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«S3 •i ' '1^ irUT HK DID ICOT DRKAM. «rtte In the old coach road. " *ti lyy her side she pfcood. r_jber. h»od*, and the words they mm Hashes of light that broke of eaoh a thonpht awoke, sight wall remember. Iter meet again? 'Twas all he arid. L «01? Be saw she was sorp afraid ' memory worrie L an." ate said, and she blushed for shame, ItMpMMd hie band, ud she breathed his As tbe old otace-^och widra ramble came And oft to t he town she harried. »r?f; <• < throvRh hto mind wild fandea stole ' 'tlPF* maid who pined 'neath some fierce con- Ind Awl (dfhed at her window casement AM tte.tfeoafrlit her patae-jwond parents *ore Asttngte Ida heart and it irrjeveii him sore* fir meaitrt he she worked in a fancy s' and llred In a down-town basement. 3*-AT«o York Journal A CLEAR CASE. 'ourth g along r- nearing sunset on Mid (he steamer was plo< „ _ Erie--that most deceitful, most dangerous lake of all the chain--clear- intending to reach Buffalo bj next noon. passengers had been having their 0 fun, for they had all become pretty well acquainted in those seventy * blue hours, velvet beneath, satin Above, sunrise to sunset, with never a |Aoud or drop of rain, or seasick soul, - lave one dear woman, who early retired 4o her state-room and partook, a dis­ cretion, of nux vomica, third potency. , Some one had bottled a written ac- #ount of the trip; some one else had JAaounted the capstan, made a bright if rhapsodical speech, and hurled the bot- 4le into the waters, the ceremony being Attended with much laughter and hand- flapping. This concluded, a most ex­ cellent humor pervaded the company; <|ven the six stately representatives of *iwo most exclusive families--social pil­ lars of a Western metropolis--conceded Ibe claims of the occasion. r Of this party of six, two were elderly ladies, sisters, Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs. €Hose; the remaining four, the two Slaughters of each, young ladies, whose Ages might safely be reckoned within ibe limits of 17 to 22. M Papa Close had put them all aboard * lite steamer in their own dear, dirty Western river at 8 o'clock the Tuesday 1^8 previous. It was now Friday, apa Wolfe would meet them at |he dock in Buffalo on the morrow--Deo tolante. So they could not be consid- 4nd exactly as unprotected females, ^llesidea, was not the jolly skipper their "most obedient," with all his Hibernian Ibaozditaes? • ;/ They had started out with an exces- •0tn frigidity toward each and every one «lse aboard, but this had thawd, and now disposed to patronize-- After A kindly fashion. The voung ladies were standing, arms lovingly en- in groups of twos; three of ihetn were dressed alike and closely seeetnbled each other; the fourth was AA odd lamb, her countenance being trace pjqnantly expressive than that of •rfer or cousins, light, sparkling, niimfciivous, where theirs were tolerant with the weight of piqiriety " "form." Her eyes were heavily her nose tipped saucily; her a carnation-leaf, and the engarepoon hat she wore, like the had lordlj secured her from puiliui ii freckles. • P'Whe carried 'A yellow, foot-square Artehel of alligator-skin, with her name j|m4ettAed on the outside--one of her names at least, and that by which •hewaa best known-- , "HKUOTBOME." She wore a blue-flannel yachting suit; Her hair was the sweetest brown with Wins of red gold shining throughout. SBhe lacked the self-conscious expression •AI Isabel Close or Agnes Wolfe, the -ladies at her left, just back of Delicia Close, a thin edition, whose embrace n ;)||ordered her a little. Nearly all the passengers were on in groups of threes and fours, le excellent mammas, Close and Folfe, sat not far away, nriidle-aged, f *eli-dras8ed, with an odHpnal line diamond as a letter of crea^P Up and ) down the narrow passage between the eabin and the rail of the propeller !r„..v.:^|imiteredthe steward of the vessel, a Remarkably good-looking, yet at times £inelancholy, young man, with a cigar in 4:: liis mouth that might have been an Immortelle for his apparent everlast- ^-;^ijjngness. * t At times he seemed to gaze medita­ tively upon either Delicia Close or | v»|^eliotrope Wolfe, an unprejudiced ob- ; ^erver on oath might hesitate in assert­ ing which. Perhaps Mrs. Wolfe could -'•> v^. i^have said, though, for Helie was only ,-v Hoo often in mischief of the kind. Besides--but this takes me back to " ' tthe night they started. That night the Simoon was just rising, yellow as gold :^and as smooth as a platter, when the jgood byes were spoken, the last kisses ^exchanged, and Papa Close, with others '•A1 ^equally forlorn, went ashore, reflecting 'that during his family's six week's so- •*.