"1 3E2 B. P. BOHWEIER. THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. i vnow -v vr v v v a. 1 i hi er - :v n 'ri st aw Ck. .A. A I A 11 i J h - IS VOL. XLV. A row of human forms, With facea upturned, White, arrayed in ihrouda and motionless, I aaw one fateful night, tht group who tat around And talked on alight pretext, ioM not conceal their questioning AVho.e turn will happen nextT Wa battle field In view, Where shot aud ahell had ceased? Dissecting room or hospital, Where soul had been releaattdT Wore tenanta of the Morgue. Uplifting mute appeal That charity' awilt burial Mifcbt kuuctiun lu of zeal Oh, no; 'twas none of theia Iinp:itieut iraze enalaved The forms were in the barber ahop And .lowly being shaved I A Fiendish Deed. "Married ugain!" cried Miss F.uphe mia Thorpe, clasping her Laud to gether. "Married again!" echoed Misi Clarissa, tipping over her basket of Berlin wools in her consternation, greatly to the delight of the kitten. "At his aire!" cried Miss Phemy. 'Two and fifty, if he's a day and a widower of tifteen good years' stand ing I" "And with us to keep house for nim,'' added Miss Clary; "and dinner always ready at 6 precisely, aud bit slipper warmed by the fire, just at surely as he crossed the threshold I" "Men are fools!" sharply ejaculated the elder sister. "How old doea he say she is. Clary?" "lie dont say at all," responded Mi si Clary, scrutinizing the pages of the letter that had brought such dismal news. "He only gays that he was mar ried ou the 3rd day of September last to Miss Marian Kussell, and that he will bring her houie on the 1st oi October!" But both the ladies were stricken dumb with amazement and dismay when, at the end of the honey moon, Mr. Paul Thorpe arrived at Thorpe Homestead, with his bride, and they were pre sented to a blue-eyed, timid-looking child of seventeen. "Brother Paul," cried both ladies in chorus, "is this your wife?" "This is my wife," said Paul Thorpe, complacently.' "Come to the fire, Marian, and warm yourself; it is a chilly evening and vou look cold!" "Paul," she whispered, when at last she had her husband to herself, "I am afraid of them I 1 don't think they like me!" "Nonsense, my dear, nonsense!' aid Mr. Thorpe, stroking down the golden curls of his child-like wife. "You'll all get along splendidly to gether when you're a little better acquainted with one another." ".Euphemia," said Miss Clarissa, as he sat before the glas9 rolling her scanty hair up in papers, "what do you think of Mrs. Paul Thorpo?" "I hate her," said Miss Euphemia, opening and shutting the cameo box wherein she kept her few jewels, with a snap as if it were a guillotine and Mrs. Paul's white neck lay under neath ! "Hate her, Phemy ! cried Clarissa. "I don't like her myself, but " "Ah!" said Miss Euphemia, "but yon didn't see ; you were getting out my brother's claret, else you would scarcely be surprised at my words." "See what?"' My false teeth slipped and came out while I was trying to eat that crust of toast," confessed Miss Euphemia, turning red. "I'll never have dry toast on the table again. I had to look for 'em. And she she laughed out right." "It was very rude of me," said Marian to herself ; "but I will be so good and loving that they shall be ture to forget it!" j But Miss Euphemia was not one readily to forget or forgive. Paul Thorpe had not been married quite a year to his daisy-faced little wife, when Miss Euphemia came to him one day. "Can I speak to you alone, Paul?" ''Of course, yo.. can, Phemy; but what is all the mystery about?" he an vwered, gaily. "That is for you to judge," Misi Thorpe answered primly, "when you have read the letter." "What letter? "Who wrote it?" "One of your wife's admirers, prob ably," retorted Miss Euphemia with a tots oi her head. "1 found it in the pocket of the white dress she sent to the wash this morning!'' j Involuntarily, although he knew he was doing a base and dishonorable thing, Paul Thorpe glanced at the let- ' ter. whoJA fiitrnarilfa hail tiann 4siin I away a letter written in a bold, mas culine chirography. It began thus: "My Own Darling Marian: Your letter of yesterday convinced me mor and more that your love is still mine, even though" "Stop!" be cried, aloud, between his firmly set teeth. "Who djires to call my wife his darling? "Who dares" And then he stopped a second. "Euphemia." he said, husk! I v. " thank you for opening my eyes. I was a mad fool for thinking that a child of seventeen could ever care for me. Perhaps it is not eo much her fault as it is mine." j He turned away, with a face like ashes. "Paul!" his sister called after him: ' "Paul!" But the door had already closed be- 1 hind his retreating footsteps, aud Miss ' Euphemia felt that the hour of her vengeance was near. , I'aul Thorpo returned no more. A brief, cold letter to his wife announced that business of importance would necessitate a few years' residence in Canada, and bade her farewell. i "But why didn't he come himself?" wailed Marian, wringing her little White hands. "Why could I not have gone with him? Have I offended him? Have I done wrong in any unconscious way?" I Miss Euphemia made no reply. The letter she herself had received by the same post contained these words", anr these only "I can never see her again. "While he lives I am an exile from my home. i leare ner to yonr care. Be kind to her, for perhaps she is the creature of untoward circumstances. I will remit all necessary funds regularly. Yours truly, p. x." Miss Phemy sat staring at the fire, with the letter in her hand. .The mis chief was all done; it was too late to repair her oWii handiwork. She had parted man and wife; she had mada them both wretched ; for, in her heart of hearts, she believed that Marian loved Paul Thorpe as truly as if he had been a gay young lover of three-and-twenty, instead of three-and-fiftv. "I dare not tell the truth now," she thought. 