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B, p. ROHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLVII.
MIFFJJNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29. 1893.
NO. 15
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WAITING.
II KKYA1ST KUSSET.L.
Wrtlnf! watching : h:it does It aval?
li. une U'i'K U.iv waited f.r delays to
ceins
rri trji tt-il alv-m-e. e 1:i nam tu-wail,
H,e uuui-nl.is runs, anil all beside is dumb.
Waltioi!- wafliiR' Why so lonn dnlayr
faiti-n an. I our lailli b. co.nes le.s
str.'in:;
Thf on ! 'cted iny 0- tar .way,
huunll we wail. Uioi g!i we have watted
Ivlit-
ruuil'H'iE wheel, tlie fluttcrliin of a tear;
.i li iniifH d si. .nit kl-es lt a i ihilul llirlll;
Tiy nuK-k uiir wall lie; with a false relief,
Sui-ii-c null lroo.t while all without Is
...lil.
There 1 iranl In waiting; ll-ten mml
A . .iai. I is braid like una t e luaril t
.!;
IL l.fjrt brats quickly, J-.y lights uj the
t-r--w,
1 Le ou familiar step is at the door.
On tfie Field of Death.
Trant'aitd out (lie French cf George
Le Faure.
UY Is-Bl L bMI'I HeoN.
The buttle had liegnn at daybreak.
The tiring of euns Biul roar of cannons
liad deafened I'1' echo for teu leagues
biooii.I, and over t lie buttle-tield there
Dow hung tiiicU veil uhich the sun's
bright ras could hardly penetrate.
Blood liowud in rivers, watering the
ground with a horrible dew, ami on
eveiy fiJo weie seen corpses. Mutil
ated, crushed, waugie I forms an. I f ires
which in Jeth retnued the ttume ex
pression of tierce hatred that tbey had
worn in life.
tor several bourn Russiaus and
Turks hal diluted the gronudt the
former attickuig, and thu latter de
fending tlii position, but at List, the
Russian battalions and npiadrous had
weakened, and the Cur's ling hail re
treated lief ore the standard of the
Sultao.
Now, every thing wns qniet; the
terrible noise of gnt)o-shot was suc
ceeded by -roloiiiid sileuee, and little
by little, the black clouds of smoke
which enveloped the country like a
Winding sheet, tore tlasniselves apart
and weot nmtiug toward the horizon.
The torrid heat of noon day cpr- ad
around, uud the dead, with upturned
faces, slept the etertml sleep nnder the
fierce rays of the min. livery few
minutes, aciy of au'ouy winild riae, or
a hw moaning pound le heard; it i
a wouuded man calling on death, or a
dv iu one Kreet nit? it.
The next ln-taut, the Nileiice of this
iiuuieuse tomb would be broken by
the sound of a low aid soul,-, from the
tl r at of a bird in the vou lu near by,
mourning the los of its brood w hich had
been destroyed iu I he not bv a riiu-
bot. There was something plaintive
in tLe wail of that iuuo ;ent victim of
human hate.
It wan noon-day: the hoar at which
the earth plumbers l'tn-utU the buii's
rays, and t.'i l il. nt. im-adows seemed
to lie Moilinfj at the blue ky, and
awaitihK tie arrival of the firmer
with his pltHib. iheie was not a
breath of wiud stirriu;.'. i ot even the
rli'lit of ciown, tho.se diead nmraii lera
of the tattle-tield, wan heard.
Suddenly two shadowy forms miht be
seen ponnntr hIowIv from the direction,
of the liiiHHi n pam, steppin;j; over
the corpses and Hlipfint; on the bloody
ground. One oT theae wore a dalmatic,
with oiverembroidery which flittered iu
the bud light; he c:rrietl a golden
censor from which arose the smoke of
iuOMiise; bis head was bare, his eyes
downcast, and his lips moving as if iu
prayer. This was a Kuasiau priest.
Behind him walked a soldier, carry
ing a book aud a bilver cross. 1
As the two men stepped between the
bloody furrows of the human harvest,
the priest v. as filled with pity, but the
soldier's face was Ftolid-lookinir.
.Now the priest flopped and looked
around as if overwhelmed by the terri
ble sight which presented itself on
every side, aud the soldier, silent and
with lips eoiupretwed piled ni some
knapsacks to form a sort of aitar. on
which he laid the book aud silver
cross.
Then he removed his hnt, end the
priest, stretching out his arms as if to
include all the dead and dying in his
benediction, began the olli.-e for the
dead. He pronounced ttie words as
calmly as if he were iu the Cathedral
of Ht. 1'etersburg, but there was a tone
of sorrow iu his voice, for all these nn
fortauates were brothers.
The soldier made responses to the
prayers.
While the prient prayed.the wonuded
men, even the dying ones seemed to
gather new strength to tight against
Death, and faintly, bnt with reverence,
joined in the responses. The wounded
Mnssulmen were auiazod at the vener
able figure standing there distinctly
outlined against the deep blue of the
sky, and as they listened, ther under
stood vaguely that this Christian Wds
praying for iheui ; aud as they called
on Allah, they thought of the Chris
tians' God, who was so great and cen
rons as to open his Paradise to his
enemies.
The priest swung the c nnor, and
turning to the four quarters of the
earth, sent clouds of incense towards
beaveu.
Suddenly he stopped aud stood
motionless with his eyes tiled upon
the horizon. He had been asking of
God the reason 'by the Christian Kus
aians had not bren alloued to triumph
over the followers of .Mahomet, and he
had received the answer.
