Jillkiil iKfirtiiirt H, F. BOH WEI ER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor And Pi oii totor. VOL. X .V. M IFFLINTOWiN , JUNIATA C0UN1T. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1891. NO. 10. IJFF.. I'frniiili rry tream. r..rn in Hie .nt w hit arms; 1tn u taiik iUer the aeeui A u..-l to :-.-u h and to kiss) L-nc lor 'he mireui'lru'i bllsa And Uf Mit oothiti(- chartut. With hi r--re. apart. An J te tH-.hmiueJ be tears, Ui f--ei this young worM'a heart letmr In I'int to our own, AihI tl art a mie a)uu In a iron, I of b--e uJ fears. Tv-.-, M an unre-t wild, lr n t-j a b-pe unm-en A I In thought and a child! t r wonder i'D to the end, M .:h J ilh a a boom. friend. And niit ni. dow n bt-tween. f.'.;iv t'uhl in Chicago Xtvt ix a i:i:si:iiroiii. Tl.'u iy yesr ago, jou might liave tori. tome of the bet society of "ew V'ikoiitI.e top of the Distributing Reservoir at Ul street, any fine Octo ber morning. There were two or three csni in wailing, and half a dozen senatorial-looking mothers with young rhiMrvii pn.-inj the parapet, as we our-i'lvi , one Jay iu the past genera tion. bsked there in the sunshine now at. Ling the pickerel that glided along the lucid edges of the black pool within, an.) now looking off upon the scene of ri.-h and wotidorous variety that spread along the two broad aud beau'iful river on each side. They may talk of Alpheus and .iretliua." murmured an idling soph omore, who had found his way thither during recitation hours, "but the Cro ton. in passing over an arm of the sea at Spuyteu-Duyvil, aud bursting to sight again in this truncated pyramid, beat it all hollow. By George, too, the bay yonder looks as blue at) ever the .-Egean Sea to Dyrou's eye gazing from the Acropolis! Did you see that pike break, sir?'' I did not." His silver tin flushed upon the black Acheron, like a restless soul that hoped yet to mount from the pool." 'The place seenn suggestive of fan cies to you?" we observed in reply to the rattlepate. 'It is, indeed; for I have done up a good deal of anxious thinking within a circle of a few yards where that fish broke just now. Shall I tell you about it?" I'ray do." "Well, you have seen the notice for bidding any one to tish in the Reser voir. Now, when I read that warning, the spirit of the thing struck me at once as inferring nothing more than that one should not sully the temper ance potations of our citizens by steep ing bait iu it of any kind; but you probably know the common- way of taking pike with a elip-noose of deli cate wire. I was determined to have a touch at the fellows with this tackle. "I chose a moonlight night; aud an hour before the edifice was closed to visitors I secreted myself within the walls, determined to pass the night on the top. All went as I could wish it. The night proved cloudy, but it was only a variable drift of broken clouds which obscured the moon. I had a walking-cane rod with me which would reach to the margin of the water, and several feet beyond if necessary. To this was nttached the wire, about fif teen inches in length. "I prowled along the parapet for a considerable time, bnt not a single fish could I see. The clouds made a flick ering light aud shade, that wholly foil ed my steadfast gaze. I was convinced that should they come up thicker, my whole night's adventure -would be thrown away. 'Why should I not de scend the sloping wall and get nearer on a level with the fish, for thus alone can I hope to see one?' The question had hardly shaped itself in my mind before I had one leg over the iron rail ing. 'lf you look around you will see now that there are some half-dozen weeds growing here aud there amid the fissures of the solid masonry. In one fissures from whence these spring, I planted a foot and began my descent. The Reservoir was fuller than it Is now, and a few strides would have carried me to the margin of the water. Hold ing on to the cleft above, I felt round with one foot for a place to plant if below me. ' ''In that moment the flap of a pound pike made me look round, and the root of the weed upon which I partial ly depended gave way as I was in the act of turning. Sir, one's senses are sharpened in deadly peril : as I live now, I distinctly heard the bells of Trinity chiming midnight, as I rose to the surface the next instant, immersed in the stone caldron, where I must swim for my life, heaven only could tell how long!"' " I am a capital swimmer; and this naturally gave me a degree of self-possession. Falling as I had, I of course had pitched out some distance from the sloping parapet. A few strokes brought me to the edge. I really was not yet certain but that I could clamber up the face of the wall anywhere. I hoped that I eonld. " I tried the nearest spot. The in clination of the wall was so vertical that it did not even rest me to lean against it, I felt with my hands and 'with my feet. Surely, I thought, there must be some fissure like those In which thai ill-omened w eed La found a place for iu root I " There was uoue. My fingers be came sore In busying themselves with the harsh and inhospitable stoues. My feet