B, P. SOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION-THE UNION-ANI) THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE .LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLVI.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1892.
NO. 47.
1
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THE PASSING OF SUMMER.
BT ANNIE B1HMSON KlXlJ
When sun nier kim.'.es purp'e Are-,
llu! run Aiuiiic tt loxlave-spire,
vMth !ilal"K toiciirs lu a row
Th. .lulv d-xyn bengal !i her fe.-t
jui.e 'i t li.fct once was i;iir and sweet
Grow4' cr:j' an1 sre: thn quick sha Deos
-I lie t:uiiiiniiu' of htrr belted uesi,
An 1 Ilr (Meadows
A tt(' r -roAs fiut-rald cUd.
1 h'- jiiU'fcl inH uf the tVl-l,
Alien t.csiiiii; Mid oo song tmit yieltl,
14v ui lir.iln. anil from thtMr boughs
li, ilii) ti.it- the music rtows,
a h';n,e 'Ji'i-lc, shrill and tliiu,
ijrcat:i"'l out (rem e llu viollii.
I hr'U "K.i'v " r.tins wi'h her old v.yt
Ai.tl aitfues tlu ouU tlie Auual dajJ.
Ai.J u-r In i.tma-ik on dreti
liit Miniiii'-r very la'.e.t kjaen
Hr vi'i 'it clock and co'ini-i the ttme
lt,rtl "uin.v tit-Ms and k;t;a ma.y rbyiiid,
j 'ttrtit t:c i- iiu'As. the oM lime trleud,
i t.it suiiiiuf f reifra Is at au end,
And n in t it itli tits thh lt, tick, toe It,
kjn-'ti Ju i'I ii' jce. The Utile clock.
beats i.ut the death id all the nuweia.
V.mb i" e.'-h falliiiie lertf and biowu,
Luti! it touat last iiius tiou.
And !! i "ith v.'hSiied birds am! bees
liie j .ihiii' i flits AiMit-i the sea.-i.
SiuKV OF TT,0 HALLOW
KVES.
BY MISKKVA B.
Mm knows not lore such lore M woman
((:,
1 ti h.m It is a vast, devouring flame
K'-t tci in its own streuirlti consumed,
lu WfiiiiiH'3 heart it enters step by step,
oil'. -li"l. disou nod, until Its itentler my
Hrrititirt forth a ll-lit, illumining her world.'
"Yes, tLis i Hallow E'en! And I
suppose niHuy giddy girls will try their
fortune to-night. It doesn't seem bo
v,ry long ago, mure I tried mine, auj
looking over my shoulder in the
mirror, saw Ralph Suuiiut-rs smiling
npuu Lae, with thu lovelifilit in his
eyra.
Hni tint was iifto. n years uo, u J
etui Kill li is httppily married, and I
well, 1 suppose I ata very old for I uiu
tl.ii ty twu."
Mnv lieynolils stnootlioil bai-k her
soft, hrown hnir, ami looked into the
uiirrur opposite. She was ttill very
Juir to look up'io, and Mr. Ralph
I-iuLniiurti would have found in thu
.May of to-day. a higher type of
beauty than Hie May of iiltnen years
ago pohSdRHed. Thero is now a look of
tiuuttt ruble loiiRion in her even, and
to-uiglit .she Heems rept'es and sad. A
very elude observer would often And
Lt-r so, in tbo quiet of her own home:
hut to the outside world she is the ret
icent and dignified Miss Keyuo.'ds
though known as a friend to every
child in the town ar.d u sympathetic
benefactor fo the unfortunate.
She is now a repiner, but into her
busy life often comes the sweet mem
ories of lonpc ago. when bl.s wtua happy
and secure in the love of U ilph Huui
niers. She is silting not in seeming idle
ness a very nnnsual thing for her
and in her bands is a picture of
a boyish face, and her eyes light rip as
she gzes, making her very beautiful.
Suddenly she drops the picture, nuil
clasps her hands in a very aiony of
sorrow crying softly
"Oh! why did I let him go from out
uiy life? Why did I let my pride
conquer my aohing heart? OoJ meant
ng for each other, yet I drove him
lrum me by my folly. I wonder if
At is ever unhappy? Oh! I would not
have him to be as miserable as I am
for all the world."
Let us go back in our story fifteen
years. Halph Snmmers and May Rey
lioldh met while she was attending
boarding-school. "She came, she saw,
she conquered," might be said of May,
tor halph bnmmes loved her from the
first uiorrent of their meeting. And
she returned his love. They were
very happy until May one day, "Jast
to tease Ualpu, tlirted with one ol
young men of the town.
Ralph remonstrated and May, chilled
and hurt at his words, though alio
knew he deserved them, threw her
head proudly back and replied:
"To wticui are yon speaking, Mr.
Hummer's? I am a Reynolds, if yon
l)leas, Sir, and I shall not listen to
vou another minute! Go! I shall never
look npon your face again!"
Then he left her, and all the world's
suosuine seemed to go with nim; yet
she said never a word.
Ralph wrote a little note full of peni
tence, which May kissed aud cried
over, ar.d carried next her heart nntil
H worn in tatters but sho did not
auewer it, and would not speak to him
when tney met.
She fully intended to ak his forgive
ness "someday," little thinking that
that "someday" wa3 buried under fu
ture years, and that, ere it should
dawn, she would sutTer as she had
never dreamed it possible for a human
oul to suffer and yet live on.
-May received a tek-pram one day,
shortly after her quarrel with Ralph,
umuioDing her home to tho bedside of
ter dying mother. Iu her hurried
preparations for her lt-ave-ta;ing and
ter anxiety for her mother, a'.e fonnd
bo time for a farewell note to Ralph.
Atter she reached home she ha 1 her
hands and heart full to overflowing.
