p. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Propcrtotov. VOL. XLV. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AriULl5, 1S91. NO. 17. jj,e Vorld would be Better Ibr It, ttmen eartd teas for xaaith and fa ma, i4 1 "r fcaitle-nelds nd loryj l kniBaa heart, a name 8eead bettor than in long and story Hum, mtd of nursing pride, Woold Wra to hate it and abbor U; If ote relit on lore to groWe lb. world would be the better for it. If mi iealt I'M In stock, and lands, A mon in bond" mDd deed, fratemi If lor.'i work had more willing hands. To link this world to the supernatural; Tf wen itorfd up love's oil acd wine, ai uruued human hearts would pom If jour" and "mine" wonld once com- Tbe world would be the better for it. If more would art the play of life, And frwrr spoil i n rehearsal; If hi(rotrT would sheathe its knife Jill goal became more univnalj If custom, gray wita ages grown, Hail fewer blind men to adoie it; If talent hno for truth alone Th world would be better for it. If Ditn were wise In little thins Affecting Im in ail tneir aeami; If bert bad fewer rutl strings 1Q ibuii j --- If man, wLea wrong beau down the right, J .... . ik.r a n.l km f i , rm I t - wouia " If right inwie might in every fifiit lb world would be better for it. FIVE YEARS AFTER." "Ton are sure to like tilm, George; he Is the best fellow 1 ever Kiipw." Bob and Georgia Jeffrey were saun tering arm in arm up and down tbe straight gravelled pain in ineir garaen, batween Die ne.it borders of ten-week stocks. It was a dear old garden, tbe very pride and delight of Georgie's heart. Strangers in Morne were al ways surprised to learn that Doctor Jeffrey's shabby-fronted Louse, with the yellow plaster crumbling on in ail directions, the dusty green railings, tbe two fu neral- looking shrubs standing up against the front windows, possessed such a garden. A great hoary old apple-tree stood in the centre of the grass-plot; ud it was here that Georgie took tea n festive occasions such as this even ing, when her brother's great friend Will Dymock, whose name had been a household word m her ears for many a day. was expected to arrive. Georgie had donned her pretty new ijwn for the occasion a dainty buff cambric with pale blue spots. Surely she was the sweetest little thing the June sun shone on that afternoon a girl with a slim round figure, with soft dimpled cheeks tinted with the peach- bloom of her seventeen years, golden brown innocent eyes, clouds of bronze- brown hair. Bob looked at her approvingly. lie was a big solid-looking young fellow three years older than bis sister. "Why, Georgie, you are a great swell this evening!" he said, putting bis arm affectionately round her. "Is that all for Will?" Georgie tossed ber dainty head little. "You think so mucb of him," she replied, "I thought I ought to bave everything nice for him. Do you like my drej-sr'" "It's awfully pretty; but yon might bave saved yourself tbe trouble, I think lor Will never notices such things." "How stupid he must bel" Georgie thought; but she wisely held ber tongue. 'Of course I like everything nice for him," Bob added. "I want you and him to be great friends." "I thought you said he would not notice me," said she with a little pout. "Oh. he'll notice you, of course, but not your dress I lie would bave liked you just as well In that old blue thing you wear every morning. "With the sleeves all but thread' bare Thank you, Bob; but I Jont want him to think w? art, quite paupers." "Threadbare, are they? I thought tbe dress looked all right this morning." "What on earth will be do all day long. Bob?" Georgie asked, ignoring ber brother's remark. "We have no tennis-court, no amusements." "Oh, he will be right enough!" liei brother consoled her. "He'll do the tame as I do." "Is he not very clever?" asked Geor gie, stooping to pick a bunch of dew; pink roses. "Very," answered Bob, wlthempha lis. " nd very well off?" "Yes; that is just what I admire him for. lie has gone iuto the medical pro fession simply for love of it; there was oo need for him to take up any profes ilon." "Bow nice that must bel" observed the girl, with a little envious sigh, look at fatherl I am sure he Is as fond of his profession as any one could Possibly be; but think bow be has to slave! it's all very well for your Mr. Dymock he has everything be wants." "The governor ought to make his patients pay him," responded Bob; "it 'I bsurd the way be attends them for nothing." Bob was a very matter-of-fact young Ban; he was at that time walking the bospiuis. All the Jeffreys were doc tors; but, to his father's great disap pointment. Bob showed not a spark of enthusiasm for his profession. lie just plodded along, passing his examination but showing none of the genius he so admired In his friend. Georgie had often pictured to herself what Will Dymock would be like.be would be a tall, fair, handsome man, conceited of course all clever people were, the girl generalized in ber igno rance looking with contempt on the oourtry doctor's shabby house, bored with the dullness of village society. "Do vou know, Georgie," went on Bob, "there is nothing in the world I should like so much as to see you two married. I could give you to old Will with a happy heart." "Married! Give mel" Georgie fairly irasped with indignation, hor soft cheeks Bushing hotly. "Yes; why not? I suppose you will joarry some dav; and Will is tbe best fellow in the world " "I would not marry him for anything Boh!" Georgie declared emphatically. "Wait until you are asked. You would be the luckiest girl