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B. F. SOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Prortator.
VOL. XLVI.
MIFFLINTOWJS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 24. 1892.
NO. 36
I
THE QUIET HOUSE.
m cottiers, fin weary,
Villi I'll1! l,e' 'r Ce.SO,
With never time lor ple,snre.
Vutti nv ti't liiive no peace,
Itll llltlt- Ili.lUlM IO tllllOl 1.
nb feeble del s to (;uai d.
tt th t?Ks that lie unhiiistied,
pi em cot vour lot too hard.
1 Know a imuse where childish thlagt
Aie uliut n uit ol siht
V here never sound ol Imle feet
Is hearii Irom mom till nlht
lio tmv haii' s that Tist undo,
lliat'ruil thnms ;tll awry
Kobabv huris to pity
Aquti-t iluys ro by.
Tl.e V.('Ue is all In order.
Aiiil liee Irom liieoiue none
"j moii.eius t emulsion
,o scattered bioken toys:
And tiie clill.lif n's liitle garment
Are never M'lb-d or torn,
. t ure la d a;iy forever
Just as they lat were worn.
jirrt he. tli" sad eyed mother,
Wliut wi'U'd she Live tu il if
lofeei voiu cares aud burdens,
To k voui wearv way:
Alii liat'uu-5t on all tills earth
t ould -lie iig.un but see
The rin-s all strewn with plaything
And ihe children 'round ber knee!
Sichangi
THE UN EXPECT KD.
1 don't care I'm happy," said
trunk.
"I'm sure I don't care, I'm Lappy,
perfectly happy don't see how I could
be more so," said Nellie.
Neither waa looking at Hie other.
Eacli tried to absorbed in a book; but
certainly neither saj absorbed; for on
the average, during the entire at'ter
duo", they had made remarks similar
to the foregoing at least once every ten
minutes.
"lid you 89y, Nellie," continued
Frank, just a triile doubtfully. "tht
there was enough in the house for sap
per and breakfast?"
"I'm qu'te sure, dear," said Nellie,
"that there is enough for supper, and
perhaps for breacfust. But we shall
not want iniich for breakfast. You
know that you have very often si id
that yon did rot care for much break
fast, and really I can get along on
nothing at all.''
"I don't see what a have to worry
about, then, do you?"
"Indeed I do not 1 think we have
every reason to be perfectly happy,"
she answered.
"Sure of fcupper to-day and break
fust to-morrow I.-hould say we have
every reason to be thankful," continued
Frank.
Yes," ad 'ed Nellie. "Just think of
the number of people in the world who
are sure of nither supper to-day, nor
hrt-akfa&t to-morrow. Take the case
of a cannibal "
"Just whac I was thinking," broke
in Frank. "He is dependent on the
chance call of a missionary surely a
preoarions existence."
"Oh, Frank, you are joking!" taid
Nellie.
"Proof that I am perfectly happy,"
responded Frank.
"While I am perfectly happy," said
Nellie, "1 do wish that tlie rirm had
not tailed, and that you had not lost
von r position. "
"Yes, and while 1 am perfe tly hap
py, said irai.k, "I do wish that our
parents had not objected to our mar
riage." "The idea that we, who are children,
both of ng. of rich pareuts. should be
left to the disagreeable expedient of
pawning tie few wedding presents that
we received !
"Sav rather the disagreeable expedi
ent ol pawning the last wedding pres
ent that we received now now now I
little wife, you are going to crv."
"Indeed, I am not," said Nellie,
struggling bravely to suppress the
tears, "1 think we are very lucky to
have any wedding presents to pawn.
In fart, I think we are very lucky,
indeed."
"And so tlo 1," a Ided Frank, "very,
very lucky " just there he was
interrupted.
There is no better time than an in
terruption to explain the condition of
affairs in a romance, so 1 will take ad
vantage of the present one, which may
be the onlv interruption in my story.
Frank and Nellie Hay ward had mar
ried against their parents' wishes.
Their p;irents, though rich, refused to
help them in any way, or even to re
ceive them in their homes. Frank was
brave and manly, and Nellie was sen
sible and womanly. They determined
to do for themselves, and at the very
outset made a solemn compact with
each other that, come what might,
thev would consider their love for
each ctber compensation for all the
iiis of life.
For a timo things went very welL
Frank obtained a position that enabled
tbem to live very comfortably in a
famished flat. But, as in the life of
everyone else, the time came when
luck turned egaiest them. The l'rm
that ew ployed Frank failed, and he
was nnable to get another position.
The little money that they had saved
up from his salary was soon exhausted.
They were forced to the disagreeable
expedient of pawning such things of
value as they pos-sossed, and finally
they had come to the end of even that
resource.
Never during all their troublo had
either acknowle Iged to the other that
they were anything but happy. The
crisis, however, had just about been
reached. They wore in a quandary. It
was a questiou whether they would be
forgiven by their parents under any
circumstances, and they were not at all
willing to acknowledge that they had
luado a mistake.
But there was an interruption. It
was a knock at the door. Nellie rose
from her scat, and Frank was about to
do so, when it occurred to him that
the chmces were that it was a creditor,
and be thought it hardly worth while
to go to the door. He was rather Bur
prised, though, when at the invitation
of his wife the door was opened by a
queer old man. who looked at each of
them over the rims of his glasses for a
full minute before be spoke.
"Mr. and Mrs. Hay ward, I believe?''
he said at length.
"Yes, sir," replied Nellie. ' Will von
take a chair?"
"Ought to have been named Way
ward, 1 suppose," he eaid, chuckling to
himself, as he took the proffered
chair. "I snppose my visit is rather
unexpected?"
