The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

V13& *.L Witttfi, -'J- *»v . IP *** tea. JP 16, with* Mr , life; my hifaAt nadfeet' a£4ed " when in tt X' ^4$v. ;> morningihe dear o! her. "Here is something ohsslld, "Mi h>Tit«fai at Mrs. Ed uldren's partyv „„ _.Jr„TW, _, 'With a shade ©I acorn injity. « ̂tofttftifeatittg that I was nolaite r-;f? • ̂ 9AM«t in tig* juvenile eatf ' " .•U& "Not children exactly. i-fl: ̂ grandma, with a smile at my "Young people, 1 should haw* Jrs. Edwards' daughter FloraMI and Tom Byrne and all the boys -young men, I* should say," with a twinkle of amusement, "will be there." I had sundry misgivings that I should not enjoy the party at all, being as yet aranh afraid of girls, though be- (taning to admire them as mysterious ^ fascinating beings. However, I fr ' IMSrtftud the invitation, as I found that ' v 4 boys I knew were going, and the •" to be quite a "swell" *rtkir je. When the evening came it found me •ith the rest, seated in a large parlor, Very unhappy because of my arms and hands, which would by no means ar­ range themselves in any graceful or becoming manner, and extremelv beshfnl,bni fail of admiration for a lovely black-eyed girl about a year {onager than myself, who I knew to be 'om Byrne's sister. She sat some ditanee from me, but she had given me a sweet smile when I 4--A came in, and now from time to east glances at me which increased atonce my bliss and my confusion. Various games were suggested and played, bnt they were of a quiet character, such as "Twenty Questions," "Proverbs," etc., so that I had no op- f of approaching any nearer to lf|*0 vihowed herself very in her questions and answers .the progress of these int^l- 1 somebody suggested that we _, ~ play Postofflee. "rortoSoe! what is that ? how do youi play fct* I whispered to Tom Byrne, myiaci|$*g£$gb& ̂ youknow how to play Poat- 'ilitflFti 9" he asked, with scorn of my moe. "Oh, well, I suppose you fellows don't' know anything." never heard of this," I assented meekly. < "Weil, 111 Ml you how it is; a girl asks lor a letter for some boy, and then you have to aok her how much postage, and if sheaaya 1 eent, you have to loss her once." "OhP said L "Yes," replied Tom, "and kiss her twice for 2 cents, and three times for 3 cents. It's quite fun if if a a pretty girl," he added, judicially. "1 subpoae so," I replied, vaguely. "Baft fdfgot to tell you," he aided, "if ska says ' postage not stated' then von kiss her ai often as you like. Hush! they are going to begin." y To be sure, one of the oldest boys \ ̂ r was appointed Postmaster, and one girl ; ' after another went ont into the entry, ' i.%1 ̂ Pre8®ntlj knocking at the door * attfeg for a letter, whereon the * $&,v boy called for sheepishly followed her 'i? > -41 > *nto *nd to judge from the V*" 4 r 8°ail<Ja of screaming and scuffling which \ generally followed, payed his postage ̂ M%fpidenrfde difficulties. 1^1 J- ̂ Nwmed the game in a state of be- ;. wU*®d alarm. What if a girl should ^^*4ip;lor.aM! But no one did and I was half disappointed, half relieved, that I was exempt, when at kst it was Mabel Byrne's turn to go out, Shalalt theroom with a lovely blush har ̂beautiful face. The door was soleno»Jjr closed upon her, and then, aftera »ri«f pause, there was a faint • knock. The Postmaster opened the 7$t0jr a few incites. *Whatdo yon want?" he asked. There is a kttm here," she replied. - ^Orarhom?" , nPorSfir. James HilL" •How aanoh to pay V . n<* "tated," was the faint /Key all laughed loudly and lookAl M to? WM m7 name. The Wood rushed ia crimson floods to my I got on my feet somehow, and *«h my heart torn between a wild depte to go into that hall and a wish to aittk utterly away from human I stambled oat of the room. Hm door was dosed behind me and I found myself almost in darkness, as the hall vat but dimly lighted. I paused a moment and then I heard the faint aound of quick breathing; another