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THE OON8TITUTION-T HE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLV.
MIFF LINT0W1N , JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 28. 1891.
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La? &way the new diploma,
Wim the ribbon tied arouDj;
With tee big bouquet's aroma
Let it be eecurely bound.
File sway tLe loug oration
With its words of learned leog-
Let the Daughters of the Natioy
Rest a fear and gather (treugld.
i ake the books uf Greek aud I atln,
Sell them all at second-hand,
Let otue other brain space fatw
l"p a flabby kctiryiual gland.
fcuro the tout to Alma Mater;
Never mure beneath the mooa
ilust the singer linger later
Tban the solema uiiJui.ht's ujob
Spare awhile tht fattened weiuer,
Do Lot kiii the Utile cow,
Wait uiitii the 'tad gets leaner,
JvhLUK'i get to hustle now.
Sujalo Etprm-
When everything appears unusually
fresh we say the season is forward,
and when a person is unusually foi
ward we ay he is too fresh. Boston
Transcript.
A Chicsi O paper reports that Savan
imh has h flock of red-headed geese.
Their tav. . rite resort is probably be
neath the Lad.- of a white horse-chestnut
tie Chieio Herald.
Mr. M:uipur;e What I Want ta
get a new Uauid for Fashion Beach?
Why don't you take the one you have?
Mis. SliiiipuT'-e She knows how we
live ft hen we are at home. New York
Weekh .
Ftfie MaKuid. why dos the beat
.take that dreadful noise?
Marunia That is because she is jus
ohjg to start.
Eme If I was as Sony as that 1
wouldn't go. Pick me up.
I want the library," said Mr. Ga
ieii to the architect, "to be the largest
and aire;! room in the house." "I
don't see what ouwant with a lib
lary," interposed Mrs. Gaswell, "you
i u'iw reiy well you don't smoke."
fcui Jtte.
Mr. Popinjay My dear, I have in
vited Mr Forinland, the distinguished
txplorer, to tea to-morrow.
Mrs. Popinjay Whatever put it in
to your head to do that?
Mr Popinjay I want to see if he
can rind that collar button I lost last
Monday. Burlington Free Pres.
A young Englishman the other day
was relating his first experience at
an ice cream table with a Philadelphia
girl. He said: "I was utterly broken
up and astounded, don't you know,
when, after finding a strawberry in
her half-finished plate of cream, the
fished it out on her spoon and offered
it to me.
" 'Won't you have it?' the asked.
" 'No, indeed,' I replied, no doubt
lookins the horror I felt in my soul.
" 'Why not?' the demanded, seeming
to be hurt by my refusals
" 'Why, my dear girl, don't you
itnow,' I explained, -you have had the
spoon in your mouth.'
"'Well, what of that?' she pouted
prettily, as she made her perfectly
paralyzing reply. 'YoV'd kiss that
mouth if I'd let you, wouldn't you.'
I confessed that I would be only too
glad to do so, and since then I have
made it my business to get better ac
customed to the ways of the place.
Philadelphia Press.
The Summer Hotel Bored Her.
'Why don't I go to a hotel?" re
plied a Boston woman the other day
to a remark of a friend that It would
be a pleasant change for her summer
housekeeping. "This is why I don't
board. I heve to say 'good morning'
to fifty people I don't care a straw
about. Every time 1 step out on the
piazia the other women ask me how I
do, if I am going to drive, if my book
- is 'nice,' ifweli, you know the for
mula, 2s w, some of these people I
lika and some I detest; but I have to
be civil whether I feel in the mood or
not. If I remain in my room I am
.ailed 'reserved,' disagreeable and
worse. I loathe fancy work, and all
the boarders expect me to gamine or
admire what they are making for
Christmas and church fairs. Any
serious reading out of doors is not to
be thought of, because it is impossible
to concentrate the average mind in a
chatter about the relative merits of a
Rosenbaum or a Kedfern trown or
Vtiether fouin d -;s preferable to India
silk, or vrW boat or train somebody's
husband ccme on that afternoon. No
1 am not-tedtothe summer hotel
One Way to Cross.
There are more wav8 of taking a
Journey by water than to swira or em--ploy
a boat. Not long eg0 Mrs. E.
Parks, who lives near Bangor, wanted
to cross the flume of the Forbestown
Ditch company, going from Ur
to tne residence of her daughter near
by. As she could not jump, she placed
a board over the ditch aud started
across. On the second step the board
broke and she was precipitated into
the water, which was running verv
rapidly She was carried through the
ditch and flume down to the "dump
about three-quarters of a mile distant"
wTf! t0 rel6te' 8he ePed
wlthout injury and accomplished the
errand sne had set out to do, before
he returned to her home.
Lucas SUva, who was a doctor In the
Independent Army ol Bolivia,!, m
-;iUTt-hMirwb'k1' "9thyn
Wanted An Owner.
