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B IIP WwW$: B.F. SOHWEIER. THE OOiaTlTUTIOI-TH? TjTTOJ-AJD IEJ OTOXOnoaT 07 THE L1YS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLT. MIFFLINTOW, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL b 18S7. NO. 15. Fancy Free) Lst twc? sport. I a fairy court And revel in spriibtly play ; Xwil! dance in tlie light OfsMinheam kriebt, And flirt wi tbe fountain apray. From floer to flower, la a riKK'a'e bower, Tiil fl" on its Hossamcr wln& AnJio perfrct bliss Krujht leaves 'twill kiss, And lovi-liulen inelo-iiea sing. And then it will cull A DO-Cy 'u11 . , Of tbe blossoms it bath aeen, And nitb whHpred ord, Ilfquest a bird. To bear it to beauty s queen. Then nimiW, Will It gambol free. By tbe Mie of a ti"y stream ; Or rec.ine at ease, Intbestadeottrtis AnJ deiibt in a golden dream. Anon "ti)I arise Wiihs:! surprise. And tly from tiu world afar; Twill d with grace. Tbroogb boundless space, IiU it reaches some distant star. rh,-re iil it rest, Jnibe virgin crest, Of a uiouutaln crowned withsnatr; And fondly pate, Oa the nyuij'us and fays, In their wanton pliy below. Soon will it fly. From it throne on hifih ; EpjoiciDg wherever It fcoes, And wbeu daviigbt dies, 1b western skies. Twill sleep in the heart if a rose. I'OOR riLUQUESXE. Cheste; ;ii.-el is the little s'.eepy town In tbe Midlands, with the srooked spire, which lies amiit a congeries of colliers and cretl pits. a:ul which you may see from tbe railway, midway between Der lx awl Sheffield. Many f rs ip in the midst of the peainsui'ir war, :i numb r of French prisoners were interred V re. Manv years ago a famous eouipiiny of p'j.ers was acting there in the dingy little theater down a back yard. Cue night, when "The Magpie, or the Skid of Paiiseau," wa- act d, it was noted that some half dozes of the exiles, ia w: om the name of the play doubtless evoked some memory of their native land, came and paid their hardly hoard ed pence to the gallery. I'oor fellows! Tbev took their pleasures as sadly as if they hid been Englishmen of tho Ten country. Jhe perfoiiuei who interested them m st was the magpie, When she fled across the stage with t he spoon in I er mouth they applauded iueo timently. At her next aria flight she . truck mid way on the wire, and the curtain had to dtcend in order to extricate her from this perplexing pred icameut. The mana ger, an Irishman nd a great actor in fc time, stood at ' lie back of the gallery J W frai-liueV ftii wrathf ully ob jnr.ausi the property raan. adding various oaths to his seed, breed and generation. Up went the curtain again, and once more the magpie tried ber light, but in vain, and the play ha i to end as best it cou d without the aid of 3P taportant a performer. At this moment a fair, fragile boy of event'en, with flaxen hair and great blue eyes with brack hushes and eye hrowi, timidly approached the irate hxpressario. The lad w as in a mucin worn and stained French naval uniform. There was a hectic flush on his cheek, and he couzhed slightly, as, taking, off his cap, lie bowed politely to the mana ger, Th ii in the prettiest broken Eug (uhhecGLi.uieiiee'i: ''Pardon mille i-arduiis, Monsieur Directeur, la pauvre magpie no fly straight, I make her skim along like a leetle butterfly." "Ah! be off wid vo t broken down English, boy,"' said the manager. ''Spake to me in the language of La Be la France, Sure, I'm a native, and to the marmn born, for I got rr.y two pennorth at Doay . Jci en p.u ie F'ran Jai3, Ieii'1 l,e exclaimed, with a furious irish accent, as he placed his h nd on his capacio is chest. Thus urged, the boy explained volubly ip his native tongue that he would un dertake to make the magpie fly across the stage without difficulty. The Lext minute they were behind the scenes As they approached 'the property room he manager roared: 'Larry! Larry! Come out that, you thief of the world. I wonder you're not ashamed to iJc me hi the face!" Iam that same, your honor," re sponded the man, -but sure i was n'. try's fault liiat some blackguard was "tier sticking a tinpenny nail in tlie culd magpie's gizzard. .,d luck to her fur a baste of a bird anyhow!" 'Well here's a young gentleman all U-8 y f.cu rrancrt who's gofu' to set tc wayture r ;ht," said the manager. The French lad bowed ingratiatingly; and glanced wUfully at toe rroperty jn, wiio at iirst looked daggers; then ke growled: "lounggintjcinan! Shurc if it wasn't wr tlw trousers, it's a young lady he'd pe arther makin', and a beauty, too. ah, well; prapj iiis father vl jn. try bay in wid Oineral irotho and jne bhaa van Voght and the 'rest of the -r ,, -"yfw, lie's a sthranger rre"-ni oe nrthermjr Suvssi,naolts. so 8'e W a taste sf yos.r list, uui Uouccha- o oawn.'- -vitli that he nearly qned the Lul's hand to a pulp. wi?tever ",ai!1 lie pn lured he only VM up and smiled. The smile went anight to Larry's heart, and from that fj f re wothers. In live minutes the Put the magpie r ght. i,t0nltllat tinie io111' was scarcely H" of ' e th aler- He soon made v:ry Tl h'.iaHhough tx ecttldu-t speak a word of French, was acapitd hWf mf ' :,nl -wW "u inking j'tet.Kl. AVlK'never he came ?., Hi? W.ing tody'; Whd cW? 1:1 OMvewt in th?lcwei l!1, who FP.k- Fiench, ( nuerulyiwher mother tongue. l.. .n tl,e ""anagfr. who ha.l taken t his . .;"'?"'' ,wa-s a,ay on hand w th hi s"lb"n French; besides Kam ' UqUes" (tllat was the and th 1 J S'K,ke muy English words, :uny French ratuiU . Thv "wm.iwy tuOiiKU. ,1 sonot his mntw ----- , pert most bf the faJ&iffiJz came end of son me Poor pJ" sought Miss Vera at ber lodgings, and breaking down in a paroxysm of griet terrible to behold, declared that if left behind in that dreadful place he must die. Miss Vere was a young lady of resources. She had a man's heart in a woman's bodv, and having given her word that he shou d not be left behind, she there and then arranged a plan or action with Larry. On the last night the p'ay was "Ham let," which was finished by 10:30. That evening "Phi" wag conspicious by his absence. Everybody was astonished