W A ;'w 'i?rft rtZ?. VJII1II II III El i&&Jf2:$ 111 II III II IN i-visU-W ZA Jl 111 I I I ! I I S3, P. BOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE DNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor amd. Proprietor. VOL. XLVIH. MIFFLINTOWIN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2S. 1894 NO. 15. ' WHAT HEAVEN IS LIKE. rh7i lot. o' folks a-wonderin' what heave nt goln to be. V C ld 1 m OUl7 8ae"8ia' Uk the rest, bnt my Coneeruln' the hereafter It 'at bleesln's which vre crave Au'Iall to ft tb's Hideo" death well find be yond the grave. An' things 11 lort o' even op an' them ai get toe best 0t ""rest iS boIow 11 LaTe to it "Jth the An- sinnors who on earth have had to Hand the bruie and brnut Of everything, up thereTl get a cushion seat in front. V.'o know Vt aiu i9 norrer. an' It wonlln't be rigut I ocaue a noul hp.e lost its way to hide from It the lit:ht. Au' II h uliiiH.r s life U full of care an' rain' an" ! j inm-h the greater need for bavin' pleasure afrcr while. It scoras to mo nomoro 'an farr a baby girl who A-!on:.in fer a dolly 'at con wink an" thet its cy fa ir think is a j they orter he -will And it nicely clr'e l An' wnit hr for to groot her In the regions of the Lie; v. If wo k u jede we knew of souls 'at durin' all of hie Cet ot-'i Mia more'n they deservo of pain on' care a:i' M.rie. While othor'us, 'at seem to me an t dolu' much to make The world no bettor, gut their fill of sauce an' pie au' cake. We crtcr feed the hungry one an' clothe 'em fibril the fold, Au' b-siiin 'm.'s ljBt Is jost the onus 'at orter Cud u.f t -:.i. An' 1 bt3iiiH ttaot when wo ha-.o a np-.vfi l.irt ii. 'Id inke tn bloom in hoaven ever' h ye 'at tile on erth. IIEU MISTAKE. March in the mountains! Freslio; s roaring down tlie ravines -rent thi k tls of pine W-sing Uk-ir"'iiiicUir cn-.-t ; to anil fro in Hie rush of the tempes tuous wind, snow shining oil on il.n Iiiateaus and pink i lusters of trailing arbutus breaking into b'toom in south ern nooks and sheltered ohos wlie.t! la-t winter's dead k-av. s had net- v. r, drifted away. Ai.l Lu y Vervaii', standing in her mssvt walking-div on 1 ho porch of the little in i..ia i inn, Win iered if the lamo is Borne i A!p were grander than the--o sau. Catskill heights. Lucy Vervain was small and slight, and brown-skinned, but she ha 1 large, wistful eyes of so dark a h tz- i th;;t they seemed to ni"lt into iiii black arou'.nl the iris and there wvr quick I'ise.s ready to deepen in hi r ch-'i !;s if any one spoke to her. M .; was pretty, in her way, like a w.l 1 flower or a little brown-winced b!r. .: ami he looked around with atroubh I air, as the sound of an excited fend;:, ine voice flouted out from the one u . tirct eutioiis little "best parlor" of tb t inn It's outrageous," said Miss Oar Vervain. ' I'm very sorry, inaam," said Mr. Mixit. who kej t tlie hoiise. '' nendiiral le!" declared Miss Ve.'. vain. it does lian;,en s omctiine. ina'avi Wileil t.';e st:eu!iis is liili. at lie: or tbn year," the land or I. d. i-Vo'.i s -e, thero ain't n can stair! the frcMiets if- -" 'And we liave .t to stay here i i this horri i hole of a jiia. e until yon tumble-down bridyi! is niendedr" '1 don't ee any otbe.' way for you, ina'aui." sai l Mr. Mixit. meekly. It's the most provoking thitu I evei knew in my life," said Mis 'e -vain. Sli'- .stalked about the room like a second Lady Macbeth as she sp ike. For Clara was unlike her blushing, hhrinkin litlio sister as the ta I poppy is to the humble corn-liowcr. She was handsome and stately, and wore lout; trains to her dresses and bangles on her wrists, and used per fume on her handkerchiefs and "did ' lier hair after the late.-t fashion plates. "It ain't my fault, ma'am," sai l the landlord, driven to the very cou nties of despair, "I can't stop 11m freshet, nor yet I can't build a u ..-.' brid-e." "Clara, dear, don't allow yourselj to be so annoyed," soothed Lucy, comic.-: like a t.oiseless uray shadow into th ; room. "We shall only bo detained a day after all, and I ani sure it is very pleasant here." "I am ivit accustomed to delays,'1 sti.l Mis Vervain, ioftilv. "I know, dear, b'.it " "And if I am compelled to remain in such a place as this,'' added Clara, j;!anci!i superciliously around her, "I mu-t really itiist upon privacy." "llh: '' said Mr. Mixit. "That old per-on in the snuIT-co!-. orcd coat." said Mi-s Vervain, with a royal motion of her head toward an old gentleman In a win and spertacb s, who was reading the paper by a dis-r tan; .vindow. ! dare -ay he wid (i very well in your kitchen or barroom, and I prefer this apartment t;) mv self." "Oh, C'aral-'- pleaded Lucy, crim soning to the very roots of herhair. The. landlord looked p.i..b d, but the old man fold d his newspaper, re-' turned his spectacles to their cas ; and rose slowly to his feet. ; "Certainly, mis," said he: "cer tainly. If I'm intruding;, I'll go to the kitchen. There's always room for me there. Lit, Mixi' V" And he trudged with alacrity out of the room, followed by mine host. "I'm afraid you've hart his feel ings. Clara." said Lucy, pi toou-.lv. "Ulw caivs for his feelings?" said 3Ii-s Vervain, sniri'm at her scent bottles. "Mine are much more tu the purpose. And I don't choose to associate with every country farmer In theCatskills." "Clara, dear!" "Well?" "We are only a bookkeeper's daugh ters ours. Ives." "As if that signified," said Miss Vervain, scornfully. "Wearejfoing to our aristocratic relations, aren't we. " , "I'.iit perhaps they won't care to keep us." ; I "That is neither here nor there," said Mis Vervain.