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*' i •A .» .1 , V\* / ' v '* „ 0 » BEIT BASTS. |?;V »,-#ust BOW 1 missed from hall and itah -i • %W A joyful treble that had grown ! w SUOHP- ' i v~. . ki ^•1 , Am dwr to me as that grave tone jTUat U lis the world my older can. "" • "S*iti m fe^ilnd little footsteps on the floor Were stayed. I laid aside my p«a. „ *<rw 'V Forget my tbeniA, and listened---theife .*»»> tfJtjc! •tole softly to the library door. ;!j; -t JIo sight! no sound!--a moment's fr Tv' Of fa! fancy thrilied my pulses through | -- * m "<*fj " If--no "--and yet, that fancy drew fcpj;"' 4. father's blood from heart and cheek.(]{ _ j.,; • £ And then--I found him ! There he l*Ae, ZZ i Surprised by sleep, caught in the acijlff • vlC J The rosy vandal who had sacked jfjfxy.' ||is little town, and thought it play. i&£f' he f battered vase; the broken jar :• i ̂ ; * " , ' A match itill smoldering on the iooi|jps:; $"! The inkstand's purple pool of gore; I The chessmen scattered near ana far. r .j. - J # t r e w n l e a v e s o f a l b u m s l i g h t l y p r e s s e J t , " ' This wicked " Baby of the WoodsjF*' »» *T5 In fact, of half the household goods jpTT'T' jii.Yi? This son and heir was seized--poeseseefc ij et all in vain, for sleep had caught The hand that reached, the feet that (tnytd < And fallen in that ambuscade ^the victor was himself o'orwrought. i*. ; though torn leaves and tattered Still testified his deep disgrace 1 • , I stooped and kissed the inky faoe, " , U» demure and calm outlook. " Sfhen back I stole, and half begniled My guilt, in trust that when my sleep £T*> ; • Should come, there might be One who'd keep j An equal mercy for Hia child. , Jirnrrf ir-fr i f far Jwly. ' ?*** ' r SITKA'S MISTAKE. Gilbert Gorham, at the age of 10, was i* eft orphaned and destitute, and was • • taken into the tender care of his loving grandfather, and his Aunt Jane, a ven­ erable spinster, whose severity was a most wholesome restraint upon his grand­ father's extreme indulgence. Oli Mr. Gorham being a man of enormous wealth, t his grandson and heir was the most fa- • yored of boys and youths, every whim of 1 ibis boyish and youthful fancy being gratitled as soon as expressed. And so, when Gilbert had attained the •*" age of 21, arid blush ingly announced his *' undying love for Miss Myra Wilbur, the "J belle of many watering places and sea­ sons, and some five years his senior, his grandfather only nodded and said: "Suit yourself, my boy; suit your* , self." So a magnificent diamond was slipped on Myra's finger, and Gilbert entered into a f -oi's paradise, blind to the fact that he was the dupe of an accomplished coquette, whose whole hard nature was incapable of the tithe of the love laid at her feet. For, being sensitive, poetical and over-indulged, the boy made unto him­ self an idol, and, calling it Myra, wor­ shiped it. And the actual Myra, being eminently practical, worldly and mercenary, erect­ ed a gold idol of unlimited indulgence, and, calling that Gilbert, worshiped it Mr. Gorham, although he was old and feeble, took a carriage and drove from Fern Nook, the family country seat, into Poolsville, the town honored by Miss Wilbur's presenoe, and made a formal call , After he was gone, Miss Wilbur, turn­ ing to her mother, made a strange speech for a maiden just betrothed, for she 6aid: " After all, mamma, a rich widow is better than a rich wife, for she can spend : S , money then uncontrolled." "Well, my dear?" • "I was only thinking that Gilbert jfjj- told me once be was entirely dependent : 1«» upon his grandfather, having nothing of It# liifl Awn wnil^ fliA nl/1 man Itv^ " 1- M 4* m- M Hi! vt - * * • i*. m*- ft*, his own wnile the old man lived.' M>- > " It would be well, then, to keep in the old gentleman's favor." Evidentlv Myra was of that opinion. She worked a pair of soft quilted slip- ! ? pers for the aged feet, she sent flowers , and little dainty dishes to Fern Nook for 01 dear Mr. Gorham, and she made her­ self a hundred-fold dearer to her infatu- *T' ated lover by her delicate attentions to ^ his relative. -i. Business connected with the settle- . ment of a clrom of his grandfather's against the Government called Gilbert , , Washington, early in the winter fol- ~ ; donring his betrothal There was the „ i ueiuil pathetic parting, and, with assur- ftl , .-anee of Myra's undying love, the young .* ,;.jnan left Fern Nook. Aftei: two months'<abbence, when he was preparing to return ihcane, a tele- «..i gram reached Lim: Wait in New York to see me. Will put up I Grand CentraL JANE GOBHAM. 