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B. P. ROHWEIER,
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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLV.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SETTEMBER Hi, 1S91.
NO. 39.
m Incomes.
f!ghy Bell receives $250 a week.
Fred Leslie receives $500 a week.
Kyric Bellew receives $350 a week, j
Charles Coghlan is paid $350 a week.
Pe Wolf Hopper is paid $250 a
reek.
John Ilubbcrton makes $10,000 a
rear.
Mark Twain's income is $80,000 a
year.
H. II. Stoddard now earns about
fj.GOO a year.
F.dgar Saltus makes from $2,500 to
g;,Mn a year.
W. I. Howells receives from the
Harpers $10,000 a year.
R. W. Gilder receives 20.000 a rear
from tlie Century.
Jneph Pulitzer's income for 1888
was. it is said, $1,000,000.
Mrs. Clianler (Ainelie Rives) makes
about $10,000 a year.
Wa!t Whitman of late years has
earned about $:!00 a year.
Once a Week gave Frank Stockton
$l".O0O for his latest story.
Edgar W. Fawrett receives about
$4,000 lt year from his writings.
Col. John ockerill is paid $20,000
a year by the New York World.
Mayo W. Ilazeltine receives $175 B
week from the Xew York Sun.
The late E. P. Poo found no diffi
culty in writing 50.000 worth a year.
Francis AVilson until he went into
liu-ine-s for himself was paid $000 a
week.
I'-rander Matthews averages an an
nual iii"ome from literature of about
$.;.0io.
Charles Dudley "Warner is paid
$l.''o0 for his department in Harper's
Magazine.
Miss Murfree's (Charles Egbert
Craddoek') novels yield her about
$ i.oOo a year.
Frances Hodgson Burnett is getting
ri h at the rate of from $20,000 to
$25.iio a vear.
How Some Girls Walk.
Why is it our young ladies do not
know how to walk? Ixok ! here
comes one with her head pitched for
ward, her hands swinging ungracefully
by her side, her feet scullling the walk.
and altogether presenting an appear
ance quite unbecoming one of Amer
ica'.s lovely daughters, charming in all
else, perhaps, but oh. such a gait !
The next one walks with a jerk, her
feet and lower part of her body hav
ing started on a race with her head to
see which will get there first. The
consequence is for every step forward
she comes part way back with a jerk
Her sister follows, twitching un
gracefully from side to side, rolling
from one foot to the other like a sailor
in mid-ocean, only he has some excuse,
and she has not. The arms usually
follow, hut in opposite directions. The
body uf the next one makes a perfect
bow. back bent, head forward, and
feet trying to catch up. Not one with
the firm, graceful step, erect head,
et raii; lit shoulders. eay arms, and
hand-, to be acquired by sufficient de
termination to present a dignified car
riage. When will deportment be
taught in our schools? Kingston Free-
II1UII.
Henry's Had Taste.
Miss Porcine "I'm afraid, Henry,
that our engagement must be broken.
Papa and mamma are both very angry
with you."
Henry "For heaven's sake, Clara,
what have I done to otl'end them?"
Miss Porcine "It is all on account
of the conversation you had with
mamma the other night."
Henry "Why, I spoke of your
father in the highest terms."
'Miss Porcine "Yes; you said he
'bristles with good sense.' You know
papa is at the stock yards, and mamma
thought your allusion to 'bristles sim
ply dreadful taste." America.
Fanntleroy in Real Life.
"Come iii here wid yez this minit
before ye, spbile yer Fauntillerry
clothes'.- shouted tho fond mother to
her freckled-faced son.
"Vis. dearest."
" 'Ave yez been bavin' a good toime
widout yer mother?"
'Ms, dearest."
"An" phat av yez been doin' ?"
"Shtonin" Miss McGulley's pig, dear
est, and callin' rats to the po-leece.
But I wor always t'inkin' ov yez and
lovin' yez with all uie heart." Wash
ingtou Critic.
To the Few It May Interest.
It has been estimated that we get a
complete new outfit of brains about
every two months. The duratiou of a
nerve's life is about sixty days. Each
nerve cell has its own independent
functions, subordinate to the higher
functions of the whole brain "en
masse," :u,d the latter acts as a sort of
bos or overseer to the individual ac
tions ami life of each separate cell.
Every cell is destroyed and renewed
every two months, so we can get six
brand new brains per year. Medical
World.
l.angston, Oklahoma, has one white
nan.
WOMAN'S SPHERE.
They talk about a woman's sphere.
As though It b d a limit:
There's not a place lu earth or
heaven.
There's not a task to mankind given.
There's not a Messing or a woe.
There's not a whisper yes or no.
There's not a life, or death, or birth.
That has a feathi-r's weight otwotrb,
w iihout a woman in It.
HIE WHITE WAND AND THE
GOLDEN STAR.
laid to a Child.
BT A 8. BOTD.
Once upon a time there was a crest
tree that grew by the river just outside
the village, and the children used to
some and play under it. It was so
very tsll that they thought the branches
t the top must touch the sky, and it
was said that if any one climbed to the
very highest branch of that tree and
out off one of the white wands that
grew there he could reach nt to the
sky and bring down with it a golden
tar. And whoever did this might get
whatever he wished for, even the dear
est wish of his heart.
