O. F. SOHWEIER, TTIE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor &m1 Proprtoter. VOL. XLVIII MIFFLINTOWJS. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAIICII 7, 1S94. NO. V2 SVZ2T JOYS OF CHiLDHODl I lfi!i5 nri 1 I I'inc w ilh a varnitiy intci. " h.r ttif j'y i n y Ui.it. i fir.i, I t.- ;. .- ry i-i-iim;' I intim- ev'ry Jton-ig hi u w ir ol i rca now dcmi. it h ' !;if'Trn-tl I .Irvmn of a time Ik n i -.i f wi'- a -.tjaiijs'tr to iin, l i. ii ii:c w;i- hiit-.il lull of h quit I sublime. My -j'li it uii; train pul un-J tree. ith ;i-i--Sm-ttc .i:ii;;n I tliink on the days I nt .ii 1 oy the ruii: lmri-1 ol ill-. ti.--j t.'iii uu- iintioublci by Inumc or by prat". Aii'l lu..l:er was looting the h-i. A CASE OF SMITHS. Do vmi o'ljoct to having the win. ; ow uj), sir?-' "No, sir. I like fresh air. Can't live without liro.it hint; myself. .Shall , I help you? This is the way the j iet-li niw- Now u-p'rft comforta- ble.'- Tho t'.vo unusually complaisant travelers who thus addressed each other won; com .anions on a bound for Albany. ()..o was a small, thin man, w ith a long, crooked nose anil a wide mouth, tlii- ether a fat man, with a cent ra. ly prosperous anil well-to-do air and a diamond the sie of his thumb ricop i ci ij alove the toy button of his long travel ins coat. On this the eyes of the thin man rested admiringly and, after a pause, he remarked: That's a splendid diamond you've cot there. 1 know one when I see it. I'm a jeweler up in Albany and if not often I have the pleasure of ad miring such a stone as that." . ' How do you like that?" said tho other traveler, extending h:s littlr? tinner and showing another diamond i.?ii a thick cold ring. "Beautiful." sad the, jeweler. Beautiful!" "Mv wife has a whole set as hand some," said the fat gentleman. "I I am, perhaps, at foi ty-seven. the rich-, est man in , and I give you my word that on my thirtieth birthday I ! was starving. I 'It is not wise for a young clerk t' give a piece of his mind 10 his em-! ployer. I'd done that and had been dismissed, and I could not tind an- other situation. i If I'd had the fare in my pocket I'd her n farming at Frog Hollow now and just, as happy as a clam, no doubt ; tmt I hadn't a dollar, and I was ready to break down. 'Thirsty as I was, hungry, and ro mem' cring that at a free reading room ha d by they always had Ice water on tap, I slunk In there, crank a couple of glasses and took up a morning paper. I was deep in the column 'help wanted' when a hand touched me on the shoulder and a voice said: . " 'Are you John Smith" "'Yes,' 1 answered, turning to look at the speaker. "A slim hov in a linen jacket stood before, me. He hcla a letter in his hand. " -John P. Smith?' he asked, refer ring to it 'Yes,' said I again. "I had been christened John IVp plngton, after ray great uncle. ' 'All right, sir,' ho said. 'This is for you, then. They told me I'd tind you here, Bir very probably, sir. Here's the letter, sir. Good morn ing, sir.' "I opened the envelope and saw upon a sheet of paper adorned with a representation of a large hotel, with crowds of the most fashionable ladies and gentlemen entering and depart ing from Its portals, the following words: l!r. John P. Smith. Hie: Hoarlm; thnt you are at present fllsBDgag'.'d, ra deslra to proourn ra deslra to proourn your valuaole services on your own terms. It is n tppeb.l case wlilon will require instant nt!u:iou. Will you call on i . us abovs. at your very erlltjt convenience? "Could it be a trick of some or the other clerks? Yes, It must be. 'If it Is,' said I, 'I'll show them how we polish o!T rascals at Frog Hollow. And slamming my hat on the back of my head, and turning up my cuffs in anticipation of a conflict, I hur ried up the street, and, marching into the. hotel and rip to the clerk at the desk, laid my envelope before him and 1 ellowed: " 'Was tills sent from here? I'm John P Smith!' To my utter astonishment, sir, the cicrk bowed politely, smiled, and said: " 'Yes. sir. Here, waiter Mr. A.'s private room; he Is waiting for this gentleman. ' 'I followed the waiter. ' After a long hall, a large door and a siuare passage way, 'we came to a door at which he knocked. "The waiter opened the door, stepped back, allowed me to pass hiin, and shut me in. 1 stood in a splendid little room, with a Persian rug on the floor, sev eral wonderful chairs, a library tablo, an imposing desk case, and two middle-aged gentlemen of very import ant aspect rose to greet me. "We are greatly obliged to you for your promptitude, Mr. Smith,' said the first, shaking hands warmly. " 'So considerate of you, too, to come Id disguise.' said the first. 'You a.-e so well known to criminals that it might have given alarm bad you come in your proper person; but that make-up, now, isn't it perfect, A.? isn't it perfect? That linen coat, thoso clean whiskers and that wig ' ' 'Wirf!' cried L 'See here. If you're making fun of me I'll ' 'Good good, 'said Mr. A., laugh ing; then, becoming erave again: 'I:ut now to the business for which we need you. We were hor rifed this morning, Mr. Smith, to ..car that, Lord Lumpkins an En 1 h nobkm.in, staying hero before ;irocceding to hunt the buffalo on the plains, ba l been robbed of a tremen lous sum 10,000, iu fact $.".0,000 , t least. ' 'The credit of our house is in volved. We are in a terrible dilem ma. Servants and employes have been searched: all innocent, 1 am sura No guest has left. It, was not a burglar. No, sir. We will take you to Lord Lumpkins' room ana he will give yo'u all particulars. , "Of course, Mr. Smith, you'll stay here while you work up the case. I've putioornNo. 