nrr- 1 B, F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLV. MIFFLINTOWfl, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY II. 1891. NO. S. ' IIVV .CT B THE VOYAGE TO SLUMBERLAXD. She sail' away on the tiea of dreams, This- little skipper with eyes of brown A tlit tircth's torch in the twilight gleuu( And tUr auriih suu goes down; ll.r bark flisHuver the grimy town Tu luiiilnTlaiut anil it silver sea; The sjxii !! f"lii of her slumber gown Are iiu vs bit falrt-r than sue. There arc angt-l blrdi In the warm, ntlll lr, Aud the kipp-r laughs with her eve. ot brow ii. As they -lug to her old songs, sweet and rare While Lcr bark billow up and down; Thry -l"g of a prince of high renown, Ami a priuicss eer co young aud fair; But here l the princess bad ever a crown Like the crowu of her aoft brown halrf tvuieth a storm over the silver sea, "i'tirtt ebbs on the dreamer's land, And the angel birds fade out to the lee Of this singular slumber strand ; 1 there a harbor by angels planned, 1 rem all "torms, w hatever they be. From the w icked fairies of Sluiuberland And the waves lu Its silver tea? Up. like a flash, cornea the little brown bead And the brown eyes only ee A billowy blanket of silk outspread On an ocean of dimity! But it's fearlessly the skipper will flee, With a soft little barefoot tread, Uy the chart she learned on her bended knee Tu the haven of mother's bed. J. P. Bocoek in Boston Globe. GHAIST 0' GHAIRLEE The incident I am about to relate occurred to myself when on a visit to hii old house far in the wilds of Rossi-hire. Scotland is the land of visions, w are the places that have not some tradition attached to them. Gloomy, and gi'iin stand the old houses, and fhtrj is u fiiiiLa f.i thoin ...l.t.l.i: , , T, ,, , . . a-uect. 1 he sullen Uih.Iow i.f ,.., past '.rimes hangs over them. Last autumn I was invited by dear old friend the Laird o' Ghairlee, to make one of a shooting-party assem bling there. Sport is good there, if anywhere; and, moreover, the laird owned a covey of pretty daughters, who would be sure to make things lively and pleasant. 1 arrived, then, at Ghairlee Station full of hope, and prepared for enjoy ment, I brought with me my guns and my beloved violin, without which I never travel. Ghairlee itself is a curious old louse : the passages run about it in an extremely complicated fashion, up one step to a room, down two steps into it, and so on. The hull is a portion of the old tower; the walls of immense thickness. Many additions have been made by different lairds, long since gathered to their fathers. I did not see all this the night of my arrival iii sooth, it was so dark that 1 could distinguish very little as the dog' curt spun up the avenue; but I did notice the black mass on my left as we turned a very sharp corner round a block of buildings, and on my right, a sulleu roar as if angry waters boiled over in a torrent to dash upon rocks In '.he dark depths, far, far below. The next moment we drew up before the door, barred and studded with great iron nails. Light was pouring, from the hall, and the Laird stood in the doorway surrounded by a howling body-guard of terriers. "Whist, dogs 1 Come in, laddie!" And my old friend gathered me into his ancestral hall with Highland hospi tality. We passed up a low stairway j and across a thickly carpeted corridor furnished with strange pieces of workmanshit) frowuiug cabinets and ... ... caiteu cnairs rroin wiucn uncanny, faces leered in the tirelight. The drawing-room was at the far end and there were again two or three steps leading to it alone. By the aide of these steps and against the wall, stood a titie, old press of marquetrie, quaint ly inlaid and used, as I afterward learned, for the stowing awav of odds and ends, of nothings and all-things.: it was here, that my vioiin soon found; a place, and I laid it, in its modern) embroidered case, by the side of a quaint, old lute about which was twist-' d a faded, moth-eaten ribbon. "This,"' said the Laird's pretty Jauc hter, touching it reverently, "has a history. We keep it herepretty as, it i because none of us like to look on it " But all this belong else where in my story. Report had not exaggerated the charms of the old Laird s daughters.' Four of them he had the youngest,' charming child the eldest, already appropriated. But there remained the adorable second and the exquisite third and alter a day of painful uncer tainty, 1 fdi before the first of these two, who was called by the tuneful ""me of Mavis, and who had a musical fever akin to mv own Together we i , r , . I trilled and tumnied aud turned leaves ""id played love songs and madrigals, serenades and sonatas, and when we' did not play we talked music and- I when we did not talk music, we talked an well." sutheeitto gay that the days hurried by aud the weeks flew' fter them and I had been a guest at Ghairlee nigh on to a second mouth, ml my heart belonged to Mavis. The cream of the shooting was oveij and the party much diminished. One r two men only remained beside my and a pretty young woman a neighbor of the Laird's who had come t two weeks' visit. We were gathered in the