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jj. P. BOHWEIER,
THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Propritto.
VOL. XLV.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 29, 1891.
NO. 19.
Me dwn't like housework, lt make her
' hands rouiih;"
ii vked to waii "li-tips, she (toes olt in a huff,
liut.iihlaiHls r.,ushor smooth, heart ad or
wiirifaiie1 for the prize, she pires both away.
I houh t i.e taiam seems cheap, It often ends
utar
Girls are so queer.
,i.n t 'ikf to iron, "It tires her arms so":
f uilii c c:ndy at a party for an hour, you
know.
or Uiun.i'iim a p.ano from morning till nlnht,
it ii'avn.g !jn lentils are quite her delight.
II ll tiie-- .ire all easy to b-r is quite clear
i !mu(,h Isn't it queer?
Id th? nuirnii -s stie cannot do errands down
tn It,
Fr.r't t ' h" fo w:llt In calico (rown;
tut in her street rig, she will coast with the
Nv-.
Art ci nil i ur tlif hll! Is one of her lovs.
neclui.l' iU the till) olten makes her career
t it seem queer?
iKiTT its. 'th a novel or two
y.xed m mihlier On ting, seems all she can
ilo.
But n"n'i;ne a rlre. or darnine a stocking,
t'ljanes I.n:..il expression to aomettiiug quite
kii;i!.
Fur thills 1,1 'his kind often provoke a sneer,
Hivugli tlu seems so queer.
t hen cir'is row to women, and boys grow to
m-n.
II there' ever a time 'tis Just about then,
lliey are full of Uie viriura anil traces of life.
Fur orie w 'U'h a husbanil, and the other a wife,
jtie men rind their match, and the women their
sphere.
slDee they're so queer.
women n a rule are antbtiious and bright,
Itiey do life's wtttA Willi main and with might,
1 heir tuii-ue Is uf silver, or sharper than steel.
Twill muke a man liipiy. or misery feel,
Sjiwittmaiiii.uK all this, to men they are
dear
Women are so queer.
0( all the queer queers, man's tongue is the
queel e--t :
lu toon meet.ng, caucus or club 'tis the near
est To a r:ittl:iin windmill, that whirls In the air.
Itut dumb us a tontt in a meeting for prayer.
7 be di.itiiicTn.il of olaes is not always clear,
Hut men are so queer.
w hether tnv then. r girls, or women or men.
In pil;tee or hovel, or eoitane. or den.
All t" ma'i I einit- in oration's broad space,
lu wh.iie.ec clime, or whatever race.
Will rii t: ii't the sei.tem-e lung, loud, and
clear.
We'te all o queer.
O od IIoxiiKkeeijing.
10LAALVEREZ.
I am so sorry, bo very sorry!" fal
tered the girl: "pray say no more, Mr.
Alverez; I cannot listen to you."
The face of Cola Alverez darkened
In the darkened l;iy. It was a Span
ish face, with lustrous eyes of "gloom.
In which slept flames that wakened at
a word; a low brow, straight nose, and
jit!!, impetuous lips; a face in direct
contrast to tlie flower-fair one of Hilda
Denton, with its shy girlhood and its
starry eyes of grjythe face that had
euilaved him.
-15 tit I will say more!" he burst out
j .isiou:ite!y; "ci n a love like mine be
h'jsh?d to silence, do you think? You
stli h":ir me; you shall reply. -Nay.
10 t '-hull lull me that your heart re
piUi. or I I "
hm b'-olfj off suddenly, for she was
slirlaVinjf from him in terror, her gray
eve- tir.ik and diiated with fear.
"My love, my queen," he said, al
niot in a whisper, "forgive this rude
nf m. The love I give you is my life!
Pay one litt'e word to me of kindness;
lid me live. I would die, soul and
body, without your smile! Child,
your little hands are cold; I could
warm them with my kisses; pray
heaven your heart may hold warmth
for me! 1 have rnnde of you an idol."
"I must not hear you; I wish you
bad net so spoken to me; I am not free
I am a promised wife."
A low cry left his suddenly livid
lips; he loosed her hands, clenched his
own and sprang' to his feet with a
bound like a panther.
Whose?"
The question reached ber in sort of
hiss. Ere she could answer a vivid,
lingering flash of lightning shot across
the sky without Its blue light play
ing on Cola's face gave it a strange,
fierce expression; then a loud, rever
berating crash of thunder, and silence,
followed in a moment by the rush and
patter of a summer rain.
She was very pale and her sweet
face had a look of pain ou it as again
be aked:
"Whose promised wife?"
"Clarence Aram's; I thought yoo
knew."
"Knew! Would I have laid my soul
t your feet if I knew?"' he cried,
fiercely. "Would I hare allowed your
face to steal into my heart until it
could not beat without a thought of
you? Would I have called him friend
and trusted him as a brother if I knew?
But now now "
His hoarse voice broke, his eyes
burned luridly, through the stillness
of tie room, which only rainfalls
igainst the windows broke, she heard
the meeting of his strong, white teeth,
and. timid as she was by nature, fear
for her lover made her for a momeu
bold. ' "Xow,'" she said, gently, "you will
be my friend as well as his; you will
forget thtit you cared for me and find
tome o'.her f;ce in this land of the
stranger fair enough to win your wor
ship." He llung out his hands in tempest
uous anger.
"Friend his friend!" he cried,
wrath fully. "Is my love but a robe,
to be f.ung asUe after a day's wearing,
and m I do enough to call him
friend who has left me desolate?"
lie '.va'keJ the length of the room,
then returned. His face was full of an
evil ; .a---inn as she saw it
"And 1 tim to forget you?" he said,
bi'.t. rly. "What if 1 bid him forget
von in-teail?"