5 at your disposal, l'ray complain to us if you are not comfortable. After our interview will you lunch w ith us wh'le we talk it over?' r "Would I lunch? I would Jiar&i j lunched, I am afraid, with any imp I of darkness who had invited me. ' "1 understood nothing that was required of me, but as I had been clerk in a real estate office and had a dim idea of law business and legal papers, I supposed it was something of that sort for which they needed me. At all events, whatever hap pened, I wouli live well while it lasted. , "I followed them to his lordship's room, and took careful notes of all lie told me he had lost. 1 'Miniature of a young lady set in diamonds. In point of fact, a like ness of Lady Catherine,' scld the young lord, with a blush, so that I understood what he thought of Ladv Catherine. " 'The miniature will probably be the clue,' said Mr. A. 'I remarket, 'Naturally,' and noticed that my taking down a de train : scriptlon of the miniature was ap proved of. I "We had a glorious lunch after that, and I was not. used to cham pagne then: cider had been quite ' good enough fcr me. I went to my j room in a very queer condition, and saw four pens and as many lnK stands. "This was not a condition in which to do any copying. I bethought me that a shower bath might sober me; and, being guided ti a bath-room by a waiter, came out refreshed from the soaking, re-entered myroom, as I supposed, and laid down on a lounge in a dark alcove to take a short nap. "I came to mvself at some very late hour. The gas was lit in the room and two ladies sat at a table at some distance from the nook in which I lay showy women, who did not look, I thought, too respectable. '"No wonder they are at a loss, said the younger. 'I went across the balconv and slipped in at tho window while the boy was asleep. 1 took the things from under his very nose. 1 suppose you telegraphed to me. What did you telegraph?' " 'Child dying,' tittered the old woman. 'Come at once.' " "Very well. That makes the best excuse,' said the younger one. 'We'll order a carriage to go to the park; keen it waiting till the telegram comes, then o:f. Here, give me your petticoat.' "Peeping from behind the curtain that draped tho alcove, I saw tho o'.d woman hand a black silk-quilted ekirt to the young one, who began to patch it on the wrong side, laying notes and papers 1n the black silk squares. "After a while she said: "That girl's miniature set in dia monds must go in too. Give me that and the emeralds. They say they have sent for Smith to work up the cae. He's uot here, for I know him and be knows me. W'cl I'm gen erally lucky." "These words were the open sesame that revealed the truth. 1 under stood it now. . "There wa another John P. Smith, ' and he was a detective. I had been mistaken for him. Under the influ ence of champagne I had entered the wrong rooai, by chance that of the woman who had robbed the young nobleman. "I had one chance of concealing myself to roll off behind the lounge, which had no back. Being slim as an eel at the time I contrived to do this silently, and waited the result. " 'Taice advantage of your oppor tunity,' says I to myself. 'Don't give yourself away.' , "I saw bow everything was packed. I saw the old woman take the skirt and put it on and come and lie down oa the lounge above me with a cloak over her. 1 saw the lights lowered and heard the other woman lie down on the bedstead. j "The thief above me groaned first ;ind snored afterward. Then the young woman was as quiet as if she was dead. 'I crept out, crawled on my hands . and elbows to the door, fouud tho, Key in the lock, oucned the door and was safe. "1 found the night watchman walk ing the house in list slippers, and signaling hini to silence, said: " -Call the proprietors. Tell them Mr. John P. Smith wants them in stantly, and bring thera here.' " 'Gentlemen.' I said with an air they had not yet eeen, 'my mission is accomplished. The thieves occupy that room. They are a lady and a woman who passes for her elderly serv ant. They are professional thieves The young woman crossed the bal cony aua commuted the robbery while Lord Lumpluus slept. Tho booty Is stitched in a quilted petti coat on the old woman's person.' "The women were arrested. Lord Lumpkins got his property back Lady Catherine and all and was very generous. Tne hotel men paid me splendidly, and, after another dinner, I went away with a little fortune in my pocket. "I read of the bright work or John P. Smith in all the papers and the t.her fellow was welcome to the rep- j utation. "I took mv little pile to SiOnvuna, bought a ranch and made my fortune. Well, good-by, sir. Haven't a min ute. The little Jeweler stucit his head out of the window to look after him, but he was gone, with a flash from his collar button and a Bash from h's Auger. "He looked lucky and perhaps his story was true," thought the Jeweler. "Who can tell?" Chicago Post Concentric wirinjr for electric work is rapidly gaining ground, it being re garded saafer for lighting purposes than the two wire system. The new system of. transmitting power by means of compressed air, which was recently tried in Olanbach, showed a loss of but thirteen per cent, in the daily output. The recent losses by Ere ia the caro of ships carrying cotton has shown that cottonseed oil, whea held in t'as co'.to i oa tho outside of the Irvil, rapidly oxi dizes and generates , spontaneoui c bustion. 1 As a rttle a single man is raieiy discovered leudinz a double HIo. fc'o mush o? bachelorhood. Thlnl About These. A certain amount of time n. thought is due to every choice that is made and every answer that is given. How much this .