'Udare not confess that I myself tore the siguature away from the letter, and that it was written by that ne'er-do-well brother of hers, out in Australia, that she never speaks of, because, poor fellow, he forged a tkeck once, aud had to flee the country. But I dare say it will all come right after a while and Marian ought to suffer something to pay her for laugh ing at me." But even the callous heart of Miss Phemy reproached her for her craft, when she saw the- roses fading away from poor Marian's cheeks, the elas ticity deserting her light, graceful fig ure, as day by day crept by, aud no word or message came from the absent husband. "If I only knew what it was I hud done!" sighed poor Marian. But one day Miss Clarissa came home from the Charity School, pale, languid and heavy-eyed, and within a day or two the disease declared itself definitely small-pox of the most viru lent type. Servants fled the house, neighbor discovered that they needed change of air, friends and acquaintances content ed themselves by sending cards of in quiry through the post, and even a professional nurse could not be ob tained. "I'm sure I don't know what wo are to do," said Dr. Maynard, when it was discovered that Miss Euphemia, too, was stricken down by the baleful disease. 'I will take care of them,' doctor," said Marian, simply. "I have had the disease, and don't fear it." "Young lady," said the old physi cian, "you are undertaking a great care." "They are my husband's sisters," said Marian. "It is all I can d for him now.." The doctor thought it was a singular speech, but he could nt stop to ana lyze words just then ; and so Marian took her place at the pillows of the two sick women. Aud through long days and niirhts of anguish and delirium she remained constant to her charge until the bal ance turned and they recovered. "You would both of you have been in your graves, under six feet of earth, if it hadn't been for this girl!" said blunt Dr. Maynard. "4l.e has nursed you as tenderly and faithfully as if you were babes in arms. Under Prov idence, you owe your lives to her." Misa PUriEM silently leaned forward to kiss Marian's blanched countenance; Euphemia only drew a sort of short, quick sob and asked for her writing desk. "I wouldiot try to write just yet," aid Marian, gently. "Only one letter. I must!" said Miss Phemy; aud Marian let her have her way. So she wrote thus 1 "Dear Brothkr: I have deceived vou about Marian, though I swear before heaven's tribunal I didn't know at the time bow much mischief I was working. She in as pure and good as an anfel, and through dolug good to them that apiiefullr used her, she has wrought out her own aalration. t lncloe the ij;nature I myself tore off that fatal letter which baa estranged you hot li the signature of Marian' own brother, Guy Kusneli. Do not reproach me. I have suffered enough already for my trim Youra repentantly, Ecthemia Thorpe." Directed to the care of his lawyer, the letter reached Paul Thorpe at Glas gow, whither he had just arrived from Canada, and three days afterwards he stood upon his own threshold. Marion herself chanced to open the door to him. "Paul I Oh Pault ily husband!" she cried out wildly. "My Marion!" was all that he an swered. And then the reconciliation was com plete. Neither of them ever spoke a word of reproach to poor Miso Phemy. "It is enough that we are happy once more," said Marian simply. The Girl with the Dagger. The man of to-day' is not very much to blame if he concludes that he is in Corsica, and that all womankind have declared a vendetta against him. The reason why is easily discovered after you have looked at several sweet young things, who seem to think no more of a dagger sticking in their belts than they do of a ring upon their fingers. Just how this fashion arose nobody can find out, but I believe it comes from a caprice of the divine Sarah, who walks around statelv and statu esque in her long, black widow's gowns, with a dull silver-handled dag ger stuck through the belt about her waist. The daggers themselves are by no means play toys, and not even the bravest of men would care to have one stuck into him. Indeed, some women, ..... - i . . . .i given to a imie dii oi norse-piay mm inclined to flourish the dangerous dirk, have been warned off by the ner vous brothers about whom they per form a war dance, dagger in hand, to the tune of, "We'll stab hiin all over until he is dead!" The enrio shops are searched for the daintiest of weap ons, and the man who has a Japanese collection soon finds that his tiniest and fiercest-looking daggers are seized by his sisters, and that if he has enough to go arouud even his cousins expect to tret one. Ifot His Lookout. horse attached to a wagon loaded with light wood was slipping and sprawling along State street in the heavy frost of Satnrday morning, when a policeman halted the rig and -said to the colored driver: "Your horse hasn't got a shoe on any foot." "No, sah. lie's jist like de Lawd dun made him." "But how do you expect he's to get along in this frost?" "Dat's not my bizness, sah. If de Lawd makes a boss wXlout shoes an' den brings a frost to make him sHp down, it hain't fur me to find fault. Beckon dar's an objeck in it, an' it's a good 'un. Hey, Douglass hole jrer head up higher i" MIFFLINTOWIN, NAT TURNER'S CRIMES. 