Pittston Gazette

              V Oldest Newsuauer in the Wvoming Valley P1TTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA.,•FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 188!). F.HT*RLISUKID I*»». 4 VOl.. XL Mo. ». \ iUeKly Local and I an ilv lournal. WEALTH comprehend how the truth was kept from ncquaiutance. Hereafter you are not to visit my house uuless you have personal business with me." my (laugiiter at all—not manhood calls out in rebellion against, it is this: I must not, he says, so much as recognize you as au acquaintance and remain in his employ. Will I submit to such an unreasonable demand? Will I bo made the slave of a cruel master for a few dollars? No, never!" on ii a i hi a io msnonesiy. Having iluis been thoroughly tested, ho was given a more responsible position and so rapidly advanced in the knowledge of the busiuess and showed such a willingness to be useful to his employer that ho soon became a great favorite with all the employes as well as the proprietor. Quickest Trip on Iteooid DELICIOUS LITTLE PURPLE WOr".;S, him, but by uo means intentioually, as it was also not known by their most iuti- eveu as an I voulil advi^ to take good lu before givinr orders to Pari.-:an tnidespoople. Nevur go shopping, dPur ladies, exbept to the Ji'mi March or the flu Louvro, where gDDods are spread o'jt to In; looked at, and may be examined and priced accordingly. Nov. i c.-der anything to lie maide unless you have definitely decided rDn the prico and style of the article, an I are fully certain that you it. Never "end goods back or try to them after they are once purchase.!. That course of proeoeding is contrary to Kuropeau rules und customs; the tradespeople are not used to it and are apt to resent it. " And though this latest case on record, that of Nice and Mi: tone, preseuts the character of a most unjustifiable outrage on a party of American ladies, it must be confessed that iu at least half the instances I have personally known the buyers were at fault and not the tradespeople. Cautious About Sitoppi in I'raiiec country wonicu abroad to what they are about TlifD jpi tained a iii .-.patch to the effect that a runaway train on the Duhith ami Iron t.jr» railroad had at tained the frightful speed of 1 Id miles an hour before being wrecked. An interesting account of the wild ride is giv.Dn in a private letter by SuiDeriutcndent8iClmDyT. Pope, of tluD road, formerly a Host oh man. He wrote to a friend a.s follows: of 1 recently con- ODDS AND ENDS. blessed lCs the man who sees the royal upktfu'oi llid in the landscape. Hi** tbieU fi mate friends. An Artlclp of FC*DC1 Which the riutea At last accounts TOO men wore hard at work on the Nicaragua canaL lfov and It ft tie were vet too vonnir to think of an immediate marriage, ami while they did not particularly care who knew of their engagement they thought it the part of wisdom to keep it to themselves. "Mr. Hiues, you are too exacting, and you may as well now, as later on, know that I will not concede to your unreasonable demand." When, in 1849, the California gold fover was making it-self felt throughout the country, J. M. Keeler was a young man living in the east. Ho was not proof against the inipulse to seek his fortune hi the mines, and Came to New York with the hope of finding partners. In this ho was not disappointed and " it!i a number of others ho chartered a New Orleans packet, stockeCl it with provisions to last a year and a half, sailed around Ca]*i Horn and reached tho Goldeu Gate in safety. Since then Mr. Keeler has lived almost continuously in California, but is now visiting this city, aud has brought yith hiio many fine mineralogica) specimens. After showing these to a reporter the other day, ho hunded to the latter a small bottle, saying: "Do you know what thoso things are?" In the bottlo were a dozen or more dark colored objects, shriveled but juicy looking. Tho average length was about one inch, and they had tho appearance of luscious raisins. Tho reporter said he supposed that was what they were. Tho Californian smiled, too, as ho said: "No, they are not; they're worms." Then ho went on to say that they wore considered a great luxury by the Piute Indians. Gather in Largo Quantities. Whose heart by Love Is kept so »ai That fogs or tempests never reael A peach grower at Marshall vilW, Ga., obtained a clear profit of $1,000 on one car load of peaches shipped to New York. "Roy, Roy, you frighten me! I was not aware that anyone knew we were more to each other than friends. Who could have told father? And why should he be so cruel?" When ho had been there about three months, Mr. Gaylord called him into his private office one Saturday evening, and after paying him a week's salary, told him to remain until the clerks were all gone, as he had some business to transact with him which he desired to be private. The flowery bills and dales are robtied ol Ix-.tuly Earth is a desert with no fertile si*»l To him whose life lias only toil am! duty. To whose lone hearthstone sweet love coiuetti not CHAPTER II.—ROY'S PKPAKTUUE The cotton crop of Texas, the first bale of which has been received at Austin, is estimated at 2,000,000 liales. Thus the weeks and months passed without a ripple to disturb their quiet and serene love affairs, until oue day au old negro servant, known by everybody in the neighborhood aud surrouuding country as Uncle Mose, and who had always liyed with the Hines family, came into the distillery office where Mr. Hines was busily engaged with his accounts, being at the time intent upon a badly mixed page of a meanly kept ledger. It was Saturday afternoon, and before Roy left the office after the conversation with Mr. Hines, he demanded a settlement and was paid the amount due him in full. He then returned to his work to complete the week for which he had just lDeen paid. "I had been up the road the clay liefore, and coming back tiad my car liitchcd on to the rear of theory train. All the cars had been newly equipped with air brakes, which worked all rijht until we reached the bi|? bill which extends back from here (Two Harbors, Mich.) al*Dut twelve wiles. When v Ilis home may hea |Dalaee; yet lie loses The sweetest treasure that life can impart "Hettie, your father can find bnt one fault with me, and that is, I am poor. I had hoped that he might not know of our engagement until I had accumulated enough wealth for at least a comfortable living#- But someone has told him enough to arouse his suspicion anil tie is very angry about it and talked to me in a manner I cannot, will not stand. Tho "Heavenly Foot society" hat been started in China by the women, in rebellion against tho venerated fashiou tbat compresses their feet. Success or failure eomes as each one chooses. Whether his w ealth shall be of purse or heart As he worked with his hands, his mind was occupied with plans for his future course, lie had no intention of reiuainiug there and submitting to Mr. Hiues' unreasonable requirements. Koy obeyed, and as he sat there he felt that his plans had failed; that while he had striven so hard to do his work satisfactorily, he had in some particular failed to please Mr. Gaylord, and that he was to be discharged for something he knew not what. Love and contentment, goodness, hopes ethereal, To the (lossessor give the greatest wealth: For gold liecomes a curse, and all material That robs us of our birthright. Heaven and health alDout three mi were It is reported that certain engineers in Switzerland aro devising an aerial railway by which tliey propose to connect two of the peaks of ML I'ilatus with wire rope about 2,000 feet long, and to sent] tourists from "6Ummit to summit in cars running on the gave out id the train ran away from tin summit tlie air I was asleep at the time it started, and when wo had gone about three miles the conductor w oke me up. Wo were going then faster than I ever rode before, and, knowing that the train was sure to leave the track soon, we cut off our ca r. As soon as we set our brakes tho Uuclti Mose had been chattering awny for sometime when he suddenly arrested Hiues' atteutiou, and, turning to tind Mose there, as he supposed, disturbing him for some insiguilicant matter, half indignantly said- Hut for a young man who loves home, as he did, it is no easy matter to tear himself loose from it aud go out into the great world among st rangers. Hut he was resolute when once he had made up his mind to do a thing. "Hut it is too late to talk of that now," continued Roy, "I will go away a poorboy but in a few years I shall return a rich man. You will not foruet me. knowincr that, separation will only endear you to me and serve to make our future life together more happy." Blessed Is the man whose happy soul hath risen From the dead plan J of sense, through faith and trust; But such was not the case. wires. When the men had received their week's ■wages ami had gone to their homes, Mr. Gaylord closed his ledger, placed it in the safe and closed and locked the door. Also, American women when they come to EurojHD, are apt .to go shopping ou a most haphazard plan, c; [i-■ iji 11y in the way of ordering drosses. Tliey will not stop to get illformation about tli • dressmakers they desire to patronize from any person experienced .in such matters, but they will order from women who carry pattern goods about to the hotels (always a most rinlcy course of proceeding), or they will drop in at the first shop they come across that has pretty dresset and wrajw in the window, and will recklessly leave their orders without making a single inquiry as to the character of the establishment they have made up their minds to patronize. In nine eases out of ten these tempting pattern dresses h.ive been bought of some one of the great dressmakers of l'aris, and not a stitch was over set in them in the house wherein they are shown. So the foreign customer is apt to be a good deal disappointed in the style and make of the garments when they are sent home.