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It 1181 A wtmu. n ICntHIR A. WSD©*. have laid me down to awwlwi rwt, folded hands upon my quiet bnMt, Thftn friends, kind friends, Id not liave you mourn or sited • iwu? - ef for one who ia no longer near. when, by chance, a low, •treetMng 1* me bird-note across the breeze iaflun,, Then friends, dear friends, you not kindly give a thought of lo» - one who sweeter music hear* abore? when the sin sets on the distant hill, nd softer thoughts the wearied sptttt fill, ^ Then friends, true friends, •Will you not give a gentle thought to on® Whose earthly toil is o'er, whose rest is wont And when you ramble in the summer days Through fragrant meadows and familiar ways, Then friends, my friends, .£• Will you not let a single thought of jno Blend with the perfume of the flowery lea? f: Bat always tiiink of me, dear friends, as one Whose trouble all Is o'er, whose work la dona. Oh, friends, loved Meeds! 54 r Bomember me as one for whom 'twas beat ^ To throy aside her care and be at reefc. ^ftucivsoimj.LZ, Mass. HIDDEN LOYI& BT 3. H. W. %. Reginald Douglas had just returned from the Occident, and it was not tardi­ ly made known that he had accumula­ ted a fortune within the shadow of the Golden Gate. He was muoh past 40, and a childless widower, and it was not long before his - sister knew that he intended to make her handsome son his heir. But Mrs. Guion was plentifully,- en­ dowed with the goodly things of the •world, and demurred in a manner seem­ ingly wise and affectionate. "Ton are not old, Reggy," she ob­ served tenderly, " and moat desirable women admire you. Why should you Hot marry again and rear up a family of Itcirs and heiresses of your own?" A most satirical smile curled his bearded lips. * I did not Had; matrimonyadsweet and fine a state that I should wish to try it again," he answered. " And yet your late wife was said to be beautiful, irreproachable, and was rich and aristocratic like yourself,* re­ turned hissister. I; t " Yes," he responded slowly; "but a ^j^wife, if unloved and unloving, may be this and yet make home a hateful „v*Plaee'a ̂ hand a cynic or a fiend." " How ahockingl" ejaculated Mrs. " The only woman if ever loved* he •ps^wenton, bitterly, "was false, or, think­ ing me so, vanished out of my life in -fciienoo and mystery; and that event my heart in ashes. I married in ^fcn angry haste, and my bonds were my tifightfal punishment." „ "There must still be flame beneath ~ the ashes, Reginald," was the half-play- reply» * or surely you would not yet Remember Agnes De Ideville to speak * hoi thus**' . • 5? " I loved h«r," he said, , j > :f' " "Impossible! You cbtttd notliave . loved a variety actress." "And why?" he demanded, with en­ ergy- "Agnes was pure as snow and as A ^noble in principle as she was oomely in ifjerson. She was the sole support of a "®ying.fi»ther and a heart-broken invalid She could procure J*O other em- m. 1 jr^jployment'to give them the necessaries f* #>f life. Surely it was no dishonor, with •00ach a motive, to sing for her bread, though her songs were heard by the 'fpross and clownish." ̂ it <Yon were always peculiar in your *' Jideas," said Mrs. Guion, with a sneer; and my son is like you; he fell in love my maid, and I was obliged to '̂ send her away." ̂ exclaimed her brother, the v v ^Douglas pride bringing forth a disap- ~Prov"1K frown, in spite of his own ten- "der memories and valiant plebeianism. 4 ̂ "lea," responded hisr sister, pursuing vantage with vigor, "he would have ^kj#narried her at .once had not I threat­ ened him with expulsion from his home t;- *nd utter and eternal disinheritance." "You did rightly," sail Reginald "But yon aw If yon mmke him year k® independent of my .-riches," said Mrs. Guion, appealingly. 1* ̂ ̂ "He shall never have a dollar of mine il. ' , %»' except on conditions that wiil make it * ^J| impossible for htm to take a wife from ® «laas beneath him," answered the i'uh ^"aalthy man. " The good old granite Douglas pride is beneath the awes of my heart--no dissolving flame, as you •hall see." % ?* S am glad it is to, Reginald/* !*- Joined Mrs. Guion. "And now I will go out and find Hie lad," said her brother. The way was heavy with a cloudy heat «s he went forth, and as he reached the ; / bamming, whirling Broadway a shock \ >-*•» wj' * - w. * fm,: V •>/*?. 4 3 .of thunder cracked across the dead air. -He turned into a side street, and "Wus half across it when a blinding light­ ning flash dazed him. .tie heard a shout of warning and alarm, a roar *of grinding wheels and V" f ? 