heart was beating as violently as my own. For once in my life I knew what to do with myarms. I caught hold of her. I scarcely know how. The darkness gave me courage and I held her in a close clasp, and pressed my lips to her cheek in three or four rapid, half- frightened kisses, before she could free herself from my embrace. "There, there! Mr. Hill," she said, with a faint merry laugh, "don't be so bashful again. I'm sure you are bold uftow!" I paid ay postage?" I yes; enough and to spare. " go back to the parlor." in, a willing prisoner, and ~ evening I was her bond A sr in all games, her dance, (wherein I ex- boys, and gloried in and, at last, the evening, her The next day I re- *ara*« to w$ home in tite dty, and 1HW%aibNHM <mly a memory; r ^ f f r '3H Ws, 0-and I .Ufa th» pit4uiesqne. an artiat?" So Mabel was with him. My heart fave a curious thump, and for a moment could hardly make a sensible reply. "Yes," he went on, "she is so devoted to her art that it seems to quite absorb her life. She has not thought of mar­ riage, and does not care in the least for the ordinary run of society. She will be glad to see you, though," he added consolingly, "as you are a man of science." We walked back together to the little inn, and presently I was shaking hands with a beautiful and stately woman, whose bright, dark eyes flashed with the strange intensity and fire that I had never seen in any other eyes bnt those of Mabel Byrne. She greeted me very cordially and after we three had taken an evening meal together, there followed a delight­ ful evening in the little parlor that Tom and hi* sister had secured. For oboe in my life I frit myself quite at ease in a lady's society. In the first place there was Tom to keep me in countenance by a predominance of my own sex in the company, then Mabel did not expect me to talk of airy noth­ ings, that light foam of the social whirl­ pool which I never yet had been able to skim. She spoke first of my scientific pursuits, and showed so much knowledge of the subjept that I really found myself talking witli earnestness and enthusiasm of the formation of the country, and especially of the glacial svstem and the curious marks of its ac­ tum borne by the specimens I had col­ lected. She in her torn contributed to the evening's interest by telling me of her work, aad showing me her sketches, which were really of a very high order of artistio merit. There was no school­ girl weakness in her handling of the brush, bnt a force and poetic thought that had won her already honorable recognition in the world of art. "And you have never heard of Mabel's paintings until now?" asked Tom. "No, I confess. "You know I have been quite absorbed in my special studies." "Yea, and you have not seen Mabel for ever so long, have you?" "Ne," I replied, "not sinoe that sum­ mer ten years ago, when I was at my grandmother's." "Jolly time we had, too," and Tom, reflectively. "Remember that party at Mrs. Edwards?" A sudden rush of blood to my face utterly confused me. I stammered a reply, and Tom, to my relief, went on with some rambling reminiscences. It was some seconds before I dared to lock at Mabel. Surely she was blush­ ing, too. The next morning we all went on a trip up the slopes of the mountain. Mabel in short, gray suit, alpine hat, and stout boots; Tom carrying her drawing material. Thus we made this, and many another, delightful expedi­ tion. Life took on new colors for me. There was a radiance and glory about it that I had never dreamed of before. Kycry day I found fresh reason for ad­ miring my beautiful companion, and our walks through the deep valleys and up the rough mountain aides were^to me like enchanted journeys throng' realm of fairies. In this !ove___ country in the world, with this most Slorious woman by my side, I was, in-eed, as one transfigured hj the light of the grand passion that took posses sion of my soul. At first 1 knew not what