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THE OON8TITUTION-THE DNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLVI.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. A PHIL G, 1892.
NO. 16.
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tEFT UNDONE.
It Isn't the th ng yon do, detr,
It a th thing you've lft uodon
Wbk-b give, you a bit of btxtcb
At the .wti.ng nf th sun;
Tbe tender word forgotten.
The letter you did not write.
The flower you miwht have sent, 3ar.
Ar your lutiuuinj, hoat lo-biuhu
Th Hone yoti might bav lifted
Out of a brother a way.
The bit of heart bome coon1.
You were hurried too much to
The loving touch of the hnnd, dear,
The tfeutle and wlneooie ton
That yoa Lad no time nor thought for.
With trouble euoutfo of your own.
The little act of ktn1nera
bo enttlly out of mind ;
Whii h uiortnl luuiei uuee find
They oome in uibt and silence
Kwb chill. re( r aebful wruith
bn hup U fuiut and flaiiKiug-
And a blight haa dropped on faith.
For lif U all too short, dear.
And sorrow i all too great.
To gutter our slow cnuipasaion
That tai-rta until too late.
And it'- not the thin?, you do, dear.
It's the ihtnKn you've left undone,
Which Kivei ou a bit of heartach
At the setting ot the aun,
Hearth and Hail
THE SILVER LULLET.
In 1669 Lawrence Nutting was a
United States Marshal in the southern
district of Virginia. The State was
at. that time fairly overrun with out
laws of all classes. Bushwhackers,
highwavruen, counterfeiters and
moonshiners nestled in all the country
aide among the mountains and upon
the lonely roads:while gamblers and
desperadoes swarmed in and about
the settlements. Crime was frequent,
and the life of a United States officer
was a series of stirring adventures in
volving great dancer, and demanding
as great tact and personal bravery.
But Nutting proved himself worthy
and tit for the office. A young man
of temperate habits, quick " wit,
splendid physique and dashing cour
age, he was never at a loss how to
act, and the vermin that infested
that region soon learned to hate and
fear him Intensely.
Many were the expeditions which
the officer had led, many his escapes,
and many the prisoners safely cap
tured and walled by his efforts; but
one maD evaded him. The shrewd
est and worst moonshiner of all was
still at large; despite all his efforts,
Nutting had not yet secured Ruloff
Allen.
This man was known throughout
the State, ilis career had been that
of a criminal from bis birth. In the
fastness of Southwestern Virginia he
manufactured whisky on a grand
scale, and was the owner of a dozen
or more queer stills, and snapped hi?
fingers at the law.
Several times had Nutting sought
this quarry; twice he had actually
caught him, yet twice he had escaped,
and at the time of which we speak he
was still free.
Nutting sat at his office window
one evening musing, half dreaming,
when there fell a light touch on his
shoulder. He started up quickly. A
Stranger stood before him.
"The United States Marshal?" said
he, Intorogatively.
i "Yes, sir," said Lawrence, rising.
"Be seated. What can- I do for
!you?"
r "I would speak with you alone,"
tie said, as he glanced around. "I
keve matters of importance to com
municate." This office is out of hearing of the
street," said Nutting, "and we are
tf ourselves. You can speak freely."
- The other drew a couple of cigars
from his Docket, offered one to the
Marshal and lit the other one him
self. Nutting followed his exam
ple; then the man drew bis chair
nearer, so that he sat between the
officer and the desk whereon lay his
belt and pistols, threw open his coat
so that the butts of two heavy revol
vers might be seen, and blowing the
'smoke from his cigar said in a quiet
tone to his companion:
f "You are desirous of arresting a
noted moonshiner, one Ruloif Allen,
are you not?"
i "There is no doubt about that,"
said the Marshal, smiling.
1 "I am the man." .
Nutting's cigar never stirred in his
lips; his band did not quiver nor his
b.-eath come any the quicker. A
Ingle sign showed how deeply he was
moved; his eyelids dilated, then be
laughed soft and low.
"You you Ruloff ' Allen! Mj
Wend, I know Allen. His hair is
red; yours is black. His face bears a
scar across the chin; yours a beard.
His teeth are broken, yours are per
fect The Joke is good, but you are
not Allen."
The other hesitated a moment,
then striking a wig from his head, a
beard from his chin, and removing a
single false tooth, he turned agnin to
Hutting, red-haired and smiling.
"And now?"
"You are Allen."
For a full moment neither man
moTed. It was as though two large
tigers gazed at each other. Then the
outlaw said:
"Listen! I am armed; you are not.
1 am fully as desperate a man as the
report makos me. 1 am as strong as
you are. Do not try to arrest, me, for
I shall then be obliged to kill you. I
am here for a private talk, but it was
necessary you should know t? ho I am.
I will not molest you if you w ill do
the same by me, and give me fifteen
minutes to escape when we bavs
finished."
Nutting measured bis chanoos. Un
armed, In the presence of a man to
whom murder was not new, he deemed
prudence the better part, and replied:
"I agree."
"Good," said Allen, removing his
own pistol belt; "your word is equal
to mine. We shall be both unarmed.
And now I would tell you a story."
Then he drew his chair still nearer
the marshal, and as the twilight fell
and night descended he told of his
Hie a wierd, strange history, ever
line Intense with the throbbing
passion of a lawlessness which made
the man what he was.
