The New Era, 1884-08-22, Page 9,77
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August 92 1884.
Bea aummer burns to Wiliest ember ;
Wake, Love, and sing to me ;
Wake, Love, and bring to me
ThA resell sweet late 'uIn; let me hold
Great handfuls of the fervent marigold
• And splendid peony.
And when young birds pipe at the early dawning,
Clime, Love, and stay with Me;
Come,I.Jove, and stray with me
By languid 'mole were. the dusk lily Sower
Fades with the summer slowly, hour by hour,
• In eleepy eostaoy, .
•Or in Boma sweet old-fashiened garden,
Come, Lcive, and walk with. me,
Come, Love, and talk with rne ;
For peachee brown and gold anclrosy red,
Upon celestial dews and sunshine fed,
Wait now for thee and roe.
•
Or 'mid the orchard'blowing grasses,
Oh, Love, come muse with me,
Oh, Love, come lose with me
• The long green afternoone. There, warm and
meet,
The breath of flowers and smell of ripe fruits
meet
In :area mystery,
Bed summer burns to its last ember;
Come, Low, with, many a sigh,
We'll see fair summer die,
'While August lilies in rich perfume drown
'The royal head that wore the red rope crown
Through Jane and hot ,July.
Out et Town.
cloeed and still was the front of the house,
Igo sign of life mild be seen,
AB the summer sunt on the stony street,
Poured its molten, silver sheen. •
^ '
If the front of the house were closed and ptill,
Not so was it in the rear,
For a woman ot at a window there,
With a look in her face 'Of fear.
he had heard a sound in the house next door
All closed and still as her owp,
And she feared that robbbrs had broken In,
To seize the wealth of the flown. .
From. the window she lCoked with oautioue
&gad -
Her eyes met her neighbor's eyes;
Then the fear all vanished, plain) .
Came a look of great surprise.
B u t woman-like, thenceaelop she met,
(As she always does, you'lliagree,)
And, smiling, she said, " Your pardon I beg,
You're away for the slimmer, like me."
—lifetchant'Travelkr.
A Butterfly lii Ike City.
• !Pair creature of a few short sunny hours,
Sweet guilelees fay,
Whence flittest thou, from whet bright world of
flowers,
This summer day? • .
What quiet Ederrotmeloilious song,
What wild retreatt
Deriertest thou for this impatient throne,' I
This crowded street ? • .
Why didet thou quit thy comrades of the grove
And naeadowe green ?
• What fate untoward urges thee to rove
Through thie strange scene? •
Have neotared roses lost their power to gain
Thy fond cams? •
Do woodbine blooms, with lofty scorn, disdain
Thy loveliness?
Oh, he then to the fragrant country air •
And liberty i
-"The city•is the home of toil and care- •
No place for thee! •
Mitizzer's
" My muzzer's almost trazy,
Her ohiliun is so bad,
An' my drate bid sister Daisy ,
Does mate herdrenul sad,
So she says.
"And Daisy is a 'meal dirl ;
Her nice new frook she tared. • '
An' Muse she had her hair. to turl •
Why she -why she just roared
Yesterday, •
" When baby cwycid, an' muzzer said:
• Go an' wrook ytttle Clair,'
She put Wilms in his Weals spread,
'An' chew-duna in his hair •
Tozzer day.
"What you eint one time she did ? •
' Why, runned away from me,
. She went and runned an' hid.
I didn't know where sle be-
• Touldn't find her.
" Dees I'se sonaetimes norfurtoo--
• Of tours° I is, I know ; •
Butwhat's ayittbo girl to do • •
When ahe don't wort or sew ,
Taufe.she tarntl
She dot to try; be trims too,
When she'e so small as me. '
That's all the way she has to do .
When she's tirecb-dcin't you see?
Tours° you•do.
"When I'se weallydocal and nice
• Through all the drate long day,
Papa tails me a • pearl pf prize,'
An' muzzbiaadjlad to say
' She was deed."
Would We BeWlIther ?
• • •
,
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BY ROE KIRK. •
WORM we be willing if tbe summons came
To counter -march this life, to bite the mine
Once more? • •
Say pain and joy, and poverty and wealth, '
Good days and dark days, illness ancl health,
Lived o'er ?
The new life jost es the old had been; • -
• To find like friendehip Grid the viler men •
As yesterday? • •
And would it pay Life, like a play,
Is relished as Nve go, from day to day -
But stay • .
1111 CAVE OF MACHIPELAIN.
1•••••...411
Journey in Palestine to the Site
of Ancient Hebron.
