B. P. HOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLVI. MIFFLINTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1892. NO. 50 MAN'S INC. THANKSCIV Wen tii' Winter siinw's a ine'ttn An' III' n iiplfs yield llicir i:u, in n wealth uv .oles niiiur, puurt In flint ll-r earth' nliiti Uu: Tliere tieilnys Vn rvu liiHithla' Seim Mi' ta'i:li"t sort f r J ty. An' ur ole ii. an i:ii a-liunipin'( An' leigit he ain't a U . Y en th' coin hi-mng tfr hns-1. An th' nati 1 urow In' st-ont An th' vanlm' truck I mpllei; An' th' air fu I ii v "nu I v' ln jij-v ' luW aim ii'8'-c:i, A wlu.i.in' lurth their l.i-i, Wy th" ulr man's lniH ai-'ti 'iyful An' atlua ins mile u. ltaf3. WVn lh' liaiiH are tllle.i 'nb Plenty, n' th np-nei Iarv3i9 stored; Vh a tiean o' loot .some dainties rill th' ule I IiuiiKsci vin' hoard : ' n he ees Inn nuns all' dartera I ntu men ao' w men grown. ' 'lin ilieir vonn ;-un nil uli.mt em, Au' hi ariu eheer's made a tliiuiid, 1l.i..iii;ed about 'Ith happy n.ililet, Lutllii' iiiun' lh Ir Kran'pap's sue, W y he iil. I ,-f. Hh.tt th' leelm's I v a king nivlit cnanee o he; Ait' He e. ins tel Sri). It AonitJltuW, An' ter rernniii7e th' truth, lhei In tt.t-li fun an' trol c ile kin live Htm' Ills youtli. -(fc'uiiu M NoKhts. in Yankee Blade. THUEE FAIR REBELS. ( Au Inter nti t iijfml I'jUoJe.) FKANK fOI-E 111 Ml H KEY. lbs story is told in two lines to the tchool histories how three girls.liviug u the island called Martha's Vine yard, blew ud a Liberty nole to nm. vent ils being taken for a ship's spar bv the British I always knew there must lie a vol- i nuie of romance shut up in those two hues, concerning which I could only dream and specniate until I read cer tain old yellow letters in the archives of lialsall Hall, Warwickshire. In these letters, one nf the Three Fair Kebels, liiii eJ Barbara, tells the whole story to her cousin Edward. '1 ha incident tunic nlnca ennn otir I the great and famous Boston tea-party, neu a company ot the centlemen nf i that town, disguised as Mohawk Indians, went do-an to (Jrilliu'S Wharf, and boarding the vessel laden with the tea upon which a tax of threepence the pound had been hud by George III, tumbled it chest by chest into the "lunghing sen ;" an object lesson fur tliat somewhat obstinate poten tate upon their favorite aphorism, "No taxation without representation." The conta.'ion of this rebellions act spread like wildfire, and soon n ached the lovely island, ljing south of Massa chusetts, within the influence of the liulf .Stream, whereon Barbara lived. At once, with one accord, the inhabi tants Hocked to the meeting-house to consider the action of the Boston gen tlemen, to declare their approval of it, and to devise some way in which they too could give expression to their loyalty to the Hiorensrued axiom, and their iletestutiim of George 111. and his government. It was voted to raise a Liberty pole, Hnd to bury at its bise such of the taxed tea as had found its way on to their island. Au.l so, writes Barbara, we went up to the Durk Woods, Beatrix, Priscilla, and 1, with all the men and women, to hnd a tree tall enough and straight enough and fair euoi;gh to be our brave Liberty pole. We chofe one, towering like Saul above his brethren-; and in its top an eagle had builded her nest; the proud, tree bird which has since been taken as its crest by Barba ra's country. They hewed it down, each man tak ing a turn at the axe, and it fell at last with a mighty crash, crushing a dozen or more young saplings, which some of the more supers! it i m among the women took for a bad omen; and with its crash mingled the cheers of all the men and women, boys and girls, who stood round about. The branches being lopped off, and the hnge trunk hewn ln'o shape, twelve pairs of oxen were hitched to it, and it was hauled to the summit of the high hill on the slope of which our village lies, says Barbara for she is always the speaker in this story we following 11 the way; and my father said it was a grander si'iht than the King's pro gress through Westminster, about which my grandfather had often told bim and us. 1 do not Bee how that can be, bnt then my father knows. A hole both broad and deep was dug.and we brought onr tea.every leaf, for there were to t o no lying Sapphiras among us, to hold back part of the price.as among the Boston women, some of whom, it was rumored, took the tea! that had fallen unwittingly into their husband's top boots, when the chests were broken open, and so made them cups of tea and drank ltl I wonder it did not hoke them, the wicked baggag es 1 So every woman brought her tec whether it were only a few drainings or a whele chest like that of Mrs. Cap tain Merchant and tnmbled it in, each herself, and glorying in the doing it. And then it was buried my mother, because sbe was the trnost woman of them all, they said, throwing in the first shovelfi.1 of eRrth buried with the base of the Liberty pole many feet below the surface. When it was all done, we cheered again, the boys throwing up their cape, and we giils waving our aprons Bud tuckers, till mother said, what with the fog that was cteeping in from the Sound, and the fatigue and excite ment, we would surely be ill, and so took Trix and niu home much against our wills. For girls must obey, as yon know, cousin, though boys may some times be permitted to have their own way. Not that I do not love to obey my father and my mother; that is quite another thing from obeying tho HE OLD red-beaded schoolmaster, whom ana whose ways 1 hate. Bnt my mother eavs boror must, be paid to dignitarii s for their ofli'-e' enke, even though in their ows person they be disagree able. 1 From a sentence here and there in Barlara's l tteis, 1 infer that tbonzh she could not love the red-headed schoolmaster he found no difficulty in cultivating that fteling for his fair pnril). The next diy onr mother and some other of the women brought out a flag they bad secretly made, and the mo ment I saw it I knew it was made of my mother's