""I!""fii " ! JB. F. fiOHWEIER. THE CONSTITUTION TH K UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWfcJ. Editor end Pt-opriotwr. VOL. XL VII. MIFFLINTOWIN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 18. 1S93. NO 5 r 5 i t u MiCHT-H AVI -BEEN AND MAYBE. ST MAKT FOWLES J1HVIS. Trr O'J Venr fires, a darkly chhirg tlrl. SwiM fnn. the coast uf lime to unknown m;.. W"i:i all iT" li'iir. of ph'nnre and of prid(, ll.lril toll, "r 'iuii 'a e. V. re. f ir cm Iftird on the mldn'lit verge, li.p wi. ek of in ii. y a imruMftr li. Men fast; V o hear ti e iciunc ol tin1 outcast surge -wi-tt ilnwiiwaril tu the l'a-.t. And cv. ry wave hears sonic fair might have- tieei.; yet li.it sv llloth. on the helpless hore. To i iea-l aero". Hie en.fl y wastes between F : what can b uo moieT 11. e Now Year com., a swiftly-flowing tld. :tli inure than davhreaK ou each Jieaving el cht : v i, at t' oiiith from outworn Joys the mile, al- V-ilf. Il l rk.wll.fi sr Is best. The barren saniis are flecked with molten H'.ld. Tie treacherous crag, are covered for aw hue: And where the wreck., of loss and tempest to 0. flrttht waves ol morning smile. ( mourner! at this meetinif-lace of years. The "niithi liave-i.eei.s." with 4II their vain regrei. 1 he ylel.it d (at of f illnres and of fears, 1 earn wisely to forget. i thy .troni: self, live nobly. God redeemed; J.auiirti Hiv hkltf s?a ard where His-inay-tes" titi e; A Futuie greater than the Fast bad dreamed M.alt presently be linnet . A I'KE-S ALAL ATTACUilENT. IiUANE MORLET. I was reared in a rngged, rongh ici.tnred part ot NowKnglau.l. Though u the midst of hard working people of that H'Ctiun, ui any indulgences were i!loeil uie. My lime was at ay own Jn-posal, aud thereby I grew into a meditative way of living, looking in ii ou. self ami ont upon nature. Many au hour, Jay, or week, have I brooded over what we call Velf," the persoual ity, the ego. This habit, 80 foroiod If the circumstances about me, may, to -onie, be explanation enough of the peculiar incidents herein narrated. To my twentieth birthday, 1 was never long separated from the presence of my father; onr home being situated in a seqiuslered part, bis possessions there being large. My mother au nff--lioot of o il Puritan stock diel in my oh.ldhood, leaving rue to the compan ionship of my father; that is, Hnoh compauionahip as his manner of living allorded. W hat I recalled of my mother, is Bimply that she was a ganut, stately creature, precise in all things, even in her mi'H'tionte wars towards oie. And my obedience to her com aianiln must always h ive been perfect, for I have 110 recollection of a time when it was not spontaneous. Ail remember her, her annular fice was framed in a profusion of flaxen curls. unt from which shone her light blue eyes with a peculiar luster. Tunt she loved me I li not daubt; though memory is now void of the recollection of tender love toncbes, or ontlmrsts of affection. My father's lmbit was a pre occupied one, not moody nor chauire fol each day being a copy of the day prior and the day sill sequent His public interest Reemed little or none, save as it concerned his own immedi ate affairs. From casual remarks let fall, 1 gradnally learned that ho had spent years of his earlier manhood in Luropesn residence nnd travel; yet he coDfided nanglit of all that past to me and singularly enough, I was not in quiaitive respecting it. The education atVorded mo was sim ply common; little bong added theret by my own excursions into the broad, general field of knowledge. largely left to my own devices, I wundered among the fields and forests, a pupil of animated nature lod by my own desnl -tory thoughts. Though quiet and nn deuionstrative, my father loved me, that I knew. We slept in the same bed, ate at the same table, sat on the fame sofa indoors, and the same rnstio bench ont of doors. Frequently, we rode in the same carriage to and from the larger villages, or over the winding highways of the hills, he intent upon some business project or meditation npon The past; myself, or my mind, fancy led, or studying some phaso of nature ont-spread to view. Often, too, 1 awoke out of sleep to find his arms closely clasped about mo, or one of my hands at rest in botn of his. With the increase of years came strange sensations, strange thonghts, strange visions. The summer land scape often trausfigured itself before me into wonders of blooming plants and shrubs, and i seemed to be living in another realm and time. So oppressive became the illusions complex in their nature and multiplex in their variety so gorgeous the scenes of beauty as they passed before me that 1 ventured frequently to break Into my father's privacy of thought and ha! it to qnestion their meaning. "Some wild fancy, my boyl some wild fancy. Think of something more practical " So he tried to dispel or discourage my dreams, as he called I lem. As my years yet increased, what at first seemed to be more a vision tnan reality, grew gradually to appear more a roality than a vision. Frequently tuere shot athwart the mind's eye a bit of landscape, a vague sketch of bay or gulf, a city of strange architecture, peopled with strange faces yet famil iar; and withal, a haunting, fervid in qniry ever in niind "When before have I seen all this?" The experience was as novel as would be that of living over again a part of a long past exis tence. But these periods passed and re passed, leaving me unharmed, and what is more to the point, in this nar ration, unconcerned. My health was prime, appetite good, and my spirits when not thus traversed buoyant and even jubilant; though it was often said In my hearing, that my face had an ol 1 look, with an increasing resemblance to my father's. Once, 1 atked him if be had a book of Spanish history or truvels for me to read. The request Hindu was very soon after ono rf my periods of "predisposition," as I will call them, and my father, though why I Itaew not, very anxiously peered into my face, asking what pave me snch a desire. Sot very long after ward ho took me npon a trip with htm; visiting various of the Atlantic cities, from Koston at the North, to Savannah al the South. And while), in a general way, it broke tbo spoil enst npon me, it especially in tensified or revive.: some of the more rior-naut features of it.