1 11)1 JSiiL'i$ B. P. BOHWEIER, THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Propiiater. VOL. XLVI. MIFFLINTOWIN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 189-2. NO. 42. TO THE COLORADO DESERT. Thou brown, bar-breaaie I, volcelaai mystery. Hot bpblox ff DAtura. ctvHui-crowned, what butt thou duDv C3clottod and mute as when the groan of chaos turnwd Xhr nkl. burning bosom to tho inn. IL mountain mlene tiara tijMch, tb rivers 'iig. Ttwu fciiiwereti never nnto anything. I'Ium tinoatml linnU puat iu thy slim bad; Th bornpl toad rung rustling In tbe beat ; Ibe bi'V7V ravcoote, boru afraid. btami to '"jo r.rack(,li eprlntf and Up ac Away, and bowU and bowU and bowls nd br.U, Cntil the iuUtade shaken with an added lon- iinwsa. Iby bip ui(cI '..ooti up a giant stalk. I:i cnT .it j of yearning, to tbe unburn t akles. And drip rate hony ftom the lipa 01 ycli-jf u Cuwri, and die. feiLe iori' b vise sun-dried bhajHia with feet and ban is. And thi's'y tuoutbs preased on th awalterina Mils). Mark bare aud tbor a grewsouie gr&veless spot Wtro aume oue drank thy score b lug hotneaa, and In not. Cod n.ut bave iuad thee In hit angor, forger. -Upincott i. BOSS OF LIBEUTV KAXCH The !'0s was very sick. The men who disliked him, and his clever, systematic way, and straight, honest dealing, and the men who had learned Ik respect and love hini for his good ness and unseltishness, were alike wo r r ed and disheartened over his ca& They had sent thirty miles for a doctor, who came, and went, an l wasn't doing him a bit of good A low fever was sapping his life away, and we realized that the doctor did not understand his case, and was not helping hiin. I suggested setting arioihi-r doctor, who had a great rep utation for his medical skill, but be fure I could act upon it he heard of 't m ionic way and sent forme. Hal," he said, holding out a lean, Liowu hand, "it's of no use. I'm go ug over tin; Great livide and I'm going alone. I'm not afraid f the Journey, but I w-mt you to help me and not hinder me. And, Hal, you must he the 1kss of Liberty llanch VoU uiu?t finish my work." He made n:e five him a solemn promise that I would carry out the tdafis he had made, and then he grew light headed, and began calling for 'Clara" and "Lorec." ami went out of the cabin, and stmug man that I was, I felt a tear trickling down my cheek iu the starlight. The night was so beautiful, so lull of heavenly promise, and tho only being 1 loved on earth was ijlug Just within there -d)iug. He was our "bos," too, the leader, director, of this camp of rough men hired by a big contractor who wanted their sinews and souls like the cattle they branded in herds. They had fought and rioted and despoiled untjl one day this brown-skinned, smooth faced chap walked in among them, said, "men, I'm your master," and made a compact with them for their fealty, and saw that they kept it, too. One look from under his level brow brought the roughest man there to terms. A word or two conquered an other. Soon he was writine their letters homo for them, reading to them, and keeping them out of mis chief. I did not take to him at flr-.t It seemed to me he was always watch ing for some one, and I was suspicious that he was a fugitive from justice, always on the alert for a surprise. He fastened the door of his adobe cabin, like a tenderfoot, and had to te ap proached like an array general in his tent And he never got over that way he had of looking off to the East and listening and starting as stags di when they scent the sea. I was ap prehensive that some day he would stampede just as they do, and we would never see him again. And he did but in a rather different way. He had been with us a year or more, when one day a couple of tour ists rode up on horseback on our ranch. and asked if they could stay and rest and have dinner there. I missed the boss and went to the adobe after him. 'Company, sir." T. said when I was inside. The boss was standing in the middle of the cabin and didn't look around. 'Yes. yes," i,e said. ,-I wish penple would let us alone. But, ILn, give them the best, and Hal" he turned a ghastly white face toward nic "don't let them in here." "Are you sick, sir?" I asked in sur prise. "Yes. I feel wretchedly bad. Hal, notice what they talk about, waat he says, but keep them away keep them away!" 1 pitied the boss, and as he had won me over before this time, by his goodness. I was willing to stand be tween him and harm, but, I felt sure, more sure than ever, that he had committed some crime and was afraid of being apprehended. I determined to protect him and if these wire cne m ts to go to any length to aid him o escap?. but the two strange! s wilt h;;o come to the ranch were idiersof fashion who were on an outing with a large company from whom they hail parted for the day They had a curiosity to see our ranch, were tired, and only sought a brief rest, and to be left to themselves. They were a ruar. and his wife. She was a faded beauty: at least she was fsdinj, though still youngr. He w.is a rather ha.-dsomc cavalier of the P'ntlemanly typ-, and he was very fond of his wifV who pcfishly ac cepted his attentions. I noticed them both particularly, snd remarked on their personal appearance, so that I could describe thorn to the boss fterwards When they v.ere gon". later in the afternoon, 1 sought the adobe ai.l louna tue boss 0-ing ,n his bunk lown, the curtain partly drawa. "Well. Hal." '"They are.