had befallen me. I thought only that my pleasure in Mabel's society sprang from a sim­ ilarity of tastes and pursuits, and the charm of her conversation; but grad­ ually I woke to the overwhelming fact that I loved her with the one great love of my life, that seemed to me now to date from the days of long ago, to have been always with me, and to stretch out into the future to make it transcend- eQtly glorious, or a long despair. And yet as soon as I had learned my own secret, my former bashfulness came back upon me with tenfold intensity, and I fcund myself often embarrassed in her presence, while at the thought of telling her my heart's story, though my brain wai smitten through with dazzling delight at the dream of suc­ cessful wooing, yet I was so over­ whelmed that utterance would, as I was sure, be an impossibility. And Mabel? Her eyes were very kind to me. They turned to me with a softened luster that thrilled me with hope; and yet, if I attempted even a compliment, I blushed, floundered, and was lost. One evening we were talking of all manner of subjects, grave and gay, so strayed to marriage in general, aad especially to the matrimonial lot of some of our old friends. J * ® ? * ? 1 * * 7 0 a , ,'HOir adwdTomiH^^-' - I said; "how much was it?" and looked ^Paafega aot atatedt ? replied Mabel. Progyw, aimliagfo she uttered the words. Then her dark eyes softened and faltered.. The papers and letters were scattered over the floor. I had caught her in my arms with all the audacity that had been oaee before mine in my boyish days. Only now, as I pressed passionate kisses on her brow and lips, I found voice at last to utter the yearning that was consuming mv heart.--Lillie Dec- ereux Blake, in Dio Lewi*' Monthly. •t letters houw! " Hk* «a some A Fight with a CatUeflsh. You see, I shipped for a cruise on the codder Laughin' Dolly for no pay and a share of the proceeds. We sailed from Gloucester, and had tolable luck. Then, gettin' aout o' bait, we put intew Hare bay--that's on the coast o' New Foundland--and Ireken we jest got in in time, for it let on tew blow from the east'ard, and banged and ham­ mered for the like o' three days. At the end o' that time we got the water butt intew the dory, and me anjl my mate, Long Tom Sistree, pulled in for a little cove to lu'ard where it was smooth water and good landin'. In we went a hoopin', when, just as we was goin' through the* gut o' the oove, it kind o' shoaled like, and we come to with a push, and was broadside onter the worst lookin' critter yer ever seen or heard on. First I thought it was a spider; its arms was a flyin' in the air over us, and some a-hangin' on tew the boat, and the creetur seemed actual a-tryin' to come aboard. Ye see it had grounded on the shoal, and we'd plumped right intew it, and I'm a master hand at Bightseein'.but I was taken all abaok,and the first thing I knew one of its arms was around the oar. Whish! came another, taking Long Tom around the boot and yankin' him clean off his feet. He ipped out his knife and cut it off and it fell in the boat a twisting jest lifa» a snake. Another come a flyin' along and took me in the neck, cuttin' jest like a knife, and all this time we wur a whacking and a jammin' at the creetur to-keep him aout of the boat. But its legs was kivered with suckers, and it kind o' came on. Bight between the legs we see a pair o' bills workin' up ana daown just like these are, while the creetar was a-pumpin' ink ana water from a sort o' spout jest lilr« a steam engine, so't we was black from head tu foot and the water all araound. I got my oar up like a harpoon and was jest goin' to jam it in the head when a wave took the dory, gave her a lift, and over she went churckin' me right on tew the creetur, and I'll swan few life I was never so near meetin' Davy Jones afore nor sence. I tried to jump dear, but the boat knocked me daown, and the first I knew I fdt a' grip on my