SULLIVAN JBSH REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. A vast amount of money is going to bo spent in irrigating the arid lands in the West. ____ The Mexicans are calling for more American goods and they are now learn ing how to uso machinery. New Orleans is going to become a great, wheat exporting point. Two mil lion bushols per month is now the aver age. Jules Simon, one of tho clearest bended statesmen in Europe, thus views the situation over there; "Peace, bar. ring accidents. Hut accidents happeu so easily." The scientific discovery by tho Phila delphia Record, that tho contact of lips in the dark evolves a visible spark,'givos a literary valuo to tho word "sparking" undreamed of by good old Noah Web ster. At the recent General C'onferouco of the Methodist Church iu Maryland, by a vote of thirty-11 vo to twenty-six, it was determined to striko out tho word "obey" from the marriage sorvice. The women delegates supported tho proposi tion with groat unanimity. The typewriting industry reccivod a black eye in tho United States Circuit Court of Appoals tho other day. Throe justices of the court cnterod au otder thnt hereafter all motions and other documents presented to the courts must bo printod, and added that typewriting was not printing withiu the meauing of the order. Americans take an interest in a num ber of the islands of tho Pacific Ocoau. We are interested in Japan, from which a large number of tho nativct aro now emigrating to California, and in Samoa, of which our Government Is one of the three protecting powers, and in the Ha waiian kingdom, many of whose peoplo aro anxious for annexation to the United States. A "conundrum sociable" is a new Western idea. Besides being amusing, it is claimed that thu compound con undrums proposed stimulate the memory. As an illustration tho Detroit Free Press givos one us follows. "Why is heaven like a baby? Because heaven is home, home is where the heart is, whero the heart is is the chest, a chest is a box, a box is a small tree, a small tree is a bush, a bush is a growing plant, a growing plant is a beautiful thing, a beautiful thing is tho primrose, the priruroso is a pronounced yeller, nnd a pronounced yel> lor is n baby." A large majority of the men who enter the governmental department* nt Watli. ington romnin ia the service utiles* dis missed, says the Washington Post. Many young men enter with the view of ftudylug for a profession, ami the short hours mill regular salary ofTur ample op port unity for this. .HOMV of thorn curry out their inteution mi l occupy leisure hours reading law or medicine. (Jthers hue nil ambition for better things or be come entangle I in some love affalr,tn irry, inul then are dependent on a salary for maintenance ami com pellet I to keep up the routine life. Continue 1 service in the departments has a tendency to snake men timid, and many who ■put and go out in the world timl themselves untitled to bullet with the rude, rough demands, and return to the treadmill existence. Kaoh year more women are added to the department service and in a feiv years they will monopolise the clerkships. The life of a department clerk has sonic attractions and many drawbacks. One thing Is certain, his salary, and this is an Important item. c Kugetie 112 ield saye In the I'lm ago Xrws-ltecord: lloli Pord was the vicious young paianoiac who murdered Je<se Jaute*. This crime aas committed uuder peculiarly atruviuni circumstances, Pord discoveied James's whereabouts, sought thum, got ac'piaiiitc I with James, pre - tended to lie his friend, acceptc l hi* hospitality, lived Under his protection and finally lieacln-i nulv murdered him Ity shouliug him in the Itack. Purd aat lu collusion with the aulhoilllus in \|i». souri, he wat their a ;cul, aud as such he was uot punished by tlteui fur this crimu involving ingratitude and treauh eiy uf the basest kind. Ilut he was dis trui-ted aud hale I by everybody after IhaV He got employ usee! for a time lu a p«i ipatctiu diem tun siiow that played wild, a tlul pic 's inn porting to llltts trate botdei Ille. Itu was a vieious tiealuie, yei NOT »» VMOIM as to be bllud to the lent that Ills petltdy to Jesse James ba I mai I him lot Ille, II tlutea he dtdtel lai westward, an I e««i and auuu he aas heard of as paitb ipst lug In a dtuuktiii lu mi >1 »«, ai 'ast, eomea news that liu ks< h> ■ u killed by a lelton Milt < i In iie HUE a | i| tiU'talu IEG IUM The mutdutet IIOHMIII htilef by muidei, aud thuta ta w<ue to the ptupilelr hi ilghta»u*ueas uf his late tie a ale iat a »u>aaiug, atuel tat. lb' ti«4 '• katVet <tl attitoul hiut> THE OARI3KN. Under the gloom of the shivering pines, That whisper when it blows, Behind the creeper-covered wall, I> a garden that always grows. In summer and in springtime. And when tho winter snows Bend the dark branches to tho ground, The garden always grows. The hand of m«n has made it, The white stonee stand in rows; The tears of the world have watered it, And the garden always grows. There are many gardens like it. Their number no man kno vs. Each day, till the world Is ende.l, This garden alwsys grows. —l.orimer Stoddard, In Cosmopolitan. POLLY'S WEDDING. BY IIKHIIKHT ar. CLAIK. HUH i: had boon called tho bnutis of »,.