3- B. F. SOHWEIER. THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL VI. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1892. NO. 45. f j . bmail ' f i d 1 I i I t !, 1 i ! WHAT IS THE USE? What Is tlie use of Prying? Crying will never ;-end! Hut minutes are m.l. Ho e l ave been t. In : 1 ben te careful liuw you spend I What Is the use of crying? t'rylne won't help a thingl o home and tell Just what bef-1 Aud the truth will Us comfort brin. HOW WILLY GOT LOST. Willy was not yet live years ola when her parents moved "from the bmail village of Oakland to the city of L) . In the busy town she mtsfeJ the green lawn and dandelions of her country home and grew so lonely when her brother was t school th'it her mother decided to eend her to a small kindergarten class, just opened by a f'onng lady who took a number of ittle ones too small for regular school work, and kent them busy and huppy with their blocks and "girts" from nine to twelve in the morning. She was a bright-faced girl just out of the training school herself aud the children loved her like an elder einto ', always calling her "Miss Mamiw" inbtead of the more formal Misa Lyle. Brother Ueordie who was a few years older t'lan Willy and went to the Prescott 1'rimary, took his little sister to school and at noon hr r papa called for her on his way home to dinner. The little girl wos very happy now ami liked the diiily run along the paved streets, carry iog hi r satchel with much pride as she trudged along wi'h hor brother. Ueordie, too, enjoyed it at first, tmt it soon got to be an old .story and when he h. d to wait for the little feet, and stop to explain the unusual bights, and couldn't itit on his roller skates until he had left Miss Willy Bafe and sound at her teacher's door, he got verv impatient over the tabk. "And mamma, Mm's t-o tmitaliziu' " he would sny, "tirnt her hut eomos n titled and I have to help her fasten it on, and then she stops to look in her bag and see if she's forgotten any thing, and 1: a its uothiu' else, its her 'lastic's loose, and she .stops and calls 'wait for mo' and if any of the kids happen along they laugh and sny, 'Hello; sissy 1' and oh, won't I be glad when Willy's old enongh to go to school alone! but if you'd only let us take the street cars, uianamti, I'd have her there in u jiffy." But no, ruuruma shnkes hor wise head at that; it is but a tew blocks and she is afraid to have the hurrying little feet climbing on and oil the car, though Willy loudly Beuonds tins proposal, lor a ride on the btreet car is the delight of her life, and she is never tiled of looking at tlio passengers and the driver and the hordes. One morning Willy is dressed in her new satiuo with bluck velvet bodice and cap to mutch. She looks like n veritable little fcipsj' in this costume, and mamma kisses her fondly and watches the children with loving eyes as they set off merrily together. "Ueordie is so good," bbe thinks, "1 know it is hard for his restless feet to wait on Willy's whims. It is a little out of his way, too, and the boys are always calling him." Ueordie and Willy go on very hap pily together until Hat linrper comes bowling along on his roller skates. "Hello, Ueorge, get your skates on and let's race it to school," cries Hal. "I can't" answers Ueordie, wistfully, "not till I leave Willy." "Bah I sissy, 'fore I'd be tied like that to a girl'every morning. Pat on yonr skates anyway and we'll go slow till yon get to the'eorner and then she can trot on alone." "Oh, can you, Willy, just go that little way alone? You know I want to beat Hal to school so bad. Mi6S Willy was willing enough, snTely. nd rather proud to think she could he trusted alone, so Ueordie got on hie skates, and they all went on together nntil they reached the crossing. "See now, Willy, yon know the way don't yon? Just cross the street and turn the corner, then four houses, and there you are at Miss Mamie's." Off rattled the boys glad to be rid of their charge, while Willy stood looking after thorn a moment t j see if Ueordie was ahead, and then walked on watch ing a street-car, with its jingling bells, crossing the street, to be sure, but taking the wrong crossing so that when she turned the corner she went up street instead of down. Just in front of one of the houses was a jannty brown spaniel, and he came up to Willy, good naturedly, Irv ing to make friends. Sho patted him on the head, and he offered a Lrown, silky paw to stake, sud she wished she had just such a doggy. Somebody whistled for him and Willy walked on gazing at all the sights. By and by ahe happened to think that the hadnt seen Miss Mamie's house, and she be gan looking for the familiar ttone steps and bronze knocker, nntil she came to the next crobs ng. Then she remem bered that she shouldn't pass but one corner, and stopped, confused, to think. "I b'lieve I tnrned wrong," bhe 6iid to herself, "and now I mnst go back." She was not at all afraid, for nothing had ever frightened the child in all her happy little life. A car was com ing down the street just then and stopped in front of her to let on some passengers. "Ah, I know what I'll do," sho thought, "I'll ride bock on the car and atop when I see Miss Mamie's. Jleu ma won't care this time, 'cause I'll be late if 1 don't, and she never wants me to be tardy." The condnctor swnrg her np tlio