i ft 1 i: r P, F. SOHWEIER, THE OONSTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE IAWS. Editor and Proprtotor. VOL. XLV. BT BBEN B. nSXTOBD. iiong for Thanksgiving. The corn's gar- JFAt!Il 01 m n iirab uoiu is om. m luo ,iijf i f nxrant with odor that rise ! GnhvW "d teetlngi and plump n KortUrn rtyi Htr ! diy 1 the loft; there Is wood at the Of aJMhing there's plenty, and tball we ask vty. t'of'o, my neighbor. Be thankful, and prnrttribiite to Ocd for his mereles to-day. A jomr for Thanksgiving. To-day they will To rttbir once more by the hearthstone of jj -b.i-" anil the "girls" who can never puotiiat is home of all homes to them Tk.t'rrlll cather to-day round the bounty 1 'nr1 b.'rd indr'! jeurt b' klad and give thanks to 'ii- l-orrt rjf D'.eM'.nm that sprang up like flowers by the wav And glsitd'-ned the hearts that are grateful to- i tang for Thanksgiving. The "boys" and the ""Ir'.s ' who liavi- trot on their temples and snow In tlif ;r curls Brmc Mrk to the old home their girls and their indtS'O1,1 ratters ring with their frolic and But grandfather laughs with them over their And grandmother smiles at the mischief that's Audit seems mat all hearts have forgotten the And if vnung in the gladness of Thanks giving lay- AjouK for Thanksgiving! The old clock strikes Here' "tlr and excitement, the turkey is - it steams on the board and makes fragrant the air with Mori a rose mlsht be happy to share. T'ji- cold of tlie pumpkin gleams out in a pie liit iiias Utile mouths water and gladdens Of the'eld boys and girls. O, be thankful, I For God lift day of all-and that's Thanks Hiving iay: Brchanee. THE B1AJE CAT. There was, once upou a time, in on iilani of tbe East, an incomparable ffinctsf, gifted with all the perfections of heart unit hiind. Her graces wore celebrated ft hundred leagues round; fcer kingdom was flourishing, her snb iecte rei-peetful, her ministers capable. CVn U..wl in llirt tiniA fit tllrt fniriPtt- fiore than a thousand suitor, all kings i i.: A t.n. v, n i . Or SODS OI &1U", nnj.iirv v uc. unuu, hot the Ailla showed no favor to any of them, the onlr preference she had ever exhibited having been concentrated on white Velvet paw, her favorite cat. Velvotpaw was a charming little plavful animal, with large irixed eyes, tufts at the ends of its shapely ears, and t eoftt so Boft, silky, and abundant that the Princess's hands disappeared when be caressed it. gin imitation of the sovereign, all the great people in tbe kingdom possessed It least one favorite cat, which they petted and nursed in essantly. They wre seen with jewels in their ears, bracelets on their paws, or with collars inconceivably luaguifioont, they alept Oji down aud' satin, ate out of golden or silver dishes, and had servants to thetuselves. Xhose of the middle class had to con tent themselves with silver jewelry. Hid with eating out of poroelain disho; but, more philosophic than men, they ate with no less appetite.. This iala'nji iraa of tliat f i mA I r 11 1 tllA liar ""- " " - ' . ' VUo of cats; their lives, protected by Ipeclal Jaws, had nothing to fear.either lrim traps or irom tne river, wuicu, Mnopgst us, makes so many victims. Thov innrAond and multiplied at lei- 5 are, and their wishes were carefully wpected.. So it was that no country tad ever cats so beautiful or bo namer cus. in, the inhabitants went fortn into their itteets, without lanterns, their patn IllnminatAt tiv tlioiisands of fiaminsr eyes, beaminK from the house-tops to ,ihe celar-gratings, sparkling from the .1 1 J V I . UA ;KiailUwS OI OCIJ OUOif, uv brauches above their heads, from the hollows between the stones at their feet, climbing, crossing through space, like a flight of disordered stars. Then it was a strange concert, a dis cordant symphony, in which the mew tg of all ages and conditions mingled jRthout confounding each other; at ttst, a mere confused rumor, which Seedllv frrew into a tumu't, filling the dtides of ntght with alarms, augment log, hissing, growling, to burst into a deepening traca,in which the affrighted Wt might imagine it was listening, in the midst of inhuman roaring, to the tgnozing cries of a child being put to Aeath. But, with the coming of day, latoeii and battling dipersed, order fetnrned, and the mutineers of the night ouce again became peacoful citizens, resumed the insignia Of their dignities, their mild and inof fensive demeanour, and all the airs of honest people incapable of committing the smallest peccadillo. Ailla was living happily in this way, and all her people w.th her, when, one fine niLj-ht, she took it npon herself to dream of blue cat with topaz -colored eyes haviug npon its neck a collar of diamonds, the most sparkling in the orld. Could a poor princess, who has nothing to desire, dream of any thing else? So there would have been no great harm done, but for the inter Ttntion of an enchanter one hundred and twelve years oi l, wh twice be fore, had explained to the I'rincess hat had tr.,u.ded her sleep. This m igician lived not far from the ; rovai palace in an on ruiueu w 3 haunted by spirits, a place thoroughly I fitted, if there evor was one, for carry- 'hg on of mysterious operations. uin went mere, tne crj iuoimu5 after sho had that dream, attended by one slave only; for neither for evil pints nor women would the magicinn pat him-elf in the least out of the way. At the first snnnd of approaching foot teps, the owls, the daw, and the rsv 'ns, who inhabited the pim-dcr old tower, took wing with a frightful clat ter, and from un'.er the shuddering Pass vipers nud serpen ts glided, hiss ing now softly, now angrily. At the eutrance to a large room, draped with enormous Rpiders webs, a ?feat toad croaked three times, hough thesnn had been for sometime ""en, a dim li;;hr. like that of the hoou, alone entered this awe-iuspiring dwell'ng, which was almost filled with darkness. In tue obsonrer-t corner of the room