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B, F. SOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTIONTHE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLV.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 13. 1891.
NO. 21.
AFTER ALL SITTC WOUMHSTI
wu Janaarv when I met her:
Tor iof end griefs I am her debtor.
ij,e queitloo that wae then propounded
Broiubt answer which, like muiic, sounded.
" 1 LOVK YOII-
In TebrmrT, nothing weary,
I hMK-ned to repent the query;
And heard auain. with bliss ecstatic,
lier warn) rtu'v, though lea emphatic?
i ore jou
WTien a month the year was older
The flnie bail Mint int0 moulder;
In Mrch I pained the dear assurance
lu aearv tuU of endurance:
1 love you.
Then April esme; ah. time is fleeting?
f wa ou the tir.t 1 made my greeting.
Alar! b"W ntnllow love's einollon;
Aim! bow swiflly then devotion:
'Itcally, Jt:u-ry, you make me tired !
Washington Post
AS0UTHKKNS.T011Y.
There is a small town in North Caro
lina, near tlx; boundary line of Virgina,
that id noted as a railroad junction,
seven di lit; rent roads meeting there.
Doubtless people are born, live and
die in Weldon with independent his
tories, hut the outside world only
(peaks of the town in this way, "Did
you initke the connection at Weldon?"
There was a disjointed period when
It seemed exce- tional to make this
necessary connection promptly, In trav
elling South, and it was my lot to
miis it ly half an hour. They told me
at the depot that there was nothing- for
nie to lo but to wait twenty-four
hours at the hotel. The one I hit upon
proved very dreary, having the barren
air of a restaurant in which no one has
Hay I-.) long enough to make it feel in
habited. To add to the loneliness, the
rain wan pouring down in great tor
rent outride, and the only books I
could discover in the hotel parlor were
a ponderous gilt-edged Bible, a moth
eaten copy of "l'.urton's Anatomy of
Melanchily," "Baxter's Call to the
Unconverted" and some old census
reports.
I cheri-hed my fascinating illusions
about the South; its romantic social
life beckoned to me invitingly through
the perfumed vistas of orange groves
to cmne on ami get initiated into the oe
guiling ways of dark-eyed women with
oft speech, ami a strong under-towof
eiiey-going men, whose chivalric dalli
ance formed but a light coating for the
vulcanic energies of Cccur de Lion. I
loved this bind of extremes, but it
might he a ' treat Tropical Delusion '
today, for all that was visible of it at
Weldon. My tour must be a short
one. Delay was irritating. Could
noihing be done to make this day
lancing at the negroes who were
wailing on mo at the table, 1 had to
confess, (bat, though attentive, they
were far from picturesque. There ap
peared to be a great many of them.
Judging hastily from this dining-room,
one might infer that the staples of the
Eolith were negroes anil flies; the latter
charging at me in battalions from their
ambush in the fringed arsenic-green
papers attached to the chandeliers. The
fried chicken and corn bread, however,
were compensating.
When embowered in my Folitary
bedroom 1 began to count the hours to
be spent there twenty-three; and it
would he impossible to sleep away
more than eleven of them.
Hark! Somebody .was crooning
matches of a qr.airt tune in the back
premises.
An idea broke in upon me I dis
robed my banjo from its traveling
ulster."
Why not spend the time learning the
tongs the negroes were singing over
.heir work down in the yard and
(itchen? In all the ac -ounts of Sonth
srn life 1 had read in novels and maga
tines the negroes were represented as
ilways tinging merrily, except when
iey were drowsy and nodding.
I tuned the banjo; then the song
itopped. .Not another note did I hear
for ai hour; there was plenty of
aoise, but it came from the clatter of
iishes, tho slamming of doors, the
itea.lv rainfall and the shrieking of
.he locomotives on the seven roads.
I was not to be balked in my project.
I rang for the chambermaid, and asked
aer to get some colored man who could
ling and play the banjo to come up and
rive uio a lesson I would pay him
veil.
She first gned at nic vacantly for a
mmcnt, as if her brain were busy en
argiug to receive a bra id-new idea;
hen she grinned from ear to ear.
"Yes. miss, UJ1 see ef I kin find you
)ne of de good singahs; ef you had
nly a sunt word fo' you arrove, and
fut it tiorrated roun' dat you want
tractions in de banjer dat would 'a
een de lies' way. J'.ut Louvinia '11 do
ie les' she kin for you. I gwine ter
e a real good darkey to you while you
tali dat I is; you can put 'pennance
dat, mi-s."
She talked to herself all the way
lown the hall about what she meant to
lo for my comfort while I was at tin
Intel.
hnagi nation now began to work; I
wpecied to see a lively young fellow
nh laughing eyes and dancing feet
lshered into mv room. It would be
oily: lie should' teach me all he knew.
l'resently a tiiullled knock came at
"y door.
"C'oiue in!"
A large, middle-aged negro, witn a
rcry grave and very black face, stood
n the threshold, making a low bow
ith all the 'deportment' of aTurvey
''op. hat in one hand, banjo in the
lher. He wore a shabby blue tweed
""it, his toilet getting poorer as it went
,(wn, the coat still attempting to
Jke an impression of style, with its
loiible row i f white china buttons,
be pants well patched about the knees
""' threadbare in spots, and the shoes
ToUt, jll(o gaping holes, and tied
Mth red twine strings.
"es, come right in. I sent for
What's your name?"
"Simon Harjona, dat's my proper
ame, m'aii) ; but dry mostly cads me
''l (Royal) 'bout heah, 'kase I come
?ut ' ! Koy'l fam'ly in Fahginy fo'
come to Weldon."
I hope yaii are well, Royal?'
'Pretty w ell, m'Hiu, cep'n I subjic'
c typhoid fever and consumption;
hen I ir,,t i.t up j is attacted wid de
v r pf i j,,,,, coM j bmlkf, out
"1 de consumption; hut I makes out
kcepagoin'; my health is tol'able
food now,m'am."