sters, supposing that she belonged to one of the ladies just getting on, and she settled herself contentedly in a corner. There i a woman oppos-ite Holding a big bundle in her lap- one had a blue and white hftidKorchief tied over one eye, oni that made hor look o funny "that Willy had to smile. There was also a slim youcg man dressed very line and Willy wondered why ho woro Huch n little "bat, and if tke head of his cane was made of candy 'cause he seemed to be tasting of it all the time. The ladies iear her watched the k play of her countenance, aud finally began to talk to her. bhe told them he was "going to M.'ss Mamie's Kinder garten and she guessed she was most there now." "wny." scid one to the other, "Miss May's Kindergarten is away np on l'ruail.nll av. uue. This child is ont of her way. Do you go alone, little one?" aha said, .-cully, not wishing to fright en the child by tolling her she was lost. "Mo, Geordie came part way, bnt 1m most five, I can go alone.--.But I don t see Miss Mamie's yet" she said a little anxiously. tJVh ladie' wt0 liv Trumbull Avenue Kindergarten told Br to come with. hr and she would show her the way, so when she left the i car illy went too, and walked with f her nutil they came to a large uuuaing when the lady said "Here is yonr school, little one, now we must gay good-bye," and passed on never doubting that she bad taken the child safely to her destination.! Willy looked up at the house and thought that it didn't look a bit like Miss Mamie's, but there were children going in at the door, so she thought bhe wonld go, too, aud see what this kindergarten was like. There were many other children then and they all turned to look at the new scholar, bnt Willy was an independent little body and not easily abashed, so bhe eat down in the lirt empty seat, and beg'jn to look about her. Miss Way seeing a new face came to ak her if she was coming to school. Willy thought that a fooiish question seeing she was thero already, but said, "Yes. ma'am," us she had been taught, and gave her name as Willy 'hemina, but aa she did not speak very plainly, it was entered by the teacher as "Willy Heroin way." The morning pasted sniftly, for there were 60 mauy "gifts" and merry songs aud inarches, and so many busy fingers at work that Willy did not have time to feel strange. When noou came, andthechihlren were preparing to go home, she stood'quiotly watching them nntil the teacher asked her if sue was going too. "Mo," she said, "uot till my papa comes after me." She w.is used to waiting and did not ftop to tl ink that pupa did not know where the was. There were Beverl of the children who brought th i lunches, aud staid at noon with oue o the pupil teachers, and Willy lookeu wistfully at their lur.ch baskets for shr was getting very hnngry. A ro.sy-cLeek little girl near her seemed ili-posed to make friends and said, "I wish you'd brought yonr lunch too. wc like to stay at noon, and by and by wo have some nice games with Miss Herman. I'll tell you what, yon enn have jmrt o! my lnnch, I don't ti'lievo your papa's coming anyway." Willy accepted the proffered sand wich and thought it tasted wonderfully good. The other little girls became very friendly, too, and each one gave her some special dainty out of their luuch-boe so that Miss Willy fared royally on horn-sandwiches, cold chicken and angels' food. She had a delicious bauaua, too, and a pretty red apple which la.it Bhe had to pack uway in her bag bcecause she could eat no more. Miss Herman taught them some new cunies and they had free gymnastics, so that Willy was quite rested and ready -or school again at one o'clock, but as bhe had never sat ttill so long before, she was quite glad when the two hours afternoon session closed. She began to feel a little homesick, however, wl en she saw the other little girl.s getting ready to go and nobody had eotue yet for he". Ker eyes were beginning to fill with tears when the teachers seeing that something was wrong, t ep.in to tlk to her and by dint ot skilful questioning managed to arrive nt the conclusion that Miss Willy was a long way from home and that her patents did not know where she was. She said she lived at "Oak'and" which, of course, tney juppowed meant Oak land avenue. Miss May asked her if she knew the number of the house and ihe said "o i yes, 'cause when we come home Ueordie always sing. 'Twenty four, it'j our door.' " Miss Herman then offered to ta.ke her home so they set off in the street car for '24 Oakland Ave, When papa Kinney came home to dinner he stopped at" Miss Mamie's as usual for Willy." He liked to hear her merry prattle as they went along the street together, and was surprised when he found that the little girl had not been in tf-hool that morning. "Where is Willy?" were his first words on reaching home. "Why didn't she gr to school Una morning?" You may be sure that minima was badly frightened and that Geordie was questioned anxiously when he came in a few minutes later, and that nobody in the house wanted any dinner that day. Papa hurried to the nearest police station, Mamma ran over to Miss Mamie's in the vague hope of getting some clue to the lost child, and poor Ueordie, who felt so badly that he needed no reproaches for his careless ness, ran a' ont the streets all the after noon inquiring of everybody he met, i they had seen his