- "Hut you never had any proper pride, Lucy." j Little Lucy Vervain was still pond trine;, with puzz'ed brow, over thu distinction between proper jirido and pride that was not proper when thii '..m ilord's wife, a buxom dame in niuddor-red calico and a frilled whito apron, came to suianiou the guests to Uinner. "We've only a roast fowl with bread, s.v.ice. and a little cranberry jelly,"! I : s t, "but it ain't often as s:-ip he.e over a meal, and 1 .1 pe, ladies, as you'll kindly pardon i!j' shortcomings." - - T3ut"Mis3 vervain stopped short on the very threshold of the dining-room.' "I shouli prefer a table to myselL aid she, haughtily. Ma'am:" said Mixit. 'Dear Clara," pleaded Lucy In an agony of distress, as she saw the red! flush rise to the forehead of the old man in a snuff-colored suit, who sat pt the head of the well-spread board. , "I prefer dinin with my sister only," Insisted Miss Vervain, de lighted with an opportunity of as- setting her excluslvencss. "Really, I cannot imagine how people can pbtrude themselves in this sort of way." The old man rose quietly. "Do I understand, young woman," said he, "that you object to me?" "Yes, sir, I do object to you if you compel me to put it in that way," said Miss Vervain. 'Indeed!" The old man lifted bis rrizzlcd brows, "I may not be one of your fashionable fops " "That is easily to be seen," con temptuously interpolated the young Lidy. "But lam clean and decent," added the stranger. "However, I dare say Mrs. Mixit can accommodate me with a plate and knife and fork in another room, if my presence is reallv obnox ious to these- young women." Young ladies, sir, if you please," said Miss Vervain, with a toss of her head. He smiled a shrewd, sagacious smile. "As to that," said he, "opinion luav perhapsKlitTer," and he followed Mrs. Mixit into the kitchen. C.laia Vervain took her seat com placently at the table. "These people will begin after aw hile to com prenend the difference, between a la ly and a shop-girl," said she. ' It is quite evident that they are not favored with many travelers." Half an hour afterward, as the old man in the suutf-colorcd suit wasj stepping into a plain, little carriage, a soft hand touched his sleeve, and turning he found himself looking into Lucy Vervain's troubled brown eyes. "Well, uiy dear," said he, kindly, what is it?" "I I only wanted to beg your par don, sir," faltered the little brunette. "I am sure my sister did not mean to hu.t vour feelings, and" "I am sure, at all events, that you did not," said the old man, kindly. And I dare say that jour sister will be wiser one of these days!" And thus speaking, he nodded good humoredly and drove away. It was nearly dark, however, before the clumsy carrya'l which was to con vey the two New York ladies to their destination arrived, and they entered it. "To Cliff Hali," said Miss Vervain, haughtily, as she leaned back in the seat and settled her skirts languidly about her. Cliff Hall:" said Mr. Mixit, star ing. "You don't never mean as you're going to Cliff Hall?" echoed Mrs. Mixit. "I think we have consideiablv as tonished these good people," said Miss Vervain, with a smile, asihey rattled away from the door, "I only hope our l.'n -le Cliff will icceive us kindly," sighed poor Lucy. Cliff Hall was a substantial old mansion built of gray stone with a ;uccession of terra-es falling down :he mountain side and exquisite groups of statuary half-hidden in the. forest trees, and the lights were al ready beginu ng to gleam hospitably along its front as they drove up. An o'.d man-servant, opened the outside, .loorjust far enough to reveal the cherry glow of a wood lire and Urn deep tints of a crimson Axminster carpet within. Is my l.'nclc Cliff at home??" said Miss Vernin, with an air and a grace. "Mr. Cliff is ay, mem," answered the servant, with a strong Scotch ac cent. "Tell him his ieces from New York are here the Misses Vervain," said Clara. as she swept into the ante chamber. As she entered an old man dressed in snuff-brown rose from behind the blazing logs. "My nieces from New York, eh?'" said Caleb Cliff. "They are welcome." And to Miss Vcrvain'ssui prise and (list jay she found herself face to face with the old man of the Catskill way side inn. "You are astonished?" said he, slightly arching his brows, "fo am 1. It is not always best to judge by appearances. Sit down. Sanders,", to the servant, "letdinnerboserved." Miss Clara Vervain left Cliff Hall Uie next day, witn all her bright an ticipations shattered tu the dust. Lua little tirown-faced Lucy staid to keeji house for her uncle. "She's too genteel for u, isn'i t.he?" chuckled old Caleb Cliff, as the carriage drove away which' was to carry Miss Vervain to the Xew York station. Clara went back to her teaching, and if the bitter tears of repentant mortification can wash out the pas', that day in the Catskill would have been erased long ago If I had only known who he was," said Miss Vervain. Alas.' this world is full of "ifs"! New York Clipper. A Roman I'se of Leinon. Did you ever hear of the Bomau cure for malaria? I would advise a judicious preparation for anathema marana'ha, when aliout to adminis ter the dose: it will give the marble Venus a wry face, but it is claimed t have cured stubborn cases. Allow one pint of water to one lemon four lemoui make sufficient for many a Jose: cut up the lemoos, rind, puly, i il l all, in tlie water and boil and lull until the whole is reduced toone jiint; a teaspoon ful before each meal is the dose. On hot mornings, when appetite fails and the sight of food disgusts fine, try slice ! lemons for a breakfast.. Feel carefully, remove every particle nf pith, slice dewn instead of across, into a deep glass saucer and strew liberally with sugar. . Do not, I pray, be induced at this reason of the year to save your lem ons. Baltimore News. TitE roots of a tree in Tombstone irizona, clasped a wate.