THE WEEKLY BULLETIN Mount Joy, Pa. TT ee E. SCHROLL, - Editor and Publisher. ¥ ve. SUBSCRIPTION, Fifty Cents Per Annum, strictly in advance. Six Months, - . i Single Copies, Sample Copies Free. 25 Cents, 2 Cents. Legal Advertising 10 cents per line each insertion. Spocial Rates to Yearly Advertisers. Entered at the Post Office at Mount Joy, Pa., as second-class matter. OFFICE REBAR OF MOUNT JOY HALL. — a cmp mow Egyptian state railroads bought last year $3,757,239 of material, of which England furnished $2,565,000, Belgium $488,000, Turkey $198,000 and the United States $340,000. A certain justice of the peace in Maryland evidently imagines that cows can read big print. He recently gave a verdict against a railroad company for killing a cow near a road crossing for the reason that ‘the defendant had no sign up at the crossing.” The American business man of the present day spends his health to gain wealth and then immediately starts out to spend his wealth in regaining his health. But generally he finds the first feat child's play in comparison with the second, says the Baltimore American. Nature has ordained that insects and worms shall live, but she has pro- vided them with food at the expense of the farmers. It is said that following 11 pests damage ithe crops every year to the value of more than $350,000,000—the cinch bug, grasshop- the per, Hessian fly, potato bug, San Jose scale, grain weevil, army worm, cab- bage worm, boll weevil, boll worm and cotton worm. Have you ever noticed, says a wril- er in “V. C.,” that some tamers carry a second whip their left hand which is ng er used? There is -pur- pose in this. It represents to the wild beasts the terrors of the unknown. He has experienced the sharp, stinging flick of the whip in the tamer’s right hand, but for the life of him he can- what anguish lurks in the other Many a in pot imagine that hand, which is never used. tamer has saved his life in a critical moment by just lifting that unknown a crouching, growling, mysterious whip in terror above fury maddened tiger. A man who puts a joke into his wil ie certainly in a position to laugh last. The police commissary of a small town ir France, has just been the victim of this sort of posthumous humor. A few days ago he was summoned to make the necessary legal investigation in the cage of the suicide of a retired railway gcrvant, wke had the reputation of be- ing a very original character. On 2 table he found a large envelope bear ing the words: “This is my last will and testament,” which he transmitted {oc the proper quarter. Two days later the commissary was informed that he was sole legatee. When an inventory of the estate was made, however, it was found that the liabilities just about balanced the assets, and that, censequently, after paying the funeral expenses, the commissary’s legacy would consist of debts. He may refuse the legacy, but a fee has to be paid ir such cases, and he will be out of pock et whether he accepts or refuses. the department of Seine-et-Qise, There are a thousand persons in the leper colony on the island of Molokai and five times as many dogs. So nu- merous have the animals become of late that the authorities found their support a heavy burden—they ate more than the lepers—and decided that they were a serious menace to the sanitary and economic condition of the colony It has therefore been decided by the board of health, not, as might be ex: pected, that all the dogs must go, but that their number must be reduced te equality with that of the human in- habitants. In other words each lepe: will be permitted to have one dog There is pathos in the reasoning by which this decision was reached. Tt seems that the lepers are extremely fond of dogs, since the affection which they get from these animals to a de- gree makes up for the repulsion their malady creates among more fortunate men and women, exclaims the New York Timds. The dog draws no line anywhere, {and treats a Ieper master exactly aglihe would another. Henge 1 red too cruel to thifk the dogs from the Al heir reduged { she had come with .