little sister. Abont four o'clock Mr. Kinney camt home, having been nnable to hear any thing of a lost little girl. The distract ed mother was walking the floor in an egony of grief and he was vainly trying to comfort her, when there was a sound of hurrying little feet, and in rushed Geordie holding his little sister by the hand. "I found her, mamma. I fonnd hert" he cried, "and yon bet I'll never lose her again." m ' Bight glad was Willy to be home again after her long day's adventures, but sbe could not understand why the tears were in her mother's eyes, nor why papa held her so tightly when be kissed her. When Miss Herman had taken Willy to Mo. i4 Oakland Ave. and discovered that the little girl did not belong there, she knew that the only thing left to do was to notify the police. As she walked down the street with the child and was about to turn the corner, a boy coming from the opposite direction on roller skates, ran into them so suddenly that he lost bis balance and fell sprawling on the walk. Willy gave one startled look at the cause cf the collision and cried. "Why, it's Geordie! it's Geordie! Were you coming to bring me home, Geordie?" Willy had much to tell of the new kindergarten and what a nice lnnch she had had. She showed her satchel fall of "gifts" which the teachers had given her tor remembrance when she went away and, indeed, almost thought ahe wonld rather go to the new school. Geordie was cared of his impatience and never again left bia little raster nntil she was safe at Miss Mamie's, let the boys tease as hard as they might. E. 9. Cbaxson. The exct physical centre of the United States is the stone at Fort Riley, Kan., which marks the grave ot Major Ogden, who died of cholera ir 185i Russia has the largest armored war ship afloat The vessel is the flnrio (the name of the hero of the "Gnnma ker of Moscow"), and is of 11,000 ton nage. There are infinite varieties not only In men's mental powers, but In their moral natures as well; therefore no one standard can be equally applicable for all. ABOUT THREAD-MAKING. Old ton Kv.r Koailar Howlk. Diff.raor 8IZ.S IV.r Numbtml? A prominent thread manufacturer laid to our reporter: "Our house wa originally a Scotch one, and even now b;is factories in Scotland and in To ronto. A branch was established in Newark, N. J., about thirteen j ears aw'o, but the business was by no means so extensive as It is now, until la.it January, when a large mill aud an entirely new plant was put In. The direct reason for this move was the passing of the McKinley bill, which made it almost impossible for foreign makers to do any busiuesa In hi? country. "By the way did vou evet examine Into the process of manufacturing a bpool of thread? It looks simple, but m reality it is a very complicated process. Only the very best Sea Is land cotton can be used for this pur pose. The cotton is taken in the raw state and torn all to pieces by a ma chine called a 'breaker.' It then goes through several other machines, by which it is carefully combed and freed from impurities. A machine called a 'slipper' then takes it up aud twists it out into soft white yarn. This is carefully combed axain, and it is taken into another department, where several small strands of this yarn are twisted into one fine one. Three of these are twisted together, and you then have six cord thread, which after It is bleached, is ready for the market. "Another lnteiesting thing is the numbering of the thread. Every lady knows the size of thread that she re quires for doing a certain piece of work, but very few of them know how It came to be so numbered. You sec, when cotton thread was first made 840 yards of It weighed ouc pound. This was called Ko. 1, and if a pound contained just twice this number of yards It was called M'o. 2, and so ou. Until sewing machines were Intro duced only three-cord thread w as made but their introduction demanded a smoother and finer article. The num bers were left the same, but the six cord thread had to be made of strands Jut twice as fine as those of the oh' rticle." Americau Analyst. How They Do la Flor.nc. A harrowing tale conies across the sea anent a young Americau girl w ho was studying music in Florence. She became ill, and apparently from a de sire not to worry any one, she strug gled against her increasing weakness, and let no one know of her condition. She had been helpless and in con siderable need of careful nursing for some days, when one evening after isht had fallen, four black-robed figures, with hidden faces and only holes cut through the sombre cloth for their eyes, appeared tu her room. Almost fainting from terror, she made a frantic appeal for mercy, but it only met with a low murmured re sponse, which did not reassure her. Finally the stretcher which they brought was placed beside her led side, she was slipped on to it, a clotr was thrown over her and she felt her elf borne through the streets. But not to a terrible dungen, as her fevered imagination supposed. When she regained consciousties it was to Mud herself in a hospital ward, where she received devoted care and atten tion. Later on she learned that her case had come under the notice of the famous Order of the Misericode. and its efficient, though mysteriously alarming, ministration was the result. All ranks and conditions of Flor entine society hold membership