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B, F. BOHWEIER,
THE OONETTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor a&d Proprietor.
VOL. XL VII I.
MIFFLINTOWIS, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13. 189-1
NO.1 26.
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THE viUIKT HOU3B.
O, mo:her, worn and woary
With cares whi?'a n?ver c?i3
With never time for pleasure.
With days thit by no p'.aee.
With litt!e han Is to hinder
AaJ Iceble stjrs to urt:-1
IVith tasks thrit li- UTifiaish !.
. lleem not your lot toj U i.- J.
I know ahou-ra where c'li.Jin'j tYei
Axe bidJen out of sijhl;
Where never oun 1 cf little feet
" I beard fro n mo n 1 11 niUt;
Ko tiny han Is that fat un 1
That pull things ail uwry.
No baby hurt to pity
. Aa lbs qn'ot days jo by.
The house is all in orjjr
And free from tiresome noii
to moments of coa'usion,
No scattered, broken toys;
And the chil Iron's little garnncn
Are never soiljd or torn,
Eut ere laid away forever
. JuHt as they last were worn.
And she, the sad-oyed moth or
What would she gie to-day
To feel your cares and burden'.
To walk your weary way !
.Ah! happiest on all this earth,
- Could s'ae again but see
The rooms all strewn with playthings
, And the children 'round her knee t
. Alma Fendextir Huydeu.
MISS MILLY'S ROMANCE.
nELES FORREST GRAVES.
153 RED W FN is
behind again this
week," said Miss
Duluth.
What! again J"
eh ill Miss Milly.
Miss Milly was
seated at her desk,
the big account
book open before
her, and a pen be
twecn her fingcri.
Milly Duluth
had been a beauty
in her day. She
was not unpleas-
int to look upon even at forty-odd. Her
Jluo cjcs were as blue a? ever, there was
lot a gray hair in her nut-brown tresse3,
ind a fresh color still glowed in her
:heek. -
Miss Martha, the elder sister, was tall
ind guunt, with a Roman nose and a
projecting ehin; but that signified little.
Miss Duluth made no pretensions at all.
Miliy had always been the family au
thority, even when tho old Judge was
living, and they owned the pretty placo
on Lake Bontchartrain, and now that
they wero "reduced" and earned their
liviug by letting rooms, she was tho au
'hority still.
"That won't do," said Miss Milly.
"No," meekly acquiesced Miss Du
luth, "it won't."
'lf she can't pay her rent," severely
observed Miss Milly, "what was she
doing with that new surah silk drcsst
Only a typewriter, at thatl"
"Well, she's young," said Miss Du
'u'h. "Young lolks like to dress."
Miss Milly c unpressed her lips.
"Ycung folks ought to like to pay
their debts," said she. "Tell her she
must go."
"But, Milly"
Miss Milly closed the big book.
"Tell her," said she, in a very soft
voioe, "she must go."
Miss Duluth came nearer to the table.
"Sister," said she, "perhaps you
haven't observed that Professor Mellon
takes a good deal of notice of Miss Red
vyn." Miss Milly colorod.
'No," said she, "I hadn't."
"lie's not so very young," said Miss
Duluth. "Bat he's very handsome still.
And then ho's so talented. And when
be has published that learned volume on '
Tho Languages of Christendom, he 11
bo a very famous man. And he occupies
the whole of our tirst floor. Sitting
room, bedroom and bath room furnished
beautifully. Thiuk what it would ba
for Mary Hedtvyn only a typewriter,
who has the cold hall bedroom on t'ae
third floor, aud gots her breakfast over
a kcroscuo stove to marry the profes
sor I"
Miss Milly tossed her head.
"I didn't know you were such a
matchmaker, Martha."
"I'm not, sister." A bar of scarlet
caino out on Miss Duluth's high cheek
bones. "But don't you thiuk it would
be a good thingf"
They can do as they hkc," said Miss
Milly.
'But if you send her away, you do
s'roy all her chances."
Miss Milly tapped her foot impatiently
on the floor.
"Business is business, and she owes
us a month's rent," said she.
Miss Duluth said no more. It was
rarely that she ventured to disputo her
sister's rcijjn.
Lite in the afternoon Miss Milly went
up to seo about a leak in tho roof that
had been reported to her, but she got no
further than tho little hull bedroom on
.be third floor.
There, on her shabby littlo bed, lay
Hiss lied .vya, tl o typewriter, shaking
with suppns cd sobs.
"Why, what's tho matter!'' Miss Milly
asked, pausing on the threshold.
"l'vu been discharged 1 said Miss
Rcdwyn, dllantly, sitting up and look
ing angrily at her questioner. 'Isn't that
matter oaough?"
Xiia Kedwyn was very pretty, indeed,
with abundance of fantastically crimped
red-gold hair, a completion all snow and
carmine, and hazel eyes, fringed with
curly lashes.
"Just the sort of face and figure that
would become an actress," thought Miss
Milly, with a sort of resontment. "I
wonder what Professor Mcllen can soe to
like in her"
But there was a great deal of the
womanly in Miss Milly's nature, and she
spoke kindiy to the despairing girl, in
uch sore straits.
t "Don't cry, Mary I" said she, stroking
t ;c iu.-o.u.. uair, wuica iiu-1 Jiuuj
clown from its imitation shell pins.