slipped from the smooth and slimy masoury beneath the water ; and sever al time my face came in rude contact with the wall, w here my foothold gave way on the instant that I seemed to have found some diminutive rocky deat upon which I could stay myself. "Sir, did you ever see a rat drowned in a half filled hogshead, how he swims round, and round, and round; and after vainly trj ing the sides again and again with his paws, fixes his eyes upon the upper rim as if he would look himself out of a watery prison? "I thought of the miserable vermin, thought of him as I watched thus his dying agonies, when a cruel urchin of eight or ten. Boys are horribly cruel, sir; boys, women, and savages. All childlike things are cruel cruel from want of thought, from perverse in genuity. I thought then, I say, of the rat drowning in a half-filled cask of water, and lifting his gaze out of the vessel as he grew desperate, and I flung my self on my back, and, floating thus, fixed my eyes upon the moon. "The moon is well enough in her way, however you may look at her; but her appearance is, to say the least of it, peculiar to a man floating on his back in the centre of a stone tank, with a dead wall of some fitteeu or twenty feet rising squarely on every side of him !" (The young man smiled bitterly as he said this, aud shuddered once or twice before he went on musingly.) "The last time I had noted the plan it with any emotion she was ou the wane. Mary was with me; I had brought her out here one morning to look at the view from the top of the Reservoir. She said little of the scene, bnt as we talked of our old childish loves, I saw that its fresh features were incorporating themselves with tender memories of the past, and I was con tent. "There was a rich golden haze upon the landscape, and as my own spirits rose amid the voluptuous atmosphere, she pointed to the waning planet, dis cernible like a faint gash in the welkin, and wondered how long it would bo before the leaves would fall. Strange girl! did she mean to rebuke my joy ous mood, as if we had no right to be happy while Nature, withering iu her pomp, and the sickly moon wasting iu the blaze of noontide, were there to remind us of 'the gone-forever'? " 'They will all renew themselves, dear Mary,' said I, 'and there is one that will ever keep tryst alike with thee and nature through all seasons, if thou wilt but be true to one of us, and re main as now a child of nature.' "A tear sprang to her eye, and then searching her pocket for her card-case she remembered an engagement to be present at Miss Lawson's opening of fall bonnets at two o'clock I "And yet, dear, wild, wayward Mary, I thought of her now. You have probably outlived this sort of thing, sir; but I, looking at the moon as I floated there upturned to her yel low light, though of the leved being whose tears I knew would flow when she heard of my singular fate, at once so grotesque, yet melancholy to awful ness. "And how often we have talked, too of that Carian shepherd who spent his damp nights upon the hills, gazing as I do upon the lustrous planet! Who will revel with her amid those old su perstitions! Who, from our own un legended woods, will evoke their yet undetected haunting spirits? Who peer with her in prying scrutiny into nature's laws, and challenge the whis pers of poetry from the voiceless throat of matter? Who laugh merrily over the stupid guess-work of pedants, that never mingled with the infinitude of nature, through love exhanstles and all-embracing, as we have? Poor girl she will be companionless. "Alas! companionless forever save in the exciting stages of some brisk flirtation. She will live hereafter by feeding other hearts with love's lore she has learned from me, and then, Pygmalion-like, grow fond of the images she has herself endowed with semblance of divinity. How anxious she will be lest the coroner shall have discovered any of her notes in my pocket 1 "I felt chilly as this last reflection crossed my mind, partly at thought of the coroner, partly at the idea of Mary being unwillingly compelled to wear mourning for me, in case of such a disclosure of our engagement. It is a provoking thing for a girl of nine teen to have to go in mourning for a deceased lover at the beginning of hoi second winter in the metropolis.' "The water, though, with my mo tionless position, must have had some thing to do with my chilliness. I see, sir, you think I tell my story with great levity ; but indeed I should grow delirious did I venture to hold steadi ly to the awfulness of my feelings the greater part of that night. I think, indeed. I must have been most the time hysterical with horror, for the vibrating emotions I have recapitulated did pass through my brain, even as I hve detailed them. "But as I now became calm in thought, I summoned up again some resolution of action. "1 will begin at that corner (said I), and swiui around the whole enclos ure. 1 will swim slowly and again feel the side of the tank with my feet. If I die I must, let me perish at least from well-directed though exhausting effort, Pot sink from mere