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VOLUME 3.
KEYNOLPSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ,12 1891.
NUMBER 18.
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FAREWELL.
Farewell. We two shall still meet day by
day.
Lire tide by tide.
But nevermore Mm 11 heart respond to heart.
Two stranger bunts enn drift adownone tide.
Two branches on one stem grow green apart.
Farewell, 1 say.
Farewell. Chance travelers, as the path they
tread,
Change words and smile
And share their traveler' fortunes friend with
friend.
And yet aro foreign in their thoughts the
while,
Fevers, ii lone, save that one way they wend.
Farewell. 'Tie said.
Farewell. Ever the bitter asphodel
Outlives lovo's rose.
Th fruit arid blossom of tlio dead for ns.
Ah, answer me, should this have been the
close-
To he togethor and to bo sundered thusf
But yet farewell.
August a Wobstor,
MADE THEM MARRY.
EMPEROR NAPOLEON WAS A MATRI
MONIAL DESPOT.
He Compelled Women to Marry to Halt lilt
Interests or Whims Home of the Disa
greeable Alliances Brought Abont by
This Tyrannical Matchmaker.
Among the numerous work to which
the revival of the Napoleonio legend hits
given birth in one called "Napoleon and
the Ladies. " The writor exerts himself
to the utmost to transform the rough
soldier and despot into a hero of ro
mance, but without sucoess. His rela
tion with his two wives were not re
markable for either consideration or
delicacy, and he adopted a coarse pleas
antry in his conversation with the ladies
of his conrt which was not far removed
from downright vulgarity.
But what tended to make the very
name of Napoleon hatefnl to all yonng
Frenchwomen was his famous conscrip
tion of girls, whom he married offhand
to his generals without the slightest
ceremony. The Marquise de Corgny, on
her return to Paris, was ordered to
marry her daughter to General Sebas
tian. Both mother and daughter pro
tested in vain. Three days after the
order the marriage took place at the
Tuileries, Napoleon himself giving away
the bride. Mile. Adelo de la Rochefou
cauld was renowned throughout the
whole department for her grace, beauty
and expectations, when she was private
ly infonuod by tho prefect that Napoleon
had decided to marry her to Count Al
dobrandiui. Tho lady objected to the
count for tho best of feminine reasons
namely, that he was neither young nor
handsoma
The count, however, was the brother
of Princo Borghcse, the husband of
Pauline, the sister of Bonaparte, and
tho resistance of father and daughter
was of no moment, and they were
obliged to yield to the will of Napoleon.
Couut d'Arberg, tho descendant of a
sovereign family, prefect of the Bonches
du Weser, and one of Napoleon's cham
berlains, hod two daughters of mar
riageable a;?. Napoleon ordered that
ono should marry General Klein, and
tho other General Mouton, oouut do
Lohau. The mother of the two young
Indies was Countess Stolborg, sister of
Countess Albany, widow of tho last of
the Stuarts. Fanny Dillon, the danghtor
of Count Dillon, was ordored to marry
General Bortraud. The young lady re
fused even to see the general, objecting
Hint ho was hideous, which unfortu
nately happened to be tho truth. Na
poleon was irritated at this conduct and
ordored the young lady to be arrested
and confined in prison until she consent
ed to marry Bertrand, the monster, as
she called him.
Tho Duo do Lauroguais, father of the
Duo d'Arenberg, colonel of a regiment
of cavalry and an unfortunate bachelor,
was ordored by Napoleon, under penalty
of dismissal from the army, to marry
forthwith Mile. Stephanie T anchor de
la Pagerie, cousin germaln of the Em
press Josephine. The young lady as
well aa the duke objected to the mar
riage, and the former had the audaoity
to declare that she not only hated the
duke, bnt was over head and ears in
love with a oertain M. de Gantry. The
marriage between the cousin of Jose
phine and the duke nevertheless took
place, and at the marriage oeremony,
when the young lady, in reply to the
priest's question, refused to say yea
Napoleon himself deigned to posh her
head downward in token of assent
After the marriage oeremony this
strangely married oouple went to reside
at the Hotel de Chimay. But the duch
ess refused to reooivo her husband, who,
like a reasonable being, posted after his
regiment, then serving in Spain. In
1811 he was made prisoner and sent to
England, where he remained until the
fall of Napoleon in 1814. On his return
to Paris the duchess obtained a dissolu
tion of the marriage on the ground of
restraint, and she finished by marrying
the happy M. de Gentry.