"Ueciuedly." said Frank curtly:
"Well, it is the unexpected that al
ways happen?," said the old gentle
tui n. "I was rather surprise! to henr
ou through tho door, accidentally, of
course, assuring j ourselves that you
were very lucky aud very huppy and
all that sort of thinir."
"May I inquire what business it is of
yours, sir?" asked Frank.
"None, except that it assured me
that I had found the right place-," an
swered the old gentleman.
"And what place were you looking
for?" asked Frank.
"The house of a happy married
couple," said tlie old gentleman.
"Yon have found it," aoid Frank and
peuio together.
. "Ah!" said the old gentleman. "It
.-2?It6 cn08i,y- "appose you will
pardon an old geutleman like myself,
it he asks a lew questions. I am a
student of human nature, you know,
and who knows? perhaps this visit
may redound to your advantage "
"Fire away." said Frank, who wo.
beginning to be interested.
"in the first place, what waa the oc
casion of your saying just now that
you were lucky?'
"Beoauee we had some wedding
presents to pawn," answered the in
gennous Frank.
, corrected his wife, gently.
w una uaa some wedding
presents to pawn."
Dear me!" said the old gentleman,
"they are all pawned, then?"
"Xes," answered Nellie, "but that
does not rxake us unhappy."
"I snppose you occupy a good posi
tion? ' said the old gentleman to
Frank.
"I have lost my position, sir," the
latter answered.
"You have plenty money ia the
bank?"
"None,"
"Undoubtedly you have a well
stocked larder, though? '
"It is about exhausted."
"Of course in case of real di tress,
you have your parents to rely on?"
"On the contrary, we would not wish
to ask them to help us under any cir
cumstances." Well, young man," said the old
gen leman, excitedly, "will yon tell me
whet in the world you are goii g to
do?"
"I would much rather have you tell
me what I am going to do," answered
Frank.
"Nothing," answered the old gen
tleman, solemnly.
"That's what I have been doing for
quite a while."
"J he fact is continued the old gen
tleman, "you are precisely what you
were saying you were when 1 knocked
on yonr door - you are lucky. 1 am a
ruau of whimsicalities. 1 have been
looking all my life for a happy mar
ried couple. Someone, never mind
who, told me that yon were the couple
1 was looking for. 1 did not believe it
for a long tiu e, but when I discovered
that you were in hard luck, and still
were not complaining, I began to believe-
it. My mis-ion on erth ia to
assist happy couples who are in hard
lnok. This is the fir-t time 1 have
ever had a obance to fulfil my mission.
It is all the more to yo r advantage,
thngh thre is more money in the
fund than there would be if the world
were stocked with happy couples. I
proposo to settle on you a little income
of five hundred a year."
The old gentleman paused to see
whac effect this startling announce
ment wo Id have on the happy con pi j.
The effect waa not marked. They
looked at him very much a) they
would look at a curiosity.
"i snpp se you think 1 am an insane
man? ' he said, angri'y.
"No," answered Nel ie, "but I think
you are my father wi h a wig and eye
glasses and a very poor attempt at a
disguised voice."
Saying which, she ran to him and
threw her arms about his neck.
"Well, I am," said the old gentle
man laughing, as he removed his dis
guiee, "and frankW confess that for a
long time I have had a disguised
heart. I didn't want to help you until
I thought you needed it, so 1 waited.
But I will tell y. u this if you had ac
knowledged that you were not happy,
I would have given you double the
allowanc-I have.''
"I don't care," said Nellie. "I'm
perfectly happy."
And so am I, said l rank.
T. W. H.
THE WHITE-LIPPED PECOARY.
The various species of Pigs, consti
tuting the genus Sua of naturalists.
which are met with in F-urope, North
ern Africa, and Southern Asia, and its
Maude, altogether fail in the New
World, where their places are taken
by animals of inferior size, and slightly
different organization called "Pec
caries. Of Peccaries, only two spe
cies are known to exist, namely the
Collared Peccary, and the White-lipped
Peocary. of the" latter of whioh we now
give an illustration from some spec
imens lately added to the Zoological
Societv's collection. The Peccaries
have a wide range in America, extend
ing from Mexico throughout the cen
tral and southern poitions of the con
tinent down to F"araguay, and tne
northern provinces of the Argentine
Iiepubtic. The larger mammals, being
scarce in these parts of Amerioa, Pec
caries are much songht after by the
native hunters as articles of food, and
much prized when they are obtained..
The Peccary, however, is provided
with a strongly odoriferous gland sit
uated in the hinder part of his back,
and unless this glaud be removed as
soon as the animal in killed, its flesh is
said to be hardly eatable. The Col'ared
Peccory is the commoner of the two
species, and the one most frequently
met with in captivity in Europe. In
the Zoological Society's Gardens it has
bred on more than one occasion, but
produces only two young ones at a
time, intead of the numerous progeny
of the true Pigs. The White-lipped
Peccary is a larger and fiercer animal,
and is said to be rather dreaded by the
native hunter when met with In large
herds. Some singular stories are told
in British Guiana about persons having
been compelled to mount trees in order
to escape their attack, and to pass
many hours of siege in this condition,
before the infuriated Peccaries chose
to move away. But it is a little doubt
ful perhaps, whether this is more than
a sportsman's tale. In captivity, at any
rate, the White lipped Feccary seems
to be a well-behaved and inoffensive
animal.
It Is said that e church in 5C Ives,
England, supports an annual dice-shak-
nhirh Bibles are given as
lug CUUVvaw -'
prizes. The custom Is a very old one,
datinjt back 325 years.
