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ÖDE AR me, I do wish Jack would
come home; such a stupid novel!
The idea of that lack-adaisical
young woman, Ilva, confronting a
great burly burglar with her tiny re-volver
and scaring him into a closet,
and—Oh hum ! O hum—I'm so very
sleepy, sighed pretty Mrs. Norcross,
lounging back deep into the pile of
eushions around her.
The slow, solemn ticking of the big
library clock and an occasional sub-dued
snap from the fireplace were the
only sounds to disturb the profound
stillness.
Mrs. Norcross sat gazing dreamily
at the logs slowly falling into the glow-ing
coals and ashes, in her mind a
vague yision of a big, brawny, heavy-booted
man being backed into her
closet, and thought she would rather
object to the crushing her gowns would
receive in the process.
" But then, of course," following up
her tram of thought rather drowsily,
" he wouldn't have on big boots, they
Would make a noise—dear me!"—out
loud—" what was that ?" and she sud-denly
sat erect.
Surely she had heard a noise in the
direction of the dining-room.
All was quiet again, however, and
not being an extremely nervous young
woman, Mrs. Norcross subsided into
her cushions again, thinking she had
been mistaken.
Still an uneasy feeling possessed her,
and she remembered that she had sent
all the servants to bed, saying sue
would wait till Mr. Norcross should
come in.
She picked up the despised novel
and read a few lines ; but it failed to
claim her attention, and again her
eyes sought the dying embers.
The drowsiness stole over her senses
and she had nearly dropped asleep
when she found herself half out of her
chair, straining every nerve to listen.
Yes, it is no mistake this time. She
can plainly hear the catch in one of
the long dining-room windows rattling
gently.
A deadly feeling of suspense creeps
over her and she starts with a gasping
shudder, shrinking as from a physical
blow as the tall clock softly chimes the
half hour after twelve.
The window in the dining-room is
gently raised, and at the sound the
trembling woman suddenly becomes
self-possessed and calm.
Rising softly she turns down the
blaze in the tall lamp, and creeping
out into the hall hastens up the broad
stairs, and flies along the corridor to
her room.
On the way her quick brain has de-vised
a course of action. The servants
are all at the other end of the house,
and she is virtually alone; for the
burglar would surely kill her before
she could rouse them.
She resolves that as there is no man
on hand she will herself assume man's
garb and sternness.
Entering her husband's dressing-room
she hastily throws aside her
trailing gown and snatching down
trousers and smoking-jacket from the
pegs and a soft shirt from the dressing-case,
proceeds to array herself in her
liege lord's attire with a rapidity
astonishing, considering the strange-ness
of the apparel.
Pulling a smoking-cap over the
soft masses of her hair, she tiptoes into
the hall, and leaning over the balastera,
hears steps in the library she had but
just left.
"O," she thought, " I don't feel so
very brave, if I am in Jack's coat.
What can the horrid creature be doing
so long in the library. Hush ! he's at
the desk. I guess I'll get Jack's re-volver.
I've fired papa's any number
of times."
Softly she re-enters the dressing-room,
and there gets a terrible shock
—there is a man advancing towards
her—can there be two of them.
Involuntarily she shrinks back in
terror, and then even in her fright
falls to laughing noiselessly—for the
man does likewise—in the mirror at
the front of the room.
Still trembling from her sudden
fright she creeps down stairs, gather-ing
courage at each step as she grasps
the loaded revolver tight in her hand.
Stopping on the last step, just out of
the broad light streaming from the li-brary
door, she sees the tall, slim figure
of a man busied with the papers in her
husband's desk.
Half her terror dies away as she
notices that he is well dressed and
quite the gentleman in his appearance,
until the thought comes to her these
gentlemanly burglars are all the more
cruel and relentless, and as the man
turns his head at this moment, she de-termines
in her own mind that there is
a hard, steely look in his otherwise
handsome eyes.
Deciding that it would be wiser to
surprise the burglar than to be sur-prised
by him, she steps into the circle
of light and mustering up a deep
voice:
" Well, what are you doing here,
pray?"