in the world to get him," Bob said teasingly. He was very fond and proud of his sister; uut, brother-like, he enjoyed tormen t'DR her a little. Georgie stained her foot with pas don. "I don't know how you can talk like that, Bob; I think it is horrid of you. I !sh you h id not invited bim; 1 know I hall hate him." "I hoi you will do nothing of tbe kind." But Bob saw he had gone too far. nd devoted hiu.self to restoring the JTl's good humor; and very soon she was busy over the arrangement of ber tea-table, chattering blithly all the lime. "Wall, this in mw Tv Tt- - - . J tUl AST- Dock MIm Jeffrey." Bob introduced w wacu otner wun luno-hinn pride. o H had often told Win about his sis. eT. SnmlV Will must U.Vnn1l What a VjAAiitv aha wnat A - J VJ Ol ft, IO looking up with her lovely liquid eyes. tuuuguk wua a uu.io secret amusement and triumph In her heart, that this mraron of Rnha wu tkm nr.u and awkward est man she had ever seen. Georwla win tern nrnn. mil ahi lw to appreciate the keen kind eyes inai looked out from under those heavy brows, the firm true mouth that one might feel could be trusted till death; uu oira wan mjo cuuaisn to appreciate Will Dymock's clever conversation. Georgie liked compliments direct, and she liked to be taken notice of. It was Quite true aa Boh had aaM she might as well have worn her old blue cotton dress for all Will Dymock nw or carea. now sxupia he was I How she wished that ha ha1 tiAVnp come, or that be was gone, as the three l . - j T . . buvucu up auu uown we garuen wnen tea wae overt 'Dont you like him. Georirie?" Bob Jeffrey asked his sister, with a radiant race. lie had just seen his friend up to his own room to dress for dinner. Georgie was standing in the wide open window, absently pulling the leaves off one of the red roses looking In at her. "im you like him?" Bob repeated. "Isnt he an awfully nice fellow?" "Like himl Nice! Oh, Bob, how can yon say so? I think he Is the very ug liest man I ever saw." "Uglyl" Her brother's face fell a little. "What has that to do with it?" "Everything. No one who is as ug ly as he conid be nice," the girl replied. "I hate ugly people!" These were pleasant words for "Will Dymock, leaning out of his window up stairs, to have wafted up to him. "I hate ugly people," and "the very ugli est man I ever saw," the girl had said In her fresh clear voice. The young man's plain sallow face flushed, lie drew away from the win dow softly, and went and looked at himself in the mirror closely and criti cally, as if studying another person. Yes, it was quite true she was right he was ugly, he told himself. He won dered it had never occurred to him how ugly he was. "You are a nice one, Geergle, youare!' exclaimed Bob Jeffrey to his sister, in a horrified whisper. "I believe Dymock has heard every word you have been saying. I am sure 1 heard him move away from tbe window; and up there you can hear every word that is said here." "Well, I cannot help it!" Georgie re torted deQently, though her cheeks red dened at the thought. "It is all your fault. Bob; you knew be was up there why did you begin about him? And he Is ugly; he must know be is." "All the same, you need not insult the man in your own house." "I am sure I do not want to insult him." Georgie was on the verge of tears; Bob had never spoken to her so crossly In his life; it was all that man's fault. It was only another bad mark to be scored against him. Had he heard her? she wondered, sitting at the head of the table, glanc ing up from under her lovely long eye lashes for a moment, to meet Will Dy mock's eyes fixed upon her. Georgie reddened furiously, and drop ped her eyes upon her plate, never dar ing to look at the young man again all tbe dinner-time. She was sure he had heard, the girl thought, as she went to bed that night. He had looked at ber, not as if angry, but Georgie could not quite de scribe, even to herself, what that look of Will DyinucK-s meant. Toor man it must be very hard for him to be so uglyl She would be kiud to him; aud she would tell Bob that she was sorry. It was ten days later a blazing af ternoon at the end of June. The doc tor's garden was a perfect bower of roses, and the cherries on the old red brick wall were ripe. Georgie bad picked a great dish of strawberries, and was dispensing them with her tea under her favorite apple tree. The girl was wearing her blue cotton frock, the short shruken sleeves showing her plump white arms. After the first day or two, she had quite given up the idea of dressing herself for Will Dymock. It was true what Bob had said, that he would not notice what any one wore. He did not like her, Georgie was fain to decide, with an odd little sensation of pique or wounded vanity rather new to her. She remembered how young Sandilands, when be was home at the Priory on leave, would make excuses to come down to the doctor's almost every evening how he would walk home with her from church, wait for her at the choir practice. To be sure, Bob had said that young Sandilands was an idiot; but Georgie did not by any means share his opinion. "This is like a new lite to me," ob served Will Dymock, in his slow seri ous way. He was sitting, his long legs stretched out on the grass, his back resting against the apple-tree, his shock of fair hair pushed back from his fore head. "Do you like that?" asked Georgia, as she handed bim his tea. "Like it?" Tbe young man looked at her with that odd gleam in his eyes which carried Georgie's memory back to the night that he come among them. "I was afraid you might find it stu pid