1, " 16 B. P. BOHWEIER, THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprtotor. VOL. XLV. MIFFLINTOWIS, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SE MEMBER 23. 1S91. NO. 40. S N W UAIT1II 11 IIAl Y XIV JT BT SELLA H. CHAPMAW. A fuzrnnt path Diroueh aftermath, 'Mill taiifclert ferns and clover; A rrin "mi Kleain, & placid stream With w11-oh t'pnrima over. VVher- eleis iinfolft their robes of gold: A h ill ( Tuott' ii rireain of ulrt, Pel entli :i spn adinit forest .rce: Tiif'e gifts, 1 fHin would ask of thee, September, Ti e gentians pale, by hill and Tale, In Kiimts where none my folio v ; The Aiitiinm's hush, the dreamy thrush SM-tt. tl'atnij In the hollow: A him. hum. day where tir'ght leave- strav, Biee.e swept, throuuh some wild wooded way, Like ui'on a sun-'lt sea ; priceless tNxin I ask oj thee, September. W ind tint repeat, low laughter, sweet. With hi ipht hopes of the morrow: A I i in. so fair, a loss of care; A nri'P.i-e of all sorrow : 1 in- ii 'I. l id place, a cherished face, V iih s.viwy h.ttr an-i citldisd grace. It, at never more returns to me; In Isi-mis, I would ask of thee, September. 111 KAL SOUTHERN SCENES. MkH. A. OIDDIXGS PARE. A few uiouUib since while in Southern Georgia, we rode out into the sparsely settled country district several miles one day, in company with a small party of friends, to enjoy the novelty of the scenes, Iu some instances we jour neyed five or sx miles without passing in "sight of a single house, or log cabin. Our way lay through stretches of coun try interspersed with forests of tall pines and live oaks fringed with long gray Spanish moss, which gave them a weird, venerable look, as if they were the gray bearded sentinels of the land; the dwarf palmettoes everywhere fringirg their base, as the wild ferns do at the North, their glistening green leaves reflecting the sun like a varnished surface. In one instance we suddenly came upon a little dilapidated building with a mnd chimney attached outside to the rear end, (like all of the old-time Southern houses) as if it had been an L the t p of whioh had been blown off even w.th the ridge, and the main por tion propped tip with rails in a still leaning condition. Inside of this building were seats of rough, unhewn slabs, worn smooth by use, into each end of which had been bored holes, aDd legs inserted, standing out for safety from easily being upset, like an inverted letter V. The building was neither lathed nor plastered inside, being simply boarded up on the outside, while the shingles were off the roof in patches, enabling one to see the blue sky above in several places. On the benches- were seated twenty or more colored children of all ages and shades of color, jet black, blue black, yellow black, yeliow, brown and cream tint; one a little girl with blue eyes, brown kinky hair, cream com pleiion, and prominent Jewish fea tures. Another freak of nature was din played in a lny with a skin l'ke black eatin, and red violly hair! There were no desks, except a rude apology for oue at which the teacher sat, and which was located on a rude raised, platform. The teacher was a well-appearing colored man of about twenty-nve years of age, who received us politely, a.s our party drove np to the door, and invited us to enter. The punilsnsed no copy books, since there were no desks or other facilities for writing, but wrote on their slates, the copy being written by the teachor on a movable blacklniard, and located in the rear of the room. In answer to our question, he stated that he had been educated at the At lanta University, snd had been teach ing in that school for a year. The pu pils were well behaved, and at ended to their duties without evincing the idle curiosity of staring at strangers, except now and then a sly peep of the white of an eye visible over the top or the side of a book cover lifted to the face, which glance was furtively given, and quickly directed to the printed paire, if detected ia the act. "What di yon do when it rains?" we inquired, noticing the leakv condition of the roof. "Move arouud to pLieea where the roof does not leak," he re plied. "Can vour pupils sing?" "Yes, would yon like to hear them?" We answered in the affirmative; the pupils laid aside books, and sang with that peculiar melody and pathos of tone characteristic of the negro voice: "There ia sweet rest in Heaven," "Hail Columbia, harpy land," "There's work for all to do," and other songs, the quaint melody, bringing tears to some of the listeners' eyes. We then departed. On our re turn on our way home, we noticed several pupils with books and torn leaves studying ontgide the building to get the snulight, while they were making up deficiences in lesson a of the day in after school work. la many sections o' the South there are mode-n school buildings, but in the poorer districts, thinly settled, the log house and dilapidated shanty is used for this purpose. It was the se, (to our party novelties) that we most desired to see. In many instances we passed log rubins of poor whites and regroes that were without a single window, and when the one d or was shut, were like a box, with no means of ventilation ex cept through the cracks, and by the ahinmey. In a field wi'.h a worn out, sandy oil, a poor white was plowing with a cow harnessed with a mule! It is no uncommon sight to see a steer of stan'eil gtowth hnrnessed to a rude ?art, the harness and cart both of homo tnnnafacture, the farmer with a rude bit and reins, usually a clothesl'.r.e: the latter containing a few vegetables, egjs. live chickens etc., fos sale at the nearest store, or market. On meeting a colored mnn with something carefully wrapped in a piece ?f old carpeting, a bundle he was oau t ously carrying, one of the gentlemen of o.ir party inquired what it was that be was gnurding so cir. fully? "Would ye like tcr sec, Boss?" was the response with a gleam of ivories, and the white