'Of all str?tnge experience this was the 01 5: votrangest. His Aunt Jane leaving her jftj Jiome to visit the metropolis! Gilbert i{| vainly tried to remember if ever she . had been absent from home before, and, • >r thoroughly bewildered, hurried to meet •x • His first surprise was to find her gen- . »< tie and kind, all the grim severity of her manner ^one. Her kiss upon his lips was tender as Myra's own. « r "My boy," she said, "I have news "N for you that will distress you, but before "J I tell that I • want you to listen atten­ tively to some business details that were never of any special interest to you be­ fore. You have always supposed Fern Hook and the wealth that sustains it to be your grandfather's." " And are they not ?" "No, my dear, they are mine. Your grandfather holds a life lease only of the Jiiouse and half the income. The prop­ erty was all his wife's and left to me, with the lease, as I said, to my father dnring life. While we were all one family and you the heir, it was quite unnecessary to make any talk or any r fuss about the matter; but now it is as 0; i well to understand my rights and Ji. yours." i i-' "Now?" *** ' •" Your grandfather, my dear, being, I dfeuritably believe, in his dotage/has flurried--Myra Wilbur!" • It was a crushing blow. Gilbert .swayed to and fro in his chair, and then fell insensible. His ideal poetic life was more real to .frfrm than the actual world aoout hiw^ auid he suffered acutely. But his aunt was the best of comforters, for, while jshe was full of tender sympathy, she 'Was eminently practical, and with clear, iorcible words she made him realize ially how unworthy was the idol he had worshiped. With her own personal property she liad also brought Gilbert's from their eld home, and she took a house in New York, where both soon felt at home, re a partnership in a light business, and rouse him from his dreamy, sensitive moods, to active, natural life. He might have become soured and hard but for the love of this old maid, who had never before let him read the tenderness of her heart. But while he suffered keenly his manhood developed, and he was a stronger, better man for his disappointment. When Myra's name ceased to be a tor­ ture, Aunt Jane made herself known to old friends of her girlhood, and gath­ ered about her a pleasant social circle, whore Gilbert was soon a favorite. There was no hint of the spinster's hope when she said quietly, " Any attention you can pay to Ella Bavbuirn will be very pleasing to me, Gilbert. Her mother has been my warmest friend in past years, and we have renewed the old times most pleasantly. If Ella is like her mother she is a pure, sweet, unselfish woman." And Ella was like her mother, and wa s soon taken into Aunt Jane's close inti­ macy Still smarting under the past pain, Gilbert was merely attentive to his aunt's young friend, and not yet realizing that a reality filling his old ideal Was near him. And while these old residents of Fern Nook were quietly gathering up broken threads of life, to weave a more perfect web of content, Myra Gorham was eat­ ing out her heart in bitterness. Instead of an old, indulgent husband, ready to humor every whim, to give her idola­ trous devotion, she found herself tied to a querulous invalid, who had been ac­ customed to the unquestioning obedience and devotion of his daughter and grand­ son, and who exacted a similar care from his reluctant wife. In place of balls, concert^, and opera, the gay life of the metropolis, Mrs. Gorham feund herself shut up in a country house, certainly sufficiently handsome and well appointed to meet tne most fastidious taste, but lonely beyond endurance to the woman miles away from her own friends, and coldly ignored by the friends of the Gor- hams, fully aware of her mercenary treachery. Yet she endured as patiently as possi­ ble, till the old man, pining for Jane and Gilbert, sickened and failed visibly. It was when all hope was gone that the young wife cautiously, but very plainly, nrged the necessity of making a will. It seemed to her as if all the misery of life concentrated in the peev­ ish reply: "I have nothing to will. All he property belongs to Jane! I only hold a life lease in my late wife's estate." "Jane !" gasped Myra, remembering the insulting terms in which she had intimated to that spinster that she pre­ ferred to reign alone at Fern Nook. ' ' " Certainly 1 If Gilbert's father had lived he would have shared in the prop­ erty, but it all reverts to Gilbert