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EVERYBODY
in need of FURNITURE should give us a call. Great bargain« offered.
Goods sold at lower prices than eyer before known. We have a large
stock from which to make selections, and guarantee to gire satisfaction
to all our patrons, who are cordially invited to call and see for them-selves.
No trouble to show goods. ©Buying direct from the manufac-turers,
we are enabled to sell at bottom prices.
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«9-ly MAIN ST., LITITZ, PA.
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ocil-ly NEW HAVBN, PA.
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Finest to the Commonest Goods-
Prioes are a, little lower than heretofore and
my patrons shall have the benefit. Come
and see the
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whioh for wear cannot be. equalled.
Slippers as low as 20 oents.
MEASURES TAKES'
and all kinds of Boots and Shoes made to
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REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS.
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MAIN STREET, LITITZ. mSt
THE GHOST.
Hushed and still,".
Jeweled night, with opal moon,
Eeigns, at her impressive noon, ,
Clear and chill,
As I sit . . .
At the open window here,
Fancied faces, dim and queer,
Past me flit.
Murmurs dread,
From the brooding willow tliere,
Moan a cadence of despair
For the dead.
Hark! a sound!
In the moonlight mottled street,
Rumbling wheels and hoof-strokes fleet
Shake the ground.
At the gates
Something pauses. Naught is seen,
Though in moonbeams' whitest shen
Something waits.
Hush! I lifii r
Hustle of a silken train,
Dainty steps, a sob of pain,
Who is here?
Shadows thrown
From the willow weirdly fall,
Dance and linger on the wall,
Shades alone.
Faint and rare
Steals a perfume thought the room
"Wafted from the gathered gloom
Over there.
Fancies dread
Echo from a story old,
Weeping willow would unfold
Of t i e dead.
< Ori'KKI I KLO « Ol. KT.
I RUDY
Sole agent and dealer
in Lancaster and ad-joining
counties for the
sale of all the Ameri-can
and English Bi-cycles
and Tricycles,
No. 9 E. King Street,
Lancaster, Pa. Riding
School, No. 55 North
Queen St. Please call
and see my stock of
machines, or send me
your name on a postal
card, and I will mail
you a catalogue free.
RUNNER VILLE
C. FATE,
Agent tor Lancaster, Pa.
I>. S. EWJNG, General Agent,
.'1127 .Chestnut St.; Philadelphia, Pa.
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Pocket Books: and Fancy Goods in great variety.
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for both Ladiea and Gentlemen. Leather covered,
Elastic, Electric, and/Hard Iiubbor
1 Trusses -
®n Bund'at regulir prio'es. A good fit guaranteed
- • omosale.
Corfc Shavings constantly on - hand. Gardes
Seeds the most reliable, at the
' LITITZ DRUG STORE.
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. The undersigned takes pleasure Iff Inform'
ingr the public that he is-well prepared to
make "to order 'every style of "Conveyances
such as . r-
GAEEIAGES, r
MARKET WAGONS,
BUGGIES,
FH2ET0NS,
SLEIGHS, &C;
I take special pains in securing the best
material lor all work turned out of my- shop,
.id this, combined with first-class workman-ship,
is a guarantee of good work.,
; "MEW WOEK CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
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Persons in need of anything in my line
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and prices. "Fy rates"äre always as low as is
possible for-first-class work.
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3UITITZ
F r e s h B r e a d , ï t o l l s ,
B u n s , S w e e t C a k e s ,
S t r e i s l e r s , : S u g a r •"
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Served dall - -in town and country. . All ordew
for funerals or public gatherings promptly
attended to. A specialfeature-inthe;buslnesf
will "Be" I,lie baking of GENUINE RYE ana
BRAN BREAD. My aim shall be furnish a
good article atall times. Give me a trial and
satisfy yourself;- .,._- - . -. ;-
Have also added all necessary tools for or
namenting cakes, and am now prepared t«
ornament cakes for weddings and parties in
any style desired.
HORACE L. ESCHBACH.
MICHAEL ROTS, ;
r O N S G l t l A L A R T I S T,
Opposite.the Sturgis House, .
MAIN STREET, LJTIT2,
Keeps constantly on hand a good stock of
-"-•• -FINE POMADES, . . -
HAIR TONIC, „
SHAVING SOAP,
And everything else belonging tothefcad».
Hair Cutting .done with neatness and <11 fl-itch.
Children's Hair Cu.nins" a specialty.
I t would lue diffcult to pomt out tlie
exact spot where Copperfield Court once
stood.
Suffice it to say that the metropolis has
been robbed ofitsexistenceagreatmany
years ago.
I t was no thoroughfare, being only a
sort of bay out of a once great, fashion-able
river of a street.
