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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
MILLHEIM, PA, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1888.

you come this EVENING"" half-com-
mand, half-entreaty; and, before Jack
recovered from his astonishment, she
had placed a card in his hand and was
gone.
He never remembered how that
drive was finished.
Some recollection came of narrow
escape from arrest at the depot, and
he had a vague impression of being
abused by some passengers who seemed
to have passed their destination, and
threatened by others who resorted to
jumping off while his horses were be-
ing urged to their utmost speed.
But he did not notice anything par
ticularly until darkness found him in
Miss Trente's presence. There was a
certain constraint in her greeting that
troubled him.
After a while she showed him a IA
miliar envelope, saying:
"See, the number is wrong-two in
stead of three; and it did not reach me
until you were gone, and you left no
address"
His face grew bright as a new brass
preserving-kettle.
"Then you did not send me away,
and you will not now?'
"If you still mean all this"-with a
shy glance at the letter whose eloquence
had been SO nearly wasted-"I would
not send you away for the world"
Evidently Jack was sure of his
meaning.
Even knowing my position 2" he
said, presently, with queer smile i'm
his eyes.
al cannot bear to think of that" she
cried, eagerly. Don't GO back to
those horrid ears ever again. Indeed,
/ cannot bear it, while / have so much,
Jack"
"My DEAR" cried Jack, with a light
hearted. ringing laugh, IL have been
growing rich, not poor, and now / am
the richest man in the worldw
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
Influence OF Iron.

Does the increasing transfer of iron
from the interior to the surface of the
earth, asks Kn0aCledge, exercise any
meteorological influence? Is it in any
marked way influential on electric cur
rents, and thence does it affect magnet
ic storms? This is a question which
needs little thought to answer safely.
The development of railways, and the
almost universal substitution of iron
for wood wherever it is practicable to
use that metal, must surely exercise a
decided influence of its own. Every
year more and more of the iron former
ly buried in the earth is spread upon
it's surface, and it is surely reasonable
to assume that, electrically at least,
some effect is produced; how far we
may venture, as some seem now dis
posed to do, to translate this into a me-
teororical agency is problem for sci
ence to determine.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
DENNGER g. BUMnLER, Editors and Proprietors
VOL. LVII.

ward him returned hastily to its fellow
in the shelter of o dainty muff, and
Miss Trente's pretty brows raised a
trifio with dismay.
"Oh" she gasped. Then, with gen.
tie dignity: Il will not offend so far
again passed on with n slight
bow.
But Jack cried. Forgive Ller' in a
tone of trouble and contrition, that
stopped her as effectually as an iron
grasp could have done.
Il did not mean that. Forget it,
and say good-by."
His hand was extended entreating-
ly, and hers met it without hesitation.
"Are you going away?" she asked,
gently, wondering at the white shadow
on his face.
What else?" he said.
Her eyes fell, and her color changed
slightly rs she murmured:
Il hoped you would learn TO forget. "
'1n death, perhaps"
She looked up then with quivering
lips and world of compassion in her
eyes.
"Good-by. You know what that
means ?"
God be with YOU"
And she passed on, an expression
mingling with the pity in her face that
puzzled him; for had she not sent him
away?
1t puzzled him so much that he
would have followed her but for the
fash of her diamond earrings.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10

Henry Cabot Lodge says in the Allan
tic Monthly: The universal preva-
lence of the colonial spirit is
shown most strongly by one
great exception, just as the flash
of lightning makes us realize the in
tense darkness of a thunder storm at
night. In the midst of the provincial
existence in the eighteenth century
there stands out in sharp relief the
luminous genius of Franklin. II is
true that Franklin was cosmopolitan
in thought, that his name and fame
and achievements in science and litera-
ture belonged to mankind; but he was
all this because he was genuinely and
intensely American. His audacity,
his fertility, his adaptability, are all
characteristic of America, and not of
an English colony. lie moved with
an easy and assured step, with a poise
and balance which nothing could
shake, among the great men of the
world; he stood before kings and
princes and courtiers, unmoved and
unawed. He was strongly ayerse to
breaking with England; but when the
war came he was the one man who
could go forth and represent to Europe
the new nationality without touch of
the colonist about him. He met them
all,great ministers and great sovereigns,
on common ground, as if the colonies
of yesterday had been an independent
nation for generations. His autobiog-
raphy is the cornerstone, the first
great work of American literature
The plain, direct style, almost worthy
of Swift, the homely, f0rcible language,
the humor, the observation, the know
ledge of men, the worldly philosophy
of that remarkable book, are familiar
to all; but its best and, considering its
date, its most extraordinary quality is
its perfect originality. 1t is Ameri-
can in feeling, without any taint of
English colonialism. Look at Frank
lin in the midst of that excellent Penn
sylvanian community; compare him
and his genius with his surrounding,
and you get better idea of what the
colonial spirit was in America in those
days, and how thoroughly men were
saturated with it, than in any other
WaV
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
. King AlcOhOl'S Way.

