AT
, F. SOHWEIER,
THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLVI.
M1TFLINT0W1N. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1892.
NO. 52.
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A MORTIFY i.-.O MMTAKi,
ET A SNA . PIU.TT.
tu t n v t-ili'o over ;md over, and back-
. r i hi J Im " nut, t. . :
fat 1
ii "t irtn-iiiLM-r six times nine, and. I
'in't v hat to o
t' d .,,e ( i.lay with my doll and not
t !( ' IH T eea'i,
ii you cut lirr Fiiiy-four' for a while, you'll
leal r. U by heart," she ald.
S" 1 1. "K my fn vt i tte M iry Ann (though I
U :iM.;tn 'tw.i- a dreadful s.iame
Ts i- s ' Ii a i erectly lovely child such a
I cnv r.onul name).
auJ I :.'. ! I.er t',y n ir little "Fifty-tour" a
1,1:.; .led lllllfn till I titlt-W
li.f a i"f mx ti nes nine as well as the
of two lluu-s two.
.r-.i y. Ellnbet'i Wlgslesivorth, who al-
a , ? hl-is so itrou't.
m'.j : x tunes u ne li filty-two," and I nearly
:iu.l,i d alcuU !
lull" i-l i'd 1 n t when teicher Slid, "Sow
u m il y t 11 U ou cm."
t . r i : i Ji.jfc' t of my (lull and 3akS alive I
jBjwctai "iiarv Auul"
lilt
Y3INGEST TLANET, AND COW III
BECAME A COMET.
Xoti ll get lost therel"
Ut, getting reider than
Shrieked
ever with
. rat ll.
"us; an J you'll catc'a col J," shouted.
.1 cj.it r auxiously,
"OV let him go if be wants to; who
rarcs'.'" jeere I Earth.
"OLl don't go," pleaded Venus; "it
will be s much nicer to stay ber with
v.- u it keep safo iu sight of Mother
Litie Mercury, tbe planet text to
the Vonugesf, sai I nothing, but one or
t i tears fizzled down his warm cheeks
,it i":ir tuouut of all the dreadful
thii s--3 Unit would purely happen to Lis
v.l. nrtsoiuo playmate out beyond a
M.V cl lplical orbit.
jleyouneest .Planet didn't care a
Lm I-'olo for what some of h a brothers tuin?, aud if you'll just tell him von're
hlJ sisters caul; they were always tell- ! my brother, be can give you a point or
u.u.mto rotate more rapidly or to two wortu knowing. Dear me!-a
m.-. inel.9oubia axis or to make bet-' Comet;" -and the Ebter Brother
ttr po e in his revolutions, and be was turned slowly aDd sally on his axis, as
ie.i;v-y.iU6 hiippy at the thought of he recalled another i outh-time, now
lo.i.ov away from all their tireooxe ; long since vanished, " aad the once
iu ibuling; but when bia der suter throbbing hope3 that had never got be
Ve..us begfed bun to stay, and when . yond the dreaminar ii.to the doing, and
Le ; curd Mercury's tear, he faltered, tint now mcr.lr the
Do von tbiuk that it is dangerous 1
u,:t 'lu re.' assed be ot eauR.
iJhll'ixi sure of it," she cried,
"i nt uijous ail those strange enns and
i-:urs ayd t-j'aces! How do you know
tide's c tingle respectable planet svs
t. u aniong item? And thrD, what will
o i do so far away from Mother Suu?
W-'i'l! behold and dark, aud "
- U nt i conU'n't get verv cold, be
. :Ui-e I'm so warm myself," answered
tin' Youngest. "Yon kuow I am,
V'rnu I never coed half to many
i'1'iiiiU over rue nt nfcbt as you do
u i that Comet th.it was here only lust
en.' tiry -aid "
"Ah! that's it," remarked S.ttnra
s.fC.ist!c.il;y, "that's it. This silly
l.ttie ppueie baa been turned giddy,
l iiine.s, I y tbe wild tales of thiit
vitiliiiuJ Comet. Perhaps he would
like to brci iue a Comet. ir'.mcy! the
ionnrrst Flant propones to become a
dm t!" And Saturn laughed a dis
li. rtea'oie la;lgh.
"Didu't tou tell me yoirsalf that
the Comet was really ono of our own
a rttem, ouly that he bad been aw .y s
long that we vounger ones couldn't re
momhir him? And if be could roil
out into space and could keep growing
warmer and brighter an 1 could coma
back Mt-'ain, why canuot I?"
"What the vouna; globo needn is a
vood blacK eclipse," growled bir Jupi
ter; "and if 1 were Mother San, lie
shouldn't have a s giit of my face for
manv a day after this."
"He's always been wilful and tin
manageable," said earth. "vor since
he way a little mite of molten Auy
thicg he wont In't revolve soberl and
ellipucally like the rest of ns. Xo: be
would veer 'way otf, first in oni dire 3
tion and then in the other, nnd Mother
Sun had all she could do to keep liiru
in his proper orbit. I s-ay. let htm go;
he'll never amount to a ly sort of
planet with his vagrant notion. Bo
sides, he baa no density to speak of,
and what do wo weighty, sen-iblo
bodies want with such tiiinsy s.ulT in
our system, anyhow?''
This angered the Yonngest.
"ow, 1 shall go," he sa d bittor-
"O, dear!" sobbed Venn, and agu'n
was heard tbe 6izziiug of Mercury's
tears.
"Mother dresu't tell mo whether to
go or stav," said the Youngest, orce
more wavering, tbouch his heart still
lenpt toward tbe unknown tho bouud
lets blue highways where be longed to
speed farther and faster than coul l be
dreamed of in these dull, narrow
ellipses.
Then spoke the mother voici the
dear pretence that had kindled and
warmed the restless little tpark iuto
breathing nnd beinjr; but the words
came slowly aud without joy:
"My faith is with thee, my bravest.