--pip?, acl in time exerted such pressure that tho pipe was crushed. CELESTIAL PHENOMENA. Foster's Dissertation Thi-ir A;. 'n the Cauites ul ---4 i:Miice. In studying th? evolution of worlds, we now pass to th comet'c or thiu stage and, as in animal life, we llii.i the mature forms not so numerous a? are those of incipient stages. The planets move around the sun, from west to cast, keeping very nearly over the sun's equator, but comet move about the sun in all conceivable directions, and in immense numbers. It is impossible to give any ri-il;r 'n estimate of the number of comet-j that belong to, und never leave tin solar system. Their nunr ers mu'i be placed at hundreds of millions 1 e sides the monstrous Ilery wanderers that, unannounced, plunge into ()...iJ sun's electrosp ;crc, an. I agaii burr. off into unknown since, perhaps never to return. In studying the comet we must keep in uilnJ the in lisptitable fa t that space has no limits, lleyond tin most remote s a e wh'eh the mind' can c.tn.'eive, lies illimitable spice. The universe has no Loun Is, no t en ter and no circumference, and the laws that govern matter and uio'ien, are Just as illimitable as space. Tiiej laws that cause matter to accumulate and condense mu-t necessarily be the s.ime everywhere. Put varying in force in accord with surrounding condi tions. The condensation of matter I be lieve to be the first cause of motion.. The growth of an apple, a melon, a, grain of wheat, an ear of corn, is a condensation of matter from space.1 The matter that is concentrated into' an apple, probably occupied a cubic; mile of space, wnen in its most at-! tenuated form, and while the apple was growing, there was necessarily a movement of mattertoward the apple from all direction i. Vegetation gains its substance from space, from the atmosphere, and not) from the earth. Tlie latteris onlyau electric battery that sets the electric currents in motio i, thereby gather-, ing from space or tlie atmosphere, that which builds the vegetable, bodies. Take a great tank of dry earth, plant in it an acorn water it and grow a tree tliat w ill weigh a ton. or as much as the dry earth weighed atv the start. Then take the tree weigh ing over 2,000 pounds out of the tank of soil, and the latter, when dry. will, weigh as much as it did when the acorn was first planted in it. There fo:e vegetation obtains its substance from space, from the atmosphere. The matter in a grain of powdei occupied thousands of times a-, much space when it was in its most atten uated, gaseous or ethereal form, and therefore in order to form the grain of powder, the attenauted matter, must have been set in motion toward a center. It requires 1,167 feet of hydrogen, gas, and 57'J feet of oxygen to co:i- at it lit e on font, of water, therefore when water is formed, it occupies 1,740 times less space than did tins) "I don't often tell this story be gassesout of which it is formed, an I. , cause people don't believe it, but I in the formation of water from the culd go to the place now without tho gasses, there must be a great inrush , least trouble and point out this won to ward a center from all directions i lIer- Judge Courtney Talbot of Tu This inrus i of Matter Vt constitute ;i ) ,arc as one of our party, and here m .re solid body is. in mv opinion, the ls an extract from a letter I recently cause of all motion. j received from him which corroborate? Our atmosphere is supposed to bo my tale: at least 200 miles in depth, and if! condensed, would form a substain about the weight of water tlrrtv- three feet deep all over the earth. ; This would contain about six feet of I owgen or two feet of solid earth when j fu. ther condensed, and tlrs process is j constantly goiu,' on. by the earth ac i cumulating from the atmosphere. Of , this Fiot. Mansill says: "It is my I opinion that when the earth has ah. J t-oibed this total amount of oxygen I from the atmosphere, that the at I mosphcre will have absorbed during j the same lime nearly as much oxygen I from space." I With the.s3 ideas liefore us, we can . see a cause for the comet's movement j towards the sun and then darting back again into space. When tiur s Iar system has moved into now space not before occupied by great heavenly bodies for millions of years it t! nils accumulations of gasses, and as the sun is absorbing by its growth vast amounts ef the ether of space, that ether, from vastly remote re gions, is moving toward the sun and carries with it tlie gaseous accumula tions with such great force that they plunge deep into the eletneuts that; surround the sun, as you might throw a block of wood with such force as to cause it to sink ten feet into the wa ter. The wood having been forced deep into the water by the momen tum given it, would return with s;i !i force as to throw it above the water. Thus it is that the comets divedeep into tho elements that surrounel tho sun, and are thrown back into spaco by the push or repulsion of those clc. ments. No subject in astronomy attracts such universal attention as thivt. which deals with comets, and in the discussion of these wanderers, the probability that all satellites, plansts and