It held six houses, two on' each side
and two across the end, and there was a
placard bearing the words, "No pedlars
permitted to enter."
Number one contained old Mr. Flack
and his wife, but they were each seven-ty
years old, and rheumatic.
Number two sheltered the deformed
little librarian of a certain library in the
city, and his consumptive young sister
Number three held—how, they only
knew—a schoolmaster's widow and her
four daughters.
Number four was occupied by an old
lady who had a son at sea, an officer on
a vessel in the navy.
Ile was always being, expected home,
and branches of coral, Chinese Curiosi-ties
and boxes of foreign jellies and con-serves
attested to the fact that he did
return occasionally, but the chances
were that he would be in mid-ocean at
any given date.
Number five was occupied by Miss
Cornelia Copperfield, a single lady of
eight-and-forty, and. a very old poodle.
And number six, being haunted, was
left to its ghost.
Probably want of patronage rather
than the placard banished the pedlars.
The reason why Copperfield Court
people set their faces se sternly against
pedlars was that they were not genteel.
And the people of Copperfield Court
were genteel or nothing.
Its occupants all lived on limited in-comes,
and not one of the ladies had
even earned a penny in her life.
Mr. Flack had a pension under the
Government.
The librarian was connected with a
wonderfully genteel society.
A naval officer's mother is a person of
position.
And so is a schoolmaster's widow
sometimes.
And Miss Cornélia: Copperfield was
the poor relation of the magnificent
Copperfield who o wiied the court,, was
said to be worth a million, and who had
presented the small dwelling in which
Miss Cornelia lived to his cousin, her
mother, a lady always alluded to by HisS
Cornelia as ' 'my late 'ma. "
A ghost is seldom vulgar, though
sometimes alarming, and -the ghost at
number six was that of à bankrupt bank-el";
who had shot himself. ;
Occasionally a carriage, with several
men in livery perched, upon it, paused at
the cut ranee-UUlie court , and à fat lady,
in fine clothes,, and a "thin gentleman,
with a greaï'diamond on his bosom, en-tered
Miss Cornelia Copperfield's door. .
It was then whispered through the
court that that lady's "family" had cal-led
upon her.
This might have continued for many
years but that Mrs. Rdoney came into
her grandfather's property, after hav-ing
quite given up to the idea of his
decease,"for he lived.td.be a hundred and
tfto years of age, minus a few months,
the exact number of which may easily
be obtained by a reference to the regis-ter's
book at, Somerset House.
Feeling herself entitled to be a landed
proprieter, she employed anagentto buy
her a bit of a house.
The agent having looked about him,
proposed No. 6, CopperfieldCourt.
Mr. Copperfield, Weary of a ' tenant
who paid--no renWwe . allude to the
banker's ghost—agreed to thé .price of-fered,
and one morning the housekeep-ers
of the court peeped through their
green blinds upon the arrival, of Mrs.
"Rooney's household goods;4 and; two
boarders came with Mrs. Rooney. One
was a young man who habitually iwore
a red shirt.
Tlie other was a foreigner' in a shabby
old black."
He looked genteel but alas! appeai>
ances are deceitful.
-On the morning after his arrival he
was seen to leave the court bearing a
small tray on which were ranged in ro ws
pipes of all sorts, except ' very costly
ones, v
They were china pipes, with.. painted
flowers, upon them,. the" humble clay du-,
deen, and others more or less aristocra-tic,
Pedlars - were not admitted to the
court, but one had come thereto reside:
'That I am alive to:day," said; the
Schoolmaster's widow, "is a proof that
one can live through anything. " . •-• •
As for Miss Copperfield, she shut her-self
up"in her flowery chintz bower, and
seem.ed inclined to .remain there for-ever,
;'/ . i- ' ' :
A. week passed. "
One night Miss Copperfield was awak-ened
by awful groans.
She started up in bed and listened.
The groaning was at her window; she
also heard raps.
She went to-the window.
Within a foot of it she saw a face—
her next door neighbor's, the pedlar of
pipés.
'What do you want?" she asked
sharply.
„Pardon, madame," replied a weak-voice,
with a strong French accent,
"pardon, but I have some colics."
"Colics?" repeated Miss Copperfield.
"Vera bad,,' responded the neighbor.
" I expire of pain, and Madame Rooney
goes of her cousin's child to the,funeral,
and in ze house is no one.
"Perhaps you vill 'ave a leetle eau de
vie-—brändee.
"Eh! you comprehend, madame?"
"Yes, yes," said Miss Copperfield to
whom returned a memory of genteel
lessons in French, taken in her earlier
days.
"We, Monshure; jer comprany—jer
—" but the elegant memory was but a
faint one, and she added, " I don't know
about brandy- -perhaps I have a little.