It nas but the young and untried
strength that I once held back. Let it
be as thy heart bids, and I shail tru.-t
to that bid'ling to sometime lrin thee
back to my loving shelter;" nnd the
Mother ua drew a noft bit of cloud
over her face as there came the mem
ory of another restless planet-cbild,
who, long ago, bad likwise Ventured
fi rth into the nnkncwD, and, as she
well krew, never to return, for, in his
eteiid, the slow centuries had brou-jb
circling back a oridiaat chaage-
bnff-
"Then I'm going," cried the Young
est rapturoi.sly, heariu only the co i
sent, and guessing nothing of tbe
motber-sa Iness. "If mother snys I
may, it must be all right. Good-by,
Veil us, good-by, Mercury."
"Good-by, go id by," Venus an I
Mercurv called sorrowfully after him,
and "Good-by, goo 1-by," came iu
chorns f-ora the nursery of Asteroi 's.
"Well have peace now," shouted
MhT".
"He does rotate well," snil Karth,
loot ng after her youngest brother
with a eatibfied smile. "Training will
till."
"Ifron'ro roilly goincr," cried big
-Tiiprer, "give my love to Xeptune I
haven't been neur h'ta for ages."
"I suppose you'll be back before
i nc," sneered Saturn.
Not until I'm a Comet," answered
tii Youngest Plnuet bravely, at which
at un snapped out something in re-tn-;,;
the Youngest, rlyiDg even fasttr
t!i u barp wordf, could only be sure
that it was sp;te;ul.
I'u-eutly he whizzed by another
hrotl er, one who lived so far otf that,
iscei t uMocial le Saturn, tbe most of
Hem" tnly knew him by name
Cretins.
"GooJ-by," cried the Tonngest to
this str Vfkr, who, from pure wondor
p nt, heurlv storped ehort in his rota
tion. " te
"Whatl You? the ronnge.t Planet?
yn3i Itay. what may you be doing so
l going to be s Comet," floated
J Back a isarieas
voice; uiready tie was
away a'?ain.
"but, bold on! watl" spluttered
Lrantis in disraiy at anch daiiug. Bat
by this time the Youngest was nearing
Neptune, the other far-nwy brother.
"Jupiter sends his loTe to you,"
cvled out the Youngest aa be came
closer, "and Mara is just as cross as
ever, and Saturn more apitefaL but
Venus grows prettier every ceu'urv,"
at wbich Eider Brother Neptnne
laughed. Be was barely aware of the
existence of either Mare or Venns, ond
be bad never even beard of tbe Young
eet Planet, but ecrue of Saturn's dis
agreeable speeches still stung his ear.-,
and, for their soke, as much as any
thing else, Le felt a kindly sympathy
for the small, fiery atom speeding past
him.
"Hold on a minute," he cried. "Who
are you, anyhow? Bless my moons,
yon must be one of our system. 1
could tell that rotary motiou anywhere
bnt 1 didn't even know yoa were in
tbe heavens."
"I haven't been for a long time,"
apologized the Youngest "But,
rloauu f4,riflif Va. .. r i i i
nd in.l...l T'm v.. -
Come and, ohl w.ll you tell me (for
! you ought to know, revolving so far
uu uere an oy yourself, is It so
dread: ul in Space? And "
"lo be a Comet? Well, you are a
brave b dy. O, no! there's nothing so
frightful about Space. It all depends
on yourself. But dou't you go to roll
ing too fur away, and forget the old
system acd Mother Sun. Maka a rev
olution round hfre once in a while, if
it's only ev ry million centuries. Of
course to do that, vou'll have to find
ont all abont hyperbolas and pirab jlas
and I dou't pea bow you'll ever learn
by yourself.- I never could undertan I
how it was done. Oh! look here the
llOff StilP hill nlaQcoa in tKnf cstvf. ef
old tet of memories in the staid
thoughts of a sober, elderly boly who
took a le, surely one hundred and sixty
four years in his journey round the
BUD.
And, nieinwbile, the Youncrrst
Pinner, spurred by an ambition that
overleapt fe;ir, cantion, danger, and
the hundred hnndnups barring any
one to dare beyond the common Hip
tical groove, wheeled on, pnst Xen-
tune, punt tho furthest point that still I
kept in view tho dear old Solar System,
on and on. until all that was familiar
laded finally out of siht, and endless
niiknown Etretehes of sky space lay be
fore him untried, uu'rodden.
It was long before (he Youngest
Planet retnrned; so long, that the
mother Jove alone was now st' ongi'r
ana f'enrer to him thau all the brieht
pmtii'ioiii thr.t had once lured him
j from i a safe shplter. He bow wanted
j nothing k iidiier than the Jrn's light,
the corrpaiiV of his sisters, Venus and
Earth, big Jupiter and lit'lo Mercnrv,
nnd lie ve irned for the sound of Sat
uru's sharp tonjjne, and the sight of
Mar's red face. He wheeled slowly
d wn Space toward tbe far spot where
spun a small spe"k the Solar System.
Aud Le wo:.de:ed, as he shok ont his
ra innt plumage for tb flight, if this
res; b n lent llosa that swept the skis
would be recoguized as the poor little
wayward Planet who bad dared and
tuled and suffered to gain such glory,
and w hose conquering in the bard tight
with circumstance and condition ha 1,
alter all, onlv left a little less bitter
sting thru d -feat itself.
"Uut I became a Comet," he said to
himself as be remembered Saturn's
one-'ime scorn.
"It is I do you not know me?"
cried ont tbe Comet to Neptane Nep
tune, once so elder-brotherly, so nineh
mightier tha.n the small speed ng globe
that-offes before bad venturesomely
gone tbat way Neptune, now dnz.'.led
and wonder-stricken at 'the presence
before him.
"VVhatI the Youngest? Well, bless
my mo ns! Ah! you were whirled for
a Comet and no mistake. YVu could
never have settled down into onr hum
drum plat.etury wavs. But, br. ther,
it was u:y n essase to the Dog-Star that
did so much for yon, nnd no mistake."