4. CHiPTER IN THE LIFE OF BEN C. DUGGAR. The Xovel Method by Which He Pat Eis Enemies to Flight. The career of Hon. Ben C. unegar. as narrated in the Blue liidge Post, is thrilling indeed: Durinsr the year 1M9 ii,. i..;ir r ' . .UH muiu icviacu wii$res5, and that body, instead of diiuiiiidiiiiir the duties, as the people of the south- ern states desired, and hoped it would do, increased many of them. The reprehensible act was very odious to the touthern states, which they con- sidered unjust and greatly militating against tneir interest. They, ever willing to submit to a tariff amply sufficient for a revenue, but, for valid reasons were utterly opposed to, and with that genuine patriotism which is an eminent characteristic of the southern people, bitterly denounced this obnoxious act. And this was the cause and theme of that memorable debate which occurred in congress be tween the eloquent and sagacious Colonel Ilavne, senator from South t Carolina, and Daniel "Webster, of Mas achusetts. The state of South Carolina, holding the doctrine advocated by Colonel Hayne in the senate and a convention of the people of the state was held and adopted the measure known as the "Nullification Ordinance." Intense excitement prevailed, and the dark cloud of civil war was brewing. In the meantime flagrant and incendiary speeches were made in the north, and circulated by the press; and civ Us upon the southern people for not sub mitting as vassets to the north. During this time Xat Turner, a negro preacher living near Jerusalem, Virginia, im bibed the spurious doctrine which was borne npon the noxious breeze from the north, emanating from the slime pools of depravity. Nat was a good slave and a trustworthy negro until his mind was poisoned bv the baneful hetrodoxy of a meddlesome and fa natic people of the north, who is a source of aid upon whose shoulders rest the heinous crimes of Nat Turner. Nat Turner, only exhibiting that short-sightedness aud brutish disposi tion, which is characteristic of the negro race, cherished the idea that the north would stand to him and protect him in whatever he did. Therefore, styling himself the Moses of the slaves' deliverance, and the leader of a second Exodus from bond age, gathered arouud him all the negroes in the country. The negroes armed and fortified themselves, and would sally forth like ravenous beasts to prey upon whatever they could find. The number was in creasing daily, and this insurrection ' would have resulted in a terrible con- ' fiict between the whites and blacks ! throughout the south, had it not . beeu ! for Colonel Duggar, who, although a ( subordinate officer at the time, was the principal man in suppressing it. Nat commenced his work by massa cring in tbe most horrible manner a lady teacher, and her school of twenty five children. This most atrocious crime, without a parallel in a civilized couutry, spread like wild fire. President Jackson, . being engaged with the affairs of South Carolina at that time, sent orders to Colonel Dug gar to suppress Nat Turner's insurrec tion at once; but before the order reached Duggar he was upon the scene and had Nat and all his men in chains "When Duggar reached the place where Nat and his men were fortified, Duggar' s men wanted to charge right In npon them and butcher them like sheep. But Duggar, with the usual coolness which he possessed at all times, quiet ed his men. After thoroughly recon oitering the place where they had fortified themselves, he saw that he could not take them without a heavy loss, as there were several hundred negroes, well fortified and well armed. lie tried to induce them to come out and give up, but without effect. So he decided to besiege them in their stronghold, and perish them out ; but it was soon made know to him that they had rations enough to last them many mouths. Colonel Duggar then decided to resort to strategem, which he is an expert. Duggar knowing that the negro is the most superstitions race of people living, and that even the name of a ghost frightens them to death, resolved to try his luck upon tactics hither" uniracticed and unknown. He hired twenty-six negro boys to meet him in the woods some distance from Nat's fortification that evening about sundown, without telling them what he wanted with them. This was the number Nat Tu-ncr had massa cred a few days previous. Duggar gave orders to his men to form on one side of the fortification, and as soon as it was dark to intercept the negroes as they came out. During the day Duggar had twenty six winding sheets, white caps and face cloths prepared, and about sun- j down he met the boys and had them I put on their ghostly apparel. Duggar had prepared for himself a black suit, j and had gotten a large pumpkin and cut out a mourh, showing big, broad . teeth, and cnt out large eyes and place? j for ears. I In this pumpkin he placed cotton and thoroughly saturated it with oil, and fastened it upon his head. When the last ve9tige of day had gently died away upon the landscape and all the air a solemn stillness held, Duggar silently mustered his cadaver ous host, and instructing them to make cure their novel uniforms were in per fect order, he then ordered them to follow him. He proceeded to the negroes' fortification. "When but a short distance from it he stuck a match . to the cotton in the pumpkin on his ' head and gave double time, and ad vanced in a long Irot. Over the j breastworks Duggar went with blue , sulphuric flames streaming from his j mouth, eyes and ears, aud with no weapon save an iron fork. His ghostly-like host followed close upon his j heels, and altogether presented ' frightful appearance. ; There were about 500 negroes, some of them fainted, but all who were able to run dropped their arms and Mnt pell mell, rolling and tumbling oyer each other. This so amused the young "coons" with ,?oung Duggar they commenced tmialling and clapping their hands, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. I which frightened the negroes the more. They ran right over the soldiers, as ii seemed, without knowing