The Prinoe of Hobensollem, oousin of
the king of Prussia, was ordored to
marry Antoinette Murat, a oousin of
the "Bean Babreur" and king of Na
ples, and although both the prinoe and
Antoinette declared that they mutually
hated one another the marriage never
theless took place, Napoleon being of the
opinion, liko Mrs. Malaprop, that mar
ried life had better oommenoe with a
little hatred. One morning the Duo de
Croy was informed by his friend, the
prefect of Mans, that Napoleon had re
solved that his daughter should be mar
ried at onoe to a general, and that an
order tq that effeot would be delivered
to the Duo do Croy on the following
day. But the dnko was a man of re
source, and there being in the house an
amiable oousin, one Fernand de Croy,
a marriago between the two cousins was
celebrated at midnight by tho parish
priest When tho formal order of Na
poleon arrived the next morning, tho
duke replied that he was "desolated, "
but that his daughter had already mar
ried her Cousin Fernand. But it was not
safo to try to outwit tho powerful em
peror, and a few days afterward Cousin
Fernand, the married man, was drafted
into a regiment of cavalry and sent to
Russia, from which country he even
tually returned, minus an arm.
As lato as 1813 the Minister of Police
Savory issued a circular to all the pre
fects of departments, ordering them to
send to Paris a list of all the heiresses
in their respective departments, with
full particulars as to age, personal
charms and amount of property, either
in possession or in expectation. These
lists were sent to the emperor, who di
vided his time impartially between their
perusal and the monthly returns of the
positions of his regiments and their pre
sumed equipments. In fact, the em
peror, whether from policy or freak, or
from both, was an inveterate match
maker and never troubled himsolf about
the "conscientious scruples' of cither
the ladies or gentlemen concerned.
American Register.
8IGNING THE DECLARATION.
Flics Pestered the Father of the Repnb
' as They Created It.
Jefferson was fond of telling a story
which illustrates in a forciblo manner
the importance that absurdly insignifi
cant matters may sometimes assume.
When the deliberative body that gavo
the world the Declaration of Independ
ence was in session, its proceedings
were condnctod in a hall olose to which
was situated a livery Btable. The
weather was warm, and from the stablo
came swarms of flies that lighted on the
legs of the honorable members, and bit
ing through the thin silk stockings then
in fashion gave Infinite annoyance. It
was no uncommon sight, said Jefferson,
to see a member making a speech with
a large haudkerchiof in hand and paus
ing at every moment to thrash the flies
from his thinly protected calves.
The opinion of the body was not
unanimous in favor of the document,
and, under other oircuniBtancos, discus
sion might have been protracted for
days, if not weoks, but the flies wero
intolerable. Efforts were made to find
another hall, free from the pests, but in
vain. As tho weather became warmer
the flies grew worso, and the flapping of
handkerchiefs Mas heard all over the
hall as an aocompauiment to the voices
of the speakers.
In despair at last some one suggested
that matters be hurried, so that the
body might adjourn and get away from
the flies. Thero were a few mild pro
tests, but no ono hoeded them, tho im
mortal declaration was hurriedly copied,
and, with handkerchiefs in hnnd fight
ing flies as they came, the momlers
hastcnod up to the tablo to sign tho au
thentic copy and loave the flies in the
lurch.
Had it not been for the livery stable
and its inmates thero is no telling when
the document would have been com
pleted, but it certainly would not havo
been signed on tho Fourth. Philadel
phia Press.
Coatdnt "no" Jobs.
He was a busted sport, with very
much soilod linen, and when he found
a laundry chock issued by the only
Chinoso laundry in Cnrondelot he
thought ho was fixed. Ho took it to
John's washhonse and domanded the
clothes it called for. The washerman
took the ticket behind screen, where
he had a long consultation with the
other Chinaman. After a time he came
out and asked;
M8hirteer
"Yes. "
"Colla?"
"Yes."
"Hanohlff?"
"Yes."
"Books?"
"Yes."
Here John's patience vanished, and
throwing open the door he yelled:
"All one big lie!" St Loais Post
Dispatch. New Statues In New York City.
Five new statues have recently been
set up in the parks and squares of New
York the Columbus, designed by a
Spaniard, in Central park; the Rosooe
Conkliug in Madison square, the Gree
ley at the juuetion of Sixth avenue and
Broadway, the Ericsson in Battery
park and the Nathan Hale in City Hall
park and among these the last named
Is the only which oan be called worthy
of its cost and its place either as giving
pleasure to the eye or as likely to in
spire imitative ambitions and patriotic
thoughts in the minds of our fellow oitl
aens. Garden and Forest
A Secret Defined.
A secret Is a thing which yon eonv
mauicate to one whom yon oan trust
He, in turn, tells it to somebody that
he oan trust, and that somebody reveals
It to another somebody whom he oan
trust And so it goes the rounds, bnt
it is still a secret, although everybody
knows it Boston Transcript
One hundred years ago the Japanese
were so separated from the remainder
of mankind that so far as any inter
course was oonoerned fliey might almost
aa well have Inhabited the moon.
CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE.
Getting the Obelisk Aboard hlp Pretty
Pleee of Engineering.
"One of the ploasantost recollections
I have to look back on, "said Adam
Johnson, "is tho fact that I was one of
the party that helped to run up the
American colors over Cleopatra's needle
when it was being takeu down to 1
carried to New York. Our vessol was
out in the Mediterranean with a roving
commission, and we were at Alexandria
at the time the obelisk was being mov
d. Tho big stone had been presented by
the Egyptian government to this coun
try, but the poople were wild about hav
ing it moved. Wo had to place a guard
around the men who were working on
the shaft, and even then there was al
most a riot
"But that was one of tlio prettiost
pieces of engineering work I have ever
seen. The engineers who were moving
our shaft had a conplo of big wooden
cases built that fitted around the ueedlo
like the pieces of wood around the load
in a pencil. There were a couple of pro
jectiles on each side of the casings just
on the center of gravity in the shaft
like the trunnions on a cannon. Under
these they put lifting jacks and just
picked that immense stone off its
pedestal, swnug it around horizontal
and thon lowered it as gently as could
be on a long sliding way, with cannon
balls under it for rollers. They had a
square hole cut in the stern of the
steamship and slid it into the hull
through that and replaced the sheathing
outside.
"Under the shaft in tho Inside of the
pedestal there were a lot of bronze toads
and ornaments and the Lord knows what
not that the Masons olaimed were placed
there by some of thoir progenitors eons
ago. I don't know anything about that
though, and you can leave it or take it
as yon choose.
"The British were not half so slick
with tho obelisk they carried over to
England They cased it up in a big
sheet iron arrangement like a boiler, riv
eted it in and floated the wholo thing
off through a trench dug in the sand
down to the water. Then they rigged
jury sails on it and towed it ovor to
England, but they lost three or four
men off it before they got it in port and
had all sorts of a time generally.
"A couple of years afterward I saw
the British obelisk set up on the east
bank of the Thames, and when I came
home the first thing I went to see was
ours in Central park." Washington
Post
TRAGEDIES ON TOMBSTONES.
English Churchyards aud Their Deeply
Graven Accusations of Murder.
In the churchyards of Britain several
tombstones exist with the accusations
of murder deeply engraved upon them.
A atone over the gravo of throe children
in Merriugtou (Durham) churchyard
bears the following inscription:
Bleeping we were slain.
And here we sleep till we must rise again.
In Sandridge churchyard, Surrey, on
the tombstone of a custom house officer
who was shot in an encounter with
smugglers is tho following:
Thou shalt do no murder, nor shalt thou steal
Are the commands Jehovah did reveal.
Hut thou, O wretch, without fenr or dread
Of thy tremendous Maker, shot me dead.
On a stone in Cadoxton churchyard,
Glamorganshire, Is inscribed tho most
fearful accusation of murder to be found
on any tomb in Great Britain:
"TO RECORD MURDER.
"This Btono was erected over the body
of Margaret Williams, agod 80, living
in service in this parish, who was found
dead with marks of violence upon her
In a ditch on a marsh below this church'
yard on the morning of Sunday, the
14th July, 1833.
"Although the savage murderer es
caped for a season the detection of man,
yet God hath sot his mark upon him
either for time or eternity, and the
cry of blood will assuredly pursue him
to certain and terrible but righteous
judgment
A tombstone stood in Dulverton
churohyard a few years ago on whioh
was inscribed:
Poisoned by the doctor, negleoted by the nurse.
The brother robbed the widow, which made
the matter worse.
Aa aoousation of murder appears on
the tomb of Edwin, the Irish oomedian,
who was buried in St Werburgh's
churohyard, Dublin, and also on tombs
to be found in Aoton churohyard, Glon
oestershlro; Hoo, near Rochester; Little
Stukeley, and Mytton, near Clitheroe,
Lancashire. London Tit-Bits.
Gold Uned Cops Not la Is.
A tall young man, with a pretty
young woman, sauntered across Inde
pendence square yesterday afternoon
when Old Sol was at his hottest When
they came to the ice water fountain, the
young woman stopped and picked up
one of the tin oups, and scanning it
ruefully shook her head at her compan
ion and laid it quickly down again.
The next thing was to slip off a small
suede glove, and placing the pretty
hand it fitted nnder the stroam she
filled its palm with water and drank
from it three times. And the next thing
was to see the yonng man bend over the
same palm while he held her wrist to
balance the novel cup, and five time it
took to satisfy him, and right willingly
did the pretty young woman fill it and
place it to his lips. Both actors were
perfectly nnoonoerned, and after th,e
young man had dried the young wom
an's hand in bis pockst handkerchief
they sauntered in a down town direo
tion. Philadelphia Record.