Jt the magician, or, rather, he lay nlf buried an immense wheeled a m li air, in which be ceas'dessly, and with l .ri ,i 1 i ninn (i o .f i f t mnvfld" abonL Me wus, bei.les, so weil wrapped up in fed and black rr.be garnished with Jlls, and his hat, three feet high, and "1'l'eu witn the eye ot a lynx, wan Pretsed down s ight'v on bis head that it was wi.h di:lieullythat his foce, ngular and polished ns ivory, could be distinguished. Sat mmtent with ba- Jftique eye, deep-set, glittering like a """J m Kiass case, ilia hr and abundant. desnnnHarl k. gund, forming on his blaok rob a snowy cascade. On every side lay. heaped in strange disorder, objects of odd form; living animals motionless, others, that were stuffed, writhing; on overthrown trunks were seen open books, written in undecipherable characters; in another place, a vessel filled with bloodstained water, in which floated, like streaming weeds In a treat locks of hum in hair decked with iineei spang es; and when a gust of wind passed through the wide open ings from without, the rattling of skel etons hanging from the roof was heard. On perceiving Ailla, the magician made her a sort of bow; but scaroely u'u mm, in tremollng tones, what had brought her to bin nWlo than he uttered a frightful irapreca- wuicu, uaving made with, his chair three rapid circles about the Princess, he stopped short, and, in a pieroing voioe, announced to her that, if she wished to avoid terrible misfor tunes, she must instantly have search made for the Blue Cat, the presence of wuicn coma alone save her from im pending disaster. At these words the screech-owl perched on the master's-shonlder, nappe its wings and uttered a dismal cry; a mosstrous spider crouching on iu Knees set up the bristles on its back; all the bells on the magician's robe jangled at once; the lynx eye shot forth a greenish beam; then all be came obscured. The Frinoess fainted, and, without paying any other heed to her the old enchanter had her carried ont of the tower by one of his familiar animais. To tell the truth, the wicked old enchanter had wished to make a strong impression on the Princess's mind. though it is possible that he meditated some other dark project. Everybody knows how deep ia the rascality of en chanters. However, it may have been, his cunning did not much profit him; for that same evening while he was pre paring a brand-new enchantment his big cauldron burst, and next morning nothing was found in his dwelling bnt a heap of cinders, in the midst of which were some still smoking bones. Ailla saw in this death a confirma tion of the prophecy, and fainted for the second time. Now the whole kingdom was turned npside down. By order of the Grand Vizier search was everywhere made, from the floor of the pilce to the roof of the highest garret. Notices were published, rewards were offered to whoever should discover, seize, and bring to the Princess the marvelous cat. It was spring-time, ana there was no lack of kittens; the entire army was oc cupied in examining all the new-born, amongst which were found every known hue of cat; but not one that was blue. Then the open country was mi nutely explored, the forest, the rocks vainly. The Prinress visibly declined day by day, trembling unceasingly, aud turn ing from all food. At length, weary of waiting, Ailla convoked an extraordinary sitting of the Grand Council, and solemnly de clared that she would give her hand to whoever should bring her the marvel ous cat Great was the stir amongst her suit ors; never before did so many travel lers stream over the surface of the globe! Panting horses crossed and recrossed eacii ot ier everywhere; the roads in every direction were encntn berod with overthrown carriages. Ships were seen to sink nnilt r the weight of passengers on board of them; while tbe ky was dotted with balloons ballasted with travellers. 'Iho easy explanation of all this voyage energy is tha every one of the Princess's ofhuial suitors had published, far and near, promises of rich rewards to whoever should succeed in finding the illne Cat. The result was that one-half the world rushed upon the other half. A year sped; the Frincess had be come the merest shadow of her former self. Her temper was sharpened; she saw about her nothing b it crime and treason. Horrible phantoms disturbed her sleep; and. on awaking, she con founded the dreams of her brain with the actuality of things. Instinctively Bhe condemned all those of whom she had conceived any doubt The execu tioner, hitherto unemployed, de manded an inorease of salary; he even spoke of taking an assistant! In niter despair, all the most learned men in the world wero consulted. They came from all countries, and, greeting each other with a thousand civilities, did not fail to exchange a vast number of compliments on their own works, of which they spoke with reverenco.wliile, not having read a line of them, each.on his side, firmly believed that his own works alone were worthy of sincere praise and deep stndy. These s daam ings got through, one banquet and then another w s organized for their edification and thousands of subjects were discussed, all wide of the matter which had brought tbern together. On that subject, they needily di vided themselves into two camps; one affirmed that the Ulue Cat was but a variety of the tiger; the other party, on the contrary, maintained that the tiger is nothing but a completely develoiied cat. Prom tigers the discussion passed by insensible degrees, to leop rds, to the lion even to monkeys. In short, at the end of six months, the Prime Miuister, wishing to know tae result of their labors, found them almost smoth ered under a mass of reports; their heads alone were yet visible, and all at tbe moment were profoundly occupiel in active researches on the subject of a certain kind of cole.oplr.ra missing since the time of the Deluge, and which one of them flattered