Well, of all the children who now
played nnder the tree not one had ever
tried to climb it. There was, indeed,
an old, old story of somebody who had,
long ago, made the attempt; he went
up a little way jnst high enongh for
the leaves to hide nearly all the ground
under Death, but he got frightened, so
be came down and said that it was im
possible to go to the top.
But there was a boy called Martin
Hazel who often looked np into the
green branches of the tree, and some
times he would stop playing for such
a long time, and would keep looking
np so earnestly, that the other boys
nd the girls would begin to tease him
,...1 ad, jf he thought he could climb
high.
ic-s" he said, "I think I can!"
At last one day he said to himself,
I must try." Then some of the bovs
helped him on to the lowest branch,
and he began to climb, and climb, and
climb. He had not thought it was
quite so difficult a task, but he did not
allow himself to rest very often on the
way, and at last he reached the top.
How strange it was to be there! So
lonely and so quiet; there was not a
sound from tue village tar down below,
not even the shouts of the children
conld reach so high. And the branches
of the tree spread oat so widely that he
sould see nothing beneath him but end
less green leaves, while over his head
the stars were shining in the blue sky,
ind around him as he stood on the
highest branch were the wands of pure
white. His hand grasi ed one of them,
and he took the strong knit'e which
his father had given him on his birth
day and he cut that one off. Then he
reached up to the skv with the white
wand, and he could scarcely believe
his eyes when he saw that on the end
of it he had brought down one of the
golden stars which he had chosen.
with this wonderful thing really his,
he felt very happy, for he thought how
the boys and Kirls would admire him,
how proud his mother wonld be, and
how his father wonld praise him for
xjing such a brave fellow.
Then down the tree he catre. Going
downwards was not difficult, and Mar
tin did not take long to reach the lower
branches. Beneath him he conld see
the children still playing. Then the
crackling of a branch made them look
np, and, with something like a scream
of fright, they all ran away. Mar
tin smiled, and as his feet once
more touched the grass, he looked
ronnd to see what had made the chil
dren run away. He could see noth
ing to be afraid of, and he heard no
sound except the singing of the birds
and the noise of the sheep as they
cropped the grass. And as he listened
the clock began to chime in the old
church steeple.
It was disappointing that the boys
had not waited to see him come down
with the white wand in his hand, and
the golden star glittering at the end of
it, but that made him all the more
f?cr to hurry home and tell his
mother.
.Near his mother's door, which was
at the entrance to the village, Martin
saw some children whom he did not
know. While he was wondering who
they conld be for strangers were not
often seen in this place they turned
away with a langh that was nearly a
cry and ran down the street. Then he
went to the opened door of his mother's
honse, and a woman he had never seen
before,whowassittingby the fire insido,
with a babv on her knee, looked np
and said sharply, "Nothing to-day."
"Where's my mother?" said Martin.
'Your mother!" and the woman
laughed.
"Yes, my own mother, and my
father; this is our house.'
"This is tny honsVSaid the woman,
"and was my mother's house ever since
old Betsy died, years ago."
Betsy is my mother's name; father
calls her Betsy."
"That may be, that may be, but
there's nobody of that name here," said
this cross won. an. Then she turned
Martin rather ronchly from the door,
and shut it behind him with a bang.
There was a shont of laughter m the
street. It was the time wnen the
'A
my
young men were coming home after '.
having finished their day's work in the '
fields. They had seen some one pnshed
out of a house, and had heard a door
slam, and they thought it was a good ;
joke, so they laughed again.
"Hallo, old man, who has been ill- j
using yon?" they asked, as they
gathered round the boy who had been
turned from the door of his mother's 1
honse.
Martin looked round, but he saw no
old man. Then one of the young fel
lows tapped him on the shoulder, and
said:
"They'll give yon nothing in that
house."
"I don't want anything," said Mar
tin: "that is our house, and I have
something to tell ray mother."
How the young men laughed!
"Yes, yon are strangers and yon
don't know her, and you don't know
me; bnt she'll be glad I'm down safely
from the top of the tree; and with thin
I'm going to make her happy." He
held out his white wand with the golden
star glittering on the end of it, but to
the yonng men it seemed only a plain
stick. So they looked at one another
seriously as if they were sorry for him,
and they said "Poor old man!"
Then they left him. and he walked
along the street, for the sun was set
ting and it was near the time when he
should go to meet his father coming
from his work.
The people stood at their doors and
stared at him curiously as he passed.
He knew none of them and none
of them spoke to him; so he
felt troubled. Then he met a very
old woman. It was at last some one he
knew old Margaret, the grandmother
of one of ithe little girls who played
every day at the foot of the tree. Ho
stopped her.
"Hid Mary tell yon I had gone up
tho tree to-day?"
"What Mary?" asked tho old wo
man. "Mary Woc.d, your own grandchild,
who lives with yon," sai l Maitin.
" am Mary Wood, ami I've no
grandchild left," said the old woman.
"But do you not know me?"