" I will see."
"Madame is an angel, " responded the
neighbor.
Miss Copperfield brought the brandy—
about half a gill in a cologne bottle—and
presented it on a small fire-shovel.
The neighbor, thanking her in a pro-fusion
of complimentary French, retir-ed,
but soon was heard to groan again
more dismally than before.
"Are you worse?" called the lady
through the shutters.
" I am vera bad," piped the sufferer,
in an anguished falsetto.
"Perhaps a mustard plaster might
relieve," suggested Miss Copperfield.
"Per'aps," moaned the Frenchman.
Miss Copperfield, who was really a
tender-hearted soul, instantly rushed to
her tiny kitchen, and soon approached
the window again with the plaster be-tween
two soup dishes.
Placing them on the shovel, she wav
ed it before her neighbor's window.
" T h e plaster," she said.
The plaster was taken with many
thanks. Shortly the groans* ceased.
Was he dead or relieved of pain, this
man who had called her an angel? She
called softly, "Are vo.u better?",
' 'Ah, yes. replied the voice. "Ze plas-taire
is 'eavenly, liké madame. "
Miss Copperfield retired.
Early the next morning a tap came
on her door.
I t was her neighbor, with her plates
well washed and. her bottle refilled.
He had come to overflow with grati-tude.
He declared that he. should have ex-pired
but for her most amiable conduct,
her delightful mustard-plaster, and he
ended by a narrative of his own life,
his fallen fortunes, and how he came to
peddle pipes.
' I say to myself, what mattair vere
110 one knows me?" he said.
"Still, madame, I am a gentleman;
zat I would 'ave you know. "
" I am sure of it. " said Miss Copper-field.
Her guest departed.
Miss Copperfield sat thinking.
What handsome eyes he had! What
anicenose!
How romantic to fäll from the aris-tocracy
to pipes!
How he had looked at her!
Ali, Miss Copperfield, who had held
herself too aristocratic for every suitor
of her youth, found herself blushing. :
That evening her neighbor called
again.
He brought with him an offering, an
ivory nut thimble, in a case shaped like
an acorn.
Shortly, a sort of scandal spread
through the neighborhood.;
The pedlar,, the vulgar pedlar, called
on Miss- Copperfield! -
He took tea with her on Sunday after-noon!
' -.'
Could such things be ? : /-
The family heard of it.
I t called in its coach, with its red-co.
ckaded footmen.
I t ascended the steps. It seated it-self
in her. parlor.
It was largely represented.
Two stout ladies, two stout .gentle-men,
and a very old lady, with a face
like crumpled parchment.
They filled Miss Copperfield's. chintz-covered
room to overflowing.
They Occupied all the chairs, while she
perched on the small round stool before
the upright piano, and they addrèssed
her.
"Cornelia," said the old. lady, "we
hear frightful news of you; that you are
visited by a segar pedlar!"
';IIe risn't a cigar pedlar," replied
Cornelia.
He's Monsieur Blanc. He sells
pipes, aunty."
'This is flippant;," said the old lady.
'A pedlar! ...
; We call to remonstrate. " :
We hear you are "engaged to him,"
said stout lady number one.
" And we' call to - warn you, " said
stout lady number two.
"Dismiss him at once," said the thin-nest
gentleman, "or we discard you."
"'And disown you," said the other
thin gentleman, "since you have forgot-ten
you are a. Copperfield." . .
" I was so lonely," she sobbed.
"You nevèr eveh invited me to tea,
and he's a—à gentleman.?' ?
We say no more," replied the old
¡ady.
"Yes, or no. .
"Will yöü dismiss him?
And she looked an anathema mara-natha,
. . .
Miës Cornelia could not endure thé
excommunication.
She said— : -
"Yes." .
The family then arose and departed.
She was left alone.
For an hour she-bathed her poodle's
head with her tears. j
Then she heard a knock at the door,
and arose to open it.
Monsieur Blanc appeared; / ;"
"Again I arrive mysèlf, my angel i '
he remarked.
"01), you must go!
''You must never come again.
" I have' promised my family," sighed
poor Cornelia. -
"Ah, ze: family!" cried Monsieur
.Blanc. . . .
"Aristocrats.
"But, bah [never mind, mademoiselle.
I adore you."
"Oh!" sighed Cornelia.-
"Let us fly!" said Monsieur.
"Let us go live—somevere—avay.
"Me vill be-'àppy. -t * ...
"Ahj-bah!-zat family! ;
"Ze people of ze court so aristocrati-que.
"• -
-'•'Comey ve vill-fly.
' 'Marry me to-day. '-'
He kissed her.
Neither of them were very old or
tugly, and that which had never happen-1
"ed to Cornelia before happened then— I
she fell desperately in love-on the spot. '
" I don't care for one of them," she'
said.