-hall be is a problem for each to solve. Life is too f-hoit and duties are too many io allow of unnecessary delay. Ju miineruus petty Matters it is better to be prompt, even at the risk of occa-ional mistake, than lo consume valuable time in debating. In important matters, whore rash and hasty decisions are of course to be avoided, it is well to fix a suitable time for consideration and to abide by the limits. But it is really lar less the fear of making mistakes than the dis like of making decisions ut all that leads to this lilatoiines. If the time thus taken were faithfully devoted to resolute thought, leading up to a wise rlioicc, something might be said in its favor; but this is not the case. I'sually a small portion of it would be limply" sullicient for this purpose, while the whole of it f re'jtiently spent ui weakly wavering from hide to hide and drifting nowhere in particular. I count him a great man w ho in habits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and dilliciilty; but he has but to open his eyes to see tilings in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error, lie is great who is what lie is from nature, and who never reminds u- of others. It is so delightful to meet a man who knows just what you do not. Nav, I :hink the tiled mind tin 's fouieihiiig n plump ignorance like w hat the body feels in cushiony mo-s. Talk of the sympathy of kindred pursuits! I; is tlie sympathy of the upper and ne:ln r millstones, both forever grinding the same grist,' and wearing each other "mouth. All generous companies i f artists, authors, philanthropists, lu.u of science, are, or ought to be, Societies of Mutual Admiration. A man of genius, or any other kind of superiori ty, is not debarred from admiring the tiime quality in another, nor the other Voni returning his admiration. Divine love is not always accom panied by a sensible fondness, but is faithful, hearty, constant and cll'ectual. What I want is, not to possess re ligion, but to have a religion that wil' possess me. I never wonder to see men wicker,, but I often wonder to see thein not -hamed. The man who has lived for hiinseU has the privilege of being his own mourner. Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be truly known. A blow from a frying-pan sinuti' if it docs not hurt. Tbe Judso Meant r.ii-i lftxs. A Western judge was listening to an attorney who had a mean habit of interpolating remarks into the pro c edings of the court. What he said was scarcely ever heard by a-.y one, as he mumlieled rather than spoke, and would never repeat a reinanc. One day he said something which no body heard except tho .Judge, who at once became exceedingly angry. Turning to the court bailiff he thun dered out: "Adlourn ttiis io.:rtl" Then, as -oon as the bailiff had done his duly, the Judge stepped fr..m the bench, Reckoned to the lawyer to fol low him, and entered the clerk's o i ce. The lawyer went along, t-o J Id two or three other people. As efion as the Judge got fairly Into the io .in, he seized a law book, and turn ing upon tthe lawyer, he fairly screamed: "1 was on the bench a while ago and you insulted me. I was a judge then. I am a man tow, and the man w ii! have an apology for the jude. or he will take it out of your hide. You might make an Apology to the judge, but you would not mean it. Now, however, the case Is more serious, and unless ou give me what I ask, 1 will smash your head." The lawyer made a unit abject apology, which the Judge a'1, cepted, and then the party went back to the court-room and resumed busi ness. Il.iplit Header. Thereare soms books which require particular attention from the reader, hut there Is a vouug man In a New England city who, to judge from his own statements, Mnds nothing to check the speed with which be reads, even In the most difficult of books. "Everything Is easy reading to me," he remarked cheerfully to a friend. "Now people call Euclid's Elements a hard book. I've heard 'em say so. But I don't. I read it through from beginning to end, sir. yesterday, in a piece of the afternoon between dinner and supper." "Kead all Euclid in one after noon!'' exclaimed his acquaintance. "How was that possible?" ' "L'pon my honor, I did it," re turned the young man, with a broad pmlle of self-satisfaction. "And 1 never read smoother reading In my lire." "Did you maiter all the demon strations and solve a. I the problems as von went?" innuired the other wilh natural incredulity "Demonstrations and problems?" queried the young ruan. "Oh 1 s;ip pose you mean the a's and b's and c's and I's and 1's, and the pictures ot Bcratchcs and scrawls No, I skipped all those. 1 read just Euclid him self; and I read all of him in one piece of the afternoon, tool" A Philadelphia luci :ent. The easvand comfortable att'tudc: assumed by most men riding In street cars have freueitly been a source of Irritation to women; and the other day one feminine passenger -La i the couragu to publicly condemn the pruc lico. -A sixteenth street car was scudding uptewn with man.- mascu line passengers and one woman, who sat in an upper corner, and whose physiognomy stamped ber as a scl.ool ina'am. Another woman entered the cir at Toplar street, and finding no vacant Beat was p oceeding to gra p a strap, when the voice of the school ma'am piped out: "If these men woald u it their lefc's together there would be plenty of room." A dead sUenee was followed by a stealthy shi ting cf nether limbs, ur.fl su clent iyd cushion was visible to ac.o uu.od u tho standing passeugi.-r. i hiU'lel- vuia t.ecord. PAPER WAS SCARCE. Wood Pulp and Sulphite Fiber IV here Then CokDOWn. Tarcr was so s ar, e when the American army entered Philadelphia u.on the eva uation of the British troops, says the St. Louis Globe-Lem-o rat that there was a want of ra. er flttel for the construction of tart ridges. It was advertised for and but a small quantity pro u:eii An order was then issued demanding its in stant produ tion by ail the people in ibat i ity who had it This produced j bat a little more, vcr.