they wer ( there. The soldiers shot, knocked I down aud captured as many of thcra t as they could, aud all was captured the next day. Some of them - were cap tured over in North Carolina, fortj uutes away aud still running. ) Memorial of Invasion. J xluuichen, the deaf and dumb land- scape painter, whose death from an a,irlunt t. inct AtinniinnAii YTtt. 9 .ununuu aivu. - tenburg, was a walking- memorial of 'he horrors of the Kussiun invasion ol Germany in 1813. .He was born in 1812 at Birkenbush, a village about two hours journey from "Wittenburg. One dav during the Kussian bombard- nct of the town the villagers all left their homes to watch the firing from the heights, and Frau Hunichen, with her infant was left alone in her rot tage. Suddenly there appeared at the 1 door two brutal Cossacks, who asked for money. The young mother trem blingly told them she had none, where upon they siezed her aud her child, bound them together, and flogged them 1 with their knouts until they were both insensible. . -ft On the return of the villagers they tr0rA Ik.f tst finnaitiniiDnada V, tr m ."W 1 x , ... ... - ... .1. - , iL mu, uui, as a result m iub injuries he had received, Hunichen remained deaf and dumb until the eud of' his ir9- Marhall O. Roberts, the 'In- days. His death was, indeed, a direct J M-,VU-,L-" consequence of the maltreatment -ne'M. Andrew Cofliu had received seventy-six years ago, in-1 m asmuch as he was run over by a wagon, An Imperial Courier. uieapproacnotwmcune was unaoie louear. nuiiicueii was a very .pa- oie painter ana was mucn paironizeu by the German Imperial family. - . A Poet's Venerable Age. a majw wu Miftcu mm icuufwa recently," writes an English friend to me. "It was at the annual flower show at Hazelmere, Surrey, and ih poet had been prevailed upon to leave his seclusion for the botanical display. It ti a lita ti r-at nnK h aniiAamnna ein.t.B.ln n V.... 7,1. ,...., V.n ........ ft ' his illness, and I had not seen him for six months. That the poet-laureate ii rapidly ageing I saw at a glance, and this became more impressed upon me during our brief conversation. "lie is no longer the Tennysou of a year ago; talk meant distress to him, and references to persons very close to him in friendship, which formerly en- listed his interest, seemed to meet with but little response. Iu his walk h! shufiled heavily, and the cane that he once carried as a companion to idly swing in moments of thought had be come almost a staff. He told me hi) health was good, but his general ap pearance scarcely verified his state ment. The strong aroma of a pipe, carelessly jammed into one of his coat pockets, was about the only thing tiiat suggested to me the Tenuvsou of o!d there was certaiuly nothing in hi f cnnvprEnlinn. niitnnr nr finiuumiini " conversation, manner or appearauco, -Philadel phia Times. t "What Young People Want. ! Boys want pnges and pages about I "Washington, Old Put, Old Hickory, ' the Three Militia Men, Commodore Decatur, Commodore Perry, Admiral Farragut, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the coming over of Lafayette, Tecum seh, Ben Franklin, the pioneers of tho great "West, the building of the Brook lyn Bridge, the jetties of the Missis sippi River, and the oratory of Patrick Uenry, Clay and Webster. These things captivate the young only when they are related in detail, with simplicity and truth. By and by they will want history of another kind, which will relate few storie9, pass lightly over most wars. and dwell only upon events which affected the lot of the people perma- ncntly. Boys and girls want to know what MajorAndre said when he was captured, and how thick the rope was with which Farratrut tied himself to the rigging. Such facts are the vehicle through which more important truths find lodgment in the young ml. After all, our boys and girls aro already very patriotic. What they now need is to be taught the. duties we all owe to such a country as ours to keep it pure and good. Youth's Companion. Talkative Parrot in a Car. "Ah, there, baby!" screamed the ( parrot, hid behind a paper which Willie i had placed over the cage. I The old maid looked startled, says a I Philadelphia paper, and a grin ap peared ou the faces wf the bther passen gers. "Oh, mamma!" croaked the bird. The old maid glared at each passen ger, highly indignant. . " Where did you get that hat, I'd like to know?"' went on the irrepressible bird. j The clerical passenger looked up in alarm and then felt his hat iu hasty J confusion. Every one noted the action and a ripple of suppressed laughter ' went over the car. "Ah, there, whiskers! " The clerical man leaped to his feet and i frowned at a smooth-faced young man near the rront. I won't be insulted!" he cried. "Ding, ding; two more fares out of the company's pockets." The conductor flushed and hastened nto the car from the back platform. " Who said that?" he demanded. Willie looked as demure as an angel. "Johnnie, get your hair cut." An old man with long hair made a precipitate departure from the car. At Bond street Willie lifted the paper, grabbed the cage and got off the car. Then the passengers tumbled. A Valuable. Animal. A man, while crossing a lot, was attacked by a young bull calf and was severely bruised. Just as the victim had landed on the safe side of the fence, an old negro enme out of a cabin near by, aud, calling the man. 6aid: "Does you wanter buy dat animal. sah?" "No; I want to kill the infernni thing, and I'm going to do it if I have to walk ten miles for a gun." "W'y, what is you got agin him?' Didn't you 6ee him butt mo over ! the fence?" "W'y, look here, he didn' mean dat ter be buttin'. He thought ho wiu 'cominerdatin' you. sah, in he'pin you ober. I's trained him to he'p folks obcr de fence, an' dafs w'y he so val uable. W'y las' winter w'en I haJ do rhcuinatiz I couldn'ter got erlong wid oot him." Arkansaw Traveler .TAKE IOUB riCK. Gere la a Mat or New York Helrec and Their Matk.t Value. Here is a list showing the market quotations of the heiresses of New York: Misa SalHe rtargoua Wins Mary Letter Miaa Jeuuie Flood .Misa Teresa Fair .11,000.000 . 