%;'v/i;iourn at the seaside he might give undi- '"•-l, • f ^vidod attention to his newest racehorse. •' -mjl --It was the middle of August; y ^' ' fbut they had all been doing-the Dells ,.V* y*ot the Northwest--all save Miss Helio- , ' itrope, who had spent two months with school-friend not far from her own V'< . .city. fljHi The propeller was growling hoarsely as it moved down Aa river, through > theuMftgle of shipping. A-i £%A- het lace. "lTes,M he said, "I am going all the way--" then paused, hesitating for some reason. Helie glanced acro&s the deck and suggested that thfty stroll to the stern of the boat, as she had much to say. "Tell me how you knew," she ran on, and O, by the way, were you angry, awfttlly angry?" "About what?" <, i v "About my letting* ytJA think my name." "O fudge, little puss. pose I didn't know at fore you came to vo she wrote me to come She knew I'd fall in well she wasn't far out there he gave her arm a hug. "But then the You didn't sup- on weeks be­ d's? Why meet you. a glance-- and l^iSi^fi-jopen bridges and 1 * f s$ out under the star of the harbor light, into the caressing arms of the lake; and the Wolfe-Close party, having conclud­ ed the inspection of their three state­ rooms, sniffed doubtfully at the six- inch looking-glasses, and wondered if there were mosquitoes--or anything else that bite3--on board, appeared on deck to witness the moonrise. They all found seats together, ex­ cepting Helie, who, with usual perver- sity, wondered off to the other side and ; ^ stood gloomily by herself. She stood so but a few momenta, how­ 's- ever, when a gentleman, who had sud­ denly emerged from the cabin, ap- proached. She stared a second, then ihrust out her hand with a joyful cry of recognition: "Phil! Phil Lawson!" He caught both hands and squeezed them hard--nobody was looking at them; everybody was interested in the moon. "Yes, here I am," he laughed. "Aren't •yon surprised?" "Awfully! But awfully glad. How • did you know we were coming? You did know, didn't you? Are you going ^jlear round? Why it is simply splendid, But I have a scolding ready. What did you mean by such a melancholy letter as that last one ?* 4She poured this out in a breathless vfe absurdity of your coming there with only a couple of sateen dresses at 80 cents a yard, and making her introduce you as Miss Healy, a poor orphan, self- supporting, and so forth, for the pur­ pose, I've no doubt, of making all the young fellows wild after you because they couldn't marry you. For of course a man doesn't care so much for a girl he knows he can marry." "I didn't ask Laura Dodge to intro­ duce me as 'Miss Healy.'" said the young lady, spelling out the name, "I said 'Helie.'" " O didn't you t Nor you didn't allow me to call* you 'Miss Healy,' 'Miss Kittie Healy,'" he remarked pensively. "Now, see liere, there might have been some fun in a poor girl palming herself for an heiress-- "O that would be horrid!" * "Think so?" "Why, of course! , Phil, shall I take you back now and introduce you to mamma, and auntie, and Isabelle, and , and Delicia? O dear, I wish they were at home!" So do I!" Another ling--of h6r arm only, of course. ' She laughed. "Well, come along. I shall introduce you as Laura's friend. No one knows we have corresponded." "But first, Helie, I've something to say." O, afterwards." They were standing quite alone at the stern, directly over the screw (nice place to get sick) with a single lantern overhead, faint in the moonlight. And he was looking very fond and very melancholy. He was a good-looking young fellow, with a per­ fectly-golden mustache and a tenor- pitched voice. He was a little lazy of speech--being of Southern parentagA. "No, Helie, for when you have heard me out I fear you will hardly wish to introduce me." ^ "Why, Phil!" "It is true. Pussie--I used to call you Pussie, didn't I?--when we last met, only a few weeks ago, I had a for­ tune of my own, a very decent one, which I might have asked a certain dear little girl to help me spend, if she loved me enough. Now--it is gone. Irretrievably gone! Speculations have carried it off as the wind carries thistle­ down. I am a poor man." "O Phil!" She clutched his arm with both hands and regarded him tearfully. "Dearest, you do care?" " You know it." And, having kissed him fondly and wiped away her moist grief, she in­ quired : "But where are yon going ?" "To Buffalo." ^ "And then ?" "No further. I retain with the boat, because, you see"--he winched as he confessed it--"I am the steward." "The steward ?" she echoed. "Yes," resignedly.' "So, of course, it wouldn't do to introduce me. Your family couldn't sympathize as yon do, dearest." Helie sighed; but presently her spirits rose like life-buoys. I don't care Phil; it must be jolly to be steward and order all the meals. Please have ice-cream often and lobster- salad." Just wait," said Phil lngnbriously; "wait till you see me inspecting a great ugly chunk of raw beef to-morrow, and watching the men to see that they don't comb their hair in the pudding or wipe their faces on the dish-towels." "Do they do that?" she asked faintly. "O Phil, I forgot how long I was stay­ ing. I must run back. IH see you early in the morning. Delicia--she is my room-mate--Delicia always sleeps late. Good-night, Phil." "Good-night" (with usual accompani­ ment). Miss Heliotrope lay awake a long time that night, in the upper berth where she could look out through the little window and see the moonlight on the blue velvet. She sighed once or twice and, when she slept, dreamed ever of Mr. Lawson. Next morning she was out on deck early and had a little chat with him, Ibt