A tians'ent color burned hotly in
hor f;.-i ;is sl-.o turned on him with
6-rlish impatience und somewhat of
on,an:y pride.
"l.i-'en to me a moment before you
threaten the man I love. Cola Al
verez." che said, every word ringing
clear through the storm. "Clarence
and I have known each other since we
were children. Our lovo has grown as
we have grown. In all the world
there is nobody like him my Clar
ence! Do you not remember how it
was that you and I Erst met? He
brought you here and said that you
were his dearest friend. He bade me
o regurd you. If I have been kind
to you if I have never treated you as
Granger that was my reason
Clarence called you friend. Now,
let this interview end here and I will
promise that Clarence shall never
Vaow of it ehall never Imagine that
you have dreamed of becoming h(j
rival 1
"Shall he not?" muttered the Span,
lard In his teeth "shall he not, my
star-eyed senorita?"
Clarence she knew, was soma place
in the house, for it was his home more
than hers, she being but a ward of his
rather, and she trembled lest he and
Alverez should meet ere the latter had
curbed the demon that looked out from
his dark eyes.
As the fear smote her a clear,
musical whistle in the hall without
pierced through the fury of the tem
pest, and In another moment the door
opened, the whistle eeased and
Clarence Aram entered.
He, perhaps, was not so handsome
as the Spaniard, but there was that in
his frank, mirthful face which has
won love from women since Time was
young a touch of poetry which did
not mar its strength, a strength which
did not scorn the fairer, finer dreiuns
of life, a sunny temper under which
slept force and power, the lightning
in the summer cloud.
He and Cola Alverez had met firs
a year before In a distant city. They
bad grown into friends, and when Cola,
whose laud had disowned him as too
turbulent a son after he had implicat
ed himself in a plot against the Crown,
appeared in the neighborhood of
Clarence's home, that home had open
sd its door to him, and for a month he
had been an honored guest there.
Yet as the heavy rains fell on tht
world outside, and the fierce, frequent
flushes swept dazzling over him. he
watched Clarence eater as he would
have watched the most deadly foe of
his life.
The young lover did not at first ob
serve him, but hastened toward Hilda,
with outstretched hands and eyes
alight
"My dear love, are you all alone?'
he asked, softly, drawing her into his
embrace. "Does not this wild tempest
alarm you? Why, child, you tremble
like a leaf. Fie! for a storm that will
pass in an hour, to quiver so!"
Hi 'a was about to whisper him tha.
she wus not alone when Cola Alverez,
darting forward, caught her by the
shoulder and tore her from the circling
arm of Clarence.
So unexpected had been the more,
merit, so fierce the grasp of the Span
lard's hanl upon her, that the girl
gave a sharp cry, while her lover
seemed for a moment too astonished
to move.
"She is mine!" cried Cola, in a voice
that cut through the room like a rapier,
although it was not loud; "I love her!
I would rather see her dead before me
than in your arms! Renounce her; she
is mine!"
"Hilda, what does this mean?" asked
Clarence, his face suddenly set anc"
stern.
"1 do not understand," she faltered-,
"he is hurting me, Clarence; make him
release me; 1 am am afraid."
"Let her go!" commanded the
young man to Cola.
"I love her!" repeated the Spaniard
between his set teeth.
"Clarence!"
She put out her hands to him wit
the hushed cry.
Again he commanded Cola to release
her. and again tha mad Spaniard re
fused to do so.
With a muttered execration, hU
temper aroused at last Clarence lifted
his clenched right hand and struck a
heavy blow upon the full lips of Col
Alverez, which made him stagger bacil
and release the trembling girt
In an instant the hand of the Span
iard was thrust into his bosom, and
with a mad spring and the fiercest oath
of the Spanish tongue, he was upon
Clarence, one hand upon his throat
the other lifted high above his head, a
slender knife grasped in the sinew
fingers.
Hilda gave utterance to a shriek.
that rang wild and loud through the
building; then a weird, white flame
seemed to envelop her, to fill the room,
to stream, red and blinding, upon the
descending blade of Cola's knife; a
crash which seemed to rend the wcrld
sounded about her, and she fell un
conscious to the floor.
When she recovered Clarence was
bending over the sofa on which she
lay, his face as white as death, his
form tremulous, but life still throb
bing freely in his every vein, love in
his eyes.
Others were in the room, hut she
saw only him.
You are safe?" she questioned.
faintly. "I saw the knife oh, my
darling!" and she clung to him trem
blingly. "I thought that none would
come in time to save you, for I knew
you were unarmed."
God saved me," he said, reverent
ly. "He is dead, dear, but not by
humau hand. . The lightning struck
him before be could strike me. I
think the steel of his knife drew it
Hilda, my dearest one, only you and I
know of the madness of bis love; it is
a secret, known only to us. I loved
him once as a brother; he lies below."
Yes," she answered, softly; "none
shall know he did not die your friend."
And none
did until now.
. K. Y.
VIercury.
Cigarette fc&ok&C:
If youqg people could only see wha
cigarettes were made of one would,
think they would be the last things f
self-respecting youth would put in nil
mouth. As for the women who smoke
cigarettes I have nothing to s iy.
There may be men who enjoy the
fragrance of a cigarette drenched w ;
man. I am not one of them. Tin
odor that comes from the paper. th
sickening offense that rises like a clout
of miasmatic vapor, permeating theii
breath and making noisome every por
in their body, may have attractions foi
the purlieuistic denizens of the gutter,
but I always feel about them as tht
scripture wi iter did about the dog wh
returned to his vomit Joa Howard.