but Miss Yere, Larry and the manager. Fitz Edmund, who nlaved Ilamipf said he thought it stranM that Pilnl quesne had not turned up to say "Good bve." The manager replied "M. Piluouesnn is a gentleman, and knows wimr i i about." The performance was ovpr nlrivAtlir about 11. The carts were waiting at the door, and Larry and the men were occupied in packing the properties and wardrobe for the next town, when Lieutenant Carte, a grim, lanky officer, who had charge or the depot that night, came down with a lile of men and de manded to know in the most peremptory manner what had become of Pilu quesne. "Divil a wan of me knows," replied Larry. "Afther all I done for him he might have been afther lukkin' round to give wan a leg up the last uight; but it's just the way with them ungrateful thieves of foreigners. Bad luck to them; they're all alike, every mother's son of 'em." While the subject was being' thus hotly discussed between the lieutenant and Larry, Ophelia's coffin was brought out and carefully deposited on the cart beside Yorick's skull, the pickax, tho spaue ana me shrouding sheet, A:c "That's a rum rig out to.travel with," growled the lieutenant. "Why, shure, captain," said Larry, "you wouldn't have us go borrowing the blessed paraphernalia in every town we go to. Supjwse, now, the mistresii happened to be stretched out wid her toes tunied upward, what would you think if we were to coxe and ax your honor's butler for the loan of a colfin." ".None of your lip, you impudent, bog trotting paddy!" roared the enraged officer as he ordered his men to the "Kight about face; quick march." As the gallant lieutenant turned the corner had he been able to look two ways at once, he might have seen the property man executing an Assyrian hieroglyph in the rear. Perhaps it was just as well that he didn't witness that interesting performance. Half an hour later Larry made a start for Derby. When they were well out of town he looked round to see that he was unobserved. Tlten he undid the screws of Ophelia's coffin. There in the mxmlight toy poor Piluquesne, sleeping like "the baby of a girl," and smiling iu his sleep. "Aha!" Mishter Long'cgs," cried Larry, "you can lock the stable door now that the horse has bolted, but you're not so cute as you think yon are, for all you wear au epaulette on the one shoulder of you that's up to your ear." Day was breaking when tlaey got to Derby: but unseen and unsuspected Larry oontrived to smuggle his precious charge into the theater, where "the boys and girls"' kept him concealed for a week or two, till they had clubbed enough money to enable tlim to send him to London by mail, haviug pre viously "squared" the guard and driver. Now, of course, all things being smooth and the coast clear, "I'oor Pil" ought to have got safely to London, from London to France, and to "have lived happy ever after" with his mother, or to have Iwcome an admiral or a post captain at least; but unfortu nately fact and fate refuse to be "squared" by fiction, however guards and drivers of mail coaches may be. A distinguished authoress, referring to a little book of mine recently pub lished, said to me at the Haymarket the other night tho night of the Bancrofts' farewell: "You shouln't have made that young fellow die. I declare it makes me quite unhappy to think of his lying out there in the snow on Iter grave." Whereupon I replied: "My dear madam, I didn't make him die lie did die." So "Poor Pil" tut I am antici pating. He had soft pleasant wiys, and be guiled the time by making little toys for the ladies, with whom lie was an espe cial pet, and by assisting Larry, who became more and more attachad to him. The poor lid. had been, ailing a long tiu(e-Avas vonsumptive, and racked with a torturing and suffocating cough. The night before his departure Miss Yere and the girls liad pieparedan ome lette with sweet herbs and some chicken broth, while the manager and tho boys brqugUt him a posset made with whey and white wine. The girls tucked him up in his comfortably-improvised bed in the green room, kissed him, and bade him good night. The lads remained to cheer him up; some of them even talked of running over to see liim at his home in Xor ni:indy. " He brightened up wonderfully, sang them ''J' Amour, L'Amour," and talk ed hopef ally of his journey on the mor row. Larry was the last to leave him. "Embrassez-moi, inon eher Larrie!" said "Poor Pil." The Irishman understood him well enough then, and ho gently gathered him up in his strong arms and kissed him; then honest Larry broke down. "Don't you cry for me; mon cher Larrie," said the boy. "I shall 'soon be strong enough when I get home, and you wUl come and see ine in J a B-lle France i Bome day Will you hots" Some day," said Larry, "yes, some day; but there, there, go to sleep, jewel go to.' sleep, avickl or you'U never be able tq'get up to-morrow. " Atjaslhe dyjfall placidly to, sleep, and L ry left him, ta make tbe prepa ratious ftr the journey. When, they came at daybreak to see him off, "Poor Pil" had taken a much longer journey than they had anticiia tml. It was a lovely morning in the young spring and the young birds out side made auve tue uismai piaco music. The sun shone through the window on the bed. The fair young face was bright and smiling. One drop of blood had trickled down the side of his mouthii It. was quite dry cow snd clitteredi likefc ruby in the sunsmne. The great tlue eyes open and stanng wide, looked far away beyond even t rance ne tovea so weu. The players toid tbe poor French boy i., tv, rroi.hvoisl nf -1hn Tinrish church. Ml tTiat k mohal of Km, i xe that wrplVhasfijturned tj tie refjoltfng elements from whence be came, rests Miss Yere wrote tbe sad news to the poor mother at her home in far away Xormandy. Some months after there came a let ter from the village cure, which I have ventured to put into English, thus: My dear Madam Thanks, and yet again thanks for your esteemed favor. Aias: it is my painful duty to inform you ttat mv sister. Mmo. PiltiniiMno whose grief for the expatriati n of my nepnew