'crushing hoofs, and the next instant mZ< ^^ound himself struck4own,duly stunned, and conscious only ©£ a great stinging . . / f ' l " • : sensation of pain. Hours later, when his senses oame back, he found himself in a pretty, simple •chamber, alone with the fairest creature lie had ever seen. & She was a petite blonde, edodeai m snow, With black-gray eyes and dead- gold hair, like a nimbus, framing her perfect and angelic young face. She was evidently a lady, nobrlth* standing her meek robes and unadorned surroundings. A motion fretted his bruises, and he uttered a groan. She was at his side instantly, holding a dainty cup to his lips with an authorita­ tive hand. "Please take this," she mid, with ooaxing sweetness. "You must sleep again if you would soon be well." And so he drank and sleptagain, and again awoke to marvel at (he graoes of his lovely nurse. ' He asked no questions. As in a dream, he fancied that some siren had given him to drink of the lotus-eater's cup, and that he would be content to lie there in supine hopelessness forever. But the second day, when he awoke, nd he felt his strength coming back anew, his fantasies vanished. "1 must- request my ministering angel to senlL me home," he thought. He looked about the little chamber; but she was not there. But through the open door he caught a flutter of white garments and a shim­ mer of dead-gold hair. "Dr. Willettes tells me that only your gentle nursing has saved his life," a man's low whisper was saying. "My dear little wife, what a treasure you are." Then followed a biief murmured col­ loquy, unconsciously telling the listener that grave difficulties of some kind had beset their wedded love. "They are troubled for want of mon­ ey," he thought, "and I have been a bur­ den to them; but their burden shall prove a bag of gold." Then he called faintly. His lovely nurse came quickly to him, her lovely ohceks flushed like the sun­ rise on snow. "I hava heard that you saved my life," he said. "And what more?" she asked him, con­ fusedly. " That you are in some sort of trouble," he smiled. "Will you let me help you ? It is my duty, and it is your right to ask what you wjH. Anything that you demand is yours.* "Anything?" she said, her sweet face whitening and anxious. "Yes," he answered, "I am quite rich enough to give you anything that you may ask." "It is not of money I am speaking," she responded, proudly, but with that sort of pride that seems sacrificing something of itself; "I think you have some influence with one who is making us--my husband and me--very unhap­ py. Gould you persuade one, do you think, that it is best to let true love have its way, and that I would not make--an unworthy wife?" Two large, bright tears lay upon the soft cheeks, and her womanly eyes were full upon him. "An unworthy wife! "Why, my dear child, I should consider myself a fort­ unate man if your husband could be my own sent, if I had one. Ah! what is this? " As he spoke, Albert Guion, agitated and embarrassed, advanced to the bed­ side, and drew the pretty pleader with­ in his strong arms. Then you will not allow mother to be too unkind to us, Uncle Reginald? " "Which do you care most for, her affection or your birthright?" he asked sternly. "I care for both, uncle," was the an­ swer; " but for Susie more than all." There was a long silenee then. Beginald Douglas was battling with his pride and the olden tenderness that still made his memorial so bitter, as well as with the humorous sense of his position. "We shall see," he said aft last; "send for your mother, and left me think alone." Albert Guion led his yotmg wife out of the room, and for a long time the proud man lay thinking of the old, dear time, when one sweet face had been more precious to him thaa favor or fortune, and of the agony and madness that had sickened him when he had lost the one k>v^of his life. "After aft it is not stone* bat flame under the ashes of my heart," he mused; but his face was set and hard, and his stormy eyes were stern. So thought the tender, graceful wom­ an, who fluttered and trembled as she came noiselessly into the chamber with white-satin-ahod feet. w Pardon me," she said, and her voice had the ring of silver bells. "I was looking for my nieoe.? 