" I will marry you."
Early next morning (he had the lic-ense
in his pocket—"the artful!") two
figures stole out of the court arm in arm.
They were those of Monsieur Blanc
and Miss Copperfield.
They were wed, .
Shortly after the first excitement of
the elopement had ceased to thrill the
court, a person duly authorized bore
away the furniture of No. 5, and sold
the house, and no one of the genteel oc-cupants
ever saw Miss Copperfield again.
The family disowned her, and the old
aunt was very particular that Cornelia"
name should never be mentioned in her
hearing.
And indeed Cornelia wrould not face
these outraged beings for. the world.
In a, little house over a small shop
where pipes of all sorts are sold, she liv-ed
with her husband.
She grew quite portly, and never was
so gay in her life.
Together they walked in the Park of
sunny Sundays, or went to the cheap
seats of places of amusement, where
they had much ado to hear or see any-thing,
and they had nice indigestible
little suppers at ten or eleven o'clock.
Whether she died happily or still lives
in hopes of rivaling Mrs. Eooney
grandfather by seeing her hundred and
second birthday, we know not, but we
do know that for a long time her story
remained a fearful legend in Copperfield
Court,
Intense Suspense.
"John Henry," said his honor, Jus
tice Powers, "you are altogether too in-telligent
a young man to be before the
court on such a charge-—you have a
good-looking face.''
Johnny looks furtively up and smiles
at the agreeable prospect of a light sen-tence.
"The charge against you is of a griev-ous
character, and has been clearly
made out by the testimony. It shows a
depth of depravity difficult to be imagin-ed
in one so young."
Johnny drops his eyes to the table and
nervously fumbles with his hat in ex-pectation
of the ominous sixty days.
" I am awafe that the chance for re-formation
as a result of sending you to
the island is very slim. It might re-sult
in more narm than good, and if
thought a warning would be sufficient
to deter you from a repetition of the
offense I would not pronounce a sen-tence
against you."
•'He's going to let me off, sure,"
Johnny's face says, as he ventures to
raise his head and. stammer out a pro-mise
to be very good.
"But on the other hand it is my duty,
sitting as a court, to protect society
against the repetition of offenses by
making examples of those who commit
them."
"Oh, Lordy! I'm a goner now," is
written on Johnny's brow, and his ex-cited
counsel begins a special .plea in his
behalf:
"The parents of this young lad are
very respectable, your Honor. They
are ready to promise that the boy will
behave himself hereafter."
"Yes, if. there is one thing more than
another that pleads strongly in your be-half,
and tends to blind justice to the
gravity of your offense, it is the sight, of
an aged mother in tears; and the expres-sion
of disappointment and sorrow oh
the face of your old father. If the
court is disposed to leniency, therefore,
in your case, it is rather on their ac-count
than your own."
He is going to let me off after all, " is
what the look of relief oh Johnny's face
says plainly.
"But,'? continues his Honor, "if the
Court should give way to a feeling of
pity for your parents, and release | you
from the consequences of your act, it
might be the most unkind action he
could perform against them. Vice
should be summarily nipped in the bud,
if possible."
- 'He won't let me off for less than
thirty, at least," thinks Johnny, as thej.
momentary flush of pleasure dies out o
I lis J ace. .....
"But you are young, and something
by way of a warning may prove el
tiye to check you in the career on which
you have entered."
"He intends to let me off wi tli a re
primand and the costs," Johnny con-cludes,
as he gathers up his hat, once
more ready to depart. . :
" I hope you woii't forget what his
Honor is sayipg," says the hopeful
counsel.
- " I will, therefore, do what I consider
best .for you under all the circum-stances."
"Thanks, your Honor," exclaims
Johnny, now sure that he is dismissed.
" I sincerely hope I shall never see.
you here again after this taste of cor-rection."
" I ' l l never come here again, sir," ex-claims
Johnny out of the depths of his
gratitude, with all- the preparations,
made to depart.
"Yes," I hope you will remember
your promise.. The sentence of the
court is that you pav a fine of ¿200 and
be confined in the workhonse -thirty
days."
- A tableau expressive of open-mouthed
wonder and crushing astonishment, as
the officer takes the dazed and bewild-ered
culprit below.
In Haste.
In the office of a certain Western
railroad superintendent it was under-stood
that when a coinmon-.looking
stranger entered tlie outer office ancl
asked for the Great Mogul, one of the
several young men therein eimploj ed
should claim to be the official wanted
ahd thus turn the bore away. The
other day a web-footed stranger with a
business squint to his eyes, asked to see
the superintendent, and the chief clerk
promptly replied:
"Yes, sir; what can J do for you?"'
"Are you the man?" !