-ine. sir." '"'W ho were lln-v race "A man and his wife. He is very sir, but I "ucn in i,j,c with hpt- jge ne doesn't jare muchifor him." "Ah! doesn't love him' No, no, could she help loving him ue.so UUuItf, So " , beR H'don, sir, buthe did not itK ,'ue as UljUe: on the contrary, flight him w,ak. The woman he l i b"en bc;lut'ful once, but low d'aPDPointed and pcevisr 3d JOin "ear what he called her?" a rpa , hcr 'dariinif' and "dear" 8r.$7tae came ol 'Qar'" And she called him?" " 'Loren?'" Every word I said must have Im planted a thorn or a sword thrust in the unhappy heart of the- man who heard me, but I did not know it then. But I did imagine a romance that would account for the strange action of the boss. It was that Clara had been his sweetheart before Loren had married her, and that she had jilted him for the other man. From that hour the boss was undet the ban of the illness, which was now at its highn Now, Indeed, I had learned to love him, as I never loved mortal man before. I would have throttled tne man who would have nintea aught against him. I was his faithful nurse as far ns h ,m,i,i iQ, me be, for he still held aloof from in timacy; out I was glad to know that my baud could soothe the pain that racked his poor head; that he liked to u.ivs me sit, oesiue nim; that at night. when he would stay alone. I might nc in my ounalo robe outside the adobe, and sometimes speak to bin? Tor companionship. i was wnn mm when death camt. for come it did. H, had aii tho men one bv one, and then he signified Lis wish to be alone with me, so wa two were together band in hand, waiting for the supreme moment when ueaui wouiu pari us. T. hen he told me his storp Tt. w-u strange, romantic, wonderful, but. as i listened a &reat tide of lov ran through my heart. Yes. Part of my tt.eory about the boss had been true. He had loved most unhappily had been cruelly jilted for another. Hut it was not the woman who visited the ranch that day whom he had loved: she had wrecked his life. The boss lifted mv hand to his litis to nre pare me for that last great surprise it was lor L,oren's sake he was exiled from the world and from life. When I ciosed his eyes that night I solemnly kissefi the unresponsive lips. Then I wrapped that wasted form, which no hand but mine had touched, In the draperies of death, and bore it in mv arms to the uravp which thp men had dug under the great cottonwood iree, mere to sleep until the resur rection morn. Have you guessed It? Yes; the Kss of Liberty Ranch was a woman Free Press. Or Modern Constructiou. The construction of mechanical singing birds has now reached sucn perfection that at first sight the lit tie automaton is absolutely like the bird whose plumage it borrows, whether it represents a simple night ingale or is adorned with the brilliant feathers of a bird of paradise. Neither in Ihe pnse nor form could tbe art of the taxidermist do better. The attitude of each species is care fully studied. Certain of these birds are inclosed in a simple cage or are placed upon a branch forming a perch, while others placed upon a tree, flutter from one branch to another, without it being possible to see the little rod, mounted upon a pivot and hidden in the leaves, that carries it back and forth. Again, others may be placed upon a stand or in a basket of flowers. Humming birds are concealed in a snuff-box, the cover of which being raised, they suddenly appear and be gin to sing. After the air is finished, they re-enter the box and the cover closes of itself. The snuff-boxes in which they are inclosed are decorated in all possible ways, with inlaid en amel work, Japanese designs upon silver and gold, old silver, repousse work, inlaid work, and so on. The first automatic singing birds had a motion of the bill only, and it was by means of a bird organ or a music box that they seemed to sing. The i mprove ruents afterward introduced consisted in the substitution of a genuine warbling for the music box, and in giving these little singers the perfect appearance of life. A reproduction of the true song of birds has been successfully obtained, and we are now able to hear all our ordinary artists, with the repertory peculiar to each of them. The mechanical apparatus la wound up like clock-work, and pro duces various motions ot the head, tail and wings which are so naturally combined with the warbling that the mechanical songster, whoc plumage leaves nothing to be desired, seems tc be m living, breathing tning. Tho Montli or the rope. An Italian daily supplies tho world with a pleasant little anecdote upon the personal vanitv of His Holiness Pope Leo X III. The nuns inhabiting a convent near Home had joined in embroider ing a beautiful carpet, the center of which displayed a likeness of the l'opc. When the clerical messenger unrolled the splendid gobelin before M;c eyes of Leo the latter scrutinized hia likeness and pulled a face, saying, querulously, "That mouth is twice as large as mine. I would not have so ugly a face said to be mine, even to be uampk'd under foot Take it aivavl" The messenger was speech less. Then one of the papal courtiers said, "Woman is talkative. It is not surprising that even the mouth of Your Holiness under female manipu lation should have grown bcyoird all measure." The Pope laughed and ordered the carpet to be accepted with thanks. Inaction. Groat evils result from physical in ,t,r, If. Is well known that through the whole human system strength and development come only by exercise. Every unused muscle shrinks in size and loses its force, and the man or woman who lives ch'efly a life of passive repose will gradually lose the power as well as the desire for activitv. This, however, is by no mean3 the whole of the evil involved. The connection between tne minn and the body is very intimate, and the mental faculties cannot obtain their