if Jane dies unmarried." All Gilbert's ? And might have been all hers. Myra felt too stunned and miserable even to cry! To think that all her base scheming, her feigned devotion had led her only to this, the beggared widow of an old man. But after the funeral was over Mrs. Gorham made a few discoveries. First, all the deep black of her dress, with the fine white line of her widow's cap, the somber crape and soft snowy tarletan were most becoming to her brilliant blonde beauty. She studied he* dress to its minute detail, and when it was perfect formed her new plans. In her late husband's desk she" found $5,000 which she appropriated, leaving Miss Jane and Gilbert, who came to the funeral, to defray all expenses. She ac­ cepted Miss Gorham's offer of the use of the house for a year, and when she was left in possession unscrupulously sold many small but valuable articles there. When the year was over, and Miss Jane Gorham once more opened her house to her friends, she was mute with con­ sternation when one day a carriage, heavily laden with baggage, drove up to her door, from which alighted her fath­ er's widow, who threw herself into her arms, sobbing. " Do not send me away. I am dving in the gloomy seclusion of my dear IIHSH band's home. Let me stay with you!" She stayed, of course. Miss Jane's old- •fashioned notions of hospitality were too atrong to permit her to turn a guest away, even if uninvited and unwelcome. But she smiled grimly to see how Gil­ bert's face fell at the announcement of the visitor. " She is my father's widow," the spin­ ster said gravely. " So we must endure her for a time." She was a most fascinating widow when she appeared at the late dinner, in a thin, black dress, all jet and trim­ ming, with some knots of black ribbon in her profusion of golden curls. Her color was softly tinted as ever, her blue eyes as babyish and winsome; yet when her first evening was over she knew she had gained nothing in her effort to re­ capture the heart she had thrown aside. But she did not despair. She sang the old songs that Gilbert had once heard with rapture. She varied her dress with laces, ribbons and jewelry, till its pretense of mourning was a mere mockery. She put herself in Gilbert's way with every dainty device of feminine needle-work. She entreated permission to prepare his favorite dishes with her own white hands. And, as if to try hiB constancy, Miss Jane aided and abetted this scheme for her nephew's fortune, and spoke but little of Ellen, never in­ viting her now to the house, so that Gil­ bert was forced to seek her more and more in her own home, and found her ever more lovely and winsome from the contrast with the idol he had proved to be clay. It was six months after the ar­ rival of Mrs. Gorham in her step-daugh­ ter's house, when Gilbert, returning from a drive with Ella, met his aunt in the hall, and, clasping her in a close em­ brace, whispered very softly: " Ella is mine ! Wish me joy!" "From my heart," she whispered back. Radiant with joy and hope, Gilbert, after changing his driving-dress, hur­ ried to the sitting-room, to tell Aunt Jane " all about it." He had absolutely forgotton their guest, and it gave him an unpleasant shock, when he found her, seated in a low chair, busied about some wool work, that showed to great advantage her tiny white hands, glit- embarrassed surprise, she clasped her jeweled hands, and, bursting into tears, sobbed. "Oh, Gilbert, do not look at me so coldly. I cannot bear it. I know I deserve nothing from you but contempt, but if you knew how sorely my mother urged me, how importunate your grand­ father mis, you would Yorgive me. I was insane with their persecutions, and I thought in my misery that I could still see you, and perhaps--some day-- when I was free again--I--I » And here even her effrontery gave out, and she only sobbed convulsively. Taken by surprise, every gentlemanly instinct urged Gilbert to comfort this woman so recklessly offering him what it was once his fondest hope to possess. But his whole soul shrank from her, his manly, true heart was only outraged by her unwomanly advances. Gravely he stood, looking down upon her as she shrank into the chair, sobbing and covering her face, and yet furtively watching him. "Gilbert, speak one tender word to me," she implored ; " say you do not ut­ terly despise me." But he did. He sought for words to convey his meaning landly, and they would not come. Blushing like a boy, in his confusion and pain, he said, gently: " I am very sorry, Mrs. Gorham" " It used to