THE DREAM-COD. Adown the winding thoroughfare Ttie rosy dream-god came. "Here's dreams for sale!" rang on the air— "Ho! dreams of wealth and fame!'' The throngs they waved round him thero Like eddies on a stream; The old and sear, the young and fair, All strove to buy a dream. "Ho! dreams for sale, for one and all! old maid, here's youth again; Here's beauty, for a pittance small, That made you loved of men! Old man. here is a dream for you, A brimming eup of joy; Lift to your lips the magic brew, And be onee more a boy!" Youth 1 .lght "Tomorrow" dreams, Old Ago Bought dreams of"Yesterday"; The fool was there, so was the sage, Each took a dream away. Anil. Sweetheart, prithee iet mo add Thnt. ere he passed from view, I gave him all the gold I had. And bought u dream of—you! —Harold MacGrath, in The Century. ▲AAAAAAAAAAAAA < fl COBSTJOR LIFE, i { How A VERMONT BOY SAVED HIS 4 FATHER AND HIMSELF FROM i A TERRIISLK DEATH. k « ► BY HENRY EDWARD ROOD. This boy was 15 years old in 1777, when General Bnrgoyne started from Canada for Albany, and his name was David Spaffonl. He lived with his father aud mother and two little sis ters on a farm away U2> iu the Green mountains of Vermont. It was about the middle of August, 1777, that a messenger came to Mr. Spafford's farm and told how Burgoyue had been traveling southward from Canada with thousands of British reg ulars aud many hundreds of Indian allies. The messenger added that one of the savages, a warrior so tall and heavy aV to be a giant, and known as tbe Wyandet Panther, had murdered tbe beautiful daughter of a Scotch clergyman, Jenny McCrea, who was visiting a friend at Fort Edward. After this act General Bnrgoyne Lad lost control of the Indians, and m small bands they were over-running the country. Mr. Spafford must come at once and join a compauy of Ver mont farmers, who, under Colonel Stark, were going to protect their homes and drive Indians aud Hessians alike from the country. So Mi'. Spafford went, aud was badly wounded at the battle of •Bennington. After that he was taken home and stayed until winter came, when he in sisted that his wife and daughters Bhould goto make a long visit in a large town some twenty miies away. Thus it happened that when New Year's day came David Spafford and his father were living alone iu the farmhouse, taking care of the horses and cows. One night while they were in bed they heard a man shouting aud kick ing at the door. David jumped up aud let him in. He was a farmer who lived five or six miles further iu the mountains. His clothing was torn, his face was covered with blood, aud ho had snowshoes on his feet. "I can't stop!" he cried. "Indians have burned my house and murdered all my family. They will soon be here and you must start at once!" Then he turned and oped into the tlai'kuess again. For a moment David stood as if stunned. The lad knew it would be impossible for his father to escape on snowshoes,for his wounds had left him so stiff iu both legs that he could scarcely walk about the house. In such a time one's wits work quickly, ami David Spafford bad wits to spare. He suddenly remembered that be bad a pair of snowsboes exactly like those worn Ly tbe man who bad given the alarm. 80 be dressed rapidly and put on tbe snowsboes and rau back and forth between the bon.se and tbe barn several times, making half a dozen tracks in the snow. Then be took tbe horses and cows out of the barn aud laid tbe whip on thoiu so vigorously that they ran out toward the road us fast as they could go. By this time Mr. Spafford had managed to dress himself. "Good," he said to bis son. "Now do you think you can carry me to the barn?" "I'll try," David replied,and taking bis father on bis back like a sack of flour, he succeeded in getting biin to the barn aud buried in tbe bay mow. "It's growing colder," said Mr. Spafford, "and if tbe crust keeps hard ening 011 the snow we have one cliauce of escape. Haul the bobsled across the barn floor until it is just in front ■yf that door in the rear; then bring »ur guns here, and hide yourself in bay beside me. It's a slim chance <tnd a big risk, but it's the only one, if we want to save our scalps." "I see your idea!" the boy cried, and be did as be was told. Father aud sou bad lain there, buried in the hay, scarcely halt an hour when through a chiuk in the barn, they saw seven In dian warriors surrounding tbe house. The savages had swallowed so much rum as to be quite drunk. Several had scalps dangling from their belts. "I had scarcely hoped for it." Mr. Spafford whispered, "but they are so drunk they can hardly follow the trail of the snowsboes, and maybe we will outwit them after all!" After staggering arouud tbe house, some of the Indians went inside, while others came toward tbe barn; but, after glancing at the empty stalls,they rejoined their fellows, who set up a loud shouting. Pretty soon two