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I t I . B ' b . i Vi' TO AN OLD CLOCK. I love your dear old fashioned fare. Where itets tlioituu Ih*ih*hiIi the moon. While keep your ImudN thulr wifomn puce, As runs tny own ahiWml nut* Toward lt« lulur afternoon. 1 lovo to hear your <*onr*t««nt Hi-uke Ui-oti the buck of icriit'i‘l<w» Hum, And love to mm* the curling muiouu From (Milulvd t.lpcn, i.Ihivc* the Joke, Of burgher* lu their sturdy prime. The lusty cock now from his gate Comes, with bis lordly front, to crow Bis greeting to his mottled mate Who croons the while he views In state Their offspring as thoy come and go. Far from the vales of cloistered years The tinkle of your tiny bells A mumYy wakes, a hope endears. Till youth a feathYlng mist appears, As Time uism Its echo dwells! Afar away, I seem to see A troop of spirits, grave and gay, Aud then «*« hear their minstrelsy. Low voice and sweet; then, dreamily, • I walk i;• • i ulina •»* «****©r«Uv. Imicli. .ijillroud Klecpers. While William F, liuUnload, the present general manager of the Del aware. Lackawanna and Western system of railroads, wus superintend ent of the BufFulo division there was an old track foreman, a Mr. C., whoso abilities wore highly appreciated by Mr. Hallstead, and who was just about as abrupt in his speech as the superintendent himself. One day Mr. Hal Intend was watching a gang of men at work under the superin tendence of Mr. C. Observing a number of new railroad tics lying in a ditch alongside the track, Mr. Hall- stead called the track foromon’s at* tention to them in this way: “C., what in blank are those ties doing down thoro in that water!” Mr. 0. turned around deliberately, looked at the ties, and then turning to Mr. Hallstead said slowly: “Well, Bill, I’ve boen looking at those ties off and on for a week jmst, and I’ll lie blanked if I’ve seen them do anything* yet”—New York Trib une. Jewelry In Europe. For the ornamentation of the per son tho Hushlan does not, except among the peasant class, follow his native style In his jewolry, hut rather affects the Parisian elegance. In Italy they are celebrated for their delicate filagree work, but in other parts of continental Europe jewelry Is tawdry and badly made. Switzer land excels in watches. England is very strong in silver jewelry, manu facturing some gold, principally chains, bracelets and brooches, all of which tup heavy, clumsy and not at dll refined art. London is tho headquarters of tho trade, where the horrors of tho “sweating system” among hor wretched jewelry workers were the subject of legislative in- quiry.'-H. P. Mawson In Harpor’s Woekly.- The IItippy Andorran* We have the authority of one who has spout several years among the Andorrans, and who 1ms studied them as thoy have never boon stud ied before. No railway 1ms ovor In-' vndod jho domains, and there are po tolograjibs, no carriage roads, no ca nals: ther ■ not n single wheeled . vohiclc, i ■ mi enjipo, it-t.m laws, » • ....... « - '",o bt, " *'• " S , .id ate -"-I, no on jU.Ay,liubo/ •• <viti tio. , ' Ac com panies, i :t frosn the Roman Catholic iv jtaon, mid uo foreign commerce. -All tho Year Round. A Riuhful Mmi's Rmo, A bashful young man who was afraid to propose to his sweetheart induced hor to fire at him with a pis tol which he nssurod hor was only loaded with powder, and after bIio had done so lie foil down mid pro- tended to be dead. She throw her nelf wildly upon tho body, called him her darling lind her beloved, where upon he got up and married hor— .Loudon Tit-BitB. I <5**1 iik Onu Better. XfrtfeJ’ot (who doesn’t liko sloep ing with lu-ji’ sister) - When we gets a new house £ni goili to have a room to myself and tt key to tlio door. Little Sistei—Huh I 1 is doin to haven room to myself, too, nn—mi two hoys to zee door. —Oood Nows. The first mention of rubber was made by Herrera in his account of the second voyage of Columbus, when lie speaks of a ball used bj* the Indians made from the gum of n tree. It was lighter and bounced for better than tho famous windballs of Castile. The investigations recently made of the hubitatiqjis of wlint are known as the Colorado cliff dwellers have led scientific men to lielieye that they were occupied by a race of peojile fully Ib.OUiV years ngo. Tho uiuu of an average of 154 pounds bn:- enough iron in his make up to mi'.;- plowshare and enough phospbinv ". l 'ion -latch'*. HERE IS A REAL CHARITY. ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, MARCH-36, 1892. In t. ottoi . 1 a Ve elastic,. silk ich -ohly . - 0 . n-Jiious. The tvo:v i will be nearer right when a hum has learued to laugh a little less at his neighbor's troubles 'and a little more at Ins own. The Llttln Mothers* Alii Society and the Good Work tt It Doing, One of the Baddest phases of child life in New York is tho fate of the “little Mothers" among tho very poor. You may see them in any of the crowded streets of the tenement bouse region—little girls of eight, ten, even six years, with sharp, care worn faces, tugging smaller girls and baby boys in their thin, bony arms. Their poor little bodies are bent with the heavy burden, their dwarfed little souls scarcely lees deformed. In such families, where father and mother and all tho older children are wage earners, the little girls too small to he hired in the factories must mind the baby, for there’s al ways a baby to mind. In winter the little mother is usually locked into the dismal rooms that Buch people call home. In summer she wanders about the street with the baby on her shoulder. Some of the east side mothers sit about on tho benches In Stuyvesnnt square, where tho smart nursemaids wheel the dainty lace cunujiied chariots of their more for tunate charges. A kind hearted lady whose house fronts tho square used to go out among these children questioning them as to why they'did not goto school, and ff they wouldn’t like to go to tho country on Borne of the ex cursions. and always receiving the same answer, that they couldn’t go bocmiHo they lmd to mind the baby. The lady interested herself in the matter, and with the aid of her friends arranged a series of day ex cursions on Saturdays when tho real mothers are usually at homo. Five chaperons wore employed, who vis ited constantly in tho homes, found out the little caretakers, arranged for some one clso to take the charges for the day and accompanied the children to pleasant country places at short distances from tho dty. But whon tho summer was ovor, and the money raised by volliutary contribu tion and entertainments was ex hausted, the lady opened the base ment of her own house and invited them in on Saturdays for a little les son In sowing, and on Wednesdays for a bit of a good time in gomes and songs anil story telling. If you should go to one of these sewing matinees you would bo aston ished at tho size of tho tiny mothers, Homo of whom might ho culled babies themselves. Thoy are clad in a heterogeneous collection of things, shabby and outgrown by the rest of the family, for the wage ouraors must bo well dressed. They begin to sow on a washcloth, which, when it is finished, they take home with them, together with a cake of soap and a towel, and, be it said to thou* credit, thoy mako good uso of the outfit before they come again. It was the purpose of Mrs. Johnston, the founder of the society, and Mrs. Hearn, hor callable associate in the work, to teach the children to sew on garments which should, when fin ished, he given to them. But so great has been tho need of the little maids that tho ladies have fitted thorn out with clothing os fast as was possible. The appeal made by those womon, who, with a few others, have for nearly two years carried on this work, is for half worn children's clothing. Somo of tho responBoe to this appeal havo come in the form of bundles of ragged garments and old shoos that Mrs. Johnston was obligod to paV hor ashman to remove. New garments are loss practicable than tiloso half worn, because parents sometimes sell or pawn thorn.—New York Son. Bow Boa aaS Womon Moot Tran bio. Men and women meet the .small troubles of life very differently. In the first place a woman often locks that sense of proportion which is neces sary to distinguish the lesser from the greater ills; to her all troubles are of the greatest magnitude and to be mourned equally, The failure of a new dress or of a dinner party ore calamities over which she will some times worry herself into a fever. Most men would meet similar trou bles with a shrug of the shoulders and then speedily forget them. Then, again, a woman does uot forget easily and is given to brooding, nor is she so swift to run away from her troubles os a man Is. Indeed she cannot he easily induced to run away from them at all; the contemplation of them has a fatal fascination for her. In any small misfortune which falls equally upon huslnnd and wife, in nine cases out of ten whore the man resolutely refuses to remember it and hastens to turn his thoughts Into siune other chaunelB, the wom an wili seom to take almost a per verse jjleaaure in recalling it to her mind and reflecting upon its actual and possible consequences. Much of this difference in their demeanor is of course due to the difference of their life. A man can easily run out of doors and seek distraction, whereas a woman’s lot is to remain at home and think. Indeed, wo should say that very lunch was owing to the greater opportunity that a woman possesses of contemplating her wor- •ics and brooding over them.