himself he had refonnd. So hotly were they disput ing over this matte'r, indeed, as hardly to be consc ous of the pnrpose which had bronght them together. Fnri orts at their conduct, the Princess or dered them a!l to be hanged, which had the effect ot making them all of one opinion, this time at least. Next day an e lict was posted on the walls of all the cities in the kingdom, announcing that each day, in alphabeti cal order, ten citizens, men and wo men, should be hung, an t that the ex termination should be continued until the Blue Cat was fonnd and brought to the Princess. The consternation was extreme. In all directions the streams became swollen with the tears that were shed to such a degree as to t hreaten an inundation in several parts of the king dom and the wind was drowned in the sounds of tne cries forced from the des pair which such a tyranny excited. The boldest spoke in low tones of re volt which, in the times of the fairies, was a thing unheard of. It was then that a young man, well made and of distinguished bearing, took a violent resolution, axis name MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. his country, his fellow citizens, and himself. Possibly he had a wish even beyond all this. With this purpose he went to the house of the Prime Minis ter, who, before being hung next day (his name beginning with an A), was in a very bad temper, and very little disposed to receive visitors. How ever, a message given by the young man having been conveyed to him, re awakened in the diplomatist's downcast soul a gleam of hope. He ordered the stranger to be shown in to him. In two words the yonng man ex plained his idea and plan. The idea Was a Verv Rimnlrt nno whinli vnailv accounted for tue faot that nobody had before thought of it The plan was a bold one. It was nothing less than to play the oracle, mystify a queen, and gull a people who could tell? perhaps to falsify for ever the history of soieuoa in regard to the color of cats! The mere thought of it made the Minister's forehead burst into a cold perspira tion. 'If the trick is discovered," he ob jected, 'we shall be impaled like traitors, beheaded life forger, and burned at a slow fire like men guilty of sacrilege." But Brisloun was not in the least de gree weak-minded? "One can but die once," he replied. In the situation of the Minister he ran but little risk. These arguments were, in the end, successful, aud the yonng man's plan accepted. Velvetpaw was confided to him. The night passed feverishly and slowly for the unfortunate Minister. At 'length dawn appeared, shedding rosy tints npon the long row of gibbets which had been set np. Exhausted by a terrible nightmare, the I'rincess hardly closed her eyes. One of her thin hands hung down from the side of her conch; her bosom heaved. At that moment one of the doors of her chamber was partially opened, and, a moment afterwards, closed again noiselessly. At the same instaut a strange sensation awakened the I'rin cess. An enormous weight was stifling ner. i-eerily she raised her heavy eye lids, pressed on by the finger of death. Oh, miracle! Curled np upon her breast soft, supple, graceful, and of an azure the most beautiful imairinabta a cat was admiring her, smiling at her, in its way, with its great limpid golden eyes. Uiamonds, big as stars, sparkled amid its silky coats. Ailla had only power to utter a loud scream. to break the cord of her bell, and to faint away once more. Home hours later, happy, appeased, and already less pale, the Princess went in great pomp to the Council Chamber. Before her, on a cushion of cloth of gold, the az ire-oolored cat al lowed itself to be devoutly borne. Then the Prime Minister, prostrating himself, and with all the usual cere monial, presented Brislonn to the prin cess, and related to her how.a'ter having discovered tbe Bine Cat at the bottom of an inaccessible cavern, guarded by fughtful mongers, tbs young man had, at the peril of his life, a nd after overcoming a thousand difficulties, brought it away. During the delivery of this address the Princess had very attentively re garded her deliverer. She even sud denly remembered that she had prom ised hor hand to whoever shonld suc ceed in accomplishing the difficult task in whioU so many others had failed. As she appeared inclined to keep her word, the Minister again prostrated himself, and, not withont embarrass ment, observed to his sovereign that Brislonn otherwise gifted with all the qualities that make an amiable husband was unfortunately only a draper. But, without pausing to hear more, Ailla replied qnickly: "His address and courage shall stand him in stead of letters of nobility, and to begin with I will nnme him Grand Commander of the Blue Cat, of which order the lowest chevalier shall be prince of the blood! The wedding shall fake a place a week hence!" ianr ria-vn fined hftDD'.lv. and Prob- j ably no cloud would have shown itself i nn.,n rim horizon, but for the fancy which ovortook the precious Blue Cut to escape from the royal apartments, where it was kept with great ceremony, to scamper for awhile on the roof of the palace. The moon, it was true, was shining that night with brightness, aud it may be imagined that being a cat does not necessarily imply inability to admire the beauties of nature. In short, imprudent pussy, in toxicated by her air and lib erty, pranced aoont so widely as suddenly to lose her bal ance, to slip down a gutter which descended perhaps perpendicularly, into an inner court of the palace, and, finally, to pitch head first into a big basin in which aromatics and essences were in course of soaking. Stunned bv tho fall and half stifled by the vio lence of the perfumes, the poor crea ture struggled some time before being able to extricate itself. The agitation of the Prinoessmay be conceived when, next day, she beheld this cat on which the security of the kingdom rested enter her