(Mary Kedwyn was one of those girls
who indulge a good deal in imitation.)
"Why did they discharge youJ"
"Oh, I don't know I Old Foxall has
ocen grumbling this long timel" sighed
Mary. "And to-day, just because I
happened to spell a word wrong But
1 don't care 1 I wouldn't work another
day for him, not if he'd pay me a thou
tand dollars 1 I'd rather starvel And,
for all I can ih, I'm goingto fjtarye,
f.-n You're coins tn turn'maim-M
A x- i
" 'Xo, I am not," said Miss Milly,
melted by the utter childishness of the
girl's despair. "You can stay here un
til you get another situation. Only don't
fret I"
Mary lifted her big hazel eyes in a
sudden revulsion of joy to Miss Milly'a
face.
"Will yon be so good J" she cried.
"Oh, I thought you were so old, you
wouldn't sympathize with a girl like
rael"
Miss Milly winced. It was nonsense
to notice a trifle like that, but aha felt
now that she H.ceJ Mary Uedwyn less
than ever.
"And now," added tho Titianesque
beauty, "I'll look out for another placa
at once. I wonder if old Meliea don'l
want a stenographer?"
Again Miss Milly froze.
"You mean the professor?"
"Well, he is old, isn't he?" giggled
Mary, "lie writes a lot, I know, and
he's very polite when he meets me on the
stiirs. Would you ask him forme, Miss
Milly!'
Th3 elder lady drew herself up.
"I never have exchanged a word with
him since he has been in tho house,"
said she. "My sister and I do not
mingle with our lodgers. Hannah acta
as our agent."
Mary laughed.
"You're so queer I" said she. "How
ever, it don't matter; I'd as soon ask
him myself. I wonder what salary ho
would pay I"
Tho tears wero dried on her carmine
cheeks now, her eyes sparkled, and her
enchanting lips wore wreathed in smiles.
Miss Milly eyed her curiously. Yes,
that was the face, those were the melting
glances, that could not but fascinate any
man alive I
Did the professor really care for thU
beautiful, soulless Undine tho pro
fessor, who had been Millicent's beau
ideal, her chevalier sans peur ct sans re
proche, when he and she were young,
on tho shores of Lake Pontuhartrain!
Yes, this was Miss Milly's secret tho
one romance of her almost forgotten
youth.
Professor Mollen had been studying at
Ileidelberg when her stepfather, Doctor
Maurandc, had died and left herself an I
Martha poor. They had counted their
small possessions, considered every sido
of the question, and finally decide! on
coming North to invest their littlo all in
a lodging house.
Thsy had dropped the u'aino of their
mother's second husband and became
the Misses Duluth again in tho new life
which they faced so boldly.
And when, by one of thoso strange
coincidences which happen as often in
real life as in novels. Profess ar Mcllen
engaged the first floor suit of rooms at
19 Murray Place, because it was su2
ciently near to the Astor Library to ena
bio him to prosecute his literary work to
good advantage, he never knew who his
real landlady wa.
Milly he never saw. Martha wore
spectacles, and looked ten years older
than her actual age.
I don't carel" said Miss Milly to
herself. "Let Mary Uedwyn have him
if she can win him!"
' That very evening, however, Miss
Redwya caaio home from the advertising
bureau, where she bad been to register
her name, with a severe beadacho and a
high fever.
"I'm glad now we didn't let her go,"
said Miss Milly. "Tho child has no one
belonging to her."
'Who is to take care ot her?" asked
Miss Duluth, wringing her hands.
I will," Miss Milly answered.
This was in the early spring. Tho
Juno roses were in blossom when Mist
Milly herself, having been also ill, first
sat up in her big cushioned chair and
viowed herself in a looking-glass.
"How funoy I look," said she, "with
my face so white and alt my hair cut
off I Oh, I must have been very sick !''
"You almost died," said Miss Uedwyn.
"And I was so gla I when I got wall
enough to take caro of you, because 1
knew you had risked your life foi
me."
"And the lodgers?"
Miss Milly roused herself once more
to active interest in the aflairs of the
outside world.
'They've all gone," said MissDjluth.
"Of course you couldn't expect them to
stay in a house where typhoid fever was
raging."
"Except Professor Mellen," said Miss
Redwyn, with a toss of the red gold
rings which were beginning to grow out
where they had cut away her splendid
coils and waves of hair. "He's a per
fect htrol Not afraid of anythiu!
Look, Miss Milly, he sont these rosc3."
Miss Milly glanced up at her sUtcr.
"Yes," said Martha, answering the
look, "he has discovered who wo were.
I never saw a man so astonished tm I t
was."
"And, oh," cried Miss Redwyn, 'Tvc
luch a sectet to tell youl I'm en
gaged" Just then the doctor came in; but
Miss Milly caught a moment to press
Mary's vo Wot soft hand and whisper to
-er:
"I congratulate you, deal 1"
Later in the day there came a gentle
tap at the door.