the rest of the day Delicia clung to her most provokingly. Nevertheless, the inelancholy young steward sauntered about, consoling himself with a wonderfully good cigar and occasionally making himself of ser­ vice to the matrons of the party. He seemed not to care much -for the other passengers, among whom were noticea­ ble a fat lady with a thinnish husband, a widow, a small boy, and a family en­ tire, including twins in arms, though at meal times he was on the alert to see that all were well served, taking his own refreshments an hour later at one end of the long lable entirely cleared. "That is a very obliging young man," said Mme. Wolfe to Mine Close, the second or third evening, as they sat on deck in the Mackinaw harbor and watched Mr. Lawson escort a party of young people, including their own daughters, ashore to board a Lake Su­ perior steamer which wa? waiting there •with its brass band playing serenade music fit to break one's heart--along with the moonlight. Very obliging, indeed. One might almost think him fit for something tat­ ter. Such a life must be degrading. I passed him to-day as he sat as dinner. You should have seen the great dish of corn-beef and cabbage!"--with a shud­ der. Dear me! Was he eating it?" Well, lie was looking at it." 'Dear, dear! What a beautiful night, Teresa! It reminds me of Naples Bay.r The young people returned in hig'. spirits, and, as soon as the boat left the harbor, got up a social dance in the cabin. Helie, who furnished the music from the cabin piano, was greatly amused on glancing up to find her cousin Isabel waltzing with--the stew­ ard. Isabel spoke of it a little later in singular tone of hesitation and depre nation: "It was so absurd! The stew ward came up and asked me to dance I hardly knew--that is--well, he waltzes very well--came right up and •asked me tt "Yes, dear," putin her mother suave­ ly. "And such an obliging person, real- £ Y < , u 4 ^ um. in*l» fMKNage ward to AM. whom so confidentially. she sprang np, to the laadar, she d« and sought her mother. "Mamma," she orled, gasping and choking over it: "Mamma, Helie is-- Hirtingwith--the steward I" "My love! Yon shock me. Ask her to come to me at onoa.* And Helie saw no more of Mr. Law- son until, standing by Delieia, in the sunset, she observed him patrolling the passage with his cigar. Delicia carried ner off presently to dress for supper. Delicia talked a great d^al. "It's been a lovely trip, Helie. The St. Clair Flats were heavenly--if the men hadn't tried to shoot hirds. I can't see any fun in shooting things you don't want. Canyon?" "No," said Helie, with disgusted brev­ ity. That night, when Delicia's regular breathing told that she • slept, Helie slipped down from her berth, drew aside the curtain, and peeped out. One sin­ gle, melancholy figure leaned upon the railing. . „ . "Phil!" He turned quickly* '•Helie darling," ,tr: "Phil, it's making me awfblly ner­ vous." "Is it darling?" • "Yes." "But your father will surely forgive us." * •r* "I think he will. But, Phil, if he shouldn't, you are young and brave-- you could work." "0 yes, I could work; Pd make the ohips fly." "Chips?" "Yes. Out of the logs, yon know." "But if any one knew, what a^uss there would be! What time do we get to Buffalo ?" "About noon." They whispered a while, then closed the conference, and Helie returned to her berth. Toward noon next day there was a general stir. Sentimental passengers gathered in the cabin and sang "The Sweet By and By." Miss Heliotrope, not being of this assembly, went out and feed the baggageroom porter to un­ strap her trunk, from which she took snndry smaller articles and crammed them ipto her alligator satchel. Then she went forward and climbed to the upper deck to hear the steers­ man yarning as he neglected his wheel and got the steamer headed for the sandy side of the lake until the skipper ripped out an oath or two and bade him be careful. Then the city grew nearer and nearer, and finally the journey was at an end. Five of the Wolf-Chase party seemed in no haste to land, but stood gazing in­ tently over the railing. "Ah, there is Mr. Wolfe!" cried his wife, waving her handkerchief. "Ag­ nes, Helie, there's papa! He will come on board. We must wait here I" Some ten minutes after the gentle­ man was embracing them all in turn. "Where's Helie?" he asked at length, in surprise. "Why didn't she come?" Sure enough, Helie was missing. Mr. Wolfe turned pale. Had anything hap­ pened her ? The girls ran hither and thither wild­ ly. The other passengers had landed and the crowd dispersed. Helie was not on the landing. Mrs. Wolfe was faint: Mrs. Close frantic; the girls hysterical. "Where's Capt. Burke? Where's the steward ?" cried Mrs. Close. But neith­ er gentleman could be found. After a half-hour's excitchment the baggage-porter appeared, and, with a knowing grin, admitted having seen the steward and the young lady going ashore together the very first of all. Mr. Wolfe was nonplussed for a little, then started to the door (they were all in the cabin), where he was met by the porter, who had gone out reconnoiter- ing, and returned to report the delin­ quents as coming aboard