Since the United States Constitution
was adopted, Massachusetts has beeen
the birthplace of two presidents; New
Hampsh're, one; Vermont, one; .New
Ycrk two: Ttninylvaiila. one; Virgin
ia, seven; Oi.io. four; New .'ersev, one;
North Carolina, three; Kentucky,
one.
The prospectus of an Indian match
factory has been issued in Calcutta.
The promoters, who are all native",
have collected different kinds of wood
suitable for matches from different
parts of Iu-lia, aud have forwarded
simples of them to expeits In Jondou
and Hamburr.
The ponKrd of the celebrated brig
and Fra Diavolo, Is anion the posses
sionsof the museum of Nancy, to
which it was presontoJ by General
Hugo, the captor of the robber.
QBH. JAMES B. WEAVER.
Candidal, ol tk. Pvopl.'a rwpty for
President.
Gen. James B. Weaver, the candi
date of the People's party for Presi
dent, wa9 born In Dayton, Ohio, June
12, 1833, and graduated from the law
school of the Ohio University, Cin
cinnati. In 1854. In April, 18B1, he
enlisted as a private In the Second
Iowa Infantry, and on Oct. 3, 1361,
waa made Major. In 1865 he was
brevetted Brigadier General for gal
j lantry In action. After the war he
OEM. WSAVER.
resumed legal practice, was elected
District Attorney, and later served
Bix years as Assessor of Internal Rev
enue for the Fifth Iowa District. In
1374 he was elected to Congress. In
June of the following year he was
nominated for the Presidency by the
Greenback Labor party, and In the
election following received 307,740
votes, iu J 885 he was returned to
Congress by the vote of the Green
back Labor party. He was re-elected
two years later. Since then he has
been active In political movements
and was one of the founders of the
People's party.
Making in linpra.akou.
The girl is lucky who finds out
suddenly that she has something nice
the matter with her. I knew ono
who learned that she had lovely hair.
She took to doing it up with one hair
pi u, and she used to look like a mop
on the third day of a house-cleaning.
She took to Jerking her head, too, so
that the hair would come down, and
then she did look lovely, especially If
it happened at the theater, at lun
cheon, or In the cars. She would
waggle her head so that her words
would come out scalloped, and her
nose got all spread around. A girl
with a neat foot is the worst nuisance
I know. She always has it stuck out
In the car. Her shoestring Is always
coming undone. She Is forever lift
ing her dress and making you nervous.
It just about spoils a girl If she fluds
out that she has fine eyes and pretty
teeth. Good.-hy to quiet expression
at once. Her eyes roll, droop, snap,
shut, open, dance, and 6parkle all
over the place, till you wonder why
thoy don't get sprained. Meanwhile
her teeth are working just as hard.
She smiles twice a minute, and often
her eyes are getting In some fine
touches that don't go with a smile at
all. The effect Is awful. I got so
tired looking at a girl the other day
that I wondered why the man with
her didn't marry her just for the sake
of tying her eyes fast to her nose and
knocking her teeth out. As for me,
give me a girl who knows she is
homely or one that is so good-looking
that she doesn't care. Philadelphia
Press.
Memorable K. wanna.
Ravenna Is the end of the old, the
beginning of the new. says a writer in
Scrlbner's: "Toward Rome all ancient
history tends, from Rome all modern
history springs; but here for a brief
moment the broad current of history
was dammed up into this little space,
then ebbing away, even as the Adri
atic has done, It left Ravenna full of
strange, stranded monuments of a
time that has elsewhere been swept
out upon the tide Into the ocean of
oblivion.
Among the graves of the buried
past the sarcophagi of exarchs, cap
tains and priests which lie scattered
In the churches and the streets waifs
from the shipwreck of Italy when
Alarlc burst upon her are the sepul
chers and effigies of three rulers who
epitomize the art history of the city;
of Galla Placid ia, the conquered Ro
man Princess, who subjugated In her
turn and married her captor, and pre
served to Ravenna what remained of
old-time splendor; of Theodoric the
Ostrogoth, who Infused the vigor of
the Korth Into worn-out forms; of
JustiDlan the Emperor, who dowered
the city with the art heritage of the
Greek. The mausoleum of Placidla
and the baptistery represent the first
of the three groups into which the
buildings of the city fall; those re
mains ot the Theodoslan epoch being
followed by the works of the Ostro
gothic period, San Apolinare Nuovo
and the tomb of Theodoric; while the
last group, that of Justinian, boasts
San Yitale and "St. Apolinaris in the
Fleet. "
The little mausoleum of Placldia
may claim a first visit. There for
1,100 years her body sat upright In
jeweled cerements in her sarcophagus,
and was the very type of her city's
mission. For In Ravenna antique
art grew rigid, swathed away in the
embalming clothes of conventionality,
! gilded and stiffened, mummied within
the stone walls till, eight centunc3
having rolled by, the spirit of an
tiquity rose again and the chrysalis
was forgotten, even as Galla's actual
, body crumbled in fire and ashes at a
moment when the renaissance had at
tained its full strength.
A little girl entered a rope Jump
lug contest at Wilkesbarre, Pa. She
won, jumping 840 times without stop
ping. Then she died. But her be
reaved friends can console themselves
with the reflection that she was the
champion rope-Jumper of her towu.
lr is a tact not generally known that
jailors who are off the southern soast
of South America, aud are in want of
water, make for the mouth of the Ama
zon, where they can procure fresh
water two hundred . miles from the
ooast. The volume poured out by the
river is so great and so strong that it
sweeps back the ocean itself.
