R3 B P. SOHWEIER, THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor sad Proprttor. VOL. XLV. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER is. 1S91. fifo . f A jr VTtS ICY M rv0VOj no. is - - " -w I OPPORTUNITY". Vaateret homan destinies am I! fame, love and fortune oo my fx.Ut;p wait Cities and fields I walk: I penet-ato (ilsciu ana seas remote and pawing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or Ufa 1 kaock unbidden once at every ga:o! 0 sleeping, wake; if feasting, nse before I torn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Ifortals desire, ami conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt and hesi tate Condemned to failure, oenurv ami Beek me In vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more! i l. T 1 ' -y juan i. ingaua. ' ABOUT GEORGE MA Tm AT. . Ye., it is m Mr. M.rti.i.....u. shouldn't it be, I should like to know? Here's my husband been writing this fear or more, and I confiding in him all the time, as unsuspicious as a new- 1 born baby. , ' There' lovingand cherishing" for fou: A man coming in. and eating his Sinner, calling mo l'olly, and dear, just as U all the time he wasn't writing un known to me. and gettinj oceans of money, that ha spends on the dear knows what, for I don't; andI'll war rant he's told all about the hollow place In the bed where he hns to sleep, and the shirt-buttons, and the way I got my fray silk at Ubsdell & Piorson's. Hut I'll show him up. and just let evenv- w1 Irrn. h.t .. ...J.-w.-j. I 7::;: "nvrr.. 'r,,ueu - rru.piug vxviiy Ul man lie IS. Ho write, indeed! I'd as soon think It our old gray cat sitting up by the Ire with speotacles on and trying to srochet ' But this ain't the story. You must knot?, that it happened just Before New Year's, I'd been making lip my mince pies and giving the house ft good cleaning out and I was pretty tired. I had just got off my dress when I thought I heard something like talk tng down stairs. Now. Mr. Martini was down thero and. of course, I suspected mischief. tot I haven't lived forty-ono years good gracious! how my pen slips. I Dean t' lirty-five without knowing that ledger up to a man's neck and ink enough tO drown him are no safeguards against his own natural wickedness. and. slipping on my gown I stolo softly ' iown the stairs, bound to find out what that talking meant, as sura as my name was Polly Martial. The) door of "the bitting1 room was a little ajar, as good luck would have It, sitting there in his dressing-gown the gown I made for him, and 1 wonder 1 Itr didn't burn him and his ledger open tGlore him (the . old hypocrite); tut who he was talking to, I couldn't (or the life of me make out. till it came) : Into my head to look through the crack ' it the door. And then but forty-one (I moan ' Uirty-five) years of experience of the meanness of men in general, and his, I la particular, never would have made me believe, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, that Mr. Martial would have. , .V . K , ' , eight 0 clock in the evening right under w a-JA u;- ,i a Vu been sitting in his own dining-room at Ulkiuf. and not only tht but looking at a lean, scraggy, curly-headed Frenchwoman. I wonder that no wasn't afraid that (Is mother's portrait would come out t'l the frame; and how he could take Ceorgy on his kneo. as be Jiad dona r -' i ... v:.lf J.j..n toolas:e-while he had all that wick. dness in his heart is a mystery beyond py comprehension: I My first thought wa9 to rush In and coniouna tnem Dotn. i hen 1 remem bered I had no hoops on; and It struck me that it might be aa well to find out the full extent of his depravity before E annihilated him. . "I don't know how we shall manage ft" he waa saying. "My wife has such sharp ears that she could bear a eat stealing after a mouse." It will be difficult without doubt" answered mademoiselle; "but mon sieur's affection will, I am sure, over come all what you call 'em? Obstacle." "I don't know." he said, rubbing his o&ld pate. "If she hadn't such ears; but I'm afraid, now. she'll be in oo us." "And then, how can we get at her dresses? I can't go near her closet, and If she should find you there" Think of that! That scraggy thing In my closet! Aa if it wasn't enough to run away with my husband, but she must want my clothes also! "Well," answered mademoiselle, suppose I try and see her. I can what you call it? fix her in five minutes." , Fix me! me, Polly Martial! The demons meant to assassinate me! But it would be better if you had a firess," Insisted Mr. Martial. "Her gray silk, for instance. " Suppose you call and tell her you are a poor seamstress in want of work and offer to sew for her at three shill ings a day. She'll nibble at that bait and when Bhe goes out of the room you can just whisk up to her closet and lip out with the gray silk." "There ladies! here's Mr. Martial for you. My best silk that I bought at Ubsdell's, and paid eight dollars for the making and trimming! and that lean-yellow-faced trollop was to "whisk j up" and "slip out with my silk!" Ughl I we wretch! I don't faint because I am too heavy nd I was too mad for hysterics: but the awful discovery of his perfidy, and her cool impudence actually made me to dizzy that I don't l ightly know what else waa said and done, only she was lo come at ten o'clock the next morn Ing to play the part of the poor seam Kress; neither can I tell how I got to my own room, or how I ever managed lojpeak civilly to Mr. Martial, who came up about tn minutes later and wanted to know if I was not injuring my health sitting up late. In the morning I was pale, but per fectly calm and collected; I had de cided on the course I was to pursue I cooked the breakfast and poured Jut the coffee for Mr. Martial, and I iidn't put the poison for ths rats in his sup though I felt like it, when he laid something about his ehirt button sot being well sewed on and hoping I would inaugurate the New Year by s leform in that particular. Thinks I, you're going "to inaugur the New Year" witn a vengeance kut I said nothing. I had o f!y around pretty smart to got my worn dona and myself nxju ey ten o clock; but I did it end had o my green piaij and my velvet head reS8- witn the bugles and lace just a; 1 hrt doolf alriiftr- f-ii- T - : , . ... m M ucbvriuinet I mat that woman should see and fee I me ainerenco between mo and her. Bno nau any reeling left in her. W hen she did come my heart beat a If I hod been running; and it wa Kigmy bard work to keep ir.y hand: out of them pipe-stem curls of hers. l ne only way I managed it was t be. very lofty and cool and bit mv tongue when l relt like bursting out aaJ when rhe bad f!