chamber shivering, soiled, dazed, with the aspect, in short of a halt-drowned ani mal. This agitation, however, was as nothing oompared with that whioh fol owed on her discovering that large patches of white marred the robe of azure, obtained at the cost of so many sacrifices. l'reKently, alasl even doubt was no longer possible; for, by force of rub bing against the bed-curtains to dry itself, Velvetpaw, Oh perfiduns Velvotpaw herself reappeared, still slightly bine, bnt nevertheless only too recognizable! It had been able to save ' its skin in the accident of the past j night, but not its oolor, which was not proof acainst essences. I The anger of tho princess was ex ! treme on learning in this way the trick i by which she had been aunsca. in stantly she wis'ied to avenge herself, but in a terrible, cruel manner; and ! she was hesitating on the choice of a punishment, when the Prince entered, i handsomely dressed in a cherry-colore 1 satin robe embroidered with pearl?, which admirably set off his gallant bearing. As soon as she saw him she pointed an accusing finger towards discolored Velvetpaw, which, with a very crest fallen air, was cnrled np at the foot of the Princess's bed. "Torture shall make yon repent, miserable Impostor!" she cried, trem bling with passion, and with flashing eyes. Brisloun was not in the least alarmed. "What has made yon so angry, madam, and what crime has drjwn down npon me such severe re proaches?" he asked. "Tricking met" replied the Princess furiously. Brisloun was still unmoved. - "You ought on the contrary, to thank me,ff bo Mil. "Too ot whioh yon dreamed has no existence ; I made it; your life, your beauty, your ! happiness 1 say nothing of that oil your whole people depended ou this ' caprice; I staked my head on satisfying it" And in a gentle tone he added: "Say, Princess, have you been less happy?" i "To have played the oracle I" said ' Ailla, her bosom heaving. "To have interpreted it you would B'iy." And, as she suddenly became thoughtful, Brisloun went on: "Your dream, my beautiful Princess, was at once a warning and a lesson. The sorcerer gave yon the word I the senta 01 it. Happiness, Ailla, is n t like the grenades, less red than your lips, whioh ' are bronght to Ton on a salver of rnld I fresh gathered, perfumed and perfectly ue uivers elements wnicn com pose it are floating free y about in the world; it is tor ns to seize npon them and bring them together." I Was it the effeot of this address, or a new caprice? Did the large black eyes of Brislonn influence her who had many times before submitted to their powerful fascination? No one has ever known; bnt the anger of Ailla suddenly disappeared, like the melting of thin snow under the rays of spring. With a slightly pouting smile, she held out to the Prince a hand which he needed no beseeching to carry to his lips. Velvetpaw, thinking that a good moment for re-entering into the Princess's favor, went and gently rubbed her tiny head against her skirts; and, thinking of something else, the Princess sat down and dressed her. Ailla was superstitious, and, more over, she was a woman. She reflected for a few minutes, then turning with irresistible grace to Brisloun, who was watching her she said: "Prinoe, yon have discovered the true meaning of the oracle, and I thank yon for doing It And now I am going to ask a favor of you." He hastened to protest that he was ready to give his dear Princess all the proofs of love and devotion Jt thould please her to require. Without speaking she took up Velvotpaw and hnnded it to him. "What!" cried Brisloun, laughing, you want new one?" "I shonld feel more at ease; only ." she paused, laughing also; but present ly added in a coquettish tone, "since it makes no difference to you, dye it rose-color this time." The moral of this story is this: A white cat is as good as a bin) cat. What Is most important is, to have a box of color and to know how to use it on due occasion. A Baptist Minister Who Was AI Was Ready for Business. AVermont Baptist minister, who is not too grave and dignified to enjoy a joke even when it is on himself, narrates a lldicroug incident in his early life. oon after being settled over a new congre gation, he one day received a note ask ing him to be at home that evening at eight o'clock. The writer added that he was intended to be married at that hour, and would call at the parsonage with his bride. It was but a few min utes before eight when the door bell ran?, and a moment later a servant announced that a young couple await ed the minister In the parlor. Going down into the parlor, accompanied by his wife, the pastor, found a neatly dressed, intelligent appearing young man, and a bright-looking young wo man, who rose to receive him. I am Mr. Homer." said the younjj man, "and this is Miss Cross." Having' anothereng-agemant for the evening, the minister said, immediate !" "I received your note this rnorninj. and we will proceed with the ceremony at once. Please join vour right hands." In great bewilderment which tbe minister mistook for natural embar rassment, the young couple timidly clasped hands, and the ceremony was about to begin, when the young man kid: 'I we what ceremony is it?" "Why, the ceremony of marriage, of course."' "G-o-o-h!" shrieked the young lady, withdrawing her hand and covering her face with her handkerchief. "I don't understand this at all said the young man, sharply; "we came here simply as a committee from the Young People's Society of the Methodist church, to ask you and your wife to be present at a public entertainment we are about to give, and" It is now the minister's turn to be astonished, but at that moment the maid ushered In the right couple. Sending A Decoy Letter. 