- irobably on ac ount of its scar ity. A file of soldiers was then ordered to make tear, h for it in every ) la e where any I was likely to be found. Among otb;ri ji!a es visited in July was a garret in ' the house in whi h lien amin Frank lin had previously had his printing o'i e. i Jlere were discovered about 500 j copies of a sermon which the T.ev. , GiRert Tenant had written . printed j by Franklin, upon Defensive War" ; to arouse the olonists during the! French troubles They were ailj taken and used as case, tor musket i artridges, and at once SL-nt to the; Sirmory. Most of them were used at j the battle of .Monmouth. The re ;ui-1 rsite i in artrdge paper were, ol , (Ourse, thinness, stren'th, inability an Inflammability, and s.i h paper trien w s ne essarily s ar a la 1731 pa er was so s ar. e that in New York the journal of the se ond ssion of the As embly was not ; printed, the printers belug unable to! p:o ure the necessary paper. Horner, in his ' r.ibliotneca Americana'. (ITS'.i), informs us that "at this time the people of North Ameri amanul'ac-j tured t heir own i apcr and in sufneent quantities for home consumption, but tiie price of labor was so high as to dis ourage publishing beyond their own laws, pamphlets and newspapers," Some two years after this date David Bull, Postmaster of Troy, N. Y., pub lished the .following homily under tho head. "Please Save Your Bags." .Tin. r.ri.cj rnntril.nl na mi.rA In thp diffusion of knowledge aud informa tion than any other medium Rag j are the primary requisive in the manufacture of paper, and without' pa er the newspapers of our coiritry, ; those cheap, useful and agreeable! companions of the citizen and farmer which, in a p ilit cal and moral view, are of the highest national import ance, must decline and be extin guished. The paper mills of the State, would the poor and the opulent, the farmer and the rr.erchanic be per suaded into the laudab'.e frugality of saving rags, would turn out arap'.o ' supplies of American paper to answer j all demands. I "Tho people of Massachusetts at.d Conue.ticut, with true Ameri an zeal, have introduced this exemplar i saving into the economy of the houses. ! The later, tv fair t abulation, makes ' yearly a saving of rags to the actual j amount ot $50,00'). The ladies in1 several large towns display an elegant work bag as part of tho fur i:l!si eif th Mr parlors, iu which every rjg that is u e 1 in the p. .p i u;ili is arefuliy preserved. Were this exai.iile initiated this S'.ate would not be drained of its dr. utat i'ig cash for paper and other ni.mu factures whi h American artists cau fur.iish. i "The poor, by the mere saving of rags, may be enable to pro ure pa er and books fcr schools a d family uc and more agreeable arti les of dress and consumption. The rich who re- j gard the interest of their country; will direct their children ordomostl.-s I to place a bag or box in some conven- j i- r.t place as a deposit for rags, that none may be lost by being swept intt the sreet or tire, the sales of which ! savings will reward tho attention, ol the faithful servant and en ourage the 1 ri sperous enterprise cf prudence and ' frugality." The industries of the country grew , so fast that in 1810 the number ol pa- er mills in the United States was : estimated at Is., of whi -h sixty were in Pennsylvania. liis Own Opinion. ft is hard for the average man to understand of how little importance ne is In the eyes of others. Even if he has done something which makes everybody talk," the talk is of short duration, and the sub.e:t Is soon su perseded by trivial matters la the talker's own province, outside of which he has little rfal interest If tempted to be egotistic, it is well to reflect that no one's Interest in you at all com; arcs with that you feel in yourself. An egotist Is always self conscious; he imagines everybody is in pressed with his superiority, and ieir, with a capital S, is paramount. Tills vain Ivllef In their own Impor tance.. which most people cherish, Is not all a sour e of unmixed bappl-n-ss. It will work either way. There is no commoner form of morbid misery than that of the poor, ner vous men or women who fancy that they are the subject of universal un kind remark, or who think everbody Is conspiring against them. There are several ways in which self con sciousness disagreeably evinces Its ex istence. One is the manner iu which some people enter a church or public meeting. They walk as if the eyes of the whole congregation were burn ing upon them and pose during ser mon or lecture for the public eye. Another form of self-consciousness is awkwardness and basbfulncss, which prises not from tho sense of superiority, but from the opposite cause of self-depreciation. Many people are so imbued with their own imperfections that they Imagine everybody is impressed with the same Idea, and it makes them 111 at ease and embarrassed. If they commit some slight blunder, they are con sumed with mortification, and in wardly writhe over it long after the Incident has been forgotten by thoso who witnessed it. Self-conscious-a--ss is a .fault, like everything else, ind it ta only when we realise our jwn personal insignificance in this ?roat big world and forget self an.l ieltish motives, that we can ac uire the charm of naturalness and truly :orrect deport m;:iu j Marion IIart.axd says that the coming woman will have her own , bank a'count This is good news I for the coming man. IVAX THE TERRIBLE. A VISIT TO THE TOMB OF THE MOST CRVFX OP Kl'SSI.VS CZARS. Vivid Picture of His Awful Crima In the Cathedral of the Archangel, .viihin the walls of the Moscow Krem lin, is the tomb of Ivan the Terrible liic. first sovereign of Russia to bear I in title of Tsar (in our clay Czar). The sepulchres of rulers anil royalties of less degree may here be counted by the score. Even in the aimais of his own country, Ivan (John) IV, hai always figured under the sobriquet "The Terrible." There is a tragic interest in the name; even horror is not without i's l'a-ciiiatiiig aspect. This man mouiiied the llirone in 1.15, lie was possessed ;' marked ability, l!is natural instincts were cruel, bul bis reign gave ample proofs of the highest lalent, as well as the lnu-t fe rocious temper a remarkable contra t of character embodied in one man. 