-- Ono, in par ticular, while sojot.mino; at ir'avaunah, tiiat beautiful, bowury city, my father at rst at the hotel; myself taki.g a brief stroll; I chanced to nt, a gr.cefnl, olive battl aaaidon, her ojea a 1-qiiJ jet black, and merry in expression. In stantly 1 thought "Where, oh where have I seen and known you ere this?" My gaze must fcave been searching, and my approach rapid toward her; tor sje fl'e! shrieking in dismay. Toe con fusion brought my father and a number of other gentlemen hurriedly upon the soene. 1 was upbraided severely for my breach of decordnm, less by my father than by the others; bnt when I insisted that the little maiden must have been a former acquaintance of mine, a strange expression'swept over his face. Throughout the remainder of the trip, which was brief, 1 was never left alone, and upon our final return I was,, just before quitting .New lork, examined try a board of physieii.B, many inquiries being made of "both my futhar and myself as to the nature vf my habits, studies, and recreations. One remark fill trom my father's lips, intended only for the doctor's ears though mine cruglit it. "A prenatal attachment surely, singular as it may seem, which will some y prove it self." Years afterwards X pondered the worde long, and deeply. Home again, certain gaieties were instituted, tnej people of the whole country side being invited to pleasure therosilves with us. And the amusements were so helpful they would have bettered auyoue, though for myself, I must say, 1 knew no illness, no serious preocca pancy of rniod. The familiar nature, or seeming real ity of certain eights, possibly pjian tasmal, continued as before; bat ever without asy i.l effect upon me. And, too, my father more and more un bosomed himself; telling me something of his earlier years, and opening some of his select oabinets to my exploration and gaze. I remember well of once disporting myself in a suit of clothes of I Lis, ot oid texture and foreign cnt; j which I had fished ont of one of those , receptacles. lie discovered me so 1 1 . , . i . a . 1 AB;t .. i . i i. l worn the snit liefore, that it was my own ami nail ever lieen. 'lell me, father! said I; "tell me when and where 1 last wore these clothes!" "Never, my son, never;" snid he, rousing me ont of my pre.lisposeit state. ' You hive begun your dreaming aain, and all through my want of care." After that the cab inets were closed against me, and very ; soon too. there occurred that, which j utterly changed my life. Upon a re ;turn business trip, my father was I thrown from his horse and instantly . killed. 1 cannot recount the particu lars; they are too sharply painful. His will, drawn iu my fivor, conveying large amounts of cash, securities, and real property, was mouths in being pro ated; myself closeted with the law- I yers duriug that period, and adding, j as best I could, somewhat to the meaa I nre of my much neglected education. The will stated that I should, upon 1 reaching majority, spend five years in European travel; chiefly in French, Moorish and Spanish countries. It h id ! been made at a much prior time, aud as 1 then was past my majority, 1 im mediately set forth npon my travels. Feeling that all Europe was be fore me, I scorned no part of it, including its northernmost capitals. What I saw was altogether novel; wet, when I dropped into the south of FniLce, Italy, Greece, Turkey,! fre quently caught myself exclaiming: "Ah! where have I seen this before? ' though instantly recalling the fact that I never had. And when, too, 1 jonr nevoJ into Portugal and Spain, espec ially the latter conutry, there were times when I was greatly" impressed that snch and such scenes, street a, buildings, and even faces, were "old time to my gaze." Frequently the thought was tialf worded npon my bps, "This looks jnst as it did when" then instantly I would remember that, truly, I never had been there, nor wituessed the scene before. At Madrid, the conrt thrown open to me, because of my wealth and the letters of iutroduction 1 bad to consuls aud ministers, was elegant and fasci nating Still, in all the gaiety and glitter, while feeling the vigor of youth at its fullest flow, 1 was also depressed by a feeling of age and with sensations strange and mystical, snch a. are some times evolved during poriodj of eemi sl amber, or half remembrauoe. The faces of the sehoritai 1 met, were bewitching and banntingly fa miliar; bnt I was blest with discret on and power of will; never repeating that former foible of mine while with u y father at Savannah. One night I was presented to a lady of high social degree aSenorita Valenzn ela. The immediate place of presenta tion was upon a balcony over an open court.or courtyard. Jt was my fate and so strange a recollection swept over me that 1 came near falling from the bal cony above to the courtyard below. It was like reviving an old attachment once broken; as though thirty years had rolled back, restoring former times and associations. And so vital was the assnilment or reassailment of heart by her bean I y, grace and wondrously fascinating manner, little wonder there was that all my leservesof indi vidual control were sharply put to test SeIf-poeset,ion, however, re mained, and in a fairly quiet way I continued the interview, making a very favorable and lasting impression upon my new acquaintance. Under Spain's fervid sun, loves quickly ripen, and at our next inter view I formally capitnlatad and was soon presented to her kinsfolk. 