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Disienities in the Way si litldbis-Seme
Apocheyphai Locitoons-A Desolate
ii.ustd-iluttecessoillity ettlie supposed
'spot ibt the raalarear Abraham's
Duriat--A sacred Place.
A person hardly wants to climb the g.reat
pyramid or journey to Hebron, if he is in
search of a pleasure elCOUrBIOD, says a letter
from Hebron to the Salt Lake Tribune.
Only courageous travellers, who are deter,
mined to see the Holy Land thoroughly, and
not often ladies at that, endure the tedious
jolting for)wenty-four miles and back in
order to 8€0 where the cave of Maohpelah
is, without seeing the ca,ve. For this very
reasen, however, a letter from this very
ancient city ought to be doubly interesting.
At half -past 2 o'olook one May morning
Mr. Floyd and X ate our breakfast at the
Hotel Feil itt Jerusalem, and half an hour
latter were in the saddle, with our faces
set toward Mamre. The night air was
quite raw, and 1 was glad to pull the carpet
out of the eaddle bag and wrap it around
• me. It was well to start thus early, how-
ever, for if we were now. shivering under.
the burden of extra clothing, we would
BOOR be panting under the vertical rays of,
a tropical sun. We were fortunate in hay,
ing Mr. Floyd's own horses, magnificent
animals, almost too • spirited, but as brava
and sure footed as any horses ever were.
Inexperienced readers mast not think
of an American horse in this connection.
No A.inerioan horse could be indeoed
to perform the feats that our faith-
ful beasts were continually required
to perform. Now for a, 'mile the
trait lay over huge boulders,- amongst
whiph the. horges picked their way with
nayeterious ease. Now ilet, slippery rooks
lay in our course Anon we descended
steeps that made me shudder, and anon
urged our horses un ascents so precipitous
that we had to wreathe both hands in the
horses' manes'and hold on for dear life ease
should the belly girths burst, the saddles
would surely fall off behind. More than
onoe did I aotuallY decline for the moment
to follow where Mr.Floyd led, se impossible
did it 800M to force a passage through. But
the 'worst riding of all was over smooth,
eound etones, about the size of a cocoanut
each; and not a little of the road was thus.
paved. At such time, one depredates the
dangers of fravelby railand by sea, which
are relatively as nothirig. •
We first demanded into the volley of
Gihon, crossingnear the lower pool 'Of the
Berne name, where Solomon was anointed
king. We then skirted the hill of Evil
Counsel. •To the right were the twenty-
five substantial seone bonsai and hospital
of the Jerusalem german colony. To the
left, on the summit of the hill, was an old
ruin, said 'to mark the Bite of Caiaphace
°country house where the Jews took counsel
together that they might "take Jesus by
subtlety and kill . him." I do -not under-
stand that this Means' that palace of the
high prieette which Jetius was led imme-
diately after he•had been seized as a male-
factor, and where Peter disavowed his dis-
cipleship in a fit of weakness. That palace
manifestly stood on Zion near the Coena-
ouluni • and tomb of David, somewhere
near the ruin which is to day pointed out
as the place. Naturally the chief priests
and •soribes- and elder of the -people -would
select a more retired place for consultation
over the nefarious business in which they
were about fo engage. At any rate; that•is
the popular idea, and the hill has received
he name from this tradition. Beeide thie
ruin stoode, lonely, ourious-shaped tree,
whit:111*as pointed out to Me as the tradie
tional tree :iipon which Judas hung him-
self. As the tree appeared to be about
twenty yearsold, I regard this se &highly
probable supposition. Does not the second
chapter of Acts state that it was in the
Potter's Field that. Judas suicided ?
• Two. miles further on we. came sto an old
cistern, where, .h is gravely' averred, the,
star appeared the second titne to the wise
men who were bunting for the Redeemer's
birthplace. You will see that. all these
biblical inoidents have been endowed With
realism. by hoary -headed. tradition, and
that not a few • erabelliehments have been,
added, the sole merit of which consists' in
their delicious originality.
Taking the road to the right we were
soon treading ground that had notecailf
been trodden. by Christ and the e.poetles
but also by Abraham, Isaac, jamb, joseph
David Solomon, Saul, Samuel, and moet of
"the patritirohe and prophets of the Old Teeth-
. ment. Fraught, indeed, it was with sacred
associations. Over On the opposite side of
the valleyas we left Rachel's tomb Was the
modern village of Beit-jela, the moat
ettraative . one I have .yet seen in this
country, a town of Some 4,000 inhabitants,
all Christiana and the majority Littin 'and
Greek patriarchs. It is worthy of mention
Merely as being the Zelzah. Of let Samuel
x. 2, and tile Zelaii of Joshua xviii. 28.