"lra
iiere."
glad to hear it; tit down
The negro looked doubtful t
chair indicated, as if it would be disre-
specuui to me to take it.
"I want you to make yourself com
fortable, Royal, so you can teach me
some of your best songs. You sing
don't you?"
"Oh, yes'rnl
"Did you ever live on a planta
tion?" "Sho'iy I did. I am' live nowhar
olee, clear o' dese las' two yean I been
refugeein' down heah in Weldon.
was riz on de ole Koy'l plantation, an'
I nuver come away twull ole ilia' die.
You hecrd how she met with a turri
ble accident? 1 tole her dat waa
superstitious ladder, an' she mustn't
sot her foot on it agin I seen a ha'ut
on dat same ladder one moonlight
night in de barn. Sjierrits is mighty
quiet folks mostly; dey stays whar day
put, dey ain't a gwine ter meet np wid
you les'n dey come for siimp'n ; but
ole Mis' she wont listen ter me, she
full o' whimsies, an she got ter hang
up dem greens wid her own hands,
Christmas, an' sho' nuff, she tumble
down an' broke her spinal bone, so she
couldn't get up no mo' 1"
"Ole Mis', she set a heap o sto by
me; white folks allers did like me; I
nuver had no boss'n an' doggin', 'kass
dey soon see t'err people's property
aint got no chawms for my principles
an' character. I bewar' 'o covishness,
I does, I too much enameled wid Chris
tianity for dat. Well, w'en dey sell
de ole place, I come down heah ter
work on de railroad; but dey tu'n me
ou" las' wintali when dey done layin'
ue new track. 1 keep a hangin' on, a
hopin' to git sump'n ter do on de road
agin but I got to scratch roun' an'
make out ter live in de meantime."
"What are you doing now?''
"I aint got no speshual employmun,
M'ani: only w'at I kin pick up a
whitewasli'n an' a mendin' cha'rs an'
tables at de hotel, w'en dey gits so on
steadfas' can't do nutlin wid 'em.
Times is gittiu' harder ev'y day now."
He scratched his head and looked
down on the floor with a becoming re
serve. "Have you any family?"
"Yessum, I has had consid'able
family; my wife she present me wid
fo' o' de fines an de blacked mggah
babies in the State o' Fahginy, fo' do
wah, an' to make shorts out of a
mighty long tale we raised 'cm all,
'an dey tu'nd out ccaiups, dey did, its
de naked trufe, an' its a scannel an' a
shame. I ain' kep' track of all of 'em.
I don't wan't hear no mo' 'bout 'em. I
ain' got much use forniggahsno how.'
He gave a deep sigh. "Den after all
our sufferment, de Lawd he greed ter
make a compromise, an' he sont down
a 1 ll lamb f om de gret white f rone,
ter be de pride of our life. Dat was
des fo' years ago, she come like de las'
button off Gabe's collar, after Tiddy
done give de cradle away, oh, da'
blessed l'il gal!"
Royal's voice quivered with a mys
terious parental teueerness, and there
was a moist look in his eyes. "Hut
my memhnnce gittin' slack, w'at
kinder song dat, yo' want yo' humblin'
servant teach yo f"
"I'd rather you should choose one."
"Withatirm, solemn chord or two
he preluded a strangely stirring hymn
I had never heard before. What a
roll and volume of sound he brought
out of his dilapidated banjo, as he sang
this "Old Ship Zion!" The wood
work was warped, every string tied at
the bottom, yet a longing seized me to
possess it, such as a violinist might
cherish for a Paganini. It seemed to
me it must have a superior soul to that
of my frisky, be-ribboned instrument,
which was so independent of my touch
that it would only twang and clang
with defiant metallic echoes. The coy
banjo deity was familiar to this
grave, dignified negro, and yielded
such melody to his lingers as I never
heard from the expert in a Northern
city who had been giving me lessons at
the rate of two dollars per hour.
Koyal's voice showed no signs ot
the consumption it was subject to; it
was rich and deep beyond a sugger
tion of fatigue.
When the hymn ceased, I said
" The Old .Ship Zion' is very fine, I
am glad to hear it, but it's not exactly
the kind I'd rather learn from you I
can find that in a book somewhere.
Let me have some of your regular
plantation tunes that you used lo sing
at corn-shuckings."
He hesitated a moment, with a re
luctant air. "Seem lak' I kinder tu'n
ter de hymn chunes ter day, lady, des
natchul, but 1 mus' try to please yo'.
How yo' lak' disone?"
"Look-a-look-a-heah, look-a-look a whar I
l.ook-a-look awav o' vander!
Ion't vou see the olJ gray goose
A smiiiii' at de eaudahr
I nh unh urn, a low down!
Unta unh um, a low downl
I' nh unh um, a low down !
Johnny come down de hollow!
A settln' on a' ole ftmn log,
A lookin' for his daht.-th.
Terrapin crope up btbine dat frog
An' pushed him Into de watau.
t'nh unh um, a low down!
t ub unh um, a low down !
I'nh uub uiu. a low down!
Johnny come down de hollow.
Oh, de squirrel am pot de bushy tal
Je posaum tail am bar',
Ie raccoon tail am line all 'roun'.
An' stumpy am detail oh de bar"
I'nh unb um, a low down !
Unh unh um. a low iln .vn !
I'nh unb um, a lew down !
Wooow 1 Johnny come down de hollow !
I laughed and clapped heartily
"Splendid! Just the thing. I'll put
the words down right away" taking
a pencil and sheet of paper ont of my
satchel. "Now say the first words
er."
"Look-a-look a heah, look-a-look a
whar?" he repeated; "set that down
in vo' remcmberandum book."
Then when I had all the words he
fore me I began to sing them as well
as I could, with a random accompani
ment on my banjo. How weak and
thin mv imitation .