Jf the eyes showing a full cir le vies :' 'Wull, dis cherc am de prize; p'raps ye'll want ter bny 'em,'' and un wrapping the piece of carpet carefully, be exhibited to the terrified gaze of Jiir party, especially the femiuine portion, an enormous rattle snake, which on being uncovered opened its Indfous j iws, and nllodthe air with the "whir-r-r-r"of its r ttles: it sonnding ike a full chorns of locusts working on wager! A short, stout string was tied around the reptile's neck, and attached to the in 1 of a stick, which his captor held in his hand. The snake was fully six teet in length, snd had eleven full rattles, anil two others partially formed. The creature displayed all of the an mnsity to humanity "characteristic of f his name s-ike, "the old serpent," -soiling and springing as the short T -1 I ts . I duiuk wotiiii idinir. mi nf -..lm- i r .. '" uuo. feep.ug up ine rattling sound, opening ltajaws, and darting out at us ita forked tongue "I asks three dollars fr the nriM. wM,.i, i.'i. j i...; ' I . " lnrV;, ". . ' unV" - 11 WUQ a S he WooJs u beln? his way. We next caroe to a little village ( ?) eo sistingof two or three log cabins, three small frampd houses, and a store, the latter somewhat larger than a shoe box. There were a few pieces of cheap calico on the counter, Bote strips of bacon, sr.lt pork, dry packed : few dishes, soma tinw,r .n,l barrel of flour, etc., near by, while in ironi oi inia store was a specimen of poroine ol the "razor-bnek" tvpe, with her family of ten pigs digging up t ie oft earth with their long snonta, and champing the refuse thrown out in on". This edifice had a sign nearly one half the size of the front of tue build- ing.on which was painted in large slar- mg black letters Iradino Palace.! We continued on our way. Ejud ing a curve in the road, we entered a dense pine forest through which the breeze whispered mysteriously, as it swayed and swung the hanging miss. RA mocktnj bird trillel its sweet mel ody from the top of a tree trnnk com pletely covered with the yellow jas min, which grows wild in ad that sec tion of the South, and whioh is such a prolific bloomer that the green leaves are nearly concealed bv the trnmpot l 1 v.l i 'l 7 , . r shaped blossoms, while in tin distance, cen,s! -Le Lawd bless sister Simpson," with the dark green of the pines for a tae Poacher. ''Sow here's twen baokground, it stood out in tup per- T? cen,s mo' from brudder Jenkins! spective like a pillar of gold. High Hallelujah !" May de Lawd increase overhead, on the long outstretched his crops." And so on, as the different limb of a dead tree that looked like the 8"s were depos.t d. "Now we has arm of a skeleton spectre poiutiug ies' two dollars and seven cents, an' we towards some dire d stinv in the be- mus' nke np six dollars, shu." yond, were huddled six "large turkey I '-Thus the different amounts given buzzards as loviulv as turtledoves; on wpre reported to the congretratiou, as another limb were two or thr?e more, , tbe preacher urged them to be liberal, their glossy black feathers glistening ur P"rtJ But up five dollars which in the waning sunlight, with their brought forth a shower of blessings and heads tncked under their winjrs. On a hauks "upon de eminent vttd bmev'. solitarv branch alone, high above and uite yemmen an' tariUt dat has apartf'romtheotherss.it another old hJn0d " u'id dere l'reteiwe ter buzzard as though in the most woeful a'J-' ' . and morose mood. I Signifying to the usher the necessity Whether he was recently a bereaved our e'nf on our way homeward, he widower, an incorrigible oi l bachelor, or had had his affections slighted by some fickle feminine heart, our party could not determine, as he sat there taking no note of the domestic tran quillity of three roosting above him. nor of the happiness of a dozen or more that were slowly s tiling in circles in the blue sky far above us, that they looked like floating black motes. Under the overhanging branches of these stately old forest pines we rodo, where were Beemingly hundreds of buzzards, either elowlr tljing high above or roosting contentedly snd lazily on the high branches. The birds took no notice of our laugh ng, morry party as we pas.-ed uud ?r their resting place, except a few toot slowly cram . I i their necks, like chickens disturbed on ' a roost, and peered downward at us ' curiously. I Soon the voice of song broke on our ears, wafted through the piue for. st like the sound of the breakers on a far away shore. It was a weird strauge melody, the combined voices of a mul titude! and grew louder an I more dis tinct as we approached nearer. j Emerging at an opening among the trees, we found alarge 1 g cabiu, which 1 by its size we at once recognize I as a church. Singular aud grotesque looK ing teams of ox carts, mules and a few horses were hitched about, to the trees and lam ne have never, says the Kus and fence. j sian corres po dent of the London We were informed by a colored man i Tclccraph, yet been so intense or so stationed outside, that the "Hard widespread as thev seem destined to Shelled Baptists" were "havin a per- become in the year of grace 1891. The tracted meetin," and invited us to stop high-water mar kof desolation and tnia and attend the services, which iuvita- ery will bo left far behind this year, tion we gladlv accepted. , Eajvy frost, destructive hail and con- "Erodder Bowser am nowapreachin; tinned drought have effectually done he's a pow'ful el'quent preac itr," was their work in spite of fervent prayers the information he imparted, as he as- ottered np in churches, of holy water sisted us by hitching our horses to a lav.shly sprinkled on parched fields, and pine tree near by, and then conducted of the undignified roliingof complaisant us to seats inside. I priests over the sickly crops to mako Like the school Louse before men-' thera strong, healthy and abnndant. tioned, this building wa without lath