1 ' readily ednpted myself to the ways of the Spanish people, easily acquiriug I commaud of their boft liquid, tongue, which, from the hrst.seemed to vibrate a long untouched chord in my memory. Ah, those delicious days! Those de lightful snrronndings! Those all sat isfying associations! Everything ministered to my anomalous nature, fulfilling and satisfying every demand ; of inv heart Every object with which I came in contact, were a familiar ' look; nnd every sound,1 whether the soft toned guitar, or the liquid aylla ; bles of the language, seemed in uo i wise strange. Even the feeling, that I ' hud, after Ijug quest, finally discovered ' and reached home, took quiet, natural possession of me: with the added impression that the .land and people left beyond seas, were foreign and not native to me. And every day, as I sat with my beloved in some bowery retreat, her fingers idly picking the guitar, the white her dark eyes turned truthfully upon mine, it seemed as though I had come back to my own ' from a long distance.and after long sep aration. . When introduced to 'he Senora Valenznela, the mother of my beloved ; she said, slowly repeati g my name; "Wiuthrop? " Winthrop? Perhaps, Senor, you are a son of my old friend, Wm. W. Wiuthrcp?'' I assured her that j Wui. W. was none other than my father of blessed memory, he having passed from this life into the brighter, n re glorious Beyond. In an after conver sation with the Senora I learned that my father, in his yOung manhood, bad been sent into that country upon a political mission ; tbt they hail met; and that a stong mutual attach ment hnd formed between them, the date of their nuptials being fixed. Such aliiunoes were at that time little favored; and this aroued the hot ire of all her kindred. They conspired for my father' re moval from the position he oocupied, and his consequent banishment from the country, lbey succeeded in their malevolent designs; though it was secretly arranged between the pir that they should afterward meet at Havre. Her trip entered upon bat never finished was by vessel; it being shipwrecked and 'many lives lost Years afterwards she married one of her own race; my beloved one being the first of that union. The story was a revelation. It explaiued my father's quiet habits, his almost continuous re serve. And it solved, to my satisfac tion the mystery of my own complex nature; that twofold association of thonghts and feelings so mysterious to myself; and, as shown in my various idiosyncrasies, bo puzzling to my father. Established with the vast patrimony left me and happily wedded in that sunny clime so congenial to my nature, there is nothing about mo or of me that is in any sense peculiar. And, now knowing the nature of my fafh'-r's early and great disappoint ment I readily see and realize that the chief est .good, the one great desider atum of both his life, and mine, is ob tained in my union with the daughter of his former betrothed. And the uged Senora also feels herself in a way re united to the man of her youthful choice, the love of her life. How far the law of compensation ex tends, or bow closely separate, individ ual entities may be correlated, I can only conjecture not determine. Hat these facts of such vital force and pe culiar moment to myself, I willingly yield to the reader for whatever theory he may wish to form. "MANNERS MAKYTH MAN." MAKYTH MANHEK.T WHO A not uncommon Jin de siecle lament is the wail that good manners have vanished from among tin. We have forgotten how to bow, and have all learned to talk slang. We no longer hesitate to sit dawn iu our parents' presence; wo omit to address them as "sir" "and "madam"; and we write notes and postcards instead of epistles. We romp in the "barn-door" instead of posing in the minnet But this outcry over the decadence of courtesy is no new thing. Even in the days of powder Chesterfield raised the lament What would he have said of present day manners and tone? Tn shaking off the shackles of the rigid etiquette of the last century, the stiff primness of the early Victorian age, may we not be in danger of lapsing from ease into licence? There is no doubt that women indi rectly aid and abet tnis degeneracy. In modern society men are so eagerly sought after that the position of the sexes is fast becoming reversed. The hostess, in her anxiety to "catch men," is tempted to yield, here au inch and there an inch, to their vauity, their weaknesses, to pander to their com -fort, and to bnmor them in every way. Tyhe are to lie allowed to smoke at all times and in all places. From the vHrvee of calling, and even of card leaving, or invitation answering, men are to be exempt Not too much must I be required of them, lest they Tail so ciety altogether. JJancing men, es peoially, have, emphatically, the bull at their feet. Now, manners, projierly so called are under the siieeial ir.ix of wo man. In countries where she is im prisoned and down-trod. Icn, they do not exi-t at all, and are but ill replaced by etiquette and ceremonial, covering with a tin veneer coarseness and brutal ity. Only in the countries where the two sexes meet freelv, and on an equal ity, do manners obtain. So woman, the raion d't (re as well as the o isto dian of manners, mast look to her trust. It is a boy's female snrronnd ings that gradually retiue the awkward hobbledehoy into civilized man. The careful mother, the ju iicions hostess, will discriminate and rnle between stiffness and rowdyness If polite con versation as understood by the Oranit Monanjue is a lost art, at least among the nper classes, men no longer swear and get drnnk before ladies, and wo men do hot read alond books and dis cuss topics unveiled which their great grandmothers handled