I ' ' mm B. F. BOHWEIER, THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLV. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 20, 1S91. NO. 22. A FADfcD VIOLET. rUOM 9 BAIl.ET ALDKIOB. v .thi.n ht i fo'il -d In tliy lea Ml x ,t I. .i'i' r tli ;ht. lialM-eelil.ss pal 'llii'u'url.ugol the April raiul o! h.j.l ihv f i'l' '1 '"I" I" ml". 'I . ,'.-.-iit:iiiii aurelliit U, , ' om. -tl.ilu i 'e .ia and are fled i il dead. u,..,,,.. !!.".-' Ite.l like tl.y leaves, il .eoum-'- . "I l).-:inty don; n lh- I fl!...-ehli hands I II it 1""'' 1 a rivcr s ,,rllu Th.t l.iiin.l ". when thy rti wy month li e. iniieui with -t inn l wine y.,,J, i l who l..ve Inris.it, I liul.l th) lo "'ie! flint t o hiil'l"st live when I am dead, tt li. n It it- i 'le:"l r me. and wrong. For tills I y '"I'tieat art, Kor l.in. I I"''1 "i" "' u,y soiig. JI1SS DADY'S NEW SHOES. lit JESHIE P. AKMSTRONQ. The fact is, Miss J'abv,"said nurse, ..y0n got out of bed the wrong side this morning; vou nave been cross a'lday." "I didn't petted out at all," answered M.ss Baby, "you took me out your owDself, nurse. And O, do put on my oew shoes, because they are so pretty!" "No, you cunnot wear them to-day, so it is no use to ask. Here are your other Hliiies; try to put them on your self while 1 go and dress." And nurse put l"wn a nice little thick pair of shoeB by Miss Baby, who sat on the floor punting. Then nurse went iuto the next room, and baby, who was dressed to go out, looked iiround. Opposite to her was a wardrobe, and through its open door liaby could see the new shoes. They hud been bought for her birth Jay party the week before the day she was five years old very pretty little brou.e shoes they were and Miss Baby as rather proud of them. She looked at tlii-tn, anil then in two minutes they were on baby's little feet, and these very soon carried Miss Baby herself into the pardon. She was tired of wait ing Nurse was so long dressing. And she could hear music, and wanted to know what it was. And also, deep in her lit: lo mind, baby had an idea that if she could get the start of nurse, and wait fur her in the garden, she would never know that she hal on her new shoes. A little blacK-eyed boy with a violin, was looking through the garden gate, and when he siw Miss Baby coming he laughed aud nodded to her in the most friendly manner, as ho played. Soon nurse, who was still in her bed room, heard such merry sounds coming from the garden that sue quickly went to the window to see what was going on. 'Sur. ly that is Miss Baby's voice!" ihe said to herself; "how naughty of her to run out alone!" Now nnrse was rather a "slow-coach" It took her a long time to pnt on her jacket aud bonnet; and then she goner ally found she had buttoned tier jacket wrong, and she had to undo it, and do it all again. So she had plenty of time to watch baby and the little violin boy, as the stood dressing at the window. And this is what she saw. First of all baby stood at a little dis tance from the gate, shyly laughing at the little musician, as tab sang bis mer ry song, rolling his black eyes and toss ing his black curls. Then the little girl drew nearer to the gate, and stood, beating time with one tiny foot. At last the boy began to dance with his little barn feet, and nnrse heard a shriek of delighted laughter from Miss Baby, and then sue saw ber open tbe gate and drag the boy into the garden. "(), Miss Baby!" screamed nnrse. "Von natightv child! How dare you?" Quickly she finished buttoning Iter laoket all wrong for tbe third t me. hastily she caught up her garden hat snd put it on, wrong side betore. Down the staircase and through the hall wont nnrse, really in a hurry for once. V hen she reached the children on the lawn she could hardly believe her eyes. At first she was too amazed and shocked to sneak. The little Italian boy sat on the grass trying to force a grimy, bare foot into one of baby's bronze shoes, and baby, deeply interested and unaware of nurse's approach, stood watching him, with the other shoe ready in her hand. In another moment nurse bad joined the pair. Then there was such a noise as ia not often hoard anywhere but in the parrot-house at the Zoological Gardens. Miss Baby's mamma heard it, and came running from the house, wondering wh it it could mean. There stood the little Italian, rob bing a dirty little fist into each eye, snd shrieking shrilly at the top of bis roioe. Nurse, with a face like a turkey-cork, was talking loud and fast, as the shook her finger at the boy and threatened him with the dog and policeman, and Miss Baby, screaming Mid stamping in a passion of rage, was beating nurse with the "Grannie' bon net she bad snatched from her head for ihe purpose. "O, baby, baby! What is the mat ter?'" cried mamma, as she came up. "lie he hadn't gotted any shoes ind so I gaved I gaved him mine!" lobbed baby. "Well, well, darling, but yon mnst aot brat poor nurse. Come, leave off "ying. and tell me why nurse is angry nj why that little boy "is crying?" Then mamma sat down and took baby n her lap, and while nurse pnt on her hoes, she and the little girl together ld her nil about it "But he is a poor little boy, and I wanted to give him my shoes," said Baby, dolefully. '.'Well, darling, I am glad you are wry for the little boy, but vour shoes will not fit him, he shall have some 'hers. Go upstairs, please, nnrse, and totig iwn an old pair of Master Har lds; they will fit hi r, 1 should think." Nurse went awav, and then baby's nother told her that she must tell nurse he was sorry that she had put on her Jest shoes when she had told her not to logo; and that she ought not to give my of her clothes away without asking eave. "Are yon angry, mamma?" asked by, tearfully. 