and her only ion was incessant and inconsolable, is no more. It was my melancholy privilege to administer to ner the last rites of our holy church ou me very uay on wuicu our little Paul left us for a better inheritance. "Slu was sleepiug, and I staid to waicn and pray by her to the last. That morning at the fifth hcur she awoke ana started as if she had seen something in the sunlight, which had just peeped u io give us goou morrow." "'My boy! my boy!' she cried, I am coming: stay but a little and we will journey together to t: e promised land. "And so she passed awav. "I feel. I know that she had seen and heard something which my eyes and ears, 'of the earth, earthy,' could not see or near. "I think it is your great poet (surely his masterpiece) wuo says: Such harmony is in immortal souls Bui whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it. "Agai i, and yet a thousand times again, 1 thank you for all your love and care tor our 1 ttle I'aul. "Permit a poer priest who admires the divine art of which mademoiselle is so distinguished an ornament, to pre sent the assurances of the profound con sideration with which he ventures to subscribe himself, mademoiselle's grate ful humble servant, l'ACL 1'ILVQUESXE, D. D. -Mile. Helene Yere." After "Poor PiPs" death all kinds of wild rumors obtained currency in the theater. larry swore that during the lerforniance of "a he maid of Fahscau" he saw Pil In the property room arrang ing the bird's wings. Mrs. Cassidy decUred that one Saturday night, wheu she was rather late in clearing the thea ter, as Sunday morning dawned she saw him. uay, more, she heard him singing "Adeste, Fideles;" and the poor old soul fainted away with terror. Certain it is that even Manly, the manager, who was a skeptic, to Larry's deligut withdrew the Magpie piece from the repertory, and that Mrs. Cassidy for the future did her cleaning the first thing on Saturday morning. As for actors well, they are more or less su perstitious, and for many a year after that no actor could be Induced to stay in the Derby theater after midnight. Once, indeed. Jack Holmes, a sailor, just returned to his native place after the var.'and afflicted with a plethora of pi izo money, took a party of chums to the gallery to see "The Stranger," which impressed him so powerfully that he fell fast asleep. His friends, overtaken by Bacchus, forgot all about him. Equally oblivious of h s presence, tbe servants of the theater put out the lights, locked up r-mi left him to his slumbers. When honest Jack awoke in "the dead waste and middle of the night" he hadn't the faintest idea where he was. As soon as he pulled himself together ( he growled; "Where are those land lum bers? They've all sheered off and left me at the mast-he d while they've crawled down below through lubber's hole." At this moment he heard, or thought he heard, a soft voice speaking in an unknown tongue. Looking down on the stage, ho saw In the moonlight w. ich streamed through a circular opening at the back of the gallery, a fair young boy in a f raved a id worn foreign naval uniform. He" had bright hair, great blue eye3 acd an angel face, and a drop of blood trickling from his pale lips. "Hold hard, vounz powder monKey," cried Jack. "'"I'm coming down on deck to have a jaw with you." With that, with the agility of a cat he scrambled down the side of the gal lery and boxes and leaped upon the stage. As he did so the figure faded into the air. Wild with terror the sailor shrieked and shouted until he alarmed the neigh borhood. When thevtook him out swooning. folks said that he was drunk. Perhaps lie was; but then perhaps he wasn't. At any rate be swore to his dying day that he was sober; and all the king's horses and all the king's men could never induce Jack Holmes to cro3S the threshold of the theater again. Asrtwrularlvas the players came to Derby ia the spring time, so regularly the joor French boy's grave was be decked daily with fresh flowers. The years passe 1 by, the good old manager died, the actors grew old and were scattered nan over uie gioue. Soon after the "Three Days in raris, he who writes these lines, men a wretched child, who had just lost one nearer and dearer to him than all the world, was casting some flowers ou a new-made sepulchre; when he caught si"htof a, venerable and beautiful wo man clad in the garb of a sister of the Scarce Omur engaged the same pious ollice at an adj icent grave. The lady was attended by a tall, thin, white headed old man, who, from his peculiar dress and demeanor, appeared to be a foreigner. The grave at the foot of which they stood had been neglected the sexton said, for years. It had, however, that very morning been covereu ilU frodi frreen turf and flowers, and a small mural cross with an inscription now stood at its heao. As the tody returned the basket which had contained the flowers to, her, attend ant she said in a. singularly sweet and distinct voice: "Ah! mon amil IIow bright and beautiful it seemed When this poor boy was taken from uMUirty yearsgo. But now how sard id and squalid nd miserably provincial it all Is Jjiven me nine vd -,ttA n,i fretted our fiery hours the tneater, nuw - r , ble palace of enchantment-what is It D"Faix madame," replied the man in a strangely mixed accent, compounded of French and Irish, "if you ax me the truth, it's like a blue mouldy, rotten orange-box, that's what it is. ' "Perhaps it was always thus, Larry, and 'tis only we who are changed;' all tbings are beautiful to the youug.". "Tnin all things aw 'beautiful you, miss; for you never groWowlrL ATi; Miss-Yere',' ' ' ' "Ihumbiy bes your parjlofl, dame Ursula; W could Help thinkingj was young Qnst myself, but, tl8 Lrd carriage. The train leaves la half an Se heartU son Twithm me when I think St2S boy lyingbereiaUiecowld. Tlie lady entered the coach, her at tendant mounted the box beside the coachman and the carriage drove away. Ten years later the writer happened to mention this occurrence to the late William Robertson, father of Tom Rob ertson the dramatist, who strangely