Koval wriggled in his seat "Scuse
me ef I disrup' vou, m'am, but you
don't screech mo'n half lou i enough;
des make up yo' mind ter take de roof
ofl" dis way 'wooow I
He open.d his mouth like a yawning
cavern. " 'Johnny, come down de
hollow 1 Strike t'err string dar, dat
off string yandah, poll on it lak yo'
boun' ter rip de insides outen de ban
jert You is as well built a lady as
ever I see ; don't be skeered o' yo' ow n
voice des holler 'wooow!' wid de
bes' of 'em. Dat's some Letter."
After I had gone over the song twic
"Don' yo' be disencouraged ; ef I had
yo' two or f-je days I'd make ft fust-
rate siugin' bird out o' yo'. Can't yof
lay yo- pians ter stay awhile in Wei.
don?"
"Stay here, in this place? no in
deed !"
"Dat w'at dey all say dat has tef
stop heah dey swivetin' to git ou."
"I wish you'd let me have yout
banjo to carry away with me, Royal,
and take mine in place of it. Perhapi
I could learn to play if I had yours."
He glanced down lovingly at his. ai
a parent regards an afflicted child.
"Laws, ma'am! dis heah instrumen'
ain' wuf shucks 'long side o' yourn;
can't tell me nutlin' 'bout him; I
knows dis banjer inside and out ; didn't
dese hands make him fom de wud go:
He gittin' ole an' shreaky. He don'l
hold he age as good as he marster, but
I got ottached to him, somehow. 1
don't want ter part wid him twell dej
gives me a harp ter play on, up in d
New Jerusalem. I made dis hcrt
banjer on de old Roy'l plantation w'en
I was co'tin' Tildy. Dat 'oman si
gwine ter stick to me clean fru' twtl
de crack o' doom I nuver had nowii
like her."
After strumming at "Look-a-look t
heah" awhile longer, I said, "Car.':
vou sing Die another one now
Royal?"
He turned his eyes to the ceiling
with an abstracted air, as though h.i
thonrhts were wandering far awai
I from this room. There was somethin)
jjuiui-uc in uib gue, Bometuiiig im
ploring; was the n au praying? Hii
lingers strayed over the strings til
they found a soft minor, and thei
came a tender, lingering wail thai
thrilled me to the core, his voice melt
ing to the consistency of a wistfu
lullaby:
'Oh, Susie, oh, Susie I woaUa't vou like U
no
Way up In de niountainsf
i Iar whar de river flow.
tb, de lulls an' de mountains win all pa
away.
An' you will have a new: heart again loirn
other dav !"'
The music had ceased with a broker
sob. Royal leaned his head against
the banjo; his tears fell over th
strings. "What's the matter? Pool
fidlow ! Are you sick? Is it that yon
are so awfully poor? Never mind, I'll
help you some."
"I mighty po lady; dat why 1
Tdecge to come hea an' pick up a few
cents today; but dat ain't troublin' me
now. You must 'scuse mo. Roy'l
heart too heavy. He can't sing no mo'.
Oh, my l'il Susie! dat onlies' lamb de
Lawd send me after all my mis'ry
she lying daid at home!" Frances Al
bert Doughty, in the Home Magazine.
Has a Temperance Beer Been Found.
Is it found? What? Why, the
much-prayed-for beverage which tee
totallers can drink without spoiling
their digestion or ruining their morals.
The lack of a decent temperance
drink is the greatest drawback to the
temperance reformation. Tea, no
doubt, is an invaluable substitute for
beer, and many of us cannot under
stand how our ancesters lived before it
was " invented." But tea cannot be
brewed at a moment's notice, and a
thirsty man in the middle of the day
is driven to ordinary drinking water,
ginger-beer, or lemonade.
The ideal temperance drink must be
bright, sparkling, tasty, and with some
body and substance in it. The manag
ing director came down to our office
the other day carrying with him two
bottles of a beverage which seemed to
comply with all these indispensable
conditions. Riley's Temperance Hop
Ale is the somewhat forbidding title
of the new drink, and our visitor
waxed eloquent as he descanted upon
its virtues. On the principle, however,
that the proof of the pudding is in the
tasting of it, nothing he could say was
half as eloquent as the beer itself. If
you drank it without being told what
it was you might very easily mistake
it for the genuine beer. Yon would
only find out your mistake when, after
drinking a considerable number of
glasses you found you were "no for
rardcrl" and no nearer the point of
intoxication than when yon began.
Our representative heard a very in
teresting account of the way in which
the invention came into his hands. The
credit of the discovery really belongs
to an ex-private in the Guards, who
after he left the service had for some
time charge of a temperance coffee
house. Seemsr how much a temper
ance drink was required, he gave his
whole attentiou to manufacturing one,
and after three years' studying dis
covered the secret of manufacturing
beer without alcohol, thus producing
the beverage he now sells.
Although it is but of yesterday the
demand for the new beverage is spread
ing, and it is said to have been greatly
in vogue at the stores (where they are
not allowed to sell genuine ale) , where
"Old Riley," as it will be designated,
is found to bean invaluable substitute.
rail Mall Gazette.
Bow H. Lrsrvrd Frraek.
Frank Richmond, the "orator" oi
Buffalo Bill's show, whose death at
Barcelona was announced a day or two
ago. not only astonished Paris with his
wonderful voice, but made a good many
thousand people think that he was a
Frenchman born and Oreo, ihis in
snite of the fa-t that less than a year
airo he knew not one word of the
French language". He arrived in Taris
last sorinc several weeks in advance
of the date when the show oponed. He
went to work at once with a teacher.
Instead of pursuing the ordinary
course, ho wrote out his speech in Eng
glish. the teacher translated it into
French, and Richmond committed it to
memory, reciting it daily severul ti mes
to the teacher in order to master the
pronunciation. When he had the speech
at command he bejan to study French
in the usual way.
Paper la the Kirk Boon.
