Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — Page 7

JI.VK. OJune! delicious month of June! When winds and birds all sing in tune; When in the meadows swarm the bees And hum their drowsy melodies While pillaging the buttercup, To store the golden honey up; O Juno! the month of bluest skies, Dear to the pilgrim bhttertlies, Who seem gay-colored leaves astray, Blown down the tides of amber day; O June! the month of merry song OhitfhadoW'bVief, of sunshine long; All things on earth love you the best, —■ The bird who carols near his nest; The wind that wakes and, singing, blows The spicy perfume of the rose; And bee, who sounds his muffled horn To celebrate the dewy morn; And even all the stars aboVe At night are happier for love, And if the mellow notes of mirth ' . Were wafted to them from the earth, r 0 June! such music haunts your namojf With yon tho summer's chorus came! —[St. Nicholas.

HUNTING LEGACIES.

It was Abigail Varlev’s three-seore-teenth.birthday. She was a rich widow, childless, and with no known relatives save two gentlemen cousins. Never were cousinly attachments more beautifully illustrated, or cousinly jealousy amiably exemplified, than in the daily walk and conversation of these two collateral kinsmen. They bestowed so much affection on their common relative that they had none to waste between themselves. Both were several years younger than the lady, with a fair prospect, according to the course of nature, of surviving her, and how to supplant each other k in her will, which, at least, she had begun to talk seriously of making, was the problem which at present engaged their attention. On the morning in question, wjien Cousin Roger called to wish Cousin Abigail, the usual “many happy returns,” he was not a little chagrined to find Cousin Dick there before him. However he presented his annual gift, and went through his annual speech without missing a word; and seeing Tabby, the cousinly cat, perched snugly on his rival’s knee, by way of not being outdone m cousinly attention, he took up’Pompey, the cousinly poodle, though dogs were his abomination. “Well, Cousin Abigail, I hope your health continues good,” said Cousin Roger, patting Pompey’s head, and glancing suspiciously at Cousin DiGk, whom hedevoutly wished at Jericho. “No, not so good latterly as it has been. The fact is, the old lady continued, “I have been thinking seriously of sending for Mr. Parker, with a view of settling my worldly affairs without delay.” .“Oh, there is no need of haste, cousin,” broke in Dick; “you may have many years before you yet;” mentally adding, “what has possessed the old ninny to put it off so long?” “Well, well, I suppose there’s no hurry about it,” said CousiD Abigail. “And yet,” Cousin Roger ventured to hint, “it’s always well to be prepared ; none of us can tell the minute nor the hour, you know.” “And after all, calling in a lawyer is not so serious a matter as calling in a doctor,” said Cousin Dick," fastidiously. The conversation was interrupted by the entrance of a youn<£ and beau- % tifnl girl, at whom Cousin Dick stared with a surprised and troubled look. “Pardon me, ma’am,” said she, in a voice remarkably sweet and gentle; “not knowing you were engaged, I came to see if voir wished me, as usual, to read to you to-day.” ■ “Presently, dear,” Mrs. Varley answered, in a tone that plainly hinted her visitors would not be pressed to stay if they offered to go. After an awkward pause the two cousins took their departure together. is that girl?” inquired Roger as soon as they had reached the street. “You may well ask,” said cousin Dick; and, stopping, he whispered something in his companion’s ear, at which the latter started suddenly, “Good heaven! the resemblance is certainly striking. But what is to be done? Do you think the old—Cousin Abigail, I mean —suspects anything?” “Not yet, I think; out no time is to be lost. I have a plan which it would be well for us to talk over together.” The two hurried rapidly along. Mrs. Varley had occasionally found time hang heavily on her hand, and. so had advertised for a person to fill the post of “companion” to an aged lady. It was thus that Hester Darling had become an inmate of the house. At as early an hour as was seemly on the morning following that on which we have introduced them to the reader, Boger and Dick again pre sented themselves before their cousin. We have thought it our duty, cousin —” began Dick*.“Our bounded duty,” put in Boger. “As painful as it is Imperative,’’ Dick continued. “To put you on your guard, ma’am,” -linger added 4 J—“Against a deceitful and designing person,” exclaimed Dick. “Who is no better than she should be," shouted Roger, indignantly. “Upon my Word, cousins, I do not comprehen-d a syllable-you have uttered,” said Mrs. Varley; nor shall I be likely to, if. you both keep talking at once. Come, Dick, you seem the ; least excited, what is the meaning of all This?” ••What means, may I venture to ask,” said Dick “did you take to ascertain the character and antecedents of the voting woman at present sheltered beneath your roof?” “Why, none,” replied the good old ladv. “Her young and truthful face was recommendation enough on which to give her a trial.” .. "We have ascertained her t» be a most abandoned creature,” proceeded Dick, “and have deemed it proper at once to apprise you of the discovery. Should she deny the accusation, we are prepared with abundant proofs.” *

