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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
I'm Her Husband.

Once, when Nine. Rentz ard her
famale minstrels were performing In
San Francisco, a well known Front
street merchant-one of the front or
chestra-seat brigade, whose head was
more clear than level-walted around
the stage entrance to the Standard
Theater after the performance trying to
conceal handsome bouquet under his
ulster.
For a long time he kept peering at
the different specimens of Nine. Rentz' s
sirens, as they put up their umbrellas
and trotted away in the rain. After waiting
patiently fol about an hour. he approach
ed an individual with red scarf and q
sluuched hat who stood smoking ci-
gar at the entrance, and said:
Can you tell me, sir, if Miss Chlor
inc has gone home yeti"
"Oh, yes, been gone half an hour, Z"
replied the slouch hat party cheerfully.
Those flowers for her?'
''Well-er-um-yes.
"I'n give 'em to her-see her later, P"
said the obliging man.
"Will you? That's very kihd sur
ely"
''Oh, not at all, said the man. smell
ling the bouqu t with the ar of con-
nolsseur. Anything else?"
"Well-aheml-yes. Just give her
this pair of earrings"
Certainly. What name shall i
say?"
Just say that Baby Mine'-sheIl
understand-sends love, and says 2.3O
at the same place tomorrow.
'I'll just make mem. of that" said
the red-tie man, writing on his shirt
cuff, "2. 80, same place tomorrow. All
right. Anything else?"
"No, that's oil Sure you'll Sc hen
this evening""
"Oh, certain"
"And you'll get chance to speak to
her when there is no one around?"
"Oh, dead sure. You see, I'm hel
hush ndl''
Baby Mine" tainted, and was sent
to his home in hack.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
An Indian Home.

The mouse IS situated In a natural locust
grove, on the Cherokee nation. such as
sprinkle The beautiful prairie to which
their prest nee gives name. 1t stands on
a slight eli vation in the midst Of yard,
garden, farm -steading and field. 1t is not
# logs, as is most common, but Is what in
the west is called frame house" and is
built of sawed lumber from a nelghboring
mill. Like all houses in a mild climate
that invites to spend so much life out Of
doors, it has an ample piazza, furnished
with split or hide-bottomed chairs, and
containing fixture for hand basin and
towel.
The yard is decorated with native and
cultivated flowers, rose trees in large
growth and of luxuriant bloom. and honey
suckle wearing an odoriferous mantle of
blossoms. Within the house Is comforta-
bly, furnished with ant que bedstcads and
cases of drawers that are evidently heir
looms, and perhaps came 10 the country
with the emigration OF the Cherokee peo
pie Two ancient oil painting ornamented
the walls-the father and mother of our
hjsless-taken in old age by some artist
who visited the country, aud representing
IN both instances striking countenunces,
having been the captain of Cberok, e
company that fought tine hostile Creeks at
the battle of the Horse Shoe under Andrew
Jackson. Tin-types portraits of our host
and hostess. Sand the heir of the family, a
bright boy now at school a; the male semi
nary at Iahlequah, complete tie picture
gallery. A few books and number OF
newspapers furnish the reading matter.
Everything ls neat and clean, showing th<
presence of notable housewife.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
A letter lay on the table, addressed to

A letter lay on the table, addressed To
! herself.
She tore il open, and with blanched
face and wide staring eyes, read the
written page.
He wrote
"Good-by, my darling. have found
out (how matters not) that You and
Carl love each 9th er. do not blame
you. No momentary doubt of your
womanly truth and purity has crossed
my mind, but swore to give you happi
ness Mt any cost, and | go TO keep my
oath. If ere long news of my sudden
accidental death comes to you. you will
know that / did not count the cost
lightly, and remember that died bless
ing you, and that it is my wish you and
Carl should find .v it'll each other the
happiness you missed with me. could
not hope, darling, to blend your young
life with mine, yet the dream while it
lasted was full If sweet tness. Perhaps
HeaYen will give it back to me in eterni-
ty
Like spectre she fastened back to
the room she had lett. and thrust the
letter, on which the ink was hardly dry
into Carl Towards hands.
"Fmd him, she moaned, "hnd him.
Bring him back TO me, or never let me
look again upon your face"
Then with shrill scream from the
young lips, as the full extent of her
misery burst upon her, she fell fainting
to the floor.
For hours she was unconscious; but
when at last the violet eyes opened they
looked into her husbands face.
Carl had found aud brought him back
to her.
With few hasty words all had been
explained.
Through an accident of time the dread
verdict "Too late" had not been pro-
nounced.
The handsome face bending over her
pillow was aged with misery, but to her
it had the light of eternal youth,
She needed not his passionate prayer
for forgiveness.
She forgot that he had wronged her;
only, with her clinging arms about hiG
neck she drew hlm downtown to the
sacred sh elter OF her breast.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
THE GOLD OF HOPE.

