B. F. NOHWEIEK,
TIIK OONSTITUTION-T1IK UNION-ANI) THE ENFOIKJKMKNT OF Til R LAWS.
Kilor nnd iroprtotor.
VOL. XL VI.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNK -9. 1S92.
NO. 23.
to tiie we-athei jrareau of the
Cnited States: "Come now. dry up!
Jokn L. Slllivan's book
iroper y be called a scrap book.
may
The name of a Milwaukee saloon
keeper is Christian Dick. lie ought
change either his name or his oc
upation. The feverish condition into whi h
?ari9 has been cast by the anarchist
doubles may be imagined from the
report that the tashionable eociety
women of that city are nvw dyeing
heir hair red.
.Nothing will please the America
people better than to have "the anti
trust law" reach down and take every
trust" by the nape of the neck and
ihake its head until every tooth drors
ut. The devil has devised many
methods of getting rich. "The trust"
his latest.
It is doubtful whether anybody
outaParkhurst detective would have
:ouceived the idea of taking the lady
af his choice up into the head ol
Bartholdi"s statue, there to wed her.
More quiet persons, afraid of the
notoriety which is in these days so
sasily obtained and so hard to get rid j
of, would have preferred the more
rthoJox seclusion of a church. But
there is no accounting for tastes, as
the old woman said when she kissed
S;r cow.
When one reads of the terriblj
severe and successive droughts that
have occurred in some parts of Rus
iU; the diseases induced by the un
natural and insufficient food con
sumed by starving millions; and ol
the countless hoides of field rats which
overran and devoured everything
eatable, and then contemplates the
fearful outrages practiced by the Cz: r
and his satellites upon the Jews, the
whole is strongly suggestive of the
plagues which befell Egypt in the
time of Pharaoh in retaliation for h:s
Persecution of the children of Israel.
The late Mr. William Astor, in ana
ay his last will, made charitable be
quests amounting to about $200, Ouo,
and yet some people complain that
this sum is insignificant. We think
Mr. Astor must be deemed the better
Judge. The objects of his bounty
appear to have been judiciously cho
sen. Among them are the Home for
Kespectable Aged and Indigent Fe
males in the city of New York,
$15,000; to the Astor Library, $00,
000; and to the Women's Hospital,
110,000. It is pretty safe to a-sume
that about half the reported value ol
his estate is nearer its real value than
the amount reported, and it is quite
certain that he took nothing away
with him.
Dr. Rainsford thinks ''the work
man has as much yes, more right
to the saloon than the clubman has
to his club." The preacher starts on
untenable ground. It may be true
the clubman has less need for the
club, in one sense, than the workman
has for the saloon, because the for
mer has an elegant home. But the
preacher is too well informed t: be
lieve that, therefore, there is an ex
cess of right in either case. Both
stand upon an exact equality. The
workman has as undoubted a right to
go to his saloon as the clubman has
to enter either his home or his club,
and no argument based upon a con
trary assumption is worthy a reply.
If Mr. Rainsford would apply the
light he has to the subject he would
discover a better work for the church
than the establishment of saloons to
squalize the "rights" of the classes.
Curiosity to see the Queen, who U
not now often to be seen in public,
might excuse some American women
for the idiotic self-abasement involved
in accepting the cheap and vulgar
privilege of b?ing presented at a
"drawing-room" so-called in Bucking
ham palace. The scene in London
recently when a number of supposed
democrats of the female sex belong
ing to this republic made themselves
objects of curiosity to curbstone
cockneys was not one calculated to
Inspire respect for American institu
tions. It was known in advance that
the Queen would not be present. Her
place was taken by the Princess
Christian, the least "aristocratic" of
the royal set. Notwithstanding this,
Americans in London resorted as
usual to potty intriguing that at
taches to the favor of the chamber
lain and some of them, in hypocritical
black for the mourning of the court,
others in colore, took their places in
the waiting herd and were permitted,
after hours of delay that they would
bo very reluctpnt to spend in a better
cause, to approach for an instant the
person of the princeling. Such per
formances, if they have any value
whatever to those who engage in
them, may well make the people ol
the United States wonder whether
American women of this generation
arc worthy descendants of those
earlier women who sustained hus
bands, fathers, sons, and brothers in
t tremendous eilort to cast oil ths
trumpery of a social system to whose
Iregs these democratic toadies aro so
nxious to pay homage.
Asia signifies '-in the middle," from
(he fact that ancient grogrnpbers place
it between Euroiieand Africa.
The censure of our fellow men, which
we are so prone t esteem a proof ol
ur superior wisdom, Is too often ot.Iy
Ihe evidence of the conceit that would
oaagniry self, and of tbe malignity oi
envy that would del&ict from others.
The trlec man has his follies no less
than the fool; but herein lies the difler
t'e: The follies of tb fo 1 are known
to tbe woild, but are hidden from him
lelf; the follies of the wise are known
to himself, but are hidden from the
irorld.
60NNET ON JUNE
BT MABT OOtGU.
MO'""ri(t,:h ,UDny kle ana wx"d
rf roset Blowing with a thousand hues
N Leu earth uuce uioi her Summer Joy re-
I WhenHKht slnc'"K' nJ when hearts are
il ht.? i" 8,m ""get, and the night
. is but a Mar-iteiuu.eu vel . dawn giiis to lose.
' KdewS'lu r"-"n. v.etwlth u oonlil
Wooli. j the thouetit to yon empyreal height
dure rld uere,lle Juue aays en
"stea'i" i,ld, neTer come, nor autumn
tSreen from I h ! If at or crimson from the rose.
J.H1 niontli of roses! promise sweet and sure
'f that which waits us thy rich bloom reveals
. uEAioii muikii jei oisciose.
TUE TWO MA HAULERS.