drawing-room and omebody asked for music. I went out into the fire-b'ghted haU to the old cabinet to get my violin, and Marvin' pent with, me. Peni With, me. We lingered there ' ktinawment Just tot tha ukg ' of lingering. It was then Marvis spoke about the lute. I took it in my hands and, as I did so, a thin, faraway wail or melody seemed to sweep past us and lose itself in the dimness beyond the glow of the firelight. "What was that?" I asked sharply. Then, seeing that Marvis only trembl ed in reply, 1 added quickly "I must have jarred the old thing." "Put it down," said Marvis; "it is uncanny." We never touch it. ltbe longed to the Ghaist o' Ghairlee!" "To the ghaist!" cried I, laughing perhaps not altogether heartily for though I certainly did not believe in ghosts, there had been something in that wailiug straiu to set one's nerves on a quiver; "you Scotch lassie for sooth, must still believe in your ghaists ! There was never a decent bluided Highland body without a ghaist in his Castle I You must introduce me some day to yours!" And so, laughing and teasing her to bring back the roses to her cheeks, if indeed, 1 could, I led her again to the drawing-room, where a merry crowd, and an hour or two of my beloved music with my dear violin soon chased the Ghaist o' Ghairlee from my thoughts. My rooms were in the tower in that same black pile of stone round which I swept on the evening of my arrival, and my windows looked out over the torrent which roared its way ceaselessly from rock to rock to a j shuddering depth, and then tore on in a dark sullen stream. I bade Mavis good-night with j hurried pressure of her little finge i for they all stood around us in the J drawing-room and 6he did not offer to I go out into the hall, and then I sprang i lightly up the steps, humming a strain of the bit of Beethoven we had been going over. The large corridor was illumined by a lamp. A smaller passage led away from it, and my room opened into this passage now in profouud darkness l here were candlesticks on a table at the head of the flight of steps, but af ter i rouua out me way to my rooms aud bad grown accustomed to it, I rarely stopped to light one. To-night, 1 made no exception to this custom, and went swinging down the passage tow ard my door. 1 had found it, and was about to turn the handle, when 1 saw before me, a few feet distant, a man crouch- ii g, with his ear close against the wall level with my door. He slowly turned and stared straight at me. A more evil expression I had never encountered. so full was it of threatening hate and devilish puuose. I stood fascinated, watching the man. Presently, with hand outspread feeling along the wail, he began creeping toward me ; at the same mo ment the dismal howling of a dog, ap parently in one of the rooms, became audible. This sound and the action on his part seemed to release my fac ulties. I dashed at him made a grab at his coat struck the wall ; the man was gone ! I stood stupidly ; the pa9 sage was dark as pitch. Could he have slipped aside, and be waiting to strike ? Then then, with a revulsion thai sent my blood curdling back to my heart, it shot through me : How did I see him, being in tht dark? That he was there for no good was sufficiently demonstrated; but how could I have seen him? I experienced a curious sensation, as It broke upon me that the man I had beheld was not included in the census of this planet. I felt a tingling in my limbs aud a buzzing in my ears. The sensation was physical ouly mentally, I may say there was a complete aud instant blank. As the shock passed over I pulled myself together, and retraced my steps j down the passage aud into the drawing-room. It seemed strange, that lighted room and the commonplace oc cupants. My step had been almost noiseless on the thick carpet of the corridor, aud no one had noticed my approach. I stood, perhaps, for five minutes in the doorway, shadowed by a portier, and gradually the perfectly natural and human expression of the room and the people, chatting pleasantly, with the clear lamp-light full upon their fa miliar faces, sobered my excited senses, and I began to feel that I had come very near making myself supremely ridiculous. What I saw or rather what I believed I had fancied I saw was one of those strange optical illu- .' mAntfll AvollnttAn uriA ' . taking, as is usually the case, a most unexpected and unfamiliar form. I had been carried away by the music by the presence and close sympathy of the girl I deeply loved, and I had seen ' no heaven-born vision but some thing directly opposed to every image, which, just then, should have possessed my mental vision. ' I had seen a steal thy, creeping, lurking, murderous . yes! murderous that is what was written iu every line of the evil fac and crouching form murder! I shuddered from head to foot. Then I pulled myself together again and thankful that my return to the drawing-room had been unobserved, I determined to depart as quietly a I had come. This I managed success fully and lighting candle this time at tho head of the staircase, I entered the ne ' staircase, I entered the pMsaga leading to my room, ani ' reacue(1 il