The battleGeld ws transformed, and
to the eyes of the Russian priest there
seemed to be iu its place a devastated
laod with harvests d-Frnyed, villages
burned, women and children slaughter
ed iu the streets.
He groaned aloud, fell upon his
knees, and lifting his arms towards
Heaven, cried: "Polaud! Poland! Oh,
Ciod, hast thou not yet forgiven?"
WMther Wsnti of Soft Coal.
The weather waste of soft c ml lioinft
O settled fact, an allowance, for its
lo is to be taken inv account by I ho
large consumers. The loss, as scien
tifically stated, is due to the oxk!:l
tiou taking place during the ex
posure of the coal, the result U-itirf a
lessened heating capacity. From .1
careful and continued series of ex
periments made in. Lurupe it lias Ih-cii
found that as a result of exposii.e t.i
the weather, though anthracite and
caouel coal sutW but little, the
ordinary bituminous coal depreciates
nearly one-third in weight, and
nearly one-half in gaswakiiitf prop
erties. Agecd'Steel.
Latk market quotations report,
corn easier. But perhaps this U the
annual boom for the chiropodist.
FAULTS AND KAVOf.S OF OUU
SOCIAL. SYSTEM.
BY CLINTON MONTAGUE.
In ancient Sparta and Rome, society
was atronger than the individual.
Everything was subordinate to the
State. Men surrendered even the
rights of nature to the demands of
their respective government. Stronger,
more imperative than the instincts of
love, of home, of individual freedom,
was that of patriotism. The true
citizen was taught to be always ready
to snrreuder every personal "privilege
for the welfare of society. As oliti
cal states. Home and Sparta may have
been the stronger, the more dur
able for t iii complete subjugation of
individuals for the good of the whole;
bnt, as eorporata societies, as Komatw,
as Sj artaua tliera was too dead-level,
a corresponding weakness. T he state
Was benefited; man himself was dwarfed
and degraded by it. Thia is oue ex
treme which we, aa Americans, are to
avoid.
Among the Greek democracies and
the modern Italian commonwealths,
we notice the prevalence of a contrary
sentiment. Mau. who was nothing but
a machine in Home and Soarta. was
j here the creator, the master, aud pos
Bibly the destroyer of tha common
wealth. The individuals who wero
etroug by wealth, birth or t dents, did
not feel that they were nnder obliga-
1 turns to the state or to society, but that
they owed everything to themselves.
j Man. as an individual, arrogated to him
soif a liberty, oftentimes an insoleuoe
1 that was entirely selGsh and destrao-
. tive alike to society aud to good gov
ernment. Iu the Italian cities of the
middle ages, the halt timed feudal
lords were gathered lulo the town not
a little against their will. They, there
fore naturally continued within the
walls much of the isolation and
lawlessness of the old life which
they had led in the mountains,
j The Venetian noble might boas: of
I his pal iec, but iu most Italian cities
j the patiiciau mansion was not a palace,
, but, fortress title 1 and aocustome l to
defend itself against rival nobles aud
. against the power of thu commou
Wxitlth itttelf. Kreu iu ancient Athens
. wealth and power assumed a s'rane
practical licene. Great leaders were
' followed by bands of armed retainers,
j Meidias indulged himself iu the prac
I tice of assault and battery unrebuked;
Alcibiades was lord of a private castle
aud held the unwilling Agatharchns
; against the united authority of the
tell (ienerals. And this daring 111
, soleuce of iudiilual men was not rx-
ceptional, but' of common occurrt nee
', duriug successive generations. No
wonder society became disorganized
, and states lost their preatige of great
ness, with such conduct H'8sible. Bnt
i where can you tiud '.icti men a-.
Athens, I'iorcucu and Milan pro
! duced?
1 suppose every American citizen
' considers himself a noble, a sovereign.
He certainly is not a mere automaton
weose every individual desire and as
piration is crushed nnder the des
. potism o' the state or of society. Nor
' has he the right to isolstn himself en
1 t'rely and shirk thu duties lucumbeut
on him as a man aud bs a citizen. The
j rights aud .In lies of the ludividual aud
of society m .ve aloiw iu parallel lines
and neither should interfere with the
other. The model citizen loves his
Iiiidri, he is happy iu it. but he does
not ignore social organization and the
part he has to play lu it.
The seutiim nt of domesticity, which
our forefathers brougut with them out
of the German woods, owes much to
America. The love of home i stroug
in the human breast. It is continue 1
by a peuse of absolute proprietorship.
The privilege of a real home bus in
duced many a foreigner to seek the
Amoricau shon s. The possession of a
I home has encouraged a sentiment of
I true patriotism. The consciousness of
domestic po ses ions is the basis of a
noble citizeusinp American citizen
ship has been truer for the sense of an
individual copareeuary iuterest. Men
are trnest to that from which they an
1 ticipate returns of ludividual advau
! tage. This sentiment is the stronger
for the advantage of improved iudivid
1 n.d possibilities. To live and hope is
' greater than simply to live. The
! prospect of social elevation, confirmed
: in many instanc s by practical euoi
' pie, has made many an American more
zealous of his conutry's integrity and
honor.
I The honor of onr land has been in
creased by the consciousness of the
freedom of moral and intellectural ex
pression. The sonl, relea ed from
fetters, expands her wings with alacri
ty. With its powers in free play,
human nature niultipli. s its proofs of
nobler excellency till they are as many
aa the changes of t ie kaleidoscope.
