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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.
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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
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-y juan i. ingaua.
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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,
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