eherislied wedding gown, a beautiful silk of heaven's own blne.and which she whs keepiug for 'Trix and me, when we too sh.dl marry. In one corner was the red cross of St. George, liiade from a i-cnrf Mistress Vincent's hiisbainl had I roil. lit her from the East Indies on his last voyage; on the rosswns embroidered a pine-tree of New Enplaiid. tvuue of the men objected to the croi-s, n, would fain have cut it out, ss Governor Emiieott had once done But my father mid gravely that we huil not yet broken a legiance with the mother-country ; when webad.it would be tunc enough to cut oat the cross. S ' So the flag was raiseJ.and as it flew up the length of the pole like some won derful winged thing, and opened out its beaunfnl folds to the sea breeze, again we all cheered in wil.l excite-me.n- I observed that my mother and Miss Vincent furtively wiped tbeir eyes. And when the next year Mis tress laeent's only son was killed at Banker Hill, I knew what she was thinking of. I hardly know, my cousin, how to convey to yon. no that you can under stand it, our feeling concerning that Liberty pole. It was only a straight staff of fragrant pine, it is trne, but it was also more than that; it was a svru bol, my father said, pointing straight tip to the freo heavens, it stood for fieedom for fr edotc, not for our selves only, but for Englishmen the world over and for a'l time and for all peoples. And it also meant, he said, self-denial for freedom's sake. We girls understood that in a vague ay, not as 1 understand it now, that so many of ray countryman have suf fered and died for treedoni on our battle-fields, and 1 have seen women weeping and little children hunger ing for bread, lint still we dd com prehend in a measure, and it was the daily habit of 'Trix and Priss and me, after our spinuing stent was -ione, to go up to the hill top as to a shrine and talk of these things tiil the tire burned bright in our hearts, and we longed to do as well as talk, not know ing that we had plenty to our hand, and sueh work as it is woman's prov ince an. I privilege to do in time of strt ss. For our mother a nd we mnst ' c'eave onr spinnicg and waiving; mere were stockman to knit clothes to be made for our men, who would soon be railed upon to light for our freedom. For, as you know, cous in, we never trusted to a hireling- sol - liery, as did King leorge, wtio sent ! Moody Hessians to crush and kill the debce' dnnts of free-born English men. And we run our lend into iml lets, and u ade bandies and lint from the soft old linen in our mother's c Jests, "'1 of which we were proud and " (lhese letters bore no dates, but from internal evidence 1 infer they were wri:teu scunewhere about KS4-5. One morning wo were spinning in the garret of my father's house, 'Trix, 1'riss, and I, for I'riss was almost al- I ways with us, bringing her wheel j across the orchard which lay between the two houses and we were just sav- ing how much rather we would fight than spin, when Jack IMggetts, I'riss's I brother, ruhcd up the garret stairs aud shouted before his head was fairlv aiiove the floor, "(hrls! girts! the British have como! t bore's a brig an chored in the harbor!" Down he went withnnt stopping to say more, and we after him, leaving the garret door wide open aud onr rolls swinging from the Sjiiudles for the cats to chase and spoil. And there, sure euongh, lyiug oti Eaut t hop, was a British war brig, the Union Jack lining from her must, her pin t holes showing the months of her guns, and thn sun, which was just breaking over the sea to the east, touching her with a rosy flush. All the people came flocking down to the sands, and pretty soon a bont pnt off from the brig, and I could but admire the even stroke of the oars. mougu xue rowers were onr ene mies. Furthermore, as they stepped on -shore, I could but admire the bravery of their uniforms, like Joseph's coat of many colors; neither ! coul l I refrain fr m contrasting their appearance with that of onr select men who, as the fathers of the town, went forward to salute them and to inqnire of them their business. But tine feathers do not make fine birds, my cous;n, and my father in his working clothes did not look a whit less manly and trne than the bravest officer of them all.' Their brig had lost a spar, they said, and they bad come to search for one in onr woods. They looked about, but could find no tree to suii them. And then they fixed an evil eye on onr Liberty pole, and 6nid that was exactly what they wanted, and would we sell it to tbem. Fhucv, if you can, my cousin, our feelings when we were asked to part with our brave Liberty pole, that it might be converted into a spar fcr a British war-bric! At first s ime said "No," and others spake out-right and s.d l they would rather die thnn give it np; it were bet ter to get out onr muskets and fight in its defejee. That would be absurd, said others, for they would at once opeu upuu u au iue.r smp a K,.us iiuii uni ii i uui . "iintu uuuoco buvui onr ears; they would take it any way, and we mibt as well spare ourselves the loss; and Jacob Morse, the school master, made a wretched jest, the ar rant traitor! about British gold being better than British lead. Tuns it was that onr Liberty pole was sold, and the ship's carpenters were to come aud take it away the next morning. We watched the boat as it rowed acro'S to whete the brig lay at East Cbop, and then we went back to the garret, and I'riss and I sat down on the floor and cried, bnt more in anger than in sorrow. Thea we wiped onr eyes. "Thoy sha'u't have it! they sha'n't have it!" said Priss. And her eyes flashed fire as the sprang to her feet and stamped so hard upon the floor that the boards rattled, and a bit or the loosened plaster drop ed from the celling into my mother's dough which she was kneading for the baking. She came to the Barret door and called out, 'Girls! girls! what are you doing?" "Stamping on the British!" replied Priss, and mother laughed. Ob, it's a shame! a disgrace!" Priss went on. "And to sell it, tool If they had taken it and we couldn't help our selvesbut sp.'