« THE DIARY. What matters it on such and such a date What did betide? We have the present glory; what fs worth Aught else beside? “Nay,” said the other, ‘“when we read this page Some future day, The old forgotten joy will newed; Ah, who can say?” be re- But we so altered by the lapse of time, It will seem vain; This brook song and those words we syoke, An idle strain. tender “Nay,” said the otner, “if this golden hour We do enshrine, Long afterward ’twill walk like morn- ing with us, Our youth divine.” —Florence Wilkinson. The Repentant Wife. BY PHILIP REAUFOY, “Five years ago tonight!” Dr. Basil Graham sat beside the waning fire in his big study and peer- ed into the ruddy depths. What did he see that caused him to gaze there with such intent eyes? He saw a house in a city street, and within that house a girl—sweet, winsome, adorable. He saw a man at her feet, heard him murmur words of love, heard her whisper “Yes,” while the man’s eyes lighted up with ineffable joy. The embers fell, and another pic- ture burned into the doctor’s brain. He saw another house {in another street—desolate, empty, grief-strick- en—a house whence the woman had flown, leaving black sorrow and tears behind her. And Basil Graham knew that this woman was Mabel, his wife, and that the man was himself, her broken-hearted husband. Five years ago she had vanished from his home after a brief wedded life. She had gone without a word of explanation, and he had been forced to tae bitter conclusion that she had flown with some man for whom she had conceived a sudden and perhaps overwhelming affection. All search proved useless. Had the { grave closed over Mabel Graham she could not nave been more effectually hidden from the man into whose life such wondrous joy, and out of whose existence she nad gone with such tragic abruptness. He nad told himself that hence- forth life could hold no further joy for him. But for his work, he would in all probability have sought refuge in the everlasting sleep that lurked within the phials of his office, but, fortunately, the man's devotion to his profession held him back, and turned his thoughts towards the path of life. Five years had passed away. Five years nad borne him along the dreary highway of existence, and long since kz had put aside all hopes of meeting his wife again on earti. told himself that he must tread his lone- iy way until death wrot2 tae word ®finis” at the foot of his life’s his- tory. Tonight, en this most bitter anni- versary, he sat in tne gloomy study, pondering the events of his past life, and asking himself with strange per- sistence, the old, old question: “Why had Mabel feft him?” “Once I believed that there was some other man,” he murmured, “but I have tried to battle aith that ter- rible belief and to dismiss it from ay brain.” The doctor arose, ana goiug to the tooksnelf, took from it 2 volume and began to read. Hard!v had he set tlel in his chair when a loud knock regsoundad through the quiet house. A servant entered and informed him that a lady desired to see him. “A patient, I suppose,” said Gra- ham, mechanically. “Show her in here.” The man quitted the apactmens, re- turning in a minute with a tall close- Jy veiled woman. “What can I do for yeu, madam?” he queeried, motioning her to a chair. “Dector, I cannot down, for there is no time to lose.” “You wish me to you?” he asked quickly. “Yes. A lady wno resides in the same house as myself has been taken ill, and I volunteered to nurse her. She seems worse tonight, and I was about to send for the doctor who had already attended her, when she called me to her bedside and said: “Bring Dr. Graham of Harley street. [ have somehing to say to him!” “I will come at once!” cried the doctor, as hope and fear subtly min- gled in his brain. The hope took the form of a belief that the sick woman might be his wife—the fear that she might die in the very heur of meet- ing. A cab was waiting at the door. The docter end his companion entor- ed the vehicle and were rapidly driv- en in the direction of a northern sub- urb. After some twenty-five minutes’ i journey, the cab drew up at the door of a somewhat dingy house, and the veiled woman touched Dr. Graham on the arm. “This is the place,” she said in a low voice. “Pray Heaven we may ; not be too late.” A sharp ring at the ball brought a glatternly’ maidservant to tae door. “How is Miss Everson?” asked the woman, quickly. ® Ta ia att 5.0 return with ‘She seems about the same,” re- plied the girl, casting a hurried glance at the doctor. The latter seemed to have been struck by the name of ‘“Everston,” and as he went up the stairs Ris brain was sorely puzzled. “Everston — Everston!” dered, “where have I name before?” Further reflection was cut short by the arrival of the physician and his guide at the room where the dying woman lay. A dull oil lamp served to deepen rather than relieve the black gloom of the apartment, and it was with difficulty that Dr. Graham was able to gaze upon the features of the patient. Then a low, quiver- ing cry escaped his lips. “Mary!” he exclaimed, as his heart beat like a steam hammer. “So it is you?” ; “Yes,” replied a feeble voice. “It is I, Basil Graham, and I know that I am going fast. I have not sent for you to tend me as a patient, for I know that I am beyond all human skill.” “Why, then, have you asked me to come?” asked Graham, in a low voice. “Because I have something to tell you before I ‘die—a secret which I must not carry with me to the