The other listened breathlessly; the
darkness shrouded both, and the
cigars were finished long before tbe
story was ended.
At length, however, the visitoi
paused, and then concluded as fol
lows: 'So have I lived. As a wild man
Ml most; and that life has for the past
five years been more a mania than
ver before, but with a method. I
foa god have bee seaJtlng taQiny and
money only. 5fol so widely different
you may say, from all the world, ex
cept that my search was without the
pale of the law. And now the end
has come. I am rich. I have enough,
and now I desire to return to civiliza
tion. You can permit it you can
prevent it. I am an outlaw. Very
welll I will cease outlawry, I
will turn over my stills to the
Government, will swear a great
oath and iceep it, too for my own
Interests demand it to become a
worthy citizen, and if you will
accept the prodigal son and kill for
me the fatted calf of pardon, all will
be well. I came here to ask you to
Intercede for me. Will you do so?"
Cutting hesitated a moment This
man was a veritable Robin Hood.
Could he trust him?"
The other spoke again. 'v-' ""i "
, "Such assistance from an official is
what I need, and I can pay well for
it. If you will get a free pardon for
me I will give you five thousand "
"I cannot do it"
Allen's face paled, and his hand
crept toward his hip; then restraining
himself with a scoffing laugh, he
said:
! "Be it so. Then we are enemies. I,
to you and the liw; you to me. Re
member my fifteen minutes, and be
ware when next we meet!" i
He threw his cloak about him,
ouckled his pistols at his waist, and
disappeared, but as he left the room
a little piece of metal fell from his
person, and rolled unnoticed upon the
floor. A minute later the ring of his
horse's hoofs sounded through the
night as he rode toward the mount
ains. The morning following, as Nutting
entered his office, his aged servant
bowed low before him, extending his
brown and wrinkled hand, and said,
in an awe-stricken voice:
"Foun' dis on de floor, niassa
Spose him your'n, bad ting, massa,
bad ef ye Mow old nigger to say so?"
The Marshal leaned forward in sur
prise. Lying in the outstretched
palm of the black was a silver pistol
bullet
"Why, uncle," said he, taking it,
"that is not mine."
"Not your'n massal Tank de Lord!
Fse pleased, I is, massa. Foun it
yer, dough. Dat ar's a seweyside
bullet, massa," he continued, lower
ing his voice to a whisper, while his
eyes rolled like ships in the midst of
white and seething billows. "1 know
'em! My ole massa he had one cast,
an' carried it many years. Dcy neber
kill no one but de fellers dey's made
for. Massa John, dough, he didn't
get a chance for to use his'n," and the
'aid man chuckled.
"A suicide bullet," said Nutting,
with a smile, as he examined the
silver sphere. "That's a new idea to
me. Why make a special bullet,
uncle? I should think one of those
deadly enough."
And he pointed toward some of the
heavy cartridges belonging to his own
pistols which lay on the table near.
"Dcy mought miss, massa. You
enow de deoil cares for bis own, an'
dis bullet is made by bis help, at
night in de grabeyard, an' can't miss.
I knows 'em, massa. I'se seen 'em
afore." Then, drawing nearer, he
whispered, "I'se made 'em!"
"And did they do their work?" said
Nutting, laughing lightly.
"Dey did, massa."
The officer now opened a drawer in
his desk, and took from It an old
fashioned dueling pistol, which he
had picked up somewhere, and fitted
the bullet into its rusty muzzle.
"It's just the thing, uncle. Bring
me my flask, and I'll load it with the
suicide bullet It's best to have it
handy by if I get the blues. And he
laughed again.
The servant obeyed.
"No use to fix 'im, massa. 'Twon't
only kill de one who it's made for,
shuah, an' ye couldn't shoot yourself
wid it nohow."
"Well, uncle, 111 load the smooth
bore, any way," said the Marshal,
suiting the action to the word, and
this afternoon we'll try it at a mark.
If I miss a half dollar a dozen paces,
I'll give up that you're right If I
hit your "suicide bullet' is no better
or worse than a leaden one."
"All rieht, massa, but yon won't
hit," replied the old darky.
Just as Nutting completed the
Ciiarping of the weapon a visitor
called, and it was thrust hurriedly
into a pigeon-hole in the desk. His
visitor's business detained him from
the office until night, and the plan of
the morning was forgotten. The
dueling pistol with its silver missile
lay unnoticed for months in the desk.
I The days and weeks passed, sum
mer came and went, and fall ripened
the year. A dozen times had the
Marshal organized expeditions and
scoured the country, seeking the no
torious Allen, but each time he had
returned unsuccessful. One final ef
fort, however, was to be made. Cer
tain 4 formation which he knew to be
reliable had at last, be felt sure, put
the outlaw in his band, and he looked
to his horse's shoes and loaded his
pistols with unusual care.
At his orders mounted guards
men on whom he could depend pa
trolled all the roads. Upon the mor
row at dawn, with a posse of seven
fearless mountaineers, he was to
storm the stronghold of the moon
shiners, and to-morrow night would
2nd, a vacancy either in the Gov
ernment office or in the ranks of the
Illicit distillers. The expedition had
thus far, Nutting believed, been kept
a secret Bscause of this he looked
forward with strong hopes of success.