enough turned out to be one of the ac'ors in the foregoing events, and from his lips this little memento tnori was taken down. When last I was in Derby a neglected grave, overgrown with dark rank weeds, and a time-worn fragment of a shatter ed cro;s, on which is i nscribed two word?, without date, comment or text, were all that remained to remind one of "Poor Piluquesne." DRUGGISTS' ORDERS. Ridtoulous Mistakes in Names Made by Applicants for Medicine. A Cambridgeport druggist has made a practice for some years of saving in a scrap-book some of the most peculiar orders which he receives. "We are asked for some rather strange things," "but we can genera !y guess what is wanted. Many people expect a druggist to prescribe for their ailments, as it saves physicians' charges, and J he diag noses of complaints Which come to us are often amusing. Look at these: Send me some of Tlie essence you put Ieople to sleep with when you cut their lingers off.' That evidontlv means ether. 'I want something to take to bacco out of my mouth.' Of course, the sox-nt of tobacco was the thin? ob jected to. 'Send me a baby's top to a nursing Itottle' means without doubt, a nursing bottle top. 'An ounce of smell ing stuff that goes throuih vour brain' describes very well the effect of inhaling ammonia. 'Something for a baby's sore eye' is not easy to mistake, though slated ratlier oddly. Here is a startling order for Vnougn epecac to throw up a girl four years old.' I can not help sym pathizing with this ier.n. who asks for enough anise seed to 'U ke the twist out of a dose Jt senna.' Here Is a graphic description of a certain ailment in a request for a 'phuter for a mau kilt with stitches." Perhaps the one who wrote this order for 'sjmethsig for a caustic women' built better than he knew. Here is an order tor 'staiiething for a heavy pain in the bones that U coming out througli the eyes.' The person who wrote for 'something to take man's breath away' did : ot intend murder or suicide, but merely wished for cardemoni seed or something of that nature. I sent a linament to tiris lady, who asked for 'something to rub my old mau with,' Not a bud description of a (ioultice is tlie order for 'euough flax seed to make a pudding for a sore toe.' This child who had an "impression on his heart and a cough that is choking him in tho neck,' ought to have been taken to a doctor, as well as this other one who, his mother wrote, was 'heav ' IWa .w mg up and down and every way. ctHd out of an tld -woman. -The wxt - t ... i. , i:.: m.. van icuucn iit m.uiot.uiiiu u nuwfta uiic aa-iua iaj uc in iiitiu cuiliuwuu. cuu desires 'something for a womau who has a bad cough and can not cough.' No druggist would hecitatefor a minute to fill the order: 'Something, I forgot the name, but its for a cure.' Our own preparation' will just fill the bill in sucti a case. ' But what sliould we send for 'a swelled woman's foot,' 'a man with a dry spit on him,' and a woman whose appetite is loose on her'' 'We get used to phonetic siiellm;," pursued the druggist, "and very seldom uuablo to arrive at a fair conclusion qf what is wanted, even by the blindest writers. Here are order. for penny garrick, pary garic and paddy garrick, which procured paregoric m each case. These orders for barnaget, vergmunt and bugmint were filled with bergamot; these requests for come earback, gum mare back, garmariback. i-ouiearaback and ram bam back called for gum ara ble; tltose asking for camtier and canip fire meant camphor; worm me fuge and barni.tfug meant vermifuge, of course; where our customers have called for epicot, metik, epicack, apricot and epl cat we have delivered epicasuanlta; the lersons who wrote for honey quintom, blew oint. Annie Quintom and Ann Grintom got unguentem, otherwise called blue ointment, orders for lodnom, hid num and lard warm we filled with laudanum; for balm of city we sent spermaceti; those who wanted high stir rups got hive sirup; this fellow who wrote for paint killer received pain killer; I knew that bubben whiskey meant Bourbon whiskey; that air root meant arrow-root, and that bitter Alice meant bitter aloes. I sent Arabian balsam instead of raving balsam to this man, corrosive sublimate instead of a gross of supplements to that one and cherry pectoral instead or cheny pick erel to this other. I substituted syrup of squills in these orders for sharp squil and sirrip of swill, sent Epsom salts to the one who wrote for lapsom salt, and s Jin e cubebs instead of cupiuU to the other! Not having any glory farm on hand, I took the liberty of filling this ordor with chloroform; and being out of flax ceed and flax sed, I sent flax-seed iu that one. "When I got those orders for ox s'ed acid and horrid lime I sent oxalic acid and chloride of lime. This man asks for McCordon seed, this one for carman seed, and this one for colored man t-eeds, but I gave cardamom seeds to each. Many orders cme in where one syllable is taken for a conjunction, as shurrup and quill, for syrup of squills, check and berry for checkerberry; gold and thread, for goldontlimid; spit and turkl?tine, lor spirits of turpentine; balm and Gilead, for balm of Gilead; hope and dildock, fox apodeldock, Peo pie who wish borax write for boeracks, bowrux, bowrax and bow wax. We get orders for 'blossom,' instead of bal sam; liair 'manure,' instead of renewcr, and 'oocarine, instead of cocoaine. Customers who wantlovage write for love itch. Those who desire licorice write for luokrich, logrlslt, liekrish, and stickrish. Here is a woman who wants five cents worth ot cologne to smell a trunk. Another asks for a mixture which shall be two-thirds alchohol and two-thirds castor -efl This one wants something to make cainlp tea from, and the other asks for ten cents worth of Maty attic acid." "What made Susie go off on her ear yesterday,' Mildredl" asked Amy. "Amy" replied t.he achoo.l " girl, "please do not aay, 'go off ou Ler ear,' but, 'retire, on, her auricula i appand- fkt bumming or telegraph anl tele phone wire, sajs Ii W. MoDiide is not caused by either the wind or by electricity as is popularly supposed. It is accompanied by a rapid vibration of the wires and its origin is an unsolved problem. THE BUTTERFLY BKIDH. EUVie Saybrooko ia Taujibt. that she , has a Heart. " "I don't like you! I wish I had never married you!" cried Elfrie Saybrooke, passionately. "Let go of my band! I don't want you to come near me!" She was only sixteen, this beautiful, passionate young creature with the blue, glittering eyes and red lips and hair like golden mtst and Colonel Say- orooke looked down upon her with grave astonishment. Elfrie had often been in a '.'temper" with him, but never one nice in is. ' "Elfrie!" - "Don't call me Elfriel don't look at me," she sobbed. "You don't love me you wont let me go tb the opera with Rllph Eytinge!" 