Writing on June 27 the Xovoe Vremjja or plaster, an I loose boards were lnid eaid: "The bad harvest prospects have down for a floor. It hadthei-ame kind already begnn to make themselves felt of slab seats, while a little raised plat- in such a vital matter as the price of form in the rear, was surmounted uy a bread. Black rye bread, by which rude desk so high as to almost conceal alone the P.u-eian masses may be said the preacher, who was loudly vocilerat- to live, hns risen in the market dnring ing to the edificat on of his congrega-' the last two or three days one kopeck tion. ! a pound. The price of rye flour rises Soon after beiug seated, the preacher every hour. In less that twenty-four beckoned to one of his brethren, who hours it has gone np a ruble a quar- went to the desk and received a wins-; pered message. The good brother im mediately caoie to where we were wu ou, nun miu iy a" looking of the gent emen oi our party: "Brodder Bow-er wants tcr kn.wef yer haint a minuter, an' wont take a seat in de pulpit, Sab." On receiving a reply in W n'egat.ve. and declining the tonor, further civilities were ex hrgTnt?eVen 'wl.i h 'he pl-d" upon theude tablin front of L pulpit , shall be like de hme's feet, my bred deren an' sisteren," continued the preacher in his discour.-e, "yer feet shall be like de hine's feet I Now da meaninc of dis ehere scriuter is dis. De psalms' didn't mean to say he mean ter any hen, hen'r Oe oric'nal Greek bein' hen'g feet, feet! Now in considerin' dis chere let na ies keep inmin lira' feet. Ter all know how 'tis wid yer, when yer is in do deep aire and do clay, yer feet sink down. Yer trv to rise on "one foot, and yer sink down furder on de udder fnt, end ver cries fo help. But when yer fnt is piameu ou , I the week there were 140 noblemen and (with loud voice and violent K-S!ieiil. . nt8ix ecclesiastics." The Jews, tion, and responsive emotion in the , Bllffl!r:ng- acutely. The mem congregation,) "how do mtro, ih an.l of tbfl rewlsh col)rjy ef EovnopoL de pit ah can hab no mo pow ah jQ th(j Governlnel,t of l knterinosiay, to sink wr down u de depths of sin- , nre ctic(l,.y dvin? of Lunger. The ah-and destruction ah-fo like de fbu to ,fl are rednce,j hens feet dat clings tisbt tode roos, , are jncredibIe The newspapers contain or do limb ob de ole apple tree, y. r is 8dTcrtismentj, from parents offering unmoved, and secure; au de winds oo ( their chlllJren for Bnle 0ne racn ad heabon ru ,y blow, an de storm beat on j Vtltigement offer9 ..a little girl of 6 to dat lien, aud s ill her feet cling to de , , , B . , . col. roos l oo yer nfi "hk" w hen's feet dat de 'luroments ob sin an' i . . 1 . r A !... II l.rt llrA IU satan kyant move from de roos od ue erwV ni fltires!" During this exhortation the preacher wildly gestured and shouted, stopping ocasiouallv to mop the perspiration from his shining 'ace with a bright yel low handkerchief, while his cougreg t nn bwkva 1 their bodies to and fro, some rising to their feet, aud respond in c "Amen," "rraise de Leowd," nalllniah." etc. others m .rmnnng i low in a kind of solemn chant, i hree i reel mn tiff old colored women with bonnets on their heads. calico sn (iluan aliiT and 'white ' starched calico dresses, .at nr. the left of the preacher, watching his every gesture, aud Catch- j wanning e ,DTheTIhowed their appreciat ou of his orftcry by occasional hand clap-. pingi and gentle stampingof their feet, accompanied by snch ejaculations M . "uikia so. "Jf, an" .fi-.. T -oWd'i truf " "Yea vml w Jo. ' 1 de so. I Sudderdv height of his oratory an t excitement, loweroa ms voice an i cropped on hs kne. kneeling a ees in praver. the nd AflmmnAnvint him with a low eroonioar sornd. like 1 weird chant. The uraver bet nc mind a plantation hymn was sung with great fervor, aome of the words of which were: "Come myLeowd an' M.issr. For.now r.e gwlne home! De chariot wi.eeisain rutnhlin. Oh eonie in, Ma-sr, come! Then followed the washing of feet, a ceremony performed by the preacher no washed tlio leet of several of his noc m a wooden pail, a bucket, (as it '8 called at the South), after which he ped ttiein with a tow el fastened about a B. the congregation keeping up a con.stant """Ring during this service ' ,"ow we 'U take np de collection Io' de preacher and do church, an' 1 Want to see eliery one ob dis ohere congregation jes' walk up an' rut what rer has ter gib oa dis yere table. Brudder Parsons will please lead in de singing dis time, as I must term to de collection, and see if de brndders and sisters all duz derednty." One by OLe different members of the congregation walked to the table and deposited money, the audience all remaining stand ing, w hile the preieher stood in front of his desk, and back of the table lo cated directly in front of it. Bister Simpson has guv twenty-five brought the hat of the gentlemen of our party from the altar table, and we dcpar;ed,the sound of the singing from the congregation following us until it died away in the increasing distance and was lost among the sighings and whisperings from i he towering tops of the forest piues, while darkness settled down eilentl, making their tall trunks look still more like sentinels, and bringing out more distinctly, with the contrasting silence of night, the weird voices among their branches. THE FAMINE ,N RUSSIA. Dreadful Sufferinss of the Peasants In Central, Western and South ern Russia. Sr. Fetehsbi ru. At a large meeting of representatives from towns in ti e Government of Nizhnee-Novgorod, it was determined recently to petition the Oovcrumeat to loan the province the snm of ?5,123,0O0 wherewith to tern sh the suffering peasants with seed and bread stuffs. Since the veil days of Boris God nnoff, who first legalized serfdom, be fore the dvnsKtv of the Romanoffs wa8 seated on the imjierial throne, hunger ter. PICTURES OF MTSERT. The Ministry of Finances, in a map .,,..; nfl,,ial renort inst . , ' " - r ' . Pu uitoed, marks the rare oses n which the .Ute of the crops barely rtt f n r m .iS W . ferjd Centra, and est- rn V.1 and in the bern Kussla, the outlook is ex- -mely dismal. The cor u-grow.g country distri ts of the which are usual- have now lost all hopes of a harvest. "The Winter wheat in Southern and Eastern Russia," says the Ministerial report, ''has succumbed to the frosts and peri bed." "In the Government of Kostroma," writes a special correspondent of the chief agricultural journal in Russia, "I was everywhere met by men, women and children looking haggard and wan, their faces fleshless and drawn, their eyes red. Their food is bread made of oatmeal mixed with tree bark and other analogous ingredients. The misery suffered by peaxant families is intense." "In Kazan," we rend in the Xe.delva, "among the indigent persons who re ceived tickets for gratis dinners during lected with the rigor and regularity which has always characterized the Ministry of Finances. Those peasants who are uuable to pay have their chat tels if they possess any distrained. Bonnet of Oat Straw. In 179 Betsy Metcalf, of Dedham, Ma'R., made a bonnet ont of oat straw, . , - - tL l.'.i. 1 . latuiouiDg ait r u wu xnen very .u .Uu. .e. u.,r men very mhuiouuiiie. ouo uanc ou the straw with the blade of her scissors, spl t it with her thumb nail, braided it BT1 into the reqnisite number of strands snd bieachert it by holding it over xne vapor of burning sulpi.ur wprd taught the young ladies of her vi- ci, ity how to do it, and thn. laid the fonnuat-on of the extensive basineas vow carried on m straw haU Nsw tug and. X riXOl'g Clr'E. Tkstch f the Great Headquarters Cheat In Paris. Just across the way from Ae Com tdie Francaise Theatrs stands ene of the dearest old landmarks in Paris, the Cafe de la Regence, where for more than a hundred and fifty years the sign over the door informs you thar it was founded in 1718 giants in the world of chess have with their toy armies fought such battles ag have made the place immortal. Drop in there ny afternoon between rive and six and spend an hour or so over a steaming niazagr&m, studying a phase of human nature possibly new to you, the passion which impels men, regardless of money, to devste their lives to pushing pieces of carved wo 'd and ivory over a board laid out in squares. Only think of it; this commonplace, awdnst strewn floor has been- many a time walked by Napoleon Bonaparte, who as a young man U6ed to spend hours massing his battalions of knights and pawns against the players of his time; and, singularly enough, although he used to Vanquish Mme. de Remusat in brilliant fashion, it is pretty clearly established that the great general pos icis d but indifferent ability as a chess player. The garcons of the cafe stiil point proudly to a small, stone topped table in the billiard room at the back on which Napoleon used to play, and where he learned the rudiments of the fame which he afterward studied pro foundly during the lonely years of his confinement in St. Helena." And both before and after Napo leon's day the Cafe de la Regence has been the trysting place of celebrated men with love for chess. The memory of Paul Morphy is hon ored, almost worshiped, at the Regence.- Above the "calsse'' standing out prominently from the yelow, wainscoted wall, are two bronze busts by the famous sculptor, Lequesne. One is the face of Philidor, the "Aiher of chess," the other, moulded from life, is that of Morphy, and often as they pass beneath, the chess champions of Fiance look up reverently at those 'fiery and ferret" eyes which nature irave to Morphy. Who knows what inspiration those eye have given? MORPHY'j IIHST GAME. And with reason does the Regence honor Morphy, for it was there he played such games of chess as Europe had never seen. They tell an amus ing story of hi first appearance in the ;afe. He strolled in there oue after noon, and dropping into a seat near llarrwitz, the then champion, watched the game with apparent indifference. Harwitz having gained an easy victory the young stranger modestly a-ked if tie would like to play a game with him. "Certainly," answered Larvritz, smiling. "What odds shall I give you ?" "I don't know, sir," said I'urphy 'Suppose we play oue game even, auc then we can arrange the odds fair v.". The other agreed to this, and th6 play commenced. llarrwitz com mence! in a slapdash fashion, not :hinking it necessary for him to take pains, but at the end of the eighth move be found, to his great astonish ment, that he wa seriously embar rassed, and before he knew whe -ii he was the game was lost. "IFin !" he exclaimed, "tnat's queer I must have made some silly mistake." "I guess you did, sir," replied Mor phy. "Shall we try ano her?" They did try another, and still an other, and each time Morphy Won. llarrwiiz became very angry. Do you know who I am?" l.e asked finally of his presumptuous op ponent. "I am llarrwitz." "I know you are," was the Ameri jan's quiet answer. "Do you kuow who I am? I am Morphy " They p'ayed several other games, llarrwitz now exerting himself to the utmost, but it was no ue, Mirphy never lost a game. It wai at the Rrgence al-o that Morphy played his famous blindfo d liamea, and an engraving there shows h m almost a boy, seated in the back room, his legs comfortably crossed, serenely directing eight simultaneous games against eight of the finest players in Paris, defeating s'jc and tying two, in spite of tho fact that his eye were tightly bound with a hand kerchief, which indeed was hardly necessary, as the boards were plaod in the front of the cafe. A Billiartllst's Habits. I called upon George F. Slosson, who is the champion of the billhird world, if there be such a thing as a champion of that fascinating pasMue, and asked him what were the conditions necessary to be observed to become a great expert. He stated in reply to my questions as follows: "There