2,500."JOO . 6,000,000 . 8,000,000 . 8,000.1100 . 2,000,000 . 600.000 . 1.000,000 . 6,000.000 g nuS. Misa Celeste snuffer Jjss Haveiueyer. . Helen Goukl ,Mn Morgan.... Mi Corbin.I"! 1,000.000 2.ono,nio 1,000,000 600.000 750.000 2.0OO,l0 1,000.000 fxm.iKiO 600.000 600.1 KiO 2,000.000 600.0(10 1,000.000 2.10,000 300.000 1,000,000 Florence Pullman fa HlwIitckSiA jiis ;errT Wu Eva Jlorris."."irJ!"."I !" ,l,u Jaffray Mt Sc"h7cffeun"I" Slisa Marie Terrr... Miss Extelle Schuyler.. The Missetlselin...., Misa Lillian Nathan... .-(.- Alice Scliguian... Mis Shafer Mis Grace Wilson 600,000 MiMsRemscn 850.000 Miss Louise betard 600.000 mih .tinriin, uaugnter or Bradley Martin.... Misa Greeu, daughter ol lletty Green Miaa Edith Kin 1,000,000 1.000.000 250,000 1,000.000 The Aliases Jeanne and Mamie Tur- ' Tl 11 TP . .. .. . ... . ... ...... ...... Mis. Sallie Hewitt.... 600.0" 0 4,O0O.00 M Frederick Neilaon , Miss Van Wart 1,000,000 8.000.000 1.000.000 4,000,000 The Chinese papers describe the re- CPplion of tbe imperial courier from I Pekin, who conveyed to the Viceroy of Canton the news of his transfer to I another nrov!nn. Arrivinir at th Vicerov's Yamen in the afternoon, he wav receiveu wiui a saiute Ul niue j guns. Every one of the doors from , j the outer gate into the sanctum saucto- ! rum was histautly thrown open, and , , the courier, dismounting from his j " horse, was met by the Viceroy in rich 1 greetings, the courier was conducted J . into the trreat hall of iustice. where a j table with incense and candles was set 'facing northward. The courier walked np to the table and took from the folds of his dress the imperial edict, gorgeous iu yellow satin, and, with averted face unfurled the roll in front of the Viceroy. Suddenly one in the room, from the Vice every Vicerov to the lowest attendant, fell down ou his ; knees aud performed the nine prostra tions, at the end of which, all still kneeling, the courier read out in a so norous, eintr-song style the imperial command. The Vicerov then rose, and taking the edict in both hands, raised I it aloft. The courier then retired, not a word having been spoken, but instead of going out as he had come in, by the front door, he went by an obscure side ! .1 . 1, 1 A V. I .. . . 1 . . . 1. .. door suitiible to his rank, as, once the edict was delivered, he reverted to Lis ewtT-rttnkyand, being now without a message, lost all his honors as an im perial messenger. A few moments be fore he was treated as all but an em peror; now he was only a small offi cial. London Truth. . The Belle of Deadwood. The belle of Deadwood is a young and dashing girl who turned her 19th year a few days ago. Her name is Margaret Sanford and she is an orphan. Who her mother was no one seems to know, ner father entered a mining camp about twelve years ago, footsore, ragged, and almost starved, having walked across the canons from Nevada. The miners gave him food and cloth- ing and began to constitute themselves I Iiule Margaret's bodyguard. One night ' tlie old man was found dead before his ! door, which the drifting snow had I fastened so he could not enter. The I child was asleep inside. After the funeral she became a sort of wanderer, going and coming at will, and making many valuable discoveries of ore. She learned to use the rifle and revolver. A year ago she struck an ore bed richer than most in that vicinity, and again led the miners to the spot. This time they made a voluntary contract to give her one-fourth of the yield. They kept their word aud she is now a rich woman. She is tall, slender, and good looking, and wears long golden haU streaming down her back. What to do for Squeaking Shoes. The squeaking of shoes, as the Liste ner believes he once before explained, is due to the rubbing of the upper upon the under sole. This is prevented by putting soapstone powder between the two thicknesses of leather, which acts as a sort of lubricator. A shoe which has squeaked can be cured by the dealer or a cobbler simply by ripping the soles apart, putting in soapstone and sewing or pegging the leathers together again. Some people like to have their shoes squeak ; it serves very much the pur pose of an announcement of their pre scence and takes the place of tho run ner who, in India, precedes the great man's carriage, shouting, "Make way for the sahib!" The Listener is not one of those persons. He prefers mute shoes. But he can stand any thing except a pair of shoes one of which squeaks and the other does not. To go down a room in the face of a considerable company, with a pair of shoes making unlike and alternating noises, thus, "Squeak, clump! Squeak, clump!" is one of the greatest trials in the world. Bumpy Came I'p. "Boys, what's tho meaning of that crowd down there?" he asked, as he pointed down Congress street. "Awful time down there," was the reply. "But what is it?" "You know Jerkey, the boot-black?" "No." "Know Humpy, the newsboy?" No." " Well, you know, Jerkey was sit tin' on tho hydrant eatin' an apple, when Humpy cum up and " "Oh, It was only a quarrel between boys? Funny why such a thing should draw a crowd." "Only a quarrel! What ar' ye riv- ln' me ! Quarrel ! Didn't Humpy git in two square knock-downs before tho copper got there, and didn't Jerkey reach out with his right and get in a blow over the heart which is goin' to keep the other fellow in bed for two weeks? Wonder to me that the crowd don't number 10,000. It's the scien tificltedest mill we hare had La a fear." MARCH 11. 