The officer sat it his desk writing.
He had but a few pages to complete,
a letter or two to prepare for them ail,
and some memoranda io destroy.
He might never sit at that desk
again.
As his eyes wandered over the mass
jf papers, documents and duplicate
reports filed neatly before him, he
suddenly noticed the butt end of his
old duelling pistol, half hidden in one
of the compartments, and as the
memory of how it came there flashed
over him he was about to draw it
from its biding place, when a shuffling
step at the door arrested him, and an
instant later an aged and bent wo
man entered the door and came to
ward him.
The hour was late, and Nutting re
garded the new-comer with surprise
as he rose to offer her a chair. She
accepted It with a, whtaa qf thank
and sank panting into It The Mar
shal resumed bis seat at the desk.
"You are the Gov'ment man, 1
reckon?" said the woman, after a
pause, raising a brown and wrinkled
face, half hidden beneath an immense
hood and a pair of green spectacles,
toward Nutting.
"Yes, madam," replied that worthy.
"For an old woman. I've come a
right smart piece to see ye. I'm true
grit, I am, but getting wore out
These yer mountains aire a sight
steeper than they was forty year ago,"
and she sighed. "But see here, I'm
on business, I am. I want to talk to
ye. You don't know me, now, I
reckon?"
"I cannot say that I do," said
Nutting.
"I reckon not as ye never see me
oefore. I am Mrs. Allen Bethsheby
Allen and my boy, he's Ruloff Alien.
Ye hev heard of him, niebbe?" and
she paused and gazed cunningly into
her listener's face.
"Yes, I know him," and the man's
brow darkened.
"Wall, now, I tell ye. It seems yei
on a raid after him to-morrow ye
see I know a thing or two an' ye've
got the boy badly cooped up this
time, shore. Not but what he'll
fight, and some on ye may ketch
suthin' besides moonshiners. My boy
is smart, he is, I tell ye, an he'll tote
ye round considerable afore ye gather
him in; but he's cooped all the same,
and I'm afeared ye'll get him. I'rr
his mammy, ye know."
The old bag paused and wiped hei
eye. She was a woman, even yet
and Nutting's heart softened toward
her.
"What can I do in this mattei,
Mrs. Allen?" began the marshal.
"Your son Is a "
"Never mind what he is you cai.
save him. He's trapped, catched.
cooped. But he's my boy an' I want
ye to let him go. Take his stills an'
his whisky, take everything but let
him go an' I give my word it's good
Bethsheby Allen never broke it yei
that in less than three day's we ll
be"
"My dear madam, what you ask is
Impossible. I'll try not to hurt your
son, but capture him I must and
shall."
"But if he should capture you,
what then?"
At these words the green glasses
fell, the hood was throw back, the
bent form become straight as a lance,
and before the eyes of the dazed offi
cer Ruloff Allen himself stood, a look
of dead hatred on his face, a heavy
revolver in his outstretched hand.
Silence reigned a moment as the
oung man gazed into the deadly
tube before him.
"I came here to give you the last
chance, and me the same!" hissed the
moonshiner. "The chance is lost to
both ol us. I go back to the mountains
and outlawry you retire from active
service. Can you pray? If so, do it
now. In three minutes I shall kill
you."
' Slowly Nutting's eyes ran about
the room. Escape was impossiole
help would not come. A single cry
meant instant death he was lost'
His heart sank.
' Suddenly the butt of the old duel
ling pistol came within the circle of
his vision. Cool as his would-be mur
derer, he turned to him and said:
"Wi you let me smoke once
more?"
The fellow eyed him sharply.
"Smoke? Yes, one cigar," he said
at length. And lowering ihe muzzle
of his weapon he thrust it into his
pocket to supply his victim's wants.
"I have some here," said Nutting;
md like a flash his hand shot up to
ward the old duelling pistol in the
pigeon hole.
"Down with you hand!" cried Al
len. It was too late. There came a
sharp and ringing report a single cry,
a sickening thud upon the floor, and
all was over.
And the moon, breaking in between
the rifted clouds without, looked
through the open window at the face
of the dead, while Nutting, pale and
trembling, held in his neneless hand
a smoking pistol.
The silver bullet bad found its
nark and returned to its owner. The
United States Marshal was saved.
Carton, Htmanto.
The first drops of blood shed in tho
.War of the Rebellion are declared to
be at the present time in the posses-
I : ri. 1 r T7 IT.. 1 1 T I
Aiuu ol -L. f Jidn&ca ul Luc jr cu-
SlOn Office, in Washington, and to
have been shed by Col. B. F. Kellcy,
who commanded the Federal forces
at the battle of PhillippL the first
battle of the war. One of the first
bullets fired pierced Col. Kelley'sh ng
and 6tained his vest, which was i re
served. Col. Kclley did not die, al
though the surgeon pronounced his
wound mortal, and lived to a goo?
old ago.
ill r ill catlierl Bl Almond Crop.