ia a prevalent belief that great tenors and famous sopranos are the most sensitive souls in the world and require the laigest amount of care. There is another profession, my own, which requires as mucii care of the body, if not more than that of vocal music. Billiards, since it has passed from a mere pastime to a science, de mands the finest condition of the body, and especially the nervous system, if a player ever prnpo es to become an ex pert or a champion. It is very hard to define what I mean by condition. Every good player rccignizes and ap preciates and alludes to it as being la good or bad form. a3 the case may be. The gone al public, and especially those who have never played tho game, can not realize tho extent to which good play depends upon the physical organi zation. "A few illustrations mny give an idea of this dependence. In making a run every expert calculates exactly whe e the balls will be after a shot Is made. No man is an expert unless he can predict It to within an Inch. Cham pion players can come within a eixty fowth of an inch upon a simple car rom. TThis seems wonderful, but it falls short of a feat tliat has been fre quently performed by two American experts and one French expert. The three balls are placed in the form of a triangle an inch upart in a ciro e five inches in diameter. The object ball is struck with force sufficient to send It around the table, striking the cushion five times and stopping in the circle in Its original position. jTbe cne ball after driving off the object ball in this maaser passes to the third biil wisb just enough force to toucn U without either of the two passing beyond the rin -. The accuracy and force reqnired to do this may be calculated from tfia fact that the object ball goes over a course of about twenty-seven feet in length, and that a variation of lees tcna a hair's breadth and a difference in force of one-half of one . er cent, would send it anywhere save to the right place. "To attain to ih's power the nerves and muscles must be under perfect control and en rapport with the eye and brain. The slightest interference or sickness will change all this and prevent first-class work. In my own case tobacco and alcohol would rtterly spoil my playing. Furtjier than that, nervousness, indigestion or even a j slight cr Id produces a perceptible fall ing oa in my accuracy and skill. " mi'' Horror of Mavery in Africa. Mr. Daniel J. Rankin is a young and iturdi- Englishman who has just re turned from more than six years' resi Jence and journeys in jhe Zambesi region of Africa, which Is now attract ing so much stteution. In the course of a recent interview he says : Slavery is rife not only on the upper waters of the Zambesi, but even in the immediate vicinity of Quilliinane there are pi-azos that are even now worked by slave-labor. Every year large cara rans of slaves, mostly owned by Swa iiilis, are brought from the Xyassa re gion, and absorbed into these districts. I myself have se n a large slave cara van, within three days' Journey of the seat of the Government, waiting to dispose cf its living merchandise over the Portuguese estuies." "What sort of slave-labour is it?" "The unfortunates are set to work in gangs of ten or twenty men, women, and children. Each of these Is pre sided over by a negro who, armed with a lush, is only too eager to demonstrate ; Ins authority. At Conceicao I saw a j middle-aged woman who had a he:.vy child ou her back, and after working ; at road-ma. .ing, for wh;ch she would ' ! receive no wages, from early dawn to ; cunset, finally fell down on her knees ' utterly worn-out and burst into tears. ' But tnis did not save her from a severe lashing from the b utal fellow who had, uiif'.er an umbre la, been goading her on during the broiling mid-day heat. Such cases are not exceptional; they are, on the other baud, of every day occurrence." Mr. Rankin then went on to describe the lawless doings of the so-called soldiers, mos ly West-coast negroes, sent by the Portuguese over the dis tricts on th? Lower Zambe-i and Shire. "I ake.l one poor fellow,'' he said, ! who had been stubbed through the body . by tho bayouet of one of these wan j tonly brutal soldiers for remonstrating i when the mother of his little child Wus being ill-used before hiseyc9, "why ha did not complain to the authorities. He looked at me in amazement. Ah, Bluster,' he repli 'd, the tears trickling down his wasting c eeks, 'if I so ma Jh as moved my tong.ie 1 should be sent oil to die in Angola.' Poor fe low, lie did not live long enough to be sent to Angola, the Botany Bay of the natives, for soon after his wretched wife and litile child buried him. This is a do mes ic episode far too common in thU land of I'ortugu s? bliglit." Has a Temperance Beer Been Found. Is it found? What? Why, the mnch-prayed-lor beverage which tee totallers csu 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 'ioulit, is an iuvaluable substitute for beer, and many of us cannot under stand how our ancestors lived before it was "invented." But tea cannot be brewed at a moment's notice, and a thir-ty man in the middle of the day is driven to ordinary drinking water, ginirer-beer, or lemonade. The ideal temperance drink mu-t be bright, sparkling, tasty, and with some j bony and substance in it. Tho mans - ; ing director came down to our office , the other day carrying with him two j bottles of a be cae which seemed to '. comply with all the-e indispensable ' conditions. Riley's Temperance Hop Ale is the somewhat forbidding title of the new dr nk, and our visitor i wsxed 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 couid say was lia.f as eloqu nt as th ? beer itself. If you drank it without being told what it was you might very easily inistako 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 ravderl" and no nearer the point of iutoxication than when vou began. Our representative hc.ird a very in ters1 ting account of the way in which the invention came into his hands. The credit of too discovery really beloncs to an ex-private in the Guards, who after ho left the service had for some time charge of a temperance coffee house. Seeing how much a temper ance drink was required, he gave his whole attentlou to manuf aoturing one, Rnd after three years' studyitg dis covered the secret t manufacturing beer without alcohol, thus producing the beverage ho now sells. Although It is but of yesterday the demand fo.