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VtA IJ. VAU SLYKE, Editor m4 PuklfsNr. HcHBNBT. - ~ - ILLIWOI8. iiu • • , ...' ..-~±ggg k •#'f' ;; , & ': .• V '̂:, ".'N •' PNW* • A '• • it'"1'""' I life" If... |:, - 'A "* ' K f j Bp V/i -•^V' * JUST PUNISHMENT. ffeder on overhanging bank f'4^-0 In n pool whore the water-lilies float, j •*,* flBd from the sun by the welcome » ^ • Sat there two people in a boat. Si*! 1 OBO was a youth, the other a maid: ^-Charming was she and wondrous fair, : VEith eyea of blue nn i a rosebud month, Tlnd a wealth of glcrions, golden hair. Kabel ," said he, and hie voice grew soft, •I have a word ! would like to aay, |<4well, I love you 1 Will you bq mine? . t>ear, don't refuse me; bat uiuile the dtyf Over her face frread a lovelv blush, Vl' ... ; Her head she dropped on her heaving bWMUt, And said, "O Tom!" That waa «U; but 0^ ; tTwas easy for him to guess the test. *8*eefest," said he, sfr d his manner showed lliat he was living in porfwt bliss, •Now," and her closer to liim he drew, "Of course »e must j-light our vows with a ] i kl,9.r' . : \ Bat the maid cried, "No!" and jumped «•#'- Something had happened to frighten hq& . s "Hot--not here", It would not be safeI". Said he, "Your words aro htrange, I'll ayer." "What is the master? What have yon newif* "There! Ixtok there! the maiden said, JkMA pointed her finger at the trees, . In Atherley eame^by--alone. She stopped} her eyes and mouth, and the at the sight of me. I thonght afterward i that were strangely void of light she had remembered me as connected 1 hair was much whiter now and gave * with the trial, but for the moment for- j waxen hue to her complexion. She wtt gotten the adverse part I had taken. | evidently ill. How ill I did not guess. She looked dazed and helpless, even j or, regardless of Jess conveniences, I pathetically so, considering her mag- ] would have left my jflaco and led her nificent physique. forcibly away from a too great trial of What does it mean? Is the case ab- j her strength. I said no one but myself soluteiy decided? Is there no appeal?1 «hd asked me in an agitated whisper, and, while mindful of the fact that I was not the person she should have con­ sulted on the matter, I felt constrained knew that she was there; I must make one exception--the Earl of Atherley knew. When he entered he rapidly swept the church with a glance aud I saw his face change as his guilty fears to say. with format courtesy, that noth- j were confirmed by the sight of her he ing interfering, the decree nisi would } had injured. the direction he turned liia head. •y> feat never a thing did his eyes descry. • "Tell me," he unid, "just what vou feart* •We 11 be seen." said ftp. with a gentle l&igjfb; "By the bird's eye msples over there!" h The passion d ed out of the young man's He rowed tha boat to a neigh'ring rock, » •. And, pointing his Anger toward the town, -fie made the maiden get oat and Vulk. •jjvoriofi traveller. /THE Q. C.'S ' r & tM' St. ""'£'1 ' *&:« • i 0:i #4' -1 am not in the least inclined to believe the be3t of was observed from the bench not so very long ago, the circumstances of my profession do not tend to the fostering of very high illusions, and, on the whole, it is better policy to ascribe all the vices to our fellow beings until their death, when it is safe to praise them. It has happened to me some­ times that I have been under the ne­ cessity of defending a client whose in­ nocence of the charge prevailed against him has not seemed very clear ;but never have I been called upon to act so con- trarily to my convictions as in the case of "Atherley vs. Atherley and Boisra- gon," when I was retained as oounsel for the prosecution. Lord Atherley I -had long known by reputation as a selfish roue, and the closer acquaintance into which this business forced me had not the effect of raising him in my estimation. He had B shifty look in his light eyes and a very disagreeable expression about his flat lips, which denoted cruelty and sensuality--two qualities [which" often go together. His conversation was tinged by that French school of thonght be pronounced in six months' time. "And my husband will be free to marry another woman ?" hoarsely. I bowed assent. Words seemed so brutal, and, after all, what need was there of words? She could not well be unaware of the conditions of divorce. It was only their application to herself that had bewildered and nearly mad­ dened her. Her face was drawn in agony, and presently from her lips there burst a tortured cry. "And I? What shall I be then?