In' my usual prosaic manner. AUUO"Bn now morougniy convincea I Ujal 1 lmd lM'eu ,he v";tlu f tempo- rary hallucination, I felt by no means comfortable. My new accomplish' ment was not an agreeable one, and uv lerves were badly shaken. "Fool ! I apostrophized myself po titely, and glad, after all, that I had not absolutely appeared one in the eyes jf Mavis aud her family, I begau to undress. First, however, I searched my sleeping and dressing rooms thor oiioUly and found them quite free from the presence of my ill-looking friend of the passage. The dressing- room was a queer little place one of the few rooms in the Tower that had stood the ravages of time and the ouly one in the house which had not been from J-aird to Laird, added to and im proved upon. It was curious enough and some of its old worin-eaten oak had stood since the earliest davs of Ghairlee. I went to bed and very soon, it seemed to me, I fell asleep. Very soon, too, it seemed to me, I was awak eued by I know not what ! I sat up in bed and listened intently, thoroughly awake. For several minutes, I heard noth ing. Then, the dismal howling of i dog came to me as if from the adjoin ing room and yet, it had a smothered sound as if, although near me, its howls were being stifled. Suddenly, this sound ceased aud then came a stealthy, creeping sound, and I saw a crouching figure against my wall the same fig' ure the 6ame evil face now turned straight toward me the same murder ous expression all as it had, just ai suddenly, appeared in the hall. Aud my room was in perfect dark ness. But though the man continued to gaze straight into my eyes, he moved from, not toward me, slowly and stealthily, until he reached the door leading into the dressing-room aud through this he disappeared. With one bound, I followed him. 1 forgot the deadly fear that had 6eized upon me at sight of this monster, as I believed him, of my imagination. I rushed after him and would have thrown myself upon him in another instant nud not something rooted me to the threshold powerless. In vain I endeavored to move hand or limb in vain 1 attempted to cry aloud when I found myself incapable of motion I stood as if chained gagged helpless speechless. . And before me crept tha man, always skulking along the wall. Now my eyes traveled beyond him to divine his destination aud there before the mirror of the old dressing table, with her bonny brown hair all unbound and her little, white bare feet, showing beneath her loose night robe, and in her hands the old lute with a pale ribbon wound about it, there oh, my God! stood Mavis! Kneeling beside her, was an old wait ing woman; even in my speechless agony, I knew I paused, trying to place her, but she was some one I could not remember to have seen about Ghairlee. She stroked and kissed her lady's hand my lady's hand and seemed to eay some soothing word, but though I saw 'er lips move, trv as I would I could hear no sounds. I struggled frantically for the power -o cry aloud, but my tongue was held by some terrible force and I could neither save nor warn my darling of that ghastly shadow that is creeping nearer, ever nearer I Merciful God I Without a sound noiseless as Fate merciless death-giving the figure rose from its crouching posture aud stood behind the two women. With some hideous, gleaming weapon up lifted to strike, with his evil face dis torted by the passion and intent to kill j IUI I reflected in all its ghastly horror in the long, dim glass, into which my poor, lost Marvis stared as if already strick en, the man stood for an instant enjoying in anticipation this datk and bloody deed. Then there was a sud den flash, as the thing he carried de scended a dull, crushing blow, and at last too late my voice came to me. One shriek that should have rallied long-forgotton Lairds to the defense nd then unconsciousness. When I opened my eyes, my Marvis, my own Marvis, stood beside me. Then I saw the kindly face of the Laird. After awhile, I told my story. Thet he told his. Many years ago, there was a Lai re. at Ghairlee who had a cruel, wicked brotlier. This brother plotted to over throw all who stood in his way, but the Laird was too strong for him and found him out for a wicked, murder ous dog; so the gates of Ghairlee were closed upon him. But though he said nothing, he waited until the Liard waa away, ami u.eu ,.c io.c ..o luc Illllc , i a i i it,. F8 . .6 w ana ma were, ana mat nignt ne mur- dered the Liard's young bride when none was within call but the feeble old eerviug-womau. "Her picture hangs below, pooi leddy," added the Liard, "Marvis U enough like her to be herself ! But you 6houId have told us of the warning in the passage, laddie, and I myself should have minded what night it was, and told you to sleep with Dugald. For who passes the night iu the Tower rooms on the 7th of October, must aye see tlie Ghaist o' Ghairlee!" Exquisite ifeinlxti Embroidery In tit Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. It was during this period that em broidery lost its distinctly religious character and came into common ue in lay dress. And if we wish to see to what a pass the sumptuous dress of