Oh! the agony of her heart when
he laid her loved mother to rest in
the quiet city of the dead.
our voice to whimper?, would have died,
for tt.e deep quiet's 5 ike:
Tour trpsri the softest mon h.is soug'.t,
ffucn t.( n-w not to break."
Again Mav took up tho wires RncJ
unties of the'hor.T. She felt that her
'ther needed her in lis sore affliction,
and that sl.e nctded him. Oiten she
tbonjrht of Ralph, ial regretted hav
ing nttered the proud, crnel words
that drove him from her. After many
aonths of sad heartaches and tears
'or she now had a donble brtrden to
bear-she fnllv decided to write to
Kalph and ask his forgiveness.
Before hor mother's death it eof mod
Jo .May, sometimes, as it she cotild not
near the heartache caused by her e9
"BDgement wi;h Iialph; bnt after her
ar mother wis pone Pho felt aheavter
ntartaehe that wed-nigh crn.shed her.
tier father noticed her sad face, and
, bow ti'iu she was growing, bnt he
u"i not know of her love and sorrow
,u' Kaipn Summers.
At )tt6t, May went to her room with a
paie f,.ei fli;!j .letermine,! to wrjte
ask Ralph's forgiveness.
!'H,e W1" c rae to me, I know he
she whispers to her heart, "I
wenot live with out him and mamma
.Tlll1?otober ermshine rested npon
. IDgl Men. and eoarlet flow-
Tied with each other in brightness.
Tall vases filled with golden-rod siooA
upon the table in May's room.
"It is a very beautiful world!" said
May softly, looking about her at the
rare Autumn beauty I And yet it is
very full of sorrow. I wonder why
God has so arranged it? He who
knows the end of all things from the
beginning!" .
Just here she saw her letters and
papers from the mail lying upon the
table where her father always idacea
them. Among some letters from
schoolmates was a copy of one of the
newspapers of the city she Had left.
Alwave glad to read the paper pub
lished where she had attended school,
she hastily tore open the wrapper.
What crnel fate had cent that paper
into her hands to-day? She almost
turned to stone as she read for she
saw in seeming letters of fire:
"Married, Ootolter 25th, 1877, Ralph
Summers to Miss lidith Spragne."
Softly the paper fell to the ground.
A pale, slender girl walked blindly up
and down her room:
"I have sown the wind, and I am
reaping the whirlwind!" was her cry,
as with clasped hands she paced the
floor nntil the evening shadows gath
ered. "What a change has come over May
Reynolds since her mother's death!"
a neighbor remarked "She is not
like the mischievous May of a few short
months ago. All the old love of fun
seems to have left her forever. Poor
girl! her sorrow is telling wofully on
her."
Thus the long years came and went,
bringing always their burdens and
also something of happiness along
with .them. May's father had soon
been laid beside her mother, and then
the thoughtful girl devoted herself to
tho poor and needy. Many a heart
rejoiced at her coming; many a
wayward soul was turned into better
paths by her he!p!ul words.
"1 tiud so much to do," she once
said to a friend, "that I sometimes wish
I had four hands, instead of two. Oh!
this is a beautiful world; but it la also
very full of sorrow. And 1 want to be
helpful to every sorrowing soul 1
meet. There are mo vtany of them in
this old world!''
May was speaking thus to an old
friend, one who was happy in her
children's and husband's love, when
that friend replied:
"Do yon know, dear May, that I of
ten wonder why you have never mar
ried. It Heenis to me that a woman of
such strong sympathies as yon pos
sess, would be most happy surronnded
by a family cf her own."
The moment the words wore nttered
thy were regretted, for their author
saw such a look of pain creeping over
May Reynold' face that it almost
frightened her; but .May quickly turned
aside, that her friend might not see
her face aud replied:
"Marriage is not lor me. Ood, who
sees and knows all things, from the
least to the greatest, knows that if I
were as happy as some women, I would
live for this worht only; it would be
Heaven enough for mel"
Thero was a depth of pathos in
May's voice that her friend never for
get. It is again the last of October, and
we find May as we found her in the be
ginning of our story, thinking of that
Halloween so long ago.
"I wonder if Ralph ever thinks of
it?" she said softly. "Oh! I hope be
is happy, md yet cannot help wonder
ing if he ever thinks of the old happy
times."
Sl.e picked up the pictureof the boy
ish face, aud seating herself in a rock
er, gave herself up to the old, sweet
memories.
"Just for to-night!" she whispered to
her heart, "To-morow I must be
brave, and again take up my lonely
duties and pleasures for there is a
pleasure in striving to make others
hanpy."
Sue sat looking at the well loved
face, nntil all the lights were extin
guished over the way. Sb.9 heard the
clock strike ten eleven and still she
dreamed on. As the last stroke of 12
died away, she aronsed herself and be
thonght her of the hour.
"It is the very hour the maidens try
their fortunes," she said aloud. "Ah,
mo! there is no truth in it. Nothing
bnt a silly superstition, that tho intel
ligent girls of this century ought to be
nstiamed to harbor. And yet some
times a little superstition brings happi
ness! It did to me, fifteen years ago,
when 1 looked over my shoulder in the
mirror and saw Ralph Summers smil
ing at me. It wasn't his ghost, either,
but Ralph himself, who had gotten an
inkling of what was to be done that
night by the girls of 'our set.' Oh!
what happy days those were!"
The more Mar thought of it, the
moro she felt like trying thn old spell
over again, "just once for all time,"
she whispered to her.-elf. She repeated
the "instructions" she had received
of the older girls at school years
ago:
"fro into a room, turn around three
times ere yon close the door, walk
backward to the mirror, suddenly face
it, eat an apple which you are to hold
in your left hand, comb ont your hair
with the right, all the time looking
steadily in the mirror; soon yon will
see tho image of tho man you are to
.arry redacted from over your right
shoulder!"