* "you--you can ta&e any name yon choose," awkwardjy. "And have the right to none? O my She was a sufficiently conspicuous ob­ ject now, for the gallery had risen to witness the entrance of the bride. Lady Atherley alone was seated, her body bent forward, and her chin resting on the dark oak railing. It added to the grew- someness of her situation that only her distraught, horror-stricken face was seen surrounded l>y so many standiug figures. Life, movement and human interest existed in every person present, while on the forehead <>f this woman was written--living death. My eyes wandered to the bride. She was pretty in a hr ppy, mindless fashion, and apparantly well satisfied with the God! to think that it should be so !• future she had secured. She did not That I could stand up in court, beiore all those people, to declare the truth, and not be credited ! WThat a terrible use I have made of my life if now, at middle age, not one man or woman-- no one--who has known me will oome forward to say. 'I will not believe thi9 woman guilty of such a heinous sin!'" The hoarseness had worn off with speech. Her voice rang out like a challange, which, lost to all sense of precedent Or rule, I immediately took up. "Do not think that, Lady Atherley, I beg. There must be very many who was to prove your never thought you u JeriT^^i*V' ^ believe in you, since even I, a stranger, whose business it husband's case, guilty." "Yet you spoke against me." "I was engaged to do so." She looked at me, surprise struggling with contempt in her eloquent, dark eyes. > "I am very sorry lor you," she said presently in altered tones, that at once threw a new and not very pleasant li^ht upon my conduct; and then, drawing her long cloak around her with a little shiver she passed on. 1 don't know that I actually regretted the ill-advised candor into which sym­ pathy had forced me. If any cold com­ fort could be derived from the fact that a hard-headed old lawyer had fer otyce forgotten legal prudence in nis/angeil at a gross injustice, I did net grudg^ it her; and I forgave her that involtmtaSg/, expressive glance, though fit was long before the bitterness of it passed from my recollection. My own feelings would have prompted me to decline further responsibility in the case only that 1 hoped to be of use to Lady Ath w,!̂ .b/J.0bn»05i™.9.t0 i ~!*i: «T outwardly -.mt.Mng 8Boo.h lit* *1 "T - fec-15" • WsW,'1 •ft' • the more healthy-minded Britisher. When he spoke of his wife, it _ was with a determined malice I had naturally supposed to be J'ustified to some extent, but, now that C saw them confronted with each other, I had no hesitation in de­ ciding who was sinned against and who the sinner. The Earl, for all his six feet of height and dignity of carriage, looked like a whipped cur when once his wife's gaze fell reproachfully upon liim; and when she, at her own request, *tood up and declared her innocence in * few words that for the moment im­ pressed the whole court with a sense of their truth, I could only think of Marie Antoinette in the tumbril, with the xibakl crowd of Paris thronging round 4® mock her misery, composed, and a (fiieen still, although uncrowned. While still a strikingly beautiful woman Lady Atherley was no longer very young. She might have been 35, but the full lines of her well-formed £gnre inclined one to credit her with ten years more. Her plain stnff gown liad no relief but a white kerchief knot­ ted loosely round her throat, which, combined with her dark hair, just slightly silvered on the temples and thrown back oyer a cushion, may have suggested the French Queen to my mind; and no royalist in the time of the revolution could have been more utterly friendless than she. Secure in her own unassailable position, she had never attempted to conciliate society or please it, and, naturally very proud and self-contained, it is questionable whether even now, in the hour of her degreda- tkm, she regretted the lhae of conduct ahe had taken. In the gallery were women who a few months ago would have been flattered by an invitation to her house,, but who nov join ed in her condemnation, smil­ ing meaningly behind their muffs when young Boisragon, of the guards, was called into the witness box. Sach a nice looking lad, with honest blue eyes, •/it,: fjfc- 7# #v' ' |it T ] V MP and rongh fair hair of rather more than .collect a few things that were indis- regulation length. But his visible re-! luctauce to say anything that could be 1 Srejudicial to Lady Atherley, or even urt her pride, was regarded as fresh evidence against her. No doubt he loved her with that unreasoning, yet not altogether inexplicable passion which a young man sometimes