"May I come in?" said the professor.
Miss Milly smiled and hold out her
band, while he gently reproached her
for hidicg herself away from him so
long.
"Why did you do it, Millicent?" said
he. "Could not you trust me I'"
"You were in Heidelberg," said she,
coloring. "And we waifed to le "'I
he old lifo behind us. We w didn t
wow how people might feel I"
, "But It seems," said the professor.
nth a smllo, "that tho old life has fol
owod you. Do you know, Milly, it
ecms as if it was only yesterday that I
rent away? Do you remember "
She interrupted him, quickly:
"Oh, I forgotl" said she. "I have
tot yet congratulated you."
"Upon what? My new book? It
bn't published yet," said he, with a
jozzfedair.
No upon your approaching mar
riage." My. marriage t To whom?"
"To that pretty little Mary Redwyn,
of course," said Miss Milly, trying to
smile. 'Fto suspected it this lon
time.''
"MaryRewyal Oh, the littlo type
writer I" aaid he. "I've just secured a
place for her at DickendaU'a publishing
house. But aa for marrying her Why,
MUly, don't you know that there' only
one woman In the world for met Doa't
you know that I loved you before I went
courage to tell yon sot Did you suppose
I could care for a little doll like that,
when I might hope to win your swee
heart!"
Just then Miss Redwyn thrust in hci
curly head.
"Good-by, Miss Milly!" said she. "I
tV.d you, didn't I, thatl was engaged as
stenographer at Dickendall & Co.'s! I'a
going there now."
Gcod Martha Duluth was close bc
nind. "Milly," said she, you must not
overtire yourself. You have told her,
professor?"
"Yes," said the professor, 'I hi7j
told her."
Miss Milly looked up with a smile.
"I think I shall never be tired again,r
mid sho. "Oh, I am so happy!" Sat
urday Night.
Quick Shooting In Border Days.
"Have you any idea how fast a ma.
could shoot a pistol in the border days?"
said J. W. Delany, a Montana ranch
man. "A man who couldn't pull a
trigger so fast that you couldn't distin
guish between the successive shots was
slow. When they emptied their guns it
sounded like one long report. And pull!
Why, Tve seen men that could kill you
before you could shoot if you had a gun
leveled at them. Fact. Take tho time
when Doc Hamilton, tho notorious bad
man of Colorado, killed Sheriff Uarrity
in Denver. Hamilton had been wanted
for several killings and was dead shy.
When ho turned a corner he'd walk
away round near the edge of tho pave
ment. Afraid somebody would get the
drop on him if he turned too sharp, you
know. One day he was in' a hurry,
however, and ran around a corner and
looked square into a Wihchester held by
Uarrity.
'Well, Doc, I got you, says Harrity.
You've got too strong a hand, Har
rity, and I can't call you,' says Hamil
ton, toking it cool and cosy as yoc
please.
" "Yes,-full house, Doc; guess you had
oetter travel on in front.'
"Hamilton was stau Jing with his um
brella on his hip, leaning on it. lie
looked the shcrilf square in the eye.
Mind you, tho riflo wasn't four feet from
him, and leveled straight for his head.
Just as Doc started to move a runaway
horse came do tq tho street. Involun
tarily Harrity glanced in that direction.
Doc saw his oyes waver for an instant,
pulled his gun yOu" S66 ho hod hh hand
on his hip and shot Harrity stono ilea 1
before he could pull the trigger of his
riflo." Washington News.
Singing to tho Herd.
Some cowboys and cattlemen laugh
ingly assured mo that they only sing on
watch to keep themselves awake; others
say they sing, talk loud or make a noise
ist to lot the cattle know they are ap
proaching so as not to frighted and
stampede them, but the greater ru-nber
hold as I myself had read and boen lei
to believe that the sound of the human
voice, singing, talking or calling out
cheerfully, quiets and reassures tho ani
mals. However it may be, they all sing
and talk or whistle to them, and amon
my most vivid and picture-like recollec
tions is one of a certain night when an
eching head and heavy heart held ma
awake, and, slipping from tho house in
t'io little hours, I went aim'.ej3ly across
the level plain to.vards where a higher:?
was camped.
When within threo or four hundred
yards of tho bunch I could siJO, under
the white Texas moonlight, tho dark
mass of cattlo and occasionally a sil
houette, between mo and the sky, of one
of the guards on his pony, and in tho In
tense loneliness of tho plain's night th
singing of tho one boyish void holding
his untaught, unconscious way through
"A Fountain Filled With Elood," and
the whistling of his companion on a lit
tlo hurmonicum, "Home, Sweet Hc-me,"
as they came round past me in , turn,
wero as lovely and touching sounds as
;vcr beard. Eansa3 City Tlmc3. ,'
Three Tall Brothers.
"The life of a Maine woodsrhan and
hunter is very healthy," said Charles E.
Uaydcn, ot Auburn, "and it is not at
unusual thing t'tia". men who follow V.t
life from boyhood develop into the verit
ablo giants of old. Whilo 5 was at
Castle Hill, Aroostook, I male the ac
quaintance of three brothers, who were
said to be the tallest men in the county.