The start the man gave was not a
very guilty one, and the coolness dis-played
by a burglar caught in the very
act stirred Mrs. Norcross's manly mind
to wrath.
" Who are you ?" she demanded,
angrily, " and what are you doing ?"
The intruder took a step forward—
at which Mrs. Norcross grasped the
revolver more closely—and said most
courteously:
" I beg your pardon, sir, but I would
like to speak with Mrs. Norcross a
moment."
Recovering from the effect of this
audacity, the lady returned :
" You cannot do so."
" But I must," persisted the stranger.
" I tell you you cannot. Mrs. Nor-cross
is not at home."
" Not at home ? Are you sure ?"
" I am sure, and now will you oblige
me by leaving my house "—this very
grandly.
" Your house," echoed this rude
man. "Mr. Norcross desired me to
get some papers for him, and leave a
message with his wife."
" Will you leave ?" interrupted Mrs.
Norcross, who, reasoning that an un-known
man bringing a message from
her husband would hardly have crept
in by the dining-room window, raised
the revolver and leveled it at the burg-lar's
breast.
Thus threatened the intruder shrug-ged
his shoulders carelessly.
" I do not know who you are, but if
Mrs. Norcross is not at home—and
you say she is not—the message is un-necessary.
Let me pass, sir."
" Not so fast," still in a deep tone of
voice; "you will walk in front of me,"
said this slight but courageous youth.
And so they proceeded across the
hall to the yestibule door, when the
unwelcome visitor Jet himself out, and
with a cool " good-night " ran down
the steps and away.
Mrs. Norcross closed the door, drew
the heavy bolt, entered the library,
pulled the bell rope convulsively again
and again, and then sank in a most
unwomanly heap on the floor.
In a few moments several of the
servants came rushing breathlessly to
the library, and the first, Mrs. Nor-cross'
own maid, gasped :
" Mr. Norcross, are you ill ? What
is it ? O, mercy! are you killed ? Why,
it isn't Mr. Norcross. 0, it is a burg-lar
!" and then the frightened abagail
threw himself into the arms of the
butler.
"Letty, you stupid! It's I—Mrs.
Norcross. There was a burglar here,
and I put on Mr. Norcross' clothes
and scared him away. He's gone
now, and I'm so frightened. I don't
see where Mr. Norcross is; I do be-lieve
that horrid wretch has murdered
him, oh-h I" and she subsided in a
flood of tears.
In the midst of this babel there came
a violent ringing of the bell, and one
of the servants admitted Mr. Norcross,
who, striding into the library, exclaim,
ed angrily :
" What the devil does all this con-fusion
mean ? and who "—confronting
the disheveled but beautiful youth,
who had sprung to his feet—"areyou,
who presume to guard my wife's
whereabouts? And where is she?
What—why, Helen ! You—in that
rig?"
" Oh, Jack !—Jack ! I thought you
would never come. Do send them all
away, and I'll tell you all about it."
Left to themselves, Helen related,
with many sobs, the events of the eve-ning.
" My dearest," began Mr. Norcross,
with an odd twinkle in his eyes, when
she had finished, " I hate to spoil your
story, and you were certainly very
brave; and such a striking man as
you make, too—don't blush, my love
•except that your hair has tumbled
down, you look very manly."
" But—that terrible burglar was my
cousin, Arthur Wellerton!"
" J a c k ! "
" And he is noted among the ladies
as haying the most beautiful, lovable,
and kindly gray eyes " •-
" Oh !"
" Yes; let me explain. You know
he has lately been taken into the firm,
and we were going over the books this
evening. As it grew late, I thought I
would make a night of it and not come
home. So I sent Arthur up to the
house to get a file of accounts and tell
you of my decision."
"Well, Arthur hadn't been gone
long when I discovered I had given
him the wrong latchkey, and started
after him, for I knew he couldn't get
in."
" He must have been gone longer
than I thought, for I met him on the
way back. He told me how he got in,
and then hesitated.