1891. Appearances Deceiving. Miss Mixon had just been listening jo her neighbor, Mrs. Poppleton, re late how she had been bothered by a persistent chroruo man, who could not be persuaded to go until he had sold something. She made up her mind to make things warm for that man if he ever attempted to show him self in her house. When bhe got home again, however, she had forgotten all about her con versation, being so interested in fix ing up her dress that she was to wear to the parsonage ou the morrow. There was going to be a high time there iu honor of Mr. Todjnlt, the . . , ; - missionary from Japan, whose motive m returning to this country was partlv to get himself a wife. Miss Mixon was in the midst of a delightful revery, when a hoarse cough suddenly interrupted her thoughts. A neatly dressed individual, with a round face and a bald head, was bow ing in the doorway. "The chromo man," she exclaimed, half to herself. "Madam," he began. "'No, I don't want anything. w awav I" she cried, angrily stamping her foot. "I beg your pardon, madam, but ' Miss Mixon bethought herself here of a ruse. "Here, Bose! Bose!" he called, whistling to an imaginary dog. "If you do not leave at ouce I will set ni" dog on you." Aaid then, fancying that she still discerned in the intruder's dilatory air an intention of remaining to dispute the point, she canght up a broom that fortunately hung in the corner aud made toward the front door in such a resolute manner that the chromo man ' turned aui fled There!" said Miss Mixon, aloud, as she saw him hurry through the garden gate, without even stopping to latch it behind him. "I only wish Mrs. Poppleton could have been here to 6ce how promptly I disposed of him." She went over that afternoon to Mrs. Bruce', who lived in the next farm-house, to get her to make but tonholes iu the new dress. "Did the chromo man como here?'' 6aid she. "To-dav?" asked Mr. Bruce. "Yes." "No, I haven't seen any chromo man." "I guess I frightened him out of the neighborhood," chuckled Miss Mixon. "He was beginning his im portunities when I went at him with the broom and chased him out of the house." Mrs. Bruce laughed heartily at the idea of her sparrow-like little neigh bor frightening any one by such mani festations as she had described. "But I'll tell you who I have seen," said she. "Mr. Todgilt stopped here to inquire the way to the parsonage." "Dear tne, did he?" said Mis Mixon, with great interest. "And I gave him a glass of my gooseberry wine and a slice of cake.' added Mrs. Bruce. "Entertaining angels unawares," sighed Miss Mixon. "Oh, how I wish it had been r.:a ! Do tell me how b looks. Is he tall?" "No, not quite what you would call a tall man," raid Mrs. Bruce, "and I think he is elderly, and ho doesn't dress much. But he is a dear, godlv man, with a fine flow of language." "I will meet him at the parsonage to-morrow," said Miss Mixon, com placently. "How I envy you," said Mrs. Bruce. Miss Mixon, dressed all fn her best, went to the parsonage the next day, and Mrs. Hall, the parson's wife, came running to meet her. "My dear Martha," the said, "I was so afraid you were not coming. He's here ! Such a dear man ! Come right into tho parlor. Mr. Todgilt, let me present you to Miss Mion. Misa Mixon, this is Mr. Todgilt from Japan." Mr. Todgilfs bow checked itsel halfway in a stare of amusement. "As-ton-ish-ing!" said he. Miss Mixon turned very red. "Well, I do declare!" she faltered. For in Miss Mixon, the lady who nad been especially recommended to him as a saintly and appropriate help mate, th missionary had beheld the very female who ignominiously pursued him from her door with a broom when, the previous day, he stopped to ask directions as to the right road. And in Mr. Todgilt Mar tha saw the personage whom she had repelled as the obnoxious chromo man. "I am sure I beg your pardon,' said she, "but I mistook you for som body else." The missionary burst out laughing. "No harm done," said he; "no harm done." And fortunately he spoke the truth. Miss Mixon's genuine goo'd sense and good feeling soon effaced the disagree able first impresson which she knew her broom had made. And Mr. Tod gilt's second call was longer than bit first. To make a long story short, Mr. Todgilt married Martha Mixon, and to this day in Americo-Japanese circles, the good missionary's fides will shake as he tells how, ou his first meeting with his wife, she pursued him off the field of Cupid with a broom. "Wasn't I a brave niau to take he after that?" asks he. And Mrs. Todgilt only smiles and bays, "Jeremiah, how ciiu you?" Mrs. Mackay's Parasol Timepiece. Among her jeweled knickknacki Mrs. Mackav bad a dainty parasol with a tiny open-faced watch 6nugly fixed , into the silver handle so that she could know at a glance what the moment wh9, for in such a life as a leader of , fashion pursues, her hours are as ' methodically apportioned to teas and ' dinners and the rest of the diversions of society as those of a business man are given to more, solid affairs. The ) watch could be wound up by turning the silver knob which served as the head of the handle. A Literary Crank. It is related of the late Colonel Tom line, a very rich Englishman who col lected books and pictures, that he would not permit a book above a cer. tain size to enter his library, nor a book written by a clergyraui or worn vt i Why the Baby Came. BT af 4BOA.BBT B. SANQSTrB. Pillowed on flowers, with a half-op bud in his tiny hand, the baby lay, a beautiful image of repose. Nothing could be lovelier than the delicate face, the little lips just parted, the white brow shaded by soft, silken curls. There was nothing of the repulsion from death which some