.. . " I am." •
"No mistake?"
"None at all."
"Then it's all right. Six months ago.
one of your trains killed a cow for me,
and you have been just mean enough
not.to answer any of my. letters." • Old'
hoss, I 'm going to lick thirty-five dol-lars
out of you."
"But, sir, you see—"
"1 sec .nothing. but you ! Prepare to*'
be licked."
And the proxy superintendent was
not only mopped around the room and
flung into the wood-box as limp as a
elothes-line, but tlie cow-owner kicked
the others out-doors and upset the desks?
and tables with the remark :
"The next time I do business with
this corporation I want you not only to
reply to my letters, but .to put 'in haste'
on your envelopes!"
Crowning: the Czar.
The 27th of May was a beautiful day
in Moscow, and the coronation of Alex-ander
I I I , as Czar of all the Russias
took place in the Cathedral of the Holy
Assumption in the Kremlin, in Moscow,
in the presence of a distinguished as-semblage.
A special account of the
ceremony says:
I have just returned from the Krem-lin.
. Moscow is wild with excitement.
Cannon are everywhere firing in single
shots and in volleys, and 5,000 bells are
ringing, as only the bells of Moscow
can ring, in honor of the event which
makes the 15tli, of. May, in the Russian
calendar, a red-letter day in the annals
of the Russian Empire. Alexander III.,
who succeeded his father more than
two years ago on the throne of all the
Russias, has at last been . crowned and
appointed sovereign of the vast empire
which owns his sway. This morning,
in the presence of his imperial relations,
his Court, the various deputies of his
people, and the representatives of the
States and kingdoms of the world, ci-vilized
and semi-barbarous, he assumed
the imperial crown and was anointed
with the holy oil, thus confirming and
consecrating, in the eyes of his myriad
subjects, the righteousness of his rule,
and the sanctity of his person. More
than once, during the past two years I
have heard the opinion expressed by
peasants in the country that the present
Emperor was only half a Czar so long
as he remained uncrowned. The com-pletion
of the ceremony which has so
deep a significance in the eyes of all or-thodox
Russia is now being flashed
along the wires to every part of the vast
empire—to the wandering Samoyedes,
to the fierce mountaineers of the Cau-casus,
to the survivors of Geok Tepe,
to the distant shores of the Pacific—
and everywhere the reign of Alexander
I I I . acquires a new and higher prestige
from the solemn celebration which Mos-cow
has been privileged to' witness to-day.
•
By 8:30 A. M. the cathedral was
filled by all the officials and nobles of
the highest rank and station in Russia,
with the exception of those who formed
a part of the imperial procession. The
appearance of tlie interior was magnifi-cent.
The Eikonostasis, glittering with
gold, formed a background to the pict-ure.
In the centre, between the four
great columns, was a scarlet canopy
with a double-headed eagle and embla-zonings
and plumes in black, yellow
and white. Under this stood the throne
and before it a table for the regalia.
Every point of space on the floor of the
cathedral, save that occupied by, the im-perial
tombs, was crowded with the
assembly in brilliant Uniforms of every
color, ' while the clergy, in gorgeous
robeSj extending hi double lines from-the
dais to the entrance, presented the
not least striking feature of the scene.
The ceremony began With the chant-ing
of the Te Douin by the choir, and
were deeply impressive throughout.
They included an address from the Me-tropolitan
of Novgorod to the Emperor,
that he should be pleased ' 'to profess
the orthodox Catholic faith according
to belief;" the Emperor's profession;
the singing of litanies; the placing of
the imperial purple on his shoulders ;
the placing of the crown, which the
Emperor placed on his head with his
own hands; the ..giving to him of the
sceptre and orb. by the Archbishop: the
crowning of the Empress with her smal-ler
crown by the Emperor; the reading
of the Emperor's full; list of titles; a
final prayer; the ringing of all the bells,
and the firing, of 101 rounds of cannon;
the Emperor's prayer invoking Divine
support; the prayer of all present' for
the same object; and a:Te Deum by the.
choir.. Then followed the liturgy, the
anointing of the Emperor, the partak-ing
of the Sacrament by the Emperor,
and closing prayers and singing.
The Czar was so overcome with emotioii
that at. one time he sobbed aloud, though
his. voice was firm in making profession
of faith. The Czar issued his manifesto
early last evening, and conferred an
order on M. de triers, the Russian Min-ister
of Foreign, Affairs.
kings" ahd ranch-owners, who congre-gate
in the hotels after making their
shipments and talk of their business
prospects, the state of the market, the
chances for a favorable winter, and the
respective merits of bunch and buffalo
grass. As a rule they are quiet, reser-ved
men, with rough exteriors, but gen-tlemanly
in manner and thoroughly in
earnest in the pursuit of their lucrative
calling. They are mostly men above
the average in intelligence, and the
deference paid to them by the smaller
fry and the cowboys is noticeable. They
are men who own or have a controlling
interest in vast herds of cattle, and have
large interests at stake.