And the splendid yonug Comet ouly
smiled and passed on, never revealing
that the high nnd mighty Dog-Star
hadn't even 60 mnch as remembered
i oor Neptune. "Let me see," bad said
this elegant personafjo in supercilious
answer to the planet-fledgling trem
bling before him, "Neptune, J. thii k
vou said? H'ml No, all our classes
in tho perusal of hyperbolic orbits are
lull at present. Otood-night, sir."
But the secret of "hyperbolic orbits"
had somehow been got at by tbe de
termined little body, and the Dog
Star had since then been wonderfully
complaisant toward the brilliant wan
derer, whose early appeal hi bad chos n
to ifrnore.
Uranus seemed to have bpen moetly
Beleep while the Youngest Planet bad
been nwar.
"Why,"h illoo! who's that?" he cried !
ont, ns the Comet swept into view. I
"The roundest Planer, auswerea
the rndinnt stranger, unabla to
from lauhin? at Uranus who was
rubbing his eyes at a Rreat rate.
"See here. you're vou're-
keep
know the others ran stand this s rt of
thing, 1 ut Neptune and J, 'ay off here
from the S:in, we're not nspd to it, a::d
all that light pretty n arly knock-, me
out of the ecliptic. My! won't Satiru
bs farions when he sees yon? he thinks
bis rings beat anything iu tbe heav
ens." Saturn was crosv, the Comet could
see it in everv mo'ion.
"Don't you rem- mbcr me, Siturn?"
ried tbe Comet.
".No, I don't," answered Saturn
promptly; "and 1 don't want to; if
you're that 8,1 y little Planet who sgas
ago wouldn't revolve in his proper
ellipse, and who word I go flying on
into Nowhere, in spte of nil bis Sys
tem's advice; why, ail 1 can say is that
yon'd much better have staid off there
among your disreputable fixed stars
and not coreo back to bother ns. Be
ides, you'ro not mnch of a Comet, af
ter all. We had ono here threa thoa
and centuries ago that was a Comet,
I'll admit He was almost as bright as
these rings of mine. By the way, 1
don't suppose yi '7,eaBeen,,D!li,i1u
equal to them in ,11 S;ace? Well,!
don't think much of your eccentric or
bit. nor your tail neither, obody
kuow? just what a Comet s tail In, any
how; it can't rotate nor revolve, end it
d isn't any axis,eo what's the nse of it at
a'!' And yon haven't a siogle m ocn!
'Do yoa remember me, Jupitei?
The Comet wis almost afraid to aek.
No," eaid Jupiter, shaking his bead
-which must be owned was a trifle
beaT7-'B0. I don't, Ihere was a
Comet bere osce be "ore, it was O,
dearl I can't remembor anything thete
timef , But he wasn't so bright as yoa
are."
"Don't you remember a small, flimsy
qood-rcr-Dotbing Pianet that went ont
into Spaoe one century, iu spite of all
the advioe his brothers an d sisters gave
him, and who said he wanted to be
com" a Comet t"
"No, I dou't remember him; was he
an Asteroid?' asked stupid old Jupi
ter. "No; he was the Youngest Planet
He was a queer fellow, aud an ellipti
al orbit didn't seem to suit him."
"An elliptical orbit tot suit t'mi
Why, I never even beard of snch a
tbiug!" For opa Jupiter opened bis
sleepy eves quifo wide.
"My orbit is not elliptical, " smiled
the dazzling vi-uor. But poor Jupiter
only looked more puzzled and horri
fied, and tke Comet passed on.
None of the Asteroids remembered
the Youngest hlanet
"We're not expected to ren ember
things," said Ceres saucdv.
The Comet sadly went Us way.
"Yes, I remember you." bawled red
face 1 Mars. "You were a bad, ill -tempered
little Planet, and yoa were
forever petting a bigger tbare of the
Sun's warmth than 1 was. Yes, and
more clouds and rainbows and every
t jiDg else. Earth and I never had anv
peace while you were around; you
made trouble, and be glowered sav
agely at the Comet.
Earth was very much engrossed
with domestic cares jast now.
"I have only had a satellite these
last thousand centuries," she said
apologetically. But busy as she was,
she found time to disapprove of the
Comet
"fie is not quite well, quite planet
ary, one may say. That tail of bis is
of no heavenly use, and who knows
but it may be dangerous? Thon his not
coming back here for so long now
what has he been doing all those sg.'?
He shines, tbey sav, with bis own livid;
well, that may be, but how do we know
that borrowed licht is not tbe best,
after all? The Sun is the only thing we
know that gives forth light, and I, for
one, ray that for anybody else to eet np
shining on bis own account, is sheer
saorilege. I don't care if they do say
that It is done in other systems. The
Solar System is good enough for me,
and always shall be. But what could
you expect of anybody that can't eveD
revolve in an ellipse?"
All this to Venns who, of all the
planets, was most truly glad to see her
long-lost playmate.
" No, eartb, I don't agree with you,'
said Venus. " Tbe Comet is a snlondid
yonDg light, and, with his nature, I
think he has done far better as he has,
than to stay here like the rest of us aud
rotate century after century in the
same old way."
And she gladly made the Comet wel
come within her small, safe orbit,
w.iere nothing fiercer than a zig-z-ig
etrenk of HahtniDg or brighter than a
roy cloud-bank and motherly sua ray
had ever before had entrance.
Mercury was still very young, al
thoa.hhewas actually older than the
Comet.
"The Sun says 1 may have a satellite
some day," he said gleefullr, rocking
backward and forward. "My brother
Uranus has eight! I'd rather be Cran
ns than a Comet. Oh! I forgot yon
were a Comet, bnt you see we 'ou't
think mnch of them here. They're so
flighty and far-off, and they ouly come
here once iu a sreat while. Kurth save
they're afraid to come."
There was a nw p'anet, too a
small Vulcan that seemed like a do
cent, orderly little glolw, content to
spin forever in the very orbit once de
signed for the wanderer. But Eaitb
had her fears that tbe Comet would
lead Vulcan astray, and teucb him lad,
nne'liptical habits.