An almond grower of this locality
hit upon a neat device for gathering
his crop last fall. His trees bore
: largely, and this early became known
to the yellowharamers, a species ol
the woodpecker tribe of birds, and
they had regularly stored away largs
quantities of ripe nuts taken from the
orchard in the limb of an oak tree
near by. Tho astute orchardist
watched operations, and at last hit
upon a novel nut and labor saving
plan, and he lost no time in puttin'
it into execution.
The limb was sawed from the trr
and replaced by a square-shaped fun
nel long enough to nearly reach the
ground; a bucket was then set undcr
ne'ath. A genuine robbing game thcij
went merrily on. The birds gathered,
the nuts, which they dropped into tho
funnel and down into the bucket be,
low, and as regularly as night came
the almond grower would in his turn
empty it of its contents and set it
back for a new supply, This was
. kept up until the entire crop had
been gathered, . and the yellow-hammers
had departed broken-hearted at
the heartless deception practiced upon
them. Sutler (Cai ) Enterprise.
Det Lunn is the name applied to Hel
goland by the na'ivei of that i land. II
is a rmall island in tbe North 3f a,
about thirty-six miles northwest of tbe
month of he Elbe, Arty-four degTeet
eleven minntes north latitude and sev
en degree fifty-one minutes east longitude.
HOW TO WIN A HUSBAND
A NOTED WOMAN PLAINLY
POINTS THE WAY.
l.aU of Thing, of Interest to klnrrlneoabta
Mnldnna Th. Widow mt Spurgaon
M omaa's Groataat Charm Kvor thug.
Fashion Ktc
s
IMrootlons from Tho Onohou.
O win a husband
one must possess
the power to make
herself agreeable
to the opposite
sex, writes "The
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pleases ana wnai
'displeases men, and
wnat qualities in a
woman will inspire
their respect ad
miration and 'ove.
All men worth
Mf having admire
gentleness and refinement In
women. In all ages the position
occupied by woman has given
the key to civilization. The higher
that position the more the influence
of her gentleness has been felt bv the
opposite sex. The word gentleman
did not originate until women were
admitted to society on a parwith men.
A "gentle man" was one whose man
ners were sufficiently gentle to make
him a suitable companion for ladies.
Frior to this elevation of woman the
wife of a country gentleman in En
gland was seldom more than a good
housewife dispensing a rough hospi
tality to the male guests of her hus
band, who, in her presence, drank
hard, swore harder, talked freely.and
pleased her most with the broadest
possible compliment to her fair form.
There are few things that a man
worth winning would appreciate more
in a woman than intelligence. I mean
that quick, bright, natural intelli
gence which learns from everything
it sees or hears or reads. Education
may be made a powerful help in the
winning of a good husband. I do not
mean the education that is acquired
in boarding schools or "finishing es
tablishments" for young ladies. By
education I mean the cultivation and
development of the mental powers
above all those of observation and
comprehension. These may be de
veloped to the highest possible de
gree by any one who has never learned
anything in school save how to read
and write. The young woman who
has thus cultivated id developed
these two great mental powers has
made perception intuitive and gen
eralization electrical. She learns in
stantaneously from everything she
sees and hears and mentally photo
graphs everything within the range
of her vision. She learns a fact
whether she sees it hears it or reads
it and generalizes from it as quickly
and naturally as a colt runs at play,
and her conclusions are as unerring as
bloodhound's scent.
To be attractive to intelligent men
a woman should be able to readily
comprehend anything that is said.
Though she knows nothing of science
she need not stare and be silent when
a man does understand it is explain
ing to her a new discovery or theory,
for she should be able to mentally
grasp his explanation at it. Though
6he has never looked inside a law
book her power of comprehension has
been so developed that she readily
understands the statement of a re
cent case made to her by a young law
yer at an evening party and she shows
him that she does, greatly to his
gratification. The society of such a
woman is instructive and amusing
and therefore attractive to any man
of intelligence, and after having
spent an evening with her he feels no
disgust or remorse, as he would had
the time been spent in simpering
platitudes and vapid small-talk. If a
woman does not quickly catch his
ideas an intellectual man feels that
she is not a fit companion for him.
All men like to have a woman listen
when they talk to her. Close atten
tion to what they say is an implied
compliment that all men highly ap
preciate. Young girls wonder why
widows so often win a second hus
band, while their younger, prettier
unmarried female friends still re
main single. It is because the widows
are accustomed to the society of a
husbaud. and the effort to be a com
panion to his mind has caused them
to form the habit of close attention,
and ready reply.
Modesty is another quality that all
good men admire in women, and tbe
exercise of which, together with that
of other admirable qualities, will con
tribute to the winning of a husband.
Even shyness is infinitely preferable in
a young woman to forwardness. The
young woman entering society with
a view to winning a husband 6hould
be careful to avoid all approach to
flippancy, coarseness and familiarity.
Avoid pretension and display. They
are immodest and vulgar, whether in
dress or anything else. I once dined
at the house of a well-known iron- I
master of great wealth. Though
there were only two or three guests,
yet the dinner was served on gold
plate. Such display is vulgar. Just
60 with woman's dress. The girl who
wears on the street a showy dress, ap
propriate only to a fete; who appears
at a small social gathering with a
profusion of rich and costly jewelry;
who startles a quiet, country village
with the fashionable attire of Rotten
row; who, in short, is overdressed for
any occasion, is immodest and vulgar.
fco likewise is she who, being a scholar,
overwhelms you with Schleiermachcr,
fir quotes to you Homer in the orig
inal Greek: or, having a lively wit
pours forth a continuous stream of
her own funny sayings and laughs at
them herself; or who. being a good
singer, sits at the piano for an entire
evening;-or who, in short being par
ticularly clever in anything, makes
herself prominent, condescends, talks
oud or asserts her privileges.