.I ltl what will the Bos ton foiks say when they hear of it! Do you tbink -ir' would sell a Liberty pole to the British? Ob, I wish I were a man!" "What would yon do?" asked 'Trix. "Row out and blow up the brig," re plied Priss. "Better blow up the Liberty pole!' said "Trix grimly. Trix bad not eat down on the floor and cried. Sbe had gone right to spinning, and was walking hack and forth by the side of her wheel with a qnick. imperative step: a deep red spot burned on cither cheek, and her mouth was set after a fashion we all under stand when we see it. When ph said that, Priss, who had not ceased fluttering to and fro li ;e a caged eagle, stopped short, made a lit tle run at Trix, broke her roll short olV, threw her arms aronnd her, and cried "Oh von glorious old 'Trix, that's' the verv thingl Blow it np! that we willl We'll show 'em what girls can do. Turn our Liberty Pole in-o a British spar, indeed!" And as ene and Trix danced aronnd the garret, we could hear the bits of plastering rat tling down on to tne aoor oeueawj, Then we put oar heads together aad plotted, and the outcome of our plot ting was that we odered to watch with old Granny Peare that night. To teii the truth, consin, we were all some what tired of watching with Granny. So long had sbe required watchers, some of us had began to think she was not so sick after all; and our father ex pressed great surprise when he heard that Trix, Priss, and I were to watch together that night. One, he should think, would be quite enough to sit by Granny while she slept comfortably through the night, which was her habit. But mother must have suspected, as mothers will, our plan; for when father pressed the matter, aud we grew em barrassed, though persistent, she said in her sweet way and with a twinkle in her eyes, "Oh, let them go, father. Girls like to do things together." And she g.ive us our favorite supper of ap ple pot-pie, which we do not often get, flour is so scarce and dear, and stood at the door and moved her hand en couragingly to ns as we looked back just before turning the corner at Sweet-water Brook. 'Trix bad an anger under her short gowD, and I had a little pail of powder under mine. My father kept his p iw der on a high beam in the wood-house I had to climb up after it; I filled my pail and clambered carefully down, lest I should fall and spill the powder, and so explode it and put an end to both the plot and myself. I hid the powder nnder a lionlder till night should come. Priss's part was to learn how to set a slow match. We found Granny m bed as usual that night. 'Trix made her some gruel, and we tncked her up cosily in bed. and gave her the hop pills. We then told her the newsof the day.for Oranuy dearly loves a disu ol fossip, and when she began to doze we grew silent. Priss 'ay down on the settle; Trix curled herself like a kitten in the great st u Med chair lor our Irix is small, like Mr. Khakspeare's Titania. though full of pluck wh'le I leaned my head on my folded arms,and the old clock went tick-tack and the mice squealed behind the wainscot. I awoke with a start as the clock struck eleven. Priss was yawning, but I do not tbink 'Trix had slept. It was still an hour to twelve, the time we had set, when we knew every one in the village would have been soundly asleep for three good hours at 1-jast. For we ring our curfew at eight, as my father says yon do in old England. We drew the curtains close about Granny's bed, and then, sitting by the red embers, we run bullets and talked in whispers. As the clock struck twelve we pre pared to go. Priss had not da-ed to ask Jack how to set a slow match, she said, lest be shouTl remember it, aud suspect her when the Liberty pole was found blown up. So she put a brand from the lire into Granny's fry-kettle o light the splinter of f it pine she had brought nnder her short gown; it was to bo fastened to a pole, and the pole lay beside the same boulder where the powder was bidden. We went out and shut the door soft ly, leaving the latch-string out, as otherwise wo could not get in ajain. Th night was black, and we had to feel our way, putting out our hands to search for Granny's gate. There was no moon which, indeed, would have spoiled onr plot and the atari were obscured by tliicfc clouds. We ran at first, stumbling over rough p'aies, but after we had found the pol i and pow iVr which we did after much search ing by reason of the darkness we went more slowly. Grannv's house was far away towards West Chop, and we bad almst a mile to go, and we ar rived at the top of the hill iu a breath less state. We paused and looked about us. We had not spoken the whole ws,v. and we did not speak now.only took each other by the hand, with a firm clasp of en couragement. There below us lay the war-brig; we could tell her motion, as she rose and fell on the tide, from the way the mast light dipped and rose again. All around her the sea broke in fiery rip ples, as it did where the breakers dashed against Seconnet Flock. A vessel passing through the Sound left a trail of Are behind ber. I suppose it is true what our minister, Mr. Tbaxter says, that this fiery appearance is caused by millions of tiny marine creatures, but it seems none the les marvelous. Its very brightness seemed to deepen the surrounding darkness, and to blind onr eyes, so that we could not see the Liberty pole, but had to grope long before we found it. Bv the glow of the ember in the fry kettle we sought the proper place to punctare it with the anger, and then began turning it, two working together, for it went very hard and we soon blistered onr bands, unaccustomed to such work. Bnt notwithstanding the smart, we did not pause. What mattered blistered hands in such a cause! After what seemed a long time we were about three-qnnrters through, and Pris, whose father blasts rocks, and so she knows, said that was enough. 