Their names wero Allie, Elihu and
Eiidad Frank. These threo brothers,
laid along in a lino on the floor, woulti
measure twonty-ono feet to an inch in
their stocking feet, aud without their
caps on. Two of thecn wero more than
seven feet tall, and tho other one was a
little less. Old Mr. Fi ank, their father,
was taller than any of them. Their oc
cupation is that of woodsmen, farmers,
hunters and horse swa ppers." L.2 vistor
(Me.) Journal.
Discovered.
There were many queer characters
In liallantyno's printing-bouse In
KdinbHrgD, and oaeof them declared
that he knew who wrote the Waverly
novels, "almost ' as soon as the
master," Mr. James liallantvne.
"I had just begun a new sheet of
Guy Mannering.,' " he would say,
"one night after awhile after twelve,
and all the compositors had left, when
in comes Mr. I-'allantyne himself,
wii.ii letter in bis band and a lot c
types. ,'
" 'I am eolng to make a small
alteration, Sandy, aid ha 'Unlock
the form, will you?. I'll not keep you
many minutes.'
"Well, 1 did as I was bidden, and
Mr. Iiallantynct looked at the letter,
and altered three I nc. on one pue
and one line on J "ithcr.
" "That will ao now, Sandy, ;
think,' were his words, and oil he
went, never thinking he bad left the
letter lying on my bank. 1 bad barely
time to get a gllmpsj at It when he
came back, but I kent the hand
weel and the signature, and it wai
'Walter Scott.' I had a great iana
ballant (ballad) in Sir Walter's aio
band o write at bame, so that I was
nae stranger to it. So you see, sen
tlemen, 1 kent the grand secret wher
it was a secret"
Wool What is the difference be
tween a Croton buir and a cockroach:
Van Pelt None; the former term Is
used by the landlord, the latter b.i
tho tenant
When a man bears of distress, b
longs to give advice.
S NUT HORSERADISH.
MONKSHOOD RESEMBLES THIS
ROOT, BUT IS POISONOUS.
Bought the Boots of Peddler, and Wr
Brought Near to Death's Door Another
FamUy Polnoned hj Hardlneo Dangerous
Pushcart Men.
Kiv York Family Strlrkrn.
One of the most serious dangers
which test the vigilance of the care
ful housewife was forcibly illustrated
by a couple of instances In New York
the other day. In one case six n.
sons were poisoned by eating mouks
hocjd roots which had been bought of
a pushcart man for horseradish and
In the other threo were poisoned by
ly sardines which had beecn pur
chased of one of the same, class of
Itinerant merchants. One of tho
victims, Jacob Sarasohn, who thinks
now he was very near death from eat
ing the poisonous monkshood, with
his wife and three children and
Abraham Cohen as a boarder, lives ut
OnS:IADI3II L2AVES,
FIU IT.
FLOWS US, AND
io0 Madison street. Tho peddler
raiue down Ma lison street tho other
afternoon calling out horseradish.
Mrs. Sarasohn bought two roots from
him. Wheu her daughter Aul began
scraping them for the evening meal
she noticed that one of the roots was
i ifter than the other and not nearly
lo pungent in smclL
The Sarasohn fa mil, with their
joarder, sat down to a dinner of fish
and horseradish at 7 o'clock on Fri
day night. Mr. Sarasohn complained
of feeling ill about 9 o'clock. His
lips legan t'j burn and his tongue
felt a If it were swelling. He bad
i pain around his heart and an in
tense nausea. Ills heal acbe.l and
there were shooting palm in his face,
in I altogether he was a very sick
man. Mrs. Sarasohn developed the
wine symptoms, and then one after
mother the members of tho house
hold except tho daughter, Aul, suc
cumbed. They were very much
frightened, and so wero all the neigh
bors, who suspected that pestilence
had got Into the house. Miss Aul
ran to a drug store for help. Before
he reached it she was stricken down
tnd she was carried back helpless. A
loctor was summoned and when he
earned that the family had been eat
ng horseradish he diagnosed the
cases as a'-'uto a'-onite poisoning.
Opium, which is a partial antidote
for this poison, was administered.
Monkshood does not closely resem
ble horseradish, although it Is fre
quently mistaken for it. With a
little care it can be readily distln
gulsl.cd, especially If It Is in flower,
for the flowers are blue and of a pe
culiar hood shape, while horseradish
lowers are white. The root has not
Lhe pungent taste of horseradish.
Tho tasto Is bitter at first, and It
briugsona numbness of the tongue
and a tingling sensation in the lips.;
MONKSHOOD LEAVES AND FLOWEIIS.
The two plants arc really so dis.-iml.
lar tint it would seem impossible
that horseradish growers should allow
the poi-.on plant to grow alongsido
the esculent. Yet the two havo been
confounded so much that every doc
tor knows what to suspect when sup
posed horseradish makes anybody ill..