While on the subject of paper, new
paper especially, did it ever occur to
vou what a useful article it is? I
serves so many purposes. Placed be
tween the sheet nd bedspread or an
other sheet it will keep out the co!d,
thus making a very light cover for
patients unable to stand the weight of
bod clothes and serving for a blanket
to those who cannot afford one. Una
great objection to it in this capacity is
the noise it is likely to maice, it you
want to keep ice for any length of
tim fill the wine cooler or any simi
larly shaped vessel and wrap several
thicknesses of paper close around it,
standin? it on naner. bavin? a blanket
or something thick to cover it, and
your ice will keep for twelvn houre or
longer. Thi Trained Nur.
! A STRANGE CAVE.
j One of the Vond vi if tlx Black Eilh,
Dakota.
Tit Latjt Ezplorar Bayi It Hat Hundred
of Paatages, tba Myitriei of Which Han
Haver Bean Explored A Wonderfv
Bight
In the northwest comer of Martin
Valley, at the basin of the second range
of hills, in the bottom of a small ra
vine, is a hole about two feet wide and
four feet long. This is the entrance tc
the wind cave. It Is covered by a
small log house built for the accommo
dation of visitors and to protect the
entrance from the severe storms that
visit that locality, says S. C Odell in
Buffalo (iap News.
About the wind part of it. It may
be late in the afternoon when you ar
rive at the cave the wind may be "go
ing in." If it is going in it will con
tinue that way for several hours, and
then change and come out They call
it breathing.
Ijirge, heavy pads are sewed over
the elbows and knees of our coats and
panta. The first one starts in feet first
and takes a lantern; the rest follow one
by one, the last one with lantern and
ball of binder twine. The end of the
twine is fastened nt the entrance and
unrolled as we go along, serving as a
guide to return by.
Flat on our backs or side, we shove
ourselves along down this narrow pas
sage covered with small stones, which
are anything but soft to crawl on.
When the first one reaches the divide
at his left the passage goes straight
down like a wall, entering a large
chamber at the top, but this time we
will take the one to our right
Shoving ourselves along a little fur
ther we drop down about four feet in
to a small vestibule the entrance to
the "chute," a round tunnel about
twenty feet long and very steep, and it
requires no "shoving" or "wiggling"
to get down, but with your bauds and
feet braced out on all sides, and wish
ing you had several more pairs to hang
on with, you go down with more speed
than grace. From this chamber there
are many different passages, each lead
ing in a different direction, the gener
al course being down. Some of them
you can enter on your hands and knees,
but in most cases one must lie down
and crawl in. But we will take the
passage that leads directly down from
the chamber.
For the first few rods we cnwlover
rocks and under them and then find
ourselves at the mouth of tho "well."
We pause here for a minute and throw
in a rock, thump, thump, thump,
down, down, fainter and fainter, until
the sound is lost to the ear, but you
have not heard it strike the bottom.
How deep it is I have never heard and
I have no curiosity to find out by ex-,
perimonting.
A littie more of this crawling and we
are at the middle of a great crack
mnninsr up and down. This is called
the "devil's crack." The crack is
narrow and you are obliged to go in
sideways. The path is quite steep and
about, twenty feet long.
On leaving this we turn short to our
right over a short ridge, and down an
other crack similar to the "devil's
crack." At the end of this passage is
the "bride's chamber." Another long
passage and we are at the "postoffice."
At the bride's chamber and post
office we gather our first specimens
placing them together to be picked up
on our return. Before we leave we
register at the postoffice. There were
twenty-two names with ours, three of
them being ladies' names.
The passage from here on is more
open, and the walls and ceilings are
the grandest sight a person ever saw.
The walls are of a light purple, thickly
studied with lime crystals and covered
with the most beautiful frostwork con
ceivable. The sparkle of the frost
work, the deathlike stillness, the feel
ing of awe which pervades the entire
surroundings, contribute to make a
scene most beautiful and weird.
As we go further in the crystal work
Is more consolidated and the frostwork
is much heavier more coral shaped
until it runs into a heavy solid mass.
The courthouse is the next place vis
ited. The ceiling of this room appears
to be 100 feet high or more, and the
floor is 100 feet across. The ceiling
and walls were covered with a reddish
brown, lattice-work formation, thickly
studded with the frost work and literal
ly covered with crystals. The ceiling
is thickly covered with stalactites,
which look like large icicles. The
lady who visited it a few weeks ago re
marked "that she could not see how
heaven could be more beautiful."
1 will say here that the cave from
the entrance down is very dry, and the
air is as pure as it is above ground.
The frostwork that I have spoken of
and also the other formations are of
lime, which has crystalized. From
the entrance to the bride's chamber
there are no formations worthy of men
tion. The trip up into the stalactite
region is very interesting, but we will
leave that for some future time.
How to Afoia Dyspepsia.
ill dyspeptics should avoid anything
which they (not others) cannot digest
There are so many causes for and
forms of dyspepsia that it is impossible
to perscribe one and the same diet for
all Nothing is more disagreeable or
useless than to be cautioned against
eating this and that, because your
neighbor "so-and-so" cannot eat such
things. If we would all stud- the na
ture and digestion ot food, and remem
ber that air and exercise are ns essen
tial as food in promoting good hoalth,
we could easily decide upon the diet
oest suited to our individual needs.
The diabetic should abstain from sugar
and anything that is converted into
lugar in digestion, such as all sUirchy
lootls, sweet omelets, custards, jellies,
iweet sauces, starchy nuts, wine and
liquors.
The corpulent should abstain from
Fat as well as sugar and starch. A
liet of whole wheat, milk, vegetables,
ruits and lean meat will produce only
a normal amount of fatness, wnite an
excess of acids, sweets, spices, and
ihortening keeps the system in an un
healthful condition. Those who can
ligest fine flour, pastry, sugar and
tats become loaded with fat but are
either strong nor vigorous.