boot and I see the animal had me by the leg; bit clean through leather, leg and all, and for a minute I was all wound up, and I reckon if it warn't for Tom I'd been cleaned aout sure. The water wasn't over two feet, and he jumped clear o' the creetur, and then shovin' the boat dear he jammed the squid in the head with an oar four or five times and hauled me aout, and yaou can bet yer port money I was a physical wrack as far as looks goes--all scratched up. "Wall, we righted the boat, and then I was bound tew sea the creetur; so we dragged it in shore and spread her aout, and how long d'ye reckon it wasf Forty-eight feet tew an inch, and the worst lookin' thing I ever clapped my eye ̂on. The body was jest like a big bag, twelve foot long and soft like a jelly. The tail lo6ked like the fluke on an anchor, bnt the head was what took me. The eyes on it were black Mid as big as saucers, and from around 'em branched off ten legs, kivered on one side with suckers with edges of 'em iist like razors and aaws, and every tune one struck ye a kind o' air jpump pisten arrangement sucked the air about and pressed the sucker right intew ye. Two of the arms were the longest--I reck­ oned about thirty feet--ana it was them the creetur was hangin' by when we ran afoul o' him--kind o' swingin' by 'em like a hawsers. Wall, tew make a long story short, I was laid up for a couple o* weeks with the bite on my leg, ana I reckon I can show®, some of the scratohin' yet. We cut the animal n] for bait, and it filled about ten goo< ood tube, and must have weighed 1,800 pounds."--Philadelphia times. IT is always a sign of poverty of the mind, whore men are ever aiming to pear great, for they who are ra great never seem to faoirit-- PRBOUKTX stands fourth on the list of California exports, amoaatwft. to 600,000,000 gallons yearly. * *** t$|)t .tba body, must fail/lose Its H wiU ao raild xas ;̂irhen pork is eaten at two meals jn jjtocession. To use poA» therefore, wfll tax the stonufch about .Its nook as the:' body wbhld te exhausted by the la&or of twenty hoara each day, instead of ten, •f- ooum.4inunishing its effeetiva power, taring the foundation lor dys- . 7 is this alL This food, so great an outlay of di- it, does not y^ddafsir re- tarn of aowishment, not enough to oompensate'for the foroe expended that ttia noeAgd nourishment may be ob­ tained. Tim hog is a scavenger, in­ tended to devour the filth of the world, aathe most expeditions way of dispos­ ing of it, and the flesh is so filthy that the average beast of prey will not touch it till driven to desperation by intoler­ able hunger! The fat hog, almost without exception, has a fatty, diseased liver, oftener than otherwise uloerated. Not provided with _ the usual means of excretion of 'the higher orders of ani­ mals, the hog has stresms of filth flow­ ing out near the joint of the fore feet, constituting a part of the delicious ar- tioles called souse! When this swine's flesh is salted and smoked it is still more diScult of digestion, still more dyspeptic-producing. It is not strange, therefore, that Moses, instructed and inspired by the great Jehovah, should call this beast an "abomination," for­ bidding its use as food to all people, at all timea> as he did profanity! Similar objections may by raised to most of our complicated dishes--well represented by the minca pie, when fashionable, containing from twenty to thirty dif­ ferent ingredients--so taxing or ruining the digestive organs, even ia early life, that proper appropriation of the nour­ ishment of food cannot be made. Na­ ture loves simplicity, as may be seen in the limited "bill of fare" of the ox, and that gisnt in atrength, the elephant, the grasses Mid a few of the grains. In­ deed, the human body is composed of but few elements, mostly of four! Henoe, just to the extent that we de­ part from this simplicity, we are pre­ disposed to dyspepsia.