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THE OONSTITCTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprtotep.
VOL. XVLI.
MIFFLINTWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1892.
NO. 8.
-A.
RECOMPENSE.
HT uns. A. S. ROE.
Thev to rt me the roses were oruM,
surr.unleil with thorns untold;
Thf t. r of rM t ' rainbow,
su...y ('le o1''
Rut the sun-kissed f0"""' unfolded,
Totk-W perfume ""e'-i
And 'lie kinu of the western sunset,
Scattered his olu at my feet.
Tle-v told me the snowdrifts ot Wluter,
were dreiwr than ever before;
The niurinuriiiK winds of the summer,
Had tone to return never more.
Put In 'he warm Unlit of the springtime.
The mowiir.fts all melted aw.iy;
Ttie.dt winds returned with the Summer,
To matter the ciouds of eaeli day.
They told me the life of a Christian.
Was lolHnuie. and d irk. anil cold;
The love and rewards of t lie M liter,
Were all f r the lir.ive and bold.
The " of IIW !"' fell upon in-'
My heaviest eronses are liK'it;
And .'in id the itlo on and the darkness,
UebrliiKe suusluiie bright.
Table Talk.
(01 SIX MARK.
-I wotililn't marry the best man that
ever lived!" Ami she meant it, or,
what answers tlto Fame purpose, she
thought she meant it. After all, how
few of us really know what we moan?
1 engaged myself once, when a girl,
ami the simpleton thought he owned
mi'. I soon took that eonceit out of him,
ami wilt him about his business." The
tunc was now a little sharp. What
wonder with so galling a memory?
"No man shall ever tyrannize over mo
never. What the mischief do you
suppose is the matter with this scwing
iiaihiner"' 'Annoyed at your logic, most like
ly," said my friend, a bright young
matron, as she threaded her needle.
'Mv husband is not a tyrant, Miss
Keiit."
'I am glad you arc satisfied," was
the laconic answer.
It was quite evident by the dress
maker's face that she had formed her
own opinion about my friend's hus
band, and was quite competent to form
and express an opinion on any sub
ject. Miss Kent was a little woman,
fair as a girl, and plump as a robin.
She wasn't ashamed to own that she
was forty years old and an old maid.
She had earned her own living most of
her life and was proud of it. She was
a good nurse, a faithful friend, and
a jolly companion ; but stroke her the
wrong way and you'd wish you hadn't
in much shorter time than it takes me
to write it. Her views on all subjects
were strikingly original, and not to be
combated.
"What are you going to do when
you get old?" persisted the mistress of
the establishment.
"What other folks do, I suppose."
"But you can't work forever."
"Can't say that I want to."
"Now, Miss Kent, a husband with
means, a kind, intelligent man "
I don't want any man. I tell you,
Mrs. Carlisle, I wouldn't marry the
best man living, if he was as rich as
Croesus, and would die if I didn't have
him. Now if you have exhausted the
marriage question, I should like to try
on your dress."
There was something behind all this
I knew well. My friend's eyes danced
with fun; and as Miss Kent fitted the
waist, she threw me a letter from the
bureau.
"Head that," she said with a know
ing look. "It may amuse you."
This is what the letter said:
"Mr Deak Jennie: I shall be de
lighted to spend a month with you and
your husband. There must be, how
ever, one stipulation about my visit
you must say no more about marriage.
I shall never be foolish again. Twenty
years ago to-day I wrecked my whole
life." ("Better embark in a new ship,
hadn't he?" put in Jennie, sottovoce.)
"So unsuitable was this marriage, so
utterly and entirely wretched have been
its consequences, that I am forced to
believe the marriage institution a mis
take. So, for the last time, let m'
assure you that I wouldn't marry tlie
best woman that ever lived, if by bo
doing I could save her life.
"Your old cousin,
Mark Lansing.''
"Rich, isn't he?" saiil Jennie, and
then pointed to the chubby little figure
whose back happened to be turned.
shook my head and laughed.
"You'll see," said the incorrigible.
"See what?" inquired Miss Kent,
quite unaware of our pantomime.
"That parties which are chemically
attracted will unite. Of course an
alkali and an acid. Don't you think
this sleeve a little too long, Miss
Kent?"
"Not after the seam is off. But
What were you saying, Mrs. Carlisle?
The other day at Professor Boynton's,
I saw some wonderful experiments."
"And did they succeed?" inquired
Jonnie, demurely.
"ueautiTully."
"So will mine,
a job in rny life."
"I don't think
I never yet botched
I ouite understand
you, replied Miss Kent, perplexed.
"No? I always grow scientific when
talking about marriage, my dear."
"Bother!" was all the little woman
aid, hut the tone was much better na
tured than I expected.
The next week Cousin Mark ar
rived, and I liked him at once. An
Unhappy marriage would have been
the last thing thought of in connection
With tlmt gentleman. He had accepted
the situation like a man, Jennie told
and for fit teen years carried a
loud of niiserv that few could have
endured. I loath cam.; to him at last,
anil i,w the poor f.-llow actually be
lieved himself an alien from domestic
'iuppinets.
Singular as it mav appear, Cousin
Jlark was the cinlx.diinent of good
'"tilth ami good nature; fifty, perhaps,
though he li,l't look it; n,"i ns rotund
and as fresh in his way as tho little
dressmaker was in hers. As I looked
at him I defied anybody to sec fcne and
not he reminded of the other.- True,
ne had more of the polish which coines
irom travel ami adaptation to different
classes and individuals, but he was not
Wat more intelligent by human
nature than the bright little woman
Whom Jennie determined he should
marry.
