this remarkable mau, who cent of the Congo and one of its mtdn a-r tllO lapse OI I ill ee. auu iwvuiy centuries has a tempie in everv Chinese cciuuiits uo. . vk - citv. and an effigy ia every school room. Bora in the year 501 B. C. and endowed with more than common talents, Coufucious soon became dis tinguished for his love of historical and religious research. Reading without thought is fruitless. and China being at that time possessed that time succeeded in protectitur them of immense treasures of litorature and from Mahdist aggression. Should he history, he at aa early age stored his abandon them he knew that they would memory, and by the aid of reflection speedily relapse into savagery and be digested tfcern into a system for the anew subjected to slave-hunting devas use of posterity. He was made premier tation. lie would ftay at his post, of his native state, and soon afterward therefore so he told Stanley as long a great improvement in public morals as there was work f-r him to do. made manifit. Valuables might It is fortunate that Stanley did not be exposed in the streets withont being stolen, and shops and bouses might be left open all night without fear of molestation. Honored during his lifetime to such .Vm-p that tha nrincee of several States lameuted his decease like that of cherished brother or a revered father, his influence lias deepened with time, andcxtended with the swelling multi- tudes of the people. He Is venerated as the fountain of wisdom by all the votaries of letters, and worshipped by the mandarins of the realm as the euthor of their civil polltv, and one who ou the last day shall hoist them up to Heaven by mean, of the cue. The Chinese are proud of a long c-ue, and now aud then play eacn other tricks with it, as well a. use it a. a ady means of correcrloa. In China men and women often go bareheaded and ward off the sun by mean, of a an aJifilnn. XaU. IV lugn iJV.if vuv m mM (iiiii6 mluuuljaa fS9aJB!L tsoia the ea?e with which they can lttns b : . transplanted into a happy eternity . Iu tuis country the Chinese whope. ! some Auierican citizens snd oo- do not hesitate to cut off their cues, and dress their hair iu the American fash ion. Those who retain their native religion and who intend at some furore tin? to return to China retain the cues. The Prudent EcntnckUn's Weapoii.'' "As between a knife and a pistol as in offensive or defensive weapon, ifve me the knife every time,'' remarked . Congressional Delegate Smith of Ari- eoua the other day. "I've seen both , ased a good deal in my ilme, and I never knew the man with the pistol to jret away with the man with tie kfiife. i'he latter is a terror." Mr. Smith was discussing the Swop Goodloe tradegy in Kentucky, and re marked that Col Swope was a fool to imw a revolver on a mau who he knew habitually carried a knife. "You see," and here Delegate Smith crossed bis legs and lighted a fresh cigar, "a man unless he is a dead shot and quick as a hash, has no business to carry a (run snvhow. Many a good man has been tined because, having a gun, he dWt know how to use it, whereas, if he had "tier ana Dar.it docks are au Douua iu do gun at all he wouldn't have been ebony leather; her jeweled watch is in hurt. Down in my country, people : cased in steei, and any jewelry worn don't shoot a man who is not armed. 1 011 ner fingers, wrist or neck is of Hence, unless a man knows how to blackened silver or platinum. Xo ue a pistol with prompt effect, he'd flower but the pure while lily is allow better not carrv one. Now, Col. Swope ed to perfume her roam, and she will carried a pistol, didn't know how to endure nothing but the odor of violets use it, fired at Us man, missed him, and lo scent her sachets. But thia is uot then, before he could fire again, the a'" man with the knife was at work ou his 1 Tha leader of fashion summons the person with the f urv of a tiL'er. npholnterer a-" soon as the undertaker "I tell vou," continued Mr. Smith, ! Las been dismissed, nd at once the as he pushed the bell button. "I'm not oriole suite is cou-sid red. Black and afraid of a man with a eun. but I'm in mortal dread of a man that carries a knife. A good many people think