again in good shape. Mrs. Close, first to recover, darted out to meet them, leaving the others to regain self-possession. Oh, Helie! How could yon!" cried her aunt, reproachfully. "Yonr mother is perfectly prostrated!" Is she ?" Helie returned, coolly. "Never mind, she'll get over it. Do yon suppose papa will forgive us for getting married?" Married!" shrieked her aunt. Yes, yon know in this State it doesn't take fifteen'minutes. You don't need any license--only * minister." Mr. Wolfe met them at the door. "Why--why Lawson, where did you drop from ?" he cried. "Helie, I thought you were np to some folly with the steward ?" "Oh no, papa," and site kissed him. No folly at all; he wa* the steward, but he isn't any longer; for of course voull help him out now, he's my hus­ band." Mr. Wolfe stared and his countenance underwent a series of expressions. Then he giive a short laugh and ejaculated: Great Scott! If this doesn't beat all!" Then severely: "Where's yovr mar riage certificate, Helie?" Here, papa." Very well, my dear. Lawson, yon're as hod a crank as yonr father, bless him. But of course I'll have to forgive you; don't let it occur again. Funny my wife didn't remember you. Been abroad two years, haven't you ? Helie has been shut up in boarding-school; that's what makes her so romantic." "But, papa--" "O, it's all right, my df ar. No di­ vorce talk--if he ha* fooled yon. Yon ought to be glad I'm so pleased." And so Mr. Lawson found himself gobbled up in short order, and blessed as well as forgiven by his mother-in-law Then they all set off for the hotel in high spirits. Steward," said Mr. Wolf, "how many trips had you made?" "This was the second." "Last, too, eh ?" "Yes, unless Helie wishes me to con­ tinue. She thinks it awfully jolly." "It is not so bad," said Helie stoutly. now Mairli death' % spot . It WAS jnKt oi||̂ ||;(Bdge within the its, on thf&eiuttore estate, by W. Key Howard, of owned at tile time of her _ aon-in-law, Colonel Field­ ing Leira, feom whose hands it passed into the poeaopsion of ,the Gordon fam­ ily. Jttat where the Kenmore place be­ gins to slope <lown on every side to the valley below is the grave, commanding a pretty view of the upper edge of the town, of the valley up toward the dam of the Stafford Hills and of the liights of Fredericksburg, including the now famous Marye's sights. Southward a few hundred yards is the Confederate Cemetery, and from the hill beyond Marye's Hights, now the National Ceme­ tery, Ike nag of the Bepnblic her son saved looks down upon Mary Washing­ ton's grave. To the left of the monument as you face northwest is a private graveyard of small idee surrounded bf a brick wall. This is the last resting place of many of the Gordons. A few oaks and aspen trees shade thi3 sacred spot. The mon­ ument was commenced by Mr. Silas Burrows, a wealthy merchant of New York, and all that has ever been ex­ pended on it was given by him. It haa never been completed. Near the uifl flrished monument lies an enormous cone-shaped piece of marble that was to have been the capstone, so to speak, of the monumemt. It was never put on top of its place, and lies half buried in the ground, a sad spectacle of wasted efforts. The monument is square, the base large and massive, surmounted by A smaller square of solid marble blocks, bnilt in imitation of a temple, the four aides being ornamented with two fluted columns, each of marble. It is sadly defaced. The marble columns are thrown down, broken, and some of them have been carried away. The corners are chipped and broken. Bullet, shot and pencil have helped in the disfiguration. Grass and weeds crown the summit, and here it stands, a fitting emblem of the futility of hu­ man hopes, aspirations and works. The foundation of the monument was laid on May 6, 1783. In digging for the foundation the coffin was exposed. It was of black walnut. It had decayed and fallen apart, exposing the bones of Mrs. Washginton. It is said that one relic-hunting citizen, Mr. Anthony Buck, secured one of the finger bones, and that for years he -showed it as a cu­ riosity. The corner stone was laid on the 7th of May, 1783, amid a grand civic and military display in the pres­ ence of the President, Andrew Jackson. It was on his way to attend the cere­ mony that Lieutenant Bandolph, of the navy, pulled the President's nose. I have talked with a gentleman who was present when the Presii--; addressed the people from the steps of Dr. Wal­ lace's house on Main street. He tells me that an old negro man, George White by name, a vender of cakes and fruits, pressed up close to Jackson and called out, "Bress yer heart, honey! did dey hurt yer nose ?" Old Hickory looked like a gamecock as he drew himself up, his eyes flashing, and his white, bristly hair standing straight up, and tl/hndered out, "No, by the Eternal!"--Correspondence Neiv Postscript--It occurs to me that the whole affair may have been a precon certed plot. Girls and their mammas so often understand each other now adays, and Laura Dodge used to say that Helie was "a perfect little divil. Howewer, as far as Mr. Lawson's affec tions were cocnerned, every one said it was "a clear case."