There were a dozen, passengers on a
Broadway car the other rainy day, who
noticed a very large, showily dressed
man get aboard at the earner of Seven
teenth. He had a gold-headed silk
umbrella, and he leaned it against the
front door and sat down. "When the
sar got down to Wall street the large
man suddenly rose up aud hurried
jut of the car, never thinking of his
umbrella. Then human nature began to
how itself. A young man with a very
loud suit of clothes, changed his seat
from rear to front to get nearer the
prize. A very solid woman, with a
Sandbox, pushed a boy along to bring
herself nearer. A man on the other
side, who bad been very busy with his
paper, now folded it up and fixed his
eye on the umbrella. A shop girl,
who seemed to be out on an errand,
:ast covetous eyes, and thought of the
well she could cut over the other girls
if she had that particular piece of
personal property. An old man with
a very prominent nose finally observed
in subdued tones :
"I live next door to Johnson, aud
I'll return him his umbrella."
"Johnson!" exclaimed the young
nan in the loud suit, "Why, that's our
mperinteudeut, aud as I am going
:o the office, I'll carry it to him."
"Seems to me he s my grocer, but
won't be sure of it," remarked the
olid woman. "However, I'm an
xinest woman, and it will be safe with
aie."
"Look here!" exclaimed the man
ith the paper. "You are a nice
:rowd, I must remark. I was just
.aying low for you. The gent is my
brother, and I'd like to see some of
you try to walk off w ith his umbrella !"
This settled all but the shop girl,
she turned white and red, moved about
ineasily, aud finally decided it was
aow or never. She suddenly rose up,
walked to the end of the car, picked
jp the umbrella, and tiptoed her way
:o the rear door and passed out.
"Thank you, miss!"
It was the large, showily dressed
nan, who was standing on the plat
form with his hand extended.
"Don't mention it!" snapped the
rirl in reply, as she turned over the
property and dropped off.
And then everybody chuckled and
dapped himself on the back to think
le had been wise enougn to let the
imbrella alone.
A Fortune With His Wife.
All the Athenians know Dan Talia
ferro, the colored barber, who did
msiness in this city and afterward
noved to Jacksonville, Fla., and
narried. Dan was a polite and
espectf ul man, and had the good will
f our people, who will be glad to
enow that he will soon come in
xesession of a handsome fortune
s ti mated at $100,000 or more.
His story is a strange one. On
Dan's removal to the laud of flowers
le met a colored girl of Key West ,
ind after a brief courtship the pair
were married. It now seems that the
iroudest blood of Castile flows in the
reins of this octoroon, for she is a
inual descendant from, a Spanish
General who commanded troops in St.
ugustine when it was under the
lominion of that country. This old
reneral was a great roue, and becoming
ittached to a mulatto girl, a de
scendant pf the Minorcans, raised a
family of children by her. On his
lealbbed he repented of his liaison,
ind left these children his entire
anded property in Florida, including
10,000 acres, much of it lying in the
principal cities of that State.
A portion of the ground ou which
;he Ponce de Leon Hotel stands was
purchased from the heirs, while they
itill own valuable possessions all over
hat city, as also in Key West, Tampa,
rallahassee and other places. This
property has never been divided, being
:ontrolled by an old aunt to Dan's
wife, who lives in flue style at St.
ugustine, and was recognized as the
lead of the family. There are now
nly seventeen heirs to this vast prop
irty, and, as they are all of age, have
lemanded that a division be made, ar
angements for which are. now in pro
rress. The best lawyers in the State
ire employed. There is no question of
ioubt about the title to this property,
ind not an acre is in dispute. When
Florida was sold by Spain to the United
states there was a clause in the trade
y which this Government was pledged
o protect the titles of the Spaniards
vho had private landed interests.
Jn'ier this clause does Dan's wife
ome in. Athens (Ga.) Banner.
Fooled the Farmer.
A swindler sold a Clinton County,
ilich., farmer a receipt for making his
wheat weigh twice as much as it
night to, and signed a contract to
livide the money gained by the extia
weitrht with the scientific swindler.
The "contract" eventually tnrnednp as
i promissory note and the farmer paid
1300 for it and didn't advertise the
natter with a brass band either.
A very exi easive fad Is having your
protrait cut as an onyx cameo -
work is very alow, aimcuis
ous. The imare when done Is perman-
Hit UU WUl IWt 1IU wui" , .
are enough people In er York who
enjoy tnia xma or hii-" " .
constant einDlovment to five cameo
, protrait carvers,
Concerning American Railroads.
It is claimed that ie fastest timeoii
record was made iver the Philadelrjhin
& Reading Railroad. The time wao
ninety-two miles in ninety-three min
utes, one mile being made in forty-six
econds."
The chances for loss of life in rail
road accidents in this country are one
person killed for every 10,000,000
carried. Statisticians claim that more
people are killed every year by falling
out of windows than there are in rail--oad
accidents.