—l'aris Letter in Philadelphia Telegraph. Little/; uD was laughed at because he didn't go home with any one from a children's party. "Well," he answered, "I should have gone home with tho little girl that wore tho white dress and pink ribbons, but, you see, there wouldn't have been anybody to come back with me." Blessed Is the man whom l/Dve hath ltDd from prison Where life Is—heart to heart, not dust to dust —Eliza I Jinib Martyu. train was out of sight like a flash. "Mose, what in thunder aud lightning are you talking about? Will you never get tired of bothering me when I am busy?" He informed his mother aud sister of what he was going to do aud begged that they might not object. "We followed up slowly, and in about one and a half miles found them in a ditch. The fireman and head brakeman, both of whom And t'leu turning his attention to his auditor he proceeded to unfold to him the promised transaction, but tn quite a different way to that for which Koy wa3 ROY BERRY. Mrs. Berry, although grieved to give him up for only a short time, had determined not to oppose his plans, but Ola was more unrelenting, as was shown in the opening conversation with her mother. "Dear Roy, without you 1 will be lonely and there will be but little pleasure left were on the engine, were not scratched even; the engineer bad one leg broken, l;ut it is doing nicely. It is a wonder that the engineer was not killed, as the rods on the engino broke and smahed the cab almost to pieces. He thinks he fall through the bottom of the cab just as the engine left the track. - The machinery of the engine is most of it literally burned tip owing to the friction of the great speed, and the engineer says that the last part of tho way the lower part of his engine and the track looked like a streak of fire. Of course it was only a guess, but 1 don't think tho statement maae that the train was running 110 miles was much of an exaggeration. Two-thirds of the cars were a total wreck. If the speed was llOir.iles an hour and the train went but one mile and a halt' after the car wascut olf it may be called a close call for the occupants of the car."— Nothin', Massa Hiues." A hail storm in Villafranca, Piedmont, was' of such enormous stones that more than tOO persons were badly hurt, and a boy and a girl had their skulls fractured. The weight of stmio hailstones was estimated at two BY GEO. W. WOOLSEY. '•Well, 1 thought there was nothing unless a lunatic had been turned loose to roam at large and by accident stumbled 1 1 / \ •'.More than three months ago you came to me a strauger," said Mr. Gay lord, "but you had been recommended to me as an honest, sober young man, 0110 in whom I might place implicit confidence. Since you have been here I havo taken much pride in watching your every action, and so far I am well pleased with yon. I do not know how well yon are pleased with your situation or whether or not you wish to remain here." lookiug. "I call them the nut pine worm, because they feed on the nut pine tree; what the scientific name is I do not know. On tho eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Southern California, between Bodio and Bishop's creeks fa a great stretch of these nut pina trees. They bear a small nut extremely rich in oiL So rich are they that you don't want to eat many of them. In August tho ground under tho trees begins to be covered w-itli green worms, as thick as a man's finger and from one anil a half to two nnd a half inches in length. Tho worms soon grow wings and fly into tho trees. The worm, which should now bo dignified by the name of butterfly, does not leave tho tree, but soars around among the branches extracting the oil from the nuts. In.about a month tho body is full of oil; so full, in fact, that the entrails have been forced out. Tlien tho wings fall off. [Copyright, 1889, by the A irthor.] CHAPTER I.—THE REVELATION'. into the ofllce "Koy, we are indeed sorry to give you up for so long a time," said Mrs. Berry, as she wiped a tear from her eyes and continued looking over his clothes she wad packing away in his valise. "Beg pardon, 'deed I do, Massa nines!" "Is that what you came iu here for?" pounds "No, mother, I cannot bear to have him go. We have never beeu separated for a single week, and now to think of his going away for so long a time is more than "Massa Ilines, Ize gwine ter tell yer somethin' 'bout jvliat massa gwine ter laugh an' be berry glad, maybe, an' maybe he'll be arter sayin' go 'way, Mose, au' don't be tellin' lies, but now you gest look here, Massa Ilines, this her' cull'd gen'- mau's not gwine 'bout heah tellin' ov lies, fnr haiut the good book dun toleovadrefftil hot place fixed up fur Cull'd folks who tells things not zactly true an 'this here one is not the chile to be after gettin' inter Tho widow of John A. Little, a commercial traveler, of Sewickley, Pa., who perished in the Johnstown disaster, has brought suit for $.50,000 against tho South Fork Fishing club. Mother, yon know how true I have al- "Ola, my dear daughter, we cannot always foresee the trials we may be called to pass through," said Mrs. Berry, "and I presume it is best that we do not." I can ever endure ways beeu to my temperance principles and ever since I commenced to work iu the distillery 1 have felt that it was wrong for me to aid iu the m laufacture of that which makes drunkards and maniacs of sober, industrious men, aud brings want ami misery upon their dependent families, I have long siuce resolved to quit and seek more honorable employment somewhere else. But surrounded as we are here in this wilderness, with no means of earning a dollar, what is a poor boy to do? The dist Uery is the only place where I can get employment here, and there are scores of our neighbors depending upon labor from the same source for their support. 1 had planned to resign within the next year, and have already been corresponding with a gentleman in C who will give me employment iu his large wholesale dry goods store. I am promised a very good salary at first and shall be advanced if I am competent to do the work, and I know I shall try very hard to be. This arrangement I kept to myself because I did not want you to worry about it, aud I thought it best that you should not know it until I had fully resolved to go. Mr. Hiues can find ijo fault vyith me, more than that I au; poor. But J wyuld a thousand times rather be poor as I am than to have accumulated riches In a trallic of human beings aud the manufacture and salu of that which pauperizes and enslaves the many innocent to enrich the few who engage in it. Mr. Hiues la becoming more tyrannical aud exacting, and has recently made demands upon me which I will not comply with, and he may as well know it now as at any time. Hettie has proven herself to be my very beat friend, and for her I will consider no sacrifice too great. Two ladies were sitting by an open window while tho choir was-practicing in a neighboring church. -How loudly they sing to-night!" said one. "Yes," returned the other, thinking of the crickets in the gras; "and it is said thoy do it with their hind 1 Cgs.n "I have had no cause to become dissatisfied," said Roy, as hope be-*an to return. "Mother, I wish it were possible for me to possess a more submissive disposition, and like you. always look upon the bright side of everything instead of continually meeting troubles before they come in "I