. P. 8QHWEIER THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION-ANI) THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. Editor Md Propria tog. VOL. XLVIII MIFFLINTOAVN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL IS, 1894. no: IS. MA.Y, SWEET MAY, In. the scouted soft May breezes Forests don their kirtles green, 6.11 is melting-, nothing freeze?. Flushes with auroral sheen; Waking, Breaking, Hearts laugh out with lora agloir. May, sweet May, will have it so Wintry bosoms, nu'er so dreary But the sunshine thrills them throujb; Heavy spirit", ne'er so wa.ary tut ure twinkling in their aex; Laughing, Quaffing, Life in measure full, I trow. May, sweet Miy, will have it so N i mora wax and wane an1 chanjrln Let there be in love that's tru fya-onles and never ranging, yucb, dear love, my love for you Yearning, Burning, Or, as brook in even now, Mny, s t eel May, will have it so TJlrich V. Liebtensleln Mary and Ben and Din '1. LAMPTOV. UES3 1 ain't much on the shoot no.v," said tbe old iimo, as he tenderly hung his squirrel rifle on the deer-horn hacks over tbe door, but when I was a youugstei there wan't no man er boy iu Poor V ,rl r.,ll,.- !... could shot along side of me. Nary a on?," and the old man sighed Leavily. "But," he con tinued, "this gittin' old knocks the ed-e on a man s eyesight, and mikes his hand so trembly that he can't even take a drink of water without wastin' half of it; and as fcr shootin' us old fellers might as well try to bit center with a maul at a hundred yards." The visitor, to whom this conversation was addressed, made a few desultory and incongruous remarks, and the old man resumed his tulk, pretty much as if nothing at all had been said, which it was mostly. "I never got beat bat once," he went on, with a good-humored reminiscent chuckle, "and that was by a feller that hadn't scdso enough skeercelv to no in out of the rain. Leastways that's what I thought when the match corao oil. Ho didn't live in my neighborhood b it ha bad a larin about twenty mile furder up tbe Fork, and I had a habit of goin' u thar to see a mightly likely gal, that was darter to the man that owned the place next to the cnap that beat me at tho shootin'. The old man's nnmn wa Snni Iliggins, and tho gal's name was Marv. Mary's a purty name, and Mary was'a purty gal. Notbin' oa the Fork was a patchiu' to that gal, and I wanted her bad enough to go up thar sparkin' about twict a week durin' of a mighty hard win ter, when it was cold enough to f recz2 the knobs off a bureau. Mary kinder liked me, . too. Liked me betterin' any of the other young fellers that was baogia' round, exceptin' Ben Wilkins, and it was neck and neck betwixt me und Ken. Ben was her neighbor, and the same feller I hud the shootin' match with. I never could job how she tuck to Ben, he was so dog goned freckle faced and sun burnt and sandy headed and ignorant like and fooler than Thompson's colt, but you can't tell about women, and thar wasn't no goin' back on the solemn fact, thatef Ben didn't git out of my way, I was never goin' to git the gal, and it was most nigh as certain that ef some-thin' didn't happen to mc, Ben wasn't goin' to cit her neither. It was close ruunin', Mister, and the gal settin' on the fence, aggin' us on. That's another weakness women has; I mean these young women that has ther choice, like Mary Iliggins. Wasn't no danger of her tillin' a maiden's grave, even cf me and Ben both got put out of the way." "One mornin' when I was on the road leadia' up the Fork, towards Squire Ilig- I gins's farm, I met Ben cotnin' down with ' a load of hay, and I'd been goin' to see I Mary then fer mighty nigh a year. j 'Ilow'dy', Ben J' says l", friendly) enough. " 'How d'y', Dan'I,' says he to me. 'Fair to middliu,' says I. 'uoin' up to the Squire e, I reckon!' tays be, qucstionin. " 'That's what,' says I, spcakiu' as if I had tbe rights to. " 'Mary ain't home,' says he. "Yho said anything about Mary? says I, gettin red 'round the years. ' ' I'lio way you're goin', say9 he, v ith a grin. " 'iVhut's that to you?' says I, not evi i polite I reckon. -Nuthiu', savs he; "but ef you want to tea Ler, you'd better go down to mother's. She's down thar to a quittia'.' 'Ben grinned again and I got purty mad, but not enough to hurt anybody, as J cays I to him: 'Ben Wilkins,' says I, 'have you got agunr -- " 'You don't want to fight, do you?' " cays he, backin' off kinder, fcr I thought he was skecrt, and mebbo he was. " 'No' says I, 'but I want Mary nig gles. ' ' 'So do I, says he. "Then it cleared up a bit, and we both looked at each other sorter sheepish, anil grinned, fcr before this wc hadn't even bad no undcrstandin'. " 'Now, a3 we know what wo want, cays I, 'we orter have it settled od short notice who's to git it, and ef you air agreeable, we'll settle it to the satisfac tion of all partic3 at intrust, as the law yers say. - " 'Howl' says he. " Wc can't both have her, kin wJ' 'ays I. - " 'Not accordin' to law,' says he. 'Ncr no way,' says I. ' 'I reckon not,' says he. M Then s'posing we have a shootin thatch fcr her,' gays I. 'I ain't agreeable to that,' says he. " 'Fer why?' savs I. " 'You air handier than me with a ;un,' says he. " 'Some, mebbe,' says I, umblo oug'a. 