"Jack, old boy," he said, " I don't
know what to think of it all, nor what
to tell you ; but just as I was closing
your desk, a man, a deucedly hand-some
young fellow, appeared in the
door and ordered me out. I asked for
your wife, and he grandly informed me
that she was not at home. Never saw
the lellow before, but I know it was a
lie, old fellow, for I swear I heard the
swish of a woman's dress on the stairs
as I stepped into the dining-room."
" You may imagine, my dear girl,
my feelings at this intelligence. Who
the deuce was this handsome young
fellow, who made such startling as-sertions?
I rushed home—and the
rest you know."
" Oh, Jack!" cried Helen, in an
agony of mortification ; " Jack, how
can I ever look him in the face ? Ob,
what an idiot I am ! Oh, dear, dear,
dear ! Jack, did he tell yAu about th«
revolver? He did ? Oh !"
" There, there! don't cry, you little
goose ! Arthur will think you are the
brayest little woman in the world—as
I do—and he thought you were such
a handsome youth."
" I t was all that stupid novel. I
shouldn't have been so nervous if I
hadn't been reading about burglars.
And, really, your cousin—or my burg-lar—
is the handsomest man I ever
saw—for a blonde!"
The Habit of Being Happy.
The sunshine of a happy disposition,
says Youth's Companion, is not to be
lost sight of in any consideration of
the laws of health. A determination
to make the best of everything, and to
be pleasant under any circumstances,
is one of the most desirable of posses-sions,
either inherited or acquired.
The joy of an unselfish character
has been sung by poets and praised by
philosophers, but its physical advan-tages
have too seldom been dwelt upon.
And yet the physician is brought into
almost daily contact with "maladies of
the nerves," in which he is fully con-scious
that pure selfishness on the part
of the patient himself, or on the part
of some member of his family, is alone
responsible for the physical disorder.
It is often easy to make a diagnosis
in cases of this kind, but difficult to
prescribe the remedy. A healthful
interest in people and things would
often provide a model remedy, but it
is not easy to procure.
Even more hopeless is the case of
the unselfish," wearied woman, who
meets the physician's remark? as to
what she ought to do for herself with,
" I cannot do it, doctor "—from which
there is no appeal. Alas for the human
charity which cannot see the need of
encouragement for the mother, wife or
sister!
It lies within the power of everyone
to be a mental healer ; the position re-quires
no special training. And every
such person is the physician's ally.
He sees everything through the color-ed
glasses ot an unselfish and hopeful
contentment.
The person who is contented and
happy digests his food with greater
ease ; he exercises with more buoyan-cy
; he does better work, He may be-come
ill and require a physician, but
his chances for recovery are better be-cause
of his previous good health and
his present hopefulness.
The benefit derived from a "change
of scene" is universally admitted.
The novelty of the new surroundings
excites a pleasure which drives one's
thoughts from self. Here the con-nection
between happiness and health-fulness
is obvious.
It is not always easy to be patient
and to push cheerfully to its close an
uncongenial task ; but it is the only
wholesome and healthful method of
working and living.
A constant giving way to anger, or
to any other of the passions, is dis-tinctly
detrimental to the physical
health, and not infrequently hastens
death.
The habit of being happy is invalu-able
to its possessor. If not always a
passport to public health, it is a valu-able
help toward it.
Where Suicide Was Excusable.
A beggar at Pesth, Hungary, who
was arrested for throwing himself into
the river with intentions of committing
suicide, was discharged after telling
his remarkable story. He was an aged
and shriveled specimen of humanity,
with long, patriarchel beard, and
acknowledged that he was past 94
years of age. His excuse for attempt-ing
to take his own life was that he
was no longer able to take care of his
father and mother, who were aged 125
and 120 years, respectively.
—ST. ELMO HOTEL, Nos. 3 1 7 a n d 3 1 9
Arch street, Philadelphia. — Rates re-duced
to $1.50 and $2 per day. The travel-ing
publi« will still find at this hotel the
same liberal provision for their comfort.