"I never" saw you before," said Mary
Wood.
"But I went up the great tree this
morning, and I've got tho white waud
and the golden star!"
"What tree?'
"The great tree by the river, where
we always plav," said Martin.
"Ah, now I do remember" said tho
old woman; "there ws a boy I knew
who climbed np the great tree as we
used to call it. That was a long timo
ao when we were little children. Ho
never came back again."
"What did they call the boy?"
"What did they call him"? Dear,
dear! what did they call him? Ah,
yes. Hazel was his name, Martin Hazel,
and he lived in that very house, with
bis father and mother: but they are
dead these many, many years, and Mar
tin never came back. No, he never
came back."
Then Martin felt all at once that tha
old woman spoke of him, and that he
himself was older even than she was.
For in climbing the tree ho had for
gotten about everything and every
body; in his eagerness quite forgetting
that Time was passing, and that it was
a long, long distance from the foot to
the top of tho tree. But Time was
passing all the same, and had in pass
ing left its mark as strongly on Martin
as on everybody else, lie looked at
his hands they were thin and yel
low; he saw that his clothes were worn;
his back and his knees were bent. The
years that had gone by had seemed to
him only one day; that day was now
nearly over. He was all that remained
of the strong boy who climbed the tree
for the wonderful treasure at the top,
and, now that the treasure was his,
there was nobody who knew him to say,
" v ell done" nobody left who could
take pleasure in his prize.
Ihen sadly, and with a hoavy heart,
he walked slowly back throngh the vil
lage in which he was born, where no
body knew him and where ho knew
nobody. Wandering on, his steps
led him back to the foot of the great
tree. Here ho sat down, and because
the world was empty of all the faces
he had cared to look at, he bowed his
head and wept. As he thought of his
old friends he wished with all his heart
that he might see them and be happy
with them again. And while he was
crying and longing, with the white
wnnd in his hand and the golden star
glittering on the top of it, he was gen
tly lifted np, and np, and up, till the
golden star found its own place in the
sky. And there the white wand grew
into a lovely flower that would never
wither. And there he saw his father
nd his mother; and everybody he
loved was there; and nothing was there
but perfect happiness.
And so he got what he had wished
for. even the dearest wish of his heart
"Wasn't it a pity mother," said the
little listener, "that Martin stayed so
long away?"
"Yes, it was sad. Bnt you see, when
one is busy trying to get that thing he
wishes, he nearly always neglects other
things that are much more worth hav
ing. Then, when it is too late, be
finds that the happiness he missed
wonld have been far greater than any
pleasnre he has, because the object he
strove so hard to gain turns out to be
of very little value after all."
"Well, mother, I wouldn't stay away
from you all that time for anything."
"I think, my boy, yon had better
not promise that Yon have yoar tree
to oUmb yetl"
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JIacaulej's Picture of Oneen Elizabeth.?
" 'Elizabeth was now in her twenty
fifth year. Personally, she had much
of her mother's beauty; her figure
was commanding, her face long, but
queenly and intelligent; her eye
quick and fine. She had grown up,
amidst the liberal culture of Henry's
Court, a bold horsewoman, a good
shot, a graceful dancer, a skilled mu
sician, and an accomplished scholar.
She read every morning a portion 01
Demosthenes, and could "rub up her
rusty Greek" at need to bandy pedantry
with a vice-chancellor. Hut she was
far from being a mere pedant. The
new literature which was springing up
around her found constant welcome in
her court. She spoke Italian and
French as fluenty as her mother
tougne. She was familiar with
Ariosto a-id Ta-so. In spite of the
affectation of her style, and her taste
for anagrams and puerilities, she
listened wi;h delight to the "Faery
Queen," and found a smile for "Master-Spenser"
when he appeared in the
presence. Her moral temper recalled
in its strange contrasts the mixed
blood within tier veins. She was at
once the daughter of Henry and of
Ann Boleyn. From her father she in
herited her frank and hearty address,
her love of popularity and of free inter
course with the people, her dauntless
courage, and her amazing self-confidence.
Her harsh, manlike voice,
her impetuous will, her pride, her
furious outbursts of anger, came to
her with her Tudor blood. She rated
nobles as if they were school-boys;
she met the insolence of Essex with a
box on the ear; she would break now
and then into the gravest deliberations
to swear at her ministers like a fish
wife.' The Sanctity of the Czar.
The present emperor of llus-ea is a
man of truly noble character,
thoroughly honest in purpose, sin
cerely religious, kind in heart, and
most disinterestedly solicitous for the
welfare of his country. There is,
however, ono strange apparent contra
diction in his character, which may yet
have sinister results. The tsar is not
gifted with the extraordinary intelli
gence which would be de-irable in his
position. No man is more modest
to his personal merits and ability, but
there is no man in this world so im
pressed with his o.vn importance, in
tho peculiar light in w hich he views
himself, as the divinely appointed head
of the only true faith, and of a speci
ally chosen people. The most devo:eil
of husbands, he is yet ever conscious
that his wife, born a foreigner of alien
faith, remains outside the pale, ami
consequently the empress has as little
influence in his counsels as if she were
a stranger to him. The office of ts:u
is, he considers, a holy office; no other
mortal than the holder of ti.nt office .s
on anything approaching the same ex
alted level. Any real or supposed
slight or injury to the chosen pe .pi-.-,
the liussians to their semi-di iie
he:id. the tsar or 10 the only true
faith, the orthodox Crock faith will
immediately rouse all that is stubborn
in the character of Alexander III., ami
will be promptly avenged. A lover ol
peace, he will nevertheless, without a
moment's hesitation, plunge his coun
try into di-astrous war, against any
odds, to fulfill what he considers to be
his sacred duties. This is the real ami
treat danger which threatens the worle
through Alexander Ill.'s belief in .hi
sanctity of h's own person.