--Dr.. J. H. Hanqford. \ r raronnd llMvnlv A Chapter an Frnlta£y"" "Fruit being palatable and easily ob­ tained, and less heat-producing tVwn meat and bread, should be largely used as a food, in summer," so says the British 'Medical Journal. All the best medical authorities agree upon this statement. No one disputes that fruit is more easily obtained in the summer than in the winter. Very few boys go out, hi this climate, to rob water-melon patches on Christmas eve. And the casea in which people take the cholera by lounging about in the grass, eating green apples in January, are very rare. Aha we all agree that fruit should be used largely as a food. Some people may prefer to use it as a rai­ ment, but trail is not right. The banana is sometimes very successfully used as a roller-skate, but this use of that escu­ lent is improper and forced. The otiion may ttHnbe diverted from its use as a food an# employed as a weapon of offense. AJldthe hucksters make sales of app agreed can be ap] The * h*p8' j* - gone to bag. can't weakiii fruit-seeker should not along a ean of chloroform But,we are all best use to which food as a food. to obtain food, per* until the farmer has Then a thunder-storm him. The enthusiastic lect to take the dogs, as they are passionately fond of it. A farm-dog does »not. often have the op­ portunity ef inhaling the. chloroform that does not cheat one-half so much as it inebriates twice as quick. Give him all he wants of it; he wQl feel the better for i|s digestive properties. It is just what the dog needs, especially after a hurried repast of human veal. Fruit, the doctors tell us, may be taken with a meal or upon an empty stomach. It has, they say, a gently- irritating affect cm the mucous mem­ brane of the stomach. A long lumber hedge switch in the hands of the man who owns the orchard, has also been found to have a gently-irritating effect upon the epidermis of the back,' which has, in soakf instancee, been sensibly noticed through two ooate, a veet, a h^ory shirt and an atlaa back. "A succulent leath Ab v-~ ». On every dothe# to their crests Noiselessly, sa ve, the 1 . then drunk and w rapids roar away to me narrow channd of I as the seen# |% j<m >ve it {hat you do not of its terriblene?s, for that look so smooth are and rings, forced hy the Of the current twdve feet at the live there, and caught in its. bold the "'•VtiHnn for days, and whirls and tosses and round in its toils with a WUHnjacal patience. The guides haitty ̂stories, which even uidr telling oes not wholly rob of ghaatliness, abontthebodies of drowned men car­ ried into the whirlpool and ">«*!» to enact upon its dizzy surges a travesty of life, apparently floating there at their pleasure, diving and frolicking amid tne waves, or frantically strug­ gling to escape from the death that has long since befallen them." ed no such e. From tha flood of ilnfa- write*s, the life and # as the pres- Paris in English ondarHJW- sarfaee-of reason »pt m siaet metropolis i t i s t at and and pleasantly-acid variety is best for the pnxpoae of an asperient." And, perhaps, although we are not a medical expert, yet we say it boldly, perhaps there is no fruit quite so suc­ culent as nOW cider, eaten through a straw. As it growB riper and riper, the cider loses this succulent quality, and is to be eaten rapidly, in large doses, with most astonishingly ex- hilerating effects. This vigorous and hardy fruit, gathered from die sunny side of a Heir Jersey "stone fencfwiU put the swing into the heels of an dd man, until he will weigh a ton. "Cook­ ing," says the Medical Journal, "re­ moves much of the acidity froa MAI fruit and rendersit lighter andaofa palatable," bdt we believe thie kipd of an apple it wmaHy eaten cold* nil i_ ̂fisi •HI !•••• ••• 1 .1 it is 1 murtimftnui whatever jtoritie eaten befolfyripa.