--Lilly M. Curry, in Chicago Tribune. ^elegram. the & Good Chair. A BUND Ireoovered rrf-To. at Horseheads, N. Y. Fighting a Skunk* X was once on a visit to a sheep-farm­ ing brother, far away on the southern frontier of Buenos Ayres, and among the dogs I found there was one most in­ teresting creature. He was a great, lumbering, stupid, good-tempered brute, so greedy that when you offered him a piece of meat he would swallow your arm, and so obedient that at a word he would dash himself againajk|be horns of a bull, and face death and^pbger in any shape. But, my brother told me, he would not faoe a skunk--he would die first. One day I took him out and found a skunk, and for upwards of half an hour I sat on my horse vainly cheering my cowardly follower and urging him to battle. The very sight of the enemy gave him a fit of shivers, and when the irascible little wretch began to advance against us, going through the perform­ ances by means of which he generally puts his foes to flight without resorting ito malodorous measures--stamping his little feet in rage, jumping up, sputter­ ing and hissing and flourishing his brush-like, war-like banner above his head--then hardly could I restrain my dog from turning tail and ftying home in abject terror. My cruel persistence was rewarded at last. Continued shouts, cheers, and hand-clappings began to stir the brute to a kind of frenzy. Torn by conflicting emotions, he began to re­ volve about the skunk at a brisk gallop, barking, howling, and bristling up his hair, and at last, shutting his eves, with yell of desperation, he charged. I fully expected to see the enemy torn to pieces in a few seconds, but when the dog was four or five feet away from him the fatal discharge came, and he drop­ ped as if dead. For some time he lay on the earth perfectly motionless, watched and gently bedewed by the vic­ torious skunk; then he got up and crept, whining away. Gradually he quickened his pace, finally breaking into a frantic rtm. In vain I followed him, shouting at the top of my lungs; he stayed not to listen, and very speedily vanished from sight--a white speck ou the vast, level plain. At noon on the; following day he made his appearance, gaunt and befouled with mud, stagger­ ing forward like a galvanized skeleton. Too worn out even to eat, he flung him­ self down, and for hours lay like a dead thing, sleeping off the effects of these few drops of perfume.--London Field. Cleanliness. -1 When water is as free as air, and good soap can be bought for a few peonies, there is no excuse for any one to go dirty. Yet I once heard a"young man remark, ©ne pleasant afternoon late in the summer, that he must go in swim­ ming once more, or he should not get a good wash again until spring. Now the "good \vash," which the young man im­ plied by his remark, is one which should be taken at least once a week, and oftener if possible; and a wash to which the reader may apply his own adjective should be taken at least three times a day. But lest there be some that are unable to define such an one, perhaps something like the following will suf­ fice : Bare the arms to the elbow, and give the arms, wrists and hands a thorough washing, giving paiticular at­ tention to the joints of the wrists, the knuckles of the fingers and the finger­ nails. Then loosen the binding of the Win. Bladt m the West Hfjrhlaaders. It would- be but a poor return for many and )MM# an act of kindness if I were to fail to say A word about the West Highlanders when aaked to do so. I may say that I know a little about them; for, ae a boy, I have slept in crofters' hnts in Islay; as a lad I wan­ dered through and over glen and hill, in search of botanical rarities, from Avon to Inverness; while, later on, and parily for idling* and partly for the mafimg of books, I have explored pretty nearly every bay and creek from the Mull of Can tire" to the Butt of Lewis. The difficulty is to know how to set alxrat it. It must be next to impossible for ag. Englishman or an American to understand, and still more to sympa­ thize with, traits of character which are largely the result, as it seems to me, of a phase of civilization through which neither England, since she became Enland, nor America has ever passed. The sentiment of clanship--a sentiment which habitually showed itself to be stronger than any tie of blood, or the common love of life--was not altogether eradicated from the Highland character when the government disbanded the clans after Culloden; though now jt exists but passively, or reveals itself in peculiarities which the Lowlsnd Scotch­ man, for example, regards as only so many childish weaknesses. Indeed, no two races could be more markedly dis­ tinct than the inhabitants of the south and the inhabitants of the northwest (I am less familiar with the northern Highlanders, and this rambling gossip must be confined to personal expe­ riences) of Scotland. There is as much difference between a Lowlander and a Highlander as there is between a Prus­ sian drill-sergeant and a Neapolitan lazzarone. The Lowlander, of broad and sturdy Saxon build, is hardy, economical, alid industrious; an enter­ prising and excellent