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KS^f •Mi Hat if the page of truth thoy raught^, ^ Or comfort to ti e mourner brought-* Those hands a richer meed shall clalSS- - Than all that wait on wealth or famai, " Avails It whether bare or shod, These feat the path of duty trod? • tam the bowels of case they fled, jV't? "Do aeek affliction's humble shed: ' If prandtnr'B guilty bribe they fepurtkf^ And home to virtue's cut returned-- These feet with angel's wings shall xM% And trend the palaoe of the skies. ' . r" ,'f 'fk$: LUCILLE MOORE. Btu a balmy spring evening; dear, *nrm, with an amber light falling through tf. trees that stood like sentinels along e winding avenne that led to the stately Residence of Allan Carlisle, the banker. I The residence fitly corresponded to the Surroundings; broad, luxuriant parterres of flowers encircled the house, while the %ooms beyond were adorned with all tho Splendor that wealth could furnish. In one of these rooms sat a beautiful koang girl whose thoughts were in strange Wiscord to the enchanting scene without. ,, „ ]She sat, gazing mechanically out on the L: " .Jfclear evening, with a westiy, yet almost de- !%'• fi&nt, look upon her face. 1^, This was the eve before her wedding. r.>.'}%' Lucille Moore had been left tax orphan , 4Ut au early age, and her mother's sister, - fascinated by her delicate beauty, thought fche would be a fitting ornament for her beautiful home, and adopted her. She §,* v |>ad given her niece as much love as was ]paesible for t one possessing her cold, > %Forldly nature. Proud and aristocratic, ffejHelen Carlisle looked upon wealth and r •.' Station as the only things worth attaining. N " But over the influential banking house ' 0f Carlisle & Co. hung the cloud of ruin, '(A'- J>rhich would surely have descended had i»" toot pecuniary assistance been afforded. *- mlie gifted and wealthy Raymond Har- ibourt, had come to the rescue, at the f" . "fcanie time asking but the hand of Lucille *v In return. Strange as it may seem, it was not love tliat prompted this request, he having only -1| "tnet Lucille a few times during the previ­ ze 4>us season, but pique. He had been fV deeply charmed with May Chester, and the fashionable world looked forward to the £>' , *nnouncement of their engagement; but - • another and wealthier suitor appeared ^pon the field, a millionaire fast verging J1;, *m three-score years and ten, and May im- ( " > tnediately and promptly accepted him. This rude awakeningfrom his love-fancy jr? bad no outward effect upon Raymond ex- ^ < cept to render him a trifle more cynical. "jHe thought to be revenged upon May, "whose wedding was to take place in the imrly autumn. The financial embarrass­ ment of Al:an Carlisle furnished him the jmoaaft of so doing, which he seized with .avidity. He furnished the desired relief, -:<iand was the accepted suitor of Lucille. ! pleaM » Luci!!©1 bis, re piM-i *lliuk t court, for yo«t liBinw; but I tfol tliink 1 si lliUwflttl II AMAMttPV inr to avail my- y: ll»e door swung on its hinges softly, and {tli^( elegantly attired, stepped over to • where Lucille was sitting, and laid her hand slightly on her shoulder. "Lucille, my dear, why are you sitting here so listlessly? Is it net the eve before wedding? Do try to rouse yourself to take some interest in the fact." The girl turned slowly, and drew herself tip to her full height, while her eyes blazed ; with pent-up feeling, and her "low voice was filled with passionate pain. ^ "Aunt, as you well know, mine is a mar­ riage of convenience; it has been no ques­ tion of love between Mr. Harcourt and myself; he will have his petty revenge, * .and the great banking bouse cf CarlisI self of yoar Raymond KareoorC'blt hi* Hps. He had not thought tbat Lucille oowd ffepv *0 much 8i>iiit, and it somehow strodt *•*"» uncomfortably ' how little this be»atiftal girl's i)era68*l feelU^gs had been eonsalted in this manriaps, bat he showed ao sign of his inward thoughts. "As yon pleas®. But pardon me for de­ taining you, yob must be fatigued. I will ring for your maid -t® show you to your rooms. And remember, until you wish it otherwise, you are there secure from any intrusion of mine. Good night, and pleas­ ant dreams." He stood where she bad left him, with his arm resting lightly on the mantelpiece, tfnd his handsome eyes wore a look of an­ noyance. "By Jove! What a magnificent woman! As far abova Hay Chester as the Heavens are above earth. What a calm look of scorn> lay in the depths of her beautiful eye&V Lucille"--already his lips lingered tenderly over the name--"I have done you deeper wrong than I can ever efface, by linking your life to one you do not love." And this admission caused him a twinge of pain that he would have laughed at but a few hours before. Lucille sat in her dainty, violet dressing- room, with her long hair unbound, clasp­ ing her slender finders, on one of which glittered (he costly diamond which signified her wedding troth. She thought of the occurrences of the evening, and sighed. "Oh that We could cultivate each other's society! I almost think •" Here she abruptly checked the words rising to her lips, and rang for her maid to dress her hair for the night. The days and weeks flew by, through the hot, sultry summer, with its soft, dreamy languor, its blazing, heated days, its still, moonlit nights, into the damp, yellow autumn. Lucille Harcourt had accepted, with a graceful ease, her position, which her at­ tainments amply qualified her to fill. She presided over the mansion of which she was mistress, scrupulously fulfilling every requirement. W^ile Raymond had grown to love his beautiful wife passionately. His love burned the more fervidly by reason of its rigid suppression; for Ray­ mond dreaded the scorn which he thought would