Be careful to avoid all these mis
takes, dear girls, if you would win a
good husband.
Woman' tiroatoat Charm.
Sweet looks, sweet speech, sweet
6miles, sweet voice, lovely eyes, a
comely bead, a graceful figure; all
Ithese are gifts and graces to be
ardently desired. Yet there l one
T
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ff-'M rv yyi m i
'gift which surpasses all the rest'
Now, unless you have discovered this
already for yourself, dear reader, go
to the Royal Academy. You may
gaze on four portraits of three women;
one is of Lady Hamilton, one of Mrs.
Jordan, one of Sophie Arnould. The
lovely Emma is a type of rustic
beauty at its best not refined likely
to become coarse. Mrs. Jordan shows
behind a charming face intellect, wit
cleverness, and a gentle heart Sophie
Arnould shows gieater wit, greater
cleverness, and a heart perhaps not
so gentle but in a point of so much
delicacy one may be mistaken. On
each of these faces there is, in addi
tion unmistakable the same qual
ity, rare and wonderful. It is the
quality for which we have no other
word than witchery. These were all
three witches, but instead of being
burned at the stake they set fire to
every masculine heart that ai
proached them. Oh, the noble pro
cession of fair womenl Delilah, Bath
sheba and her contemporary, Helen
of Troy did they hear of each other?
Aspasia, Cleopatra, Diane de Poic
tiers, Mary Queen of Scots, Nell
Gwynno they were all witches and
they all possessed this wonderful, in
describable look which proclaims their
witchery. Many there are who have
it in greater or less degree. Provi
dentially very few know their own
power, and are content to be
witch one man alone out of all the
vorld. Walter Besant
Tho Widow of Spurcoon.
Apart from her intense piety and
great energy, Mrs. Spurgeon is a wo
man of some accomplishments. She
has something of the poet's faculty,
and although very rarely reading any
work of fiction, has told her friends
innumerable little anecdotes indicat
ing the brightness of her imagination.
She will relate, for instance, how
walking one day with her husband in
their grounds at Norwood she come
across a skylark's nest in the thick
grass, much to their delight. Next
day she went to the field to again
look at the bird and its tiny eggs.
What was her distress to find that
the cows had been let loose into the
field. "Surely," she thought, "the
little nest will be trampled upon and
destroy the young." Approaching
the spot with trepidation, Mrs. Spur
geon was overjoyed to find that the
nest was unhurt; the cows bad eaten
the grass all around, but as if with
some divine instinct had left this
spot untouched. Upon such an inci
dent Mrs. Spurgeon would base a ser
mon as powerful in its way as those
of her husband's. Then in her re
port of the "Book Fund," in miscel
laneous contributions to the Sword
and Trowel, Mrs. Spurgeon has
shown some literary gift, scarcely
less marked than the homely taste,
the modest art with which she has
made the inside of West wood as beau
tiful as its outside, and its surround
ings as beautiful as to all her hus
band's adherents, appears the charac
ter of its mistress. Ladies' Homo
Journal.
A Tollst Mtik.
To make a toilet mask, buy one of
ihe cheap white cotton masks kept at
toy shops. It will be stiff and keep
in shape well. Lay inside of it a
layer of wadding, or two if you wish.
Try to make the wadding conform to
all the hollows of the mask and baste
it securely down. Over all put a cov
ering of thin old linen, tack it here
and there all over, keeping it in mask
shape; cut an opening for eyes, mouth
and nose and hi rid around all the
edges with white tape. On going to
bed wet the mask thoroughly in cold
water, and lay it on the face. It may
not be the most comfortable thing
in the world to wear and it takes six
weeks to show results, but it will act
like a mild though inperceptible blis
ter and leave you with a new skin. A
toilet mask such as you can find ad
vertised in many of the papers would
cost you $5.
Godly but Inconsistent.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton tells an
amusing story of how, when she was
a young girl, the women of her church
raised money to educate a young
man for the ministry. When he bad
finished at the theological school the
young divine returned to his native
town and preached his first sermon on
the text: "Let your women keep si
lence in the churches."
Tho Cronnd for Bar Opinion.
""Mr, Gasket is the most brill
iant conversationalist I ever met,"
exclaimed Miss Fly pp.
"I don't see how you know," re
plied Miss Elder, "for when you mo
nopolized him all last evening I don't
believe he said a word, but just
nodded his head from time to time."
"Well?" asked the young girl with
a surprised look. Judge.
"There!" said the toyman to Bil
lie's father. "That drum's the finest
in the market It can't be beat"
"I'll take it. A drum that can't be
beat is Just the thing for my boy."
Papor a Handrod Tears Honor.