Bright shines the sun, but brighter after rain;
The clouds that darken make the sky more clear
So rest is sweeter when II follows pain,
And the sad parting makes our friends more dear
'Tis we'll ii should be thus; our Father knows
The things that work together for our COED;
We draw sweetness from our bitter woes
We would not have all sunshine ir we could.
The days. with all their beauty and their light,
Come from the dark, and INTO dark return;
Day speaks of earth, but heaven shines through
the night,
Where IN the blue thousand star-ires burn.
So runs the law, lhe law of recompense,
That binds our life on earth and heaven In one
Faith cannot live when all is sight amp sense,
But Faith can live and sing when these are gone.
We grleve and murmur for we can but see
The single thread that dies in silence by;
When II we on Y saw the things 10 be,
our lips would breath a song, not sigh.
Wait, then, my soul, and edge the darSening cloud
With the bright gold that hope can always lend;
And II to-day thou art with sorrow bowed,
Wait till tomorrow, and thy grief shall end.
And when we reach the limit of our days,
Beyond the reach of shadows and OF night,
Then shall our every look and voice be praise
To Him who shines, our everlasting hight.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
A Masher.

Just before q Western bound train
left the Union depot, masher with his
little grip-sack slid around to q woman
standing near the ticket office and re-
marked;
Excuse me, but can / be of any as
sistance in purchasing your tlcket?"
"No, sir!" was the short reply.
BEG ardon, but 1 shall be glad to
see that your trunk is properly checked, F"
he continued.
'It has been checked, sir."
"Yes-ahem-you goi West, l pre-
sume?"
81 do"
"Going as far as Chicago?"
Eyes, sir. F"
"Ah-yes-to Chicogo. / also take
the train for Chicago. Beg your par
don, but did't 1 meet you in Buffalo
last fall?'
"No, sirl'
"Ah! Then it was in Syracuse?"
"No, sirI'
"No? I wonder where I have seen
you before!''
"You saw me enter the depot about
five minutes ago with my husband, l
presumed
Your husband?"
eyes, sir, and if you'll only s ay
around here three minutes longer you'll
make the fifth fellow o: your kind that
he has turned over to the coroner this
month";
Some masher would have made a run
for it, but this one didn't. He went OF
on the gallop, and as he wanted, to &c
light he left his grip-sack and ton o.
brass behind him.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
Fuller Particulars,

The reporter saw two horses dashine
down a street in Salt Lake City with q
few pieces of the harness left and also O
portion of the running gear of the car
riage. He made directly for the spot
where the horses he'd left the carriage,
and by following the track of spokes,
hubs, and fragments of the carriage
soon reached the wreck. There was q
man standing by looking at it with )me
interest.
How'd this happen2" asked the
scribe.
"Dam fino," rejoined the man.
''Horse bind of runaway, guess"
''Can you give me any particulars?"
"Well, no, / did not see the first of it,
Guess didn't amount to anything any
how. Got scared at somethin, I
s'pose."
Anybody hurt?"
"Well now, stranger, / couldn't say.
Pears to me somebody did mention ii,
but / forgot now who twas. Amt
much acquainted in the ward anyhow. Z"
"Do you know anybcdy that does
knowP"
Guess the horses got skeered some
how"
The reporter calls on eight or ten eye
witnesses of the scene and none have
sufficient intelligence to give any ac-
count of the accident, which happened
right under their noses. ALI seem to
labor under the impression that they
will be arrested and sentenc d to ten
years hard labor in the Pen tentiary if
they impart single scrap of jnforma-
ton. Inside of ten minutes the man
first interviewed reaches home and his
memory begins to liven up. He tells
his wife all about it.
81 tell you, Sal, never saw auch an
all fired runaway as | saw just a while
ago. Billy Browns two horse team ran
away, threw Mrs. Brown and tao
children out and Knocked old Brown
seLseless. / was right there and
helped to carry him over to Thopp-
sons The buggy struck a tree and
smashed the daylights out of it. Guess
Brown will die. They say his leg was
broke, left leg, just below the knee, and
Mrs Browns jaw was smashed. The
children, Betsy and Clara, wasn't hurt
so much"
81 suppose it'll be in a paper in the
morning"
"Bet you don't see a line there; re-
porters are too cussed lazy to hunt an
item anyhow, and then they never get it
right"
In the morning the man looks in his
paper and cusses it for not giving fuller
particulars.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
The sIEe OF 1t.