Thin people with weak digestion
hould also avoid such food; for thin
eop!e are often kept thin by the same
iood which makes others fat If they
cannot digest the starch, butter and
tue flour, the system is kept in a fev
erish, dyspeptic state; they become
nervous or go into consumption for no
jther reason than that the life is
burned out by a diet which only feeds
the fire and does not renew the tissues.
Men dig their graves with their teeth;
tot only by drinking whisky and using
tobacco, but by eating food loaded
Iowa with inflammatory materials.-
IT MIGHT HAVE BE KM.
A Possible Tramp With Posalbla
Cratltuda.
On Christmas eve two or three year
go, as we stood in a group in the
depot waiting-room at Kimira, says the
New York Sun. there was a scuffle and
loud words, and v?a turned to see the
depot policeman shoving a trampiah
looking man out of the place. It was
a scene to make most of the crowd
Fmile, as the otlicer was a big man and
his victim a small one, but before he
had him outdoors a well-dressed, fine
looking man stepped forward and de
manded: "Otlicer, has this man been guilty of
any offense?"
"He's no business in here, air," waa
the reply.
"Why'hasn't he?"
"Because he's a tramp. My orders
re to put 'em out"
"Just wait"
lie brought out his wallet handed
the forlong-looking stranger two crisp
(10 bills, and then turned to the officer
with:
"Now, let him alone. A man with
('20 in his pocket is no tramp."
'God bless you, sir!" whispered the
acipient of his bounty as he looked at
;he money in the greatest astonish
ment "I'm no vagabond; I'm simply
down on my luck. I was wanting to
get to Buffalo, where I hope to hit a
job, and I'm willing to work at any
thing and for any price."
Some one ventured to ask the gen
tleman for an explanation of his liber
ality, and he replied:
"Just a year ago to-night in one of
the towns on the Erie road, a tramp
struck me for a quarter and got it He
must have gone off on a freight train
right away, and he got a lift of twenty-odd
miles before he was bounced.
Four hours later I took a train, and
while passing from one coach to an
other lost my footing and was flung
off. I struck on my head and shoul
ders, ani was rendered unconscious,
though not very badly hurt When I
same to there was a quarrel over my
body. Two men wanted to rob me,
while a third waa holding them off,
md when they attacked him he gave
them such a drubbing that they haul
ed off. Then he ran to a farm
house a quarter of a mile awav,
routed out the people, and helped
carry me there. While I could not
3ppak I heard all that waa said. I
jeard him say that he recognized me
as the one who had befriended him
that evening; and before he went away
lie insisted on taking an inventory of
my personal property. I had a watch,
a diamond pin, and over $1,000 in mon
;y; and everything was kept safe for
ue during the two weeks I was in the
louse. "
"But what became of the tramp?"
"I have never seen him since. Af
r seeing me safe at the house he
darted off, saying be would send a
loctor from the nearest town, and I
lever even had the chance to thank
im."
'Do I Look Like a radr"
About thirty years ago a young girl
n a western city was given charge of
t Sunday school class of rough boys,
lsually known as "river rats," who
lad never been in any school house
e'cre. When she entered the room
tho found them lounging on the desks
md benches, wearing their hats,
lulling vile cigars, a defiant leer on
svery face. They greeted her with a
oud laugh, and one of them ex
claimed: "Well, sis, you goin' to teach ns?"
She stood silent until the laugh
vas over, and then said, quietly:
"Do I look like a lady?"
An astonished stare was the only ro
ily which they gave.
"Because," she continued gently,
'gentlemen, when a lady enters the
oom. take off their hats and throw
iway their cigars."
The lowest American secretly be
ieves himself to be a gentleman, and
n a moment every hat was off and the
ads were ranged in orderly attention.
So remarkable was the success of
his girl in managing and influencing
nen of the roughest sort that she made
t the work of her life, says the Youth's
Companion. She established clean
ind respectible boarding-houses for
tailors and boatmen, and reading and
:otTee-rooms for laborers, and founded
in Order of Honor, the members of
vhich strove to live sober christian
ires themselves and to help their fel
ows to do the same.
The Georgia ETaagellit
Sam Jones is a compact wiry, small,
yed man, who seems to be happiest
vheu he is telling people their sins in
he plainest of plain English. He de
lounces his hearers to their faces,
hows them how utterly sinful and de
ir.ived they are, calls them all the
tames he can think of and his vocab
ilary is not limited points them out
vith his finger, and sometimes calls
hem by name. He is as rough as a
rontiersman: but those who know him
n-st say he is as tender as a child,
le says the meanest man in Georgia is
lis wife's husband; but his wife does
tot agree with him, for she says she
las the best husband in the world,
mm Jones never hesitates to crack
okes in the pulpit and it is proven
hat his style of peaching is popular
rom the fact that he makes twenty
ive thousand dollars a year. He
pends most of his money in charit
K Tim Lost Tken.
How business does spin in TVall
treet says the N. Y. Press. I watched
he transactions in a broker's office for
i time yesterday. A customer ordered
lie purchase of some stock, which I
ieard the broker say, as he looked at
.'no ticker, was selling at some price
Midiug with 1. While the customer
ras making up his mind the tape came
eeling off, and the broker announced
he same stock as quoted at . With
lie giving of the order the tape start
id again, and presently the stock
cached the two figures. Naturally, I
expected that the purchaser, who had
unt in his order only a moment before,
vould be obliged to pay that price for
t But when be got his memorandum
t was at and . The purchases had
ieen mad.e so quickly that although
.he changes I have noted all took place
within five minutes, he had the benefit
if the price to the minute. They do
usiness in a hurry in Wall street
Wkere Every Snokee.
Everybody smokes in Japan. The
aipes hold a little wad of fine-cut to
lacco as big as a pea. It is fired, and
.he smoker takes one long whiff, blow
ing the smoke in a coud from his
nouth and nose. Tha ladies have
pipes with longer stems than the men.
ind if one of them wishes to show a
(entleman a special mark of favor she
dghts her pipe, takes half a whiff,
lands it to him and lets him finish, out
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REMARKABLE FACTS.