a knife is a coward's weapon, and so it is w hen used to stab a man in the back ; but, it is the most-confideuce-begetting arm that a man ever carried. Most Kentuckians carrv a knife of sc.ne kind. If it isn't a 'bowie' it is a rLrk or . da?frer. The favorite knife among Kentuckians or was when I was a 5oy ,ived in j-tatela the dc.uo!e-edgel dagger. It is carried in tt fcllfa.h aua the tLeath ig attaciied to ,jie ,eft 6UspeiuJer. It is the fashion, vou know ln Sou?h to wear iow. cut Testg and the kn;fe therefore, can be reached in ,he f raetion of a second, aud a5 it rcquires no preparation, a m or anythinsr, its possessor can rush u on au opponent with a quickness and foree liiM are irresistible, and there is no escape. i have seeu a number of rfi, ln-ri.ii mi-n rmpil wlri. tnifa aud pisUj! aud i Iiever kl)ew the pUzol man to escape out once, ar.a ne snot the man with the knife before the latter could reach liltn- If a table or any other barricade can be interposed, why the man with the pistol has a great advantage, but in open ground, unless he is a quick a-d dead shot, the man with the knife is going to kill him provided, of course, he hits the nerve. 1 have seen in Mar- u Joyce's aloon, in Tombstone, one slender fellow with a six-inch blade hold a dozeu desperate fellows at bav. 11 of them were armed with guns, and most of them dead shots, but the 6i?ht of that glistening bteel Lu the hands of a man who thev knew would use it, seemed to paralyze every neive. Not one dared to shoot, lest before the smoke cleared that awful knife would be in his vitals. Ugh!" and Delegaw Smb shuddered at the mere thought. "The knife, however, is not popular with any bat Kentuckians. The late Judge Terrv of California was more feared because he was kuown to carry a knife than from any other cause. There was once a gentleman, a lawver jn Nevada Gen. T. H. Wiliiams his Dame was who always carried a blade . The Gemral was sicklv and feeble and ni.tempered at times, but you can bet nobody in Nevada ever dared tackle bim iCOUrt or out of it. He ran for l -uu i ail uci the United States Senate in 1874 against Bjji Sharon and made a hot canvass, but nobody ever Insulted the General, ne was a "Kentuckian, and bis knife uevor left his suspender." Stanley's Last Achievement. In the history of exploration and ad- fit i a f n rwr t li s m to a i-a m t-rt - r . w v buiui w sv v asis3 case Auva w uivuivi able than the dispatch latelv received from Stanley announcing that he and their journey to the east coast of Africa. It is almost a quarter of a century since, to the amazement and admiration of the world, a mau pre- vlously unknown undertook to find Livingstone, aud found him. Of tlie career thus begun it was a fitting Biummoi ui i(cumiuiiii;icui.iiuiii tL-.nn, the latter was unwilling to forsake tho . . .. equatorial province which his self devotion had carved out of the heart of Africa. Although cut off from Europe by the capture of Khartoum, Eruin Pasha continued faithfully to humanize and civili7.e the people com mitted to his care, and he had up to take the man, whom he had come to rescue, at bis word. Had he done so, and returned to Europe by wsy of the Congo, we now know that Emm must nave snared the rate ol Uordon. lie retraced his steps, however, ouly as far as the place -vhere he had left a large ' Scposit of arms and ammunition with bis rear guard. Once possessed of these resources, Stanley hastened back 5o fhe last surviving representative of die Khedive's authority in Central Africa, but found that in his absence Emin had beeu made a prisoner by lome of his own men, snd that the fciou MabdisU were advancing up th eNile . AtMm '"J -he homage of the i world. The hijrh lim of Emm's seif-consecrating labors .f?S"" schievemeut wLl shine forth on the lark backgrouud to which, it i. too rohahl. Ois hcirt nf AfnM ia now r - - K)nnsimnini sat awutf xaau. ABOUT WOMEN. ' 2;e - 5rs and Gossip from Far eni Near for the Fair Bex. Flowers are fading as trimmlrgs fci evening dre-se-, and the lashiou is set ting iu towards birds and insects. Flights of jet swallows aie seen fleeing across the skirt of an eveniusr dress. Perhaps the bodice will be