here," she said hastily. "No; I don't think any one could find it stupid here." If Frank Sandilands had said that. Georgie knew the admiring glance he would have given her; but W ill Uymock was not even looking at her, not think ing oi ner apparently, as he gazed drea mily up at the blue sky. "1 am glad if you are happy old fel low," interposed Bob, Jn bis cheery voice. Will Dymock started; he had almost forgotten his friends piesence. "I thought you were asleep," he said, "So I was, almost; but I think it is high time that I woke up; you two find such a tremendous lot to say to each other if you are left to yourselves." Georgie reddened a little. "Why don't you make ner talk, Will? She is tbe greatest chatterbox on earth when she is with me," "One must be silent sometimes," laughed Georgie. "I did not know we were not talk ing," remarked Will. "Well, so long as you are happy Its all right. By Jove, I don't know how any one can like town better than coun try I A hot summer day, nothing to do, plenty of strawberries and cream that's the life for mel" "That la because yon an so lazy. It J17. 1.lc nere," Georgie said, with a uluo Bign; -Dur. l like town best." "YOU dO. do VOIlV" sni Will TW mock brightened up. "So do 1, to live in." "Much you know about it!" cried Bob, with a laugh. "Georgie likes staring in at the shop-wlndoTO and that sort of thing. How would you like to live wham rivmu.lr A.. all the year round," he demanded "in the very heart of the city, slaving away u uiny, nuny slums r vou think father hard-worked here; Will's work Is something different, I can tell you " I don't know: but I think. If I were a man, I should like it. I think there must be something grand in a life like that." Georirie returned, a presston than usual on her pretty face. ui jjymocs's sallow cheeks flushed and a bright light came into his eyes. poo laugnea scornfully. "Grand I Of course it's grand; but it would not suit you, young wom&n," he said, with brotherly candor. "You would soon wish to be back again amongst your strawberries." "Ferharja an " aimittjul Romia She was half ashamed of herself for ner momentary outburst of enthusiasm and she was wholly angry with Bob for thinking her not fit for such a life. It was Will Dymock's last day, a pouring wet evening. Doctor Jeffrey bad been called out early in the even ing, and had taken Bob with him. Georgie was gszing disconsolately out of the rose-wreathed drawing-room window. Will Dymock, looking taller and lanker than ever, standing beside her. "How glad you will be to be back again in town I" said Georgie. "Shall 1?" There was an odd sound in the young man's voice. "I think be added after a moments pause, "it would bave been a good thing for me if I had never come at all." Georgie looked np into his plain sal low face, which was now flushed. "I know you will think me a fool Miss Jeffrey perhaps you will laugh at me for my pains but I can't help it. I love yon so much, 1 cannot keep silence any longer. I cannot go back without knowing something for certain." Georgie reddened furiously, then the lovely color faded, leaving her pale and agitated. She was frightened, surpris ed. She thought she was angry. "The very first moment I saw you standing out there under the tree I loved you," went on Wdl Dymock dreamily. "I don't care bow long I wait. If you will only tell me that at some future time you could care for me a little, you will make me the hap piest fellow in England. Do you think you could?" "Oh, no, no!" cried Georgie. "I am sure I could not." "Never? Not if I waited?" "Never; I am sure of it." There was a few moments' silence In the room, and it seemed to Georgie that she could hear tbe beating of her heart above the pattering of the rain. "Ah, well, I ought to have known better! I know I am not the kind of a fellow ladies like. I heard what you said to your brother the night I came. I could not help it I was up stairs." "Ah!" and tbe red color flushed again into Georgie's face. "I am so sorry I I wanted to ask you You will forgive me for that?" "It was nothing," he replied sadly; "it was only the truth, but it ought to have been a lesson to me I ought to have known that you could not care for any one like me. Your brother would have been pleased, I think not that that is a reason." "Of course not," Georgie promptly agreed. "He has so often spoken to me of his sister." "And to me of you," said the girl, bar courage coming back to her. "Miss Jeffrey, will you forgive me if I ask again? Y'ou are very young; per haps you are not quite sure. Do you think you could never " Georgie looked up at him earnestly. "I am sure, quite sure, that I could never love you," she replied. "Then there Is nothing more to be said," he remarked dolefully, "except this, that I shall never care fo another woman, that as I love you now so shall I love you to my dying day. That can not hurt you; you cannot be angry about that." "I am very sorry," the girl faltered. "Y'ou caunot help it, I suppose. Still if you are sorry, and if it is not too much to ask. will you give me that rose from your dress?" And so it was all over and there was no more to be said. Doctor Jeffrey and Bob came In wet and hungry, and full of loud lamenta tions at their guest's departure. "You must run down at Christmas Dymock; you have quite brightened us, up," said the doctor. i "I am afraid I cannot run down at Christmas," Will answered, in his grave quiet way; while Georgie sat silent be hind her tea-tray, with down-cast love ly eyes and cheeks as red as the rose in Will Dymock's pocket. "That