conceives lor ia woman old enough to be his mother; but, so far as such feelings can be guiltless, I would have guaranteed that his merited no censure. The rev­ erence of his attitude toward Lady Ath­ erley was apparent, yet did not seem to touch her in the least. When she glanced his way, it was with cold dis­ taste, as though blaming him for tbein- Wgnity of her present position. * But warmly as my sympathies were enlisted in the cause that was not mine, I had a duty to perform and must not ihirk it. Soon I saw that I was des­ tined to «ucceed against my will. My moderation enly helped to injure Lady Atherley, being taken as a sign that I had no doubt as to the issue of the trial; and, indeed, it seemed impossible that she could break through the net­ work of circumstantial evidence which Inclosed her. Every fact was dead •gainst her. No woman whose ignor- / |ance of evil was not phenomenal in its V #ia'ure w°ild have done even one of the imprudent things alleged by the prose- , «utxon and not denied. Seldom do I (remain in court after my part in a case |s finishc d, but in this instance I staved ^ son, wondering if in Bpite of all that had Apparently been proved twelve men, v with presumably some knowledge of , (human nature, could read ignoble guilt interest me, and I looked further to cee a tiny train-bearet, some 4 or 5 years old, flushed and smiling with an air of shy importance as she trotted past. In an instant it flashed across my mind; this was the daughter of Lord Atherley and his divorced wife. How would the mother bear it? I wondered, but dared not raise my eyes to see. More still re­ mained for her to endure. The same seriice which had once been read for her would be read again, even to the bitter mockery of that sentence which surely now has lost its meaning: "Those whom God hath joined together let no man put atiunder." The bridal pair moved nearer to the a'tar. The exhortation, "I require and charge you both, * * * if either of you know any impediment," was pro­ nounced without eliciting any response, aud no protest escaped the pale, sad woman, whose position and personality were thus publicly denied. Nothing unusual transpired until Lord Atherley deliberately Bpoke the words, "I will then a low, shuddering moan echoed through the chureh, which must have told to ono other, as it told to me, the truth. There was renunciation in it-- renunciation of love, faith, banor--and of life. When I looked up the white,, set face had disappeared from view, and) a crowd had collected where it was before. It was only a momentary interruption to the marriage service. Few, if aay, be­ side the Earl and myself, were certain to what it had been due. Some one near me whispered, 'A woman fainted,' but I knew better. It. was death* I had seen in her face only a minute or so ago, and. if any donbt were in my mind, the continued disturbance in the left gallery would have destroyed it. A mere faint­ ing fit would not have distracted the attention of so many from such a fash­ ionable wedding. In the body of the church all went on> as before. The service ended, there1 was an adjournment to the vestry, and' presently the bride and bridegroom came out together--he, pallid and con­ science-stricken, but looking neither to the right nor to-the left; she palpably uneasy. There was no happy confidence in her expression; and, though she was trembling violently, she did not cling closer to her husband for support, aud yet did not shrink away. It waa evi­ dent she had not taken this step blind­ folded, but knew all, and had weighed all, believing the balance to be in her own favor; therefor# I wasted no pity on her case. Looking upward once again I saw that the galleries were clearing, and where there had been a crowd were only empty benches and blank space. Was the dead woman lying there alone, or were they carrying her to a physician or to some hospital in the vain hope that science might still save her? A sudden horrible yet unformed fear cau-ed me to escape through the vestry and hurry to the front, arriving just in time to see a stretcher borne by two men on the very threshold of the door that led up to the galleries. "Stand back P* I shouted wildly, and there was an evident attempt to carry out my order; but the surging crowd behind pushed on, and after a momen­ tary resistance, an uncertain swaying to and fro, the body of the late Lady Atherley was borne out into the porch at thw same moment that he emerged with his new wife on his arm. So for a few paces, while everybody stared aghast and powerless to inter­ fere, the living and dead moved on to- ether, while the little child, uncon­ scious of her loss, came on witb her soft load of gleaming silk, and was still smiling.