'but I'll givo you twenty-five irii advantage, and that'll about make i even.' "Well, after ta'kin' fer half an hour 'r more, we fixed up a shootin match fi r next day, on Ben's farm, fer he was reeit to go anywhere 's else, and I rid bi.cfc home, and next forenoon I was on l and fcelio' as slick as whistle, fcr I was Bamblinlon fiittlnlilarT. Nobodr ET W. J. Sit j was to know anything about our settle- mint, and when I seed Ben, he was set tin, on the fence, about a quarter of a mile from his house, with his gun acrost his lap, lookin' lonesomor than a cat in a rain storm. Thar was an old frame barn standin' by itself in the field, and w went over to it to have a quiet place for the closin arrangements. It had a pile of loose straw in it, and as we sol thai talkin', I seed a knot hole in the plank about two inches acrost, and I ast him ef it wouldn't make a good enough m.trk with the straw inside to ketch the bul lets. You see I was doin' the most of the engineering fer B ;a was that shook up he didn't seeau to know his head from a hole in the ground. lie said he thought the knot-hole would do. so w j went outside and it was like asef it had oeen put thar a purpose. "We stenoed off a hundred Tarda fnot , - -j j and druv a pin down, and then went on i twenty-five yards and druv another, and me and Ben took our places. We was to shoot ten times apiece, me five and Ben five, turn ahout, and neither of us was to go nigh the other, to flustrate him dur ing the shootin. I was feelin' in reu- t l.ir shootin trim, and when I shot my j five I knowed Ben was goin' to have to do some mighty tall shootin' 'er loso the gut. n e went 10 me marie together and pegged up three hole?, not half an inch from the knot hole, and two bullets had gone smack through, leavin" no sign. "Then Ben lis took his turn, and I was shore I seen him shake when he lighted his gun, but he shot off his five, and we went up to sea what he had done and what do you think, mister? There wasn' the sign of a bullet hole any wheres I "I looked at Ecn aid he looked at me. " 'You ain't shootin' very spry to day,' says ha, grinnin.' " 'You air,' says I, looking ugly an 1 fceliu' my holts on Miry slippin.' "Next round I was dead sot on doin' my level best ani I put three balls through the hole and scraped the edges with the other two. "Ben was lookin' peakid, and I see I his knees w.i'jb'.in', but ho braced up and went b ick to settle who should u ivo the gal, and it 'peared to me like as if he was takin' till Christian to fire thsaa five shots. He got it done at last, though, and we walked up to the mark kinder unsartin, both of us, but that wasn't any need of it." "Did you win?" broke in the visitor, in a high state of exjiteauat and inter est. "Nary win' mister," chuckled tho old mm. "That sandy headed, ttr.itn' headed cos had seat every one of his five bullets smic'c through the kn.jt hole, ani thar wasn't the sigu of a scratch anywheres iu sight. "That endei it fer ms, both fer shootin' and fer the gal, and I rid homu feelin' like a saw log had fell on me butt end fo'raost, and Ren went lopin' acrost the field tor'ds Squire Higginj's. "About a month after the shootin' match Ben aad M try was hitched and I was to the hitchin' feelin' a good deal pearter than I did the day B;u b u me, and gettin' some consolation out of n new gal, jist moved onto the Fori. Bit ( couldn't quite git over Ben's beatin' me shootin'. "Along about midnight, I had to g) home, and as 1 started to git on my hos;, Mary followed me out on the porch. " 'Dan'I," says she, kinder cooin' and soft like, 'you won't git mad at me cf I tell you somethin', will you?" " 'Of course not, Mary,' says I. 'Noth in' you could say er do would make mc mad at you.' '"Well, then, Dan 1, says she, shak in' some, fcr I was holdm' her hand and knowed, 'when you and Ben had that shootin' match fcr me, Ben didn't have no bullets in his gun. They was j ist wads." "Well, sir, you could a knocked mc down with a splinter, and I got hot all over, but I shct my jaws down hard fer a minute and held in, thinkin' about them wads. " 'And ho didn't beat mc shootin', after alii' says I, feelin' mighty good over it, all ut once. " 'No, he didu'c,' says shs, pattin' me on the arm like as ef she was my mother. " 'But he got you,' says I, dropping back a peg er two. " 'Yes,' says she, 'but I put him up to it, Dan'I.' "Then she smiled, till I thought tho sun was raisiu' ani says I: " 'Mar,' says I, 'you've got more sense than Ben and me put together, pertickcrly me, and I'm glad you've got the one you wanted,' and with that I jumped on my boss and rid lickety split fer home, and when I got thar I just hugged that rifle of mine as ef it had been Mary Iliggins. "Dan'I," called the old man's wife from the kitchen, at this point, "supper's ready." "So air we, Lizzie," he said, rising. Tbe visitor looko 1 at him inquiringly as he rose to accompany him supper ward. !"Yes," fiuiied the old man, "she's the same that was tho new gal on the i crk the night Mary and Ben got hitched." Detroit Free Press. The Cat iu Thibet The cat is treated by Thibetans with the most marked attention and forbear ance. Even when it spills milk, breaks or destroys any valuable object, or kills some pet bird, it is never . whipped or beaten in any way, but merely cniaaen and driven away by the voice; while were a do? or a child to commit these offenses they would be soundly thrashed. Such very mild and considerate treat ment might lead one to suppose that tbe cat is estoemed holy. But such is not the case. It is, indeed, regarded as a useful auimil to the extent that it con tributes to the preservation of sacred pictures, robes, books, sacrificial food, and the like, by killing the rats and mice which consume aud destroy these. But otherwise the cat is considered the most sinful being on earth on account of its constant desire for taking life, even when gorged with food, and its torture of its victims. Its mild treat ment is due to the belief that whoever cause .the death of a cat, whether accidentally or otherwise, w:li have the sins of the cat transfured to his shoul ders. And so gre is the burden of its sins . that even w.jre one six (two pounds) of butter for each hair on the cat's bodr offered in Ceding the temple lamp before Buddi's image the crime would not be expiated. Indian Anti quary. BUDGET OF FUiY. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FliOM VARIOUS SOURCES. He Knew It Would be Necessary Negative Relationship A Brill. iant Imaginative Knrc Hot Freely. Etc.. Etc. "Wooden have Jack. no minds," siiJ lordly "Whatever tho world mav sav:" "I am ru.-j they hve." 'erowlad Arthur 'AaJ taey change them every day." Fuck. KEOATIVE RELATIONSHIP. Miss Budd "Have you any sister??'' Jack Hoodoo "No; but I have tho refusal of several." Puck, SOT FKKELT "Could you get the lawyer to express bis opinion freely?" "Not exactly; he charged mo tea dol lars." Truth. IT WOULD BE sec ess a nr. think you Friend "Do you marry a rich "irl?" will Poet "I'll have to if I kcao on ia i this business." Life. VERY PARADOXICAL. "It is very paradoxical." "What?" "That the fresher a child is the spoiled it is apt to be." Truth. A BRILLIANT IMAGINATIVE EFFORT. Chawles "Count Maugipawni is giv ing i: out that his family wealth is shuply fabulous." Synnic "You bet it's fabalo-j'." Chicago News Record. rEI'PERV. "What is the greatest accomplishiusat you know of?" said tho talkative young man. "To say nothing silently," replied tho peppery young worn in. Washington Star. WHAT SUE WANTED. In a furniture store. " vVno is that very homely woman'"' "She is one of our host cu stoniers." "What did you sell her to-day I" "A full-length mirror." Chicago News Record. A PERFECT SDUSTITCTE. DeGarry "Ila is raisiu j quite a muscle. His he one of tho3'j home gymuasiumsf Merritt "No; but ho has a furnished room and practicos opening the bureau drawers. " Truth. THE SAME FOR BOTH. Paterfamilias (to the suitor for hU daughter's haad) "Young mm, aro your expectation equal to those of my daughter?" Mr. Downlippe (hastily) 'Exactly, sir.'' Chicago News Kscord. ALTERNATIVE. ScelySa nuel "Sir, I a n in a little trouble, and I should ba very glad if yoj could help mo out." Mr. B. Z. Day "Certainly, certainly; which way would yo i prefer, th s djjr or ths via lo v" .J hco.i Courier. our of si';nr. "Have you a new kite?" asked Willie of Toiuiu, who was standing ou the hilltop holding the ead of a string. "Course I have," replied Tommy. i 'Is it a good one?" "You bet. It's out of sight." Pitts burg Dispatch. A OOOD LIKENESS. Photographer "Your son ordaro 1 this likeness from ms." "It is certainly very much like hiin. Has he paid for it?" "Not yet." 'That is still more like him.''-. Yaokee Blade. PEEVISH. Sick Man "Shut off the register, do. The heat is intolerable." Wife "Why, there's only cold ait coming out of it." Sick Man "Then have tho fin stirred up. Do you want mc to freezt to death?" Chicago Inter-Occau. BELFI31I. A man and his wife entered a restau rant out in the country, and the former said to the waiter: "What can you let us have?" "Signore, there is only a single mut ton chop left." "PerBaccol . Waat is my wife tt have for dinner?" II Messagiero. NOT AS ENEMY IN THE WOSLD. Mrs. Hicks "Mrs. Dix declares t'u it you called her husband a natural bora fool." Hicks "I didn't say anything of tho sort; I simply said he hadn't an enemy in the world." Mrs. Hicks "Well, what do you cill thatf Browning, King Ss Cj.'i Monthly. A MISAPPREHENSION. Mr. Poghlight "Truly, Miss Pull teeth, since I have moved next door to your home I have greatly enjoyed hear- j lng your daily singing." Miss Puiltecth (coufused) "Pardoa me, Mr. Poghlight, but I rarely sing. Er pa is a dentist, you know, and bis office is right off our parlor." Chicago News Record. DIFFERENT KIND OF HEALING, 'Henry," said the physician's earnestly, "why don't you go wife iuto politics?" "Why that isn't usually considere 1 advisable for a young doctor." Isn't it? I thought you might get ar appointment to be one of tho wi healers who seem so important. Washington Star. SIMPLE A3 ABC Eastern Man "Is there any way for a itranger to make money in this section!" Westerner "Yes, sireel See tnat lot jver there? That's mine. Just buy it." Eastern Man "nurol How am I to make money on that?" Westerner "Sell it to tome other iranger." Puck. J Kiwi bearta are more than coronets, A Runaway Locomotive. When the Erie road was "first built, which now runs from Harrisbatg to Canaudaigua, N. Y., it was nicknamed the "Davy Crockett," and for a good many years thereafter tho name stuck. It wa3 brought about ia this way: Oae dark night when the coaluctor was ta'c ing three passenger cirs through to Saa bury he noticed the headlight of a loco motive in hU reir. He informed ths en. giueer of the fact an I both began spec ulating what it meaut. Tho train was running at a high rate of spied, but tho , hm Hi. -lit in tho rivir w.n raiain- stea !. r n them. As there were no lights in the roar of the headlight they conclude I it must bo an empty engine. That roa 1 twists in aad out a:noag tho mountains aul skirts tho banks of tho Susquehanna in such a way as to permit aayoae look ing back to obssrve whit is. going oa in tbe roar for a considerable d'utaaie. The conductor ordered theea;in;er to put oa more stea-n, and tho latter pu'ile 1 th? throttle wide open. Tuen followed a wild, weird chase through the night. Pursuer aad pursued tore aloa at tho highest speed. Eeryholy oa the cirs believed thit the eagineer of the pur suing eagine was cither ilrauk or craz. At last a bright idea struck the ea