suns were one-; comets, that o.'r moon was once a comet, that on." earth has been repeatedly struck by great comets, causing the geological ages of the world, depositing the etfatille.l coal, lime, iron and other measures, and bringing about that condition of things which terminated in Noah's floed, I hope to interest ifl7 readers to no small extent. Copy riget, 1892 by V. F, Foster. The Great Wall. The gieat wall of China was re cently measured bv Mr. L'cthanK, an American engineer' engaged on the survey for a Chinese railway. His measurement gave the height 18 feet. Every few hundred yards there Is a tower -5 feet high. The foundation of the wall goes over plains and mountains, every foot of the founda tion being of solid granite, and the rest of the structure solid masonry. In soi e places the wall Is built smooth up against the bank, evr crosses a precipice where ther-o U a sheer descent cl 1,000 feet. Tick difference between a form tpek i ceremony i that you sit' on 128 to.mer und star.d on the latter- : ; . , When a man is uo longer able to do harm, be becomes possessed of(teerea tue information that I was uu amtjjiojj todfc good. BIGGEST TREE IN THE WOULD. I'L-trlued Trunk In Northwestern Kevad Said to lie CGS I'eet In Length. The largest tree in the- world lies roken ard retrided at the end of a defile in Northwestern Nevada, ltd dimensions are so great that those who know of its existence hesitate tc tell the story because they hardly ex pect to be believed, but there issulll ciet evidence to give the tale credit, improbable though it may ifcra. ,1'his tree makes the monarchs or the In .i iposo grove seem like impos ters, and conipar d to "the talle-1 pine grown on Norwegian hills to be the mast of some great admiral is but a wand." As for the story of its discovery, it was thus told to a writer for the San Francisco Exam iner by ' -Lad" Lynn of Fresno, and supp.irte 1 tjy other e iually well known ticople: 'Back In 1800 a company of about forty-five le t Led Bluff to prospect the unknown country beyond Honey Lake and Surprise Valley. There were in the part .' law vers, butchers, and shoemakers, but wa were one. sided on one joint: caci individual felt positive that this wa-j tlu turn ing point of his exit'-nce, and that the bright shining gold In unlimite t quantities would rcwai d the rather unpleasant jaunt The Indians wo called them Bannocks were at that time raising hair.aud very many suJ den moves were at times necessary In order to get rid of their unwelcome attentions. Finding but little gold in this section wo traveled toward Baker County. Oregon, through country entirely denuded of t tuber, ctc pt a few dwarf cotton woods along the waterways. Close tj the Bakei County line we came to an opening in tho rocks about wide enough fot our wag ns to go through, and on either sid2 loomed p.ecipices 500 and 100 feet high. The crevasse was about fifteen miles long, and at its end, just at the right of the trail, we found a number of petrified tree stumps of dilTereut heights and s!ve.5. "In their midst on the ground lay a monster tree, somewhat imbedded In the so.l. It was complete'v pet rifle 1, and from the e'ean-cut fractures of the tiunlc seemed to have fallen after its petrifaction. At its butt this tree was sixty feet in di ameter. We measured its iciigth withata.e line. It was just it; ? feet long. No limbs ramained, bul in the trunk were clefts where ap larently limbs bad broken off. Am beiliKe bear's or petriilel pitch o; gum adhered to the sides of tht trunk for a distauce ot 100 feet ot more. When tfi huge tree was broken 8;uarely off the center seemed trans arent, and tjie growth marks showed in 1 cautiful concentr c rings. Its natural appearance was t handsomer than any dressed marble ' or nio-aic I ever have seen, anl we all expre-scd the opinion that it j would mane a woncleriuily beautiful 1 'ir aan interior nmsii ror some grand build ng. 'I Vi.auk. Jav. h. ivm. Mi lhar tjll Fri 1 hiivo M?areelv even told about that tree. I ' iiiicu iin-t our old companion, .Mr. Wiito- 1 Midi's, nn.l told him my ri'c-iile -tion alioiC t;io in-) th:it it wua t:-J feet in diameter ami porioe;!v pe'nned. 1 told him I sciir.-ely ever miMitione 1 it. the story bein too biir lir r-ti'dc noo. lie paid: "Ti.-il it when and whore yon plci-so. (da-id rvtiiiy lo m.iko ulliilavit to tliost litfure." j 1 iiltervt anl Diet old Allon Ifar.lin. anil h i 1 said the same thinp. I can i all to thtprtnl i to viTify the statonient t'ol. MoK insev. Holt j Fine, Sam Kimr. T. Q. Shirley yuin self, end ; any member of our company that ni iv ! within reaeh. 1 havo often wondered why nsre.it furiosity like that should re.nair uiiijistrved so lonir. "Now I stand ready to prove this to any Doubting Thomas who wishes to look upon one of nature's grandest freaks and who will pay the expense if the trip." HE FOUGHT WITH POE. Congrevmmu'a English's Quarrel tilth the Author of The Raven." One of the oldest men in the House if lieprescntatives is Dr. Thomas Dunn Knglish, who represents the sixth (or Kssex County) district of New Jersey, and who will be 7f years of age June Z'. ISI'4. Long before he ever dreamed of becoming Con gressman English, the gentleman from New Jersey acquired distinc tion as the author of "Ben Bolt." In addition to his fame as a poet Mr. Knglish enjoyed the notoriety of hav ing been at one time the chosen friend and boon companion of Edgar Allan Toe, author ot ' The Raven" jain' other toeins. How this friend- ni't ieruiiuaiou can uesb oc cc- scribed in the language