The other case of poisoning was,
that of a woman who bought a box
of sardines very cheap from a push
cait peddler in Hester street, and
with her two little girls, aged eight
and three, made a lunch off them.,'
All three became very sick. A littlo
girl in passing heard them groaning,
and entering tho room found them
lying helpless on tho floor. The
child told tho housekeeper and tho
latter sent for an ambulance which
took tha sufferers to the hospital.
Under treatment the condition of
the patients rapidly improved. The
sickcess Is supposed to havo been
caused by tin or ptomaines, as the
tardines were In bad condition.
,-IIDING PLACES FOR ROBBERS.
Subterranean Dens Found by Two Ohio
ana While on Uuntlng Trip.
Two farmers, John Davis and
Charley Schlosser, while out bunting
recently near Delaware, says the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, accidentally stum
bled onto the hiding place of a band
of robbors. They wero prowling
around In a very wild and unfre
quented place on the banks of the
Oientangy, near the little village of
Clinton, when their attention was
attracted to a deep hole in tho
ground, very similar in appearanca
to the many sinkholes which air
found in this part of the country.
Davis went down and found the open
ing to be an outer entrance to a eut
teajiejui passagejln lboj5ldooi tp-JI
. ; '5.jt
hiiL uorches were Improvised and
the two men crawled into the en
trance. About ten feet in they found
two or three ledges of rock, arranged
like a short flight of steps, which led
down Into a large chamber. The
light from the torches showed the
room to bo nearly sauare, measuring
ten feet The floor, walls and ceil
ings, though formed only of clay soil,
were as hard as stone or the cement
ed floor of a cellar. A bole in the
wall near one corner of this chamber
proved to be a door opening to a low
narrow passageway which led to a
room similar in size and appearance
to the first, except that the ceiling
was arched.
Another door opened from thh
chamber into a 'Mrd chamber, the
Jargcst of them ;i . vtth high vault
ed ceiling foniK-J liy an immense
arched roof. From this hall anothet
gallery led to a smaller inner room
Sarthcr in the earth. All four of tho
'rooms were built in the solid clay,
dry and hard, and devoid of all liv
ing things. Nothing of much im
portance was found, although the
general appearances of the subterran
ean cavities gave evidence that it
was ont e used by a gang of men as a
storehouse or hiding place. The par
tition walls between the rooms wer3
Jrom four to tight feet thick, whiU
the ceilings were from seven to fif
teen feet high. The rooms were all
iperfect'y dark, save from the light
of the torches. The cave had no ven
tilation whatever except that a"ord
cd fiom the outer opening. When
the rooms were dug, how they werj
constructed and what became of the
earth removed from them, can ol
course, be the merest conjecture. It
n-eins. however, that they were u cd
by outlaws at no very remote I criod.
FAST DISAPPEARING.
The rirtnresqne rralrle Schooner or tli
Far Wm'.
The prairln s hooticr was the May
flower of Western Immigration. Tho
family that crossed the Mississippi to
tho sound of its creaking wheels feels
a decided advant ge over thcone that
IIIC OI.D TIMg IIIAUUK SCOOONEll.
was hurried westward on the luxuri
ous divans of a Fullman palace car.
Not un'.lkc a vessel was It with in
huge poke-bonnct-llke white canvas
cover, sailing steadily through the
sea of waving prairie grass.
A lean and lazy team, a bearded
man on the front seat, a wife an I
babe surroundol by bedding, cooking
utensils and provisions ju--t visible
beneath the half-raised side curtains,
some chairs tied to tho rar, and a
colt or cow led behind that way thj
prairie schooner's cargo. Iu early
days, when danger threatened.-scores
of these unique vcsstli traveled to
gether and plodded toward the moun
tains along tho well-defined wagon
trails leading across the plains. Hut
In latter years each has gone l y Itself,
and the single family that has made
it a habitation while in search of an
abiding place has steered as fancy or
Interest dictated.
The prairie schooner was freighted,
as Is the white-winged traveler of the
ocean, with hopes and sorrows. Oft
times the long journey, the furnace
heated south-winds and tho constant
Jar wore out the tiny spark of life in
the baby's breast, and the mother
never recalls the pilgrimage without
thinking of a little mound that
toestles low amid the prairie grasses
somewhere along tholr course.
At an artists' exhibition last win
der a Western railroad president pur.
Phased, at an exorbitant price, a large
painting of a typlca'. prairie schooner.
,"1 shall hang It," said he, "beside a
.superb drawing of my private car.
II id my parents not ridden In a
prairie schooner I should not now en
Joy tho luxury of a palace on wheels.'
Residential Hotel Life.
Fifty years ago residential hote.
life was comparatively unknown,
says tho Hotel Gazette Servant!
abounded, rents wero reasonable, po
illtlcal bosses gave kindly treatment
to taxpayers, and housekeeping wai
'a la mode. Hotel lifo half a ccnturj
ago belonged to the tourist, the vis
iitant and the bachelor who loved c
tako "mine ease In mine own inn.'
"Electric bells In hotels wero as un
known as electric lights. He whe
lias slept in Ifcw York's luxurious
hotel temples of to-day, who has pat
ronized hostelrles In tho British.