- the new beverage is spread ing, and it is said to have been greatly in vogue at tho stores (where they are not allowed to sell genuine ale), where "Old Riley," as it will be designated, is fimnd to bean invaluable substitute. -Pall Mall Gazette. A Monster craps-Vine. The largest grape-vine in the world ia that proving at Oys, Portugal, which has been bearing since l'-Oi. ltf maximum yield was in 18C4, in which year it prod need a sufficient quantity of grapes to make K5 gallons of wine: in 1674, 146 gallons, and in 1S&4, only 7Vb pi.llons. Last year it seems to hav token an extra spurt, the expressed juice of the grapes it produced agair exceeding the 100-gallon mark. It covers an area of 5315 square feet, th stem at the b smeaenring six and one hall feet in circumference. The Word of God will stand a thou sand readines; and he who has gon over It Xfoai frequently Is tbe surest o: Ending new wonders there. ALL SORTS. Bow the Funny Men Barn Their Money. A Midnight Tragsdy. I. Two lovers lean oa the garden gate; To hour ts late. II. At a clumber window her father tUnJa, And rubs his handt. III. For s while he watches them UBiwtret, Then goea down italrs IV. He koes his dog from bit irsn chain The rest is pl.lu. The moc-nllbt aUveri the garden gate; The uonr Is lale. W. B. HUii, in Sonervllle Journal. The difference between ships and ba' ks that are wrecked is the first are w.eckcd by the presence of rocks, the last by their abseuce. Roauoks Herald. Tangible Second groom (wailing at tea for the nonce, and handing thin bread-and-butter sotto voce): "Clap to or three bits together, Miss, then you'll get a bite!" A good thing can be carried too far. A Boston man, who had been told that he w as about to die, asked the doctor for his bill, saying that he did not wish to depart from his life-long rule, "Pay as you go." Rome Sentinel. Etymology "How do you do, my little man? I'm your next-door neighbor, you know!" "What's a neighbor?" ' 'Well neigh means nigh; that is. rear, and " "Oh, thank you. I know what bore "A penny for your thoughts!" ex claiineu Miss Amy to young Goelin. "Oh, aw I don't want to wob you like that, doncl.er know," replied Gos lin. and then he couldn't see why everybody laughed so uproarously. -New York Sun. Some fellow haa invented a time lock for the front door, which registers the exact time ihe head of the house returns home at night, or early in the nv-rning, as the case may be. It is safe to wager $10,o00 against $1 that the inventor hasn't got a wife. Nor ristown Herald. Want of Training-room Miss Ken nelworth "He's a pretty collie; but I don't see why he wags his tail np and down, instead of sidewise." Mrs. Morris Parke "The poor tbing has always lived with us in our Harlem flat, and thnt's the only way he could wag it." Puck. Ghost (at reance) "Do you rec ognize me?" Mrs. Toper (confidentially) "Yes! You are my late husband, Johu Toper." Ghost (t-urprieed) "How d:d you know me?" Mrs. Toper (firmly) I smelt your breath." Lowell Mail. Beggar "Boss, would you give me a quarter? I'm dead broke." Bloated Bondholder "I never give money to people on the street." Beggar "Well, boss, there's a saloon on the corner, or if you're a Prohibitionist we could go into the hotel yonder." Epoch.. Teacher "Relate an incident in the life of Moses." Tommy Jersey "Oneday he saw an Egyptian striving with a Hebrew, and he said nnto the Egvptian, 'Render unto Cesar the things that are Casar's,' and thereupon smote him and cut off his ear." New York Herald. Conductor (crowded car) "Plenty o' room inside." Passenger (one of forty hanging to straps) "Plenty of room, eh? Where is it?" Conductor (wrathfully) "Alongside o' you, you selfish hunk o humanity. Want ter keep that strap all to yerself, don't yerl" New York Weekly. Mistre s (kini.ly) "Jane, I hear you have been seen in the park with my husband." Jane ( defiantly ) "Yes, ma'am, I have." Mistress (still more kindly) "Well, Jane, you are a good pirl; but I cannot uave anyone about the house who keeps bad com pany." New Ilav.-n Nutmegs. St. Peter What is your claim for r cognition and admittance? Newly Arrived Spirit In life I was never guilty of confessing t any an noyance 1'ioin a woman's high bonnet in a theatre. St. Peter Angelic man ! Here is a check for a front - seat. Pittsburgh Bu.letin. Bob Happy "What are you doing off there, Bil y ?'' Billy Golacky "To tell you the truth, I can't 6tand that cigar!" Bob Hr.ppy "Why, you gave it me yourself !'' Billy Go ucky "I know ; but I had no idea you were, going to smoke it while you were here." Puck. The story is told of a Russian gen eral in the w-rs of the r?t Napoleon, wt o was reported by au English news paper as found dead on '.he battle-field with a long word sticking in his throat. The inference was that he was choked to death in attempting to pro nounce his own name, the misprint of "word" for "sword' not occurring to tho lynx-eyed proof-reader. Minnie "I wonder what ercr b came of Jennie Smart, who took first prize in our graduating class?" Mamie "Why, don't you know? She wrote an article on Tho Degrada tion of American Womanhood,' got J1000 for It from a magazine, went into Wall street, made a fortune, and went to Europe and bought one of th sweetest little princes you ever saw lH Terre Haute Express. Pans has electric cala. A ilgian coal mine Is 3700 feet deep An Angora cat la worth $100. A M xico (Mo.) man