--London World. How Signor Blitz Sold • Hm, pntably her own, tb.ra «. a popular demonstration, and the tenants of her i P. i.- . fl . ij t • I * . i x . j , , m i t h e M i s s o u r i o n a n u t - b o a t . J L J b e n v e t estate turned out to do her honor. The | WftS oovered ̂ floating ^ Md pn)_ visions scarce. relations with her husband--a hope that was, however, doomed to disap­ pointment. When a passionate appeal for the possession of her child came into my hands a few days later, I solicited a personal interview with the Earl to urge her claims, but saw at once that nothing would alter bis de­ cision. It was like beating one's brains against a rock. His features remained impassive during all my representa­ tions, until, in desperation, I placed his wife's letter before rhim» Then they darkened wrathfully. "She is all the world to me. I will not live without her," wrote the frenzied woman. "Lord Atherley has no affec­ tion for her. 8he cannot inherit any of the property, nor will sho need any of his money if she comes to me. My own fortune is sufficient for us both." Lord Atherley must have read at least thin much of the letter before he re­ folded it with deliberate care and re­ turned it to me "We will not discuss the matter further," he remarked coldly. "The law does not consider it desirable that a child- especially a female child--should be exposed to the danger of contamina­ tion by a guilty mother, and I see no reason why I should be more lenient than the law." Those words, on which he had laid a sneering emphasis, conveyed to me the impression that Lady Atherley's un­ pardonable offense was that she had not borne Aim an heir to his great estates. The knowledge that he had irretrievably ruined her life only added bitterness to bis rancor; it would never soften his heart toward her. She was nothing to him now but an uncomforta­ ble recollection,, and jsoto be jtiftust aside--if possible outlived, For the time the matter dropp! I only heard at intervals of Lady Ather­ ley. . A friend who knew her well, and saw .that I was interested in her, wrote me a long account of how, when she went down to their country home to horses were taken out of her carriage, and she was drawn to the castle in triumph, amid cheers and open expres­ sions of sympathy with hersalf, mingled with muttered imprecations on the Earl. My informant added that during the two miles' procession Lady Athorley, quite overcome by the display of feeling in her favor, sat rigidly upright, with nervously clasped hands, the tears streaming down her face, though once or twice she tried to smile. All this must have been a serious strain upon her health. At the end of six months, when the decision of the court was confirmed, she had an illness which threatened her life, but in doubt­ ful mercy spared it. From another source I heard that, all bis letters being unanswered, probably unread, young Boisragon went to see her and implored her not once, but many times, to be his wife; eo that, when I read the Gazette of his exchange into a regiment abroad, I knew that he had realized at least the futility of his perseverance. After this for a long time 1 heard no more. It must have been a year that I received an invitation to attend the wedding of the Earl of Atherley, and, everything returning with vivid dis­ tinctness to my mind, an irresistible impulse urged me to see another act in this drama of real life. I had only been a few moments in the church before I discerned a tragic One evening, two of them, a school­ teacher, and a Frenchman whose occu­ pation nobody could discover, went ashore to buy provisions at a farm-house* The teacher offered fifty cents to the farmer's wife for a motherly old hen that was scratching about the yard. She refused, with a torrent of abuse. His comrade, who was lounging over the gate, whispered, "Offer another bit." "Five bits 1" said the teacher. The woman hesitated, when to 6 % element, quite un- suspected by the gay assemblage,which ^ V- ns ,j»a^soa£ate shame with her proud bearing. 1' When the jury re-entered after some! i^ll^.