be Myra," she sobbed re­ proachfully. " True, but those were days that oan never be recalled." " You are cruel," " I do not wish to be 0o,*biit I must be frank with you. The past is dead ! Never can we revive that love that was once so very trifling to you." "No, no; you wrong me. Alas for me it is my misfortune that I 'cannot con­ quer my love." " But mine died when it was insulted and slighted." Here Gilbert drew a deep sigh of re­ lief at the appearance of Aunt Jane, en­ tering the room behind Myra's chair. Mrs. Gorh arii did not hear her light step, and sobbed : v " Your love cannot be dead, Gilbert. It will live again. Pity and forgive me." "Iboth pity and forgive you," said Gilbert, very gently. "But"-- " But," said Aunt Jane, in her hardest tone, and with her face set in rigid lines, "you forget, Mrs. Gorham, the law does not permit a man to marry his grandmother." With a cry of rage, Mrs. Gorham sprung to her feet, but something in the cold, grave faces checked the torrent of wrath upon her lips, and she left the room. The next day she terminated her visit, and loftily declined an invitation, sent three months later, to be present at the wedding of Gilbert Gorham and his gentle bride--Ella. turning no more to Fern Nook. Then ^ ___ with true practical kindness, she per- tering with jeweled rings. «naded Gilbert TO alio# her to buy nim | She rose to greet him, and then, to his Many Bosoms With a Single Thought. An amusing incident happened on a Kansas City paper the other day. Two brothers, named Hart, were arrested somewhere in the interior for obtaining goods under false pretenses. There was unusual commotion and mystery among the members of the editorial staff that evening, and each said unto the other, "I've got a bully thing for to­ morrow's paper--just you wait and see;" and, being asked what the bully thing was, declined to go into further particu­ lars just then. Next morning the mys­ tery was solved. There was an editorial note in the first column as follows: "The Hart Brothers were arrested yesterday, at --, for defrauding their creditors. They were evidently, as the poet says, *Two Harts that beat as one.'" Half-way down the same page was an­ other editorial paragraph, as follows: "Two Harts that beat their creditors like one, or even more, were arrested yesterday, at . Let us hope that the righteous Judge will, in the words of Cicero, Socettuum." Over on the second column there was a display heading, in big black type: "Two Harts That Beat Like One;" away down at the foot of the third coliamn was a little item, surreptitiously inserted by the advertising clerk, about two- hearts that beat as one, and half way down the fourth was a letter fiom " T. Y. Po," the Acknowledged wit of ihe composing-room, addressed to the editor of the Kansas City Whangdo&dler and asking if that wasn't a case of two hearts (Harts) that beat as one. The different authors of this exquisite witticism spent the morn­ ing in paying visits of condolence to each other, and remarking with dispar­ aging snifife, that it would only be in ac­ cordance with fraternal feeling and news­ paper etiquette to let another member of the staff know when one intended mak­ ing a dum fool of nimself in a specific direction.--Chicago Tribune• A (itreftt Curiosity* Yesterday a great curiosity was placed on our table--deer's heart containing the flint barb of an arrow. Last Sun­ day, Mr. E. Sharp, of Areata, was out on Boynton's prairie on a deer hunt. He saw a large five-point buck and brought it down with hiB rifle. Taking oft' the hide and securing the heart and other rare bits, he started home. On arriving there Mrs. Sharp boiled the heart and when the meal was ready placed it on the table. In attempting to cut the heart the knife struck against something hard. The lady split the heart open, and in the fleshy part the flint barb of an arrow was found. It must have been there a long time, as the flesh calloused all around it, and the scar, where the barb entered, is plain to be seen. This is quite a curios­ ity, as only a few such instances are known to be on record.