Thither Saul was sent by Samuetafter his
remarkable anointment, with the mean
anbe that he should there reoeive informs.,
tion Concerning his father's eases that had
been lost. •
• Amidst theiierient desolation there were
traces ot former prosperity. The ledges
on the mountain eidea 'Vier° unquestion-
ably the remains, of terraces once =hi-
iated. The bills, which now louk so sterile
and rooky, were then doubtless covered
with earth, which the rains of time -have
washed • down into the valleys. Even
where the land ie cultivated to -day, it is
choked with stones, despite the feet that
in clearing it enough were removed to build
the walls tent eef tillitiko. around the field.
One woad think it hard for nod ta fall
anywhere else except on stony geound in
Palestine. The Vlat0h towers, near. the few
cultivated epcitO; also told that a crop or a
• vineyard are no safer to‘day from the
halide of vandals' than in Bible times.
We paused to Water our herses at a point
. where the miserable train passed midlgay
between two places of scriptural interest.
Them were, the modern village of Hulhul,
half et 'mile tothe left, and the ruined
tovier of Beit Sur, about the same distance
to the right. Hulhul represents the Halhul
of Joshua ay. 58. Ibis a miserable
lage that augers about a mosque on a
lofty hill: I think it is the only village
between Beit-jela and Hebron,' a dietance
of tweaty iniles. Owing, to its elevated
position it was visible for many miles be-
fore we reached it. The tower of Beit Sur
unquestionably marke:the site of the Beth
Zur mentioned by Joshua ' • and ite name is
manifestly a corruption ofBeth Zur.
may be worthy of record that I have only
men one es two modern villages in the
holy land that I did not at filet
take for uninhabited ruins. The tura-
ble-down aspect ot things is universal.
Of mune the bave of Meohpelith is the
principal attractionto tourists in Hebron;
and yet nothing could be Wore inaceeeeible
than this same eavie Ikeksheeith, that all
conquering power, has opened the mom=
of Oittar, the 008110.0U1UM and other bible'
cal plasma of interest that are in the hande
of the Mbeletas; but this weodetful oave 18
forbidden to the infidel Prank, despite all
•Tbot many a play is worthy of recall 1. .
The miters one by one come on and curtainefall;
They go away ;
And shifting seenee, and music long and drear
Grates on the list'ners' weary ear,
We dread the play! '
And so as children tire of toys and sleep, ,
At close of life °eines less and less to keep
Ha here, alway.
And then so many that have gone'before,
And carried hopes to a brighter shore,
Are saying, come 1
' Those absent long, with anxioup gaze,
Leading and. lighting the darkest ways,
Would cell us home.
Would we be willing to refuse there prayer?
. Ali no 1 Some day we'll greet them there, -
Some day.
d
1! Was Invented.
Old II/other Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To gat her poor dog a bone,
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare '
And so the poor dog got none.
She was in a great stew ,
To know what to do,
For of money she had not a cent;
So elle sold her last suit •
To buy Meat for the brute,
And up townin her nightgown she went.
solicitations. This is the more to be re.
grotto& inosinneh ilse it la at once gaining,
while Golgothee the Bethlehem mange!,
Getheernane and the rest sae only enema-
neately or doubtfully known,
and video
boasts of an antiquity far out-datingeethe
Christian era. In order to reitah the place
from this establiehment we ride along a
stony lane through vineyards for two wilco,
and then through the narrow and almost
pitchy dark streete of Hebron for some
ways further. The oity has a, population
of nearly 10,000 inhabitants. .The people
are the most bigoted and intolerant in all
Pelestine, as their eeolueive regard for the
cave would Whale. We were repeatedly
insulted on the etreets in Arabic, and those
jewe who deigned to confer with ue were
called dogs by the populace. The princi-
pal businees seemed to be the manutaature
of rude glass trinkets and water skins. I
invested a cent in glass rings and got
enough to flood the raarket in Americo, when
I get back.
The cave is covered with a huge moaque
200 feet long by lie broad, The founds -
tion stones are some of them twenty feet
long, and bear the ancient, Jewieh bevels.
Two tall minarets make the Mosque the
moat 00118pi0110118 feature of Hebron in dis-
tant VieW8 Of the town. I shall not attempt
to deaeribe what -1 think no living Frank has
impeded, the cave itselt way down beneath
even the bamment. This is studiously
guarded even from the indiscriminate gaze
of Moslems. The amounts published from
hearsay are confused and contradictory.