IB-iPTED BT ISABEL SMITH30N FBOJI THB
FRENCH OF EDiTO.ND THEBT.
A revolt being expected in the neigh
borhood of Tiaret, the Governor Gen
eral of Algeria, Bent a company of
font-soldiers and artillerymen to the
town. The little troop arrived at
U-Bou-Zizi at noon and pitched their
ton's, intending to stay there forty
sight hours. The horses were un
harnessed, and an Arab farmer was
railed npon to furnish fodder. The men
went to the barn, and while rolling ont
the trasses of hay, they glanced into
the vegetable garden where the water
melons lay, large and ripe. One of
the men, a tall fellow with black hair
and a long moustache, looked so often
and so longily at the tempting fruit
that the officer in command remarked
t, and said:
"Artilleryman Corniflard, if you will
attend to your work instead of eying
those melons, you. will not get the
lolic"
The Marseillais bowed his bead and
seemed to be absorbed in tying np the
hay, but his brain was in reality busy
with plariB for capturing one of those
delicious melons.
When tbe horses were munching
their fodder, the Commandant gave the
order to the bugler, and at sound of
the welcome call the soldiers rushed to
mess. It was served in the open air,
and the scene was a curions one. One
man complained of the small size of
bis portion; another, not finding
econgh vegetables in his bowl, tried
to dibtract the attention of his neigh
bor in order to purloin some from
him; one grumbled that tbe sonp was
too ealt; the next man called the cook
a thief, and so on, all the remarks be
ing seusoned with those forcible ep
ithets so often heard from the lips of a
French trooper, especially in the army
Of A f rica.
Two artillerymen, bedfellows and
chums, sat leaning againt the same troe
eating their dinner in silence. One
had the black hair, bright eyes and
bronze-hned skin of tbe Children of
the Desert; the other was Corniflard,
the lover of watermelons. When they
had iirisheJ their meal, and the smoke
from their pipes was rising in white
curls, the Frenchman broke the si
'ence, saying:
Do you like watermelon, Sidi?"
"Xo," replied the Arab dryly, and
the other, knowing his comrade's
weakness changed his mode of attack
by Baying:
"What do yon think of the brandy
they give us?"
There was no reply in words, but a
smacking of the lips from the laoonio
Arab told Corniflard that his shot had
taken effect, and after a pause he said
slowly:
"Don't yon think, my friend, that a
quart of that, is worth more than a
slice of watermelon?"
"You need my help," said the acnte
native.
"What would you give to have my
ration of brandy every morning?"
asked the Marseilles, aid his com
rade's eyes glistened with eagerness.
"lou will ask too much," he said.
"No indeed," returned the other,
"if tou want to drink my brandy
every day until we reach Tiaret, you
have only to go with Be to-night to the
watermelon held whicu we saw this
mornirg."
There was a panse, but Sidi alasl
had often during his last five years
service in the French army forgotten
the verses in tbe Koran forbidding
drunkenness.
That will be fonr good rations
earned in half an hour," urged the wily
Marseill lis, and then Sidi's passion for
Btiong drink o.irried the day against
tbe fear of punishment, as well as the
Frophet's prohibition, and he nodded
his head in token of assent.
The French camp was plunged in
darkness, and dead silence reigned
where a few hours before there had
been so much animation. Nothing was
moving exc pt tbe sentinels wha
marched with their gnns ready, their
eyes fixed on the blackness round
them, their ears on the alert.
Two dark figures came out of a tent
and glided toward the sentry's cordon.
Hidden by the tall bnshes which sur
rounded the camp, they waited until
the sentinel's back was turned and
then darted away, hurrying, silently
through the darkness, and feeling no
fear at the sound of the wild beasts
which roamed in the woods. At last
they reached the farm. It was sur
rounded by a wall and the gates were
locked, but in two bounds the Maraud
ers were on top, and after assuring
themselves that nither the owner nor
his dog was on the watch, they drop
ped into the garden, and with wolf
like tread turned towards the water
melons. Corniflard, who was a good judge,
tapped on the rind of several melons
to test their ripeness, and was about to
cut off a tine large one, when his com
rade suddenly raised his head and
whispered,
"Listen!"
The cry of an owl was heard at a
short distance.
"That is nothing," Raid the French
man carelessly, bat at the same instant
the monrnful sonu.l was echoed from
within the farm.
"The Jakoubias are coming," mur
mured Sidi, and even as he spoke the
call was repeated close by, anJ the two
intruders had barely time to bide
themselves in a hay-rick, when the
gate was thrown open. Six tall Arabs
of a mountain-tri'we entered, each one
clad in a long white burnous, and with
'hem was the proprietor of the farm.
They sat down on the gronnd in a
O'rclo at only a few paces from the
hay-rick, crossed their bands on their
breasts, and then, having invoked
Allah and Mahomet, , began a discus
sion to which Sidi, who understood
their language, listened anxiously. The
farmer had sent information of the ar
rival of a French colnmn at O-Bow-Zizi
to the chiefs of the Jakoubias.
Aiyinsurrection was already planned,
bat in spite of the assurances of suc
cess which they held out to their co
religionists, these chiefs remembered
the terrible result of ths Abd-el-Kadai
excitement, and hesitated to nnfurl th
standard of the Prophet until somi
actual victory was gained. They knew
that a hundred European heads car
ried in triumph from tribe to tribe,
would suffice to seoure a general up
rising, and these heads now seemed tc
be within their grasp. The FrencL
troops, it was agreed, should be taken
by surprise the next night.
"Remember," s 1 tbe Musssnlniar,
chiefs to the farmer, "if you play any
trick on us, we will visit it on your owe
head, lou know the fate of traitors.'