Mrs. Varley was a lady of the strictest propriety, and severest morals. Much as she pitied the poor and friendless girl, she must be promptly freed from this foul and dreadful charge, or cross her threshold never to return. She went directly to Hester’s chamber. “You must tell me your past history, child,” said Mrs. Varley in a determined but not unkindly tone. “0, madam, I pray you pardon me, but I cannot tell it.” “Then it has been one of shame and guilt?” “For a time shame, madam,” gnswered the young girl, with flushed cheek, “but never of guilt.” What was it that caused Mrs. Varley to sttirt so suddenly, and stagger, half fainting, to a slat at Hester’s dressing table? “Who—whose likeness is that?” she exclaimed, in a scarcely articulate voice, pointing to an open miniature on the table. “My mother’s,” Hester answered. I “Then you are Florence Marvin’s I child?” “That was indeed my mother’s | name.” More—you are the daughter of my ! only brother, George Haywood, for i Florence Marvin was his wife.” With a stifled cry, she who had be- | lieved herself alone and friendless in the world fell on her kinswoman’s neck, and wept tears of mingled sadness and Sorrow. Her story, which Hester refused to conlide to a stranger’s ears, she now willingly imparted to one from whom she felt that she had no longer a right to withhold it. That her brother had married in opposition to her father’s wishes, and had been disinherited in consequence, was already known to Abigail Varley, but what distant spot he had selected for his home, and what had befallen him there she had never learned. The story was sad enough. After a few toilsome but not unhappy years—for they were spent in loved society of his wife and child—a dire calamity had fallen upon George Heywood. He came under suspicion of a fearful crime. A network of circumstances too intricate for man’s wit to disentangle environed him, and he was condemned to die. The stern judgment was carried into effect, and the executed murderer’s widow sought concealment for herself and child in a change of place and name. Hong, long years afterward the truth was discovered; but the judicious murder had passed among the things irrevocable. The poor widow died at last—-broken-hearted, but with one consolation—she had lived to see hqr husband’s innocence vindicated. “And this, mv poor child is the shame of which you spoke?” “My life has known no other.” Not many days after Hester w r as sent to one of the first seminaries of the land, for she had yet time enough to avail Herself ot opportunities of culture hitherto beyond her reach. Her aunt and she kept their own counsel. Cousin Roger and Dick only knew that the ooject of their solicitude had disappeared, and probably congratulated themselves bn the success of tneir virtuous stratagem. After a time Mr. Barker, cousin Abigail lawyer, came, and after that the good old woman seemed wonderfully revived in spirits. At the next birthday the prospect of “many happy returns,” produced anything but a hap- j py effect upon the two expectant; cousins, who .began to think that, i after all, the life tables might not be infallible. But her time came at last; and, .within a decent period after the sad event, cousin Roger .and Dick were summoned to attend the reading of Abigail Variety's WTU! They were a good deal startled at the sight of their old enemy, the j strange girl. Boor Tabby, as if seeking consolation in her bereavement, leaped upon the knee of her old friend Dick, who stroked her back pathetically, but a j little nervously. Pompey, who took j things more philosophically, stretched ; hi,mself out for a snoose at the feet of Roger. Mr. Parker, drawing from his pock- j et the document, proceeded to read it. The introduction is long and formal. But hark! there’s something coming j now: “To my cousin, Richard Fig-gins—* ' j Richard looked at Roger in triumph “I give and bequeath—” You bould have heard both hearts beat. “In consideration of the love and as- ! feetion 1 have observed between them—” Dick looked puzzled. ‘•My favorite cat Tabby.” Dick gave Tabby a furious stroke the wrong way. “And no more of my estate.” With a fling that betokens a most emphatic renunciation of tho legacy, Tabby was sent mewing and spitting to the other end of the room. “To my cousin Roger Smith—” It.was Roger’s turn of triumph. “In consideration of the like natural love and affection—” Roger began to feet-suspicions. “I give and bequeath my dog Pompey, and no more of my estate.” : With a violent kick Rompey was sent spinning afterthe cat; and the fear of her who had so long kept the peace between them being no longer before their eyes, the pent up enmity of years found vent in.an uproarioii3 fight, in the noise of which the voice of the lawyer was almost drowned; but the words, “rest and residue of my j estate—niece, Hester Heywood,” were j sufficiently audible, and cousins Dick and Roger stayed to hear no more. Bonanza Flood has enclosed his San ! Francisco palace with a $30,000. bronze fence, and is putting up two big j bronze gates at a cost of $15,000 more. A $190,000 cotton-mill is about to be built &t Louisville, Ky.