bootless weariness in sustaining myself till the morning sliall bring relief. The sides of the place seemed to grow higher as I now kept my w atery course beneath them. It was not al together a dead pull. I had some variety of emotion in making my cir cuit. When I swam in the shadow, it looked to me more cheerful beyond in the moonlight. When I swam in the moonlight, I had the hope of making some discovery when 1 should again reach th- shadow. I turned several times on my back to rest just where those wavy lines woold meet. The stars looked viciously light to me from the bottom or that well: there was such a company of them ; they were so glad in their lustrous revelry; and they had such a space to move in ! I was alone, sad to despair in a strange element, prisoned, and a solitary gazer upon their chorus. And yet there was nothing else with which I could hold communion! 'I turned upon my breast and struck out almost frantically once more. The stars were forgotten; the moon, the very world of which I as yet formed a part, my poor Mary herself, were forgotten. I thought only of the strong man there perishing; of me, iu my lusty manhood, in the sharp vigor of my dawning prime, with faculities illimitable, with senses all alert battling there with physical obstac les which men like myself had brought together for my undoing. The Etern al could have willed this thing! I could not and I would not perish thus. And I grew strong in insolence of self trust; and I laughed aloud as I dashed the sluggish water aside. "Then came an emotion of pity for myself, of wild, wild regret; of sor row, oh, infinite, for a fate so desolate, a doom so dreary, so heart-sickening! You may laugh at the contradiction if you will sir, but I felt that I could sac rifice my own life on the instant, to redeem another fellow creature from such a place of horror, from an end so piteous. My soul and my vital spirit seemed In that desperate moment to be separating ; while one in parting grieved over the deplorable fate of the other. "And then I prayed! I prayed, why or wherefore I know not. It was not fear. It could not have been in hope. The days of miracles are passed, and there was no natural law by whose interposition I could be saved. I did not pray ; it prayed of itself, my soul within me. "Was the calmness that I now felt, torpidity? the torpidity that precedes dissolution, to the strong swimmer who sinking from exhaustion, must at last add a bubble to the wave as he suffocates beueath the element which now denied Ids mastery? If it were so, how fortunate was it that my float ing rod at that moment attracted my attention as it dashed through the water by me. I saw on the instant that a fish had entangled himself in the wire noose. The rod quivered, plunged, came again to the surface, and rippled the water as it shot in arrowy flight from side to side of the tank. At last driven toward the southeast corner of the Resevoir, the small end seemed to have got foul somewhere. The brazen butt, which, every time the fish sounded, was thrown to the moon, now sank by its own weight, showing that the other end must be fast. But the cornered fish, evidently anchored somewhere by that short wire, floundered several times to the surface, before I thought of striking out to the spot. "The water is low now, and toler. ably clear. You may see the very ledge there, air, in yonder corner, on which the small end of my rod rested when I secured that pike with my hands. I did not take him from the slip-noose, however ; but standing upon the ledge, handled the rod in a workmanlike man ner, as I flung that pound pickerel over the iron railing upon the top of the parapet. The rod, as I have told you, barely reached from the railing to the water. It was a heavy, strong bass rod, and when I discovered that the fish at the end of the wire made a strong enough knot to prevent me from drawing mv tackle away from the railing around which it twined itself as I threw, why, as you can at once see, I had but little difficulty in mak ing my way up the face of the wall with such assistance. "The ladder yon see lashed to the iron railing, is in the identical spot where I thus made my escape ; and for fear of similar accidents, they have placed another one in the correspond ing corner of the other compartment of thestank, ever since my remarkable night's adventure in the lonesome wat ers of the Reservoir." Storf Teller. According to recent figures, the people in this country are longer lived than those of Europe; in this country eighteen persons out of every thousand die each year. In England the average Is twenty, and In Germany, twentyix. LOVES OFJjREAT MEN. ALL REMIND I'S WE CAN MAKE OUK LOVES SI BL1ME. How Whitney Won His rriend's Sweet heart. The wife of lion. William C. Whit ney, recently secretary of the navy, has proved a veritable mascot to him. And the manner in which he became a close ally of Standard Oil is indicative of the good fortune which attended this astute politician and financier throughout his career. When yonng Whitney was at Yale he had a chnm in a confiding classmate, who