"I sba'n't feel satisfied till that vaga
bond goes out of our System," she oon
fided not to enns this tim, but to
peppery Mar?. "Why, he influeuces
evea my moon."
And Mars burst out with, "That's so!
Always making troub'e. He was tbe
worst planetl But his temper. Earth,
was never one bit more disagreeable
than yours."
At which Earth and quite excusa
bly fent oil in a perfect eclipae of
rags-
But the mother love, the cherishing
creating Sun warmth that great heart
never failed the wanderer.
"My briehtest and best!" she whis
pered. "My shining one, that tanght
himself to give forth light and so
earned the glory that goes with it and
follows after!"
And the words lifted the Comet's
spirit, and, lo! as he sped forth on a
new journey, the wondering planets
cried, "Look! H is even more radi
ant than when he first c ime to us."
But Earth only said, "ihat comes of
his having staid so Jong with us, you
may depend." Heles Clakkson, in
Wide-Awake.
Tsn.r-
"Tansy"' a humble plant. I: name
nas seen far better days. In Gieek
it was athanasla. How little of tbe
original is left on!y a shred. In old
New England days, and even now,
the kitchen garden had its t tnsy bed
to draw from In the interest of "iansy
i cheese," "rum and tansy," "tansv bit
ters, and, in case or nines.', tansy
tea." It is only a trace of classic
custom that ha3 came down throush
, the age. So powerful its properties
trmt should Jove's messenger admin
ister a draught of tan-y cordial to a
mort il he tcok on immortality. The
Y'ankee took H for another reason.
So popular was Tansy that it wa
adopted i a christening name, and
in several European countries to-day
Athanaso (inimortality) Is very popu
lar. As an example of word debase
ment tansv is rather striking.
Davenp - ocrat.
ft,.. v P.tsml Oar.
Thentcr Treasurer I can't help !t
My orders are imperative. Bead tho
notice behind you.
Walker Wayback (persuasively)
But my dear friend, I am an ariist.
1 played with Booth for over three
years.
Theater Treasurer What did you
play for heaven's sake?
Walker Wayback I played the
bass drum In the Salvation Army.
Life.
Th. Good Man' Llttla Fail nr..
"Young man," exhorted the blue
ribbon leader, "youna man, pause!
Pause before it Is too late. There is
ruin, degradation, damnation, perdi
tion, 6hame, sin and destruction In
the bowl!"
"Ah," said the frivolous youth,
"come off! I don't drink out of a
bowl! I use a glass!" Boston News.
OHIO 9 MONUMENT.
eh. Buckeye state Erects a World's Fail
Shart at a Coat or 33,COO.
Ohio has erected a monument In
front of the State Building on tbf
Fair grounds, Chicago, wtjieh when
the Exposition Is over with will be
set up permanently In the city o1
Columbus. The monument Is 31 feet
high and rests on a base 14 feet
square. The crowning figure, sym
boiizlng the State of Ohio under tbe
K
i,!ii3 of the famous Eoman matron,
o nelia. is ten feet tall, aud the
ilgures around the shaft measure
seven feet and represent "Ohio":
Greatest Sons" Grant, Sherman,
Sheridan, Garfield, Chase and Stun
too. The cost of the monument b
S'25,000.
A LULLABY.
From Me eft coflii ntrr-Ocean.
Every one seemed to know that the
baby was ill. Baby was a winsome lit
tle creature, aud she ba I made many
frieuds as she had toddled along the
atrei t at the side of her mother or her
nurse, and now these friends came to
tne door to inquire abont her.
There were all sorts of people. Prom
the s'utelv old jndge, wbo bad scraped
au acquaint, nee with the little maid
over tne front gate, to the small news
boy, who liked always to deliver the
paper into her plump little hand.
Ihej were a motley crowd Baby's
devoted admirers who came on tiptoe
ai'ound to the back door, stepping
soft y npon the straw strewn sidewalk
aud going away with bowed heads
when the servant told them that tbe
cb Id was worse. For she grew Blood
ily worse from day to day, and th re
was no hope, the doctors said, that she
wonl-1 ever le any better.
Al first she tad noticed the flowers
tbat old l luck Sam had sent, and uhe
no .1,1 stretch out her hands for them,
or for tbe oi ange which little Jennie
had bronsht for her, tut afterward
she sank into a stupor, tossing rest
lessly at times and making a pitiful
little wai ing sound.
The great room was hashed and
daikened. The little white crib stood
iu the c-nre, and beside it dosed the
uiire, worn from hours of watching.
1 lie ouly sounds which broke the paiu
ful stillness were Baby's irregular
breathing aud the quick, nervous tick
ing of a tiuy gold watch which lay be
side the medicines upon the table.
Uo-asionaily a clinker or a bit of
coal wonht droit torough the bars cf
trie grate an 1 fall with a tinkle in'o the
iron ash j an below, then Ba'oy would
start np suddenly as if iu frig t.
the mother, p le and hollow eyed,
knelt I eside the crib, watching eicli
movement of the little sutlerer. Baby's
durk eyes were opened wide, but there
was no recognition in their gaze only
a vacant sture. She lay quite still for
some time, then tbe little head, with
its uia te,l mass of tangled curls, began
to roll f om aide to side upon the pil-
iw, and she uttered her queer little
ny of pain. It was hardly a human cry
id ML It was like the moaning of some
Jurnb anim,.l, and e ich sound cut the
uiotht r's heart like a knife-stab.
The woman bowed her bead in her
hands and a quiver ran through her
i'rarue. ihen the strange cry rang ont
louder than before, and, aa with a sud
den inspiration, she began tbe lul
laby that Baby loved so well:
Sl-p-e-p. B:.by, sloop.
Thy fa-tli r w..teben his fheep '
ice faltered In a low, trembling- voice!
Thy moth-cr la sh-a-k:ng
The rlre;ni-lani tree.