of Mr. En Tllsh. "Up to 18 15," said the New Jersej statesman, "Foe and myself weie well-nigh inseparable, both at Phila- .aeipnia ana iew loric, where we afterward removed. While in the i latter city Poe became involved in a controversy with a brother of Mrs Ellet, a noted novelist half a cen tury ago, relative to ce.taln letters which Poe declared the lady had written to him. The dispute became very animated, and one day while 1 was discussing certain matters with a caller Poe burst Into the room where we were talking and demand ed the loan of my pistol When I asked him what he wanted it for his reply was that he intended to shoot the brother of the woman whom he bad calumniated. This was my op portunity and I did not neglect 1 . la the plainest language possible 1 told Poa that ho was acting the pirt 3f a blackguard, and slandering an 3 endeavoring to compromise an honest woman, and he knew it. 'Be ides,1 said I, 'you know, 1 oe, that you have no letters from Mrs. Ellet a well as I do,' "Blurting out that he did not pro pose to be talked to in such a man aer tiefore a stranger, I'oe reiterated ohat he had very damaging letters from the lady in question. 'Then, in heaven's name why don't you pro duce them when her brother demands them?' wjs my query. This d d not ' seem to be at all pleasant to the au- , ,Th(, .... n , ,,, h vol un much. One word led tda"nother,"an3 from words we came to blovcb, my right ornamenting Foe's right ere in the most approved fashion. A series 3 ' punches followed, and before the icri.nmage ended 1 had forced my un irelcoma visitor down to the floor, tnd - taking him by both ears and ado of his face, 1 proceeded to ram .lis face vigoro isly against the floor of my apartment. This encounter stiied up all the ma'cvolence in Foe's nature; and when his disilgured coun tenance was commented upon a few minutes later he evade 1 an explan.ii tion by saying that he had run against a workiugmau v. ; : i was care. esly carrying a piece of lumber on iii should-T. Ever afterward he j uld not say things too mean about me. and this fhticuff ended all friendly relations between us up tqj ihe day of Lis death. New Yorlr l'ribune. Charles Humnur and the Howes. One of our most frequent visitors ot Green I'eace was the great states man and iatriot, Charles .Sumner, lie was a very dear friend of out Jither's, a Ml they loved to be to gether whenever the strenuous busi ness of the'r lives would pormiL We children used to call Mr. Sum ner "the Harmless Giant"; and in deed he was very kind to us and had Hlways a pleasant word for us, in that deep, melodious voice which no one, once hearing it, could ever forget, lie towered above us to what siemed an enormous height; yet we ere told that he stood six feet in his stockings ti more. This impression bcin matlc on Laura's mind, she was used I employ the great senator as an S maninary foot rule six-foot rule, I ihouldsay and, until she was al most a woman grown, would meas ure a thing, in her own mind, by say ing "two feet higher than Mr. Sum ner," or "twice as lvgh as Mr. Sum ner," as the case might be. 1 can re member him carrying the baby Maud on his shoulder, and bowing his lofty crest to pass through the doorway. Sometimes his mother, Madam Sum ner, came with him, a gracious and charming old lady. I am told that on a day when she was spending au hour at Green rvacc. and sitting in the parlor window with our mother, Laura felt it incumbent upon her to entertain the distinguished visitor; so, being arrayed in her best white frock, she took up her station on the gravel path below the window, and lllling a little basket with gravel, proceeded to pour it over her head, ex claiming, "Mit Hunincr: lice my ck tibitioul" This meant "exhibition." Laura co::ld not pronounce the letter S in childhood's happy hour. "Mama," she would say. if she saw our mother look grave, -Id you had'J Why i-1 you had"' and then s' c would brinj: a doll's dish, or it might be a sau opaii, and give it to be- mother a::d sav, with Infinite sa! N't-ct on, Ior' moogc you'belf wi 1 t'atl" st. Nich olas." Tho Colonel II .l Mini. Colonel Sterrepp is a newspaper man and a great reader of standard matter. Not long ago he met a young follow who beat him out on a ques tion of biblical history and the Col onel sought to get even "That boy of yours,'' he said tu the young fellow's father, "is a bright one, but I guess I downed him." "How?' inquired the father, with a good deal of curiosity. "Well, I went home after he flaxed me out on that biblical point and read up on the l'eloponne-dan war Jid you ever bear of the Feloponnc shin war?" The father aid he had, and tho Colonel look d disappointed. "And," lie resumed, "I came at him on it the next time I had a chance, and, by thunder, sir, he tol l me he had not only heard of it, but had studied about it in his school. Say, did you ever Hear of the Pelo ponneslan war when you was a bey?" The o'd gcnticman confessed th.it be had and ,:g;.i.i the Colonel looked hurt. "Yes,'' he went on, "he not only said that, bat h asked me if I knew that Lincoln had got some of the ideas of his famous Gettysburg speech from the orations delivered on that war, and that's where I had him," exclaimed the Colonel, with a broad smile of triumph. "How?" inquired the father. "Why, sir," and the Ceilonel's face glowed. "I know all about that county in Illinois where Lincoln got his learning and there ain't a man in it. ever heard of the BcioponncsAn war." The Colonel's argument was irre sistible and the father had to con. fess