Flanders came, we have but to consult the pictures of the time. On Van Eyck's and Memling's marvelous can vases the lay life of Bruges is brought before us as a setting to the most cacred subjects brought before us, too, with such naif and serious realism that it never jars upon our taste, Melchior and Gaspard, as they kneel before the Holy Child, Herod and his courtiers as they sit at the table or look on the headless corpse of St. John the Baptist, in Memling's pictures at the HospiUl St. John, are. but portraits of princes and courtiers at the Frinsenhof hard by. The gorgeous fabrics of their dresset, stiff with gold, are fresh from the looms of Bruges, which were then famous throughout all northern Europe. While the magnificent robe, with its hem embroidered in gold, pearls and jewels, which is worn by the Virgin in Van Eyck's great picture at Ghent of the 'Adoration of the Sacred Lamb,' is almost a duplicate of the state mantle In which Mary of Burgundy lies wrap ped in her brass effigy on the altar tomb at Notre Dame In Bruges. On the Summit of Mount ftbasta. The wind and cold were so severe that our stay on the summit was shorter lhan one could wish; however, one hour is about as good as two for a scene to which weeks could not do justice. Northern California and part of Oregon lay spread out like a great bird's eye map. lo the south-east, seventy-five niles away, the snows of Lassen's peak leemed quite near, and far beyond it were visible the white tops of other peaks n the great Sierra; while at an equal I nunc Ob Cl 11 ciUdl irth the beautiful symmetry Pitt in Oregon shows white li stance north r Mount Pitt in Oregon ibove the Cascades, which stretch ridge if ter ridge for leagues beyond. Beyond the rugged and broken ranges toward ;he coast the air is cloudy, and we are unable to see the Pacific. The valleys it our feet are so smoky that the lower ;art of our view is much limited. The new of Mouut Shasta itself is grand Jeyond description. West of us, more than half a mile lower, and two or three miles distant, is the great crater ot the moutain. More than half of tho great rim is yet Intact what is left of a huge Jowl a mile in diameter, whose side, teems to have been burst out by it' molten contents. In other directions, .'rom the summit, great serrated ridges" jf rock stretch down into the forest; while between them ever narrowing; ireas of snow extend for miles to meet, ie trees, like guards to keep the green. From infringing on its white domain. From our great height the lower part )i Hie snow, steep though it really is. .oots nearly level, as do tho wooded dopes and valley s beyond; and a rassing :iouu looks iu the sunshine like a white ilieet spread on the dark green carpet jf pines. "Where the Hay Begins. According to the way in which this rrangement is now carried out, the irst land that the new day dawns upon s Easter Island, about 230 miles west f the coast of Chili, South America, riiat is to say the 2d of July breaks' lere within a few hours of the 1st hav- ng broken on the American coast to he east, and the two days run on ilongside the 2d in Easter island and jlaces west, the 1st in all places on the merican continent. We may, there- ore realize this idea that at 7.20 'clock any morning of our lives in. Jreat Britain, the next day is common. ins on the world, and is to be found it this little island in the Pacific ocean, .vhence in due course it will travel ouud to us. But to have thus the tart of the world is not an unmitigated. i J vantage to these islanders. Suppose ne of them sails east to America, what s the result? He will hud thev keeD he day there under a different date, ind he will have to reckon one day in ais calendar twice over to put hims-elf right with their notions. On the other hand, if an American crosses from east o west this wonderful magic line where he day begins, he will find the dates in this fresh part of the world- are one m advance of him, and he must needs strike a day out of his calendar to keep ap with the times. This fact was cur iously illustrated in the case of Magel lan, the Portuguese captain, who sailed round the world from east to west iu 1522, and having crossed the magic line ot "day's birth" in his wanderinsr. his alendar became of course a day in arrear. Ine sailors were completely Ignorant of this, aud finding, on land ing at home, that their Sabbath was falling on Monday, they accused one another of tampering with the reckon Uue explation ws dver'" ! ini, 1 r. U'ua nrkt fnr cutna fn.m I !... , 1 I Burial In Anata W aen any one of their number dies, friends . and neighbors hasten to the mountains, hew down a tree, hollow it out, and, after having washed and dressed the body, put sugar cane into its mouth and invoked the shades of the dead, place it in this rude coffin, open the eyes so as to look heavenward, pnd then carefully seal it up. On the day of the burial sacrifices are indulged in, according to the mean3 o the relatives or tne deceased, ine grave is usually made in a forest, and the hewing of trees therein is superstitiously avoided. A .!. 