full power, nor the character attain its highest excellence, unless the body be kept In healthful con dition by salutary exercise. Pure air and regular physical exertion are necessarv in order to think clearly, to decide w'isely, to reason acutely, to plan with discretion, and to execute with vigor. Strength of will depends strono-th of muscle. and be who is weak and flabbv in the latter will in all probability be fceu and Irresolute In the former. PERSISTENCE OF PESTS. rhy Thrlv. and lucre... WhlL Dmlrabl. Creature. Grow Fawar. From the sowing and planting ot nls seed, almost, indeed from the turning of the furrow, the farmer enters upon a contest with the weeds, for a place in which his crops may grow, and if he or the crops are not vanquished, as the weeds never are, the warfare continues till harvest time. While he, with infinite labor, pre pares the ground and sows his seed with all care, praying that drouth may not wither nor floods drown it, and that frosts may not cut down the tender plants, the winds of Heaven and the fowls of the air scatter broad cast the seeds of the noxious weeds, ar they lie dormant in the ground awaiting opportunity, and then they germinate in sterile places, fence cor ners and nooks ot the wayside, and nourish alike in scorching sunshina and in sodden soil. They defy the latest and the earn est frosts, grow with their roots in the air; and cut down, spring up, zrow on, blossoming and ripening their seed la creeping stealth and even unscathed by blight; and so flourish in spite of all unkindliness of man or stress of nature, that the husbandman wishes they might by some freak of demand become the useful plants, his present crop the undesired ones. Somewhat of the position that .veeds stand opposed to the plants which the husbandman depends upon for his livelihood, vermin hold toward the beasts and birds, upon which the sportsman depends for his recreation. While they whose protection men endeavor to maintain during the sea son of procreation, and at times when scarcity of food prevails, decrease of ten to complete extinction, the ver min, w hom the hand of man is al ways against, continue to increase and multiply or at least hold their own. To them as to the weeds nature seems to deal a kinder hand, and spares, even nourishes, while she de stroys their betters. The snow crust, that walls the quail iu a living tomb, makes a royal banqueting hall tor the pestiferous field mice, where they feast and revel in plenty, secure from all their ene mies, feathered or furry. It Impounds the deer, but gives free range to the wolf and to bis as pitiless two-legged brother, the crust hunter. The wet seasons that drown the jalkiw woodcock and grouse work no har";a to the ravenous brood of the hawk and owl, nor to the litter ot fox, mink or weasel. Wet or dry, hotorcold, the year fosters them t iroughout its varied round. Winged ticks kill the grcuse, but the owl endures their companionship with sedate serenity and thrives with a swarm of tbe parasites in the covert of his feathers. The skunk has been in bad odor since man's first acquaintance with him, and has always been killed on sight as a pest that the world be the sweeter for being rid of. In latter years the warfare against him has re ceived an impetus from the value of his fury, but though this has gone on relentlessly for a quarterof a century, or more, bis tribe still live to load the air with a fragrance that incites tae ambitious trapper to further con quest. All the year round all the farmers and their boys wage war upon the crows, but each returning autumn sees the columns of tne black army moving southward with apparently unthinued ranks, while year by year, the harried platoons of ducks and geese return fewer and less frequent. Those detested foreigners, the En glish sparrows, increase and multiply in spite of bitter winters and right eous persecution, while our natives, the beloved song birds, diminish in numbers. Thus on ever? band we find the un desirable in animated nature, the birds and beasts that we would gladly be rid ot, maintaining their numbers, while those who increase we desire are losing ground and tending toward extinction. The prospect for the sportsman oi the future is indeed gloomy, unless he shall make game of the pests and become a hunter of skunks and a shooter ot crows and sparrows Who can say that a hundred years hence the leading sportmen of the period will not be wrangling over the points and merits of their skunk and wood- chuck dogs and bragging of their bags of crows and sparrows? Forest and Stream. His Vailg. Even when a man overcomes his scruples and resolves to do a little in the smuggling way, he is apt to blunder at the last moment. A tour ist had concealrd several boxes of tine Cuban cigars in an old valise As the crisis approached, however, his nerve failed, as often happens on such occasions, and when called, on arrival at port, to claim his baggage, he failed to identity that containing the smuggled goods. His wife at once divined his trouble, and seeing pot only the cigars, but far more val uable chattels, passing into a limbo from which they could never be re claimed, came boldly forward. "Why, John," she exclaimed, "don't you know my maid's valise?" and pro ceeded forthwith to reclaim the bag gage, which was handed over to her without question. A very successful device was practiced by a Hebrew merchant and his wife. For a long time they escaped detection, but at last their method transpired. It ap peared that always, when he arrived at port, tne man was met bvhis wife, who forthwith installed herself in lis state-room. The lace was