—Lon don Sjiectutor. Pifflcutt JugfUng. “Onoof the most difficult feats that I accomplish, ” says Kara, the juggler, “and one that I spent many days in practicing, and which I consider a really hard thing to do, is the bal ancing of a lump, whilo lighted, on stick perched upon my foot, at the same time balancing a twirling basin on a stick in 0110 hand and keeping two plates spinning in tho air with tho other. This, you can understand, diversifies the work very neatly to say the least. Another act on which 1 Bjsjut many weary hours is the placing of a lighted lamp ujkiu my head, tossing it by a quick movement of tho' liewl' into tho air, where it turns a complete somersault aud lights ujion my baud again all right It is a hard thing on my hood, too, I can assure yon, but lain compelled to practice it daily that I may not lose my skill in the act"—Chicago Times. What tli© Banana Miiy Prove. ■ Although tho buuauu is of Mnlayan origin it was found by adventurers in Mexico. It is significant that tho Aztecs had traditions of visits by people from ovor the sous, while there wus, as if to confirm these tra ditions, an admixture of tho religion of the Brahmins in their own the- cloy. How unlikely it would have seemed that the humble banana should stop forward to prove that, before Columbus or Loif Ericson had an existenco, somo swarthy denizens of tho Old World bod mode their way across the waters!—Gold- thwaito's Geographical Magazine. Not Cultivated. Two farmers, discussing the mer its of a newcomer, decided, after ven tilating him thoroughly, that in view of the fact that "he didn’t know enough to take off his coat when he -’ate his meals, ho wasn't to be culti vated." -Warper's Bazar. Olio Wny to Hunt the Cuntotus Laws. An Englishman who holds a clerk ship in one of the jirominent ship ping houses of this city has for years imported his clothes from London, yet has never puid any duty and never smuggled them in.. At least ho has never smuggled them in the usual ways adopted by those who don't Bee the point of paying Uncle Samuel for tin* privilege of wearing English clot:dug. His plan is 11 simjile one, but it is not likely to lie followed by many imitatovs. He lias a friend on the other side who is u tailor, and he mails as a sample of cloth one leg of a pair of trousers, half of a waist coat, the sleeve of a coat or half the back, and the jiarcel is marked “sam ple” and comes wrapped in thick brown pajmr opened at one end. Sometimes it takes a month or six weeks for a full Buit to arrive, part coming via New York and occasion ally a part by Boston. The parts are then sewed together by a tailor here and the suit is complete. Only once in six years has a parcel been lost in transit, and it was half the bock of a coat mode of a peculiar shade of bluo cloth which the Eng lish clork could not match. He hod tho rest dyed black and got sufficient block cloth from a local dealer to finish the garment. — Philadelphia Record. Tli. rul'1 World. Arcady novoroaroso out of sheer gladness of heart and lustihood of fancy. To the poetic imagination the difficulties, depravities and insuf ficiency of actual life have always been especially manifest and opjires- sivo. But tho pootic imagination at its beet never rests in discontent, in the mere apprehension and recital of woes. It is creative and seeks a rem edy, or at least a refuge. From tho first it has found some approach to that peace and sincerity which it cannot do without, but which actual life Booms to deny everywhere in nature. Thus the poet’s favorite haunt has al ways been the vales and the groves, the flowery banks and the green fields. But nature wholly unpeopled still failed to satisfy, and so the poets, in their aspiration after earthly perfec tion, fell to colonizing tlioir plncid retreats with the children of their fancy. Thus catno Arcady—the land of fantastio shejffierds and slieperd- esses, where everybody was holiest mid simplo, where tlio tending of sheep was but a pastime, and the chanting of madrigals tlu> chief pur suit.