'van was u human paradox. His first wife exeicied a wonderfully happy influence over him, and during her life time he never failed to show forth the I .'tier qualities of his nature, but after her death the arch fiend of which he v. as possessed broke loo-e. In a reign of thirty years he conquered Siberia, Astiakan and Kazan, nud taught the Tartars the indelible lesson of subju gation, lie made war against Poland because her king refused him his daugh ter's band in marriage. He pillaged the churches of Novgorod, the ancient capital, and in loTO put to death more than :0.oo0 of her. unarmed citizens, becuu-e they were suspected of seeking an alliance with a Sweedisli prince. The bodies of the slain choked up the waters of the River Yalkhof. Famine followed in the footstep of massacre and destruction. This forced the starvinginhabiUiu's. iu a few instances, lo alleged acts of cannibalism, which so enraged the Czar that he ordered tiie entire surviving population, 50,000 or more, to be wiped from the face ol the earth. This -:iinc monster caused the acts and ejiisiles of the Apostle to be tr.iii-latcil into the Russian lan guage, and liberallv disseminated thein among bis people. lie likewise granted ii subjects an admirable code of laws. A messenger on one occasion presentee himself to the Czar as the bearer of s dispatch from one of his generals. The opening" sentence betrayed the fact that his arms had sustained a de feat, which, like a thunderbolt, caused Ivan to plunge the pointed steel of his rtock throusi'ii the foot of the poor mes senger, pinioning him to tiie floor. Ivan then coir.iTur.di'd him to go on renting, adinoni-liiiig the unhappy man that if he manifested any signs of pain he should a- once be deprived of ':;- 1 i f Thi- f.-.'io'.:.s stafl'of Ivan the Terrible, which be alwavs carried, was a heavy baton, about two inches in di ameter and fully four feet in length, w ith a weighted ball about the size ol a goose egg at the top, the lower end Im ing fnrni-'ied with a sharply pointed -teel prod several inches in length, something lifter the fashion of an Al pine stock, but altogether a more for midable nti'air. This description of Ivan's stock is pertinent not only because it was the plaything with which lie was wont to aniline himseif in pinning to the floor t in feet of those who brought un welcome news, but that it was tho iii-trunient of occasional private kill ing. With this was committed bis hi-torical crime, the murder of his own son a deed due sorely to his un governable temper. The act itself is presented to us in one of the most vivid of pictures. Even that master of the horrible, Ycrcsi htschagen, whoe per sonal experiences of the dreadful in real life hie been equalled by few and possessed by noue, could not have put upon canvas a stronger scene than this by Repin, iu the Tretidkofl' collec tion at Moscow. AVe have before us an audience room in the palace. The furniture is limited in quantity, the walls and carpets are in bright colors, tiie curtains and all interior decorations are exquisitely clone. A largo arm chair is vacant. The young son, not much more than a tad or 20 years or thereabouts, has entered and standi before Ins father. The offense ((Jod alone knows what it was) has been given, and so has the death blow. Ivan's stock lies upon the rich carpet. The blood is yet dripping from thr pointed steel, the exact imprint ol which-is seen in the left temple of the boy. From the wound tho red current of life is gushing. The father is or the right knee, while upon the left fit drooping form of his son is supported. The pallor of death is fast sufl'using the countenance. Its ,icy print if already upon the face a face in which nil the features or the father are strik ingly reproduced. Ivan places one hand over the wound, in the vain rll'ort to stop the flow of blood. He seeks to undo the hasty act of five seconds ago, but "too late" is written upon every line of that awful face. The bloodshot eyes are glassed, as if for the first time they had been turned within to gaze upon tho horrors that had already brought destruction upon his own soul. The expression is frightful as every finger of that hand is gradually thickening with the wane blood of his own child. The tomb of Ivan the Terrible is covered with a black pall. He lies near to the main altar, and lights are perpetually burning before his picture, close at band. He is said to have taken monastic vows in the closing days of his life, which is recorded by tradition to have ended in convent walls. The saintly honors over his body are stilt continued for the repose of ins soul. Let none begrudge him these prayers, for it would seem thai if anyone ever needed them this mon a:h did. Boris Giulenof, the husband of his 6ister, succeeded Ivan as regent for the young Demetrius, the only surviv ing son of the Czar and heir to the throne. This boy, when scarcely ten years of age, was murdered by order of his cruel and ambitious uncle, and his body now rests w ith the royal dead of (he Cathedral of the Archangel, where it