•>/ mnrriago betweon V Vrf'H 'W/ J 0 '" 1 Anthony Urine, W*! " « bachelor, nmi Mary Ellen Primrose, spln ster, both of the par '®h of Trevorton, in tho County of Devon; ■? jflffipilthrice had pretty irlHUji Polly Primrose—lrom the Primrose pew— smiled sweetly at the good old clergy man while ho performed this highly in teresting ceremony; and thrice had Jack Urine endured the same ordeal, but with far less self-possession, as he sat in the free scats lower down burying a very red face in his prayor book, uutil he re membered that people might think ho was rending the marriage service; and then throwing his head buck and glaring round dcfinntly with a look which said as plainly as possible, "Ah, you may giggle, but wouldn't some of you fel lows like to be iu my shoes; and, may hap, there's two or three of you girl* who wouldn't mind being in Polly's I'' •'Well, the third Sunday came nnd went, and the wedding was to take plnco on the following Friday. Thcro was to be a grand gathering of friends at Prim rose Farm after tho ceremony. All their frionds declared that tho wedding would be an unfortunate one, for had not the young pcoplo been pres ent at the calling of their own banns I —a most unluoky sign, thoy »nid. And the wedding }o take place on Friday, too!—the most unlucky of all days of the week 1 But it was Polly's choice, and so Fri day was decided upon. Polly was au orphan and lived with her undo and aunt at the farm. Farmer Primrose «was not, it is true, much in favor of the marriage; he had always wanted young Squire Treverton as n hus band for his neice, that young gentleman having made half-hearted love to Polly for some time past. Jiut Polly loved Jack Urine and Jack loved Polly; ami as Jack had a very good character as a manly young fellow, and had since his father's death, eighteen months ago, made a very good thing of the Cross Hill Farm, there was really no excuse for keeping the young people apart. All went well until the Wedneidny be fore the wedding. Invitations for the party were sent broadcast; and only a wonderful little manager like Aunt Prim rose could have arranged for the seating and'fccdiug and amusing of such a nil uicrous company. "HICSH you, Polly," the deir old crea ture would say, "your wedding party will be the talk of the country side for many a year; and you deserve it, my dear, you have been a good girl to me." Alas! on the Wednesday, young Sipilre Trevertou, lately returned frimi London, drove up to Primrose Farm in his dog cart, and almost at the same time a dark cloud teemed to .'oute into the brijjht •ky. The n,uire had a private interview with Kartmr Primrose, and then drove away. What transpired at that Interview need not be told. The lie that was uttered has long since been nailed down, ami the ultcrer thereof has been made to stand exposed and ashamed before the whole of the little world of Trevertou. Kutlice it to say that if the charge agaiust Jack Urine contained in 'hat lie had lieeu true, Parmer Primrose would have been ignite justified Hi breaking off his niece's mar riage, ever, at this eleventh hour. The farmer, howcvi/, i oa too much for urauted when he coi.deiuued Jack un heard. lu spite of hi* wife'* geullusre monstrance, lie lluw iuto a violent iage, swore that there should lie uo marriage, sent a long aud contemptuous letter to t'toss Hill Farm by oue farm servant, a short, euit note to the vicarage by an other, and then stormed and raved about tlie house for a good hour, the result being thai hefotu nightfall the whole countryside was ilngiug with the news that Jack Itrine bad done something ilreadlul, and that liieie was to be IIU marriage on Prid •y. Meanwhile, Jack was away at fcUeter, making suiue business «itaugemeul», so that he wight have a good toil night's holiday, lie started ba klm home early on Thursday. Ibe Iraiu ba<l seetcely •teamed out uf the slatiou «t Iteii a heavy Mowsluim broke over the ouunliy. The touxipieute aas that about mid day he fuuud htmsell landed at a little station, lilies it miles lr«.m his home, aud not a ttmteyauce lu be h|il The tuuw aas