Experts are predicting that the
books of to-day will fall to pieces be
fore the middle or the century. The
paper in the oooks that have survived
two or three centuries was made by
hand, of honest rags, and without the
use of strong chemicals, while the ink
was made of nut galls. To-day much
of the paper for books is made, at
least in part of wood pulp, treated
with powerful acids, while the ink is
a compound of various substances na
turally at war with the flimsy paper
upon which it is laid. Tbe printing
of two centuries ago has improved
with age; that of to-day, it is feared,
will, within fifty years, have eaten its
way through the pages upon which i
is impressed. The Paper World.
Eighteen centuries after Christ
there were 174,000,000 Christians.
Now there are 450,000,000 Chris
tians. The followers of the'three religions,
Confucianism, buddhism, and toaism,
all combined, are less In numbers
than the Christians alone.
Including the latest division ot
Africa among the European powers,
about four-fifths of the land of the
world is under Christian control.-.
United States Armj Chaplain.
MAKING A THERMOMETER.
It Is nam Quickly but with Groat AO
carncy bj accomplished Workers.
The making of a thermometer may
be either a delicate scientific opera
tion or one of the simplest tasks of
the skilled mechanic, according to the
sort of thermometer made, says the
.f.v York Sun. With the extremely
sensitive and minutely accurate in
struments des'gned for scientific uses
great care is taken, and they are kept
in stock for mouths, sometimes for
years, to he comiiared and recompared
with instruments that are known to
be t rustworthy. But so much time
cannot be spent over the compara
tive) r cheap thermometers in com
mon use. and these are made rapidly,
though always carefully. The method
of manufacture has been so system
atized within a few years that the
very cheapest thermometer should
not vary more than a fraction of a de
gree from the correct point
Whether the thermometer is to be
charged with mercury or alcohol)
whether it is to be mounted in a
frame of wood, pressed tin or brass,
the process is substantially the same..
Mercury is generally used for scientific
instruments but most makers prefer
alcohol because it is cheaper. The
alcohol is colored red with an aniline
dye which does not fade.
The thermometer-maker buys his
glass tubes in long strips from the
glass factories The glass-blower on
the premises cuts these tubes to the
proper lengths and with his gas-jet
and blow-pipe makes the bulb on the
lower end. The bulbs are then filled
with colored alcohol and the tubes
stand for twenty-four hours.
On the following day another work
man holds each bulb in turn over a
gas-jet until the colored fluid by its
expansion entirely fills the tube. It
then goes back into the hands of the
glass-blower. He closes the upper
end and tarns the tip backward to
make the little glass hook which will
help keep the tube in place in the
frame.
The tubes now rest until some hun
dreds of them, perhaps thousands, are
ready. Then the process of gauging
begins. There are no marks what
ever on the tube, and the first guide
mark to be made is the freezing point,
32 degrees Fahrenheit. This is found
by plunging the bulbs into melting
snow. No other thermometer is
needed for a guide, fr melting snow
gives invariably the exact freezing
point. This is an unfailing test for
any thermometer whose accuracy may
be suspected. But melting snow is
not always to be had, and a little ma
chine resembling a sausage-grinder is
brouirht into use. This machine
shaves a block of ice into particles,
which answer the purpose as well as
snow.
When the bulbs have been long
enough in the melting snow a work
man takes them one by oue from their
icy bath, seizing each one so that his
thumb nail marks the exact sot to
which the fluid has fallen. Here he
makes a scarcely perceptible mark
upon the glass with a fine file and
goes on to the next.
The tubes, with the freezing point
marked on each, now go into the
nands of another workman, who,
plunges them, bulb down, into a ves
sel filled with water kept constantly
at 64 degrees. A standard ther
mometer attached to the inside of
this vessel shows that the temper
ature of the water is correct An
other tiny file scratch is put at 64.
Then a third workman plunges the.
bulbs into another vessel of water
kept constantly at 96 degrees. This
is marked like the others and the
tube is now supplied with these guide
marks, each 32 degrees from the next.
A small table is then attached to
each tube, on which its number is
written for, owing to unavoidable
variations in the bore of the tube,
each oue varir.s slightly from the
others.
With its individuality thus estab
lished the tube noes into the hands
of a maker, who fits its bulb and hook
into the frame it is to occupy and
makes slight scratches on the frame
corresponding to the 32, 64 and 96
degree marks on the tube. The
frame has a number corresponding
with the number of the tube and the
tube is iaid away in a rack amid thou
sands. The frame, whether it be wood, tin
or brass, goes lo the gauging-room,
w here it is laid upon a steeply sloping
table, exactly in the position marked
for a thermometer of that size. The
32, 64 and 96 degree marks must cor
respond with the marks upon the
table. If they do not the error in
marking is detected and the frame is
sent back for correction.
A long, straight bar of wood or
metal extends diagonally across the
table from the lower right-hand cor
ner to the upper left-haud corner.
On the right this works upon a pivot,"
and on the left it rests in a ratchet,
which lets it ascend or descend only
one notch at a time. That notch
marks the exact distance of two de
grees. With the three scratches al
ready made for a basis the marker
could hardly make a mistake in the
degrees if he tried.
The marks made upon the frame or
case are all made by hand with a
geometric pen and India ink if the
frame is of wood and with steel dies
if it is of metal. The tube bearing
the corresponding number is uext at
tached to the frame, and the ther
mometer is ready for the market
without further testing. Some
makers use only two guide marks,
but the best makers use three.