secreted in the state-room and left there by Itxo merchant when he came ashore t be examined. After a rigid inves tigation had proved his gullelegsness and Impeccability he rejoined his wife who meanwhile had calmly proceeded to gather up his leavings, and, uti searched and unsuspected, conveyed them safely into his hands. Govern ment officials have numerous unsus-! pected sources of information and j many a woman is detected by infor-' mation quietly conveyed, for a con-1 sideration, to headquarters by some one in the establishment where the goods intended to be smuggled were purchased. A lady consult an ex perienced "packer" In a Parisian house with regard to the best niethou of concealing a piece of dress g-xida so that it will pass the custom offi cials undetected. The advice is freelv given, the contrivance suggestwi is ingenious, and perfectly well known at the enstom house, which receives, if the game Is worth the candle, an intimation of how to recognize the ci tUrant purchaser and would-be smuggler, and what to look for when she is searched. ilorM.hoe.. Horse were not shod In Egvpt, Assyria, or Palestine. Tbe latter country was supplied with lorses bv the Egyptians. Solomon paid 150 shekels of silver, equal in value to 875 for each horse. This was a high price, the difference in relative value of a shekel and a given weight of wheat being considered. Isaiah speaks of horses whose "hoofs shall be counted like flint" a valuable quality where they were shoeless. The Syrians and Hittites were supplied with Egyptian horse? by Solomon, who turned au honest penny by tnis means. I Aristotle and Pliny menttoo the covering of horses' feet In stony Dlaces to protect the hoof from break age and wear, but It is probable that such a covering was a bandage or boot, and used principally oc long Journeys. Suetonius refers to the dismount ing of Vespasian's muleteer, to shoe his mules. Wrappings of plaited flh.r, such as hemp or broom, were used, as was also leather. In Japan the horses have clogs of twisted straw, of which a large supply is car ried on a Journey; when worn, an other is immediately applied. The modern custom of shoeing would, no doubt, appear a barbarous custom in their minds. Capt Cook refers to the fact that the Siberians and Kamtschatkans use traveling socks for their dogs. Camels in old times were similarly provided. These boots were drawn on over tbe feet, and it does not appear that Iron or other metallic plates were nailed to the hoofs. Such boots were shod with metal for the rich. The mules of Nero were shod with silver; those of his wife Poppiea, with gold. For less stately purposes mules were shod with iron. Homer mentions brazen-footed steeds, prob ably a merely metaphorical expres sion Implying strength. Mithridates and Alexander exp rlenced great difficulty with their cavalry, owing to the soreness of the unprotected feet of the horses in long marches. The first certain mention of shoes being nailed to horses' hoofs is in the works of the Emperor Leo, ninth century. The practice of shoe ing horses is said to have I cen Intro duoed into England by William L A Deadly Puison. Two eminent French chemists have iucceeded in extracting a deadly poison, in the shape of a liquid, from human and animal breath. It Is concluded that in tbe air of ill-ventilated rooms there is an accumula tion of a deadly volatile principle, more dangerous than tbe carbonic acid which is always present Tlfe discovery constitutes au additional reasonjwhy greater attention should be paid to the purification of the air of dwelling-houses, and especially of sleeping rooms, by a thoroughly scientific system of ventilation. Wc are reminded, by the announcement of the discovery of the poisonous na ture of breath, of the very extraor dinary occurrence that took place at the Old Bailey in 1750. Newgate Gaol, always in a very bad sanitary condition, had been crowded with prisoners, mostly discharged soldiers, on tbe close of the great Continental War. Smollett a doctor of medicine, eays in his history, that "the very air they breathed acquired a pestilential degree of putrefaction." The result; when the men were taken for trial to the Old Bailey, was fearfully tragic. The lord mavor, an alderman, two Judges, several lawyers, most of the Jury, and a large number of specta tors, died from the effects of inhaling the poison reeking from the pris oners. Losing- and Forgetting-. A successful business man said there were two things he learned when he was eighteen, which were ever afterwards of great use to him. namelv "Never to lose anything, and never to forget anything.' An old lawyer sent him with an Im portant paper, with certain instruc tions what to do with it "But," in quired the young man, "suppose I lose it, what shall I do then?" "You must not lose it." "I don't mean to," said the young man. "but suppose I should happen to?" "But I say you must not happen to, t shall make no provisions for such an occurrence; you must not lose it!" This put a new train of thought in che young man's mind, and he found that if he was determined to do any thing he could do it He made such a provision against every contingency that he never lost anything. He found thi3 equally true about forget ting. If a certain matter of importanci was to be remembered he pinned it down in his mind, fastened it there, and made it stay. He used to say: "When a man tells nic he forgets to do something, I tell him he might as well say, 'I do not think enough of my business to take the trouble to think of it again.'" I once had a young man in my em ploy, said another gentleman, who deemed it sufficient excuse for