—Scribner’s. Jew* May Have Light on tho Sabbuth. An English papor calls attention to nn interesting mid important ruling. Tho Jewish law orders tliat on the Sabbath day no fire may be kindled. Touching lire, lighting or extinguish ing gas lamps, oil lamps or candles is forbidden. With tho advent of the electric light there came tho necessity of a ruling on the legality or illegal ity of turning the electric current on or off. Professor Crookes) a well known British electrician, having' given his expert testimony that the electric light does not result from combustion in the lamp, that “fire and flame” are not n jinrt of it, tlio orthodox Jew is now permitted to uso tlio electric light on his Sabbath. Wliero Alligator* Aw llnmilp**. Though very numerous, alligators ai-o uot generally regarded as danger ous in Paraguay. I have often seen the young negroes and Indian boys swimming vrithin a few yards of them, and the reptiles paid little at tention to their play. Cattle, too. wade about the flooded grass lands in search of jiasturage and are rarely molested by alligators. In fact, uu-' less driven to bay or ravenous with hunger, they dare uot attack man or the larger animals, but they ore al ways on the watch for smaller prey. —Herbert H. Smith in St. Nicholas. HOW WOMEN WERE EXECUTED. During th© Reign of Terror the Number Killed Dally Grew from 1 to 03. During the Reign of Terror the first capital sentence on a women was passed on April 13,1793. Catherine Cleere, a domestic servant at Valen ciennes, fifty-five years of age, was found at night in tho streets of that, town, shouting “Vive le Rol” and singing revolutionary songs. Prob ably it was a case of in vino veritas, albeit her master assured the tribu nal that during five months in his service she had shown no anti- republican sentiments; and there was no evidence of her having meddled in politics. Next day two members of the con vention, horrified at the infliotion of death for so light on offense, urged a respite, but the convention declined to interfere, and it is said that even while the brief discussion was going on the guillotine did its wbrk. Two months later three Breton womon, aged twenty-four, twenty- five and twenty-seven, implicated with twenty men in n royalist plot,’ detected by the digging up of papers in a garden, suffered the some pen alty. A few weeks more, and it was the turn of Charlotte Corday. By this time the Parisians had be come accustomed to the “equality of the sexes” before the guillotine, and the monthly statistics—I follow tho Jacobin culendar—show a terrible crescendo of executions: Vendemi- aire, 3 women (including Marie An toinette) and 7 men; Brumaire, 3 women (including Mmo. Roland) and 83 men; Frimoire, 10 women (includ ing Mme. Dubarry) and 57 men; Ni- vose, 10 women, 51 men; Pluviose, 8 women, 60 men; Ventose, 11 wom en, 105 men; Germinal, 13 women, 143 men; Florinl, 37 women (includ ing Princess Elizabeth), 337 men; Prairial, 33 women, 476 men; Messi- dor, 93 women, 703 men; Thermidor, 1st to 9tli, 59 women, 383 men. If Robespierre hod not been over turned, and if Thermidor had con tinued os it had begun, the monthly number of women would have risen to 177. As Edgar Quihet remarks, the longer the system lasted the more the Terrorists were doomed, to pro long it; on eternity of murderg would havo been necessary before the fa vorable moment for clemency was found. It should also bo mentioned that tho acquittals, which at first considerably outnumbered the con victions, became after Pluviose a dwindling minority, and that of the 6,000 persons still in prison when Robespierre fell we may assume one- third to have been women.