idiot Sandilands is home," re marked Bob. "I saw him at tbe win dow as we came through the town." Will Dymock, raising his eyes at that moment, saw a sudden light come into Georgie's face. "So that was tbe cause of her refu sal!" the poor fellow thought. "1 suppose we shall have him np at breakfast-time to-morrow," said tbe doctor crossly. "He seems to think this his home when he is down here." "Georgie, it is not possible, is it, that you have refused Will Dymock?" Bob burst into his sister's room the next morning on his return from see ing Will off to the train. Georgie, who had been sitting over her work with rather pale cheeks, assumed the defen sive at once. What business bad be to complain of her? What affair was it of Bob's? "Why should I not refuse him if I do not like himr" sne asked. "Not like himl I have no patience with yout" Bob burst out- "Why should you not like him? He's tbe best fellow in the w orld.the cleverest man, the truest gentleman I ever met; he's a gieat deal too good for you." "Then it is so much the better I bave refused bim," retorted Georgie; "he will have a chance now of finding some one good enough for him." "You'll live to be sorry for It some jay. Georgie," prophesied Bob. "Poor old Willi I wish I had never asked him here; I would not have had it happen for anything." "And I wish you never had," sob bed Georgie. "He has spoiled all my summer. I told you I should hate him." Poor little wayward Georgie, sobblrg herself to sleep that night, felt indeed that she hated this man who had come between ber and Bob, who bad made hr quarrel with her brother for the first time in her life. A fMiiLrmiiiir nwirn in a fiuihlnnarklA London square, the firelight sparkling over pictures and china and every daln- ty trifle that money could buy or taste suggest. At the gipsv-table drawn up on the hearthrug sat Mrs. Fitzroy Far- imlinr nnurinir out tea. Mrs. Fai-nn- bar was a handsome woman, fair and prosperous-looking; but at that moment there was a decidedly ill-tempered ex- the end of the London season. A large pressiou on her usually placid face. j company was present, for Mrs. Fitz "lt is tbe most annoying thing I ever roy Farqubar's "At homes" were very knew in my life; I never was more vex- opular. A great Russian tenor, the i : e i. j i v : , . . ed. Just fancy-how dreadful if we wers all to take itl Small-pox too such a frightful thing I am so afraid of it!'' Miss Farquhar shuddered as she lis tened to ber mother, and glanced up at tbe young man standing on the hearth rug. The five years that had passed had worked a wonderful change in Will Dymock. He carried himself erect, his lanky figure bad filled out, and, with his great height and his broad shoulders and keen clever face, he was a man one could not puss unnoticed. "Just think of the children, Doctor Dymock I What am I to do if they catch it if she has left the infection with them?" Oh, we'll hope notl How long has she been with you?" "Since Wednesday. On Friday she complained of not feeling welL Doc tor Brown happened to be here at the time; and. when he said it was small pox, I packed ber off at once to the hospital. Of course I am ready to pay any reasonable expenses; but I really sould not have her here. It is dread fully annoying. ' Well, mamma, It is not poor Miss Jeffrey's fault; I don't suppose she would have had if she could have help ed it." "Miss Jeffrey, did you say?" There was an eager look in Doctor Dymock's face as he leaned forward in tbe fire light. Justine Farquhar looked at him cu riously. "Yes. Do you know her?" she tsked. "A man named Jeffrey was the great est friend I ever had," returned the loctor quietly. "It might be a sister f his." The convalascent ward of an hospi tal. A girl sitting in a deep arm chair by the tire, her head laid wearily back tgainst the pillows, her eyes closed; in :ense weariness and dejection in every .ine of the slim figure. "Y'ou are getting strong now, Miss ( leiirrjr; we snail nave you out in no ;ime," said the nurse. The girl opened her eyes as the wo man spoke. All her pretty color was rone, the freshness of her eweet young seauty faded. "Now dont you be down-hearted, Hiss," nurse Robins went ou cheerily, rhe good woman had daughters of her wn, and her motherly heart ached for , Jiis girl who seemed so friendless. 'Take my word for it. Miss Jeffrey, noro'a mirui iiuva in nrira r.ir vin vui T But Georgie sighed wearily; she did lot believe iu any good days in store 'or her. Poor Georgie! She looked a woeful licture as she sat there, with her hoi ow mournful eyes, the tears coursing down her thin cheeks. The door suddenly opened and closed tgain; It was nurse Robins with the tea, jreorgie thought. Rhe did not look round; but she tried furitively to brush iway tbe tears. "Miss Jeffrey P nad a voice from the lead sounded beside ber, Georgie could lot have been more startled; and yet lad she not been thinking of bim just low? "I have startled you," Will Dy nock went on, gently taking the wast 1 little white hand into his big brown in. "Nurse Robins and I are great friends; she gave me leave to come in ind see you. I beard some time ago, it Mrs. Farqubar's, that you were ill." "It is very good of you to come and lee me," Georgie responded. She was inly too conscious of the great thrill of oy and gladness that went through ber it the sound of Will's soft grave voice. Had Will changed so much, or had die? She could not tell; but, looking at urn as he sat before ber, it seemed to ihe girl that this man whom she had mocked and flouted long before was the Inest-looking, the noblest, the truest the had seen in all the five loug years past. "And you have not forgotten me?" le asked. "1 was afraid you had-" "Ah, no, I have not forgotten you I You were Bob's friend she added," lastily. 