--Humboldt (Cat.) Times. The Fifty-Dollar Coin. It appears that the new $50 gold coin, which is to be struck from a die now in course of preparation by the officers of the Mint, will not be the first coin of that value struck in the United States. In 1851 §50 gold coins were issued at the Assay Office in San Francisco. It is said that millions of dollars of this de­ nomination were coined and went into use, but that they gradually disap­ peared, for the reason that they were intrinsically worth more than $50 in gold by reason of the silver they contained in excess of the standard. They came to be used for mechanical purposes, or they were sent to the Mint for recoinage. WcuhingUm Ckir. Now lark Tribune. THE SEZ PEftCES INDIANS. (Smm of the Trouble In Idaho--The and Their Home--A Charming Spot, [From the San Francisco Chronicle.] The Nez Perces Indians occupy a res­ ervation uncommonly rich in timber, hunting, tilling and grazing lands, even for an Indian reserve, which is generally a small paradise, the choicest region owned by the Government It contains in the neighborhood of 746,651 acres, and is situated in Idaho, between and embracing the Clearwater and Salmon rivers. The reservation is surrounded by Tndiftrn tribes which cherish an ancient hatred of the Nez Perces, who a few years ago vanquished the encroaching Sioux, and effectually kept at a respect­ ful distance the Flatheads, Snakes or Shoshones, and the formidable Blackfeet and Crows, not to mention other smaller tribes. One of the causes for hatred given by the Nez Perces occurred many years since. Those who have read Wash- ington Irving's entertaining narrative, "Bonneville's Adventures," will remem­ ber the many narrow escapes the cour­ ageous Captain had from predatory bands of Indians in his famous passage of the Indian country from the Missouri fron­ tier to Astoria, at the month of the Co- iTiirshia river, forty years or more ago. The Nez Perces were very friendly to Capt. Bonneville's command, and paid them many graceful attentions. They fed them when they were at the point of starvation, and actually gave them horses and a guide when they resumed their march across mountain and plain, prairie and chasm. The neighboring tribes have, never forgiven the Nez Perces for aiding and abetting the en­ croaching march of the white men, and hate them for it to. this day, though the Nez Perces made themselves ob­ noxious in other ways. They were not wanting in barbarity, and could give les­ sons in roasting captives at the stake, the tear-'em-to-pieces trick, and other diversions. Of late years they have ap­ parently recovered from their weakness for the pale face and have made trouble for the Government on various occa­ sions ; but, whatever diabolism they may commit within their reservation, they are securely caged within its bounda­ ries and there is no fear of their escap- •ing, for to do so would be braving the lion's jaws. They are surrounded by their enemies of yore. On the south are the Bannacks and Shoshones; on the east aud north, Bannacks, Flatheads, and Blackfeet; while on the wooded prairies to the west, in Washington Ter­ ritory, roam the Pigchous and Walla Wallas. The reservation contains from 3,000 to 3,500 Nez Perces and an equ.il number of whites. They are fine specimens of the American Indian. Their physiognomy is marked by the Roman nose--the infallible indicator of courage, resolution, and tribular intelli­ gence--large eyes, an oval face (flat, stolid, faces, with pug noses, are rare among them), and high foreheads. In stature they are large and sym­ metrical, and are athletic and pro­ ficient in acrobatic sports. They are excellent equestrians, and are good warriors. Their dress in incongruous, consisting of the Caucasian hat, shirt and coat, and the Indian breechclout, leg­ gings and moccasins. Their mode of living is hunting, fishing and raising vegetables, all the drudgery and menial labor being performed by the squaws, in conformity with the recognized an­ cient Indian custom. The Nez Perces tribe is divided and subdivided into many ramifications, of one family each. Every family--cousins, brothers,parents, grandparents, etc.--has a separate camp, governed by a miall chief. The Nez Perces belonged to the Sahaptin family, and called themselves Numepo. No bet­ ter evidence of the progress of the Nez Perces need be given than the fact that school-books and the New Testament have been printed in their language. The reservation lies in Nez Perces and Shoshone counties, Idaho, Camas prairie, a very rich and desirable expanse of country, being the nucleus of the reser­ vation. This well-known tract i» situ­ ated on the Salmon river, abotnk sixty miles south of Lewiston, and is about forty miles wide. In summer it is cov­ ered with vast herds of cattle, driven there to fatten on its luxuriant herbage. It is occupied by a few large ranches, with an occasional small farm. Its fertility of soil and excellence as a cattle range is