without a blush. The sepulchre may be no longer white washed. We lack the time to do it in these days of haste and hurry. Bnt the dead-men's (bones of the grosser vices have- been removed from it. We may lament, however, the super cilious nod, the personal, half-ruile chaff, the practical joking, and the noisiness bo much in vogue among onr young men and maidens. Men will talk and behave as women let them. We are a practical, busy generation; we lead freer, fuller, and less artificial lives than onr forefathers ill I, and have less time to wa-te on superfluities, iai'e is not all ball room, and good mnnneis, like charity, must begin at borne, though they need not enn there. A boy cannot too soon be inducted into the amenities of life, be taught to open the door to his mother, to give place to his sister. But it is not the boys only who require training: En glish girls are too- f elf conscious, want ing in ease .with the other sex. It is the naive camaraderie of the Transat lantic cousin, which constitutes her greatest charm. There is such a thing as familiarity without contempt. Wo man is something more than "unde veloped man." He owes it to her to treat her nei her as a toy in the plea sure nor a rival in the business of lire. But when we bear women groaning over the treatment they are receiving at men's bands, bewailing the rude ness, lamenting that the day of jmtin go ins is as past as that of chivalry, let us construe anew for them the old Wykehamist motto, and bid them re member that if ''manners make the man," it is woman emphatically that makes the manners. A Springfield fas. ptio'ogTaphei has perfected a process by wt ich be can open the eyes of ne who Las dieo and obtain a photograph which has ad the semblance of life. The value of this process Is obviously great Two Indian mummies, one of tVerta that of a child, and the other of an adult, were found recently in a mound of sand on Long Island, In the Colum bia River, Oregon. Both are perfeotlv preserved, haying hair aDd teeth Intact. Gladstone, a f-wn rabbit, w;ts sold in England, rece t forf t30. Itsears are 27 inches iu length and 7J inches In width. v Covcbit to the most insurable die ease that is known to the human soul. HE WAS BALD. 4nd H Trie to Correct th WorMn Mature. It was one of the by-laws of ths neartches Heavenly Hair Raiser that it be used freely beioTe retiring, rtrbbine it into the scalp. Just be fore he went to bed th'at night, the man bolted the back door, put. the cat In the wood-shed, came in whistling the "Fatinltza" waltz, danced up to the clock-sheif. and, pouring out what he supposed to be his hair ferti lizer, he mopped H all over hi scalp, and stirred it well in around the root of his little hede of hair at the back if his neck. The glue bottle, by an unearthly coincidence, was nearly the same shape and size as the hair sap bottle. Ue went to bed. "George," said his wife, turning her face to the wall, "that stuff you're putting on your hair smells 'ike a pan of soapgrea.se." "Perhaps I bad better go up stair and sleep," snarled George. "You're mightv sensitive! You wouldn't ex- nngiiiy senii.ie: j ou wuumu u r- pect that a man can put stuff on his head make his hair grow, and hava ft smell like essence of wintercreen. I would you?" They went to sleep mad as Turks This particular bald-headed man, like a good many other bald-headed men, had to get up and build the (Ires. When he arose next morning the sun peeped in at the window, an& aw the piHow cling to the back ol his bead like a great white chignon; he thought it must have caught on a pin or shirt button. It looked ridicu lous, and he would throw it back on the ber before his wife saw it, so he c .ught It quickly, bv one end and 'yanked." ' "Oh! oh!" he screamed, "what't been going on here? Thunder an' lightnin'!" and he began to ciaw at his scalp like a lunatic. His wife sprang up from the couch and began Vo sob hysterically. "Oh, don't George! What is iu What's the matter?" George was dancing about tht room, the pillow now dangling by a few hairs, his scalp covered with something that looked like sheet copper, while the air was re dolent of warlike explosives, as if a tlictonaiy had exploded. With a woman's instinct the poor wife took in the situation at a glance, and ex laimed; "It Is the glue!" The bald-headed man satdown in a chair and looked at her a moment In contemptuous silence, and then ui .tered the one expressive word: "Glue!" Now began a series of processes ant. pxperiments unheard of in the an lalsof chemistry. Jane, you must soak it off with warm water. I've got to go to I'tica to-day." "i can't, George," she replied in a guilty tone, "its waterproof." "Yes, I might have known it; and I suppose it's fireproof, too, ain't it" He scratched over the smooth plat ng with his finger nail. "It's hard as Iron," ho said. "Yes he said it was good glue," repeated she innocently. "Can't you lkin it off with your razgr, elenrge?" Don't you trifle with me, Jane. Get me that coarse file in the wood shed. " It may be imagined, what followed, and now as the bald-headed man sits in theotlice he never removes his bat, for his entire skull is a howling waste of blistered desert, relieved here and there by oas of black court-plaster. The Christian at 'A'ork. Not On Our Kt. One night we were coming in on the train when we encountered the fiercest lookuJf storm I ever saw. I knew the conductor of the train very well, and he knew I wanted 'to see a cyclone. So he took me forward and put me on the engine, telling the en gineer to show me the first cyclone that crossed our path. The great black cloud was streaked ever and anon with lightning as forked as a snake's tongue. 1 could hear the roar of the wind above the tremend ous breathing of the engine. It was a grand and terrible scene to me. The engine seemed to be driving right into the storm center. 