believe you told me that yon had only a common school education?" "My advantages foran education rrcro limited to the district country school where only the primary brunches were taught." CoroanuLs Sated I lie Steamship, It is announced that the volceno of Illigigamama is responsible l'or the recent earthquake near Japan. Kven a casual glance at this name ennveys the impression that it has already suffered severely froiu malignant attacks of earthquake. "Well, well. Mose, what's happened? Has some one been killed or what iu the name of common sense is the matter with sich places, The steamship Nanticoke, Capt. A. Harding, from Kuatan,D arrived the other day. She presented the appeurance of having jiassed through a hurricane, and only tlie pilot Iiou m and a small portion of her cabin was left standing. Boston Special. sight." "I have observed that you write a fair hand. IJy close application and experience, you will shortly become a good penman. To-day 1 have been compelled to When a Chinaman meets another he shakes and squeezes tiis own hands ami covers his head. If great friends had not seen each other for a long time they would rub shoulders until they got tired. Instead of asking each other's health they would say: "How iyour stomach?" or "Have you eaten your rico?" "How old are you?" "How much did you jDay for you sandals f" The Ways of Cliio&iiien. . "Too often we mistake the shadow for the substance aud court sorrows rather than pleasures that may be within our reach." "Nothin' zackly like 'the name of common sense' has happened so fur as I knows ov, an' nobody's bin kill'd so fur's I've you—are you crazy? It is atiout this time that the Piutes make their api*Daraneo and camp among the trees. They come in largo numbers auii provided with sacks. The worm having lost its wings again, it crawls along the limbs of the tree to the trunk and falls to the ground. Incidentally it falls into a trap pr Dared by the Indians. To prevent the worms from escaping they dig tranches around the roots of the tree, the trenches having concave sides. I havo known of a bushel of worms being taken from one of these trenches. \\ hen tho crop of worms has been harvested the Indians build fires on flat stones or the hard earth. When tho bed has become hot, not hot enough to roast, the worms aro spread upon it and dried. They are then placed in the sacks and carried to the Piute camps. A friend of mine once told me that he had one season e.-tiaiatcd that fifty tons of these worms were gathered and dried." A single share of the New River company (London water company), which was originally sold at the par value of £100, was disposed of at auction on July 17 for the im- discharge my private secretary who was also my assistant book-keeper. He is a most excellent accountant ami in every particular well qualified tfD do the work, but of late he has become so greatly addicted to the use of whisky thai I cau no longer trust him. I shall be pleased to give you the place vacated by him and have you enter upon the duties at once." rpri.se.i and overhut flually said: The steamship left Baltimore on March 1;! for Caratasco with a load of emigrauts. After dUchargiug there she loaded three weeks ago, at lUiatan, a cargo of bananas and cocoanuts and a few plantains. They left Kuatan with fifty-seven tons of English coal, supposed to be suillcicnt for ten or twelve days' run. ■With American coal it required but five or fivo and a half tons a day, whereas with this English coal they consumed from nine to nine and a half tons. "That, I admit, is very true; but why Roy must leave us alone is more than I can cortiprehend or willingly submit to." hern ov, nether "Why. /{of/, what is the matter?" "Be gone theu, Mose, and don't be keeping me away from my work with your for me when you are gone; but let come what may, you are always the same to me. My prayers will daily ascend to heaven for your protection aud guidance." We here draw the curtain aud leave the lovers to enjoy the parting scene alone. mense sum of This company "Roy has long since determined to leave the distillery, and although I am grieved to have him go away from home, I feel that it is a duty I owe him not to object, siuce in his present position there are temptations to which the bravest and" supplies half of ]* n«i .ra wat«r and owns very valuable estates. Its financial growth is something tremendous. Last year it declared a dividend of £2,610 on each share. "Beg pardon agin, 'deed I do, Massa Hines; but I was gwine ter tell yer how nearly everybody is a savin' as how Miss Hettie and Massa Roy Berry am gwiue ter git married: least wise that's the tulk." foolishness. Men wear long petticoats and carry fans, while the women wear short jackcts aud carry canes. Boats are drawn by horses, carriage; move by sails. Old men play ball and fly kites, while children fold their arms and look on. Old women, instead of tho young, are the idols of society. Lovemaking is only done three days lDefore marriage. It is not only considered the safest way to get ahead of a rival, but tho surest way to get a w ife without losing much time. Roy was too joyed to answi According to custom. Premier Bismarck always remains standing when talking about affairs of state to the kaiser. As the old chancellor suffers from rheumatism, this is not an easy sacrifice to ceremony, but he has such a deep rooted respect for royalty that he refuses to give in to the infirmities of age in this matter. The kaiser, however, never remains seated when Bismarck is making his CHAPTER in.—BOt ENTERS UPON- HIS NEW "But there is no necessity for Roy becoming so Impatient and leaving now just because there has been some words between him and Mr. Hiues, and I do believe it is all on account of Hettie," and Ola tossed her head rather sarcastically as a jealous smile crept over her hitherto tearstained face. strongest may yield." "Mose, you black scamp, what are you talking about? Do you mean to insult me? Do you think my daughter would A vfreek later Roy arrived in the metropolis of the northwest and was employed in the great wholesale house of J. J. Gay lord, No. Hit!) street. There was a large corps of clerks and each one had his particular part of the work to do, and. Hoy being the latest accession to the clerical force, was assigned to the lowest placethat of general roustabout. DUTIES. "I fear that I shall not be aUe to success full v till so res Mtisible a nosition: but The captain, discoverihg his coal would not hold out to reach Mobile, started for the Dry Tortugas. They were then 165 miles west of that )Doint when the coal gave out. Bulkheads, life preservers, mattresses, old rope, oils, varnishes, five bales of oakum, the roof of the cabin and hatches were each in turn used in making steam. Finally, by using 3,000 coacoanuts, they were enabled to reach Dry TortHgas.—Mobile (Ala.) Cor. Times- ever think of marrying a pauper?" I I Mose was greatly astonished at Mr. Hines' sudden and unexpected auger aud he stood there like one in a dream, looking for some safe place for retreat. u A previous acquaintance between tlie male anil female prevents them from marriago. For this reason n man seldom we,Is a of his town. If a Chinaman desires the death of an enemy ho goes and himself upon that enemy's door. It is considered a sure way to kill not only that particular enemy, but members of his entire family will be in jeopardy of losing their lives.—St. Louis CHobe-IDeuiocrat. reports. A novel use is made of the electric light on tho St. Lawrence river, near the Thousand Islands resorts. One of the lights has been placed at the end of a yard arm on the steamer St. Lawrence, which has a dy namo aboard. The light stands in front of a powerful reflector, and as the boat steams about at night among the islands the search light is cast upon them, revealing with distinctness their beauty and the.lieauty of tha landscape. "Do not misconstrue your brother's intentions, for it is not for that alone that he has decided to go away, but that may While Roy and Hettie had kept their engagement a profound secret there were those in the neighborhood who had rightly guessed at the truth and the affair had been talked about on the sly as thu gossipers were pleased to call it. "How do the Indians uso the worinsf He got along remarkably well with his work, but everything was new to him and ro diflfereut to the mountainous country in which he had spent all his life that he was at times almost persuaded to give it up aud return home. Paved streets and &mooth stone aud brick sidewalks had uot half the charms fur him tl)at there was in the rough stony roads and the narrow un-t even foot-paths that wound their way through the ivy brush and wintergreen on the mountains and hills, and the gas and electric light shone dimly in comparison with the new moon as it illuminated the hills aud valleys of his southern home. But as time passed along aud lie became more accustomed to city life, and his new business, he gradually became satisfied, aud daily grew in favor with his employer and the employes. Democrat "In soups. The Piutes seem never to tire of soup. They have it almost every day. A buck is allowed two. worms and a fiquaw one for each disli of soup. Sometimes a gallant Indian gives a pretty or popular squaw 0110 of his portion. Tho worms are not eaten until tho soup has been consumed, they being reserved as a final tid-bit. I have tasted the worms aud found them very palatable. They are rich aud oily like the nut upon which they feed."