The Arab swore by Mahomet's mnle
that he had spoken tbe truth and acted il
all sincerity, and then the white burn
ous again invoked Allah and returnee
to their mountains. At the same mo
ment a distant bugle-call annonnced
that tbe French troops were awaking
from their slumber. The council had
lasted three hours, and the trembling
fugitivesjrealized that they were between
two fires'. When the farmer had en
tered bis house Sidi peered out from the
hay and whispered, "Xo cne!" witt
his usual brevity, and then the twe
olimbed over the wall agaiu. As soon
as he felt himself safe, the Arab knelt
in the dust and gave thanks to Heaven,
bnt Corniflard only muttered:
"I might have brought away I
melon!"
When the Marauders re-entered the
camp, the reveille had sounded half an
hour before, and the Marshal of the
corps bad reported them missing, and
informed the captain of Cornitiard's
behavior the day before. When there
fore the culprits appeared, much crest
fallen, before the chief of the batallion
the latter asked in a stern voice:
"Where have yon been?"
Sidi made no answer, but the Mar
seillias replied persuasively:
"It was so hot in our tent. Com
mandant, that we could not stand it,
and we had to go out to get a breath
of air."
"And a taste of watermelon, you vil
lain," added the officer.
"It was not our fault that we goi
back a little late," said Cornittard, but
the officer said in a tone of severity:
"It was not fault my that yon left ths
camp. Adjutf Dt, have the goodness to
place these rascals under arrest, and
when we reach Tiaret, I shall pro
nounce their sentence." Before they
were led away the Frenchman begged
a few moments private interview with
the officer and related what had taken
place in the night. The chief ques
tioned Sidi, bnt ordered the two men
to say nothing about their adventure
to any one.
"Adjutant, if these fellows attempt
to repeat their cock and bull stories
they must be gagged," he said, "I will
not have the troops alarmed needless-
iy."
So, in spite of their protestations our
two friends were put under arrest, and
as Corniflard persisted in proclaiming
the conspiracy of the Jakoubias he was
securely gagged according to the
chiefs order?. Their feelings can be
imagined. Folly aware of tbe danger
threatening the French column, yet
apparently unable to eonvinceany one .
of the truthfulness of their report, they '
remained all day in au agony of sus
pense. It was as if they were prostrate
on a railway track: nnaole to move and
listening to tbe increasing roar of the
train approaching to annihilate thorn.
Never before had Cor oi Hard wished
himself at home in Marseilles. j
Night came on, and at the nsnal hour
the bugle-cull announce 1 the ex-i
tingnishiDg of the camp-fires. Four
hours, which seemed like as many cen
turies, passed, and towards two o'clock
in the morning, a peremptory qui
vivet followed by a gun-shot was heard
from tbe farthest outpost The sen- '
tinels fell back. Then a white line was !
seen advancing from behind the thick !
brushwood. Suddenly, a clear, ringing
voice cried "Jr'Vre"and instantaneously
1200 rifle-shots carried confusion and
death to the Mussulman troops. The
next instant a pile of straw prepared
for the occasion in the centre of the
camp, was set alight, and the flames
darting upward cast a flood of radi
ance npon the scene, and Bhowed two
or three hundred Arabs struggling in
the agonies of death. Astonished, bnt
cot dismayed, by tbe greeting extended
to them, the enemy threw themselves,
uttering savage cries, into the French
camp, but a wall of bayonets bristled
before them and stopped their pro
gress. If the Jakoubias had opened the ball,
the French had furnished the music!
Two wild figures, illumined by the
firelight appeared, suddenly rushing
ont of the French camp, two demons
with uplifted sabres. For an instant
Lthey were lost sight of, then
they reappeared, throwing tnera
selves upon tbe enemy, waving their
arms aloft like the sails of a windmill,
and with their terrible sabres piercing
breasts and cleaving skulls. But grad
ually the oircle of Arabs closed around
them; exhausted, surrounded, and
almost overwhelmed by superior num
bers, Sidi and Corniflard were on the
point of perishing. They had heard
the firing, and thinking the French
had been surprised, had burst their
bonds and rushed out of the tent to
begin tbe defence, 'lheir desperate
courage had almost cost them their
lives, when the charge was sonnded.snd
the whole colnmn of French bore
down npon tbe enemy. The Mnssul
men were scattered in all directions,
and when in half an hour the fight
ceased, for want of adversaries, six
hundred Arabs, dead and dying, re
mained upon the field.
The next day, the chief of battalion
sent a detachment to arrest the Arab
farmer for betraying the French, bnt
it was found that tbe Jakoabias,tbink
ing him guilty of treachery towards
them, had dispatched him with their
yatagans. Tbe kindling insurrection
was qnenched, and the French broke
up their camp and marched to Tiaret.
Here, Sidi and Corniflard were
brought before a court martial, and
for violating the orders of arrest were
judged worthy of death. In considera
tion, however, of the information they
had furnished, enabling the troops to
be prepared for the n'ght-attack, and
saving the whole column from massa
cre, they were granted a free pardon,
while for their courage in repulsing
tbe enemy they received the Cross of
the Legion of Honor.
The Hue of Water.
It la now admitted that the In
, , ,
5m?,tJhU0 01 waterJsblue- Even
fllar.lllAn voter haa Kaon niAwni s
distilled water has been proved to ' yellow; 'her forehead large and fair
be almost exactly of the same tint as a seemly seat for princely grace; her
a solution of Prussian hi hp
- ' , i
x ins is
corroborated by the fact that the
purer the water Is In nature the bluer
is its hue.
A little vase of Sevres ware, once pre
sented by a French king to Tlnnoo
Sahib, wai sold in London not long
ago for $7205. It la ouly eight inches
high.
QUEEfl ELIZABiSlH.