ornamented with a swallow, too. Huge butterflies made of jet, gold tinsel, or of pearls and irridesceut beads, are made large enouffh to come riirht acr-.ss the front rurt of the bodice of an evening dress. The wings are outspread, and the butter flies a e said to be mode led from natur al speciuicns. Smaller butterflies bovez about ihe shoulders and oa the skirt. In 2Cew York the fashionable widow not only attires Lertelf in the habili ments of woe, but loves to adorn every trifle her lingerie, scent bottles, chair bags, sofa cushions, looking glass, umbrella handte and pen-holder with a bow of black, tmrole or mauve: "Uppers, purse, bloUing pad, prayer, yellow are the colors for chamber and Loudoir. The crape-room is done in silk hangings, or else the walls are dead black or hard, white varnish finish. Purple prayer rugs white ct black skins cover the polished floor, a pedestal-lamp burns low under a black iaco shade All the furniture is white enamelled wood, the daintv toile;-labls having a drapery of black silk aud the escritoire a pad of purple velvet and a carf of fine India silk. The woman who starts out to be a model housekeeper, in the true exem plification of the term, will be healthy. The trouble, however, is that what is commonly understood to be "a mo .el housikeeper" is far removed from the Ideal. She of tr e ultra, extremely con sciencions type, is generally sut-cessf id only at the expense of health; more over, the sacrifice is perfectly ueedh-ss, and, indeed, defeats the very e ;d fr which it is made. Not only can house keeping be well done and health re tained, but, iu order to do it well, health is an absolute essential. In the opinion of these martyrs to mistaken notions, the washing, ironing and scrubbing must be done at any cost uu the appointed days; mending the in stant following that on which the rem occurs; aud, iu sickness aud health, a routine as inexorable as the laws ol th Medes and Persians must be ob served. Emergencies Must be met without interfering with this clock work routine. Eveninga when they ought to be at some entertainment, ot at la-t engaged in relaxing conversa tion wi h their husbands, they, as like ly as not, spend iu the kitchen wash ing china, or upstairs sewing buttons on the children's clothes. They literally fag themselves out by doing needle a work. When sweeping day comes round they raligiu ly sweep the whole house, when, p. rhaps, the spare room, the parlor, a id, possi bly, other rooms, have uot been used since the lan sweeping, and at most need ouly a light dusting. Their an nur.1 house cleanings are enough to terrorize all concerned. On bak.ng Ja.y. wither or not, they bake as if not to do so were a capital crime . ,ea C.a. ! . "? P'f!' bre,ad mlllt b ouht of 0,8 baker and occasional desserts composed of frnits would constitute an agreeable and healthy change that would allow hem, instead of toiling over the kitch en fire, to go out and take a stroll ii 'he open air. The fact may never have occurred to you that the beauties of the cities . . . . . . , .. "bo take the great matrimonial prizes ",ui"'1 " iT I a ' sv uvi v suis wuwviwva a a w uvi w for their lasting good than all he indoor calisthenics ever dreamed -f. You seldom find a lasting benuty who has not bad a semi-Greek educa tion of out-door life and exercise be hind it. There is no reason why the Boston girl should deny herself the real zeuuin : life-giving out-door exercise, she has acres and acres of parks at sand iu which to walk, she has fairly .ood sidewalks ia the suburbs and 15 minutes ride will put her into pure :ountry with as fresh air as anybody "ets. Th"re are plenty of examp'e of the ' 'uu',- s r k rake the beautiful Gunninirs. who ran wild in their Irish country home till he calculating mother bad raked and tcraped enough to take them to Dub ia aud thence to London. The Gun linjewere unlicensed hoydens, but heir races over the hills gave them r.atchless comolcxions. Later still Mrs. Lar.gtry took her beauty course Tiv.ng the Jersey lanes with her brothers in sea air, living on peaches and coarse bread, with as little lessens as sufficed to fl her for London draw log. rooms, " . 