grave.” Then, perceiving that the veiled woman was standing close at hand, she made a gesture signifying that she wished her to quit the room. A moment later they were alone. There was a long pause, and then the woman raised her head and look- ed him steadfastly in the face. “Do you remember,” she said, hus- kily, “that seven years ago you and I were to be married?” “lI remember the fact now,” he made answer, “though until this night it had been driven from my brain by other and more recent events.” “Very well. If your memory serves you right you will call to mind that you broke off the engagement be- cause certain scandalous doings of mine came to your ears?” “Yes, yes, I remember.” “I was guilty of those acts and you did right to break with me,” went on the feeble voice; “but all the same I did not think so at the time. I hat- ed you for humiliating me, and I swore that if ever the time came when I might take vengeance, I would not spare you.” “Go on,” said the doctor. “The opportunity came when you married. I heard from a friend that he heard pon- that you were devoted to your wife, and that you were supremely happy. I was living in Wilmington at*the time, and was unable to come to New York to plot against your peace of mind; but I had in my possession certain letters of yours addressed to me, bearing no dates. I put half a dozen | of those letters in an envelope, dated them with dates which would corre- spond Ww several months after your marriagé, and sent them with an an- onymoiis communication to your wife —a worsen whom I had never seen, but whom I hated for having married you.” “You fiend!” Graham was about to exclaim, but remembering that she was trembling on the brink of death he repressed the cry that arose to his lips, and merely said again, “Go on!” - “There is little~more to tell. The next news that reached me .conceri- ing you was that your wife had gone away, and that your home was deso- late. I rejoiced with all my heart at the time, but since then I have bit- terly repented my wickedness, for life has been nothing but misery to me, and I have been punished, heav- ily punished.” She was growing weaker. The words left her lips with painful slow- ness. enced eye of the physician to per- ceive that the end was near. “Do you—do you know where my tered "his emotion sufficiently to find speech. “No. How should I? Remember that I never saw her in my life, and should not know her if she stood before me at this minute.” Dr. Graham saw the gray shadows which proclaim the end of all things steal over the white face, and look- ing into those shadows, it scemed to him that they symbolized the gray existence must remain thus shadow- ed until life closed for ever and ever? his brain, there came a quiver of the lips, and the dying woman raised her head feebly. “Can you—can you forgive sine asked, huskily. “I forgive you,” he replied, simply, giveness ringing in her dull ears, Mary Everston’s soul went out on its last journey. * * * ¥® * * The doctor, with mechanical fin gers, drew the sheet over the rigid face, and then turned toward tae door, “That woman has wrecked ny life,” he murmured, “but [ woud pardon all if my darling wife coull come back to me at this momait— could put her hand in mine ana whis- per, ‘Husband, take me home” Look! Is he awake or is he dream- ing? for a silent figure nas cept out of the dark passage toward ¥m, and has thrown itself at his feet, Sobbing out, brokenly: “Husband, take me home!” Well-nigh med with and delight, Basil Graham ised thé It did not require the experi-| wife is?” he asked, when he had mas- | misery that this woman had brought | into his life. Was it destined that his | Even as the thought raced through | me?” | and so, with the neble words of for-| kneeling woman and fooked inte fer face. “Oh, Mabel, my darling, my dari ing! At last, at last!” When both of them were® somewhat calmer, Mabel told him +what had happened. How she had roomed ‘with Mary BEverston in a cheap lodg- ing house, little dreaming that she was the woman who had worked sao much havoc in her life; how when Mary fell ill the latter had begged her to bring Graham to her side; how she had veiled her face closely so that her husband might not recognize ner; and lastly, how the dying wom. an’s confession, which she had over- heard, had proved to her beyond all doubt that Basil was tmue to her after all. “But for that confession, Basil,” she murmured, softly, “we should have remained apart until the end.” Then ‘a sudden fear seemed to as. sail her heart, and she said, tremu. ously: “Basil, it was wicked of me to leave you as I did, without asking you for an explanation. Time after time have I repented my wicked rashness, but pride held me from coming back to you. Can you—can you forgive me?” “I love you,” he replied, huskily; “that is enough!” Thus was she answered—thus did a noble heart speak its message of forgiveness. And that night Dr. Graham’s lone- ly house was lighted by the presence of a face which cast a new glamour over all things, and the wanderer who had strayed for so many weary years crept back into the heart which was her refuge, her solace, and aer home.