gineer. He rcc tiled the fact that a lo comotive caa make little progress oa greasy rails. The contents of tho two huge cans of lard oil were poured ou tho track from the rear of the 1 1. pas senger coach. Tho idea w is a great ono and proved highly sueeesolu!. Soon the headlight of the pursuing engine gre;v dim in the distance. When it was safo t do so the train was stoppe 1 and backed up to solve the mystery. A very funuy sight was revealed. One of the finest engines oa the road, called the "Davy Ciec'.vett" they gave locomotives names in tho-e days instei l of numbers had broken a.vay from a hostler up at Williamsport and started do;vn the track oa a voyage of destruc tion. The oil poured oa the tracli had ballled all the destructive abilities that locomotive possessed. There stood the "D ivy Crockett," puiUng au l snorting and pawing like a wild Texas steer, tb-e (driving wheels buzzing around oa the grease I truck like a fly wheel iu a ma chine shop, but not moving ar. inch. Not a sigu of aa engineer was f rid au 1 the fireman of the pursued train in i ite 1 the engine aud shut her oil. Tney loved iier into Suuhury and there foun I a dis patch ordering them oa to a side track out of the way of the runaway, but tho oil ha l saved them. A lare excursion train was returaiag from Niagara Falls that night an 1 the cscapa f ro u destruction was really brought ab'Mit by the oiled rails. Tue "Davy Crockett" mad j many trips aftei that, but the ro i l went under that nick name for a long time, os iug to the pe culiar way the livji of miny people had been saved. Wusb.in.rtoa S.ar. The Woiuea of Aliska. "Alaskan women," said Jude S'ua'c Iey, who was for five years United Stites Commissioner at Alaska, to tho Star re presentative, "have a way of bringing their husbands to timo which is very effective. "They do not fliag tlit irons aad ro'I ing pins or give curtain lectures, but re tire to a corner, neglect their househol I duties and sulk, refusing to say a word. A few days of thi3 treatment generally brings the husband around. " The womea in Alaska also have au od I way of quarreling. They do not pull hair or resort to fisticu.Ts, but after giving each other a severe toagua lash ing they retire to their homes. Alaskans are divided up into families, such as the Bear, Crow aad Deer f.iiuilies. Tiieso families take cognizance of quarrels and feuds result. After tho quarrel Mis. B;ar will retire to her house, tear up her clothing aad two or threo blankets aa 1 then send word to Mrs. Eagle, her enemy. It thereupoa becomes iacu n bent upon Mrs. E ile to destroy a greater amount of clothing and more blankets of her o am than Mrs. Bear. By pursuing this peculiar process she evens things up in the quarrel. If she did not do so sha would bo disgraced in the eyes of her relatives and opposite tribes. "The women arc great traders, carry tho purse and manage things generally. If tho husband makes a bad bargain in trading his wifo ridiculca him. "Thcro is a woman in Sitka knon as Princess Tom, who is vory rich. Sho is an extensivo trader and has several largo canoes in which sho transports goods from Sitka to tho interior and exchanges them with the natives for furs. She is known all over Alaska and wear3 upon her arms twenty or thirty gold bracelets made out of $20 gold pieces. "The nativc3aiso traco their geneal ogy through thojemalo brauch of the family and the inheritanco comes through the mother's side. For instance, if a chief should die leaving asoa, his sister's son or nephew would succeed ia author ity and not his own soa. Tho women are not slare3, as in the Indian tribe3 in this country, out cxerciso a great deal of authority. "They have another peculiar custom. Ia this country a man's prominence de pends largely upon his wealth. Atuoaj the Alaskans it depends upon how much he gives away. If a rich member of tho E iglo tribe, for example, wishes to bo come a chief or a prominent ' man, ha makes a 'pot latch' or gift of all his property. All the members of the Eale family, no matter how remote, are m- Tited to attend the not latcu. and the I festivities include dancing and feasting and fr'nmnt!v ljiaf-. a nv.iL- Thn m-. he gives away and the poorer he makes himself tho more exalted ho becomes in ths estimation of his fellows. "Tho ;women emulate their sex in civilized countries iu their affectation of bright and gaudy colors, aa I most ol the money that they receive is invested in bright colored goods aad shawls." Washington Star. BIS OXLT TROUBLE. At the grocery store in Potato Hollow the Big Eater of Spoon River Valley had just devoured threo dozen ' raw eggs within tho time specified in tho wager ind was looking none tho worse for the indulgence, "Don't you ever experieuca any trouble from such aa enormous feel as thatl" inquired a curious spoctator. "No, sir," replie I tho cminoat gas tronomer, elging toward the cracker barrel. "The oaly trouble I ever cxper 'enced is gittin' somebody to furnish tho iigs." Chicago Tribune. ' The xe is'co battle unless there be two, HUGE PENAL SETTLEMENT. Tlie Andaman IrtlanJ. Whi-rj 8,000 Lifers" Alone Are f mprlMeced. Thirteen thousand convicts ars living at Port Blair, in tho Andaman Islands, which is probably tho lamest j.enal settlement in tbe world, savs tr.o New York Si n The Andaman i -lands arc in the I'.ay of Bengal, and to Port lilair is sent the refuse of 2"0, OOU.