1 looked every moment to see the smokestack twisted from the boiler and the row catcher hurled into black night I dosed my eyes for a moment fr it seemed to me my time had come. When I opened my eyes the sky was clear. The stars were sparkling like diamonds, and the storm lay in the back ground like a monster that had been overpowered. I looked at the engineer. He was as calm as if he had lieen at a harvest dance. A soon as I could catch my breath 1 .aid to him, "No cyclone yet'" He gazed at me fixedly a moment, then he asked, "Have you been asleep?" Not so far as" I can- remember," I answered meekly. 1 ' "Young man," said ' he, . solemnly, "ru cyclone ever tackles this engine. They get out of the way when they see it coming. One tried it once and went out of . the businessthe next day. If you were on the road you would have seen the cvke. It loves to dally with that road, not with our'n. Sorry we can't accom modate you. Conductor ought to have known better than to take vou on in." "o I go back home with no cy clone story but this hey?" "You'e had the best that we iaB give vou. stranger." Light t-kx-ket.. A new socket for incandes-ent tamps has been brought out which is flexible and will admit of the lamp glote being turned in that direction or another. A spring coll forms one of the connections to the lamy base, and takes the place of the thread on the regular socket Another novelty about the spring Is a sharp point' on the end which prevents unauthorized persons from removing the lamp by pressing open the spring, and allows only a person carrying a cover for this point to tamper with the socket ne ivnew me neaaon. "That Miss Toque is a trim little body, isn't she?" said Willy. She ought to be," replied Kill "She's a milliner. "Buffalo Express. GATE-POST LANGUAGE. !. HOW TRAMPS COMMUNICATE ': WITH EACH OTHER. Drawing-., and Sign. Which Tell th Nomad. What They May Expect A Cer tain Freemasonry Among Thl GlmM of Wanderer. Told by a Tramp. 'When a tramp reaches a house ht. can tell almost at a glance what re ception he will get inside. He ex amines the gate-posts .attentively ana generally finds some sign upon them i which tells him what sort of people ' live there. These signs are the letters of a universal language known to every tramp in the country. There is a certain Freemasonr among tramps which has unwritten but thoroughly understood rules. These rules are those of "liberty, equality, and fraternity." Every tramp will do all he can to assist his fellow, whether he knows him or not , - - ----- --- - One of the duties of a tramp is to leave behind him wherever he goes blns "y wuicn me tramps wno come after him can profit by the results of his experience. These signs may be found on the gates or fences of al most all houses in the country. They have teen noticed, doubtless, by most farmers and dwellers in the outskirts GOOD I IOI'LE LIVE HIRE. oood roj "BAND-' of cities. But it Is not likely that their hidden meaning has been dis covered by more than a few. One of the oldest tramps on the road recently confided to a IS'ew York Journal man some of the secrets of the "profesh." "You ss, it's this way," he said "People is ?o different in the ways they treats us poor tired men. It is too bad the way some folks sets a dog on us. Some get guns. They don't often shoot, but, then, few of us cares to take chances. Then some folks Is good to us. So we does our duty and leaves our footprints where the next man as comes along can tell how he's agcln' to be treated. Sltrnittvance of Tramps Sign. "I go along the road and see a pic ture of a church on a gatepost. I known that means 'good people live here.' The little sign tells me that I will get well treated In that house.. "We mostly draws with chalk, but little mud does just as well when the fence Or gate is white," he con tinued. "A "sign like this," and the tramp jrew what he called "a bad dog" in the du-t, "means that a fierce dog is A OOOD DOfl kept on the premises, aud that the owner does not mind turning him loose at a tramp A picture like this tells me that a dog Is kept, but that he is disjjosed to be friendly." The old fellow drew another dog, differing but slightly from the former in general appearance, but its tail had an upward curl, while the other curl ed ominously downward. "Yes, it's all in the tail," said the veteran tramp. "Good dogs carries j their tails in the air, bad ones hangs em uowii low. r.very tramp in me world knows the difference, and iteers clear of the house with the bad jog." lie was asked what were the most encouraging signs in the tramp's sign dictionary. "Sit-downs and widders," he re plied, decisively. "This Is a sit down," and he drew a chair and a table, with some things upon It, that he said to the experienced eye of the tramp meant lots of good cheer. . "If you see that sign on a gate you can be dead sure of a square meal with a chair to sit down on. They OOOD FOR A "SIT DUWX " orriCER lives HERE. Isn't many. could tell you every I 'sit-down' from here to Philadelphia or to Boston. There's not twelve on the way. I "But widders is meat!" he sighed.' "Most w idders Is open-hearted to us gents. This means that a widder j lives here aud you can ask her for money," he added, as he drew the end of a house with a smoking chimney I and a big dollar-mark on the wall. ! "That is one of the we.'comest sights ' that ever greets the eye of a weary man." I After a pause the weary one drew two circles in the dust. I "That means that an officer livei there and you'd best give the house a ' wide berth. It is put on the door or fence of all constables, game war dens, and sich. They has no liking for us, and we has none for them." j He then explained that a single O . meant "'o use asking for anything here, as you will get nothing." He ' added that it was the commonest of all the signs, and the one most fre quently to be seen, especially near cities. Another sign that was all too fre quent, according to the tourist, wa a rude representation of a saw horse, though it bore but a remote resem blance to that emblem of toll. That sign upon a fence meant that the vis itor would be given something to eat after he had chopped or sawed a lot of kindling wool. It was a sign that caused tramps to pass by, unless driven by ill-luck and hunger. I "The next picture he drew was a i ,. , i-u - lvin iiuuoi; nun a uig u.iuu oii.