'No, dear; I am not angry now I see rou are sorry. It always makes moth iryery rry when baby is disobedient ind passionate; but I always love you, tarling, even when you are naughty." Baby was silent for a few minutes, ben Bhe asked: "And does God, too?" "Yes, my darling; God loves us al ways, even when we are naughty. And ecauge he loves us so much we ought o trT , please Him, don't you think o? Because it makes him so sorry to e ns naughty." "Tea, mamma." said baby. And then nnrse came bMk with brother Hai old's shoes, and baby gav them to the little Italian boy, who by this time had stopped crying. -mere are Dt.-ger. b e mid to him, and vnnr fnf will .... int. ml - " f"i t." .uci-c 1 1 r. they are brother HarolU'a. anJ Harold iv : t Then they made the child sit down on the graw aud put ou the shoes which really did fit And then biby's mother gave him sixpence, and Alias Baby picked a flower and gave it to her little friend, and then stood hold ing her mother's hand snd smiling at the little boy as he walked awiy nod ding and smiling, with his little violin tucued under his arm. And he never once said "Thank you!"' remarked nurse. "But he looked it," said mamma. "And now, dear, you must go back into the house and have another pair ol shoes put on. '' "les, mamma, I will," siid Miss Ba by; "and 1 am sorry, nnrse; and I feel good again now, really." "Hum!" said nurse, "I hope it wiU last !" (ems from Sam Jones's Sermons. Vou old skunk, you! I, the biggest lish that swims. You boys keep quiet, or git out. Christianity is the science of life. Just mush their mouths und you've got 'em. Now don't you feel mean, you ok' devil, you? I don't know who is these fellows spiritual daddy. A preacher who does not hold family prayer ain't fit to be pastor of a litu-'i of pups. Some of you will go off and criticise. loti blub-mouthed fools, who cares what you think? The penitent sinner is the man who falls down, jumps up, rubs his shins and goes a-runniiig. Brother Jack there don't want any more members in his church, for hall he s got ain t worth killing. The Lord can catch these infidel the only trouble is he hurdlv has a hool small enough for them to swallow. You are all bhuk-nioutlied devih who belong to the church, and whet the yellow fever came were white wit! fear. I can put a hundred of these littU infidels in my vest pocket and nevei know they are there except I felt foi my toothpick. I don't know of anything too buc for you old mangy hounds who re fused to vote against the dumnullf whiskey traffic. The only difference between the Bap tists and the Methodists is the differ ence lietween high-cock-a-loruni unc low-cock-a-highreiii. If any merchant here keeps oper during these meetings, it will be souk little tifteen-cent-skin- a- flea-for- his hide - and - tullow member of souk church. A high-license preacher won't be ir hell ten minutes before the devil wit have him saddled and bridled, ridin" him around and exhibiting him as J curiosity. If any one here don't believe w hat 1 say, and will tell me so, I will giv lii in a hat and some dentist a job of re placing his teeth from the wisdom tooth down. What are you old Presbyterians kick ing about you old possum-eared hounds? Live ones kick, dead one don't. If a muii was to come to mv town and talk about my church like 1 have yours, I would either cowhidf him or build a new church. A Word for the Young Man. Give the young man a chance. It is common enough to hear such state ments as: "he is too young," "he is all right, but not old enough," which re marks are usually made by men who are beginning to feel the charm ol youth slipping away from them. Ad mitted that all young men, no muttei how promising, have much to learn, it is not fair to condemn them upon the ground of youth alone as is frequently the case. Young men often do bril liant professional work which is either unnoticed, or reproved as being an un due exhibition of youthful enthusiasm which, were it performed by an older man would be promptly commended. "He won't last long, he is too young" we often hear. Admitted again thai many young men of fine promise do flash up like a rocket and come down like a stick, ret there are many who gain in brilliance with years, as history gives abundant evidence. Charles James Fox was in Parliament at nine teen. AVho ever questioned his work or worth? At twenty-four Gladstone was lord of the treasury. How many times must the taunt of liis youth have been flung at him. At thirty-two Judge Story was on the supreme bench. At eighteen Leo X. was cardinal and at twenty-four a pope. Tcel, Beacons field, Seward, Washington, Xapoleon, and Bacon were all famous before their twenty-fifth year. When that brilliant youth in the halls of Parlia ment pleaded guilty to the "atrocious crime of being a young man," he fought the tattle all young men have had to fight since the distrust, the bitterness, the envy of those who hav ing held the reins of power, find them slipping from their hands only to be grasped by younger men. It is inevi tabH. Time marches on, silvering I ho hair, diminishing the eye's luster and decreasing the energy, while younger generations follow closely, eager for a chance to win their spurs in the world's battle. The time will soon come when the young men of our day, who so boldly and confidently take up the work, will be forced from the scene of action by those who are now kicking their baby toes in their cribs. It is inevitable, we say. So let us have a little mercy for the man who is so un fortunate as to be young. Judge him bv his work not his years. Keokuk Gate City. Lieutenant Henu aud his wife, who came over here in the yacht Gala tea several seasons ago to contend for the America's Cup, are to spend tho uunmer along the shores of Ireland, their yacht accompanying them. Near Austin. Texas, are the finest gray and red granite, lituozrnph and graphite quarries. The Chinese Government has negoti ated a tan of S50,rXK),000 with