. 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.