Every One of Which You will Fine
Most Interesting.
One hundred and seventy-five rm
Hon cells are in the lungs, which
would cover a surface thirty timet
greater than the human body.
The gold beaters of Berlin, at the
Paris exposition, showed gold leave
so thin that it would require 282.00C
to produce the thickness of a single
inelu yet each leaf is so perfect and
freo from holes as to be impenetrable
to the strongest electric light; if these
leaves were bound in book form it
would take lo.OOO to fill the space cl
ten common book leaves.
Tho hottest region on the earth is on
the southwestern coast of Persia,
where Persia borders the gulf of the
same name; for forty consecutive days
in the months of July and August the
thermometer has been known not to
fall lower than 100 degrees night or
day.
A bundle of spider webs not larger
than a buckshot and weighing less
than one drachm would, if straightened
out and untangled, reach a distance ol
S50 miles.
On dark nights a white light can be
seen farther than any other color; on
bright nights red takes the Erst place.
Sweden is perhaps the most Protest
ant country in the world; of a popula
tion of C millions there are only 2.0uO
Roman Ca tholics, tho remainder of the
population belonging almost entirely
to the Lutheran church.
Vegetable flannel is a textile material
now largely manufactured in Germany
from pine leaves; the fibre is spun,
knitted, and woven into undergar
ments and clothing of various kinds.
Twenty-one observatories are now
engaged in the international under
taking of photographing the entire
heavens; each observatory will have
to take about 700 photographs in the
zone assigned to it, and it is hoped to
finish the work in three or four years.
In water in which vegetables have
been infused, the microscope discovers
animalculi so minute that 100,000 ol
them would not exceed in bulk a single
mustard seed, and these infinitesimal
creatures are supplied with organs as
complete as those of the whale or
elephant
Of 13 million barrels of salt annually
consumed in the United States Michi
gan furnished two-sixths. New York
ono-sixlh, ten other salt producing
stites one-sixth and two-sixths are
imported.
The city of Chicago in Its present
boundaries contains 173 square miles.
England is the greatest pin-making
country in the old world; its product is
about 60.000,000 pins a year, and Bir
mingham is the center, with an outturn
of 37.000,000.
Tax stamps have been established in
Switzerland to enable the poorer
classes to pay their txes in small in
stallments; the taxpayer can buy week
ly a few twenty-five or thirty centime
stamps, and so gradually clear off his
debt to the government
The longest reach of railway without
a curve is that of the New Argentine
Pacific railway, from Buenos Ayres to
the foot of the Andes, for 211 miles it
is without a single curve, and has no
cutting nor embankment deeper than
two feet or three feet
The average pulse in infancy is 120
per minute; in manhood, 80; at 60 years,
(30; the pulse of females is more fre
quent than of males.
Not including Alaska. Brazil is larger
in extent than the United States, it
possesses within its limits an area of
3,287,964 square miles, with a popula
tion of 12,338.375.
Postal cards are made at the rate of
4,000 per minute.
The amount of coloring power stored
in coal is such that one pound of the
mineral yields magentt sufllcient to
color 600 yards of flannel, aurine for
120 yards of flannel, 27 inches wide,
vcrmilline scarlet for 2,560 yards of
flannel, alizarin for 254 yards of Turkey-rod
cloth.
It is calculated that a range of moun
tains consisting ot 176 cubic miles of
solid rock falling into the sun would
only maintain the heat for a single
second; a mass equal to that of the
earth would maintain the beat for only
ninety-three years, and a mass equal
to that of the sun itself falling into the
sun would afford 33 million years of
sun-heat
A NO-LIMBED STATESMAN.
Who Rode and Shot Well Without
Arms or Legs.
Tho simple cable announcement
that Mr. Kavanagh, some time mem
ber of parliament for Carlow. Ireland,
was dead, recalls to public memory
one of the most remarkable men that
ever sat in the British house of com
mons, says the New York Sun.
Nature had endowed Mr. Kavanagh
with a siugularly handsome face and
fino torso, but had deprived him of
arms and legs, and, therefore, it be
came necessary on his election to
parliament to make special provision
to admit of his entering or addressing
the house, as he could neither walk
nor stand. The matter was discussed
privately before the assembling of
parliament and as soon as the name
of MacMurrough Kavanagh waa in
scribed on the roll of . members the
prime minister rose and moved "That
an exception to the rule that members
must address the house standing he
made in the case of the honorable
member for Carlow, and that he be
permitted to address the house seated."
Mr. Kavanagh was the happy hus
band of a beautiful wife, and the happy
father of a large and handsome f imily,
none of whom shared in any degree
their father's affliction. He was a man
of old family, and possessed consider
able wealth, was fond of society, and
was exceedingly genial and popular.
The defects of nature were so well
supplied that he was enabled to
participate freely in field sports,
of which he was exceedingly
fond. He was widoly known in
the most famous hunting districts as a
straight bold, and fearless rider, while
the style in which he drove a four-in-hand
coach was the despair of many
of his brother whips. He wrote beau
tifully, was particularly fond of the
line arts, and had woo considerable
fame among the amateur artists as a
painte r.
His (are Fat II.
"O, Mr. Cahokia," exclaimed trie
Boston young woman with enthusiasm,
"Is it not wondrously pathetic, even
in its utilitarian aspect to observe the
gradual encroachment of rationalistic
concepts and methods on the time
honored superstitions of the age!
While our judgment may commend,
our sympathies are involuntarily ex
cited. Is it not so?"
"Of course, of course," rejoined the
St Louis young man heartly. "It's
tough while it lasts, but there's no nse
of folks going sneezing around the
way they're doing. Quinine and goose
grease will knock It sky high U thro
4ava"
HE IS A CEMU3.
Ha Invented a Wonderful Self
Waiting Tabla.