A citizen had had occasion to consult
lawyer regarding suit which he con-
templated instituting, but of the defn-
ite outcome of which he was in doubt
He did not wish to pay q retaining fee,
because he was uncertain of winning.
The attorney said he would accept a
contingent fee. The party met Mr..
Burleigh some time afterward and ask
ed him the definition of contingent
fee.
GA contingent fee" loosely said Mr.
Burleigh, is this: eff lawyer loses the
case he gets nothing. If he wins you
get nothing"
''But," said the perplexed party.
scratching his head, ST can't say that I
exactly comprehend you"
81 thought 1 was quite clear" said
Mr.. Burleigh, who repeated what he
had said.
"But it seems that I don't get any
thing in either event" said the man,
when his intellect had fully grasped the
situation.
"Well, that is about the size of con-
tingent fee." replied Mr.. Burleigh,
terminating the conversation.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
A Sponge Bath.

It was rot in McFadd 4n's drug store
that young and sprightly school tea
cher last week addressed the clerk:
81 would like sponge bath.
"Ab, oh, a-will you please repeat,
I did not quite understand you?" stam-
mered the clerk.
''I would like good sponge bath,
again demanded the customer, while a
pair of sharp gray eyes, beamlng with
wonder and lmpatience, made him trem-
BILE.
More dead than alive he managed to
tell his fair visitor his inability to catch
her meaning.
''Well, / neveri If this isn't qneerl
1 think I speak intellige, tly enough. I
want-you-to--give-me- good
sponge-bath.
At tins moment the profretor whis-
! pered:
''She wants bath sponge"
At the same moment she comprehen-
ded the trouble and fed from the store
before she could be recognized by any
one, but too late! A gentleman raised
his hat to her, passed in and all was dis
covered.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
Mad Doctors.

A few days ago an elegantly dressed
lady called on one OF the best known
mad doctors in Paris, and in q voice
broken with sobs exclaimed; doctor,
you are my only hope now. My poor
son is a monomaniac; he is quite harm
less: his ddee tre Is that he is cashier
in bank, and to everybody he meets he
presents bill or account and demands
payment. He has already got himself
and me into serious difficulties, and I
don't know what TO do" And here the
tears began TO course each other down
the fair pleader's cheeks. The doctor
did his best to cheer the unhappy mo-
ther, asked her various quest ons, and
finally gave some hope Of curing the
boy. She dried her tears, and said she
would leave her son in his hands. 81
will bring him to you tomorrow; but
OIL doctor, the separation viii be cruel,
Next morning she appeared with the
boy. '"Tell your master" she SAID TO
the servant who opened the door, 'That
the person he expects is here" and,
taking q parcel from her sons hands,
told him to wait few minutes. She
then retired by a side entrance which
the doctor had shown her, and had ad-
vised her to pass In order to avoid a
mournful, and, perhaps, exciting fare
well with her son. Quarter of an hour
passed, the Doctor entered the waiting
room, and the young man presented his
account. "Quite right, my lad. / will
settle it with you directly, and he felt
the young mems pulse. Normal pulse"
says the man of science. my account"
says the young man. ''my master win
be uneasy; please give me tie money at
once" But the doctor gazed fxedly at
him, and tiled to feel his pulse. ''Let
gol" exclaimed the monomaniac, get
ting into passion. ''Pay me at once,
and don't make fool of yourself" "
"Violent attack" says the doctor
calmly, and he pulled the bell rope
rather violently. "The shower bath, !"
he explained to his two attendants; and
IN twinkle the young man was "trip
ped. and stream of ice-cold water
pouring over him.
He howled, he kicked, but uselessly.
When the doctor came to see the effect
OF the operation, he was much surprised
to find his patient madder than ever;
vOwing vengeance at one moment, and
the next implor1Dg his torturers to send
to leweler in the Rue de La Paix and
ask him to come and release him. When
the doctor heard the word 'ieweler" a
light broke upon him. He dispatched
an attendant to the Rue de la Paix, and
in few minutes the ieweler appeared
upon the scene. He turned somewhat
pale when matters were explained to
him, for he saw himself robbed Of
%. 900 francs by q most ingenious chev.
allier d'industrie. She had chosen
jeweIry to that amount, but not having
the money with her she had said; Let
your clerk come with me; 1--we in the
Avenue d'Evlau, and my husband will
pay the account"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13