5 "No. Elfrie, but" "I want to go bome to mamma. I wish I had never left mamma. You are too old aud cross aud sour for me!" Elfrie raved on iu her ecstacy of childish anger, never for an instant noticing the stern, settled pallor that bad come over her husband's Lice. He rang the bell. "Send the close carriage round to the door, Hammond. Your mistress wish es to go to her mother's." Ifa ftaf. ailpnf. nn 1 nnrrnu'fiil iffjr rIia )iad gone. "She Is right," he suddenly exclaim ed. "I ought never to have married her. I am too old, too grave, too dreamy. She is a thing of light and air aud sunshine and if I have done her injustice in forcing her into an un equal match may God pardon me." Elfrie was sitting ready shawled and wrapped up, waiting for the carriage to bring her home that evening, when Mr. Fortescue, the old family lawyer, dropped in. Elfrie started up, pule and trembling, for there was a nameless something in Mr. Fortescue's face. Oh. Mr. Fortescue. what is it? Something has happenen to Hyde? He is ill perhaps dead!" .Neitler one nor the othjr, my dear child," said the old man. "1 am mere ly the bearer of a note from your hus band." And breaking open the sealed missive i-ltne read that Hyde savbrooke. weary of the perpetual commotion of his do mestic circle, and painfully conscious that there existed a disparity between himself and his beautiful young bride, in other and more serious respects than that of age, had decided to leave her, And Elfrie sank white and senseless to the floor. She had had her way. She was back once more in the home of her girlhood, freed from every shackle ex cept that of a name, while Hyde Say brooke's moucy made a sort of golden halo about her footsteis. Yet such is the Uieonsisteuoy of woman she was "niiAthlA fc "Elfrie," said her mother, gravely. me tinie later. "I don't know what Lto make of you. You are not a bit - Ji.i.. iff i , il'i1 - : - , T 1 nope I nevi nope I never shall be, mamma. said Elfrie, with a slight shudder. "My old self, as you call it, broke a noble ' lieart aud darkened my nature let me now study for a new self." Mys. Percy, who ws a gay widow with a certain shallowness of nature which Elfrie fortunately had not in herited, shrugged her shoulders. "It's a pity you hadn't found it out before," - Elfrie burst into passionate tears and hid her face in her hands. Alas! was site not daily and hourly becoming more coguizaut of the fact embodied in her mother's words? Young Mrs. Saybrooke attended no more parties, went to no more balls, oieras nor concerts, but moved like a geutle young Sister of Mercy through seenes of trial, woe and suffering. Her sjuI was daily becoming refined in the alchemic lires of self-denial and charity and Hyde Saybrooke would scarcely have known his butterfly bride now. "I told her how it would be!'' cried Mrs. Percy, fretfully. "Poking about iu those kisty tenement-houses where nobody ever goes but the tax-collectors and the missionaries, and now she's down with the fever." A film came over Mr. Fottescue's eyes. "She lias followed iu her Mas ter's footsteps," he said solemnly, "and if it leads her to the very gates of the grave who shall dare to murmur?" But there came a time when the angel Azrael folded his pinions across he threshold and then there was a new watcher at Elfrie's bedside; o-ae who never tired out, neither grew weary, for the might of love upheld him! And at tost she ojiened her eyes, pale, em aciated and weak as an infant, but with the burning fevur gone. "Mamma!" she murmured faintly, "I have had such a sweet dream! It seemed to me that Hyde was beside me, pressing my hand, whispering to me! Oh, if I oould have died then! Oh, Hyde! my husband!'' "Elfriei" He was bending over her, his dark, sad eyes looking into hers. "I meant only to see you once aud then to go but, Elfrie, I could not leave until I knew that you were safe!" "Dearest, you must never leave me," s'.ie uttered: "I have learned to value and love you at last. Oh, my husband . it is uke welcoming you back from the grave!" Hqvf l ho Fairies Got Their Names. A widely spread notion is that when our crusading forefathers went to the Holy I.and they heard the Paymra sol diers, whom they fought, speaking much of the Peri, the loveliest brings imaginable, who dwelt in the East. .Now, tho Arabian language, which these swarthy warriors used, has no let ter P, and therefore they called their spirits Ferl, as did the Crusaders after them; and the word went back with them to Europe and slipped into general use. "Elf" and "goblin," too, are inter esting to trace. There was a great Italian feud in the twelfth century be tween the German Emperor and the Pope, whose separate partisans were known as the Guelfs and the. Qhibe.1 lines. As tirae went on, and the mernory 61' that' ong strife, was' ejyi fresh, a descentlant of ho Quelfa would put iifton, anjbody he disliked the odious name, of GhibeUine, and tho totter, gen-eration-after generation, would return the compliment ardently in his own fashion. Both terms finally came to be mere catchwords for abuse and reproach. And the fairies, falling into disfavor with some bold mortals, were angrily nicknamed "elf and "goblin;" in which shape you will recoguize the last threadbare reminder of the enpe bitter and historic faction