is now Rev. Leander Chamber lain, a brother of ex-Governor Cham berlain. Young Chamberlain, so the story goes, had won the heart of Miss Payne, daughter of Henry B. Payne, of Cleve land, Ohio, and he gave Ids classmate glowing accounts of the charm of man ner, conversational powers and other good qualifications of the young lady to young Whituey. On one of his vacations young Chamberlain invited his chum to go to Cleveland with him and niake the acquaintance of Mis Payno. The future corporation council and secretary of the navy acceded the in vitation ; he made the lady's acquain tance and managed so skillfully to be stricken by Cupid's oleaginous bow that ere many moons had passed young Chamberlain's friend, chum and bosom companion walked away with the fair prize. Owing to the devotion of Colonel Oliver Payne to his sister she has proved a boon to Mr. Whitney, and the splendid house on Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, and a large gift, said to be $50,000, when the secretary and his wife set out to startle Washington with magnificent entertainments, are generally sat down among the good things which young Whitney's chum lost through the confiding introduc tion. A romantic story is told about the first meeting of August Belmont with the lady who is now his wife. As be came her brave blood, the daughter of Commodore Perry, "the hero of Lake Erie, while still a blooming Baltimore belle, had an intense admiration for personal courage. It was while she was ou a visit to bome relative in thU city that the ac tive and sturdy young German banker, who had at once taken the place in metropolitan society due the repre sentative of the powerful house of Rothschild, became involved in a fam ous duel. At the theatre one evening he was among a group of young men, and be tween the acts one of the party ex pressed his admiration of the beauty of the ladies present in the boxes, among whom was Miss Perry. A noted Georgia "fire-eater" standing by, who was widely feared aud avoided as a bully and a dead shot, made some re mark reflecting on the virtue of women generally. There was silence for a moment, when young Belmont, a slight, tioiid lookiug fellow, to the dismay of his companions, faced the bully and said iu distiuct, deliberate tones : "The dog who could utter such a sentiment insults the memory of his own mother and is unfit for the com pany of decent men!" White with raee the bully hissed: "You shall hear from me, sir!" It was before the war in the good old times, aud a duel followed, of course. Belmont's friends gave him up as a dead man. But when the smoke from the simultaneous fire of the two pistols had cleared away it was found that the bully had a bullet through his heart and Belmont had t ball in his left leg below the knee. He became the hero of the hour, aud soon after he was able to get about he proposed to the beautiful Miss Perry and was accepted. He afterward con fessed it was her noble face that nerved him to resent the imputation on ber sex. To this day he limps painfully, but his wife is proud of his disfigure ment. There was a touch of romance in the wooing and wedding of Major William A. Pond, the concert aud lec ture manager. No stranger who sees the gallant major strolling along Broad way with a pretty, delicate-looking young lady on his arm would imagine that he was accompanied by Mrs. Pond. They might think his charm ing companion was a daughter or neice, or related to him in any way other than marriage. Mrs. Pond, before her iimrrinire, was a typewriter in the mayor's ci!i-e un der the Everett house. The manager was struck with her rare beauiy and modest demeanor the day !ie an swered his advertisement for a type writer, and these qualities impressed him more and more forcibly each week; that she remained in his cm ploy. He began to love the blithe tome girl, who dispelled the dullness f a musty office, and made the weary hours of labor brighter thau they ever were before. She, too, gradually be came attached to the gray-haired, kindly employer, and everything was ripe for the last touch of Cu pip's Wand, wkea a sad aceidtnt betel rse idjt While hurrying to the office alonf Fourth Avenue one day she passed un der a line of telegraph poles, when tome work was going on. A lineuiai lost his balance aud fell upon her crushing her to the sidewalk and se verely injuring her. The young lad) was hurriedly carried into a drugston next Mr. Pond's office, and was after wards conveyed home. She didn't lacl for attention. Besides the care ol kindly parents, she was carefullj watched over by the major. His anx iety for her welfare betrayed his secret if it had not already been betrayed be fore. It was shortly after this incident thai they became engaged. After this the courtship was not long. One day, a' secretly as possible, the major stole away from his office without telling hii friends where he was going, and, aftei arraying himself iu wedding costume, was driven to the home of his bride'i parents in Ilobokeu, where he wai quietly married. As a young man Grover Clevelani was extremely fond of