In this order, and the shrouding robes are worn so that service w ithout os tentation may be rendered. It has existed for hundreds of years. Meet:esa to Tlplionfh If parents could see their own chil dren as others see them, it is to be feared that the sum of human happi tiessvfould su3era serious diminution. An exchange reports that a boy of 12 years, more or less, rang the door bell of a bouse Dot long ago, and said to the lady who answered tht summons: "Won't you please telephone to the police station for me? I have found a lost boy." "A lost boy? How old?" "About four, I should think, ma'am. He can talk, but he can't tell where he lives." "Some poor child, probably." "Some awfully poor child. Why, was the dirtiest dot you ever saw, and so hungry! Ma says he can't have had anything to eat for a week. We think his folks lost him on pur pose. Ma says they ought to be sen to State Prison." "So they had. Does he give any lame?" "Oh, yes; he says his name i. Burt " "What! Has he light hair and blue eves?" "Y'es'm," "And one front tooth gone?" 'Yes'm." 'Tie's my own son, he is, aud you f alk him over here as quick as you know how ! Also, tell your mother that people have got rich minding their own business." Th Wealthy Oaages. Osage Indians are the richest coni .nunity on the face of the earth. They are 1.509 in number and have $3,000,000 deposited to their credit in the Treasury at Washington, on which they draw $ 1 00. 000 interest every three months. The income will continue until Uncle Sam gets ready to pay them the principal. They also have 1,470,000 acres of the best land in Oklahoma, for which the unterrified "boomer," totally indifferent to the rights of the red man, hopelessly sighs. Half of them wear blankets to this day. The trouble with most schemes is that thev look so smooth and plausi ble, and are so hard to work. The Indian measures distjnees while canoeing by "pipes." One pipe Is the interval between the baiting be is al lowed tt make for a smoke. The bees of Guadeloupe, West In iies, are stii g'e.-s, and 6o not store their honey Ij combs, but in bladders of wax about the size of a pigeon's egg. At Trinidad, West Indies, dried oananas are put on the market in at tractive air-tight packages by simply slicing them lengtbwi.se and wrapping ten or twelve of their own leaves about Uter QOLD LEAP. Tha Tblonaat Malarial Mad by tha Baa or Man. There is probably nothing made b man that is as thin as a sheet of gold leaf. It is nothing more than a film, and is almost as light as air. Tne softness and tenacity of the metal, two opposite attributes which it pos sesses to a remarkable degree, render possible an operation that would re duce any other metal to powder. The thickness of the leaves vary. Some say that the thinnest have the thicknessof but 1-250, 000th of an inch. So thin is the film of metal In the leaves that they are transparent. But instead of the beautiful golden yellow color which gold Is believed to possess, when held to the light they appear to be of a rich deep green. Every one of the thin square Inches of gold that the beater begins on makes sixteeu pieces of gold leaf. Including the waste, each inch is beaten out into leaves sufficient to cover an area of 400 square inches, which Is larger than a gentleman's good-sized handkerchief. A gold bar, when beaten out, will carpet a ball room seventy-five teet long by sixty six wide. An impression is given from seeing the men swing the heavy mallets that gold-beaters as a class are particularly strong and healthy. This is not so. Their work is confin ing, and while their arms arc strong and muscular they are not more healthy than any other class of men whose work kteps them indoors. Their work Is steady, and they earn from $12 to $16 a week. .Some of the work of trimming and preparing the molds for the beater is done by the wives and daughters of several of the men at their houses. A term of four years is not considered too long a time in which to learn the trade. Much skill Is required In beating, so as to .jread the metal evenly and keep the skins in good order. It is a trade that men seem to stick to. Men have remained in one place for twenty-five years, and in one of the balf-dozeu factories in Philadelphia the present foreman has been in charge for forty years. Philadelphia T.edger. One or Dean Bnrgoo'i atoriea. A story of DeanBurgon's was about a friend's experience in a conjuror's exhibition. On entering with the crowd the friend felt somebody at his coat pocket and expected to find his handkerchief gone Instead he found two woqden dolls in his pocket. "Oh, no doubt," he thought, "the conjuror is going to make game of me by pretending that he has con jured these dolls into my pocket, but I will be more than a match for him." The two dolls were promptly trans ferred to the pocket of a stout gentle man in front, and from him the orig inal victim of the conjuror's confed erate took care to sit at a distance. Bv-and-by the conjuror, pretending to throw dolls among the audience, said, pointing to Dean Burgon's friend, "I think if that gentleman will do me the favor to look in his pocket he will find that he has the dolls." Dean Burgon, telling the story at a breakfast, acted the visitor, exhibit ing his coat pockets in proof of their being empty. Standing up on his chair at the breakfast