flash in his wife's superb eyes had he shown any sign of his love;* at the mere touch of her garments a delicious thrill rushed through his veins and filled his heart. He escorted her to the balls and receptions where she reigned a belle, and Lucille never dreamed that the cold, stately man at her side loved her so pas­ sionately. She proudly repressed and tried to ignore the love toward ber hus­ band that filled her own heart, deeming it weakness to acknowledge a passion which she thought was unreciprocated. "We have received cards for May Chester's wedding," said Lucille to her husband, as they were on their way, one evening, to hear the delicious strains of La Somnambnl/i." "Have we?" indifferently responded her husband. And Lucille, in the solitude of her room, thought bitterly, "How well he hides his feelings under the mask of in­ difference! Heaven help me to crush out the love that is in my heart!" And the sweet mouth quivered as she passionately clasped her little white hands. ies. The Jolnes" in Haptab It was May Chester's wedding-day; and Ray Harcourt stood in the library, awaiting his wife. The door opened, and Lucille advanced; Ray felt a pride as he gazed on her. She was dressed simply, yet elegantly, in 6nowy satin, her hair, gathered back in it6 beautiful waves in one soft mass. She looked so sweet and beautiful that Ray­ mond, as he led her to the carriage in waiting, could with difficulty refrain from clasping her to his heart. Mr. Chester's residence was ablaze with light as Lucille and her hnsband entered the well-fitted rooms. Lucille looked up into her husband's eyes with a cold smile. "Your revenge has been sweet, Mr. Har­ court!" A quick change passed over his face, and he unconsciously clasped his hand tightly over the soft, white one that rested on his arm, as he replied, "My revenge has been bitter as death, Lucille!" Lucille looked up in surprise. But it was in order for them to offer their con- fT'fitnlations to the newly-wedded couple, will be saved. I have been bought wiu ! her Visband had regained his accus- m a price; do not reproach me for taking no "interest in the sale." Mrs. Carlisle slowly lifted her eyebrows # in haughty surprise. "Lucille, you are certainly the gainer; Sou will preside over an elegant estab-shment, become a leader in society; pray, what more can you desire?", "What more can I desire? Is wealth and imposition, in your eyes, all that is worth possessing?" And she suppressed a sigh, .AS she turned to the window. Mrs. Carlisle laid her lips lightlv on Lu- : cilie's brow, and replied: "I trustj Lucille, that in time you will view things differ­ ently." ^ So saying, she softly left the room; no - thought of the sacrifice of Lucille entered W'i r' 4116 CoId eerenity °* her heart. Sacrifice! mf- * ifCj wa8 ®ke not the most fortunate of girls? t*\ i > That her niece did not appreciate her good IrV p,. *tetane was a mistake that time would pr> ' Jwctify, she reflected. She had ever '£•' i ' Lucille pitiable, and easily swaved; -v•• •ken she uttered a passionate remon- |,y «trance at being thus bargainee^ for, Mrs. tn.1 * Carlisle shrugged her shoulders in in- i, «reduloi|8 astonishment, and reminded her S&. her duty to the one who had tilled a place. She pictured to Lucille the I'-". pf: fceautiful ancestral home of the Carlisles fT<; J «nder the hammer, and Lucille, too protid %s ' »nd sensitive to be called ungrateful, sub- Ir &*"" , fnitted. • %*f • Sl!e 8at where ber sunt had left her, ffi • K ,looking on the scene without, where the |p;<' «rescent moon was rising in her lovliness, i t»thing j the tall trees with a soft S Then she rose, and without a m? : ?«• (glance at the wedding Garments that lay « about the chamber, threw herself on the 4 *'• *ose-oolored bed, where she fell into a £*• ,' . *T troubled sleep. 4*1' i'4» ^ The 8Un of another day had not yet at- {ffi \ •"ned its meridian, when along the wed- IL; " aTenue tbe carriages sped, and depos- 3&T Vii • ; their fair burdens at the little neigh- V " wring church. Within, rare exotics tilled k# a*r their fragrance where Kay- ^ snond Harcourt awaited his bride. yv' ' The accustomed serenity was on his jv,/ : fhe courtly smile upon his lips, as Kr;y V .Lncille came forward. The company gathered had never seen her look BO re- •allv beautiful as now; she was pale and Pi?re ^ a lily' would have startled g. them by her seeming impassibility, had b* not her eyes glowed like stars. The deli «»te lace that shaded her neck and arms was matched in softnssk by the skin be­ neath it. Raymond Harcourt involuntarily sup­ pressed an ejaculation of admiration. He •uddenly became aware that this girl that he was wedding was as superior to the ob­ ject of hiB past foolish fancy as is the •plendor of the sun to the mild rays of the moon. The words were epokeh that made Rav Harcourt and Lucille Moore man and wife they had received the well-chosen congratulations of the assembled throne, -I? accordance with LuciUe's express wish, they were not to go upon the accus­ tomed wedding tour. The carriage with its fretted roans, its mazarine blue livery, halted before the «Wnt mansion that Raymond had pre f«^»d for his Imde. Lucille glance curi- at.the elegance surrounding her, the *fettnt in waiting having ied her through tepesti ted hall into the spacious draw> -«»oin beyond; rare works of art de tima* cultured taste of the owner " He* isbeeku flushed, that had been Site an hour before," as her husband en red the room; he advanced, and «»Vi«g IMW by the hand, raised it to his lips, "Permit me to welcome you to your home. I trust it will find favor in vour ; if there are any alterations or embel tomed manner. Later in the evening, «s Lucille was resting alone in the shadow of the heavy curtains of the arched window that opened