011 " ?w!pey Well, go over dere on wav and ve il see a safe tipped truck, an' hear de driver swear in seven langunges. If dat am t a safa tip I don't know what a aafe tip is, ?Le? And Swipsey had business around the corner. Mrs. Rustler (to her husba:.d) 1 certainly wish, dcir, that you would keep up appearances more aud dress better. Now look at Mr. Slasher, who moves ln our set, how stylish Le is. : Bustler You forget, dear, that it was but recently tha: Slasher failed, , Tbm Jg JjkW In the Rhine Pi-ovi nee which prohibits mercenarv marriages, and a rich and tgztieved t ather oronose s to snrinir it r jir. iSSSn "wP It is needles. thTgrieTed favi- u UauOngton, though it ' . . " uuuai.iut " K Matter of Etiquette. - A woman who has studied the que, tlon a good bit was speaking to me tht other day of 'the difference between 2ve .v York aud Chicago cafe etiquette. In Chicago," she said, "uo lady thinks of taking a glass of wine at a public restaurant. Should she ordei wine for her luncheon at Kinsley's ox the Kichelieu she would bo socially ostracized. At Del's or the Brunswick here the reverse is true. It is a com mon affair to see ladies order wine at either of these places aud nothing ?s thought of It." The New York f em in ne swell never goes to the opeia or to an assembly w ith a n an. She goes with her maid uuiess she is to be of a party. A veritable sensation was made t. e other night at the opera by the ap pearance of a sweet creature who came in in the middle of the second act ac companied by her maid. The lady was fair tt look upon, and her frock was very ma t, but she had, as it were, laid herself out on her Dorcas. The maid was a very pretty girl, several years younger than her lady. 6ho w ore the stillest and smartest of caps, and as she slipped off her c pc showed to an we-stricken audience that she wore a black stuff gown, high-necked but with shoulder-sleeves! Long black gloves .vere worn which did not quite reach the shoulder and which left an inch or two of the pre'ty, btre arms ei'posrd. Then really seems to be no valid reason why a maid should not expose her anatomy as well as her mis tress, but it is an innovation, to say the lea-t. New York Letter to Chicags Herald. Lincoln's Half Hour es a Watchman. James Etier, an old soldier, who for i over twenty years has been one of the day watchmen in the Winder building at Washington, which is ocenpied by , the Bureau of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, relates with pride an in teresting experience he had in 1863. i As he was alone in the building one ! sultry July Sunday morning, a tall, clerical-looking man entered from 17th street and politely asked him . whether Surgeon Barnes was in his I office. lie replied that Barnes had not j been there since the preceding dav. The stranger thanked hiin and retired, but returned half an hour later with i the same inquiry. Agin receiving a reply iu the negative, he said: "1 am Mr. Lincoln, the President. You allow me to take your place as watch man, while you !) to Surgeon Barnes' house and tell iTT.u I want to see him. Let me have your badge, and I will sit right here in your chair and carefully attend to your duties till you couie back." The veteran in relating the story, says thut for a moment he was speech less from astoniiiinent, but quickly re covering himself, lie pinned his badge on the coat of the President of the United States and hurried off after Dr. Uarues, whom he brought back with him. "Well," said the President, as he returned the badge to its rightful possessor, "I have proved true to my trust as your substitute ; and nothing has gone wrong while you were away." The old watchman feels proud to think that he is the only policemen who was ever relieved by the President. Sur geon Hai nes lived on Lafayette square, and it took Etter half an hour to go there and back; so for that spaee of time Abraham Lincoln acted as a watchman at the Treasury Department. ! Oherly's Little Joke. They say that wheu Mr. John II. Oberly, the "bishop," was a younger man than he is now he was nu irre pressible Joker. A member of tho Jefferson Club, who claims to know what he is talking about, tells us that John was born at just 1 o'clock in tlie morning, and relates tl ajjollowii.g circumstances concerning te twentv first anniveisiry of that event: The entire household was asleep excepting, presumably, young Oberly. At a few minutes after 1 o'clock be went to thq door of each bedroom and with feigned cautiousness aroused the sleeper, say ing: "There's a man in the house." I Presently everybody was up half 1 dressed. Some ventured out into the halls and others stood timidly iu their half-open doorways, while still others remained out of sight behlud locked doors. 