cf Guelf and Ghib- pllirj? ... i " G IRDKY PARTIK3 IX JAPAN. A Royal Reception Under tbs Tree 'Mid Luxuriant Flower. The grand chords of - the Imperial anthem announces the arrival of the Emperor and Empress, and after the presentation ot the Diplomatic Corps the imperial party passes around the garden to admire the chrysanthemums ia their purple and red silk tents. The princesses and court ladies follow the Empress In a brilliant file, and as Shugo and Kogo pass by every one bows low. The Emperor is dark and his features are heavy and irregular, but there is such dignity and majesty in his carriage and manner that he gives every one a little feeling of awe. His uniform is a showy and handsome one, the white cloth trousers having broad stripes of gold chrysanthemums down each side and the black coat almost covered with embroidery in chrysanthemums. Heavy gold epaulettes, a white-plumed chaeau and a gold-mounted sword complete the Emperor's full dress uniform. The tost time the Empress or the Kogo, as the Japanese call the sover eign's wife, appeared at a garden party in the old court dress, her loose robe, with long square sleeves, was of heavy amethyst-colored silk, brocaded In cir cles of white, within which was the my thical kiriti in gold. This long outer robe fell loosely without the broad sash, or obi. of the ordinary dress. It was crossed in a surplice at the neck, aud falling open from the waist disclosed a full petticoat or divided skirt of bright scarlet silk, lied slippers were worn with this dress, and iu the surplice neck ot the robe fold after fold of fine white silk was laid until it was closed high up under the chin. Her blue-black hair was brushed from the forehead, and stiffened out like a halo around the face, fell in a long plait, tied at intervals with strips of whits paper. Except for a jeweled ornament on the forehead, the Empress' toilette did not differ in kind from that worn by the princess and court ladies. The fine brocades of their robes have been made for generations by one family of silk weavers in Kioto, and the rich and delicate tints and the glitter of gold aud silver threads tell best in such a garden background. Each woman was an ideal figure and seemed to have stepiied from some old embroid ery picture or Satsuma jar; ami when they gathered about tbe central figure of the Empress the coloring effect was dazzling anil kaleidoscopic. The refreshment tent was decorated with chrysanthemums everywhere, and the long central table was set with many ornamental dishes and trophie?. The guests sat at little tables along its side, and at the head the imperial cou ple sat at a table alone, with the princes an 1 court todies ranged iu a semi-circle back of them. The palace porcelain is decorated with chrysanthemums and the crystal engraved with the same im perial flower. At the breakfast given at the palace 0I) the Emperor's birthday each guest carries away with him the thin egg-ehell sake cup in which be diauk the sovereign's health. These are the souvenirs that are prized in cer amic collections. When the Emperoraud Empress rose, the bund again played the imperial an them, and all followed in order of rank back to the tulace. That procession. descending tlie slopes and winding past tfie mirror lakes, brightened by sunset light, was a picture and dream. T'nat was when the Empress wore the old ceurt dress. This year the revolu tion had come, and the French dress makers tricked out the Kogo and ber ladies in the latest abominations, and the tost bit of the old poetry and pictur esqueuess of court life vanquished. In stead of the quaint Oriental figure of other chrysanthemum seasons, there was a llttlo woman in a ruby velvet waikiug dress, with a gray velvet bon net, long gloves and a lace parasol. Behind her walked her ladies in block and diirk silk gowns, with uncomfort able bonnet strings under their chins, and the misery of high necks, whale bones, and heavy skirts written pathet ically on their faces. A stffness and chill as of new surroundings and strange ways took away the joyous character of the day. lhe person of the Empress being sacred the corps of tailors and dress makers in court employ fit ber gowns to the wife ot one of the higher nobles whose figure is the same. Dozens ot dresses have been imported and dozens made to take the places of the beautiful old robes. A tiara and a necklace of diamonds have been purchased and a new master of ceremonies brought from Berlin to introduce the etiquette Of the German court, and now progress and the Philistines, the stereotyped and con ventional, reign, and the last of old Japan fades into tradition. Dancing in Korea. A correspondent, writing about things seen in Korea, says: After dinner we sat on the balcony and enjoyed the soft twilight as it crept down from the top of the overhanging mountains to the brink ot the lotus pond which slept so peacefully under its royal cover of f ragraut pink lotuses and immense green leaves, which are often two feet in diameter. These lotus blos soms are fit to deck the palace of any king. They are like pond nines, only that they are much larger than a dinner plate. They do not lie on the water as pond lilies do, but stand up on stem . grand and tall, above their leaves. As we sat there the Korean rand dis coursed strange, weird music, and trained dancers gave us their two most celebrated performances the butterfly and the sword dance. The Koreans are a dignified people, and none of the higher class would think ot dancing; they have low-class girls and boys to do their dancing for tliem. These two dances were very beautiful. The sword dance represents wariors fighting to the music, in perfect time and in the most graceful and animated fashion. The butterfly dance represents the graceful, floating movements of the butterfly, aud the six boys who took part in it had butterflies embroidered ou their long robes. Their large flowing sleeves are about a foot and a half too long, and are made of very bright colors, to represent the butterflies wings. Tlie boys keep