And down fail 1 ttle dreams on thee-
El-e-tp- Uaby, il-c-ep!
"SI e-ep. Baby, sl-e-ep," she began,
i.ut the word ended in a sob. One
can keep fro:a weeping if one is silent,
but the voice opens tbe floodgates of
ten re, and the woman had not wept be
fore. Was it her fancy that Baby seemed
a litte qnietei ? She could not trnst
her voiOH aa'n, but she went to tVe
open piano and with her fingers she
drew forth tbe raelody whiob her ach
ing throat refused to make. Softly
over and agnin she played tin sweet
little nir, looking back over shoulder
at Baby all ti.e while. Tbe moauing
crew fainter and the curly bead turned
kvi uneasily. The mother's fingers
grew tired nnd stiJ, still she played on
and on while the nurse dozed in her
chair.
At lat tbe . nurse's head nodded so
abruptly that it seemed as through her
neck must have been broken, and she
woke wit'i a start.
She bent over the'eiib. Baby was
sleeping naturally, and there were little
beads of perspiration on her white
fi re eal Tho nnrs bock o nod with
her fiuger for the mother to come
ncurbr, :ut tbe mother's trembling
limba refused to act, and she crouched
wi'.h hands half raised a, if to ward oti
a blow. "Don't tell m'," she faltered.
J cannot bear it yet.
"But see," whispered tbe r.nrso, "it
.8 not as yoa fear. The fever is broken
and your baby will live.
Maris Moore Marsh.
Oil on vt at.r.
Mis. Veriknu Oh, I bought a
aeautiful ocean landscape to-day.
Mrs. Bornso Is it an oil or water
color?
Mrs. V- Water color, of course.
Didn't I say it was an ocean land
scape. Detroit Free Press.
Thebe is more fabulous welth than
there is ot any other kind.
Cranes, storks and wild geese fly fast
. enough to make the trip from .N orth
! ern Europe to Africa in a week, bnt most
j of them rest noitla of the Mediterranean.
i lUO'3 WORLD'S FAIB MOSCMSST.
RELIC OF EARLY NAVIGATION.
AocUut Wooden Anchor Taken from the
Bottom of Green Bay.
One of the many curious exhibit
which will be shown In the Transpor
tation Department of the World's
Fair, and one which will be of Inter
est to lake captains, will be an old
WLodec anchor in use ca the lake 100
EAl.LV ASCBOR Ot TEC LAKKS.
year ago. It Is a primitive contriv
ance. and has been serured for exhi
bition by Chief Smith through the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
This old anchor was taken from
the bottom of Green Bay, Wisconsin,
four years ajo. It Is a curious con
trivance, and was not uncommon on
trading vessels on the upper great
lakes In 17y2. The anchor Is about
five feet across from tip to tip of tho
fiukrs, and about four feet high. It
Is regnrdod as a picturesque relic of
ear'.y navigation. Three of the legs
are a part of the stump which forms
the head. The fourth leg, In front,
is movable, and is secured by an Iron
bar as shown in the picture. This
was ruoved outward In order to fill
the basket with stones and then
bushed back Into place and nailed in
Walton at th. Eipotttlon.
It Is proposed by a special agent
of tbe United States Fish Commis
sion, who is in charge ot the angling
exhibit at the World's Fair, that tbe
three-hundredth anniversary of the
birth ot Iiaak Walton, whom English-speaking
persons piseatorially
inclined have long heard of, shall be
celebrated at the 'Exposition. The
agent thinks that the celebration
should take the form of an angling
tournament which should be an ex
bititi. n of skill in casting artificial
flies and bait. The commissioner
desires also to have erected a memo
rial building to Izaak Walton, to take
the form nf a reproduction of Wal
ton and WettQn's h iuse on the River
Dove in England.
Izaak Walton was one ot those
gentle souls much heard of and
alluded to, an author ot books on
augliug that have great celebrity and
few readers. Izaak lived to a green
old age. He was just 90 when he
took the bait dropped by death and
was landed in the Elyslan fields.
His life was gentle and contempla
tive, but he himself said nothing so
much in praise of tLsulng as his friend
Sir lleniy Wot ton, whom he quotes
"a most dear lover and frequent pra
ticer of the art of angling, ot which
he would 6ay, "Twas an em
ployment for his Idle time, wbich
was then not Idly spent, a rest to bis
mind, a cheerer to his spirits, a dl-
verter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet
thoughts, a moderator of passions, a
procurer ot contentedness;' and 'that
It begat habits of peace and patience
In those that professed and practiced
if"
It Is the lover of old books rathei
chan the lover of the fishing rod
who knows Izaak Walton, and pre
cise knowledge of his fame is confined,
therefore, to a small number of En
glish readers. The fisherman to day
would care very little about his advice
concerning tbe manner in which
bait should be attached to the hook,
as witness: "Thus use your frog: Put
your hook I mean the arming wire
through bis mouth and out at his
gills and then with a fine needle and
silk sew the upper part of his leg with
only one stitch to the arming wire of
your hook, or tie the frog's leg above
the upper Joint to the armed wire,
and In so doing use him as though
you loved him.'
We don't fish that way nowadays,
and when we do Impale a frog, as Is
sometimes done, we don't talk of
handling him as It we loved him.
This is a practical age.
Let us admit that Walton was "au
x-ellent angler and is now with
God." The words are his own. But
If we are to celebrate at a Wor.d's
Fair the memory of a fisherman who
is known throughout Christianity,
not to the readers of English litera
ture alone but wherever the gospels
are disseminated, perhaps it would
be well that we take up St. Peter,
who had a double office to spread
his nets for the tenants of the deep,
and, by the commission of the Savior,
a flsber of men.
Bet. Thomas Detox, Jr., the Bap
cist sharpshooter of New Y'ork who
paid 1155 recently for thirty-one rob
ins thai he shot out of season on
Staten Island, reaped the recompense
of his reward for being a brute. It
Is gratify'ng to be sure that there is
at le.isc one place In the country
where jUsth-c deals alike over fc-anie
:tvrs violated, and the Staten island
'Squire who was not afraid of his
plain duty deserves tho whole amount
of the Jloo fine, even If the law docs
not allow it.