1 . il BWIUMJCI) VI 1 ICO I, yiaiJM HTU 1 CCUJ at the border of a stream in such a manner that the parents of the dead can pass underneath; while doing this be sprinkles water upon them which bad been used to clean rice. After washing their clothes and cutting their hair, they enter the house, and. in order to show the depth of their sorrow, throw everything about the house into c : rr-i. : , : 1. u . y T " i iprinkles a kind of holy water la ordei relllMMU UrCLU, U1UC1, AUU RICH WOMEN. rilEY CAN BOAST OF MILLION'S. How They Came by Their Wealth. Mrs. Moses Taylor, the widow of the famous diy-goods mercliant, comes generally first in the mind of a Xew Yorker who bethinks him of the fa mously rich women of Manhattan Island. Mrs. Taylor is carefully esti mated to be worth not less than fifteen millions of dollars. Mrs. Kobert L. Muart, the widow of Uie successful sugar merchant whose refineries were so long object of interest along the North River, in mnted from him $500,000 outright and a life interest in $10,000,000 "The widow llamprsley, that was. now Iler Grace the Duchess of Marl borough, has a life interest in $5,000, 000 Mrs. Paran Stevens, of whom every body knows, has a million and makes the most of it, both here and abroad Mrs. Kobert I. Livingston, who is Elbridge Gerry's mother-in-law, worth $5,000,000 "if she's worth cent." ' Mrs. Robert Winthrop has a private fortune more than adequate to the maintenance of even such a fine old family name as hers. She has $10, 000,000. Mrs. Percy Pyne has $10,. 000,000 of her own. Mrs. Fred Nel son, treddy Gebhardt's sister, hasp cool million. Mrs. Josephine Aver, the w idow of the doctor who made a fortune in pat ent medicine, is said to have received from him about 5,000,000; Mrs. Mar tin Bates was left by her husband $1, 000,000, which he made in dry goods, I - o . and JIrs- James Brown, who lives iu a lie house on Park avenue and inirty-seveiith street, received from her husband's estate about $4,000,000, which he accumulated as a banker; Mrs. W. E. Dodge is worth $4,000, 000, much of the ine&me of which 6he sends to the heathen. Mrs. Robert Geolet is worth $3,000,000, and Mrs John C. Green, the widow of the Princeton College patron, is reputed to be worth $10,000,000; Mrs. John Mintin n is another wealthy New York willow ; she is said to be worth $2,000, '.'00 and her father was an Aspiuwall; Gov. Morgan's widow is worth several millions; Clarkson Potter's widow has an immense income from Ids estate aud Mrs. Edward Stevens, who owns 'Castle Point," at Hoboken, is one of the richest widows in America connts her wealth by millions; Mrs. Paran Steven s husbaud made 86,000,000 in hotels and left her the Victoria aud share in the Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, who lives in Washington, but is a New Yorker, is tuid to be worth a million. Mrs. Sarah Hitchcock is not only a society woman but is said to have in her own right, several millions with which to com mand society. Mrs. Levi P. Morton is said to have well over a million of ier own. Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant from the pen sion and book of her famous husband, has, it is said, an income which entitles her to rank among the very rich wo men of New York, although her capi tal is small. Mrs. Cleveland has about f 150,000 of her own. Mrs. Garfield is a millionaire, judged by the standard of income. Of the other three surviv tug ex-queens of the White House Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Johnsou are poor. nd Mrs. Hayes is rich. But after this plethora of millions feminine, which is the richest womnn iu New York and consequently, with out much doubt, the richest woman in die United States and perhaps in the world? She isn't young and she isn't handsome, but she made her money tnd keeps it. Where does "Hetty" Green live? Look in directories and you won't find out. Ask the Chemical Bank people and you might, if they thought proper to tell you. Who knows where "the richest woman ir 'ew York" lives? ' She is about forty-seven years old nidis worth at a conservative estimate about $25,000,000. She married E. II. Green, of New York. Mr. Green was worth about $700,000, aud it is said Miss Hetty had an ante-nuptial contract with him whereby he agreed to pay all of the household expenses ind to leave her property of $20,000,- 500 nd more nie. After ner wertuing she kept up her activity,' ; nd through her husband got into Wall Street speculation. She did the spec- ulating herself, and made while her husband lost. She could buy large blocks of stock, and wruld bull and bear the market as she thought bestJ She made money right along, and is' now "reputed" to be worth forty odd millions. She is very economical withal, and though her income must be irnlnense her total household exPen-: 5es are not over $5,000. She ses are not over $5,000. She rides' lolFa Broad wav in a street car rarrv- i - in cr nprhn 100 OOO in horlnn.ko ' r-7 7 and she nsed, it is said, in her younger days, to walk to parties through the mow, pulling old woollen stock- ings over her shoes to keep her feet 3ry and save buying rubbers. When me got to the place of entertainment , ome, Um after she PMed away he she