Sooner or later Blohe,mmedan fanaticism
must yield, and then
w.... Ler° bo IMMO
important revelations in the way,oi diecov-
ered antiquities? There are monuments
of display which I believe some honored
celebritiee have been permitted to view;
but that is exactly the Benefaction en-
joyedby every pilgrim,. the privilege of
seeing where the caves are not. • These
nominal eepulehres were erected whenthe
church, then called St. A.brahara, Was in
the hencle-ofethe Piranha.. It is believed
that there are twoliaves in reality, as the
word Maohpelaii means double, and that
large numbers of Israelites have been here
entombed.
I alwe.yci wonder, when I read thatAbra-
hain,efeaao and jamb, with -their wives,
-Ba.rah, Rebekah and Leah, are here buried,
why it was that Jacob or come one else in
the family didn't see to it that Reohel's
bones were aim brought hereto rest. Cer-
tainly that .totiohing story of jaeob'e ardu-
ous oourtship would justify a feeling that
Rachel should have been preferred alive
Leah.
The Jewe love the vefy dust about this
spot, and repair to the stones in the vener-
able wade to weep, chant, lament- and
deposit written Hebrew prayere in the deep
seems between the rooks, just as they do
at the famous wailing place in Jerusalem.
I moured one of these prayers as a sou•
venir, and then passed around to the rear
of the reosque to view soinessubterratiean
cavities above and aroicid the real Mach-
pelah. •
How characteristically oriental wee that
negotiation between Abraham and the Hite.
tithe for the cave! Eiatiron protests'
against receiving anything, although all
the -while expecting .liberal compensation ;
Abraham bartere him out of his fictitious
generosity; the trees, cave and all things
on the ground • are 'eepaeatsly specified in
the deed; mediators viers employed to
conduct all the negotiations; and filially
the contract ie • publicly meted in the.
presence of all the people 'that went in . Fit
the gate of .the oity. . The same thing in all
ite details might happen here to -day or to-
;riaeoribei ; ,end no other metheid—W-Oblillge
viewed as orthodox. We went down. to
the.lower poof of Hebron; every important
town. has its 1)601, -and 8aW where David
hanged the murderers of his rival Ishboshe
eth, 2 Samuel h. Then we were ' in.
vited to. pay a baokeheesh and go to see the
red earth from which Adana wee -made, the
'precisespot where Cain' slew Abel, the
torabe of Abner and e'en°, and some other.
attraction's of the IMMO sort, at whioh our
faith stumbled.
• The remaining attraction. of Hebron is
Abraham's oak. Thie ouriosity is in.the
front yard oflifflio.oalled convent. It is 'a
gigantic), rambling 'tree, twenty-three feet
in girth, and covering an area ot geound
*ninety feet in diameter. The life has pretty
muoh departed out of the -main body of the
tree, only the endsof the greet branches
being tiopedwith foliage. • There are a few
other small oaks to be actin, but this is the
only 'conspicuous reminder of What was
•elotihtlese once a forest. I picked time of
the leaved; whit% are as eminently small as
thous of our own °aka 'are large. Doubt-
less' this oak has a very great antiquity, but
I de not suppose it is the identical tree be-
side Which Abraham dwelt. If the site has
been accurately marked it. cannot- be more
than a scion of the original tree.. The Rus-
aians, who have posseesion, have put a low
wall around the roots and propped up the•
• Venerable wide -spreading houghs. '. •
It isnow settled, I 'believe, that • the
phrase " plain of Mamre " in Genesis xiii.
18, ought to -have been rendered "oak,- or
terebinth, of Manna." '
W.ell, here dwelt Abraham, it is pleadant
to sup.pose, on that eventful day when he
was martled by the , announcement that
Sedom had been plundered, and hisnephetv
Lot was a captive.; and from here he set
out in pursuit.of the enemy with his 318
Servants and hie' allies, the Amorites.
Here; while he " sat in the tent door in the
heat of the day," 8- few. Years later, the
angels of the Lord appeared unto him with
that wonderful premise.
Hebron is doubtless the oldest city ' in'
Palestine, perhaps as old as Damascus in
Syeia. It was built seven years before Zoan
in Egypt, we read in Numbers xiii.'32;
but Mae, =one will tell us when Zosit Was
founded: • Hebron is mentioned again and
again in the Bible. I have collected a few
.,oi the ,more important references, which
may 'be helpful to others. This was the
first capital of David, and here, he reigned
seven years and a half.. Froin here he
went up to Jerusalem, over the same road
which we travelled, and took the oity from
the Jebueites. Hebron Wa8 first ' allotted
to • Cable (Joshua_ x. 36, xiv. 6-5 and xv.