Forms of love and moulds of thoaght,
like a multitude of blossoms upon one
parent stalk, have been evolved to the
enlargement of the scope of social
benevolence aud activity, from that
life of freedom which is lived easiest
J on our own noil
. The favors of tha American System
' are not more nnmerons than tht fanlts
that have arisen lioin its misinterpret
1 tation. Men have mistaken a dotneslio
' privilege for an absence of all moral
obligation to society. When once the
strong man has bu It his house, he has
j shut the door an I kept it barred
! against the ingress of social liberality.
I Men have fondled feasted, and fattened
their own selfishness. The language
I of their lives is: "As for me an l my
I house, we will serve onrselves." They
love self, live for self, die for self; the
j world derives no beuetit from them,
except it comes from their nuavoid-
able, external dependence upon it.
! Thev will do nothing for social moral-
itv, intelligence, or civility, unless
! action be wrested from t-iem by the
I strong arm of the individual or l.cal
nc cecity. Apparently unable to com
i prebend citizenship, they call this a
free country, aud nug their independ
ence," unmindful of the hindrance so
cl ty inmra by their steadfast indiffer
ence to all true so 'ial Interests.
Society u America sutlers from a
niisco. strncliou of the royal privilege
ot national citizeuship. The concep
tion of the rights of free citieus w
' di.st .rted into an apprehensiou of the
; wrongs of all citizei'B. The conception
that free citizenship does not mean free
'defiance of all the laws of true citizen
ship apparently failsof a resilience in the
minds of many aspiring to protuiiien?o
iu our social affairs. The idea that it
is practically iiui os-lble for a person to
assume the Wutiee of public use, ex
cel t for an absolutely private end, is
i too painfu ly prevaleut in our country.
I The sensitiveness of the truly loyal
I citizeu is often shocked by remarks
betraying the wide spread aorninanee
of the ascriptions of abject self
ishness to all public acta. To the
....i.bn ooiirehension it seems to
1 be unhappily true that the public serv-
ant is a thief, and the thief oometh not
but to appropriate the revenues aufi
destroy the reputations of others. The
unfortunate state of mind portrayed,
can be encouraged by no other nieaus
than the irra'ioual attitudes and acts of
public men wuo have turned royal
freedom into servile license.
Our American social intelligence is
intoxicated with false notions of t ie
laws of real derelopmeut. A fungo d
exhalation is mistaken for a gigautio
growth. The many moral and intel
lectual perfections, the tedious
developing processes by which all
unseen by the indolent observer, are
not only estimated as products of a
single day's creatiou, bnt are imitated
aud substituted by the frailest forms
the Soul's evolving agencies cau affir.l.
As the fungi spring rapidly from ac
cumulated heaps of fertilizing material,
so rapid thonghts a'ld feeble things
arise profusely from the rich fields of
moral and intellectual production, laid
open by onr system of free cultivation.
Because of the possession of freedom,
men have appsrently concluded that
great uess cannot only be effect.!
speedilv, but in practical ignorauce of
the constructive laws which wisdom
has always held inviolable throughout
the historic past.
Our social system is distinctive front
all others, and it is desirable that we
escape aliko the scythe of despotism
and the Cliaryb.hs of license. iife i 1
America can never tie just what it is
anywhere else. As the individual man
is endowed with a person and features
that are uucopied iu the form of auy
one else, so this nation will have a constitution-
aud executive policy nnlike
that obtaining in any other political
realm. The distinctive life of our
American nation will be unitary in ex
pression. Potentially it is so now.
The American citizen cannot now go
abroad wittioiit betraying his national
ity by his distinctive U-aring aud ad
dress. It only remains for the Amer
ican people to actualize their 11 11 1 tied
identity in the deeper consciousness of
their souls, to make it a bond of
permaueut social auauiiuity. B it the
unity of our nation will be compoiite
iu character. While onr American
system will leave out nothing coming
within the legitimate circle of its in .11
euces, it will embody all iu a structure
of harmonic national proportions. Its
strength will make every man acknowl
edge his obligations to society. Its
jii.lgiuent will make men forbear their
abuse of its royal preogatives, and its
wisdom will effect aally dispossess its
subjects of presumption and folly in
the assertion of their ludividual, moral
and intellectual aspirations.
THE Sl-.ASON.
forth Is-iiisl the SmHn or the yert :
Firs, lusly Si-ring- alt difli! In leaves of dow
ers Thai freshly bil.liled and new flowers did
beare.
In which a thoiis.in-1 b r.la had built ihel'
l-ower-i.
Thai sweetly silnir to call lln-lr paramours:
Ail til hi- hand 11 javelin lie d at b ar
And 1111 h head (as III fur w irlike stnnrcs)
A jrib t iiiiaax en nii.rinn he did weare;
That as nne did lilm love, tsa others did him
fcire." ScENsr.H.
So, four centuries ago, did this
oldeu poet celebrate the Spring. It
seemed to be a gi neral idea among
all these old wr tors that the world
was rested iu this season and yearly
renews its youth lis the sun crosses the
vernal cipimox. Si-user, as wo have
seen, gives Sprin' the first place, and
Homer, Virgil, Mtltou and others ex
press the same idea.
We, also, find Spriug and its com
ing, used as a .symbol of imruort dity,
its teeming life idler the long winter's
sleep, typifying f its glorious resurrec
tion of the body and the renewed vigor
of the soul.
Howar ', Karl of Surrv, writintr t.ie
early part of the sixteenth ceuiury,
after b-sciibin4 the bn.ls and blooms,
the birds ami animal life aud activi y.
ends with a bcHiinfid reference to his
own grief and misfortune.