-y, h- "ir- maroie about nve cntiaren and! tld work I just enlaced her without furthar ceremony and set her down to i work In my second storv front room. P.?ncA the cl09et door where y gray silk hung and went out, pretending that i lorgot to shut IL It was one of those deep closets, with shelves and drawers, that c.-nneotthe front and back sleeping rooms in most nouses nowadays; and I had taken care to look the door loading into the back room and take the key; so. the minute that madcmoisello put down her work and after looking all round. stole into the closet I whisked in from the little hall bedroom, whero I had been watching her,' hut the door. locked it and had the key in my pocket us quick ad a dash Then I went chuckling down stairs. but not a stitch of work could I do for laughing. I declare. I whs so tickled that I almost forgave Mr. Martial who was scared out of his wits, when he ; found i could not pour the tea for giggling, and upset the gravy dish, ns I happened, to .think. of. mademoiselle shut up all day without a mouthful to eat and squalling herself hoarse to get out But what is it?" says Mr. Martial Oh. nothing!" sa'S I. 'It's hysterics." says he. "and 'hall go for the doctor." No. you needn't." says I; '-it's only you won t tell i! "ii'o; I won't tell. ell, it s only something tunny I've got upstairs. Want to see it I You mustn't make a bit of noise, then; come on your tip-toes." I "It's in there," I' whispered, un locking the back door this time. "Just in THElte!" bushing him in. and lock Ing the door like lightning. I You'd better believe thero was i concert then. He bellowing fire and she squalling murder, but I didn't mind, but off I went for my brother Sam and Fa and Ma Martial Brother Sam came fait enough, for ho always thought Mr. Martial was "small potatoes and few in a hill nt that" but Pa and Ma Martial wouldn't believe a word of it "Oh, very well! says I. seeing w believing." and Opening the front door I marched them up stairs and unlocked the closet door. Out came mademoiselle liko a starved tiger cat and, when he couldn't help It out sneaked Mr. Martial after her. his hair all rough, and hi shirt collar tumbled. There. Ma Martial. says 1. "what do you think now? Pretty cnupio, ihpy are, to run away together and try , J . i . j to assassinate me and steal my dresses. x. HAfttantiA tfAimir lAtruK tart 1Sa And she's a beauty, too. ain't she?" I'll have aatisf action." squealed mademoiselle. "I'll see if I am to be locked up in closets and starred and , insulted." "And I'll see." (aid I, "If I am to i have my dresses stolen. I don't care ftbOUt Mr. Martial. You might have him and welcome; but I won't lose my : , " . , Ma Martial began to cry and brother sam was toln8 to collar Mr. Martial, when Pa Martial stepped between them. "See here, Ueorge." said he. "what's all this about? Speak up like a man. W ho is this woman?" "She's a dressmaker. whimpered Mr. Martial. "I bought dress for Mrs. Martial for New Year's, and as the last time I gave her one she said the trouble of making it was worse than having no dress at all, I thought I'd have it all ready-made; and hear ing this lady wae an uncommon fit 1 told her about it and asked her if she conlaa't smuggle one ot my wuei dresses away and make it by that, Mi cause I daren't go near her closet my self, and my wife mu9t have heard pan ot what we said and contrived to slue us both up here, and that's the whob truth. There, ladles and gentlemen! that") all the excuse he ever did or couH make, and what more, they belie w him, even brother Sam, Gasadlif Glgadab. riiere is a quaint old man in Man Chester. England, who goes by th( unique name of Gagadig Gigadab. sayi the New York Tribune. His original name, so the story goes, was Johl Smith, but many years ago he begai to brood over the possibilities of mis taken identity involved in such a com mon name. The name figured fre quently in the criminal records, and hi became abnormally apprehensive Jest he might be confused with some 01 these bad John Smiths. At last what he feared so much actually happened. One morning the papers recorded th capture of an accountant in a bank foi embezzlement end through some blun der of the reporter the identity ot th embezzler was confused with the sub ject of this paragraph, who waa also I bank accountant. Then and there h determined to assume a name liko unU no other ever borne by mortal man And in Gagadig Gigadab most peoph will agree that he has done so. Dick ens, in his most erratic Rights of nomerv clature. never invented anything liM it He is an old man now. and think) that his queer name will in some waj ward off death. Years ngo he chab lenged any poet to write four verses, each having a rhyme for his last name, but no one ever accepted the challcng" riar of HxUrr Attorney Bedford was prosecuting a criminal in the New York court of gen eral sessions a few day ago. H clos ed with the peroration: "M-f oath o) office to perform- the duties Ot mj position without fear or favor, and to see that justice i9 don to the peopls as well as to the defendant U regis tered in heaven." "Mr. Bedford. " exolaimed