into the conservatory, the voice that had the deepest power to thrill her broke upon her ear. "Yes, Allston," he was saying to his friend, Allston Hyde, and bis voice had a ring of pain in it, "I intend going to- the Comment; my arrangements are completed, and I leave to-morrow. I can endure the cold scorn in my wife's eyes no longer; I shall forget prudence, and declare my passion; to leave is my only safeguard; to fo from the sight of "her beautiful, cold ace, which is daily maddening me. I love her with a love beside which my fancy for that inane piece of insipidity"--looking over as he spoke at May Chester's childish face--"is as the heat of the son's rays to the mild light of the moon." "Have you not spoken of your love? Have yon no hope that your wife .may love you in return?" "None. Would that I had! Her proud, sweet nature rebelled at the manner of her marriage " Here the speakers passed beyond Lu­ cille'* hearing. A great joy filled her whole being as she rose and wended her way to the dressing-room. That night, as Rawmond Harcourt fas­ tened the cloak around his wife's neck, he was startled by her looks; a h;ippy, joyous light had replaced the co'ul indifference; her cheeks were (lushed, her eyes sparkled, her whole face seemed transformed. "Is my wife so very happy to-night?" he asked. So happy that the wealth of the uni­ verse could not purchase my joy!" At this moment their carriage was an­ nounced, and prevented his replying. Lucille had changed her evening dress for a soft, clinging robe of eachemire, trimmed with swans'-down; very sweet and lovely she looked as she stole to the li­ brary, where ber husband sat writing his farewell. At sight of him her forced com­ posure gave way, and she passionatelv cried, "Oh, Raymond, do not leave me! 1 cannot live without you!" And she hid her face and sobbed aloud. Raymond hurriedly arose, and his strong frame shook with emotion. "Lucille, can it be that yon love me? Speak, darling, and end my suspense!" And he crossed over to his wife, ana wound his arm gently around her. "Tell me, my wife, do you love me?" The delicate face sank lower and lower, till it rested on his breast, while the sweet Jips tremblingly answered, "Yes, I love yon, Ray!" "My own darling!" And Raymond clasped his wife closely to his heart. "For jiive me, darling, for marrying you with the motive that actuated me," and his lips sought hers. "I did not think then that I was gaining the one treasure that is dearer than life to me." Raymond Harcourt did not leave for. the Continent the next day, as he had intended; but, three months later, he and Ins lovely wife were on their way to Paris. Let us look once more at Raymond Har court's heme. It is evening; Lucille i seated in her boudoir, with her lovely 2-year-old boy playing at ber feet, ifihl is the same Lucille of old, with perchance fuller development of beauty. • ! She site there musing:, her hands elaaped her lips wearing a sweet smile* Raymond stops on the threshold to con template the picture, which is, to him, m9r4 oeautifui than any in the world; then he crosses softly over and imprints ft kiss on Lucille's lips. ' ' "Of what ji inn ^nyltwfr tTiinVimf?* Naple* are » study in themselves, and would enter- tftiii ft traveler for day* even if be never entered a building. The curious garbs of the ecclesiastics, who seem to form a large proportion of the inhabitants, the grotesque appearance of the street- renders, with their wares piled up above their heads, and hanging to all parts of their bodies, the brilliant dresses of the middle-class women, and the fantastic costumes of the beggars, who are picturesque in their very naked* ness, give variety to the scene. The cat's-meat man, with his viands strung on a long pole, from which he detaches a piece and carves it with his knife for each of his four-footed clients, is a most extraordinary sight. The public scribe, protected from the rays of the sun by an umbrella, as he sits at a table indit­ ing a love-letter, perhaps, for a Nea­ politan damsel as beautiful t as she is illiterate, is useful as well as picturesque. Another re­ markable personage is the cigar scav­ enger, who at night goes alxmt with his lantern hunting for old stumps, which he sells to manufacturers to be converted into the filling for fresh cigars. To these may be added the zampognari or bagpipers, and a host of other curious characters, ranging any­ where from a cardinal, attired in crim­ son and riding in gilded ooach, to a baby, bound up, after the manner of Neapolitan babies, in the' straitest of swaddling-clothes, and looking more like a roll of linen just come from a draper's shop than a human being. The advent of the zampognari in Naples always heralds the approach of one of the more important Church fes­ tivals. They come from their distant homes in the mountains of the Abruzzi to Naples and the surrounding towns to celebrate the Immaculate Concep­ tion and the advent of Christmas. Wearing pointed felt hats, wrapped in long, brown cloaks, under which oc­ casionally appears a goat-skin jacket adorned with large metal buttons, their legs encased in tight-fitting breeches as far as the knee, and their feet adorned with rags fastened by leather thongs about the ankle and calf, they are most picturesque objects. Thus attired, the zampognari go from house to house, singing and playing before the little gilded images of the Virgin and the Child, and stopping before street shrines, where they repeat their monotonous song. On Christmas Eve, when there is a spirit of liberality abroad, the zampognari usually re­ ceives a large number of coppers, and as much in the way of food and drink as his stoinach can accommodate. When the festival is over they return to their mountain homes, there to pass their time as laborers or shepherds until the next occurs. The bag-pipers of the Abruzzi frequently act as models, their picturesque costume adapting itself readily to artistic purposes.