children. Ii the bachelor apartments over his law offices in Buffalo the walls were cov ered with photographs of bright and beautiful babes. He was particularly interested in the pretty little daughtei of his partner and closest friend, Oscai Folsom, and it is said that a portrait ol the lovely child at five years old, ar rayed in a wliite dress with a big blue sash, held the place of honor in hit collection. When Osoar Folsom died he mad Cleveland co-trustee with Mrs. Folsom of their only child, and true to hii trust, Cleveland watched over the rearing and education of the girl with the tenderest solicitude. As the child grew to womandood the bouds of affection drew the girl and hei guardian closer, and finally strength ened into the bonds of love. An old schoolmate of Mis. Cleveland tells the tale of Cleveland's proposal. When little Frances was eight years old she was sitting on "Uncle Grover's" lap one day entertaining him with childisi prattle of what she would do when she grew up into "a big lady" It wai about the time of Nellie Grant's mar riage in the white house, which bar formed a topic of family talk. "I'm going to have a nico while s.itiu dress and get married in the white bouse, too." she lisped. "But I thought you wero going tc marry me, and I should wait for you,' laughingly returned Mr. Cleveland. "Of courso It will be yon, for yoo will grow up to be president then said the child, knowingly. When Cleveland was elected Mra Folsom and her daughter were prepar ing to go to Europe, and on calling to say good-bye Mr. Cleveland claimed from Miss Folsom the fulfilment, on her return, of the promise made when a child. He had performed bis part of the bargain, and she had only to futi hers and become a white house bride. Something to Think Of. Whatever you dislike in auothei person, take care to correct iu yourself by the gentle reproof. Spratt. Avoid him who, from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him. La v liter. Any one may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows it is a part of the temperament Sterne. Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models the young begin with being ridiculous and often end in being vicious. Blair. Nothing more impairs authority than a too frequent or indiscreet use of it. If thunder itself was to be continual it would excite no more terror than the noise of a mill. Colton. Great talents for conversation should be attended with great politeness. He who eclipses others owes them great civilities; and whatever a mistaken vanity may tell us, it is better to please in conversation than to shino in it. Swift. Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him : "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill lan guage with ease, and return it with pleasure ; and to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and in centive of virtue ; but to be ambitious of titles, of place, of ceremonial res pects and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which wt court. Sir P. Sidney. Took Her by Surprise. "I have sometimes thought " began Mr. Porridge, whereat Miss Rashly gave an exclamation of amaze ment, and then remarked apologeti cally: "It may be. Of course I have no knowledge of what you may have done before I became acquainted with you." Richmond Dispatch. Coun'erfelt notes are very rarely tak en In the banks of Russia. The tellers are held responsible and therefore exer cise keen vlgllanoa, A Ceylon Fa bio. The Singhalese have great skill In cookery, aud are able to make curries not only of any kind of meat, but of almost any vegetable. One of their favorite curries is conirosed of a hvig bean, known as the "drumstick." The price of this vewtable in the market is exceedingly small. As Viilahue Tantaregey Cornelius Appoo lay stretched upon a mat on the veranda of his c.ittage one tine morn ing, his eye rested on the luxuriant blossoms of the murunga, or drumstick trea, which stood In his little inclosure or "compound." "In a couple of months," thought he to himself, "I shall have as many drumsticks on that tree as will realize one rupee and fifty cents. These 1 will take to the bazaar, ami, having sold them, I will lay out the money in eggs, which I will sell at a profit. With'the proceeds I will buy cocoanuts, and after disposing of them also a profit I will buy fowls. This is sure to be a lucrative investment. By continuing to carry fowls to the town, and selling them to the steamers, along with pine apples, plantains a id other fruit, I shall in course of time become a dubash, or ship chandler, and make large profits. I will then go Into partnership with Do Simon Goonetillike, who trades with India, I will get my daughter married to his eldest son, and we will import rice and cotton goods from the Madras presidency. I will then build a fine row of shops facing the road, and there I will store my goods and dispose of them to passers by." But here he paused and said to him self: "Tills murunga tree stands just in the spot where the shops will have to come. That will never do." So, springing up, he seized his little axe, and