As May stole noiselessly, into the
next room, carrying an apple in her
hand, she wondered if her friends,
could they see her now, would not
think her a fit inmate for an asylnm
for lunatics. Softly she entered the ad
joining room, turned around three
times before closing the door, walked
backward to the mirror, suddenly
faced it, began ating the npple held
in her left hand, while with her right
she combed out her long, dark hair,
which fill in shining waves about her.
Her eves seemed piercing the very
deptbs of the mirror!
Snddenly her f . ce blanched! She
heard footsteps steadily approachiag
her from behind. She seemed frozen
to the spot. Sue could not cry out for
very horror. At last over her right
shoulder arose a man's face, set and
white. It was the face of Ralph Sum
mers! Older than when she saw bim
last, yet handsome; for this face held a
thonghtfnlness and seriousness in its
depths that the boyish face of fifteen
years ago did not possess.
The hand that held the comb re
fused to move and fell helplessly to her
side.
May turned around and would have
Tallou, but he who had given her this
fright caught her in his tender arms
aud laid the white face on his breast;
while his kissc fell upon her lips in
quick succession.
"Sour wife! ventured May at the
first opportunity, trying to escape from
his arms. . .
But he held her close, exclaiming:
"My wife? Good Heavens! May, I
have never married. What do you
mean I" . . .
"Bat I saw the paper containing
the notice of the marriage of Ralph
Snmmers and Edith Sprague,' May
answered defiantly.
"My cousin married Edith Sprague,"
he cried, while May, realizing that she
had made a second terrible mistake
fifteen years ago, begged his forgive
ness, which was readily granted, and
sobbed her happiness out on Ralph's
loving heart.
"But how did yon happen to come
at this hour?" May asked, after many
questions had been asked and satisfac
torily answered by each.
".Darling, my heart has been so full
of you of late, as it has been through
all these desolate years, that I de
termined to reach here on Hallow Eve,
and beg of you, for tbe happiness that
still might be In store for as, to be
my wife. My train was delayed a few
hours, and I reached here on the mid
night train, and found my Darling try
ing to read her fate on this happy Hal
low Eve."
GLEANINGS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
Peeresses of Great Britain, Scot
land or Ireland by birth, marriage or
creation, are free from arrest or im
prisonment on civil process; and in tne
event of a peeress being charged with
a criminal offense, she would be tried
by the House of Lords.
The Guadalonpe bees lay their honey
in bladders of wax about as large as a
pigeon's egg, and not in combs. The
honey never hardens and is of an oily
cot sislency.
Tbe National Library in Washington
contains 700,000 bound volumes and
200,000 pamphlets. The yearly Increase
is from 15,000 to 20,000 volumes, and
the new building, which will be com
plete! in four years, is to be capable
of holding 4,000,000 books.
Probably the smallest painting ever
made was the work of the wife of a
i-'lemish artist. It depicted a mill with
the sails bent, tbe tiiller mounting the
stairs with a sack of grain on his back.
Upon the terrace where tbe mill stood
was a cart and horse, and on the read
leading to it several peasants were
shown. The picture was beautifully
finished, every object was very distinct,
yet it was so amazingly small that its
surface, so the story goes, could be
covered with a grain of corn.
Tbe German Government is about to
erect a "Home" for the benefit of art
ists and art students residing in or
visiting Rome. Herr Genick's design
provides suitable accommodations, in
cluding twenty-four large studios for
painters and sculptors and a common
reception and exhibiton hall.
The central Sahara regi-.ters a mean
of 97 in July. Central Australia
boasts of 94 in January a mean
which is attained in South Carolina and
inner Arabia in midsummer.
There are two observable places be
longing to Asia, both lying under the
same meridian and of a small distance
from each other, and yet the respective
inhabitants of them in reckoning their
time, differ an entire day every week.
"The Roanoke, which was launched
at Bath, is the largest ship ever built
of wood, being 311 feet in length and
49 feet in breadth. Her gross tonnage
is 3539.03, net 3400.43 tons. Her spars
are massive sticks of Oregon pine. She
has for' masts, each of which is 3H
inches iu diameter and over 90 feet in
length. The other spars are of like
giant proportions.
The great bell of Moscow, moulded
in miniature form in Russian china, is
a new ornament for the buffet, which
gives a fashionable Russian cast to the
room.
A factory near Paris makes annually
20,000,000 quill toothpicks, and is the
largest establishment of its kind in the
world. It was started many years ago
to make quill pens, but when they
went out of general use it was con
verted into a toothpick mill.
Eagles measuring from seven to
twelve feet from tip to tip are common
in tbe neighborhood of Albany, Ore
gon. It has been discovered that silver
exist in the ashes of two volcanoes in
the Andes of Ecuador, iu South
America
There is a tree in Jamaica known as
the life tree, on account of its leaves
growing even after being servered from
the plant. Only by fire can it be entirely
destroyed.
The Jacksonville (111.) Institute for
Deaf Mutes has the only deaf mnto
military company In tbe world.
Minneapolis has the largest grain
elevator in the world. Its storing ca
pacity is 2,000,000 bushels of grin.
The costliest crown in .Europe, ex
perts says, is that worn by the czar of
Russia on state occasions. It is sur
mounted by a cross formed of five
magnificent diamonds, resting upon an
immense nncnt but polished ruby.
The ruby rests upon eloven large
diamonds, which in turn are supported,
by a mat of pearls.
Miss TJmp. Tsda, now a special stu
dent at Bryn Mawr, (Penn.j, College,
is anxious to raise $H,000 to found a
scholarship to give Japanese wou.en a
four years' training in America, and fit
them to return home as teachers for
Japanese girls.