attracting many settlers and it is rapidly becoming settled. This is caae of the causes of the present outbreak, as the Indians resent this intrusion. <A Shrewd Young Tramp. The tramp industry, like other in­ dustries, seems to flourish because it pays, as witness the two diaries of the systematic Master Frank Labelle, or "faylor, aged 17, originally of St. James parish, La., then of tne wide, wide world, and now of the Albany Peniten­ tiary, where he will remain for six months. He is slight and effeminate in appearance, and his lay was to work lawyers' offices, asking for $2.70 with which to get home to Maine. He wanted to get copying, and, as the lawyers usu­ ally had no copying, neither any $2.70, they would compromise by giving him a quarter or an order for a dinner, or something of the sort. Ho always asked for his benefactor's address, nominally to return him the sum, but really to en­ ter it in his diary, with the day of the month and the amount of the donation, This diary showed that, between Decem­ ber 7 and May 9, five months, he had received $449.05, and during the last week of that term $35.05. His best day's work was at Galveston, Maxell 15, when he took in $15.50. He says that Galveston and Houston are the best and most generous places he has met with. The names of his victims include rail­ road and steamboat officials, newspaper men, United States Senators, bankers, lawyers and the like.--New York World. A Child Asleep in a Tall Tree Top. A very remarkable escape occurred vesterday to a little nephew of Edward Powers, boot and shoe dealer. The child, who is 5 years old, was missing at 12 o'clock, when looked for at dinner time, but, after calling him, the family ate dinner, and, the child not appearing, became alarmed and instituted a search throughout the neighborhood. His hat was found in the yard under some large maple trees. Nothing could be heard of him until about 3 o'clock, when a girl discovered him up in one of the limbs of a maple tree, forty feet from the ground; asleep. The girl called him, bat he did not awake, and, the situation being di»# covered, his aunt prevented any noise being made until two boys climbed the tree and awoke him, and he got down Safely.--Detroit Post. That Big Frog. It was remembered afterward that hell had a sneaking, low-down look, and the boys were sorry that they didn't arrest him as the Nathan murderer. He called at the Ninth Avenue Station and* asked if they had an aquarium there, and if they didn't want a Lake St. Clair frog to put in it, and he added: "Gentlemen, it is a frog which I eaught myself, and he really ought to be on exhibition. I never saw a frog of his size before." " How large is it ?" inquired a Ser­ geant, instinctively glancing toward the top of the coal-stove. "Gentlemen, I hate to give you the figures, because I'm a stranger, replied the man, v- "There's some old whoppers up in the lake," put in one of the relief squad. " I've seen 'em as big as a stove-cover, and even bigger." " Well, some one ought to have thin frog who can feed him up well," said the stranger. "I ain't much on natural science, and I've seen about all there is to see, but this frog--great heavens! Some man ought to take him round the country!" " How did yon catch Mm ?" asked the Captain. " Run him down with a tug and threw a fish-net over him." "And he's a monster, eh?" " A monster. Well, I don't want to give you dimensions, Three reporters were at my house last night to get his length over all, breadth of beam, and carrying capacity, but I wouldn't let them in. I don't care for the glory of the capture, but simply desire the ad­ vancement of the general interests of the State." " I've heard sailors tell of seeing frogs up there as large a nail-keg, but I thought they were lying," observed the Sergeant. " Nail-keg! Why, d'ye suppose I'd come around here with a frog which you could put into a nail-keg ?" " I suppose he'd go into a barrel," tremblingly remarked the Sergeant. ^ "Gentlemen, you may have sailed across Lake St. Clair," coldly replied the stranger, ." but it's plain to me you never shoved a boat through the marshes. Would I fool away my time on a frog no larger than a barrel ?