The Canadian Pacific Railway ex
tends further east aud west than any
other road in the country. It rum
from Quebeo to the Pacific Ocean.
The cante lever span- of the Pough
kaepsie bridge is the longest railway
j bridge span in the United States. Its
length is 540 feet.
The Kinzua viaduct, on the Erie
; Railroad, is the highest railroad bridge
in the United States. It is 805 feet
high.
The longest railway tunnel in Ame-
I rica is the Hoosac tunnel, on the Fitch
burg Railroad. It is four and three-
I fourths miles long.
j The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
system operates more mileage than any
other single corporation in the United
.States. It covers about 8,000 miles.
-American Commercial Traveller.
Grant's Devotion.
It is doubtful, says the N.Y. Graph
ic, whether any chronicle or romance
of the days of chivalry contains so
touching an instance of matrimonial
devotion as that lately told of General
Grant. When the honors came upon
the Grants, like sorrows to the house
of Denmark, not single spies, but in
battalions, the mistress of the White
House began to renew the dream of
her girlhood to have her cross eyes
straightened. Wishing to surprise tho
president, Mrs. Grant, telling nobody,
sent for the most eminent oculist in
America. He willingly promised to
undertake the operation, which he as
sured her would be easy to accomplish
and without danger. The good lady
could not contain herself for joy, and,
woman-like (am I right, mesdames?),
gavo way when she saw her husband,
aud confided to him her secret, the
pleasure 6hc bad in store for him. Ho
looked wistfully into those dear eyes
wiich had hold him with tender gaze
through all the trials of a checkered
career, and said, in a simple way,
"Julia, I wish you would not change
them. I love them as they are, and
they might seem strange if altered."
ISor Launcelot, nor Romeo, nor lover
of any clime or age, ever spoke words
of tenderer gallantry than those of the
hero of Appomattox.
An Innovation In Family Discipline.
Atlanta, Ga., is said to have a queer
way of punishing profanity in the
public schools. The boys caught at
using bad Iiiguago are made to wash
their mouths out with water infused
with quassia. The bitter stuff is con
sidered a cure; at least it is not so
easily forgotten as a licking or a scold
ing. Is it not an invention worth
more general use? Our family dis
cipline is a poverty-stricken affair
mostly made up of jawing and thrash
ing. Why not havo a family quassia
cup, with say another containing salts,
and a third with ricinus communis,
that is to say, castor oil. St. Louie
lobe Democrat.
i The Congress of Americas.
( ' i he Congress of the Tliree Americas,
which will meet in Washington in tho
autumn, is attracting a good deal of
attention in England and on the con
tinent. The State Department has
sent out circulars, explaining the pur
pose of the meeting, far and wide.
These circulars state, in substance,
that it is proposed, by a congress of
representatives of all the American
governments, to improve commercial
relations between the different coun
tries, to establish a system of arbitra
tion In international disputes, and to
idopt a uniform monetary system.
Canadian Indians.
. i , m t .. . j : - l .. A
Hie total nuiuuer vi juivunua iu uic
Domiuion of Canada is given at
124,589, of whom 37,944 are in British
, Columbia, 26,3C5 in Manitoba and the
Northwestern Territory, 17,700 in
Ontario, 12,465 in Quebee, P0O0 in
Athabaska, 7000 in the Mackenzie dis
trict, 4016 in Eastern Rupert's Land,
4000 on the Arctic coasts, 2145 In Xcw
' Scotland, 2038 in the Peace River dis
trict, 1594 In Kew Brunswick, 1000 in
the interior of Labrador, 319 in Prince
Edward Island.
A Deluded Emigrant.
A German peasant who arrived at
f-ocMo Harden recently, with only
1 seven francs In his pocket, had been
told by an emigration agent that
gold was po plenty iu this country that
people gave golden trinkets to their
children to play with, and trimmed the
'carriages, buildings and streets with
' the precious metal. He therefore sold
his little ldace, bought a ticket for New
j York, and gave a farewell feast to his
! neighbor. He was sent back.
a dpw female device for earning a
livelihood is that of eoin- around to the
Souses of society people and cleaning
r.airlnz fine dresses that have been
ImSSIbA or otherwi-e Injured.
The ecneiewai dereloped in Buffalo.
There are tome women who hT til
Tli Terribl. Tcherkosses.
The Tcherkessos the term now
most used in Europe to designate the
different Caucasian tribes are a wild,
bellicose, and rapacious nation. The
Tcherkess is a warrior ia bis very
soul, sly, cruel, and blood-thirsty. The
sufferings of aa enemy awaken ia him
only a sensual, smile of eujoyment He
tortures his prisoner, kills him, and
mutilates htm terribly. How ruaDy
loved comrades have I found with tboir
arms twisted out of joint, and other
parts of their bodies cut off and stuck:
la their mouths' The Tcherkess U
not a fanatic, but he is arreat fatalist;
and now he is in Die Russian service
he attacks with the same ruthless
ardor and blood-thirstiness the Mussul
man with whom thirty years ago he
used to fight side by side against tiie
Russians. He always seeks to attack
his enemy on the sly, but when he
does not sucoeed in surprising him, he
clashes upon him ani displays pro
digious courage.