"I was surprised vr.u should think
" iiecessarytocaution me about that,
Vusm Murk," cooed tho plotter, as
e stood by his side, looking out of
c window. "The idea of mv bcimr
o ridiculous ! U1K, j 1C BaIllc-m.caUl
1" wink at me, "Come, kt ns go to
th.J u"groom- are at work
to ill, w""'t makc "y difference
1 you. will it?" ... .
Of course Cousin Mart answered
"No," promptly, as innocent as a dovo
about the trap being laid for him.
r''U is ' cousin Mr. Lansing,
Miss Kent," and Mr. Lansing bowed
politely, and Miss Kent arose, dropped
her scissors, blushed, and eat down
again. Cousin Mark picked up the re
fractory implements and then Mrs.
Jennie proc;eded with rare caution
and tact to her labor of love. Cousin
Mark, at her request, read aloud an ar
ticle from the 1'opular Science Month
ly, drawing Miss Kent into the discuss
ion as deftly as was ever fly drawn in
to the web of the spider.
'Who was that lady, Jennie ?" Cous
in Mark inquired in the evening.
"You mean Miss Kent?" said Jen
nie, looking up from her paper. "Oh,
she is u lady I have known for a long
time. She is making some dresses for
me now. 'Why?"
"She seemed uncommonly well
posted for a woman."
Under any other circumstances, Mrs.
Carlisle would have resented this, but
now she only queried, "Do you think
so?" und that ended it.
Two or three invitations to the sewing-room
were quite sufficient to make
Cousin Mark perfectly at home there,
and after a week he became familiar
enough to say:
"If you are not too busy, I should
like to road you this article"
"Oh, I am never too busy to be read
to," Miss Kent would say. "Sit down
in this comfortable chair, and let's
hear it."
After a couple of weeks, when the
gentleman came in hoarse with a snd
den cold, Mis9 Kent bustled about, he.
roics full of sympr.thy, and brewed
him a dose which he declared he should
never forget to his dying day; hnt one
Jose cured After this occurrence,
Min Kent was a really wonderful
woman.
Ah, what anarch plotter! She let
them skirmish about, but not once did
she give them a chance to be alone
together her plans were not to be
destroyed by premature confidences
until the very evening preceding
Cousin Mark's departure for Cali
fornia. Then Miss Kent was very
demurely asked to remain and keep an
eye on Master Carlisle, whom the fond
mother did not like to leave quite alone
with his nurse.
"We are compelled to be gone a
couple of hours," said she; "but Cous
in Mark will read to you won't you
cousin?"
"Certainly, if Miss Kent would like
it," replied the gentleman.
The infant Carlisle, tianks to good
management, was never awake in the
evening, so the victims of this matri
monial speculation would have plenty
of time. The back parlor was the room
most in use during the evening, and
out of this room was a large closet
with a large blind ventilator, and out
of this closet a door leading to the back
stoop and garden. Imagine my sur
prise when I was told that Mr. Car
lisle was going to tho lodge, and that
we, after profuse warning about the
baby, and promises not to be gone too
Jcng, were to proceed to this closet
overlooking tho back parlor, by the
way of the back gate and garden. In
vain I protested.
"Why, you little goosie," laughed
Jennie, "there'll be fun enough to last
a lifetime. John wanted to come aw
fully, but 1 knew he'd make an awful
noise and spoil everything, so I
wouldn't let him."
The wily schemer took the precau
tion to lock the closet door from the
outside, so there was no fear of detec
tion. On a high bench, still as two
mice, we awaited results.
Presently, Cousin Mark, as if arous
ing from a protracted revery, asked,
!'Would you like to have me read?"
"Oh, I am not particular," replied
Miss Kent.
"Here is an excellent article on elec
tive affinities. How would you like
that?"
Jennie's elbow in my side almost
took away my breath.
"Who is it by?" she inquired.
Jennie exclaimed (clear in my ear),
"That's to gain time, see if it ain't."
"It's by a prominent French writer,
X believe," answered Cousin Mark.
"1 don't think I care for a transla
tion to-night," said Miss Kent.
"Xorl; nor reading of any kind,"
he continued. "This is my last even
ing in New York, Miss Kent."
"I hope you've enjoyed your visit,''
she returned.
Jennie (into my very head this time) :
''She's as shy as a three-year-old colt."
"I didn't think I should feel so bad
about leaving," Cousin Mark went on.
"He is the wreck, you remember."
whispered Jennie.
A long pause.
"I think I hear the baby," exclaimed
Miss Kent.
"Oh. no." said Cousin Mark. "You
are fond of babies, are you not, Miss
Kent?"
No answer from Miss Kent.
"I have been a very lonely man,
Miss Kent." Cousin Mark resumed;
"but I never realized how lonely the
rest of my life must be until I came to
Jus house." -"Oh.
how lonelvl" echoed Jennie."
"Now I must return to mf business
and my boarding-house boarding
house for a man so fond of domestic
Hf na I inn. Miss Kent."
Just then we very distinctly hstnrd a
little kind of a purr, which sounded
very like a note of intense sympainy
.... Miss Kent.
"I have friends in San Francisco of
course," said Cousin Mark, "but no
fireside like this, no one to care for me
if I am ill, nobody to feel very pauiy
if I die." - .
"That'll fetch her," said Jennie.