It is located in the immediate centre of
business, and places of amusement and
the different railroad depots,as well as all
parts of the city, is easily accessible by
street cars constantly passing the doors.
It offers special inducements to those
visiting the city for business or pleasure.
Your patronage is respectfully solicited.
oc7-ly GABLE & KKAUSE, Prop'rs.
Food for Thought.
To have a friend you must be one.
God's truth will never grow old or
wear out.
The wicked man hates vice in every-body
but himself.
Good looks, to be permanent, must
begin on the inside.
Fishing for compliments is not a bit
better than fishing on Sunday.
Christ did not come into the world
to seek perfection but to give it.
The devil gets lame as soon as he
comes io sight of a good man's house.
The man who sets out to be a re-former
will never get to rest a minute,
The man who expects to outrun a
lie had better not start with lame feet.
The older we become the more the
wheels of time seem to have been oiled.
If the devil ever takes off his bat
to any man on earth is is to the hypo-crite.
No gift is precious in God's sight
that does not carry with it all the
heart.
The music of heayen is always
being heard in a grateful Christian's
heart.
God never turns a deaf ear to the
man who cries to him out of a tight
place.
If the devil couldn't sometimes wear
preacher's clothes he would never leave
the pit.
B o o m i n t h e Siile Business.
Negotiations are now being made to
locate a silk mill at Hazleton, Pa.,
which of its kind will be one of the
largest in the world. The projectors
of the concern are Messrs. Reed and
Lovett, the present operators of the
Weatherly Mills. The new mill, it is
proposed, will contain 30,000 spindles
and employ 600 hands.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com-pany
has offered a site south of the
city. Arrangements for the construc-tion
of the buildings costing $25,000
are being made. These are to be fit-ted
with machinery costing $10,000.
For the first time in six months the
Weatherly silk mill went into full
blast on Monday.
A Suit at Law for a Nickel.
Tax Collector Montgomery Yerger
and James Noll, a blacksmith, on Sat-urday
met in George C. Hollenbach's
store, at Sanatoga, P a , and each ask-ed
for a plug of tobacco. One of the
men put a nickel upon the counter,
and when the two plugs of tobacco
were produced both men claimed the
five cents. After a dispute that lasted
an hour, the men went to Justice of
the Peace Christman to have the mat-ter
settled. Yerger swore the money
was his, but Noil, who claimed it was
not, refused to take an oath to that
effect. The tax collector got the
nickel, and the blacksmith paid the
costs, amounting to a good many
nickels.
The Red Glass Gure for Small-Pox.
In a New York city hospital on the
island, the officials are experimenting
with thè " red glass " cure of small-pox
as practiced'originally in Norwaiy.
It is claimed that when newly attack-ed
patients are put under a skylight
of red glass, the eruptions dry up and
the sufferers recover, with out fever or
pit marks. It is said to be a practical
application of a scientific principle
long known, but not understood, but
which, when fully proved, will make a
distinct epoch in medical practice. In
the dark ages small-pox patients were
kept in a dark room. Now it is claim-ed
that the chemical rays in the sun-light
have a damaging influence upon
the skin, and that, in fact sunburn is
simply an effort of nature to protect
the cuticle. The ill influence of these
chemical rays is felt particularly in
skin diseases, and this being so, it is
only necessary to exclude them, not to
shut out the light entirely, to give re-lief
to the patient.
It remains to be seen what success
the New York officials will have.
Tons of Petrified Fish.
In the northwestern part of Colo-rado
there is a region several hundred
square miles in extent which is literal
ly a vast deposit of petrified fish of all
sizes and shapes. These fish beds—
shale, containing fish remains—are
about 150 feet in thickness and extend
up and down the Green River for a
distance of 150 or 200 miles.
Lone-Star Sparkle.
Men who have horse sense know
when to say neigh.
When we have the food tied how
does it get loose?
When a real estate agent begins to
go down hill he loses ground very
fast.