colonist; reticent of speech, opinionated, and not over- civil to strangers; theological to a de­ gree, and argumentative; humorous in a grim and sardonic fashion; and gener­ ally of an uncompromising, self-assert­ ive type; whereas the Highlander, with his pensive Celtic temperament, is superstitious rather than theological; not humorous at all (all the best High- land stories are told as against High­ landers by the Lowlanders); he is a most unwilling emigrant, though the poorness of the soil has from time to time (and greatly to his own ultimate advantage) forced him away from the glens and the hills he can never forget; he is gentle and pleasant in manner and speech, but at the same time quick­ tempered at any fancied slight; he is hospitable, obliging, and ready to do a stranger any service, yet always with a certJm self-respect; too courteous to be strictly veracious, for he will tell you not that which is, but that which he thinks will please you; he is content with the poorest living, and has but lit­ tle enterprise; while I fancy that the traditions of clanship are responsible for his willing dependence on any supe­ rior power, his devotion to a good mas­ ter, coupled with a curious sense of equality, and a touch of communism as regards food and drink.-- Wm. Black, in Harper's Magazine. " Newspaper Row Palmy Bays. HI should say that Newspaper Bow id not what it used to be, a lot of mon­ keys will begin to chatter and think (if monkeys can think) that it is a hit of vain glory on my part. But let me tell you, in the old days of the Bow the greatest men in Washington visited it. Charles Sumner used to come into the Tribune office and sit for half an hour or an hour, talking with the correspond­ ent on public questions. Speaker Col­ fax was almost a nightly visitor to the Bow. Barry Wilson came nearly every night to Tribune rooms. Conkling was a frequent visitor to the office of the Philadelphia Inquirer when Mr. Painter was in charge, and it was not uncommon to see Mr. Blaine on the Bow, eagerly scenting the columns of newspapers on file. Mr. Edmunds also visited several of the offices of old Newspaper Bow. Even General Grant, in his term as President, did not think it beneath his dignity to go into some of the offices of the famous Bow. Foreign ministers also sought the Bow. In my humble way I have answered question and shown paper to Lord Lyons, Sir Edward Thornton, Prevost Paradoi, the French minister who committed suicide one hot summer day here, and toother foreign ministers who visited the Bow. I do no* pretend to give tha reason, but the class of people who used to visit the Bow do not go there now. The boys on the Bow to-day are just as bright and just as respectable, no bonbt, as they were ten or fifteen years ago,.but certain it is that public men now. aroid newspaper offices.-- Washington Let­ ter. Bob Ingersol's Mall. • It is a noteworthy fact that an Amer- isan citizen who is fortunate enough to acquire anything like notoriety is cer­ tain to be inundated with floods of letters. Out of the entire number re­ ceived there,, is hardly ever one that has the slightest interest or value. Col. Ingersoll receives every day enough letters in the way of advice, suggestion and argument to make the fortune of a jmikshop. I was in his office not long ago when he received a brief note from an Ohio man covering ninety closely writ ten p&gesof foolscap, pasted end to end, so as to make a long roll. The writer desired to have a little friendly argu­ ment with the Colonel and his letter was the first installment. dent, dat •Wf'1 troit will de I an' tott< mer duriAde" /Idledesiifc-eca. be supported IMUfc *A jwo'su- MK»»doan' itldm |£Jnen to look upon fti' if dey instead filled de ken- bharity tried to began to burn an' chil'n. , -- A drove of 600 beggar ohtt'to to inaroh up an' down ebery lwaideat «fa*at. It has wasted its tears npoo brntes of men an* its prayarŝ Upon hardened women, an' its m?nft7 gone to feed people so vile an wicked dat State's prison ached to receive 'em. an' a po# doan' of asl, try wiji undo barns A Strange Religions Sect. In several provincial districts of Fk*; land aroligious sect has appeared based upon the fundamental principles of "fe­ male supremacy and male subjection Husbands and lovers bind themselves by oath to wear whatever yoke their partners choose to place upon them and, further more, to make unreserved confession once a week of all delinquen cies. A woman who has been chosen by her sister rulers to exercise unlitn ited authority within the community allots the penalties, which are promptl inflicted by robust and reaefute ma trona. • Peace. Peaceis tlje highest aim of the su­ perior man. Begin to regulate before disorder comes. Where legions are quartered, briers and thorne grow. In the track of great anuies must toikuP badrem-Z*o-fee;CM0«M. /!