'You want to know how we 'get on' to mail clerks or letter-carriers who steal money from letters, you say," remarked a postofflce inspector. "The method is simple enough, and yet we catch them every time. Of course there are a good mauy schemes we can w6rk on them, but the least compli cated is the decoy letter. "When we think a man is opening letters, we prepare a letter and give it a semi-fictitious address to the wrong street, the wrong number or somelluug of that sort. We put in a dollar or so, and make it just bulky enough that it will attract the clerk's attention, when he handles it. These clerks get so skillful, you know, that they almost in variably can tell by the sense of touch, when a" letter contains money. This decoy letter is stamped with some post mark selected, and is thrown into the clerk's or carrier's box. "He gobbles it almost every time. We are on the watch, and if we hear nothing from it, we know that it must have been lost in transit. This test is nsed oftencr outside the post-office than in it, however, in the interest of busi ness men, who suspect their employes and others." Boston Globe. It la known that wasps' rests oftet. take fire, supposel to be caused bv the chemical action of the wax upon the pa per material ot the nest itself. Ma this not account for many mysterious fiie in barns and outbuildings? Tbe name "grippe" is supposed to bt derived from the Polish word "chryp ka''' meaning cat irrh. As we truly are only as far as God is with, us, so neither can we truly pos sess (that is, enjoy,) our being, or any other real good bnt by living in the sense of his holy presence. TBI to keep clear of prejndice, and be wiling to alter any opiuiou you may hold when farther light breaks npon yonr mind. He is clever beyond precedent or weak beyond measure who never sees reasons to o :ange hi. judgment of men and things. THE PKOUD PENNY. A penny, having trave'ed around the worlt a bit, became Very proud and conceited. "I belong to the peerless aristocracy of money, 'it said to its.df and to all whr would listen. "There is no one who does not bend th knee to my family; we are sought after by the proudest people on earth and we rule the world." One day the penny was talking in th) strain to an iron nail. The nail and the penny ch ncod to r st side by side in a workman's pocket The man was a carpenter who ha l been engaged in completing some work npon the bal cony of a new house. His wife was busily engaged scrubbing the floors and cleaning the windows of the new house. "It must be very dull and humiliat ing to be a nail," said the penny, "l'on are obliged to occupy such a menial paeition in life," "Oh, I do not know about that" an swered the nail. "We nails help to hold homes together, and that is a noble mission I am sure; and whatever onr niche in life may be, we realize that we belong to the great iron race we are proud of the stuff we are made of." "Oh, as for that, you have little to boast about," sneered the penny. 'Think of my family the proudest and greatest on earth. We could buy yours up and pitch yon into the sea if we cared to do so and the world would go on without yon. Men would invent something to take your place. But so ciety could not exist without us." "But you are a mare nobody in your own family," retorted the nail, becom ing angry. "Your gold and silver re lations look down upon you common copper that yon are. "Ob, it is m1 re spleen which makes yon talk like that," replied the penny. "Yon know very well that it is tak ing good care of me and treating me well that gives men a obanoe to pos sess my grand relatives. Anyone who despises me is never the associate of silver or gold. J am welcomed in every circle, am petted and sought after wherever I go. Already I have traveled over half the world. My life is luii oi adventure and excitement. Although now I am housed in an ob scure workman's pocket to-morrow I may be reposing in the purse of a prince. ?o such future awaits you. You are doomed to an obscure and humdrum existence." Just then tbe workman's wife com plained that she could not remove the paint stains from the windows she was attempting to clean. "Why, let me toll you how to do that," said the workman. "A painter told me only the other day. Take a penny under yonr thumb and rnb it over the paint spots ihey will all dis appear, it is far better than a knife. Here is a peLny try it." He took the boastful penny from his pocket and the woman did as di rected. The paint disappeared as if by magic. "I am so Rial to know about thisk" said the woman. "I will keep this penny with my scrub brushes and scouring cloths, that I may always be prepared for BUoh an emergency.' And thereafter the pround penny re gained with ccrnb brushes, while the nail was afterwards used to fasten a United States banner to the mast of a ship. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in A V. World. A "Divorce Cap" to Distinguish Her Wldowshlp. A San Francisco lady writing to the Chronicle is anxious for some distin guishing mark to distinguish widows and suggest for the one a Divorce Cap. It might be pertinent to remark that there might be two kinds one trimmed with weeds, the other with grass. This lady says: "1 think there ought to be some kind of a divorce cap. A fdan does not need one. He nlways looks single. But if some inventive milliner will think up a design for a hat that will permit you to understand whether a woman is a spinster, married or di vorced she will save men a great deal of trouble. The most trying thing for a man to find out about a woman he has fallen in lore with is a husband. He can stand almost anything else and still hope. But the pretty widow with the child always dresses the child up in a way to attract attention. There's something about the contrast between the two and the way she treats the child that seems to say, "This poor child has no father." And man. poor sympathetic man, with his heart drawn to youthful innocence, thinks he is catching the mother by giving candy to the infant The mother, bless her dear, unsuspecting, frank, ingenious