A young man by the name Of Muir
ply, living in London, went home the
other night, and instead of finding a
warm welcome and hot supper, he
found his mother stone dead on the
floor, with her head firmly wedged in a
tin saucepan. She was in liquor when
her son left her, and the medical evil
dence went to show that she had
pitched forward upon the floor and
driven her head into the saucepan SO
securely that she could not extricate it,
and had consequently died of suffoca-
tion. Since the dawn of creation the
king of terrors has welded an infinite
variety of weapons, but probably
never before confronted his victim
with saucepan.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
The Clerk WiItcd.

A few days before Congress adj
journed Senator Harris, of Tennessee,
rather plain-looking old gentleman,
went into the room of the Senate COM
mittee on claims to look up the case Of
a Tennessee friend. The clerk of a
Senate committee is always a bigger
man than the chairman, or the presi-
dent of the Senate for that matter
The clerk of this particular committee
had never seen Harris before, and he
did not like the somewhat imperative
way in which Harris asked for inform
alton about his friends claim. care
you the claimant2" he finally asked.
sharply. NO." said Harris, "I am
not" "Are you his attorney?" still
more sharply, NO." said Harris as
quietly as before, 81 am not" "Well,
then, what interest have you in the
case?" asked the clerk in the high
keyed-George-Bliss tone "Oh." not
much," said the senator blandly; "but
the people down there sent me to the
Senate, and as the claimant in this case
is my constituent | thought the best I
could do was to ask about it, For
once the clerk wilted. d.--1roy Times.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10

A good character shines by its own
light.
They that govern most make least
noise.
Life is but short, therefore crosses
cannot be long
In jealousy there is more love of
self than of any one else.
People do not need TO know more
about virtue, but rather practice what
they already know.
If there is any person TO whom you
feel a dislike, that is the person of
whom you ought never to speak.
He who can irritate you when he
likes is your master. You had better
turn rebel by learning the virtue of
patience.
Poetry is the blossom and fragrance
of all human knowledge, human
thoughts, human passions, emotions,
language.
Whosoever lends greedy ear to a
slanderous report is either himself of a
radically bad disposition or a mere
child in sense.
Speak the truth; yield not to anger;
give, when asked, of the little thou
hast; by these three steps thou shalt
go near the gods.
1t is little troubles that wear the
b cart out. 1t is easier to throw a
bombshell n mile, than feather
even with artillery.
BE willing to do good in your own
way. We need none of us be disturbed
if we cannot WELD another's weapons;
but our own must noe rust
In misfortune one may know a
friend, in battle a hero, in debt an
honest person, in decaying fortunes a
wife, and kinsmen in afiliction.
Let us be careful only of the quality
of our work that it be thorough,
genuine, supplemented. the best that
is in us. the best that can come out Of
us.
II is neither safe, respectable nor
wise to bring any youth to manhood
without regular calling. Industry,
like idleness, is a matter of habit.
No idle boy will make an active, in
dustrious and useful man.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
a Chapter of Accidents.
"Littlo things on little wings
Bear little souls to heaven"