S EAPLXSIVE BURIAL
SEAIICII FOR A VALVAHLK
TRKASIKK.
Ct is Oa the Marianne Islands near
Pern.
Information lia, come to light show
ing that au expedition is being equip
ped in Sail Fraucico harbor to go in
search of the treasures said to be bur
ied on the Marianne Island. In the
vear 1823, during the dark days of the
crrible revolution in Pern, a" number
f the wealthiest residents of Lima
met the leading fathers of the Church
it a monastery to devise a plan where
oy some of their wealth might be
wed. The brig KI Ciudad, lying in
le harbor, was bought. During the
night and under the guise of merchan
lise the treasures were hastily convey
jd on board. It is said her cargo
unounted to over $30,000,000 in coin
ind melted plate, besides an inesti
mable amount of jewels.
Unluckily for the owners. Wintou
Sowers, an adventurous Englishman,
-crving as a Lieutenant in the Peru
vian navy, learned of the whole plan
In ongh a maid in the service of a wife
jf a millionaire with whom he was
jarrving on a little love affair. He
soon succeeded in gaining the services
jf a band of kindred spirits, who
were ready for any plan that promised
fortune. Oil the night before the
sailing of the vessel they waylaid a
party taking the last of the jewels
tboard. The bearers were killed, and
wo of the heaviest caskets turned over
o the keeping of the maid, who
promised to meet Soiners in a foreign
iund. Boats were manned, the pirates
warded the brig and killed the guards.
They threw out the proper signals,
which Sotners, as an officer in the
Peruvian navy, was acquainted with,
picked their way among the guarding
'hips, and struck out boldly into the
Pacific. After some discussion, and
more disputing, the pirates made for
he Marianne Islands and buried the
rcasure.
A course was then shaped for Hono
lulu. Before reaching that port,
lowcver, the old dispute sprung up
ibout a division of the spoils and the
nethod of disposing of them. One
night one side attempted to extermi
nate the other. Soiners, three officers
ind a cabin boy, goon found them
selves penned in the cabin, the others
if their party having been killed and
litched overboard. The victors cele
rated the event in a wild orgy. The
."our men in the cabin took advnn
age of their condition, fought a clear
.lasi-age to one of the boats, provisioned
t, and put oil', afier first setting tire
:o the ship. While on the ocean in
lesperate etraits, a small cask of whis
key caused a fight betweeu two of
he officers. One was killed outright.
The other badly wounded, was 6oon
tfter sacrificed to save the rapidly
liu)ini6hing provisions.
At Honolulu, Somers, Pedro, liavelo
ind the cabin boy represented them
selves as the survivors of a shipwreck.
Their story touched the sympathy of
merchant, who provided them with
passes to San Francisco. Somer's
!irst business was to try to get posses
sion of the jewels left in LinTa in
:harge of his sweetheart, in order to
realize on them, and fit out an expedi
tion for the Marianne Islands. The
three raked and scraped together every
:ent possible. It was given in charge
if Ravelo and the boy, who were to
go to Lima, and bring back the maid
ind the jewels. Sotners , being afraid
o show his face anywhere near the
Peruvian line, for obvious reasons, re
mained in this city. At the same time
he proposed to do what he regarded as
i neat little stroke of business. The
treasure on the islands was large, but
the fewer there were to share it the
larger it would be. After the style of
the tnck practised upon Bellerophon, he
despatched an epistle by Ravelo avid
the boy urging the maid to see that t'j
messengers were killed. The messei.
zers reached Lima, delivered their le :
ters, aud were cordially received b
the former love of Sotners.
Time and the revolution had changed
her lot, however, thanks to the jewels
intrusted to her care on the night of
somer s great coup of the Peruvian
treasures. She was the wife of t
rreat official. She coolly Informed
the messengers that she didu't propose
to go with them, and that she didn't
take any stock in their story relating to
the treasures being safely buried and
Somers waiting to guide her to them.
The messengers threatened her with
the exposure of her connection with
the piracy. She temporized with
them to no purpose. At last she
fou..'J no escape but to follow the ad
rice of Somers's letter. The two were
waylaid by assassins, but tbey made a
aotch of the business. Ravelo escaped
with a scratch, but the boy was mor
tally wounded. As he lay gasping
away his life he confessed the whole
itory to the authorities. The woman
was arrested, tried, and executed.
After suffering untold privations
Ravelo escaped from Pern and made
his way to Somers. The two survivors
now began to devise ways to reach the
burled treasure. At last they found
Capt. Thompson and told such a good
itory that be consented to fill out hi9
schooner Swallow and have a try at the
heaps of gold and jewels. Sorners,
however, to protect himself, would
not divulge tho island which held them,
but insisted that the charter for the
vessel should include the whole group.
One evening before they reached
their destination, Somers and the Perue
vian were sitting chatting on the le
rail, and looking over the plat giving
the position of the treasures. The ex
planations were on the margin and all
In Spanish. Suddenly the lookout
heard a cry. In the wake of the ship
he saw a clutching hand disappearing
beneath the waves. Somers was gone
and Ravelo was clutching the paper
sud looking overboard.
The vessel was brought to, but the
body was never recovered. Kavelo de
clared vhat Somers had accidentally
fallen overboard. The paper, which
he still held in his hand, had a portion
of tho margin containing the explana
tion torn away and was much crumpled,
showing signs of a struggle.