"The bells which had pealed merrily
or Mary, pealed as merrily for Eliza
jeth," writes Mr. Fronde. Through
die November day steeplo answered
iteeple, the streets were spread wi h
ables, and, as the twilight closed.
:dtzed as before with bonfires." Aud
.he bells of Westminster, r nf:iug for
tlizabeth's succession, were probably
ho lust sounds heard by Mary's friend,
Reginald Pole. If he heard and idenli
led them, he must have recognized in
die souud the knell of his hopes aud
tl'oi ts. His death saved him from im
prisonment -or banishment, for he was
is obnoxious to i'.liz ibetli as hn had
een dear to Mrv Heath, Aruhbish
p of York and Lord Clmn.'i-ilor, an
louuced Mary's death and Elizaveta's
inece-sion in Parliament, and was met
y glad sbiAits of "God cave Queen
5 izabeth!" In the meantime Eliza
etk remained in retirement at Hut
leld, where she held h r first Council.
It was then aud there she achieved the
mister-stroke of her fatnre wise gov
irnmout she appointud William Ceo. I,
K)ns iiMious for his sagacity and
patriotism, her sccretsrv. He had
ong I een her friend, aud had already
, ritbin an hour of Mary's death, written
' Elizabeth's prrc! imution, changed tbe
j (iiard at the Tower, despatched envoys
o the principal foreign courts, and
ihosen who was to preach the following
j inday at St. Paul's Cross. Cecil's
jrother-iu-law, Sir Anthony Bacon,
mother upright uian, was made Lord
deeper. O. cilaud Bacon were leaders
f the Protestant party, and their
rives, the learned daughters of Sir
, lolin Co: e, who h id fouud places in
j Vlary's household because of their
rien .hhip with Catherine Parr, and
die tastes they had in common with
' ler and her stepdaughters, were in
trotig sympathy with the Reformed
Ji.ureh. Elizabeth's own household
a i always been deeply tinged with
he so-called heresy in which she was
eared, while her opinions were more
r less an arbitrary jumble of intel
ec uul prepossessions and individual
biases. She inclined more to the doc
trines of Luther than to those of Cal-
' rin, her incl.uati u being in opposition
the bent of the English Protestant-
: smofthe time. She haladist.Dct
iversion to the views of John Knox,
in I a rooted dislike to the man. She
: lid not forgive his M-inxtrout llgi
it nt of Women, a treatise directed
iguinst tho practice of sovereignty be-
! ug placed in the hands of women.
She was regarded as the ohumpion of
; iberty. Neither was It in her nature
o reckon "an opinion a crime." Not
inly were her politioal interests, and
,ha cause of tbe mother whose name
- the never mentioned, bound up with
Protestantism; she bad not forgottsn
what she herself had endured in the
jondict, and she could feel for and
irith those who ha I borne a clearer
eslimo iv, and fought a harder battle.
It is said" of her that, unlike her sister
Slary, her si'ety and strength lay in
ler remark ible capacity for ascertain
ng and responding to tho national
pulse; and at the succession England's
T.vBt passionate heart-throbs were for
:ne hecatouiln of murtys, tho victims
f the dogmatism and bigotry of Mary
tnd Pole. Elizabeth was not honest
?nonh to be either dogmatio or big
oted, but she desired with all her heart
to ho fair, and her common-sense told
ner that her strength was to be f mnd
n fairness. Her scholarly instincts
tended to a temporizing middlo course,
md she was confirmed in it by her
ihnre of "the free, proud spirit of the
educated laity whi.-li do?li:ied to be
lictated to by pnestj" whether of
Home or Geneva.
Elizabeth came to London on the 2d
f the month, six days alter M iry's
leath. She was the centre of a mag
nificent company, and was met by vast
jrowds journiying out of the city to
welcome her. liny ward has an entbu
iiufcti3 description of her bearing on
;he occasion: ''If ever any person bad
ihe gift or skill to win the hearts of the
seoplc, it was their Queen, and if ever
the did express the same it was at th it
resent, in coupling m Mness with
uajesty, as she did, and in stately
itooping to the meanest sort .... Her
sye was set npon one, her far list.-ued
xj another, her judgment ran upon a
:hird, to a fourth she a ldressed her
peech. . . .Some she commanded, some
ihe pitied, some she thacked, at others
iha pleasantly and wittily jested."
The exception to this universal gra
siousness was in the ease of Bishop
Bonner. When Mary's bishops knelt
3V tbe wayside to offer the new Queen
;heir homage, she. received them gra
ciously. Bnt she decline J to let Kon
er kiss her hand. Those lips which
bad passed many a brutal sentence
ihonld never touch her fingers.
In fact, Elizabeth, "the people's
idol," was in her glory in this choer
.Dg, swaying multitude of great
ind small. Yet there was not a more
lonely young woman in England than
ihe was that day. Of near relations
ihe had not one. Her nearest surviv
ing relation in point of law was her
lite-bvig rival, Mary Queen of Scots,
who had alrendy assumed the arms of
England; while tbe cousins had never
met, and were never destined to meet.
Elizabeth's position was perilous in the
axtrime. She was hedped about with
itnmbling-blocks and pitfalls. She had
many advisers, but lew friends. Among
the advisers were such insi.lions coun
cillors as the Count dcjPeria, Philip II.
f Spain's ambassador, the husband of
Mistress Jane Dormer, one of tl bite
Queen Mary's ladies, a potent person
with the Catholics. Suitors, led by her
lead sister's widower, Philip, were
:oming round her in swarms; and
aeither adviser nor suitor doubted that
Elizabeth would be governed by him,
tnd would become little better than a
puppet in his hands. Nobody, unless
it were Cecil, guessed that Elizabeth
bad not only a mind of her own, it was
to great a mind ti at it could carve out.
in original course for a sovereign of
tCnglaud; it could rule by the sheer
ioree of a splendid judgment, and a
Diirning zeal for the welfare of her
people.