Hui.da FnrFPBicHS, a yoimg Ger
man woman, has been engaged by the
Pall Mall Gazette to naake a tour of tho
United States for the purpose of writ
ing up the social institutions of the
country, especially in their effect on.
woman's conditions.
A TVI Precautloa.
A Southern druggist has invented
A contrivance to prevent seri
ous mistakes in filling prescrip
tions. His invention is a bottle,
jut like others, except in one
particular. It has a glass stopper
covered with innumerable sliarp
points thatsenslbly prick the hand if
one is not careful in removing it from
the bottle. All poisonous attd dan
gerous drugs are kept in bottles like
this. The peculiar contrivance will
make the druggist careful, no matter
how great his hurry, and if he is made
to be cautious in handling bottles he
will make no mistake in filling pre
scriptions. DoVK.lMtetl bj Mire.
For some time past the hill gra
In sand rough pastures of six Scot
tish counties Dumfries, Roxburgh,
Kirkcudbrigut, Peebles, Sr'ikirk, and
Lanark have been devastated by
mice. In Roxburgh and Dumfries,
from 60,000 to 90,0C0 acres say a re
port recently presented to the Board
of Agriculture, havo beta overrun ty
them.
THE CRASS.
.'1 sine'e. IenUpr blartM I crow
L'liilt-r the sole w bite sli-lteri"K no
on hill-d a li.ne. till wakes the Soring
.vtth ;tl my lender root I i-Hiir
To bind t., iiE- t.f shiltina sands.
1 l:iy Hie irat4f my small h:iuds
To steal away mi eiop'y .pace, -And
make a soil and lair ureeu place
Wnr weaty ees n rest uikiii r
t'eichauce one bird lo nesi nuoii.
ir preen Is but una width ol band
here there ws grievous barren land,
When ail niv Summer seed Is spent
And earthward my plumed head la beut.
I know that well my woik is doue.
I hou-h small there's one more victory won
I null fulness writ-re was a .tone.
And I lear not to go alone
naek to I he darkness whence 1 came
Into this place of vital Uanie.
Juliet corsom.
GOLDEN MOMENTS.
BY UKS. TALBOT COKE.
'Soma take no note or time, but from lta loss ,
It has become quite a habit with
some of my best aud most loyal cor
respondents to quote my favorite mild
reproof (when asked to send patterns,
answer privately or do something else
which is "not iu the bond"), "My
moments are golden," and golden they
certainly uio in ev. ry sense of the
word. Coidcu, because so valuable to
one whose printed work is perhaps bat
one-third ot her scribbling.
Goldeu because so pleasant; full of
ever-new interest and delight
Golden because such a rioh harvest
of gratitude, of kindly, almost affec
tionate words from nnknown friends
from many parts of the world is gar
nered. Now I do not expect to convert my
readers to my nncanny habit of begin
ning to write, alert and eager, at six a.
iu. winter and summer, or that they
will believe that my idea of rest is to
lie on my deck-chair and write rough
notes for an article, but I do want
them to think how much precious time
they waste.
A queer old relative of mine, clever
and acttve-minded, used to keep a cer
tain fuuuy old-fashioned inlaid work
table with a "Keckitt's blae" satin
bag below, drawn into pleats
and ending in a blne-and-vellow tassel
always full of bits of "poor work,"
balf-knitted socks, half-hemmed hand
kerchiefs, half-sown mams, or a baby's
petticoat partly herring boned.
1 can see her now, routing in it to
see what she would do while waiting
for the carriage, for in those days,
reader mine, women did not keep
horses waiting twenty minutes or so
champing their bits, "rain or sbjne,"
and this dear old body who nver
seemed to sew at other times and her
companion, always stitched solemnly
for the five or ten minutes they wore
waiting for the carriage.
Old body, do I call her! To ma,
then in all the insolence of eighteen
snmmers or so, she seemed a Mrs.
Methnseleh; but on laying down my
pen and solenmly calculating, she was
perhaps then barely sixty, and so, bad
she lived in thiri year of grace, would
doubtless be wear mr a "gay and
giddy" bat over a touzled dyed fringe,
instead of the drawn black silk bonnet
with its jQuaker-like lace frill over the
smoothly -parted silvery hair.
Many a et day do I remember in
that old house, when a party of young
folks, weary of nothing to do, would
wander into the loiig.Iow drawinp-room,
knowing full well that the work-table
wonld be opened, thimbles banded
round, aud a piece of work with needle
temptingly stuck in it, would be
handed to each.
We chose a Dice even creamy linen,
and invested in enough to make a large
quilt, also a large quantity of soft, blue
embroidery cotton Th s was for fear
: a common disaster to embroideresses
the cottou, if bought at different
times, might, even if the eame make,
not all wash alike. We then eat out a
centre, about thirty inches by twenty,
of which more anon.
Tbe rest of the material we etit np
into squares tbe size of a large tile.eacli
being "drawn" half an inch from the
edge and coarsely hem-stitched.
We then chose a very conventional
tile-like pattern from a book of trans
fers, bought as many of them as we
needel, and an hour one wet day
served to prepare all the desired tiles
for working. I say "Jesired," because
when sewn together they were to
appear alternately worked and
plin.
The centre I traced for her with a
conventional '"ontline" orange tree,
with background of eo terse bine darn
ing. "It will never, never be done," was
the thought, looking at the pile of
squares, bat by carrying one always
in her pocket, in a at tie case with
scissors and thimble, ao day passed
without progess being made, wnile
hearing her children's lessons, while
listening to the cream of the morning
paper from her husbantl, while chat
ting s'ter five o clock tea; in short
until we thus begin to se idle mo
menta we cave no notion saw rioh we
are in them!