Soon after this Thompson sighted a
brig, the Captain of which proved an
old friend. He divided the secret
with him, and together they sailed tor
he islands. Ravelo wm threatened
jritb bei&g delivered up to his goTtarn-
tnent unless he guided them to the spot
where the treasure was buried. H
promised compliance. On arririug al
the foot of the island he was asked if
that was the one, and he said it was.
Preparations were made for going
ashore and digging up the gold and
jewels. As Ravelo was stepping into
the boat he begged to be allowed to re
turn to the cabin for a little plat of the
place he had. The cabin boy, who wa
in the place at the time, afterward told
that he filled his pockets with all the
lead and iron he could stuff into them.
On returning be slid into the boat, lost
his grip, and shot beneath the surface.
The coxswain made a grab for his dis
appearing head and pulled a tuft of
hair. The two Captains went ashore
aud made a long and vain search foi
treasure. They had Somers' plat, bill
he had gone down grasping a part oi
it. What descriptions they had were
in Spanish, and not a man among
them was acquainted with that lan
guage. In digging about some South Amer
ican coins were found, a ring, a sail
or's knife, and a piece of board, into
which had been burned the letters 1
Ci, undoubtedly a portion of the words
1 Ciudad, the name of the brig in
which Somers fled with the teasure.
Grumbling among the overworked
sailors and a scarcity of provision!
compelled the Captains to abandon th
search.
In January, 1886, the British schooner
Wereid sailed from Yokohama as far
as Guan, a small island in the Marianne
group, in search of the treasure. The
vessel was never heard of afterward,
and is supposed to have perished in
the terrible typhoon that swept that
coast shortly afterward. Two expedi
tions have sailed from Lima, implying
a confidence in the confession of the
murdered cabin boy. One of them was
wrecked on a coral reef, and the other
returned unsuccessful. Speculator!
took up the scheme and worked for
some time to have the Government
back them in an expedition. For a
time it looked as if their object would
be attained, but a new administration
coming into power ruined their hopes.
Thompson is in San Francisco, old and
penniless. For a long time he tried to
interest capitalists in his story, but
without result. Since the report of the
fitting out of the expedition has got
abroad Thompson has disappeared.
Those in his old haunts who are famil
iar with his habits are confident that
he is now being kept iu seclusion until
the story of the treasures on Mariauue
Island has been tested.
Alas! How Fleeting is Fame.
flen become famous and are forgot
ten. In the last generation George
Lippai'd was one of the most popular
American novelists. He wrote book
after book, and everbody read them
and called for more. Of all the sensa
tional and lurid story writers that this
country has ever produced he was
easily the first. His imagination was
boundless and riotous. His style was
blood-curdling. Lippard leaped into
the noonday blaze of notoriety at once,
and became as popular in his day as
Iwider Haggard is in ours.
He was a painstaking writer, master
of the mysteries of sensational story
telling, and he wrote good English.
Daniel Webster was certainly a man of
good literary judgment. If he could
find Lippard's romance fascinating it
is fair to . suppose they had merit.
The great statesman wan an enthusias
tic admirer of the novelist. He pro
nounced him a man of geuius and pre
dicted enduring fame for his works.
But wherej arc these once popular nov
els today, aud who knows anything
about their author? Even in New
York, a city full of book stores, one
has to appeal to the newspapers to an
swer the question.
Just what happened to Lippard may
befall many a mau who is now work
ing like a slave to win fame and for
tune. To day a man's name is ringing
through the land; to-morrow it will
be remembered by a fewi and day
after to-morrow men will write to the
newspapers askirg whether the man
really lived or was only a myth. Such
is fame in n'aioty-nlue cases out of one
hunJred. But men wjll lot for it,
Sght for it, and die for it to the end
f the world.
Sensational Letter Hoax.
An amusing hoax appears to have
been perpetrated upon the foreign
press in the shape of a letter alleged to
have been written by the present Czar
prior to hi ascension to the throne, to
the famous editor and Panslavist leader,
A.ksakoff, whose widow died a few
weeks ago. The document in ques
tion, which bears the date of May 22,
l&8t, contains bitter comments ou the
class of courtiers by whom the imperial
family was surrounded, and compares
the highest officers of state to con
temptible lackeys.
Tha publication of the letter in ques
tion has excited an immense amount of
attention throughout Europe, aud it
appears to have been copied in almost
e ery foreign newspaper of any im
portance. The whole thing Is, bow
ever, but a hoax. The letter in ques
tion, instead of having been written by
the present Emperor, was addressed in
1796 to Count Kotchoubey by the
Grand Duke Alexander Paul witch, ho
subsequently ascended the throne as
Alexander L The courtiers referred
to in such bitter terms were the ignobl
favorites of his grandmother, Cather
ine II. The original letter will be j
found in the first volume of the "LlfsJ ;
and Times of Alexander I," published :
by C. ToTneville in 1874. Exchange. '
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Mrs. Cleveland's Bust. j
a oeautifnl white marble ban ot
Mrs. Cleveland, upon a pedestal of
black and white marble, is at present
occupying a corner of ex-Marshal Wil
son's drawing room in Washington.
It was left in his charge when Mr.
Cleveland went to New York. The
bust is life siza, and is the work of G.
Scanki, Genoa, aud bears the date
1880. It was made from impressions
taken when, vs Miss Folsom, she
traveled in Europe.
A Dreadful Disease.
Mrs. Bascom "I haven't heard any
thing from Silas flick sence he went to
Sew York have you?"
Mrs. Backlot 'Oh, yes, poor young
nan ! I've heard be was afflicted with
i terrible disease."
Mrs. Bascom "Do tell I What is
XT'
Mrs. Backlot "I think them New
York doctors call It kleptomania."