^^pllor^r minutes' absence and gave the' ,; ;Vf *|j£. * jverdiet against her there came over me o ?ia feeling that it would be an outrage to • . , look upon her face and I beat a hasty f retreat, indignant that once again in my experience might had prevailed against the right. Outside two or three matters com­ bined to detain me, and I was still standing in the passage when Lady if" i$js| lift ' life the interval of waiting. There, in the gallery to my left, the center of a less distinguished crowd, sat the divorced Lady Atherley. No one else was conscious of her pres­ ence. It was only by chance I recog­ nized her, for the last year had worked cruel ravages upon her beauty. Beauty WM 8^' °* a type that, like Medusa's, might turn the beholder into stone. Her face would have been color- less but for the bluish tint &hacU^kj^£ amazement, the hen squealed oat, "I'm not worth it 1" The teacher started back in dismay. The farmer's wife, regaining her courage, chased the hen, and eought it up in her arms. "Take two bits; it'a all Tn worth!" it said, flapping in her arms. She ran, pale with terror, to the Frenchman, and put it into his hands, screaming out: "Take it away I It's be­ witched!" The young man threw back the money to her and carried off the hen. Many years afterward, among the crowd in the East Boom of the White House which attended one of the recep­ tions of President Filmore, was the kindly Signor Blitz, well-known to all the children of the Eastern States as a ventriloquist. When he was intro­ duced to the President, the two men looked at each other a moment, and then burst into a laugh. "You never thought to see me here," said Mr. Fil­ more. "Now for the first time I under­ stand the mystery of the old hen.-- Youth's Companion. Ostracising the Nlckol, "We have boycotted the nickel," says a Chicago street railroad official. "We refuse to permit street car conductors to turn in more than four nickels apiece at the end of their day's work. About half of the passengers pay their A*,...-- . hopelessly delngea with them, and a few days would pracueaUv retire ttMU^ekel from local circulation. And how cgjild we handle the bushels and bushalPbf coin? No bank would ac­ cept the money except as a special de­ posit held for safe keeping. In short, the only way we can handle the nickel is to follow the example of the Irish­ man with the hot potato--drop it. So we refuse to accept nickels from our ployes, and it is their duty to unload upon the passengers all the nickels that are paid in for fares." The Hatdtn's Utltumi. v T "Hark!" The word cut the stillness mSI room like a dull knife outs Limburger cheese. The evanescent shadows played hide and seek upon the silken tassels of the sofa, the lamp only indi­ cated by a flicker that it was burning, for it had been turned low; the pale moonbeams peeped coyly into the darkened room, and all nature seemed hushed when again came that half- whispered word, "Hark!" ' It was Chyppyngton Chaicer who spoke. The word came from his clenched lips like molasses comes from a frozen faucet, and his whole being seemed bent on being alert, Leonora Yargrave gazed upon Chyp­ pyngton with a gaze like that of a lo­ coed calf in a sand storm. She was agitated. It was her destiny to be more agitated presently. She had heard her lover's smothered voice of warning and was using the utmost endeavors of her frail young womanhood to hark to the best of her ability. Chyppyngton remained silent, his gaze glued to a spot on the carpet where a pint of kerosene oil had been spilled, and it was Leonora who broke the si­ lence by timidly lisping: " , " What was it, love ?" Something fluttered over the carpet, something ran nnder the sofa on which the two ycufig people were enjoying themselves. In a minute (beg pardon, moment) they had forgotten it, such is the elasticity of young souls when touched with the radient fire of love. Again there was silence; again Chyp­ pyngton and Leonora were improving the fleeting moments and feeling that they were alive, when suddenly Leo- norats beautiful eyes were dimmed with pain,, her breath came fast, her grip on Chvpyyngton's neck tightened, she kicked one foot wildly at a rug and al-; most fainted. • Chyppyngton felt that the coming moment might be the next. In fact he felt rattled: What if Leonora should die thus in his arms f What if she should gt> crazy without any warning I What if efte were about to contract heart disease or give vent to a quota­ tion from Ibsen 1 The symptoms might mean anything. He leanetl over her fair young form with fear and pity mingled in the expression of his coun­ tenance, and asked her ia tender ac­ cents what the ruction was. With a countenance blanched with fear and suffused with shamer Leonora hid her face in the cushion and coyly stuttered that "A mouse bod run up her le--limb, and that she was--was afraid to ask Chyppyngton to oatch it,, an' that she was--was afraidi to cuteh it herself."