I wish that I lived in SHn Fran
cisco," said Miss Kent, in a little quiv
ering voice. "You could call upon
,e nt anv time if you needed any-
lllf l-All rro to California with
t;,. Kent. Pll wait another
1 1 ' , j
not-
Why, Mr. Lansing, -what do you
mean? What would folks say ?' said
-Wc don't care for folks," fain
Mark. "If yon will go, we will have
a house as pleasant as money can make
,j,aii lmve birds and flowers
and horses and all the scientific month
lies that you want deuced ir you
sha'ii't and you shall never sew
another stitch for anybody but me.
Will you be iny wife?"
Justthen Jennie ani l stopped np
another pef, and jhere waa thatjigte
old maid, who wouldn't marry the
best man that ever lived, hugged close
to the man's breast, who wouldn't
marry the best woman that ever lived,
not even to t ave her life. AVc came
away then, but it's my opinion that
they remained in just that position til!
we rang the bell half an hour later.
"How did you know?" I asked ot
Jennie.
"My dear," she answered, "my
whole reliance was ujion human na
ture; and let me tell you, dear goosie,
whatever else may fail, that never
does."
"Why, Miss Kent, what makes yoni
face so very red?" inquired Jennie,
upon entering; "and Cousin Mark,
how strangely you look! your hair is
till mussed up."
"And I hope to have it mussed nr.
often." finiii f'ntlsin Mnrlr lwttrlti'
'.miss Kent ana 1 arc to be married
this week."
Jennie laughed till her face was pur
pie, and when I went up stairs, Miss
Kent was pounding her back.
THE SCHOOL BKKAKFAST.
Some portion of the delicacy oi
health still often seen in our young
cirls comes from circumstances in
their homo lifo that conld be amended
iu most instances if they were rooog
nizod and understood. Too frequently
the pallid child who complains, even
on waking iu tho morning, of beincr
ureu ureu ns wnen sue went to be.l
has shared the bed of some much
older person: grandmother or aunt or
mother. The narrow things of home
do not all w separate bedchambers, it
may l e; bat it would seem as if separ
ate boils might always be managed, oven
if at the sacrilico of the symmetry of
the arrangement of furniture and tho
pictnresqueness of the room. Ii they
cannot be managed otherwise, it would
bo better for the young girl to have her
bed freshly made every night on a
lounge, or on any of the multitudinous
contrivances that now-a-days disguise
a bed in the shape of desk or wnrdrobe
or bookcase. Why it should be nec
essary, what is the hidden reason of the
trouble, is not easy to sa.', even if it is
possible; but the fact remains that,
without any observable benefit to the
elder nerson, the child sleeping in the
sirae bod seems to lose strength and
vitality, appetite, roundness, and rosi
ness, and to wither away, till one re
members the old stories of spells and
incantations where the victim withers
as the candle bnrns, or the waxen im
age shrinks in the heat, till nothing is
left of either. Oive the younsr girl
her separate bed, her early and her
qmet sleep in a darkened and cool bnt
not cold room, her gradual waking only
at the hour when nature awakes her,
and her quick bath and brisk robbing,
and it will be a eingnlar thin; if she
n .t Ioso her pasty pailor and her lan
guid eeas:iti ms.and bscorue round and
blooming and full of energy.
With this done, probably the rest
will arrange itself; that is to say, she
will have an appetite for her hrenkfusr,
noe rmal appetite for normal thinr.fi,
and not for pio only, and for nothing
alse bnt sweetmeats, if indeed even for
them. This matter of a nourishing
and easily assimilated breakfast is one
of as great importance as tho other.
Tho girl who rises too tired to eat her
Ircakfatt, or so late th.it she must
snatch a morsel and rui for school,
goes without the fit amount of nour
ishment, and is impoverised in blood
and muscle and growth, and often in
montul strength to a corresponding ex
tent; there ia no blood to color the
cheeks, or give sparkle to tho eye, or
strength t the limbs, or energy to the
heart; there is no force to do the neces
sary work; tho child ia doprived of her
natural share of life, and if she lives at
all, never reaches her full stature
either physically or intellectually.
Whoever it is that has the charge ot
the child's health should make it one of
the first duties, at any inconvenience
whatever, to see that the child has a
breakfast which is relished, and of
which she will eat well and heartily, if
it cannot be done without rising early,
without overseeing the servant, withont
doing the work one's self, a servant be
ing lacking, then one must rise and do
it; for having the child to care for,
duties are owed to her, superior we
we might almost say to the duty owe 1
one's self; and among tho first of those
duties is that of seeing that her body
is projerly sustainedby affording her
the articles of which she will eat a suf
ficient qnantity for tho support of her
system, which in tho growth of her
lody constantly needs now material.
A young girl's appetite is often fastid
ious, although not uncomfortably so il
she is perfectly healthy; and many a
mother complains that her daughter
eats no breakfast, tho plain fact being
that her daughter had really no break -faht
to ent.siuce there was nothing pre
pared at all alluring to the feeble a
petite, or of which, even by an effort,
enough could be eaten to make a moel,
while yon would hardly expect a canary
to make a meal olT the pebble stones
that wonld content an ostrich. It does
not need that the viands should bo
dainties or delicacies; they perhaps
wonld be as bad art the opposite, but
only that a study of taste, and an ob
servation of what is eaten and what is
left neglected, shall be exercised in the
preparation of the meal, always re
membering that this study is given not
to pamper a jadod appetite, but to pro
mote enough appetite to feed a starv
ing system. Bazar.