Hayward has a personal descrip
tion of Elizabeth at this time
which, if allowance be made
for an excess of dazzled lauda
tion, is graphic and fairly lifelike:
"She was a lady on whom Nature had
bestowed, and wcllplaced, many of her
favors. Of stature 'me8ne'(middlingi,
slender and straight, and amiably
composed of su-h state in her carriage
as every uiuuuu Ul jier rcc mcu iaj wur
majesty; her hair was inclined to pale
I . i i .
as every motion of her seemed to bear
eves lively and sweet, dui snort
sighted; her nose somewhat rising in
the midst; the whole compass of her
countenance somewhat long, but yet of
admirable beauty, not so rnncli lu that
which is termed the flower of youtb, as
in a most delightful composition of
mijc-ty in equal ndxtnre."
Llizaboth lodged that ni
ight at tbe
' Charterhouse. Next day, occording to
Hayward five day later, according to
Miss Strickland she was met at the
Charterhouse gate by the Lord Mayor
and the City dignitaries. As she rode
in great state, Garter King at-Arms
carrying a sceptre before her, she wore
a purple velvet riding dress, which
suited her fine figure. Her evil genins,
Lord Hobert Dudley, whom she hal
already named her matter of the
Horse, rode by her i-ido. His sole
claim to the honor w bis handsome
person, bis soft tongue, and the fact
that he, along with your Edward Cour
tenay, had been prisoner in the Tower
when she was in the same evil plight.
She entered Cripplegate, and passed by
the wall at Bishupsgate. "ibis gate
was richly banged, and thereupon tbe
waits of tbe (Jity sounded loud musick. i
When she reached "Marti ane," a peul I
of ordnance began at tbe Tower, which
continued for half an hour. As she
entered the Tower gate she made a
speech, according to ber invariable J
custom. "Some have fallen from being
piiuoes in this land to being prisoners
iu this place" (were her thoughts of !
ber unhappy mother when Bhe said
these words:) "lam raited from being !
a prisoner in this place to be a prince '
of tho land. That dejection was a
work of God's justice: this advance-!
nient is a work of His mercy; as they i
were to yield patience for the one, so ;
I must bear myself to God thankful, j
aud to men merciful and beneficial for
the other."
The speech is almost suspiciously
appropriate and antithetical, bnt its
occu ttnoe is in harmony with Eliza
beth's passion for delivering speeches,
while its tone agrees with her love of
pointing a moral, drawing sharp con
trasts, and appealing to Heaven, not
only in acknowledging the Divine
goodness where she was concerned,
but also in illustration of the position
which she claimed as God's chosen
servant.
It is said that on the first Christmas
Day after her succession, Elizabeth,
with her train, qui ted ber closet after
the reading of the gospel before tbe
celebration of mass, which she thus
repadiuted. Her next step was the
proclamation that from tbe following
New Year's Day, 1559 the Epistle and
Gos; el were to he read in all churches
throughout the land. The last was, with
reason, a most welcome and popular
measure where Protestants were con
cerned. "The fir t morsel of prayer
and Scrip'nre in the English tongue
was most sweetly swallowed. '
On tbe 12th of January, Elizabeth
paid her second vist to the Tower, in
anticipation of her coronation. She
went on this occasion by water, sailing
from Westminster in her barge, es
corted by a magnificent fleet of barges,
in eluding those of the Mayor and the
different guilds. She did not land at
Traitors' Gate on this occasion, but at
the private stairs reserved for the
Sovereign on Tower Wharf. The 15th
of January had been appointed for her
coronation, the stars in their courses
having declared it a highly fortunate day
for tbe ceremony, according to tbe
mathematician and astrologer. Dr.
John Dee Elizabeth's old ally during
the last months of her stay at Wood
stock, when he was a resident of Oxford.
Dr. Dee w.is now tbe occupant of a
house at Mortlake and was at the
height of his fame full of business in
drawing up tbe horoscopes of the
principal nobility and adventurous
sailors and soldiers of the day.
On the afternoon of Satur
day tbe lltb, Elizabeth started
from the Tower to make the
grandest of all her crand processions
through the city to Westminster. The
scene was one of unparalleled rejoicing;
the pageants were a succession of tri
umphs; the people were hulf mad with
joy; tbe dark days of the late reign,
with its persecutions at home and
losses abroad, were ended, and in a fuir
way to be forgotten, though one of
their disastrous consequences was the
poverty of the Koyal exchequer. Mary
had been raising money from Flemish
money-lenders at an enormous inter
est. "'Ihe last bonds, lying ia her
death-chamber waiting for her signa
ture, were used by her women to "cere
her corpse." Had not Ceoil sent out
the princely merchant, Gresharo, to
appease these importanate creditors,
and obtain better terms from them,
Elizabeth's ill-filled purse would have
been still emptier. But what she
lacked of means to contribute to the
great shows she made up by tbe ex
ceeding graciousnessand cordial anima
tion of her demeanor. ever was Queen
more enthusiastic in responding to the
passionate loyalty of her subjects.
Sitting in crimson velvet-lined coach,
she had smiles, waving of her hands,
frank words for rich and poor alike.
I Again and again she made ber coach
be stopped, that she might the better
see, hear, and answer the ingenious
I allegories and grandiloquent addresses
' got up for her delectation. There was
a great rose pageant mocKing me
wintry season at the end of Grace
church Street. Gentle, beautiful
Elizabeth of York sat in the centre of
a white rose, while her cautious long
faced partner, Henry YIL, the son of
the venerable Margaret, was tbe heart
of a great red rose. On another story
of the pageant their son, bluff King
Hal, emerged from a red and white
rose, and by his side represented
there for tbe first time since her ex
ecution was Anne Boleyn. On the
third and upper story was Elizabeth,
in solitary majesty, surrounded, like
all the others, with garlands of red and
white roses.