He wrote, and wrote, and wrote.
Not exactly from "early morn till
dewy eve," but from the cricket's first
shrek to the rattle of the milkman's
equipage. He told first how he loved
her, and, being slightly sensible man
and thoroughly in earnest, that did not
require much space; but then he had
the story of an old love to explain
how he had been bewitched by other
smiles, and only escaped their thrall-
dom when the fair enchantress had
proved herself unworthy by marrying
some one else. Moreover-and this
was difficult point-those chains had
been riveted not before he met the OBJ
ject of his present devotion, but under
her eye and with her encouragement
as confidant.
He felt keenly the delicacy of this
position, and it is not unlikely that his
brain and pen did also. Then there
was another troublesome point. The
mighty dollar had most pertinacious-
ly evaded his grasp. and while thai
fact alone offered brilliant suggestions
for eloquent pictures, viz, "love in
cottage and strong, devoted arms, it
shrunk disagreeably when coupled with
the knowledge that Miss Trente was
an heiress.
He spent large portion of the
night dreaming on this situation re-
versed. How glorious to possess every
thing, and say, "All yours, my queen"
But while there was latent relief
that she never know privation for him,
the waking was bittes, and had his
affection been one iota less, he had
flung his letter into the fire, and his
love as far as possible into Lethe. AS
it was, he wrote on, ending in an i'm
petuous, heartful fashion, thus:
"l you send me away, let it be by silence;
cannot bear No from your lips"
Then he hasteneI to sign, seal and
deliver to the corner post.
1t was on deserted corner, and
gray morning; so perhaps no one saw
that he touched the letter to his lips
certainly no one knew that he
breathed prayer toward the tiny
streak of silver that Aurora was push
ing over the eastern chimneys.
Being sensitive, reserved young
man, he considered this ignorance on
the part of humanity laudable; but if
some kind busybody could have hint
ed another glance at the direction on
that envelope, how doubly grateful he
would have been!
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
The Oyster

In communication to the Philadel-
phia Medical and Surgical Journal, Dr.
Charles L. Dana, of New York, points
out some prevalent errors concerning
oysters. 1t has been said that the oys-
ter, on account of its hepatic diastase.
has the power of digesting itself. In
a series of experiments, DR.. Dana has
given the mollusk some excellent oppor-
tunities of doing SO, but it declines to
digest even its own liver. AS to the
superior digestibility of raw oysters
over cooked, it was found that when
boiled for short time, or roasted In
the shell, they were nearly If not quite
as rapidly dissolved as the raw,
Cooking, in fact, loosened the museu.
lar fbrils, thus allowing the peptic
juices to penetrate,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
IL.

"Stand from underp' She was pass
ing under the scaffold of an unfinished
building three days after the posting
of Mr.. Cartoons epistle, when this cry
and an ominous crashing overhead
brought her to standstill of terror.
She was still undecided which way
TO fly, when figure stepped quickly
from the doorway near and lifted her
within.
When the crash was over and the
dust clearing, she found her senses suf-
fciently to recognize Jack Carlton.
"This way, Miss Trente. I can in
sure you safer return" said lie, qui-
city, leading the way to the rear en-
trance of the house.
Miss Trente gave a shuddering
glance at the still vibrating timbers.
"They would have crushed me to
atoms" she murmured, fearfully.
IL was very fortunate to be in time,"
Carlton said, after brief pause. "The
house is one of my uncle's, and hap
pened by with directions from him."
There was a kind Of stern repression
about him that Miss Trente noticed
with surprise.
Il hope my silence has not led you
TO believe me unappreciative," she
said, hesitatingly, as they reached the
sidewalk. 81 am very grateful, Mr..
Carlton, and
"And sorry, no doubt" Mr.. Carlton
interrupted, bitterly. "But compassion
and gratitude are what I never desire
from any woman-least of all from
you, Miss Trente"
The little hand that had stalte to-
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
The lIuIIIan Skin.

If you could see piece of your skin
through microscope you would see
long lines of ridges and hollows that
look more like pl'wed ground than
anything that I Can think of. The
ridges are divided into little conical
elevations in which q nerve terminates
or else passes around it; and here lies
the sense of touch. In the hollows are
the pores that are the open
ings of the sweat ducts. What are
these, do you ask? Well, they are
minute tubes which, Strengthened out,
would be about quarter of an inch
long, that start in the tissue beneath
the derma and wind spirally up through
the skin until the upper sur
face is reached where its open end ter
inmates. The other end is twisted in
to sort of knot which is contained in
a little sac, and this is surrounded by
blood vessels.
The number of these little sweat
ducts or glands is astonishing. 1t is
estimated that in every square inch of
skin there are at least $500, and, as in
a person of ordinary size there are
$500 square inches of surface, these
glands count up 100000. Only
think of 100000 pores to keep
open through a whole lifetimel If
these tubes were put together end to
end there would be one long canal of
about twenty-eight miles. How is
that for system of sewage?-Tozedo
Blade.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
Sowing ana Reapings