--M, B. Vandyne, in Harper's Magazine. Longfellow'* Visit to Jules Janlm From an anecdotal article on Long­ fellow, by Mrs. James T. Fields, madfe up from personal remembrance and from letters, in the Century, we quote the story by the poet of his first visit to Jules Janin, the French critic: "The servant said her master was at home, and he was ushered immediately into a small parlor, in one corner of which was a winding stairway leading into the room above. Here he waited a moment while the maid carried in his card, and then returned immediately to say he could go up. In the upper room sat Janin under the hands of a barber, his abundant locks shaken up in wild confusion, in spite of which he received his guest, quite undisturbed, as if it were a matter of course. There was no fire in the room, but the fire-place was heaped with letters and envelopes, and a trail of the same reached from his desk to the grate. After a brief visit Longfellow was about to withdraw, when Janin detained him, saying: 'What can I do for you in Paris ? Whom would you like to see?" I should like to know George Sand.' , •" 'Unfortunately that is impossible! I. have just quarreled • with Madam Sand!' " 'Ah! then, Alexander Dumas -- I should like to -take him by the hand!' ! " 1 have quarreled with him also, but matter! Vous perdriez vos illu­ sions.' 'However, he invited me to dine the next day, and I had a singular experi­ ence ; but I BhaQ not soon forget the way in which he said, "vous perdriez vos illusions." When I arrived on the following day I found the company consisted of his wife and himself, a little red-haired man who was rather quiet and cynical, and myself. Janin was amusing and noisy, and carried the talk on swim­ mingly with much laughter. Pres­ ently he began to say hard things about women, when his wife looked up re­ proachfully and said, "Deja, Jules!" During dinner a dramatic author arrived with his play, and Janin ordered him to be Bhown in. He treated the poor fellow brutally, who in turn bowed low to the great power. He did not even ask him to take a chair. Madam Janin did so, however, and kindly to. The author supplioated the critic to attend the first appearance of ltis play. Janin would not promise to go, but put him oft indefinitely, and presently the poor man went away. Longfellow said he tingled all over with indignation at tho treatment the man received, but Janin looked over to his wife, saying, "Well, my dear, I treated this one pretty well, didn't I?" " 'Better than sometimes, Jules," sheanswered.'" The Court Had Lost, During a session of court in an Arkan- saw town the judge one day became so irritable that no one could, with safety, say anything to him. A man who had been arrested for some triffilng offense was stormed at by the judge until a prominent lawyer, moved by compas­ sion, arose and said: "Your honor, this man is not my client but I desire to say a word for him. His crime is venial and does not deserve such censure." Sit down, sir," exclaimed the judge. "You don't know what cause ttiî oourt has for its conduct." "But, your honor, there is no excuse for such slamming as you are riving this fellow." K "Don't you dispute the oourt. Luck has been against this court for the past lew nights and this court has lost its scalp. This court thought that it knew all about poker but this court has been most shamefully done up. If you can't put up with the voice of this court, why this court tells you to get out." Then, turning upon the unfortunate criminal, the judge flew into a violent passion.-- Th**emm at TbwaU m tM MM» at too rowWi' Wfcy CMtta* ; Mafr t» a Hungry CaaellM, f"Oarp," to Cleveland Leader.] There are seventy-six of them, and the greai majority of these are over 50 years of <ige. John Login is C2, Sher­ man 63, and Morrill of Vermont, the oldest an In the body, is 76. Senator Edmunds looks older than either Sher­ man or Morrill, and his hair is frosted and crown bald at 56, while Kenna of West Virginia, the youngest member of the Senate, looks like a boy and has yet to see his fortieth year. These Senators are, as a rule, big men. Their average height is over five feet nine, and their average weight about 175 pounds. The fattest and heaviest Senator is Pliiletus Sawyer, who, though he is short, will pull the beam at 250. _ Stanford of California, Eustis of Louisiana, Beck of Kentucky, will aggregate at least 600 pounds, while Palmer of Michigan, Jones of Arkansas, George of "Mississippi and the doughty west of Missouri have each about 180 pounds of solid flesh in their anatomies. John Sherman has not an ounce of fat, but his bone, brain, and muscle weigh about 160 pounds. Chase of Bhode Island, the Quaker, weighs 150, and John C. Spooner about 125 pounds. John A. Logan has grown fat lately, and he now weighs about 180, while Ingalls, who sits back of him, though he is six feet tall, will not weigh more than 140. It would take twenty Ma- hones to make a ton, and the weight of these twenty would not amount to as much as that of eight men like Senator Sawyer. Mahone is the leanest man in the Senate, though Eli Saulsburv of Delaware, Henry B. Paine of Ohio,'and Ingalls of Kansas, crowd him very close. Payne, Walthall, Sherman, Sauls- bury, Ingalls, Eustis, Brown, and Blair are each six feet high, while Vest is not over five • feet six, and Spooner about five feet four. I forgot to mention Evarts among the thin men. Of all the noted dinner-eaters in Washington he gets the least fat out of his meals. He looks very small indeed as he sits, but when he rises you find that he is of a good height, and as he draws those long