1 then filled the cavity with my powder; Priss tied the long sliver of fat pine to the pole, lighted it st the ember, and then toBethor we lifted the pole. Jt was hcavv, for it was qmte fifteen feet long, and there was great difficulty in balancing it so as to touch tho pow der. The fat pine flirrd and flickered like a dancing will-o'-the-wisp, and although by its .flame we could dis tinctly see the powder, it seemed the men st chance when, st last, we did touch it, and it exploded with a craok that seemed to as mast awaken every sleeper in the village. For an instant t'-e explosion lighted up the black night, and as it yawned above ns, we caught s'ght of the top of the Liberty pole; the next instant it fell. Feelinrr that our work was now com plete, without speaking we turned as by one impulse, and ran down the Sindy winding road, faster and faster, winged by fear faster even than on that day when the red Indian, crazed with rum, pursued us with his uplifted toma hawk; for every instant, as we ran through the sleeping town, we exiiected the door to open and the people to ponr forth aroused by the sound of the explosion. But it could not have been so loud as seemed at the moment to onr startled j ears; for the silence of the night re- j mained nnbroken, save by the crow iag of my father's great Dorking cook from his perch in the barn -shed as we' ran past. I We hurried breathlessly into Granny's, shut the door, l ulled in the . latch-string, and dropped upon the ! floor the fry-kettle and anger which we had not forgotten even in oar haite to bring away, lest they should betray , ns giving a loud clang; but Granny did not stir. We ?ked at tie clock it Uc&ed ten temeat aad fatigue, we eooa fell minutes ot three. Worn-oat with ex asleep a brief sleep, however, from which we were awakenei at early dawn 1 by the voioe of Jack Daggetts at the ' latch-string hole. "Girls, girls!" ha called in a sup pressed voice, so as not to awaken Gianny. The Liberty pole's blown up, bn'sted into smithereens! Won't the British be mad; do come and see!" We roused ourselves and looked at each other. 'Trix's fair curls had fall en in tangles about her face, aud she had a wonderfnl likeness to cousin Allan's Scotch terrier, as she shook them back, and said "We shall have o go, girls, or they'll suspect us." We got bravely through it, for everbody was so eager asking who it was that had done the tning, and wondering what the British would say and do, they took little heed of tbeir neighbor, or I fear our tell-tale faaes wonld have betrayed as. "Ho! ho! here they come! O Jer nsha won't we catch it now!" shouted Master Johnson's little black imp, Csesar, tusking a wheel of himself, with legs and arms for spokes; and he rolled down the hill followed by the crowd that had gathered at the first intimation of what had happened. For a boat was seen p ltting off from the war-brig, donbtless the carpenters who were to come for their brave spar, and each one, though rejoicing, was seized with sudden alarm and hied him away to the safe shelter of his own house. But the select men felt it their dnty to go forth and meet them, and explain what had happened and their own lg norauce of it, and how it must have been done by mischievous and irre sponsible boys while their elders slept. Otherwise, es the carpenters with their tools walked along the street, the town was as silent as at midnight when we had passed so swiftly through it. Not that we did not pep out from behind the curtains to enjoy their discomfit ure. And it was while doing this that mother espied the blisters on Trix's hands, who was holding down the cur tain. "What ails your hands my child?' 'Trix instantly held them out, palms up, showing the fnll blisters and in flamed flesh, and she and mother looked at each other a moment. Then mother said gently "Come, dearest, and I will do them up in cool linen and mutton tallow." Ther, bethinking herself, she turned upon Priss and J. "B irl ara and Pris oills, show me your hands!" We obeyed, and 1 confess, cousin that I burst into a violent fit of weeping, quite worn-out wi:h loss of sleep and everything. A one irfiotn hit mother comtirteti, saith the Holy Scripture; and thus my mother com forted us, and bound up our hands, tying to herself as though we were not present, "Dear, tiny, Bteudfast hands." She asked no auestious. but we knew she knew. The British behaved very well, cousin, that I must acknowledge They simply said, "We would have paid yon;" but although they listened courteously to the statemeut of the select men, it was evident they did not believe it, which thing nettled my father, who is a man that would keep faith with even the bitterest enemy. No one but my m ither has ever sus pected that we three girls did the deed. We have kept our secret, notwith standing common tradition declares that is a thing impossible for our sex to do. And, indeed, 1 do not know what "Trix and Priss would say did they know of this writing. Bat some how, cousin, I feel a strange inclina tion to tell you everything. Thus ends the story so far as the yellow letteis are concerned. But I have learned from other sources that the secret was not divulged for many years; bnt that in her old age Priscilla reoeived a pension from the United .Times uovernment for her share in this patriotio dee 1. Ou the wall of the great hall at Bat sail ban. -s a portrait of Barbara Nev ille, beside that of her husband, Ed ward Neville, which fact explains what was snch a mystery to Barbara herself how she was irresistibly drawn to tell bim everything. 