&ui iuv from the baClr aoor. i the hand was -oinething. . That means," he laid, "thtti ,iacs B9S1 jo 4 hadorA- J I oood roj A KKEP Hit X. O. The old man traced the figure of a. fW 1 n A SAD OOO. WIDOW LIVES Hint ask roR nosir. man with a gun and a dog at his feet. That is a bad sign. It means 'clear out,' arfti tells its own story j The man has a bad dog, and w ill , shoot tramps on sight" He explained many other signs, a. ' chicken on vhe doorpost meant that the owner, kept fowls, and that the hen-roost was easy of access. I "We don't steal much," he said, "it's too risky; but sometimes, when we's pushed to it, we gets infernally brash. Then a chicken finds its way from the farmyard to oursoujS-pot." Improvement In Machinery. The wonderful advance that has been made during the last third of a century in the construction of ma chinery, and particularly in the equip ment of ships with propelling power, is well illustrated by comparisons presented by an Eastern journal. It Is well known that the Great East ern, that wonderful leviathan of the seas which was the talk of the world some thirty years ago, was in all prac tical respects a complete failure. The reason for this will be understood when It is stated that engines of only 7,650 horse power were provided to propel a ship 680 feet In length and 32 feet in breadth. In those days ecgines of sueh power were consid ered very remarkable, and it does not appear to have been suspected at the time that the failure of the great ship was due to a lack of sufficient power to drive her vast bulk through the water and render her manage able. She was abandoned and allowed to go to ruin because It was lelieved that the limit of size had in her case been exceeded. But when we com- pare her 7,650 horse power with the I 20,605 horse power of that modern ! greyhound, the City of Paris, a ves I sel 120 feet shorter ;uid nearly 20 feet ' narrower than the Great E srern, It is plainly seen where the trouble lay. ' Such an equipment of machinery as the great steamships of our clay carry would have been entirely beyond t comprehension of the engine-builders of thirty years ago. But after all it appears that we art only just beginning to develop tho possibilities of the steam engine, and that there are no longer any limita tions as to the dimensions that may be chosen for steamships. The Cam pania, ju-t launched from an English shipyard, is 620 feet in length, dronly sixty feet shorter than the Great Eastern, and is equipped with engines of 30,000 horse power. The propel ling force which these figures indi cate is almost inconceivable. The ne"w American steamships now building for the transatlantic busi ness wil' be smaller than the Campa nia, but larger than any of the other liners now afloat They will be pro vided with engines proportionately powerful and representing the high est modern skill. ill for Fuel. The use of petroleum as a fuel frn locomotive seems to be spread ing in places where coal is dear. One of the locomotives of the rack ladway up Pike's Peak uses oil, and it has been extensively employed for many years past on the Grazi-Tsaritsin Railway, in Southern Kussla. It has a slight use tn England ou the Great Western and Lancashire and York shire Railways, and has an extensive application in the Argentine Repub lic, where the native petroleum is much cheaper than coal. In Western South America oil is being rapidly adopted. The Oroya Railway of Peru uses a residum oil having a fire-test pf about 300 degrees Fahrenheit. On the locomotives of this line, the hut torn, back and jiart of the sides of the fire-box are lined with brick. The oil comes through a 1 -iiieli pipe to the bottom of the front part of the fire-box, and is then sprayed into the space within by t.team supplied through a half-inch pipe. The bricks do not serve in any way to break up the oil, but merely act as a white hot retort, in which the air and va porized oil are mixed in the proper proportions. The supply of steam, oil, and air can lie regulated at will. In firing up preparatory to a run, steam from another locomotive Is used, although wood can be used in case of necessity. The burner is very simple, consisting of a single casing, and differs greatly from the complicated apparatus usu ally employed. The objection to pe troleum dring has generally been that it injures the boilers more than coal; one locomotive, however, on this railway, after a run of six months, showed no signs of leakage in the tire box nor any signs of straining. Ixtenttowai. wrong-doing and care lessness, thongbtleeaness and ignor ance, can all be more or less pnaided against and corrected. The law deals with criminals, the ignorant can be taught, the careless can be disciplined into carefulness, and the thoughtless made to think. SNOWY DAISIES. I have Ju-t been learning the lesson of life. The ad. sad leson of loving. Ann all of it. power for pleaime or pain Been .lowly and sadly promi: And all 'hat I. left of tne tuiehr. bright dream. With Its thousand brilliant pha.es, s a bandfn' ol dust Id a eufOu bid A coffin und r the d.tnie. The ueauliful, beautiful daisies, ThesuowjTjiuowy daisies. And thns forever throuehnut the world 1. lne a sorrow nrovlne: 1 There', many a .ad. ?ad tlnne in life. nut tub auut-h iu .ill in tuv iiik. L"e often divldf. far greater than death, S'ern fortune the hleh wall ral-K-v But better far than two heArt. estrAnced 1. a 1-w era re .laired with daisies. The leant Iful. beautiful dalslc. The uov. snowy daisies. And so I am elal that we lived as we did Through the Summer of love together. And that one of u tired and laid down to rest Ere tne coming of Winter watlier. For the sadness ol love I. love', growing eaht, Ami 'tis on of lore's surest phase.. So 1 bless my God. with a breaslng heart. For tf.at grave en-tirred with daisies. The beauliluU beautiful dalalea, Tae snowy, tnowy dalshu. HOW TO CO TO SLEEP. 