four-hundred-word sentences out of his anatomy during his speech you imagine that he must be a giant. Ben Harrison of Indiana is short and inclined to obesity. Gen. Hawley is taller, with a slight tendency the same way. George Hearst from "Cali­ fornia, is a six-footer, and Maxey of Texas has to take off his hat when he goes through an ordinary sized door. Biddleberger is above the height of or­ dinary men. Eli Saulsbury looks to be six feet six on account of his thinness, and Wilson, the new Senator from Maryland, although he is about six inches shorter than Saulsbury, looks to be a foot less by the contrast. If I were a Cannibal I would rather eat a slice of George Hoar of Massa­ chusetts than any other Senator. Hoar is the personification of cleanliness, and his complexion shows that he keeps his blood in good condition. He is fair skinned, smooth faced, and he looks like Horace Greeley. Allison is an­ other man who would serve up well, and Manderson of Nebraska, anffr Gor­ man of Maryland would make dishes fit for the King of the Fijis. I don't think there would be much demand for either Sherman, Ingalls, or Evarts in the cannibal market, and Conger, Eustis, Kenna, and Chase, with their brunette complexions, would only be in demand on the principle that the dark is some­ times the sweetest. There are a number of bald heads in the Senate, and the most patriarchal of these is Joe Brown, who, with his long beard of white hanging upon his chest, looks like a Mormon elder. Philetus Sawyer and Henry B. Payne are both bald as to their crowns, and Gibson of Louisiana, and Harris of Tennessee are fast growing the same way. I note that Senator Hoar's locks have to be very carefully combed to cover the white skin on his cranium, and Austin F. Pike of New Hampshire has a head whose top is as bald as that of a drum head and as shiny as that of George F. Edmunds. Walthall, who takes La­ mar's seat in the Senate, is one of the long-haired Senators. Mahone, who lias gray locks, which he throws back like a mane, is another, and Morrill of Vermont a third. Colquitt of' Georgia does not part his hair at all. It is very thick, or iron-grey and he combs it a la pompadour. Logan's hair is black as shoe polish and as glossy as jet. Ingalls has short iron-gray hair, and Blair of New Hampshire is the only red-head in the Senate, although Spooner's locks are of a reddish brown, apd Dan Voor- hees was probably a strawberry blonde when he was a boy. ytni: 'MMlfel; Mion, such in persons M may be looktd far vainly of more solemn pretensicms. A read/ tongue, possessed of a genial wit, is indeed a great treasure, its manipulator, if I may use the term, is a general favorite. His words are watche4 «®d his sayings repeated. He lightens care, diffuses cheerfulness, quickens the thoughts of others, and multiplies harmless enjoyment. There is, however, one thing sad about him. The fine talker runs but a brief career. He is as short-lived as the race-horse, or as the man who swings by one leg on the trapeze, or another man who wins applause' by forcible spurts of display. If he is witty his jokes become tM« If he is descriptive his landscapes lose their fine coloring. If he is dramatic he becomes stereotyped and he makes a dismantled wreck on the shores of time. If, however, he has learned to be a good listener as well, he will not so soon be discovered. There is but one rule governing both talk and talkers, and that is to be cer­ tain that what we say will be accept­ able. We should never speak unless we have something to say.--Annie E. Myers, in Chicago Ledger. ^ \ Y The Old Camel Story*;,/ It' is quite a number of years since this old camel story trotted along the sands of time. This is how it hap­ pened : Abou Ben Eli McGuffin, being fall of years, died, leaving to three sons his seventeen camels, for the simple reason that he could not take them along with him. The will, duly at­ tested, said the eldest was to have one- half, the second son one-third, and the youngest one-ninth of the seventeen camels. The boys were a little per­ plexed at this, as it seemed to involve the cutting up of a camel, and camels were worth $3 a day on the Sahara that season. But the boys, if not first-class mathematicians, have level heads, and did not go to law to prove the old man insane, but went instead to the good old Cadi Hassan O'Donohue, who taken a medal at mathematics at the Ann Arbor University. "Boys," said the good Cadi reproach­ fully, "you should not bother me with these little matters. Ask me a harder one." But seeing that they were -troubled, the old man asked the hostler to trot out his own dilapidated old camel, which had seen its best traveling with Barnum. Placing the aged brute with the seventeen camels the boys had brought along, he said: "There are eighteen camels. I shall now give you half the eighteen, which is nine. How does that strike you?" "It hits where I live," said the eld­ est, who was slangy, but withal pleased at getting half of eighteen rather than half of seventeen. "The next boy shall have one-third of eighteen, which is six. Are you there, Moriarity?" "You bet," says the boy. "The next will have one-ninth of eighteen, which is two," and so the third collared his two camels. Thus two and six and nine made seventeen, and still was the good Cadi's aged ani­ mal left unscathed. The people mar­ veled, as the Cadi had given each more than the will called for, which is rather unusual in courts of law. And they said one to another, "That's what it is to be good at figures." Talk and Talkers. Conversation is the outside orna­ mentation on the temple of intellect. The good talker furnishes the graceful scrolls, the bas relieves, the airy non­ descripts that call forth the admiration of the ordinary passers-by. Graceful chat