it. Detroit Free Press. I.iliraries in Jnpun. Some intcresti: g information con cerning tublic libraries of Japan has re centiy.been furnished through the report of Mr. Tanaker, a young nat ive lib ariaa. The two institutions Df greatest magnitude it would seem, a e the Tokio library and the Li brary of the Imperial University. The former is a national instit tion, and, like the British muse im has tho right of claiming one copy of every publication Issued from the press. It has been in existence scarcely twenty years; yet it already contains nearly one-hundred thousand Jap anesc and Chinese books, besides more than twenty-Uve thousand European looks and duplicates wh ch are in reserve. Ihenuiu'erof books con sulted by readers averages the year thro -gh about one thousand a day. Tho reading room accommodates about two hundred readers, and is divide', into three compartments "special," "ladies, " and "ordinary." It possesses also a card catalogue and a printed catalogue both classified. Of the books asked for twenty-two and a half per cent, belosg to the classes of history and geography, twenty-one per cent to literature and anguage, seventeen and one-tilth per :eut, to science and medicine, and nearly thirteen and one-half percent to law and politics. The library of the Imperial University comprises 101.217 Jap anese anfi Chinese books and 77, !91, European looks, but is simply for the use of professors and students. There are also eight smaller public libraries and .Jen private libraries In -ariou9 $ 6f "the eqyjjjf', A German Girl's Day. A German matron rou es he. daughter of 6ixtecn at seven o'clocil In the morning, summer or winter. Half an hour later sae must be at areaKfast, serving her brothers and sisters, after seeing that they ar properly dressed for school. Kid ot the young folks, she must make her bed and clean and dust tho whole of tho rooms of the home by ten a. m. On three days ot the week she sets out for the dressmaker's and learns the business until noon. On t'".e other three days she practices on the piano and learns English. Twice 8 week the hour from twelve to one it devoted to music lessons. At one thirty dinner 1? finished, and the glr must herself put away and lock up the remains, after which she is a! lowed to read some entertaining book or play piquet or dominoes with her father. From half past two un til four-o'clock she does plain sewing. The. whole family then take co ee and walk tor an hour and a half. At six her father pounces upon the un fortunate girl and gives i era subject iu history, geography or literature on which to write a theme in th? space of an bour without book or other as sistance. The joung lady mut n -xt prepare tea to which the family sit down at seven o'clock, punctually. After that she may take up her cm broidery or crochet, and the family read aloud by turns till nine o'clock when tho poor eldest daughter is sent V bed. Flrinc Cans at Sea. To be unaccustomed to the experi ance, it is anything but pleasant to be on board of a Une-of-battlc sh pat sea when the big guns are being II rod. Before they are discharged the decks are cleared for action, and all the chairs in the cah!nsaro la d down and tied together, whilst every bit of movable furniture is secured. The doctor goes round and makes sure that every man has had h s ears stopped w th cotton wool. The con cussion when the guns are fired is tre mendous, and the ironclad quivers from stem to stern with the vibra tion. In fact, tho shock of the ex plosion is so great that every pane of jlass in the skylights is invariably shattered, and much of the orna mental woodwork is splintered. Af ter a few hours of this rough play the :arpenters have a busy t me in mak ng things look presentable, once more, for the ship resembles a wreck when she has finished her practice. Nobody likes it The sailors stand ing by the big guns somet'mes' Und themselves thrown all of a heap cross the deck, and after an honr or liwo ofllccrs and men become as black is sweeps. It is imposs ble to be vell out of the way of the annoyance, ihoiigh perhaps the one place in the resscl where the guns trouble the new the leat is down in the engine oom, wh eh is bolow the level of tbo kck upon which most of the arma ment is put Ono Mini's Awful Mistake "I made the awful niitukeof mak ng love to my own wile one day last week," said W. T. .Masm, as he drew i chair up to the charmed circle where sat the story tellers in the Lindell ro tunda. "I had been down to Kaaka jcc on a business trip and took the aight traiu for Chicago, where 1 re iide. The coach was chorlc-a-block, with the. exception of one duut'le seat, jvhich was occupied by a stylish -looking woman, who sat by the window ind had her veil down. I teceived permission to ec.'njy the seat with aer, and we were soon chatting p'.cas mtly. I thought her voice sounded Taniiliar, but fate had ordained that should make an a?s tf myself. I ;ricd to cet her to put upher veil, but ihe objected that the cinders got into ier eyes. To make a long story short struck up a desperate flirtation with aer. She admitted that she was mar ied, but said her husband was a rraceless scamp, who was always flirt ing with other women and neglecting nor. Of course, I sympathized with ner, and told her that a man who nrould neglect so charming a woman juglit to lie kicked to death by a b'inc. mule. Was I married? Certainly not Well, we Anally reached Chicago, ind I handed her into a cab Then die lifted her veil. It was my wile ! This story stops right here." Globp