A Chemist advises that canned frnit
be opened an hour or two before it is
ised. It is far richer after the oxygen
tf the sir has been restored to it
A PLEA FOR QOOD ROADS.
From the earliest times of whioh wi
have record, and even in prehistoric
times, as shown by ar-heological re
mains, human intelligence has devised
means for surmounting the obstacles
of travel, which the physical necessi
ties of man have called npon him to
perform. In the Section of Transpor
tation and Engineering, in the U. S.
National Museum, at Washington, may
be seen arranged, in chronological
order, the various means used for pro
moting travel and commerce, and for
conveying intelligence, makinr a
nniqne and interesting memorial of
the genius of man as he created, link
by link, the grand chains of communi
cation which have exerted so powerful
an influence on civiliz tion Here we
may see brought together 'from every
available source the appliances of
travel by land, beginning with the
simplest aboriginal devices for the
conservation of muscular force in the
first that is the human beast of
burden: skin bag3 woven, baskets and
cases, toboggans, carrying chairs,
sledges, e rts, liar .ess, eta, tinning
the various stigos of progress until we
reach the smooth iron tracks and pow
erful steam engines and palace cars of
our XIX Century.
But with all the Yankee facility for
invention and with the numberless do
vices for promoting travel, our country
roads, and often our city streets, are
noted for their wretchedness, and the
pa ient farmer pays more than enough
in taxes and in the wear and tear of
vehic.es and harness to procure, a
smooth and level road, were it man
aged with the "brains" for whioh we,
as a nation, pride ourselves, but whioh
ia the matter of our conntry roads
seem heretofore to have entered as a
minimum factor.
In the promotion of all great reforms
there needs to be a continual bringing
of the subject before the people in or-
' der to so mould public opinion that
the people, as a body, shall coll for
legislation npon it, for, however care
less may be onr pnblio servants in the
administration of their trusts while
the public remains apathetic or unin
terested, a general demand for the re
dress of wrongs by the great American
' people is invariably followed by a re
' sponse from the government.
I But it is this moulding of public
opinion that is the hardest part of the
task, for the call must be from the peo
ple and not from a few reformers who
may prove only to be "cranks," or
from a class or section who miy have
1 an individual ax to grind. When we
shall have trained wardmasters, thor-
' oughly understanding the topography
and drainage of the country; the rela
tive merits and economy of gravel and
asphalt and broken atone and the
proper machinery; we shall see a cor
responding improvement in the con
dition of the farmer, a greater profit
on the product of his labor and an in
creased value in his land. As the in
crease of land values necessarily im
plies a corresponding iucrease iu tax
ation, thus enlarging the revennes of
the State, it will be readily seen that
the State can well afford to take the
matter in hand and provide for sys
tematic road construction. And here
the Agricultural Colleges and other
industrial institutions, maintained by
the State, may do a good work by fitting
out ana training expert roadmasters
who will be sure of permanent and
paying employment in this most im
portant work.
, When we survey our miserable
country roads, miles of sticky clay
' alternating with wretched corduroy,
almost impassable at some seasons of
the year, we can well imagine the
agriculturist surveying the wreck of
dilapidated vehicles and broken winded
horses, caused by the laborious hauling
to market of his produce, and count
ing up these losses and the growing
taxes he has paid for this wretched
I failure, we can readily imagine him
I exclaiming with the ubiquitous street
gamin, when he dropped bis hard
earned nickel in the area grating:
"Oh, where Is my pocket-book (tone ti-oo-oo.
Aud the money, I loved It so much:''
As it is a self-evident fact that "the
farmer feeds the world" the matter
, becomes in this way, if no other, a sub
ject of the deepest concern to us all.
I'-By the improvement of conntry roads
every branch of our agricultural, com
mercial and manufacturing interests
i would be benefited. Every article
! brought to market would be diminished
in price, and the number of horses need
j ed to carry on business would be greatly
reduced, says an eminent authority.
I The city, too, sharing in these bene
.fits should provide well paved streets,
so as to attract to her markets the pro
ducts of the surrounding country.
If it be trne that "the road is that
physical sign by which may be best
understood any age or people," one
might easily conclude that the people
of America, to-day stood on a lower
plane than the Incas and Azteo nations,
whose broad causeways of stone, con
structed without the aid of the labor
saving devices of to-dar, were a wonder
to Europeans who discovered them.
Humboldt, never lavish with his en
comiums:, says of these vast roadways,
"The roads of the Incas were among
the most useful and stupendous works
of man."
The excellent opportunity for pre
senting the subject at the World's
Fair should not be neglected. Col.
Albert Pore, of Botton, in offering
81 COO as the beginning of a fund to
raise a building on the grounds of tho
Columbian Exposition, has begun the
good work, and if other capitalists and
manufacturers, pecuniarily interested
would assist, we might have, such a
display of machinery and materials
for proper road construction, exhibited
by skilled workmen as would be an
object lesson to every visitor and
would go far to convince the most
apathetic, that the remedy for this
great evil of bad reads is within our
rt ach and only needs that the people
of the country should wake up to its
importance. Let ns then petition our
Congress, that while making such
liberal appropriations for our World's
Fair aa may give opportunity to fairly
represent the industry and ability of
onr country, that this important sub
ject shall have such conspicnons exhibit
as its importance demands, ana that,
among the buildings set apart for such
special representations as may be de
manded by their consequence to the
' interests of the people aball be seen
'that devoted to the '-Department of
Road Constrnction and Maintenance."
E S. Cransos.
Blaudyte is the name given to the
new material made of Trinli 1 asphalt
and waste rubber. It res sU the heal
ot high pressure steam and lasts well la
the presence of oil and greasi
The Ions life of birds has been Inter -
preted as compensation for tbei feebie
fertility and for the great mortality o
their young.