I t takes a "bull" to elevate the stock
market, but a mouse can make dress
goods go up,
A baby always helps to make home
happy—particularly when the baby
is asleep.
"Why is an empty champagne bottle
like an orphan ? asked Bub. Because
they have both lost their pop.
WE ARE NOW READY
To make many people happy for Xmas. We have our show cases filled with
the best goods the market produces and at prices to suit the times. We have
. . P r ? s $ r > t s E x p s o s i v ? a i j d i i m p e o s i V e ..
for the old or young, for boys and girls, and rings for the sweethearts. Will
you come and look through my goods f
JÄSK STRÄUB» Jeweler,
6 0 N o r t b Q û « t » S t . , - - L * o c i t t « r , Pa.
The Latest in Wedding Gowns.
A society bride in New York last
week wore a superb ivory satin gown
with high corsage, bouffant sleeves
and a skirt made with a long train,
the front having on it an extremely
wide flounce of point lace, caught with
a garland of orange blossoms. The
point lace rufflings on her fichu were
held with a number of large clusters
of diamonds, and her lace veil, which
was wide and long and fell low on the
train, was held with a coronet of
orange blossoms, studded with many
diamonds and pearl ornaments. She
carried a boquet of purple orchids and
lilies of the valley.
The bridesmaids, both buds not yet
out, wore pretty white ribbed silk
gowns, brocaded with tiny roses. The
chiffon rufflings on the skirts were
knotted at one side with rose satin
ribbon, and fans of accordion pleating
formed the front of the corsages, made
with shoulder capes and bouffant
sleeves. They wore Empire sashes of
rose color, and their white chip hats
were faced with pink velvet and trim-med
with ostrich tips, and the large
bunches of pink roses they carried
were tied with satin ribbons embioid-ered
with roses.
Call for 100,000 Cranks.
Of the cranky scheme promulgated
by wealthy J . S. Coxey, of Massillon,
O., to marshal 100,000 Ohioans and
others to march on Washington and
demand the issue of $500,000,000 of
Treasury notes, its author to day said :
" When we reach Washington, with-out
a dollar, on May 1, instead of
muskets every man will carry a white
flag with the words, ' Peace on Earth,
Goodwill toward Men, But Death to
Interest-bearing Bonds.' We want 100
old officers, Union and Confederate, to
volunteer as marshals of divisions.
Horses will be furnished to most of
them. It is expected that the farmers
of Pennsylvania will furnish supplies
for the procession in its patriotic mis-sion
of the salvation of the Republic."
A Wonderful Cherry Tree.
What is believed to be the largest
and most fruitful cherry tree in the
world stands on land owned by Mr.
John Capura, of Oroville, Cal, It is
of the oxheart variety, and is a wonder
in several ways. It is eighteen years
old and is six feet in circumference at
the ground, and over sixty feet high.
During the season of 1887 (which you
can put down as one exceptionally
favorable to the cherry) it bore 2800
pounds of Iruit.
Tommy's Gentle Hint.
" Father," asked Tommy, the other
day, " why is it that the boy is said to
be the father of the man ?"
Mr. Tompkins had never given this
subject any thought, and was hardly
prepared to answer offhand.
" Why—why—" he said, stumbling-ly,
" it's so because it is, I suppose."
" Well, pop, since I 'm your father,
I'm going to give you a ticket to the
theatre and half a dollar besides. I
always said that if I was a father, I
wouldn't be so stingy as the rest of
them are. Go in, pop, and have a
good time while you're young. I never
had any chance myself!"
Mr. Tompkins gazed in blank as-tonishment
at Tommy. Slowly the
significance of the hint dawned upon
him, producing a silver dollar he
said:
" Take it, Tommy. When you real-ly
do become a father I hope it won't
be your misfortune to have a son who
is smarter than yourself."
Wrinkles, and hollow cheeks, and dull,
sunken eyes, don't always mean that a
woman's old. Halt the time, they only
show that she's overworked or suffering.