Owtno to tho great cost of coal in
Italy, manufacturers there are nsing
lignite, two varieties of which are
abundant in that oonntry. lieoent ex
periments prove that lignite is a prob
able substitute for coaL
Divers in the clear waters of tm.
tropical seas find that fish of different
colors when frightened do not all dart
in the same direotion, bnt that each
different kind takes shelter in that por
tion of the snbmarine growth nearest
ia color to that of the fish.
Tm? telephone line between Maniton
and Pike's Peak has jnst beon com
pleted, a distance of about nine miles,
it is the highest telephone line in the
world. The Peak is 14,115 in height,
while the village of Maniton is C,50?
feet above the sea.
A chain shot was dng up tho othet
day in a street in Seattle, Wash. It is
supposed to be one of the missiles
thrown from tho guns of the United
States sloop Decatur at the time of the
Indian engagement that occurred there
in December, 1855.
Washington's old headquarters at
Valley Forge will soon pass into th
hands of a patriotio association. A
body of patriotio Philadelphians,
headed bv Postmaster.General Wana
roaker, and the Daughters of tho Revo
lution both desire the property.
In twelve yeaH the city of Parte hai
expended $270,000 on statues and $85,
000 ob ornamental fountains.
LURGLAH6' TOOLS.
Earg'&vs have improved methods as
well as other people. About two-thirds
of the aif?: ia the market . can b
opened by the average burglar with
very little trouble. Indeed, the burg
lars have 6o far advanced in the art
and mystery of burglary that tho latest
experts work with but trifling noise,
and carry unobserved about their per
sons powerful tools of novel construc
tion. The typical burglar of romance
and the stage is a coarse, brutal, ugly
looking, and altogether unattract've in
dividual. The actual successful burg
lar is an intelligent, skilled mechanic,
who knows the construction of all tho
safes in tho market, because ho has
studied them carefully, and knows their
weak points. Very often ho is able to
fix up so as to look like a belated busi
ness man going home from the club.
It requires a first-class man to do a
first-class job.
Experience has shown that as fast as
nc7 safeguards and inventions for tho
strengthening of safes are mado the
expert burglars get posted. They keep
up with the times. They buy tho new
est locks and learn how they work.
Often by simple and ingenious devices
they produce results in unexpected
ways. AYhcn the time lock was new
tho burglars got around it by setting
the i lock movement whizzing without
In pendulum, so that the time for
opening the safe camo around much
quicker than was intended. This led
to other improvements to protect the
clock of the safe, so that the burglars
could not run it down before the proper
time had elapsed. So when the com
bination lock was new the burglars
found out a way to drive in the central
pin, and then turn the wheels at leisure
to shove the bolts. This led to tho
adoption of new devices to secure tho
pin.
As a matter of fact, most safes are
built for fireproof and not burglar
proof work. Some short-sighted peo
ple attempt to use mere fireproof safes
for tho storing of valuables, and they
often come to grief. Such safes can
lie taken to pieces in an incredibly
short time, and tho expert burglar
would rather prefer to get in any way
than by the door. He will take out a
panel or the whole back or side of a
mere fireproof safe and leave tho doors
unmolested. ,
The safe itself supplies to the skil
ful burglar the most solid fulcrum,
and the combination or sectional "jim
my" a tool whose power is almost un
linii cd. The different sections of this
innny are adjustable, so that a burglar
nay carry in his pocket enough sec
tions to make a lever twenty feet long
if need bo. Such a tool inserted in a
rack or a hole made for the purpose,
or a fissure in the framework of a
safe, will fear the stoutest iron as
easily as a woman tears a strip of cloth.
One of the burglar's most effective
tools is the screw. By a simple ad
justment so as to hold the end of a
screw once iner'ed through a hole,
with tho safe itself as a fulcrum, tho
ido or back or top or bottom of a safe
has been bent or bulged or torn out.
The trnth is that the utmost that can
he expected in the steontrest saf that
can tie made is that it shall delay the
work of the burglar more than forty
eight hours. If a burglar has a tough
job to do he will generally prefer to
take the longest available time to do it.
Therefore a favorite time for burglars
is from Saturday night to Monday
morning, or upon a holiday. Tho
best protection against burglars has
been found to be the placing of safes
within safes, each independent of the
other, so that liueh time must necessa
rily elapse before the breaking can be
accomplished.
Burglars can get into any ordinary
house with ease. In nviny cases it is
only necessary to break a pane of
p lass and thrust a hand in and turn
the knob of a door or move the fasten
ings of a window. An ordinary jim
my will open any wooden door or
window. To force open any of the
ordinary iron fastenings that arc placed
outside of dwellings is bnt tho work
of a few mcments with modern burg
lars' tools. Bars arc pried apart with
slow and powerful jark screws that
arc strong enough to raise buildings.
iniii i mil.-, in iv u tflllllin'J
iron gate is easily displaced with a
jimmy.
Ordinary locks are not the slightest
protection against burglars. Simple
skeleton keys will pick common locks.
If a key is left in the door it is the
usiesl. thing for a burglar to put a
wire through the keyhole and, working
; from the outside of a door, turn the
key on the inside. This is a common
practice villi hotel thieves, and to
guard against it bolts have come into
evneral use. But even bolts can be
shoved back by expert burglars. The
latest plan of doing this is by working
through a keyhole with a jiicce of
steel wire and a strong cord. The
location of the bolt is obtained eilhcr
by observation in the daytime or by
exploration at night.