Chicago will do the right thing b
visitors. Iu any event the men who
find the hotels full have a right to go
elsewhere and do the same thlug
themselves.
Th. Eflolenoy;
He Sorry to have kept you wait
ing but my watch was wrong. I
shall never have faith in it again.
SBe It's not faith you need eu?
works. Life.
Two of a Kind.
Stella I felt like a fool standing
there at the counter waiting for ray
change.
Clara So did L standing there
with 700,
HOW HINDOO GIRLS WEI).
IttJl SMALLER THE Bllt-E TES MOBS
ELABOEATE ND l.NTERESTl'.t J
THE CTEEilOSI.
In this country, where tbe march
from "Lohengrin," a white ailk frock
and a few unintelligible responses
make i n elubor.de weddirg, the bare
idea of a em ll twelve, year old girl
requiring nine hons to bind herself to
the man of btr choite seems absurd in
tbe txtremo. w both r the ontlay ot
strength and rupees that such an event
incurs has anything to do with the
tecacions prohibition of a second
marriage for the gentler sex, bas never
been explained, bnt as the Hindoos
are a practical people and an avari
cious people, it does not appear un
likely. In the first place, with them to
he a woman and niimarried is Utile
short of a crime, yet to marry, obvi
ously, one must have uoney. As an
outcome of this, when daughters are
born to tbe poor Banian he helps them
ont of tbe world by tbe simple and
negative method of not giving them
food. One man admitted, quite as a
matter of course, having followed this
np through a long succession of some
twenty g,rl babies.
But it the baby's papa has a financial
position that admits of her growing np
and is a Bombay Hindoo (that fs, with
no prejudice against Europeans), yon
may perhaj s be bid.lea to one of those
high functions that come for her at an
age when our children are playing
with do'iB. In that case, allowing for
variations in individual taste, you will
find tbe affair something in this
wise:
At about six in the afternoon, when
tbe air bas a trille more life, and that
thing they call prickly beat is a degree
less aggressive, you maae your way to
tbe house of the bride's father. Out
side the door your totiee is first
attracted by many rows of shoes that
tbe guests witLin huve taken off ont of
respect to the household sod. Tbis
may be a delicate attention tbat thegods
refuse to get along without, but yon
cannot help womb ring bow on eartb
any one ever knows bis own pair
again. Tbe drawing room into whieu
yon ate ushered is in tawdry imitation
of a French hotel. There are gay rugs
everywhere and tbe furniture, which
is exceedingly ornate, is covered with
bright crimson sa in. By this Bind y
provision vt c hairs, Lowevi r, one is
enabled lo sit "a la Ahra$."
On entering, the bead of tbe bouse
comes forward to greet you with a
profout d salaam, then all tbe standing
or squatting Hindoos follow his exam-
p'e, nd it is yonr duty to salaam mde
fatig ,blv in return, but always with
your rigkt hand, else the company will
thirk your manners exceedingly
fnnny, and what is more prove it oy
laughing. The brid and bridegroom
move about informally, s; coking to
acquaintances. 'Ihe groom shares wilh
his Westeru brother the para oxical
fate cf b, ing nee esary but unimpor
tant. H - is r.oticesble ouly for a nigh
tivlan studded witii a priceless num
ber of niitnt gems, tbat make it loos
neither comfortable nor brill aut. The
bride, on tbe contrary,;a rather charm
ing. Her costnme cousiBis merely of a
tight fitting yellow India silk bodice,
with yards of tbe same material swathed
loosely at out her supple body, and one
end thrown over the hair. She is
farther orcamentid by enrrinRS.
finger rings a nose ring aud I angles
that reach to tbe shoulder; on her
pretty ankles are the heavy ack'ot
chains that clink w hen she steps. Al
together she would be a lovely and
picturesque little object if she were
only playing in tableaux instead of
pitunl real life.
Bnt all interest in ber is immediately
snuffed out on the arrival of tbe Nautch
girls. They are two or more hired
dancers, whose performance appears to
l e the meet welcome and wonderful
feature of the en ire occasion. In
dress they are not unlike our own bal
let girl, wearies: from fifteen to twenty
gauze skirts; tbe longest of these
reaches to the feet and the others art
graduated to within half a yard of the
waisr. J hi lr so-cailed dance is strange
and weird, and after the first fifteen
miuutea remarkably nninterestins. It
is made np cf a series of impossible
poses, in parts so slow aa to remino
one of the last twitches of a mecbauical
toy when it is nearly run down. A
an Indian ballad has it
They posture, roll, wlurlleic wil 'iile like eels.
An all the time shuttl- about on ttieir heels.
Keeping Mne to the plpcis and toiu-touiiuers'
simp 9
Wilh the clink of ttieir anklets of reionanl
;baim.
When this bas gone on until yon are
exbaus'ed and tbe rest of the atioience
is reduced to a state of ei, tranced
breatblessness the really sacred part of
he rites begins.
An adjonrnment is made to an onte.
room with an earthen floor, in the cen
tre of which a bright fire is burning.
Around this, in the presence of many
witnesses, the young couple promenade
solemnly seven times, carefully clasp
ing each other's right hand- By one
of the oldest customs ever kept ai
they must go always toward tho right,
because it is a festive occasion; should
a mistake be made and tarn to the
left be takee, the direst misfortune and
sorrow would be the result anticipated.
In tbe meantime a priest, the dirt of
whose oncewhite farmnts is supposed
to add to his holiness, Roes about ma
jestically, muttering a lot of myatica'
words.
Finally this also is gotten throngti
with, and tbe coobes enter bearing a
bowlof richly buttered rice. Tbe groom
then, as a sacred duty feeds bii wife,
holding the oily mixture out to her in
his palm; afterwards he partakes him
self and does the proper thing in
wiping his greasy month on tbe nilken
gown of his mother-in-law which last
goes to prove that hnranu nnturit and
tbe position of that unfortunate lady
are j retty msch the same the wot Id
over.