yet remains as a devotional shrine for the Orthodox Rii-si.ni. Boris tv;is himself soon overthi o-.vii. the le ns of Rurik was no m : Michael Romanoff was elected to thr throne, nud thus began tho dynast? still happily reigning in Russia. THEY COURT INSULT. Aiu'ivr't Opinion of Ityperrnlt!ve ro males of Mtiitrru Society. Says Amber in the Chicago' Herald: A man was once walking along a country road. Tne morning wa blithe with dew and bird-song, at.d the way wound by many a musical brook and flowing mead, until lost at last within the embrasure of a leafy wood. liiTue man was heavily burdened In one hand he carried an lion p .t and alive chicken by tho legs, in the other a stalf, and a ccrd to which was attached a gamesome pup. . Miorily l efore entering the tirest the man was overtaken by a buxom maid. For a time they journeyed to gether in le;is:u:t ton vcr -e. Tho ma d was going forth to gather vin tergreea berries, she aiJ, ant for that purpose she carried a bright t n pnil. Hardly had they entered the umbrageous shade of the forest be fore she dropped her pail and bigaa to shriek with terror. For heaven's sake what is the matter?" exclaimed the man, while the chicken squawked, the pup frisked and the maid continued piercing cries. T fear that you are going to me here in these lonely woods," ller !she sobbed, "and I c innot help myself." "You talk nonsense," said the man; ' how do you sup o-e 1 could kiss vou if I wanted to with my hands so full?" "Nothing easier," moaned the maid, "Ail you would hae to do would be to stick your sta r into the ground and fasten the dug to it, then put your chicken down and turn U1.3 iron pot over It to keep it from run ning awav. Oh, what shall 1 do, wnat shall I do, with nobody nigh to hinder?" . ; "Weil thought out!" cried the man, and handed the maid the j ail to hold while he secured the dog, after which he imprisoned the chicken and proceeded to kiss the shrieking maid. : The fable is exemplified from day to day by those people who are al ways On the alert for insults. They never ride in the car, nor go on a Journey, nor walk through a crowded passageway, nor sit in a restaurant, nor travel in the streets but what some one either looks, suggests or does something to shock them. True modesty Is n .t always on the lookout for offense, any more than a homlrg dove turns as'de to troop with vaga bond crows. True modesty is not easily affronted and is slow to think evil. If a girl is brought up right shi needs no champerou to protect ber. Ilcrown dainty 1 scriroinatlon, her own sweet sense of savo r faire wiil carry her the wide world over as trie May morning carries a bird through Its a. ure air or as June carries a rose in its tirrglit bosom. I do nut mean to say that the pure worn n are not sometimes molested through no fault of their uwu. But such cases are rare. They form exceptions to the broai and general ruie. if a woman is foiced to be on the street l.ite uz night she need fear little or no annoy ance if she goes quickly and quietly on her way without side glances o: distrust and fear. Very lew mea will speak to a woman who seems tin alarmed and thoroughly about her busioess. 1 rca I In the evening i i-! per not long ago of a woman w ho was waiting on a crowded thoroughfare for a delayed cable train. A stranger who stood beside her remarked casu alty: "Tills is pretty tougn. waiting solong in the cold." The woman ap pealed to a policeman f ir protect on from insult Ttiat was fully as bad as the cause of the shrieking maid in the fable. Any woman wiio would be such a fool as to deem herself in sulted because a fellow w.iyfar-r sought to condole with her on mutual hardships ought to he fli.a'iy insulte I with a shotgun. Such a bali'-wit would serve her day and generation better dead than living. What are we, anyway, that we should sta::J aloof from one another? A company of raw recru ts under marching orders to the grave: a flock of sheep traveling together to a common fold; a flight of birds winging' their way through mingled sun and shaiie from the north to tha south land. Why should we hesitate then, to give greeting one to another as we jour ney on? The world w.vj'd be an in liuitely sweeter place to tarry if we mo1, e tn touch with one another and cast ceremony to the winds where it belongs. I have seen but few ) eople who could carry hauteur and unnec.s eary reserve gracefully, and they were wax llgures la the museum. Kar-flerolnjf that Cnuse.I Dcatli. There was a death reported the other day of a young woman and the cause given as cerebro meningitis but developments go to show that the death was of a sensational char acter and one that may serve as a warning to some unsophisticated young girls, who might be induced to try a similar experiment. The death referred to was that of Miss Cele; tlne Josephine Smith of 131 Water street, and was rather sudden, the young girl having suffered but a few clays from- very sore ear, r-jsulting from attempt upon her part to pierce her ear with a needle. Miss Smith had, tike many other young girls, a desire to wear car-rings and not l-o-Ing allowed to go to the do.