* Would a tug-boat chase such a frog ?" " I shouldn't be a bit surprised if this frog was as large as a hogshead," said the Captain. " I've seen 'em up there even larger than that." " A hogshead! Gentlemen, I see that you don't care for this frog; you are willing that I should ship it away to some other town. Good-by, gentle­ men." " Hold on!" called the Captain, hold­ ing out his last cigar. "We believe you, of course. If you said this frog was as large as a wagon-box I should believe you, for I've seen 'em up there fully as large as that. Please give us the dimensions of this frog." The man lit his cigar, took a pill-box from his vest pocket, and, shaking out a frog not over three days transformed frwn a pollywog, he quietly observed: " Gentlemen, get out your tape-lines!" When they rose up he had vanished.-- Detroit Free Press. Religious Fanaticism. The birthday of the Prophet, whioh coincides with the return of the pilgrims from Mecca, was celebrated this year at Cairo with the traditionary doich, or passage of the mounted imaum over the bodies of the faithful. These, being for the most part of the very humblest classes--camel and donkey drivers, grooms, runners and fellah a--had been drugged with hasheesh and excited to religious frenzy by the attendant der­ vishes. These packed them closely, face downwards, to tne number of some 300, in a long line on the roadway, and over this human pavement the imaum, mounted on a white horse, rode for a quarter of an hour, amid the frantic yell­ ing of veyses of the Koran by the attend­ ant priests. There were the usual and natural casualties--arms broken, skulls fractured and ribs caved in, and aome fifteen of the worshipers went or will go to paradise. Recovered, After Losing Fart of His Brain. About'a m/Mith ago a son of Mr. Geo. Franz, who laves about two miles inland from St. Helens, fell fiom a wagon, striking his head upon a sharp stump. The points of the stump penetrated the back part of his head to the brain, and part of the brain dropped out. The strangest part of the story is that the boy got up, took his hoaraes to the stable ana fed them before feeling more pain than from an ordinary fall. In about an hour after the accident he became faint and seemed to be dying. Dr. Stewart, a well-known physician, was sent for and came immediately. He examined the wound and found that a part of the brain was gone, and he himself removed a portion that protruded. He treated the boy a few days and succeeded in saving his life. At last accounts he was able to walk about, and experiences no trouble, either mentally or physically, from the loss.--Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press. The Electoral Commission Records. In drafting the bill for the Electoral Commission no provisions was made for a depositor of the records of the com­ mission. They consequently now re­ main in the custody of the Secretary of the commission, who is considerably embarrassed with their possession. The law makes him responsible to no one, and the official record of the Presidential title might be destroyed at any hour without responsibility. The Secretary is a very worthy gentleman and would be glad to be relieved of the custody of such important documents.-- Washing­ ton { jorrt s i ' /xdence. £T HELEN HCire, Another Astemisher. Mrs. John Bohler of Jalapa, wife of the borough Supervisor, was breaking eggs into a crock, and when she opened one she found a ^nall, perfect egg, al­ most as large as a robin's egg, and, with a speckled shell, imbedded in the yelk. This little egg contained a partially developed, perfectly formed snake. ~ Ptittsviile (/to.) Chronicle. * >ve • dainty enp of glass; It is not graven oy a line; Its beaaty is its fragilenew; : A baby's hand might crush IK inc. * UTe * ,niul drink from it, J 1W ~ HP^v*^'.ildranght of,wL,lttJcad-. tie took it like a woman * haod. • la reverent, loving, lingering lioldi^ || Heheld it npinfceendelight, M 2?^ ?n texture rare and fine: w , Biush glass as this," he aspturou. Gives water all the grace of wlje* Another day. another man * ^ drinking at my board k Into the dainty, peerleog glass, A peerless wine for him X poured. Hedrank it at a swallow down; With smothered wrath I weU-ni«h btttst. Rnthaf!j?°r 8la»!ww aught to him, So that he quenched his boorish thSSrst. I »aid, " to him that hath. All thingB on earth their tribute biW* From him that hath not, earth takes And lessee him beggared, though ikS«.» --Scribner for Jvly . 