e, miug down lit blind lug diet is, and niakiog the loads all hut impassible. Jack euj >yed a guwd me il at the Military bills luu uf the place,aud then set out mauluily U walk lu I'luts Paiiu Il «M a fearful aalk Ha lust his aay I»lie, made teeuty lire miles of the tournev at hear, sod, dually, ettlsed luiiia stkaoststd arid hall If• < i, althie a tmuple ol h iuisol mid ttlghi He did nut look a' his isiuii, km alter giriuw sit let unlets lu he <iaekti.il at eight ueal muiiiiug, be tiio.UU'l lulu bed, II Priday INOIUIUK biokt aud the |#u♦ aas .nil laliibg slighii) sllltuugh th< iuij A lUs vtuiw aa* part. LAPOIITE, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1892. When Jack woke, he sprang out of bod liko a giant, refreshed, and came I singing into the big kitchen, whero ho ate his breakfast in a very joyous frame of mind. Then it was that a letter beside his plate caught his attention. He picked it up, opened and read it. For a mo ment his lace assumed an ashen palonoss. "Curso him!" ho gasped at last. "I know whose foul work this is. That scandal was nevor cleared up as it should have been. I was a weak fool to treat it with contempt; the girl, of course, will be paid to bear false witness against mo. What can I do? What can I do?" Ho stood swaying to and fro for a minute, tho letter crumpled in his clenched hand. His old housekeeper stood at tho doorway and watched him with frlghtoncd glances, wondering what was to follow. Jack suddenly smoothed out tho letter and reread it. "And so, Farmer Primrose, you be lieved him before me," he murmured between his teeth, "anil you have writ ten to tell the parson thero will bo no weddiug. Well, we shall see." There was an ugly, stem look on his face. Striding from tho room ho wont straight to the stables and saddled tho big gray mare. "Tom," he shouted, and a lad ap peared from tho inner recesses of a cow shed ; "saddle Dobbin and ride as fast as you can to Trevorton Vies rage," Tho boy sUiod and said nothing, while his master lead tho gray uiaru sad dled and bridled out of the stable. "And tell tho parson," wont on Jack, as he vaulted into tho saddle, "that tho marriage will c;>me ofT, aftor all, and to be ready in the church at the time ar ranged." Then lie clattered out of tho yard, and horse aud rider disappeared down the road in a cloud of snow. Meanwhile things were going quietly at Primrose Farm. Tho farmer had sworn that there should bo a party just the same, and that Polly was well rid of a scamp, and had better look cheerful, and maybe she would not have to look far for an honest man and a gentleman (meaning Squire Treverton.) Polly wept until her eyes were red, and worried bar poor little self in vain endeavors to imagine why Jack did not write nnd explain. Aunt Primrose wont about her duties nobly, and did her best tj cheer Polly, but it was a hopeless business altogether. And now the guests began to arrive, and uot many who had been iuvited failed to make their appearance. The invitation* had not been recalled, aixl tho good people of Treverton and neighborhood saw no reason why they should forego their dinner and tho chance of hearing more about tin scandal. The consequence was that poor Polly had to receive the young men and maidens of the surrouudiug district, aud laugh with them, and return their com pliments of the season as though nothing had happened. She bore herself bravely, howovcr, and did not show her grief to tho good folks who were watchiug her; for she was a proud little hssie, and told herself that she would bo worthy of Jack. Nevertheless, there was an awkward air upon the assembly, aud this increased as the time arrived, when the weddiug party should have set out for the church. The farmer blustered about and en deavored heroically to introduce a spirit ot joviality into the proceeding*, but he was not eminently successful. Presently, when the company were whispering together iu little knots about the room, a knock was heard at the door, aud all heads were turned expect antly. The door opeiud, and a young man enveloped iu a heavy fur coat entered the room. He had aristocratic features and au easy, attractive manner. This was young Squire Treverton,ami Farmer Primrose immediately pressed forward to welcome hiiu. liefore long the party was alive. Tito young s.piire was so go >d uatured, so ready to please, and distributed his lavurt with such delightful impartiality that every one was soon in the best of humor. Kvery one except Polly, who, although the knew nothing certain,could not fail to associate all her trouble with the young npure's previous visit. { After a while, the distinguished vis itor made caution* advances