* And all eat aUnpw of fruit. boy 12 y«ts0td should to eat thf iollowing from\he blossom, as son a V •« ̂ Principal Battles of the Union. Following are the dates of the prin­ cipal battles of the Rebellion,who com­ manded in each, and the number lulled on both sides: Bull Bun (first\ July 21,1861; North, Gen. McDowell; killed, 481; South, Gen. Beauregard; killed, unknown. Shiloh, April 7, 1862; North,- Gen. Grant; killed, 1,735; South, Gen. A. S. Johnson; killed, 1,728. Seven Pines and fair Oaks, May 31 and June 1, 1862 ; North, Gen. McClellan; killed, 880; South, Gen. J. E. Johnson;killed, 2,800. Antietam, Sept. 16 and 17,1863; North, Gen. McClellan; killed, 2,010; South, Gen. Lea; killed, 8,500. Chan- oollorsville. May 2 and 8,1864; North, Gen. Hooker; kiUed",r,5l2; South, Gen. Jackson; killed, 1,681. Gettys­ burg, July 1, 2, and 8, 1868; North, Gen. Meaie; killed, 2,834; South, Gen. Lee; killed, 3,500. Yicksburg, July 3 and 4, 1868; North, Gen. Grant; lulled, 545; South, Gen. Pemberton; lolled, unknown. Chickamauga, Sept. 19-23, 1863; North, Gen. Thomas; killed, 1,644; South, Gen. Bragg; killed, 2,389. Wilderness, May 6, 6, and 7, 1864; North, Gen. Grant;killed, 5,597; South, Gen. Lee; killed, 2,000. Spottsylvania, May 8-21, 1864; North, Gen. Grant; killed, 4,177; South, Gen. Lee; killed, 1,000. The above figures are based on medical official re­ turns, and do not agree with returns of Adjutant General. No two returns agree. Adjutant General makes the killed at Wilderness 2,261, and at Spottsylvania 2,270; while Gen. Meade's report, based on reports im­ mediately after the battle, states killed at Wilderness at 8,288; at Spottsyl­ vania 2,146.--Chicago Inter Ocean. Anecdote of Abrhaxn Liacdn. The origin of Lincoln's intimacy with Joshua F. Speed is thus related: "Mr. Speed began his business life as a mer­ chant in Springfield, 111., where ha was settled when Mr. Linooln came there to open a law office. One day, as he was sitting in his store in an interval at leisure, Mr. Lincoln, whose ingrained awkwardness was then aggravated by youth, came up to the counter, and ac­ costed him with visible embarrassment. 1 want to know, Spaed,' he said, the coot of a bedstead and bed,' adding a rough description which indicated the cheapest kind of both. 'What yon want,' answered Mr. Speed, 'wiU cost you about $17.' At this Lincoln's jaw dropped* and a painful expression of sadness and perplexity spread over his countenanoe. Mr. Speed, noticing the lode. Mid rightly interpreting it to aignity that the price exceeded Lincoln's means, quickly added: 'Mr. Lincoln, I have a proposition to make you. My partner has just got married, and his bed in my room up-stairs is vacant. If you are willing to ooeupy it, and share my room with me, you are more than welcome.' The painful expression in- stantlySranished from Linooln'e face as, with a few simple words of thanks, he accepted the offer and disappeared. In a short time he reappeared with a pair of old-fashioned saddle-bags on his arm, and, direoted by his new friend, sham­ bled up-stail* to • the deaignated room. A minute had scarcely passed before lie shambled down again, and aa hef reached the shop-room cried out, his facabeam- ing with jocund content, 'Well, Speed, I've moved.' Henceforward unto death Linooln and Speed were bosom friends." THE little I have seen teaohes me to look upon others in sorrow, not in angar, I take the history of one that has sinned and represented to myself tha i temptations it has passed hliOt pulsation of joy, tha i qnistnde of hope and fear, oc want, the desertion of MOd fain leave the erring fellow-man with Him from whoae it came. --Longfellow. 