1rt I'racilcl tJ of the ;aillottnA. Dr. Guillotine, w hen a member of the French constituent assembly in 1T89, proposed that all executions should be by machine. That system, he said, would lie swifter and more painless than the old system of de capitation by means of the sword or ax. He was proceeding to describe a contrivance of his own when he was interrupted by shouts of laughter. In less than two years, however, his ideas were adopted aud incorporated in the penal code. Dr. Antoine Louis, Secretary to the Academy of Surgeons, was requested to prepare a memorandum on the subject of de decapitation and in his report he re commended the adoption of an in strument almost identical in design to that suggested by Dr. Guillotine. His report was accepted, and the con tract for constructing one of these machines for each of the French de partments was given tJ a Germau named Schmidt. It was tested re peatedly upon dead bodies in a hos pital and was found to work satisfac torily. On the 25th of April, 17y. it was used upon a criminal for the first time, Pelletier, a notorious high wayman, being the victim. At first the machine was known as the "Louisette" or ' La Petite Louison," but it was not long before Guillotine was given the unenviable honor of having his name applied to it. The old story that be suffered death by means of the instrument he himself invented has been shown to be false. lie survived the Revolution and died a natural death in 1814. Idea-Trading. If two men, or a comtnucity ol men, were to set about exchanging , goods and commodities right among 1 themselves, no matter how long they traded, they would not get any rich er as a community. Some woul 1 come out at the little end of the horn, hav ing goods of less value than b.'lore "swapping;" all would be out the time spent in trading. But with ideas it Is different. Ten men start out ex changing ideas, and although some miy have better ideas and more facts than others, all are benefited by the exchange; no one is in any whit the poorer. The time spent in "swapping" is a clear gain to every member ol of the community taking part in it. I have gone about a good deal, and find that it pays to absorb othei men's ideas and give out their own arid my own. Each year I know more conquered by unfeigned simplicity and than I did tbe year before, and my trustfulness in women as they are eon neighbors find it pays tbem, tor. qnered by no other feminia eharaoter- i iatio. STMPLE-MINDED WOMES. SiupLiciTT does not mean Ignorance. Girls who think to please men by feign ing a childish ignorance of the graver matters of life have not one chance in ten of reaching the goal at which they aim. Somehow, though most men are not very wise about women, they soon leirn to distinguish between truth and affectation. I bard a man say this the other day: "How is it one on't go into the coun try nowadays and find those sweet maidens in priut dresses of the old time?" What in the world did he mean' I suppose he had a dim romantic vis ion for men as well as women ere romantic of an ingenuous farmer's daughter, with peach-bloom cheeks and downcast eyes, who would blush and lisp just "les, sir, "and "No, sir," in reply to the casual stranger's inter ogations. To some men this seems the ideal rustic si-nplicity, and the baby-faoed (and baby-natured) girl would gain tbeir hearts in a moment. But, of course, with the now nniversal spread of education, we cannot expect to find any snch girls in A. V. 1892. The farmer's daughter may reasonably be supposed to know her own value near ly as fully as the drawing-room beauty n her second season. No; real simplicity is of the heart and is not concerned with knowledge or ignorance. I know old ladies who, though wrinkled and gray, have this most desirable and alluring quality in abundance. They have been true to their hearts all tbeir lives, and in their old age they learn the value of this allegiance. Some are married and other are unmarried. Jean Pafi. Kichter, who studied women like few men, once said: "Truly the warmest hearts have often only half a grain of brain or understand ing." Ibis at first sight seems equivalent to saying that silliness and simplicity go together. But it is of course by no means so in reality. There are innumerable wo men abroad in the world who are re spected for their intellectual attain ments, and yet in their inner life fol low the simple rnle of faith in the heart and faith iu God. Such women have their sad moments like the rest of ns, bat they are never in despair. They can enjoy the melodious prattle of a baby in arms as well as a brilliant opera, au introspective novel of the irst order, or a famous picture. Give all to love; Ooey thy heot, w rote Emerson, of nil men. i'et tho self-centred philosopher's words will be appreciated by the true woman as he meant them to be. It does not mean that the woman is to let an infatuation carry her whither it lists, ever, into the land of ruin and eternal night. Oh, no. But it does mean that in the crowning events of a woman's life the heart is a guide more to be relied upon than the subtlest understanding. And the best of it is that every one who chooses may have this good gnid- aura 1 1 om me very oeKiuaing oi auuii existence. For the heart, like the con science., has its still small voice, and it depends entirely upon its owner whether the voice is encouraged or stifled. For a time the affected woman, who is untrue to ber nature, may seem to have the advantage of her more simple minded sister. Bnt when the cheat is discovered, she has to suffer bitterly. It is not ditlicut to perceive whether or not a woman is true to her heart in the best sense. If her keenest happiness depends upon her personal benefits and pleasures, then is she not of the happier simple-minded ones. Bnt if, on the other hand, her eyes look their brightest and sbe is clearly most eon tented in making others happier, this stamps her as one of tbo elect. It is comparatively a small matter that not nothing preserves a woman's beauty like simplicity of thought and action. Cosmetics are nothing to this. Do yon remember the answer of Michael Angelo when they remarked how young-looking he had made the lrgm in his wonderful statue iu St. Peter's of Rome? Mary is represented supporting the dead Christ in her arms. She seems a mere girl of eigh teen or nineteen, "such purity of life as hers," said the sculptor, "would keep her yonng." Do we not see this proved in hnn dredg