11 Recipe for fmluring Slumber ttaat.Bt - connting Imaglnau-y Sheep. One of the technical wttJ used lb. scient ific descriptions of the phenom enon of hypnotism 'is " transfixion." This relates to the position of the eyes just before hypnot ic sletp comes on, and it is-believed, though not yet fully explained, that in adjusting the eyes to this po- riouRE L myon some nerve center of the brain is affected, pro ducing an effect like switching off electricity from a keyboard, and un consciousness follows almost in stantly. "1 is a common observation among aurses that babies "get crosseyed just before they fall asleep." Almost in variably the eyes are directed inward and generally downward, though sometimes upward. True hypnotic sleep, if undisturbed by suggestion, soon turns info what we call "nat ural" sleep, as is shown by the sleeper awakening refreshed as from natural tleep. A writer who was formerly afflictet with chronic insomnia effected a per manent cure by what he terms the hypnotic method, and' gives his recipe with illustrations for the benefit of the many sufferers from the tortures of prolonged .wakefulness. Its worth may be easily tested by any one with strong will power. That many emi nent men Napoleon, Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, for example, pos sessed the secret of going to sleep at will is well known. In using tho following directions ;ne only caution necessary is that before the hypnot ic sleep merges in to natural slum ber the sleeper is apt to answer un consciously any niiRvtion that, m.17 be gently asked, and thereby reveal . secrets tnat inignt, cause domestic .listurbances. Hut the innocent need .'OCR 2. have no fears. Lie on your right siilo; close your ives gi iitly. Forget that the lids are harriers to seeing and turn your eyes Inward and downward, so that you can see your breath as if it were va por in the 'ir-ftrils and curling off in the air. Th?e wttch It return lip the nostrils and then out again. Con centrate your powers f vision until you serin actually o see this then vou are asleep. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. The American flag now floats from .he Administration btnl.ling at Jackson Park to signify that the World's Fair buildings and grounds are in the pos sesssion of the United States govern ment. Vice-President Morton ac cepted them on behalf of the govern ment onUedication day, but actnal possession was not taken nntil Director-General Davis, the chief gov ernment World's Fair orlieial, moved into his cilices in the Admiustration bnilding. The raising of fho stars and itripes signaled that event Under tho east windows of the oc cupied wing of the Administration bnilding lies a scene like a creation of the Arabian Nights. It is the ground conrt, the main gate-way to the World's Fnir, the feature par-excellence of the entire perfect plan of the Exposition. In the centre ripples the bine waters of the great basin, which while jonht.ntlv renewed by Lake Michigan, is yet sheltered from the giant waves foaming on the open shore. The sky line on the east side where the grey-bine horizon melts indistiugnish alily into the greyer bine of lake and basin is broken by the imposing pil lared collonade and the magnificent central arch of the Pereityle. At either end stands the Mnsie Hall and the Casino disappearing in- the soft misty haze behind the ptately corner pa vilion of the Manufacturers' bnildingon the north, and the eooth partially hid den by the graceful front of the Agri cultural building. Above the dome of the latter the famous ilgnre of Diana pironeMes with the shifting wind. This stitnte, being of heroic pr 'orttons and brilliantly gilded, is oaVzlingly conspicnons nmidst . the prevailing white and grey of the landscape. Here and there too, along the ornate fronts of these ivory palaces are rich, warm frescos in mellow reds and yellows painted nn.ler the direction i f Millet the artistic magician of the World's Fair. At the east end of the great basin stands trench 8 grand statne of the Republic, lifting her ehapelv length sixty feet from the ped - estal, towering i.inety feet above the waters of Lake Michigan. Opposite and immediately in front of the Admin- istratioc bnilding is the celebrated McMonnnies tonntain fast approaching completion. Columbia pits enthroned in the barque of Progress, beral led by Fame and rowed by the geninses of civilization, while Time, representing experience, keeps a firm, steady hand on the tiller. It is a strikingly heanti fnl, and particularly spirited concep tion, the wind from the lake seeming to rustle the snowy drapery of the for ward bent figures at t he oarj. To the riubt and left of this work men are toiling and machines are birring within two balu.traded semi circles, building the electrical fonnt- Bins, these will give the finishing tonch to the scene of enchantment, by throwing over it the light that never was on land or sea. Over the great , basin, with its giant statues and its encircling olnmns and palaces of ivory and gold, will play these cloud-tonch- ing fountains of myriad, ever varying t liuei tinging ttiem in turn with violet, j rose, bine, green, crimson or the j mingled tints of the most resplendent rainbow. I