In the process of manufacture the
ordinary thermometer goes through
the hands of nineteen workmen, half
of whom are often girls and women.
Some of the larger concerns in and
near New York produce several hun
dred thousand Instruments annually,
aud on every one of them the pur
chaser may see, if he looks closely,
the tiny scratch on the glass at 32,
64 and 96 degree marks, or some
where near them, as diffeient makers
use different points.
Greenl in I has no cats.
Chess matches by telephone are very
popular in England.
Artificial ice ponds are now betug In
troluced into England.
There are now forty women doctors
jrac Ic ng in India.
Jsa Inaooant Abrond.
A countryman from New Jersey
ailssed bis pocket-book.
"Why don't you apply to the po
lice," suggested a city friend, to whom
be complained.
"Do you think they stole it!" was
the innocent response.
"I dare say. You had better ask
the first one you meet"
"I'll do it."
N. B. There is a man from New
Jersey in Bellvue hospital. Texas
"tilftiugs.
Preferred Death to Discomfort.
' Doctoi di Ploma Great goodness,
Oe Long! Are you still in the city?
Didn't 1 tell you a month ago you
would have to go South or die? You
look worse than ever.
De Long Yes, I know; I paid you
for that advice, and tried it. Now,
what would you charge to let me die
-in New York? Puck.
Be W anted "Me."
?erbaos the most extraordinary
case of absence of mind ever related
is one recorded of an intoxicated man
who applied late at night at the Paris
morgue where the bodies of the un
known dead are placed.
"What do you want?" asked the
see per.
"I'm looking for me," said the in
toxicated man.
"What do you mean?"
"Why, you see, 1 haven't been home
or five nights and 1 didn't Know what
had become o' myself and I didn't
know but I might find myself here."
Youth's Companion.
Fverychlne; Warranted.
Bulflnch Have vou any indelible
ink?
Clerk Oh, yes.
Bulfinch Warranted absolutely in
ielible?
Clerk I can guarantee it abso
lutely. Anything more to-day?
Bulflnch No.
Clerk Wouldn't vou like an eraser?
Here's a very fine ink-eraser that I
can guarantee will erase indelible ink
in a second. Boston Courier.
An AdTantaffe.
Employer You are having a de
cided flirtation with the girl who has
charge of our telephone wire!
Truthful Clerk (with cold chills
running un and down his spine, and
w ith visions of instant discharge)
Y-e-e-s, sir; but please, sir
Employer Well, keep it up. She
will give more attention to our call?
it you do. Puck.
la Hangs cut Crooked.
Cholly Whv so nervous, old boy?
Willy The beastly barber has cut
ly bancs crooked. Truth.
A Mistake.
Cigarette Victim (who objects to
pipe-smoking, to Man in the Rear
Seat) Aw beastly horrible, is n't it?
Man in the Rear Seat Yes; it isl
Why don't you throw it away and
smoke cigars? Puck.
A lreaitlul Mistake.
"Here is a letter from xxir Carrie.
She and her husband both want a di
'orce and neither can get it"
"What's the matter?"
"He, unknown to her, was about
to elope with the governess, just as
she, unknown to him, was about to
elope with his secretary; they met in
the dark and eloped with each other."
Life.
A Dilemma and the W ay Out.
Footman Mr. F , tlw banker,
and his lady have the honor to invite
your lordship to dinner on the 12th
inst
Baron Hang it! I have two invi
tations for tbe 12th. I have not yet
decided, though. Do you happen to
have brought the menu with you?
Dr. Eisenbart
She Attended to That.
Brown Say, Jones, when you come
in late at night don't you always
wake your wife?
Jones (promptly) Never.
Brown (surprised) Jeehosaphat!
How do you manage it?
Jones (with a sigh) I don't havo
o." Detroit Free Press.
Kopt It to tllraieX
"What makes you think that Still
water Is such a clever fell ,w? I never
heard him say anything more than
'yes' or 'no.'"
"That's what convinces me be is
ilever." Boston Post
Lazy.
"What is your idea of happiness?"
"Nothing to do and lots of time to
io it in." Judge.
A Waste of Time 'and Honey.
Miss Hardware (about to go abroad)
But papa, can't you permit us to
extend our trip to Italy?
Old Mr. Hardware HumphI can't
you see enough organ-grinders right
here in New York? Judge.
Did it ever occur to you that a
twan's up-side is never down?
At Toruja, i-iuUud, Cuiiiluias Day
n less than three hours in length.
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SEWS IN BRIEF.
Envelopes wera flist used in 183SV
Fish, it is said, are fond of muaio.
Au-estUesi was discovered la
1S44
Tbe Franciscans arrived In En
gland in 1221
Shad ar usml as money in manyot
the North S-ja lslauds.
There ars altogether 6T0 member!
of tbe British llouie of Commons.
A Philadelphia Cenna crank
wears bis hair in a long p'ait down his
back.
In California hos tht weigh 80(1
to 860 pounds are boujiug commoa
nowadays.
Prussia's ii.rome from the culti
vated public domain is about $4,000
00 J annually.
An estimate of the annual value ol
wax an I hooey in the United Stales II
tbe amount ot f 10,0X0,000.