in five minutes the murunga tree lay prostrate under his deft strokes. "What are you doing?" screamed his wife, who at this moment came to the veranda, attracted by the sound. Her husband with beaming counten ance begged her not to be disturbed, telling her that he hoid in a short time to present her with a set of Rold hairpins instead of these common silver ones she was wearing, and a satin cloth In place of her present cotton print. He then proceeded to explain at length by what steps his wealth was to be ac quired, beginning with the drumsticks aud ending with the shops. "But you have cut down the tree which was to have been the foundation of our fortune!" she cried. And as this fact dawned upon Cornelius Appo's mind he looked blankly, first at his wife, next at the murunga tree, and "shed a bitter tear." Hence the pro verb, "Like the cutting down of the drumstick tree." DOGS IX RAVARIA. How Hydrophobia Has Been Stamped Oui In That Country. Bavaria has succeeded in doing what no other country has yet been able to accomplish; she has practically stamped ut hydrophobia. During the last seven years there have been only three deaths of human beings from hydrophobia in a population numbering close upon B.000,000; and since 1S76. when the pre sent severe dog laws came in operation, there never has been more than one death m a year. Previously to that time deaths were very frequent. Be tween 1SG3 and 1ST the death rate from hydrophobia in Bavaria was never less than fourteen In a year, and once it reached the high percentage of thirty-one. The regulations which have banished this terrible malady from a whole kingdom are very minute, and perhaps some little vexatious; but it is assuredly worth while to take a little trouble for so desirable an end. Every dog In the country is bound, upon pain of Instant death, to bear upon his collar a metal tally, upon which Is inscribed bis number upon the register or his dis trict. The color and shape of this tally, which is really the dog's passport, are changed every year; and the police are thus able to see at a glance If a dog Is "in order." Once a month all dogs have to be examined by a veterinary surgeon, and ir they are not in good health they are detained in a kind of dog's hospital until they recover. If.an animal changes bands the transfer must be at once notified to the police; and any breach of the regula'.lons even a J delay of a few days In the payment of the tax is visited by a neavy One.' Tne tax varies from three shillings a year in the country districts to fifteen shillings in the large towDS. During the French Revolution. An English witness relates how In October of 1794 she was one day stand ing at the door of a shop to which a beggar came to buy a slice of pumpkin. The shopkeeper refused to let it go for less thau the price she had originally fixed, whereupon the beggar insolently told her that she was gangrenee d'aris tocratie. The unhappy shopkeeper turned pale and cried out, "My civisme is beyond dispute, but take the pump kin!" The beggar's reply was, "Ah! now you are a good republican!" The muttered comment of the shopkeeper was, "Yes, yes, 'tis a fine thing to be a good republican when one has not bread to eat." AVhen the threat of a beggar could make an honest and insignificant person like this old market woman tremble and turn pale is not surprising to find that for many months after the actual reign of terror was over, people very generally went about under a continual sense of apprehension. The Parisians of those days are said to have habitu ally worn a "revolutionary aspect." They bad been at one time the frankest and most vivacious people in the world gay. open, cheery and polite. The terror had made them morose and sus picious. They walked with their heads bent on their breasts, and many of them bad contracted a habit of looking from under the lids of their half shut eyes before speaking, especially to strangeTS. The bolder and more reckless spirits swaggered about In ultra revolutionary costume; carmagnole of rough cloth, leather breeches, top boots and a bon net rouge with a preposterously large tricolored cockade at the side. At the Lincoln autumn meeting the Lincoln autumn handicap was won by Mr. T. Valentine's 3 year old bay flllr SU Helen, with Mr. W. Steven son's 5 year old chestnut mare Night cap second. Air. Melville's 3 year old colt Horton, and Mr. T. J. Ennlng's 9 year old chestnut filly Valentine ran a dead beat for third place. There were tune starters. The Atheist and the Flower. When Napoleon Bonaparte was em peror of France, he put a man by th name of Chantey Into prison. H thought Charney was an enemy of bit government, and for that reason de prived htio of his liberty. Charney wai a learned and profound man, and as ht walked to and fro In the sma'.l yard Into which bis prison opene), he looked v to the heavens, the work of God's fing ers, and to the moon and stars which he ordained, and exclaimed, "All thlngi come by chance." One day, while pacing his yard, h saw a tiny plant Just breaking th ground near the wall. The slsht of H caused a