table, and turning his oack, he pulled out the linings of bis pocket and showed them in an empty and flaccid state. Then, turning around, he said: "M'o. I don't carry about dolls in my pocket; out I shouldn't wonder if that stout gentleman yonder should find a doll or two in his." Then he acted the stout gentleman, who, he explained, was a little irrita ble. "What, me; sir? What do you mean, sir? 1 carry dolls?" Then he put his hands Into his pockets and made believe to bring out the dolls, with a look of amaze ment and horror a quasi guilty look, which, as he did it, was Indescribably ludicrous. The audience, he con tinued, were convulsed. But oh, the poor conjuror! How heavily the wheels of his entertainment seemed to drag all the night afterward! Out done in a trick by one of bis specta tors, who might, for all he knew, be a great adept in legerdemain, a Pros pero or a Merlin. "The Obstinate Tains'." Lately the little sons ot the Em peror of Germany were shown the mysteries of a cbapeau-ciaque, or crusb bat. Shortly afterward, In the ante room of their father, they found a tall hat, and Immediately desired to test their skill in shutting it up. Being an ordinary hat, and without the claque mechanism, it naturally refused to shut. At last one little prince, growing impatient, said to his brother: "Sit on it, Fritchen!" Fritz obeyed; there followed a loud crack and a roar of laughter from the authors of the mischief. The Em peror sent out to ask the cause of the disturbance. Pointing to the smashed hat, the Crown Prince replied, with a military salute: "The obstinate thing wouldn't shut at first, but among us we managed to make it change its mind!" The wrecked hat was replaced by a new one, which the owner will doubtless keep as a sou venir of a very amusing episode in the life of his country's future head) Manchester Times. A Main Fanner. There is but one pauper in the town of Whitneyyille, Me., and that one is a festive widow who looks out for herself ten months in the year. It is evident that she will soon be entirely independent, for her last request of the overseers reads as follows: "Please send me ten yards ot red rib bon and a new dress, and let the dress be good enough to wear as principal at a wedding. A dress does not make a woman, but often breaks a man. A drawf residing at Shigaken, in Japan, Is 86 years old and but 17 inches high. He is well educated , and earns a livelihood by teaching penman slip. A farmer near Martinsbur?, Mo. plowed up a perch In his field some time ago, and wten be placed it In a tub of water It revived and swam about m lively as any fLb. Gas was first made from coal by Clayton, 1739, and waa first vjd loi illumination in 1792. 1LONQ-T AILED BIRDS. Prebably Xvolved to Pleaae JapaneM t aate There Is a kind of Darwinian evo lution in the long-tailed birds of Japan. Just as with us the breed of cattle Is improved by careful selec tion, so In Japan birds are selected with a tendency to tail profusion, and the result of mating Is the remarka- I.O0-TA!l.in BIRDS. ble specimens we Illustrate. Of w hat special Importance these long-tailed birds are we know not, but assume they were merely evolved to please the taste of the "artistic" Japanese, who delight in everything grotesque, from the dwarfed trees to Sblntoism. The Crowd In the Railway Station. "One cold rainy night last winter, remarked the drummer, as he wiped a string of perspiration beads from his neck and face, "I was left at a Email station on a western branch road, to wait for four hours for the train that was to take me somewhere. There was nobody around and I look ed pretty lonesome, I guess, for the brakeman came up and tendered me his sympathy for two or three min utes before his train went back up the road. "Hard place, ain't it?" he salu, looking around on the general dis malness. " '.Bather,' I responded; 'and worse Ahen a man has to wait In it for four hours.' " 'Oh, well, you may have some company, he said encouragingly. "Who?' and I peered about me to ee if anybody had arisen from the earth. "'Well,' he said slowly, as If mak .ng a calculation, 'you'll find in the station the telegraph operator, the station agent, the baggagemaster, the train dispatcher, the ticket-seller, the storekeeper, the accident Insur ance agent, the express agent, the postmaster and one or two other ifficia s.' " 'That isn't so bad,' I replied, ana col him good-night as he jumped tor the last platform. "Then I went into the dimly llghtr d station and looked about for any prospective companions. Nobody was visible except a 6andy-haired, freckled-faced man at the telegrapb Instrument. " 'Where are the others?' I Inquired much surprised. " Others what?' he answered. " 'Why the others the brakeman cold me were here? The telegraph operator, the station agent, the bag gagemaster, the train dispatcher, the storekeeper, the ' "The man at the instrument be an to grin. " 'What's the matter?' I asked. " 'That darn brakeman!' be aalil " lie's the only agreeable thing I'v, ieen around here,' I put in, in de fense of my friend. 