FOR THE LADIES.

A Wonderful Michigan Woman—Women’s Feet—What Women are Doing—Fashion Notes, Etc. My Little Bo Peep. ily little Bo Peep is fast asleep, And her head on my heart is lying, I gently reck, and the old hall clock Strikes a knell of the day that's dying; But what care I how the hours go by, Whether swiftly they go or creeping, Not an hour could be but dear to me, When my babe on my arm is sleeping. Her little bare feet, with dimples sweet, From the folds of her gown are peeping, ' ,And each wet) toe, like a daisy in blow, I caress as she lies a sleeping, Her golden hair falls over the chair, Its treasures of beuuty upholding, I press my lips to her finger-tips, That my hands arCso tightly holding. Tick, took, tick, tock; you may wait old clock, It was foolish what I was saying; Let your seconds stay, your minutes play, And bid your days go all a-Maying, O, Time! stand still—let me drink my fill Of content while my babe is sleeping ; As I smooth her hair my life looks And to-morrow —I may be weeping. —[B. B. McManus. An Enterprising Western Woman. The following about Mrs. Catherine Carberry, of Niles, Mich., is floating around, and is too good to lose. Within twelve months from 1885 to 1886, Mrs. Carberry said: “I shelled fiftyfive bushels of corn and put it in the bin. Got home 6,300 pounds of coal and put it in the bin. Trimmed eighty rods of fence and burned most of the hrush. Sheared eight sheep. Dropped eleven acres of corn helped cover it. Worked three acres of corn, plowed it five times, and hoed it once. Topped it and hauled the fodder to the barn. Snapped the corn and took it to the barn, where my husband, 86 years, husked it. It made 105 bushels in the ear. I gathered my pumpkins and dug my potatoes and gqt fifteen cords of wood in the shed and piled it up. Gathered my apples and put them in the cellar. Took my cider apples to the mill and brought back five barrels of cider. Took one load to the cidermill and sold them. I spaded up the ground and planted and worked my garden. Moved twenty rods of rail fence and helped move twenty more. I cut and made my husband one coat, and cut and made~a vestr~and pants and four shirts and hemmed three pocket handkerchiefs for him. Made myself six dresses (three nice ones and three common ones), nine aprons, one polonaise, eight pairs of pillow-cases, four sheets, and hemmed twelve napkins. There are 923 pages in the Old Testament, and Bread 619 pages besides religious and other papers, and kept a diary of the weather and my work, and an account of what we bought and sold, with day and date. Did my housework and took care of my stock —three horses, three head of cattle, eight sheep, and fifty hens—and raised a pet cat.” Mrs. Carberry is 64-years of age and weighs but ninety-five pounds. She retires each night at 10 o’clock and rises at 1 o’clock each morning, and takes no naps between times, in addition to the above she ha iken care of an invalid husband and done many things unmentioned in this account, and among them we may mention that she has taken and paid for in advance the local papers and has honorably paid every cent for everything she has bought. This is a woman’s work, and the record is sufficiently commendable to make many a man blush for shame. Few there are who have so fully followed the admonition, “.Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.”