When "Time and Truth" was played
in Cheapside, "Time," exclaimed the
Queen, of the old man with the scythe
and hour-glass, "Time has brought me
here!" Ihe figure of Troth held a
Bible which was let down by a string
into the coach. The Queen caught it,
kissed it, clasped it to her bosom, and
promised to read it diligently. At tho
upper eud of "Chepe," with its gor
geous banners and rich tapestries, the
Kecorder of London, in the name of
the Lord Mayor, offered for Her
Majesty's acceptance a crimson satin
purse, curiously wrought, holding
a thousand gold marks. This the
Queen took between her hands,
thanking the givers, a suring them
that she wonlJ not only spend every
coin she possessed, she would shed
every drop of her blood, if need were,
for her people; and pledging herself
to lie as" good to them as ever queen
was. Neither did she neglect smaller
gifts. She received nosegays and
flowers from the poorest. A woman
gave the Queen a sprig of rosemary iu
Fleet Street, and Elizabeth was still
seen to retain it at Westminster. When
verses were sung in her honor at
Temple Bar she requested the people
to say "Amen," as she did, at the end
of each verse. When they wished her
prosperity she thanked them and
wished them the same. She twisted
every omen, good and bad, to fit in
with her exultant humor. When one
old man turned aside bis face and
wept, she cried, "I warrant it is for
ioy." When another proclaimed that
she remembered "old King Harry,"
she laughed with pleasure, as if the as
sociation with her father was tbe pteas
antest and most propitious than could
arise.
At her coronation, on the 15th of
January, 1509, only one bishop. Ogle
thrope of Carlisle, officiated. There
was no Archbishop of Canterbury, and
tbe Catholic bishops stood as much
sl iof as they dared. Little wonder
thut the ceremony was l-ss impressive
and mora shorn of splendor tban it bad
been wont to be. It was conducted ac
cording to the Roman Catholic form,
though it was installing a Protestant
Queen on the throne, and it was the
third corouation jrnich had taken place
within the lasttwelve years. Eliza
beth herself, with the rampant critical
faculty and the levity which was pres
ent witb her even at the most solemn
moments, remarked to her maids of
the anointing oil that it was "grease,
and smelt ill."
Her coronation robes consisted of a
train and mantle of cloth of gold, f nrred
with ermine. She was girded with a
sword before the crown was on ber
head and the sceptre in her hand. She
made the nsnal cflcrings, including her
crown, rol es, and regalia, and reap
peared for the banquet in Westminster
Hall dressed in violet velvet, and wear
log the crown of state while she dined.
Her champion rode up the hall and
flung down his gauntlet. Miss Strick
land quotes the Queen's title, which
Sir Edward Dymoloe was there to de
fend; and it was sufficiently curious
and open to question. It was "That oi
the most higb and mighty Princess and
dread Sovereign Lady, Elizabeth, by
the grace of God, Queen of England,
France, Ireland, defender of the trne,
ancient, nnd Catholic faith must worthy
Empress from tbe Orcade Isles to the
mountains of the Pvrenee."
NAUGHTY MAID MAKIAN.
Mr. Sugar Doll was the swellest doll
in the confectioner's shop, so every
body agreed. He had a distinguished
and a haughty sir, aud a sort of stand
off api earance wh'ch was generally
conceded to be extremely correct form.
He was a distinguished doll, having
been brought all the way from Paris.
Most of the fashionable dolls come from
France, t e had been very ill coming
over, so ill that his pink cheeks turned
a sort of taffv-candy color from mal de
Taer. But that whs some time ago. He
was very fashionably attired in evening
clothes. He wore real gold studs in
his shirt 1 osom, and there was an elabo
rate black silk gold-mounted fob tc
hold his watch, (There wasn't any
watch on the end of tbe black silk fob,
only a penny to keep it in his pocket,
bnt this is between ourselves.) He
carried a hemstiched black silk hand
kerchief scented with something that
smelted like fresh ginger cookies, a
most delightful odor, as anyone who
has eaten ginger cookies hot from the
pan knows well.
Well, all the girl dolls in the shoe
cast doll's eyes at Mr. Sugar Doll, but
be stood up very stiffly in tbe window
and didn't look at any of them.
Whether he was too proud or too bash
ful, nobody knew.
One day something very astonishing
happened. A lady came into the shop
holding a little girl by the hand. When
the confectioner woman saw her, she
wiped her bands on ber apron and hur
ried forward, very anxious to wait ou
tbe lady. Well, they had a long talk,
and Mr. Sugar Doll thought thev never
would finish and relieve him from his
nncomfortuble position. You see while
the two women were talking the little
girl had slipped around to where Mr.
Sugar Doll fctood so stiffly in tbe win
dow, and she stood there staring at him
fixedly. It embarrassed Mr. Sngai
Doll extremely, and, besides that, three
or fonr times the little girl stretched
ont her hand to take him. This
alarmed Mr. Sugar Doll so that the lit
tle beads of sugar perspiration stood
out all over his brow. He felt sure
if she should take him he would be
crushed to death in her chubby bands.
But the didn't touch him. She
thought l etter of it, and at last the
lady said: Come, Marian," and she
trotted away beside her mother.
After they had gone confusion
reigned in the shi p.
A wedding cake was to be made right
away. That was what the lady had
had come to order for her eldest
daughter.
Well, when the cake was done, Mr.
Sugar Doll admitted that nothing in
Paris conld have beaten it.
There were such elaborate floral de
signs on the top of it, such beautiful
little enpids dragging wedding chariots
around tbe side of it.