—Now York Tribune. liave hastened his departure." "That may be your opinion," said Ola, "but I believe Hettie is the sole cause of it." Slaughtering Birds ill France M I . The wholesale slaughter of birds in the name (if fashion is having a most rcmarkublo effect in France. Hitherto that country has been a favorite summer homo of the swallows, which each yew came over from Africa, whero they had spent the winter, in countless hosts. Their plumage being in great demand for milliners' uses, a few years ago a plan was devised for killing them by thousands without injuring theirskinsor feathers. Huge systems of electric wires, heavilv "My daughter, I plead with you not t,o nnjustly lay the blame to Hettie, nor feel a harshness toward Roy for his fondness for her." Mr. Ilines' passion knew no bounds; for he was unaware of any such talk iu the family or neighborhood, and he demanded of Uncle Mose au explanation, and thus resumed the conversation: As Cute as Yankees. "You now understand why I have taken this hasty step, aud I hope you will not object to my plans. When I have attained to that position iu life which I now so earnestly desire, I will return to you and my old home, as I leave—honest and honored, but not a poor man." About a year ago tho mast disagreeable task in the life of a Sandy Hook pilot was tc board an incoming Norwegian, Italian or Portuguese ship. Then life lieeamea misery, for not only was the unlucky pilot compelled to dine ou the vilest hard tack and macaroni three times daily, but ho was also guyed by all his shipmates. Since then times have changed; foreign vessels are now tho most delightful craft when compared with the fifty-two English and German steamship' which carry petroleum in bulk to Euroiwan ports. They probably are accorded more forciblo condemnation than all tho others combined. Previous to sailing from abroad these vessels, by means of steam, are pumped full of salt water, which makes a free and serviceable ballast. When within 200 or 300 miles of New York, if the weather is propitious, the skippers, who rival the keenest Yunkees in slire%vdness, set their pumps working aud in short ordor rid their ships of their worthless ami easily obtainable ballast. When tho chipper pilot comes aboard with expectations of catching a tweiity-two footer he is chagrined to find that the pumping out process has lessened the draught of the vessel and his foes 50 per ccnt or more.—New York Evening Sun. A ttelgiau journal gives an account or a beauty show held at Paris in ltikx In remembrance of the oldest competition of the kind the prizes were golden apples. The first prize was, of course, awarded to the qijeen of France, and the second was obtained with 1,723 points by a Mile. Semure. Host of the prize winners were ladies from Normandy. "I hope that I may not; but while I have the greatest respect for Hettie, I think there are other girls just as amiable that Roy can go with." "Mose, where did you get this stuff you have beeu telling me?" "Misses Baker, who lives over yander by the crick, tole Malinda Hall that Sallie Peck tole Misses Brown that Misses Smith said her darter Betty heard Auut Tabby Perkins' darter Ann tell Prudy Lay that Nancy Jones was over to Aunt Polly Nelson's to a fjuiltin' tother day an' all the wimmen were talkiu' 'bout it." Jewels for the Princess. "Hettie is a noble girl, aud Roy has learned to love her for her kindly disposition and winning manners. She is not of her father's stern, unrelenting nature, but like her mother, gentle and kiud, delighting more in ministering to the wants of the poor and helpless, than to revel in the society of those with whom wealth would naturally place her." charged, were stretched along file southern coast, particularly about the mouths of the Rhone, where the birds arrived in greatest uunibers. Wearied by their long llight across the Mediterranean, the swalio-.vs oogerly alighted on the wires to rest, and were instantly struck dead. At bust, however, they have learned wisdom, ami are not only avoiding the deadly wires, but are shunning the shoros of France ami directing tlu ir flight to more hospitable lauds. Meantime there is a great increase in the number of gnats and other insects ou whch they wore accustomed to feed.—New York Home Journal. Princess Louisa, tho brido of the Duke of Fife, will s-oon receive a valuable box of family jewels from a relative in this city. They will probably bo an unexpected tre;isure, sinco it is doubtful whether tho duke himself is aware that Dr. David Bartlett Gould, of 139 Hester street, New York, is a distant cousin. However, such is the case for Dr. Gould's great-grandmother, Helen Taylor Bartlett, of Forrester Hall, was the niece of Lady Braco and the first cousin of the first carl of Fife. Tho old family jewels, which have been handed down from generation to generation, consist of a beautiful diamond ring and brooch wluch wore the property of Lt»Iy Brace, who Jiod in ms. They are 179 years old, of exquisite workmanship, and are now being cleaned and burnished by a jeweler. Dr. Gould will send them over as a complimentary testimonial from Princess Louisa's American cousin. Tho doctor is an old practitioner in New York and has been connected as visiting physician with the Charity hospital oa the island for many years -Now York World. Thirty years ago tho Thomsis Dickason, a New Bedford whalmg ship, was lost in the Okhotsk son. List summer tho bark Cape Horn Tigeon took a whale in the same sea, and imbedded iu tho blubber was tho iron of a harpoon, with the words "Thomas Dickason"' stamped on it. It was as bright and sharp as when it was first struck into the "Roy, I fear you are too enthusiastic, and should you uot prosper as you so greatly desire, that you will become discouraged. I know you are ambitious, aud the Lord whom you serve has promised never to leave or forsake those who put their trust iu Him, but sometimes we may look for move thai) it is His will to give, and we are too apt to I/enonja discouraged if our plaus are not iu accordance \fith His divine will. Should you meet with disappointment do not become discouraged but remember that perseverance is the pniy way to success." "I shall be pleased to give you the place." I will try '"The work is Comparatively easy now and the wages are more than double what I can afford to pay for the work yon have been doing. At present there is but little writing to do and you will have time for study aud practice, aud in this way you can. If you apply yourself, soon become so well acquainted with tbt work that your services will be absolutely indispensable. A young man with temperate habits and honest purpose is worth far more to me than all the learned men in, the world who are drunkards." Mr. Hines smiled and asked— "Anybody else?" How little do boys aud young men realize the trials aud disappointments they are to encounter when they have once left home and drifted about in the world among straugers to battle against vice and immorality. They do not stop to soe that they are taking a leap in the dark, and that every step is either upward to fame or downward to the level of the ordinary, or total shipwreck. There can be no neutral ground upon which a young man may walk. He must either progress or recede. Nature endows him with the power to shape his own future. The cities (ire full of haunts of vice and upon nearly every street corner may be fouud a hellgate ajar to entice and entrap the young and unwary. These places are protected by the laws of our laud to the great detriment of the rising generation, and the pooner they are closed the better it will bo tot aufferipg humanity. ' "Yes, 'deed there is. Yisterday when I wus down ter ole Crow's water mill gittiu' aturaof.com groun', Jim Jiukens was thare, au' says he: 'Mose, I hear yer gwine ter have a big weddin' up ter your The