would pull off her socks and hang I" tncon8olable bnt w doctors ad theni on the hat-rack to dry. She kept vue& traVe1' nd he lef 4 the fy hc-r EfVMimtlPS Ann fiilvpr flt .Tnhn Ciem'm Bank, and the bankers said she came I periodically to the bank with a box of, When Cisco failed it took two cabs to carry away the plate, and tho securi ties which Mrs. Greeu had on deposit were found to be over $20,000,000. "Hetty" Green has two children, a boy and a girl. The girl is thirteen aud the boy is fourteen years old. The boy is. an invalid, but his mother says she intends to maka him the richest nan in America. Everybody down in "the street" lalls her "Hetty" Green. Her mother was somewhat of an heiress and her father had increased the family pile to $9,000,000 at the time of his death. This fortune Hetty, as the only child, inherited, aud she at once went to work to increase it. Much of her for tune was invested iu ships, but these she considered dangerous and sold, placing the proceeds in good interest paying mortgages. She bought these mortgages in small towns all over England, travelling about aud investi gating the securities for herself. Short ly after her father's death a maiden of hers died and left her $4,000,000 more. The $13,000,000 that Hetty Green thus inherited she had increased by careful speculation to about $20, 000,000 at the time of her mar riage. This is the romance of the mating of "the richest woman in the world." There were no turtle doves !n tha words she whispered though. It i said she picked out that particular yonng man for her husband because he happened to send her a tailor's bill receipted instead of a valentine by mis taken direction of the envelope. The bill was for a cheap suit of clothes, and "Hettie" thought if a man with $700,000 could get along on twenty- five dollar suit of clothes he could not be very extravagant. A few days ago lie made a half dozen men give up to her $3,000,000 worth of securities to which she claimed she had a right. They gave them up without a struggle teo. There are plenty of Wall Street operators who are afraid to cope with "Hettie." She isn't pretty, but she'i as smart as chained lightning. The Romance of a Store Clerk, To-day I want to tell you a most romantic story about a young sales man who was employed in a eelebrated clothing house on Chestnut street, un til about eighteen months ago, at a salary of $30 a week. This young salesman is Mr. E. L. Robinson. If you are familiar with New York, you have often seen "Caswell & Hazzard" signs, ihcy hang upon half a dozen retail Irug stores in various parts of Gotham. Some years ago Mr. Caswell died, leaving his widow, as I am in formed, a fortune of considerably over $500,000. Two years ago Mr. E. L. Robinson went to Newport to visit his sister, and there was iutroduced to Mrs. Caswell, a lady about his own age. It was a case of lave at first sight on both sides. Newport society remarked it ; and the disappointed suitors, setting to work to learn Mr. Robinson's antecedents, soon found out that he was a salesman n a Philadelphia retail clothing store. They spread this report, but it had no effect on Mrs. Casvre!', who seemed to be as completely in love as was ever a girl of 16. The engagement was soon announced, and this was foilowed by a quiet marriage. Many of the most fashionable ladies and gentlemen of Newport attended the reception held by the newly married pair after their return from a short wedding trip. This was about eighteen months ago. Considerable astonishment was ex cited in this city by what was widely termed "Mr. Robinson's lucky catch." When he resigned his position as a thirty-do) lar-a-week salesman his for mer comrades congratulated him, bat in such a melancholy fashion that it was plain to see that they slightly en vied his good fortune. The strangest tiling about the whol affair was that nothing got into the newspapers at the time. For five months the bride and bridegroom led a life without a cloud. The possession of so such money did not make Mr. Robinson lose his head, aud the change in his circumstances did not moke him distant with old friends. Every one who saw the couple remarked their evident affection. They were devoted to each other, and this pvhaps will account for the fact that they were seen so little in fashion able society. Their honeymoon went on like a "Midsummer Night's Dream," all poetry and roses and love, and it seemed that it would never end. They travelled occasionally, and made plans for the future, when about five months after the wedding Mrs. Robinson fell 11. The physicians did not consider her ailment anything but a slight malady, and so her husband regarded it. He f ared for her with all the tenderness oi a lover, and she never seemed at ease when he was out of her sight. But as the days went on and the bride grew steadily worse, forebodings came to the young Phikdelphian, and he pictured to himself only too truly the future. His worst fears were fulfilled and his wife died, leaving to him, as her sole heir, her fortune of consider ably over half a million dollars. For Mrs. Joseph Lefavour died Julr $ at Salem, Mass., aged