'He said those men would be here until the next train comes.' " 'And they will,' 6aid the man. " 'Well, where are they?' I asked with considerable asperity. "The sandy-haired man stood up nd tapped himself on the chest- " 'Them's me,' he smiled; 'come Id nd set down with us. "And I did for four mortal hours." GOVERNOR - ELECT OF MAINE Gen. Henry B. CleaTes Elected to Tbat Office. Gen. Henry B. Cleaves, the suc- ;essful candidate for Governor of Maine, was born InBrldgton, Me., 52 years ago, and re ceived his edu cation In the common schools of his native town and in the local academy. He was a farm- Bisar a. cleaves, er's boy in 1862, when, as a private, be enlisted In Company B of the Twenty-third Mlne Volunteers, and for bravery in battle was offered a commission In the regular army. He commenced the study of law in 1868, aDd in due time was admitted to the bar. Gen. Cleaves waa member of the Legisla ture In 1876 and 1877." In 1877 he was made city solicitor of Portland, and In 1880 was elected Attorney General of the State. The exact measure of an oatb, oo th in money and punishment, was taken at Lebanon, Pa., the other day. John A. Sattazahn was heard to utter nine separate and distinct oaths "not cuss words but big oaths," as the prosecutor put it- Alderman Miller figured out tbat the communi ty bad been damaged $7.67 worth by the prisoner's utterances, or at the rate of a fraction less than 851 cents for each swear. Sattazabn couldn't produce the money, and he was sent to Jail for eleven days, or at the rate of twenty-nine and a half hour's im prisonment for each offense. IT WAS TOO TRYiXG. The) were -standing by the window looking ont at the golden sunset, fila arm was around her slender waist, and ber head rested ccnfidingly on his manly shoulder. Life looked rosy to the youthful pair, and not a visible elond obscured the bright firmament of their hopes. "Perseus," she murmured, "it seems almost inoredible tbat we Sever met nntil three weeks ago." It does indeed, Andromeda," ra plied, th yoata, "We have had ?v hardly time to become aoqnainteJ witL ! each other's views of lile and its prob- j ienis, not to speaK oi eacu oiuer a pe culiarities and prejudices. Yet it seems as if we must have known one another always." "And that reminds me, Perseus," re joined the lovely girl, thoughtfully ad justing her spectacles, "that I have never nerd yon express your opinion of theosophy." "Afy opinion of theosophy, love,'' the young man so id, breaking it to he; as gently as he could, is that the sys tem, as tht:s far developed, haruly meets the requirments ot an exot science." It was a severe shnck, but the maid en did not flinch. She only leaned a little harder on the young man'a shoul der. "Yon find much to admire in Emer son and Thorean, do you not?" she asked hopefully. "I cannot say I do. The one seems too transcendental, the other almost atheistic." "Does not the Delsartean idea appeal to yon favorably?" H'm! This DeUartean business, dearest, I regard aa a harmless kind of thing, suitable for twelve-year old schoolgirls who have no roller skating facilities. " "Well, Perseus," she said, with a happy sign, "what difference does it make after all if we love each other? These little differences of opinion shall not Ferarate us." "Mo, Andromeda, they shall not We shall not speak of them. They are trifles. Look at the roses in this beau tiful vase" A cry of horror broke from the lips of Andromeda. She sprang from his embrace. What is tla matter, dearest?" ex claimed the young man with the ut most concern. "Don't touch me;1' she panted, sink ing on a sofa. "Don't come near me!" "What have I" "Mr. Grigsou," she said, recovering herself by a powerful effort and stand ing erect, "I can overlook your lack of appreciation of the great names of our literature; I can forgive yonr want of sympathy with the great movements in the world that possess my eonl and move all my rowers to action; but" the proud girl graduate pointed stercly to the door "I can never look with anything bnt utter abhorrence on man who does not know how to pro nounce the word 'vahz!' Gj!" THE EMERALD VASE. In the cathedral at Genoa there is an emerald vase which is aid to have been one of the gifts of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon. Its authentic his tory goes back 8X1 years. The tradition is that when Kinfe Solomon received it he filled it with an elixir which he alone knew how to dip til, and of which a single drop would prolong human life to an indefinite ex tent. A miserable criminal, dying of slow disease in prison, besought the King to give him a drop of the magic po tion. Solomon refused. "Why should 1 prolong so useless a life?" "he said. "1 will give it to those whose Uvea will bless their fellow men." But when go d men begged for it the king was in an ill humor, or too indo lent to open the vase, or be promised and forgot. So the years passed nntil he grew old, and many of the friends whom he loved were dead; and still the vase had never been opened. Then the king to excuse him sell, threw doubt upon the virtues of the elixir. At last he himself fell ill. Then hi servants brought him the vase that he minht save his own life. He opened it but it was emptr. The elix r had evaporated to the last drop. Did not the rabbi or priest who in vented this story intend to convey in it a great trnth? Have we not all within us a vessel more precious than any emerald, into whxh God has put a portion of the water of life? It is for our own heal- mgthe healing of others. We hide it, we do not nse it fro a false shame, or idleness, or forgetfulness. Present ly we