to the niece of the house, but Polly was not rcspon i sive. Mho sat by the tlreside, an I lie leaned over her chair aud whispered sweet nothings, lie was remarkably clever at this sort of thing. •>1 should like lu make you a preteut, Miss Pnmroan, Now what would you like the best iu alt the worldl'' 'l'lte iijuiia liil ju«t iitku-1 thin tjim» lion wltuu, *iti| liufuru I'ully touM lutHa miy r*»|»ty, Ibu >l>«»r w «< liiuijj viultuiily u(Mju, mt>t 4 l»H li .jure 4|(|>u*iel in tliu t|ourW4y, ltui«l<lu t liy « ymi ul iu i«v li>lmt wtu'l He «ti iHimril «u'l Willi *U»W 4* llioiltfli tin b»4 iu*<l * (nil tit iwu, nu'l iu lit* rigbl li«u<l lit) Ii«l4 4 liimvy tniutlUjf troll, Tbu Wiuurii fulli g»*« « Utile »i r«»m IU Ulll*UU, ilttl luttu llMlbtt'l Hi uow •uulktir mil ili'l uuiliiug. furittur I'iiuiiuM *IIIII|M.I| lurwwU witli iu lit* lm«, ■tml lb« *iIUU» lltfltul Vary |>4l«, HU't |«tv*4l<»i IIIIUMIII <tM<*tu*i I tin wiill, t'Uu u«w mum l»uk uu uolir* u| all ilii*, but, »li«JI uu* twill ijUin u ruuutt III* IUUUI, ll« W*lltl|.| fI»H lu ilw lire wltvlt i'ully, Umviu 4 ii*uii lu but itivt, «m »l<»u>tiU|| «u>i (••!( blur Willi ujtVtl MtUUlb 4U*I |f U»Uuilll|{ Myu*. 4* I,u lt«M uul III* 41 u»* »iit lit « |u Ililll, tluutl trill 41 lu* ItiUU'l III* ll«ik, uwllb I Im iuil} imvl ia • i(i»»i jiwU'li Jm| umw um III* l*i««*l, uu l tuuruiuivl »tu*|<lyi w " l luil i* lb» iui*ii Mr uiy i|'i*«lluu, I • >l|'|»<*tJ," IUIlll«l. I Ilw *')Ull*, •> Im ili|i|,i,| li4t.il lulu lb* *l*4 lu w 1* 4 i«i«luilf *u I luily 4'** I'uily iu kit bill ti'ln, m *i lu Imh bit iigiil iiik l ! !(*■«, «i*>l llmu 1 41.*'1 Ilii UUIHMy "Wlt«l t* utv«4iiuj( ul il«i*, *H • ' nil#! <b« I %r u**i ii*i*«ly, '•|i UM4«* ib»i I but* 'uu»» Iwi mi I 4|'», I t'iiifclw**, *4l I lIM fv*ug man boldly. "I have not come here to talk or to dofond my character, but I havo come lor Polly. If you mean to do the right thing, and give your nieco away, you can follow us to the church; but I warn you wo shan't wait long." Without another word he walked across the room to tho open door, with Polly clinging to his arm, and for a mo ment none dare say him nay. As the couple disappeared through the doorway, however, the company returned from their bewilderment, and urged by the common instinct of curiosity, made a rush for tho road. Farmer Priinioso, who had been struck dumb by the superb audacity of the young man, now woke to tho fact that something must be done. He, too, made a rush for the road, but it is no easy matter to get through a crowd of chat tering girls and chuckliug mon, who aro not paying the least attention to you, ex cept perhaps to obstruct you. The result was, that the farmer, after much putting, forced his way to the front, Jack was mounted on the gray mare, with Polly in his arms, at least so tho girls say who woro present on that eventful occasion, and I am inclined to take their evidence on such a point. There are, it is true, some of the men folk who say that she sat behind him and hugged him round the waist, so as not to fall off. Anyhow, thcro can bo no doubt that they were both safoly mounted on tho back of the gray mare. A* the farmer rudied forward Jack touched the inare with his heel and away she wont, plunging bravely through tho snow and bearing her double burden right gallantly; and the young people iu the.road, and at the farmhouse door, could restrain themselves no longer, but sent forth on the crisp air a ringing choor of eucouragement. The farmer was not to be batfled, however, and as soon as ho could saddle a horse set off in pursuit. But fortune favors the bravo, and while Jack and his bride reached the church without accident, tho hot headed farmer had several unlucky tumbles iu thu snow drifts. When ho finally arrived at Trevertou Church ho met the young people coming out ami looking very happy. I might prolong iny story by telliug you how the farmer stormel, how he finally gave in, how the truth caine out that very day, when Squire Treverton WHS proved to be a villain, aud how tho happy couple returned to the farm and received a triumphant reception. But I have told you how, after all, Polly's weddiug came oft, and as for the rest, well, you can guess that without my assistance, I am sure. How to Presei re a Piano. "Iu spite of all tho ellorts of th • makers," said a piauo tuner recontly, " do uot believe there is one piauo iu o;u< hundred that, with ordinary parlor use, will stand in tune more than two mouths. An unskilful musical car, it is true, will fail to detect any important discord in a piano for six months, or porhafs longer; but no cultivated ear can tolerate the discordant notes that the best piano will insist upon giving