—New York Weekly. “CALAMITY JANE” MAN. FEARED NO Held Her Oown in the Wildest Life of the West. In the death of “Calamity Jane,” in Terry, S. D., there has passed one of the most picturgsque and daring characters that ever roamed the West- ern plains. The whole story of this strange woman never has been told, and now that she if dead the curtain of mystery will probably never be lifted from certaiijp chapters of her checkered life, Mrs. Jane Burk/ (‘Calamity Jane’) was born in Prinketon, Mo., ir 1852, father to the golfi fields of Montana, where she becfme inured to roughest kind of Riding the wild- est of horses ang of the most desperate kind seeined to be second natufre with her. In dashes over the plains buckskin clothing of a man, volvers and cargtridges at her belt, and in a few yeary seemed to forget en- tirely that shje was born a woman. She wan rensfess asked odds of no man, white or} Indian, and took care of harsdiz ma ovpiry emergency. When Gerferal Crook was engaged in the Indig/m campaign she served as a scout and rendered effective ser- vice, making long, arduous journeys and bravin|g perils that would frighten a majority of men to these peaceful times, “Calamity Jane” was married three times, her last husband being much younger than she. She was reported in dire need in Pierre, S. D., about a Year ago. and Mrs. Josephine Brock, of Buffalo, N. Y., who had become deeply ‘interested in her, raised a fund tq provide her against want. Civinue/ life did not agree with the woman, however, and she been neard of her until the announce: ment of her death. During a fierce campaign against the Indians in 1872 Mrs. ‘Burk saved { the life of Captain Egan and carried | him from the battlefield. who cristened her “Calamity Jane, the | Heroine of the Plains.” Mrs. Burk participated in all the fights and accompanied General Crook | and his command to the Black Hills | in 1875. She made herself famous in | 1876 by capturing Jack McCall, mur- derer of “Wild Bill,” or William Hick- | | ok. At her request she was buried by | the'side of “Wild Bill.” | Trouble with the Indians { and became one of the typical kind— kind described in a thousand ac- barroom battles, wild the counts of her riding after robbers and grim lynch: | She made money and spent it in | ing. drinking and gambling. “Calamity Jane” found herself | her money all gone. She would have generosity of Mrs. vided her with a Herald. home.—New York A Novel Monument. | | | { of Paris is to be erected in Montmartre its vicinity. sixty feet high and be capped by a balloon of bronze and glass or trans parent mica. Its diameter will be about ten feet, and inside there will be an electric lamp with a reflector, so that by night the monument will be il- luminated. The baloon will be guided by a symbolical figure of the genius ol Paris, and under it a mother with her dying children will represent the cit® of Paris. | or It is said that there is a woman in | Manchester, England, who has eyes |! which magnify objects fifty their natural size..! / ! and when quite young went with her the challenging dangers | a remedy. They may not agree to the measure—simply a good, sound thrash x » in2. Everyone has Beard of the story of the child who was continually whim she wore the | a} with re. | soon | dropped out of sight and nothing had | It was he | having | § ended, “Calamity Jane” turned miner | in | | failing health few years ago, and ! g heal 8 lew 3 tue is dominant, and public schools have filled the land with thoughtful citi been sent to the poor house if the ! Brock had not pro- ! ruption in the future, the “ounce of preventive?’—Boston Evening Transcript. A novel and ingenious monument by Bartholdi to the aeronauts of the siege It will stand about : Throwing /Cold Water. By Kate Thorn. OME people are {always throwing One of them will effectually eX man in the world. , They go alout on purpose to dampen everybodys Fajeyisat, Their chief halnpiness consists ip making some ny e NS ecting and foreboding. They are bird evil omen, & Ways | ge = something dreadful is comin look for the c oh year. The smallpox is on the increase. Eve y almost, is liable to par alysis. They like to read aloud the statistics of death and disease. They like to attend funerals. They frequent cemeteries. They are fond of talking over signs of death and ill luck, ; The crops are sure to fail this year, they inv pers will be unusually