neglecting any important duty to say, "I forgot" I told him that would not answer. If he was sufficiently interested he would be careful to re member. It was because he did not care enough that he forgot I drilled him with this truth. He worked for lks three years, and during the last three years he was utterly chauged 1 that respect. I'adentood Hi. Bu.inesa. Druggist lam getting tip a new patent medicine, and I want some signs painted. Scenery Decorator How nianj words? "Not many. Just say. "Take Di Squills' Sirup for that tired feeling." "All right I'll put it on ftvery steep hill i can find." New York Weekly. - COST OF INDIAN WmR3. otu Surprising Facta and Figures am tfee Cost of Fighting Poor Lo. A few figures, which will prove very Interesting to people who have paid attention to Indian affairs dur ing the past few years, were given by a Commissioner connected with the Indian Bureau at Washington while he was visiting this city the other day. He has had charge of the Indian census under one administration and has also taken a prominent part in the negotiations for the purchase of lands from the Sioux. He has lived among the lnd ans and was an ardent friend of the late Sitting Bull and other noted chiefs. Some one In a party at an uptown hotel spoke of the trouble in the Northwest and asked the Commis sioner for his opinion as to the cause of the outbreak. He laid the blame on the Govern ment and the incompetent men who have represented it in dealing with the aborigines. Those who were not incompetent, he said, were worse, and generally retired with a fortune In two or three years after receiving their appointments.. During the past few years, however, there has been little or no chance to acquire wealth rapidly, and the only cause, the Com missioner said, was because the In diaus were destitute of wealth and have none to lose for the white men to acquire. The rations promised by the Government were scanty, and the issue was often delayed for weeks at a time. "This last statement," said he, 'does not appear to mean very much; but when persons depend upon those rations for existence in lieu of game and are compelled to go days without food they can appreciate the Indian's condition, and not wonder that he hails with delight the belief that a Messiah is coming to mitigate hip hardships." Mr. Thomas Donaldson, who Is con nected with the Indian census, made a compilation several years ago re garding the cost of the various In dian wars. Frocu these figures, if the Government policy had been to better the Indians' condition, I can safely say that every Sioux buck would now be the possessor of a farm worth at least $2,000 if the money had been paid him instead of it being spent for powder and shot "According to Mr. Donaldson's dgures, since the organization of the Government on July 4, 1776, up to June 30, 1887, the Indians have cost us$929,239,284. Only one-third of this enormous amount has been spent In civilizing the Indians, while two thirds has been spent in fighting them, in the transportation of troops and the purchase of munitions of war. "The most costly of all Indian wars was that known as the great Sioux war, which broke out in 1852 and lasted about four years. How many Indians were killed I do not know, and I cannot give the exact number of soldiers and settlers. The losses rn both sides, however, were Tery heavy. "This war cost the Government 120,000,000. The Navajo war cost 115,000, OOO.and something like $200, 000,000 were expended during the wars from 1862 to 1876. The Sioux war of 1876, celebrated by the Custer massacre, cost for actual field expen ses $2,312,531, while the Nez Perces war of the following year cost $931, 329.52. Two hundred and forty-one officers ana soldiers were killed, and tbe Indian losses were 128. "The next outbreak occurred among tbe Bannock Indians in 1878, and $556, 636 were spent in subduing them. There has been considerable Indian fighting with little squads of Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico since 1882, and for every Apache run Sown and killed the Government hp spent $100,000. "These figures, of course, appea. exorbitant to a person not familiar with Indian fighting, but when one takes into consideration all of tbe ex penses incidental to the long chases across the country they will find that the figures are correct" New York Herald. Not a Virtue. Those' uncxmfortable people who pride themselves upon 6aying just what they think on all occasions are unpopular, and deserve to be. Their boasted frankness is generally ill-concealed malice, and their unsolicited opinions are merelyjnsolent. We have no right to say what we think unless kindly and lovingly; no right to un load our jealousies, envies, bad humors and miserable spites upon the hearts of our neighbors. If we must be bad-tempered we should at least keep our venom locked up in our own breasts, and not let it out to wound others. Truths need not be unpleasant in order to be true. Are there no lovely, charming, gracious truths in tbe world? And if there are, why cannot people diligently tell these, making others happier for the telling, rather than hasten to pro claim all the disagreeable ones they can discover? The judicious flatterer is sure to be a favorite, for no mat ter what Is said to the contrary there is no one quite impervious to compliments when he feels that there is reason for them. Even those who have an hum tile opinion of them selves cannot fail to he pleased by the kind intention shown. Every man, too, is sure to be a success in one di rection, at least Then why not tell him so? So far from desiring to say disagreeable