8 PITH AND POINT. IVI " silver question-- "Can youlend me a quarter ? YOTTNG ladies who want red cheeks must get them out-doors as the roses do. WHY is a fender like Westminster Abbey ? Because it contains the ashes of the grate. SIZE does not always tell. A watch ticking can be heard further than a bed ticking. THE summer resort for babies--Rock- away. The best for bad boys--Long Branch. A CHICAGO man, at the point of death, was asked if a clergyman should be sent for. " No," said he, " send for a brandy cocktail." ^ THE pedagogue is the only person that keeps school this weather. And in win­ ter the bee-keeper is the only one who keeps swarm. _ A BOY having been told " that a rep­ tile was an animal that creeps," on being asked to name one, on examination day, promptly replied, "A baby." DABE to do right. Dare to be true-- Kick at your mother-in-law If she kickB at you. AN Eastern man, in writing to friends of his marriage in California, thus terse­ ly describes his bride: " She has a head as red as a woodpecker's, and owns sheep until you can't rest." AN ingenious farmer planted a few rows of potatoes zigzag, to bother the bugs. These rows were just about enough for the cross-eyed bugs, who partook with leelings of profound grati­ tude. y I SHOULDN'T like to be an oarsman," said Jones. " Why not ?" asked Green. " Because an oarsman has so many pull- backs," replied Jones; and then the two youths shook hands, and went out to buy something. "MY son," said a mother to a little boy 4 years old, "who above all others will you wish to see when you pass into the Bpirit world?" " Goliah !" shouted the child, with a joyous anticipation; "unless," he quickly added, "there's a bigger feller there." " I CAME out of the accident," said he, "and who do you think was the first person I met?" "Who?" "Who but that eternal prize-package peddler who had bored me 500 miles on the train, and he was the only one aboard who wasn't hurt some way." A LITTLE miss, writing to her father on the first day of her entrance at board­ ing-school, says; " The first evening we had prayers, and then singing and a pass­ ing round of bread, which I did not take, because, not being confirmed, I had no right to take communion. Afterward I learned that I had lost my supper." MAX ADELEB says : "We observe in the paper an item to the effect that a mother in Maryland bit off her child's toe in her sleep. We have so often re­ monstrated with mothers against the practice of sleeping with their children's toes in their moutliB that we have little sympathy for this woman. Sooner or later the catastrophe is sure to come." A GERMAN enlisted in the regular army was in the course of a few days put on picket duty. His instructions were, when anyone approached, to say, " Wlio comes there?" three times, and • then shoot. Before long he perceived a man approaching; he waited quietly till the man came very pear, an&L then he suddenly brought his musket to his shoulder and shouted ; " Who comes here dree dimes ?" Bang! A SOUTH CAROLINA resident came down one of the mountains one day, lately, and asked of the first man he met: "What's the news from the war?" "Oh, it's booming right along/' said the stranger. " Richmond keeps holdin' her own, then ?" quizzed the mountain man. "Richmond!" yelled the stranger; "there isn't any war in Richmond--it's on the Danube and around Batoum and Erzeroum, and poiating on toward Con­ stantinople." "Oh, yaas," observed the mountain man hesitatingly, " it's drifted 'round to them 'ere places, has it? And as he passed on around a cliff,, the amazed stranger heard that mountaineer uttering to himself: "Ihain't read the papers much, lately, that's so, and 1 reckon I'm glttin' a little behind on the news."--Chicago Evening Journal. Russian Generals. The enumeration of the Russian Gen­ erals in the following extract from Sonth- ey's humorous poem, "The March to Moscow," may again be read and pro­ voke a smile. Many of the same names that figured in Bonaparte's disastrous campaign of 1812 are once more made familiar to us by the dispatches from the East: There was Formazow and Jemalow, And all the others that end in ow; Milodradovitch and JaladoTitch, And Karatecliowitoh, , And all the others that end in itch; Schamscheff, Houchosaneff, ^nd Schepaleff, And all the others that end in tH; Wassittchikoff. Kostmaroff And Tchoglokoff, And ali the others that end in off; Rajeffsky and Novereffsky, And Rieffsky, And all the others that end In effsky; And Platoff he played them off, And Sliouvaloff he shovel'd them off, And Markoff he markV them off, And Krossnoff he cross'd them off. And Toiu-hkoff he touch'd them off, And Boroekoff he bored them off, And Kutoiisoff he cut thom off, And Pureukoff he pared them off, And Worrouzoff ho worried them off, And Doctoroff he doctor'd them off, And Rodionoff he flogs'd them off. THE attendance at the Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition is very meager.