French and German capitals, auc
.even battled with Egyptian fleas ic
tho celebrated hotel at Cairo, anc
who has partaken of hotel hospltaliti
In many other American cities, cat
sympathize -heartily with tho usually
apathetic Briton who recently de
clared that even the second-rat
hotels of 2ew York rurpass in com
fort and menage any others in tin
world.
JIt Is not an easy matter for God to
biess a man who has no concern about
running in debt.
Wiiex the devil fishes ho knows
that there is no time lost by being
careful about his bait
It Is hard to And a poor man whe
would bo willing to d .- :i . . i man's
work for the pay he ge.
When the devil was cast out o
Heaven be stole an angel's robe witn
which to hide his cloven hoof.
WneRE there is no settled deter
ruination to do right, an evil course
is more than half decided upon.
Some people who would like to be
considered the salt of the earth with
out doing any ot the salt's work.
Tue devil has a claim on the sou!
of the man who is willing for any
kind of a sin to remain In his heart
No max ever expects to go more
than a quarter of a mile on the Jeri
cho road when he first makes the
tart
The man who has no joy in his re
ligious life is holding on to some siu
that keeps Christ from reigning la
his heart
WAN-EATING FROGS.
this Vara from Georgia Woald Makt
Munchausen lllush.
Teople living on the line of th6
Jhickamauga are excited over a num
ler of strange and enormous frogs
lhat infest the neighborhood. Thesa
Irogs were brought from th3 Missis
llppi swamp in 18SG and put in the
I'hickamauga River. They are said
to bi of enormous size when grown.
This-1, being very sroa'l when
(rought, are Just beginning to show
Khat they can c"o. One has been
:atchlng thickens, but they live prin-
i ;ipally upon fish. When the fish are
j irlven away by high tide and they
j ire starved for a few days they will
attack a person.
Tho one that passed through La
fayette would have been captured,
sut the man had to go to his house
for his gun, anil the frog made one
leap and was oat of reach of a fair
ihot after devouring quite a number
5f chickens. The Lafayette Messen
ger reports that M. M. llurrows, Mr.
Manley and his son William were out
In the bottoms a few days later and
Qiscovered one of these frogs near the
river bank. The men, seeing tho
langer the were in, immediately
made an a' tempt to get away. Mr.
Manley, ben.g an old man, directed
his courso to an em ty cotton house
which was near by for refuge. Just
js he was entering the house the fro
iel.cd his coat tail, leaving him nl
iut breathless and with nothing but
iho shoulders und sleeves of his coat.
A few minutes later Monroe cr.nic,
jcar the house whero Mr. Manley
iad taken refuse, and, seeing tho
frog tussling with tho fragments of
;ho coat, and fearing that It hnd de
roured his father and brother, made
determined attack on the creatuio,
but was forced to retreat after belDg
badly hurt.
A PICTURESQUE CHURCH.
ttacds on the Kock or St. Michael and Was
Founded In OSS.
Where the valleys of the Loire,
Borne, and L'olalson join stands- tho
town of Lc l'uy, one cf tho most
picturesque places in France. Tho
town stands on the southern accliv
ity of Mount Anls, whitu is crowned
by a huge mass of volcanic ro:k,
called tho Kock of St Michael. On
this towerlnz peak stands a chapel,
claimed to have been founded in 0."5,
and long a famous placo of pilgrim
igo. This strange chapel is reached
by a series of flights of steps and l i
rllned planes, winding round li. i
rock. Kear by is another church
A riCTCRESQCg cn-jnen.
that of Our Lady of l'uy wherein
s a statuo of the Madonna, brought
from tho crusades by St Louis.
Higher up on Mount Anis is a colos
sal 6tatuo of tho Virgin, erected in
18C0, and made from 213 iron cannon
captured at SebastopoL
Heat and Thirst In Indin.
Tho handling of a gun after 11.
,tm had played upon it foraa hour or
two was suQIclontly warm work when
done in gingerly fashion, end with tho
least possible contact with the metal
of barrel or trigger guard; tha sud
den clutching of a barrel suggested
!ollision with tho wrong end of a rod
iot poker.
And the thirst! when once the man
who Is out In that heat yields to tho
temptation of his water, or cokl tc?,
Dr lime Julco and water bottle, ho Is
thereafter for the1 rest of that dav a
j lo?t creature, tho s'ave of any fluid
f with which he can wet his parching
r.ps and allay his lnsatiablo th.rst.
EThen would ho drink kerosene, o.
Ink, or 6herry at eighteenpence i
Quart, cr any other abomination that
possessed, In his view, the indispens
able qualification of being liquid. So,
too, will the natives the mahout!
and other3 descend from the ele
phants and drink greedily from anj
fetid pool, though death by in tin
tup. Blackwood's Magazine.
An Anctrnt Siinko St ry.