the recorder. ' JO.tfP o11" sd the rcorder. ' your oaia is not registered la th countj rt office clerk's office, your right B represent the people hore may be oueauonea. What do we live for, if not to mako life less difficult for each other? OF One of the most singular stories la the annals of art is the theft and disap pearance of an anthentio fall length of Oeorge Washington, painted by Gil bert Btnart, the friend and pnpil of West This long missing portrait waa one three repUoas made by Staart from the well-known original painted to the commission of the celebrated Marqnia of Jiansdowne. That original and two of the copies are well and clearly accounted for; but the third OlsaDteared in the following mnnnAr and has never since been heard of: I he portrait was painted for a Mr. Gardner Baker, of New York, an active member of the Society of St Tam many, which, at his suggestion estab lished a museum. This mosenin waa in 1795, made over to Baker, who add sd, among other attractions, the fall length of the great General. In 1793 he appears to have gone to Boston to exhibit the pioture; bat, dying there of tenow lever, toe portrait went to a Mr, ing in satisfaction of a rlaim. By- and-by the Commitle charged with tarnishing the President's house at W ashington bought the picture, whioh was entrusted to one Winstanlev.a trioky ne er-ao-weei oi a painter, to pack and Heliver. Winstanley. however, copi -d the Staart in his own vile way, de livered the copy, and fled to England with the original Stuart himself waa the first to discover and denounce the fraud. But though he repudiated the ranvas that still bang in the white House, and though the evidence against it is overwhelming, patriotic eitizens of the States still believe it to be the gecnine portrait repeated by Stuart himself from the LansJowne fall length. What became of the g n oine work stolen by Winstanley, painter and thief? Well, there is considerable reas.m to Relieve that it is now in the postieion of Mr. William Burrows, a picture dealer at Douglas, Isle of Man. Some time ago there was a sale at Vernon in that inland, in oonsequenoe of t e deuth bf Mrs. Harrison, who was a Mr. Han cock ( having been twice married) and daughter of one Breed, who formerly owned Breed island in Boston Harbor, whose name is immortalized in the battle of Breed's Hill, and who settled In the Iole of Man eaily in the ccntnry. Among a variety of pioturee disposed of at the aforesaid sale was a fine fall- length in oil of George Washington, and a capital impression of the engrav ing which Heath made from the L,ans downe portrait, thus robbing Stuart of his copyright, and leading to probably the first and certainly the bitterest dis pute on record concerning American and English artistic rights. Mr. Bur rows bought all the pioturesat the sale: and the print, the masterly style of the painting, and its all but oom(!ute identity with the engraving led him to conclude he had acquired a genuine Stuart-Washington. Hence those re cent paragraphs anent the "discovery" in tne isie oi Alan, neuce a journey to London, pioture in hand, to consult the experts. Now the exports all agree that it is not only a genuine Stuart, but a verv fine peoimen in point alike of h in lling. color, design, and (not les important) of preservation. Uur picture here is taken from Heath's engraving, and is obviously a noble portrait Mr. Bur row s canvas is essentially the same (the differences between it and the Lansdowne being extremely slight, and not even so mrked aa those which, as rule, naturally appear in replicas i: but fine aa is the black-and-white, does not eaual the delicacr and distinction of the work now in Mr. Burrows's pos session. Space forbids such a lengthy statement as could be made of the facts; bnt, briefly, tbe considerations in favor of this being the replica origin ally intended for the White House are these: Winstanley eame to England, presumably with the portrait about the same time aa Breed. What more likely than that Breed purchased the pioture for his Isle of Man home. whioh he named "Mount V ernon, af tea- Washington's? It has hung in the principal room there for nearly ninety years; Heath's engraving (purchased probably at the time of publication) being in the bedroom. It is prettv certain that Winstanley stole the pic ture to sell; it is not unlikely that he sold it to Breed. This Isle of Man pioture is a genuine Stuart, and ob viously a careful replica on a smaller toale ot the Lansdowne portrait; it sup plies in all essential points, apparently, the missing full length. If. therfore. this is not the White House portrait then Stuart painted another full-length hitherto unrecorded; or there was a painter who painted in exactly Stuart's manner, and forged his signature, about whom history and we know noth ing. aRON HIRSCH. Baron Hirsch, the great Jewish mil- ionaire whose scheme for promoting the emigration of the Kusaian Jews seems about to be coming a decisive issue, is said to be worth twenty mil lions sterling. He is a verv large hold er of French Rente, and has also large landed estates. ills wealth arose principally ont of the contract for Turk ish and Transylvanian railways, in the Litter of which he was partially fin anced by tbe Rothschilds. The great banking firm, it is said, withdrew from tbe undertaking, under the impression that it could not succeed, a all events with Baron Hirsch as its ohief conduc tor. However, the enterprising Baron seenred a great rally of his com pat r ots at Frankfort, where he had influence. through his marriage, with the great banking nrms, and obtained snfheient funds to carry on tbe undertaking alone. It proved an extraordinary success. The railways paid from tbe beginning, and res ized one of the greatest fortunes in Europe for the venturesome contractor. Since then. whatever Baron Hirsch has touched has turned to gold. He is an extreme ly generous man, and his yearly bene factions in Paris, where his headquar ters are fixed, amount to about a quar ter of a million sterling. He has quite an army of almoners, and no tale of distress reaches his ears in vain. His intimates like him well, though he baa, no doubt, many envious detractors, and the difference with the great house of Rothschild has never been healed. Baron Hirsch was greatly affected by the death of his son, which occurred some months ago; and it is faid that is resolve to succor his fellow-ooun- trvmen in Russia grew partly out of this event and partly out of early per sonal experiences of tbe -brutalities in flicted on Russian Jews. We heartily wign Bnce8a to the piang of the jega )oioxiizAiiou Society, the details of wnicn are not yet publicly announced. 