'Winter is worn ih tt was the rt.iwers bsle;
An ) ihus I sec nun. in: the ih a-ant Minor
Kaeh oare ilecays and yet my s -rrow r-pi Iiik.'
Not long after, this famous Kail and
noble gentleman was beheaded by an
ungrateful sovereign.
'lhe references to Sptiug by onr
best poets are almost innumerable,
some of them full of delicate fancies.
l'ruiumoud, the Scotch poet, has a
rretty sonnet beg nuing:
Sweet Sptimr. thnu tinns't wt h all tin
goodly tttmi.
Thy head with Hame-', Ihy mantle bright wilh
flowers."
Swift's "Vanessa" is almost unknown
in literature, but her refined taste aud
highly ctiltived mind is shown in her
btaut'iful "Ode to Sptiug:"
'Hall, blushing goddess, beauteous Srlng!
IV ho in thy Jni imd train dost brinjr
l-oves and grace, snn'ng hour.,
Ititlmy breezes, fragrant ttowera."
Thomson celebruted it in bis "Sea
sons' and there is no more often
quoted lines of Thomson than bis
'In tha Spring a young man's fancy lightly
turns to thnUL'biK ot love-"
Many of onr American poets have
written of our New World Spring.
Emerson has a "May-day" pom, Hay
Hr.l Taylor, ,1ns "Spring Pastoral,"
Bryant, and Ijowcll, and Whitman,
have written their glowing eulogies,
interpreting lhe mysteries of Nature
each in Ids own wav, and addiug to the
joys of the season the charms of their
musical lyrics.
beoonia mmrsTA.
From the A mrricait Ayictilfuriiy
we clip the following iu regard to
very favorite plant of our own, just
now in fullest bloom:
Flowering begonias are not only sat
isfactory because of their sturdy quali
ties, bnt their beauty of folliage and
blossom lends them a double attrac
tion. Among a largo collection ol
window plants, I tuke great 'pleasure
in my begonias, and am often surprised
that they do so well under neglect,
which is sometimes unavoidable. One
of my pet plants is Irionia robunta.
A large specimen gave me, Inst wluter,
tweuty-six stales of p.nkish, bell
shaed flowers, which retain their
iH-auty for over two months. The fol
liage is large aud lleshy. a glossy,
dark green, with light pink on the
nnder side. The pi mt requires an
abundance of root room and I have
had the lest success r growing it iu a
large box or paiL If possible, give the
plant a warm corner, with sun about
one-half of the day; do not allow the
sun to strike the foliage after watering,
or the leaves will bum. Plant foo.l, iu
the shape of ammonia wateri household
ammonia, at the rate of a tablespoonf nl
to a gallon of wateri. or the concentrat
ed commercial foods, for sale by all
seedsmen, should be used ouce in
every two weeks during the blooming
season.
The flesh or the oyste contains about
ninety per ceiA of water.
A MISSISSIPPI JUDGE.
Boand to Work Lp Bti.lne. for HI. Ex
checquer W11 Low.
Business has been dull; remarkably
..till. The town jail called by cour
tesy a jail, for a "tramp could have
crept In and out of it bad not had
an occupant for some weeks. This
jail was a remakable affair; It had
bars before the windows and no one
could get out that way. It had a
ponderous lock on its massive door
and no one could get out that way.
Put if these means of eiriess were
closed, so that the building might by
courtesy be called a jail, there were
plenty of other ways of getting out,
for the boas-ds of wh ch its sides were
formed were old and worm-eaten, the
roof leaked, and where there were no
holes, It was extremely easy to make
theiu. It was a most uncomfortable
habitat on and even a tramp who had
crawled in not knowing Its official
character, left in disgust, driven
away by those fleas which for fifty
weeks out of fiity-two are the sole
occupants. The time done by dls
ordcrl es there during the year would
probably aggregate a fortnight. On
these state occasions the immanent
lo gers receive the transient with
every evidence of coidialtty, as
though they were trying to make him
feel right at home.
An arrest is the signal for great ex
c'temcnt, and, as It means a fee for
lhe Constable and the Judge, there
w:is naturally engendered a great
ileal of hard feeling lt ween thegorsj
cil i.eus and the representatives ot
law an I order. The little town lies
mi the gulf and over half of Its iKip
u ation are colored people. The
Judge could s ent a disturbance from
a'ar. No sooner was a quarrel well
under way than he saw visit ns of
a iu iiit $4 for himself and assistants.
Consequently he arrived on the scene
with the greatest speed. Then 110
matter how enrage I were the com
batants, whether or not one of them
was engaged In the friendly act of
butt ng his opponent wilh h i woolly
head, or the excited group were ut
tering words Intended to encourage
the principal actors In the scene upon
seeing the judge the men separated,
for they bad no relish for the tines
which he chased by day an 1 night
Afler the judge hud retired they
wo Id go up the shell road and when
thev reached the laruiidary they would
j result? operations.
At the time of writing the Judge
was getting despetate. Fines hi'd
been unusually slow. He ban not had
a case for over a month and was out
of tobacco and hardly supplied wilh
the ordinary luxuries of life. "Tony,
ymi must.arrest some one to-day," he
said to the Constable.
I'll try. Jcdge, but those fellows
are dead onto us. They do their
lighting just Iieyond the 1. tie. "
"Tony. I thought you a lad of
discernment. The official treasury Is
so low thai if wo wanted a glass of
rum at this blessed moment, we
would have no way of satisfying na
ture. A deplorable condition of af
fairs, Tony.':
Tony assented.
'.Mind what 1 say, Tony; bring in
o:i,c one."