13.14); hilt was afterwards made the city
of refuge for Judah, and given °ger to the
'Levitss. 'Jewe, Romano, .'orusaders and
Moslems havein turn owned the city.
/Are Abden was buried, and David bit-
terly lamented over his bier, fasting for
the rest of the day.- It was but two or
hree Wiles south of here e presumably,
tho Said nut the Philistines in the valley
of.Elah, and pluoky little David won undy-
ing fame for hinhelf by slaying hie ten,foot
, tall opponent, the boastful Goliath. This,
too, was 8' distinctively oriental conflict..
The Bedouin tribe e frequently battle to-
day by °hoeing champions, and then abid-
ing by the result of a personal encounter.
This is certainly a little less eangninary
than the Ocsaidental niethod; and *horsier°
more humane.' The Anakims, the giant
raw: which formeely dwelt here, mentioned
in the :sixth chapter of Genesis' aro much
talked abetit by the natives to thiri day.
With charaetertstio Eastern exaggeration
Abraham is referred to atter the sire of
forty -omen ordinary men. 0g, the King of
Bashan, wat so tali that the waters 'of the
deluge only reached to his ankles, etc.
This is more than Genesie requiem us to
policy°.
DEATH Olt APai• zuz001,1*
lite Celebrated IIIFOIA$70F'8
aldp nun eloper Berried Lifin.
Mril, Mary Stillwell Edi801:1, Wile Of the
firewater, Thomas Alva Edison, died sud-
denly at 2 a. m. yesterday at her late red -
deme at Menlo Park, N. J. She was 29
years of age, and leaves eurviving her three
children, The story of her marriage
to Mr. Edison ie a singularly strange
and romantio one. When he first
formed her acquaintance he was about: 25
years of age. He bad just invented the
chemical telegraph, by means of which
could be transmitted, be claimed, on a
single wire 3,000 words a minute. The
telegraph, notwithstanding this, however,
became subservient to the Morse eystern.
While working on the chemical telegraph
he employed several young women to punch
the holes in the paper. Among them was
Miss Mary Kidwell. One clay he was
standing behind her =air exuding a tele,
graphic inetrurnent,
'Mr. Edisoo," remarked Mies Stillwell,
suddenly turning round. "1 oan always
tell when you are behind or near me."
"How do you amount for that ?" mechan.
iaelly asked Mr. Edison, still absorbed in
his work.
" I don't know, I am BUM," she quietly
answered; " but I seem to feel when yen
are near me."
"Mies Stillwell," said Mr. Edison, turn-
ing round now in his turn and looking at
his interlooutor. in the face, "I've been
thinking considerably of you of late, and if
YOU are willing to have me, I'd like to marry
you."
• "Pon astonish me," exolaimed Miss Still.
well. " never—"
"1 know you neer thought I would be
• your wooer," interrupted Mr. Edison, but
Meek over my proposal, Mies S pinwale .a,nd
talk it over with your mother." Then he
addecrin the, same off -hand, businestelike
way, as though he might be experimenting
ppm a new mode of °courtship "Let me
know as early as poesible, as if you consent
to marry me, and your mothet is Willing
we can be married by next Tuesday."
This was the extent of Mr. Edison's
courtship. lifirffiedirTiecessary to add
that the highly favored lady laid the abrupt
proposal before her mother.
Ma has consented," she told Mr. Edi-
son the next day.
"That's all right,"'said Mr. Edison in
reply. "We will be married a week from
to -day."
And so it was. The two were married
in a week and a day from the beginning of t
Edison's novel and precipitate.courtehip.
connection with his marriage, however,
itery is told quite as singular, hut fully in
keeping with the one already given towel-
ing his courtship. It is said that direotly
after the marriage he entered his laboratory
in his wedding suit, and hastily throwing
his coat on a bench began work.
"Why, surely you are not going to work
on your wedding night ? " remonstrated his
chief assistant. •
"Suppose it is?" he quisikly answered;
petting to work with renewed zeal; " the
Gold & Stook Company don't °are for that.
They want their instruments to -morrow,
and they've got to have them, marriage or
no marriage; so here goes."
The wedding trip of Mr. Edison ran into
She mysteries of inventtons. His wedded
life, however, is mid to have been a singu-
larly happy one.
Tho hullos who saw it,
And the string to draw it,
Declared it the nicest hing mit;
So now on the street,
Looking ever 50 neat,
In their gowns they go rushing about .
Cremation in Emmen. .