(iU) people, 'd he worst criminals of British India and liurmali, if they incuie long sentences of imprison- nieut, are sent to Port lilair. Over 8,000 of them are serving life sent ences. The attack-upon the chief otll cial of tne island is all lhe more note worthy lecause, sinre the settle n.cnt of Port Blair was started in 1H57, with the luuntinoii Sepoys as the first colonists, there have been only two murderous assaults on Eu- roiieans by convicts; and vet to guard this army of cvild i rs only one com pany of Brit'sU infantry and several hundred Punjab police are employed, a very small for e when it is con s'dored that there are no prison w ills, and that the convict barracks are scattered all over tbe settlement, vl$je,h is several miles square. The hundred or more lioats and canoes re quired for the work of the settle ment are far more carefully guarded tliUjt, the prisoners themselves. There is no t ha nee to escape, except by capturing those boats, liven then there would be little hope of freedom, for the Andamans are far from land and lie In a region of tempests. Tne only refuse is the Torcst, where run aways are sure to die of starvation. If they are not shot by the natives. The authorities, therefore, have so littie fear of any attempt to escape that as many as i00 of the convicts arc oltcn sent ten miles away with out any guards except their own Mllcers. Even in th's Isolated place a re markablc incident occurs now and then,' to vary the monotony of inces sant road making and forest felling. Nearly eleven years ago sounds were heard like the tiring of big guns, and it was thought a war ship had gone ashore on South A ndanian. The station steamer was sent to carry re lief to the crew, but no wreck was found. The uoist-s caaie irotn Krakatoa, 1,500 miles away, wherf the most tremendous volcanic distur bance of modern times was in pro gress. Years ago tbe ship Uunnymede sailed from Australia and the ship Briton from England, each having on board a battalion of the Eighfeth I'oot. The regiment was to be re united at llangoon. One dark nKht a terrible storm caught both ve seis near the Andamans, aud a g'eat wave carried them high on tho -uk ?c. Next morninu the regiment without a man missing, was reunited on tho isiai; 1. The battalions had traveled around the world to meet, a :d a stranger meeting never occurrc; The administration of this penal colony is a remarkable system of re wards and punishments. Invariable good conduct secures I etter food, in creased comforts, and finally wages for day's work. Twenty years of obedience to the rules secures a par don for life convicts. Pardons are often granted for deeds of gallantry, and murderers redhauded and with weapons ready, have been seized by there fellows, who risked their lives to gain the convetcd freedom. The attempt to assassinate the chief official of tho colony may result in re strictions tnat the convicts havo hither to escaped. What a Gentleman May Do. One fact is obvious: there arc many things which a "gentleman" may do nowadays without incurring the loss of his right to that designation by society, or forfeiting what the latter regards as his "honor." Thus he may avoid laying his creditors, pro. vided they are tradespeople or friends w ho, instead of being content with his plighted word, have accepted the additional se.-uriey of a promissory note. Bui "debts of honor." that is to say, loans based merely on verbal obligations and bets, must be paid at all cost, according to the ethics gov crning the "code of honor," even If the debtor has to obtain the money by means of methods which verco not only upon tho dishonor able, but even on the criminal. The jnost mortal of all sins, in the eyes of society, the one that entails above everything else the forfeiture of the title of gentleman and all honor, Is unfair p'ay at cards; and it is no se cret that tho majority of the great families of Europe would infinitely jnrcfer to havo a murderer among their relatives than a man convicted luf such an offence. To sum up, the principal things which are demanded of a gent'emac and man of honor, ac cording to the tenets of old world so ciety, are the payment of gambling debts, strict reticence with regard to questionable love affairs, and fair play at cards. The man who fails In any of these essentials whatever his estate or rank, loses his position society, never to regain it. In WORDS OF WISDOii. True royalty is royally to live.' Women always giva more than they receive; men, less. Oae must tell a woman only what one wants to be known. The most discouraging thing about woman is woman herself. The man who rides a hobby always wants tho whole road for himself. A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill requires " only our silence. Tho world is full of lion fighters, but it is hard to find pcoplo who won't run from a hornet. It is tho self-indulgence of the highest and not the self-surrender of the lowest that is tho Great End. He who prefers the material delights of life to its intellectual pleasures Is liketha possessor of a palace who takes up his abode ia the Kitchen and lcave3 the drawing-rooms empty. Excellence is not common aad abun dant; on ths contrary, as the Greek poet long ago said, "Ei-cellence dwells among the rocks hardly accessible, and a man must almost wear his heart out before ho can reach her." Whoever talks of excellence as common and abundant is on the way to loso all right standard of excellence. Unnecessary. Tho Ainu, an uncivil) cd tri-ji an the Island of Ye o. ure not rt nil found of bathing. Indeed. '!;py share the Chinese idea that it, is enly iconic who need continual a-.hinir. They do not regard tlieiu.-clve aiity, and therefore dispense with the uncleanly habit. 