The skillful use of this steel wire
and cord makes a strong bow, Ihe
string of which is used to shove back
a lolt. This instrument is sometimes
called "The Widdie," which is tho
burglar's way of saying widow. It is
one of various methods of working at
the door locks through a keyhole. The
modern chain bolt is easily opened by
a burglar using a twisted wire. Of
course, tho chain bolt is not essentially
a idght fafteuluy. It is mainly in
tended to hoW a door w hile the person
iiiside opens it to see who is our side,
and as a precaution against being taken
by surprise by having a door suddenly
pushed inward by an intruder.
Burglar; can push back an ordinary
window catch by inserting a thin case
knife. Tho lie '. est window catches
are arranged so as to prevent this.
Fastenings on wooden window
shutters or blinds are easily burglar
ized by means of boring and sawing.
Tho professional burglars have an old
time method of breaking window
panes without noise. They first paste
over the pane to be cracked a complete
covering of paper. Then when the
pane is cracked by a 6low, steady
pressure, which is quite as effective as
a l.low, there is only a sort of crunch
ing noise and no falling of glass.
This is really an old method, and par
ticularly applicable to most of tho
front doors in present use. It seems
to be the universal custom to light
front halls with these side lights, every
oiixi of which is a constant invitation to
the burglar to come at his leisure,
break one sido light, thrust his hand in
the opening, and turn the knob or
key.
EMBROIDERY IS FLAXDERS IS
THE YEAR 14 0.
It was during this period that em
broidery lost Its distinctly religiom
character and came into common use h
lay dress. And if we wish to see tf
what a pass the sumptuous dress oi
Flanders carne, we have but to consult
the pictures of tho time. On Var
Eyck's and Mending's marvelous can
vases the lay life of Bruges is brought
before us as a setting to the most sucred
subjects brought before us, too, with
such naif and serious realism that it
never jars upon our taste. Melchior
and Gaspard, as they kneel before the
Holy Child, Herod and his courtiers as
they sit at the table or look on the
headless corpse of St. John the Baptist,
in Mending's pictures at tho Hospital
St. John, are but portraits of princes
and courtiers at tho Prinsenhof hard
by. The gorgeous fabrics of their
dicsset, stiff with gold, are fresh from
the looms of Bruges, which were then
famous throughout all northern Europe.
While the magnificent robe, with its
hem embroidered in gold, pearls and
Jewels, which is worn by the Virgin in
Van Eyck's great picture at Ghent of
the 'Adoration of the Sacred Lamb,' is
almost a duplicate of the state mantle
in which Mary of Burgundy lies wrap
ped in her brass effigy on the altar
tomb at Notre Dame in Bruges.
LES;0-S IN sWIjIimIXG.
The first thing to be done is to learn
to duck without minding it. Hold your
breath and put your head under water
several timed whenever you bathe. You
may probably strangle a bit at first, but
the ducking will become less disagree
able, until the disinclination to go un
der water nearly or quite disappears.
Of coui ke tho bather need not make a
martyr of himself by spending his whole
time in the practice of ducking. He
may splash about as much as he likes.
Some acquire the necessary indifference
to being under water at once. When
it ia acquired, let the bather select a
place where tho water is just deep en
ough for him to sit upon the bottom
with head and shoulders out of the
water. Then let him take a full breath,
distending the lungs, and placing his
arms by his sido, lio down on his back
on tho bottom. If unsuccessful, par
tially expel the air from the lungs and
try again. And having found out by
actual experiment how easy It is to lie
down on your back under water, go
out to the full length of your rope, and
holding your breath, pull yourself iu
toward the shore, hand over hand, not
letting your feet touch bottom on any
account until your breath runs out or
you run around. No matter whether
you go under or not, no matter whether
you keep yourself right side up or not,
go right on hauling yourself toward tho
shore, band over hand, till your each
shoal water. When you can run your
self ashore with ease and certainly you
will probably have discovered that most
of the passage is made at or near the
surface of the water, and possibly you
will have learned after a fashion to
keep your balance and pull yourself
ashore with your nose above water.
When you can do this you can breathe
through your nose during tho pass;e,
nd as soon as you can breathe com
fortably while hauling yourself ashore
you are ready for the next steri name
ly, try to pull yourself ashore using one
hand for the rope and paddling with
the other bind. This is not a very easy
thing to do, and in all probability lie
fore you accomplish it you will find
yourself paddling with both hands and
kicking with both feet that is to say,
swimming. Ait soon at you find that
you can keep yourself rightside up,
and your eyes and nose abov water,
you have learned the great secret, and
swimming with the most approved and
scientific stroke will follow according
to your opportunities aud ambition.
Blonde and Brunette.
WTiTn the race is formed from a
mixture of blondes and brunettes the
hereditary blonde coloring comes out
in the eyes and the brunette element
reappears in the hair. To this ten
dency probably is to be attributed the
rarity of a combination of light hair
with dark eyes. Several observers
have asserted that the American peo
ple, who are pre-eminently a mixed
race, are becoming a dark-haired and
blue-eyed nation, and if this be true
snch a development must be owing to
the working of this lair -
A TOET'S EIR3T ATTEMPT.
Whlttier began to rhyme very early
Hid kept his gift a secret from all, ex
sept his oldest sister, fearing that his
father, ho was a prosaic man, would
diiuk that he was wasting time. He
iViote under the fence, in the attic, in
ihe barn wherever he could escapo ob
ki vat ion; and as a pen and ink were
lot always available, he somet imes used
:halk, and even charcoal. Great was
;he surprise of the family when some of
ais verses were unearthed, literally un
iaithed, from under a heap of rubUdi
in a garret; but his father frowned upon
these evidences of the bent of his
mind, not out of uukindness, but be
:auso he doubted tho sufficiency of the
hoy's education for a literary life, and
lid not wish to inspire him with hopes
' which might never be fulfilled.