1 was sot aware that---* Then she stopped, and a blush flashed over the unfaded beauty of her coun­ tenance. "Agnes!" cried the man, wh* had once been her lover. " This is a strange meeting, Begi­ nald," she answered, struggling with her gladness. "I only came home an hour ago, and had no thought of seeing you here. Where is Susie? " It was in vain to make such a meet­ ing oQe of commonplace surprise and explanation. * - L , : > f - I , • : She had never been false to him ex­ cept in deeming him untrue, and he, in his softened mood, spoke te her as a lover speaks to the one woman of his life-long worship. "You are mine," he said at iasi, draw­ ing her closely to him; "you are mine by the right of •discovery and posses­ sion, and I shall hold you in my arms until you promise to be my ̂ rife before the roses are gone." Perhaps it was the changeless love he saw in her beautiful, veiled eyes that made him at once so gallant and hum­ orous and bold. But he gained the promise that was scarcely given before Mrs. Guion en­ tered, as angry as her motherly affection and well-bred politeness would allow her to be. ̂ "These are unpleasant things I hear," she said. "Surely, Reginald, you have not incited my only son to disobey mo, nor allowed him to think that yon would countenance such unwarrantable con­ duct?" "It is best to let young love have its way, sister; and do you remember the goodly saying that a 'house divided against itself shall not stand?' Susie will be a daughter whom you can well honor and love, and, as she is tjie niece of this lady who is about to be my wife, I shall be happy to welcome and esteem her as the bride of a Douglas." "Not Agnes De Ideville?" cried Mrs. Guion, with a little gasp of astonish­ ment. Nevertheless, then and there she ac­ cepted the situation with becoming grace, and afterward, as the two brides became more and more admired and be­ loved among their new and aristocratic friends, she became a model sister and mother, perhaps because of polio}, and perhaps because under the ashes of pride there had ever smoldered a flame of womanly kindness and affec­ tion. ? • 1 jtjfllB KBT TO SUCCESS. " One of Wellington's chief sources of success was his thorough mastery of details. While in Spain he gave pre­ cise directions how the soldiers should prepare their food; in India, the miles per day the bullpeks should be driven that were provided for the army. The equipments of his troops were cared for in all their minutiae. The same exact­ ness he introduced into his administra­ tion of civil affairs. Fr m his earliest school days, in every transaction, this trait of thoroughness appears. The con­ fidence and unfaltering devotion he thus inspired unquestionably secured him his many and decisive victories. No great commander leaves anything to chance, but seeks to anticipate every emergency, and to provide for it. Gray spent seven years perfecting his "Elegy," which you can readily read in seven minutes. Into it he generously poured the very ripest scholarship, an intimate acquaintance with the rules of rhythm, and an exhaistive study of' the varied excellences of English and Latin classic*. Every syllable was submitted to closest scrutiny, the cadence of., the verse was suited to the character of the thought, every outline was vivid, every tint tonedr every picture perfect, before he suffered his poem to pass into print. This palace of thought was no single night's work of slawe-genis obeying the behest of one holding some-magical lamp of Aladdin, but was built up like coral reef, particle by particle. And this complete1 mastery of detail was secwred only by t&e most protracted concentration of effort. By resolutely chaining his thoughts to this theme, completely surrendering himself to its guidance, the inexorable Jaws of suggestion irresistibly led hint back througft the past's faded and forgotten scenes in the humble lives of th» sleep­ ing cottagers un&l the scenery aa»d per­ sonages of evexy picture at last bright­ ened and breathed: before his mental vision with all tike sharply- outliued viv- idnessiof real life.--Penn MontitJ|F. JiFTiCM Tir*> WEEKS. Th«y were an Eastern couple.. They had strolled in the moonlig&A, and swung on the gate, and stood at the front door, and1 sat cm the sofoy. and- and, *tc., for many months. THey had dreamed the rift dream of love tagfether; they had floated on its downy pinions into the tropics of bloom aadi bliss. They had also munched numerous pints of peanuts and eaten considerable ice­ cream at 15 eents per saucer. The un- plumed fact is that they had Been lov­ er*. But then they went and married --car rather they thought they did, for alter two weeks of this supposititious wedded life it was discovered thai, through & technical mistake, the nuptial knot had never really been tied, and the marriage was therefore void. Of course this created consternation and horror in the new household. The young man wanted to hurry off without an instant's delay and have the cere­ mony legally performed, but the maid­ en, upon consideration, concluded that the denouement was not so unfortunate after all. Two weeks of married life had cured her, and thanks, she believed she would go back to her mother* And she went. IN TUK BAKBBJt-MQg. "f BY OBI8. ; . When you go into a barber-strop dn a populous and stirring street to get shaved, never allow yourself to be in­ veigled