above conversation took placo In the humble home of Mrs. Berry, who, with her two children, Roy and Ola, lived within a quarter of a mile of the large distillery of Thomas Hines, in the mountainous region of Southern Kentucky, lier husband had been a soldier in the ielliou and was mortally battle of Mill Springs, in whale, at least thirty years aga A wonderful snake story comes from Murrumburrah, in New South Wales. A man killed a large black snake, and, seeing that the reptile was of a peculiar sh;Tpe, he ojiened the body, fiisido was a l-jikcit*. tufii, out of which popped a rat, still alive. It is supposed that the snake chased the rat Into the horn, and, being unable to dislodge him, swallowed rat and horn together. house " 'Go 'way,' says I; 'no one up tcr iny house but me an' Dorcas, au' we've been married well nigh on ter fo'ty years already, an' do you think we're gwine to marry agin?' war of the reb wounded in the January, 1S62. "Mother, I am young in years but old in experience, I appreciate your counsel above all others, and I shall endeavor to emulate your example as nearly as possible, and then I know that I shall succeed." ■V Common Superstition. Tho following instanco of n curious belief held by country folk may intorest so mo of j our readers. An old niau in this parish (in East Kent), who is in fuli possession of his faculties, and, moreover, has a considerable stock of knowledge of things connected with the farm and garden, informed m " 'Yes,' says he, 'but it is Roy Berry an' Miss llettie, sure 'nough.' Roy could scarcely realize what he had been listening to, aud the good fortune that had come to him so soon and in such an unexpected manner. Now he would be able to send his mother and Ola a good found sum of money every month and have enough left for himself after laying aside a small amount far the beginning of a bank account. .££=»/ Tho Rev. Mr. Wilgus—I hope yon and Brother Wiggs became fully reconciled before he died. Deacon Fed worthy—O, yes. 1 went around and ti !d him that as he was about to pass in his cheeks I would fully for- Rive him for all the dirty tricks ho had aver done me, though I didn't presume to say that tho Lord would do so, and (gleefully) you ought to have seen how. the old sinner looked. — J—  "'Well,' says I. 'an' a good match it is gwine ter be, fur that Roy Berry is berry much ov a gem'eu, 'deed he is.' " "Theu go, my noble boy, and a mother's blessing go with you. Do not worry about Hettie. She will be well cared for and I um sure she will ever be true to you." "A other T: l? \Y:ir:iirD "A good match indeed, you vulgar, black scamp! Leave me at ouce, and don't let nie hear any more of your nonsense." day of the following remarkable fact (!) (ri natural history. Ho told me, (juito seriously, that if a hair bo taken during summer from the tail of a horse and i ilaced in a running stream it would before long become a ■St raiglit C reek, Bell counollnxving c ird standing in ■engcr: "1 havo notified "Mother, do not misJudgG me, It is not for Hettie alone that I am concerned. I know that she is honest and will never forsake me though I should never be anything else than a poor laborer. She will have everything that wealth can bestow toward happiness. But it is for you, dear mother, that I now feel the deepest concern. I fear you will be lonely, and worry about me. I beg you to trust nie wholly, and when I have been gone but a few weeks you will hear of my promotion, for something which I know is no vain fancy tells me that I am to succeed, and I know that I shall." ty, Ky. The i'i; tt:ul m] keeps tli. . . ijlo Mt A serious accident, followed by«a genuine act of heroism, occurred in tho mines last evening. A miner by the name of William Friend had prepared and lighted two shots in a shaft forty feet deep und was being hoisted out by W illiam Overland, when, upon reaching tho top of tho shaft, tho barrel upon which he was standing became detached from tho rope, and Friend was precipitated to the bottom upon tho burning fuse. His right leg was broken iu two places below the knee. Ho was unconscious, and a horrible death from tho oxplosion to follow was apparently inevitable, when Overland threw the rope down again, made it fast to the windlass, descended thereon, snr.'/ii. ! t'.o burning fuse from tho loaded holes and saved his unfortunate fellow workman's life. Overland's hands were badly burned by going down the rope, otherwise he was unhurt. The space of time iu which he had to act and the chances token for losing his on .1 life, show the man to possess true manly courage.—Aurora (Mo.) Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Heroism in a Mine, '1 Mr. Ilines turned to his desk uud closed Was ever a noble boy's heart more completely filled to overflowing with rapturous joy? lie now fully comprehended tho promise ho had left witk Hettio. Iu a few years he would return to her and claim her as his own. Her father should never again scorn him on account of poverty. 1 oil men dealing and trading in timbers nut to lmy any timber from any idirectlv, on tho farm of 1 ii an\- per- his hooks. Boy's early acquaintances wore limited to his immediate neighborhood and for a young man of his age he had seen but very little of the world. He could see do grievous faults in the acts of his associates, but, like himself, thought all men honest, and it had always been a ray of sunshine In his life to look upon the bright side of everything and in his good nature passed by the little misdeeds of others and attributed them to mistakes of the head and not of the heart. It is a part of the nature of the truly good and righteous thus to give the benefit pt all doubts to their friends. "water snake or aneel,"tlio result depending, it appeared, upon th^'breed of the horse." The root of the hair becomes the head of the new creaturo! This experiment he had tried, and though, somehow, he had not seen these hairs grow to full maturity, ho had undouht- —Terrs Haute Express. His mind was wandering. Can it be that what Mose tells me is true? Is it possible tiiat I have sheltered that boy from the cold charity of the world for all these years to bring at last upon myself and family an irreparable disgrace? Nol I swear my daughter shall never marry a pauper! I will discharge him at once. He shall never put his foot on my premises person, directly C John I». Howard, docc Tho bravest and most clear headed are also the most patient: they know how to "bide their time"-»siinply another form of expres sion for patieuco. Where two uk;u—generals, diplomatists or lawyers—are equal in everything but i*it!Duee, the one who has the most of that sovereign quality will triumph; aud the same is true of governments and nations. "Let patience have her perfect work." rrn has ■w already bought or contracted for any timber on that, farm, the licst thing they could do would lDo to get their money back. As my wife is ono of tbo inheritors, I don't intend for part of the heirs to have it ull and par;. of them none, and I mean just what I say. The man that hauls that timber ■will have to get mo out of the way first. If I havo to C li. ■ from a gaping wound from the flash or u revolver. I will have tho honor of dying for my just rights and for my little ones, who w ill soon have to follow me to an '—Louisville Courier Jour- lie couhl not sleep until he had written to his mother to tell her of his good fortune, The letter carriel with it a gleam of sunshine and every pige was stained with a tear of joy, but ii his enthusiasm how else could he wrie to the mother whose idol he had been for so many years, and whom he knew was daily and hourly praying for her absent loy's success. my old friend thoroughly believed all this— ho is too old to have studied biology at a edly seen life developed in tbeiq. I fell sure board school or ho might be wiser. Perhajis this belief is held elsewhere, but I do not remember ever meeting with it before.