Tho greatest of the miracles attrib
dtcd to St Patrick was that drivin,
tho venomous reptiles oiit of Ire
land, and rendering the Irish soil,
forever after, si obnoxious to the
serpent raco that they instantaneous
dlo on touching it Colgan Mrlouslj
relates that St l'atri ;k accompliihsd
ihe feat by beating a drum, which I
itruck with such fenG" that h
knockod a hole In It, thereby endin
goring tho success cf the mlrtcl,
But an angel, appcar'ng, mended tho
drum, and tho patched Instrument
was long exhibited as a holy relic.
TnE lazy man believes that then
,3 no bill which is not steep.
God is not praised at all unless it
is done with the wholo heart
Avarice is a robber that keepj
many people from becoming rich.
God has promised that tho mat
who will give mercy shall receive it
Days which begin in darkness and
storm often end in a glorious sunset
There is no more dangerous dis
iase than wanting to get rich in i
hurry.
rns froo SRizr.n his coat taii.
Invariably So. I
In summing up the trials of the j
Jay when in bed at night we alwavs
f.ud that the greatest annoyances I
were c iuscd hv men whose motives
were bettor than their judgment '
Atchison Glol c
A Staggerer.
nonest Faykcrr Say, pard; I ain't
no more blinder dan you are. Help ae
honest man to git out of sich a dl?
honoralle job, will yer? Judge.
Another Itojcue Caught.
Italo rcanutti Scnda 'detictive
arounda corner to me righavay. Ha
catcha confldenca man! Otllcial
That so? What doc3 he look like?
"lie dressa like policeman. He fool
anybody." "ll'm: l'erhaps he is a
policeman." "No, notta policeman.
He passa mca stand tree tnies ane"
oucha nossings. Buck.
Komanre in the Museum.
She could feel his warm breath
aion her cheek, when suddenlv they
became conscious of another human
presence. "lcar me:" cried the Cir.
cassian girl, petulantly, "there's that
horrid. jealous living skeleton:"
"Yes," observed the india-rubber
man in a loud, harsh voice, "the poor
.- ire always with us." Buck.
Too (Julrkly Cured.
rood Samaritan (to friends doctor
ing a man it tiie roadside for snake
b to) Tlieie, he's coining around all
ri. lit, poor fellow! 1 guss you needn't
p'.ur any more .f that whisky down
him. Busty Collins (,in a voice faint
but earnest; Let 'im (hie) bite me
'hic 'gain. Judge.
F.red uy the limo Novel.
"Willie," said the visitor, "what ts
your amhltionV" ' I'a like," said the
Loy, putting down his yellow-covered
storyof the plains, '),) have people
tremble like leaves at the mere men
tion cf my name." Bcarson'
Weekly. Nut to lt'ame.
Mistress Biidgct you have alto-jetlie.-
too much coi:i;i iny down here.
Bridget Sine, mum, it don't bo my
fault that j ure kitchen's a thri:!e to'
small.' Exchange.
On the Drive.
"That's a very hackneyed expres
sion," remarked Y;in Anidt, apropos
A nothing. "What is?" asked hi'
companion. "Git up: ' Trutli.
Aittrunomy In Africi.
4 i "" ..-.-
c? fit
for
cWf'-J5
,'!'. '- '"
-Judge.
'Nc,H sobbed the
"Harold and I never sin
pretty
k now.
k'irl,
A ti'l
iii is an Liirouu inc maciiiuat oils o;
that deceitful Sullie Slimmini."
Why, what did she do " "She ;cr
suaded us to join the same elniicl
hoir." Washington Mar.
llor Icarot l'ri,-:il.
Elder Sister I'm wrltin-.r to Amy.
Is there anything you'd like to sav t'
her? Younger :-Hter (who h::tej
Amy) Yes, ler.ty; but you'd better
only give her my love. Loudon Tul
Bits.
"Does yo.ir daughter sin,'?" asVod
Mrs. Jinglcglit "No," replied .'ir-u
Old fan. ' U'e have taken i.re;it pnii.r
in educating her not to." Washing
'on l'ost
Intensely Urn' 1st in.
Baulin One feature of
singing Is his woiidcrTul
Lol.cr Yes; you can ;-.lmost
Stine's
reali:;i:i
see the
1 crack in his voice. Truth.
An Obedient Youth.
ii.1
.If
1. , ifjj
Bobby (to lib mother, who is enter
taining the new pastor) Mother,
didn't you tsll mo not to tay any
thing about Doctor Howler's fumy
EjOUtn? Jlfcllier (in intense cgorv
Ilusb, Willie, hush! Yes. Ic'n.v,
(with th nlr of a martyn V.cll, I'.J
tot: ru:k. i
Some people who are too houc .t to
steal, wai borrow and never pa'
1 tack.
j It is hard to understand why boys
love to play football and hate to sav
ood.
Och power to rcsiit the devil be
comes feebler every time we look into
. ,? ... , ,
The Christian should never look
at appearances to find out what God
U doing. - -
NEWS IX EIUEP.
Erery trade in Chin has its
j.u saint.
rat
Wifo selling is still common un Coa
Till Ihisi-iiu
In Germany they aro said to weav
' Jy electricity.
J Tamed turkeys can be trained U
Junt wild ones.
I Fishes can bo frozen hard without
oning their vitality.
f Ivister will not main como in
j ef:irch daring this century.
j Eclipses of the moon were seen bv
ayliglit in ISCti.lSGS 1SS0.