The result was that, without ever
seeming to slave at it, or to rob other
duties, this moment monument grew
until in an incrediblv short time it was
made np with a deep friQ of coarse
lace to beautify its owner's bod, And
she set boldly to work to make Another
tile quilt with nursery rhymes from a
"Walter urane book outlined in
terracotta for prospective grasilchil
dren. I think, to a really actlve-xuiaded
individual, the great charm of needle
work and scribbling is that you can do
both almost anywhere, though tbe
latter wants silence, while tbe former
always goes on quickest midst pleas
ant chat.
I often have written in the Iiaiq, bnt
I once travelled with a girl who cor
rected literally yard of proofs, in
pen and ink, too, on Ola tile of her
travelling bag, before whom I lux
uriously studying bright little Woman
felt a mere despicable idler.
It is a truism to say that bnsy peo
ple always have tbe most time, bnt
certain it is that the women who
"haven't a moment" vet would be
puzzled at the end of the day to say
what had been done, beyond "ordering
dinner" and writing ft couple of letters,
lead a far more worried (and worrying)
existence than if they made a system
atic artangement of tie r time.
Erin's merry hard said, "The best
of all ways to lengthen the days, is to
steal a few hours from, the night, my
dear!" bnt to me the ear It morninc.
!' before the hurly-burly of life begins,
is the best and freshest time for. at
any rate, a woman's work,
i Men have not to "drive a domestic
'coach." They can shut themselves up
in a sacred study at any hour, but
; "mother." however busy, should never
be unapproachable; anil afTer the
waridd duties of the day, surely she is
; better pbcod "in the bosom of hor
family'" than scribbling Xa solitude.
' t Wasting time is, Ije everything
else, a matter of habit more than ot 1
.malice prepense, and if come idle, I
Islothfnl beings who are content io
dream through life conld but taste tbe
pleasure and interest of real steady
work, there would be no sncu com
plaint as "dullness in the wide world.
It would not, however, do were we all
workers in the commercial sense of the
word, but s many people seem to
have no aim whatever in life, unless
indeed that most contemptible one of
al!, to 'push" themselves socially.
One is very apt to loose sight of the
fact in our ch ldrcn we are probably
bringing up toi e') nly else's husbands
and wivts. fathuis and mothers, and
that, not neglecting higher things,
part of their moral equi mont for the
battle of life should not only be a
proper sense of the value of money,
but of that of the value cf time.
I hold that no woman, be her posi
tion what it may, is the worse for hav
ing "business" instinrta, and no reallv
j business-like person ever cares to waste
time.
Uutatd. Window Dllnd.
Among tbe household inconvenien
ces left over to this generation out
side window blinds are among the
chief and worst Their principal ob-
)e:ts seem to be to get out of order,
hang un one hinge, collect diit, slam
violently and noisily and contribute
in every possible way to the dilapi
dated appearance of a dwelling. To
shut or open theiu one must risk dis
location of the neck, and if they are
n a dressing room window they are
apt to blow open at critical moments
in the process of the toilet. Still they
exist and the aim of every woman who
has them should be to render them as
inobjectionable as possible.
In ttw; first place, all their slats
must lie carefully attended to and
never let drop or flv loosely. Once
every week they must be thoroughly
brushed, otherwise the accumulation
Of dust upon til em combines with oc
casional showers to flow in rivulets of
mud down the frwit of the dwelling.
At least once a year they should be
taken off their hinges and washed.
The wise woman will take them off
ooe at a time or else mark in some un
mistakable way which blind belongs
to which aide of the window, other
wise great will be the confusiou and,
If they are hung by a man, the pro
taoity attending their adjustment.
The proper materials for washinir
one of these cumbersome objects are
a tub, warm, soapy water and a whiss:
broom. After the dust and accumu
lations of the season have been washed
off rinse the blinds in water in which
ammonia has been diluted in the pro
portion of a tablespooaful to a gallon.
They should be allowed to get thor
oughly dry before being rehung in the
sun,otherwise they are liable to crack.
Then when they are restored to their
windows, as fresh and clean as green
trees after a shower, one is inclined
t overlook their objectionable quali
ties and take unqualified enjoyment
jo U.eir neat appearance..
Faraou Hauten.
lu Signor Gessi's "Seven
Yeats In
the ouddn, the author describes "tbe
brothers Duma," two hunters, "re
nowned from Kanka to the Victoria
Nyana." Thev were in the habit of
killing ttre buffalo, the rhinoceros,
and the letyard the fiercest animals
of the country with no emotion than
a European would experience in shoot
ing rabbits. They were often sent
for from differed parts to kill some
lion which was dohog great mischief.
Of their elephajit hunting the author
-lays:
In all the villages the brothers
found an enthusiastic welcome: the
people knowing that wherever they
were meat was never wanting. Both
men were strong-limbed aud of un
common agility.
When an elephant rushed upon
them they calmly awaited bim, and
at the right moment leaped to one
side. The elephant, not beiiiijable
to stop, turned toward one of the two
brothers, and the other plunged a
lance into his side. The animal then
quitted the first man and fell upon
the one who had wounded him, and
at that instant the other cut the
tendons of the hind legs, bringing the
elephant at once to the ground.
One day, however, one of the
brothers was near falling a victim to
his boldness. He attacked an ele
phant alone in the usual way, but
stumbled and fell. He rose directly,
but the elephant bad already seized
him in bis trunk, and hurled bim to
a distance of fifteen feet Fortu
nately he fell in tbe middle of a thick
bush, and escaped with some scratches
nd bruises
His friends laughed at the accident,
and the next day he said:
"I would rather eat mv wife severa'
times than not take my revenge."
He set out again, refusing the com
pany of his brother. Late In the
evening he returned and called the
village together.