people always suffer beside a corpse, to be felt by the most sensitive here. As beautiful now as he ever had been in his brief sweet life, the darling seemed to be asleep. Jut it was a frozen sleep. I he strong man, pale witn suppressed emotion. , was one wno nau leu me ionnuins or fatherhood stirred for the first time. who nad felt the fountains when the little one uttered his first feeble cry. The mother, leaning on his strength now, because grief had crushed ail her own, had been thrilled with the highest joy of womanhood when this nursling was given her, sis nionthj ago. Everything was over now. The little garments must be folded np, and put away. There would be no need of wakening in the night to take care of baby. Baby was gone. The minister said tender words, and prayed a prayer of thankfulness and trust. He had been to so many baby funerals in the quarter-century during which he had led his flock, the words of comfort came readily to his lips, and he meant them every one. He felt that of such as this wee blossom were the flowers fittest for the kingdom oi heaven. By-and-by, the last rites were per formed. There was one little mound the more in the cemetery, and one more desolate house in the town. These bereft parents were elect members of the largest household under the stars, the household of the mourning. The world is full of sympathetic hearts that are busied with their own cares and perplexities. There are al ways many to have a passing and very sincere sorrow for those who have been afflicted, yet after awhile, when in the opinion of friends there has been time enough for the recovery of cheerful ness, even relatives and friends begin to chide the persistently sad. "Why did the baby come, if it was so soon to be taken away?' say these. You may notice that you seldom hear this question from the bps of a mother. She is glad, away down in the pro foundest depths of her wounded heart, that she had the child, though.it be re moved from her arms. She is glad to wear the mother's crown, though it be a crown of thorns. - To the inquirer may this answer be made. The baby came for two great reasons. One was that he might broad en and enlarge the whole life-sweep of all who loved him. Their care for him gave them a comprehension of the mys tery of childhood, and a feeling of the fatherhood of God, that without him thev might never have possessed. The other was that the little spirit, flying heavenward, might draw by a slender silver-thread, invisible but never slackening, the hearts of father and mother, to the land where He dwells, of whom the whole family in heaven and in earth is named. The baby came not in vain. Manfordt May (nine. A CBTiaD sioulJ" be taught to respect other person's property, and not to destroy it, especially not to injure or mar any part of a hired house any more than he would his mother's own house. A child should be taught not to tres pass on his mother's neighbor's prop erty, in fact, he should be instructed in all these things as soon as he begins to understand the difference between mine and thine, and that knowledge oomes very early. Theri are a few points on which even small children could be instructed to advantage that many mothers entirely neglect, but of course these are not in telligent mothers. A child should be taught never to taste anything from a bottle, lest he injure hinself. Never to touch what does not belong to him. Never to make bonfires. Never to tor ment animals, for two reasons, one be cause it is cruel, and the other is be cause he might receive injury thereby. Resenting th Outrage. s Mr. Daniel, tbe man of parrots, In the Klmba 1 House, made a queer deal tbe other day. He has lately received a very fine macaw, of gorgeous plum age, and the bird has been greatly admired. But when one of the high muck-a-mucks of the Comanches was saunter iuz along the street and espied him be became wild. "How much feather?" he asked. "No u an tee sellee fedder," replied the dealer In his blandest Chinee, not being able to talk Comanche. "How much red feathe?" repeated the Comanche. "No wamee sellee led fedder," again reaflAutaVl f r Dunlnl faialinr. varv ti 1 1 . V. , embarrassed. Quarter for red feather?" "No." Fifty cents?" Mr. Daniel shook his head. "Give you dollar." That was Irresistible, and the dealer agreed. "Quarter for blue feather," said the Comanche. "Can't getee 'longee 'thoutee blue fedder," said the dealer impatiently. "Must have It. Half a dollar." "No." "Dollar?" "It's a go," said Mr. Daniel, recov ering his English, and taking the macaw inside he carefully clipped off the two feathers and handed them to 1 de'ighted Indian, who threw down whoop aa he strode off down the street. The macaw was so mad when he looked around at his tall that he mut tered several Brazilian cuss-words, re fused to speak to his master and went to bed without his supper. Josh Billing-' Philosophy. Thare lz nothing we are more apt to parade before others than our kares and sorrows, and thare iz nothing the world tares so little about. If you hav enny doubt about tbe vast amount of virtew thai the last genera shun possest, go and studdy the epitaSa la the grave-yards. Take affability, good sense, honesty, and good breeding, mix them together, and Bhake them well, and you hay the Ingredients for a gentleman. The good things a man duz are hard to remember, the evil things are dread- full easy. The world seems to be governed bl example; thare lz hardly enny one bo low down the skale but what ha hai biz immitators. The best way to clear out aud straight en the fringe of towels, doilies, etc., lefore ironing, is to comb it, while d mp, with an Inch lei.g.n of oanea toiial fremb. NO. 12. NEWS IN BKIEF. Oliver Cromwell was the sen ef a brewer. America's first