3bizfs are finally turned to joys it the faith that walks with them can duly took into the face of God. rHE LrONO LOST PORTRAIT WASHINGTON. Good Advice T was a trar tittle ni- mud who sat en a rock, A-eomhing bar gitldrn hair; It Rave Fisher J n-K the lrnt hit ot a hnck To see her so rntinly s'l there, nit there. To sea fear so calmly sit there. Now what ara you doluic, my pretty m er m KIT Tour placa Is th' sa," quoth J.t -V. "The ti'ie going out. suit aren't ou atraid You will h.irdly have time to nl back, cut bark. Ton will hardly ha;e time to get back?" Bus gave turn a smile. "Dou't mind about me, I'll suv on the shore, nhe sail." "There ara plenty of mermaids left In the sea, I'll be a land maiden In-ttead, Instead. I'll be a laud maiden Instead." Jack looked very grave ai he st-iod on ths sand. "But consider your tall, lady fair; For the ea 'tis all rtilic but lo, walking on laud Of feet you'll require Jut a pilr. a pair, Of (eet you'll require Just a iair. "One tall doesn't equal two fret," quoth he, "Swim barn ere tne tide vela too far : For mermaids and ashes who' re meant tor tbe sea Had better Just stop where they are, they are. Had mucA Wetter Just stop where they are I" jgzehane THE LOST BOAT. BY JSNNIB FBHBKrT. "What shall you call it" asked Harold, as he looked at the boat his brother Cecil was making. "It," repeated Cecil, 4,her you mean, everyl-ody knows a boat is called she." "I didn't know," said Harol I, "and I think it's rather funny to call a boat she; what shall you call her then?" "I h ven't fixed upon a name yet," was the reply; "I thought of Tic toria." "Fred Dalton has a boat called I7c forit," said his sister Amr. "Ah! yes, so he has," aa'id Cecil, "I bad forgotten that; I must find another name, it would be silly to give my boat the tame name as hin. "Call her llnp," suggested Amy, "that would do.' "So it would," assented Cecil. So that important matter as settled, and with tne greatest possible interest Amy ana Harold watohed the progress of their brother's work. One of Cecil's Christmas presents had been a box of tools, and these he had learned to use so skillfully that as bis mother remarked, "Hope when OniBhed was quite a credit to her owner." One day about a month later, Cecil came home from school in a great ex citement. "A lot of ns are going to sail our boats down at Willow Pond." he said; "Fred Dalton is positive that I'icferia oan sail aoross faster than ITop cm n, bnt I know better. Hope takes to the water like a duok, and and ahe'a ar light as a feather, she'll win I know." "Of conrse she wuL saidloval Am v. who was as proud of her brother's work as he was himself: " Victoria won't have any chance against Hove, she's too a avy and clumsy. What do yon say, have I seen your boat this week no; why do you ask?" "because 1 can t find her." renliod CeciL who had opened the door of the large toy-cupboard in the nursery, and looaing care i u ii y ior Hi trea.io.rc be was nut there, thut was evident: dolls, balls, tops, kites, bncks, and a number of other toys, new and old. were there, but no prettv. brightly- painted little boat was to be seen. "How very strange'said Amy; "yon always keep her in the cupboard, don't you? Harold, do you know waereZo' is?" "So." said Harold quietly, then he hastened ont of the room, but neither Cecil or Amy took any notioe of his de parture, so eager were they to continue their search for the miming boat. A vain search as time proved; in every likely and unlikely hiding place Hope, was searched for. Then troubled and disappointed, Cecil went away to oin his schoolfellows at Willow Pond. "Lost your boat," exolaimed one of tbe bovs when Cecil announced his in tion of being only a spectator; "what a pity, 1 am sorry." "So am L" said another bov: then quite a cboras of voices assured Cecil of thr owners' sympathy with him in his loss. On his way home Cecil met Harold. The child's eyes were filled with tears, and his face waa pale and troubled. "I came to meet you," he said; "mother told me to do so, I have been telling her something about your boat'7 "About my boat?" "Yes; you heard me tell Amy I I didn't know where it was; well, that was true, only, as mother said after wards, it wasn't all the truth. I took your boat out of theeupboard two days ago." "Without asking or telling me," said Cecil. "Oh! Harold." "Tea, I know I ought sot to have done it; I wish now I had never touched it 1 took it down to Miller's stream, and sailed it there for perhaps an hour. Then I put it down on the grass near one of those big oak trees, and ran across tbe field to speak to Amy, for I heard her calling for me. I didn't tell her what X bad been doing, and when she w n home I ran back again to look for t e boat, but it was gone." ti.ne!" "Yes, and I looked all round about for it but couldn't find it Oh, Cecil! I am so s-ji ry, and and if you'll only forgive me, you can have all the money I have saved to buy a new boat, only only I don't suppose ynu will like any shop boat as much as you liked little Hope; will you forgive me?" Of conrse 1 will," said Ctcil, kind