you may call trifling, but it is very agreeable, and very handy to have around. Society is nothing without it. And what would we be without society ? ^ To some people ffle art of conversa­ tion is an unknown land. It is a mys­ tery to them how it iB begun and main­ tained, which goes to show they are very selfish individuals. If you "take the trouble to think of other people, their work in life, their hopes, their sorrows, you will always have something to say to them. There are numberless egotists in the world, who are only happy when talk­ ing about themselves, but there is yet a greater number who are morbidly afraid of making themselves bores in that way. A friendly inquiry or suggestion of interest will set the ball rolling, how­ ever. It is sympathy that makes fine conversationalists. Johnson was one of the finest, but he had his Boswell. "Bozzy" 'knew perfectly well how to drop a line into the deep well of the ponderous Doctor's treasury, thereby causing the "bear" to furnish inex­ haustible supplies of enjoyment to the whole room full of company. All classes of men and women know something. It is a proof of jour skill if you draw from an apparently . sandy soil a rich fruit. And do not be dis­ couraged at a first failure. If your newly-made acquaintance has been spoken of as a fine musician, and you ask which they prefer, Beethoven or Mozart, and they reply they know nothing of either, don't give up the ship; they may admire the "Mikado," or be devoted alone to the study of "the music of the future." Or if in despair yon remark to a casual acquaintance that it is very changeable weather we are having, and she replies she "Don't mind the change- ableness, so it always Stays cold," it ' may be only a brief attack of aberra­ tion. She may reoover by the time you A Poor Class of Husbands. Royal gentlemen as a rule do not make good husbands. The matri­ monial felicity of Queen Viptoria and Prince Albert formed less an exception than a solitary instanee. The late Empress of Russia is said to have died of a broken heart, caused by her hus­ band's open liaison with the Princess Dolgourouki, who afteward became his morganatic wife. The Grand Duchess Sergius of Russia (Princess Elizabeth of Hesse) is about to sue for a separa­ tion, her husband having heaped upon her insult of the gravest nature. Yet she is fair and winning and very talented, the most brilliant and accomplished of all of Queen Victoria's grandchildren. Her beauty is of a fragile, delicate type, a "crowned Ophelia," as a Paris corre­ spondent at St. Petersburg recently described her. The matrimonial squab­ bles between the late King Alfonso and his proud Austrian wife were no secret from any person at the Court of Mad­ rid. Queen Christina was very jealous, and with every reason. The sweet and sunny-tempered Princess Mary of Cam­ bridge, Grand DuchesB of Teck, has more than once been on the point of separation from her spouse, and for good cause. There are few American mothers, I think, who would covet for any one of their daughters a husband like the Prince cf Wales, though Amer­ ican girls not infrequently marry into "the Prince of Wales'set."* The Grand Duchess Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh, lienpecks her husband unmercifully, I am told, and he deserves it. Moreover, it does him good. He is a far more re­ spectable personage since that energetic and strong-minded Princess took him in hand. I suppose, however, that one cannot have everything in this world, and the royal girls that are wedded within the shadow of a throne must make up their minds to something less than the felicity that attends a freely- wooed and frankly-won American or English bride of less degree.--Paris letter. , Strong Influence. "There was a man in who said his name was Jobson," said the hew fore­ man as the editor of a Dakota paper came into the office. "Short, thick-set man?" * "Yes." "Squinty eyes?" - "I believe so." " - "Act like a blasted foo|f* . "Some that wav." "Yes, old Bill Jobson I suppose. He's fishing for office again and came in to work me for a puff." "He didn't say anything about it." "Probably sneaking around to see who I was going to' support for the Legislature." "No; he said he'd concluded to adver­ tise and left his.order for two columns of space." "Hey? Well, tha^s funny, comes in sort of handy, too. Say, i don't know as this district could do better than to send Col. Jobson to the Legislature^ Just count on a column leader bringing him out for this week's paper."--Estel- line Bell A NEW white alloy, containing ten pwrts of tin and one hundred of alum­ inium, is recommended by Bourbouze for instruments requiring lightness. Its specific gravity is 2.85, it can be easily soldered, and is not readily corroded. EVKRY year a woman lives the mora flhp ̂ factoid take with no aeoount The doetar cfctehes a mess of live crabs, pours whisky over them until Jh®7 beeome hilariously drunk, and the® puts them in 4 hot oven. After being well dried, they arev pulverised, shew and all, and administered in 1 doses. Where the crabs most abound in this country, in the waters of Eastern Shore of Maryland and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the inhabi- **®t» having long since abandoned the nse of quinine and sensibly resort to prevention in the use of pure whisky. In the malarial sections of the great West, Southwest, and South, this once famed remedy is now looked upon as worse than the disease. In territories where the virgin sod is newly broken, the malarial poison exuding therefrom spreads pestilence far and near. Years ago in the homes of the first settlers, an admixture of whisky and quinine was the favorite dose for the chills, but after years of dosing in this crude mah- ner, quinine has long since been given up