Burli&fftop free Frew.
flFF OF A PFR9TAM HTPT
Ka HAIR, HANDS AND FEK't
DVED WITH HEW A.
Join to the Public Baa Her Geatost
Diversion,
ner eyes are as black as sloes. Of
course mey are black, for blue eyes
are considered unlucky in Persia. Her
skin is a rich, warm, delicate brown
that overlays the rouud, plump fea
tures, tinged with a tint of rose where
the dimples are, or should be, the
silky hair is dark as the plume of the
raven that crowns the head of the little
jirl baby, who was born but vesterdav
in that quaint dwelling at the foot of
uount tlborz. The mollah, or priest,
has already been to the house, and, in
the presence of her father, has turned
aver the leaves of the Koran or Mo
tiamctan scriptures, and hit on the
name of ifathemeh, the daughter of
Mohamet the Prophet, so Tathemeh is
to be the name of tho new-born babe.
She is a Persian and in Persia she will
live, for it ia only with the special per
mission of the shah that a Persion wo
man can live out of her native land.
She is but a day old, but an amulet
has been already hung on her neck
:on tabling a tiny scrap of paper on
which is inscribed a passage from the
Koran, intended to ward off mischief
from djiunsor evil spirits. For the
same reason if any of the neighbors
look iu to see the little stranger and
:i press admiration of her beauty, the
nurse requests them to spit in the baby's
face lest the influence of the evil eye
should lurk in what might be the praiise
Df envy or jealousy. A tiny white cap
f open embroidery also covers the in
fant's hair, and her limbs are swathed
tightly in swaddling bands.
When Fathemeh is five or six months
ld, the bands are gradually removed,
ind her hair is dyed with henna. The
first application turns it to a bright
orange red, the second wash turns the
hair to a rich blue-black. The finger
and toe nails, the soles of her feet and
the palms of her hand are also dyed
yellow with henna. This is not done
Entirely for beauty, as Europeans often
imagine, but rather to toughen the
skin. This is especially necessary with
the soles, as most women in Persia go
barefooted in the house.
When little Futhimeh is old enough
to toddle about she has a pres
ent of red slippers, embroidered with
tinsel, but rarely wears them at play,
for they are an encumbrance. When
she is two or three years old, however,
she begins to wear a mantle an arti
cle of dress that she will wear until her
Jeath, whenever she steps out of the
lione, whether to sport in the garden
or play or walk lu the street. This
wkwiird dress she wears attached to
her head and it reaches to her feet.
While she is a child it is worn loose
md flics beliind her when she runs;
Out when she reaches the age of eleven
sr twelvo the mantle is drawn over the
face, excepting over the eyes, which
rc protected from the gaze of any but
iicr own family by a tiny lattice work
exquisitely embroidered of white silk.
While still a child little Fathimeh
lits in the gate aud sometimes plays
with the boys of the neighborhood,
ind thus, perhaps, forms a passing ac
quaintance with her future husband.
If her parent are pcasauts she would
icc'ompany them to the fields and aid
in picking the fruit and gleaning the
iarvest. But as her parents are well-to-do
city folk of 6orne means, 6he is
loon taught that her destiny is to be a
Jfe almost as secluded as that of a
mnnery.
Her days are to be passed within the
seclusion of the anderoon, or women's
quarter of the house, where she re
rides, whether it be her father's or her
'usband's anderoou. If the former,
ay the time Fathimeh is nine years old
aer days are passed in apartments
where her only society is that of her
Mother, sisters and brothers and the
female slaves of the household. Occa
ioually other little girls pay her a
formal visit, and they pass a serious
tfternoon eating cucumbers and con
fectionery to a degree that would
ipecdily kill off most American chil
Ircn. In Persia those who are unable
0 br such irregular diet die early;
the survivors become so hardened they
ire able to endure anything. This is
simple way of avoiding the necessity
f heavy doctors' bills, which is, pcr
!inps, an advantage in a country where
the physicians are the most bare-faced
juacks.
If Fathimeh's father has several
arives, which it is greatly to be feared
,s the case, then she also has her half
brothers and sisters as playmates, and
1 merry time tbey have of it. The
mderoon is entirely separated from
tho rest of the establishment within
in inclosure of its own, and each wife
with her familv occupies a distinct
portion of the anderoon. It is built
around a square court-yard surrounded
oy high walls so that no one may look
:uto it, nor is any neighboring house
permitted to look into the anderoon
:onrt, whether from the roof or from
windows. Jsor are there any windows
in the anderoon itself that face the
street. Thus you can see that the an
Icroon and its court are entirely shut
Jut from the world.
Going to the public bath ia one oi
Fathimeh's greatest diversions from
the earliest childhood. At least once
i week her mother takes her there.
They make an afternoon of it. Fathi
xcli has her fingers freshly dyed with
aenna, and her hair, which has grown
vci y long, is plaited into innumerable
small braids, which are expected to
last without recombing until her next
visit to the bath. These days at the
bath are an education to the "little girl
now rapidly approaching womanhood.
With the exception of a few lessons
with the ueedle, or on the guitar or lu
'.he making of preserves, the little
maiden has had no other education ex
jept what she gains from hearing older
people of her own sex converse. And
thus, when she is at the bath and hears
the women talking while embroidering
sr smoking after the ablutions are over,
she learns much from their conversa
tion of life in the outside world of
Persia, and she will need all the infor
mation she can acquire; for if she
rver learns to read and write, whfch
Is not likely, it must be after she is
giarrled-
That marriage is her inevitable des
tiny she learns as soon as she can talk,
fbere are no old maids in that country.