ly; ''I wish you had asked me to lend yon my boat; I would have asked Amy logo with you when you sailed her. Don't cry, Harold; come aloig and et ns have a good search all round tbe place where you left the boat Now then, what is tbe matter? Look at Amy running as if the house were on fire." "Good news, good news," shouted Amy, as she ran quickly down the lane. "Good old Rover has found your boat I took him for a run. I wanted some forget-me-nots, so went down to il ler's stream While I waa gathtring some. Rover plunged into the water and an am across. He seemed to be hunting about for something among the ruhhea on the other side, then baok he came with your boat all safe and sound." "But how could the boat get there?" excla med Haro'd. "rerhap some busy fingers popped her into the water to see how fast she con'd go, and she sailed awsy ont of their reach; or she may have fallen in to the water from the bank; auyhow Hope is found, and I ran off to tell you as soon as I could. Mother knows about it, and sle is as pleased as we are, and when I said Hover de fer ved a new collar as a reward fyr what he bad done, she said she would give us a shilling towards buying one for hiio." Charity is a perfec'.ly educated wtn. 1 LANGUAGE ALL HER OWi km Entirely Hew Kind of a Phsnomsnoa. 1 Fransylvaaia Oirl Whs Speaks ia a Ten- gas Uadsrstood ky Bat Oas Othsr Ftrsoa A fitly For ths FhUologisal Chaps inline Minnie naurmann, 9 yean, aid, resides with her papa and mam ma at Pittsburg, Pa. Minnie Is petite. blue-oyed. auburn-haired and well en dowed mentally and physically, yet he is a pnllologlcal phenomenon. That Is, she talks a language of her own. and ao one besides her sister Elizabeth is able to understand any thing she says. Minnie and Elisabeth eat, play and sleep together almost Ilka one being. The only time they are apart is during the hours the older glr-l spends at school and It took a long while to get them used to this short separation, especially Minnie. who even now cries often and is al ways morose and downcast while her sister is away. Taking all this In con stdzration one would think that UttU Minnie by this time had Imparted to her sister the ability to talk as well as to understand her peculiar language. But this is not the case. Though able to grasp the meaning of each word uttered by her at once and translate It Into English or German, Elizabeth cannot speak more than a dozen of them. Minnie can pronounce all the letters of the English alphabet except r- K. Q and W as well as could be de sired. The letter "F" she pronounces "Fo," "K," Kaa," (which Is the Ger man pronunciation); "Q" she cannot sound at all, and tbe letter "W" shf speaks like "Waab." J. be child Is very shy In the pres ence of strangers, especially when one seems to have come to examine Into i her case, and it required a ereat deal of coaxing from her mother before she would consent to read the alpha bet A translation of some of the words and sentences used by Minnie to convey ber thoughts was afterwards procured from her sister and la given below. To find a principle for the construction of the words will be a problem worthy of solution by ths philologists. For "small" Minnie says "lill;" for very small, "1111 llll;' for come tome," ta," and for dog, ho ho. When she calls her little pe$ dog she says : "Ta, llll ho-ho." Meat' she calls Tsohi;" bread, "bo;" coffee, toe-hi;" butter, "mens;" potatoes, tiuloda;" plate, "talo;" knife, tas ea;" fork, "gala." Other familiar ob jeotg she denominates as follows : Cbair, "pgne;" table, 'tnassa;" bed "iuu," bureau, "tempi;" horse, "hky;" pig, .' "pitta;" cow. "blah-blah;" cat, pgha-pit;" rooster, ouh-ouh-ouh," ttcVwtnd of the xp:essioaloa some what resembling the crowing of that bird at early dawu. When Minnie thinks that she ought to have a new dress she goes and puts her arms around her mother's neok and whispers Into her ear: "Mall, lu lili nadja plo dka." Her mamma gives the poor child a kiss, and perhaps with a tear in her eye calls Elizabeth to see what Minnie wants. This is the trans lation: "Mamma, your little girl wants a new dress." There Is a two-year-old colt on tho farm with which Minnie is on very famillir terms. She can do as she likes with him. When any one else comes near him he bites and kluks and rears like a little savage. The girl can pet him, jump on his back and ride him about He becomes as gen tse as a lamb as soon as she speaks to him in her peculiar language. I he says: "Ta lili Hyn," and the colt will come up to her like a pet dog. Chi cajro Herald. Ovtr-leaofcel Himself. English railways have the very sen. sible rule that passengers are not to stand in the cars if any one objects. An English paper gives the following Instance ot how even one's rights may be too strongly insisted upon: " 'Will you kindly allow me to stand?' asked a gentleman as be got into a railway carriage, which car riage already contained the speclflsd number. " "Certainly not sir!" exclaimed a passenger occupying a corner seat near the door. 