THE IDYL OF A SEA-MOSa
T ADA X. TROTTER,
On the horizon the dancing flames of
light proo!aimed the rising sun. Tho
laughing waves splashed the crimson
rays, scattering them in dazzling reful
gence, to spread over the bay, in and
out the eddies ebbing on the reef,
downwards through the clear water
stretohing.until the paradise of mosses,
swaying with the ebb and flow, caught
the radiance, and glanoed up, golden
tipped and tinted.
The blue and gold went drifting on
from horizon to shore, as the sun,
cloudless, sent forth its myriad rays,to
play in and oat the depths with rain
bow hues, until recalled by the last
flames of the sunset.
The sunbeams were great talkers.
"Why not?" asked the m isses, laugh
ing at the mirt fal b.ibble around
"Such travelers as they are, with the
whole world lying at their feet! More
morel" was their genial cry.
j Sea urchins awoke, and crawled
along the ledges of the rocks; crabs put
on their ntmost speed, lest the ebbin9
I tide should leave them stranded. The
star-fishes, creeping over the opening
I mussels, made their morning meal,
while the rose-tinted anemone swept
the snnlit tide with its fragile t nta-
' cles, seeking some victim worth assim
ilating.
The sea-mosses grew from some
coarse dulse, which elung to the rocks
always in deep water. The sun was
scarcely up, when overhead drifted a
shadow. The beams thus pushed aside
cried in warning chorus, "A beat a
boat!"
"Oh. how beautiful!" cried a young
girl. A sonorous voic rsplifeu, "Let
me reach it with my oar?"
"You cannot, professor. What a
pity!"
The sea-moss, looking up, saw two
pager faces gazing at her swaying, per
fect form. " 'an't you get it?"
"Impossible!"
"What it is?"
"I do not know. My book does not
mention it. It is evidently a rara avi.
Well, we must give it np. '
The shadows moved with the boat;
the laughing sunbeams came back.
"We found you first, rara avi,"
said they. "Were they admiring me?"
"Of course."
"What next?"
The sunbeams laughed.
"Yes, that is the way," they said.
"Now you have tasted a new joy, you
will always be asking 'What next'?''
"Will they come again?"
"Possibly. Probably, however, you
are already forgotten."
-'1 might go after them. I am tired
of this. Every day 1 do the same
things. Look now at this large
breaker! I might mount and flit shore
wards. I too should travel. I should
meet with incidents Most people
might see me."
"You mean admire yon, I suppose.
After all, such expressions soon pall
npon one," replied the sunbeams.
"We think nothing of it. It is our
daily bread. Poets rave about us;
children chase ns live on us. We are
courted by princes, loved by queens,
songht by rioh and poor alike. But
hat of it?"
"Ah! what a career!" cried the moss
breathlessly. "No wonder you do not
understand our limitations, obliged at
the slightest breath of the ocean to
float this way or that."
"Nevertheless, you are with yonr
friends. It is tietter than drifting
among strangers."
"Fiiendsl" cried the moss, with a
ioornfnl recoil from the dulse, to whose
good services she owed her freedom
from care, having nothing to do but
pi iy, while the stronger moss clung to
the rocks. "Coarse creatures! Give me
good company or none."
The dulse laughed hoarsely, feeling
inclined to be very good company. The
family possessed a kind of beauty of
their own, too, ot whioh thev were
quite unconscious. When the tide was
low and the reef was hire tHe cov
ered the scarped rocks with mellow
tints, golden brown deepening into
black, even purple in the twilight.
The delicate moss grew lang-iid as
the day wore on, but the gay sun
beams never ceased their danciug.
The tide ebbed lower and lower, then
turned, and babbled back into the
hollows of the reef. With it came a
wind from shore, driving the wavelets
briskly on, splashing the foam on the
rocks, and scattering the sunbeams
iato millions of sparkling gltitms. At
length the wanderer was caught in a
rocky cave, and roamed hither and
thither with its monotone of story.
"So much to do ere surtBet our time
for rest, you know so I must go on.
No way out of this, you say, but the
way 1 came! Absurd! Can't go back
wards, you know. No 1 don't want to
stay. I'll search about; I daresay
there is a crack I can squeeze through.
No, I'm no story-teller, bnt it was in
teresting, very. A balloon, 1 think
they call it, with a nian-oi eature sitting,
trying to sail. Oh, yes, but I'm good
natnred enough I don't mind !eing
'sat upon.' 1 gave him a lift sent him
out to sea. I believe he said, at the
time, I was going the wrong way; but
you can't believe that kind of creature
North wind came blustering up and
turned him ronnd; carried him up ever
so high. I want to get out to see him
1 drown. Of court e be will as soon as
i north wind drops him. Ah! 1 thought
i I should find a crack. Dear me I I'm
' terribly squeezod-thera won't be much
left of me to roam over the reef before
sundown." He gathered his drifting
garments and drew them through the
tinv cranny, sighing softly his "fare
well. "
I The waves tabbied into the cave,
calm and peaceful in their ebb and
flow, a low moan came from the ebbing
depths, prophetic of coming storm,
occasionally breaking their monotone
of rhythm.
While the snn fct.
His triumphant course was run with
out the uprising of a single cloud.
N earing the horizon he cast forth
flames of dazzling brilliance, caught
the forests, shedding gold upon the
boles of the stalwart pines, buried the
scarped cliffs in a haze of glory, touch
ed the ocean, leaving a trail of crimson
from horizon to shore, and glowed
amongst the rock pools, until the bar
ren reef, purple amidst these gorgeous
sut flames, was crowned with dia
monds and rubies, while the lapping
waves, splashing against the rocky
walls of the cave, for the moment
budded ther, in amethyst and gold.