2?" Wr \̂«oto]be found on a re­ duced scale in nearly avary IT " the Union. A yoang man in MI lporfc, as in an^English story , to Lon? in <« ̂̂ J«tfia hia fortune.' He can make #in Cmsago or Chtdn natir'o like ClevdanFami Detroit. WW* it by lni»y much the __ °*®thods, encounter th* same difflcul ties, go into v^mueb thf same eodety, win very much the a*»* **werds. Ex- nitttre and eqnjtofiwB'aawT position means about thoWm #dty of 66,- D00 ss in a city l,0tift,000. If there are social grades and elaaaes» they are largdy artificial aa& found very much the same, both in tpne and education, in the "provincial" city as in the metropolis. Nof York is a Buffalo or an Albany, magnified a certain number of times by wealth and luxury. Money in New York wiH buy mdre of that sort of things. But the many tilings which are to be had without enormoua money --culture, art, books and bright, in­ telligent society--can be had elsewhere as well as there. A story depicting the lights and shadows of New York life may be graphic and intereating, juat as Broad­ way and Delmonioo's and stores of the A. T. Stewart species are interesting, because they are grander and more luxurious thjm any such elsewere. But the story cannot be wholly novel, nor a revelation of anything startling; be­ cause something like it on a smaller •cale is to be observed in every city that has grown ont of village propor­ tions. New York is, in fact, a mere aggre­ gation of large numbers of units, by simple addition. It has grown as a ap STOWS, by the emptyings of carts and whedbarrows. It is not a de- vdopment like London and Paris, which have grown by natural accre­ tions, after the manner of a tree or a child. Chicago or St. Louis is jast as good a place for laying the scene of a dot as New York; while Boston and New Orleans are far more quaint and picturesque.--^Detroit Free Press. The Nasal Beauties No warrior of oonaequence cares to be without a sear. No German student is happy unless he has a cicatrice on the side of his nose; it is his duding certificate. A veteran prize-fighter whose nasd organ doea not exhibit a curve the reverse of Boman, is pat to the necessity of long explanations about bis career; a broken nose would answer all questions. Since young ladiee have taken to playing base ball, the thought arises whether broken-nosed belles will be the only queens of the diamond field. Young, inexperienced fellows will answer at once that no lady oould throw a ball with force enough to dam­ age the dainty sniffing apparatus of an­ other. Old married men, whose heads have grown gray and corrugated stop­ ping smoothing-irons, water-jugs and stove-covers, believe otherwise. No, the base-ball queens will break each other's noaea without fail. Lady pitch­ ers and catchers will, in timet boaat of the base-ball nose. They will be adored by male professional ninea, and will find husbands among the fine fallows to whom a nose in its original state ia a deformity. --New York JournalTT . ̂ -- - £ * * " £ i Basy Boston WOBMB. } If there are idlera in Boston, they aria not women, writes a New Orleana Times correspondent. The occupa­ tions open to women here indude every- __ is, from the arte and pro­ fessions to the industries. In stmree, shops, libraries, restaurants, oAoee, you are served by woittOn. In Ae city postoffioe the registry of lettaiu a superintended by a woman, with wocaan assistants. In the Athenisnm and lie library women almost exi attend. £1 our best restaurants men serve as waiters while a daintily-dressed woman sits ~ of cut flowoia ̂ani counts. It uaad te little prondaaoed for escort to go to the Parker XXooae; ence of atSfiaed the cashier's dosklms qmts done awajr with that fealing. I|W| *^1 his door one " him if to cash ae- %ten'at A ftm Parson ML was world Whan tody, tfiiK : "oni whole lot of the moisttat̂ SOMX little „ f :. .one who won! 'Willi liHf WITIilliflf like to i Pretzel's Weekly. AK Irish soldier, on hearing that his' ,• widowed mpther bad :'haaa since he quitted Irda ~ "Murther! I hope she VOftt JUftftj older than me; if she does th*i|t!ie.N . Irtook two doctors to put plaoe the lower jaw of a Ne woman who had thrown it while trying to tell a woman scrota the feaeo two new scan­ dals at the same time. No, Gxqbok, I your love; f never dre me so--youahould hatis brokott • b'. hat* *i . =' id1 neither,"' and ..; , , rwMtiilitepe wet --iodket- A A VERY good hit was made at an ^ election in Scotland by (me of the de- 1 featod ca»Jidates. I siutUnuni ap- ' • ihed him with, ̂ IL Ifr. --, I UT<J?