Whan she ia eleven or twelve rear old
! the question of finding her a husbar.4
settled between the parents of the bridi
and the groom, the most difficult point
to arrange being the amevr of th
dowry to be paid with the bride. II
this is the iSk. marrinceof the prospec
tive husband then he also is young, no'
over sixteen or seventeen. The mar
riage is accompanied with great poinj
and the festivities last several days,
after which the bride is taken to hei
new home at the head of a long proecs
eion, .crowding the narrow streets,
marching to the sound of horns, pipes
and kettledrums. And there wo leav
the little bride, hoping she will have a'
east her share of wedded bliss.
Left-LejTedncsis.
A paper on "Ler't-Leggedness" wa
read before the British Association b
Dr. W. K. Sibley, who said that Prof.
Ball, in "Le Dualistne Cerebral,,:
speaks of man as a right-handed
animal. Being right-handed, it is
popularly assumed that he is also right
legged, but this does not appear to be
the case. Standing, working with the
right band, there is a tendency to use
the left leg for a balance. Many
people find less exertion in going
rouud circles to the right than iu
circles to the left. Race paths are
nearly always made for running in
circles to the right. So the majority
of movements are more readily per
formed to the right, as dauciug, run
ning, etc.
The mau in walking is to keep to
the right, and this appears to be almost
universal. It is more natural to beat
to the right. Of a large number of
people from the better educated
classes asked about the existence ol
the rule, only sixty-seven per cent,
males and fifty-three per ccut. fmalet
were aware of the rule. The large
majority obey it unconsciously in
walking. Crowds tend to bear to the
right. The left leg being the stronger,
it is more readily brought into action.
Hence troops start otT with the lefl
foot. It is the left foot which is placed
into the stirrup of the saddle or step ol
bicycle in mounting. So the left is
the foot which a man takes off from is
lumping.
Iu the experiments of Mr. G. II.
Darwin, blind-folding boys and telling
them to walk straight, the right
handed one diverged to the right, and
vice versa. From measurements of
Dr. Garsou of the skeletons of the
two legs, 54.3 per cent, the left was
the longer, and 35.8 the right. Foi
measurements of the feet, the authoi
collected the drawings aud measure
ments of 200 pairs, with the resull
that in forty-four per cent, the left
was longer, in 21.5 per cent, the right,
and in 34.5 percent, they were the
same size. Measurement at the firsl
joint gave fifty-six per cent, left larger,
and at the instep 42.5 per cent. From
the table of the figures it is observed
that the left foot is more frequently
the larger in the male than female sex,
and the percentage of feet of the same
size is greater iu the female. The
percentage of the t ight larger than the
left is very coustant, whereas tht
numbers of the left larger and those
in. which both feet were the same Eize
are much more variable. Mau, being
naturally or artificially right-handed
and left-legged, tends unconsciously tc
bear to the right; lower animals, on
the other hand, appear nearly always
to circle to the left.
Scarlet the Sacred Color.
In Italy, Turkey, Greece, Asia Min
or, Egvpt and manv of the Oriental
countries the archaic images of the
deities were painted rod, and it has
been said that the traditional practice
was intended to please the "colot
sense," bv which is meant that these
images were regarded aa pretty gew
gaws. This is not likely, aud the true
explanation is that the color of red ;
was sacred. AH prestine creeds can,:
with probability, be traced ultimately
to two origins. They ore, in different I
disguises, the worship of the sun and
the worship of bumaiutv. Red be- :
came, therefore, an exceptionally odioui 1
color when the ascetic temper gained
possession of religion. Hie author ol
"The Wisdom of Solomon" betrays s
profound antipathy to the color in the
following: "Or make it like some wild
beast, laving it over with Vermillion,
aud with paint coloring it red, ant?
covering every spot therein.
A Sword With a History.
The sultan presented Empeix Wil
liam with the famous sabre of Sultan
Murad IV., which originallv belonged
to Emperor Frederick of Ilapsburg,
who reigned during the early part of
the fourteenth century. It is a cross
handled sword of great length, with
handle and sheath of sol'.l silver, su
perbly chased. The Damascus blade
is engraved with German inscriptions
and the imperial eagle is carved upon
the handle. In the sixteenth century
the saber, which was an heirloom in
the Hapsburg family, was given by
Emperor Mat hi as to Count Hunvadi of
that day, who was killed in. battle
fighting against the Turks, who cap
tured the weapon. For more than 8')0
vears it has been a prominent object
In the imperial armory of Constanti
nople. Neglecting His Education.
Gentleman "You're excited, Aunl
Susan."
Aunt Susan "Co'se Tsc cited. Cat
ar good fcr nuffin Zekc a:n gettiir
mo' reckless cv'ry day."
Gentleman 0ow what has Zckc
done?"
Aunt Susan "Wats he dun? Wats
he dun? Bress my soul if he didn't
go down to de pahty last night wi-lont
a razor. Dat boy neber will learn tv
carve." -Rochester Post-Express.
TalnaMe Jewels.
Jin. Lcland Stanford has the rno.-t
valuable collection of diamonds in the
world, except the crowu jewels of
Russia and Great Britain. One of her
necklaces is worth $000,000, and her
entire collection is valued at $2,000,000.
The rarest gems from the caskets of
the ex-Queen Isabella of Spaiu aud the
ex-Empiess Eugenie are now owned
by Mrs. Stanford.
Totally Incapacitated.
'Act, act, in the living present,' It
my motto," said the second rate
tragedian.
"Yes," was the rejoinder; "but it'e
a pity that nature so completely In
capacitated you for living up to it,"
Merchant TrTt le.
Brvmii story.