Is European warfare tho Tcherkess
es are very useful on outpost duty and
as skirmishers. Even in open battle
they can make very successful oharges.
Ia the last Turkish campaign it hap
pened once that a trench occupied by
the Turks was attacked by a buttaliou
of infantry, but the deadly lire pre
venting them from reaching the in
trenohments, order was given to the
Jangouche militia to mount to the at
tack:, and they simply dashed upon the
enemy like a hurrioane, leaped over
the defences, and massacred the Turks
inside. A Russian General, In Har
per's Magazine.
A Bar Cars for Drunkenness.
A Russian physician named Pqrtu
faloff declares that strychnine Is an
infallible cure for drunkenness ad
ministered in subcutaneous injection.
He asserts that the experience of
physicians ha shown the cure to be as
rapid as it is certain. The effect of
the strychnine volution is to change
tho craving for drink into positive
aversion, and this change 13 effected
ia a day. After a treatment of e'ght
or ten days a patient may be dis
charged. The strychnine is adminis
tered by dissolving one grain in 200
drops of water and injecting five drops
of the solution every twenty-four
hours. Journal of Health.
Th Well Brid Man.
Things that a well bred man doesn't
do:
He doesn't wear larje check clothes.
He doesa' t use perfumes.
He doesn't beg a woman's, pardon
for neglecting to call on her.
He doesn't criticize one woman to
another.
He isn't always trying to tell a good
story or make a brilliant remark.
He doesn't make rifts that he can't
afford.
He doesn't try to turn a compliment
with every breath be draws la
woman's presenco-
He doesn't use a crest oa bis writing
paper.
He doesn't t ike his women friend
Into his business or love matters.
He doesn't ask to bo allowed to
smoke In the presence of a woman un
less he Is morally certain she doesn't
abject to it
Lot Letter Wrltl.f.
The latest device of girlhood Is a
fancy for stuffing pillows with their old
love letters. There is one thing about
the contents of theee pillows that can
be depended upon with a marked de
gree of certainty they are sure to be
soft.
Mow, the Question naturally arises,
say the X. x. Sun, Must the pillow
be stuffed with letters from a einsrle
person, or may missive from Jack and
John and Algernon be tumbled pro
miscuously together? Is It a test of
loyalty that when once a girl really
falls In love, or thinks she does, that
she discard from her pillows all letters
save those ot the subject of her deep
est affection? And how does marriage
effect the fate of tho pillows? Do
husbands enjoy having their wives'
faces ourled in a mass of soft nothings
that other men have written to them?
And what dreams mny come, and what
skimpy, flat, little pillows some poor
girls must have; but how nice it is for
some men to reflect that their sdored
ones slumber softly on these words of
love, and what an excellent place to
store away the litter of letters.
Flrt 5w(jap.r.
The first newspaper published ia
Virginia was issued at Williamsburg
in 1739. It was entitled the Virginia
Gazette, edited by William Parks,
who. during the nine preceding years,
had published the Maryland Gazette,
at Annapolis. In 1771 the first num
bers of the Massachusetts Spy, edited
by Isaiah Thomas, appeared in Bos
ton. It was removed to Worcester in
1775, where it is still published under
the title of the Worcester Spy. At
the outbreak of the Revolutionary
War there were in existence seven
newspapers ia Massachusetts, one la
New Hampshire, two in Rhode Island,
four in Connecticut, four in New York,
nine ia Pennsylvania, two each la
Maryland, Virginia and North Caro
lfna, three in South Carolina and one
ia Georgia, a total of thirty-seven.
With the exception of tho Philadel
phia Gazette, which was published
semi-weekly, all were weeklies. In
1300 the number had Increased to 200,
of which several were dallies.
It gerr4 All ParpotM.
One of the Spanish provincial papers
publishes a singular obituary notice.
It says: This morning our Saviour
summoned away the jeweler, Slebaldo
Illinago, from his shop to another and
a better world- The undersigned, bis
widow, will weep upon his tomb, as
will also his two daughters, Hilda and
Emma, the former of whom is married,
aad the other is open to an offer. The
funeral will take place to-morrow.
Signed. His disconsolate widow, Vero
nica IlUnago.
P. a This bereavement will not
Interrupt our business, which will be
carried oa as usual, only our place of
business will be removed from Calle de
Commercio to No. 4 Rue de Mission
aire, as our grasping landlord ha
raised our rent.
WATCRE'S MASTERPIECE.
The lovely maiden ta the bimuock swings
iwneain tn' umbrageous tree,
While robin iu the ripeniug orchard sing
Els thrilling melodies.