Later, when the feastiug bg'na, a
separate table covered with English
delicacies is set for the Christians pres
ent. Although your invitation means
staying until 3 in tbe morning, after
tapper the ordinary individual is glad
to say good night in his best Hindu s
tanee and make his way homeward in a
cab, or better still, one of our own
A merican horse cars.
A Diff.r.nt salt Eaeh Hay.
Wagg Well, for my part, I like to
see a man well dressed. Now I never
wear the same euit twice.
Wooden Why. pardon me, butttu
iuir. you're wearing now is the same
one I saw you la a year ago and every
day since.
"I tell you It's a different suit every
day."
"Well, how do you make- it out?"
"IV t!ays older.r
VISITED THE PETRIFIED FOREST
Vno Wonderful giant. Wltnell.i by B
AitT.ntaroos Catr.ra Cl.rcrra.n.
Eev. Dr. IX C Hovey of Middle
tjn, Conn., has just returned from a
visit to the petrified forest In Arizo
na. Speaking of his experiences to a
Kansas City Times man, he said:
"When I arrived within about fifty
miles ot the spot where this wonder
wa3 said to be, I discovered that my
only way to reach it was to leave the
railroad right there and take horse
across the sandy, arid plains, as for
ionic reason the railroad will disem
brk no travelers near the forest
After covering a part of the distance
I found a place where my horse could
no longer serve me. I had reached a
stream of liquid mud 6C0 feet In
breadth and of unknown and uu
fathomed depth. I finally found a
spot where I could cross on driftwood
until I reached a point about ten feet
from tbe farther shore- There was a
house nef.r by at which, I was sur
prised to find, there lived a nephew
of the celebrated Albert Barnes, who
wrote the best commentary extant co
the New Testament Although he
was ill abed he did all he could to as
sist me on my way. His wile volun
teered to go out and get roe a horse
in a distant pasture. After she had
been gone an hour we became very
greatly puzzled to know the reason
for her long absence. I was pros
trated with fatigue and could not
walk out to look after her. After
three hours had past she returned a
pitiable sight. Here hands and cloth
ing were torn aud there was blood on
the club she carried. The dog that
accompanied her was iu a dying con
dition from the attack ot wolves,
which they had beaten off after a long
running fight.
'I left next day for tbe forest anu
was successful in finding It. The
wonderful beauties of that place have
never been told. It was all strewn
wah the strong limbs of tbat once
green foiest. Here silence reigned
and all was as a sepulcher ot the
dead. Some great earthquake had
rended the trees from their places af
ter tbey were turned to stone and the
fragments lay heaped In grand ruins
all about the grouna. It was once a
waving green forest of great extent,
and here were such valuable stones as
ag:ite, opals, chalcedony, carnelian,
beryl, i.nyx, and many others in the
greateit profusion. They glittered
where tbe great limbs were broken in
twain and strewed the ground on all
sides. I gathered fifty pounds ef the
most beautiful specimens, obtaining
a few rubies and sapphires. I took
all I could carry, and it was only af
ter the most strenuous efforts that I
could get the railroad men to let me
carry them away. For some reason
they have adopted these plans to keep
the great wonder untouched by man,
and bave succeeded very well. I ex
pressed the stones to my home and
will soon follow them."
A Millinery Complication.
IL washer new hat; there wasn't any
doubt about It, for she wore It with
that peculiar self-conscious manner
that always goes with the first ap
pearance of a bit of feminine flum
mery, while the occasional glances
that she cast at her reflection in the
shop wiudows were those of admiring
Wide.
And being a new hat It bore the,
latest idiocv in millinery those long
strips of varl-colored ribbon that
hane limply down the back of the
wearer and rejoice in the name of
"streamers."
They were fully four feet in lenath,
and they snapped and cracked in the
Broadway breezes like the penant of
a frigate of the line
Down the street came that eminent
Thepian, Mr. Otis Skinner.
He was in a reflective mood, waj
Mr. Skinner, and be wore an expres
sion akin to that which is ouly wit
nessed upon the lithographs ot popu
lar price tragedians. As the fair one
of the beribboned hat passed him a
lively gust of wind whirled the
streamers toward the player and las
soed him in a way that would have
done credit to the cleverest lariat
swinger In Texas.
One stfand wrapped itself neatly
about Mr. Skinner's neck, while th-j
second colled around his glossy Brit
ish tile. The damsel turned pink
and dropped her purse and parasol.
Then she dived for them with a
suddenness that snapped the cogita
tive actor's hat Into a neighboring
doorway and nearly wrenched the
rear oft of her own. It took exactly
two minutes to disentangle thinus,
and when the player was Anally re
leased from his unexpected bondage
one of the worst rattled and generally
broken up girls in this town bolted
into a horse car and indulged in a
loupcon of hysteria.
Add when Mr. Skinner gazes upon
the ruin ot his stately headeear his
remarks upon the subject of stream
ers are short, sharp, and decisive.
New Y"ork Commercial-Advertiser.
T.f.tab'. Artillery.
The common balsam has a most
singular method of disseminating its
seeds. When they are ripe and pre
pared for germination the seed pod
explodes with the slightest touch,
nnd tbe seeds are scattered In every
direction with such force as to earn
them a distance of twenty or thlrij
feet. Plants hive many curious
methods of scattering their seeds,
hut there Is none stranger than the
vegetable artillery represented tw th
"alsam. Glol-Democrat.
M.ifleal sei.itre.
A physician in New York citv is
now using an attachmen to the stet h
oscope by which, he claims be can
establish the outline of the heart so
accurately that it would be p ssible
with certainty to thrust a pin throi;h
the patient's chest to a point within
a hair's breadth of the heart without
touching the latter.
Am Arll.t wth flor.. s.ne.
Friend What on earth are vou do
ing to that picture?