'You white people must be vcy dirty," said an Ai iu to a traveler us the latter was preparing to take a piunire inio a limpid river, "as vou le" n,e ou name in tne river every 3&y " "And what about yourself-" was the quection in turn. Oh," replied he, with an air of contempt, "I atu very clean, and have never needed wa.-bin ." I'seful Alligators. Any considerable interference with me order or nature is likely to p o Uuco unexrected results. In some parts of the West, it is said, it is now impossible to raise apples, although formerly there was no such Uiiricuity. The removal of the forests has altered the climatic condition. In o tier words, the cutting down of forest tree; has killed the atp!e trees. A different illustration of the same gen eral law is reiK-rtvd by a New t irleans paper. The bayous of Louisiana were form erly the homes of alligators without number. They did no purtic ilur harm, except catching a stray pig or dog now and then; nor were they known to be of am- part'cular i;se. The people, for the most part, lot the in alone. Then there sprang uu at the north a demand for alligator skins f r tne making of satchels, pocket-books and the like, and the natural result- fol lowed. The alligators were killed in great numbers, till presently they were almost destroyed. No harm was dono, people thought; but by and by it began to be noticed that certain mischievous quadrupeds were multiplying. In the rice fields the muskrats increased in such num bers that it became hard work to keep up the back levees, which had been built to keep the water on tho rice during the growing season. What perhaps was more serious, the same turrowing rodents infested the front levees, and nothing but con stant watchfulness averted disastrous cone ,uences. Then market gardeners began to complain of an alarming increase in tho number of rabbits, raccoons, and ot"cr animals which preyed u;on the caulillower, cabbage, lettuce, and sim ilar vegetables. Some of the garden ers were compelled to enclose their gardens with close wire fences, or else abandon the cultivation of suinc of their most profitable crops. n'te alligators had not been useless, and the people bad learned anew that it is dangerous to go too fast and too far in disturbing the order of nature. A Jar of Cold (.'ream. The basis of cold cream is always mutton tallow. You can get this at the butcher's; and if you will tell him what i is for, he will select some very ine white tallow, t ut the tal low i;to bits and put into a sauce pan without any water. Set the saucepan into a jar or Dolin g water and let all remain until the fat is thoroughly "tried' out of the tallow. Next a tablespoon of your favorite purfume and stir until all is a sweet- smelling liquid. Pcfore it has had time to cool, pour in a little toilet jar and set upon the ice over night. It will keep indefinitely, and will be found one of the best remedies in the world for skin that gets rough or "winter-sore." A pretty, old-fashioned CUstoni was the use of egg shells fcr the reception of the cream. To prepare the shells, make a sma l opening in the end of an cgg.and pour cut the contents. While the shell is still moist, pour in the camphorated cream and set away to harden. Tho egg-shells may be tied with ribbon, and hung beside the toilet table, taking tbe place of the jar of cold cream. A Falne M: xini. The loungers around the only store in a little Nw England village were greatly amused at something that happened one warm afternoon last August A tall, lank, barefooted man came into the store with a gal lon pail filled with blackberries which he exchanged for four quarts of mo lasses. lie carried a stout hickory walking stick in one hand, and when he de parted he put the pail on one end of the stick, and threw the stick acro33 his shoulder. He reached the plat form in front of the store, when a shining new pin at his feet caught his eye, S n pin an--! pick it tip. A II th day yon'll hive good lack," he drawled out, and stooped over to pick up the pin. when tho molasses crawled out all oVer his back and nee'e. Stra:ghtening himself hurried, the man said: "Wal, 1 never thought much of that air proverb, an 1 think less oh it neow than I ever did." Tho I'rcacher Was Puzzled. Mr. Moody received a revelation the other night while he was walk ing about tho bis hall in which he preaches looking out for the uncon verted with whom to talk. Seeing h couple of young ladies down in tho audience he approached them and put the usual question to find whether they were among the converted and elect. "O," promptly resp nded the younger and prettier of the two, "we belong to tho choir. We're going back on the platform in a moment." I The preacher gave a half smile, in ' J -.1 . I a , . . . . uouuii wueuier mumucr.soip in me choir meant that necessarily they were saved, or whether their salva tion was' not to be considered. What ever the conclusion of the revivalist was, he shook hands with the singers and walked off without receiving further information. Washington News. Ir certainly takes very little to make vain people happy. It is said that buzzards aro the best scavengers in the cities along the "Gulf of Mexico, and sometimes they are the only ones. In some towns tea minutes alter a bucket of refuse has been emptied in a back yard there will be a dozen tj tha bis birds fight ins for it. HOUSEHOLD MATTES.?. 