The belief that the world would come
To an end in the year 1000 was associa-
ted with, ii not absolutely derived
from, a much older belief entertained
by the earliest astronomers of whom
any records remain to us. They con-
sidered that certain cyclic periods of
the planetary motions begin and end
with terrestrial calamitles, these calami-
ties being of different characters &C
cording to the zodiacal relations of the
planetary coniunctions. Thus the an
clent Chaldeans taught according to
Diodorus Slculusl that when all the
planets are coDioined in Caprlcornus the
earth is destroyed by flood when they
are all conjoined in Cancer the earth is
destroyed by fire. But after each such
end comes the beginning of new
cycle, at which time all things are crea-
ted afresh. A favorite doctrine respect
ing these cyclic distinctions was that
the period intervening between each
was the Annus Magnus, or great year
required for the return OF the then
known planets to the position (of con-
junction) which they were understood
to have had at the beginning of the
great year. According to some this
period lasted 100000 years; other as
signed to it 300, 900 years, while ac-
cording to Orpheus it lasted 10000
years. But it was in every case null
tiple of thousand years. and the sub
ordinate catastrophes were supposed
to divide the great year into sets of So
many thousand years.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
DonestIc Comforts.

Among the recently granted patents
is one for the cooling of dwelling houses
offices, hotels, ETC.. by means of COM
pressed gas, which is conducted from a
street main into the premises in pipes
like ordinary gas. The compressed gas
on being allowed to expand within a
suitable receipt Gle, produces a very low
temperature. Thus the housekseper,
simply by turning the gas faucet, will
be able to make ice, supply the dwell
ling in hot weather with cold air. and
produce all forms and degrees of re-
rigerations with the utmost facility.
four houses being now supplied from
street mains with cold water, hot water,
compressed gas, and electricity, we now
only need, to complete the comforts of
living, milk main and tea and coffee
mains: after which perhaps the public
Will call for soup pipes.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
..t.nin toms Log Cabin.

The log cabin which Washington
made his headquarters when surveyor
in the valley OF Virginia still stands in
tact over the spring at Soldiers Rest,
Clarke Comfy. Soldiers Rest was
built by General Daniel Morgan, of Re-
vo .utionary fame. When bruised and,
bloody from the numerous fights with
which he was wont to celebrate Court
day in the neighboring town of Berry
vile, he weuld retire to the old spring
house, where his wife would bathe his
head and bind up his wounds. The
cabin is now used as dairy.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13
The journey Of the Bell.

The journey into London of Great
Paul, the new and monster bell designed
for st. Paul's Cathedral, was attended
with many difficulties, some of them
great. Several times the road gave way
beneath the weight. until the truck
became half buried in the earth.
Wherever the road wss soft the wheels,
though very broad, would sink into the
soil, so that on certain day only about
fifty yards of the Journey was traversed.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13

He who frets is never the one who
mends,. heals. who repairs evils; more
he discourages, enfeebles, and too often
dlsables those around HIM, who, but
for the gloom and the depression OF his
company, would do good work and keep
up brave cheer. And when the fretter
is one who is beloved. whose nearness
of relation to us makes his fretting even
at the weather seem almost like a per-
sonal reproach to us. then the misery
of 1t becomes indeed insupportable,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-07-13

POVERTY is hard, but debt is horrible;
man might as we'll have smoky
house and scolding wife which are said
to be the two worst evils of our life.
RoUMANiA exce!s all other countries in
Europe in the production of Indian corn
The average yield is thirty-four bushels
per acre. the total crop aggregatlug abo4t
10S, 600, 900 bushels.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1882-03-17
THE WAt IT "PROTECTSv TINE
FARMER.