-- Texas Siftiny».. Booted' to tils Spotw I heard a story the other «br about t^e former assistant rector of one of the largest episoopal churches in the city, says a writer in Brooklyn Life, The gentleman in question is now the presi­ dent of a coliege so far away that he cannot^nind if I relate the* incident. He was * jolly good' fellow when he lived in a boarding house here, and in his off hours was accustomed to join in with the other good fellows of the house in a frien«fiy game- of> whist or a smoke.. One evening when lie was euA at ser­ vice two of the wags of the' establish­ ment remembered that ii> was his in­ variable habit upon returning home to doff his roundabout vest and clerical coat, put on an old. smoking jacket and encase-his feet in a pair of morocco slippers, which latter always occupied the same position on His bed-room floor preparatory to his coming. Accord­ ingly,. they firmly nailed these slippers to the floor and awaited results in the next room. Presently the- dominie i©turned. They heard him moving about; they heaufc the thud) of his shoes as they were taken off and thrown down, and then all was silence. They peeked cautiously in, and there beheld the young clergy­ man standing in his Blippers, his face white as a sheet,, and a look of horror upon it, his eyes staring straight ahead. The sighl was too much for them, but they managed tosuppress their laughter and ask in a tone of amazement what thfr mattei was. "Matter," he gasped^ "there is matter enough, boys; Fm paralyzed, and can't move hand or foot. For mercy's sake, help*" The man did actually, such is the force- of imagination, believe he was paralyzed for a moment or two, but he finally set 'em up, in a-manner appropri­ ate to his calling, by buying cigars for the crowd. U»« i» Mad*. While everybody has heard of or seen or used celluloid, only a few know what it is composed of, or how it is made. A roll of paper is slowly unwound, and at the same time saturated with a mixture of five parts of the sulphuric acid and two parts of nitric acid, which falls upon the paper in a line spiay. This changes ben the cellulose of the paper into propylin fun-cotton. The excess of the acid aving been expelled by pressure, the paper is washed with plenty of water until traces of the acid have been re­ moved. It is then reduced to a pulp and passes to the bleaching trough. Most of the water having been got rid of by means of a strainer, the pulp ia mixed with twenty to forty per cent, of its weight in camphor, and the mixture is thoroughly triturated under mill­ stones. The necessary coloring having been added in the form of powder, a second mixing and grinding follows. The finely divided pulp is spread out in thin layers on slabs, and from twenty to twenty-five of these layers are placed in a hydraulic press, separated from one another by some sheets of blotting paper, end are subject to a pressure of 150 atmospheres, until all traces of moisture have disappeared. The mat­ ter is then passed between rollers heated { keep aloft from wars, IMw* In t)M> Money Vaults amid Alamt BonntRiM Wealth. The automatic bodyguard now shows some animation, says the London edi­ tion of the New York Herald. Pro­ ducing a hand lantern from another mysterious recess lie bids us follow. We walk in narrow alleys formed of piles of boxes, where not a ray of light pen­ etrates, and find ourselves making a rapid descent, with the latern ahead, like some guardian at gel. We de­ scend a steeper incline than the others, with the defunct bank notes in their sarcophagi all around us, when a chill air striking us prove* that we are well underground. Then the figure in front turns and announces to us in a tone calculated to strike terror into nervous persons, "We are now in the labyrinth." I begin to feel like another Guy Fawkes going to blow up the whole place. But the sud­ den twist and turns we take always in that bewildering maze of piled-up cases are becoming most trying to the banker, who is not accustomed to dodg­ ing a will-o'-the-wisp in a catacomb. I begin to entertain fears that he is leading us tp some dungeon fastness when he turns again aud solemnly re­ marks, with a wave of his hand,*" All bank notes." Some idea can be gained of the quantity when it is said that they are 77,745,000 in number, and that they fill 33,400 boxes, which, if placed side by iide, would reach two and a half roil 38. If the notes were place in a pile they would reach to a height of five and a half miles, or if joined end to end would form a ribbon 12,455 miles long. Thoir superficial extent is a little less than th^t of Hyde Park; their original value was over £1<750,000,000, and their weight over 90| tons. Along another passage