or three of them rolled out of the house a cask of New England rum, and kuocked the head in and commenced to drink heavily. Then some more pulled two or three feather beds out into the moonlight, and, ripping them open with their knives, commeuced to throw the feathers up into the air, dancing and siaging. One after another of the savages became BO intoxicated as to fall down in tbe snow, and then they rolled over and over in the feathers, which stuck to their bodies until finally every one of the band lay theflfe stupefied with liquor, unable to move hand or foot. "We can't tell how many more of the savages may be coming along, and so we dare not kill these, although it would be an easy matter," said Mr. Spafford. "It's almost daylight, too, and we must be moving. Open the rear door, David, and push the bob sled out on the snow—l guess the crust is thick enough to bear it now. Then help me down, and we will make one effort to get away." The brave boy crawled noiselessly down from the hay mow, and did as he was bid. He placed a quantity of straw in the sleigh, aud wrap] eil his father up in a buffalo robe, for the cold was intense. Then he stepped in him self, as he did so giving a slight push with one foot. The sleigh moved slowly, but soon gathered momentum, for back of the barn was a steep valley running down for live miles to the frozen river, and in all that sweep there was not a tree or a stump stick ing up above the snow, for all had been burned off in a forest fire years previ ous. The noise made by the whirring runner on the hardened snow aroused some of the Indians, and, hastening through fhe barn, they saw the escape. Two of the savagea fired their musketa at David, who was standing up in the sleigh aud steering it, but they were so drunk that their bullets went wide of the mark. A third seized a long board,and with a fiendish yell threw himself on it headlong, as a boy nowadays will now throw himself on a sled. This savage came sliding down the hillside with amazing spied, but he could not catcfc up with the heavier sleigh. Still, he was so near that Mr. Spaf ford dared to take no chances; and resting his musket on the seat of the sled, he aimed it aud pulled the trig ger. There was a yell, and the Indian seemed to leap off his board into the air, turning as he did so. On and on sped the sled down the mountain side, and to David the suow had a curious appearance. It seemed as if he were sitting still while the great white mass rushed by him up hill. But the cold,cutting wind in his face was as strong as to dispel this il lusion. It almost took away hi? breath. One mile, two miles, three, four, five they went, until the river was reached; and then came the most dangerous place of all, for the sleigb leaped off the bank and fell a yard be low the ice. But it landed right side up, ftud by good luck there was a clear space of ice straight across where the wind had swept a broad path in the snow. In far less time than it takes to tell it the sleigh had .skimmed over the opposite bauk.and its occupants met a company of farmer soldiers and lumbermen, who had heard of the raid from the messenger on snowshoes, and had started to rescue them. Coft're in tlio Army. Coffee is one of the comforts of sol dier life, but it is rarely served at its best. If the coffee is served to the mess in the berrv, the quality of it is likely to be much better than when transported in a ground state, for the reason that in transit it loses a great deal of the aroma and tine flavor. The best makeshift for a camp coffee-pot is a cheesecloth bag, holding about a quart. This can be dropped into the coffee-pot and the ground coffee put in. Over this pour the required amount of boiling water, one coffee cupful of water to a lieapful tablespoon of ground coffee. The old rule, four tablespoons for four persons and one for the pot is a good oue to follow. The (offee can be drawn off into a dish and poured back through the bag sev eral times, which adds greatly to the strength and flavor. Almost all of the best cooks are using a moderate amount of chicory in their cofl'ee, pre ferring it to the entire berry. It gives richness and body to the decoction, and is considered altogether whole some by hygieuists. In addition to this, it is inexpensive, costing about eight cents per pound, against '25 to 35 cents a pound for ordinary coffee. —New York Ledger. Tree Kesent* a Murder. The white oak is a long-lived tree, and this makes the following story so remarkable: Several years ago a law breaker in Maryland was captured by lynchers and strung tip on a sturdy young white oak tree growing near his home. In spite of its vigor the oak at once began to decay. The strange part of the story is, the fatal limb upon which the man was hanged first withered and died. The blight then spread up that side of the tree to the topmost bough, and then the