That night alrout sundown Tony
ame in with a prisoner who was
manacled with olil-liishioiied hand
cuffs, as though he was a desperado.
The crowd indignantly protested that
the man had been fighting beyond
the line. 1 1 was the old argument.
Ilow many times had the Judge siood
on the boundary and gaed over the
imaginary line with wistful eves,
while the crowd jeered at him be-L-ause
he was powerless to make an
arrest.
We can prove by witnesses thai
the tight took place beyond the
line," continued the speaker.
How is that, Tony?"
"I'm not sure that I noticed. But
the man fought me after we got over
the line, Jud'e."
"Tnen we will pat him in jail for
resisting an officer of the law. This
L'otnuiuiiity has got to be purified.
Take him away, Tony, and see that
there are plenty of guards at the jail,
so that he shall not escape."
"But you have no right to hola
that man. He was fighting beyond
the line," continued the bystander.
"No right to hold him?"
"N'o. He was out of your jurisdic
tton."
"Well, sir; 1 see that you know lit
tle alsjut law," said the Judge, im
pressively. '-Out of my jurisdiction,
indeed? What woulc. you say, sir, if
I met the exigencies of the case by
mending my Jurisdiction? What
would you say to that, sir? Tony,
lake the man to jail. Lock him up
for resisting an officer, and to morrow
justice shall be uuetzd out."
How Hlstnrlo Ink Wu Stolen.
Years ago, when James Monroe
was President and John (uiticy Ad
inis Secretary tf State, the ingenious
Knglish engraver obtained permission
of the two dignitaries mentioned to
take the Declatation of Independ
ence and engrave it facsimile ou cop
p r. He carried the Drecious docu
ment to the printing office of one
Peter Force. When everything was
in readiness he pla ed it upon the
imposing stone and laid a sheet of In
dia 1 aper of the same size ujion it.
This India paper was next moistened
with water in which gum arabic had
been dissolved. A heavy proof roller
with a weight hanging from each end
was then rolled several times over
the historic document. When the
India paper was removed from the
face of the instrument it took with
il at least one-half of the ink used in
writing aud signing the document.
The document is less than a century
anil a quarter years old, and, accord
ing to the St. Louis Republic, with
proper care should le almost as legi
ble as it was on the 5th day of July,
1776. As It Is, only eleven signa
tures out of the fifty-three can br
rad without a glass, and. some of
j them have disappeared heyotid recall,
ill on account of the thieving trick
)f a (ioverntnent which, when they
found that they could not keep the
colonies dependent, stole the very
Ink from the document which de
clares our independence
Farragut n. a Mudent.
As a general rule it is true that A
man does his best work between his
thirtieth and fiftieth year. but
the rule has its exceptions, Haye-
lock was (52 before he made the mag
nificent march that; defeated Nana
Sahib and relieved Lucknow. Ad
miral Farragut had passed his sixtieth
year tefore his greatness as a naval
commander was manifested to the
world.
Two facts, however, should be con
sidered. Each man had natural aptr
tudes for his profession, and both
carefully improved them by study,
reading, and observation. Both the
soldier and the sailor were found pre
pared wheu the opportunity for action
same.
From the day Farragut entered the
navy as a 10-year-old midshipman un
til his death, he made coustant effort
for professional improvement. He
was eager to learn and kept some
book always ou hand, besides inform
ing hi 111 so t by observation and con
versation. His eyes were weak, but
by employing readers in the different
ships on board which he sailed, he le
came familiar with the biography ant
history of his profession.
Naiioleon recommended a similar
course of reading to all who would fit
themselves for high military com-,
mand.
"There are few men," Farragut
once said to a brother officer, "from
whom one cannot learn something,
and a naval officer should always l
adding to his knowledue. It might
enable him to 1 more useful some
day, as it is impossible to say what 9
naval officer may have to do."
Even when he visited Europe, after
the civil war had given him the repu
tation of one of the first of naval
commanders, he noticed critally every
harbor he visited, observing ila
chances of defence bv sea or land.
"Who knows," said he, "but my
services may be needed here some
day?"
Capt. Mahan, Farragut's biogranher,
mentions these instances of the Ad
miral's passion for knowledge, and
adds this suggestive anecdote:
"Ah, Mr. Tucker." said Earl St.
Vincent to his secretary when plan
ning an attack upon Brest, "had
Capt. Jervis (the Captain and the
Karl were the same person) surveyed
Brest when he visited it in 1774, Lord
St Vincent would not in 1800 hav
been in want of information. "
Tyrlan ;ia.
An uncommonly interesting collec
tion of Tyrian glass has come to town.
It resembles in most particulars the
collect ion of the same glass in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is
supposed lo belong to the period of
Sou years before Christ. Some of the
pieces still bear the stains of a rust
which they held tn buried with
the Tyrians King, and others show
the scratches made by knives of cop
per and bronze. It is even asserted
that some show traces of the per
fumes with which the Tryians were
' accustomed to enrich their wines. but
as to this there. Is room for skep
ticism. The glass Is marvelous! v
light, and some of the Vessels are
beautiful in form, but the presence
of air bubbles in even the finest speci
mens seem to show that the Tyrians
had not fully conquered the art of
! ilass-biowing. A skilled glass-blower
w ho saw the collection says, however,
that sonic of the efiects obtained are
beyond the power of hiscraft to-da"
New York Sun.
I Rubbing w Prison.
It is ierfectly natural that thieves
should be sent to pr son for having
stolen, but it is somewhat of a nov
elty that tbey should of their own
free will and accord go there to
steal.
j This is, however, the novel experi
ence of the governor and wardens of
I the largest penitentiary in Hungary,
which is situated in Oldenburg, a
few hours distance from Vienna.