we enter a large room--really a vault--which ia surrounded from floor to ceiling by iron doors of safes which at their opening might be five feet high by five feet wide. One of these is opened and shows rows upon rows of gold coins in bags of £2,000 each. One is handed to me to hold, and af­ ter doing so for a moment I decide I will not carry it home. The dead weight is enormous. Yet these officials handle the slipping, sliding mass as though it were a book. Another door is opened and we observe a stack- of bank notes. I remark that I have seen a lot already. For answer the man- r takes out a parcel of 1,000 £l,lr00 otes and says; , ' • "Take hold." I do so, and am told I am holding £1,000,000. I should have wished to hold it longer, but tliey want it, so I put it back. "This small safe contains £8,000,000" continued the polite manager, and you are in the richest vault of the Bank of Englaud and of the world. This small room at present holds £80,000,000. By this time my appetite for wealth is nearly gone. I am nauseated with the atmosphere oI bank notes. My senses are dulled with the oppressing spectacle and I hail with delight the merry plashing fountain in the court­ yard. Here are' the quarters of the thirty-four guardsmen who nightly pa­ trol the establishment, A ikmlde sen­ try is posted at each gate, and as they load with ball cartridges it is not a sate place for an enterprising burglar to tackle. The officer of the guard has a bedroom in the bank,. and> is provided with a dinner and a* bottle-of the finest old port, and I understand that the guards are also liberally treated. The Farra inj Finland. One of the moat instructive sights of the country is an.ordinary Finnish farm in the interior,, say in Satskunta or Savolaks, or in Ostrobotbnia, on the verge of the dreary country o! the Lapps, which is in truths-- "A eo undies a waste, a. trackless* vacaacjr.** It is generally a spacious, oblong building, one story high, resting on a foundation of unhewn stones,,frequently on a rock of solid granite. Hound about are grouped the outhouses, which are of the essence ofl all -Finnish farms; the cowhouse*, the- forge, the Btable, the pigsty, the granary, the little house for artificially drying the corn, and the bath-house (for the Finn's, notions of cleanliness are ex­ tremely advanced, and* in summer even the poorest peasant takes a "Turkish" bath about six times a week, in winter once or twice.) The- cornfields, which are not divided by fenee, ditch, or hedgrow from the wide plain of rolling fern that stretches away to the forests, are Btudded over with stones and (boulders that look at a distance, like petrified sheep and oxen. The house ia divided into three or four rooms, always kept scrupulously clean from the rafters of which the winter's provision of bread is hung up to dry. This bread consists of round flat cakes, more easily broken with an ax than (with, human teeth, with a hole in the center of each, through which a thong or cord on which they hang is passed. These^ cakes are generally made of barley fiour, but they some­ times contain, an admixture of Iceland moss or tne powdered bark of the pine. Among the other staple articles of con­ sumption are dried salt fish, herrings and cheese. Whenever meat is to be found on a Finnish farm, it generally assume* the form of mutton which has been parboiled, salted and smoked, and which,, if appearances are grossly deceptive, may prove a toothsome viand. No house is without a few books and Eewspapers, among which you ean always find a Bible, or at least a new testament and a hymy book. But besides these farmhouses, which ere- tenanted by middle-class farmers, the traveler occasionally comes aoross a solitary wooden cabin standing ia the dreary plain soores of miles away from the next house, like a frail boat on a storm-tossed ocean.' For the Finn has no aversion to solitude; he likes to be alone with nature and his conscience. Like Thoreau, he feels that our planet being still in the Milky Way, it would be folly to complain of loneliness. And this love of peace and quiet is no less characteristic of the nation than of the individual. Moreover, it has been strengthened by bitter experience of the results of launching out into the oceaa of politics--sanguinary wars, famine and pestilence, which have often re­ duced the population of Finland to a couple hundred thousand souls. This experience lies at the root of the desire which they have always manifested to rebellious and . abcred, spent some time nglartd, ittf lift Ibehind Mm some of his tlnoit productions. Men for Sail*. To navigate a ship in a