things, kindly folk are continually on the alert lest they even unconsciously wound others. They make a point of avoiding local Isms, or unpleasant generalities whieb may seem to include any member of the company in which they find them selves. Strange to say, this class ot people are considered light-minded, false and worldly by the stern nioral sts who cannot recognize truth In a peasant garb; but why any one should :on.sider it more Christian like to ltter unpleaasnt facts than jileasaat nes. Is a puzzling question. It is asserted tbat tbe oldest building a the woild la tbe Tower of Lon lon. Tbe dinner fork was Introduced nto Italy In 1491, into England in .6:8. A resident or Waltsburg, Waafa., raptured a red bat a short Uaae ago. I A DOCTOR'S ADVICB. A Ward or Two About Glove am Wall aa Other HlnU. The glove is an essential part of a woman's attire, as a matter of adorn ment and one of essential service. Warmth and cleanliness, a safeguard against variations in the weather, and a protective Influence in general, is the function of the glove. The flesh of the hand is as del ion te and sensitive as that of any other portion of the body; in fact, more so than that of cither face or limbs. It must, therefore, be furnished with a protective covering at such times as external conditions warrant Cold hands, chapped hands, rheu matism, and many other complaints may often be prevented by a proper glove, the variety of which depends to a certain extent upon the choice of tbe wearer. Undressed kid, silk, and lisle thread may be classified as best The fully dressed kid Is practically suited for only evening wear. In cold weather a heavier glove should be worn. Woolen and dog skin are to be pre ferred, but if these appear to you as unsightly you may clothe your hands with a glove of lighter texture and wear a muff. The muff is in Its province, of the same character as the glove, but it is an article of con venience which is rarely ornamental. A few rules In regard to gloves may be worthy of your observance. Wash and thoroughly dry your hands before placing your gloves on them; do not have them very tight about the palm a and wrists; let them be of porous ma terial and in all respects comfortable. In taking them off turn them lnsidr out for airing. There are persons who thrtik that gloves should be worn at night in order to preserve the softness of th hands. If you wish your hands to look faded, wear gloves at night; but il you wish them to preserve theii natural characteristics, use glove? when you are not in repose. While walking about in sun, wind, cr rain, gloves will do you a very good service; at night, however--and here the hours of sleep are referred tr they are ill-suited to any one. The custom of wearing gloves al night originated with the ancient Egyptians. Cleopatra, it is said, numbered this among her eccentrici ties; but the folly was more fully de veloped dnring the reign ot LouU XIV., of France. To-day persons whe affect the manners of the antiqu: French may be selected as conspicu ous among those who wear gloves at night, and a cursory glance at theii hands will be sufficient to mako ao Indelible stamp on the mind. Naturally the hand of woman i molded by what she does with it Iu various lines, under ordinary circum stances, mark the contour of the dif ferent parts of the body. All should be in harmony. But if you put pasty, greasy, and leathery covering over the bands you make them fade in advance of their time. Frank H Ingram, it D., in New York World FICS AND THISTLES. Small sins cause great sorrows. If you want people to repent preacb repentance. It doesn't take any ability at all to oe a growler. Tiieke is no river of life in the land of death. Success anywhere requires single. oess of purpose. The moment you kill faith oi eat all the banks. you A flower will smell good no ter where you put it Fame is a bright robe but it mat- soon wears out at the elbows. The best way to preach Christ is to preach what he preached. Pjjofle who carry sunshine with them are always welcome. You can't discourage a man while he believes God loves him. The angels are God's servants, but redeemed men are his sons. A doubt Is the heaviest thing you can pick up and try to carry. Trouble always runs to meet the man who goes out to hunt it. No paradise is safe from which the devil cannot be kept out. Give the past to God and deter mine to make good use of the future. Nobody has ever found happiness who did not seek for it in God's way. Ose of the easiest things to be lieve is a pleasing lie about ourselves. The prayer that does not bring us nearer to God puts us farther away. Confession of sin is impossible un til there is a willingness to forsake it The woman who never takes any interest in the fashions needs medi cine. Nothiko good can be found on earth that will not be found Id Heaven. Tbe people who disappoint God tho most are those who try to fight their own battles. It is a good plan to keep a little money in your pocket that belongs en tirely to God. The only people whom God can not nelp are those who think this world is their home. "The rebellious dwell in dry land. There is never any rainfall in tbe devil's country. If you have never been in adversity you bave never found out who your real friends are. The best thing to do when we cah not see lo any other direction is to look straight up. No max can walk very-far with God who does not keep step with every thing that is good. Every once in awhile you find a man who thinks that noise in class meeting Is religion. No man can ever break any of the other commandments while be is keeping the first one. The man who puts bis heart into everything be does is watched by tbe angels when he works. Mrs. Fangle You used to call mo , your angel, Henry, but yon never say i so now. Mr. Fangle No, my dear; ! 