A Macedonian goll coin dating
from about 2T0 D. O. was found at
Bergerae, in France, receutly.
Vandalism at Shakespeare's house
In Strat'ord, England, has recently
been a specialty with visitors.
Among other expensive improve
ments going up In Chiracs, III., La a
hbrarybuilding to cost $1,750,000,
A tenor at the opra in Geneva,
Switzerland, who was hissed, promptly
w nt home, tbas stopping the perfor
mance. Tiger bones are mmn of the qneei
tilings in the commerce of China.
Tbey ere used as a medicine, being
accounted a Rind of tonic.
The blossom of the plant from
which coffee Is obtained is white. It
Brows to the height of ten feet, and
the fruit is of a br'glit red color.
. Dr. Henry C. Bulloci, who lives
almost within eiijlit of Hartford,
Conn., trapped twenty foxes, six
minks, and several cojub during tbe
mouth of December.
There is to be a new Prussian
throne. FreJeiick I. bad one, but
Napoleon took it off and melted It, and
there are only now two small chairs of
small value.
A wi d goose recently flew against
a big electric light post in Alameda,
CaL, with such force as not only to
break the piais but to bend the bras
rods that supported it
Steel ca'kets for the bodies of those
who die suddenly on shipboard are
being carried on many of the trans-'
atlai.tic linern. The remains are placed
in them and hermetically sealed.
Eight veterans of Waterloo still
survive in Fiance, and tbera are a
dozen other old soldiers, mostly cen
tenarians, alive, who fought under the
great Napoleon.
Boston, M ss.. Is considering three
pi ins for ! .New O.ty Hall. One would
cost 51,0-0,' 00, another 52.400,000,
while the present structure could be
en!arged for SI, 40 ,00o.
There are 7000 native students In
colleges aud 4(5,0' 0 pupils in schools
of various gntios iu foreign lands.
These schools are all under the care of
missionaries and teachers of the
American lioard.
The first tvlegraphio Instrument
wa3 successfully operated by S. F. B.
Morse, Vie inventor, in 1S35, though
the utility was not demonstrated to the
world until 1S12.
Almost any place iu the Sahara,
desert one can l"n I glass Hicks or tubes
from one to three feet in length, causad
by lightning striking the pure sand and
lnsUutly converting it into that fragile
substance.
The I.a Data was discovered by
Juan Diazdesolis in lOlii, who took
possession of the country for the crown
cl Spain. Buenos Ayres was founded
by Don Pedro le M-iudoza, whobecama
governor in 1.135.
It is re"orded that in the time of
King William II. '.litre occurred in En
gland a womhrru! shower of stars,
which "seemed to fall like rain from
heaven. An eye-witness seeing where
an aerolite fell, cist water upon it,
which was raised In steam with a
great noise of boiling."
One of the earliest accounts of star-
showers Is that which relates bow, In
472, the sky at Constantinople, Turkey,
appeared to be alive with flying star
and meteors. In some Eastern annul!
we are told that Iu October, 1202. "the
. stars appeared like waves upan the sky.
j They tlew about lik grasshoppers, ard
were dispersed from left to right."
1 The three tallest trees In the world
so far as known, are siH to be a se
quoia near Stockton, Cal., 325 feet in
height, and iw i eucalyptuses in Vla
toria, AiHtral'a. estimated to be 435
and 4"0 feet high respectively.
Misfortunes did not come singly to
William Mo Jenry, a travelling sales
man of Lima, Ohio. When he arrive I
In Clevel md recently four tele
grams were handed him In close eu
cjssion, each announcing the death of a
brother. The four children died with
U an hour from diphtheria.
I There is a carving knife and fork
In New Yoik which is ttie largest ret
in the world. Tho inire is 10 1-2 feet
long and the fork is 7 1-2 feet. The
handles are m ide out of elephant's
tusks and are worth V 0. Together
ti e Implemen's are value! at $1500
and v.eigri 3.0 pounds.
The ?t. Lawrence river is tbe onl)
absolutely Moodiest river In the world.
' Its greatest variation, caused by
drought or rxii, never exceeds a root
t The i'lam s of Lake Nioar gu .
Cential Aiueri-, are rich in idol ana
p ittery, esi.e- i-illy the southwest sidei
I of the Mopes of tn.it mit plctueresque
of volcanoes, Oucttpe. This Island
was evidently the cemetery for all the
regioti around, w'm woi sli ped the nam
ing cone as t'te fol of tire.
A "iit.z' d izz'e" was oue of the
nuisancer .'p. o. tied iu the complaint
aeainst a place of nmusement in the
old Cross Bones Burial Yard, near
London, England. The "razzle daz
zle'' was a contrivance intended to
make people experience the motion of
the waves at sea, and the screams of the
razzle dazzlers were heard for blocks:
A local reporter on the Chico (Cal.)
Chronicle-Record cot into trouble by
making a wrong heading over a mar
riage notice. The groom's name was
Avery and tbe bride was a Miss Small.
The beading was set up "A Very Small
Wedding." The groom, who is a mus
cular young rancher, is now looking for
the reporter, who is absent form home
on a vacation.
For forry .days after an Egyptian
Khedne s death food Is served with cof
fee and cigarettes to all who visit tha
tomb. . ....... '
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