into the chair next to the front window. I won't do it again. The bar­ ber was a well-meaning fellow enough, but he wanted to see everybody who was passing on the sidewalk, and any un­ usual sound that came from the street caused him to turn to the window as a big sunflower turns to the sun, no matter what stage of the operation he had reached. "You needn't cram the whole of the towel down my throat," 7 cried, as he was adjusting that article preparatory to applying the lather, while stretching his neck to watch the operation of gsttisg a street-car back on the track. "Beg pardon, but dat's de fif time No. 19 has got off de track dis week. You see 19 has got a new drivah, and he don't seem to understand his business very well, nohow." "No matter about the new driver, I am in a hurry." Soon I felt the cool, soothing effects of the lather upon my cheeks, which induces a disposition to sink the head back, close the eyes and yield oneself to a dreamy languor. But I was aroused by the brush stabbing viciously into my left ear, and, opening my eyes, saw that his face was turned toward the window, while the brush was playing about mv head at random. I got a dab in the eye. As I opened my mouth to use some vig­ orous language, plump went the brush half way down my throat. "Dem two bootblacks is at it agin," he cried, as the brush went dancing around in my hair. I coughed the floating island of soap out of my throat, while he explained that the big bootblack had been pestering and worrying the little bootblack right along every day, and they had had several fights, but in this last scrimmage the little one seemed to be getting the best of it. ̂j "Look a dar! he's got the big 'un down, sho's ye live," he exclaimed, mak­ ing a rush for the window, leaving his brush thrust down the back of my neck in his hurry and excitement. A man is in a very helpless condition with his face covered with lather, and there was nothing to do but swallow my rage and wait until the barber should resume his work, which he did in a flush of triumph as he reported that the little bootblack had "bested" the big bootblack this time. * ." There is a good deal going on in front of your window, it-n't there?" I inquired mildly, for the razor was playing friskily about in the vicinity of my jugular. "Well, yes, consid'able, though I don't think dar's much to see as dar was over on Walnut. Bless ye, we had free or four runaways every day over dar, and fights on de sidewalk till ye couldn't rest. Rawzotf hurt you, sah? 1 had de front cha'r, too, an' I sometimes wish I was back--" here he stopped short and gave a low whistle, while he stared ear­ nestly out of the window again. I could not move or expostulate, for he held my nose fast bet ween his thumb and finger, and his razor rested idly jast beneath ty right earn "If dar ain't dat Pete. Je«M prome- xadin' wid de Tompkins galand her old Jad has threatvned to boot him if ever he owm anigh 'er agin. What! an dar goes die man Tompkins himself, right behin' 'am. Now, dar will be fun, she'." Dropping bm razor he ran to the wiadow, reinforced by the rest of the barbers, who wwmted to see- what the faes was about When my Bun re­ turned he could hardly contra* himself fen langhing. "You jes' ought to see T^te Jones ligfct out when ole man totehfd up wid him. It was good's a emeus. My ote- woman could a done an isaaan' on bin coat-tails. Yah! yah!" Before completing his taaft that bar- bar, in addit»ik to the interruption aho*e described*, paused in his work to wafceh the pe^brmances oft a* aa»nkey dtaaned to a hand organs gpaed on a procession of Odd Fellows, going to a fhoeval, critically studied a* section of an excursion party from thfa country, commented ta the appaananee of a newly-painted omnibus passutg by, pointed out sixteen "Ov»i>-t)h®-Rhine" variety performers whom, lie m*eov;nized from seeing iiifcem on the- stiige, enauted | a. drove of -hogs, bowed, smihn l̂y to &. I score or mare of his acv^naintances ̂ studied the heavens long; aad critically to detect any signs of xain ̂endeavoriuir to call my attention t > th» condition a# the guttera as showing: tho necessity tier a shower, pointed out sntm candidates who had solicited hia vote last election, and reviewed a cirmts precession. It was the most exhausting shave that T ever endured in my life, though I have had three savings, banks bust up with all my money deposited with them. I repeat it, never again will they catch me in a barber's chair next to the front window. of a horse, and much greater endurance. These mules stand the voyage well, all landing in good condition, precisely as shipped. Some hundreds have been shipped for Natal, where they will be found useful in the present emergency. FACTS