has a tax receipt In hia posse sion acinowh dging the pay ment or forty-three cen's on forty acres of 'an 1 in oone County, The receipt is dated 1S43. A m.vu applied for naturalisation at Merced, CL, recently who, after thirty years' residence iu this country, could not answer s wrd of English or a sin el question pat by the court regardlog o r laws. Musicians ef Royal Blood. A correspondent furnishes the fol lowing catalogue of living musician! of royal blood: In England, Queeq Victoria and the Princess Louise play the pianoforte and organ, the Prince of Wales the banjo and the princesj the pianoforte; the Puke of Con naught is counted a fine flute layer, and the Duke of Edinburgh an ac complished violinist. The favorite in strument of the czar is a silver cirnet. The queen of Italy is well-known as a clever pianist. The empress of Aus tria charms by her playing of the flute. The empress of Japan plays tho national Japanese i-strument the koto a zither of large dimen ions. The queen of Ro imania is a mistress of the harp and the pianoforte. TL king of Greece plays with an astonisn ing virtuosity all possible melodies with castanets and on wino glasses; with a similar cleverness he plays the Hungarian cimbalnms, which art ij now being learned also by the crown princess Sophia of Greece, under the instruction of two Hungarian vir Mionoa. Prince Hcnrv of Prussia U known as a composer for and player on the violin aud pianoforte. It is clear that their majesties and royal highnesses do not agree with any Lord Chesterfield, who recommended his son, that model of virtue! to hire his "iddling. The Bishop's Wit Saved Him. A story showing the shrewdness and ready wit of the Scotchman is told of a well known Scotch bishop who was content to pass his life in single bless edness. While he held a certain see be was, of course, an object of consid erable interest to the unmarried ladies Df the neighborhood. One day he re vived a visit from one of them, who had reached the age of desperation. Her manner was solemn, though some what embarrassed. The good bishop ipoke with his usual kindness, and en couraged her to be communicative. By nd by he drew from her that she had had a very strange dream, or rather, as she thought, a revelation from heaven. On further questioning she confessed that it had been intimated to her that she was to be united in marriage to the bishop. One may imagine what a start that gave to the quiet scholar, who ha 1 long before married his books and never thought of any other bride. Ho recovered, however, and, address ing her very gentlv, said that doubt less these intimations were not to be depised. As yet, however, the de signs of heaven were but imperfectly explained, as they had been revealed to only one of the parties. He would wait to see if any similar communica tion should be made to himself, and when it happened he would bo sure to let her know. Lions At Large In a Circus Atena. New Circus business is always a difficult subject to deal with, but when the novelty announced takes the shape of lions, the task must perforce be difficult. The show presented by a Mr. Dar ling in Paris is absolutely new both in conception and detail. Hitherto all performances of the kind had been e i acted under cover of a cage, but Dar ling allows his monster cats to disport themselves and roam at large over the spacious arena of the circus. The authorities of Paris were at tht outset unwilling to grant permission, but after witnessing the rehearsals were bound to admit that every neces sary precaution had beea taken by lh management to protect the audience fiomany possible fit of fury on the part of their feline entertainers. Darling makes his lions, four in number, walk in procession, lie down at command, ride tr cycles, and pose in positions the most " trying. Mean while his big Bavarian boar hound jumps backwards and forwards over the artistic arrangements composed by the skilful tamer, who completes his triumph by harnessing three of these "Kinga of Beasts" to a Roman chariot, and making them rush him round the arena at a gallop several times and finally carry him off in right regal 'ashion. A Liberal Uernian Prlnc". The Prince then proceeded to utter a protest against an article of a semi-.ffi-cial paper, giving out as the watch word for the coming elections the 6up pressiou of social democrats and their partisans. He declare 1 that he wou'd vote against the bill. Although he was a most determined opponent of social democracy, the government must leave the people a certain free choice of means for arriving at a com mon end. 1 here was iu social democ racy a good deal of idealism, but that quality had gradually become rare in Germany, having giving way to place hunling. This closing remark of the Pr'nce evoked a burst of cheers from some section of the House. The speaker re ceived the warm congratulations of the left and centre, while the members of his own party vehemently reproached him, and compelled him to declare that he had not spoken in the name of hi; party. A Caronsing Ex-King. King Milan has been on a wild car ouse at Monte Carlo. He has lost 500,000 francs at the gaming tables, and has been mean enough, accord ing to current report, to send his friend Count Milcwaki to Belgrade, to the horror of Queen Nathalie, hia divorced and greatly wronged wife, to ob aiti her influence with the Government in order to get a iarge sum from the Ser vian treasury. Plna. The Rer. William Griffis, in his in teresting book, Honda the Samuria, says there are no pins in Japan; dresses are so made that no pins, buckles or straps are needed. Pins were first in troduced into England by Kafhcrinn Howard, the wife of Henry VIII , and within a century of that time th y were made of twisvd wire, heads being placed separately on the same. Tins complete, ont of one piece, were first made by the Patent Head -d Pin Works of England, and were thus