1 have found out the difference. An gels, you know, don't care anything about dr4a. Aja 6'u Crcatur. The great odditj at the Golden Gat park, San Francisco, is the laughing jackass, which has an apartment all to himself. He doesn't look a biS like a bu uorist. but he is so homely, and cocks his head iu such a strangely solemn wav that everybody laughs at him. Some or the park employes caught a slim snake two feet long one afternoon and it was thrown into tho laughing jackass's big cage. Ihe bird pounced on it joyfully, and grabbing it behind the head he quickly thrashed the life out of it against the sides of the cage. Then he started in at the snake's head and swallowed it all After giving a few extra gulps of satisfaction he expressed his thanks with a loud "Ha! hal ha! ha! ha!" that was alxiut as musical as his phy siognomy is beautiful. Superintendent McLareu was visi oly touched by the lonely bird's grat itude for an act of kinduess. Next to snakes the laughing jackass likes liz ards. As the park funds hardly war rant getting him a daily supply of delicious reptiles, he usually has to put up w ith chunks of fresh meat and occasional worms. In Australia, where laughing jack isses generally do as they please, they make constant war on snakes. The bird will pounce down on one like a hawk, grab it back of the head and quickly rise to a considerable height, when he will let it drop to the ground. The snake will be quite stunned by the fall, but it no sooner strikes the ground than the laughing jackass is thrashing it aliout preparatory to a speedy meal. The bird is often called the "squatter's clock,"' because at six o'clock every evening they set up a -"oncert of "Ha! ha! ha! " -fhe Occupation ot Wrerkera 1 Gone. The lighting of sea coasts has done away with the business of wrecking vessels for spoil. A British inspector of lighthouses not many years ago, spoke to a boatman of the Orkney Islands about the dilapidated sails of the small craft he had hired. The fellow replied, "If you hadn't come here with your lights we might o' had better sails to our boats and more of other things." Before the lighthouses were built, when only the tell of the Abbot of Aberthock warned sailors of their dangerous proximity to the Inchcape ilock, disasters to shipping were sc frequent that the farmers of the Ork ney Islands are said to have used wine instead of milk in their barley por ridge, and to have fenced their farms with Honduras mahogany. They bit terly opposed the erection of light houses, saying that " if wrecks were to happen they might as well be sent totheir poor islaud as elsewhere." The murder of shipwrecked unfoi Ainates for plunder seems to have been regarded as pardonable, if not positively commendable, in former times. Not the ocean Itself was so merciless as the Irish who stabbed to death and beneaded tbe castaways of the Spanish Armada, whose leligious cause was their own, in order to rot them of their jewels and clothing. It is said that the people of the Bahamas used systematically to lure ships upon the reefs of those islands, imitating a revolving flash-light bv trying a lantern to a horse's tail and walking the beast around in a circle. A Difficulty Solved. Sir Frederick Goldsmid te'ls ru amusing anecdote about the construe tion, under his superintendence, of : telegraph line from Bagdad, in Asij Minor, to the Persian capital of Te beran. The frontier line ieiween Turkej and Persia was so undeflnable that i tract of no less than seventeen milei of land over which the telegrapt would have to be carried was in (lis pute, each of the two countries claim ing the right to its possession. Now, the en-rineering stores whlcl our Government supplied to tb Turkish Government differed to thos supplied to the Persian Government The former had wooden telegrapt poles, the later iron ones. The Per sian Government in their jealous hatred of the Turks, feared that i; wooden poles were erected across the disputed territory, posterity would regard them as a proof that the ter itory was Turkish. On the other hand, the Turks oV Jected to Iron poles being o--ed, lesi In the far future they should be ad duced by Tersia as evidence that thf land was hers. The way Sir Frederick contrived tc get out of the difficulty did credit U his ingenuity and resource. He sel up first a wcodeh pole, then an iroc one, then another wooden, then ar iron again, and so on alternatint wood an iron for the whol-j scvcd teen miles. Echoes. They were talking about echoes, and he was an American. He lis tened while Germans praised Ger man echoes: Lngusbmen, English echoes; and Swiss, Swiss echoes; and then, determined to make a supreme effort for the reputation of his great country, he said, quietly, "But, say? Whar's the echo that can compete with the American echo in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky?" As no one had been to Kentucky, no one dared to challenge the speaker, who, thus em boldened, continued: "Sure as my name's Hiram B Cooling, if you call out to that echo, "Hullo, Smith,' durned if the echo don't reply straightway; 'which Smith do you mean?" At the Chicago Exhibition they are not goinj to attempt to rival this echo, but a scientific professor ha3 offered to construct for them an artificial echo which shall repeat a sentence of twenty words, ana shall continue re-echoing for five minutes. He proposes to bring about this re sult in a specially prepared long chamber lined with sheet iron, anl