entire tree began falling to pieces, until today only a rugged trunk and rotten limbs are left. The place ever since has been "hoodooed" so far as the negro population is concerned, aud they give the "Jim Pippin Tree" a wide berth after sundown. Relief for the Indian Widow. Action is being taken by certain en lightened natives to ameliorate the shocking condition of the average Hindoo widow. To begin with, the Indian widow is shaved bald, and can only hide her baldness with her oloth; she is deprived of all jewelry, wears coarser clothes than the rest of wom ankind, must fast on certain days, and every day has fewer meals thau are taken as a rule by the rest of the fam ily. The scheme of relief afoot is that no widow shall be shaved until she is twenty-one, the age at which it may be supposed that she will be able to show a will of her own in case she objects. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS- The stars cannot be counted. The telescope brings into view not only thousands, but millions of these bod ies. The French scientist, Leduc, claims to have established the fact that sound travels at the rate of exactly 1,088.5? feet per second. Since the beginning of the century no fewer than titty-two volcanic isl ands have risen out of the sea. Nine teen of that number have since dis appeared, and ten arc now inhabited. A German patent has been granted cor the treatment of articles of plaster of Paris with an aqueous solution ol unmonium borate, hardening the arti ste and rendering it insoluble in water. Professor Lewis Swift, observer on Mount Lowe observatory, Echo moun tain, Cal., has discovered a new bright 2omet in Eridauus, right ascensions 3 hours 45 minutes, declination south 29 degrees. By varying the light exposure ol plants M. Maige, at Fontainebleau, has succeeded in transforming the flowering branches into sterile creep ing or elimbiug ones, and creeping or jlimbiug branches into (lowering ones. A man with a penchant for compu tation has calculated that when we are at rest we consume 500 cubic inches of air a minute. If we walk at the rate of one mile an hour we use 300; two miles, 1000; throe miles, KiOO; four miles, 2300. If we start out and run six miles an hour we con sume 3000 cubic inches of air during every minute of the time. Forest of Stone. Old forests are apt to get into the most impossible places and to turn into the most preposterous shapes. All our coal fields are an cient forests far underground, then crushed and cooked into a hard min eral substance. There are forests ol plants which once grew a* mighty trees, for outside of fairyland who would ever imagine a majestic wool land of club moss, and reeds, and the little sand weed called the horsetail? In Greenland, right under the ice fields a buried forest has been found in which the plants were all palms and tropical creepers, proving that once the Arctic regions were as hot as the Indies. In the Wash, between the counties >f Lincoln and Norfolk, there is an old forest under the sea, with stumps of fallen oaks and elms still visible in places when the tide ii low. This was all dry land iu thed.iys of the ail sient Britons. Out in the deserts of Aiizoria there /s a dead forest on the surface of burn ing rock and driving sand, where no plant save the cactus can now find any water. When the place was first dis sovered a lyjgro cook thought th£t il would be excellent for camping. He he took an axe and delivered a mighty blow upon the fallen ruikof a biy red pine. His axe head was ruined, the haft smashed,and his fingers so badly hurt that he sat down and howled. Foi that tree was changed to massive rock, which looked as fresh as though felled yesterday. The whole prostrate forest of big timber had been changed into valuable and beautiful onyx, jas per and agate.—Chicago Tribune. I'lnenpplc Cloth. The question of using the by-prod ucts iu all industries is one that is re ceiving a large share of attention in these days of close figuriug and small profits, and the use of the fibre of pineapple leaves is now attracting considerable attention. A recent ar ticle in the Popular Science Monthly gives a good description of the uses that the leaves may be put to after the fruit is gathered. Each pineapple j lant bears but one apple a season, and after the apple is cut the leaves may also be stripped off without injury. From the leaves a fibre is obtained that is both fine and strong. The trouble with the scheme is that the industry would hardly be large enough to make it a profitable investment for anyone. It is figured that- it takes a ton of leaves to produce fifty pouuds of fiber. As the area in which pineapples can be grovu successfully is of limited ex tent it would seem as though pine apple fiber is not, for the present at leasft, destined to be an article of great importance to the business world. Subterranean City of Salt. The