AND FIGURES, THE Kentucky mule is beginning to appear on the tramways of England. Among the live stock recently landed at WE believe that meerschaum pipes I Liverpool were seventy mules, fine, ire not made from pipe-plant. ' large animals, with the drawing power IT is rumored around that the profits of J. H. Haverly for the season of 1878- 79 were $130,000; Mary Anderson, $85,- 000; A. M. Palmer, $32,000; Fanny Davenport, $30,000; Dion Boucicault, $65,000; Harrigan and Hart, $40,000; John McUulloch, $25,000; Modjeska, $20,000; H.J. Sargent, $30,000; J. K. Emmett, $28,000; CoL Mapleson, $30,4 000; Lawrence Barrett, $8,000; W. J. Florence, $18,000, and John T. Ray­ mond, $12,000, THE annual rate of mortality, accord­ ing to the most recent weekly returns, in Calcutta was 34; Bombay, 37; Mad­ ras, 29; Paris, 29; Geneva, 25; Brussels, 26; Amsterdam, 27; Rotterdam, 31; The Hague, 27; Copenhagen, 29; Stockholm, 28; Christiana, 28; St. Petersburg, 43; Berlin, 24; Hamburg, 30 ; Dresden, 23; Breslau, 31; Munich, 40; Vienna, 34; Buda-Peath, 41; Rome, 21; Naples, 31; Turin, 25; New York, 22; Brooklyn, 20; Philadelphia, 18; and Baltimore, 14. THE destruction of wild beasts and snakes is one of the duties undertaken by the authorities of the East Indies; but, though the struggle has been car­ ried on for centuries, man has not yet triumphed in it. Last year no less than 22,851 wild beasts and 127,295 snakes were destroyed, at an expense of 103,000 roupees, or $51,400. Nearly 17,000 persons were attacked by snakes during the year, and 3,000 persons were victims of tigers, wolves, anc^other fero­ cious quadrupeds. ACCORDING to the latest published official returns, the total expense in: curred by Russia, from the 13th of Sep­ tember, 1876, to the 13th of January, 1879 in prosecuting the late war against Turkey, amounted to 902,000,000 rubles, or about $657,000,000. Of this sum 704,000,000 rubles were spent for gen­ eral, 87,000,000 rubles for artillery, and 33,000,000 rubber for engineer purposes. The average monthly war expenditure consequently amounted to 32,200,000 mbles; and the average daily expendi­ ture to 1,037,000 rubles. THE decline of the Clyde shipbuild­ ing trade is exciting muoh uneasiness. How great the decline is may be shown very briefly from statistics collected by the Glasgow Herald. In lb74 the steam tonnage built on the Clyde amounted to 183,144 tons, the sailing tonnage to 69,166, or to 252,310 tons in all, being 44 per cent of the steam tonnage built in the whole United Kingdom, and 39| per cent, of the sailing tonnage, or 43 per cent qf the whole. Last year the Clyde turned out only 131,433 steam tons and 56,6*8 sailing tons; while the tctal to&nage built in the United King­ dom was 8 per cent, greater than in 1874. mirmjurrnrflF AWD MXPHAirrnro TJSETM. Can teeth be transplanted ? If recent accounts* of operations by dentists are trustworthy, the answer must be in the affirmatiw. But the question has been formally discussed at a meeting of the Olontologpcal Society, and from this we- learn that it waft in replanting (which is n»ft the suae thing as trans- p famting)* that the foroigu dentists*, whose names had been cited, achieved! thsir 8uccenBK Among them a French­ man, Dr Ittagitot, has pnblished full particulars off eases. in wArich diseased" teeth were taken out, and the root, or a» poatiou of periosteum, was cut away,, and* then were replanted in the same socket, wherayaft* r a few dfcys or weeks,, they became- firm and serviceable. Oute of the sixfiy-three operations in four years Cve wane failures; but some of the ciuties were puinful and tedious, owing; io l«cal discharge. In technical phrase- olagv Dr. IVIttigitot holds "the indication* for an operation to be tha existence efi cl»r»nie p*-mostitis of tha- apex of the root, its dMiu&ation, and. absorption af iw surface.. * * * Tha resection of this, whii*h> plays the pars of irritant, is tile essenddali aim of the operation. And the extraction, having been performed with due oaoe, if no other lesion be de­ tected eawe the alteration in the apox of ̂the root* the tooth is to be replaced! as Isoon a» thito has been excised and ! smoothed), and the hemorrhage has ; ceased."1 A MHTXBOGKMtOUS CROWWk It i» probable that there is not in the world auy other public or private estab­ lishment which presents so many varie­ ties of nationality and religion as the Government, printing office at Sarajevo, in B<>snia There are among its em­ ployes three Bohemians, one Carinthian, oue Croat, three from Lower Austria, one Roniuelian, twelve Turks, two Ser­ vians, oue ^Afghan, one Prussian, one Russian, and one Dalmatian. As to re­ ligion. there are twelve Mohammedans, one Prussian Evangelical, several Ortho­ dox Greeks, one Uuiate Greek, and several Rim»n Catholics. NAME IN TUB S* Alone I walked on the ocear at A pearly shell waa in my hana. I Stooped and wrote upon the aa^jtr} My name, the year, the daj$?' Jkaonward from the apot I i)aase|y i Oae lingering look behind I cast, . H%ave came rolling high and < And washed any linea away. Aid ao, methought, 'twill quickly ba! 1 With every mark on earth with A.wave of dark oblivion's aea „ . / WiU sweep across the place ! * ^ - Iftere I have trod the sandy shota ^ \ s time, to tread it then no mortf * Of me, my name, t* name I boi*,' To leave no track or trace. yet with Him whoconnts the sands, ^ <#!