/?Lhelr' he, J 1 PMtty umdi as l̂ fp- J w aid. Jui Iittw did t19 nlfftft ' firot spodrar; "how is timt? I said he, *Lakarus was licked by dogs, andao was L" *\ : "I ut Engllntanuui mt Ira 1MS at tbe window, bora , ttranuehrea? PtsrMi idiaottdt - -- a s m a r t n a "Do ynt Widows us ttitr* the pretty, iaqal»ittv« madoo, Do they burn? Tbai they dot* ths gsntlemaii they bi Mid, not## Onr widows, the moment one trasbuid la dead Immediately bom--for •aetlsr * A yottbq dude of the shoe-string k 'nd attempted to pilfer a look of hair from the red-head of a WashingKm street ' rl. She foiled him in( his dforts l̂ r jving her hair bleached. That of course changed the combination ind as he was not faiiiliar with it, ho took the hint, and ceased tampering with tfco lock.--Carl Pretzel's Weekly. " i ; DABWIN'S Missmo umc. - VLSIXJ, H Darwin was cornet̂ • ; . ,/.v As many now mpnt '"'*•< h't < •nd^tt>Knls|ila«iaiaw»tUalk/ 1 .h-f ̂ And if we^e not mistaken . > After dtw«onirid«ra*ton, ' .-1; y'iSni28£&&»"«~»"Uk-s CoaldaowesoteimIttnki, • -:A Thoafh the oMact did Ma east eh so long dittSt. ' UawonhKeM " " A toy beyoadi Ck^dhsiiMmat.. •A«w York Journal "How CAN I leave murmured a Toledo . sa ha ffeatrnd both hands of the dock spproaching a lerpendicdlar on the <M *WwL out," responded the girl unth widced innocence, "you can take your choice. If you go through the hall yon wilt be liable to wake up father, and if yon leave by war of the back thed you'll bo likely to wake up the dog." you, my darling?" lover in tones of How te Secure Ctfaninal Praetft|. A murderer in Near York can, u he chooses, take his pick from a consider­ able number of sairly-eompetent law­ yers, even though he haaa't a dolhur with which to pay. "I was five yens getting into a profitable criminal practice/ one of the men in this Una is quoted as saying, "and I succeeded only by serving gratis. I haunted police courts, and to every prisoner committed for trial who had no nownsd I tendered myself.' In the trial eauirto the Judge may assign any lawyer pass ent to defend a prisoner noipronded with oounseL I made it a point to bo on band for these assignments. Of course many of the oases ware so small that they didnt get into the pajpeta at all, and in some that were reported my name would not appear, bat aanally each hard day's work broaght tha de­ sired reward in the way of pabttdty. Mj practice grew to immepsa aepor- tions, but it waa a year before I could get money enough out eC it ia a wade to pay my modest board Mil on Satur­ day night. At theendof the aeeond year I bad worked UP taa 1 mcome, but had a dcmt̂ ilt to and it is only very Wtstythat l haaa become established fittttly enoagh- to refuse all but oash osssi,. . I not yet let a good marder fall intasiral ads on aooonnt of the perpetrater'a impecuniosity. Let na aonla yaa-to commit a sensationd oriMi, if aiR. ba» cauaeyon oan tlfee»asinawlaw7a<ifreo --more eminent onaay too, thssa yon may imagine." « The main purpose of education is not to promote snsasss in life, bnt to tne standard of life itsalf; and thia object oan he attained oaly hythoaa higher studiea which call hnh ft* powers of, rnssa .̂ amoral feeing, ant • artistic taste. ' £ran in .pesfesaiooal '• aducation, oar^ ̂oa( ̂ ratfh« to ba nsefalnesa in lifertiiaa nMtra •aecesa,aa4', wehava great dnarnat of dlthaCrieaoC edueatian thatwat suoosas ia the first plaea. We hetiavn that educatMn> diouldbeof a kind in syinipethy witlk •hep resent a»».andthat»,ahouldbyn» aMaasnegieetto fit Ha reeipisat tetiUm < straggle ottUb} but we sjjjcd to Psei. ; success.MM ' MM! truth ; aad we ahnald be aosry to : ' eeesach thanldaa find, acoeptanee with, ̂ ^Century Maga* parte of Hds coant̂ y