'But not yours. Miss Jeffrey. I came lere to-day to ask you something again iiaX I asked you five years ago. If yon n only give me the same answer th.TT rou gave me then, I must know it at ince. I could not bear to see you and enow there was no hope for me." Will Dymock was leaning forward, the fire light shining on bis grave earnest face, Georgie stared at bim, her cheeks paler, if possible, than they bad been before; she scarcely realized yet what it was he was saying. "I have frightened you, I have star tled yout" Will said hurriedly. "Per haps I ought not have come so soon; out i ieu i couia not wait any longer uear. i nave lovea you long ana wen; is it impossible now that you should care j a little for me? If It is, say one word, and I will not trouble you any more." But Georgie did not say that word; the face she raised to her lover was ra diant with joy. There was no need for any words to let him know ber answer. Will beld out his arms, and she went to him, nestling close to his heart as a tired child might. Only half an hour before she had been weary of her life; and now what Joy life had in store for herl "I was afraid you might be married by now; I could not hear. Bob Vild me something once about young Sandi lands," said tbe doctor, when he had released her from bis embrace. "I will tell you. Will," returned Georgie, reddening a UUle. "I thought once I did care for bim, and then I could not not after I knew you." "My darling why did you send me away then?" "I dont know. I think I cared for you even when I sent you away. " "Even though I was tbe ugliest man you bad ever seen?" whispered Wiil mischievously. "Ah, you have not forgotten! Will, I was only a silly child. Y'ou do not know how sorry I was. Ah, she cried "it is not right that you should come back to me now, when you bave every thing and I have nothing. It is dark in here you cannot see; you don't know bow changed lam. You woulJ not know me; it is I who am ugly now. " "I can see quite enough of you; and I will not bave you call yourself names. I think you are prettier than ever at at all events, you are the only woman In the world that I ever wanted or ever shall want to marry; so. if you can get over my appearance " "Will, you must notl" she interrupted, VerT veil; i won If yon will not "Peak of yourself as being changed, we wil1 fcRree to call each other the two handsomest people in the world; and then wlat matters what any one else thinks?" A fashionable "At Home" towards ik'ii ui me uay, ucui ueen singing "imce gain." The last echoes of the rich pas sionate voice bad died away, and tbe buzz of laughter, of criticism and con versation, bad broken forth afresh. In ane of tbe deep windows a k not of young men were gathered together. "Who is that charming woman in the black and silver dress? Does any 3ne know?" asked one. "I don't see her now; but you must know the one I mean she came in rather late. By Jove, she is the nicest-looking woman in the rooml' "She is a Mrs. Dymock," drawled Captain Sandilands, pulling bis mous tache. "I knew her when she was a girt; but she's frightfully gone off." "Conceited ass that Sandilands!" said Captain Hunt crossly. "Gone off in deed I Shouldn't be surprised if she had refused bim!" "Well, he has consoled himself any how. They say he is going to be mar ried to Justine Farquhar." "Some women would marry a hair dresser's dummy," remarked Captaiu Hunt. "Is that Mrs. Dymock's hus band the fellow with her," be asked presently "the ugly fellow with stoop?" "Yes; but you had better not let bis wi;e hear you. It's an awfully good joke, of course; but they say she think? hiiu very handsome." "Ah .well, she has good looks enough for both!" "He's a clever fellow too. I hear certain to reach tbe top of the tree one f these days." 'Do you hear, Georgie?" said Doc ;or Dymock to his wife as the gossiping voices reached their ears. "Public opinion is against you; you will on tht pretty woman with the ugly hubbaud to the end of the chapter." "The woman who can never te thank ful enough for her ugly husband," said Georgie, looking up at her husband with such a light in her sweet eyes as fvl'iflA F m iilr statifliltinrla l.tstb-ii.. . I ....... umuiiKiiu vmiii vn from the other end of the room, turn Way with bitter jealousy iu bis heart A Physician's Night Call. A story of a nocturnal vUit is told with great glee by one of Philadelphia's eminent practitioners, as a joke on him self. He had been up for several nights with patients, and one evening went to his couch with the dt'termina- tion that he would go out that night for no one. About 1 a. m. his niirht 1 .. . 1 1 . ...... i . .. bell sounded. "What's wanted?" he called down the tube. "Doctor, my wife's ill, and wants you," was the reply. "I cannot go. You will have to get some one else." "But, doctor, she won't have any one else." "I can't help it. She will have to, for I will not go." "Oh, doctor, please come. She's very ill." "Well, where is it?" relenting a lit tie. "Out Darby Road." "Then 1 certainly can't go," decid -edlv; "it's too far." 