out after two months of uso. "Wheu you think once that tho steel wires and iron frames of a piano are al ternately contracting and expanding under the variations of tho surrounding atmosphere, giving a constant movement of the wires aud a consequent change iu the pitch and toue of tuu instrument, the impossibility of a piano maintaining a perfect tone for any letigth o( time must be at ouce apparent, and if you will but reflect on the surprising fact that tho tension of the strings of a piano causes a strum on the body of the instrument equal to tho weight of 100,• 000 pounds, you will doubtless agree with me that a piano that will remain iu perfect tuuo for a year is an instrument that must necessarily l>e of extreme rarity, if not impossible to make. "A piauo, good, bail or inililTereiit, when new, should be tutied once a month. The longer au instrument re mains ut:tuned the lower its pitch of tone becomes; and when it is desired to have the piano drawn to concert pitch the atraiu ou the body of the instru ment is greatly increased, so much, iu fact, that the ease is liable to yield gradually, necessitating a second tuning within a week, or two weeks at the furtherest. lb is a common error autoug uou-profesatoual piauo ptayera to think a piauo should remain In tune at least a year. Professional* know bet ter."—Sew York I'ress. The William Tell Utfvnd. Though the legeud of William Tell has been ultteUlly declared a fable by the Hwias Government, It is oue of those tables that | Miopia will go ou telllug aud believing. Iu the ttory, at given in ischtller't drama, Tell It lire hero of the g*ut* revolt fur Indepen lenee from Austria about the year I 800, tieitler, Autlrian bsiiitf, placed hit cap upon a pole In the market plaoe ol Allot 112 aud i«*u«M orders that paasera by thould dr II reverence. Ihit tell would not tlo, slid he was arrested and teuleucvr) to death Uetsler, leatttiug thai Tell wot s skillful mutkturau, tuld him that his lile would be spared If he would ahuot 4ii apple fiottt hit sun t head Tell made the shot without hurling ihe la I, and wheu liessler atketl why In had a at* .jo I snow iu quiver, Tell replied "To kill you if I had harmed tuy ton " (for tint Tell wa* again put In chain*, and iroesler embark*! Kutauaihl, inking I ell with hint A ttutiu rstte up, and to M*a all beu4* lto« dtuwnlog Tell wa* j reieaaad In "fin thai ha might Meet the bo»t, llsvlag eeriied the boat talei) ihruugh the worat of Ihe dagger Tell sprang athotw at a noiai an* ano an as ' 'Cell's lb" a." and, uuitig around by lewd, worlad) wonude* Messier With an smmw ihstltti'i death aas Ihe *igu*l 1 lot a gensual uprising, in ait ltd* the tustiian baiilllt •» re driven out or gitie I sn4 tiielr ratllat destroyed. Tell lived ■ lor lotty ytait otter tbit, ami wa* at lot* ii/isned will* trying to tgfa • bo# • ill#, ftt Lout* Itej-«bir> i SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A human body when cremated, leaves a residuum of about eight ounces. Two thousand children under two years of age die yearly in Paris from tu berculosis. Holland is considering the drainage of the Zuyder Zee, a sheet of water covering 730 square miles. There are seldom more than 6000 stars visible iu the heavens to the eye, from any point of observation. That tho human race will some day lack noses and tho sense of smell, is a frequent scientific deduction. An English mathematician estimates the limit of Ideas entertained by any mind during a lifetime is 3,055,770,000. It is observed that in antique statues tho second tho is longer than the first, or great toe, but in mon of tho present time tho reverse is the case. In experiments with the drying oils an insoluble onx-compound termed "Lino lin" has been produced, which a French chemist rO( »as a useful substitute for caoutcf J. G. Baker states that the aster rose Unbraces 200 or 300 species, which are concentrated in the United States. Of these forty species grow wild in the Rocky Mouutuins, nnd fifteen in Califor nia. A stone cornice-cutter, captt.de of turn lug out sixteen feot of well finished cor nice or moulding in twenty minutes, has been made in Rome. The geueral fea tures of tho machine are very similar to those of tho metal planing machine. Professor Short, of Cleveland, Ohio, hat perfected a system of electric pro pulsion for tho elevated railroads of New York City, which he says will afford 20,000 horse power and overcoiuo all ob stacles. The plan is under considera tion. Two engines have just been turned out for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, to run between Philadelphia and Pitts burg. Driving wheels, seventy-eight inches in diameter; weight