Great Artist I am rubbing a piece
of raw meat over this rahbit in tbt
foreground. Mrs. De Shoddie will be
here this afternoon, and when she
sees her pet dog smell of that rabbit
she'll bay it .New York Weekly.
Pap r flowers aie In demand.
NEVs IN BRIEF.
The oriinal pin wai u ash bon. '
A! hi tumid trgun the Koran at
-ai;tv-ve.
The petrary was a m d'eval eaU
piilt.
Plate armor wns used from HiO t.
3'J0.
R'ce is the least nl'r igenous of all
Cains.
The standard Roman sword was
twtnty-two inches long.
A penry was receully found Im
bedded ia the heart or a peacu.
Vi itary han'm-rs were first com
monly used ,n the Tenth Century.
A new foi ling baby carriage Is one
that can be folded up to go In a trunk,
The shark n worship d by foma
of the C welders along tbe African
coasts.
Dallas, Texas, didn't bave aci
mosquitoes until the railroad was built
tcrcugh it
It is asserted that mosquitoes cav
le driven a ay by evapoiatlng gum
camphor In the room.
At tbe siege of Sancerre, 1872, the
Hugaenota, to economize their power,
ised slings and blows.
Au English company is being or
ganized for the acclimatization of
elephants in South America.
Homer aiys the Greek bow was
used by placing one end on the ground
to secure steadiness of aim.
The shield of Charles V. was In
laid with geld au 1 contained over 60J
figures engraved on iti facs.
Tbe soil of Hayti Is .'aid to be very
fertile. Corn is easily grown and thiee
crepa can be raised annually.
There Is some curiosity to know,
whence came tbe shower of dead 11 ea
hat tecently fell at Mount Joy, Penn.
The lasso is an Invention of tbe
5ou!h American Indians and was In
use when the country was discovered
by Siiniards.
A corn stalk bearing several ears,
eventeen feet high, is tbe tallest pro
duct from the Cblno Runch, at Pomono.
Cab, last season.
V Detroit lady, over 70 years of ago
has a head of hair which turned from
w bite to a jjt black tbe color it was
n her giriliood.
tio'.h oianges and lemons are
packed . nripe -the latter when quite
i reen aud the former when just turning
trom green to yell iw.
A quash weighing 233 pounds
was recently displayed by a farmer at
Pomona, Cal. It is four feet iu diame
ter at the siaalleit t art
One miill m line hundrel thous
and ouLua' worth of iicklri and
saucis are Pvpoitod from t.,glaud to
other countiles yearly.
Poiphyiy boulders, which greati,
.eseiui.le watermelons uis'Z', shape aud
color, are to be found lu the C.tfOade
Mountains east of itoseburg, Oregon.
The peach is of P.-rsian origiu and
the a;,nc .t is Syrian. The former
fruit .s inei tioi.ed by classical writers
a- tar y as S11O U. C, but the lalter not
ti 1 30 A. D.
The fii st cnal on the line of the
pre-ent Suez Canal was projected by
N'eclio, au Kpuaa king, about SCO b.
c. Tl e two feas were actually united
'iiO B. O
Ihe greatest number of death.
from e.irll qu ,ke shock was at Yetfdo,
Jap.n, .11 1.03, when 100,000 people, it
s etinmteii, h st. tin ir lives In the lei-
nble seismlo upheaa'.
Tbe filth In Russ'a, outside of tlu.
large cities, is simply barbarjui There
is Lot one village lu a thousand which
pays the si gtitest attention to ordinary
sanitary piecaution?.
Dr. C. P. Caiver, of St Angustlne,
Fl , wr.s the oldest houe in America,
anil lives in It too. According to deeds
in his possession bis Florida house was
1 u It in 15u0 by a Frenchman.
Tie 'Beautiful Blue Dannb?."
especially where it flows through
Vicuna, is not at all romantic looking
An American traveler states that its
hue Is rather yellow.
Ac rlous greweome sight can I
seen in the window of a shop on Wal
nut street, Philadelphia. It Is the
skeleton of a rul!-gron man seated in
an arm chair, his pose being one of
'uxurious ea-e.
The men In the Union A' my of foi
eign birth mm tiered twenty-two rer
cent, ana the native bom seveniy-e'ght
per cent, of every one hundred who
vent forth to the eeld cf battle.
The soil or nayll is so fertile thai,
tine crops are fieu raised In a year.
The natives, however, are too ludi Ien1;
t j avail ibemseiVes of these advantages,
ani they cul work lor enough to enable
'hern to live.
Cockscombs are considered a great
delicacy by the French, who use them
in their famous sauce a la financier,
for euirees,and especially for garnishes.
Thev ate considered a dainty tidbit
Mprxd in butter and fr'ed.
Tin re was exhibited at Beilin,
Germany, recently a set of false teeth
made out of pater which a dentist had
contrived for a patient thirteen years
before ai d which after constant use
during that t me were in excellent oju
titioa. A clergyman In Oxford, England,
has invita 1 the men wbo frequent tbe
river on Sundays o come to church in
their boating flannels. Hitherto such
costumes had been fiowued npon and
'he boattueu bal not gone to church.
There la In Cblna a secret society
called 1 be "Triad." Jt Is a capital
crime to titlon to it, yet It hai mora
than tl iity milPona of members. Is
object is to overthrow the present dyn
.y. The term "tabby cat" is derived
"vim Ai8b, a famous street in Bagdad
thabited by tne manufacturers cf
silken stuff called atibl or tiffety. This
fctuff Is woven with waved markings ot
watered silk resembling a "tabby" cat's
'.oat.
Gutta percha was first Introduced
I'n o Europe from Malaga In 1842.
Tbe annual consumption now amount
to 4 000, CC0 pounds, And tbe East In
dian trees which supply tbe demand
are dlmb isbiug at an alarming rate.
Tbe milk trre grows in South Africa.
Tbe sai trom it is a good substitute for
nilk.
Then is a man resident La Yorkshire
reported to be wearing shoe tlxteea
inches in length,
y
c?Vrai