their arms spread out all the time they are dancing or floating ' about, aud the effect is wonderfully i beautiful. After this there was a grand display of fireworks, but we were much ; too near to enjoy them. Presently we . said "Good night," and with a guard of . fifteen soldiers our chairs were tuniwi through the dark and, dseited streets. As each scU yr, however carried a large ' r&l Ubclal'toniern, we had all the light , we needed, and the procession must . have made a strange picture in the midat of the darkness. HINDOO WOMEN. Their Existence One of Wretched neaa and Misery, "During the 10 years of my residence among the Hindoos," said a female missionary just returned. from India, in a lecture delivered before a Brooklyn audience, the other night, "I never saw a Hindoo child receive a caress from its mother. Scarcely clotlied, beaten and despised, it knows hardly where to lay its head or to get its meals. If it is a girl, the mother cannot be fond of it, for it may be the means of disgrace to her. If a wife his no male child, her husband may divorce her. This is changed somewhat when the child be comes old enough to be engaged. This is six years. The affair is settled with out consulting the poor girl herself. And who do you think finds the girl a husband? The barber. He knows the circumstances of the family, and rank in life, as he has to visit the house every day to shave the male members of the family before they can pray. He travels sometimes, weeks and months through the country before he can find a young marriageable man of the same station in Life as tbe girl. For in India there is no intermarriage between castes. "Now for an idea of a Hindoo wo man's home life. She lives in a small room almost destitute. The floor and walls are of clay, with no ornamentation of any sort and tlie least furniture pos sible. Every morning she lias to pray not for herself as she is taught that she has no soul but for her husband, for rain and general blessing!1. Then she Send3 two or three hours preparing the breakfast. She doesn't eat with her husband, but, perhaps, fans him at his request. During the daytime she either sleeps, gossips with the other woman, or sometimes a reader reads to them from the lives of the gods. These stories are unfit for human ears, they are vile from beginning to end. The children and women are taught them. At night they prepare their husband's meal in the same manner. They are not protected against the weather and dampness, nor are they properly fed and clothed. Tlie rich live the same as the poor. If sick they are deemed cursed by the gods and are taken to the stable and left alone. The only food they can get is left by stealth. Thousands die of neglect. The first day that a Hindoo boy abuses his mother is a festive occasion with his father, who boitsts of it to his friends. To ba a widow is the sun of nnhappi ness. She is especially cursed by the gals. As the husband dies, half a dozen barber's wives rush upon her and tear the jewelry from her ears and nose. Behind the funeral cortege she follows, surrounded by those fiends, who throw her into the water. If she drowns, they say she was a good wife after all. 'She ! lias gone to meet her husband. She is kept in a darkened room for 14 days. At the end of this time ber husband's ashes are taken to the river, and, after a peculiar ceremony or prayers, the soul is supposed to be free. It may enter au insect or aa animal. The worst punish ment the soul can sustain is to enter the body of a woman." The Mother-in-Law. It is a mystery which no one has yet i solved why bo many sad jokes are con stantly ling perpetrated about a man's mother-in-law. What dreadful crime has the unfortunate woman com mitted in providing the man with his wife that he should bear such an un dying grudge against ber? Now if it was a woman's mother-in- I law who was made the butt of these 1 jokes there might be a grain of sense in them; for it is the man's mother who has it la her power to make life a burden to the young wife and not half try. As a matter of fact, a woman is usu a'ly proud and fond of her son-in-law if he only gives ber the ghost of a dance. When tbe young couple first go to housekeeping who is it that comes in and with her good sense and practical exirience tides them over the rough places? A man's mother-in-law. It is the woman's mother-in-iaw wno is most apt to criticise and who exas perates the young wife by quoting, ail too frequently: "My son is used to having thines thus and so." "My son must have this or that for his meals." 'My son, with his small income, should have married a prudent, econ omical woman." etc When tbe first baby makes its ap pearance, as well as the successive ones, who is it that steps in and relieves the husband of his weary vigils and takes the load of care and worry off the wife's feeble shoulders and keeps the household machinery running smoothly? The man's mother-in-law. ' When he and bis wife plan to take a little trip together, who is it comes in and take? charge of the house and the children, so that they can peacefully enjoy their holiday, with the restful thought, "Mother Is there and it will be ail right?" The man's mother-in-law. When there is sickness or trouble in the family, who is the faithrul nurse, tbe wise counsellor, the sympathizing friend? The man's mother-in-law. And if, in the course of events, the wife dies, who Is it that usually comes in and takes care of the children and keeps up tbe home till the bereaved husband has time to look around and find another wife? ! A man's mother-in-law. And how does be reward ber for all this devotion? By making heartless jokes at her ex pense and publishing them for other men to snicker over! Ingratitude, thy name is man I Beautiful Montreal. The present city of Montreal covers an area of about eight square miles, its leading streets running parallel with the river. A rragniflcent tract of country, watered by the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers stretches away from the river on either tide, making a panorama