Tne section from one of the big Cali- I iornia redwood trees, which the govern ment will exhibit in its bnilding at the ' World's Fairhas arrived at the Fair grounds. Eleven freight cars were required to convey it across the conti nent. It measures thirty feet long by twenty-three feet in diameter. The section is hollowed out and wben placed on end, divided into two stories and lighted, as it will be, it will form a rustic bouse large enough for a family to live in. A man is never so on trial as in the o""ieni of excessive good fortune. f 1 KEWi IX BRlEK Australia makes 100 kinds of wine. The father of Verdi was a day laborer. One can plant more than he can cultivate. The elT'rotype was the work of S. ea:er, 1837. Coil nil was first used as an llluiu inant in 13 6. The velocipede was iuvtnted by Drals in 1S17. Tte piano was invented by Christo fali, in 171 U The Ratling gun was the work of Sailing, If CI. BjmbshUs were first made in Hol 'aud in 1 05. Ice was first made by machinery by Carre In ISG'J. B.irojjet-rs were Invented by Torictlli, 1G. I Canada has 1,000,000 miles of nn j explored territory. General Albert Sykes was "Syk esy" among his men. There are uipre republic In tlu world than mouarrt'es. Silk manufactures were established 'n Europe A. I. 555. Every man defines cowardice in his own casj as discretion. I fioaningcould heal broken bonis, nobody would be lauie. Secondary electric currents were discovered by Joseph Henry. The circulation of the blood was dis covered by Harvey In 1617. A two pound pomegranate Is an agricultural curiosity of Starke, Fla, Artificial grass for the grounds ot seaside cottages Is one of the indusirhs at Manchester, Eng. There Is a colored prisoner work ng in the Alabama mii.es who can speak in twelve languages. The population of many South Sea Islands manufacture their entire suits from the products of palm leaves. There pre 500U deaconesses in Ger many who nurse the sick poor, work in the public nurseries ant do more or less teaching. A bird In the London . "Zoo" a shell.lrake, has apparently committed suicide on account of the death of ltr mate. Bears have been almost extermin ated in the Australian Tyrol. The , Government pays $15.50 for every on I tilled. j A five minute chat over the tel , phone between New York and Clil- C:igo, costs nine dollars three cents second. A young man in Indiana rescued a young wo'iian from droaning and was rewarded with four quails ot butternuts. Four members of one family It New York named Cochran hold posi tions as majors In the volunteer militia of that Slate. Miss Estrhard, of Ohio, a real estate agent and landholder, is fa d to pay the largest taxes of any woman in the United Slates. The agrlculturaldepresslon in Eng land appears to be admitted ou all hands. The remedies proposed ar uore numerous than practicable. In Sitka, Alaska, when an Indiac wife has lost her husband by death she gos into mourning by painting the uu oer half of her face a deep black. An English clergyman and his wift have just celebrated ttnlr iron wed ding, 70 years of wedded lifA The husband is 07 years old aud the wife 9X Every women wears Tier watch pinned fast to her breast, and some of ihenexones hanging from exquisite brdbches are woiks of the jeweler trt -In the year 1391 there were 20,72 evictions la New York City, throwing into the ctreet about 148,000 human I Ings. Eighty families camped in the streets one week each. There is a chestnut tree in Mine field, Conn., whose circumference at 'he roots is llfty-four feet and tne dia meter of the spread of its branches In one direction is a hundrei leet. Its height is eighty feet, The largest volcano In the world k at Manna Loa In the Sandwich Islands. The crater is twenty miles ln'diameter, and the stream of lava Mowing from it Is fifty miles long and in places four nlles wide. Of Esop, the "fabulist," It Is. written that he was a person of ex tremely luxurious tastes, and that he once had served at a banquet a dish of singing birds at an expense ot $10X'0. A magnificent specimen of the Jm peii.il itali'ia is in bloom in the grounds of August Dreher s resilience at Santa j Cruz, al. It Is fifteen feet high, and the feliage and inAorescence re thirtv six feet in c.rcumference. Hundreds of pale mauve blossoms hang from its ! branches. In connection with the Egyptain Nations the gnostics, as well as some ' of the early Christian f ithers, sueak of Christ as the scara'oocus and symbolize I Mimas a man with a beetle's head, Tne Egypt ans always embalmed this sacred insect. Mrs. E. B. Grannis, editor of tli6 New York Church Uulon, is probably the only woman who has guc.essfully carried for neaily twenty years the whole burden, financial and editorial, if a large reUglom Journal. Agnes Rpp1ier, whose Addisonian essays in the A Untie show virility of thought and style, lives In Philadelphia She is a q tret and demure lit:!e wo- j w,1 llli9 in t,,e W"1" smootn and weil-balanred sentences that char acterize her essays. Her favorite pets ire cats. A oriEEN old age is all right It it the green yonng age that is danger 119. Mrs. Wldtney, w.feof theex-Stc e tary cf the Navy, understands to per fection the art of making a table look tractive. She has a gieat deal of Sevres aud Dresden china, and, of j course, crystal and silver worth a klnj's 1 "ansom. . At Buchtel College, Ohio, twe women and two men competed 011 the law es?ay, for which two prizes were offered. The snbject was "Equitable Remedies Their Development and Place In Our Jurisprudence." The vomen won the prlz?s. Miss Rtr'rude L Barrett, daughtet of Uev. B. F. Barret, of Philadelphia, has been made general manager of the Sweden boig Publishing Association ! since the decease of I er lather, who was for manv vears President of tit? tataocia tion, I
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