pleasant diversion of hit thoughts. No other green things wa within his inclosure. lie watched IU growth every day. "How came it there? was his natural inqu!ry. As it grew, other queries were suggested. "How came these delicate little veins In Its leaves? What made Its propor tions so perfect in every part, each new branch taking its exact place on tne parent stock, neither too near another, ?or too much on one side. " In his loneliness the plant became the prisoner's teacher and his valued friend. When the flower began to unfold he wai filled with delight. It was white, pur ple and rose-eolored, with a fine, silvery fringe. Charney made a frame to sup port it, and did what his circumstances allowed to shelter it from pelting rains and violent winds. "All things come by chance," had been written by him on the wall, just above where the flower grew. Its gen tle reproof, as It whispered: "There It One who made me, so wonderfully beautifully beautiful, and he it is who keeps me alive," shamed the proud man's unbelief. He brushed the lying words from the wall, while his heart felt tuat, "He who made all things U God." But God bad a further blessing foi the erring man through the humble flower. There was an Italian prisonei in the same yard whose little daughtei was permitted to visit him. The glr was much pleased with Charney's love for bis flower. She related what she saw to the wife of the jailer, The story of the prisoner and his flower passed from one to another, until it reached the ears of the amiable Empres, Jose phine. The Empress said: "The man who so devotedly lovet and tends a flower cannot be a baJ man," so she persuaded the Emperor to set him at liberty. Charney carried his flower home and carefully tended It. It taught him of a God and released him from prison. The Age of Paper. This Is the age of paper. It Is the receptacle and disseminator of science, the produots of art and literature, the great means of keep ing Industries and commerce thriv ng. It barrels our flour, wraps our goods, enters into articles of per sonal wear an! household use, and when we die sometimes forms oui coffins. It rolls beneath our railway cars, and forms our buggy tops. We eat off it, drink from it, wear it on onr heads, necks, bosoms and feet, carry it In our pockets in lieu of hankerchlef, and tile our bouses, line our carpets with it, pack up our goods in paper boxes, and divert our leisure moments with paper cards. We make 500,000 tons yearly, import largely, and yet, like Oliver Twist, ask ror more. Rags, woodpulp, straw, old rope, the bark oi the cotton plant, and even the mem branes in the interior of silkworm cocoons yield It. We would, there fore, suggest that an exhibition ol paper objects and manufactures would fittingly commemorate the bi-centenary of the first paper mill In this country next year, to be held at Philadelphia, the birth-place of the trade. Collecting a Debt From a Preachee An amusing anecdote Is related of t Hawklnsville merchant who sold goods on a credit to a colored preacher. Th man of the gospel had made a very root crop and it was evident to the merchant that he had a slim chance for his money. On Saturday he saw the preacher and said to him: "See here, parson, you 'v got to pay me your account. I an going ont to hear you preach to-morrow, and after the sermon you must pass around the hat and raise a collec tion." Sure enough, the merchant wai on hand and took a front seat. The old colored divine preached an effective sermon, commenting on hard-hearted sinners, and the rich man who would not forget the world and lay up hu treasures In heaven. After the sermon the bat was passed around and the merchant was the first to put In a con tribution. He dropped a half dollar io the bat and the congregation began throwing In dimes, quarters and halve, until several dollars were in the hat. When the preacher retired from tbe pulpit the merchant followed him and got the entire contents of tbe hat just enough to settle the debt. Tbe First Spinning Frame. The first spinning frame made In this tountry, which has been temporarily Intrusted to the Brown University for lafe keeping, will soon be sent to the patent office at Washington. Samuel Slater, the inventor, introduced It into the old spinning mill at Pawtucket, R, L. about the year 1790. It was first started in a clothier's shop of that town, together with two other machines of a somewhat similar pattern. In a year and a half it Is said that they over stocked the market, as several thousand tons of yarn had accumulated In that time, despite tbe manufacturer's at tempt to dispose of It. The machine i. till In excellent o ' considering It reat age. NEW IN BRltr Lunch baskets are comtnc la style tgalu. There are over 100 women's cluba n Kansas. The Queen of EngUnd Is ageing erceptibiy. Gold and silver braid pipings art ashionabie. Torchm lace Is very well liked for rimming underwear. Cliicka !ees are t'i favotite bird torn to adorn the heal-lresi. Petticoats of Medici Ures are fine inough to be worn for rireies. Oui'Ia. the noveh?. uss a perfume n her hair that costs