begin to doubt Its efficacy. When death approaches we turn to j it in desperate haste. But the neglect ed laun nas leit tne soul. The vase is empty. Youth's Companion. A LOST ART REDISCOVERED. HARDKNTNO COPPEB TO EOTAt, TBS BEST RTEEL ENGINEERS ASTONISHED. About a year ago it was announcea that the seeret of the lost art of harden ing copper and the manufacture of edge tools out of it, equal, if not super ior, to the beat steel, had been dis covered by a poor blacksmith at Levis tianced Allard, but after the first pub licity given to the disooverv nothing more waa beard about it. tt now ap pears, however, that Allard has been at Ottawa and in the United States, and that ho has received large offers to sell his secret. It la stated that at Ottawa he exhibited specimens of bis copper to Sir John Abbott and Major General Herbert, who were both astonished at their edge and hardness, as well as were also the engineers to whose in spection they were submitted. Impressed witn the possibility of the discovery being ntilizable for the armoring of war vessels. General Her bert suggested to allow him to harden a abeet of copper of odo and three fourth inches in thickness, and to have its powers of resistance tested at the rifle ranges at St. Joseph de Levis, which seems to have lately been done, when the first bullet fired against the sheet at forty yards distance was shivered into a thousand fragments, and the second was completely flattened, but remained imbedded in the copper, which is slightly dinged, but did not crack in any way. This result is re garded as very successful. Cnsopnl.tlcated. wi C Mr. Cooper Sorry the servant Is out. Have to wait on the door my self. Mr. Hooper She will be along it a moment. She's coming up tne street now, with an elegant Jag on- Mr. Cooper You don t say go! I ebouldn't be a bit surprised if it wer on of my wiie IIU3J0R0US SELECTIONS. GATHERED BY OUR PATENTED REAPER. ukee or Preacher. Lawyer. Dvctot. and Editor some ol Ttoem Very Dry and Other Somewhat Juicy Ther VVU1 Aid Digestion If Fernsed After Meal lo Not Read Theu (.'pon an Jtiupty ktouiach, 1 he Law' Delay. Lawyer Hurrah! Let me con gratulate you? You are the luckiest of mortals. Thanks to my skill, I have obtained a judgment In your favor in the Supreme Court. Client After nine long years. "But, my dear fellow, better latf than never." "How much do I feet?" asked tha client anxiously. "The court decrees that you shall receive $2,000. The costs and my fee will only amount to $3,000, so all you will have to pay me is $1,000." "Merciful heavens! and I must lose money besides? "Of course, you lose your mone, but console yourself. You have gained vour case. You can't expect to gain everything." Arkansas Trav eler. Tyrannical. American Citizen (to anarchist) lf this country doesn't suit you, why didn't you stay in Germauy? Anarchist (excitedly) Dey passed a law g impelling us a bath to dake fery week, don't it! Truth. Ktnfflry vt on. Mrs. Bingo (severely) I shoula like to know where you were las' night? Bingo Well, if the truth must be told, I was playing poker with King ley, and, my dear, the last jackpot 1 bet him a new bonnet for you against u new bonnet for his wife. Mrs. Bingo Yes, my dear, andyo-i won? Bingo Well, you just wait until you see bis w ife next Sunday. Life Curtallloc the Cost. Closellst You doc t catch tte giv mg an architect $1,000 to rlan a house. I'll dig the cellar, draw on some timbers and then go down there with my shorthand clerk at.d it wor.'i "ost me a blamed cent. Hanks What can the clerk do? Cioseflst Take down the advice liven me by my neighbors. Truth. 'Twill i:elly Auins ns. She (after the service) You dread ful fellow! Why did you smile during the offertory? He I couldn't help iu There wus Miss Addic Pose singing "Had I the Wings of a Dove." The mental pic ture of a twelve-stoner trying to Cy with a pair of four-inch wings was too much for me. Pearson's Weekly. Ilie Bone.t Dollar. "It said that an honest man is tt noblest work of God. W nat do vou think Is the noblest work of man?" "Well, my notion of it is that an honest dollar will be about right when be makes it " Bostou Po-t. A Monopoly. Juno I want a couple of your strongest winds to raise a storm on the Atlantic immediately. olus I am sorry, madam; but all our strongest winds have been In use in Chicago sinco the World's Fair was located there. Puck. Bow She rooted Him. Clara Oh, dear, I have made such A fool of Mr. Milds. Maud How so, my dear? Clara I gave him every reason U. think I would refuse him, and then of course he proposed and 1 accepted 'nm. Io tha Swim. "Jones has got Into the social swim nt last, I see." "Then he is a goner." "Wby so?" "Because be told me the other day that he never had been able to keep his head above water si!:oc be got marr ed.'' Xcw York Pres-s. How tha Work J Covered. Bumpus The doctors make very bungling work of some of their cases. Mcsniith Yes; but in such case their work is always well covered. Bumpus Bv whom? McSmitb By the undertaker. Irnocent. Police Judge (to prisoner) And what are you doing here, sir? Prisoner I don't know.your honor. Ask the policeman. I'm sure I didu'i want to come. Detroit Free Press. The shortest street in the w rid is Mnslun Uoiue street in the city oi London. A re ident of Stamford, N. Y., is the proud possessor of a rare rlis of the