'Come out here," said John to those who had not left their rooms; "I tell you there's a man in the house." "Finally he succeeded in getting everybody into the hall, where the group stood, half afraid, half ashamed o show fear. "Where Is he?" said one. ! "Here I am," answered John . am a man. I was 21 fifteen minutes ego." Wa-hlngton Post. j j Pertinent Adrlie. j Professor "Well, Roberta, have you seieced your subject for sopho- , more ex. yet?" I Sophomore "Yes, sir." Professor "That's good. Nrw let me give you a piece of advicn. What ever your subject is, let it become for j the next two months a part of you. ; tf'nrote yourself with it."' , pUomore "Yes, tir. Thank vou, . I ' Professor "By the wiv, may I as ' what your subject is?" Sophomore " 'Alcohol and I n seal. It. air." Cuiiinirtoa Fru Presa- Mushrooms. It Is a popular error that mushroom, grow to their full size during a singi-j n ghVa"d that they dissolve and van ish after the snn shines upon them. They are rapid in growth aud rapid iu decay; but the same mushroom may be watched growing and expanding for two or three days, and then gradu ally dec lying away. Much depends on the dampness or dryness of the sea son. In some seasons they are exceed' Ingly plentiful. liile at other times they are comparatively rare. This also is believ d to depend chiefly on climatic caditions. It is no, unusoal for cultivated mushrooms to become attacked by a parasit c mould, which renders them unfit for food. This misfortune rarely happen? to th" wild form, un.il it is in process cf decay. The cn'ac nib' of Paris are r.oltd i"-r their production of mushrooms iu im mense quantities. Fr :n the Me y saves as many as 3 000 pounds are some-hues sent to ma ket daily. We Davt heard of a cioy being grown ia a Uathax, ALL SORTS. TT-vr - fP,,rmTr K.'o T-ViJ - - - Money. TBE DtDE. He 1s s mm of mny charms, Ttie Urest Is a locket; Haze checks he tins upua his clothes But rare y lu Lb pocket. Els collar often rises high, f bough mild bis di-puitlon; He sere aii ia luio lii. e Although he's no in -ujicla a. H' voice blow, his scarf -pin loud, ill. cane bis greatest pi-loa; All tal!or-mile is he, aud ;c A mau alter a tushloo. Say, pop, what is meant by -det.il eeafiuif?" "I don't krow, my boy, unless it is ocean currents." Grocer What kind of tea did you ask for, madam? Customer Five o'clock tea. nleoiie. 2 biar that's the most stylish, now. tell' is my toot"-." 'You don't live up to It. You struck ua iu tb pocket the other day." Mine. Pattl's picture oa the maga ine covers, iu the attitude of eiuging ihe praises of soap, leaves uo d-Jiiht that she is indeed tho great and only "soaprano." They we-e d!cusing Bilkins, tht oead beat, when (jroggs said: That fellow is always hard up. and though he lives to be a hundred years old his will be a short' career." "There is one thing stand about a o. ab." I don't u ider "? ?" "Why, whenever a crab wants to tee anything he puts his eye out." Edith I wonder why Lent lasts so longir Maud Why, how can you sav that? I'm 6ure forty days is l.ttle enough time to study up an Easter costume. "Miss Browning used to be very Cool towards you." Yes; but I took her skating and it's all right." I suppose you took a tumble and Iroke the ice. Husband (at I SO A. M.) Don't say a word. I know it's awful Ute, but I had a hard tug of it. Wife Yes, you look as If you had a hard tug. How many schooners did you tow in to-night? Little Benny Mamma, please 1st me to d the baby for u minute. Mother I am afraid, Benny, you might let her fall. Little Benny Well, If she does fall she can't fall very far. "How did the colonics manage to