heart, is catching him and saving the expense of the family bonbons. Pity is akin to love. Is it? It seems to me that love is akin to pity. Anyway, men don't pity women when they don't love them, but they love them very often when they don't pity them- Oth er women do the pitying. k That which makes the question con aerning a future life to be of great im portance to ns is onr capacity of happi ness and misery. And that which makes the consideration of it to be of so great importance to us is the suppo sition of our happiness and misery hereafter depending npon onr actions here. . mLM a -Jn l i Ili DECEMBER 9. ISM. Vicarious Punishment of Sup posed Son-in-law. I "When I reached Philadelphia re cently" said Mr. Mooney of ChilH- cothe. Mo., "I had written several letters, and about 11 o'clock thought I would take a walk down Chestnut street and finish my cigar. I walked as far as Ninth street and then started back for the hotel. When I reached Twelfth and Chestnut I thought I would buy another cigar and went into neighboring store. As 1 came out of the store a picture in the window attracted my attention and 1 leaned over to examine it more closely. 1 had hardly stopped when someone hit me a terrible blow across the shoulders with a heavy stick, at the same time exclaiming: You miserable villain! You will desert your wife and seven small chil dren and leave them to suffer starva tion, will you? Come home you scoundrel, and take that and that!' at the same time bringing the club twice more over my shoulders with terrible loree. The blows were so severe and the pain so intense that for a moment I was stunned. Before I had time to realize what was next coming or put up any defense the man grabbed me by the coat collar and dragged me across the street to a lamplight said: A in t you as named to leave vour wife?' At the same time he looked up into my face and then retreated as if terror stricken. O, I beg your pardon, he exclaim ed. 'I mistook you for a son-in-law of mine. I hope you are not hurt. I did not think I could be mistaken,' and at the same time he drew a handker chief iromhis pocket and, placing it to his eyes wept bitterly. I thought that mighty funny, but as I was 'green in your eastern ways and did not know what was coming next I thought it best to make tracks for the hotel and I got there as soon as possible. TWO TJSEFULi WOMEN. Mrs. Gladstone's life is a very simple and useful one. Her charitable work has been enormous, and in the direc tion of convalescent homes she may be regarded a-t the pioneer of a movement which is only now beginning to receive tbe recognition it now deserves. Her attention was first directed to the sub ject after the gTeat cholera visitation, when she promptly established sev eral such institutions. Bhe is also par ticularly interested in the welfare of the Newport Market Refuge in West minster, and when she is in London she is a regular visitor at the London Hospital. Mrs. Oladstone has ap peared once or twioe as an authoress on matteis of social and charitable con cern, and the little treatise she wrote on "Healthy Njrseries and Bed rooms" embodies the practical obser vations and experiences of the up bringing of her own seven children. To her poorer neighbors she is a true friend, and is ever ready to sympa thize in their tronbles and help ip their distress. Her countenance to the higher education of women has been given through her talented dangber, who is now principal of Newnham Col lege. Cambridge, and it may safely be snui mac no moveoioui tur we reui el evation of the sex, whether at home or in India, whether physically, socially, or educationally, has not received from her due consideration, and, if fonnd worthy, wise oonnsel and true assist ance. Another useful life is thatof the Bar oness Burdett-Coutts. Bhe built aud endowed, at her Sole cost tbe hand some church of St Stephen, West minster, with its schools and parson age, in tbe endowment of three Co lonial bishoprics she spent 50,000, and in South Australia she was the founder of an institution for the amelioration of the aborigines. For the poor out oasts of London she provided shelter and a real borne at bhepberd s Bush. Her kind hand lifted up the wretched when destitution was rife in Spitalfields, where she set up sewing schools, training schools lor nurses, and a helping organization for giving outfits to maid servants and others. She has equipped hundreds of desti tute lads for the Royal Navy. She cast sunshine on one ot the bleakest spots of poverty-stricken London hj buy ing the freehold of Nova Scotia Gar dens and there built the industrial dwellings called Columbia Square and later Columbia Market Her charity, moreover, has never known any dis tinction of race, or country, or creed. BALAKLAVA The little town of Balaklava lies be neath a sterile mountain on the shores of the beautiful bay which ia the only Varbor on the south coast of the Cri Dea where, owing to the rocks rising juddenly from the sea, the largest ships can anchor close to the shore. The Crimea played a considerable part in ancient historv, and Balaklava, which, from its position and surroundings, must always have been a place of im portance, is supposed to be one of tbe ports visited by Ulysses during his wanderings. The Greeks, the Genoese, the Turks, and the Russians have all held the town in turn, but it gains its chief celebrity from its occupation by tbe Allied armies during the Crimean War. The Allies advanced upon the town on September 2tth, 1854, an 1 ou Ootoler 25tb, following, some 12,000 Russians made an attack npon the Brit ish Army. Ihe battle was famous for its brilliant cavalry charges, the heavy cavalry under General Scarlett, and tbe Light Brigade (the "Six Hun dred"), under Lord Cardigan, making the engagement one of the most cel ebrated in history. On March 2.'d, 1855, the garrison of Sebastopol made a most vigorous sortie, and