Revolutionary War nothing less than the watch which Major Andre offered s ransom to his captors. ... :-: There are people who shiver ever time they hear tbat there axe spots on hi sun. . i- Window glass waa u6d In Italy In church la the eleventh century, in English bousea is 1557. Vpfr u SEWS IX One person in every nine is left bar. del. Owls have a very acute sense ot hearing. Manitoba is the pr're wheat sec tlon. ?hip were not copper-bottomed intil 1783. The first brsa railroad was bull. In 1S2G. Th first photos r.ph was made lu tuly, 1839. There are nearly S00O s'itches In pair of bauc'-seweJ boots. A pol Enalish silk umbrella cost from 5-i to 550 ia Moscow. One million dollars in gold weigh 3,Cb 8 noinds avoirdupois. Globes and maps wew the Inven tion of Anaximander, 602 B. O. The first pair of spectacles wau made by Spin i, an Italian, 1299, John McDitrbv of Salmon FaU Mass., has douole tee to all round. Wearing apparel was first cut OUi by machinery in England in 1853. Twenty words per minute is the iverage at whicn long hand is written. At Marie, Mo., the other day, James H.ghiand was marr ed to Ansa Fling. The flavor of aa ostrich egg Is ex selleut and oue igg makes an ordinary meal. A vast snow-field in Iceland spread over a space of about 3000 square uiles. The average daily amount of aun jliine the world over is a little more Mian three hours. 1h national devt of the Unlte4 st' tes on .1 -in. 1, 1791, amounted to 75,4o3,476.02. A farmer living near Furlong Penn., dug up 110 etone knives in his garden. In the United States theie an, about sixteen million cows one for "Jvery four persons. The American combination ot pnntb g teirtrr phs conveyed 2000 words in hour lu 1850. A ccrncob in Georgia is aba pea like a hmuia hand, having four wrll Iciined tinger-t ud a thumo. A woman's tombstone is the only one in Fcgl.ud upon which the epitaph s written lu shorthand. Fljtt street, Loudon, has been vis'ted by a pla,'ue of tiny, but persist ant aud venomous mosquitoes. Herod the great was the first He brew king nuo i.nporteJ imo his realm 'Ijinu mo'ies of "society l:fe," Ciala shot weie the invention oi D Witt, tiie great Dut h admiral. Tney were Crst u-ted in 1 6-J6. A Mr. Hyatt of Boston has a Mexi can beetle Wiiic'a is still alive, though 't has eatn nothing ia a year. The Chinese houses are generally ornamented wic so mmy quaint tur rets and gables that ttiey recemble tcy houses. The Emperor of China chooses bia own si'ccrssor, whe'her the person chosen is a member of the royal family ir not. It requires $400,000,000 annually to py the expenses ot Fn.ier.4l Govern mei.t mi re tlwn $1,000,000 every wentv-foui fcours. Unless an Austrian gains the con sent of his ifr be cannot get a pass port to joi.ru-y beyond the frontier of '.;1 own country. The most important Japanese holi day Is the F-ast ot the Lanterns fram julv 13 to 16. It is the Japanese Dec irUiOu Day. Alouiz the coi'tt of Peru there is no ra!nral , aa 1 all agricult iral operations a:; carr ed on oy a complete system -) lirigat'oo. Tiie m ice of the House of Repre sentatives cons at; of a bundle of tu'ru-eu ebony rods entwined and touix) together wuti silver bauds. Ther is a salpotre cave in Bartou ccuuiy, G-oigU th it is overrun by miliioiis -if bats, and has been so ever ciuce the first settlement ot the coun try. Gibbun beaan the "Decline ana Fall of the Roman Empire" at thlrtv niue, and finHlit-d it in twelve years. The wot k of preparation was really tbe abor of a lifeuine. Defoe was fi'ty-eight when he be-. gan his "libinoa Crusoe." His l:iera;y career began at twenty, and his te?t political works were written "lefore the Cusoe." A double-yolked egg wa batched by a nen ner Gettysburg, Penn.. re cently. The farmer was greatly amoZe I to find two 1 tt!e chicks grown together afler the fasnion of tbe Siam ese twins. Lady B'afce, wife of S'.r Arthut Bl ike. Governor of Jamaica, promises a pract cl memorial to Columbus In the sliae of a marine biological station, to be established near K,ngs;on, the apital of the island. A Philadelphia optician makes l special summer theimometer which registers ten dezret-s of heat less than the actual temperature, an I be says that persons wati vivid Imaglna'ions uu keep co 1 wlt'i one in tbe house. A curii us marriage custom Is re corded by Dr. Post as existing in southern India among some of tbe primitive non-Aryan ttioes. This con sists of wedding a g rl to a pi .in t, a tree, an animnl, or e7en to an inanimate o'ject, the notion being tbat any ill luck wtiicu mav fullow an actual mar riage may be averted by a union ot this kind. A resident of Columbus, Ind., bat a gamecock which was recently attick pii by a bull, but in a very few minutes the bull was minus an e.e. About a year ago the gamecock, killed in one dy sev n geese, eleven tLrkcys, aDd .hiee roosters. In tho ye ir 1635 a tulip bulb was rola for $2200 in Hulland. It we;ghel 200 grams. S. H. Victor, of Columbia, Mo., bat worn the same duster and straw bat for 40 years. A field of wheat is reported to have fina'el down the Missouri river past Atchi&m, Kan., recently. A six-year-old Sa'em, Cre., girl be. jame 8 exciie I a'ioiit a fire that ber rit-art stopped beating and she dropped ' The game of backgammon waa in vented by Falumed, a Greek, aboul 122.
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