Our Wives. Ruskin, in speaking of the wife, | says: “A judicious wife is always nipping off from her husband’s moral nature little twigs that are growing in j the wrong direction. She keeps him ■in shape by pruning. If you say anything silly, she will affectionately style, you so. If you declare that you will do some absurd thing, she will find some way of preventing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all the common sense there is in the world belongs unquestionably to women, The wisest things a man commonly does are those which his wiffe counsels him to do. A wife is a grand wielder of the moral pruningknife. If Johnson’s wife had lived there would have been no hoarding up of orange peel, no touching all the p sts in walking along the street, no eating and drinking with disgusting velocity. If Oliver , Goldsmith had ! been married he never would have worn that memorable and ridiculous j coat. Whenever you find a man whom you know little about oddly dressed, | talking absurdly, or exhibiting eccentricity of manner, you may be sure that ho is not a married man; for the coiners are 1 rounded off, the little shouts- pared-a way in manied men.: Wives have much mpre sense than their husbands. The wife’s advice i 3 ■ like the ballast that keeps the ship steady.” Manufacture of Hair Pins. For years the English and French controlled the manufacture of hair pins, and it is only within the last twenty years that the goods have been produced in to any extent. The machinery* used is of a delicate ! <and intricate character, as the prices i at which pins are soid necessitate the : most rapid and cheapest process-, which can only 4he procured by auto- ; matic machines. <>The wire is made i expressly for the purpose, and put up in Targe coils, which are placed clamp, which carries it to the machine while straightening it; from there it runs in another machine, which cuts, bends, and by a delicate and instantaneous process, sharpens the points, i Running at full speed these machines i will turn out 120 hair-pins -every min- 1

ute. To economize it is necessary keep them working night and day. The difficult part is the enameling; which is done by dipping in a prepn ration and baking in an oven. Here is where tho most constant and careful attention is required, as the pin tnust lie perfectly smooth and the enamel have, a perfect polish. The slightest particjeSjOf.dust cause imperfections and roughness, which is objectionable. —Lroolilyu Citikn. . 's. Parisian Bread Port or*. It is stated that 1 read*is distributed in Paris almost exclusively by women. These come to the various bakehouses at 0:30 a. m., and spend about an hour in brushing the long loaves with special brushes. When her load is clean d of grit and dust'the portease de pain, goes her rounds to the customers. Customers who live in fiats have their loaves propped up against the door of their apartment. Shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and other customers who have the entrance to their premises on the street find their quanta of the staff of life leaning against their front door when they take down their shutters. The wages of these bread carriers vary from 50 to 60 cents per diem, their work being generally over at 10 or 11 o’clock in the morning.— Milliwj World. What Women arc Iloln:. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont’s next work will be a life of Kit Carson. She will spend the summer in the West with that object in view. Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt has been elected President of the Ladies’ Committee of [the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Isabella Prince of California has been engaged to go to Tokio and teach Japanese ladies of rank household science as it is practiced on the “slope.” Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is growing wealthy by the advance in real estate values, having but recently heen offered $150,000 for her Edgewood estate near Washington. One of the Universalist women ministers, Rev. Annette J. Shaw, can throw a base-ball scientifically. She got some practice with her brother students in the theological school. Mrs. Hettie Green, the Wall street woman of untold wealth, has a great aversion to reporters. She will not live in a boarding house which holds or ever has held one of them. Mrs. Cleveland’s note-paper and envelopes are stamped with the words “Executive Mansion, Washington,” in small silver capitals, and the seal in white wax bears her monogram. Mrs. Frank Leslie is of Huguenot extraction, and was born in the French quarter of New Orleans. She is said to speak French, Spanish, Italian German and English with equal fluency. A colored woman, Mary Stewart, who was the first servant born to the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, and has lived all her life in Taliaferero, county, Ga., has invented a car coupler. ’ 1 ■' ' • • The number of women ministers in this country, according to the United States census of 1880, was one hundred and sixty-five. Their places of work and residence included thirtyfeu r States. Mrs. Levi P., Morton gave a reception recently to Miss Ada Leigh, founder of the Young Men’s Home and Club in Paris, who has already raised $60,000 as a building fund. Other American women have seconded Miss Leigh’s efforts. The Rev. Amanda Deyo, who was ordained at Poughkeepsie a year ago or thereabouts, was a farmer’s wife, and for many years a speaker among the Friends. Sue is a morsel of a woman, with a kindly, contented face, and the smoothest of brown hair. .An occasional guest in New York society this spring is Mrs. Sarah Fisher Ames, the sculptor, whose bust of Lincoln lias a post of honor at the Capitol at Washington. Mrs. Ames is a fine looking woman still, and in her day they called her the most beautiful American girl ever seen abroad. One sees with her often her son-in-law, Mr. Whistler, a nephew of the artist of that name.