J ! a; ounce. Th marriage code In India Is to be imended so that briJes must be at lsa-t iwclve years old. The best friend of the Empress of Russia Is the Counte Oyarna, who Is a V'assar graduate. There am nearly one thousand worn in clerks In the f'en'ral Telgraph Of Ice at Londou, EiiUud. The bodice for the slender woman s the most fashionable which shows the lewest seams anJ dai'-s. Tt seems not ur.likely that electrlc ty will be applied to smeltiug furnaces n the near future. Even a bid-ous little gold lizard TltU ruby eyes Muds admirers among 'hose searching for brooches. It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one enl of the At autic cable to the other. Pittsburgh claims to have more mil ionaires iu proportion to ber population, :han any ether city in the world, Alaska coat o-ly 7,000,0 Xt, and the revenue to lh3 national treasury Is x pec ted to amount 1 1 $'5,000,0 JO a year tor the next twenty years. Lranium is now being clissed among the rare metals on account of ts electrical resistance Ir, is likely to be used in electrical insulation. One hundred and five Americans visited Burn's birthplace in bcoilaud In sue day last summer. The first monument to Hernando Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, hat been unveiled iuh.s native city of Med iliu.in E3trama'lura, .Spain. annracturers are beginin? to In troduce electricity into their factories as a motive power by subdividing it into units. A very extensive domestic industry In Russia consists of the manufacture of wooden spoons, which are made to the extent of 30,0W,onu annually, mostly of birch. Tbe average pidein infancy is one hundred and twenty minute; iu man hood, eighty; at sixty years, sixty. The pulse of lemales Is more frequent than that of males. The national debt of Germany, which is mucti smaller than tli.it of any other great couctry in the world, la, Id round figures, 102.000,000. A Georgia postmaster is in trouble. Through a hole In the roof of his office the rain poured in one night and stuck together two hundred dollars' worth o postage stamps. The mineral calied turf a, or brazo Itna, recently discovered In Bahla, fur nishes an oil akin topetro'eum, a paraf fin suitable for the manufacture of can dles, aud a good lubricating oil. The largest sheep ranch in the world is in the counties of Webb and Dinnet In Texas; it contains upward of 400,OOC seres, and yearly pastures 800,00( sheep. The cuttlefish, whichamongst otbei strange things always waits with it! head downward, does not chew Its food at all, bnt masticates with Us gizzard. The Po-tugese nation Is one of th least Instructed lu Europe, the Illiterate inhabitants being officially stated as 8) per cent, of the total population. Columbia is the wealthiest of Amer ican universities, and Harvard comet next, with property valued at $5,000, 000, and a yearly income amounting t 1303,121. The Czar according to a recent sta tistician's calculation, is the largest pri vate ownt r or land iu the world; the total is about OO.OOO.OuO acres, about the size of the wl.ole of France. The most densely populated square mile in the world Is in the city of New York; It is Inhabited by 270,000 people the larger part of whom are Italians, who speak only their native language. In southern California there are ! said to be Indians aged from one hun dred and fifteen to one hundred and forty years. They live on acorns, flour, and water. Baron Leibig, tho great German chemist, says that so much flour as cai lie on the point of a table knire con talus as much nutritive constituent! as eight pints of the best and most nu tritious beer made. A fiowering-plant has never beer found within the Anartcite circle- but in tbe Arctic region there are 702 klndi of Cowers; their colors, however, are not so bright or varied as those of warmer l eg ions, Perhaps the oldest living Indian li tho United State it Muddy Water, I Seminole, residing in Indain Territory who has just entered his one haiidred tnd ninth year. What a Boy Will Do When He Ueu e Chance. Newton Tabor was digging a well a Pilot Point, Tex. To blast out the rocks ho used dynamite inclosed li small metallic capsules. In the course of his operations he deposited an open box of these dangerous capsules at the root of a tree, near where he was work ing. A ladder leaning against the tree reached up to a mocking-bird's nasi containing a young brood. His 10 yeai old son, Dick, with a couple of the cap sules in his hand, ascended the ladder, and, discovering the young birds wits distended mouths, boy-like, dropped the capsules, one at a time, in one bird 'i moutd. Tbey forthwith disappeared Is the bird's craw. This rendered the bird uncomfortable, and, in a struggle for relief It fell from tbe nest. Upoi striking the ground an explosion occur red which tore up the earth, dumped a quantity of the loose dirt, and the frag ments of rock piled around, into the well, aud came near killing Mr. Tabor who was working down below. TW boy fell from the ladder and was hiMf hurt, inHering the fractur of boar
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