France and Xnalandi 30W AN INDIAN PRAY? ? FORMATION ABOUT THE CHER- OKEES IN NORTH CAROLINA. farious Spirits to Talk to and Earnest Supplications, "In the most mountainous part of r ester ii North Carolina, isolated among be wildest and roughest hills of the Mleghenies, are 1,200 pure bred Cher kees on a reservation of 73,000 acres," laid James Mooney, ethnological ex pert. "The missionaries claim that nost of them are Christians, but ex- ended observation has convinced me Jiat very few of them do anything more than profess the white man's re- lgion. Thev like to gather at meet ing and gratify their musical instinct )y singing hymns, but that is usually is far as their conversion carries hem. At heart, in ueajly all cases .hey remain true to their ancient faith I'he final test, however, is found in the nek Indian. hen in good health, be nay be the most promising convert un- isrinable. but the moment he feels in disposed he calls in the native medicine nen with their charms and incanta ;ions. The latter address form u he in Jie ancient ritual language, among )ther things, to various annuals. "And why to annuals r" be was isked. "It is the custom to address prayers a animals in sickness always. The Cherokee religion, you must under itand, is a worship of nature and all aer manifestations birds, beasts, fish, water, the sun and moon, the moun tains, storms, thunder and lightning. md so on indefinitely. If the patient lias a toothache, for instance, the med icine man tells In m that it is a worm in the tooth, and he prays: 'O good squirrel, d come and take out the norm from this tooth and carry it iway to the dark side of the mountain, md put it inside of an old dead log A certain small fish is supposed to ;ause a great deal of sickness. You see, the fish are angry at being caught nd eaten, and their ghosts often come back to torture the people who de voured them, with various complaints When a person is thus attacked by a !ish ghost, a prayer is addressed lo the lilue cat, who is king of all the fishes, io come and drive out the other lish. If the case is bad the red man, the blue man, the white man and the black man are invoked. "Water and fire are worshipped, too?" "With great awe. Water is prayed to under tbe name of the long man, who has his head in the mountains and his foot in the ocean. To the Chero kees the river is a live person. 'Oh make me like you.' they say, 'who are so big and so strong that you carry immense logs vast distances and no power can resist you.' And tire is trailed the ancient white, because it is very old, the dead ashes are white and Ihe flame is white. We don't call flame w hite, but they do, their differ entiation of colors being less distinct than ours. The red-hot coals are the ancient red. Lightning and thunder together they call the great red men. lie is red, you see, because he is pow erful, red being the color signiliying power. The sun is called the measur er, because it measures time. When he is in love, the Cherokee prays to beautiful birds, to the river, to the sun, and to the moon. "Most frequently he addresses the yellow-hammer beseeching it to make him handsome and attractive to the women. Also, he prays to the red spider red being symbolic of success to wind its meshes around the heart jf his loved one. t )f the prayer form ula used in supplicating all these ob jects and many more I have . brought back with me from Xorth Carolina a very complete collection. They are ill wonderfully poetical. Very pret tily imaginative is the prayer addressed io an approaching storm that threatens the corn crop, which supplies their staple food. The priest stands at the corner of the corn-patch with one hand uplifted as if to warn the storm way." "Do they worship the mountains?' "Yes; and all the plants that grow n them. For instance, they pray to the ginseng, which has a forked root crudeK- resembling the shape of a human" being. They call it the very treat man, and when they find one of the plants they repeat a formula taught Lhem by the priests, for a considera tion, saying: -O mountain, I have tome to take a small piece from your side.' Then the tinder digs the plant ap and puts a glass head into the hole, to ray the mountain for the plant. The seventh plant found has an espe sial medicinal value, and the first four plants discovered must not be touched, though after others have been gath ered the searcher may go back and collect those four." "How do these people live?" "In the simplest log cabins, many of them without windows or floors. The people are often very cold in winter, but they don't seem to mind it. They ire purely agricultural and corn bread ind salt pork chiefly compose their ivet. Such game as they get rabbits, squirrels, birds aud other small fry is shot with blowguns made of hollow SshKlc cane with the joints bored out. In the use of this weapon they are so xport that they can bringdown a small oird from the top of a tall tree with nc of the light reed arrows feathered with thistle-down which they cmploy for projectiles. The canes thev need for uiiiking the blowguns are obtained from brakes in South Carolina mostly, 100 to 200 miles away. To illustrate the value set by a Cher akee upon his time, it occurs to me to mention that on one occasion when I wanted a blow-gun, possibly worth 75 ;ents, 1 asked one of the Indians to ell me one. He said he had none to pare, but would go over to South Carolina perhap9 a ihi ee-weeks jour ney there and back and get a reed for ;he purpose. The fish, whose ghosts torture them so much, they catch in. rreut numbers by trap9 in the stream; Jie finny prey is led into a sort of pound and dipped out with baskets or speared. The men handle the spear Mid the women the baskets. When bis method fails a section of a stream s .imined in two places and the space jrtwfcn poisoned with