of cases among us? There are many uumnrned women, of fifty or sixiy witn Eiriisn bloom on their cheeks bloom not purchasable at so much the box. the nature of their lives explain it; and if we mention un married women especially in this asso ciation, it is not with a covert s ight to their married sisters. These latter have obvious cares that age them, at least in appearance, somewhat before their time; their bp, mess or infecility is of a stronger ki-jd than that of unmar ried women, and tliey must accept the consequences, whicl to do them jus tice, they are very ready to do as a rule. Simplicity snd purity of life are, or onghtto be, the same thing. Nor does simplicity of necessity mean an ex terior of unvarying self-abasement and self-obliteration. One does not like that sort of thing, unless, indeed, we are interested in snch eonduct in our fellow creatures. The persistently self-sacrificial woman is often a dis tinct annoyance to others. Whether she means it or Dot, she s amps herself as a being apart from ns, and we are never wholly at our eaee with those whose catnres seem to cry out: "Inn and I are not on tbe same plane of ex istence. You are selfish; I am unself ish. Pray accept my sacrifice of self at yonr feet, that my reward may be great hereafter." The woman of false simplicity differs from her genuine sitter in being a per son of negative qualities. She is a living he, and in the end must so de clare herself. On tbe other hand, true simplicity wears its heart on the sleeve, not for purposes of ostentation, and certainly not d signed ly for mortals to peCk at, bnt because it "is impossible to do otherwise. Yon may not think H ! woi th your while to tarry to read the i nature thus exposed to your eyes; but , if you do, you may be assured yonr ' reading is a true one. A pretty face is much, bnt I may be allowed to say. a pretty face is not half so attractive to the more discerning of the lords of crea tion as a winsome nature; and, of course, it is a less hazardous endow ment for its possessor. And, more over, snd best of all, tbe winsome na ture, nnlike a pretty face, may be ac quired by every girl who seta her heart and sonl upon it. On one head 1 am very sure ninety- five men out ot every hundred men out ot every hundred are llENERAL MOURNINQt Why Ik Urat Official, of ItolUl Put Om tli Garb or Grist. The Hindoo, If not Inventive, Is s capital imitator, and not without a wit as refined as anything to be found among English-speaking people, as is plain from a story related by the Rev. J. Eweu. Many years ago, when the Mogul i emperors reigned In the Im perial city of Delhi, a policeman, walking along one of the streets, met a potter in mourning. "Oh. potter, for whom da you mourn?" he asked. . Sadamiva," was the reply. "Dear, dear! Is Sadamlya dead?" cried the policeman, and be hurried off to the coroner where the barbers sat plying their trade, "Shave my head and beard," sail he. "I am going into mourning for Sadamiya." Shortly afterward duty took tha policeman to the kotwal chief of police and at once the kotwal asked for whom he was mourning. "For Sadamlya, that lllustrlou. person." "Ah, dear me! Is he dead?" ex claimed the kotwal. "WelL well, all dio in turn! Call the barber." Presently the kotwal bad occasion to visit the vizier, who was surprised to see hiru in mourning, the more so as be did not know that any of bir family was ill. "Who is dead?" he inquired. "Alas! your honor, the Illustrious,, high-minded, and dignified Sadamiya has been called awav." Oh!" exclaimed the yizier. "I am sorry to hear you say so. What a loss! Will you please to call the barber?" The barber came and the vizlei went into mourning. Duty took him into the presence of the Emperor, who was startled at his changed a p. pearance. "Who is dead?" he asked. "Your highness, I grieve to Inform you, but that sublime custodian of goodness, of honor, and learning. Sadamiya, has been taken." "Call the barber," said theEmperor to his attendants, and soon he was mourning with shaven head. When be appeared before the Empress she Inquired: "Who Is de"ad?'' "Al.is! that I should hae to say It! Sildamiya is dead." 'But who is Sadamiya?" she asked, for even in India women are endowed with curiosity. Sadamiyal Sadamiya! I never thought of asking, but the vizier knows. I s lall see him." The vizier was summoned and the Emperpr demanded: "Who Is this Sad.nuiya we are all In mourning for'" 'T.eallv, your highness, I never thoueht of asking, but -be kotwal j knows; ! p.ut 1 1 shall ask him. the kotwal could not tell: no more could the policeman, buthe would ask the potter. "Who is this Sadamiya we are al. In mourning for?" the policeman in quired of the potter. " Vou you do not mean to sav you are mourning for Sad a miya?" he stammered. ' Yes, I an, and so is the kotwal and the vizier and the Emporer." "Dear, dear! Whatever will he come of me?" cried the potter. "In mourning for Sadamiya? Vny Saiauiiya is my donkey." Our School.' Gral4t Task. The statistics of the United States census bureau show that In eleven States aud two Territories, In 189.0, there were more children between the ages of 5 and 17 who were either foreign-liorn or the children of foreign-born parents than there were native white children of the same age. In several of these States and Terri tories the disproportion was very great, so that in the public schools an American child of American par entage was almost an oddity. In the whole of the United States there are nearly five and a half million children between the ages of 5 and 17 who were either born In foreign coun tries or have foreign parents. They are, in fact, more than one-third of all the children In the country be tween these ages. Every such foreign child may well be quite as good an "American" as a child whose ancestors came over in the English Mayflower or the Dutch Goedo Yrouwe. Indeed, American children of native race are often sur passed 1n stout "Americanism" by foreign-born children. Yet the child