In dotted muslin dressed, of tnowv lawn
Adorned with cherry bowi,
She is a vision tiirer than the dawn,
Sweet the new-blown roe.
The ahinlng tre-tes of her silken hair
About her shuulden play :
There Cupid hide. each ringlet Is snare,
Avoid her while you my I
for who can look upon her lovely face,
Her brightly beaming eye,
Behold her smile, her form's bewitching grsc
And scatheless paai her by f
Turn back, O youth 1 another path pursue;
Tarn back, thou art in peril ;
If thou wouldst keep thy heart, avoid bar, do
The sweet vacation girl.
Eosto Courier
THE It UX AWAY.
"Would they put her In the asylum;
he wondered, "if they caught her? "
Folks would surely think she way
crazy.
She stopped at the stone wall to rest
and looked back timorously at the" ok
familiar 6ceue.
Far behind her stretched the mead
ow, a symphony of olive and green ii
the late fall. Hero and thero by i
sunken boulder stood soldierly golden
rod, or berry bushes clothed now in
scarlet and gold. At intervals in th
long slope stood solitary trees, when
fluttering, brittle leaves fell in the gen
tle chill air. Iu summer time she re
membered well the hay-makers rested
in the shade, and the jug with gingei
water she made for the men was kept
there to be cool.
She seemed, as she sat there, to re
member everything. The house was
all right, she was sure of that; the
key was under the kitchen door mat,
the flre was out in the stove, aud the
cat locked in the barn.
She held her work-hardened hand to
her side, pauting a little, for it was a
good bit of a walk across the meadow,
and she was eighty years old on her
last birthday. The cows feedint
looked home-like and pleasant.
"Good-by, critters," she said aloud,
meny's the time I've druv' ye home
an' milked ye, an' I alius let ye eat by
the way, nor never hurried ye as the
bov. done."
'With a farewell glance she went
again, smoothing as she walked the
scattered locks of gray hair falling
nuder the pumpkin hood, and keeping
her scant black gown out of the reach
of briars. Across auother field, then
on through a leafy lane where the
wood was hauled in winter, Uicu out
through a gap in a stump fence, with
its great branching arms like a petri
fied octopus, to tho dusty high-road.
Not a soul in 6ight in tho coming
twilight. John, the children, and the
scolding wife who made her so uu
happy would not be home for an hour
yet, for East Mills was a long drive.
Down the steep hill went the biavt
ilttle figure, followed by an odd shad
ow of itself in the waning light, and
by tiuy 6tones that rolled so swiftly
they passed her often and made her
look behind with a start to see if
pursuef were coming.
"They'd put me In the asylum, sure,',
she muttered wildly as she truged
along.
At the foot of the hill she sat dowi.
upon an old log and waited f or the
train.
a
Across the road, guarded by a big
sign, "Look out for the Engine," ran
two puvallel Iron rails, that were to be
her road when the big monster should
come panting around the curve.
At lust the dull rumble sounded, a
shrill whistle, and she hurried to the
track, waving her shawl to signal.
This, in the conductor's vernacular,
was a cross-roads station, where he was
used to watch for people waving ar
ticles frantically. The train stopped,
and this passenger was helped aboard.
He no iced fthe was a bright-eyed old
lady very neat and precise.
"How fur?" he asked.
"Bostin."
'Git there in the mornin'," he said
kindly, waiting for the money, as she
opened a queer little reticule, where,
under her knitting, wrapped in a clean
cotton handkerchief, was her purso
with her savings of long years the
little sums Sam had sent her when ho
first began to prosper in the West, aud
some money she had earned herself by
knitting and berry-picking.
At a cross-roads, as they went swift
ly on, she saw tlie old sorrel horse, the
rattling wagon, and John with his fam
ily driving homeward. She drew back
with a little cry, fearing he might see
ber and stop the train, but they went j
on so fast that could not be, and tho
old horse jogged into the woods, aud
John never thought his old Aunt Han
nah, hi charge for twenty long years,
was running away.
At Boston a kindly conductor bought
her a through ticket for Denver.
"It's a long journey for an old lady 1
like you," he said. j
"But I'm peart for my age," she said
anxiously ; "I never hed a day's sick
ness since I was a gal."
"Going all the way alone?"
,ej
"Vitn rrovmence, she answer
brightlv, alert and eager to help her-
self, but silent and thoughtful as the
train took ber into suange landscape,
where the miles went o swiftly It
seemed like the nasi vears of her life
a she looked back on them.
I,
Thy works Is marvellous," h
murmured often, sitting with her handi
folded, and few idle days had thcrt
been in her world where she had sal
and resitd so long.
In the day coach the people weri
kind and generous, sharing their bas
ket with her and seeing she changed
cars right and her carpet-bag was safe
She was like euy of the dear old grand
mas in Eastern homes, or to grizzled
men and weary women, like the mem
ory of a dead mother as faint and. far
away as the scent of wild roses in s
hillside bun ing-ground. She tendec
babies for tired women and talked tc
the men of farming and crops, or told
the children bible stories ; but never i
word she said of herself, not one.