6TUAWBEUBT SHOUT CAKE. Into one pint of flour ruh two ounce Cf butter. '. Add one-half tablespooaful of salt, teaspoonful of baking powder and not quite a cupful of milk ; turn tho dough on a board, kneaded ju3t a mo ment, and roll out one inch thick. Cut it into a round, place on a greased pan, brush tho top with milk and bake in a quick oven fifteen minutes. Have one quart of berries picked and sugared. As soon as tho cake is done remove it from tha oven and pull it apart. Do not eul it, or it will bo heavy. Put the under part on a plate, dust with sugar, sprea 1 a thick layer of strawberries over th? bottom cake, put on tho top, cover ii with berries and sprinkle with suar. Servo at once. Pass crea n and sugar with tha shortcake. Xe.v Yor' U cordcr TO COVEit THE DurjSSSrt. Thcro aro many novel desigas ia toilet, covers at preseat, but tho pure white ones look so dainty au 1 clean that they are perhaps most popular. A vory ele gant whito slip iu linen has a handsoau design of orchids tie 1 with rib'ooi. Worked iu yellow silk, au I another whito lineu one has a scallopel border all around of Roman embroidery. A white sateen cover has au effective de sign of conventional poppies an 1 scroll work, which might be varied as to color, according to tho taste of tho worker. A largo monograai is often placed iu the centre of tho cover, worked in gol 1 stitches, and never fails to look wei!. Oae ia cream linea is treated ia this way, trimmed with insertion and l.tee, tho monogram being tho only work it displays. A slip of yellovlawu, with a deep frill to match around the edge, has sprays of clover, worked iu l'aturil colors, scattered nil over it, with a fa .v bees hovering over the flowers. Most cCectivo is a shrimp of pink li.ieu trimmed with ivory lace an I einbroiderc I with chrysanthemums in flux thread with a large initial in tho middle. A siiuil.a cover i3 in bluo lineu, the design being daisies and grass carrie 1 out iu .vlii.'j flax. New York World, HOW TO MA ! A IM.L" I PC 11 -I J. The English m ike their plum pu Mia soma timo before it is to be used, aa 1 then it must ba put oa early in tho morning aad boiled for miay hours. The receipt wa hero give and have ofteu used ourselves is au American improve ment, wo think, and has the alvuuta;o of being so digestible that dyspeptics may partake of it, in most cases, with impuuity. Two hours' steady boiling is enough to cook it to perfection, al though it will not bo hurt b bjing kept longer over tha fire. The siz: given i3 for a company of twenty per sons, and if any is left, it is always bet tor tho second day, sliced and sto.ve 1 ia sauce. . Seed enough nisins to till a quart measure hoapiag fu.'; prepare oae pint of dried currants, a half pint o! preserved citron cut into small pieces, and a pint of peeled apples chopped tine"; add a pound of butter, cieame i, or tho same quantify of fresh beef suet nicely shred le l, an 1 a helping q tart of stalo light bread crunabs. It is inor; convenient to measure thau weigh, oao pint of butter or sue; is the right quia tity. Beat up light aad separately the wuites-aad yolks of eight eggs; mix them ia a largo bowl or tray, with oae teaspoonful of salt, without which iu gradient tho best male plu n pu ldiac: will bo insipid. Add a half pint cup of sugir and one nut meg grated up very Co?. Ilavj ready a light quirt of sifted Hour, with soma of it flour your fruit thor oughly. Proceed to mix as follows having your well beaten egrs re a ly ia their proper receptacle, a i d to them a pint of milk, theu stir in the figure J fruit, creamed butter, aad bread cru isos, lastly putting in just enou h sifted ll ar to make tho mass stick together iu i lump. This will probably consume alou the quart provided. Next dipyurpu 1" ding cloth of stoutest muslin or jeans ii boiling hot water, and dredge over tin iusido a thick coating of llour. Pat yoji pudJiug iuto it; tie up tightly, bat a the same time leave room for it to swell. Have plenty of boiling water in a ro nj pot, which may bo filled up again witl tho same if it boils away too much. I; inverting a plate in the bottom of you pot you will be sura that the puddinr cannot stick: to the bottom and btiru and if you have a stroug cloth tie 1 witl trustworthy twine, water cannot get ii ths two worst mishaps that can befal the inexperience d cook, llcsume of in gradients: oae quart of raisins, oae pin: of sliced citron, one pint of c!ioppe apples, ono pint of dried currants,' oni pint of milk, a tablespooaful of salt, on. quart of bread crumbs, one quirt o llour, eight cgs, one pint of l itt'.r, ; cupful of sugar. Harper's Bazir. OMELETS. A nice oaiu'ijt we'd served is al v.irs inxury, but it requires a little pr aetiet to mako them entirely successful, say Elizabeth Armstrong ia tho Farm, Fi.;lu and Fireside. Therefore do not be dis courage! if tho first tr,-o or three at tempts ara not entirely satisfactory, loi (unless scorched) they will bo catablq auyway. Meat Ouielots Ham, chicken aa 1 all kinds of meat omelets are mi le by b ir ing tho meat already choppel fine aul ecattoring it between the folds just ba foro it is doubled. Parsley O.uelets "hop parsley vjry fine and use in tho same way. Baked O.uelets Ueat the whites ol six eggs to a stilf froth. Beat tho yolks well aad add a teaspoonful of salt an i a quarter of a cupful of milk. Stir well aad add the beaten whites. Put a tahle spooaful of butter into a hot pan, an I when tha butter is hot pour the e; mixturo into it. Place it in tho o;t for six or eight minutes; whea we'l "se!.'' slip it out on a hot dish, fold au I sora immediately. Ol course either m or vegetables ca i ba put upoa it before i" is folded, ai in the previous cases. Tnn devil's bad news hurts none jxcept those who believe it. As long as faith can say that God iives hope never locks back. It is the troubles of to-morrow that make people heavy laden to-day. Us a happy Christian, and Cod w ill sco to it that you are a useful one. lion.ixo