Sow with generous hand,
Pause not for toll or pain;
Weary not through the heat OF summer,
Weary not through the cold spring rain;
But wait till the autumn comes
For tho sheaves of golden grain,
Scatter the seed and fear not,
A table will be spread;
What matter If you are too weary
To eat your hard-cGrned bread;
Sow while the earth IL broken,
For the hungry must be fed.
Sow while the seeds are lying
In tho warm earths bosom deep,
And your warm tears fall upon it
They will stir in quiet sleeps
And the green blades rise the quicker,
Perchance for the tears you weep,
Then sow Tor the hours ere fleeting
And the seed must fall to-day;
And care not what hands shall reap 1t,
Or if you shall have pass'd away
Before the waving corn-6elds
Shall gladden. the sunny day.
Sow, and look onward, upward,
Were the starry light appears
Where, in spite of the towards doubling,
Or yolr own hearts trembling fears,
You shall reap in JOY the harvest
You have sown to-day in tears.
-.adelaide A. Proctor.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
Troubled.

"Dearest, sweetest, what is it? Are
you sick? What ails my precious
pet?" and the young husband bent
tenderly over the graceful form
of his blushing bride
"Oh, Adolphus Edward, its too
dreadful for anything"
"Bad news from home%'
"Worse, worse! Oh, what shall I
do?"
"Tell your own darling hubby"
"It's that awful Selma Tarbox,
she's"
"She's what. my preciousY
ashes got bonnet trimmed exact
ly like mine, and to-morrow's Sun
day p
Then the afflicted beauty buried her
face in her husbands breast and trick
led her pearly tears all over his three
dollar shirt-ChicGgo Eye.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
The Wind Blows.

The Wind Blows.
Hnkl
The wind blows, and sleet and hail
Fast follow on the eddying gale
The winter seething In the SHOWS;
The sweeping storm, from hight TO hight
Beats back the huge, devouring niGhti
The watchdogs bark
And the wind blows
Hark!
The wind blows, the hills grow brown,
The snow melts and the rain comes down.
The swollen current dips and flows;
The water loans, the bridge gives way;
BY night the horseman drinks the spray;
The watchlogs bark
And the wind blows.
Hark!
The wind blows, the nights grow brief,
The savage forests burst IN leaf,
The time OF planting comes and goes;
The waters fall, the sand drifts down;
Suns pass and no man thinks thereon;
The watchdo2s bark
And the wind blows.
Dora Read GoodaIe.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
BEAUTIFUL CORALS.
what They Are and How They Are
Efshed Out.


Eished Out.
Coral, as an ornamental stone, was
appreciated centuries before its real
nature was known. At first il was
thought to belong to the mineral king
dom, and then it was recognized as a
marine plant, the coral beads which
were first brought into Greece being
thought to be berries, which had red
dened and hardened by exposure to
the air. IL was centuries after its first
discovery that an Italian naturalist
called these supposed flowers or berries
"Corallium rubrum," and scientific men
accept this definition as conclusive
But it was a French doctor at Mar
seilles who found out, not much more
than hundred years ago, that these
supposed flowers were in reality ami
mails, endowed with the power of vol
untary motion. When, however, he
communicated his discovery to the
French academy of sciences, his name
was concealed, in order to protect him
from the derision that was expected to
follow his declaration-so persuaded
were even the men of science that
corals were merely petriied flowers.
The French doctor, however, was
right. COrals are sea anemOnes, that
have secreted a calcareous skeleton and
have become compound by budding
In living state, the coral branch we
see in commerce is covered with a
leathery coating of bright red color,
studded with small holes, out of which
protrude white polyps, with eight ten
tacles, looking exactly like flowers,
which deceived the Italian naturalist.
Well. il is these colonies of soft-bodied
zoophytes which secrete the lime of
which the valuable stone is composed.
Now, although coral is one of the most
abundant substances in nature-entire
islands and reefs being formed of it in
tropical seas the particular variety of
red coral is comparatively rare, and is
almost entirely confined to the Medi-
terranean sea. 1t is there found in
reefs. few miles from the shore, and
at depths varying from one to hun
dred fathoms. The greatest coral fish
cries are those off Naples, Sicily, Sar-
dinia and Algiers.
Almost every year new bed is
found somewhere along the Italian
coast. 4 rush is then made TO the
spot and the bed is soon exhausted.
The rush used to be so great, indeed,
that it frequently took aman-of-war to
keep the fishing fleet in order. Now,
however all this If changed; for, by the
new fisheries act, the discoYerer of a
new coral bank has the exclusive right
to fish on it for two years. The value
of these banks may be estimated at an
average yearly rate of eight thousand
tons of coral, rendering several millions
of pounds sterling! The coral fisheries
off Algiers are under the control of the
French government, which exacts
heavy duties for the right of fishing;
and in order to prevent the exhaustion
of this fishery the reefs are divided
into ten portions, ten years being the
time which the coral is supposed to
take in order to reach its full growth;
thus, by fishing only one of these
divisions at a time. provision is made
for an uninterrupted fishery.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-10
NO. 49,.
REEFING A STEER.
The Story OF the old settler From Away
Back in Pike County, Penn.