Representative Turner, Of Ken
tucky, in speech in the House the
other day on the tariff question, said:
Here is a statement showing
few OF the burdens OF
the farmer: Under this tariff
he rises in the morning, putt
on his common flannel shirt taxed
90 per cent? his coat taxed 81 per
cent, shoes taxed 30 per cent. and
hat taxed % per cent, takes the
water from bucket taxed 35 per
cent. and washes bis face and hands
in tin bowl taxed 35 per cent, aud
dries them on cheap cotton towel
taxed 45 per cent He sits down to
his humble meal and eats from q
plate taxed 80 per cent. with knife
aud fork taxed 80 per cent, drinks
his coffee with sugar taxed G8 per
cent. seasons his food with salt taxed
90 per cent, and pepper taxed 6l per
cent. He looks round on his wife
and children all taxed 10 the same
way, and takes a chew of tobacco
taxed 100 per cent o. lights a cigar
taxed llS per cent, and, sir, even
the sunlight from heaven that poura
into hi9 humble dwelling must come
through window glass taxed 80 per
cent.-and yet he thinks he lives IN
the freest Government under heaven
Then he starts to work, puts q bride
taxed 25 per cent. on his horse and
takes his horse that has been shod --
the nails used in shoeing being taxed
30 per cent, driven by hammer
taxed 20 per cent, and bitches him
to plough taxed 40 per cent. with q
chain taxed 58 per cent; aud after The
day 8 labor is closed and bic family are
gathered around, he reads & chapter
| from bic Bible, taxed % per cent.
and kneels TO God on an humble car
pet, taxed 81 per cent, and then b,
rests his wearied limbs in 3 shse
taxed a. per cent, and covers him.
self with blanket that has paid l0l
/ per ceut
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1882-03-17
THE ONE REFORM NEEDED.

The Harrisburg Patriot commends
the spirit Of reform abroad in the
land, Gays the New York Sun, and
is especially gratiGed by the work it
is doing in Pennsylvania, where
Philadelphia b g been redeemed, the
grip OF the Ring on Pittsburgh
shaken, and the prospect OF wrestiug g
the State Government from the hands
OF the bosses is by no means unprom-
ising.
But the Patriot wishes the plough.
share set deeper, and informs it's
readers that the most radical an d
permanent roform in the manage =
ment OF the general Government is
TO be had only by recurring 30 tn e
strict construction doctrine Of Jeffer.
son and the fathers of the Democratic
party,
The only s)lid groundwork for lasting
political reform Is a complete change of a
system in which are tied those power
tul agencies of corruption, plethorlc
treasury and the control of appointments
10 Office by partizan bosses. To lay this
foundation for permanent reform, the
people must return To the strict construc
ton Of the Constitution taught by Thomas
Jefferson"
There has never been an hour
since the first Democratic Presden;
delivered his great inaugural when
he people of this country did not
cordially approve the principles he
enunciated. A return to them is the
essence comprehensive of all reforms.
Extravaganza, corruption, jobbery,
monopoly, bosses. and Rings are
simply impossible under the practical
operation of what Ia called tue JEFF
fersonion system. Would the De-
mocracy make the party invlncible?
Let it put up the Old standards, in
scribed with the old faith. The or
ganizltion of Jefferson Democratic
associations is perhaps as good way
as any. But it shou!d be the work
OF the people. and not of the politi-
ciaus, A recent correspondence of
one OF these Jefferson associations
with Mr.. James Parton shows that
some Of the oldest and best material,
which was swept into the Republi.
can party by the antislavery tide,
would be drawn back in TO thespread-
ing and purified Democratic current
by such movement as this.