of one, 123,- 000 pouuds, aud of the other, 188,000 pounds. The brass tubing used for gas fixtures is fashioned into the various complicated ornamental shapes required for such pur poses by placing the tube between two steel molds which are heavily clamped, and then the tube is expanded by hy draulic pressure reaching as high as 10,- 000 pounds to the square inch. Bacteriology is said to have scored n practical triumph by putting an end to a plague of mice, which threatened tc destroy the greater part of the harvest in Greece. A fatal pandemic among the mice was cau«"? y Prof»««<>r Loftier, n German follower of Pasteur, whose aid was sought by the Greek Government. There is not a lizard or snake north of the northern extremity of Hu lson's Hay. The summers there are so short that these reptiles have no time to enjoy thenosolvos oven if the ground, at a depth of two or three feet below the surface were not frozen all the year round, thus depriving thera of a place to hibernate. Snakes and lizards cannot endure a cold climate, Hilda latitude of fifty-three degrees north is altogether too frigid for them. Degenerate Eastern Iml I mis. In all things, except when aroused by the excitement of the hunt and in driv ing logs upon the dangerous rapids in the lumber region, the Indians of the East are cowardly, and they aro much given to vice. I<*t one of them be at tacked by a moose, bear, or caribou, or even a wild cat, aud he will battle to the end. They will tako great haiird* on the thin ice over whirling waters for a fish, aud uo Utu of logs has terror for theiu, even though white melt turn away. Hut let a dog of rlviliMtion growl at them; let them see a yellow suu or com et; put them on board a steamboat, or take them into court for some tramgres siou, aud they show abject fear an I cowardice. Kven spirituous liquor* do not give them temporary courage. They are only self possessed and brave when in the forest, ou lake, stream, or lonely woodland. They have no place with the voting population of the State, though many ol them cau read ahd write, and SOUK are leguiar newspaper correspondents, but they have a tribal form of tovern mint, chooiing at their elofliouak ituv eruor, lieutenant Governor, flnd i member of the Legislature. The tatter i> always at the Capitol at the opening, ileilrawi his pay and mileage at once, mid immediately returns home, leaving t lie public business to be conducted by whoever takes an interest In it. Al [ members of the tribes ride at half fare in cars aud sletuib >ats when they have the money to pay, aud free a hen out ol futtde, They never attempt to ride In the latter way wh«.t they tutu alford to pa> As laborers for all purpose. of the while* the Indiaus, both men aud wumeu are worthless, aud are uever employe i lit th« settleineirU. Mitt Its hunting, tishiug, I'ari'Mi work and cooking they e»t.*l. -New York Time*. %I'lvlrrrs. Iu lietttiauy irisiry year* ago the apple picket sai uta le ol a board like a uhurir dasher, with hoiet for upright wooden teeth, so planed a* to narrow Irs al the tup, the teeth perhaps *<* or eeveu inuhet long, « woo l«» handle, say eight feet long, the pit set holding front luill to tit apple. Ih« biiA«ti rereuily seen are mad* of •ttre, Ilka the muriate of a dog, only a l< ilia larger I hit alao ha* a long pole ailstbwl It requites tirong arm* to handle either lot hall a day at a Mrnt paging the Ifnti A goo I an l deniable pteger m r»t b» so loiitiMwtid at tn io i»«m tliu fruit and hoi I It r iukosd nsl'l half a dotwi applet arr> II it and debutt them in a bssketi »l ' ttil—i the applet mutt nut b blurted o| letialtl I iter a are no Imofct un tha anb)a« I. Mo l/übl litem ate US- I*l* la Ihr I'Steal Od»Mi *t Wath tngivM. --•4 L'f* ll»r<tWK Terms—Bl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months, AN ORIENTAL EXECUTION ENFORCEMENT OP A CAPITAL CON VICTION IN EGYPT. • Careful Deliberation of the Prisoner, n Mohammedan, in Ilts I.ast Re- IfKlous Kites. ON the night of Decembor 18, 1890, a murder of singular atrocity for Egypt, was com mitted in Alexandria, Egypt. A respectable Greek, M. Limperopoulo, his wife, and woman servant were all murdered, the motive apparently being robbery. After a long hunt the murderers were captured, tried and sentenced, but, being all Muslim (for. as it turned out, it was committed by Arabs), tho trial took place before the native tribunal, and, under Mohammedan law, the record of all capital convictions must be trans mitted to the Grand Ladi for approval before execution can follow. The Orand Ladi annulled tho sentence because of some formal error in the ex amination of the witnesses, certain pro visions