—National Review. Tlio Mlddlo Georgian* The Middle Georgian, always a politician, a free, often clamorous, sometimes a fighting voter,, seldom aspired to the legislature or other positions wherein,, besides being ridiculous, ho might have proved a nuisance. His social rivalries began in country, commonly called “old field,” schools. Children of all con ditions attended them during their formative years until a few left for college, and the rest for the plow and the hoe, or for the working tools of tho artisan. Here began intimacies and affections thatnosubsequent dif ferences in culture or fortune were destined to change. Indeed the first settlers in Middle Georgia, although among them were some os well bora as any who ever came from the old states, or remained therein, organized society on a scale of simplest democracy. In general, every neighbor used to sit at every other neighbor’s board, neither feel ing that he was imparting or receiv ing favors other than such ns flow from the needs and enjoyments of social existence, proud of nothing so much as living in a region specially blessed by heaven.—Colonel R. M. Johnston in Century. The “ring lint" In France. Tho tall hat, variously called “chimney pot,” “stove pipe,” “cylin der” .and what not, became fashion able in Paris in 1790, soon after the death of Franklin, in whose honor it was known as “chapeau Franklin." In sjiite of numberless changes of style it bus maintained its ground ever since, unexpected ns such a re sult would have seemed at its first introduction. For n time this style of hat was considered revolutionary in Germany and Russia. Any one wearing a "cylinder" was liable to punishment; but the evil reputation soon passed away, and the tall, stiff liat, the ugliest head covering that was ever worn aud the most ridi culed, outlives nil other styles.— Youth’s Comjianion. A Cimtly Work. j Mr. John H. V. Arnold has done an enormous amount of private il- 1 lustration, and his collection is among i the most celobrated of the city. His most remarkable work had for its foundation Josejffi N. Ireland’s “Rec- bllections of the New York Stage.” In 1882 Mr. Arnold had extended Mr. Ireland's work to' twenty volumes, had expended upon it upward of 89,000. and had sujijilied it -with 5,500 illustrations of persons and scenes ranging over the jieriod from 1750 to I860.—New York Sun. A Wlf. That Waa Mlamtd. The wife of Christopher North had more influence over him thuu any ; other person in the world, and her death was his greatest misfortune.— Writer. Oar National Bird* It has been proposed lately to orna ment the tip of the flagstaff used in the regular army of the United States with the representation in metal of the bald eagle, which is the emblem of. our republic. The staffs of regi mental standards now terminate with pikee. The eagle has already done duty in this way upon the standards of other nations, and par ticularly upon those of Rome and France. The American eagle, how ever, is a different variety from the eagle of France and the Roman re public. It is of on American variety —the “bald,” or white headed eagle. The ordinary name of the bird is a misnomer. It is not bald, but sim ply whiteheaded, the f oath era on tho head and neck of adult sjwciinens being snowy white. The honor of first naming this bird as the emblem of the United States belongs to John J. Audubon, the naturalist, whose name will be for- 3ver associated with our bird life. He called the bald eagle tho “Wash ington eagle,” because, he said, “Washington was brave, ns the eagle is. Likert, too, b£ was the terror of his enemies, and his fame, extending from pole to pole, resembles the soar ings of tho mightiest of the feathered tribe. If America has reason to be proud of her Washington, bo she has to be proud of her great eagle." The bald eagle, with wings extended or “disjilnyed proper,” os it is called in heraldry, was made tlio emblem of the United States in tho year 1785.— Exchange. The Duke ami the Mantua, One day us the Duke of Welling ton sat writing at his library table quite alone hi» door was suddenly opened without a knock or announce ment of any sort, and in stalked a gaunt man, who stood before the commander in chief with his hat on and a savage expression, of counte nance. The duke was of course a lit tle annoyed at such an unceremoni ous interruption, and looking up he asked, “Who are you?" '‘1 am Di onysius,” was the singular answer. “Well, what do you want?” “Your life." “My life?” “Yes; 1 am sent to kill you." “Very odd," said the duke, sitting back and calmly gazing at the intruder. “Not at all, for 1 am Dionysius," said the stranger, and I must put you to death.” “Are you obliged to perform this duty today?” asked the commander in chief; “I am very busy just now, and have a large number of letters to write. It would be very inconven ient today. ” The visitor looked hard during a moment’s pause. “Call again,’’continued the duke, “or write and make an appointment.” “You’ll be x'eady?” “Without foil,” was the reply. The manioc, awed, doubtless, by the stem old soldier, backed out of tiie room without further words, and half an hour later was safe in bedlam.