can co wrong while G :1 Is keeping watch. Tnu man who will not improve Lis talents steals from himself. NEWS IN BKIEF. Electricity rues boats. i'fv2?h iral freezing, whito Water (xpanls iu other liquids contract. A naturuh-t says tfct the ant is the most pngn tcious of a'l created beings- Gus pipes of niiinillu paper coated with awphalt havo been us-1 success fully. Lawn is line linen Mi nched on the lawn instead of the ordinary drying ground. More than lo.tli'o Hindoos have beru inoculated for the prevention of cholera. The earth's lowest Iio.lv of witter is the Caspian sen, wl.ich ha been sinking for ecntiiries. As a leapcr tho kangaroo is ahead of nil. It readily jumps from sixty to seventy feet. Five hundred tit ui u; i iu mi are es. imato'l to ri.le iu the elevators of New fork City every d ty. The !;rt fit r is sue ..! to Jupiter aud is suppose.! to indie de the nold.T elements of character. Immense a t!:e bulk of Jupiter i-, it makes u complete turn on its axis in a trillo less than ten hours. The French i-vsteuis ol weights is countries pr. tlv nigh universal in n other thau Fugii-di speaking. Of HO.) men who marry, ":!! marry y. nmrer women, "7. in u ry- women of the same age, ai:-.l S-.told r noiuen. Opals mo so : '::;'. ivo that exposure fo moisture or hea', or even atmosphe ric change, s unetim.M ruin them. The Utile lih.t ia the ineaudesceut globe cocs through thirty treatments before it is ready for tho lump. It is a disputed question among sc ientists as to which is the most fatiguing walking up b 11 or walking down bill. The public executioner of Austria wenrs a pair t f new white gloves every lime he carries out a capital sentence. . In Chinese the iett r ,-i" lia-s llo ways of being pronounce-l, and each pronunciation has a different meaning The phy-ieul lives of must freaks, like their protYsMoiml careers, are short. Tbe fat people iKUally tlie of apoplexy. Tibcria. Pah stiu ', has a meteoro logical observatory simated tlsi feet below the level of theMediteiTuncuu -Ken. The r.;;ii.l .a and Norihwcstorn llaj'l road as-w tliou.';li more than half ol the fiftrthree c. innties of flu 'land and Wales." Mi st ol the school slates com? from d'eiiLi.'.ylvania, tvla re tin re are larrjo blutc qtiuiric s. come from Ver mont and ( hio. A prehistoric human fUull fouud at Annisroii, Ala. in 1 V.Yi, measured thirty-four inches iu circumference jn&t above 'he cars. Only oue-h.urtii of tho American shipping is engaged ou the high seas, teveuty-seven h r cent, being river, lake nnd coasting trade. The Chautauqua f-alu'e, waving a white handkerchief, tins first given nt the request of Chaiieell i r Vincent, as a greeting to :i deaf mute. Deaths from suutll-pox uveraged 580 a year in lS !i, where now they nve rago but six. Tbe great reduction is Rttril nted to vaccination. An odd collection is that of one of the county officials of Maine, who has gathered feat tiers from almost every kind of bird that Hies. A man who died a short time ngo at Berlin, N.Y., Iett a diary which be began when eighteen years old and continued for fifty-two years. A French priest stalioited at Jerus alem has been the fortunate finder of "a talent of tho timo of King avid." It wns unearthed iu bis dooryard. A French fisherman vih i threw his line into tho Heine Cnnal near (St. Den nis, ou December 'gn.got bold of a packngo containing ITS railway bonds worth cJ-'.O'J'J Tho upper third of the fitco is al tered in exprcs-ion iu affections of the. bruin, tho middle third in diseases of the chest, nnd tho lower third in tlisea tos of Iho organs contained in tho abd ominal cuvity. A process of forming artificial v, hale bono from animal hair, consisting in Mibjecting tho hair to a softening l.alli then to a bath t i ncetie acid, and, finally placing tho ruu-s under great pressure, bus been invented. Growing blackberries and ntui-Ii-r.ioms, by law, nro not private prop erty in Kuglund. Ono may ba prose cuted for trespass on land where they grow, but not for theft iu taking I hem. According to the latest available as tronomical tiata, 10,0 :0 double hi trs have been recorded by the observers of this- country nud Europe. This exce eds the total number ot all .stars visible by tho naked eye, which is only about fi, ())". Sun-exposed trees have their larg est limb? cn tho south .side. Greatest Krtins in t!i3 World. Gcorgo Curson, the English Me uhor of Parliament, recently returae I fro n a Ecven months' tour of the far F. t;'., aud in giving a Tall Mall Ii i lget man an ac count of his wanderings ?:;M that he ha 1 visited the ruins of Angkor, a t ancient Chincso city, with remains of tho most magnificent and stupeu 1 us character. He .photographed the temple of Ankor Wot, which, it is suppose 1, was built b the Kumers, who cajie from India be tween A. D. 700 an i 11D '. Tlie ruins of these temples an 1 pa'a;"-, Mr. Carca ihinks, are the most te;u itk'.ble in the worl l. They are sit,i.a:e 1 in t ie inidit of a tropical forest. The f..rest growth i3 so thick that to approach the:a it is necessary to cut a way with billhooks. So densa was tho uu lergroA tii that the journey t some of the ruins w.a.i made iu darkness. So little is ksown about tlicra and so thoroughly aro they hidden by tho foiwst that many of the people in ho neighborhood hi7i forgoUeu tha ctual sit. uosctijj jo in; svj ppnOAl ppiOAi OIJJ "S .fOUOUl SB UOKI 0 joistm c viv' si: ojoav ojtiiy oqj a irosmnt uo e; ou; se r:-jsiJH3 injnv.rj out uo pjcii ;ii:q cq joaoh tiiav pjo anx The tazts of p:o docs not depend upon the sire or shar.o of tho nisca.
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