Washington's Home.
hi ä Cattle Town.
A French physician reccomends the
treatment of burns with oil of turpen-tine,
covering the place with gumed
goldbeater's skin,
Miles City,, Montana; Territory, is the
head quarters and principal shipping
point of the great cattle interest, of the
Territory, and its proximity to Fort
Keogh, which is only two miles distant,;
gives it additional prominence, as a
trading place.. The town itself has a
curious interest for. the stranger, being
in many respects, different in its, charae7
teristics from the other towns on:the
line. It is more like a typical border
town and more in consoance with the
generally accepted nature of what a
border town should be. Cowboys with
lariats hanging on their saddles are
seen at every turn, riding on the stout
little broncho ponies of . the plains ;
rough-looking men are loafing on the
streets corners; occasionail'y a "bigln^
dian," with a squaw or two following
him, stalks across the, scene, and on
each side of the street are innumerable
places of low resort, in-.which the com-bined
attractions of rum and gambling
are openly advertised. These places
are so numerous, indeed, that they seem
at first glance, to constitute the chief
industry of the town. At night they
present a curious spectacle. Nearly all
are large rooms opening on the street.
The doors are kept wide Open when the
weather will permit and inside may 1«'
seen a motley crowd of-men and women.
On one side of tile room is a long bar
from which beer and whisky are dis-pensed,
and about which there is al-waVfe.
a crowd. Scattered about the
room are three. or four faro lay-out,
with - grim , and intensely interested
groups of players standing around them.
Scattered among the groups are several
Chinamen, for John thrives on the
frontier even has lie does in; the -large
cities,- and, if he escapes being lassooed
by a mischievous cowboy, is allowed, to.
pursue in peace the usual vocations of
his-race. At, some of the tables-women
act as dealers of the ganie, and appar-ently
they are regarded with the utmost
respect by the rough men who are tempt-ing
fortune and waisting their hard-earned
savings:- Everything is conduct-ed
quietly and. in the most orderly man-ner.
" To be sure,'ther'e is;a revolver or
two ostentatiously displayed at'the side
of a heap of money and chips on the
table, or stiçking in a menacing ;wa-y
from a player's broad buckskin belt;
but they are seldom used and'seemed. to
be. carried more in a spirit of reckless
bravado than for offensive or, defensive,
purposes. In warm weather the gaming-tables
are removed to the edge of the
plank sidewalks, and on a pleasant
summer evening the spectacle is one
that does not impress a stranger with
the high moral tone »f the inhabitants.
Such is one phase of : life in Miles
City,: the cattle metropolis'of Montana.
Another is furnished by the "cattle
The ladies composing the Council of
the Regent and Yice Regents of Mount
Vernon were in session at Washington's
old homestead recently. Mrs. Lily
Macalester Laughton, who represents
Pennsylvania, presided as regent. Mrs.
Comegys, the vice regent of Delaware,
was able to be present for the first time
in six years. The others present were:
Mrs. Gweat, the vice regent of Maine,
who is secretary; Miss Alice Longfel-low,
of Massachusetts; Mrs. Chase, of
Rhode Island; Mrs. Pickens, of South
Carolina; Mrs. Hudson, of Connecti-cut;
Mrs. Halstead, of New Jersey;
Mrs. Herbert, of Alabama; Mrs. Eve,
of Georgia; Mrs. Townsend, of New
York; Mrs. Walker, of North Caro-lina;
Mrs. Yulee, of Florida, and Mrs.
Broad well, of Ohio. The latter lady-is
the sister of the 'late General Lytle
and the cousin of Mrs. Laughton. Mrs.
Ball, of Virginia, and Mrs. Barnes, of
the District of Columbia, each having
recently lost her husband, have been
unable to attend. Miss Harper, of
Maryland, did not arrive until Friday.
The restoration of the rooms under-taken
by various States has progressed
admirably during the past year and
Mrs. Pickens, of South Carolina, hopes
that before another year her efforts to
raise funds to restore and furnish that
taken by her State—Washington's pri-vate
dining room—will be crowned by
success. Mayor Courtney, the very
patriotic Mayor of Charleston, S. C., is
the treasurer of the fund being raised.
The first entertainment for this pur-pose
was given at Mrs. Pickens' home,
Edgefield, and another was given by
her stepdaughter, Mrs. Judge Bacon
at Columbia. The South Carolina
room is the only one now awaiting re-storation.