Cremation is making great strides in
_Frames, where the Prefect of the Seine
means to establish Bahama furnaces in
several of the cemeteries in Paris, and pro-
penes to oremete all persons whose remains
arcrnot claimed by their friends. If thie
fixperimmat proves aucceseful the Govern,
menti will probably introduce a general Bill
oreniatioe in tlie Chamber, and the
•31ouncil of Health ie now considering the
different ways of detecting traces of poison.
This in good ; but might not the experiment
be more usefully tried just now at Toulon
or Marseilles 2 -Pall Mall Budget.
•
Lord ItonaLl Gower, a thal live kilid;"
suggests it aim good rule for Americans to
adopt that every etranger announcing
eelf as a lord should be eat doWn cie a
rascal.
A country mat --the milking stool.
•
TUE
4 WWI ,&111 Hie Fouls. We .I.Ove Mut
What an honeee animal a boy is, al3Yhowr
say § the Burlington Hookeye, 'What mean
things he can do; what Duel tricks he can
play on a fellow ; bow generous are his inn
pulses; now brave and manly the better
bide of his patine; hew much of his bedtime
is pure thou,sal lemmas, the heedleseneas of
a young cult; uuder his noisy, rough,
boisteroue, turbalent surface what a sensi-
tive, ehrinking beam there is, proud, Itrabi-
0.0118, timid, foolishly ashamed to show its
better impulses, fearful that you nosy dis-
cover ies ambitious dreams; he loves
boy who can make the longese jump and
run the swiftest, and he hates with equal
fury a sneak and a bully; be will throw of(
his coat andjump into a fight and take a
"hotting" any time for a friend, •and will
walk around two blocks out of his wey
rather than meet a girl to whom he will be
expected to speak; as different when you
get him alone from what he is in a arowd,
that you think he may be two entirely
different boys. A strange, honest, caprici-
ous, tender-hearted, tyrannical, loving
cruel, thoughtless, dreaming, shouting,
complex animal, thus boy of =re. Often
badly taught, worse trained, half-diecip-
lined, whipped and petted, scolded and
caressed, he tries our patience, destroys
oue quietewastes our 'money, wrings our
hearse, neglects us, loves us, understands
us better Many limes than we understand
him, and we chide him to his face and
praise him to our hearts; we follow him,
humor him, pray for him, and love him,
love him, love hina-God him the boy, how
we do love him !
A BCE 14 TUR 'man 1775.
The Challenge.
--Siii,=-Thictairtiriiii-Iliidtliflibnor or
being in your company you undesignedly
and unknowingly affronted me, without
making any apology, by treading on my
toes, or, indeed, to epeak more properly,
'only upon my 'oboe, whioh at that time
happened to be rather tao 'long for me, sta
that had I aot " luokily " observed this
• circumstance with my eyes, I should have
remained ignorant of it as well es yourself.
All men of honor and spirit would regard
me as a monster.unflt for society. should I
compromise she affair or be satisfled with
any other expiation for this offence than
your blood. In vain do they pleadreligion
and reason Against a praotioe so civilized
as duelling. No man who enter-
tains just notione of this laudable
custom but ought th soorn to listen to
either when urged in opposition to it.
Therefore, sir, repair teemorrow
by 5 o'olciok to Hyde Park corner, properly
furnished with arms and attended by
your 'second, where yea will meet me
divested of every thing human and prepared
either to out your throat or blow out your
brains, of which two methods of denartute
I very civilly give you your. cheioe. I
remain, notwithstanding, with great sin-
cerity, sir, your ". real friend and humble
servant, * *
• THE ANSWER.
rowder und Bangs.
Chantilly is the coming lame
Bonnets grow smaller, hate larger.
Shot silks will be. worn another season. '
The fall fabrics show spotted and sprigged
desi
11 os said that trained dresses will be
worn again in the fall.
Fastidious women dolor° that lace is
becoming too popular.
There is a decided preference for yellow
flowers at the moment.
Woollen braid rogettes and bands trim
many pretty seaside hats. '
'Colored muslin and lawn toilets rival
white for August -wear. -
The Mother Hubbard bathing suit is
suitable for 'slight figures only. •
Spanish laces are to be Bet aside for rea
old Chantilly, revived for fall wear,
' Dark -blue serge remains the favorite
fabric, for yachting and mountain suits.
Pearl-gray and mushroom -colored Mohair
dresses are popular at seashore resorts.
All little girls' dresses are made now with
ekitte that reach well below the kneels.
The baby waist ie worn by nine -tenths of
the young ladies at Saratoga this summer.