The sea-moss swayed beneath the
crimson current Torrents of gold
rolled past and over her. The
gay sea-creaturs crept ont of sight
into the crevices of the rocks, awaiting
night The western wind sank softly
with the sun. Then the after-glow
touched the very zenith in its rapid,
upward flight, and, fading as it fled,
gave plaoe to the evening star, serene
and sale. Tha did the dim sky darken
into night, and the Eternal drew baok
the veil that hid the glories of the d.s
tant worlds from sight '
At midnight the storm arose. The
reef was covered; its garments of dulse
rutblegjly torn by the swirling waters, '
were swept far out to sea.
The delicate sea-moss set forth
alone. Dashed now against some ship
in distress, now against some hid
eous sea-monster, her career was no
longer frea of incident Day dawned I
as she drifted shorewards on the heav- j
ing billows. The advantages of trav
el were hers. She saw how large the
world migut be. Perhaps it appeared
a little dreary to her, all alone.
"Even those coarse creatures on the
reef would be company," she said sadly-
It was a monotonous life, after all,
thus drifting baok and forth about the
island.
"At lastl"
She recognized the voice as she waa
lifted from the waters and laid in a
book.
"None but the rarest specimens are
placed in this collection, cried the
professor gaily.
"Your rara avis is in the best oi
company then," laughed the lady.
The rara avia was triumphant ad
mired of all, shown as a cariosity, her
perfect form commented on.
"What next?" she asked after awlule.
Life was still monotonous.
There waa no answer.
"The best of company," chatted the
live-long day. Here should have been
a compensation for the I as of liberty.
Our sea-moss listerd., t"6idy to ad
mire, and, in return, give her own
views of life, but after all. remained
ever silent
Her compeers were dull, self-centred,
self-absorbed.
Was she as dull as they?
She turned with a warm glow at her
heart to her old life on the reef. "I
prefer the dulse after all," said she;
"they have their outside interests, the
kindly folk."
Too latel
GLEAN1NOS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
A hocse-dook letter-box which is so
arranged that the postman as he in
serts the mail mechanically and auto
matically rings a bell, is a new inven
tion. Photographing; under water has
actually been carried out, so it is said.
Experiments were made in 1889, in the
Mediterranean, to asoertain how far
daylight penetrated under water. In
very clear water, near Corsica, and
eighteen miles from land, the limit of
daylight was found by means of pho
tograpbio plates to be 1580 feet
A tool has been recently invented
that may be attached to any drill press
for boring any geometrieul figure, such
as round, square, hexagon, octagon, tri
angle, diamond, star, oval, half round,
etc. It can be fitted to bore any shape
of hole having straight sides or curved
sides, or both. Any machinist of ordi
nary ability can successfully use the
tooL
Thb oldest of the Dutch journals ha
passed its 2'26th anniversity, and the
publisher has issued to his subscribers
copies of the first number of that
journal as it appeared on January 8.
1656. It is said that the earlier copies
of this paper were carefully consulted
by Macaulay in preparing his celebrated
history.
Onb of the hottest regions in the
United States is along the line of the
Southern Pacifio railroad, in Arizona.
At Bagdad, in that Territory, the ther
mometer has been known to stand as
high as 140 in the shade for days in
succession. Tlie ticket agent at Bag
dad says that he has seen the mercury
standing at 128 on the cool side of the
depot building at midnight
TnE common school children of
Athens are taught ancient and modern
Greek, French and sometimes English.
Their "readers" are the classics of
their own country, and while they are
still children they are familiar with
Homer, Xenophon, Herodotus and the
dramatists. Their nursery tales are
the myths of Hellenic- literature.
Belrek warb is no longer made in
Ireland. It is the thinnest "china" in
the world, and Queen Victoria drinks
her tea from Beleek cups. A cup and
saucer of Beloek ware is a suitable
wedding-present. What is called
Beleek ware is now made at some of
the potteries in Trenton, New Jersey.
It is expensive, as there is so much
hand-work necessary to impart to it
the delicacy of the famous Irish ware.
Is the new British Pharmacopoeia
the metric weights and measures will
be a looted, to the entire exclusion of
the English weights and measures
hitherto used there and in the United
States.
Statistics of the Custom house at
San Francisco show that the sum of
$750,000 was collected last year as the
duty on importations of smoking
opium, at that port alone, with the
tariff at 112 a pound. This means an
importation of 62,000 pounds.
Onb ot the natural curiosities of
Asia is the Great Salt Desert of Persia.
It is many miles in extent, and is a
solid incrustation of salt several feet
thick.
Thb latest architectural novelty ia
Chioogo is a book-shaped block, twelve
stories high, to bo known as the Mer
cantile Register. "This book will have
steel bindings, with terra-cotta trim
mings." Is the kingdom of Poland there was
formerly a law according to which any
person found guilty of slander was
compelled to walk on all fours through
the streets of the town where he livsd,
accompanied by the beadle, as a sign
that be wag unworthy of the name of
man.
' A discharged apprentice ia Vienna,
Austria, revenged himself the other
day by sneaking into his employees
cellar, pulling the bungs out of all the
barrel', and allowing $1-2,000 worth cf
wine to escape.
In order to keep sea porgles through
the summer, the fishermen of Rh'e
Island have nets so arranged that t e
passing schools are led up into salt
water ponds and the channels connect
ing with the oceon are closad.