having at each end a huge steel tym panum thirty feet in diameter. If, however, half the gigantic projects which have been mooted in connec tion with the Exhibition should take form, the show will occupy not only the whole of Chicago, but nearly the whole of Illinois, and a great nart of I Lake Michigan as wel l It is a pity that the appie crop wa-j not as poor the year Eve made her mistake as it is this year. He who is virtuous Is wise. Biro's will not eat fireflies. Paper flower pots are in demand. There are no te'egraph pale in Ctina. The Chinese eat the fl33h of tbe log. Letter postage costs us fi2,OCO,000 i year. In Hinlbppn S!ra:t snow may fall iven In the dog days. Stoc'Kiug-m kpz machines were the "roik of Lte, lr. 15 9. Diving bells were Invented by a Dutch mariner iu 1509. Furnaces for puddling iron were invented by Cort in 17gl. Machines for retting type were in dented by Mitchell In 1854. Shoemaking machines were Inven ted by Gallahue In 1853. Billiards were Invented in France by Devlgne about 1471. The firt pipe organ was made by Archimedes, B. C, 220. Silk manufacturers were established in Europe in A. D. 550. Arkansas h s a wonderful onyx cave In tbe Ozark Mountains. Tbe men of Japan outnumber the women by about three par cent The mariner's c.impass was a Chinese Inventiou, 1200 B. C. The Argand lamp was the inven tion of mie Argand in 17S9. Ti e royal standard of Persia is a blacksmith's apron. The parchment used on the best oanjos is made from wolf skins. Bovusboro, M1., has a pick cup ?actus contains 193 flowers In full bloom. Tbe "monkey-wrench," so called was named after its inventor, Mr. Muncky. At the age of forty a man usually attains his highest weight; a woman at fifty. Men with gray or blue eyes are usually better niaiksinen than th jse with 3 ark eyes. The game of backgammon was invented by Palameda, a Greek, about 1221. In the year 1035 a tulip bulb was -old for $2200 iu Holland. It weighed 200 graiui. S. B. Victor, of Columbia, Ma, has worn the fume duster and straw bat for forty years. An ordi ary day coach weighs about 50,000 roands; Pullman sleepers weigh about 75,0 JO pounds. A field of wheat is reported to hav, floated down the Missouri river pas) Atchison, Kan., recently. Paper from rags was made in lo'i. A. O., the first linen paper in 1391 and pater from straw in 1S00. The Chinese, Japanese. Malay, Siamese, Sew Zealanders and tbe North American Indians are all beard less. A six-year-old Salem, Ore., gin oe:ame so excited about a fire that hei heart stopped beating and she dropped dead. The shortest street in the world is Man.-ion House street, In the city oi London. It is not more than a few yards In length. When tbe Falkland Islands wert first visited by man tbe w Id dogs found ttere, approached himwithout fear or aversion. Tbe Chinese razir has the shape oi an isosceles triangle. It is made of rude steel and many of them art pounded out from worn-out horse shoes. X dwarf residing at Sligaken, In Japar-,is 36 yeauscld ana but 17 inc!;e high. He is weil educated, and earns a livelihood by teaching penman ship. The tortoise Is the longest lived ot all animals. Many have attained the age of 2 .0 years, while one Is known to bave reached tbe age ot 150 years. A farmer near Martinsburg, Mo., plowed up a perch In his field borne time ao, and when he placed It in a ti'b of water it revived and swam about as lively ai any fish. A resident of Stamford, N. T., h the proud possessor or a rare rel'c of the Revolutionary War nothing less than tbe watoli which Major Andre offered as ransom to his captors. A dictionary of Cbirese-Japanest words has just been issued in three parts. It is by J. H. Oabtdns, and Is a very valuable contribution to philo logical literature. - A rooster In Columbus, lnd., got into a light wan a bull, and plucked out the bull's eye. About a year ago, on one day, the same fowl k'lled eleven turkeys, seven geee and three roosters. The largest pyramid in Egypt is 140 yards high, that is, about 90 times the average height ot a man; whereas the nests of the termite are 1000 times the height of the insects which con struct them. While workmen were excavating . trench for new gas pipes at Norwich, Conn., recently, a humm'ngb:rd in iti swift flight from the trees overhead, came in contact with the upraised pick of one of tbe workmen and fell dead al bis feet. The permanent gibbet erected II the San Queutin (Cal.) Prison has a singular provision or three cords to be simultaneously cut by three prison guards. Tbee cords are so arranged that tone of the guards will know whose knife sprung the trap and "launched Into eternity" tbe gentleman standing on it In Turkey, if a man fall to aileep In the neighborhood of a poppy field, and the wind blow from the held to ward him, he becomes narcotized, and would die, if the country people, who are well acauaiute l with the circumstances, d.d j uoi bring him to a well or stream and emp y pucber after pitcher of water oo his face and body. Sha that jtidgeth another and leavett herself ui.judgel, setting against him a list of misdeeds and leaving unnum bered her own, will find that for every comndssinn traced a?alnst his name by an accusing hand will there grow tbe double, sin (f a commission and an ou.ission against hers. And the second may be greater than tbe first. Watches were first made In N urem- tirS n l"1"7- and were Popularly called p - Nuremburg Animated Eggs. ' A bill-posting machine, which sticks bills on wail j -ven as high as fifty feet without the aid of a ladJer or paste pot, is doing eucceiaful work in Paris.
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