plentiful. The locust are will rot, and the wheat will be smutty. Epizootic will rage: colds will flourish, an sumption, they say they have observed. The banks are all going to break, and in te the wall six months hence. i : The strikes of the trade unions are going to play the devil with business. Coal will be just as high next winter as last winter, and the poor will die in droves because of the lack of means to keep warm. The man who likes to throw cold water will stop you in the street to in quire after your health, and he will tell you that you look just as his friend Simpson did, and Simpson died of apoplexy when he was just about your age Sick only three hours, and left an inconsolable wife and eight small children He says you look bilious, and remarks that his mother had just such a complexion a few days before she was taken down with typhoid fever, and suggests to you the propriety of taking Jenkins’ Anti-Bilious Pills, which hiy brother has for tale. If you contemplate going on an excursion into the country, he is sure if is going to rain—he never knew clouds like those in the south to fail of bringing wet weather. If you are going to ride, he will tell you that the roads are in a frightfu’ condition, and the mud up to your ankles. If you are going anywhere on the cars, he will look lugubrious, and inform you that the culverts on the par- ticular route you are to travel by are extremely unsafe, and that the rolling stock is all old, and liable to break an axle any moment. If you have any particular friends, and happen to speak in their favor, he will roll up his eyes in plous distress, and sigh, and say that if you only knew what he knows; and then he sighs again, and says, despairingly: “Well, we are all poor creatures!” And when you insist on being told what he knows, he sighs louder and more dismally than before, and says it is against his principles to say anythi to injure anybody, or to make any one feel unhappy. Fo 2 Evil of Looking for Trouble. By the Editor of the Post. HE REALLY unhappy man, whose unhappiness is his own fault, is the one who is forever carrying “a chip upon his shoulder’ Perhaps his happiness is his unhappiness, for when he is not engaged in a personal altercation he is brooding over some PTR fancied slizht and awaiting a favorable opportunity to give vent G0 to his wrath. Beri. The man with the chip on his shoulder is easily recognized, and his society by wise people carefully avoided. He can go nowhere without troubic following in his wake. If he attends a theatre he is either annoyed by ithe usher or come one in the audience, or at the man in the box office for not having cold him a seat bought long before he appeared at the window. Ht is the bane of the car ¢onductor, and on the railroad train he succeeds in em broiling himself in a row with the brakeman, conductor, Pullman car porter ( and the passenger fjach flying cinder from the locomotive is aimed especially at his eyes, and he succeeds in stirring up the spirit of mutiny in the hearts of the travelers. There are some women similarly constituted who manage to be in trouble from the moment their eyes open in the morning till they close them in sleep. These people are indged to be pitied, if indeed they are not cordially hated. This quarrelsome halpit of mind can be so fostered that the petulancy grows t and leads sometimes to the insane asylum. Parents to be «¢ 1t ( who notice in their clildren tais fretful, quarreling disposition can easily find cold water on everything. tinguish the most sanguine ariably say. The grasshop coming this way. Potatoes d colds generally end in con dustrial corporations will be forced i1sease What do and quarrelinlz. In despair‘tke mother eried: “Are you sick? ghrayelyt the child answered: “I think, mamma, I want a whipping. = | She received the Whrpming.and there was a .narkeQd improvement in her S.. - —. ix F Fo Training the Memory. By Dr. Louise Fiske Bryson. = VIPAIRMENT of memory usually arises from some condition of nervous exhaustion as that resulting from paysical illness o1 trein, from over-work, grief, physical fatigue, emotional shock mogotony of living, absence of healthful recreation and amuse ment—any circumstance that brings about perpetual antagonisn heiween personality and surroundings. Measures to strengther Ress the exhausted nerve elements will improve a fainting and enfee bled ms y. Means to this end are comprised in the rigat use of air, water exercise, foods, recreation, study, companionship, rest, in a circle of varied ac tivities and methods that embraces aspiratiors of the highest order as well as the most homely details of practical hygiene. Nothing in nature requires so much oxygen as a nerve, so much fresh air. “Open the windows and glorify the | mom,” as Sidney Smith used fo say. Do not be afraid of a little glory at night, too; for brain and nerves, heart and mind, need fresh air more thaw any other material help. Next to air as a means of safeguarding memory and gray matter, water is the most effective and beneficent agent. In the form of the daily bath, water is the most powerful nerve tonic ever yet dis covered. For drinking, about two quarts of water is the amount required daily. The third factor in mental health is food, often most erroneously place? first. What is digested, not what is merely eaten, is the thing that counts in regard to nourishment.