niaet-five year THE EARLY FLY. It Is In the morning early, j When we're sometimes croai antf fOtf ' A n .1 . l .... , ... . rwv icxri iuv.1 c uuh ijevp ltiuc iooref That the worst of all annoyen, The great prince of rest destroyers, The pesky fly begins his gy and festive soar. We pretend we do not bear him, That It's not worth while to fesr him. And we try to make ourselves believe w sleep; Then he lights on arm or shoulder, But he very soon grows bolder, knd directly for our ears begins to creep. Then It Is we give np dreaming, When our brain with wild thoughts teem ing We proceed to kill him withs, fearful slp; With slain we spread our fiugers All about the spot he lingers. But the fly escapes with nothing but the slap This performance oft repeated Gets oar patience overheated. And we swear the house of flies shall now be shorn; Then we presently forget it. But we grievously refret It When we try to sleep again tomorrow morn. Washington Post. GLOOM DISPELLERS. America's national flour is cormnea' Washington Critic. A good resolution is a fine starting point, but as a terminus it has no val ue. Scraatcn truth. The watermelon comes again, On greedy lips to sweetly melt, And Johnny, feebly will complain. Because it hits below the belt. Washington Capital. What a glorious world this would be if people lived up to the epitaphs on their tombstones I Hutchinson News. A Boston Pharaphrase. Miss Back bey I wonder if President Harrison will receive a synonyme? Miss Wobbash A which? Miss Backbey A synonyme ar other term you know. Puck. nusband Wife, the doctor said I was to have but one ounce of liquor per day. How much is an ounce, dear? Wife Sixteen drams. Husband Wife, I believe that doc tor understands my case thoroughly. Let's see; I've eleven more drinks due me yet to-day. Omaha World. Squibley I am writing a book abou. the barnstorming actor. Don't you think that "Before the Footlight" would be a good name for it? Makeshift (who has been there) "Before the Headlights" would be more appropriate, it seems to me. Lawrence American. Young Coachman (to keeper of liv ery stable) I'd like to get kicked by a mule if you've got one. Stablekeeper What for? "I'm going to ask the boss if I can marry his daughter, and I want to see if I'm in condition to reeeive his repl) The Whistler. Omaha Wife That stieky fly papei you brought home yesterday is a great suceess, as you see. Omaha Husband How can you saj that when it hasn't caught one of the bothersome pests? Omaha Wife Well, don't you cal. anything a success that has no flies on it? Exchange. "Maria," said a Chicago husband, "I beg of you to listen to me." "No, sir; I am resolved, and you cau say nothing to chauge me. I will have a divorce." "But, Maria, one word." "Well." "Even your best friend would tell you that you haven't the ghost of a show on the stage." Washington Cap ital. Merchant You want a place In my store, you say? Applicant Yes, sir. "Ever worked in a stor before?" "Yes, sir." "Let me try you. Suppose a lady fhould come in with a piece of cloth, and want to get a number of yards to match it, what would you do?" "I'd send her to the next counter' "I guess you have had experience." Time. Attorney-General Miller. It is a somewhat singular fact that no picture of Mr. Miller yet given to the public bears the slightest resem blance to that gentleman. His face is hard one to reproduce, as it is devoid of any marked feature. The pictures generally show him to be a dark -haired man, while the truth is that the rather small amount of hair growing upon his legal head is just a little darker than straw color. It is worn twisted across the somewhat delicient forehead in a manner intended to conceal the fact that the back and crown of the head are nearly bald. Mr. Miller wears whiskers all over his face, and they are of the same thin, colorless style as his hair, and worn pretty closely cropped. The eyes are bine, somewhat faded, and the face has a habitual flush of color, Which is the most healthy and attractive feature o; the Attorney General's makeup. He is not a large man, a little taller than his Presidential law partner, but not so squarely-shouldered and solidly built. He looks a good deal like he has for many years a hard-working, methodical, small-town lawyer. He wears country-cut clothes and has the peculiarly careless manner cf wearing them that distinguishes: a man from the West from hi Eastern brother. ficchester Post-Exf rts SEWS IN UniEP. Pasteboard pulleys are made In Sermany. Matches have been in common as lince 1329. Two Iowa legislators are named flam and Mustard. Powderly only eats two meals a day -and they are light. In bats the heart Is aided by rhy ihmic contraction of veins in ttie wing. Daniel De'oe, author of "Robinson Crusoe." was a hosier and the son ot a Dutcher. The one part of the world in which 10 native pipes and no native smokers lave been found is Austrulla. The largest bear skin in the world j in Ka' sas City, Mo., taken from an inirml we'ghing 2SjO pound. -There Is an old school bouse at Pown ill,Vt.. iu which President Garfield and Arthur acted as teachers. The New York Central Railroad las