"Come," he said, "help me bring
in the tusks, and take as much meat
for yourselves as you like."
All the population followed him
He had killed nine huge elephants.
Molecule..
All substances are made up of tiny
particles which cannot be further re
duced in size without change of prop
erties and breaking up into their com
ponent atoms. These particles or
groups of atoms are molecules, and all
matter is trembling with their bil
lions of vibrations per second. In
soOids, tbe molecules are arranged in
a certain fixed order, and their vibra
tion is in a limited space. In liquids
they move atout in all directions, yet
none can voluntarily separate them
selves from the others, while Id gases
they are in a state of vibration so vio
lent that they fly about with marvel
ous rapidity in all directions. Every
cubic ineh of air contains no less than
21,000,000,000,000 of molecules, and
every point on our skin is bombarded
by thousands of millions of them
every second. Each is so small that
300 would not-extend across the width
of the smallest line the most powerful
microscope shows us. Magnify them
1.000,000,000,000 diameters, and each
atom Is the size of our globe, each
molecule is a planetary system, and
each air-buble from the fringe around
the water in a goblet, Is a wonderful
galaxy. Magnified 10,000 trillion
diameters, the air bubble would have
the dimensions of our entire ttellar
system, but would contain 50,000 UN
fjons of stars Instead of the 20,000,000
qur best telescopes cau show UA
THE MAN WHO STAMMERED.
I'un YVUn Ho Tackled a Tel.phoow Sad
Sfleus In th. HospltwL
It's great fun to le around when a
man with an impediment in his
speech tries to talk through a tele
phone. As a rule, he doesn't try it
often, but sometimes he can't help
himself. Such was the case with a
clerk in a railroad office down South,
where I was employed some years ago.
Like many others similiarly afflicted,
he stammered most when he tried
hardest to stop It.
The superintendent happened to
Jrop into the ottlce one morning
and asked him to telephone to a cer
tain firm of 6tock dealers who had
been making inquiries about the
matter that they could ship a certain
quantity of miied stock In tbe sams
car, provided ther double-decked the
car.
"Please sir," said John that was
the name by which everybody
addressed him "I'm afraid I
c-c-ca-ca "
"What's that?" queried the super
intendent somewhat harshly.
'It's all right, sir," responded John
meekly, convinced of the uttct futility
of trying to explain to a stranger that
he generally got stuck on words be
ginning with a "d" worse than on
unv other kind.
John succeeded In establishing con
nections through "central" all right,
and then the trouble began.
"That stock will go all right," he
ihouted, "if you d-d-d-d-d "
Then he paused to take a fresh
start, and the man at the other end
of the wire evidently said nothing.
"It's all right began John again,
"If you d-d-d-d "
His breath gave out and he stopped
to take a fresh supply, while the
nther man probably inquired what
sort of an Idiot was trying to talk to
him, or something of that sort, for
John's face grew very red.
"Blame it!" he yelled at the instru
ment, "put a b-b-bulkhead in tbe
car."
But evidently the Intending ship
per was not up in nautical terms and
must have implied as much, with the
addition of sundry reflections concern
ing the ate of John's Intelligence.
Whatever it was made John madder
than ever.
With a supreme effort he again
tackled the telephone aud shouted:
"D-d-d-an it! put a f-fence through
the c ir, and if that don't do I c-c-can
lick you!"
John was a good fellow, though
under strong provocation, slightly
disposed to be pugnacious. I shall
hever forgot the last time I saw bim.
It was in St Luke s Hospital, this
city. The head ot the department of
the railroad in which he was employed
was a selfish brute and made him
work a great deal of overtime with
out any extra pay. In consequence
his health gave way and he came
North to get wel1rbut got worse and
bad to go to the hospital. He was
without a penny, and those who had
been bis associates In tbe railroad
office made up a little purse for him.
I found his wife by his bedside
when I called to see him. She was a
sanguine little body, and began te
talk about how she intended, when
John got a little better, to start a
small candy store with tbe money that
had been subscrilied for him and thus
support him until he was able to go
to work again.
John listened In silence for a time,
and then said sadly:
"Y-y-es, it will do to b-b-b "
Zie was unable to finish tie sen.
tence; but he made a down war? gest
ure with his finger and burst Into
tears. It was painfully plain what
he meant. Buried he was a few days
later and with the money that had
been subscribed by his former com
panions. New York Herald.
Hearing Without Ear Drums.
"Don't speak so loud," said a pretty
young woman to a Washington Star
writer, adding by way of explanation,
'I have no ear drums, you know."
"No ear drums!"
"No:I lost them several years ago,"
"From a shock or concussion?"
"Not at alL I was troubled with
a catarrhal affection, a consequence ot
which was the formation of abcesses
that destroyed the drums of my eais."
"But 1 did not know that a person
could hear without ear drums."
"On the contrary I can hear con
6iderably better than other people be
cause 1 hear with the exposed audi
tory nerve instead of through the
medium of the arum. For Instance,
it often occurs that i will hear a band
of music coming up the street several
mitiutcs before anybody else docs."
"And you can hear voices bette.
also?"
'Decidedly. If you were to stana
over at the other end of this room
ana whisper articulately I could hear
what vou said without any difficulty.
It is not an advantage, but rather dis
tressing on occasions. ' When ji num
ber ot people are talkiog together in
my presence I cannot help bearing
what every one of them says, whereas
you would be able to confine your at
tention to the remarks on one Indi
vidual. When a person speaks at all
loudly it hurts me. As a rule, I avoid
riding on horse cars because the rum
ble makes the tears run down my
cheeks. In one respect I think my
misfortune is an advantaae, for I be
lieve that I enjoy music more thaD
others do."