% "As to de second query, dar am a poo' ole man libin' nex' doah to Sir Isaac Walpole. Who haa paid hia rent for months past? Charity? No, gen­ tlemen; charity nebe^h'ara of Anybody but a bold faced beggar. OuFmend, heah, Sir Isaac, has not only kept de roof oberde ole maifs head, but has furnished him many A meal to eat. "Up on Orove street, near de cabin' of Waydown Bebee, am a poo' ole wo­ man dat has gone blind. Brudder Be­ bee an' odder members has chipped in to take car' of her, and whateber she has had the pas' summer, or haa now, am due to deir kindness. Town charity hasn't diskibered her yet. "Up on Scott street, clus to de cabin of Whalebone Howker, dar was a death de odder day, an' two chil'en war left alone in de world. Charity left 'em alone in de house until de landlord turned 'em into de street; den charity walked off an' Brudder Howker took de orphans home an' will keep 'em freW de winter. Up my way dar am a sick man who wants medicines--a boy wid a broken leg who wants nourishm' food--a wo­ man who has a long run of fever widout her rent fallin' behind or her chil'en goin' hungry. Let de cry of distress come to Pickles Smith, Judge Cadaver, Samuel Shin, Bev. Penstock or any odder member who kin spare from his purse or his table, an' it am promptly answered. We know our naybors an' we am naburly. We .found no hos­ pitals, establish no beggars' headquar­ ters, an' issue no call for udder cities to send in deir paupers to be supported, but our naybur finds us at his sick-bed, an' misfortune finds our purses open. He who has charity in his heart need not go huntin' fur de poo' to relieve an' fur reporters to puff deir gifts. Charity dat rides aroun' tja on a fo'-hoss wagon will see a wcflHp man starve an' feed a loafer who OTs spent half his summer in de saloors. Let us drap de subjick an' proceed to business."--De­ troit Free Prens. '."mrni. A jolly elrowd : theothe I never re-treat,* "SOMA men, Hke piotnrea,are fittlr a cotter tfeaA fottlight,"aaidSen- A Tibetan Beauty and the Bnst. The king had a son named Kusa, who was heroically strong, but who unfor­ tunately "possessed the eighteen signs of ugliness, and a face like that of a lion." In order that the youth might not know how hideous he was, he was brought up without ever having seen a mirror or even the surface of standing water. And when he married, he was ordered never to show himself to his wife in the daytime, or by artificial light, lest die should find that she was wedded to a monster. After a time, however, the curiosity of the Tibetan Psyche was aroused. One night she lighted a lamp and covered it up with bowl. When her husband arrived she lifted the bowl, and then for the first time she saw that he had "the eighteen marks of unsightliness and a face like a lion's jowl," so slM exclaimed: A demon r a demon V' and fled away to her father's house. Sorrowfully did her deserted husband seek to recover her. Several times he, unrecognized, won herjheairt by his address, but when­ ever she saw his face she always uttered the same cry and fled. At last he dis­ played such heroic qualities in fighting against her fafther"# foes, that the prin­ cess thought: "As this youth Kusa is excellently endowed with boldness and courage, why should I dislike *hini?" So "she took a liking for him," and re­ turned to. live with him. A11 went well for a time, but at length Kusa went down to a pot# one day to bathe, and catching sight of Ms face in the water, he said ta himself, "as I have the eighteen signs ©f on comeliness and a face'like a lion, and as on that account the' princess takes no pleasure in me, it is needlless that such as I should remain alive. 1 will go and put - myself to deaAlit" Thereupon he entered into a copse ami woa about to hang himself when Indira interfered and presented him with a jewel which, when worn upon- hi» forehead endowed him with personal beauty, after which he lived happily with his admiring wife. The story has been considerably distorted in its change from a mythological to a moral tale. It originally belonged, no dbnbt, t®> the large group of Indian, legendsin which are described the foe- tunes of a brilliant and generally divine being, who is forced to assume for a time a sombre or even repulsive af>- pearancey and to live on earth, air all events, during the day time, as a hidco-- man, or even as so inferior a creature as a pi# or a frog, until at last the spell which binos him is broken, usually s» consequence of something done by his wife, and the long degraded husband becomes once more bright and gloriem. --The London Quarterly Rev cur. Nevada "Petering Out." Nevada is said to be gradually "peter­ ing out," so to speak. Her population has dwindled to 62,000, which' makes her the most thinly-inhabited State in the Union. The big residences at Vir ginia City and Gold Hill, which cost immense sums of money, are being torn down and used for firewood; and the rich deposits of ore, out of which such great fortunes were being made a few years ago, have nearly all been ex­ hausted. The State has no agricultural possibilities, and unless she can find a way to utilize her deposits of salt, sul­ phur, and borax, must soon cease to produce anything worth mentioni^.