Some Magazine Salaries'.
Mr. (Jilder of the Century is p:n('
. 10,000 a year and has an interest be
tides. Mr. Alden of Harpers receiver
about the same salary, but has no pro
prietorship. Mr. P.urlingaiiio ol
Scribner's is also paid a generous sal
ary. Mr. Aldrich of the Atlantic re
ceives a more moderate income, but
his duties are less burdensome since hi
has only letter-press and no illustra
tions to look after, which mnks a won
derful difference in an editor's duties.
The Ladies' Home .lournal has foi
several years paid its editor 10,ihji.
per vear. Mr. Metcalf of the Foi un.
receives also a large salary and is s
stockholder in tho magazine besides.
The editors of the North Amerirai
Hcview and the Cosmopolitan are als
the owners, and thus derive their in
come from the profits, or share tin
losses either of which is probable.
A good business manager, he who car
control a profitable advertising patron
age and knows how to boom the circu
lation of the tnagazine-is an invalu
able man and at pre-ent is a scarci
commodity. Such a man can command
and easily get from $7,000 to 10,oi
a year, and is worth it, if he be tin
rifrht man men, for example, liki
Mr. Doubleday (ot Scribner's), Mr.
Ilazen (of the Centurv). Mr. Seymoin
(of Harper's) or Mr. Seaman (of tin
Cassclls) .
He Is a Stayer.
The oldest man in the world is a citi
zen of Bogota in the Republic of ."a
Salvador.
This new Methuselah declares tha
he is 180 years old, and it would seen
he flatters himself, for his neighbor
give the assurance that he is older thai
he says he is.
He is a half-breed, named Micha
Solis, whose existence was revealed l.
Dr. Louis Hernandez by one of tin
oldest planters in the locality, who a
a child knew Solis as a eenienarian.
They have found in the year 17 IS
his signature among those of person
who contributed to the building of 11
Franciscan convent which exists neai
San Sebastian.
His skin is like parchment, his I0112
hair, of the whiteuess of snow, envel
ops his head like a turban, and his look
is so keen that it made a disagreeable
impression on the Doctor.
Interrogated by the Doctor, he an
swered complaisantly that his great
age was due to his regular mode of
living, and to his never giving up to
any excess of any sort whatever.
"I never eat but once a day," said
he, "but I never use any but the
strongest and most nouri-hing foods.
My meals last a half-hour, for 1 believe
it is impossible to eat m re in that time
than the body can digest in twenty-four
hours. I fast the first and fifteenth
day of each month, and on those days
I drink as much water as I can bear. I
always let my food become cold before
I touch it. It is to these things that I
attribute my great age.
Statistic as to Hunchbacks,
T'nyesn ago this rtonth, in De
cember 1879, a remarkabla cha-rT
1 ied in P ris. He was known &'. k er
Frpnce and the greater part of all Fu-
rop as "The Learned Hunchback."
He was very wealthy, and spent a
mint of money in the last fifty ears of
his life, travelling in all directions
making researches concerning his
henchbacked brethren. It was in the
milder p rtions of Europe that ho
found the misfortune most preva ent.
Spain supplied the greater number,
and in a circumscribed locality at the
foot of the Sierra Morena ho lou d
that there was one humpoacked per
son to every thirteen inhabitants.
They wore also found to be quite nu
merous in tho valle ' of the Loire iu
Fran.e. The little humpbacked sta
tistician came to the cone usion that
there was one humpback in each 1.000
inhabitants, or au aggregate of 1,000,
000 against the est.matei thousand
millions of the entire ea-th.
After tho oeath of this ecccr.tric in
dividual his heirs found in place of a
will a voluminous manuscript of 2.00J
pages, all oncoming humps. The last
page, although it said nothing 80011'.
the disposition f property, expressed
the author's wish to have a hump of
marble raised ever his grave, with this
In-cription: '-Here lies a humpback
who had a taste for hum s, and who
knew more about them than any other
humpLack." St. Louis Republic.
''Latest Intelligence.''
He was a reporter of a local news
paper. He came into the oflice of tho
distri t postmaster, as was his wont,
and asked if there was any news.
"No, nothing much," carelessly re
plied one of the officia's. "Have you
heard of the new order?"
"What new order?" eagerly asked
the reporter, making a move for his
pencil.
"Why, that the postmaster-general
is not going to issuo the postal cards
any longer.''