'So the loss of the ear drums ac
eu.flly renders the sense ot hearing
more acuteV"
"Undoubtedly it dees, so long as
the oth.T parts are uninjured, but
their destruction exposes the delicate
mechanism of the ear, whicll It is
their chief purpose to protect. Ac
cordingly my auditory apparatus is
constantly in danger of trouble, which
might at any time render me totally
deaf. Besides, any internal ulcera
tion in the passages would be very
apt to pierce the delicate wall of Done
which separates them frou the brain,
and that would cause death. That is
how Roscoe Conklin died, though very
few people know it the cold that
brought on the trouble having been
caught in the great blizzard,"
In 1635 a tulip bulb was sold in Hol
land for 2,200. It weighed 200
grains.
In 1463. forgery was punibbable bj
death in England.
THE PREACHER COULD RIDB.
And Ha Surprised the Boys on th Be)
Raneh.
The presence on the streets ot
Anaconda lately of a revivalist, who
was styled the "Cowboy Preacher."
reminds me of a incident that oc
curred in New Mexico in 1S35, in
which a ,:cowboy preacher" played
prominent part.
One evening the boys on the Bell
ranch, on coming in at night were
agreeably surprised to learn that a
preacher was stopping at the ranch
house and would probably remain for
several days, as the river was very
high and he could not continue his
Journey.
The preacher's rig was in the corral
and consisted of a dilapidated buck
board and a lean, lank-looking horse.
At supper the preacher told the cow
boys that he was a traveling mission
ary, and devoted his time to preach
ing tbe Gospel to cattlemen and cow
boys, and was then making a tour o'
the lange.
The next morning the cowboys were
busy making preparations tor the
round-up. Tbe corral was filled with
broncos, and the boys were busy sad
dling up. The preacher watched the
operation with apparent satisfaction,
and it appeared to be a novel sight to
him; as many of the broncos bad been
running free on the range for several
months and were so wild and spirited
that they had to be roped and held
while being saddled.
The range foreman asked the
preacher "if he could ride," and re
marked that "if he cou'.d a gentle
horse would be furnished and he could
go along with the outfit and see cattle
rounded up, roped, and branded."
The preacher modestly replied that
'he could ride some," and "thought
that he could ride any of the ponies
io the corral."
This reply rather vexed the range
foreman, who knew that the corral
contained some of the worst bucsing
broncos on the range, so he concluded
that he would put up a Job on the
preacher, and test his riding abilities.
He ordered one of the cowboys 'tc
saddle Pinta for the preacher."
"Pinta was a demure-looking
bronco, and appeared to have no spirit
at all. But the moment a rider was
in the saddle 6he became a holy
terror, and would buck and prance
around until she had thrown her
rider. So the cowboys were expect
ing to see the preacher thrown almost
as soon as be was mounted.
Pinta was brought out, saddled and
bridled, and the preacher vaulted
Into the saddle. Pinta began to
buck, but, contrary to expectations,
the preacher was not thrown. He
remained firmly seated in the saddle
and seemed as composed as if be wan
in the pulpit Pinta was surprised,
too, as she generally threw her rider
inside of ten seconds. She began
bucking again and while she was do
ing her best the preacher coolly put
bis band in bis vest pocket, drew out
a cigarette, lit it, and, turning in the
saddle to the astonished cowboys, said:
"Boys, I thought you bad some
spirited broncos on this range You
don't call this low-spirited old pony
bucker, do you?"
The range foreman was so surprised
at this unlooked-for display of horse
manship that he exclaimed: "I don't
know how good a preacher you arc,
but you are a d d good rider. There
ain't two men on the range that can
ride Pinta. Where did vou learn to
ride?"
"O," said the preacher, "I was a
bronco buster and ranee rider on the
Palo Verde ranch In the Panhandle
for six years. For the last three
years I have been a miuister of the
gospel. 1 am out of practice riding
now, but I think within a few days'
practice I could ride as well as the
average cowboy. Some of my friends
call me the Cowboy Preacher of
Texas.'"
The preacher went with the outfit,
and in the nest few days proved that
be was at borne on the range as well
as in the pulpit and coulc. ride, rope,
or brand better than any of them.
After coming back from the round-up
the preacher got out his horse and
buck board and continued on his
missionary Journey, bearing the good
will and admiration of everybody on
tbe range. It was the universal
opionion of the cowboys on the Bell
ranch that, while the church had
probably gained an efficient preacher,
the range certainly had lost the best
"bronco buster" that ever threw
bis leg over a saddle. Anaconda
Standard.
Oddities of a British Postofflce.
The severer duties ot the postofflce
are lightened from time to time by
sundry "curious Incidents," of which
a few are recorded in tbe annual re
port In the present instance we are
told of a letter found at Dumbarton
addressed to "The manager of the
public house with Walker's sign" at
Wolverhambton. Some odd particu
lars were added, which probably fur
nished tbe requisite clew, the result
being that the missive reached the
person for whom it was Intended.
' In another case a postal card was
Inclosed to a provincial postmaster to
be delivered to the writer's "nephew."
Tbe Individual was to be identified
by the possession of a cor!: leg and "a
bright projecting set of teeth." The
description sufficed, though the
nephew" had to be found among a
population of more than seventy
thousand. The "usual eccentricities"
have also presented themselves.
Among these was a parcel cod tain
above five hundred leeches from
abroad- Other consignments included
live snakes,frogs, tame rats and a live
locust from the cape. A cardboard
box containing a kitten with a fced
I Ing bottie was sent by parcel post and
j was dulv shot from tbe mail-bag ap
' paratus near Penrith into the express
j train.
I The kitten suffered from the sbcrk
bat recovered in a coupie o" days.