"By Jove! I've an idea!" satd Kr.
Sixby gleefully, while at the dinner
table the other day. "Now here we've
rpent half our time while at the tablo
passing things to each other ana it's
ill nonsense. I know just how it can
e done away with and I'll have the
;hing patented before a month and
nake a mint of money out of it I'm
foing to put in all my spare time on it
ind I'll show you a model of one of
ihe cleverest inventions of the age."
Mrs. Bixby did not say anything.
She was accustomed to outbursts of
his kind on the part of Mr. Bixby,
vho was frequently seized with a
nania for inventing and patenting
tomething, and as he had always re
sovered without mortgaging the house
r injuring any of the family, she
loped all would end well this time.
Three days later, after he had work
id most of the night before, he came
Mrs. Bixby with his latest "clever
,n vention."
"You see, my dear, what it is," he
laid calmly as he gave it a whirl. "It's
i revolving dining-room table, to do
iway with this eternal passing ot
things to each other. When you see
inything out of reach that you want
ill you have to do is to give the table
i gentle little whirl and there you
lave the dish you want right in front
if you. Now wh.it do you think of
hat my dear? Don't you think our
ortune is made, eh?"
"It might work, Elijah," replied
Mrs. Bixby, calmly, "if you could
nake several little improvements."
"What improvements?" snapped out
ii xby.
"Well, tell me, please, where your
iwn plato would be when the dish you
ranted had been whirled around in
rontof you?"
"Why I I it "
"And where would the rest of our
plates be.
"Well, I never thought of that I
-I"
I suppose, my dear, there might be
:ome sort of a signal given by which
ill the others could grab their plates
ind hold oq to them when the table
ras about to be whirled, or we
night"
"Take care. Harriet Amanda Bixby;
lon't you go too far now!"
"Or we might why, Elijah, what
lo you mean by throwing a valuable
latent like that into the fire?"
"What do I mean woman?' You'll
enow what I mean when you're left a
lospised grass widow with six young
ines to look out for! And that is just
rhat will happen, as sure as shoel if
'ou open your mouth again! Laugh
low! Giggle! Titter! Tee-bee some
nore, can't you? Darn a woman, anv
10 w."
NOT A SHORTHAND.
rho P&sslan Scribe Is a Cenulne
Curiosity.
f.l may be worth while to describe
;he Persian method of writing. As
nay be generally known tbey write
'rom right to left They never use a
able if it can be avoided, but write
n their hands. By preference they
sit on their knees and heels on the
loor. The pen is a reed the color of
olack walnut; the nib is cut diagonally.
This pen is called a kalemdan and is
cept in an oblong box called a kale Mi
lan. This case is made of brass or of
papier-mache, which is often most ex
quisitely decorated withhand-painting.
1'he age of a kaiemdan can be in
variably told by the costume of the
figures painted upon it In one end of
the slide of tho kalemdan is the ink
box; the ink is thickened by being
mixed with silk. The paper is g'ossy
and generally a cream tint The best
Somes from Chiun.
Every great man has his secretaries,
sach provided with a kalemdan and a
roll of sheets of paper, both of which
he carries in his girdle. If a letter or
document is to be written the secretary
immediately drops on his knees and
whips out inkhorn and paper. Laying
the former on the floor at his right he
seizes a sheet of paper in his let hand
and proceeds to write. Owing to the
position the lines always slant some
what He leaves a broad margin, and
in case the letter overruns the page he
writes on the margin in the prefer
ence to continuing on the other side of
the leaf. When the document is com
pleted no name is written, no auto
graphic signature is appended, but the
seal of the author is affixed dipped in
ink and then pressed on paper. This
seal. In the ease of officials, has the
date of the year also engraved upon it
hind is annually renewed. To counter-
iciter suco a seat orings me counter
feiter within the shadow of the
yasaktchee bashee, or lord high ex
ecutioner, and the offense is therefore
rarely attempted.
SUtlftlre ae to Haarkharke.
Ten years ago a remarkable charac
ter died in Paris.- He was knowa all
over France and the greater part of all
Europe as "The Learned Hunchback."
He was very wealthy and spent a mint
of money in the last fifty years of hie
life traveling in all directions making
researches concerning bis hunchback
ed brethren. It was in the middle
portions of Europe that he found the
misfortune most prevalent Spain
supplied the greater number, and in a
circumscribed locality at the foot of
Sierra Morena he found that there fas
one humpbacked person to every thir
teen inhabitants. Tbey were also
found to be quite numerous in the
valley of the Loire in France. The
little humpbacked statistician cume to
the conclusion that there was one
humpback in each 1,000 Inhabitants,
or an aggregate of 1,000.000 against
the estimated thousand millions of the
entire earth. After the death of this
eccentric individual his heirs found in
place of a will a voluminous manu
script of 2,000 pages, all concerning
humps. The last page, although it
said nothing about the disposition of
property, expressed the author's wish
to have a hump of marble raised over
Lis grave, with this inscription: "Here
lies a humpback who had a taste for
humps, and who knew more about
them than any other humpback.'"
Scottk Oiaaeni feetlat a Ctat
They manage dinners for poor child
ren a trifle more economically in Edin
burgh than elsewhere. In Ediaourgh
it is foijiil poaalb'e to supply for a
half penny a wholesome meal ol vege
table broth and bread. Scotch children
thrive on tha various u . o-v thick
' soups of many ingredients for which
I the cuisine of the country is celebrat
ed, and unfortunately soup of any
, kind, c'.nar or thick, is rarely prepared
ia the home of the English poor. Solid
meat bread and potatoes form the
staple diet In too many cases in
England bones art) only regarjed as
i.-eful to the rag and bone man; in
Scotland such waste is rare sveo
axaong tho poorest.
THE MOON AND ITS "SHINE."
Uessie ChamUer. in St. Xlchotat.
"Will von pul! back the cu tainj, Mamiur1 ke
said ;
"There's a beautiful moon to-iptrtit.