walnnt bark. The medicine brings all the fish to the mrface, betlv-npward, and they are juic-kly gathered in, aV Ages and Appetites of Birds. A German ornithologist has bees ooking into the subject of birds' ages ecently. The swan, be concludes, n he longest lived of all birds. The ldest swan of which there is a record ived 300 years. Many falcons are :nown to have lived 162 years. The nlture and thi eagle are also very ong lived. In 1819 an osprey died which nan wen caught in 1715, at which time il ras full grown and probably five oi ix years old. A white-headed vui ure caught in 1700 died in the bird louse of the imperial palace at Schou iruun, near Vienna, in 1824. Parrots often live a century after bey have been captured and tamed. sea and swamp birds usually live sev- ral generations. Geese, if left tc bcmselves, and cuckoos also reach rery old age. Ravens rarely die un- ler 100 years of age. Magpies sei- loin pass more than twenty or twenty ive years iu confinement. Whec ree thev live forty or fifty years. The barnyard rooster in good luck is renerally healthy and strong till he has jassed his fifteenth year, rigeom ire cood for ten years; singing bird! for eight to eighteen years. Kightin rales in captivity live about ten years: alackbirds about bf teen years; eana ric9, in captivity, twelve to fifteer rears, although on the islands whert :hey originated they often live twenty ive or thirty years. Just wbv birds tret so much more ol .ife than luen is something that nobody tnows. One reason often given ii Jiat they eat so much. A bird's appe .ite is tremendous. A thrush puU lown with one swallow the biggesi mail. To perform a corresponding feat a man would have to take a whol eg of beef at a bite. A robin rec jreast is also a terrible eater. It has jeen calculated that a mass of fooc jquivIent to an angle worm fourteen feet long is required daily to Keep robin iu good condition. Honored. Old Elder K was one of the "odd Wicks" one often heard of in the Con nect icut Valley half a century ago fii his voiinirer davs he preached tin rosnel'with treat vigor aud in a man ier calculated to strike terror to th learts of all evil-dovrs ; but as he grew jhler his mental vigor waned with hn nlivsirnl forces and it began to b nrlifrpered around that Elder K waxn't "exactly riirht." which was nolite and indefiriate way of sayint hat his mind was going from him He insisted, however, on filling tin pulpit he had so long filled until his friends were compelled to keep hire sway by force. One Sunday morning, whew hU enc ;esor was alxuit to begin his sermon Elder K surprised the coiigrvgaiior by inarching down the aisle and np tc the pulpit, where he began haraiigvia the congregation, regardless of lb rights and presence of his scaudaliznc ncressor. Here was a dilemma. Tlie four dca ons and others of the bretlwrn hastily consulted together and Elder K was gently remonstrated with, but at to no purpose. He flatly refused tc leave the pulpit, and kept right or preaching a terrifying sermon. Finally the four deacons, vigorout men in spite of their years, walked into tbe pulpit, seized the struggling snd rebellious elder, and started oul with him on their shoulders. her lialf way down the aisle, he still f urthei jcandnjized the congregation by bawl ing out satirically : "How much better, after all, am 1 treated than my blessed Master, for h bad but one ass on which to ride, while Ihavefourl Hallclooyer!" A Lake I'niler Indiana. T. P. Smythes, who has made som important geological discoveries ir Indiana, stated to an Indianapolis re porter: "There is a great lake under a part of liuliaua, a9 you are already probably convinced. I have explored it. 1 was sinking a well on my plar in Orange County when suddenly the drill knocked a piece out of the bottom and disappeared. Through the open ing cold, clear water rushed, tilling the well to the depth of twenty feet. At this level it stands. I have pumpec' water for hours, using a steam engine once, and the water does not lower an inch. One day I drew up a fish in a bucket of water. I had heard neigh bors tell stories of subterranean lish, but this was the first I had seen. 1 have it here in alcohol. As you see, it is ryeless." The fish was small, of reddish color, ami almost transparent. Hi IJiiig it before the light one could c- unt every bone in the fish. The pun of the state where the under ground lake exists is hilly, full of gulches and caves. It is there that Lost River, a considerable stream, gradually sinks away and finally dis appears altogether. A few miles west, at Orangcville, a great body of water (commonly believed to be a lost river) gushes from the earth. Il foams and gushes against the rock and comes forth in sufficient power and ouatitity to furn'sh power for a mill. Expelled for Attending a Fnneral. Sixteen students of the Military Academy of Medicine in St. Peters burg have been expelled for attending a funeral service of M. Tchernichew akv, the nihilist, who died recently. For several days the aatthorities have been investigating what tliey believed to be a plot against the emperor. The result is that several persons who were -supposed to be connects! with tin? plot J:.e been expelled from the capital. Miss Willard on Womnn's Dres. Miss Willard, in a recent lecture ipnn woman's dress, makes the follow ing interesting tvueroent: Catch Edison and constrict him in side a wasp waistcoat, and be sure vou'll tret no more inventions; bind bustle upon Bismarck, and fsrewell to German unity ; coerce Robert Brown ing into corsets, and you'll have no more epics ; put Parnell into petticoats, snd home rule is a lost cause. It Beats Yaerinatlon. Patient How is it, doctor, "that the medical fraternity seldom contract eon tagions diseases, even du : ng sui pi iemic? Physician Oh, they frighten, the Jiseaes away. "Frighten them away! How?" 