Democrat. The Bent Policy. Mother Here, Aithur, is the 10 :ents I promised vou for being vac :inated. Arthur Just give me a nickel, mamma. It only hurt half s much as I thought it would. Judge. Not Often. First Bad Little Boy Lo you ever wear before your father? Second I5ad Little Boy Not often: he usually jwears tlrst Rochester Democrat. It Never la. First Criminal Was the Judge s charge a heavy one? Se.ond C:im- inal Nrit. n hpavu na mv i-rmnr'.'j j Exchange. iiulitff Into the iiauua of a Receiver. (3 tS?r... " mmmi Truth. Theatric al Item. O'Brien Say, Dutchy, wot's dat. Ic papers call a s;ecta-ular plat? S.hafskopf O'Brien, you was one ifool. It was a play vhere ou use ' la"cs to see the ballet Hallo. ' An Irish Sportsman. j Fat Ee jabbers, yez shot naythj, nan av thira! Mike How th'divil Joald I, wTiin th' report av th' gu" . frightened both av thim away.' I Tudge. TRUMPET CALLS. Warning Koto ti tha Cnnxleeiued. OVE never losei Jbv being tested. Ir wiil not take much envy in tbo heart ta drive Christ deaf out 1 A lie a mile away Is alwayi trying to trove that it is the trutn. TiiK man wLo would lead otocrs must not be arraid to walk by himself. Gois lovo is something we can never buy or lose. L'e never turns back because It hears a liou roar. N ) one who is tit for Heaven want: ; to go there aloue. Tj have too much help is as bad cj to have no help. I Tue people who talk the most to.i often say the least ' I Ueligion that is not used every day jwill not keep swe-t. ) I You can nev. r tell bv tho size of a 'sin how black it is. .SoMij very pood looking people an deformed on the inside, j Ai.l sini promise to mare than paj their way to begin with. Ir takes a good deal of grace to be a good Christian with a big income. I Iris never hard to do the ritht thing after tho mind has been made j It Is doubtful if God ever made t mac who could please all his neii bors, , How cite at some people will sel themselves for the promise of spot casU. As lono as he knows that God is with him why should any good man worry. i One of the first privileges of ever) Christian is the right to live wlthou' worry. : Whenever wc are willing to do good, God wiil see that wo have f than e. ' It is a good thing for you to have riches, but a bad thing for riches t have vou. ; GoiVs angels never get very fai away from the man who lives a lifr pf faith. The man who fears the light h always ready to run from his owr shadow. The richest man is the ono who can give away the most without re grettiog it ! No max can love his neighbor as himself unt 1 he first loves God wit! bis whole heart. Many a man who would like to re form the world, has a front gate tha' wan't stay shut. Many a church member sponges his preaching and pays full rrice for hi? tigars and tobacco. Many a man will tell you that tiie church he belongs to is full of hypo cites the moment be finds out tha he eau't run it Thehe is no bigger fool in the world than tho man who is expecting to get to Heaven because his wife bo longs to church. ! Maiik this: You do not attract BtteiHiou in Heaven for your piety i very time you buy a dish of Ice crearr tt help the burch. Give a loose rein to passion, and there is more danger ot a runawa and a wreck than there is in ridinr behind a wild horse. Tue devil would probably be will ing to stop throwing stones at a mis sionary, for a chance tt sit down anr Watch a preacher smoke. One of the Lost Trlbea. Scattered over the breezy downs ot -he Nilgherries, in little villages of wicker bouses, that look at a littla distance like nothing in the world so much as a colony of ucehives, lives a community of ouO or 700 peodo who are variously believed to be tho de scendants of one of the loit tribes of Israel, the aborigines of Southern India, and a community of Manlch i an s. They believe in a strange trinitj , ind a hell, a dismal Rtreaia full ot ' .eeches and this they-must cross Ly means of a single thread. Tho soul burdcnel with sin is too heavy for this slender support and tho sinner falls into the streams, but the thread sustains easily the souls of the good. The funeral of a toda,for that is tho name of the singular tribe, is as old in its way as itsreligious tcllef. His ! body is wrapped in a new cloth; and ' his toes tied together with red thread: gram, sugar, tobacco and money are wrapped in his funeral toga to provide him for his journey across the dark plain beyond. Two buffa loes are slain beside tho corpse and the dead man's hands are placed upon there horns; a piece of his skull, bis balr and his linger nails are removed, , to be used later on at tho great cel ebration of the death of all thoso ' who, during the twelve months, havo , "taken the leap over the great pre cipice into tho bottomless abyss." When these tokens aro removed, clarified butter is smeared oa tha fragrant wood of the funeral pyre, and the body is burned to ashes aDd the ashes scattered to the four Winds. j A friend. I Bacon tells us that the accidents used to say that a "a friend is an other himself," while ho added that "a lriend is far more than himself." It hardly possible that eiteer state ment could be made concerning tbo large number of oersons whom wo bold as fr'ends in the present day. Iu a general way, we think of friend ship as only for happiness, for joy, for leisure, for recreation: and this Idea lessons its value to a people immersed in wort: and bent upon high endeav Drs. But true friendship Is made of ! stronger and tougher material. It ls 1 Tor c very-day wear the darkness of ' idversity as well as the