-tor, de cided to pierce her own ears. The Instrument used, as well as theman ner, caused one of those organs to be come very sore and in a day or two erysipelas set in. Then Dr. C P. Brent f We-t Eighth sttect, was called in, but lie seemed unable to relieve the suffering girl. She grad ually grew worse, until' it was loutrd that she was suffering from cerebro meningitis. Just eleven days flora the timo she pierced her ears she died and the doctor says that wAs the direct cause of death. Cincinnati En ,uirer. .The coilapse of a real estate boom only means that the wind has been taken oat of the sales. The "grip "bacillus, which tins been photographed time and again' has the appearance of being a fine thread strong with numerous minnto beads . A disinfectant which combines c'aeap Eesa with general worth is found ia permanganate of potash. One ouace will make a bucketful of disiofect'aut. It ii a crystal and caobe kept ia this state ua-tiLittitlJfoUBMJ--'- - - - - HAM'S HORN BLASTS. W.irulnj; Notes Calling the CTUbed t It pcatauce. HE pious whine was invented ia tho nit. -MP Iris the joy of P Jrl trulh t0 be Iook ea in ttio race. A GENU'S is never taken to be one by bis looks. IV V - - times builds his I '. house of books. I T i:-: devil has a mortgage on every Dny w ho smokes. ' Piiaisk and doubt cannot both live in t!:2 same heart. ' Gii'Wiii in knowledge is tho only L'ure for self-conceit. ! The rest of Christ is only for those . rhu are tired of sin. I IIvrocnisY is the devil's admission that virtue Is a fact. i Ir isn't the biggest horn that raakes the best music. j Staktino for Heaven on a grave stone is risky business. I A match looks harmless, but it has often taken a child's lif". j Tn eke is as much kill in a selflsh heart as there is in a musket If you wear religion as a cloak I J , , . . ; your soul may freeza to death. I Whkx (io 1 measures men he brings therj all to thi same standard. To LKiioi.r who Is truly great on earth, we shall have to be in Heaven to look. The moment a Christian looks back he begins to make crooked paths with his feet. A floweu will have something sweet to say to you, no matter where you put it. Ir takes more than philosophy to make a man smile when he has the toothache. Build a feuce anywhere, and the first boy who conies along will want ' to climb it. j Tiif. man who is notsatisiled with ; Christ is always rinding fault with ' somebody else. I EvEi'.Y Christian ought to be a con stant reminder to some worldling that God is goo 1. 1'eoi'Le have to be living in a high state of grace to enjoy the r own faults pointed out- r... . i i - i . : I .'lAtc pure iiiuugiii) welcome in y.nr mind, and --J will be sure to coma into your life. J Many pcoole claim to trust Td t who tind that they were mistaken wheu the bank breaks. Wiif.n God turned Adam out of I Eden he sent an ;iiicl with hitu whose name was l:o. 2. If there is any ot his work that tlie devil is v.ril satisfied with it 1 must be the Uni'ii-ard's home. .i.i a uiuu v...: oi-eu ii.i; in-iic door tor discontent who tries bis best to keep burglars out of his house. Many a man w.l! open the front I Tiik devil ii-.'.cr keeps out of a .home simply because there is a handsome Ii ble on the parlor table. j The man who never (religion in pubii': is not speaks of bis getting very '. much en.oy tc.ent out of it la private Ac: it r ail sotii-j j eople ever under- i take to do to help tho Lord, is to try to tell the preacher how he ought to ' preach. T; r 1-: devil cannot make an unholy ! pleasure bright enough to get th dm second look irom one who is satlsneu .irom ine decomposition ci vegetables, with hr st. minerals, tho various rook fi.rmntioijt Ir w -i:'i i! i an,-go ,d to pray for . :of-onr IK are called colluviaL tin souiii ea Islariilcr as long as you !l Sir James Crichton Browne, the ex won't s; eak to the man who lives in ' P-'rt ou brain diseases, asserted in i tiie lievt ho'.tso. popular lecture that insomnia is mi TriiriiK are parents who let tht ir children read books about pirates and cut throats, nn l tu n wonder why they will not join the church. loir .tlilk Is Analyzed, ine cuem.cai ana.ys.sot milK is nov complicated nor dilhcu.t. A small dish is accurately weighed and the weight noted. Into it Is now mtro- duced a small portion of miik, and both are weighed. By subtracting the weight ot the dish from tho weight of both, th ; weight of tho milk is found and carefully recorded. The dish is placed over a str am Jet and the water of the milk evaporates, leaving a residue. It is tins residue w hich piMses under the name of ".solids." A last weighing of the dish with the milk residue, less the weight of the dish, give-, the solids, and by a I single calculation the percentage is ! found. I The solids of milk have been found by innumerable analyses to avcrag-s , about 13 per cent., and while the fat : varies in themiik from different cows the solids left after extracting the fat is a very constant quantity, hardly ever falling below 0 per cent. This gives the chemist, a positive basis for bis calculations, and enables him to 'state with grcnt certainty whether or not the milk has been watered. Tho fat or oil in milk is determined by dissolving it by means of ether outot ' total solids, the residue remaining after the operation being termed . "solids not fat." The average fat or oil found in cow's milk is :i p- r cent, and any amount less than this is com monly taken as showing that the milk has been skimmed. If analysis shows a decrease of fat, and solids not fat. it is said to be certain that the milk has been watered, while if the fat' only is low that the milk has besii skimmed. Indianapolis News. Concatinent i.r Ayo IJo.