Some Women’* Feet. The wifeDf Munkacsy, the artist, is said to have the smallest feet in Paris. , Boston ladieS have the smallest feet of any women in America—so bootmakers say. Strong, broadsoled footgear is coming into style in this country among j women who want to preserve health and complexion. Mrs. Cleveland’s feet are neithei ! small nor large, but extremely wel t shaped—so. says an observing Washington correspondent. English women have proverbially large feetr Many American ladies are unable to find ready-made- shoes in London small enough to fit them. Several distinguished specialists will not treat a patient who persists in [ wearing high heels; they say that it ~ ! throws out. of place every organ of the oody. ;—Fashion Note*. Evening mantles for summer wear will take the place of light shawls on watering place verandas. They are made of the most diaphanous niaterials, but in thn regular mantle shape, j Swords, crescents, horseshoes, sickles and stars in small pearls are much worn for bonnet and scarf pins, and one of the late additions to this catalogue is a rooster, a pearl constituting the body. - The only reason black silks' are not more worn is that a reliable black silk is about the hardest material to get, no matter how much you are willing | to pay for it, which does not speak' i well for the honesty of m&nufact- ! urers. * .Jr

INDIANA.

Condensed Reports of the fmtesr Newa from All .Parts of tlieTState. i ~ Seymour ii boring for gas. —Another gas company has been formed at. Pern. • - A IQ4-poi:nd catfish was caught near Madison a ftnrrtlftSTigti. —-—*f—Gas has been struck near Kentland, Newton county. 1 --It costs $3,000 a year to run the City government at Lebanon. —Scott county farmers expect to begin harvesting their wheat crop by the 21st. —The fire loss in this state during the month of May is put at $391,300 by Rough Notts. —A gas company with a capital of $25,000 has been organized in West Terre Haute. —A reunion of the 67th Indiana regiment taxes place at Seymour, Aug. 24 to 26. —A disastrous fire at Vincennes destroyed Glover’s sCSive factory. Loss, $12,000; insurance, $8,500. —Greenfield expects to have horse racing by night during the fair, the grounds to be lighted from the, natural gas well. —Fish are being destroyed in ponds and streams in various parts of the state by the use of dynamite. —For the meat markets of Muncie not less than 20 beeves are slaughtered each week; calves, from 15 to 20; hogs, from 30 to 40; sheep from-20 to 25. —A small boy was playing in a buggy at Galveston a few days ago when the top of the vehicle tell in upon him and broke his neck, killing him instantly. —The new Pittsburgh Coal A' Coke Company, capital stock $300.000, has just been organized, with C. E. Hudson of Chicago as President to operate near Brazil. For 120 acres $87,000 was paid. —That part of the state building occupied by the supreme court judges is in poor condition. The roof leaks and sewer gas is distributed through the building, rendering it unpleasant and unhealthful. —De Pauw’s commencement exercises begin June 16 and continue until the 23d. Hon. .Thm-s Harlan will deliver the annual lecture. The week will be full of interest to the friends of the institution. —A current bush growing in the forks of a mulberry tree is a Richmond curiosity. The seed of the currant in some way found a lodging in the dirt aecummulafeion, and the result is a thrifty bush tilled with fruit. < —The dead body of Mrs. Margaret Faust, of Harrison township, Miami county, was found in a small creek near her residence. She arose during the night, and was not missed by the members of the family until morning. Mental trouble is given as the cause of the snicider — —T —A lot of cattle brought to Evansville en route to Chicago were reported to be affected with pleuro pnemonia. A post-mortem examination was held on the bodies of three cattle which died, when it was shown that the cattle were not affected by pleuro, but their sickness was due to their feed.