—Spectator.He left the office in a rase, and slammed the door after him. again. In tho United States postal servicc there are jxjsUnasters, 7,000 railway mail service employes, 7,000 letter carrifrs, 100 inspectors, 5,000 clerks in jhe postoffiees, GW) clerks in the pojjtofiice department. This gives a total of 77,IKK) employes. Every postmaster averagestwo ussis-tants, and this in round numbers amounts to lltylOO persons, which number added to 77,900 gives 194,800 persons over When once iir the pure air he became more passive, aud by the time he had reached that part of the buildiug where Roy was at work his temper had given place for better judgment, and when he approached him it was iu a gentlemanly manner, and one would never have mistrusted that he so short a time before had been in such a friwne of mind. "Roy, you will succeed In nearly everything, but you must not fancy too much In so short a time. You may find a rough road to travel and meet, with temptations that, will be hard to bear, and it will require all the courage you possess to withstand them all aud prosper. But I would not discourage you. You are young and the future to you is now all sunshine, but as you go along your pathway will occasionally be strewn with thorns where you may look for flowers to grow. You will often feel lily; giving up the struggle, for 'those who God loves He chasteueth.' When these come remember that every dark cloud has a silver lining, and every stormy night A brightening looming; aud if you fail to prosper so rapidly as your ambition would have you, do not give over the struggle. The promise is to those who continue faithful unto the end and have run with patience the race set before them. Spend your idle hours iu reading the Bible and other good and useful books." l ures on the Street, Going almost anywhere, especially in & populous city, one sees many people, and in leeing people ono sees faces. There is much in a gait, the swing of arms, ami the poiso of the body as indicative of character, but, after all, the more expressive and truthful index is the face. unknown world nal. There was,' however, an evil rapidly growing, not only within reach of his olD- servation, but all over the country, about which he had seriously studied from the time of his early childhood with not tha least degree of allowance. Would it not be a grand thing if all boys could be constrained to feel more of the power of a motlier'j anxiety and her earnest prayers for tbeir guidance and protection from the ewls of tho various temptations that crovd thickly about them on every side wh»rever they may be. "Ola, tn ydcar daughter." World Has Crown. Roy was Ave and his sister three years of age when their father enlisted. Whatever C• Dmcs of the Iowa effort to strip law papers of their antediluvian verbiage Their mother owned a small tract of land and a comfortable little cottage in which they lived quite cosily. o shall always bo grateful for whom the service has control '"l{oy, will you please accompany me to inv office?" saiii he. "Why will men drink that which fires the l*ain and dethrones their reason?" was his oft repeated question when he saw men reeling and staggering under the power of strong drink. And from his experience while an employe in Hines' distillery he was better fortified than had he not seen so much drunkenness and debauchery.Ia tho study of faces it is quite probable that women prefer as their text book something bound in a shirt ami illustrated with a mustache. It is equally probablo that men, in a physiognomic study, prefer the smooth vellum of a woman's cheek. This difference in taste is not unuaturai, however antipodean it may be in its characteristics. tho attempt. T 'lio ministers have got through with'their whines und prolonged vowels, and i al shortening up all around f doing things. Farmers do Dw with two-horse reapers,v.-.. ! To Ilariiess Niagara. Swiss watchmakers have invented a watch for the blind. A small peg is set in the middle of each figure. When the hour hand is moving toward a given -hour, the peg for that hour drops. Tho person finds the peg is down and theu counts back to twelve. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Berry found it a hard struggle to maintain herself and childreu, and within a few years she became completely broken down in health, and, when Roy was offered a situation in Mr. lliues' distillery she consented to his acceptance, as that seemed to be the last resort. How many mothers are there to-night who are praying for Iheir darling wayward boys who are probably reveling in the saloon or gambling room? How many pillows are wet with jitter tears falling from the sleepless eyes of a heart-broken mother to-night while her precious boy is burning the midnight oil over a game of cards in the rear or u)per room of some saloon with his last dtllar at stake? The scene is too real to be .ightly passed by or contemptuously laughed down. And how many boys have the manliness and firmness to say "Xo" when tempted to indulge in these vices? We fear there are but few and as these ?laces of debauchery and ruin are becoming more numerous the temptations are consequently widening and deepening, anil our boys and young men have a inare laid in their pathway for every step they take, and this being true, when cou)led with the natural depravity of humanity, is there not greater cause than ever betDro for alarm? Is it not time for Christian men to be chosen to fill our legislative hulls and to sit on the juries in our county courts, and to rule in town and city government affairs? There are now Christiu'.i gentlemen in all these various positions but uniortunately they arc the minority »ud therefore helpless as though they h;«l no voice in the affairs of legislation. there is a ia the iv; A Buffalo special to The Philadelphia Times says that S. H. Palmer, a mechanic employed at the Central car wheel works, astonished tho Business Men's nssociati :i by putting in a demand for their prize of $ 100,000 for harnessing the power of the Niagara river. The prizo was offered over a year ago, and though hundreds have contested for it none have presented a practical device. "I am at your service, sir." They walked together across the lot to Mr. Hi tics' private office aud entered. sickle wort The employer and the employe were seated and the conversation was opened by the former, who - aid: literary i Let i . :i use a typewriter. All right! ■uvyer'take a hitch in hisgallowses, ! ". i- we arc catering the electi i.v the aforesaid"' is pcrtiueut 11. Koiir-tifths of n 1,'~J paper . at amount of a legal suit is su- Tho world has outrun tho courts, uicajities have outlived their useful- Li nils Globe-Democrat. There is a whistling well at Logan county, Kan., which warns people of approaching storms from six to twelve hours in advanc ■. It is loo feet deep, and sends out a strong ml r This study of faces is one in which no time needs bo lost. The human books are always before the student and al ways open. He can find therji anywhere. They aro of all kinds of contents and all qualities of binding. Here is a dirty, thumb marred, dog eared volume in torn paper covers. Hero is another, golden edged and bound in velvet and morocco. — licroas When Roy entered the distillery as an employe he was sixteen years old and received a good salary for an unskilled laboring boy. From this income the family lived quite comfortably, besides paying oft a mortgage which necessity had compelled them to place on their home. He had seen strong men become as helpless as an infant by the monster intemperance. He had known once happy homes broken up and worse than orphaned children thrown out upon the cold charity of the world by the use of strong drink. He had, with a sorrowful heart, watched some of his childhood associates stagger into the presence of a lieart-brokeii mother, and of all this he attributed the evil not alone to the consumers but to the authorities who sit upon the throne of justice and say that it is lawful, and therefore right, so long as a revenue can be collected therefrom, notwithstanding it Imperils the body and souls of millions of its subjects. Are those millions of persons any less in bondage by reason of their unnatural acquired appetite than were the millions of slaves whose chains of bondasre were broken asunder bv the death upon bloody battle fields of many of our noble, patriotic fathers and sons, who unflinchingly laid down ther lives for that which they knew to be right? Will the liquor traffic end in a parallel to the suppression of slavery? Will our law-makers continue to say it is right until God, through the agency of men, shall cry out against it in thundering tones of battle f to the ciand alioi -current of it escapes through pertluity Palmer's ruachiuo is simply an endless steel bolt, 200 feet long and 30 feet wide, each link of which is a tiny turbine wheel. When set crosswiso to tho current it moves with resistless force. His working model is fixed in a small box that a babe might lift, but it was able to generate one-horse power in the comparatively slow current opposite Black Rock, while further down i'ie river treble that power was readily imcd. Palmer caleu latos that 1,000,000-horse po.ver can be generated by a number of his machines. the apertures about the pump, whistles in a loud, lluto liko tone that is distinctly audible to every person in the township. [ind t ness. From