exist the first winter aft r their arrival? asked the 'eather of the class lu Ame: icaa history. "The Indians took hair of them," replied Freddy Fangle. "There is something so poetic about a marriage ceremony!" whispered a fair girl to her escort as the procession swept up (he aisle. "Yes, the license," replied the mat toi-of-far.t young man. First Poet Have you done well this Winter? Second Poet Very well. F. P. So have I; but I'm afraid S. P. Afraid of what? F. P. Tha the Winter's woik will i be fallowed bv a Spring idyl. "A New York woman walked ah over that city the other niglc in her leepand never encountered the police, rt'hat. do you suppose the cause was?" "The cause was that the policemen Tere not walking iu -h Ar sleep." "Mr. Varrell, I think your imper nna'iou of the villain ou the lif raft u mid ocean the most realistic thing -ou do." "Tank you, madams. The tears .ad seasickness are real, I can assur e fOU." Western Merchant Your expenses vere very high ou your last trip, Mr, j&YncSall. ) His Drummer Yes, sir; blamed i ligh. I got snowod in with a poker rame at rrte s reast ana umi to stay a reek. Lawyer Did you ever notice any , sign9 of insanity iu the defendant? ' Witness Ouly on oue occsalou. A passenger picked up a dollar in a horse-car one day and he was the only nian on board who said he hadn't lost it. "I pi.seed, dad," shouted a Montana s;hool-boy, rushing into his father's arms. 'Pascd, did you. you young scocn- ' drel. V.'hv didn't you raise 'em a stack of blues aud keep up the honor of the family." Tommy (studying his leson) I ssy, pa, where does the Oshko h rise, aud iuto what does It empty? Pa I don't know, my son. Tommy You don't know, eh? An! to-morrow the teacher will lick me on , ace. uut of your iguo-ance. i Swipsey, the bootblack (to Park Row sp rt) D'ye want a safe tip? Sport Yes, don t care if i do. j Wickars An artist friend of mine once paiided a bat:ana peel on the sidewalk so natu ally that the first man who came along slipped and fell down ou it. ! Vickars It couldu't have been very natural, if the first man that came along tumbled to it. Jones is a good salesman, but a tri-' fle careless about his dre. Moreover, he despises "traps" on the road. "I can't see," said Walker, "where Jones carries all his samples, cun you?" Maybe In the bsgs of his pants," suggested Howlinswell. I Teacher Johnny, how many Presi dents has tlie co tniry had? Johnny Kno, i'all " welve. j You mast be tl inking of the twe'xe spostli-s. Now let me hear you coual the Presidents. Begin I One, two, three, four! Whaok! whack I whack I Ferlia has six great plav fl Idi fo--h Idren. All ' rls ot ani'i-t-ii ei,i ii, h( ee pUces are free. Mini teachers ot tjaanaaiUa dixec. las exercutsa. STEY7S r T?P.IEr. Jh ppt'ar.ts' ins.irr--tTon In C cutn or ii ia has bern suppressedd. Ti e Mnnel Sho.i'.s Canal, In Ahv Cama has formally been declared ope a. Crtb'e servh-e has b?en established Ottw euNe Vork mi l the Bermuda. V U rerorte l tl at 7 97 ,0 0 bushels' of lbJ Mbeut sti 1 remain in California. The otat croi.in theUnl ed SUtes this jear is U ',000 wu bushels a ort. Fr- nch ou i osts m Ton'dn, China, have beeu iiei;ueuilj attacked by pU ates. Th9 suir cane crop In Louisiana ex :els any gr ja-u iu thi. Stste for many The number of rxilea in Siberia thlJ year'up lo OcLobcr lj aauuaU wlo.OjO j soul'. A year aaothpre -Te buf St y people !'n Mil iles'j.ro .ga, Ky. To-Jay there . : Ueary .0j0. Excessive rains haveeau-el serious la mage to t'.ecott n, cotu aui pea Crops of Georg'a. T e wheat crop of Minnesota and tbe D (K 1 1 is now geiier illv conceded lo be about 9J,0 JO.oiM bushels. - n?lnd'sm.l try -arrison In Ireland is nuiuereallv stronger iiiau the regular irmy of tha Uulie l states. The Sitlt in of Turkey Ins refuse-1 hl lO iSent to the openii g of a Hussiau Qatmual school iu Cmsianlinople. A final -'lvi.leu 1 h is been dec'ared on I the e-date of I iy C oke & Co., who Tailed ia 1:7J Willi l.aui.Hiei of til,' UJU,((UU. Cdia has 131 tileraph stations Tlie system is manly controlled by the? j jvb liuieut, aui the opeia.ors are all Uau s. Mou'it-na, in Sicily, is throwing jut bh wers of shes, and peasants are fleeing ia terror of the thr.ateued erup tion. Sixty ypars ajo the a3regat wealth of the Ua t -d 3t iu?s w is less ;haa l.