—ln a violent storm the residence of George W. Johnson in Vincennes was struck by lightning, demolishing a large chimney and fireplace, setting fire to the sitting-room, knocking the whole family senseless, and dangerously injuring two children. —Charles Williams bears the honor of being the lirst colored person graduated from the Crawfordsville public schools and to say that he ranks at the head of his class in every particular would only be fair, as is attested by his teachers and classmates. —State Superintendent La Follette has prepared the apportionment of the common school revenue to the various counties. The total revenue is $1,045,813.50,and the amount apportioned is $1,034,430.40, leaving a balance in the treasury of $11,373.19. The number of school children in the State between the ages of 6 and 21 is 760,178. —Jacob Samuel and Lewis Sattzman were arrested in Lafayette for making a murderous assault upon James Spechter, a Russian Jew. They said Spechter would not settle an account. They knocked him down, beat and kicked him in the side and abdomen, breaking a rib and rendering his chances of recovery very poor —The title to the old Wabash & Erie Canal bed, lying between Wabash and La Gro, a distance ‘of"five miles, which has long been in controversy, has been settled by the State Supr. mi: Court, which holds -that The title is vested in the Wabash. Hydraulic ConW bythirestablishment of tire legality of the transfer of the interest in fee simple. The Hydraulic C< mpiiny is c mipbsed of Wabash. Logansport, and Peru parties. The canal has long been treated as public property. ~“=='Mary Coffee of Greene county went to Bedford recently, and is said to have put in her time robbing the citizens. No clew would have been had if she bad not gone to a photograph gallery and her picture taken. She had three gold and one diamond ring on her fingers, said to have been takeh from the residence of T. L. Brown. —The death of Henry Blocherat his home, near Wabash, will relieve many individuals in Indiana of their obligations. Blocher was eccentric; 'A few years ago he began loaning money at big rates, receiving as high as 33 per cent. AH the notes were ‘B&ndeJ;o become void at Blocher’s death.- On no other terms would he loan money. Blocher’s estate is rendered practically