'By presenting their bills to them." Areola Record. - - - 2 FAMOUS TURKEY DRIVING FLOCKS OF THOUSANDS ON yUK- TJECS HIGHWAY. doatled by Boys Daring tne Day, boost ing on Trees by Night To tbe stranger who visits that part of North America in which Quebec is situated, in the fall of the year, par- icularly during the latter part of Octo ber, nothing is likely to be more in teresting than the great flocks of poul try driven along the public highways to stations on the Vermont Central Railway for shipments to various points in the States, where they are rested and fed up before killing and dressing for the market in New York ty. uroves aggregating many nunareus i of turk ys, and other hundreds still of ducks, go straddling and waddling. piping and quacking along the road with a man iu front to coax and a lot af happy-go-lucky boys behind to drive, without attracting any other Krt of attention from a native than a farmer would bestow on a passing bunch of steers; but to the stranger it is a sight not soon to be forgotten. One drove that contained 1,500 tur- seys alone arrived here the other day, snd was quickly huddled in a cattle :ar aud shipped off into Vermont. That was a big flock for these days, snd it made quite a little stir herea . I bouts. Time was when an ordinary IliH-k consisted of 2,000 turkeys, 1,000 jeese and 700 or 800 ducks, while flocks of 5,000 turkeys, and a corre onding large number of geese and lucks were not unknown. Theso would be strung along over a half mile of the public road, and a small irmv of Iuivb was needed for the euro nf them The poultry drovers were almost in variably Yankees, and Vermont Yan kees at that. The driving season began in September aud ended in November. At the opening of the season the boss Irover would drive up through Quebec in a two-horse wagon, going often as far as the St. Lawrence Kiver, either shove or below Montreal. He had his igents at every village along his route, j 7.,1 to -u-enf I. Im.l nrfviouslv ....!.. h. ..M rtv,r Bip (St H iJ IVV iW r J I j- .- for each sort of birds. The prices in the old times were about 60 cents a pair for turkeys, the same for geese, snd from 30 to 35 cents a pair for lucks. Since the building of the Ver mont Central prices have advanced. snd this year tho dealers have been paying 8 cents a pound for prime tur keys, such as sell for 18 cents in Fulton Market, New York, while geese have brought $1.-10 a pir, and ducks CO cents. Ilaviiir. as one may av, billed Ins 1 route, the drover began buying at the river end of it. The agents every where along the route 011 the Sunday before or perhaps two Sundays before the drover was expected to come back ver the route would go to the pari.li church as the people were coming out from the service, and getting upon the church steps where they could see the people and all .could see them, they would announce in a loud voice that the drover would reach that village on a certain day and would pay such and such prices in cash for turkies, geese and ducks delivered at a certain place in the village usually the yard or garden of the agent. The day named was a great event in the year's kistorv of that parish. The arrival of the boss drover at a village for the purchase of the surplus crop j a dinner party, he did not detect the of poultry in that vicinity was usually 1 compositor's error. This error, in fact, on the day before the arrival of tbe ei,uM have teen detected by the main drove, which lie had purchased ( "eopv-holder." cr person who followed further up the road. This gave a with his eye the wordii.g in the "copy," slight's rest and a comfortable feed to ' as t1P pr0of-rcNoer read aloud from the fowls purchased, and they were ' t,e proof; but in this case, the "copy read r to fall in line the next morning '. holder," duplicating tbe mistake tf the and travel away on the road to cr- mout. The buying began up on tho St. Lawrence River somewhere, and the drove on the first day it started toward Vermont consisted, of course, of the fowls purchased in one parish, the number amounting perhaps to no more than two or three hundred, see ing that it was a river parish. But each village added its hundreds, while purchases were made at about every farm house passed by the drove. The drivihg along the road wa3 done by a man and from three to thirty boys, according to the size of the flock. As many boys as could be obtained were hired for large flocks. A man would walk in front with a sack of corn, oats or peas, or all three in one, maybe, slung over his slmulder as a farmer carries his grain when sowing it broadcast. At inter vals this man ssould take a handful of grain from the sack and scatter it in the road. This kept the fowls next to him in a constant state of expectation, aud they followed readily. Those further away saw what the front ones were doing, and carue along, too, but this only served to keep a small bunch on the move, after all, and the man in front was not infrequently dispensed with. The boys were depended on to keep the flock or drove moving. To enable the boys to do this with cer tainty the drove was divided into bunches of about 800, and each bunch had three or four boys to care for it. Ordinarily the birds walked along without trouble. Ou pleasant, cool days, with dry roads, a flock would cover twenty mih.s lietween sun and sun. On stonny days, or when the roads were muddy, they not infre quently marched no more than eight or ten, and it was a mighty hard day's work for the boys at that. In the rain or mud the turkeys were very easily tired, and when a turkey gets tired he gets discouraged and squats down in the road. The boys were only ten 1 twelve vears old sometimes lads of a J eirht were employed, and a turkey of tweive or eighteen pounds was s mighty big load for one of them. When nightfall