Anil I want to lie jr'it here In mv ed
And watch it. so yellow ar.il tirlht."
8o 1 ti led to arrance th- enrt Uns and bed
For tlie dear little la t l e ot ncoe.
"Can you see U now;' "No." he cheerfully
said,
"Hut 1 can t-e it beautiful shine."
lcar liMv ! his Imi'icvit answer I priz.
It is full of a nie.iniu ; itivme:
When the bright tlnn we wish tlrl't away
Ii'om our eves.
Slay cot we, too, rejoice in their "shijef
2SEWS IX Ml EF.
Mercury solidifies at forty degrees
lx l )v zero.
A sharp earthquake shock was
felt at different poinls in California,
Congressman M. 11. Ford died of
apop'exy at his home in O aud Hapids,
Mich.
In a quarrel Lee Jenkins shot aud
killed Wasliington F.amsey, at Lexing
ton, Kentucky.
The Kusslan Government is taking
an interest In the deve!optn ut of the
mineral springs in the Caucasus.
Electric motors are being applied
by the French Government to train
heavy guns for aruioi-.laloj vessels.
A tablespoonful of powdered aluai
sprinkled in a barrel of water will pre
cipitate all impure matter to the bot
tom. Cheap tinware Is add to be very
da .gerous, the ciating of the iron cou
tiiuing poisonous materials, generally
ant.mony.
The race difficulty at Chat lotto, N.
C, has lpn greatly exaggerated.
Bramlliam, the negn, will not lie
lynched.
Mrs. Myrtle Slm and Geote
Hardy, were drowned while boating in
thn aqueduct at Brighton Beach, near
IndianapoIK
The strike of the Burlington
switchmen In Denver, has lieen a com
plete failure, and business is going on
as if the incu bad never stopiwd work.
Jesse Lock wood, aged 70, of White
Plains, X. Y.. while insane from grip,
beat ills wife to deaih with a club,
paying the Lord bad commanded him
t do so.
At Evansvi'ie, Indiana, the whole
sale drug boue of Chiiiles Lelch X
Co., was totally destroyed by fire, lu
vo'vhig a loss of J'JO,0OJ; insurance,
SOO.fHJu.
'J lie proiortion of cotton lint to seed
is rcporcd at thir'y-lwo to thirty-three
percent., the best lesults being In the
Atlantic Slates, In Louisiana and In
Texas.
The Governor of New York has
signed a lull amending the collateral In
lit r t.mce law, which taxes direct in
heritances of $10,003 aud over in
valuo.
Professor Young saya that tha
great Lick telescope in California hat
revealed the fact that there are 100,
000. OCX suns giving light and heat to
their ianets.
The telegraph people In California
are troubled with the green wood
pecker, which bores holes In the red
cedar telegraph poles for the purpose of
building its nests.
One of the largest dynamos in tho
world is said to l e in use In an alumi
num woiks in Switzerland. The com
mutator is made of copir, and weighs
over six tons. The machine has tho
capacity or developing 14,000 amperes
at thirty volts.
The Bureau of Statistics reports
that the exports of breadstuff's from
the United States during March last
were $12,382,1.30, against $15.778,22
during the same month of the preceed
ing year.
The Winner Investment Couipiny,
Kausas City, Mo , through its Presi
dent, Willanl E. Winner, made an
assignment. No schedule of the assets
and liabilities has been filed.
A Chatfleld, Minn., family named
Marsden ate wha' tiiey supposed to be
artichokes. The food turned out to be
poisonous wild parsnips. Mrs. Mars
den died, while two others are in a.
critical condition.
Whi'e workman were engaged near
Xorristown, Pa., In removing an ex
ploded charge which had been prepared
for a blast in a s'one quarry, it explod
ed, killing two Italians and dangerous
ly wounding another.
Albert Spooks and his bride, who,
with the other guests at their wedding
in Lyndon, Ky., were poisoned, are
still at the Burnet House, Cincinnati.
Mr. Snooks' condltian Is very critical,
with the chances against him. His
wife is in a fair way to recovery.
The Federal grand jury at Chicago
has returned a true bill against George
,1. Gibson, Secretary of the Whisky
Trust, on the charge or attempting to
bribe a Government officer to blow op
Shufeldt's distillery. A capias for
Gibaon's arrest was at once issued.
A commission of six medical men
of Spain apiointed to investigate the
Koch system of treating consumptives,
has rejHirted in favor of the total sus
pension of that form of treatment, to
having been found, according to the
coturuilUe's report, that not a single,
cure has been effect d in Spain by the
use of the method in question
Attention is being given to length
ening the life of incandescent lamps.
Discolored lamps can now be opened
aud cleaned without interfering with
filaments or mountings. When the
lamp is re-exhausted and sealed It U as
durable as when new.
The jcry at Muncie, Ind., found for
the plaintiff in the (2,000 damage suit
againat tl ljke Erie and Western
railway company, instituted by Frank
Mavo, an lndianaoli9 traveling sales
man, who was ejected from a train for
refusing to pay 10 cents more than the
usual fare because of not having a
ticket
Tiie heat produced from the light of
a firefly is only one per cent, of an
equal amount of candle light. Th
bug's l:zht is produced by a them cal
ai.lii n, as It is increased l y putting the
fly in oxygen and djininislicd in an at
mosphere of nitrogen.
A new elecl.ic lamp glole is made
of eight pieces of plate glass bolted to
a brass co.l ir, the advantages cl.rmed
I being that it Is easily denned aud
trimmed, w lull' in case ' s -nMenl lo it
! a single pi.ite is less expeus.ve to r
I plate than a whole glvhe.
I Itna!w.i-s Ieen snpiwed that
there were no coal veins in Cihfornla,
the gPOiT.iiilrca! formation not being
favoiati e, but sot coal aud llgolta
have been found and uti now is'ued La
large quantifies.
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