of the religious law not having been complied with; and a new trial was ordered. This resulted, as did the first, in the capital conviction nod sen tence of Bekkit Suleiman, one of the of fenders, and in the condemnation of the others to life imprisonment. Yesterday, writes a correspondent of the Richmond (Va.) Times, the sentence of death was carried out at sunrise in a military parade ground near the fort Kom>El-Dik. Up to the last the advo cates and frieuds of the murderer hoped for a commutation, and this on two grounds—first, because it was the first occasion for an execution since the in stallation of the new Khedive; and that fact, as well as the presumed reluctauco of a lad of eighteen to enforce tho death penalty, was thought to justify the hope of clemency. Still greater confidence arose from the fact that the great fasting month of Islam had just fiuisbod—the month of Ramadan—and this concludes with a feast corresponding to our Kaster in nature—called Bairara—which is a time of joy, of universal exchange of visits, of ceremonial leceptions, and, with sovereigns, of clemency. The lato Khedive invariably sigualized the return of Bairam by releasing all prisoners whose terms of puuishment had nearly expired, and often by commutation. But Suleiman did not profit by tho great festival, and yesterday morning, just as the gray dawn was streaking tho cast, he was awakened in his prison with the news that his appeal for grace had been refused and he must immediately prepnre for death. Bound and handcuffed, but as imper turbable as the W»t concerned of his es cort, he was taken to the place of execu tion, and at the faot of the gallows he maintained the same fatalistic compo sure. The prosecuting officer of the tribunal which tried him asked if lie had any be quest to make or desired to make any statement. He replied with perfect composure: "I am innocent and Allah knows it. The guilty aro Abou Zeit and Ahmed Sathin." "Then you wish nothing!" "Yog. I want to pray and to prostrate myselt before Allah." "You may." "But can or.c pray who has not washed?" A stone veasel of water was offered him—the gulhih in which driukiug water is always kept in Egypt. They unbound his bands, and he walked un der the scaffold and performed the ab lutions that every Muslim observes before prayer. He washed first his feet, then his hands and face, and then rinsed bis mouth, refusiug to let any one help him or wait on him. He then unwound fiorn his waist the shawl he used as a hand, and spread ing it on the ground under the scaffold, whose floor win higher than his head, he •tooil ou it ami offered up his prayer, prostrating himself four times with his forehead to the earth, praying to Allah for mercy and invoking the aid and in' terceasion of his Prophet. He drank from the gultah and said: "I atn ready." He w«s then pinioned, and he walked up the »tej>» to the ncillold, and lifting hit voire, called out: "Halaam alelkum ya Mam"— peace be to you, Muslim—and he added in Ara bic "l'cace be to all men, ami the order of Allah. Peace to the children of lalain. We belong to Allah, an I to him we re turn. 1 testify that there ft uo Hod but lie alolie. lie turned hit face to the eaat aud bowed. ll would be im|ni»»ililn to itKutjgvrnto In ilcvcriiilinii the maj**ly «u<l dignity of till* treiti), n»lwilli*uiutiii)( nuu'i it**u nnet of the jirl»"inr'* yuili nud of the jmtlif of hi* Into. Alone iiml linjK'ln»< of aiil, hi> turned liulmi' toward the Klowiiitf lm«1 *utl the holy cilim, mil, hU U*i net n |ir»y*r, hit Imi word a J(icl»r*lioM of hU tuuwcrvinM belief, he looked Hill u|<iut the tiiuu-mU ••■•mlikd to wiiuu** hi» mi I with the uu tri'tlbled MtuuuL'D of hi* fnUlUlir erted. An mi, m lb* leant ray* of ih* Mont' 1114 llluiuiueil the »»>l turn itluery of death, hi *•» »*«« if into eternity, tolciuuly |>lwM>llin il.g, »» >hl I ord lightened ~i.mnd hi* link, hit need # detUute lo lb* onbelievei "1,« iiUltv ilUluhl" tibvr* i* uo liod but Allah) «ttd ifM. I'U* Hunt kut I'llluH*. The M i*llt>l j'Wi Wool u lit* tie of thu H*V«» o| tbl* IHt by *leif|>lUg lllelU in <1 >./lull.mi of c*tulM' »«"U or |)ot«*h, and lbn* i«movii«m 'be •iIII'I hw mallei which irntki* tbiw tu hard tb* re* do* i* a »oft Bbie wbltb ii.« *< n.illei.i utaltii«l fo| NJttIIMMI ttU'l |iillum, III! I*ll el b«.iug uimh w«td by »if». ltd by LbtM*i>U*«) di<»>H* In lb* btlirf thai iinlil i itiln l 4* lint I" 1 -' ' I* dumd fn<ui liu iimj ■ in lit* It*net, on) •ituiUi !