tsade in America at the close of the war in 1812. Before that time thev were imported, and sold at $1 a package, Now, a be ter pin ia made at 8c a pack age. Then hand-work had to be em ployed; now everything ia made by machinery KEWS IN BRIEF. There are no "Axel" stars. Gold is shipped abroad in kegs, cuble inch of cast aluminum Weighs 0.U02. It is an interesting fact that there are no bald-headed tramps. Only six horses have ever trotted tnenty-miles within one hour. there are 270 wt men ordained or 'icensed to preach In this country. A dog at Deposit, N". Y., found a locket-book recently containing MOO. A miner dressed in armor went in to a burning rait'ei at Republic, Mich., to fljht the lire. Thers wi recently received ia New London, Conn., a banana weighing two and a h.df p.iunds. Tiie Egyptians had a very remark able ordinance to prevent persona from borrowing imprudently. The Chinese paper currency is red, white aid yellow pa:r. with gilt letter -'ng ai:d gorgeous devices. A harness that looks luminous In the di.rk da beu Invented. It is in ended to prevent collisions at night. The Br:tish admiralty has resolved to give $2J,000 to . dmiral Colomb for ''ia invention o flashing lij ht signals. Jup ter is the lariren planet in the soltr 8)tm, being 85,890 miles in dia meter, while the earth ia but 8000 miles. The only woman, with the except ion o2 Mrs. Grim wood, who has received the Royal Red Cross, Is Florence .Night ingale. Miss Olive Buchanan, United State Deput- Man-hall at St. Louis. Is the only uersou or her eex now noldlng a position ot tha' kind. AtCambridge, England, butter is sold by the yard, a pound of the article be rg rolled into a yard long and sold la sections to suit buyers. Mr-. Harrison Is having the green mom of the White House decorated la S xu-enth C ntnry style. The leading lint is absinthe gieeu. Secietary Tracy witnessed the fleet tr a i. ceii v res of the No.th Atlantic and the .-quadron of Evolution off Bar Uarbor, Me. i he greatest steam power using roumry in the woilJ la the United S .tea. Great Britain comes next then Germany and then France. Theie are spiders no bigger than a grain of rand which spin thread so hue that :t t kes 400 J of them to equal iu magnitude a single hair. Tha wsees of shop girls In London rnnge lroni 35 to 40 a year in the po rest k nd ot shops, to J250 to to $400 In the aii-tocratic establishments. The- search for bodies m the ruined buil.iimr in Faik Place, New Yoik City, was ended, sixty-one corpses bav hm been recovered. Of these, fifteen are unidentified. Mm Ilattie Porter, orllartford, be enmes one of ihe richest women la Ccnnt ct'Ciit through a bequest of $000, O.v Just received under the Will of Solo mon A Porter. The English Royal Princesses hare set the la-stpou for their sisters not only to dress alike when they are unmar ried, but to continue to do so after bay ng become wives. One who has worn them says that net dresses were invented by the enemy of woman-kind to try her temper and to keep her forever darning tue rents in 'he net. i he longe:t hair In the world Is said to belong to a young woman In Gain-vill.-, Texas. It trails on the ground oer four feet, and is of a beautiful red gold color. The Empress of Germany is loya to the tatbenand to the extent of having all her d. esses made In Ber lin and Vienna. She buys her hats In berlln and only her gloves comes from i'arls. The New York girl who lost her engagement ring In a wash basin only to Uud li two yeari later In the gutter, wl ere It had been washed from an open sewer, had meantime been married and widowed. According to a German authority it has be n found that znc will rapidly coirode when In contact with brick work. To prevent this roofing-felt is placed be. ween the zinc and the brick work. It Is stated that thre are 27,000,. 000 potes on the surface of our bodies Hhich, If placed in a line, would ex tend twenty-eigut miles in length, and that we lose .wo pound of water in the teuty-f -ur hours by per pi ration. The d stance of the horizon la gov erned by the he glit of the eye above tb earth or sea. On the sea, with the eye at a height of five feet, the dtstacoe woul 1 be ti ree miles; at sixty feet in height, ten miles. Mrs. Mi tkay has fallen a victim to the craze for h)pienate names. She Is no longer plain Mrs. Mackay, known all the world ever wituout initial or prefix; she Is now Mrj. "HungerforJ Vackay," at which Eng-lah people em le. Mrs. Ida May Davis, who has been elected a mem) erof the city school board of Terra Haute, is the first woman in Indiana to hold such a position. Tlio'i.li at i I a youn? woman, she haa been a leacher for ten years, and is the utl or of cousi leraole literary work. The follow ng 1 a ludicrous cus torn ufTtcted among the nobility of Bas tana. I pon any notileman's engaging in tiale, mediant s, manual labor or like i ocitp.-tion, tie must needs drop his title while to eruidoyed but widen can ) resum d upon giving up the occupa tion. Miss Fibor, of North Carolina, the lady who once wrote many noveb nnder the name of ' Christian Held,'' ia now Mrs. Ih rnati and publishes no more. She ia the dtughter of the Col onel Fisher who gave Its name to Fort Fisher. A Connecticut merchant advertUes Iron bd-tteaii ail b3llia?." The wife of a well-known naval of Cor in Washington wears a very hand b .me gold n Tklnce that once adorned the neck of a Peruvian Piincesa. The lady's husl and took It from the Princess, whose mummifi'd body he found In a Peru Ian grave. When a Frenchwoman wears a pal' or hat, which la very seldom, she has It of c!ear white straw, with a scarlet velvet band, but the hat the Parisian lite lest is of fluted black tulle, cauzht In the middle with two pink carnations or two pule yellow rosea, Tli's must be owned, that to lov9 one's relations is not always an ea,y ta-.k; to live with cue's neighbors V 1 f
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