Pennsylvania's room, under
Mrs. Laughtón's management, has been
entirely furnished with furniture actu-ally
used by General Washington, the
carpet only excepted, for it is said
among all his orders for house'
hold ware no record of his ever order
ing or buying a carpet" has yet been
found.
Among the improvements within a
yeár at Mount Vernon are a new fence,
a new drive from the landing to the
mansion, a large and comfortable new
frame lunch room, adjoining the kitchen,
where visitors sit to eat lunch while
waiting for the boat, and a field of
eighteen acres planted in Wheat, from
which a fine crop is expected. The very
inclement winter and extraordinarily
late spring have seriously reduced the
receipts from visitors this year. The
boat could make no trips during one
entire fortnight last winter, when the
riyer was frozen. It has stopped, its
trips on week days Only once before m
five years on account of the river being
closed by ice. That was in the winter
of 1880-81, when it was unnavigable to
abput five weeks.
Before Senator Mahone, of Virginia,
came into power the Legislature ol:
that State always appointed á Board of
Visitors to go to Mount Vernon during
the Council of the Regents and attend
to business with them. Since the Ma-hone
administration began no board has
been appointed. The day the Board of
Visitors attended was always a gala day
at Mount Vernon.
Photographing- on Í'lesíi.
Perils of Lake Michigan.
Lake Michigan is more perilous to the
navigator than any other of the great
Northern lakes. This is owing partly
to. its lack of convenient harbors and
sheltering islands or headlands, and
partly to the. peculiar suddenness and
great violence of the gales t h a t sweep
it, particularly in the spring and au-tumn.'
Both these causes of frequent
shipwrecks are particularly manifest at
this end of the lake. Two shipwrecks
have already occurred this spring with-in
twenty-five miles of'the port of Chi-cago,
both of them in the vicinity of t h at
peculiarly dangerous locality, Grosse
Point - (Evanston). The "government
maintains there a first-class lighthouse,
a couple of steam fog-horns, also first-class,.
and . a well-equipped life-saving-station,
whose crew have shown their
efficency in both the recent shipwrecks.
"But all the precautionary arrangements
for thé benèflt of mariners do not pre-vent
fréquent shipwrecks at the peril-ous
place. Northward of the point on
which the light-house . stands, the dir-ection
of tlie, shore is such that it re-ceives
the full and direct force of every
northeast gale and the oblique force of
about all other gales I t is a shore absolute-ly
without bay, inlet, indentation, or
protection of any kind against the force
of the,sea for a distance of . 50 miles,
with, water so shoal fully a mile seaward
that the only hope of escape from ship-wreck
for t h é vessel which is carried
by a northeaster too far west to double
the point is in: the holding strength of
its anchors. The-anchorage, however, is
nowhere in that vicinity very good, an-other
circumstance that liaê contribut-ed
to make-Grosse Point the terror of
seamen and the grave of many a ship
almost, in sight of the entrance- to this
harbor; The time probably,, is not- very
distant when to the lighthouse, the
hideous fog-horns, the life, boats ahd
other Government appliances at that
point will have to be added a moler a
sea-wall, or some kind of artificial con-trivance
which will afford, if not shel-ter,
at least a comfortable anchoring-place
for ships in distress. At present
the only safety of a ship in a gale is to
give Grosse Point a very wide berth,
and that, in the teetli of a first-class
Lake Michigan gale, is not an easy thing
for a ship bound to Chicago to do.
An Old Commlsioiier.
,' Aaron. Burr's original commission as
attorney-at-Kw, signed by Chief Jus-tice
Richard Morris,^of New York State,
February 1,1782, is now in the relic-,
room of the .Ohio State House. , I t is
written on vellum, eight and a half by
ten inches m size, and bears a red wax
seal, with the motto- "Laudem vin-cit."
On the same page of th« scraps
book in which it is-pasted is one of the
old State lottery tickets, with the in-scription:
"Not two blanks to a prize."
A new triumph of photographic art
is reported. It is claimed that by this
process an indelible likeness of any
object can be produced on the human
cuticle, and that, unlike the barbarous
method of tattooing', the new discovery
is rapid, accurate, cheap, and painless.
"The idea, for instance," says one who
is interested in making the operation
popular, "of having witli one an indeli-:
ble imprint on the person of any object
of affection, a dear relative, a favorite
horse, dog, bird or cat, is certainly a
very pleasing one. Indeed, to those
without sentimental feelings. such a
discovery would prove of interest as
affording a chance to carry constantly
with them a reminder of their worldly
goods, their houses, lands, ships, or
other property."