came the turkeys would fly upon the fences and thence into the trees and shrul along the roadside. No efforts -would make them go further, though it sometimes happened that the flock began to roost when less than a mile from their ulti mate dest'nation The feeling's of the drover anxious to reach home at such a time can be imagined. But nothing couid be done to keep the turkeys travelling. So when the birds began to show a disposition to go to roost, the boss would bring out the corn and oats aud peas and give them all a liber, al feed. If a farm house was handy by, the drover and his boys would make their headquarters there. If not, they built fires and camped out. As the Vermont line was approached camping out was necessary for the safety of the birds every night. It was a hilly country there, and foxes that knew all about turkey drives abounded. Highgate, Vt., is in a famous country for foxes. In that country five or six fires would be built about the flock, while sentinels stood guard at times. The distance which poultry was driven was often more than 100 miles. irives lasting ten davs and of an aver- ! age of eighteen miles a day are told of here. , There is no way of telling how many turkeys and other sorts of poultry were driven through into Vermont in the old days. This year, up to Nov. iou h 03, about 2o,000 were shipped over the Vermont Central. Ex. "To Err is Human." Some years airo. an editor of a bi weekly paper published by the students of Yale College was astonished, and even more scandalized, to learn that an editorial which he had regarded with fond pride referred to old maids who served as pudding for a dinner party. Turning the page he scanned another product of his )n,a thrilling romance, and discovered that the battled villain ! hail lired three ballets into himself. The said editor had wntteu in the hrst article: " 0I1I maiilti who served as padJing fo Uiiinrr party." In the second article he had written: " tired three bullets into himself." It is often asked with virtuous in dignation why such typographical er ror as these 01-riii- The exnluuMion. 1 . 'aside from the total depravity of 111- animate things, can readily be given. Iu fact, the wonder grows that such mistakes do not far ot'tener occur. Immediately before a written article is given to compositors to be "set," the "copy," as the manuscript is termed bv printers, is scissored into "takes," or portions of ten or twenty lines. Sometimes, slight attention is paid to the paragraphing aud the punc tuation of the written page when tne "-'' ,s l""8 cui up, m cuuscqu, ... . the last line of a "take may otten end in the middle of u sentence. When ' such is the case, the "take" is said to I' "end even." After a manuscript i3 cut up, the "takes" are commonly put on a copy , hook, and indicated by a letter of the 'alphabet, followed by consecutive 'figures. For instance, the editorial j w hich brought such consternation to ' the student-editor was cut up into three "takes," indicated as E 1, E 2 and K 3. iThe first "ended even" with the word ' "as." mid the second "liegan even" j with the words "padding for a dinner party. 1 lie compositor w no iook from the hook tho first "take" set it according to'copy, while the composi tor who took the second "take" made the error (a very common one) of mis taking a for , and so converted "pad ding" into "pudding." The first com positor finished Ins "take quickly, and a proof of it was immediately read by the proof-reader. The other compositor was slow, and did not finish his "take" until several minutes after compositor No. 1 had finished his. In the meantime, the proof-reader, having been busied with important and pressing statistics, had forgotten the exact ending of E 1 See ing that E 2 began with "pudding for a dinner party," and believing that middimr was proper and desirable at . coniiiositor, also mistook a for u. A similar mistake w s made in the case of the scheming villain who "fired three ballets into himself" with the exception that was mistaken for n. The first "take" "ended even" with the word "three," and the next "began even" with "bullets." The composi tor who set the second "take" subse quently observed that he didn't have time to make sense of the "take," and thought he had done his duty iu fol lowing (as he believed at the time) the "copy." The same editor who experienced the two harrowing surprises referred to, subsequently wrote, in reporting an evening address by Chauncey M. De pew, the sentence: "We do not thus sully our arms." In reading the print ed account next morning he saw to his horror: "We do not thus Sallv our aims." The considerate compositor had mistaken Ihe in "sully" for an a, land, to n.ake sense, had made the first 1 letter in the word "uppercase," or a capital. Moral: rite your u s and vour a s in such wise that type-setters cain.ot mistake them. A Young Monarch. One of the youngest monarch in iie world is King Thantai of Annam. He is 9 ye irs of age, very precocious, and fully conscious of the importance of his position. He is solemn and thoughtful, disdains all childish sjiort and spends all of his time in the se clusion. of his palace, studying, con versing T.ith aged counselors, and poring over books and manuscripts. He is ler ruing Chinese and French, and shows remarkable aptitude in the acquisition of foreign tongues. He is very arbitrary and exacting, and his teachers stand in great awe of him. New York World. A Widow of Sixteen Remarried. Mr. Jesse Breedlove was married al or Clurmont a few day s ago to Mrs. Lillie Ludinirton bv Squire L. It. Jodd. The bride was a widow only sixteen years of age, she having btren married when only twelve years old. Her bus band died two and a half years ago They will live at their new home Mount Vesta. A Novel Mode of Election. Eoyle county has just tried the Fay ette plan of holding a private election This cons.