twenty-six women employed as sta tion agents. It is said. The heirs of a wealthy Austrian iave given $15,000 to found a school of lousekeepiug for girls. A velocity of about six or seven nlles a second would suffice to carry a Do-ly away from the gravitation of tha arth. It is asrted by Lien of high pro fessional ability that, when the system leeds a stimulant, nothing equals a cap f strong corree. The total production of steel rails it all the mills in this country for the :urrei.t yeas will probably run 400,000 sons ahead of lSsy's figures. Within C2 years Mexico has had bi Presidents, one regency and one empire, ind nearly every change ot government las been effected by violence. A Pennsylvania convict recently escaped from the state prison. Altar rying liberty .or a short while be re turned In disgust to bis celL In Belgium the white Insulators on telegraph poles are so frequently broken ihat grayish browa ones are being ased to re place them. The wielding of the spokes of met illlc wheels to the hubs bv means ot slectricty has recently been proposed tnd a process patented. An English geologist predicts that rVlthln fifty years a convulsion of nat ure will sink the whole of New Zealand 9fty feet below the surface of the sea. Want of wboleoma and adeauata food docks one-quarter, one-third ot jne-half from the natural term of tha Industrial force for all those who corns io man's estate. The submarine war boat has led to the flying of balloons from war ships. A badoon hovering over a ship can de tect every movement of a submarine boat coming to the attack. When the chickens first bealn W move in the egg, just before hatching, .ne mother hen sings to tbem a low. sroonlng song, very sweet, and novel beard at any other time. There have 2een dating the bun. 3 red years of its organization only flfty three Justices of the Supreme Bench of the United States, and twenty of thest have lived to be over seventy, la his message to the Legislature it California, Governor Waterman re commends an appropriation of at least (1,000.000 to display the resources ol California at the World's Fair. The Ilatfield-McCoy vendetta, which has been quiet for some months, has broken out again In Logan County, W. V a., near the Kentucky line. In a recent fight between adherents of tha respective faction six men were killed. It has been proposed to make the up per half of war balloons of very tbtn steel and the lower portion of ordinary balloon material, the whole so con structed as to hold hydrogen instead ol ordinary gas. Data of the trials of three large steamer), showing the comparative ot large and small screws, show that pro pellers of small diameter have In each case proved the more economical and effective, both increasing the speed and decreasing the coal consumption. California diamonds are crystals ol quartz, the most abundant of all min erals. Tbey are sometimes cut and set by Jewelers, and sold as "white topat," but ofteuer as California diamonds. A sa'.t lake has been discovered lo Persia, the waters of which are saltet than those of any lake in the world. According to a consular report, the proportion of salt is nearly tvtenty-two per cent. There are but two ways by which one can hear animals really converse. One is to listen to them when they are not aware of your presenceoiways a difficult feat; the other is toln Uieli entire love and confidence. The gardener of the Kew Gardens, England, after numerous failures, hai at last succeeded in growing the Coca de Mer.or double cocoanut, which often obtatns a height of 15 J feet, with a smooth trunk about a foot in diameter, The question has arisen, whether Polynesian architecture is of Asiatic ot South American or!gin;and It is thought that the preponderance .f evidence Is In favor of the Asiatic theory. Indeed It seems probable that the American continent was influenced b the tm migration from Asia which gave tbs copper-colored race to Polynesia. The first electrical production ol music Is credited to George Breed, of the United States Navy, by whose method the passage ot a broken current over a conductor in a magnetic field gives musical tones of varying pitch and volume. The word Oregon Is said to havi been derived from a Spanish word slcn lfvlng wild thyme, so called on account of the herb found by the early explor ers. Credit of discovery Is generally given to Captain Gray, of Boston, in 1792. The pupil of the eye Is incessantly lashed. There are thousands and thousands ot wives and mothers In New York who make ends meet by sewing on overalls that pay seventy-five cents, shirts sixty cents, vests ninetv-flve cents, trousers E3, flannel shirts SI a dozen. They are obliged to find their own thrrad for the overalls aud shirts and carry the work to and from the shop. A new variety of sea gull Las mads Its appearance on the New Jersey coast. It is darker than the old kind, and t; most remarkable yecuhvirtty Is that its tall is narrowed to a sharp point. Mre than 8,UOO,roo tone of lion ot were shipped lxom Lake Sucilot mines last ytar, 1 P. ft s i I i 8 r . t l - i I : li :( li I t 1 (V. (
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