Opium is the dried juice or the pop or,
and the do er gets its rpuUtiou f
putting petple to sleep because it con
tains so much of this narcotic A story
comes fr m Turkey that people stopping
to rest near the large poppy fields there
are often overcome by inhaling the
drug.
An Egyptian scythe, dug up on the
banks ot the Nile iu l(90,and said to he
as old as Moses, is exhibited amoig the
antiquities In the private museum of I
Flinders Pe rie, Loudon. The shaft of
the instrument Is of wood set with a
row of fine flint saws, wbbh are secure
ly oeu ented m a groove.
fVenaarek as a Schoe'bny.
Prince Bismarck, the great Ger
man statesman, though new in retire
ment, is regarded by his fellow-countrymen
as their greatest man. Not
long since he passed his seventy
seventh birthday; and on this occa
sion 12,000 people visited Frledrlchs
rutie to congratulate him, and 3,000
telegraphic m-issasjes were brought In
by hard-working messengers. Prince
Bismarck is an example of the effect
of scholarship and high education In
shaping character and helping a ca
reer. Not a few great men have tri
umphed in spite of lack of education;
many others have realized their great
ness by its aid.
Prince Bismarck was an excellent
scholar In his boyhood. He was not
yet seventeen when he completed his
studies preparatory for the university;
and that these studies were not of a
trifling sort, judged by any standard,
Is proved by the certificate which he
received on passing his examination.
This paper which bears date Easter,
1832, runs as follows:
"The written examination com
prised Ancient History: 'Bella Ro
ma norum adversus Macedonum Re
ges,' a Latin essay. Secondly, Modern
History: On the political conditions
of the leading States of Europe at the
beginning of the Eighteenth century.'
Thirdly, Mathematics: To find the
area of a figure limited at will by a
parabc!? curve and several straight
lines. Fourthly, 9 German essay:
'How Europe accqulrea and main
tained superiority over the other con
tinents of the world. Fifthly, Greek:
Translation and crucial comments on
the passage In the 'Ajax' of Sophocles
from line 940 to line 970, and a Greek
exercise.
"Otto von Bismarck received the
following certificates in the viva voce
examination: Latin, good and flu
ent; Greek, good; Ancient History,
very good; Modern History, good;
Mathematics, generally good, Philos
ophy, good."
The general certificate Is as follows.
"His knowledge of Latin is good, both
In his comprehension of the writers
and In facility of composition. His
knowledge of Greek Is pretty good.
He has a very satisfactory skill In the
use of German; aud a fair knowledge
of mathematics, history, and geogra
phy. Ot the modern languages, he
has studied French aud English with
special success."
The teachers close their certificate
of the boy who wa9 to become of the
most powerful man in Europe, with
these words, "We dismiss this able
and well-equipped youth with our best
wishes, and the hope that he will
pursue his further education with re
newed energy."
Bismarck's university course did
not fall short of the promise of his
preparatory studies; and in his sub
sequent career as a sta'esman con
tinual evidences are fjund of hU
scholastic training.
Story of a MlMlng- Jlauiund.
One night a newly et gaged couple
were going to a ball. In the carriage
he asked her to let him see her ring
for a moment, some peculiarity of Its
sparkle having caught his eye, al
though why she should have had her
glove off no one can tell. She gave
him the ring and he examined it for
some time in the light of the carriage
window. When the carriage stopped
she asked him for the ring.
"But I gave it back to you and you
took it."
"No, you did not. I have not had
it since 1 gave it to you."
Lights were brought, search was
made, clothes were shaken every
place where a diamond ring could
possibly lie concealed was uncovered.
The ring could not be found. Fach
persisted, he that he gave the ring
back, she that she did not receive It.
Assertion became argument; argu
me'nt changed from heat to Ice; com
munication was interrupted and
finally ceased; the engagement was
broken. They went their ways and
each married another. One day
several years later the woman, rip
ping up an old ball dress found In
the heading of one of the ruffles a
diamond ring. It was the lost en
gagement ring. She wrote to her
former lover a letter of apo'ngy and
explanation, but the incident had
turned the curreut of loth their
lives. This Is a true story. New
v0rk Sun.
CARE Ot FINE CHINA.
"One of the troubles of a house
keeper's life,", said a practical woman
the other day, "is the practice that
som servants persist in of pouring
boiling water over fine china. I went
into the kitohen the other day just in
time to see this done, and when I
spoke to the maid about it she imme
diately turned about and deluged the
dishes with eold water from the hy
drant It seems impossible to impress
on the minds of these people the fact
that sudden changes of tempeiature
will crock the glazing on almost any
earthenware, and that it is practical
rnin to fine grades of china, and all
argument on the subject seems wasted.
They will take the dishes out of the
pan, examine them with the greatest
care, and declare that they are not in
jured a t article, and they may not
tho at the moment that they are, bnt
soon afterward they begin to 'craze,'
as the manuf ctnrers say, and after a
time are covered with tiny lines of
crackle. There is but one safe way to
wash china and glassware, and that is
to have the water of just snftioient
temperature, so that the hands can be
pnt in it Water that ia too hot for
the hands is too hot for good dishes.
I used to insist on the servants prepar
ing the dish-water before puttiog ths
dishf s in the pan. To do this tbey
must rub the soap on the cloth, and
will easily discover what the proper
degree of heat should be. in this same
connection, I may say that 1 never
allow dish-mops in my kitchen. Ser
vants are almost absolutely certain to
nse boiling water, because they do not
realize the necessity for cooling it when
tbey use a mop. If the pieces are brushed
out with a mop, the water may be
actually at the boiling point and for
this reason I think that the di h-mop
shonld be abolished from every well
regulated kitchen."