' "The medicine known ns mot alii gal
limn is worth Slov.OOO a pound.
.More thnn 20,000 tons of cnudy is
aten in tho United States annually.
Siiakspeare's plays have been trans
nted into Japanese and produced iv
Tokio.
China has an academy of manners
that prescribes ctiq lette for tho whole
"mpire.
The fashion of woaring snako skins
for necktie3 is said to be growing in
'Jaltimore.
More than two million sacred im
iges called ikons are usod in Knssir
very year.
In Chin when n pupil is reciting
his lesson ho turns tin back to lnV
eaclier.
Clieapsido, London, sold tho other
Say at a price equal to $H0 per snper
'eial foot.
(larmenti taken from Egyptian
mummies have been found to be" dye. I
vith indigo.
The lightning dischargo acts power
fully by induction on all conductor?
n its vicinity.
Arithmetieil notation by the nina
digits and zero was used in Ilindostiir
u tho sixth century.
It is a rare thing to find in any
part of China a man over twenty year?
t ago who cannot read or write.
Tha manufacture of Gj-eck antiqui
ties h ,s been rgulnr business it
outliern Bussia for twenty years.
The Mohawk Indians will nt allow
so much as a lihido of grass to gr.w
npou tlio craves of tli-ir coiupau
una. Some lor.g leasehold property a
Cbciipbide, Louiloo, m.1.1 the oilio: dav
at a price equal to I. SI p.r Miportieii
foot. .
Tho first Biblical mention of brick
naking is in (ieuesis. Thecrh u lo ists
pluee the date of this reference ut B. C
'2 "17
The East Iudi Company, the rnorl
powerful corporation tliiit "ever vm
came into existence the last dav of tl:
vcirlCCO,
In the Brili-h Musenni ther is t
collection of lim.sica. companions, but:
vocal ami instrumental, " attributed tl
Henry VIII.
A crane, measuring ciht feet from
tip to tip, was killed the other d:iv nei.i
Bloomiugton, Jnd. it has been MullV
'or a inuseupj.
Tho Cliau-Santa.Crnz Indiansin Yu
catan have never been conquered. Nu
white lias ever Koen their city, which if
defended by a swamp.
The eight flowers most prized l.j
tho Japanese nro tho morning glory,
apricot, cheerry. wistaria, poc uy, in;
otns ami chrysanthemum.
Tho word hairbreadth, now ns ,1
for an infinitesimal space, was onco n
regular measure. It was the w idt'i of
sixteen hairs laid bide by hide.
'I be Needlemakers' society wis
formed at Nurembnrg ia l.'57t). Tin
pyus of the needles were mud i by loop,
ing tho wiro at tho head of tho 'needle.
Cotton nn l cotton-weaving wen: ii
trodnced into Europe by Alexander
tlio (in at, who sent the material, ii;e
Beed and tho workmen from IVr-w
and India.
Three fine specimens of Wisconsin
timber wolves, captured by James
Hall of Washburn, havo been added to
tho Textor collection of llvo nniiuals a
Milwaukee.
Or. Flotcher of Cincinnati, iu
proof of his theories of "tooth graftinp,
implanted some dog teeth firmly ij
tho leg bone of a goat and caused their
to grow there.
Lamb hashed with bananas is one
:.f tho breakfast dishes which often
figure on Hie menu of tho moi t fiunom
restaurant in Now York. It tastes bet
ter than it sounds.
In a Boston book store is displayed
the sign: "Germs Bold here germs
of thought; of philosophy; of logic,
bat you cannot bo trusted, else t
would be busted.'
Tho sect of Jains, in India, nro tl;
jliarupion long-distanco faslers. Fa--ts
of from thirty to forty days are com
mon, and once a yenr they abstain fr ip
foo.l for seventy-five days.
It is said by experts th.it praetu-al,
even-tempered men usually write ii
plain, round hand, ia which every let
ter is legible, and that more Bmbitiom
men write hastily and carelessly.
New York grows worso and worse
in its absue ot the title of 1'rofessor
There are now not less than three
Imotblaoking cellars, the head of wind
sails himself Brofessor on his signs.
Conductors on the Broadway cabin
cirs, New York city, ore not permitted
to turn in any smaller coin than a
riekle. For that reason they urcunuaallv
friendly with newsboys, whoso fcreatei
perplexity Is "ohauge."
Living without a plan is as foolish
as going to sea without a compass iu
thcship.
Sayixo that thcro is no harm In a
thing Is tho devil's attempt at self
defense.
Nobody ever has any intention of
ioing to bell when they tlrst hear ot
'.he place.
God alone knows how much heaven
loses when a young man takes hit
tlrst drink J
Faitii is tho thing that makes the
Christian rich after he has lost every
thing else.
The devil's army Is not made up of
those who fell in love with him at
rst sight
WmssfEVEtt God puts gold in th
fire it is that the dross may be
purged out
Faiuliaeity with evil ia ono of
tie surest ways by which the soul
Cau kiU lUait
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