On again, guided by kindly hand,
through the great bewildering city b
!the great lake, and now through yet i
stranger land. Tired and worn bj
nights in the uncomfortable seats, hei
brave spirit began to fail a little. Ai
the wide, level plains, lonely anc
drear, dawned on her sight, she sigh
ed often.
"It's a dre'ful big wurld," she sail
to a gray-bearded old farmer near her:
("so big I feel e'enmost lost in it, but,'
hopefully, "across them deserts lik
Ithis long ago Providence sent a star tc
(guide them wise men of the East, an
I hain't lost my faith."
But as tho day wor6 on, and still thi
long, monotonous land showed no hu
man habitation, no oasis of green, hei
eyes dimmed, something like a 6ob
rose under the black kerchief on the
bowed shoulders, and the spectacle?
were taken off with trembling hand
and put away in the worn tin case.
"Be ye goin' fur, mother?" snid tht
old farmer.
He had brought her a cup of coffee ai
the last station, and had pointed out
on the way things he thought might
Interest her.
"To Denver."
"Wal, wal ; you're from New Eng
land, I'll be bouud?"
"From Maine," 6he answered ; theL
she grew communicative, for she was
always a chatty old lady, and she had
possessed her soul In silence so long,
and it was a relief to tell the story of
her weary years of waiting to a kindly
listener.
She told him all the relations sht
had were two grand-nephews and
their famiiic-s. That twonty
years ago Sam (for she ha
brought them both up when their
parents died of consumption, that
hikes so many of our folks) went out
West. He was always adventurous,
aud for ten years she did not lu-ar
from him; but John was different and
steady, and when he came of age she
had given him her farm, with the pro
vision she should always have a home,
otherwise he would have gone away
tiMj. Well, for five years they were
happy, then John married, and his
wife had grown to think her a burden
as the years went on, and the children
when they grew big did not care for
her, she felt she had lived too long.
"I growed so lonesome," she said
pathetically, -it s-eui I couldn't take
up heart to live day by day, an' yit I
k no wed our folks wa9 longed lived.
Ten years back, wheu Sum wrote he
wasa doin' fair an' sent me money, I
begun to think of him; fur he Av.as
alius generous an' kind, an' the grate
fullest boy, an' so I begun to save to
go to him, fur I knowed I could work
oiy board fur a good, nieny years to
come. Fur three years he ain't hard
ly wrote, but I laid that to the wild
kentry he lived in. I said b'ars an'
Injuns don't skeer me none, fur when I
was a gal up an Aroostuk kentry there
was plenty of both, an' asfurbutfuh-rs
them horned cattle don't s-keer me
none, fur I've been u-cd to a farm
alius. But the Joncciimness of these
medders has sorter upsot me an' made
me think every day Sam was further
iff than I ever calc'fated on."
"But what will you do If Sam ain't
in Denver?" asked the fanner.
"I hev put my faith in Providence,"
she answered simply, and the strang
er could not mar that trust by any
word of warning.
He gave her his address as he goi
off at the Nebraska line, and told her
to send him word If she needed help.
With a warm hand-clasp he parted from
her to join the phantoms in bey memory
of "folks thet hed bin kind to her,
God bless em'," and then the train
went rumbling on.
But many of the passengers hac
listened to her story and were inter
ested, and they came to sit with her.
One pale little lad in the seat it
front turned round to look at her now
and then auto aud swer her smile. We
was going to the new country for
health and wealth, poor lad, only to
find eternal rest in the sunny land, but
his last days brightened by the reward
for his thoughtful act of kindness.
"She probably brought these boys
i up, be thougnt, "ana denied ner uie
! for them. Is she to die unrewarded,
I wonder. There cannot bo any good
In the world if that be so." He thought
of her and took out his poor purse ;
there is so little monev in it. too.
Every cent made a big hole in his store ;
but the consciousness of a good deed
"BS woruiwuisiuiug. '"'"'"
th chance t0 do nT more'" thouut
the lad omng up hi. worn over-
f,oat
' He slipped off without a Word at a
tion and sent a telegram to Denver.
"To Samuel Blair" for he had
caught the name from her talk "Yrat
Aunt Hannah Blair of Maine is on th
W. & W. train coming to you."
It was only a straw, bu. a kindlj
wind might blow it to the right one,
after all.
When ho was sitting there after hi
message had gone on its way, sht
leaned over and handed him a pepper
mint drop from a package in hot
pocket.
"You don't look strong, dearie,'
she said; "hain't ye no folks with ye?"
"None on earth."
"We're both loueones," 6he smiled;
"an' how sad it be there aint' no on
to fuss over ye. An' be keerful of the
drafts, and keep flannel alius on youi
chist; that is good fur the lungs."