were re pulsed with great loss outside Bal aklava. TJsttl a man can control his own nature, with its various desires and passions, thoughts and emotions, ac tions and expressions, he cannot ac quire that real strength which will en able him to conquer the difficulties of life or to obtain any true influence over others. Baron A'phonse de Roth'chlM has purchased from Prince Borghese's splendid collection at Rome, for $12 J, -000. the portrait of t'ar Borglu. by Raphael. It is a spleudid woik in evt ry way. One Galowski, a Russian runner, has just covered the ground on foot from Bordeaux, Fr nee, to Angoufome and beck, a distance ot 145 noiles iu twenty-four hours with forty minutes to "pare. A mother's love is indeed the i olden link that binds yonth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowfd his cheeks or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart the fond devotion or the gentle ohildings of the best friend that God ever gave ua. Bore. THE CAMPHOU BOAT. UVSTKRIOUS VAPORS WTtX KEEP TH CRAFT IV MOTlO FOB SOME TIME. ITliry are passed anil gone with a peiiai ape. They died and mails no s'gn. There is nothing more captivatmi ""t work mat win Aim its wae vet. than machinery in motion. Movement A1iX J'" 't. is a lorig way toward life, and when a These ere t lie mourners, an l tae shall be th n ; can be got to move fer honrs at a . 1 09 crowns ot their immortality, time, w.thont any visible means of pro- ot seek them not where sleep the dead, pnlsion, people are, as a rule, very' Ye shall not find their trace t proud of its possession. I Eraven stone It at their head. F -wu u j v u I I'reeii grass hides their taee; A ow, although we do not hold out But sad and unseen it their silrnt grave any serious hopes that we are introduc- it may be the and or deep sea wave. luff a rival to steam or elARtricitv. vnt we btrongly advise yon to invest a few cents in a piece of camphor and ex periruent with the herein illustrated little ship. Take a slip of tin the thinner the better and cut into the shape we r.Ti.,1 K f.l V mind about the flagstaff at first; that is to uo:m t ne nag on wnen yon nave suc ceeded, and not before. Now put on the stern, in such a way as to rest on tbe boat and just touch the water, a small piece of camphor. The vapors of that piece of camphor will. in a mysterious way, put the boat in motion, and steadily it will cruise about for hours. Camphor is not the only substance that has this driving power. A drop of pure alcohol that is chemist's alco hol, of course if dropped in such a way on to the boat as to just touch the THE CAMPHOR BOAT. water wi'l give a really satisfactory speed; as will ohloroform, ether, and many of the essences and oils. To get the circular movement you must have a tiny rudder to the ship in which case, with the flag complete, you will have the apparatus used in the lecture rooms, to which you must go for a full explanation of the reason of these things; or, if you prefer it you can look up the subject of ''super ficial tension" in the physics book. It is not an easy subject and it has by no means been worked out The "general idea" is that the boat is squally attracted on all sides by the water, bnt that when the substance is plaoed aft, the vapor of the substance takes the place there ot the water, and, as the attraction of tbe vapor is less than that of the water, the boat moves in the direction of the strongest force. Golden Days. This Bar Hag Olagsr. When Judge Kombauer was on the bench he one day made a ruling against a young attorney, whose superfluity of diplomas was only equaled by his scant knowledge of the law. Much disgust ed, the lawyer said: "1 don't know where your houor goes to find such a law as that" When ruffled. Judge Rombauer sneaks with a strong Bohemian accent, and he replied in very emphatic lan guage: "I am not surprised, Mr. . zat you know not where 1 go to fine ze law, for 1 tlnd it in ze books." Tbe second incident was that where in a judge overruled a motion of Connselor Garvey, one ot the best known lawyers of tbe St Louis bar. The counselor is usually most respect ful to the court, but he lost his temper this time, and declared in his broad hough rich and cultured Irish brogue: "Your Honor, 1 hope for your Hon or's honor that It will never be noised abroad to your Honor's hurt that this honorable court ever made a rul ing so dishonorable to his own honor." St. Louis Republic. 1 Saldlw's fanwalL Now rest, my sword. Rest for I ne'er shall wield Thy faithful blade again on battle field; Slow through my veins the scanty life drops run My work is done. Aye, done at last: 1 shall be still, I know, V hen home with song and shout my com. rades go E'en now the Enster voices call Peace 1 peace to all ! And peace to me Rest a(Ur the long fleht And suffering for fatherland and right After the victory, by heaven sent, 1 am content. Oh ! mother heart Weep not that o'er my tomb No sculptured marble stands, no roses bloom. To mark the spot where, 'neatb a stranger sky. My ashes lie. Until this hour Life's book was full ot atain Now God himself has made it pure again, Has closed tbs volume, and His band di vine Now rests on mine. And so, farewell I I mav not see sgain The golden sunlight fall on hill and plain; A long, a last farewell 1 my work is done. My rest Is won 1 From tbe German. Oddities ef Hotee People. Samuel Richardson wrote his novels attired in full dress; Benjamin Disraeli's writing room, wherein he wrote his earllar novels, wa9 extrava ffantlv furnished, and hA himself wna I D " clothed to match, as he wrote. Mrs. Radcliffe ate raw pork before working at her novels. Handel was accustom ed to order dinner for five at a certain ! tavern in London, and then to eat the entire meal himself. A story relates that an ignorant waiter explained that he did not serve the dinner because he J was waiting for the other guests. "I , am de oder