This establishment, which is known
as Steinabruchl, contains at the pres
ent moment sijo convicts of various
categories and 100 wardens and
watchmen seemingly a sufficiently
large guard to prevent untoward c-
currences like that which lately took
place.
Two or three burglars broke Into
the prison 111 the middle of the nitiht,
! ana hunted atrout for spoil. They
I u-. . r.. A I . I .... I I ,- i. ..e.ilitu.l utlll llin
building, for they contrived to re
move articles of value, sliver and
gold, beside a matter of 1,800 Uorin
In hard cash.
Observation.
"Clentlemen, you do not use yoc.t
faculties of observation," said an old
professor, addressing his class. Here
be pushed forward a gallipot contain
ing a chemical of exceedingly of
fensive smell. "When I was a stu
dent." he continued, "I used my
sense of taste," and with that he
dipped his tlnger in the gallipot and
then put his linger in his mouth.
"Taste it. gentlemen, taste It,"
said the professor, "and exercise you1
perceptive faculties"
The gallipot was pushed toward
the reluctant class one by one. The
students resolutely dipped their lin
gers into the concoction, and with
many a wry face sucked the abomi
nation from their fingers.
"Gentlemen, gentlemen," said the
professor, "1 mus repeat that you
do not use your faculties of observa
tion, for had you looked more closely
at what I was doing, you would have
seen that the finger which I put In
my mouth was not the tlnger I dipped
in the gallipot."
Rev. Ellen Ki-nkle, said to be the
first woman in Ohio to pi rform the
marriage ceremony, was herself mar
ried recently, the ceremony lreing
j performed by the R.-v. Mat tie Mum
maw. Both beloug to thu United
Brethren Church.
Mrs. Ella G aillaro Is distinguished
for her invention of a carriage tele
phone, a folding flat-iron, a musical
top, a mns'cal fountain, the eyelets
needle now n ed by .nrgeons, and
several other origiual productions of
more or less valne. '
Mrs. M. M. Andfrios, of Pnlaski,
was elected aisisUnt sergeant at arms
of the Arkansas House of Represent
atives ou Jannary 1L This in the first
time a woman has been elected to that
position.
The king of Mam, at h's own ex
p ne, has dechled 1 1 make an interest
ing display in the tnannf ictures,
agricultural and forestry buildings at
t'.e Worl I's Fair, and will also erect a
royal pavilion ot elaborate carved
woods.
SMILES OrCOSTKNTMENT
ISSUED FROM THE PENS OP
VARIOUS HUMORISTS.
I.kmkI Incident. Occurring tn. Wnrld
Or.r Snylag. that An Choanal to tho
OI4 or Tmii(- Joko. tn oft E.rrtody
Will Kujor Hooding.
A Cranky Paitow.
roctor (to patient) I do not wish
to frighten voti but if von have no ob
jection I'd like to call in a couple of
my brother physicians. Irascible Pa
tient All ri'ht. If you need any
assistance In murdering me call iu
your accomplices. Texas Sift.ug.
Wanted a found or Cure.
Mrs Kane I read iu a paper that
.ugar was a sure cure for hiccough
and I tried it on Dick. Mrs. Beet
root Did It work? Mrs. Kane
Temporarily; tut he has had a re
lapse alout every twenty minute
ever since. ruck.
A Vernaoular Krror.
Sporting Gentleman (aiter a five- 1
mile walk) Great Scott! Is that I
the mill you wanted me to see? 1
thought somebody else was goin' to '
stand up against somebody else to
see which was the best man. South- J
nm. j
One iKd Reason.
Why not live forever?" asks a re
cent writer. Well, the principal ob
jectiou is that one would get so
awfully tired of it. Norwich Bulle
tin
Mm. Yountfwed (endearingly, at j
! sweet little peach! I
I Mr. 1 oungwed (in an undertone)
vm glad it isn t a pair! Truth.
A Step Toward Art.
Mrs. Burty They say the Theater
j cf Arts and Letters will accomplish
much toward the elevation of the
stat-e. Mr. Cvnik Why not? The
managers insist on the ladies taking 1
off their hats during each perform- i
. unce. Nast's Weekly.
Ea.t1y E.plaln.ft.
Jasper I i-ee that society people
are complaining because novelists
never describe them properly. Jump
uppe Well, what can they expect
when they so carefully exclude men
of brains from their ranks? New
York Advertiser.
A Ilia Reward.
A woman dropped a 5-cent piece in
the street yesterday and a small mes
senger boy passing picked It up for
her. "Thank you, "said she. "Say,"
said he, 'ain't yer goin to give me
de nickel for plckiu it up fur yer?"
buffalo Courier.
Only On. Way.
Hicks Hamfatter is bound to rise
In hi9 profession. Wicks At any
rate he's got an excellent ehauce.
He can't get any lower than he is now
unless he digs a hole in the ground
and crawls into it lAiston Tran-
6crlpt.
HI. lot-;rariuate Course,
She Are you going abroad to com
plete your education? He Not much
coing to marry to complete it.
Vuck.
Not Alway..
Seeing may be be'ieving: but, for
all that, the wide-awake mau is not
the most credulous. Puck.
Annoying Interference.
The musician Maria, send dot
Child out of der room. It vos a ity
1 can't bractise mine part in der new
, nhera in peace mit quietness. Judge.
Conrlvnl Item.
Mr. " Gnzzleton (going out) You
needn't sit up for m - to night, Maria.