"Where did you get vour informa
tion?" "Well, we haven't any official in
formation yet; but we know it is so."
"That will be a great hardship to
the poor." ventured the reporter.
'I don't see how it will," replied the
official.
"1 suppose it is i?onc on account of
the loss on the letter postage?"
"No, that isn't the -reason tho post
master decided not to make them any
longer," spoke up another official.
"Well, what is the reason, then?"
asked tho now desperate reporter.
"Why, simply because they are lonsr
enough now! The postmaster-general
anil the people are very well satisfied
with the present length."
Tho door slammed hard as tho re
porter went out.
The Rotary Snow Plow.
Tho use of the Colorado Midland's
rotary snow shovel on the Denver,
rexas and Fort Worth seems to have
sreated a mild seusation. A local
paper says: "lt was put to work in a
big cut where the snow was about 20
feet deep and made excellent headway,
ihrowing an avalauche of snow 60
feet into the air at every revolution of
;he great plow, which literally bored
itself through a mass as compact as
?and. When alxuit the center of the
:ut, a strange eight was witnessed.
1 hose who were standing on either
;ide of the plow were suddenly
ieluged with a shower of beef steaks.
')n all sides fell porterhouse, sirloin,
round steaks, small steaks, shoulder
-teaks, with occasionally a slice of
liver or a nicely cut rib roast. It was
thought at hist that the engine had left
he track and was boring its way
through a butcher sh p. Investiga
tion, however, disclosed tho fact that a
herd of Texas cattle had crowded into
the cut and had frozen and been buried
n the drifts. Manager Meek imme
liately declared that no well-rcgula'ed
road should bo without a rotary snow
plow."
Eighty Miles An Honr.
A remarkable time record was made
on Ieceuiber 1 last on the Southern
Pacific Railroad. On that day a special
train, consisting of two cars containing
officers of the Atchison, Topcka & San
ta Fe Railroad, was run over the
Southern Pacific lines from Bukers
fi Id to I.athrop, a distance of I'l'O
miles, leaving the former place atO:
and reaching the latter at 1:18; 1..
total time was thus 4 hours, 17 mi -utcs,
but of this time 33 minutes were
lost in making four stops and iu slow
ing down on account of a broken frog
at a station, making the actual running
time for the 2'.'0 miles only 222 min
utes, and it is claimed that even this
ou!d have been improved had not the
road-bed been in poor condition, ow
ing to recent, heavy rains. It is
claimed that this is tue longest run ever
mad" in this country at a speed of CO
miles an hour, and speaking from
memory and without consulting the
records we think that the claim is
justified. The greatest speed attained
tor a single mile was between Berenda
and Merced, where one mile was made
iu 4." seconds, or at the rate of 80 miles
an hour. The best time for a stretch of
several miles was Tulare to Coshen
Junction, lO.o miles, which, as shown
by the despatchor's sheet, was tnadn in
exactly 8 minutes. Assuming the
speed to have been uniform, this was
at the rato of one mile in 45.7 seconds,
or 78 3-4 miles an hour.
The Unman Family.
Tho human family to-day consists of
About 1.430, 000,000 individuals. In
Asia, where man was first planted,
there are now about 800,000.000; on
an average, 120 t the square miic.
In F:u;ope there are 320,000,000, aver
sgieg loo to the square mile. In
Africa there are 210,000,000. In
America. North and South, there are
110,000,000, relatively thinly scattered
and recent. In the islands, large and
small, probably 10,000,000. The ex
ti ernes of the white and black are as
live to hree, the remaining 70 ',000,000
being intermediate brown and tawny.
All shoe9 for evening or promenade
wear are made with lower heels than
last eea-son.
A discharged o'lor'ster in an Ohio
town took revenae on the congregation
by sitting in a pew and purposely sing
ing out of tune.
How God Teaches the Birds.
On the Island of Java grows a tree,
the leaves of which are said to be a
deadly poison to all venoniuus reptiles.
The odor of the leaf is so offen-ive to
the whole snake family that if they
oome near the plant in their travels,
they immediately turn about and take
an opposite direction.
A traveller on toe Island noticed,
one day, a peculiar flattering and cry
of distress fr m a bird lush above his
h ad. Looking np he s iw a mother
bird hovering round a nest of It' tie
ones in suon a frightened an I perplex
ed man:.er as to c inse him to s ou an I
examine into the trouble. Going
aroun t to the other side of the tree he
found a large snake ctimbmg slowly
np the tree in the direct on of the little
nest.
It was beyond his reach; and, since
he could not help the little feathered
songster by ileal ng a death-blow, h 1
eat down to see the resnlt of the attack.
Soon the piteous cry of the bird ceased
and he thocght, "Can it be possible
she has left her younir to their fate,
and has flown awav to seek her owd
safety?"
No; for ngain he heard the fluttering
of wiugs, and, lot king np saw her tly
into the tree with a large It af from
this tree of poison und carefully s:rea l
it over her little ones Then, aliiihtincr
! on a branch high . liove her uest, she
quietly watohed t.:e approach of h r
enemy. His Uidy writhing bod crept
slowiy along, nearer and sti.l nea er,
until within a foot of tho nest; then,
just as lie opened his month to take iu
bis dainty iiulo breakfast, down he
went to the trronud as suildenlv as
l' though a bulb t h id gone t"ir tig a his
head, and burr ed off into the jnugie
bevond.