The Story OR the Old settler From Away
Back Am Pike County, Penn.
"We heerd that Phil Boyer, who
lived six mile back on the ridge, were
goin' to beef q steer o hisn, which
were little too obstreperous to be
handled for work. Ez none of us had
ever heerd of beein' bee, we ruther
oalc'lated ez 'twere bout time to get
one up, an SO we jest throw'd together
a high ole party, an started to give
Phil s'prise.
"For q mile or SO fore we got to
Phil's we heerd fearful yellin' and
howlin', but we thort 'twere only a
cattymount singin' over in the swamp,
an we hedn't time to think about a
little thing like that. The moon We're
bigger'n a washtub, an we could see
jest tbout ez well ez if the sun were
shinin'. IL were colder than Greenlan'.
The howlin' an hollerin' got louder ez
we got higher to Phil's, an when we
struck his clearin' an come
up to the house, we see sight that
jest nigh on to killed us laughin'.
Thar were Phil on the roof o the
cabin, straddle o. the ridge pole, yell
in, Help! helpr ez if some one were
butcherin' on him. A prancin' an
bellerin' round the cabin, fust on one
side an then on t'other, were the
steer, PAWN the snow wus nor If a
nor'easter were gettin' in its work on
a drift, an actin ez if 'twere havin
more'n barrel O. fun, an 'twant cost
in of him a cent. Ii were a funny
sight, an we jest howled.'
"'What a We doin' up thar, Phil|
we hollered. An how'd ye git up
thar?'
Lord, but want he bilin' mad?
"I clumb up the chimbly, o course.
We dodblasted galoots, said he. 1t
was so blamed hot in the cabin that !
clumb up yer to git COOL
"'Come down, Phil We've come to
give we s'prise. We thort ye was
goin' ter beef yer steer to-day Amt
we goin' ter beef it?'
"Do we see or hear anything o that
steer, consarn yev said he. An can't
We see it's only a question whether I'm
agoin' to beef that steer Or whether
it'll beef me? and the odds hez al
been in favor o the steer all day. The
internal crittcr gently boosted me
onter this ridge pole at 10 o'clock this
mornin', an I've been yer freezin' an
yellin' fur help ever sense. My ole
woman an the young uns is locked in
the cabin, an I've seen EN- try twice to
git out to the wood pile, but that steer
has took good keer that they didn't, an
" l. udlHU ucSltl IAUluiu O1 Gill SCnCc IL
reckon they'm either freze to death or
gone to bed to keep warm. That steer
hez been havin' the properest kind of
q Fourth O. July celebration all day,
an if some O. you fellers can git away
with him yc kin send for the corner,
fur I'll be frozc stiffer'n a Christmas
goose fore mornin'
$50 we he'd to tackle the steer. BY
pluggin' it full O pistol balls, an,
poundin' it on the head with an AK
for half an hour or so, we split his
little fun. Then we goi Phil down
an thawed him out.
"Well, we had high ole time at
Phil's that night continued the
ranger. "Thc ole CONAN an the
Young uns had gone 10 bed to keep
warm, sure enough, bus we soon he'd
'cm in good shape. An that beefn
bee closed the season"