—Harper’s Bazar. &F &F We leed More Emersons WRESENT life and society are very complicated and the old vj fF while the same as always, must be applied to new There is need for disentaglement of their ng ou want: 1 fn] 1 Fe Why gr rtues, Onditions. TTR LIARS FG OTS KV nazis - The Supreme Court of Law in Vis | enna has decided to have all docur ments typewritten, as it was found that the bad hand-writing of the clerks hindered the speedy transac tion of legal work. Last year there were 12 American, 21 German, 15 English, 5 Russian, & | French, 2 Swiss, 2 Spanish, 2 Korean, 3 Chinese, 1 Italian and 1 Belgian teachers and university professors if Japan. It will be seen that the Ge mans are leading. Besides the ever-increasing nue from thousands of traveler is earning increased sums by J idly reviving manufactures waters of the Alps an giving her as cheap powe of electrical plants as coal ing to Belgium, Gern and the United State According to D value of articles use person in the Unif the last year, if boul was $98.83. The y $101.91. These closely to those of Two years ago the amd The published statemy now get no pure troverted by the sul at Aden, who other coffees with coffees to Aden Mocha is prohibil ties. The Unite this coffee last yd at a cost of $377,3 The most impo Chinese is that 0 which drains tog productive area ¢( tion of the Unit trade is shown which gives the ness of the vari 51.2; German, "' merican, 1.6. Dr. James H. Columbia Univ{ Cosmopolitan: short in succq through being themselves to Is thg peat a2 ‘ho st 1 uses lake all the ‘ach New Yo As a Nn} Georgia may marble belt length o3 Ar] lina The ible, as many pla white a und. The KI promise 0 gold over amounted new stri memorab, it on the ouf decline, hav duced over Nome mini creasing as extended ov] ritory, proj to the Arc from the J threads from”tn of those hypocritical virtues that form the warp and A yrenar bil dishonest “succcess.” We need more Emersons. We need mo 13% sociologists—not mere grammarians of social science, but d re ood students of the body and bone and blood of human nature and po ais of its best individual and social development. We neeq to refor : eas of the practical and to remember that truest practicality is the we f seed, the cultivation of its growth, and the natural use of the fruits | is is no implication that the needs are crying. It is rather an analysis | that bids a welcome to the tendency to fill the great necessities. There ig more thought given to these matters now than ever before. The real fight is com —that between the thinkers and the shallow in prominent place. But vir- ing ng zens. The thinkers shall find hearers when they lift up their voices, More. over, the people are tired of corruption and dishonor. The systems of evil are rotten in their own foundations and will fall. Is it too much to prophesy an age of deeper and more serious thought, wherein will be applied, as against cor- x £2 Fd | City-Bred Farmers--- A Prophecy. By RE. Downer. ing Worlds riding to n play its eq according Wong, wil ernment Chinas visplays ‘urgy, ag besides a ine arms, connected Chinese Varied In will cove years in Empire, The tog.s evidence {ey ling the fof to all sorts, and rest light of nard to time it the urban population which must be fed from the farms in- cr ;, the tillers of the soil become fewer in number and poorer | quality. Those who remain to care for the crops have one fau't which the city dweller is quick to notice. The worker some: | how does not put the spirit into his tasks that the eight-hour-day man in town exhibits. The city boy grows up in an atmosphere! of hustle. With his ability to make every moment count the city. ! ray et out of a farm immeasurably move than the average rurai ¢ Acricultural schools and a business instinct and training are not bad tosututes for farm breeding; and it will not be surprising if the next few: years witness #n exodus of city-bred workmen, filled with spirit and speed, ' ange a5¢ in Raokiover’'s Magazine. : find out towns are us gether, those roads of sp and to £0 greate times | o the districts [which produce the origiral matter for all the breakfast foods — woulq ton Jig i