A Houston County (Georgia) man
feu a sow 0 years old, that has been
the mother of 172 pigs, and now hat
t llttesf eleven.
Almanacs for 1S93 are out already.
NEWS IN BRIFF.
London is said to have been
the
first city in the world to use coat
Six millions of dollars are invested
j in the manufacture of dynamite iu the
I United Stater.
The value of the art treasures ot
the Museum of Art of New York City
Is $7,000,000.
The people of Russ'a use np 6,000,
000 packs of playing cards every
vear.
It has been stated that every 800
bullets fired duriug the civil war a man
was killed.
Some of the African tribes pull
their fingers till the joints "crack" as a
rorm of salutation.
From an old account book it ap
pears that in 1797 tobacco was sold by
. the yard In Eastport, Me.
j The area of the Czar of Russia's
possessions Is far greater than that of
! 1. .v-.ll T 1., . r-
tue entire xvepuuuu ot r ranee.
Every southern state except Ken
tucky has passed pension laws for Us
ex-Confederate soldiers.
A large block of asphaltum was
rect ntly taken from a mine In Califor
nia which weighed two tons and a
halt
The tallest chimnev in the world la
! at Port Dundas, Scotland. It is 454
feet to its copestone from the ground,
Photographers say that the facial
resemblance of husbands and wives is
' closer than that ot brothers and sis-
Galileo's first telescope was made
. from part of a lead water in each
end of which he cemented cC23)on
spectacle glasses,
The World's Fair managers re
cantlv offered 50 for the nroirramma
j held by Lincoln when he was shot. Mrs.
j McClintock of Philadelphia now has
me paper.
The author of the "Watch on the
Rhine," Max Scheckenburger, Is to be
commemorated with a monument In
the German town of Tuttllngen.
The "Sampson" well at Waco,
Texas, Is the largest one in the United
States, It throws up one and one
hair million gallons of pure hot water
dally.
Plcardy, France, claims the honoi
of being the place where the first plate
glass was made. The process was dis
covered by accident in 1633,
The last execution for forgery In
England took place at the Old Bailey
on December 31, 1792. The name of
the convict was Thorras Maynard.
The first monument ever erected to
the memory of the Union soldiers who
fell in the Civil War is that in the
cemetery on Somerville avenue, In
Somerville, Mass.
A very convenient mucilage can be
made of ocion juice. On being boiled
I short time It will yield, cn being
pressed, quite a large quantity of ad
hesive fluid.
The former record for fast type
writing has been broken by Miss Caht
arine V. Curry, of Syracuse, N. Y
who can write 182 perfect words in one
minute. She has been operating near
ly five years.
A man living iu New Ecgland,
who is five feet seven Inches In height,
has a beard six feet two Inches in
length, or eight Inches longer than
himself. The beard began to grow
twelve years ago.
Of the alxtv-four candidates for
admission to the Imperial Academy at
Berlin, Miss Bella Newport, an Ameri
can, stood at the head. She excels ov
the piano.
The tray or drawer In which Cali
fornia ships so much of her small fruit
is lei Indies long, 8J Inches wlds and
1) Inches deep. They are packed ten,
fifteen or twenty in a crate, being
placed five deep.
By a recent edict issued by the St
Petersburg (Russia) police has been
decreed that every theatrical manager
shall place in the hands of a specified
official, either in cash or current bonds,
a sum sufficient to cover bis exper.se.'
during an entire fortnight
Quince culture is not generallly over
done, because many fruit growers
think It a difficult fruit to produce,
and so avoid it Under a deep, strong,
sandy loam, with good culture, there
should b9 no more reason for failing
with quinces thau with anything el).
A joint commit tse of the two
bouses of the English parliament has
reported electricity a su table and effi
cient source of motive power, and
recommended that electric railway
constructlou be encouraged throughout
England.
The natives of Gibraltar, and also tho
Moors across the strait, have a tradition
that somewhere on the rock there
exists a cavern whence a subtetran
ean passage leads under the strait to
the mountains on the other side. The
existence of the passage, they say, is
known to the monkeys, who regularly
use it in passiug from one continent tc
'.he other.
' There Is nothing so fatal to craw
fish as a thunder storm," said a Wash
ington fishdealer. "When I make a
shipment of them to any place at a dis
tance I always make sure that the
weather promises well. On more than
one occasion I have had entire consign
ments killed on a journey by a small
Meclrical disturbance."
The newest great city of Europe Is
1 Buda-Pesth, the Capitol and metropolis
. of Hungary. In Koesu h's day, less than
' half a century ago, the combined popu
' latton of Buda and Pesth, lying on op
! posite sides of the Danube, was about
j one hundred thousand. The eonsoll
' dated municipality now has a popula
tion of fully na.f a million.
The pains and expense which Gun
maker Krupp will take to bring his best
work to Chicago shows the valnn that
he puts upon an exhibit at the World's
Fa'r. He will probably spend a quarter
of a million on his display, but he will
secure an advertisement that will be
worth far more than the outlay.
An old restaurant bill of fare,
prii.ted In Richmond, Va., in January,
1834, giv e the following war-time
prices in Confederate monev:
"Soup, $1 60; chicken, $3.50; roast
beef,. $ J.00; ha ji and eggs, $3.00; raw
O' sters, $2.00; coffee, $2 00; bread and
butter, $1.50; a bottle of ale, $1100;
and a cigar, S2.C0.
A piece of wood one inch long and
one-half inch thick was removed from
the cheek, of a Reading, Pa., young
man. The splinter entered his cheek
six years ago in a coasting accident.
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