The- Marie 'Antoinette tlahu of lam or,
muslin, elaborately frilled with lace is re-
vived.
' Sta-I received your challenge, and being
desirous to render moiety all acceptable
service by ridding it of a useless member,
which will be the case whoever of us falls, I
shall not,fail to appear at the time and place
appoitited, acsoompanied by my doughty
riend.and 'equire who has but it moderate
steno:abler fighting and is therefore equally
disposed either to peace or war. ln ths.
meantime, making the necessary disposi-
tions for the day of battle, I remain, with
a measure of your sincerity, sir, your
" obliged " friend and humble eervant,
Ciolden•Itaired Brunettes. '
Since the perruque blonde was immortal-
ized by Mme. Angot golden hair has never
gone. out of fashion, and where nature
failed to provide it art has stepped in, as it
generally most conveniently dem when-
ever fashion requires it. Who has not seen
the " golden -hair -dye " advertised.? And
who has not, since the apparel:we of the
advertisement, noticed it considerable in-
crease ot atraw-oolored -that is to say,
golden -hair? .As yet it it smuggled on to
the toilet -table as eye:lotion or a tonia, but
-itis bo 86E4' iiiiiritione will
eoon beoome useless before the revelations
of the ineerviewer. 1, Young man," says an
American professional heir -dyer, "before
you get married etroke your love's hair."
Hair -dye makes hair "brittle as glass."
But there os no need for such a test; the
"young loan " might arrive at the truth
before he ikon such intimate terms With a
lady as the above suggestion implies. Ibis
better advice to mark whether the color of
the hair changes, and the blonde is now
and then a brunette, for even of she is Most
careful to rub the " wash " in with a
sponge, she is not alwa,ye successful, and
the dark natural color may be noticed even
by people not over -observant -elect!! Mall
Budget. .
• •
The Ear -Bing out of D.
Women are beginning to aboliell the earn
ring as one of their national selornmentin
alth011ga it Will take a long time to w1APPY
boob& this favorite but barbarous orna-
ment. The recent aesthetic, movement lia
drone whieh introduced, along its ebsurdn.
ties, Boma truly eensible ideas, hap much to
do in educating women to abetter standard
of taste regarding personal adornments,
The WO erelthively fashionable women
do noteneve wear ear -rings in the daytime
and only those with jewels or rare stones
in the evening. Finally, they maybe dis-
carded altogether, and the money epenti for
diamonds in this direction will be invested
in brooehee, pendants and braaeleteee-s
Hartford Times.
corishierate Husband.
Mee. Blank-" Here is it funny item
which says that a married man can be thee
tinguished by the way in which be °aerial
an umbrella over his wife, carefully shield.
ing himself and leaving her exposed to the
drippings,"
Mr. Blank-" It is not true, though."
Mrs. Blank-" Net, it is not. You never
do ite You were a good deal more &wk.
ward at carrying an umbrella over me
before we were married than you havebeen
einem."
Mr. Blank-" Ah I"
Mrs, Blank-" 'ea; several bon-
nets and two dresses ruined by the drip-
pings in those days. But you have beeemes •
er so ram% more careful. ,
Mr. Blank-" Yee, indeed,. I have to pay -
or your things myself now."
A woman at New Castle, Pa., looks in a
room her three little ohildren, one a babe
of four months, and goes to the Salvation
Army meetings.
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LYDIA -.E: PINKHAMIS
• VEGETABLE C:931POT,IND.,-,,
,* 4,. *-..** Is A POS.ITIVE CURE 7.-:!+ 7,*.t*".
IP. lir . all of those ,PaInful Complaint's rind
* It Weaknesses so comport to our beet * *
.* * * * *FEMALE POPULATION041-t ..*
..i.
IT WILL CRUM. ENTIRELY THENVORST FORM OF
M ,..
ALE COMPLAINTS, ALL OVARIAN LL OAN TROUBLESalIm
FLABINATION AND ULCERATION. FALLING AND /1
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UTERUS IN AN EARLY STAGE or DEVELOPMENT.. TRH
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* IT RELIOVEs FAINTNESS, FLATUT,ENCY, DESTR0111 • '
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It THAT FEELING OF BEARINGDOWN, CACTSMVG Item
WEIGHT AND BACKACHE, IS ALWAYs'EIIMA11EOITLII
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HEALING OF DISEASE AND THE RELIEF OF PAIN* ARID
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EITHER EKE THIS REMEDY IS • nEsunrissini. * '.:, • . '
* LYDIA E. EINICLIAMB VEGETABLE COMPOUND es
Prepared at Lynn, Masi. Price pi.. six betties forlts.! i
Sold by all druggists, Seat by naail, postage paid,inforea
of Pills or Lozenges on receipt of Trice Ns above. Yrs.