"You are very kind to take an in
terest in me," he emiled; "but I am
afraid it is too late."
Another night of weary slumber lt
the cramped seats, and then the plain
began to be dotted with villages, and
soon appeared the straggling outskirti
of a city, the smoke of mills, the gleam
of the Platte river, aud a net-work ol
of iron rails, bright and shining, as the
train ran shrieking into the labyrinth
of its destination.
"This is Denver," said the lad to
ner, "and I'll look after you as well ai
I can."
"I wun't be no burden," she said
brightly. "I've twenty dollars yet, an'
that's a sight of money."
The train halted to let the eastern
bound express pass, there was an air
of excitement in the car, passengers
getting ready to depart, gathering up
luggage and wraps, and some watch
ing the new comers and the rows of
strange faces on the outward bound.
The door of the car slammed sud
denly, and a big bearded man with
eager blue eyes came down the aisle
looking sharply from right to left.
He had left Denver on tho express to
meet this train. His glance fell o
'.he tiny black figure.
"Why, Aunt Hannah 1" he cried,
with a break in his voice, and she
she put out her trembling hands and
fell into the big arms, tears streaming
iown the wrinkled face.
"I knowed Providence would let me
find ye, Sam," 6he said brokenly, and
no one smiled when the big man at
3own beside her and with gentle hand
viped'r tears away.
" W.y, I've sent John twenty dol
lars a month for five years for you,"
he said angrily, as she told him why
she ran away, " and he said you could
not write, fur you had a stroke and
was helpless, and I have written to you
jften and sent you money. It's hard
for a man to call his own brother a
nllaiu."
" We wun't, Sam," she said gently,
" but just f urgit ; an' I wun't be a bur
Jen to ye, fur I can work yit, an' for
vears to come.'
"Work, indeed! don't I owe you
svery thing?" he cried " And my wife
lias longed for you to come. There
ire so few dear old aunts in this coun
try, they're prized I tell you. Why,
It's as good as a royal coat-of-arms to
have a dear handsome old woman like
.ou for a relation."
Then he found out who sent the tele
gram and paid the lad, who blushed
nd stammered like a girl hud did not
want to take it.
" I suppose you wautajob," said the
big man. " Well, 1 can give you one;
I'm in the food commission, business.
Give you something light. Lots of
your sort, poor lad, out here. All the
reference I want is that little kindness
if yours to Aunt Hannah."
" Here's the depot, Aunt Hannah,
aud you won't see ' bars ' and Injuns,'
nor the buffaloes you were talking
about, but the prettiest and sunniest
lity you ever set your dear eyes on."
He picked up the big carpet bag,
faded and old-fashioned, not a bit
ashamed of it, though it looked like
Voah might have carried it to the ark.
They said good-by, and the last seen
Df her was her happy old face beaming
from a carriage window as she rolled
away to what all knew would be a
pleasant home for all her waning years.
A King's Joke.
A Swedish statesman recently in
veighed most eloquently in Parliament
against oleomargarine. Next evening
he was invited to dine with the King,
who loves a joke. There wa only
oleomargarine on the royal table, and
the statesman liberally partook thereof.
At the close of the meal the King
asked him: "Well, sir, how do you
like our butter!" "It is excellent,"
replied the statesman; "the contrast
between it and artificial butter is very
marked." "But," said the King, "that
is artificial butter!" The other guests
roaied with laughter, but the "old par
liamentary hand" returned, quick as a
flash: "Your Majesty, if one can be
deceived so easily, there is all the more
need of strict laws against bogus
goods!"
Tae Educated Boy's Error.
The trouble Is that a boy who gradu
ates from our public or high schools or
colleges would feel it a di -grace to be
come a tip-top carpenter or cabinet
maker, and so chooses to be a connter
jumper, sell pins by the penny's worth
and tape by tho yard, bow and scrapo
to his lady customers, and delude him
self with the idea that he is in one of
the gentlemanly callings,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Cardinal Wolsey was the sod of a
tiutcher.
The greater part cf the ocean be3 la
pitch dark.
The raven has been taught to re
trieve mo3t creditably.
The latest fad in Parisian society Is
the decorated shirt front.
Claude Lorraine, the Italian paint
er was bred a pastry cook.
There are at least ten million
nerve fibres in tae human body,
Fish bave no eyelids and necess
arily s eep with tlieir eyes open.
An orange measuring a foot In Cir
cumference has been found in Starke,
FU
Executions are publ c la Ecuador,
and the musket is the instrument of
death.
Dublin is better provided with or-en
spaces than any other town In the Uni
ted Kingdom.
One dog of the Convent of St. Ber
nard is said to bave saved more than
forty human lives.
The blood of clams, lobsters and
nearly all other invertebrates contains
no red cells but only white.
A pension has ju?t been granted to
an Oregon man who i-i a veteran of the
War of 1?12. He is 102 years old.