—Son Francisco Argonaut. Hovp to Deni with “Crooks.'* “There are various ways of mak ing ‘crooked’ things straight,” said Captain Reilly, of the Tenderloin pre cinct. It was tho day after the po lice captains’ dinner, when the genial captain, smoldng a fragrant Havana, made this remark, and his ideas of things generally, and police business especially, were of the brightest hue. “Yes,” he said, “there are variouk ways of making ’crooked' things straight,” he repeated, ‘‘but there is only one way to make the 'crook’ feel that the law has its eyes open day and night. That way is to nip him every time he is found where he ought not to bo—when, for instance, he can’t give a good account of him self. Every man is innocent until he is proved guilty, hut when a man who has no visible means of Bupport and whose record is bad meanders about- in quarters that are not his naturally, the suspicion is just on the part of tho police that he isn't seek mg to do good for the poor—or the rich either, for that matter.’’—New York Herald. J. W. JOINER,/ French Schoolboy Fr lend ship, A delightful feature of French life is the close, brotherly intimacy of men lasting from early boyhood throughout life. The “thee” and “thou” of schoolboy days are re sumed after years of absence. A Frenchman will make sacrifices for his friends as alertly as an English man for his betrothed. One comrade mny have succeeded in the race of life, the other may have failed. The fraternal bonds remain unbroken. Heart still speaks to heart as in that careless time when tile pair sat side by side in the classroom.. The closeness of tlie marriage tie among ourselves interferes with this kind of friendship. In France it frequently happens that to his friend, and his friend only, a man can freely unbur den himself.—Fortnightly Review. Pens In the Seventh Century. Pens were fust used early in the Seventh century. They were of Course quills, and steel pons did not come into use until 1820; when the first gross of them was sold whole sale for £7 4s. The quality of those pens whs greatly inferior to that of those for which we now pay sixpence a gross.—Nptes and Queries. Society Note. Miss A.—I hear you are to be con gratulated. Miss B. —Not at all, I assure you. Miss A.—Then you are engaged, to young Dudely Canesucker after all. —Texas Siftings. JEWELER, Washington st.; Opiositk Commercial Bank % J Watches, Diamonds, Sil verware, Musical Instruments and Table and Pocket cutlery, Fancy Goods, etc. Reliable Goods, Fair Dealing, Bottom Prices. 1 Fine Watch Repairing—20 years experience—all work guaranteed. Spectacles and Eyeglasses'^ accurately fitted at moderate charges. OUR STOCK -OF- Spring Goods Are arriving daily and we can interest the Ladies who look to their interest See our Dress Goods and Trim mings and it means a sale for the salesrdan. Trimmings for dresses we can suppl} you with any kind you want. Crepons, Dress Goods in all of the latest shades, from 205. to $ 1,00 per yard. Double -Width Silk Lustre Brilliantines in'all the latest shades that we sell you for 20c., worth 50c per yard, and no other firm South of New York can duplicate these goods at prices mentioned. We have them in large quantities, bought by our Mr. Reich at a forced sale. He also bought 1 Case of Embroidery and the prices on them will con vince the closest buyers that tligy are great bargains. In the lot are some fine Swiss Cambric Mull and Hamburgs. Examine them and you will invest in them. Our stock of fine Imported Black Hose for Ladies, Misses and Children are here for inspection. We claim no firm in this or any other city can show better goods 'and the prices on these goods will be stand ard. We will say, in buying them, you get the value of your money. Other goods arriving daily, of which we will make mention later. Feb. 20,1892. REICH I GEIGER. Hr LEADING BUTCHERS! DUHLAVY4COHAGHAN. Corner Broad and Washington Streets. When yon want a tender stenk, anico niece of pork, or anything in tho meat line stop ut our market or give your orders to our wagons. Wo deal in Beet, Mutton, Veal, Pork and Pork Snu • sage, and our aim is to please. £V£>treekljr Hhipmeau of Fioe lVeei- eil Beef Received.