of foreign-born par ents, who is generally without the home associations which go with long residence in this country, has much to learn at school in order to make him a thorough-go ng American. It Is the problem of our schools to as similate these children to jn Amcri can standard of life and ideas. The number is enormous, and in any other country of the world the task might be imposible. Fortunately for us, the children of the foreign-born gen erally enter the doors of our public schools with the best possible dis position to become Americans. Youth's Companion. Water-Fro!. ihere Is published a new method of tilling up the pores' of wood with water-proof material so that boxes made of it will hold liquids. The method is applicable for the construc tion of the outer cells of electric bat teries, butof course can be. turned to many other useful purposes. The wood or complete box is first all thoroughly dried. It is next placed in a vessel, which is then exhausted of air by means of an air pump. The protecting liquid is now introduced in suQcient quantity to cover tbe wood. A max in trouble always bai more trouble, than is necessary. Belief is involuntary. Nothing in voluntary is meritorious or repre hensible. A man oueht not to be con sidered worse or better for bis belief. "Well, do yon regret the end of! yonr summering, Alice?" "Very much. ' I had such a delighfnt time!" "What did yon do mostly?' "Played solitaire ' 1.11 V 1.1, Jb. "A mas can't help his 'personal ap peance," said Rowne de Bont "He can t select his eyes or his hair. No." replied Upson Downes tboneht- fnlly; "he is lucky if tie can piok his teeth." i N-Q LANDS ACQUISITION. xa4 Gilbert Island la tha Vm (Paoiao Omu. The recent annexation by Great Britain of the Gilbert Islands In the ( West Pacific ocean makes a glimpse I at these small specks on tbe ocean I Interesting. The Islands form a group of sixteen and are of coral formation. Some of the Islands aro small and unlnbabited, and the larg est, Tapouteouea, is only thirty miles long and one-half mile wide. The natives are said to be peaceable and are well inclined toward Christianity. In some sections cannibalism occa sionally occurs. The people depend for support on fishing and on the eo coanut and pandanus trees. They have sometimes substantial wooden u .veilings, but generally their housej are of a primitive order. Govern ment in tiio larger islands is by he reditary kings, and cneof these, King Tebareimura, who recently Tlritcd this country, we present an illus tration. A Carioaa Cave. ihe cave temple, of KarH, India, is rightly considered one of the greatest wonders of the world. This gigantic recess In the mountain ledge has been chiseled by human bands from porphyry as hard as the hardest flint. The cave is 124 feet long, 45 feet broad, and 46 feet from floor to ceiling. Before the entrance t the temple stands a monster stone elephant, upon whose back is seated a colossal goddess, all hewed from one solid block of stone. Like the temple walls and the outside orna ments, every article of adorning sculpture on the Inside Is hewed from the native rock. There are aisles on each sldt separated from tbe nave by octag onal pillars of stone. The capital of each pillar Is crowned with two kneeling elephants, on whose backs are seated two figures, representing the divinities, to whom the temple is dedicated. These figures are per fect, and of Keautiful features, as, indeed, are all the representations of deities and divinities in this peculiar temple. The repulsiveness so characterUtlo of modern Hindoo and Chinese pagodas is here wholly wanting. Each figure is true to life, or rather to art, there being no mythical half horse, half man, or beast birds de picted in this underground wonder of Karli. This wondrous under ground pagoda or cave temple has been a standing puzzle for tbe learned archseolagists of both Eu rope and Asia for the last twenty five hundred years, and is as much of an enigma to-day as it was in the time of Confucius. Her Window. Anybody who has ever looked out of one of the old-fashioned windows with sixteen or twenty-four panes of "bubbly" glass, knows the peculiar ap pearance which objects present when seen through such a medium. "Old lady Hawley," who had Uvea seventy-two years In a house liberally supplied with windows of this kind, and who spent a good deal of time looking out of them, was filled with amazement when she first sat down to view the landscape from her niece Mebltable's "best room," where tne old-fashioned panes had been replaces by new ones of good clear glass and modern size. "Well, I do declare!" she ejaculated, after about five minutes. "It does beat all bow folks look through this windtrl Makes a sight o' diff'rence in their gaits, seem 's ef. It's alius 'peared to me s ef my neighbor, Mis' Spofford, hed a kind of a hobblin' walk when she got out outer the road, but she's jest gone last, step pin' as straight as ken be. "But there," she went on, "I dunno but I like my winders on some ac counts, livin' in a kind of a lonesome spot, as I do. Fer I notice a man goin' past here looks like just one man, but through my winders he allot looks like a gln'ral muster!" Tbe Mother of Great Men. A great deal has been written about "The Mothers of Great Men." We imagine, however, that the folks of Loenberg, in Wurtemberg, have started a precedent by erecting mem orials to a series of mothers of great men. This little township of about 2,000 inhabitants was tbe birthplace of PauLus, the famous rationalist theologian; of Schelling, the equally famous philosopher, and of Hoch tetter, the naturalist. It was also the dwelling place of the mother of the poet Schiller fionv 1796 to 1301, and of tbe mother of the astronomer Kepler two centuries earlier, though three villages in the neighborhood contend for the honor of having been Kepler's birthplace. The Town Coun cil of the "Town of Mothers," as it proudly calls Itself, has affixed tablet to the walls ot the old castle of