-sn't unt. According to recent decree of tlio Austrian c mrts of law. concealment of age on the part c f a bride is s if tlcient to invalidate the mar-ia.'e. An Austrian baron has succeeded iu obtaining An annulment of ids un on . inconsequence of his wife's h: ing ! pretended, at the time of its ce -i.r;i-.! tion, that she was It I U-'-n years yotitig r than he real age. 1c Is the tlrs.', time ou record that a marriaee. h t i been dissolved on su'h grounds at these, and were this interpretation of the law regarding "fraud in mar riage" to be accepted in other civil ized countries a very serious stale of affairs would assuredly result there from. Hitherto, concealment of af e by womei; has always been considered to a cctaln extent defensible aud customarj. Argonaut. KEWJlIN BRIEF, Wild animals are turned by per fumes A Maine man makes leather of cat tish skins. Every ninn carries tin atmospheric pressure of 15 tons. A boy is Saoo, Me. , reeenty ate two pounds of honey at a sitting. A roose thirty-six years old is owned by a farmer at Ellieott City, Md. Laundrymen say that lots of folks beside students keep shirt-enff memo randa. Cr.niprcsssd air motors are to be tried in Wilkesbivrre, Feun., as a trol ley snli.'tltute. Taere are more cleaths annually from hydrophobia in S voii n tlim in any ether country. The bedrooms of several British hotels are now being fitted up with automatice gas fires. - -The largest European city pnrk is in Denmark. It is called Doer Park, and contains -1,200 acres. Several Shanghai chickens, witli fifteen toes are the boast of ttcorge H. Bull, of I'errydale, Canada. The combined lenghthof the world t telegraph lines would encirelo tLo filobo about 3H tinier. j A man who can i peaks'! Iareunge" J-fee-itiy Bmdied to the corporation ol Card;ff' alca' for l"'or ,M rVT0 n-n ,ht ro fl . lit-h that has four perfect evs, two on cnch gide of tho ne - other. j Ani1Yv,rH'.n.P ir,;u 1 n.. ..i..; . i . !. , . : , .... . i iu uiniui iiiti. luu nun ... c i n: j .t -jji. will cure csncerous tumois J' icjec- tion. Eugene Buldwin, of Montreal, hai a wind wheel wbieh, with a dynamo nn l batteries, furnishes light in hii hou.-e. A single day's fog in London hsu brought into the pockets of oun pu; company no less a sum than Fity thou sand pounds. The mushroom Hi s for days and in dry times for weeks, just under the surface, fully developed, waiting for i warm, damp Light. Justice Sehenchel, of Baltimore, decidcd-recently that eating peanuts ia church was a crira1 au.l riu.-d two negroes 10 for corn -uittinj s loll an otreuse. Excavations in rdestiue go tosho that the hot-nir blast lurn-.ice, whicfc l.ai been credited to Vie tho invcati.it of Nelson in 1821, was used 1,400 vein before Christ. Tho Hollanders drink more t-a anc coffee than the peoplo of any other na tion, their consumption of these prti eles reaching 21 J o-.inces for each in- Lar.itant every year. The reacting of romances is forbid den by tho Koran, hence popular t i'ei are never put ia writing Hinong Mo bamaiedans, pnt are passed from ou! Etory teller to another. The copious rains and warm m a'hei which followed the prent drought :i England led to the production ol second crops of strawberries. rasi- i ....k- cu,, berries, and even apple,, j A rcot of rnssava that measure seven feet in length aim u swettpotutt twenty inches in ci rcum ferenee, arc two products from the larm cf II. A Lusk, near St. Andrew'! Bay, Florida, Philadelphia hns niroo loDg streets; Second street, lo ' miles; (rermau town and Ridge avenue, 10 inilt-s Broad street, 0 miles; Fruid ford ave nue, 8 niilef.; Fifth stctt, 'i miles Market street, f J miles. Soils that aro formed from tedi ments, the settlings in water, nr 'called alluvial; thoso tbut are formed attendant with Mich disastrous- conse quences as is commonly supposed. ! A servant of a London rn'ura'ist whose collection contained ouo of ti.t few extant perfect eggs of the extinei great auk, recently dropped and broke tho egg while shoniug it to a visitor. -Camphor trees have been i.l,ti.te.l ui , Siiniorj, rla., and Rive p:o..f of a.lap j tabdity to soil nnd conditions. Tim J js th9 indenticat camphor tree from i 'which all the camphor of commerce n obtained. j : Xt only has petroleum for f iicil been adopted on many locomotives ol the Great Eastern road, in Ecghuul, . but experiments are also being mail J with it in somo of the treat Lancns ' hire cotton mills. j In France they are ninUinrt nineh ado over a cireulur saw, with diaaomh j tet in the teeth, for cntting stone.. II ! is a good thing, but tho idea origin. ated in America and was patented here I nearly thirty years ago. The connection between coal smoke and London fog was again demonstrut ed during November' when the u:i was unusually clear, apparently in consequence of diminished combustier ot coal following mild weather. The averegc life of an American shir is 18 years; of an English of i) Scandinavian, 30. It has been proven that fio nse ol glne was known 3,30U years n ;.-. ,1 (sculpture of Thebes as early us tin third Thotbmes, who is said to li e, been tho Pharoh of the Exodus, i. p resents some carpenters applying ve neering with glue. A new S'lrt'ieal instrument is an r.r rangment of magnetic needles in foil covered cltf-s tube. It toe ;t. particles of iron or irtetl in tiie b. -Iv. and ia capable of dcteeliug a p . c wire an eighth of an i'ach lorrr i t a tance of nix inches. A Curions Ilace. A curious race was reremk wii,. ed in Westphalia, the cont.-t h-in be. tween pigeons and a number of b e-, 'he respective ow ners ,,f whij'h h::u waggered their favorites :o win. 'I ! ; course was three miles an 1 a half. I a dovecote which happeui d to t.e ne;u a hire was selected as the winning post. It was found no ea-y mer er iu mark the bees so as to make their id, u tity unmistakable, but the drill nl v was at last surmounted I v r, .! Il'e: them in flour previous to srai.i-g ' r.i on their journey. Thi -. v. i-'ie mui-.i:; them easily recogni. .1 on i' i r. !-. ..!. probably retarded tie o- i.lrl;: l.;:l nevertheless, and tiioceh th- j ; e were looked upon by ili i-e in i- i as the most likely winners, the r.: - re sulted in a victory for III- bees; l't first bee arriving at tho po- tv. . fire seconds before the I'rst j jgeoii. i.. three other bees before tlu eco-iti.
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