**• of tbu • tb*tmit* Might b*»» tb« win* tlltil by lb« brttlblMtf ih# >4 i| «rK|t \MI lIMtM NO. 43. THE ILL-NATURED BRIEH. Little Miss Brier came out of the ground; She puts out her thorns and scratched every thing 'round. "I'll just try," said she, "How bad I can be; At pricking and scratching there's few can match me." Little Miss Brier was handsome and Her leaves were dark green and her flowers were pure white; But all who came near her Were so worried by her, They'd go out of her way to keep clear of her. Little Miss Brier was looking one day At her neighbor, the Violet, just over the way; "I wonder," said she, "That no one pets me. While all seem so glad little Violet to see." A sober old Linnet, who sat on a tree, Heard the speech of the Brier, and thus answered he: "'TIs notthnt she's fair. For you may compare In beauty with even Miss Violet there. But Violet's always so pleasant and kind. So gentle in manner, so humble in mind; E'en tho worms at her feet She would never ill treat. And to Bird, Bee and Butterfly always so sweet." The gardener's wife just then the pathway ■ aine down. And tho mischievous Brier got hold of her gown, "O dear, what a tear; My gown's spoiled, I declare; The troublesome Brier has no business there. Here, John, dig it up; throw it into tlio tire." And that was the end of the ill-natured Brier. —Mrs. Anna Bache. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The fruit of repentat.ee —" Peach." —Puck. Richo9 have wings but debts have claws.—Life. A press of business—The handshake of a commercial traveler. One half the world does not know how the other half could do without it.—Puck. The lard refiner novcr knows what ho can do until he tries.—Boston Commer cial Bulletin. The salting away of money is often done in the briue of other people's tears.—Puck. A tiling is uot always what it seens. For instance, what would you wiy of Wemyss?—l'uck. "Yes, every man has his price," but he can't make his grocer agree with him. —Columbus Post. When a fly lights on a sheet of sticky paper lie realizes that he is better off.— liioghamton Lender. "It's easy to catch on," as the fly re maiked when ho lit on the fly paper.— Philadelphia Record. "What i» the lightest summer fiction you know off" "The summer girl's 'I love you!"'—Chicago News. A man needs no spectacles to sco the Beauty of Uprightness when ho peers through an iron-bared door.—Puck. Hn thought the hammock Ju<t the thing To pawi n plousant uiiuute, Until »uo tin v ho chanced to spring And found he was not iu It. Washington Star. Old friend of the family. "Do you think you can live happy with him?" Perdlta. "Ob, I don't expect that." —Life. It takes i sneak to be a good private detective, anil the more successful he is the more cause ho has to bo ashamed of himself. Puck. "What I don't like about our schools," said the boy who had been chastised, "is that they run too much to physical culture."—Washington Star. Silly things —Youngly—"Love often compels people to do very silly things." Cynicus—" Yes, makes them marry, sometimes."—-New York Herald. Never give up. If, however, you are alone, the night is dark, and tiie other fellow has a pistol, it may be prudent to rescind this rule. —Texas Sittings. Miss Candour (aged seven, to a lady who has lieeil sinking with a (food deil of tremolo to her mother's guest*)—"l gargle in tho nursery."- -Tid-llils. Stio—Their engagement was brought about by a little four-in-hand picnic lie—llcw strange. She—-Yes; lie asked her to tie It (or him.—New York lleiald. lie liaii II -d tha IJO.HU for A GREAT big man. And the great ins Mian want in Willi a will lonian, and the boom handier then Was lull iu Ihueold lo •■IhtT'SI Kfw I'ruii Mrs. Newlove—"Charley, dear, I need $100." Mr. Newlove "110 yoij, darl ing I How sympathetic you are' I'lial s just what 1 need "—l'hiCiijo News llJ cord. Muodgras*.—" There is one .JLW thing about silent'*'." rtulmly "Name it. Huodgiass. "Wins lilsMs fall* t is Uol Uucetsartl) broken, -I HI roll 'iee I'llH lUiiU« ''t'mi'l yuu»uj(4o*l eoimi wiy in which I i**n y« i * bi'ilfi liuWin ; jut'- lurti" l'hotoji4(iht<r "Not unli *« y>m i.itn gvi *.!iiiil»>><!) ehw to »U for you.' tmmti viil« Joorn.il. Vimmi -"Will, yomu lUi lii|> nni lit** in ha»t«, I »ii|i|i.i»i- lie * i«|>«ntiU4 at IcUuic. Mvltnu -'-Mot WOtih, liu but lo bottle »o lively for h Iltin4 Iktl Im bit* uo U i*iiH'.' t'hu hmtj # Jv»ttr. I'olittiW l* nil .ail.ll •la) I* I'.IIUIN i Kv*i , it.i !)'§ Ui 11iv (mil*. Win 11 lllu i » I!lll||t|i|«^ i*ll| lb* UK.tlvt t "aieit l.«l«M 4 U»»4lfi' 1U4411 1 I*M tl.ilt'4, * *1 mi i ill* Jrnti o«l J whim it; UHt w*4t'ltUM lb* bi|l««u.| glttuitt contu lioitutin QtiitiJ "l'm never , 'lug lo jf«t Mini I mil " M'ilbcr «•' Why, i o( 4 4t(ll ' Juuuitm --"Jittt iim % 4 it. •*• two Kb* » iiyiitg m»4 Im toll# If VI «i ( <.
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