And then, to crown all, tbe confec
tioner woman set Mr. Sugar Doll on
top of it, and beside him Miss Araminta
Crystalline, a young lady wbo 1 ved
in the next window. Araminta looked
lovely. She wore a white dress, white
shoes and white gloves. Upon ber
brow, which, like Annie Laurie's was
like the snawdrifr," only a trifle
coarser on account of their having used
granulated sugar, was fastened a beau
tiful white wedding veil. This com
pletely enveloped her aud extinguished
several small enpids on the side of the
cake. But nobody cared for them.
Well, presently they were put in a
Dig Dox and carried away.
The next thing that happened they
were standing on a big table covered
with silver and crystal and glowing
witn candl.-s. it looked like fairyland.
and from tbe ro,m beyond came thu
Eoft murmur of manv voices and a sonn 1
of music. Suddenly the portieres parted
and a little girl in a white frock came in.
Mr. Supar Doll knew her in an instant.
1 was luarian. one looKed at bim a
minute, then she climbed np softlv.
grablied Mr. Sugar Dolll and bit off his
bead.
When the wedding guests came in
few minutes later, A-aminta Crystalline
was i-tanding stiftlv In her vlaoe. with
unrnflled brow, but Mr. Sngar Doll bad
vanished. He was under the table with
Marian.
TRAINING THE MEMORY.
A splendid way to improve the mem
ory is to begin by treating it as if it
were another person, and then charg
ing it, upon penalty of a severe up
braiding, to keep until wanted the in
formation, fact, date, name, or what
ever is to be remembered. By this
course yon unconsciously do two
things you sort ont tuings worth while
to know, and you impress them upon
the memory in such a way as to cause
it to grasp and keep them.
Tbe latter is a most important thing
to do. Half of one's forgetfulness
comes from failure to properly grasp
what it is that you are to remember.
It is said of Thomas B. Reed, the
famous member of Congress from
Maine who was Speaker of the House
of Representatives for two years, that
he considers it gret hardship to have
to tell a man the name thing twice.
Yon ought never to caaae any one
such hardship.
MIDGET MASCOTS.
BaM-ball Flayer BellaT Thy BiUf
Good Lack.
A class of men who have their owu
peculiar superstitions are those who
f,L- ,rt i athiPtiP nt al, 1
K " r " VT, T,
sorbs, uut tue ute-oui piijer it aiug
omAnir ennitrer itifina r.1 n ra Gnva t.hA
New Y'ork Journal.
First of all, the team must have a
mascot, without which there is little
chance of winning the pennant. The
mascot is usually a small boy, of what
color is immaterial, got up fantastic
ally, and is a relic or tne roois oi past
centuries.
The mascot of the New York club
is a small white boy, who can always
be seen somewhere close to "Buck"
Ewing. This is his fourth year with
the club, he having been with them
la 1388 and 1889, the two years when
the Giants captured the world's
championship. Last year the little
fellow disappeared, and it was not
THE BRIDEGROOMS' MASCOT.
until all the quaireling was over thai
he reappeared upon the diamond.
The boy is hardly three feet high,
has an intelligent face, and is a
wonderful mimic. The admirable
way In which he imitates the pitching
of Mickey Welch, Tim Keefe, and
others often causes roars of laughter.
When matters are begiuning to
look serious, the mascot will carry out
the bats of the players for good luck,
and when things are indeed critical,
and a run must be got, the mascot
will expectorate on the bat. This, It
Is said by the players, has often saved
the game.
The Brooklyn mascot Is smallei
than he of the Giants. He first put
in an appearance at the opening game
of the season at Eastern Park, and
what with his comical get-up, his red
cap and his strange antics, soon be
came a favorite.
Baxball Players Superstitious.
Like sailors, ball-players are super
stitious about playiug on Friday, and
always expect to lose. In this case
one side comes out right, the other
rrong.
Anson, of Chicago, who is one ol
the brainiest ball-players alive, and
who could have made a fortune at
any business he might have cared to
have taken up, is strangely super
stitious. It is said of Anson that il
he was given time and nine China
man he would soon turn them into a
respectable team.
For two years be traveled every
where with a small negro boy called
Qlarence Duval, and took bim round
the world with him when the Amert
cau teams made their famous tout
THE KEW TORES' MASCOT.
three years ago. There was as much
written about this little imp as about
any other member of the teams, and,
like Artemus Ward's coon, he was an
"amoosiu' little cuss," dressed up like
drum-major.
When Anson got back to Chicago
his mascot vanished.
One of the unluckiest thiugs for a
base-ball team to meet Is a cross-eyed
man. Many a one of these with a
squint has passed fearlessly by a
nine, little knowing that bis life was
in danger, for a ball-player has such
an antipathy to a man so afflicted
that he would think nothing of giving
the man a rap over the head witb
his bat.
It is unlucky to pass a wagon-load
of empty barrels, and no player will
let anybody touch his favorite bat.
All the home-runs in it are supposed
to vanish, and the player has one
more harrowing thought to make his
life miserable.
Why We Need Two Ears Earb.
Sound travels by waves radiating
from a central point of disturbance,
just as waves radiate wheu a stone Is
dropped into still water. So far as
the hearing of each individual is con
cerned, these waves move in a direct
line from the cause of the sound to
his ear, the impact being the greatest
In llie ear nearest to the source, says
the Philadelphia Press. This being
the case, a person who lias totally
lost the sense of hear in,' in one ear,
although he may imagine that the
defect is of little consequence, cannot
locate the direction of a sound to
save his life, even when the center of
disturbance is quite near him.
At Potsdam, Germany, th?re U a weL
that only lacks ten feet of being a mile
deen.
MEWS IN BRIE.