I'he little birds wore unharmed; and
as the mother-bird flew down and
spread her wins over them, the pois n
leaf (poison only to the suai-ei feil at
the teet of the traveller; and he lelt,
na never before, the force 01 the wor s,
"Are t.ot two sparrow sold for a farth
ing? yet no one of them Fha 1 fall to
ti e ground without yonr Father;" for
who but He who made the der litt e
birds could have told this one the
poivi r there was in this little leaf.
(rooil Word a.
Kow CuDld 13 Traduced.
The bashful youug man who, at the
critical moment, never has the courage
to inopo.se to the blushing maiden, may
cuter up, for he is no longer compelled
to ask a giips hand In marriage. All
he has to do tuw Is to seek out of tic
three or four matrimonial agencies in
the city, pay a retainer and the whole
affair is arianged.
So extensive has the "trade" become
that the majority of the agencies have
been compel.ed to hire lmni'-nse quar
ters and a large force of clerks of both
sexes. 1 o say that all conduct their
bulsness on au bon at basis Is untrue.
Several ot them are penny catchers of
the lir-t water. One of them makes a.
sjiecialty of v a jIdjj "fako" aJs iu the
lersonal columns of a certain newspa
per, lt Is either a 'young wjuia i with
tlO.i 00 ;n I er own right" who wants a
husband or ".1 young man with a business
worth fl.j.iOO a year'' who seeks a life
companion. Of course he or she givei a
f etit'ous name and addresSj expect
ing all the time to get an answer from
some love-sighing advertiser. Iustead,
there conies a cheap looking chcuhir,
which reads:
Your letter replying to our matri
monial advertisement has been receive-'.
The advertisement was Inserted by 11s
for one of our patrons, whose descrip
tion will be shown you free of charge,
if you call, or a copy of the desci Iptiou
will be sent to you by mail for twenty
cents. If you desire your letter re
turned, or should jou comply with our
terms and wish the iic 1uai.1t.1uce of
the irson referred to, this circular
must be returned with your request.
The "terms" are lathfr astounding
and give a fair Idea of the profits ot
tue business. Humid marriage result
from the introduct on, the agency
s to receive the income of the appli
cants for one-half month. In no case
is the fee less than 10. This is not
all. Correspond'-nce between pari es
can only be carried on through the
agency. This calls for the rental of a
letter box in its office and t! e payment
of a fee, and a' so one for readdressing
the letters.
Gentlemen who positively require
that the lady they marry possess prop
erty pay an additional advance feeol$2
for each $1,000 iequlrel not in excess of
?." 00'i,aud $1 for tach S1.000 m ex ess
of -- '00. One fictitious name to each
person is allowed free, but for more
than one, or for chunking the name, the
charge Is 50 ents.
i'or th benefit of the tineduc ted the
agency will write lelt -rs for Its patrons,
arrange for correspondence between
conge ial people, and otherwise use
its great knowledge in such delicate
matters, at the rate of i0 c uts a let
ter. When a personal interview is
desired, the fura of 81 must be seLt to
the agency, or coure, and the pa ty de
siring the introduction inr.st covenant
to pay all ttie car fares. A". 1'. Mail
and J'xtrt ..
A HastUng Western City.
It is hard to realize in the conserva
tive, slow-moving East that, on the
edge of the Black Hills of western
South Dakota, in ten years there has
sprung from a mere nothing a city of
over live thousand inhabitants. You
will find in this little city which ap
propriately assumes the name of Rapid
City schools, newspapers, water sup
ply system, twomilesof street cars.eiee
tric lighting, and a "brick jail." which
the local papers speak of with pride.
These papers go on further to claim
$.'O0,000 capital invested there, purely
in mercantile pursuits, and .270,OOC as
capital in four banks. The reason at
tributed for this sudden rise is the
wonderful natural location of the place.
It came to notice first as a convenient
stopping place for coaches, which found
the gap there a most available one for
crossing the mountains in their trips
East and West. It marked the border
of the plains and the mountains, there
by becoming the most convenient mart
for exchanging mining for agricultural
products. The stream which ran
through the pass gave commerce a
slight boost by furnishing power for
mills, etc. Large tin mines, extensive
forests and good building materials in
tensified these natura. advantages,
while the absence of any competitive
commercial centres finished the con
ditions necessary for such a wonderful
growth.
Never sne ik ill of anybody, you can
do Just as much execution with a shrug
of shoulders or a significant look.
ALL SORTS.
How tho Funny Men Earn Theii
Money.
A JIESSAC.E.
She wasn't on the playground, he wssnt on
the lnwn.
The little one was missing and bod time coin
itn; on.
We huiuetl in the garden, we peeped about
to see.
It s'.eei init under rose-tree or like he might
be."
But nothiiig came in answer to our anxious
cull
I'ntil at length we hastened within the dark
euiinc bull.