I His sister had faith in him, nevcrthe-
less, and, without his knowledge she
I lent one of his poems to the editor of
I Tlie Frte Press, a newspaper published
I in Newburyport. Whittier was helping
ais father to repair a stone wall by the
roadside when tho carrier flung a copy
of the paper to him, and, unconscious
that anything of his wa9 in it, he
.inoneil it and glanced up and down the
i.umns. His eyes fell on some verses
plied "The Exile's Departure."
"Foml sennes which dulifhted my youth
ful xttu?,
Wl'.h fhtsot oti"w I bid ye ail ieu
A lasting aui-u; for now, dim in the dis
tance. The shores of nibemia recede from onr
' view.
Farew.l! to the cliffs, tempest-beaten and
gr.r.
Which to"-'l the loved shores of my own
railTft liml;
Farewell to tbe village and sall-shadowod
bay.
Tbe forest-crowned hill and the water
washed strand. "
His eyes swain; It was his own poem
tho first he ever had in print.
"What is the matter with thee?" his
father demanded, seeing how dazed Ik
was; but, though ho resumed his work
on the wall, ho could not speak, and he
had to steal a glance at the paper agaia
and again, before be could convince
himself that he was not dreaming.
Sure enough, the poem was there with
l is initial at the foot of it " W. Haver
hill, June 1st, 1S20," and, better still,
this editorial notice: "If 'W.,' at
Haverhill, will continue to favor u!
with pieces beautiful as the one in
serted in our poetical department of to
day, we shall esteem it a favor."
The editor thought so much of "Tin
Exile's Departure," and some othei
verses which followed it from the samt
hand, that he resolved to make the ac
quaintance of his new contributor, and
be drove over to see him. Whittier.
then ! boy of eighteen, was summoned
from the fields where he was working,
clad only in shirt, trousers, and straw
hat, and having slipjied in at the bacl
door so that ho might put his shoes nut!
coat on, came into the room will
"shrinking diffidence, almost unable t
Seak, and blushing like a maiden.'
The editor was a young man himself
not more than twenty-two or twenty
three, and the friendship that begai
w.lh this visit lasted until death einlet
it. How strong and how close it was
and how it was made to serve the cause
of freedom, may lie learned in tho lift
of t!ie great abolitionist, William Lloyc
Garrison, w hich was the editor's name
TflE WRONG MAN.
A clubman relatesat his own expense
the following reminiscence of his visit
to London last summer. Wishing to
take advantage of the alleged cheapness
of clothing in London he carried with
him no more than he actually needed
for the voyage, and on his arrival posted
up to London In his steam t dress, to
find an important dinner engagement
awaiting him, only a few days off. It
was an extremely hot day and he was
tired, but he went at once to the estab
lishment of a tailor who had been rec
ommended, and asked to see the pro
prietor, Mr. X. That gentleman ap
peared, and the following conversation
took place:
"You are Mr. X?" the American
asked.
"Yes," was the laconic reply.
"Well," continued the American, )
met your customer, Mr. A., on th
steamer I've just landed from, and h
advised me to come and see you befor
looking anywhere else."
"But really, my man " the talloi
said, looking the dusty, travel-stained
visitor over from head to foot, I am
awfully sorry not to oblige Mr. A., you
know, but really we don't need anj
more help at present."
The American is neither vain noi
lacking In a sense of the ludicrous, sc
that instead of Incoming mortally
offended, as many might have done, h
simply laughed and explained that h
wanted Rome work done himself, and
on this footing he was at once treated
with a consideration designed to atone
for so awkward a mistake.
SUFFOCATED BY GRAIN'.
George Helm, of Sidney, III., thinks
he can tell how it feels to 1 sinut!;t -red
to death. He is a gram nieicbai.t, and
a few days ago went into an elevatoi
where thousands of bushels of oats arc
stored, when by some means a partition
gave way, and the grain came ilowu on
oh him in an avalanche, covering him
seven feet deep above his head. Effort
was made to remove the grain, but this
was fruitless, and the side of the bin!
was chopped away and tho oats allowcc
to pour out in a stream that coverec
and obstructed the railroad track. Ii
' was twenty minutes before be was cx
j f ricated, but life was not extinct, am j
he was resuscitated after a half-hour';
hard work. He suffered intense agon;
' when first buried, but soon became uu
' conscious.
Thb Roman Catholic parochial
schools at Faribanlt, Minn., have lieen
placed in charge of the Board of Edu
cation, without conditions. I
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A CHILD'S FANCY.
rinh. nul. peak softly, mother dear,
8 tint the il:iiles may nut hear;
Kor wh-n tlie -t rs leln to peep,
The pretty uUinc-3 go to sleep.
See, mmh'T. round ns on the lawn,
Willi snli white l.islies closely drawn.
Tl ey'Vf Mint their eyes, so Kuliteii-gay,
1 hat limkej up tlnouuli the lone, lung day.
I'ut now the 're tlreil of all the f an
of lu es ami liliiU, of wlml anil sun.
ri;i?inie tie'lr vame :t hlile ami-seek,
Then very softly let us speak."
niy-lad stnrs above Uieetillrt
L. Hiked down Irom Heaven and s weetlj
smiled ;
Hut not a star In all the skle
r.eanieil ou him With his mother's eyes.
She Mrnkeil ht curly cheMnut head,
Anil hlspeiini; very softly. Slid
'I'.i unite f iri2oiteii they nuitlit hear;
'lliaiik vuu for ihe leniluder. dear."