Great Friain has sbtut 13.00P
tandlonlfl anil bq nnn ru j
tt .n, . v
-?0.1 m,lk K Mid to be an txcellent
rgie in case of tonsilit.s.
Abere
are 512.407 teeuhones it.
jse in this country, requiring 2S6 456
niles o! wire.
Tbe public park In San Francisco,
Jab, recently lect-lved a cocoanut trte
weighing six tons, from Honolulu.
A carrier pigeon alighted in an ex-
jausted condition on a t ransatlantic
Ueamtr recently many mih s at sea.
. . ... .
umuuii irjnu una unu am ci.ii v
t of furniture male of glass. Includ
ing a huge bedstead and a sideboard.
London existed long before the
Romans visited the island. Its name
is derived from Llyn-Din, "The Town
in the Lake."
Tbe English are equipping what
.hey cull corridor trains, which are on
j rery much tne same principle as our
restibule trains.
Five hundred thousand Londoners
lave five days per annum each by rid
ng on railways, a toial saving of 2,
500,000 dajs, worth JES30.0C0.
It appears from recent researches
.hat the oxide produced on the surface
jf iron when heated is practically trans
jarent. A German Inventor is reported to
; iave devised an ingenious camera for
Sakiog photographs of the Internal or
1 (ans of human beings and beasts.
I Iu about sixty years a walnut tret.
rown from the seed will attain a
! liauieter of four feet, and If properly
1 ;ut and seasoned will be worth ttuO.
Dr. Cutting of the Vermont Board
it Agriculture once counted 222. SCO
a iii s to tbe square inch of a piece
:lipped from the pelt of a full-blooded
ram.
A Shasta Indian brc ke the egg
eating record by devouring thirty-two
raw eggs at one sitting. He would put
an egg in bis mouth, crunch it and
swallow it, shell and alL
There are two yew trees In tbe
Jepartment of the Eure, In France,
w hicU are supposed to be 1500 years
ld. Ibey measure about 30 and 26
feet in circumference respectively.
What is claimed to be the plow
which General rutnam left in the
furrow up in Connecticut when he
rushed to the defence of his country,
116 years ago, is exhibited In front of
a hardware store in DaDielsonvUle,
Conn.
Fluids which do not adhere, or ar
jot attracted upward by the sides of a
vessel, sink round the brim and rise in
tt e center. Thus mercury in a glass
forms a convex surface, while water
forms a concave.
A new method of Impregnating
logs with zinc chloride In order to pie
serve them Is now In use In Austria,
being known as tbe Pilster process.
The timter is impregnated In the for
est as soon as possible after it Is fell
ed. It is said that an excellent cure foi
.ameuess in horsns is to put them into
a swimming tank. In swimming the
horse takes the same or more violent
exercise than be would trotting on the
track, while there can be no injury to
teet or limbs.
The latest method c f hydraulic pro
pulsion. Instead of forcing the water
always in one Hue or direction, the
nozzles or outlets are made to rotate
around a common axl-, aud thus act
upon tbe water iu spiral paths, tdmilar
to the action of a propeller blade.
To insure durability, wood pave
ments must be laid with great care and
have a concrete foundation made of
the best materials. Those that have
been laid In Pari?, France, have etood
: about reven or eight years under
heavy traffic and about fifteen under
moderate.
j In South America there are giant
grasshoppers witb bodies five in hes
long and a wing-spread of ten Inches.
Owing to tbe fact that tbey are not
very numerous, these formidable In
sects do not do much damage.
j To make good calcimine soak on
pound of white glue over night, then
dissolve it in boiling water; sdd twenty
pounds of Paris white, aduted with
water, until the mixture shall be of the
consistency of thick mill; to this any
tiut may be given that is desired.
j Crocodile eggs are much soug'..
after by tbe natives of Madagascar,
tneir flavor closely resembling a mix
ture of rancid oil and musk, in the
Pacific and West Indian Islands lizards
and lizaids' eggs are eaten in a variety
of styles.
I "U'e owe the Invention of visiting
cards to the Chinese. So long as the
period of the Tong dynasty (613-907)
visiting cards were known to be in
Common use in China, and that is also
the date of the Introduction of "red
silken cords" which figure so conspic
uously on the engagement cards of that
Touutry.
Ten miles from Lexington, N. C.
Is a cave onoe used by Daniel Boone as
a retreat and rendezvous, and near it
stood the mighty buuter's primitive
cabin. When this cabin was destroyed
some years ago the hearthstone was
saved and it was sent to Chicago to
form part of tbe State's exhibit at the
World's Fair.
Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the poetres', r
fifty-seven years old. She is a tall,
handsome woman, witb dark face, dark
eyes and snow white hair. Appledore,
Isle of shoals, was her home when she
was ten years old, and it has been her
summer borne ever since she was six
teen. Christian NiUson.the prima donna,
Is a clever woman of business. Mnie.
Modjeska, tbe Polish actress, plays
Chopin and sptaks a halt dozen lan
guages. Tatti is very proud of ber
needlework, especially of her darning.
Albaul, the singer, cultivates tbe do
mestic aits and writes eatettainii.g
letters to her friends.
A recently returned traveler says h,
daw these odd aigns di-pl tved In Lon
don, England: "Thun ler & Co,," "J.
B. Blazts," "Holyland, Floor &
Heale," "UalJwille, Treer & Co.,"
'Peace & Plenty," "C. Heavens" and
many others equally as odd.
Cne form of insects resembles a
broken bit of bamboo, and another is
provided with hairs, distributed In such
a way as to make it appear overgrown
with moss. Others have assumed their
form and color for the object of catch
ing their prey.
Coaches wore first use! in England in
156a
There are said to be 163, TOO famlle
(n London, England, liviug In single
tooms,
I