There are a hundred chances : hat any
boy or girl will be struck by ligiitn ng
for every ono chance of having hydro
phobia. A nove'ty of an e'ectrlcal exhibition
at Frankfort, Germany, is to be tho
transmission of 50U hoise power toa dis
tance of 140 inilcs.
By a new derice, piecps of nietel
may be shaped with ercat rap dity by
being forced under d:es while rendered
olt or elastic by aa electric current.
By electrolysis of a fluvoride lu a
molten state. M. Miunt extracts 21.6
rrrmmp. nf 1nmin!nm fnr ftn arnnnil.
T - -
J iture of one horso-powj: hour.
Chinese pheasants were introduced
into the vast foreets of Oregon ten years
azo.and now it Is estimated that there
1,0.0 000 of them m the country.
The use of electricity for slaughter
ing lions is proposed. It is c'aimed that
the current will not only kill the hogs,
but will kill triebnae at the same time.
A luminous crayon has recently
been Invented to enable lecturers to
draw on the blackboard when the room
is darkened for the use of the lantern.
Ono causo given for the failure of
the peach crop in Delaware and Mary
laud Is that the elements of the soli re
quired by the peach have been exhaust
ed. A French electrician has construct
ed a Wimshurst machine, having twelve
elats discs, each 29 J inches iu diameter,
the machine v ill give a ppaiklC inches
long,
Theloveliest sumrac r resort on earth
is probably the plateau ol Newera Eliia,
the "King's Summit," as the natives
rail it, in the highlands of Southorn
Ceylon.
-The rapidity with which f-e hawk and
andmany other birds cccasionly fly lspro
bably not less than at the rate of 15J
miles an hour, when either pursued or
pursuing.
Lemons originally came from In
dia.' They were used by the Romans
to keep moths Iron their gar in -nts, and
In the time of Piiny were considered an
excellent poison.
Swpts and swallows fly every year
from England to Southern Africa and
to the Molucca-, and the reot ess, wan
dering flight of various oceanic birds ia
still more surprising.
"Better lato tLan never" wns used
over three hundred years ago by Thom
as Tucker ia his "Five Hundred Point
of Husbandry." Later on Bunyau uaed
it In hia "Pilgrim's f rogrcs:.
Justices of the peao3 were first ap
pointed in England by F.dward III. la
tho yearl327, aud m 13U0-1 they were
empowered to try felonies, while tltoir
wages were flxol by Richard IL tn
1389.
It is interesting to know that their
hair which waves from the helmets of
French dragoons is the real article, be
ing the product of Chinese and Tonk'n
skulls. It Is liner aud lighter than horso
hair
According to Captain Wissman, ot
the African exploring party, the para
dise of Mids seem to have bec.i found
on thd shores ot a lagoon communicat
ing with the eastern extremity of the
Albert Nyanza.
H. C. Angel, of Weatherford, Tex
as, was In good health ou a recent Sun
day, but he told his wife that be would
d e on tho fol owmj Monday nluhl.
He made his will, attended to bis busi
ness Monday ua usual, and that nl-ht
lay down and died.
Several factories have just been
started in England for manufacturing
tea from u ps, and Lliederaaul is said to
le greater than t he supply. Thu facul
ty has discovered that (he lupulin of the
hop counteracts the excessive tannin of
the ordinary tea.
F. neai, a keeper o' tho G!enda!o
National Cemetery, near KicLiajiid,
Va., has a desk, made in 1010, which
has Lee n iu pos--ej-ion of the Heap fam
ily, of England. It is said to have neen
used by O.lver Cromwell lu ie-47-4d
wheu fighting Charles 1. It u of antique
oak. beautifu ly carved and highly pol
ished. A lady returning to her home la
Cursou's Mills, Mass., was greatly as
tonished to see :i live plcUerel weighing
about one aud one-half pounds drop in
the road at her fecL Look luz, she dis
covered hove rir g about ti e r jt a large
American eagle, which had evidently
secured the HjIi lrotn one of the neigh
boring brooks.
The hump on tho back of tho
dromedary Is an accumulation of a pec
uliar species of fat, which is a store of
nourishment beneficently provided
against the ('ay of want, to which the
animal Is of ten exposed. The drome
dary or camel can exist for a long period
upon this hump without any other food.
John Bancroft, a man who was a
tramp eight years azo.and who diei re
cently at Portland, Ore , bequeathed all
his property, estimated at fclo.OUO. to a
woman tn Sacramento, Col., who once
gave hira a night's lodging and break
fast aud SI besides, together with some
good advice,
"One good cigar Pinoked after eaoh
meal," says Dr. William A. Hammond,
"is what may be called moderate use,
and can rarely inflict any damage to
the system. Ti e exceptions occur la
those persons of peculiar organizations,
impressionable and ens ly disurbeJ by
tlaulauts, aud sdUvc4 or iutrwUca,'!