and whisky only remains in the for family medicinal use. Experience taught these settlers long ago that the amount of quinine requiredt to drive out the malarial poison in the blood, left in its place, if not a worse poison, a con­ dition of the system made worse instead of better. The effects of the quinine were clearly defined, in lqng continued headaches, disordered stomachs, cloitd^i mental faculties, disturbed sleep, and morbid appetite, and the only virtue discovered in its use, they thought attributable to the whisky in the mixture. The insatiable craving of the opium-eater for more and more of his fatal drug is in a like manner pro­ duced by the inj udicious use of quinine, and also, in like manner, a wreck of the nervous system. The medical profes­ sion has very greatly modified its belief m quinine as a specific. Gaillard's Medical Journal, October, 1885, con­ tains an article entitled, "Malaria and Quinine," by L. B. Anderson, M. D., Norfolk, Va., in which the learned Doctor uses this emphathio language: "I hope I may be pardoned for saying that the present empirical use of quinine is worthy of the darkest period of the dark ages. It is a blighting shame and disgrace to our profession." The peo­ ple exposed to malaria now fortify their systems against the approach and in­ roads of the disease proceeding from it, and by the use of pure, unadulterated stimulant ward off attack. Now that Duffy's pure malt whisky is the only absolutely pure whisky free from fusel, oil, as has been tested by eminent chemists, it is the recognized cure in malarial attacks and so recognized by the people and medical profession.-- Baltimore Morning Herald. Mount Yernon. The original Washington estate was a "princely domain" of 8,000 acres. But when the act authorizing the pur­ chase of Mount Vernon passed the Vir­ ginia Legislature, in 1856, the number of acres had diminished to 200. The amount paid by the Mount Vernon As­ sociation was $200,000, of which sum $68,000 was contributed by Edward Everett, it being, largely the proceeds of his lecture on the "Life of Washing­ ton" The officers of the association mieet yearly at Mount Vernon, in May or June, to transact all business con­ nected with the estate, to attend to re­ storations and improvements, and look after the contributions of interesting relics. These latter are not manifold, but there are gaps in some directions, notably in the library. ' There is here none of the original furniture, and nothing of special interest. The bulk of the library was purchased by the Boston Athenaeum, The remainder of the books have become dispersed, a stray volume being held here and -re in State libraries. Quil > a num of them passed into Virginia families. An effort is being made to collect them. This study of Washington's was es- Eecially designed by himself, and was is sanctum in more ways than one. Aside from its first importance, it was the repository of valuables. The "iron chest" in one corner held the gold and silver badges, medals, and memorials, things cherished aside from their in­ trinsic value; while the secret panel closets ir^ the seemingly solid walls-- seventeen are known, and more conjec­ tured--held the family valuables in the the way of plates, etc. It/ would re­ quite more than a secret closet, accord­ ing to our guide's statement to keep the hands of some of the visitors now­ adays off anything that is takable. Bits of stucco from the walls, ornaments from the picture frames, little pieces of carving that happened to be knockable, "go without saying." But when it comes to pillow-shams, and even to a counterpane, being tucked away. for "mementoes," we are struck dumb with the matchless audacity that achieved such a harvest. The superintendent tells, with much quiet appreciation of the situation, how this "lady" went back after her party had passed on, climbed over the wicket that guards the entrance of the room, got her booty and climbed back. Yes, and when de­ tected'was obliged to climb and reclimb once more, by way of punishment, to re­ store her trophies.--Hartford Times. ' In a Restaurant. - "dome, Ned, let's take this table over here." "No, no, old man, come down in the corner there, farthest from the door." "But look here, Ned, just see the ta­ ble-girl over there. Isn't she a daisy ? She's the prettiest one in the place. I don't want to go down there to be waited on by that old chromo." "There, there, my boy, you must stop your nonsense and come along with me. Pve been grubbing at res­ taurants too long to be fooled by any such talk as that. If you want to flirt you can get a prettier girl outside. If you want to eat, you come here and pick out the homely water. The waiter girl who is pretty doesn't have time to do anything else. It's the homely girl who brings your order straight, and gets you your dinner hot every single time."--Somerville Journal. ti'> ; .< . A New Coal Breaker. ̂ A safety cartridge of a novel fmd has been introduced by Dr. Kosmann, of Breslau, for use in coal mines. A glass tube having two divisions contains finely divided metallic zinc in one part and sulphuric acid in the other. The cartridge is introduced and the hole bored to receive it is firmly closed, when the tube is broken by means of an iron rod. The sulphuric acid is thus brought into contact with the zinc, and the rapid evolution of hydrogen gas which follows exerts a pressure on the sides of the holes estimated at 37,000 atmospheres, and rends the rock. HEALTH is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing HuKt money oannot baj,---Inak Wait/on, m -* < ' 1. f U-W",, ICmt UK* uJoiodable thing* in ?0$f*re you will act*" find two of them together. "I now what knights of Ubar am," said fhe mother pf six boys M sbe Mt down to repair the pile of mnggia aad jackets. , "MAMMA, did you say Soar?" "Yes, four" "Well, wl makes 'em sore? Is it because they so.much?" No xrsioAi! man can ever claim tbl' proud distinction of being an Atoerioaw composer until he has written a President's march." AMERICAN TOUBIST--And so fc the room in which Shakespeare wail bon^ eh ? Attendant--Yes, sir. Ameri- caiT Tourist--H'm. I've seen better- looking places than this out in Chicago --Tid-Bits. g FIRST LEGISLATOR--I don't believ* you have opened your mouth this ses­ sion. Second Legislator--O, yes It have. I've yawned every time yon made a speech on the ta-yjjflf question.