'The way these trains are overcrowded is shameful! -As you appear to be the only per son who objects to my presence,' re plied the gentleman, 'I shall remain where I am.' '"Then I shall call the guard and havo you removed, sir. "Suiting tbe action to the waci, the aggrieved passenger rose, and. Bating his head out of he - window, vocifer ously demanded the guard. The new comer saw his opportunity, and quietly slipped Into the corner seat " 'One over the number,' said the new-comer to the guard, coolly.' "Yoj must come out, sir!" the train's going on,' and without waiting for further explanation the guard pulled out the aggrieved passenger, who was left wildly gesticulating on the plat, form.' A Mathematical Frodigy. Something of a Blind Tom edition la found in Morgan county In the person of Blind Willis, a cole-black negro, who is an expert in mathematics. He has been blind from childhood, knows absolutely nothing about figures, and yet can calculate interest for days, months and years a deal faster than the proficient man of figures, be can give a correct answer In fractions al most as quickly as can be stated. He is a thrifty negro, builds houses and is s successful wheelwright Macon Tel reraph. Thought it a Failure. Little girl (reading history) The trave nobleman left his home ia Paris There he was a captain of dragoons, ind where be bad been lately married, o cross the water and fight for the Vmoricans. Teacher Now. can you tell tae what trompted the brave man to do this? Please, Ma'am he had lately marled. LOVE AND LEATHER. la the Altar of Peace to be Thus Disturbed. V. .... ii comes out in the course or nn Illinois breach of promise oase thai the faithless sweetheart laid the cause of his disloyalty oa corns. He hud one to the expense and trouble of securing something grand in the way of a pair of new boots, but on trying them on preparatory to his regular visit he found he could scarcely walk. Nothing, therefore, was left for it but to stay at home. Leaving aside the other points pre sented It practically puts the shoe maker or the cobbler in the time-honor ed positions with respect to marriage held from time Immemorial by Hymen and Cupid. Instead of the winded god with his ribbon-strung bow and golden arrows, says the Chicago Times, contemplate an Individual whose romance Is probably confined to the manipulation of calf-skin and wax ends, and in place of Hymen and bis flaming torch conceive the possibility ot one's marital destinies presided over so to speak, by a personage whose highest flight of sole is the lowest of his fellow-men. It cannot must not, be. There is not and never was such affinity between Love and Leather. If tight boots and corns are to be ac cepted as excuse for plain neglect of duty the wc-rld might as well go Into liquidation at once. That a youth, en. thusiastio and loving, would permit such prosaic and commonplace things as corns to prevent his visiting his sweetheart is In itself revolutionary and unprecedented. But if justified and held good in his good case, where such a possibility was never even dreamed of by lunatic or poet bow woulff it affect the married men? Ak ed to go on social visits by their wives they cannot for their corns. Asked to go shopping, to church, and they will deny themselves these pleasures, shel tering themselves behind a subterfuge of corns. A thunderbolt thus smile? he altar of domestic peace. NOVEL MODE OP WARFARE. Electricity Artlflolal Lightning to De Deadly Battle. A Mew Jersey inventor thinks he nas hit upon a method of establishing peace permanently upon the earth by means of electricity. He does not pro pose to remodel human nature, but ex pects to make warfare so deadly that It will be sheer madness for one nation to attack another. According to his plan, warfare would result in the sub stantial extermination of all who ven tured to engage In it The inventor describes his idea thus: "In a word. my scheme is to produce artificial lightning. Thus far the experiments have been coo6ned within narrow lim its, but with the use of a small dyna mo attached to my invention a slight shock can be produced, effective enough to kill the flies in a 20x20 room. I claim, with the use of powerful dynamos, under my plan, a flash of lightning enn can be directed against au army a mile or more away and without injury to the party operating the gun, scattering death and consternation among tho troops. With powerful dynamos thou sands of soldiers can be killed at a flash, and a number of flashes are enough to destroy an army. It can be used anytime except on rainy or damp days. Western Electrician. He Was gatpicioaa. They had a chap at police headquar ters the other day who was run iu on suspicion. Capt Starkweather wanted to pump him a little to establish his identity and right lo be turned loose again on the community, and therefore sent a man down stairs to bring him ip. "You are wanted up stairs," observ ed the officer as he unlocked the door, "What for?" "Man wants to see you." "Let him want" "You come on." Not much!" It took two men and a tussle to bring him up, and as he stood panting in the captain's room that officer asked: "What's the reason you didn't come quietly along!" "Is it you who wants me?" Yes." "Oh. this fellow said It was a man, and I thought he was going to get me up here and then yell 'McGinty' at me." Press. A Battlssnak Dress. A Florida lady has hit upon a design for a dress which is certainly original if not tasteful. The Tampa News terms it a "rattlesnake dress." and describes it as follows: "It is ot the Eiffel shado, a rich shade of brown, fine and beauti ful In texture. It Is a tailor made gown, strictly on the severe English style; a perfectly plain skirt with a panel about seven inches wide of the tanned skin of the rattlesnake. Tho skin is a beautiful specimen ot its kind. A polonaise, also severely plain, closed at tbe side with straps of snako skiu and buckles. A vest V shape, of the skin, and collar and cuffs of the sumo. With It will be worn a helmet-shaped hat trimmed with material to match, the dress, but the visor will be covet-cd with snake skin. The shoes, tho uppers made of material the same as the dress, and tipped with snake skin, complete this unique costume. It will be wonderfully pretty and effective.'' There Are Kany Like Him. "Yes, you newspaper men," said a lawyer to a reportor. 