To such women, to every woman who is
tired or afflicted, Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription safely and certainly brings
back health and strength. It's a legiti-mate
medicine that corrects and cures ; a
tonic that inyigorates and builds up ; a
nervine that soothes and strengthens.
For all the derangements, irregularities
and weaknesses peculiar to women, it is
the only guaranteed remedy. If it does
not benefit or cure, you have your money
back. _____
It won't do to experiment with. Ca-tarrh.
There's the constant danger of
driving it to the lungs. You can have a
perfect and permanent cure with Doctor
Sage's Catarrh Bemedy.
Owen P. Brickeb, Esq , at torn ey-at-
law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morning and can be consulted
in all legal business, Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.
Over the State.
Brakeman Charles J . Woods, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was killed at
Harrisburg.
Edward Brower, aged 44, who dis-appeared
at Hokendauqua, was found
drowned at Catasauqua.
At his hearing in Wilkesbarre, J.
C. Welborne, the alleged murderer of
Contractor Johnson, refused to utter a
word.
Mrs. Frederick Jobst, of Emaus,
saved her life by coughing, and thus'
dislodged a chicken bone which had
been cagght in'her throat.
E, M. Heffer, of Hummelstown, has
assigned to a Philadelphia bank from
which he borrowed $20,000 to con-struct
the Gettysburg-battlefield trol-ley.
John Malone, in the St. Joseph's
hospital, at Lancaster, for a few days,
died. After his burial, the sisters
found $400 in his bed clothing. The
money goes to the state.
It is said in Media that the offices
of the Centra! Division of the Pennsyl-vania
Railroad will be moved from
that place to Philadelphia when the
Broad Street Station shall haye been
completed..
The Norristown Republican dele-gate
election was held, and there was
a bitter fight in a number of the wards
for burgess, John H. Williams and
Wm. E. Perry being the. candidates.
The former won.
Although sentenced at Gettysburg
to four and a half years in the peni-tentiary
for larceny, Charles Smith
was on Saturday sent back to Prussia
at the expense of the county. He was
never naturalized.
Brain Food.
London covers an area of 226 square
miles.
The British Government realizes
£11,300 a year from waste paper.
M. Marie, of Paris, is known as the
"dog barber." He daily clips from 10
to 30 dogs. The price of a clip is 2
francs.
A forger in Spain was sentenced to
3038 years' imprisonment, fourteen
years for each of the 217 indictments.
After every financial crash there is
a marked increase in the number of
insane people.
More beer is drunk in Munich than
in any other town io the world. A
quart and a half per day is the average
per head of the population.
The annual cost of funerals in Lon-don
is estimated at considerably over
a million of money.
It is said that the working people of
Ireland, who live chiefly on the pota-to,
never suffer from gout.
In marching, soldiers take seventy-five
steps per minute ; quick march-ing,
one hundred and eight; and in
charging, one hundred and fifty steps.
Some one asked Mme. Calve, the
celebrated Paris singer j recently, what
her ideal life was, and she answered :
"A country life, a good husband and
children."
Latest "Work of t h e Devil."
B R O C K T O N , Mass.—Rev. G. W.
Hunt recently asserted that Brockton
girls were not careful of how they be-haved.
Rev. W. A. Burcb, of Whit-man,
who preached here for the local
Adventists, declared donkey parties,
apron sales, pink teas and Tom Thumb
weddings to be " works of the devil."
The reference to Tom Thumb wed-dings
was directed at the members of
St. Paul's Episcopal society, who re-cently
gave a yery successful exhibi <
tion of this sort.
What He Could Do.
He was a real, unmistakable, chronic
tramp, and when the kitchen door was
opened to his knock the sight of him
almost unnerved the lady of the house.
" Wha—what do you want ?" she
" I want somethin' to do, mum," he
replied.
"Do?" she exclaimed as she sur-veyed
him.
"Yes'm, that's what I said."
"What in the name of sense can you
do ?" she inquired as her nerve re
turned.
" I kiu eat, mum," he answered very
promptly, and she slammed the door
in his face.
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