'Oh, but, doctor, my wife wanti you," pleadingly, "Well, get a carriage and I'll go," came the tired response. "Oh, but I can't afford a carriage." "Well, then, that settles it. I won'l g.vithout one. Good night." The physician returned to his slum bers. About ten minutes later wheels rattled up to his door, and again sound ed the bell. "Well, w hat is it?" "Doctor, here's the carrisge." The now thoroughly maddened and awakened physician dressed and went with the man. About two hours later, when the carriage brought bim home, much to his surprise he was requested by the driver to "settle up." "Why, the man that hired you paid you." "Not much he didn't, 6ir. He said that you would when we got back here," answered the driver. The doctor had to pay for the use of a double enrriage from half-past one to half-past three. The case was one from which he obtained no fee, so re venge is out of tbe question. A Bang np Post-office. A new Postmaster was appointed last spring for one of the villages be low Atlantic City on the Jersey coast, and about June 1 people began to write to the two hotels there for rooms and rates. Answers were received from onv a small per cent, of tbe letters, and a great deal of anxiety and trouble was the consequence. Among others who finally went down to see what was the matter was a Philadelphia broker, and upon reaching the town he went directly to the Post-offlce. It was a little 7x9 affair in the rear end of a grocery store, and after introducing himself the broker said: "I have written several letters to the Seaside Hotel here and received no an swer. I have several friends who also made the same complaint." "How lung ago was this?" "About a month." "Ah! yes; well, your letters proba bly went to the De.nl Letter Office." 'But why? Were thsy not called for.' ' I "Oh, ves, but I started in here de termined to do my duty. The last Postmaster was removed because he hadn't sent a dead letter to Washing ton during his whole term of office, and during the first four weeks of mine I sent off ninety-six.' I've got about hfty more ready to go to-day, but after this I shall hold up for awhile and deliver all that come. I m going to run this office bang up and city style or I'm going to get out. Good day, sir." letroit Free Press. He Was an amatenr. Belle (at a military review) "I don't believe that officer in command bas held Ids pot-it ion long." Bess "Why?" Belle "Listen to him say 'Present arms,' ii stead of 'Present huh.' " Yauke Idade. THE LOVE OF TWINS. ' HOW double: doses of htjmax II Y A RECEIVED. moss Superstition of tbe Savages. Few things are more mysterious than the nndefinable sympathy which often exists between two beings who came into the world together. There can be no doubt that this sympathy is real and not the effect of the imagina tion, as some have supposed. So far as is known it does not always develop itself, and when it is present its cause is not by any means understood. A real affection generally exists between twins, and often, it seems to show itself in the earliest days of infancy. It is no uncommon thing for a twin who has lost his or her counterpart to pine away, dropping gradually into the clutches of the destroyer, who, in taking away the other, has deprived life of all its joy. But though intense fondness is no doubt to a great extent the cause of such sad occurrences, the sympathy which twins have for one another shows itself here. With many savage races twins art hurried out of the world immediately they have entered it ; others allow them to live, but only under certain condi tions. In Western Africa a little be low the equator, between ten and twelve degrees East longitude, live a large tribe called the Ishogo. They have maay peculiar customs, but none more so than their treatment of twins and of the mother who is so unfortu nate as to bear them. An idea seems to exist with them that nowonign ought to produce more than a single child at a time, and they seek to rectify the error by giving their deities every chance of killing one of the children before they have arrived at the age at which they are considered able to take care of themselvs. This is held to be about 6 years old. Once that age has been passed it is thought by these people that a proper balance between life and death has again been struck, and they do not deem any fur ther precaution necessary. Immedi ately the birth of twins takes place the hut in which the event happened is marked in some manner which will render it readily distinguishable from all others in the village. Those who have read accounts ol African travel will probably remem ber the unanimous testimony which explorers of the Dark Continent bear to the extraordinary loquacity of the natives. Africans talk as they breathe unceasingly and yet the unfortu nate mother of twins is forbidden to exchange a single word with any but the immediate members of her family. She may go into tbe forest for tire wood and perform the household work necessary for the existence of herself and her children, but it must be all done iu strict silence, unless she finds herseif near one of her close relatives.' The consequence of this peculiar cus tom is that the Ishogo women dread the advent of twins more than any thing, except, perhaps, being childless; and nothing irritates a newly-married woman more than to tell her that she is sure to become tbe mother of two children at a birth. Wheu the six years of probation have dragged out their weary length, a grand ceremony is held to celebrate the release of the three captives, and their admission to the society of their fellows. At daybyeak all the village is aroused by a proclamation made in the principal street, and the mother and a friend take up their stand on either side of the door of the hut, hav ing previously whitened their legs and faces. The rest of the inhabitants of the place congregate round about, and at a given signal the white legged women march away from the hut, fol lowed by the twins, the mother clasp ing he , ands and capering about, the friend beating a lusty tatoo upon a drum and singing an appropriate song.