Mrs. Guzzleton No, I suppose you
tan do all the "setting up" that is
needed yourself. Texas Si f tings.
f Two Iloart. That Heat a. One.
I Jinklns So you first met Miss Fitz
I In a boarding-house. What was the
! bond of sympathy between you?
Harris W e bad both abjured prunes
Life.
Odd. Enoagh.
There Is an aged negro In middle
Tennessee who rejoices In the name
j f Nigger Falls, though he was really
1 christened after the great cataract
j Glory Hallelujah Jones Is the lmpos
I Incr name of a Mlaai&sioDi darky.
Mrs. Fbehch-Sheldox, the intrepid
Afrioan traveler, has applied for space
for exhibiting at the World's Fair the
fin eoUeetion ot caries and tropiehs
aha baa gathered.
tight Bo Worn
FIGS AND THISTLES.
CTk;y nil,... u of Clio Epttramm.tt.
lioio. ttoru.
MAN with S
doubt is a man
' in the dark.
To lose time
is to get started
wrong in eter
nity. 1
Wheit people
get religion right
it is always con
tagious. I
A uiff with
) the big head u
always a stranger to himself.
Ouk only real possessions are the
blessings Uod gives us.
Until Goti is known as a Father lie
is never truely worshiped.
The blossoms may smell very sweet
md yet the fruit be bitter.
TriEitE is often more religion in a
smile than there is in a tear.
The devil likes to be called b
names that sound respectable.
No arm y is ever ni:de weaker b
putting the cowards out of it,
The man who knows God knows
that He Is still working miracles.
The man who does all his pravlug
on bis knees doesn't pray enough.
The man who looks at everything
through money never sees very far.
Tti justice that a wicked man
never wants is the justice he deserves.
Take a mountain to pieces and you
will tlud that it is made out of atoms.
The only work God pays for is that
which somebody tries to do for notby
big-
No max ever finds out that he Uvea
in the dark until he has seen tho
sun.
The man who tries to accumulate
a great fortune has no mercy on him
self. Wftev you get a giant down It is
never safe to stop until you cut off his
head.
"Better is a little with righteous
oess than great revenues without
right."
"Evert one who Is angry with his
brother shall be in danger of judg
ment. WrtEN a child does its best Its work,
looks as well in Heaven as that of ao
angel.
If you look at the top side of a
cloud you will always see something
bright.
If you want to help the Lord, don't
1
find too much fault with your
preacher.
TnE one-talent man Is very apt to
believe that God requires too much
from him.
Pcttiko God's love In a man's
heart makes him a full brother to
everybody.
The devil never gets a chance tc
ride up hill in the neighborhood of a
busy man.
Without money it would be hard
for one man toshow another just bow
mean he is.
Whenever you find anybody who
knows Christ you Bud somebody who
'oves Christ.
God don't care how weak a mart
may be iu the legs if he is only stroug
In the heart.
Repentance is sure to come the
minute the sinner really believes that
God loves him.
A back boneless man in the pul
pit is always one who has misunder
stood the Lord.
There are some people who can see
more with one eye than others caD
with a telescope.
The blind child would never find
out that it was blind, if somebody
Ise didn't tell it.
CnuisTiANiTr Is not a change of
opinion about God, but a change f
heart toward God.
' TnE preacher can tell your hus
band about religion, but you are the
one to show it to him.
How They Began.
Dan Lamont's income ten years age
was $1-1 a week. He is said to be
earning to-day $100,000 a year.
Mr. Winans, the State Superinten
dent of Public Instruction in Kansas,
was formerly a bricklayer in Atchi
son. Ex-Gov. Tom Cailin of Illinois was
In early life a village bully. A sound
thrashing made a man of him. The
man who thrashed hlmjielped him to
secure an education.
Charles E. Gorman, nominee for
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island,
was a newsboy in Providence in the'50's
and commenced the study of law at
the age of 18 by the advice of ex-Chief
Justice Greene, whose office he en
ered for the purpose.
Edward Pardridge, whom "Old
Hutch" considers his successor as the
most daring speculator on the short
side of the market, was formerly a
dry-goods merchant In Buffalo. He
is credited with having made $2,000,
000 since the middle of last August.
Henry Miller, probably the largest
land-owner in the San Joaquin (Cali
fornia) valley, was forty years ob
o aeo a butcher boy, with scarcely a
dollar of his own. He individually
controls over 1,000,000 acres now and
is tielieved to be worth between $20,.
300,000 and $40,000,000. Exchange.
In tho Dim, Mas.nm.
Visitor Is it true that a lion like
this can be bought for $1,000?
Proprietor Humph! These are
1 l . .. , ,11 1 .1 J w
cneap lions, oui luis ouuu oiu ucra,
for instance, is very near. 1 wouia
lot part with him for $10,000.
"Why is he so dear?"
"He ate ud my wife's mother.".
1 Texas Sittings.
If a man walks ten miles, he says
be walked sixty.
Hot Sonnd.
A New-Yorker forwarded to one 01
:1s friends In the West a set of CoL
Ingersoll's works. Then he sect a j
telegram Informing him what he had
tone, and expressing the hope that 1
the books would arrive safe and 1
round. A few days afterward he re-
seived a telegram from his friend .
who was an orthodox Presbyterian
which ran this way: Bookn arrive!
ur, but not sound." 1
srx m
1
Ni.W6 IN BRIEF.
The ostrich is the swiftest runnei
known.
Rata will not eat oranges though
very partial to applea.
The pr?ce of parrots in South Am
erica is only ten cent".