Kilkenny a remarkable find is reported. A boy named Martin was spearing eels in the River Noro and displaced a stono lying at tho bottom. Underneath he saw a sparkling object, which on being fished up proved to be a valuable gold ring. The ring has been identified as one belonging to tho lata Mr. Carter, the county surveyor, wh D dropped it into the river twenty-nine years ago when mooring his pleasure boat. On Oi thogprapliical G ouiuU . Ola continued to attend the district •school, and was a most excellent scholar lor one of her age and advantages. On Monday morning Roy went to the distillery as usual,lint not to work. lie first called at the office and informed Mr. nines mac ne was going away ana mat he might till his place with some one else. Chicago Herald. A good story is told of Governor Tom Denuctt, who presided over the destinies of Idaho more than a decade ago. A member of the Archimedes was the first boss mechanic to tell the true story of things. Ho lived in Sicily, at Syracuse, and was lDorn 287 years before Jesus. For a vivid idea of how long before tho Christian religion had a founder Archimedes was among men, let us add these 287 years to tho year 1007, which was the first English settlement at Jamestown. Tho same will tako us to tho year 1894, and therefore Aroliimodes was born longer before the timo of Jesus than we Uvo after the timo of Raleigh and John Smith. A lioss Mechanic. legislature who hail been annoyed by his neighbor's hog, introduced a bill compelling the owner of tho proscribed animal to keep him within tho limits of a [X'n. The bill passed and went up to Governor Bennett for his approval. To tho surpriso of the meml»ers and the chagrin of its sponsor, it was returned with his veto. When asked for a reason, ho exclaimed: "I don't believe in the bill in tho first place, and if I did I wouldn't sign a bill t hat sjiellod hog with a big H £nd governor with a little g."—Bjiso City (I. T.) Thomas Mines was a very wealthy man, having been a successful slave trader before the war. After that channel for money-making was cut off by the abolition of slavery, he engaged extensively in the manufacture and sale of whisky and brandy in that part of Kentucky where a man can distill and sell liquors six days iu the week and on the seventh go into the pulpit of the country church and successfully deceive the people by pretending to act the part of a true, devout Christian leader. Mr. Mines was heartily sorry, but was too obstiuate to let it be known how deeply he felt the loss of so faithful and trusty a laborer. Chinese and Indian Teas. Ono of the great advantages which Chincso teasjare said to possess over those of India is their greater wholesomeness. On this subject the British consul at Hankow, in his last report, gives a table of analyses of the two kin.la of tea made by Professor Dittmar, F. R. S., from which it appears that the quantity of tannin in Indian tea is 9.(13 per ceut. and in Chinese (5.01. After twenty minutes' infusion of 100 grains of each there is present in the respective liquors 2.90 grains thenic' and 0.53 grains tannin in the Indian and 8.38 grains thenic and 3.80 grains tannin in the Chinese tea. "The teas in question," concludes Mr. Allen, "were both high class toas, and the analyses given abovo certainly tend to show that there is an cxcess of tannin, with all its astringent and deletorious qualities, in the Indian tea."—London In the office of a newspaper in Luther, Mich., near a window, hangs a saber cap tared iu the Mexican -war. It so that Just the point touch " the glass. About 3(M feet from the oiik is a sawmill, and tbo minute the gang saw starts tlio point of the sabsr begins a tattoo on tho glass. An in crease of live pounds of steam is noticeable i:i the increased noise on tho glass. When thiD saw has passed through a log tlie saber indidicatos it instantly by keeping quiet. He remembered the conversation lie had with him u few iluys befonc, and attributed that as the cause of his hasty departure. He now was fully-convinced that he was wrong, but too self-willed to relent, and Roy left without further conversation. lloy called npon all liis many friends in the distillery anil bade .tliem along farewell, and went out never to enter that building again or to look upon the faces of some of his fellow laborers with whom he had spent many happy days. Archimedes picked up some ideas in Egypt, nnd distributed others there. This is the man who shouted "Eureka!" when.ho discovered the law of specific gravity. One yarn about him is that lie destroyed Roman ships besieging Syracuse by tho aid of great burning glasses. The mathematical works of this old chap are still to be had, and they show that ho was a fine mathematician. Ho discovered the ratios of the sphere and cylinder, and the ratio of a circumference to a diameter on various kinds of lines, and asked that the cylinder and wheel bo placed upon his tombstone. Statesman His wife was the daughter of a good oldtime circuit rider who was in all particulars a model man. To them were born two sons, George and Harry, and one daughter, Hettie. United Stat Consul Griffin, stationed at Sydney, X. fci. \\ ., tells of a remarkable custom of tho inhabitants of New Britain as follows: Girls Kept i:s Cajjes. "Roy, you have been with me a long time aud I have never uutil now found any cause for complaint agaiust you." .aire me at oncc!" (TO BE continued.) "'The inhabitants, it is said by Wallace, have a peculiar custom of confining their girls in cages until they aro old enough to,bo married. This custom is said to Iks peculiar to the people of Now Britain. Tho cages are made of twigs of the palm tree, and the girls are put into them when 2 or 3 years of ago. The Rev. George Brown established a Wesley an mis.,Ion in New Britain in 1871), and I learn from him that these cages are built Inside of tho houses aud that the girls are never allowed to leave the house under any circumstances. The houses ore closely fenced in with i sort of wicker work made of reeds. Ventilation under the circumstances is rendered difficult. Tho girls aro said to grow up strong and healthful in spite of theso disadvantages."—Chicago Tribune. Every grimy Italian at work on the Maine railroads is a lover of music. They twang and blow at every interval in their shoveling. At Dexter the other day a lady was startle.! by the appearance at her w indo w of a bronze. 1 son of Italy, wlio in broken speech implore. 1 permission to hear tho music of her piano. The total assessed vUuation of tho roal and personal estate in Pew York city for tho year 1889 is $1,G0S,83*,11& , Mr. Hines was looked upon as an indispensible citizen because of his wealth and from the fact that he gave employment to a large number of poor men; for whom that part of Kentucky has always been famous. "And what have you to accuse me of now? Nothing wrong, I know, unless someone lias been meddling aud misrepresented me, and if so I shall be able aud willing to clear myself of anything intentionally wrong." He now came to the hardest trial of all; that of making known to Hettie his plans for the future and the long separation they must endure. He had with great anxiety watched the downward course of George aud Harry Hlnes, and rightfully placed the blame where It belonged. Their father did not care, or was too much engrossed in his business to see that the article he was manufacturing, aud hoarding a fortune from, was robbing him of his two boys— the noblest work of God! The vicinity of Black Rock, a short distance be'ow Buffalo, was the scene of stirring events in tho war of 1813-15. To call upon her at her home was the only alternative, and hither he bent his steps, with bowed head and aching heart. Times. Latin coased to be spoken as the languag of the people iu Italy, about 681; it was first taught in England in tho Seventh century, and speedily became the learned language of that kingdom, and the one in which English literature and law was expressed. Its us. in law gavo way to the common tongue aboutthe year 1000, was revived by Henry II. and again replaced by English by Henry George and Harry were bright, intelligent boys, whose only cares were to attend to odd jobs about the distillery and some light farm work when they felt disposed to do so. But the greater part of the time they were allowed to idle away their time with indolent companions. Roy was greatly excited and might have said more had he not been interrupted by Mr. Hines, who continued— Aluminum foi dental purposes is stud to be coming into favor, ft is pronouueed better than rubber, bang bright, strong, odorless and wholesome, and less costly than gold. Hettie was frightened to see the sad expression on his usually cheerful face, and her first thought was that some serious accident had happened at the distillery and that he had been sent to convey the The Romans stormed Syracuse and a common soldier killed Archimedes in the havoc; but the Roman general had him buried in style, and 140 years afterward, when Cicero was the Roman governor of Sicily, ho hunted among tho weeds and thorns to find the tomb of Archimedes, who left ablo pupils in mechanics.—Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer. Tho other day it was our pleasure to go afishing with a party on Alarpaha, near Grover, and see how fish are caught the "new way." Prom four to six men go into the water with a log iu front of them, and a sheet with one edge on the log and tho other edge held up by the men so that the fish can't jump over, but fall on tho sheet. Tho log is pushed along to the land, and when near i,t tho fish begin to try to make their escape back to the deep water by jumping. If they fail to niako a good leap they lodge on tho cloth, thereby becoming victims of their own destruction. It is amusing to see how they jump. It is supposed that about 300 pounds were caught.—Abbeville Times. How They Catch Fish in Georgia. "Roy, it is this: I have been informed that you are thinking of marrying my daughter." The supremo court of Ohio has decided that preference* made to certain creditors on tho evo of assigiment aro void. Roy was too greatly surprised to utter a word in reply, but sat there with bowed head like a guilty criminal before a cruel and unrelenting judge. These things were so apparent to Roy that he fairly shuddered when he realized within the reach of what great danger ho hiui stood these many years, and worse still, to see some of his friends yielding and verging on tho brink of ruin. "Why, Roy, what is the matter? Yon look ill," said Hettie. news. Mrs. Grant, recording to a recent authoritative announcement, has thus far received about $'J00,000 .'rom tho publication of Gen. Grant's memoiB. Hettie was more studious and industrious than her brothers, and attcuded the couutry school regularly untiLshe had obtained a good common school education. Her kind, Christian-like disposition won to her the friendship of all who knew her. Carpenters and other tool users who keep up with the times now use a mixture of glycerine, instead of oil, for sharpening their ! edge tools. Oil, as is well known, thickens and smears tho stone. Tbo glycerine may be t mixed with spirits in greater or less proportion, according as the tools to be sharpened are fine or coarse. For the averago blade, two parts of glycerine to one of spirits will sufliee. "What have you to say—is it true?" "I am not ill as you suppose. I think that I am unusually well. But I have come to say good-bye for awhile, and 1 am grieved to know that we are to be separated for a short time, aud that has so preyed upon my mind as to show so plainly that it calls forth remarks from every one who meets me." A Dog That Can IV11 Time, At lengtn, siowiy raising his eyes ana looking Mr. Hines squarely in the face, ho said- Two hundred and sixty Indians, tho necessary two-thirds, have signed tho Sioux treaty at tho Lower Irulo agency, D. T. Samuel Reid, tho truckman, is tho owner of a very intelligent Irish setter, and ho never tires of telling of the many wonderful performances of his pet. Last night Mr. Reid told his wife,-in the presence of tho dog, to arouse him at 6 o'clock this morning as ho wished to go to the Itosedale dock to begin work on a large stock uf freight which was awaiting his attention. This morning Mrs. Reid failed to awake at the hour named, aud Mi*. Reid was aroused by hearing his knowing dog scratching at his bedroom door. Ila Instantly arose, and upon looking at tho clock discovered that it was three minutes past 0 o'clock. Mr. llcid says it would take considerable money to tempt him to dispose of the dig that seemingly so well understands tho English language, and is withal so faithful anil kuowiug.—Bridgeport Farmer. raying His Komi Tax, In the light of nil this he had long since abstain from it, and that he might be free from the very appearance of the evil, he determined to engage in a business where he might bo free from the temptation; and now when we find him in the great city he is better fortified against the monster than the majority of young men who are placed in similar situations.About twenty years ago a Buckfield man, noted for his shrewdness, was attacked by tho smallpox. Conceiving tho idea, as he was convalescing', that it would be a good time to dispose of his road tax, he took his staff in one hand and, shouldering his hoe, started for tho sceno of operations. Like the prodigal, lie was seen "afar off." Tho men began to throw up their heads and sniff trouble, The surveyor sang out, "I swow, Jase, thoy aro afraid of ye." "Can't help it," says Jason, "I havo got to work «-it my tax." "Say, Jase. if you'il go back I'll cross out four tax." "All light," says Jason. And, If wo can take the word of Tho Oxford Democrat for it, tho tax was "crossed out." There's nothing like taking advantage of one's opportunities!—Lewistorl Journal. Roy had been her almost constant companion all through their childhood aud school dajs, aud when he commenced work in the distillery they were together a great deal and as time passed away their friendship ripened into love, anil love led to courtship and an early engage- "I have the kindest regard for Hettie. I have reason to believe she Tully reciprocates my affections. She is wealthy—I am poor. In that respect we are far apart. Mrs. Arad G-aves, of Waterbury, Vt., has a hill of peanufe growing in her garden, also a cotton plant,and both aro doing finely. I shall never marry a woman until I have j provided a home for her equal in all re- "Oh, Roy, what do you mean? Are you beside yourself? You are not going The Associaaon of Centenary Firms of Philadelphia ha been organized. Tho association consists of firms that have carried on business in thai city for 100 years or more. awavV" It is said that all tho newspapers in Russia are really edited by the czar. H'm; thisprob- j ably accounts for the fact that iu Russia nobody ever comes charging up stairs out of breath, bouncing into the office with a big club and demanding the namo of the man who wrote a certain article reflecting on the Musical union or the chairman of the relief 1 committee. Ho's afraid he might have to go ' all the way to Siberia io find him.—Burdette ia Brooklyn Eagle. What Is Written, Stays. T|je invention and development of electric v. elding of solid l»odies by Professor Elihu Thomson has Ixxm followed by a method of making endless pipes by the adaptation of the discovery to that purpose. This has apparently been done by Mr. Elias E. Ries, of Baltimore. The smooth interior of the pipe is secure. 1 by the uso of a removable refractory core, made of some insulating material, or the same object i attained by subjecting tho interior of the pipe while, being welded to compressed air gr fluid pressure. rnent. spects to the home from which I take her." ''You speak determinedly." "No too much so, I hope." 'Perhaps not, but I do not fully understand your meaniug." I have nothing more to add to what I "Yes, I must go; but I hope it will not be necessary for me to be away very long." Mr. Ilinos was so engrossed in his business affairs that he scarcely ever thought of anything connected with his family relations with anyone else, and if he did the idea had never been entertaiued that Hettie was in love, although she was a young lady who might have numbered her lovers by the scores. Then, we can easilv "It must be something dreadful that is calling you away? Do father aud the men know that you are going?" Roy was very closely watched day by day and his every act noted by Mr. Gaviord, who from the fisst had shown a great interest in him. He was sent on important trusted with large sums of toonej to carry to the bank for, deposit ADd 'mauy'.other. things that would be a temptation to a young man with an in- Somo 1-1,000 girls attend the London school board cookeryoenters, and arrangements aro being mado fa" tho accommodation of a still larger numbei "They do." | have already said." j ' \\ ell, then, return to your work; but , you will please remember that hereafter ' vou will be closely watched and von nr.) "Has there been any trouble between you and father?" A northern syndicate is buying up the historic lauds nt Appomattox, Va., where Gen. Lee surrendeied to Grant. Over 1,500 acres havo already been secured. "I should not have gone so soon only for a demand of your father \yhich my