-ts in two men in eacli pre- ciiHl carrying a sealed ballot-box froci house to house, the voter iM-ing fur nished tii-kets by a representative ot all candidates. It required four days to collect the votes aud sixteen hours to count the ba"U- ru&titlon Sngar Hon?. The sugar house was a picturesque light on those niiibts, says a writer on A Blasted Home" in the St. Louis Republic. The darkeys, half-nude, 'talwart and black, fed the roaring ires aud stirred with long-handled ndles the boiling, seething liquid, lipping and lifting, watching the con b'tency of the falling torrent with inu-tised eyes until it was ready to our a beautiful, molten stream into he coolers, square box-shnped recept ees, w here it cooled and grained. The nisiakc of a few uioments ni wotlti housands of dollars; if poured ton toon, the mass would not grain pra- erly; if too late, the quality walk De mpaired; so earh "strike" was a irf V er of anxious attention ivMil proven .uccessful. The constant arrival of tho loaded nne carts, and departure of the empty nes; the whir of the vast machinery, md "crunch" of the hugo rollers -rushing the transparent juice from he rich succulent cane; the constant umbliug of the flattened remains of he once juicy stalks into the bagasse" leaps; the crowds or busy darkeys, aligning and romping when oil-duty a ew moments, but steady and attentive .vhen at work; all these make a pict- ire that hangs "on memory s wall, ind almost "secineth the best of all," vheu the past, with its panorama of lappiuess and trouble, comes befor ine'a eves. The Rite r Iteath. Victor l'oissaut, a young electrician if Omaha, has a very ingeuious way of .illing rats. As he has been practicing his method of electrocution at inter als for the past three vears he may bo airly credited with having anticipated he New York scientists who are now nizzliiig themselves and the rest of Mankind as to the propriety of send ng Mr. Kemmler ont of the world by he overhead w ire system. The pry ng rodeut is caught in an ordinary val trap, the bottom of which is coy red with tin. Mr. Poissant has a mall dynamo of his own manufact ure. One wire, connected with the Iviiamo, is fastened to the tin lining f the trap, and another is thrust into he prisoner's cell. The well-known ropensity of a caged rat to d battle tsserts itself, and he siezes the wire ictwecn his teeth. In doing so he takes the mistake of his life. The ircuit is completed, his jaws close on he wire with a death grip, and with uit a squeak and almost without s juiver he passes into a state of etcrna' lesuetude. Boys That Are Too Smart. In a little town near Chicago thert s a school house close to the tracks ol 1 trunk line railroad. The consequence f this juxtaposition of the two things is one that never would occur to any :ut the boyish mind. The boys got up i game which consisted in their seeing which ane should bo the last to jump lcross the track in front of the expresi .rain that passes there at fifty miles ar liour just after school lets out. Thif fame has already cost at least three lives. The other day a railroad em ployee went to the mother of one ol :he boys to tell her what her son wiu loing. She told him she could tak :are of her own children and wisnlcc 110 interference by lattletales. Shi ave him a scolding he will never for get. One reason why he will ncvci forget it is that the boy was killed by :he express train one week afterward The engineer said he saw the boy stand ing by the track, but never dreamer! lie meant so try to cross it ahoad of tin 'rain. Knohhery Snubbed. The kind of snobbery that r.corni what it calls the "working-classes' is sickening. No true gentleman 01 !ady, however wealthy or educated, i: guilty of it. Narrow-minded, shallow urained nincompoops who indulge ir Affected disdain of the "working classes" area disgrace to their country. But the number of such people is in creasing, and they cannot be too often hold up to public ridiclule and con lenipt. These people set themselves ii as the "better element." when in fact they constitute one of the mos' langerous factors in un-Aiucricanizin; ociety. This outgrowth of Englist mobbery deserves to be rebuked when ever met with. The theory of oui government is that "all men are fre mil equal. As fast as we fall away from this ideal, in the same propor ion will grave social dangers increase, Honest labor is honorable wherever 1 nay be performed. N. E. Home lead. A Sure Care for Cigarettes. iiahiuial tobacco users ana wiusk Irinkers have keen cured by the fob lowing plan : Those who suioke theii first cbgarette, say at seven o'clock It the morning, begin by putting it of just ten minutes past the hour for 1 few days, then make it fifteen 01 twenty minutes, and so on until it wil be noon and then night before th irst one is smoked. If it is slow it ii certainly a sure way of tapering off, 11 faithfully followed. Medical World A Short Prayer. The small boy of a Trumbull aveniii home was very sleepy one night and .ked his mother if he might say i hort prayer. ' She told him that he 'ould. Can I say just what I please ?" "Yes, dear; any prayer you please. r The little fellow gave a sigh of ro ief, d-tipped down on his chubby cnee, clasped his little hands anc ..veetly lisped: "Amen, God." . ,. . . o 7"T accompuspeu pu " hat do yon wish?' asked tni errant who answered the ring at tht .oar. Baron de Veauminct." "What do you wish to see him for?" "It is in relation to a promissory - J 'The Baron went out of town yester- !ay." "Now, that is too bad . wanted tc 1 if him the amount I owe him." "But," added the servant, "he re nrned this morning." French Joke, Pearl Will Be Higher. I The strike of the 3000 workers ia oother-of-pearl in Vienna is likely tt y miiel American importers to par I .. LIitltAi. mta