underground city of Wieliezka, which is hewn in salt and is the centre of the salt industry of Polish Austria, is oneof the most interesting of places to the American tourist. It is a verita ble subterranean city, where skilled laborers have carved ballrooms, res taurants, chapels, altars, statues and chandeliers. There are railways, too, in this wonderful city, which is 700 feet below the surface of the earth. There are sixteen salt lakes, but the visitor may be rowed over only one of them. The waters of this one are thick, dark and heavy, and those who have been across it tell of the ghost like swish of the waters against the side of the grotto and compare its dark surface to the fabled Styx. There are twenty-five miles of railways in the mines, and a thousand miners are employed every day in the crystal city. They produce 65,000 tons of salt every year. The mines are under the direct coutrol of the Austro-Hungar ian minister of finance. A Curlotis Vec«tnl>l« Graft. M. Henri Lnridan, head gardenet it Lougpvrt in the Aisue, France, has succeeded in grafting the tobacco plant on potato tubers. The process, which requires care, is fully described in La Nature. The handsome orna mental tobacco plant Nicotianacolossea variegata can be reared more easily in Lla.it>, wav.—London Globa. NPHE pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well-known remedy, SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company, illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxative principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxative, CLEANSING THE SYSTEM EFFECTUALLY, DISPELLING COLDS AND HEADACHES, PREVENTING FEVERS,, OVERCOMING HABITUAL CONSTIPATION PERMANENTLY. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and substance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, gently yet promptly, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but THE MEDICINAL QUALITIES ARE OBTAINED FROM SENNA AND OTHER AROMATIC PLANTS. ay a method known to the California Fig Syrup Company only. In order to get its beneficial effects, and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. Consumers of the choicest products of modern commerce purchase at about the same price that others pay for cheap and worthless imitations. To come into universal demand and to be everywhere considered the best of its class, an article must be capable of satisfying the wants and tastes of the best informed purchasers. The California Fig Syrup Company having met with the highest success in the manufacture ind sale of its excellent liquid laxative remedy, SYRUP OF FIGS, it has become important to all to have a knowledge of the Company and its product. The California Fig Syrup Company was organized more than nfteen years ago, for the special purpose of manufacturing and selling a laxative remedy which would be nore pleasant to the taste and more beneficial in effect than any other known. The great value of the -emedy, as a medicinal agent and of the Company's efforts, is attested by the sale of millions of bottles annually, and by the high approval of most eminent physicians. As the true and genuine remedy named SYRUP OF FIGS is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company only, the knowledge of that fact will assist in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other parties. (AUfpRNIA JTG 5W Q €>^ F cAu C/sc q For Sale by All Druggists . Price 50$ Per Bottle. One Woman's Added ISurden. I was taking my dinner one day at a mountain farmhouse on the head waters of the Cumberland Iliver, and the lady of the house, who had four children playing around the front of the establishment, was inclined to re pine at her hard luck in having so much work to do. "I run this hero whole farm," she a tone which indicated that she was ready to resign. "How many acre 3 havo you?" I in quired. "A hundred and forty; twenty in wheat, sixty in corn, ten in medder in' paster, an' the balance scatterin' an' woods." "Got any stock?" "Ten head uv cattle, two cows, six liogs and work critters fer the place." "And you run the whole busi ness?" "Indeed I do; every hide an* hair uv it," she sighed. "Don't you hire some help?" "In course, but 'tain't hired help ,hat takes the load of'en a body." There was philosophy in that state ment, and I paused a minute. "Haven't you got a husband?" I aext asked with a good deal of sym pathy. "Yes," she responded very slowly, "but I have to run him, too." Washington Star. Glass For Street I'avlng. Experiments are being made in Lyons, France, with glass for street paving purposes, uccording to John 0. Covert, United States Consul in that city. A stretch of pavement has been laid in Lyons, consisting of ceramo-crystal, or devitrified glass, in the form of blooks, eight inches square, each block containing sixteen square,parts. These are fitted together, so that water cannot pass between