PinIcham's."GuRle to Ilealth" will be mailed free to sial
Lady sending stamp, Letters cooftdentially =mend.*
" • No family should be without LYDIA E. EINELIAILIII
LIVER PILLS. They cure Constipation . Biuouseess_aites _
Torpidity of the' Liver. .25 cents perbox. • 11%, • .. • __
- No compliment to Dint.
Bishop Williams, of Com:oedema says
• the Troy Times, is celebrated. as a racon-
teur. He tells of a Canadian' lady, • who,
for years, lived unhappily with her hus-
band. The man was a good, easy-going
fella*, but his wife's temper was ungevern.
able and at length drove him to a prema-
ture grave. At Ins death the wife seemed
to feel great reraorse for the past, and deep
mourning aaod constant weeping bore testi-
mony to her grief.' Some montlus after the
funeral She went bit epiritealistie medium
and was placed in.communioation with the
spirit of her degarted. spouse. & long con-
versation followed, during which she asked:
"Ate you happy now, dear husband ? "
if Oh, very happy," he answered, Happier
than you were in this world ? " .she asked.
"-A thousand times," was the reply. "I'm
so glad," she said, " and where are you,
darling?" " Oh,I'm in h-1," came the
reply.
Complain asHiVe Slay
About our lot in life we cannot deny that
any are exempt by lite,
position from the
common _lot of pain and suffering. The
highest, =well as the most humble'must
be over on the alert to take advantage Of
such means as will relieve when pain
Maim relief a necessity to our comfort.
Ity a letter from "Government House,
Ottawa," asking for a supply. of Putnam's
Painless Corn Extractor, we are reminded
of two things : first theteorne are universal,
and seoondly that Putnam's Painless Corn
Extractor is recognized by all classes as
the most certain, painless and non-poison-
ous remedy for corns. . Beware of the
article just as good, and um only Putnam's
Ertraator.
The old saw, "Never kiak a man when.
he is down," is a good one,. beeause to kick
a man when he is down is cowardly. Now
we give another: "Never kick a man when
• he us up," because it is reckless. •
• The English Aristocracy.
Peers are much like other men. They
are neither angels nor devils. The vast
majority of them are socially Mry fair
specimens of English gentlemen; they are
more manly, less pretentious,, and more
, honest than the aristocracies bf continental
countriee. Among them there are a.singu-
lar number of men of superior attainments;
indeed, I am ready to admit that their
debating power° are more than respectable.
Buts it does not follow that five hundred of
the best of Englishgentlemen should have
a veto on the deeisione of the eleoted repre-
sentatives of the nation. They are, too,
essentially party Men. How, I ask, is it
possible that a Liberal should regard himeelf
as such an impulsive, wrong-headed fool
that he ought forever to be under the tut°,
lary guardianship of e. number of Censer.'
vatives landlords,' who represent no one
but themselves, and who act as the janie-
series of the Conservative leader? Reverse
the position, and what Would the Conserve,
dyers say if, when they attain power by the
will of the nation, all their legislative efforts
were ineffectual they did not meet with
the appovaRof it House of hereditaryRadiaal
artisans ?-London Truth. '
..Tim shipment of buffalo loom from the
plains to lb/stern 'phosphate faetories has
largely increased lately, bemuse of the re-
duotion in freight tato. Thousande of
buffalo akeletone li,re gathered from the
valley of the Arkansas. A angle Phila-
delphia manufacturer hag received during
the Bummer more than 200 oar loads, pay-
ing $25 a ton, delivered. 'Phe horns are
used fer umbrella tips or to decerate fans.
A portion of the head' is ier dennifd by
°herniate for glue, and the shoulder blades
and nook bones .are fashioned into land-
iome and artistio buttons. .
One of Gov. Cleveland's sisters has been
a missionary in Ceylon for thirty yearn.
,
' Results Tell. • '
The proof of the pudding is the eating,
and the proof of the extraordinary power
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it. Poison's Nerviline never fails to per.
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lierviline cures all kinds of pain, inter=
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A peaisenger 011 the wrecked steamship
Amsterdam alleges that the steerage
passengers eobbed those of the cabin, and
that the - Sable Island ofdoials misted the
thieves. • '
--That wo'nderful catholic= known as
Lydia E. Pinkhatn's Vegetable d °ha pOun d
has given the lady a world-wide reputation
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