(M.i."ii".O0;; at preeutit hi eatl tiated at $;o.20J,0.;0 OoO It li p opo-ed to esUhllsha charity nospital lu Urllu, Genuauy, wheie pa tients c in be 're u-d for consumption iccordiu to Professor KocU's system. Cincinnati. Ohio, Is a wire centre, tn-l cU iiu to m ike imonz other things l 10 Oud b.rd cages, 2o OJO laC traps, l.'O, j Wi djr traps uuJ io .t'OJ sieves annu I my- j It is the Utsst theory tint the eleo ! ric.ts of thu ner storms is due to U.e ' Uictioas of Water d.o.is ou ice. The dynamo Isieril icxz the battery to Biicti an exieir In t-lecr.uihy that Its u-e wi 1. it is thought, universal in a lew years, it is bo.h cea. ei and more fill tlent. One of theliceeit warhoues tu New VY-ik city is c-'ii iucte I a kIuwls! Oy a woman, .Mrs. II. C lh nr. It sa'd tlml tliHr are over 43,000 wome-i and ynii 1 1 eirls ni gtf i in thsj manufacture ol ai titl i IfioMeisiu rar.a Two women hold positions as statu n Hftent.s at Boe'Kford, III, toi lia e won he gojd will of eeXibody thereabouts. Utilizifiscri'.p steel rid ly welding it and (iia ui' it tutu leiic- wire is one jf the leceul sucCeSSsS of tkctrio seU Ins. r.utter, wrapped In parrtiment p-eT, Is sa d t be iirca Iv improve! in flavor. TnU -S e.-speta ly true in wai m weat ier. French pliysinlnslsts have funl that ali-o'iid i ro l ices tlie s.mn effects, iiieluiiing a d--i aa jeinent s unlar lo de riuua '.re uen-i, on .1 hs uu in-u. The L nl e.l S a'--s mm of r Sau Frani is -o's ullle i -i-e I is 19 06 knots, Ji ju t a tnlla below that of tii Pliiia deiphia. Th Un'tpd Sta'es Is by far the Urret ciisiiuier of tosiage mve n'Si ot uiiv nau n I ' tlie koiM, over C0J. 0 s ,'Jd'J having beeu Used 10 o last year. -Queen Victoria's f rtttne was la Sre.tscii lo I he ext -ui. of neai ly half u mil lion dolors l.i-t e.ir through tne rewn's bhar" of estates that have rev- rted. The Italian Navy leuls the world in t PHvy guns. It- ariiia-jiMi t of it tu of euslity t uis au 1 over at he clo- of la-t year was ihi-ty. ireat lir.U u had Iwentv-ttto; Fiance, sixteen aud Get many t n. A Massarhnsptts la'ly, who has re eenl'j O p I, lef a i pquet of $i ,' 00 to ihe ."oiti-tv for ti e l'ievent:ou ol Cruel ty to Children in hei Stale. The hinh e tiloslvp rar-ontte hss 'e cently itiien very sat sf actoi y resul's, and It has hepu i roved tint It t a tta ple compound t Hi. call be sto.ed for a 'iilh o: time withjjt deterioration. From polor;cal obi(-rvati(.r.s on lit Als, vegetation on fieliij .es p-r-t.o'i seems to be r tre tln. a id the p ipl.r.s that one lime doi ne. the crest ut th. hi Is lire now i.earl, a 1 dead. "It IViev-r you n-i" et-oleii n yoi Vion't ti:i: uo.-q-iitoes,'" says an old od C. uut yro;i. " i l e lnsc;ts c n't Stan 1 !be uptell of if"ae, and whp'pvpr oU ssells are. oh my lh-r- is no cad for mo qutto ti(.r.' Tivp.-.rti m rrov-d to ke th", prln-e'p-tl sutiject of disounlori at tne last t- -tiug of the British MedioaJ Assoc. a-s-c, More than ot e-fiftn of tee 11 c t'-e vorld l as no out et for drainage to tse hsa, aud n all that ar-Kt ev. oraa m Is eater than piecip.intlon. Caima'; 5ylv, Qnppnof Rrmmanla, is for.-"PVeti and ill leantlful. She and the Trincess of Wales, w ho Is also forlj-tven, me two of the prctt est woueu lu hur pe. Frar.k Belin. a bl nd editor at Salt Lfcte C tv, is to l aveaie r aikahle oper ation t erfoi med on hlaeyca It wnl le the transplanting of rabbits eyes and coTintctin? them w;t'i tbe o tH i ervea. Tbe operutjou has be-u successful ln a number of cases. It is all- important that fashion should oe irrfiiine l i;h hs much moral ty aa possible, f r !t con' ro.s more xi pie than law or piety dues. If you wi-h to become acquainted with Divinity do not seek it in tlie -oc ety of the MluMr oiis, tiut In ib- intercourse of the it' od. nenliicdoc-iuoteiplaiii God guOInjs tiroVes him. A pleasant manner a'traets a maai Dr'EhtiiP-s of braui ho.ds b:ui. The col eciiv- leneth of the Ixindoo Strt-ela wuld reach ;3.o00 ml ex A tra'V Is a flemanJ acte which as cuiic&t evexTsiima. anv oue Lv. sN"Txl
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