--*» Texas Siftings. PROFESSOR--Why, in making gtnfc- powder, is saltpeter used as a compo­ nent part? Tom Anjerry--To makeft smell bad, I reckon, so the soldiers can say they smelt gunpowder. Pa is ul- ways bragging about the gunpowder ha smelt during the war.--Texas Siftingf. BASE-BALL ENTHUSIAST--I never saw such good playing in all my life. Why, Jack Barnes and Jim Hoover had n'"t chances this afternoon and accepted them all. Young Woman Listener (sotto voce)--Nine chances in one after? > noon! Why was I not out out for a ball player.--Tid-Bits. IT is hard to tell which side to take. The anti-prohibitionist when he goes s fishing takes a flask of whisky with him, and comes home much the worse for using it. The prohibitionist takes ll quart of ice cream and discovers after he has eaten it that it is poisoned and he has a narrow escape.--Boston Courier. JAMIE lived near a railroad crossing; and was present one day at an accl- dent by which a car-load of pigs was upset. Telling his mother about it afterward, he said that a lot of men went around with sticks tipped with iron and prodded the poor things back into the car. "And I think," he added, indignantly, "that it was cruel, when the poor pigs had just had such a «iinok to their nervous system!" "HoW TO Tell a Girl's Age" is a sub­ ject some of our esteemed contem­ poraries seem to be discussing. It% mean business telling a girl's age, any­ way, particularly some girls, but if yo* are a little brother, and the girl is your oldest sister and you start jn to tell her age when her only young man is by, a good, safe way is to tell it by telephone just after you have left home on a long vacation.--Somerv ille Journal. MISCONCEPTION. " Tho I wrote with graceful cue. ' ' My <lear Elizabeth to please-- •/> Fall-fraught with deepest depth of I called har nncel, darling, dove, : In sweetest forms of Dobaoneae. . 1 sang in measured ecstasies. The many charms of my Elise, I hoped she would not be above The verso I wrote. Alas I they were but pleamntrfMK* I never dreamt by alow degrees My lines she'd make carl-papers of-- When too, with aneh a dainty | ~ She took with sweet .axaeKitUc • The verse I wrote. --N. It. Levy, in Tid-Bitt. A YOUNO teacher in one of our primary departments spent the greater part of an afternoon in describing the appearance and habits of the mole to her class. And when she had finished she said: "Now, children, I want yoa al1 to try and remember what I have1 told you, for I shall call upon one at you to repeat it to-morrow." Accord­ ingly on the morrow she began by ask­ ing, "What did I talk about yesterday ?". Up flew a dozen hands in the air, signi­ fying that the owners were ready with the answer. "You may tell me, Carrie," said the young teacher, singling out ft 5-year-old who had seemed uncommonly eager to be singled, and the 5-year-olcL with a beaming smile, in a loud and eheerful voice proclaimed, "A wart!" Womau Nature, Mrs, Bluke visits Mrs. Janes, taking her little boy with her. The boy com­ mits all kinds of depredations, and after he is taken away, Mrs. Janes says: "Gracious, don't I wish that boy was mine just for a few minutes! How J would blister him. It is strange* to me how a mother can be so blind." A few days later, Mrs. Janes calls on Mrs. Bluke, accompanied by her little son, who puts his feet on the plush bottomed chairs, and who gives his mother a world of annoyance. When* Mrs. Janes is gone, Mrs. Bluke saysf "My stars alive, how I do wish thai boy was mine for a few minutes. If I Wouldn't blister him. It was all I could do to keep my hands off him. It is a mystery to me how a mother can be so short sighted. Stephen," addressing her own boy, "put on your shoe and don't throw it around that way, youH break something. Stephen, didn't I speak to you. There, you naughty boy, you have broken a vase. Go out of here, this minute. Stephen, Stephen, didn't I speak to you! There, you good-for-nothing thing, you have cracked the mirror. Never mind, sir, I am not going to bring you a thing from down town, not a blessed thing. If you don't go out of here this minute I'll whip you. Stephen, Stephent Never mind, when the rag man cornea I'll tell him to take you away."-- Arkansaw Traveler. An Interesting Experiment. An interesting experiment, showing the influence of electricity on tht growth of roots, has been made in Ger­ many by Prof. Hodefieiss. Plates of copper were thrust upright into the earth and connected by wires with simi­ larly placed zinc plates about 100 feet distant, an electric battery being thug formed, with the earth between the copper and zinc in the circuit. Both potatoes and beets planted between such plates gave an increased yield- beets 15 per cent., potatoes 25 per cent, as compared with other parts pf A Fashion's Significance. Omaha Miss---I see the English have a queer fashion. After the period of deep mourning is over, ladies make no change except to wear light gloves. Young Widow--Yes, dear, it shows that the hand has passed the mourning" stage if the heart hasn't.-- Omaha World. - - • - ' • 1 - CONSTANT dropping wears away stones, and by diligence and patience the worm ate in two the eable^Fronfc- Hm- **** -* - &