sunlight of ' success, for the busiest hours as well is for the holidays and resting-tlmes Df Ufa Affection is its foundation, Sut upon that should be built a firm j nd solid structure, upon which all the storm of life may beat wlthou? , kvall. I tuh Easra ftowofls Jt - - SEWS IN THIEF. t Electric tunning is increasing. Delaware has no State prism. f Freuch lovers hive a sealing wax joJe. i The Cr-t Lugliah tboatro wis built In 1 j7o. Tiie Hi tidliiyas hivj bjen seen 221 xiles nway. A ton of r.huoads is worth j Tae oliiost e.iilec'iju of poetry is ( tho book of Psalms. Out of evory 1,0 h) births ia Eng . InTitl twelve aro twia-. The. deepesb'.rte:-iau well is at Pots ' darn, Germany, 5,fi0 feet deep. i Some ningb ogany tretsin Ilondurni art! vorth from .", -V,)i) tj $;5,0 0 each j Ono pound of sheep's wool is enpa blj id producing ono yard of clot'.i. Person of weak it-'.iiet aro apt to j f-uei Uiiib to acute disease-j of every (Liii.l. I ho Sinhalese, aft r extra 'tin the . honey from the bee, eliew up the insect itself. Detachable heels for boots ami shoes are a recent invention of an Eug lishuiau. A woman of Spring Hill, Mo., Las h ike i a loaf of bread from yeast thirty ycr.rs old. Three million American citizens ol over tYlrtv vcats of aco were unmar ried in m There is n man in West Virginia who writes bis name thus: Llewellyn Phtliolognyrrh. A seveiiteen-ycar-old gi-nt iu Aus tralia measures eight feet 3i inches and weighs 300 pounds. Iloninu treaties, laws aud pul lie documents of importance wero written ;u tablets of brus. The longest wire span is atelegiapli wire ovir tho river Kistuath in India It is over C.00J feet Itwillco-t $:r,0ol,2.".fW to run tho government of New York city .luring the cotniag year. Tho tongue of the tn:d is attached lo th front of bis jrv and linns back ward instead of forward. A pliclograph ca. ca has been spe ciVily d.-visod for registering the dis tauce of lightning fia.-.he.-'. Th3 bank clearings of St. Lor.islast ytr amounted to S l.bli',01 against $1,2:51,271,903 iu 1KJ2. Shige.ken, Osaka, .TnpuLi, c'.aimesto have a dwarf tiiirty-six years oil who ia only seventeen inches ia height. The loot of the tailow tree of China produces oil, the bark of t'ua famous "rice paper" and the berries tallow. A rattlesnake killed by James (Ira tam of Columbus, lml., measured nine fectin lorgtU nnd had thirty nine rattles. One of tho earliest fchipwreeks re corded ia this country was that of a Dutch ves ls en Snadv Hook in For bleeding at the nose ,Dr Hut chinson recommends plunging the feet and hands in water as hot as can be borno. Vessels of 2,030 tons carry seven anchors, foar of a maximum weight of eighteen tons, with about 300 fathoms af cable. An increased impulse to flax culture in Seotlant seems likely to be given by the iuvention of machinery for scutch ing the flax. Before tho MoLanimedans took po ssesion of Arabia nine-tenths of all fe male children born were immediatly buried alive. The burning of Mocsow by the nu 'sians inorderto drive ont tho French caused an estimated loss of over $12 ,)0! 000. An ariuless boy cf Middletowu Coun., named William Mylehrett, has completed tho painting of a wagon. His feet did tho work. Apig 15 mouths old that measures iix feet long aad weighs nearly ohil pounds i3 owned by Wiley eville , oi Brassville, N. C The earth, travelling at t'uo rate ol lOiiO miles a minute, passes through joO.oOO.OoO miles of space in he course of a year. If human dwellings were construc ted on the same proportionate scale a tho ant hill of Africa, x'rivate residences would be a mile high. A Newark, N. J., inventor bat produced a street-cat fender which en able him to sand on the track nnb defy the trolley juggernaut. From a lobster farm nt Sonthport, Me., twelve milis in extent, one milli n of the crustaceans aro annually shipped to nil parts of the world. The gigantic earth wormswhich in feat the river banksin (iippsland, Amdrnlin, often grow to bo six feet long and from ono to threo inches in dia amoter. What is believed to have been the 1 .rgest rau'e ever reared in America was sold in Kansas City in 1SSH. It was IS J hands high and weighed 1,97" pounds. When Lord Pulmerstone was burieJ in Westminster Abbey, London, the officiating clergyman threw into th grave several damond and other riugj as a peace offering. So great is the tchcj in one of the rooms of tho Pantheon, at Home, that the striking together of the palms of the bands is said to make a noiec equal tc that of a twelve-pound cannon. Not Horn to Die That Way. Michael O'Keilly's lucky star must tiave shone over him, lor he bad ibout as narrow an escape from in. stant death the t.ther morning t the l'arus mine as was ev r re corded. He was ascending the lad ler way in the pumping shaft above Lhe loo level, when one of the ladder rounds broke, and he lost his balance ind fell into the shaft lie dropped ibout Ufty feet and in some mauner Managed to grasp hold of a water jipe or something of tho kind and :lung to it Otherwise he would iave fallen 200 feet to the t;09 level, ! lni Into the seventy-five feet of watT, He managed to swing to lo the ladder a.'a n. Another miner issistcd him to a level. Ho was raised to the surface and Drs. Wells ind McCrimmon wers summoned. They found that, aside from a frac tured ankle and some painful bruises, ihe man was not seriously hurt, but ihe shock had been great He was jarrled to his home in Duolia Gulch. Mr. O'Beilly has a wife and one child. Butte, Mont, Inter-Mountain.
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