|d holds the waters in hia handf, " fSnow a lasting record stands f \ H Inscribed against my namf ;, ;; mortal part has wrought, -- Of all this thinking soul has thonght, s Asid from these fleeting moments canglx^ ,-J jMM** For glory or for ahamn. ̂ ,. v 1 't: •; PLEAS AN TBIES. v • ]•'! A CARD IN AX virtue--Not to chert at cards. . A MAN of violin temperament---Ole Bull, . - WHAT'S an old maid made for? Maiden vain, generally. A MAN with a strong turn for music is the organ-grinder. If "old dog Tray was ever faithful," how could he be-Tray ? ' QUEER that, when a fellow is in vein to write, he should write in vaip. WHEN you rate a man's good and bad qualities, don't exaggerate them. THE only difference between a small boy and a glass of soda-water is 5 cents. THERE'S bound to be trouble in this old country yet. They are Taunton Massachusetts and Macon Georgia mad. Burdette. "HE seems to have been shot in the diaphragm," said the doctor. "Oh, no!" exclaimed his weeping listener, "he was shot right in the lower end ei the saloon." SCEKE--An eating house. Old gen tleman--"Waiter, how's this? These potatoes are quite hard." Waiter (with presence of mind)--"Hard times, you know, sir." WHEN President Lincoln was taken down with smell-pox he wrote to Colfax that he might let the army of office- seekers approach, as h@ had now some thing that he would give them. WHEN the stern old Scotch warrior said, " The hand of Douglas is his own," was it in response to an insinuation that he held a pair of aces that didn't be­ long to him?--Cincinnati Saturday Night. " WHAT the dickens do yon call your mule Ann for?" asked a tourist of » Western teamster. " Wall," said the interrogated," it's the nigh mole of the par, an' I tuk the name out on the scripters--An, a nigh ass." IT is painfulJy monotonous, to listen to the remarks made by the people who suddenly recline On the icy waft. It i» either some alluaion to the enemy of mankind, his abode, or something of the kind; or it is merely an "Ohl* Why don't somebody say something original? "MAMMA," said a wicked youngster, "am I a canoe?"* "No, child; why do you ask? " "Oh„ because yon always say yon like to see people paddle their own canoe; and I didn't know hut may­ be I wns yours." The boy went out of the doer with more reference to .speed than grace. A NawLY-MARRMD lady made her first plum-pudding the other day. " I aimed to make a good padding," she said to * ] her husband, who* is a rifleman, when the dish was served. "You aimed well," he replied, as he inhaled it& delicious fragrance. " Yes>Tshe said; "invade a plumisoenter." THE superstition as to precious stones warding off ill ia still rife in Russia, as waa evident during the recent- plague. MAXACIOUS amas or ram nijxim- MSTS. Sewn after the late attecupt on tie i life of the Czar, the towns, of Woron- esck and Portama forwarded addresses to tto Emperor,, in Which appeared the following words: "We are intensely griewed that the 'atrocious assassination of jeur Imperial Mages y has not taken place." " To these addresses thousands of sig­ natures weie annexed. Ik now appears that the malicious hand ef the Nihilists had been all work in the matter. The most intellectually gifted of the author­ ities of the two above-named towns had prepared, the necessary documents, couched Sn the most servilely orthodox fashion, but had arranged for the in­ habitants to append their names upon separate sheets of paper. By some meanst hitherto undiscovered, the prop­ er addresses were stolen, and in their places* the revolutionary sentiments al­ ready mentioned substituted. The un­ suspecting authors, in complete ignor- anee of the change effected in their lit­ erary efforts, were no little surprised and alarmed when a telegram breathing fire and slaughter in reply to their ex­ pressions of loyalty mad devotion was received from Livadia. They were at once arrested, and, until the necessary explanations had been given and the whole affair thoroughly sifted, were within an ace of u involuntary journey to Siberia. 4*: ;2& < m - f - Sa^1 IP~£&. r\ , %: y r 3