In the year 1867, while I waa acting
as a Government scout, I bd to pass
between two military stations in west
ern Kansas. The Indians were out on
the warpath, and were never so malig
nant and cruel. They could see the
t beginning of the end, but were deter
: nincd to fight it off as long as possi
ble. I left camp at midnight for a
, ride of forty miles. I could have made
i it by daylight, but at 2 o'clock in the
j morning my horse slipped on a stone
and .went dead lame. I was then on
J the right bank of the Smoky Hill fork
j of the Kansas River, following it
i down, and by leading the horse half a
j mile I got the shelter of a grove of
I cottonwoods. I knew I must remain
there for the day, and I made the best
arrangements I could for defence,
j There was a large thornapple tree in
I the centre of the grove, which was
covered with a grapevine. Under this
shelter I dug out a rifle pit, and when
i : i . j . i . . .
ii s3 iiiiisu i Knew i coma stana
any small party of Indians off until I
had fired 100 bullets.
l slept from 4 o'clock until 9, at
which time a whimper from my horse
aroused me. I heard the reports of
l ines to tue north and the east, min
gled with the faint whoops of Indians,
and as soon as I could get a look in
that direction the cause was plain. A
white man on horseback was headed
for the grove, coming from the north
He was followed by a dozen Indians.
He was well aheitd of pursuit, and
would have made the grove all ricrht.
but a party of three Indians were com
ing down from the east to head him
off. He had pulled up just as I looked
out. Ho was cut off, and those behind
were fast coming up. He took in the
situation in a minute. He was on a
knoll covered with dead grass and
scrub bushes. He swung himself from
ti e saddle, unbuckled and pulled it
off, and gave the horse a slap and start
ed in in ou. i had a telescope with
me, and when I got it out and got the
bearings the man was so hidden ou the
knoll that I could only guess his loca
tion by locating the saddle.
All the Indians had come up and
!ial ted just out of rifle rantte. There
were fifteen of them, and from the ap-pear;-ice
of their ponies I knew that
tliey nad had a long chase. The white
man's horse came down to the stream
bove me, drank his fill, and.then be-
k-an grazing as if in his own pasture.
I wanted to mix iu at once, but they
were not only out of range, but my
horse was disabled. To have moved
out on foot would have been throwing
my life away. There was every chance
ihut I might have to fight them single
handed later on. The white man's ac
tions proved that he knew how to take
care of himself, and I must let him de
so for the time being. I climbed into
one of the cottonwoods, got an eleva
tion of about thirty feet, and now my
glass served me better. The man was
digging in the earth with his hunting
knife to scoop out a rifle pit. While
he worked the redskins rested and
planned. They gave him about twen
ty minutes, and at the end of this
time he was well hidden, cve,n from
my sight. He bad turned up several
large stones, and these made a breast
work. When the Indians moved it was to
circle around him and keep up a fire to
rattle him aud waste his ammunition.
While they were at long range he made
no answer, but as they narrowed the
circle a puff of smoke suddenly leaped
from his pit, and one of the warriors
fell from his horse like a log. A sec
ond dashed iu to secure the body, and
his horse was shot through. The bullet
bit the rider iu the opposite leg, and 1
could follow him as he crept away
through the grass. Another consulta
tion was heldand it resulted in a gen
eral dismount. Then each warrior be
gan creeping forward on his own ac
count, firing at will. They had the
man completely encircled, but he was
very cool. When he finally got a sure
thing he fired, and shot an Indian so
dead that the fellow never kicked.
Two minutes lter he killed a second.
This was three killed and one wotirded,
and they were losing their sand. All
crept out of range aud consulted ajrain,
and I knew how it would end. If the
eleven warriors let one white man beat
them off they would be disgraced for
ever. The ground was favorable for charg
ing him ou horseback, aud they were
soon ready. Six went to the east and
five to the south, and at a signal they
put their ponies on the run and rode
for the knoll. Up jumped the man,
bis rifle at his shoulder, and he fired
twelve shots into the two sections fast
er than I could count. He killed two
ponies and wounded two or three war
riors, and this stopped them. They
broke back and headed for the grove
to make uew repairs and study up new
deviltry. I let them come within
pistol shot and then opened on them
with my Win hester, and it is recorded
in military reports that I killed two
and wounded a third. The living went
off down the river so badly rattled that
an old woman could have kept them
on the run with a broomstick.
It didn't take the stranger more than
a minute to catch on, and be came
down to me. To my great surprise
he turned out to be a beardless boy of
19, who had been out searching aftct
lost stock. The Indians bad run biin
all night long, making a ride of al
most fifty miles. He didn't pretend
to be even a cowboy, and when I
prahed his courage he blushed like s
girl. He said he expected to be wiped
out in the end, but he was bound tc
givo the redskins the best he had be
fore be went under- It was a lucky
fight for both of us. There were four
dead Indians on the ground, and we
found on each a buckskin bag with
(ISO in it, Tbey had finished off anme
loneer or mining party and made a
ig haul, and the monev had been
svenly divided. We had $1,720 to di
vide between us, and it was a big lift
to both.
A Knowing Goose.
To call a stupid person a goose li
great injustice to the goose, for
they have been known to show them
selves very seisible, to wit: One
goose that warn'V a bit of a goose, at
the saying goes. This smart goose
was quite a pet ot the writer and wa
rery fond of feeding on so.iked bread.
However, it did not disd:;in a dry
crust, which it would pick up ant"
ValfJ IV wove uvuu luu CVFtA I
rou?hIv before attempting to eat It I
DrlMns P'tcavnna
HEWS IN BRIEF.