them, and make the pavement look like an enlarged cheoker board. It is claimed for it that it offers greater re sistance than stone, that it is a poor conductor of cpld, that dirt will not accumulate on it as easily as on stone, that it will not retain microbes and that it is more durable than stone and not more oostly. The paving material is obtained from broken glass heated to 1250 degrees Fahrenheit and cora pressod by hydraulio foroe. Nothing is said about its slippery qualities in wet weather. Cromwell's Mother. The sympathy existing between this mother and son is one of the most beautiful traits in Oliver's personal history. They loved each other with a passionate affection that no time or ohange lessened, and when he arrived at the summit of his power, though she was then upwards of ninety years of age, he appointed her royal apart ments in Whitehall, and visited her every day. Noblo quaintly says, "She occasionally yet offered the Protector advice, which he always heard with great attention, but acted as he judged proper." It is ploasant to think that this fine old lady died happily before her son's power began to wane. It is pleasant to think of the Great Protec tor kneeling to receive her dying blessing, and of her last smiling words to him and his children—"A good night, dears!" There is yet a portrait of her at Hinchinbrooke, which shows us a handsomo woman, with a face full of character, and a rather melanoholy expression. Her dress is that of a gentlewoman of the time—a white satin hood, a pearl necklace, and a necker chief edged with rich lace. The man tle is of green satin edged with gold lace, and fastened with a jeweled clasp.—Amelia Barr, in Harper's Mag azine. A(«| of French Bride*. The Hachette Almanac for the cur rent year gives some very interesting statistics as to the ages of brides in France. Only thirteen out of 100 young women marry between the ages of 15 and 20. From 20 to 25 years the average is sixty out of 100. The further from her twenty-fifth year the maid travels the slimmer are her chances for marriage; still up to 30 years the nuptial chimes ring out for twenty-two out of 100. Maids from 30 to 35 years old have twelve chances in 100; from 35 to 40 years six, and from 40 to 45 years only five in 100. There is only one lucky female in 100 who marries when between 45 and 50 years old. It must not be supposed, however, that after 50 oblivion covers the hearts of "belated maids." Even between the years of 60 and 65 there is a chanoe for one maid among 365. The strongest competitors maids "hay to encounter are the widows, for thwy marry with equal if not better chances than their single sisters. AnKlo-Auierlcan Friendship at Manila. A letter from a marine on H. M. S. Fowerful, now stationed at Manila which has been received at Seattle, Wash., says, regarding the friendli ness of American soldiers and British sailors: Our men and the Yankee soldieis soon became awfully friendly. You never saw such soldiers. Verj few of them were in uniform. Thej wore big slouch liats, with the num ber of their regiment often written on a bit of paper and pinned on. It was a sight to see them come on board. They went along the deck, speaking to everybody, and when we saw them go up to the officers without saluting we felt as if they must drop on the spot. But they didn't. They offered their cigar cases to our meu with "Have a s'gar, boy," and after they had smoked tfud talked with us they took ont their card cases aud handed us a visiting card, saying as they did so, "Now be sure you look us up if you're our way, you know." Tlie Author of "By Jingo.** It is rather amusing to those who know the facts to hear people talk of the "Great Macdermott," as if he was really the inventor of the word "jingo." That he made it popular is true enough, but the famous song came to him one fateful morning in 1876, with the milk, by penny post. So it was by no means what is called a "put-up job." Every well-known comique has a biggish delivery of ditties. "We don't want to fight" arrived in anch a batch. It was sent by a certain Mr. Hunt, who thought it stifßsli for the public. The great one was of another opinion. Being an old naval man him self, he was thrilled at once, and saw its possibilities in a moment. More over, he agreed with its sentiments, which enabled him to give it with gusto, "by jingo."—London News. One Way to Clean a Chimney. •An easy way to clean a chimney of soot has been discovered by a Maine man. Instead of going to the top of the chimney and probing with rods, he begins at the bottom. There ap opening is made, and he fires upward a revolver charged with a blank car-, tridge. The concussion, it is said, will clean out the soot. He also claims that the burning of a piece of zino in a stove will clear the stove and 1 its funnel of soot.
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