And then upon the stillness there broke a
si'very tone
The darling mite was utaniliiig before the
telephone.
Anil softly, as we lisp ueil. rame titrating
ilom 11 the stnirs :
'H'lo, Centra! ! I ii r me Heaven. I want to
say my prayer."
Siiiuey liayre, in The Independent.
Proprietor " You don't know any
thing! Half the drinks you send up
sre spilled. How do you do it?"
Bartender " I thi k somebody must
give tho dumb waiter a tip." Lowel'
Citizen.
Stranger (to small boy) "Is yout
father home?" Small boy "No, sir.
lie went to the cemetery this morn
ing." Stranger "When will he re
turn?" Small lioy '-lie's gone te
stay." Life.
rublUhor '-I wish you would write
ns a good sea story." Creat Author
"I!ut I have never been to sea." Pub
lisher '-1 know it. I want a sea story
that people can understand." New
York Weekly.
Lady (in furniture store, to new
clerk) "Where arc those handsome
sideboards that you hud last week?"
Clerk (embarra-sed) "Oh. 1 er I
shaved them off day afore yesterday,
"ua'ain." Life.
Man (To friend) "Weil. sir. 1
never saw a woman who can do as
much work as my wife. Ity Ceorge,
she is a reguiar machine."
Friond "Oh, I see. You married
a type-writer." Arkansaw Trav. ler
Cashier I see by the papers that the
Montreal carnival will not be held this
ve:ir.
President So I understand. Had
you thought of going up?
Cashier Oh, no. Had von? Frorr
Puck.
Mis P.erg Poor little thing! Why
do you keep him tied up like that?
Mis Conwell He passed the night
with papa in the library just after
mam na's hat bill came and he's been
swearing horribly ever since. From
Judge.
Foreigner Yen you Americans vish
to get rid of a man. vat you do rish
him not place him in exile nst-ce
oa?
American O. no; we just elect him
Yice-l'resident. From the Lawrence
American.
Charlie "Will you o out with me
o-night. siter?"
Charlotte "I can't dear boy. I havo
an engagement."
'There goes the door-boll, now."
"Yes, that is my engagement ring.
Good-bye." Yonkers Statesman.
One on The Lecture lhtreaus. "We
had a little trouble making up a lectnie
course this yeai ," said one of the com
mittee in a college town. "becaua we
are securing our speaker through
two breweries, and their dates are apt
to conflict. Brooklyn Eagle.
Waiter " Very sorry, sab. but we
haven't any veal. Yea. is mighty
scarce dis time of year, an' we bavn't
no veal for a wi ck. Can I bring you
anything elae sali?"
Juest (hastily) "Yes: double
order of chicken salad." New Yolk
Woekly.
I'lamely "Fighting old Spearmint
rs hard as ever, I supp se."
Urighlman "No, I've Luried my
grudge against him."
Fhimely "Now. that's Christ ianlike,
old man. When did you bury the
hatchet?"
Brightman "Last Tuesday, when
vc buried him." Lowell Mail.
Tliank-Tal.
The King of Annum, a country ol
southeastern Asia, now under the pro.
tectorate of France, is a boy nine year?
old, Thank-Tai by name. He is but
nominal sovereign, with very littlt
power, but the Annamites and the
French masters of the country pay hiu'
royal honors.
He is said to be a rather melancholy
youth, much given to day-dreams.
This is not very strange, erhaps, since
he lives almost alone. He stuilies not
a little, however, and lately, when one
of his tutors in reading to him out of
an Oriental book of philosophy, fa.ter
ed and stumbled iu attempting to ex
plain a passage, the child-king said to
him, seriously, but without severity;
"Had you not better, before under
taking to explain those books, look
them over and see whether you com
prehend them yourself?"
The tutor, much distressed at this
mild rebuke, stammered out an apolo
gy, and, gathering up bis books, went
away to carry out Thank-Tai's sugges
tion.
In order to brighten the young king's
existence, the French government re
cently gent to him from Paris a numlier
joftoysof a very interesting and in
, penious sort.
j Irevioiis to their arrival. King
; Thank-Tai had no other way of amus
jing himself than by watching, hour
after hour, the red goldfishes swim
ming abont in a small pond near his
chamber. It is hoped that the play
things will somewhat relieve his ten
j dency to melancholy.
The oldest church in Europe Is said
07 some who axe discussing the question
to be St. Martin's, Canterbury, England,
which was built as a church before the
end of the fourth century. St Mary Id-Jie-Castle,
Dover, was built about this
time, but for nearly 200 years it wai"
ised as a garrison fuel depot.
The people in India look upon soap
is a curiosity, and lt can hardly be
Knight of any shopkeeper. The amount
;onsumed last year was only 5100 tons,
vhicb, taken with tbe enormous popu
ation of that country, would give an
tverage of but about one ounce to each
lerson.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
reppe r cost $75 an ounce In Henry
TIL'S reign.
Pie for breakfast Is a gradually dis
appearing custom in Xew England.
A rose cultivated In Philadelphia
measured 17 inches In width.
Dentists say that it is a physical Im
possibility to set diamonds iu teeth.