-- Chicago ~ •how properly hung. Lo»» H«nrAX once said that « f̂ a man were to set out by calling every- name he would be knoAedloimMwe he got to the cor­ ner of the street." IT is said that one pound of green tea boiled until its strength is coneen-1 trated into A gill of liquid contains poison enough to kill over l,000 eefc. Would to Caesar more tea oould be need this way. "WHArti you drink?" aaked A well- known politician of a friend as, they stood together in front of A CMhonn street bar. "Oh, I'll take someO-D-V." £ What's the other name fdrltt* Miked _ "Why^eaw de* vie--thelp|*iSr^Mr brandy, of course." "Yea,- we aee," said the politician, "a little learning a dangerous thing." [From Peek'«J!<u>.] AN Illinois man offers a shot-gun and a setter dog for any information (lead­ ing to the whereabouts of his mining wife. A shot-gun and setter dog might be an inducement to give her np. HEBB LASKEB says the "brain power of the people" is the distinguishing feature of the United Statee. It is evi­ dent that Herr Lasker keeps posted on tip rapid growing development of the slugging matches in this country. A CALIFORNIA editor thinks he haa solved the Indian question. He recom­ mends whisky, and calls attention to its usefulness in the fact that every time a lot of Indians get drunk one or more afe> sent up tibie golden stair with a craoked skull. Whisky is of some use afar all. ; . " A HKK'S nest is announced among the late patents. If it can fool a hen so aa to make her lay more than one real good fresh egg daily it is all right, and if it has an anti-setter it is better, and the inventor will not only reap a big reward, but a monument will be erected to his memory by a grateful people. THE young man who lives beyond his means; who spends twenty dollars a week when receiving but tenx>r fifteen dollars salary, has no reason to com­ plain if the finger of, suspicion is pointed at him. Neither should his parents, or guardians be surprised if he is called upon to answer to a charge of embezzlement. AN observing exchange remarks: "When: a young man begins to raise down upon his face, it is no- wonder that he acts like a goose." Come to think of it, it is about the time A young man's face begins to look fazsy Wit he begins to realize that what he don't know would make a mighty small book. That down makes him think that his vest is plenty large enofgh to make his father an overcoat. But it ' teems strange that w]tien that same dowrt gets a little stiffening in it, and begins td be a real, beard, that aame young mint be­ gins to think that he didn't know quite all there is to know in the wdrld, and a» he grows bidet he realizes that afi tiie fools in the world are not dead yet and jHpdera why the fool-killer has de- layeMpp' long in paying him * visit, that eoght to have been made when he wa»fHNn sixteen to twenty yearn pf age. * 1 ,#1", Women and Mice. t & this age of the world--in this, cuiiarly exciting epc»oh of the nine century, it is impossible for the robust and astute man to stand still in one-position for the space of five minutsA andi exactly comprehend the nature*of a woman's fear of a mouse. Perhaps a mouse-hooks larger to a woman than to a man;. Bnt we don't know. At. any rate, no' matter how large the woman is, she is just as skittish in the presence of a mouse as a little woman, and the smaller the mouse the greater the ter­ ror it inspires. A woooan who has got sufficient muscle to grab her husband by the scruf! of the neck, dust off the parlor furniture with, his coat-tails, throw bim over a* gas jet, catch him on the nrst bounce, pass him to the third base and get him back again to the home plato in less than no time, will cut up and shiver Kke a vibrator threshing machine at the sight of a mouse an inch and a quarter long. Even the Amazonian mother-in-law who can knock out the deliaately organized husband of her own. and only daughter in less thon foar roundwho, like a cyclone, sweepa throvqgh the wrecked remains of a flourishing family, and scatters terror and bine ruin wherever she treacre, she of thttiron jaw and sinewf of steel, even she has a soft spot in her adamantine heart for mice, and will ki-yi with any school girl at the harrowing speotacle of a live mouse cutting its way between the- kitchen table and a hole in the, pantry floor. All this is inexplicable, and can only be accounted for by the patient investigation of the hard-waded scientist or medical expert.:--Texan Siftings. .t Sature and Art. • lady artist, who had painted a smil­ ing cherub on her canvas, remarked to a gentleman observer: "Do you know, sir, that: with one stroke I can change this smilikg boy in­ to a weeping one ?" > "That's nothing," said the> gentleman. "At home, when my bogr -tnklti toe much of a racket, I can. vsrtji eue streAt* of my cane, make liim weeŝ and too, instantly.--Texas ' /. ' J. A Fall Oaft* '5 .̂ A teacher asked a bright little what country was opposit* te us on till globe. "I don't know, sir," waa Ae j "Well, now," punned the I were to bore a h »lethreugh th& < and you were to goin at this end, whe would you come out ?* "Out of the holes, air," replied tbj| pupil in triumph. DAK LK VALLEY, the haa at last succeeded in able route from the M _ , ,to Sheep Mountain, Montana. PEDASTAT crams our ears witU learned lumber, aiid taj^s out our to make room lor it.r-£o»°jtt, , ^ ,r f • 4;\ WHEJC our hatred- » too keen jl s| ̂ -- •*