"Yes, that sounds very pretty," said
a veteran operator, "but there-isn't
much in it. I've been staining my
hands with acids for nearly thirty years
in the business, and have yet to learn
of any such process, From my expe-rience
out on the plains I think that,
outside of tattooing, Apache war-paint,
will last longer than any photographic
chemicals. There was once a man here
called the Blue Man, who took some-thing
internally for fits which perma-nently
changed the color of his skin,
but that's the only instance I know of.
Now, I can put a picture or imprint
on your skin, but you must understand
there's a good deal of fancy work in
our business not comprehended by the
uninitiated. But, after all, we have to
come down to the-light of the sun and
the same nitrate of silver which col-ored
the blue man internally for our
real material.
"Now, I can put a picture on the side
of a house as well as on your skin, and
perhaps better, if the paint don't peel
off as fast as your skin does. In point
of fact, a picture will not last as long-on
your skin where, it is covered by
clothing as it will on the exposed cuti-cle.
This is because the body con-stantly
throws out perspiration when
covered, and perspiration is a deadly
enemy to chemicals, But the great
objection to this so-called triumph in
photographic art is this:—If I take an
imprint on your hand, for instance, or
on your leg, arm, chest, or back', your
muscles, and, in fact, your entire body,
must be in a certain fixed position.
You may, for instance, have an imprint
of a beautiful woman on your hand
when open. Clench your fist, and the
imprint, of course, becomes a carica-ture,
the same as those India rubber or
gutta-percha faces you see for sale in
the streets. Why, in order to have
pictures accurate we have even to cut
our paper in a certain way. All paper
stretches when wet, and if cut in one
way many a thin face has been made to
look fat, and vice versa. We have to
cut our paper so as to get the least
stretching. . . .
*<Xerba-Mate''as a Drrnfe.
A number of parties in the East and
South are considering the question of
introdricing the cultivation and sale of
the "Yerba-mate," or Paraguay tea,
into this country. This article is in
great favor in South America and; has
been so from time immemorial. So
highly is it prized that even in certain
of the coffee-producing districts of
South America it is consumed in much
larger quantities than the coffee. "
In the Argentine republic the quan-tity
imported from Paraguay and
Brazil is more than six times in value
that of the tea and coffee imported.
Consul Baker, of Buenos Ayres, in
writing of. the geneial use of this
beverage there, says: "It has" come
down from a former generation as a
sort of official institution, which has
become venerable and must not be in-terfered
with. And every day, both in
the public offices of the nation and of
the province, the hours of 'siesta' are
set apart, to a great extent, for. an in-discriminate
bout at the 'mate cup'—all
employes, from the great minister of
the. Government to the porter who
guards the door, taking turns at the
fombilla." • . ;;
The "mate," he says, is considered
especially useful in "postponing hun-ger,"
the drivers of caravans and Ar-gentine
ganchqs taking their "mate" in
the morning, and eating nothing until
the end of the day, when a full meal is
taken. - The "mate" is imbibed scald-ing
hot through a tube inserted ni the
cup or gourd, and in the hoflies of the
wealthy these circulate all day,"one
tube doing general service^ and a refu-sal
of this hospitality by a guest is con-sidered
an act of rudeness.
" Those who have studied the question
believe that the mate "can be:-success-fully
grown in the Southern portions of
this: country, and it is probable some
experiments will be made both; in im-portation
of the article as prepared in
South America and ni an attempt to
produce it here. It is the product of a
small tree of the holy family, the leaves
and tender twigs being used for the
tea. $he taste is a slight bitter, with
a peculiar and palatable: aroma. The
methods of curing and preparing are
very simple, and the cost about one-fifth
pf that of tea or coffee. •
Young Men.
Young men,, save that penny ; pick
up that phi; let the account be correct
to a farthing, find out what that ribbon
costs before, you take it; pay the, half
dime your, friend handed you to .make
change with; in a word, be economical,
be accurate and know what you are
doing; be honest and then be generous,
for all you have or acquire thus be-longs
to you by every rule of Tight and
you . may put it t o any good use you
please. It is not parsimony to be; eco-nomical.
It is not small to know the
price of the article you are about to
purchase, or to remember a little you
owe,—What, if you do meet BUI Pride
decked out iii a much better suit than
yours, the price of which he has not
learned yet irom the-tailor, who laughs
at your faded dress, and old fashioned
notions of honesty and right—your day
will come. Franklin, from a penny
saving boy, walking in the streets, with
a loaf of bread under his arm, became a
companion of kings.
The Queen.
Queen Victoria of England was sixty-four
years old on the 24th of May. She
has reigned almost forty-six years—her
reign having been longer, than that of
any. English sovereign except Henry
I I I , . who ruled 56 yearsj Edward III.,
50 years, and George III., 60 years,
—Reports up to date show 250 persons
to have been killed by tornadoes in this
country since January 1. During 1881,
187 persons thus lost, their lives, and in
1882, 369.