from the mountain summit whose beauty is unrivaled. Tbe city is really on an Island some thirty Miles, long and ten wide, justly called the Garden of Canada, Its situation gives it great conwafolal opportunity. Sit oaU4 a.t th head of ocean navigation, iu harbor floats not only tbe limited commerce ot rivers, but ships baae flags tell of sailing on all th waters oa the globe. If voa wo aid Know what Is said ot you in your absenee, consider wbat fc ) aid giouiszs iu your dtcscskw. NEWS IN BRIEF. An Ionia (Mien.) man owns a turkey which has been trained to draw a sled. An Icelander ia in Washington Territory looking for a place to locate a colony. The old court house at Woodbury, N. J., which is just 100 years old, la to be demolished. Governor Hill, is suffering from malaria, with which the capitol at Albany is said t3 be reeking. General Beale, of Washington, la said to possess a cattle ranch of 250, 000 acres near Los Angeles, CaL There are Gfty-one active volcanoes In Japan. This accounts for the mul titude ot hot springs in that country. A woman. Lucy Stone predicts, will be President of the United States at die beginning of the coming cen tury. Dr. Mouritz recently sounded the crater of the Molokai volcano to the depth of 3500 feet, without finding bot tom. Portland, Me., shipped last year to England 87,000 barrels ot apples, and expects to send over 100,000 barrels this year. The ordinary tariff for slaves, in Morocco, varies from ill to JtO for an adult male slave to 113 or 16 for a young girl. One of Cincinnati's chief indus tries is the manufacturing of lead, fifteen million pounds of which are made every year. A gambler cannot be indicted for vazrancy in Texas, it is stated, if he can prove that he makes a fair living at his profession. Hugh Barnett, of Edwardsport, Ind., was so amused at a pun made by a neighbor that he laughed immoder ately and fell dead. Near Toronto is being constructed the first steel steamer ever built In Canada. The engines, however, are being made in Scotland. Charlemagne at a very advanced age acquired the art of writing, an un usual accomplishment, except among churchmen in those days. The Northern Pacific Railroad ia building a car which is intended to supply heat, illumination and pure water to the rest of the train. There are over four hundred saloons in Cairo, Egypt, where a few years ago not one was open. Most of them are owned by Englishmen. A rat hunt that lasted CO davs ter minated recently in the vicinity of Mount Vernon, Ohio, with a stated total of 11,232 rats and mice killed. A new industry recently developed in Hancock County, Maine, is the gathering of white pine and spruce cones for French acd German markets. A Virginia justice of the peace has fined a fisherman $7 for contending in open court that the moon had anything to do with the ebb and flow of the tides. The fastest vessel in thn wnrhl ia ! said to be the French torpedo boat j uuragan, wnicn is credited with a rec j ord of about twenty-nine miles an i hour. ! A large, tame white rat, a great ; favorite of the "Guvnor," accom panied Mr. Lester Wallack and his son Harold on their trip to Enterprise, Florida. A subordinate branch of the Young Men's Christian Association or New York has refused to admit a young man to membership solely on account of his color. The task of eating ninety pies in as many dayi has been undertaken by a Racine (Wis.) man. At last accounts he had disposed of his twenty-sixth pie and wasa't feeling altogether well. In Germany the microphone is now used for tracing leak in water pipes, the slightest trickling of the water being made distinctly audible when the aparratus is brought nearest. In the United States every hnnd dreth man takes a college course; in England, every five hundretb, Scot land, every six hundredth, and in Ger many, every two hundred and thir teenth. Mrs. J. W. Smith, of Orange, N. J., during the past year, rode 2044 miles upon a tricycle, 2223 of which -were made upon a tandem tricycle with her husband, aud 415 miles aljne upon a single tricycle. Gossiers in Catlin, 111., have been given food for talk by the ap proaching marriage of a young lady resident to a school teacher who whipped her so severely a few days ago that he was arrested and fined. The damages secured by a Wash ington man, who sued the District of Columbia to recover for injuries re sulting from a defective side walk, were quite disproportionate to his claims, lie was awarded one cent and sutd for S13.0U0. C'onaensea mn& wuue pnucipauy in Switzerland. There are 1,100,000 head of cattle in the Republic, rather more than one-half of which are cows. These yield 223,000,000 gallons ot milk per annum, which is worth on estimate $27,000,000. Fright caused the death of a man near Highland, Mich., the other day, who imagined he contracted hydropho bia while skinulng sheep (killed at the Instance ot tbe owoer) bitten by a dog thought to have been suffering from the dreaded malady. A great wolf bunt occurred re cently in Illinois, nearly 2000 hunters taking part In the drive. Fifteen wolves were killed, while 25 are known to have escaped. Tbe hunters formed a cordon 2) miles in diameter, and gradually contracted the area, beating the ground carefully as they advanced. Some time ago a large clock in an Elizabeth (X. J.) factory unaccount ably ceased running. The other day an examination was made wheu, to tho amazement of the repairer, a garter snake a foot long was found coiled up In the works. How did his snakeship get there is a puzzle that's now bother ing the town's people. iMfBOYtsa ox Nature. 'You can't improve on nature," said old Hardhead. "Oh yes, you can," said young Hyson; "a man Kay be born a natural fool, but if bs keeps on like some men I know, by the time he's fif ty he's a bigger fool than all the babies ia titf world. Nature cant make a fool equal to the man who makes a fool of himself." And then old Hardhead growled that he wasn't talking politics, but art Tb outlook for Wheat is a healthy one, but gives no occasion for any ex travagant prices. '