than nQTinl frtr thS ircie, but they have thus far decline :?L, Vienna t. th chief mann, facturin? centre for the article .SEWS IN r.KIEI Mtal shingles are her- I Mlk is maCs from paper pulp, j Copper Is melted bv electricity. I Cleveland has a : 10,000 street car; I A railroad car registers the condi tion of the roatl. I A sheet of plate glass is 3d8 squarfc feet, 128 inches. i It has been recently discovered that Shakespeare never speaks a good word for dogs. I A lamp that burns cologne and flings , delightful tceuH is a new thin; for the : boudoir. The Duke of Wellington was born at Dungan r'astle, County ot Mealh, Ireland, In 1709. A saw has been designed for cut ting iron, mild steel or other metals of fairly large sections. AH the bridges over the Erie Canal, et Rochester, X. Y.,are to be operated hereafter by electricity. A Spanish potato, raised at Claik ville, G;i., this season, was four feet and eight inches in length. A West Philadelphia poet in his latest e.T. rt attempts to make "tobog gau" rhime with "oh, come again!" A postmaster In Texas committed suicide the other day because be bad been Indicted for stealing forty cents. An alderman in Janevllle, Wis., lias been fined $25 for allowing a chicken fight In front of his place ot business. There are new 1034 compound loco motives at work or building, 523 l elng In England. 330 in Germany and eight In North America. At Kingston, Jamaica, oranges sell at two ceuts per dozen, and lananas are so plentiful that the owners are glad to get rid of the fruit at any price. The steam hammer used In forging the armor plates of Bethlehem, Pa.,haa a plunge equal in weight to 125 tons. Hie anvil that receives this blow weighs 1400 tons. A volunteer vine at Ilanford, Cal., yielled foitv-two monstrous pumpkins, and another vii.e thirty. The product of either vine would make a good wagon load. William Fowler is the name of an eiuht-y ear-old tramp now in Menu his, Tenn. lie began to travel when barely six years old, and has been all over the country. To prevent the evaporation of water In Are pails It has been suggested that fifteen to twenty drops or oil will form a co itlng sufficient to obviate the diffi culty. There has been invented a machine for cutting tubes of paper for pill-boxes. The operations are all automatic and the woi k is said to be rapidly per formed. Proprietors of the Pullman car in vention report that paper car wheels have run 400,000 miles under their cars, while the averase running powor of aa iron wheel is but 5o,000 miles. During magnetic storms earth cur rents on the Br tlsh lines of telegraph have been known to attain the strength of forty mllliftmperes. This is stronger than the usual working cur rents. The only man tried, found guilty and executed for treason during the existence of the United States wai William B. Mumford, in 18C2. The execution took place In New Orleans, under an order of Major Ueueral Den- jamiu F. Butler. The British eoldier's life at Indian frontier stations cannot be altogether happy. One noon recently the ther m.metcr reistered ninetv-four degrees at the Gnatong fort in Silkklm. That night it fell to seventeen degrees abovu zero, In shorting at wild reese on tbe wing, the gunner has to hold about eight feet aliove the leader if he wishes to bit him, and even then he isapt to bit th- fifth or sixth In one string and see him strike the ground in his fall at a distance of three or four hundred yards from the stand. American shoe machinery has been introduced in Lek-ei-t-'r, England, and has created considerable interest among the manufacturers. A writer in a Manchester paper says that "Ameri cans are miles ahead" In shoe machin ery. Louis Cyr, the strong man of Canada, twenty- seven years old, at a recent ex hibition at Lewistown (Me.,) picked op a barrel of Hour with one hand and put it on his shoulder. By his famous npxard back lift, he raised a platform weighing 261 pounds, on which stood twenty men whose combined weight was 37'JO pounds. The South Kensington Museum In London has obtained from Slz rgh Castle, In Westmoreland the oak llntLg of a room which dates from the time ot Elizabeth. It is 120 feet long and li feet high. The panels are Inlaid with holly wood and ebony and divided by pilasters. The ceiling, pant l ed and with pendants, is also present. Fish are attracted by the electric light, the same as insects and b rds, and it has been found that the placing of an electric lamp of high fever ia the ten, even at a part tot frequented by fish, causes members of the finny tribe to flock in great numbers. Lima (Ohio) oil Is being used suc cessfully in a number of Plt'sburg mills and factories. Rol'iDg mill own ers favor it because it do s not oxid ze the iron, and for that reason It is thought that natural gas w 11 soon be superseded by it. The oil isship)ied from the field in tank cars, and a movement is on foot to build a p.pe line to that city. Dr. Armand Jeanontot, a young physician of Paris, is the latest In tbe fiel I as a consumption cure discoverer. I Hit cure is by inhalation. Hisappara- PnnHist. of a small tubular brass bojie connected with a brass pan with I a lid. When in operation, from uo- ' der the lid escape vapors which spread about the rojm, one of the parts of which is 1 russic acid. I The MicSey Breen Mine, in the Ouray (Col.) district, has been sold to a French 1 company for f 1.J0J.000. I In Great Britain there is one ele:tir to about slz of the population; in Bel glum only one to about forty-six. t The original Rockfel'.ers In America the ancestors of the oil kings were four brothers, who came from tbe Rhine provinces during the last century and settled in aew Jerey. The Arkansas Legulature has ap- Proved a Jnt oUn finfn th election of United States Senators by the peoplo.
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