H was thirty-two years ago that the
first d InElng fountain was opened in
Loudon.
Sot a newsparer was printed In
Japan twenty-five years ao, but 2,000
are printed now,
A railroad In the Ar .entiue repub
lic h is one stretch of 211 miles without
a curve or bridge.
A naverhill man, the proud pos
sessor of twins, has named one Simul
and the other T ncous.
(iermany's production of silver In
190 was 770.000 po .ads, about 9 per
cent, of the worlu's product.
Captain Herman Koppereold of
Waldoboro. Me., has a fife that was
tooted at the battle of Bunker Hill.
-InlfsHtheO A. R could claim
only 30,000 members, but in 1S79 it
had increased to almost 400 000.
The first dictionary was c .implied
by Pa-out-she, a learned Ch-naman,
who lived in the year 1,100 B. C.
To forgive when we have forgotten
is easy; to forgive when we know we
can never forget Is noble.
The Arabian year is a lunar one,
and in the course of .'12 years each
month runs through all of the sea
sons. A Kansas boy who earned a Bible
for memorizing verses at onre traded
the look for a shotgun and proceeded
to shoot his aunt.
Keepers of insane asylums say that
crary women as a rule are much small
er than the male patients and require
closer watch ng.
Don't rob your wife all your life
time iu order to make some provl-ion for
her in easj you should be first taken
Hway.
Twenty thousand words have bten
added to the Kngli.su l.mguae la the
department ot biology since Darwin's
discoveries.
It is no usual thing for a vessel ply
ing between Japan and San Franoiso
to bring 1,100,000 fans as a single item
ol its cargo.
The New York end of the Brook
lyn bridge proper is founded on bed
rock ; the Biooklyn end of the bridge
roier rests on clay.
A convict out In Ohio in giving his
wife a parting kiss slipped into her
mouth a note telling her where some of
h s booty was concealed.
An orange tree only four Inches high
at Yut a City, Ua'., litis borne ajierfect
ly formed orange about the size of a
currant.
-A Saratoga (N. T.) woman whose hair
turned white when she reached 50, finds
now, as she approaches 70, that it is
turning black again.
The number or changes which can
be played upon a chime of bells is won
derful! Twelve bells will allow no less
than 470,091,000 changes.
Charles Mover, of Stouchburg, Peon.,
having found a nest full of quail's egg
placed them under a bantam hen and
now has the bantam and ten quails
roaming over the farm.
Until an enttrprlslng citizen start
ed a steam gust mill recently the Maine
town of Mercer had never heard the
sound of a steam whistle.
Ribbons to bold fan) are fastened
to the shoulders with a bow, and are
long enough to fall nearly to the ground,
the fan being carried in the band.
Sir William Thompson condemns
:he single wire system of elee'ric light
ing shipboard, on the ground that, in
spite of every care the compasses are
affected.
ilen who are constantly going
around trying to borrow a quartet
fhould be interested to know that the
Bank of England l as reduced its dis
count rates to 3 per ceut.
Baron Krupp hesitates about exhib
iting some or bis tiig guns at he
world's fair. It would cost him S250.
000, and his market over h re can sever
'je very extensive.
All the inhabitants of Sherwood,
Mich., went hunting after a lost lioy the
other day. After a few anxious hours he
was found in retirement ncoveilng
from the effects of his first cigarette.
The city of Jacksonville, Fla ,
protect catfish in the riveras scavengers.
It is a $5 flue to catch one them,
and the fish feem to know it. The rivet
is full of them, and they vary in siZ9
from a baby to a 200-pound man.
I The highest me;eorological station
'. In Europe is on the top of the Sonnblick,
j in Austria. It is 10,103 "eet above the
' 1- vei of the sea. The ollest station of
the same character is at Pekin. China.
I It was founded in the year 1279, and
I still contains three ot the original ln
; struments.
A California valley more wonderful
than the Yo?eraite, except in the mat
ter of waterfalls, is sa'd to have been
d scovt-red in K'ngs Blver Canon, above
the far-famed Yoeemite
A Liverpool, England, man re
cently sentenced to five yfars penal ser
vltude for obtainln n a shilling (2.j
cents) under the pretext tl at it was V
be ust t for a charitable purpose.
TICKING OUT A ROGUE.
When asked which is the more ex
pressive and telling feature, the eyes
or the mouth. Inspector Byrnes taid
that in his opinion there was no choice.
"A man can look me in the eye and
tell me the straightest possible story.
It is all nonsense to say that a man
cannot tell a lie without flinching.
The biggest rogue unhung can teh
seemingly honest story.
"I would not, however, give much
for a detective who could not pick a
thief out of respectable men. Tho
thief cannot for tho life of him he.p
liking anxious and otherwise. In
endeavoring to appear perfectly at
ease he overacts his part and givef
himself dead away.
"Just for all the world as a detec
tive gives himself away in a crowd a
thief can always pick out a detective,
for the latter too cannot keep from
looking wise and concerned. The
man who has nothing on his mind is
perfectly careless and indifferent.
Not so the detective and the thief, and
thuy can usually recognize each other,"
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