A WORD TO HOSTESSES.
A p!et for books in tho gnest cham
her is mu le I y a writer in tho Jfoute i
trip; wh i says: Dear housekeepers
ns ou take the last look at yonr dainty
j lu st clmml'i-r, to see that all i- ir
romiui'ss f.r the expected gnest.pleasf
lie su ro Hint one important item is not
nrsHing. You glance from bed tc
Ire-sMig-tft le, and ere indignantly
sure that everything is perfect. Yel
there is on l.ick. There is not a book
in the room. Probably yonr friend
tiiay s: eo I several hours each day ir
her room, and she will need something
to read; nnJ if she chances to be apooi
sleeper she will appreciate your read
ing matter more than your purplo and
fine linen.
I visited a bouse not long ago, whert
I occupied a gem of a room. The beii
was a marvel of daintiness, the ap
pointments of the dressing-table wer
perfect, choice pictures hung on tht
walls, a Inxurious chair invited me tc
lounge, and to crown nil, a cheery little
fire burned in the grate. I retired, 1ml
alter wooing the drowsy god in vair
for an hour or two, I arose, lit the ga,
and looked for a book. But not ont
page of priot could 1 find in the room.
Back to hed I went, and tried all the
sleeping-inducing schemes 1 had evei
heard of. 1 counted myriads of white
sheep going over a wail. I named all
the pcoplo I knew whose names began
wiih a certain letter, and kept gettinp
more and more awake. How I longed
for the book I kept nnder my pillow
at home, "Diseases of tho Ear," which
is aH intelligible as S mskirt to me, and
never fails to send me off to the sleep;
country. I could have read anything
just then; a railroad guide, or even last
year's almanac, wonld have been vastly
entertaining.
I throw myself in the sleepy Hollow
chair, thinking regretfully of the well
fil ed liook-cases in the library below.
In my desperation I started to go
down, bnt remembering that themaster
of the honse was an expert marksman,
I feared lest he might shoot me for a
burglar. At last 1 remembered a rail
road novel that was crammed in a cor
ner of my bag. I fished it ont, and ah
though it was of tne "penny dreadful"
variety, I managed to road mysell
sleepy. Be mire that 1 did not lorgel
to arm myse'f with a book before retir
ing to my room the next evening.
How different was my expencnoo in
visiting tiother friend in a much
humbler uonie a little later. The guest
room was a jduin little apartment,
hardly capable of holding the neces
sary furniture, b it a little shelf hung
in the corner hel 1 a few books in cheap
bindings. Thero was a novel apiece ol
George Eliot, Dickons and Scott, two
or threi books of poetry, a volume of
F.mersou's Essays, a copy of "Kinder
dor Welt," and a collection of French
plays. There were hardly a dozen
volumes in all, and yet there was vari
ety enough to unit almost any mood.
I resolved then that I wonld give
housekeepers a hint. Any one can
spare a few books from the shelves, and
be sure that in the few minutes before
breakfast, during the afternoon rest
on the lonnge, and in the watches of a
deepness night, yonr guest will be
grateful for your thougbtfulness.
GLEANINGS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
The repeal of all laws subordinating
i wifo to her hnband whether iu pub
lic or private relations, is demanded by
the socialist party in Gormany, as well
vt the suffrage for every man and wo
man. A new nso will be put to the waters
)( the DjihI Sea. It his been fonnd
t iat they will kill mlciobes, and they
will be used in French hospitals.
Kaimzoo, in Michigan, is called
;ho "Oeh-ry City," from tho fact that
Dn the outskirts of the city an the
jreatea1 celery gardens in the world.
FoLLowiNo tho example of India and
Japan the Siamese are nbont to estab
lish a school for native g rls of high
rank nnder the management of Eng
lish ladies. Another interesting educa
tional exoeriment is that of a college
for girls in eonnecti n with the Uni
versity of Sydney.
Br a decree of tho University of
Enrich, womon are to be allowed to
practice as "PriVat-Docnten," i. c.
nniversity tutors and lecturers recog
nized by the Senate.
Several hundred women have lecn
enaged for tho royal riflu manufactory
at Spandan. They will be employer!
in rolling the paper lining of carlridge
rases. Tins work has till now boon
lone only in prisons.
A oun to fire under water has been
invented, and one for the United States
diip Destroyer is in coarse of constrno
liou at Bethlehem, I 'a. Tue ex,ri
nrental gnn is to be 35 feet long, and
nill throw a projectile 25 feet in length,
containing 40 I pounds of nitro-glycer-ine,
K0 feet through the water.
The great bridge in course of eon
d ruction over the Mississippi at Mem
phis is to Ikj completed by May 1,
when it will be opened with forma
md imposing ceremonies.
Tns most northerly railroad in the
jrorld now building runs from Lnlea,
i small town on the. gulf of Bothnia, to
Eldcgaar, within tho Arctio cirole. It
will be ready for use next summer.
WnAT is called the largest boot in
he world is the work of a Chicago
blank book firm. It weighs 2S0
pounds, and contains a ream of rope
manilla paper. It can be locked by
r cans of two nickel plated padlocks.
The flreat book cost about $tit, and
was made for a Chicago doctor, who
wished to own the biggest book on
arth.
Of the old Boston and New Haven
.nrnpike in the Southern part of New
London county, Conn., is an old mile
stone, notched and moss grown, that
waa set there by Benjamin Franklin.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Chili extends 2C0O miles on the Pa
cific cruist.
A New York society collects gar
ments for the poor
A mine near Lansford, Penn., ha
loen ou fire for the last thirty years.