Mot Ashamed of Hie Record
"While waiting at a railroad station
not many miles distant from Utlca tho
other day for an east bound train, " said
a man, "a train passed going west. As
the end of the train pulled ont of tho sta
tion a man with unusually long logs was
seen running into ono end of the depot
and out of tlio other to tlio platform.
Ho started after the moving train at a
lively gait He carried two grips, ono
in either hand, and they swnug to and
fro in a laughable manner. On ho went,
and on the train went He Rained on tlio
train at first, but the train was all tlio
time picking up, and he finally stopped.
Ho walked back leisurely, tlio onlookers
at tho depot waiting till he canto np to
give him the laugh. As ho approached
them he dropped his grips, quietly pnt
his hand in his pocket, pulled out a roll
of bills, selected a (10 noto and ex
claimed: "I'll bet 10 thero is not n man iu
this whole crowd who can catch that
train I'
"Of course there were no takers, nor
did any ono laugh at him for failing to
catch the train himself cither. "
Utlca Observer.
Tiie Quince Itlossoin.
The beanty of tho apple blossom has
been sung by tho yard and for ages, but
the quince blossom has in somo way
failed to inspire tho poets, though it is
a lovely flower, at first a cono of five
close wrapped pink petals that gradual
ly unclose till there is a globe slightly
opened at the top, showing tho yollow
antlers within. Tho petals keep one
deep pink edge, tho rest getting paler
till the opposite sido is almost white.
Finally the flower opens into a flat,
delicately tinted cup, with tho pistils
holding np tho group of yollow antlers
on mauve pink sterna Tho glossy green
quince leaf, with its white satin under
finish, fits well with the flowers, and so
does this cup that the gloss blower in
Murano made by rolling a whito hot
bulb of greenish glass over a sheet of
gold lent and blew ond tossed and flat
tened on one end aud crocked evenly off
at the other till it stood shapely and gold
flecked, ready for theso faraway Now
England quince blossoms. Newport
News.
How Itrldget Prepared Crabs.
Bridget, her Harlem mistress alwoys
said, was "willing, " but sho did not
understand American cookery.
Her mistress sent homo a half dozen
livo hard shell crftbs ono day and lmd left
word that they were to be prepared for
dinner. Whon tho lady entered tho
kitchen on her return homo, she found
Bridget in tears and with her hands and
arms tied up. Two empty green crob
shells wero on tho table, thriKi of tho
crabs wero mutilated and dead, and tho
last ono Bridget was preparing to attack.
"I'vo downed them all, " oxclaimod
Bridget, "bnt that last doviliu tho cor
ner, and ho's a fighter."
"What aro you doing to them?" gasp
ed the miHtress.
"Cleaning them, nia'nui. Thero'stwo
of them cleuned, " pointing to tho empty
shells. Now York Herald
The Htatue Wept.
Last winter at ono of tho. littlo hill
side shrines near San Renio tho Madon
na was observed to bo weeping. This
was not Been by one, but by many, as
great crowds collected and watched tho
slowly dripping toaw. Tho pooplo woro
puzzled, bewildered, frightened. And so.
they called together tlio wisest men to
find ont tho cause After soveral days
of deliberation and examination, they
announced tho causo of tho Madonna's
tears. Thero was a hole in tho top of '
her hood. Tho rain had entered and fill
ed tho cavity, and in time workod its
way through tho eyes, tho pupils of
which presented the thinnost portion of
marblo to work through. Romo Letter.
Old Leather.
The thrift and, economy of French
methods have found a use for old loath
er. This heretofore almost useless arti
cle is put into vats, boiled, and being-!
subjected to hydraulio pressure yields a
greasy liquid that, after treatmont with
sulphurio acid, is run off into barrels to
oool. After passing through various
purifying process os it is fit for tho uses
to whioh low grades of oil are put
New York Ledger.
The most remarkable metoor on rec
ord in that of Deo. 91, 1876, which
originated in Kansas, glided over Mis
souri to tho south of Lake Michigan aud
became lost near Niagara falls. It ex
ploded with a report like that of an
earthquake.
One of the most important, but one
of the most difficult, things of a power- '
ful mind is to be its own master. A
pond may lie quiet in a plain, but a
lake wants mountains to compass and
hold it in. Addison.
Tho works of Aristotle comprised
more than 400 treatises on various sub
jects. The manuscripts whioh survive
of his writings wore . aooideutally dis
covered in an advanced stage of decay
in an old chest
There has boen a notable docrooso dur
ing the last threes years in the amount
of shipping passing through the Suoa
canal. Last year 8, 841 vessels used the
oanaL
Russia has no oolonios, in the proper
sense of the word. Alt the additions to
this gigantio empire have been by mili
tary oonquest and annexation,