Artrfie'al eggs are being made.
A "aheckel of gold" was
Coid is 50 cents a ton at Pittsburg
Kan.
kt. Louis, Mo., ia the largest fur
market. '
Tha caslimare s'vawl industry is de
clining. The word "milliner'' owes it orlf lo
to Milan.
There are 10o,000,0.t0 sheep in
Australia.
China's one railroad has American
snglnea.
Fkttinuin has advanced to about
V20 per oua.e.
A plank 10 feet wk'e ia on exhibi
tion at Humboldt, Col.
The bodyguards of Queen Victoria,
if England, ate called Beefeaters
New York city has 1S57 electric
'ights at an annual cost of $tX) each
W. A. fierce of West Chester. Pa..
has a fish which he really hypnotizes
It is now proposed to Introduce
electric power in gold, silver and copper
tuinlug.
It is said that by a new discovery the
telephone can be made of use In fore-
'-ellinj storms
A s peel of twenty-four miles an
hour Is attained on the electrical under
ground railway of London, England.
A man In Whittler, CaU declare
that a blue gum tree there has groan
45 feet in one year.
The e ure ab ut 1600 electric meters
in use in Loudon, Englaud, and ooe
tliiid of them are of American pat
tern. An Atchison (Kan.) man is soon to
marry the wom an who stool sponsor,
for him when he was baptl7ed aa
baby.
The sister-in-law of a pauper la
the poor house at G la-go w, SootlnnJ.
has bequeathed $70,0JU for ehurcli
purposes.
The crawfish are so numerous at
Ramos, St. Mary Parish, La , that
they slopped a train there recently by
crawling on the track.
Lake Maggiore, in Switzerland, bas
water of diff rent Colo s. In its north
ern branch the color is greeu, and iu
tho southern a deep blue.
Miss Catton of Constantino, Mich.,
lost ber voice though illness several
years ago. She recovered it by aueei
ing at Kalkaska, recently.
One of the largest babies ever seen
in Florida ia the sou of Waiter Sylves
ter, living in Pal.itka. When seven
months old he weighed 43 pounds,
A quamt clock, owned by Louis
Philippe, of France, it lieu be taught
school in Boston, ass., is to be seen hi
one of the shops of that city to-day.
The brownish discoloration of ceil
ings wh re gas is used is caused by
dust, carried against them by the heat
el air currents iroduced by the gas.
A duck with four Tad Is acuriosit)
owned by James Stewart of the York
road, opposite Guilford, Md. Wban
swimming it used one of It legs as a
rudder,
In fencing in the 17 003 acre sheaf
farm in hto'eto irt County, Virginia,
100 miles of fencing will be neceaaaxy.
tlie farm beln divided into StXiO-acre
lota.
A man In Birmingham, Eoetland.
receiving a letter February Jtn, 18ll,
wli ch had been ported in Stafford la
July 150, a period In transit ot almost
thirty-five years.
A big idea in New York City ia to
convert Castle Garden in an aquarium,
which shall be, a.) nearly as possible, a
complete exempllcatiou of annuals and
vegetable life m the sea.
An English company Is working a
Bilver mine iu Bol.via which yleidi
more than 300 ouuees to the ton, whl!
ppecimens of almost puie silver are met
witb.
An enterprising Iowa farmer who
operates a big fa m haacallei In tha
telephone as a means of direct com
munication witti the various depart
uenta thereof.
Any kind of cotton covering, when
soaked in a solution of lungstate ol
soda, is rendered absolutely Incombusti
ble. It Is therefore useful In central
station work.
One of the most exaniiatlng acci
dents that happen in connection with
the trolley system of propelling electric
cars. Is the s tiling Ot horses by the
bre king of the troi'-ey wire.
The galvanized telephone wires la
London, England, weighing 924 pounds
to the mile, have been rephced with
silicon bronze wire weighing thlrty-aix
pounds to the ml e.
It is raid that in rat is France,
twice as many crimes are committed by
fiersons letween the ages of fifteen and
twenty as by those between twenty and
forty.
A little old fashioned piano, on
which the now Sir Arthur Sullivan
played his fi st composition years ago is
1 elieved to le among that musician's
most valuable treasures.
An Indian fatbor drew I lie l-ody o:
his dead child on a hand-bled thlrtv-sU
miles across the upper end of Lake
Michigan In order that It might b
buried from the Catholic Church.
It is much eaji- r lo sing in Italian
than in German. The guttural found
oftbelait-r language are not easily
learned, and in consequence the Italian
has many more advocate.
The greater quantity of blr frorr.
which wits are made for Eng'aod't
judges, lawyeis and clergymen comes
from Chint, wl.ere St is cut from the
heads of bt-gcar", ciimlnrds and the
'tend.
Thro are more belli-veis in astrolo
ey than i he woi Id at lai(e has any i lea
of. Most of those who entertain faita
In this occult science are people ot Intel
lect, learning and, not Infrequently,
cult a re.
Charles Stuart Kennedy, or !tr jit,
Mich., possess a contemporary minia
ture of Mary Queen of Set is, painte4
ou porcelain, aud ber auUmapiu
Russia has made a new law wVeh
obliges hotel proprietors to add to the
number of sUircasrs on everv floor, and
Uo to have iron ladders ou the outside
of the builling.
A novel idea for an exhibition la
about to be came I out In M ilau, whara
a committee is preparing for an Inter
na&cial exhibition of children's toys.
A woman in Kansas gave a tramp aa
old waistcoat, and in few hours be re
tinted and hax.tled ber a S10 bill ha had,
foaad in osa of the yoeket. , V
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