More prosaic but no less interesting
was the discovery ot two 100 Bank
of England notes in a letter having
no address and affording no clew to
tbe individual wha posted It. As
might be expected, the sender proved
to be a lady and in her gratitude for
the safe return of her property, 6be
presented 20 as a contribution to
the Rowland Hill benevolent fund.
T.ondon Exchange.
A Pullman eoacb costs 33,0 0.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ecgiand has a 125-year-old grape
vine.
France has the cheapest rate ol
postage.
Alaska has yielded $33,000,000 lr
teal skins.
There are 1000 "haunted" houses
In London.
Among 200,0j0,00 1 ot the world's
population slavery still exists.
Dentists use eighteen hundred
pounps of pure gold every year.
Threshing machines were Invented
by Meuzies, a Scotchman, in 1732.
The snare dram was brought
Into Europe by the Saracens, about
703.
The Davy safety lamp for miner
was invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
in 1815.
Seven-eighths or tbe forest growth
of tbe State of Washington consists ot
the Douglass fir.
Idaho Is said to be the only State
whose name bus never been satisfac
torily accounted for.
In midsummer the coasts of Spltz
bereen are icebound and practically
inaccessible to vessels.
I: Is reported to have rained alli
gators during a recent sever rain
storm at Ottuma, Iowa,
The ex.ct physical centre of the
United States Is a gravestone In a
cemetery. For: Riley, Kin.
The col jt of the shark's egg Is
black, of leathery texture, thin, tough
ana iu irom similar to a band barrow.
The linen manufactured yearly in
England could be wrapped round the
earth seven times.
The street surfao roads of New
York City carried 220,050.013 passen
gers during the year 1891, a daily
average of 629,157.
The religions fatalism in the Hin
doos' life extends also to their Intellec -tual
state, lu grammar, as in faith,
kismet rules supreme.
A "camel'' and 'beauty' are
synonymous in Arabic. An Arab
widow generally mourns her husband
with a ci y of "O, my camel 1"
The Chinese, Japanese, Malays,
Siamese, New Zealanders and North
American Indians are all but beard
less. There are only two congregations
or Armenians in this country cue at
Worcester, Mass., and the other at
Uoboken, N. J.
Probably the largest artificial stone
in the world forms the basis of the
Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, on Bed
low's Island, New York Harbor.
S:x hours a day issa d to beobllga
tory upon the German Kaiser's children
for study under the direction of tutors.
Altogether the streets of London
are traversed to-day by something like
2300 omnibuses aad 1100 tramway -cars.
A New Hampshire cure for sore
throat is to wear about the neck a
stocking, in the toe of which a potato
has been tied.
As a result of the widespread use
of macaroni in Laly, the peasants of
that country consume more flour than
the peasants of any other land.
A flume forty-five miles long is to
be constructed froaa the headwaters of
the San Jutn river to Poliasky, a
station on the Mountain Railroad, near
Fresno. Cal.
Brass pins have been in use foi
neatly tleven hundred years. They
weie Erst imported into England by
Catherine of Aragon, the wife ot
Henry VIU.
In one of the Canary Islands there
is a tree of the laurel family that rains
down occasionally in ths early morn
ing quite a copious shower of teari or
water from its tufted foliage.
The year 17S0 is famous In history
for three events of national importance
The Oovernment v. as organized undci
the Federal Cons itution, Washington
was elected President and the order ot
Cincinnati ws founded.
The longest pontoon bridge eve.
built was constructed by Company F,
Fiftefnth New York VoIunteers,acr.iss
the Chickahominy, when McCiellan
wlthrtie . from Harrison Landing.
iven to this day cert tin communi
ties of Buddhists and Mohamme lans
pray by the hour before their lavortte
plaut or flower. In India this species
ot worship seems to be most preva
lent. Salmon Ci'y, Oregon, has a curi
osity in the shape of a Chinese cowbov,
whorl es with tbe best of tiem. He
created quite a s-iisition tbe other day
by riding a bucking cayuse through tbe
streets of the town.
The Indian measures distances
while canoeing by "pipes." One p:pe
is tin int-rval betwe-u baitings he is al
lowed to make lor a smote.
Tbe bees of Guadeloupe, West
Indies, are slingless, and uo not store
their honey in combs, but In bladders
of wax aoout the size of a pigeon's
egg.
An Indian sold a Shoshone, Idaho,
business man some finely po:isi?e . buf
falo horns recently, and positively re
fused to tako silver in pay met t, de
manding gold.
the Chinese have a kitchen god
which Is supposed to go to the Chinese
heaven at t' e bejmu:ng of each year
to report up m the irivate life of the
fam.hes under his care
Hannah Dale, known throughout
England as the gin giantess, died
recently at her naive I l..ce, Mow
Cop, near Tunst;;l. i- thy Potter
ies. She weighed 454$ pounds at
her eatX She was eieven years of
age.
Tbe French "humhn ostrich," Cigno
has a new trick. He swa laws a watch.
The spectators watch him swallow and
h ;i. 'iL-en tc what they are t-uie is the
ticking of the time-pi ce in bis iu
wards. Woodatown, N. J , comes to the front
wi'h a report of a terrible b-title be
tween a pet cat. and au eight-fi ot plue
s a e, the cat, though half kle,
m l ag'n to ke-p the sn ike nga ei
u til help came. The cat was defend
ing its mietress, a liule girl.
The "Ett" of the kings of Engluna
! who coul 1 write have been pres rvesi.
; The autogra- h .f n-arly up t! e Kngiish
kin;;s f.oui Henry VI 1450 to G orgs
1L fud the klns and que-us of Eng
land sOce the second George are
coutain' d in ti.e remarkable collection
of J. PrtTpsai Mc rgan, the New York
banker.
The i-jDgth of a day on Mars la 2
hours b&d 37 rxilnu.es.
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