'always get things wrong. Why, the other day you had my name in the paper with one Initial wrong. No, you can't be depended upon. The other day when I told you about the arrival of a boy in my family, you gave his weight aa eight pounds instead of ten. Don't come to me for any favors again. By the way, my wife's sister arrived from the East to-day. Just make a personal of her arrival, so that I can send a few copies back east Now, be sure ge Imf eame right" and j INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHER- OKKKS IN MOUTH CAROLINA. "In the most mountainous part of jrestern North Carolina, isolated among i ue wildest ana rouguest bills of the Allcgheuies, are 1,200 pure bred Cher okees on a reservation of 73,000 acres,'' said James Mooney, ethnological ex pert. "The missionaries claim that most of them are Christians, but ex tended observation has convinced me that very few of them do anything more than profess the white man's re ligion. They like to gather at meet ing and gratify their musical instinct by singing hymns, but that is usually as far as their conversion carries them. At heart, in nearly all cases, they remain true to their ancient faith. The final test, however, is found in the sick Indian. When in good health, be may be the most promising convert im aginable, bnt the moment he feels in disposed he calls in the native medicine men with their charms and incanta tions. The latter address formula; in the ancient ritual language, among other things, to various animals." "And why to animals?" he was aked. "It is the custom to address prayers (o animals in sickness always. The Cherokee religion, you must under stand, is a worship of nature and all her manifestations birds, beasts, fish, water, the sun and moon, the moun tains, storms, thunder and lightning. and so on Indefinitely. If the patient lias a toothache, for instance, tbe med icine man tells him that it is a worm in the tooth, and he pravs: U good squirrel, do come and take out the worm from this tooth and carry it away to the dark side of the mountain, and put it inside of an old dead log.' tV certain small fish Is supposed to cause a great deal of sickness. You t'i the fish are angry at being caught and eaten, and their ghosts often come Kick to torture the people w ho de voured them, with various complaints W heu a person is thus attacked bv f li-h ghost, a prayer is addressed to the blue cat, who is king of all the fishes, to come and drive out the other fish. 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 io under the name of the long man, who has his head in the mountains and his foot in the ocean. To the Chero kees tbe river is a liva person. Oh make me like you,' they say, 'who are so lug and so strong that vou carrv iiimense logs vast distances and no ower can retist you.' Aud fire is ailed the ancient white, because it is Vf ry old, tne dead ashes are white and the llanie is white. We don't call tlfime white, but they do, their ditl'er- r hi iuiion of colors being less distinct tli:iu ours. Ihe red-hot coals are the niicient red. Lightning and thunder ti pother they call the great red men. 1 lie is red, you see, because he is pow erful, red being the color signifying 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 miii. and to the moon. Most frequently be addresses the yellow-hammer beseeching it to make in in handsome and attractive to the women. Also, he prays to the red ppuler red being symbollo of success to wind its meshes around the hear of his loved one. Of the prayer form ilia- used in supplicating all these ob jects and many more I have brought back with me from .North Carolina a very complete colleotloa. They are all wonderfully poetical. Very pret tily imaginative is the prayer addressed to 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 awav." " Do thev worshiD the mountains?" "Yes; and all the plants that grow on them. For instance, they pray to the ginseng, which has a forked root crudely resembling the shape of numan Doing, i hey can it the very great man, and when they find one of the plants they repeat a formula tavight them by the priests, for a considera tion, saying: -O mountain, I have come to take a small piece from your side.' 1 hen tne tinder digs the plant up and puts a glass bead into the hole, to pay tbe mountain for the plant The seventh plant found has an espe cial medicinal value, and the first four plants discovered must not be touched, though after others have been gath ered the searcher may go back aud collect those four." "How do these people live?" "In the simplest log cabins, many ot tbetn without windows or floors. The people are often very cold in winter, but they don't seem to mind it. They are purely agricultural and corn bread and salt pork chiefly compose their diet. Such game as they get rabbits, squirrels, birds and. other small fry is shot with blowguns made of hollow fishpole cane with the joints bored out. In the use of this weapon they are so expert that they can bringdown a small bird from the top of a tall tree w ith one of the light reed arrows feathered wkh thistle-down which they employ for projectiles. The canes thev need for making tbe blowguns are obtained from brakes in South Carolina mostly, iuu to zuu miles away. To illustrate the value set by a Cher okee upon his time, it occurs to me to mention that on one occasion when I wanted a blow-gun, possibly worth 75 zents, I asked one of the Indians to sell tue one. He said he had none to ipare, but would go over to 8outh Carolina perhaps a three-weeks jour ney there and back and get a reed for cue purpose. Ihe fish, whose ghosts torture them so much, they catch in zreat numbers by traps in the stream ; :be finny prey is " led into a sort of pound aud dipped out with baskets or -peared. The men handle the spears ind the women the bankets. When this method fails a sectiou of a stream Is dammed in two places and the space between poisoned with walnut bark. The medicine brings all the fish to the iiirface, belly-upward, and thev are Juickly gathered in. Like a beautiful flower, full of color, but without scent are tbe fluebusfruit- less words of him who does not act a cordiogly. NEWS IN BRIEF. China is to have a silk-mill. England's foreign meat bill Is $12fl. 000,090. . Tbe tea trade of Japan is c instant ly increasing. Tht re are 1000 women to every 84i men In England. Iron Is to be rrade at ChatUnoogi by an electrical process. An elephant larger than Jumbo has been captured in Africa. Habitual divers in Salt water oftaa have Inflammation of the eyes. London theatre going is said te have declined to a remarkable ex tent The great contractor, Thomas Brassey, made nearly 7000 mile of rail ways. M. (Jlammarlan. tha French as tronomer, declares that the cllmaU of .Europe Is growing colder. -Kecent researches show that persoai having a tendenoy to gout improve mora rapidly by abstaining from fruit A Japanese recommends cleanslna the bands with tartrate of ammoniun to avoid poisoning from white lead. -Four different mouiitain beaks Id Idaho are from thirteen to twenty-thret feet lower than they were fifteen yean ago. A meteorological station is tobees- tablished at TlberiH, Palestine, a plaot C82 feet below tbe level of the Medlter- anean Sea. The largest steam hammer in tht world ia In this country, its weight 1 125 tons, and is used in forging annex plates for our new navy. Electric heating is promised as oni or the new uses of electricity, and company has been organized inChicag to introduce the system. The idea of establishingan observa tory ou Mount Blanc, Switzerland, has betn abamloned. The Ice was tunneled 100 feet without reaching the rock. In the last ten years the railroad system in Mexico has increased TromSOt to 0000 miles, and fully 4000 additional miles are contracted for. In the 60 0' 0,000 letters Miat reaohed the dead letter office last year there wai money amounting to 2S,C42 and check! and notes of the value of $1,471 871. The United State? has more miles of railroad than all European countries combined. Tbe mileage in this coun try Is 166, 817 m:les, and In Europe 154,713 miles. Besides the large planets which re volve about tho sun, over 250 other have been discovered and catalogued, and science ia daily adding to this list. French scientists ns-ert that ths Eiffel Tower causes electrical disturb ances and that the climate in Far Is hai been much worse since the tower wai built. M OI ?.wski h.ta found that liquid oxygen Instead of beinsr colorless, has a bright blue color. He concludes that the bh:o of the sky may be due to ths air's oxygen. new style of p ilice patrol-wagon which Chicago is a'wiit to adopt u C0'rp!etelv inclostd, resembling some what an ambulance, except that it has a window in tha side. A Parisian electrician has succeed ed In forcing violtts by the aid of hll battery, and recently sent a bunch ot these Gedglines only four hours eld to tbe Empress Eueuie. It Is now tue intention ot Euro pean engineers to store the waters ot the Nile to suoh an extent as to enabls a greater extension f the cotton and sugar cane o.ops in that region. Dr. Plnel, of rails, has found thai hypnotic patients obey the phonograph as readily as they do a living speaker. He, therefore, discards the whols theory of animal magnetism. A rtrong wind prevents the forma tion of dew. by keeping the air well mixed, and leaving no part of It In con tact with the ground long enough to become cool and deposit moisture. To determine whether tbe joint of a sewer pipe leaks or not, wrap it with a piece of white cloth saturated with a solution or acetate of lead. If it leaks, the cloth will become black. Humbolt calculated the mean lerai of North America to be 743 feet above the sea, and he found that in 4,500,000 years the whole of North America might be worn down to the sea level. Coal equaling that of the finest La- high Valley grade has been discovered in .Brazil, the veins being from four to twenty-five test ia thick aen. Tus min. are situated at and near Sonora, Canada only lacks 237.0CO square miles to be as large as the whole conti nent of Europe; it Is nearly thiity times as large as Great Br.tiln and Ireland. and is 50,000 square milts larger than the United b'tates. The suivev for an observatory unon Mount lilanc. Switzerland, was recent. ly made, and as soou as It is shown that Iron columns, can be sunk through the ice cap forming the summit, plans for the observatory will lie prepared. Peter Johnson, of D.issel. Minn.. tli ink" he has discovered the long lost art of tempering copper. He and Nile nelson, a machinist, want to organize a company to build a factory in Minne apolis. The new process will make copper as hard as steel. It is customary now to mount elec tric light pr jectors on rails running athwart-ship, usually over t!ie bridge or iorwaru end or ti:e icon. The rallsare sunk so to bring them fluih with tbe deck. When not in use the projectors are run in beard and protected better from the weutner. As Instances of loncevitv in birds while In a stte of capt'vltv, Xature. reports the death of a European crane which bad lived nearly fort) -'.hvee years in the London Zoological Gardens. This is f xcHde, however, by the e :se of a black parrot which die t in 1834. aftT having lived fifty-four yeais in the itegenrs farg. How few there are who estimate aright the power of kindly word and deeds; and yetwhat mortal being haa no at some time or other felt their benefit and sweetness? How many a world worn and crime-hardened heart haa been softened into penitence and ten derness by their holy influence! How many a weary lot has been cheered and brightened by their gentle sun shine. What musio there is in a kind ly uttered expression of sympathy! Y hat radiance ta aif aonrovin? smile! And how little do thrno duties of life cost to, the giver, aa 1 how much do they confer on the receiver! There is only one way to tell the truth, but there is upwards of seventy, five ways to tell the same lie, t i 1-I d If-? 3 hi IB I P ; . P 1 61 '.ft j'.Vr i m KK p I 1 W2 '41 i f!,-r m Mr 'Ik y.;t Oil t' 1
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