( After this procession has gone the1 rounds of the village there is a general dance. Then everyone sits down to a great feast, and eating, drinking and dancing are carried on for the rest of day and all through the night. As soon as the next day dawns, all re strictions upon the mother and her off spring are held to be removed. This ceremony is known as "M'paza," a word which signifies both the twins and the rite by virtue of which they and their mother are admitted to tb companionship of their kind. Caes in which one pair of twins bas felt a disturbing influence at work with him when evil was befalling his other self are numerous As w ith all matters of the kind, the instances related are apt to border upon the land of fiction, but there are many which are perfectly well authenticated. T'lough twins are usually alike in form aid feature, this is not invariably the nase. The writer knows twins broth ers who can scarcely be said to bear even a family likeness to one anotlier, and whose complexions are the very extremes of darkness and fairness. But, though unlike bodily, they re semble one another mentally to such an extent that they passed from the bottom to the top of on of our great public schools side by side. A concession baa been granted an English syndicate for tbe building of au lavatcd railroad la Buenot Ayxss, sVigmmtina KsDob'Jo. toub best beut. Sir Spencer Wells has come out strongly in favor of cremation. He argues that, however light the covering of the dead body, its burial in earth is objectionable, for the reason that in fective germs are in this way preserved and carried about by water or air, to operate injuriously when favorable meteorological or social 6tates occur. The rapid growth of population, and especially of urban population, invests this question with ever-increasing im portance. There is evidence that the number of crematories is steadily increasing in every country where the custom has been introduced. A well known European physician has recently conducted a long series of careful experiments relative to the influence of moderate exercise upon digestion. His experiments were con fined to dogs, and his results are as follows : When the animal is at rest the digestion begins in an hour after the food has been eaten ; it is at its height In two hours, and then gradu ally decreases until it is complete, the entire process taking about five hours An entirely different result, however in dogs taking moderate exercise after the meal. In those the process of di gestion was not at its height until five hours after the food has been taken, aud not completed in six hours. It has been held by not a few that meat eaters are more liable to cancer than vegetarians ; in fact, the latter think by living on a purely vegetable diet they are safe from that dread mal ady. It has been found from the rec ords of the Mayo Hospital at Jeypore, India, that in 102 cases of cancer which were operated upon, 41 were on the persons of flesh eaters, while CI were on those of strict vegetarians, who had never eaten meat since their birth. It is now recognized as imperative that all cow's milk giveu to young children should be sterilized by boiling where it is not used within three oi four hours after it comes from the cow. And when it is not known thai the source of the mirk supply is abso lutely free from all contaminating in fluences, then sterilization should be invariably practiced, no matter how fresh the milk may be. Considering that this need is generally recognized, it is surprising that some enterprising dairyman has not ere this begun to furnish sterilized milk in bottles tightly corked. It would add but little to his expense, and such milk would be in demand, even at a rate above the usual. Let such a custom become gen eral and infant mortality in towns aud cities, especially in summer, wiil be much lower than it now is. A correspondent much troubled with 'blackheads "asks for a lotion They should be pressed out either with the thumb-nails or a watch-key. The operation is likely to cause some con gestion of the skin, hence, tbe face should be bathed with water as hot as can be borne. As a rule, those who have " blackheads " are sparing of the use of soap, which ought to be used quite freely by them. Ladies who ob ject to it might use, instead, Lovax water, or water to which bran is added. Twice daily the following lotion may be applied: Ether, one ounce; car bonate of ammonia, one drachm ; bor acic acid, one scruple: water sufficient to make two ounces. This should be applied after the " blackheads " have been pressed out and the face has been bathed in hot water. GOOD THOUGHTS. If a man be gracious to strangers it shows that he is a citizen of the world and his heart is no inland, cut off' from other islands, but a continent that joins them. The power to hate truly what is evil must involve the power to love truly what is good, and must, indeed, us ually precede the growth of the highest kind of love. This country longs for personalities -grand persons, to counteract it materialities. For it is the law of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn. The avaricious man is like the bar ren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. We are to know that we are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself and will not ac cept a wooden rudder. Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practice an unconscious self-deception during our waking mo ments. Socrates designates beauty as short lived tyranny; Plato a priviledge of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom : Dum- itian said that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the recommenda tions In the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, alluding to bim, sails it a favor bestow d 1) Us gOjJa. SEWS IN BRIEF. Texas has 235 counties. There are no tramps in China. The wotld has 3935 paper mills. Japan has 11,000 eleclrio lights. A Kansas county has 724 people. Denver, CoL, Is withont a Mayer. Scotch potatoes are being las ported In England there ars 1.091.041 horses. The Salvation Army has Invaded Florida. Smallpox is ravaging Vera Cruz. Mexico. Beet sugar Is a profitable isdustrr In California. At Martinsville, Ind.. John Hosier died aged 00. Twenty-eight railroads run out of St. Louis. The English Empire Is soon to have Its census taken. Atlantic City has a NJ.. floating population of 10,0t 0. The wool clip of 1300 is 5.000.000 founds less than that of ISS'J. A Rome dispatch says Prince Je rome Napolean is dead. Oscar Harper Ml on a revolving saw at Carrollton, III, and was killed. The Anderson, Ind., Street railway was sold to R. S. Kilmer of New York. A lion-tamer was killed bv an In furlated beast in the Paris hippodrome. An effort Is being made bv minis ters to shut up the theatres at Lima, Ohio. At Kalamazoo, Mich., an electric street railway company has been organ ized. Ex-Congressman Jonathan Scoville, of Buffalo, N. Y.. died In New York City. An Iron casting weiuhiug 40,000 pounds was turned out by a Chicago Arm. There was a slight earthquake shock in the state of Washington re cently. A subscription for the beneOt of Anna Dickinson has beeu started In Philadelphia. The United States gunbout Galena, ashore on Martha's Vineyard, is a total wreck. . A granddaughter of Robert Burns died recently in Glasgow. Scotland aged 75 years. William T. Cundifl has fecured 510.0UO damages against regulators of Columbia, Ky. Guatemala has accepted the Invita tion to make a display at the World's Fair in Chicago. The Indians at Pine II dge, Foutb Dakota, refuse to enlist iu the infantry. They want horses. - The women of Fort Pcntt, Kan., have nominated a full cily ticket and expect to eiect It. The Tuneral train of the late Sena tor Hearst, of California, coat the Gov ernment fJJ.OoO. Assistant Postmaster Williams of Anacond;i, Mout', was arrested for em bezzlement. Cinclnnatti ate 6,162,530 pounds of cheese last year, aud not a little of it was Limburger. The wheat crop of South Australia and New Zealand Is reported short and of poor quality. It ts reported that Jay Goul 1 has been fined ?200 for failing to answer a summons as juror. Denver, Col., marked tbe year 1890 by the construction of forty-nine miles of electric railway. This is the most prosiwous season the winter resort hotel keepers bave had in several year. Seventy lives were lost at sea and ten persons frozen during the recent blizzard over England. Tippoo Tib, the African slave deal er, has ben stricken wild paralysis, hi right arm being affected. A bill to suppress railway- ticket . brokers and scalpers was introduced in the Illinios house. The Central school building at Washburn, Wis., burned. Loss fl't, U00; Insurance J7,0oa The Kentucky Union Lumber company, with a $.'1.0,000 plant at Clay City has assigned. It Is estimated that tbe appropria tions made by the Fifty-first congress aggregate 525,000,000. The president signed the copy right bill with a pen made from the quill of an Americau eagle. Forty-seven students of the college at Valparaiso, Ind., have been dis missed for visiting saloons. Spencer Trask's summer resi dence at Saratoga, N. Y., valued at $100,0u0, was destroyed by fire. The Germans Reichstag, after a lengthy debate, bas rejected the petition to admit women to the liberal profes sions. P. T. Barnum has closed a con tract for a building to cost S125.0UO which he is to present to tbe Historical and Scientific Societies of Bridgeport, Conn. Otto Barnes was insfantlv killed and Chester Loveland fatally Injured In the coal mines at Couitersviile, III., by slate falling upon them while at work. Editors of Western agricultural papers met in Chicago to arrange for the relief of starving farmers in South Dakota, Kansas a.id febraka. Bavaria, by a recent census, num bers 5,3Sa,3s2 Inhabitants, the female exceeding the male population by 131, 396. There are 83,000 Protestants In St. Petersburg, Rusnia, 42 01 of them being Germans and half of these Rus sian subjects. Coins were stamped with engraved dies so far tack that we have lost the record, aud muvablo typs are said to bave been known to the Romans. In all that pertains to sculpture and painting the ancients knew so much that their superiority has never been questioned, and tkeir work remains as unsurpassed models. All the mechanical powers.the screw, lever, pulley, incline pliue, wedge, wheel and axle, were known to the an cients aud ued in every day life. Tbey were expsrt builders, as existing relics testify. Vf . E. Lyman, a Buffalo type-founder, stid that an English and French syn dicate would buy all the type foundries) in the couatty. Beauty is but skin daoo, and frausaV ly it hardly gats below tbe powder, i It f 1V V
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