A fanner at Miislou bottom, Ore
gon, dug up a turnip in his patch that
weighed Gfieeu pound.
It is estimated that the world's pro
duction of rye will befG i,0j0 tous abort
of llu amount required.
The Brotherhood of Hallway
Trainmen paid f OiK) last month for
d -at h benefits; the receipts amounted
35,8UJ.
Tnere is a very obliging judge in
ida Grove, la.,. A juror In h 8 court
whs granted a leave of absence to en
able him to get married.
The Horticultural Building at the
Worl i's Fair w,ll be a structure 1000
feet long and 2-5 feet wide. The ap
propriation for this building is f 400.
000. The Portuguese government has de
cided to dispatch several war ships to
the coast of Brazil, ostensibly to protect
the interests of lis citizens In that coun
try. The Buss'an standing army con
sists 410.113- infantrv, 86,92li cavalry,
07,1)70 artillery, 10.325 engineers and
35,180 ordinance, a total of 019,173 en
listed uieu and 200 ofiio.'rs.
The Edison El ictric Light Com
pany is to put up a one million-dollar
plant lii Chicago, which will be the
largest concern of the kind In tbe
world.
The fl,000 people engaged In watch
making in the United Stales turn out
aboul two million four hundred thous
and wa;ches, which are disposed ot by
about eighttn thousand retailers.
The first German court of justice
hat held a tession iu Helgoland.
The talender was a blank. The
clmk registered tho fact that the
court met aud adjourned and all was
over.
The University of Pennsylvania, has
begun ihe construction of two buildings
to cost 140,lM)l). Trtpy ar designed
for tue use of classes lu mechanical and
ele.trical engineering.
Wages are so low In India that
men may be hired at $2 a month
to do housework. . A dollar is a great
sum to them, and one meal a day U the
rule.
E irnpean engineers intend to store
the . aters of the N ile t j such an ex
tent as to en ible a greater extension of
the co '.ton and snjar cane crops In that
region.
The domestic potato crop Is esti
mated at from 225,000,0 H) to 230,000,-
000 biish-l-i, the largest ever gath-
1 red, The average was nearly ninety-four
bushels per acre, against fif-t-seven
and one-halt bushels la
'S00.
Valuable depasits of coal have been
dirojvered on the Niga Islands, Alaska.
It is said that the coal is virtually in
exhaustible iu extent, and that carg)
lots can be delivered iu San Fiaactsco
at f 1 per ton.
The body of Gamlietta, the Frenct
Htatesm.Mi. is iu Nice. Italy. Ills brain
is in the Museum of the Pans Anthro
pological Society. His heart has been
depi si ed b iic.ith the n onument
erected to his memory at Ville d'Avay,
where he tl .ed.
A no'.ed character In the Sac and
Fox nation in 14ebraska is George E.
Gormelo, who for twenty years has
lieen an interpreter in the employ of
the government. He speaks fourteen
Indian dialects, anil, though now 70
years old and blind, has not outlived
hie usefulness.
A woman brigand named Mlla
has b en sentenced to death by the
District Court or Tazirevac, in Servla.
ThU woman ha for ten years been the
terr.ir of Norlh -astarn Servia.
o pu t of Australia is so hot and
so unhealthy as to forbid white settle
ment, and if the stilp of low-lying
coast lauds In the north lie omitted,
there is no p irt of It yet colonized In
which Europeans or Americans cannot
work.
The G re it American Tower, as it
will be called, to be erected on th
World's fc'air grounds, Chicago, will ba
112Jfeot higli. Its base will he 240
feet squarf . The tower will be capable
of en'ertaining 4O,0J0 people at one
time.
The fox hound was so named be
cause it was origin-ally kept as an ad
dition '.o ev -ry pack of hounds. It was
plways noted for Ik ing up within a few
minutes of running to ground and aid -lug
very materially in the capture of
Beyiiard.
The barn which the Union Stock
Yard Company Is erecting for its
torsos in Chicago will be the largest
structure of Its kind in th country.
The main btrllini: will be 400 by 250
feet aud it will lie lighted byelectrlclty
j and healed by steam.
I The "Seven Goldeu Citic?," one ot
th? most popular legends of the latter
part of the "Dark Ages," were said to
i liesitua'ed on an island west of the
J African coast. The Inland Is repre
sented as a ltonnrting In gold, with
magnificent hornet and temples, "the
I i jh towers of which shown at a great
distance.'
There are sixteen species of trees
in the United States, out of the whole
number of 413 which grow within the
I'mlts of our resonrceful country, that.
when iierfeet'y seasoned, will sink In
w t ier. Black iron wo. d, which grows
j only in Florida, Is the heaviest wood.
It is more than thirty er cent, heavier
I thin water. Othct heavy woods are
t he lignum vil.u, the mangrove, and
some species of oak.
The reason why the ocean is u often
call"d treacherous must be because it is
j Tull of craft.
It took 60.000 cars to transport tbe
grates of the United States to market
In 1891.
The fall of snow this season in the
Andes is greater than has ever been
recorded.
As far as known at the'present time
there are but nlr.e words which end In
(loiis " They aje tremendous, am
ahitioilou, ha'.ar1oiis. apodous, ptero
ped us, cephaledous, gaste.opodous,
Stupendous and g.u-troiKxlous.
Avarice knows no Ood bnt fold, no
happiness bnt gain, no fear but loss of
vealtii. ana no in -ixiiuip mat nas not
a profit in it.
: Those things that; are unseemly are.
! nnsafe.
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