street car line deles from 1S26. The sewing machine Is only forty-four years old. A church In Beading, Peun., boasts that It has just paid on its debt In 80, 000 pennies. The height of the tower of Babel aa completed by Nebuchadnezzar is geu eially given at COO leet. A New York leather firm la about to start a kangaroo fai iu ul Waning ton, York county, Peun. In Mankato, Minn., milk is deliv ered in pint and quart bolt es instead of being peddled about towns in big cans. The medical faculty of Yale Col lege was so fouuded iu IS. 3, t e theo logical In 1822 and the sued title iu 1840. The falls of Niagara carry down 10,000,000 cubic feet of water per min ute, equal to about 3,OtO,000 hore pow er. There are cat collars lu trade made of a braided pattern in blue teads for white Angoras, and garneU for the graceful throats of tabs and toms. Whalebone Is found in the mouth of the Greenland or right wl.ale, where It forms the substitute for the teeth, of which otherwise the auiiual is desti tute. Louisa Bankburr, a domestic who dwells in Buffalo, N. Y., devours near ly pound of soap a day, aud hasaiued nearly twenty pounds in weight since she began to Indulge in her sinenlar taste. -The Perlsclans are the inhabitants of the polar circle, v hose t-hadows, daring some portion ot the Summer, must iu the course of the dav move eutirely around and fall towaid every point of the compass. A new machine makes paei boxoA It has recently beeu found thai cer tain fungoid growths have the power of removing gold from water containing it iu suspension. Contracts for the new Cunnrd steamships of the Atlantic service stii nl ite that they must make not less than twenty-two knots an hour. It Is state! that as a result ot the recent experiments several Italian war ships are to be altered to eimblu them to burn petroleum iu their furnace in stead of coal -Celluloid in solution i3 now ex tensively used as a lacquer for all kinds of fine metal work and as a w ood v,. nlsh with results that are said to Uj su perior to the old methods. A little armadillo, the muhta, of Uruguay, Is mentioned aa the living representative of those antediluvian giants, tbe mylodon, mastodon, uietM gatlierium, etc. From the source of the Missouri to the mouth of the Mississipi tne distance is 419-1 miles. The lower Mississippi from the mouth of the Gulf of Mcx c Is 1230 miles in length. The Amazon U 3000 miles In length. A Connecticut boy is famous jutt now because he has a tin whistle one and a half inches lu diaiue.er nu.l sev eral Inches long in his stomach. Re swa'lowed the toy while pluytug ou i' . Occasionally theieturn ol li.sul low or the nightingale may hf some what delayed.but iuo tsea tv) nj.tv tv trusted. It lz said, as the alinuiiac it-sell . Were they satellites revollnp aroi.ud this eirth ihe'r arrival could i:;u i:v lm moie surely calculated by an as ro::oiuer. General Du Temple, wU s- iath in Paris is announced, obtained h s gen eral's star in a curious w.iy. lie u - a Captain in the French unvy in l-7u, and was accidentally pa, tu d (j-:ieiul by Gambetla, who mistook h m t"i his brother also a naval oaptian. Two citizens of i'a!;i:vr.t. Ma., have bad so many quant-la l.mi a tew dajs ago a contract was dr.iu u n be tween them that In future they would have nothing to do with ea.:li otiu-i. During the Illness of the late "Em peror Frederick, of Uermany, it lit came so much the fashion to consult Dr Mo rell Mackenzie that his professim ai in come rose to an average of jUoU a day. Some of the conspicuously painted milk wagons of Brooklyn, N. Y., bear a new label. One side panel ha.- the in scription: "Sterilized milk, guaranteed absolutely pure and free from germi." We makes some very flu- raz is at the present day, but we cannot in. ike any finer steel than that coatained in the Damascus swords and knives which the aucieut used several thousand yaio ago. All the mechanical power, the screw, the lever, pulley, incline p':i!i, wedge wheel and axle were kuown to the auclents and ueJ In everyday lite. They were expert builders, as exwiitii relics testify. The Ural Mountain, in Hus!i, were anciently the subject ot vai lutia myths. The Slavonians Mho, in the eleventh century frequent y vt.-iied the region of the Ural for trade, described them as mountalus reaching the sky, Intersected by terrible precipices, aiad as being Inhabited by a populallou of rave dwellers. Observations seem to show that a decrease In the earth's latitude Is in pro gress, implying an alteration in the di rect of the earth's axis. The fluctua tion is thonght to be due to a nnnuto oscillation causi by some changes in in ternal wars of tbe earth. Cotton in the Southern S attain plant ed after the last frost in the S. ring a:i.1 is picked In July, August aii't pt em ber. It is not a native ph-nt ot Ameri ca. There Is not a mouta In the year where cot' on is not picked aouurit here on theg obe. A colored woman named t'aroliue 'Jenkins, living neir Houston. Texas. Is a veritable Samson. Four police oilic ers went to arrest her, whtu Mie took them one by one, thiew them out of t. a bouse and locked the doors upon thsui. She can break a half inch rope with e-j e by s' retching it from baud to baud. When a wise man said, "Discretion Is the better part of valor," all the cow ards in tbe world found a in at to for their caps. There Is quite a difference between a luminous and a voluminous writer, although many authors confound the two. Cunninz men are sure to get caught at last; and when they ure canght, they Ma llkea fox In a trap thesii.it si look ing fox you ever see, The object-glass of the Lick telescope In California has an area of 1018 square Inches. The next biggest baa only 709 square uihe.
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