Duka Ulrich the Well Beloved, where the Magna Charta of Woirtemberg lib trtli was signed by tbe Duke la honor ot lue luotueio ui kue poik auo the astronomer. We presume that the patriotic Town Councilors will women, but will extend similar tokens of respect to other mothers of whom they are so Justly proud. Pall Mall Gazette. It Is sometimes all right to defy your enemies, but in doing that too many people defy their friends at tha ..metine. .r Etna TIB4BUMOR4. NEWS IN BRIEF. Fans were fir.t used in China. The only fresh-water Canary l-Lnds it the eel. fish In the A man in Los Galos. Cal.. .or ten years has not tasted cooked food. Weirirg apparel was first nil out by macbineiy in England in 1853 At Afarie, Mo., recently James Uighland was married to Anna Fling. Several Cbnamen have proved themselves eu oessful farmers in Mon-. .ana. TwotonB of etjls were caoghtat Will amsport, Mil., in one night reci nt- y. A Chicago man has sued bla iloc'oi for $20,000 for breaklDg the drum of his i a-. A vast snow-field in Ireland spreads over a space ot about 3oo0 iquare miles. The avenge dally amount of sun shine the world over ls a little more than three hours. The national debt of the United State on Jan. 1, 179L amounted to 75,46-3.47tJ 6i A farter 'ivlng tear FurloDg, Penu., dug up 110 stone Kulves In bis garden leeenlly. Herod the great was the first He brew klug who imported into his realm Human modes or "society life." Tn or Unary English writing V only occurs t enty-two times w:nle"e'' occurs one ttious .ud. W. J. M Bairy, the Irish athlete, threw the six.eeu-pcund hammer 137 feet In Manchester, Lugland, the other i. ay. Since football became popular in this country there has been a marked increase in the sa.e ot aruioi and stick-isg-plaster. The C iicese houses are generally ornamen ed with so uany quaiut tur ttUiiDil gables that they resemble toy houses. The Emperor of China chooses his own successor, whether tha person chosen ls a member of the royal family or not. The mace of the House of Repre sentative consists of a bundle of thirteen, ebony rods entwined and bound togeth er with s;lver bauds. The silky little Klrg Charles span iel is an expensive luxury, beoiuse nippies a mouth old easily fetch JOJ Hiece, and, w hen htlf growt, 810 J. The n nndsmen in Orange, X. 3., ride on bicjcles, and are thus enabled to pounce unheal d upou policemen who wander Irom tueir posts. More than a fourth o? the gold and mure than a U irj of t! silver ptoouced throughout the wor.d la the yesr 1S91 was untied in the United Males. A family in Walla Wall i County, WasD'tig o.i, CjiisisU of ten momitri, the avera e weigut being 244 pounds aud the average he:g it six leet six inches. There Is a saltpetre cave in Burton couhty, Georgia, that ts overrun by urinous of bals, and has been so ever since tbe first seaieuieut of tbe coun 'ry. Defoe was fifty-eight when be begat, his "Rjbinsou Crusoe." His literary career Li g in ak twenty, and bis test pohtic.il works aere written before tbe "crus.e." Gibbon betran the "Decline and Fall of tne Roman Empire" at tbirly ume, and fluished U in twelve years. The nork of preparation was leally the labor or a lifetime. A douole-yolked egg was batched b a hen near Geitsbur, Penu., recent ly. Tbe farmer was greatly amated to find two little chicks grown to gether after tbe fashion ot the Siamese .wins. A glass factory at Liverpool, Eng lan'i, now hat glass journal b xes 'or al of its machinery, a iil.ni floor, gla s ti i.gl'S ou the roef an i a smoke-slack ICS feet high built wholly of glass bricks, uCu a fo.il Mpiare. M. Jsesliaveff-MitHzeff, a Wfaltbj Ru.i-.ia", has purcl'i-ed a piano from a Parisian firm for $10,000. The instru ment ls tolce the us..ai size, stands on B x les and is thiee Uuies as sonorous ms an oidiuary piano. No death has occured In tbe family of the Rev. Samuel WakeQeid, of La tr.ibe, Peun., in sixty-one years. He Is In u. nlnety-fjuita year; bis wife a few years his juiiloi ; tuey were married In 1611, and have teu children. B-iSs, the ossified nnr, had morbid fear of the anatoniist.auddrta ied leiug carve l or chiseled by i hem after death, lo avoid this he oid ered that his re mains be 1 ced iu au Ironclad, thief proof vault, so Lhat they c juii nut get at ulin. A remedy for liver complaint was tried by a weaver In Accrlug:on. Eng land. It was a turpenliue planter, ap plied over tbe stomach. Hav.iig worn it some time, he lighted a matcu to examine the ilaster. The i lutter took fire and tbe man was tmrueJ to death. . After the Saiine County (Kan.) cy clone a Saline grocer misfit a washing macblhe which ws standing on tbe lavement just befon- the storm. It was picked up recently on the open prairie several miles from al.ne in a perfect state of prest-rv. t on. In a West Brighton (Coney Island, baud of twenty pieces that flourished, durmg the season just parsed, there were seven dummies men who pre tended to be playing instruments, but merely held them to their mouths. X.H one of them knew a note of music from a Qjeek ci aracier. A quarrym tn at Rothbury, Eng land, came to the conclusion that life was not wnnh Hying, so be placed a dy namite cartridge in a fold ou tbe top ot bis Sjtt lelt hat, and, Laving set fire to the fuse, awaited th result witn equanimity. He was greatly regretted by all bis friends. A 't'lyige sinecure in Paris, tbi place of den it ot the Paris Opern House, hasj ,st L u dl'.jd L h elec tion of the lu.'ky man from a li t of a 150 apn'icauts. The salary at: actied to tbe pofi ion is nominal, but tbe num ber of applicants shows bow eagerly ti e fr OI ,avv" Alcmincm is proposed as a substi tute for small bank notes, the sugges tion being to make it into coin of little intrinsic value,. which shall pass asm promise to pay, jast as bank notes do. They will have ti e advantage of clean liness and will be so heht that they cannot be mistaken for other coins. Thb folding envelope was first oeJ la 1839. r! I' i
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