guests." cried the Indig nant musician; and he got his dinner. Mmk. Sabah Bcbxhardt, who has for several years entertained a nervous fear that she should perish through fire, has oommiraioned a Lyons manu facturer to make for her some fire proof materials, to be used for he; Btage dresses. The material is made fire-proof by being impregnated with Rome chemical substance, and several Parisian ladies of fashion have fol owed the example of Mm. Bernhardt Painted windows were photographed In their original colors recently by a Swiss doctor who has devoted long tudy to this subject It is bard to find people In misfortune who will not tell you somsbod; else ra to blame for it NO. 51. OBSCURE MAfttYRS. Tlif y have no place In storied page, No rest In marble slirlue : - '' rr' ' .'"r tev need no urayers aud no uiouralng They were tombed In true hearts that kn them well. They healed slek liearts till theirs were broken. And dried sad eyes till theirs lost light) We shall know at last by a certain tones fait ta 61 sor?ow nnrwhe d. Passionate cues nnchronicled, now iney roiiRiit and feu In the light. And silent strifes for the rlctit Angels shall oourt them and earth shall sigh, That she left her best children to battle abCl die. Edwin Absold. NEWL IN BRIEF. German silver was Invented in China. San Francisco has a 13,500,003 residence. There are t-21 members of the Bilu ish House of Lords. A twenty-eight pound turbot con tained 14,000,0.0 eggs. The Vatican contains 20S staircases and 1100 different rooms. Every second a clock ticks soma one ot earth's inhabitants gives up the ghost. One Pennsylvania man's memory has juBt come back after a lapse ot six teen years. The words la common use by the ordinary individual are estimated at from 1C00 lo S0i)0. In Africa, when the weather prog nostlgator fails to bring rain, tbey out him up and eat him. A doll that wiites letters ou a slate Is a recent iuvemlou of a m&chlnist In Nureniburg. Geruiauy. In Ball, an island in the lod an Archipelago east of Java, the burning or widows still goes on. Extensive smuggling of horses aud cattle from Mexico is reported on the upper Rio Grande. There is a well near Crab Orchard, Ky., tbe water in which will burn when a match is applied to It England's Naval Exhibition In London closed after having cleared f '250,030 for naval charities. It is proposed to raise $50,000,000 by a loan for public works in tbe col ony of Victoria, Austialia. A man who died recently in Lehigh County, Penn., at the ape of ninety two, hid never ridden on a railroad. A clo:k at l'oit Hur.m, Mich, recently made it first .stop in thirty four years, I r diking the main-spring. Indians who live along the Paclflo Railroad in Western Canada make a living by se ling polished buffalo horn. Out cf the li tters in the sentence "Let charity arouse your zeal." a S4. Louislati has formed 2H,0')9 words. There is a cat In Belfast, Me. which, during the green corn season eats each day lair a dozen cooked care Cne of the latest novelties adver tised is a masticator, which cuts up children's food, preparing It for the mouth. When a Frenchman marries, under the law he become responsible for the support of lils wife's father and mother. In Corea, sheets of paper pass for money. One sheet brings one quart of rice, or twenty sheets a piece ot hemp cloth. The doors iu a Loue of a wealthy widow in Philadelphia all open and c'ose in obedience to a touch-button apparatus. A wild goose In California when killed had a grain ot wlieit in its crop which, when planted, produced a vari ety hitherto unknown. The Klckaploo Indians own over 200,000 acres of and, and as there are only about 250 cf them, their possessions represent considerable wealth. The British Parliament allows to each of the daughters ot the Queen an Income of $30,000 a year. The youngar sons of the Queen receive $125,000 eacn a year, Out of a population of 250,000.000 In India less than 11,000,000 can read and write. Tbe total number of scholars of all sorts Is but 1 1-2 per cent, of all the inhabitants. The cranberry crop of New Jersey this Vf.ir is valued at iOOO.000. The cost j of getting the berries to market averages l , . . . I .. mneLat r.rlno ri . CI A WUSIId UU'I 1-113 Lldlftt, p..mMmMUS from $-2.50 to $3,20 a buebet From eleven squash seeds which weighed not half an ounce John F. Staples, or Xorth Berwick, Me., raised 1800 pounds of squash. The marble Capitol Building at Hartford, Conn., is 300 feet long and the engineers declare that it Is three inches longer In summer than In win ter. Last year there was a potato famine. This year, m one California district near Sacramento, 60.00J bushels of potatoes : were not dug up lciuse it would not ' pay to market them. I "Bear, the old dog tbat was taken to the A relic regions by the Greely ex I peditlon and survived all its horrors, la ' still alive, and is owned by Commodoie ' Gridley, of Erie, Peon. Tbe Imperial University at Tokia, I Japan is probably the largest in the world, having an enrollment of 2000 eoholars, and a faculty of forty mem bers. It is under government con trol j H ot a hat or bonDet was seen In any ! part of the audience that attended the I Wtrcester (Mass. ) music festival. The managers of the festival made it a rule that no hats or bonnets should h worn. A Bridgeport (Conn.) boy was re cently treated for a cut in his foot at the Emergency Hospital. After probing to the depth of an inch the ' surgeon felt an object tbat was re moved with difficulty. It proved to be a live snail about the size of a baile- inut. The Saco River in Maine Is at the lowest point since 16s2. One of the de partments In the Laconia Mill was obliged to temporarily suspend work re cently on account of low water, and sev eral saw mills up the river have shut down, i WM BrUloun, ana no aesireu 10 r 1 1 a. Bg legless, he was one-ayed, hi wai v
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