worthless by the cancellation of the notes. —The Governor and State officers, SftCr going over the State’s affairs caretmly, have come to the conclusion' that they can command enough money to pay the necessary expenses, excln--B.ve of the cost of finishing the insane hospitals and building the feebleminded institute, with the exception and now they are in, a quandary as to what shall be done to supply theg,deficiency. This estimate is on the expenses for the current year, which ends Nov. 1. It, will be remembered that, the legislature adjourned without making the usual appropriation. —An old man named Lynch lives with his wife and daughter near Corydon, Scott county. They had been accused of immoral practices. On a night recently twenty-five masked “Regulators” broke into the house, stripped the women of their clothing, and whipped them with switches in a most brutal manner. Lynch was compelled to watch the proceedings, trot was powerless to. protect his family. The “Regulators” ordered Lynch to leave the country and then went away. Mrs. Lynch, it is feared, will not survive her injuries. A Cholera hpcclßr. The following is marked as a specific for cholera and like diseases common to hot weather: Take equal parts of tincture of cayenne, tincture of opium, tincture of rhubarb, essences of peppermint, and spirits of camphor. Mix well. Dose, fifteen to thirty drops in a wine-glass of water, according to age and violence of attack. Repeat every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief i» obtained. Betrayed by the Parrot. A well-dressed woman left a pet parrot in a Norwich drug store for a short time while she did some shopping. She had not got out of sight before the bird eyed the proprietor of the shop and let out a double-barreled oath,, which preceded “you,” and said: “I’ll, break your head!” It became apparent at onc3 that the bird had bean reared in a family where the addresses were brief, personal, and emphatfic in character, and had not received much religious training.— Norwich BulletinHow to Klpeu Bananas. Being very much of a democrat, not to say Bohemian, I stopped yesterday to purchase some bananas of a brighteyed son of Italy in ihe neighborhood of the Providence Railroad station. The negotiation was about completed when a horrified voice behind me ejsclaimed, “What are you doing?” “Buying some fruit,” was my meek response. “Well, don't buy bananas of an Italian, whatever else you do.” “And why not, pray?” “Only thisand nothing more,” replied my mentor, , drawing me away, “these descendants of Dante pack the green bananas into--bed with their families because*theheat of their bodies ripen them, that’s all.” “All right; the method is a perfect success,” I said: but 1 ordered some strawberries instead, and we departed, my mentor giving full and substantial reason for his singular information in regard to the banana trade.— " Boston Iff. fa !d. ilc mark able Scene* on fhc Critinnie: A Philadelphia gentleman who was on board the Britannic when she was struck by the Celtic says that no description he has regd of the collision gives an adequate idea, ofdhe panic that ensued among the Four times did he procure a life-pre-server for hi 3 wife, and four times was it torn from his grasp, not in each case by one man alone, but by five or six, who, after obtaining it, struggled, among themselves for it 3 possession. He saw other men deliberately knock women down and rob them of their life preservers. He says that he is prouder to-day of being ' American- [ born than he ever was before in his i life, for the American saloon passengers, with hardly an exception, behaved at the most critical moment with selfrestraint and genuine heroism.—Philadelphia News. .* A Mystery. The question as to who was the first female employe in the Treasury Department at Washington having been, raised, General F. E. Spinner, who resides in Mohawk, was called upon to decide it. The.name of the first lady,, he says, was Jeanette L..* Douglass. Miss Douglass was born in Petersboro, Madison county, N. Y., and was a neighbor of the philanthropist Gerritt Smith, and it was through his influence that Gentrai Spinner made the appointment. Miss Douglass was in 1860 a teacher in Mrs. Smith’s female seminary in Washington, in the building occupied by Jefferson Davis while he was secretary of War. At the outbreak of the civil war the school was broken up and MitS Douglass rented the mansion of Mrs. Gaines and opened a girls’ school. It was not a.success, and she went to Scotland to look after property there to which she had fallen heir. She returned to New York City in 1870, and wrote to her brother -from there, saying she woulcTsobn join him In Ilion.. Since that time neither he nor any of his friends have ever seen or heard of Miss Douglass. Whether she got her fortune or not. whether she was robbed; kidnapped or murdered or Committed - suicide is not known. The mystery of -her disappearance will probably never be solved “ An Old Yiolfe. Mr. William Hames has in his possession a Yiolin made in 1736, which is stamped inside just under the Bridge, r in the bottom, thusp “Cremona A 1736.” Mr. Hames bought It in Denver in 1866. It has a splendid tone, and under his touch has made soid*» fine music, but age has cdused him to hang up the fiddle and bow, and he is now offering it for sale,— GkaksviH* (Ga.) Advertiser. ‘