The valuation of the state of Maine
Is placed at $2iJo,G00,000.
Presideut Diai'T Mexico is reputed
to bd worlh $31,0J0 010.
The statistics of electric railways
are expanding at a xreat rate.
Pajier was made fram rags as early
as the r ourteent'i Century.
The cost of the Capitol at 'Wash
ington has excee eJ $ W.OCO.OOO.
Three of the first four prestdetts of
the United States married widows,
1 The turtle lives for nearly a cen
tury, uud the pike for about 175 years.
1 Ii Is said that pigeons have been
used as mail carriers for about 70C
yt are.
Turned-in toes are often found
with preoccupied, absent-minded per
sons. 1 An iDdtac girl student at Haskell,
Kan. , ii.sutu'.e is named Jenny One
Feather.
(Jne-fonrth of the land surface of
the globe is occupied by English-speaking
people.
One of the commonest salutations
in Hawaii is "Alo ha," which means
'I love you."
The wide skirt, under the nsms of
fardlngale, hrst appeared lu 15:10 ot the
court of Francis I.
Over 000 vaiieties of cotton are
said to exist 1 0 in Asia and Africa
anl 200 in America
! Ruskln has the finest collection of
illuminated inbS'ls in tha world, num
bering about 1,300.
, The youngest, amateur editor is
Miss F:htl Stout of the Florida Mid
get. She Is 10 yea's old.
Men attending the pans in salt
works are never knowu to have cholera,
smallox, scarlet fever or lutlueuzi,
The Prussian Cabinet has unani
mously approved a bill to reform the
present s stm of voting in Prusa a.
i Governor Cleaves of Maine selected
time of the baudso test mtn in bis
own town to be memters of bis staff.
I A recent estimate places the
amount of standing timber in the sute
Cf Washington at 3nO,000,000,OvO feet.
One of the stones In Mrs. Haggln's
casket is the moat valuable ruby in tLe
world. It fcrmerly belonged to Lola
M011 tel.
1 Mr. Charles Vil'.iers, father of the
British house of Commons, has just
completed Li. 90ti year, having bten
born on Jan. 2, 1802.
Sir A.tliur Sullivan Is said to have
struck 1 , 000,0X) notes on a piano iu
tight hours. The performance was the
result of a challenge.
It has teen discovered that Smiles,
tb - fc-ujuli rhinoceros in the Central
Park menagerie. New York, has two
perfectly developed tongues.
j A dog at New Haven, Conn., being
the object of much abuse, committed
suicide recently by Ji mplug out of the
, tbird-story window of a factory.
j Hawaii's flag b-'ars stripes of red.
wh'.te aud blue a sort of outward and
visible sign that the Ir.tle isle has a
bind of i ffialty for the great Republic.
Charles Emory Smith, who was
j minister to Russia, says the czar Is -a
sedate, sensible, sober minded, fearless
mau hrm aud resolute in acitoo. '
I A deaf and dumb book canvasser
sold seventy-"! books within four days
I recently in three small New Hamp
, shire town?, with commissions am
' mounting to 15J.
I R. Henry Taylor who Is said to
:have invented baby carriages, was
'found by the Wallham (Mass.) police
recently in a st-uviug and mentally
i unbalanced condition.
I The word "preface" used in the
begiunlng of books was originally a
word of welcome to a meal, ana was
equivalent to "Much good may It do .
you."
Lady legram "Watklns has allows 1
her South Lincolnshire tenants a return
of two-thirds of their half year's rents
I in consequence of the agricultural de
'; presslou.
There are 303 depositors in the
Boston Five-cent Savings bank with
sums ranging .from Siio $2300 who
haven't been heard from for over
twenty years.
Ethel Mackenzie McKenna, the
1 elJe.t daughter cf the late Sir Moreil
Mackenzie, the great medical specialist,
is a clever newspaper woman, wtU
knowa as a Loudon correspondent.
At Minorca the fisherman simply
dives to a depth of 70 feet, with a
weight in oue hand to wiry him down.
With the other band he picks up as
many pearl oysters as he cau carry and
brings them up to the boat.
It Is asserted that the 8:0 ocen ho
I work in the Paris sewers are as healthy
as any other 800 Partsiane, and tLat
tbey are est ecially free from infect.ous
dkeases.
Irrigation Is doing wonders In that
broad region which some atlases even
now denominate the Great American
desert. In Douglas county, Colo.,
' 48,000 fruit trees are irrigated by one
company.
Tnere Is a rept'le common to the
Sacrenientc Valley, California, known
' ih biowsnake.
A lullgrown Plow-
snake thinks nothing o: swallowing a
half dozen ergs at a time.
There Is a carrot lu Viealla, CaL,
of the Belgian variety, that measur. s
' eighteen and a quarter ieches aiouud
I taio lurjftst. TKirt .n. I taentv-three inch
es hi length from the leaves downward.
The late General Robert E. Lee's
'daughter Miss
Mary Curtis Lee,
1 1,,
spends little of ber tlaie in Americ i.
Mie has twice made the journey around
the world.
With meekness, humility and dili
gence apply yourself to the duties ol
year condition. They are the seeming
ly little things whkh make no noise,
that do the business.
Knowledge of books In a man cf busi
a si is a torch in the hands cf one who
is tiling and able to show those who
aie bewildered t'.e wsy which leads to
prosperity.
Furnaces for puddling iron were In
dented ty Csjrt In 1781.
Tou can often measure a man's
debts by the size of his diamonds.
Modesty is a guard to virtue.
StocklDg- making cachines were tte
Otk ot Le, in
v.
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