violent storm, with the danger on the one hand of drifting on merciless reefs, and on the other of going down in the vortex of a typhoon, requires a high degree of skill and courage. Prof. John S. Sewall de­ scribes the thrilling experience of the Sartoga when caught in a cyclone off the Gulf of Tonquin, and to windward of that immense tract of reefs and shoals known as the Paracels. As day wore on, all the sails had to be reefed. All this time we were head- lng to the northward and eastward on the port tack. Though we were forg­ ing slowly ahead, we were drifting very much faster toward those fatal rocks. It was decided to get the ship about, if possible, and run her out into wider sea room. She was got round on the starboard tack, and headed about southwest; but she made no perceptible headway. We watched the barometer. Are we near- ing the center i Shall we go down in this horrible vortex ? If the typhoon is of great diameter, or is passing slowlv, the wind must bold for a long time, and there will be no escaping the thoal*. In any case, we had better be on the port tack. Accordingly, preparations were again made for waring ship; but by this time she had become unmanageable. She would not mind her helm. In this dilemma an expedient was adopted which I had read of, but had never ex­ pected to witness. The ship was under bare poles, and not a ntitch of canvas could live on her for a moment. With a good deal of persuasion,--some of it more force than suasion,.--a hundred or more of themei were driven into the weather for rig­ ging, where they formed a dense mass, against which the hurricane drove with tremendous pressure. Drenched! with spray, benumbed, whirled and jerked through the air by the writhing ship beneath them, held over the boiling caldron of waters now on one side and the next instant on the other, it was a miracle that every man of them was not snapped off and shot headlong into the sea. The helm was put hard up; but the poor ship seemed enable to make any further effort- Half au hour of anxiety had passed since the men crept into the rigging. At last she began to feel her helm and pay off. Slowly and1 painfully she swung around into the- trough* of the eea. It was a perilous moment.. Would she roll herself under and go down ? But with a few tremendous lurches she shook herself olear of the immense masses of water on her decks, and rose heavily and wearily on the- next wave. When she was fairly round on the port tack, it was found-that the change ha^ come. The wind was veering to west ward, the storm was rapidly passing. By 11 o'clock it was sa(e to make sail,, and crippled as she was, the Saratoga did her best to crawl out of the dr neighborhood where she had. met her doom.--Youth's .Al Important commercial CUT Out Known to American*. No city in South America has greater advantages in geographical position than Montevideo, the capital of the llepublic, and if it possessed only a good port, its prosperity would be multiplied tenfold. In the bay, it appears, the depth of water has diminished five feet within the past seventy years, and now does not exceed fifteen feet at the deepest^ while the roadstead outside the Cerro is so exposed as to be one of the most dan­ gerous in the world. The Bio de la Plata is by no means the ideal river that many believe it to be; indeed, after every strong pampero you may count wrecks and ships aground between the estuary and the island of Martin Garcia literally by the Bcore. For want of a port or protection of any kind, all busi­ ness is interrupted while the pampero is blowing, communication between the shore. and the ships anchored in the roads being impossible. The necessity of loading and unloading by means of lighters aud tugs renders the operation exceedingly expensive, and in many cases the costs of landing goods at Montevideo are equivalent to ihe freight of the goods from Havre, Hamburg, or Liverpool, Ever since 1862 there have been various schemes proposed for mak* ing a port, but all have fallen through. During my visit in 1890 no less than twenty-one costly projects were sub­ mitted td the Department of Public Works, but the well-informed consid­ ered that none of these projects was likely to be accepted. To all of them two grave objections were to be. made: First of all, the enormous cost; and sec­ ondly, the fact that ail the projects were based on the gaining oi land as a prin­ cipal object, of course with a view to lucrative speculations, after the example of the harbor and dock works of Buenos Ay res. _ Landing at Montevideo is often a ter­ rible and even> dangerous operation. The ocean steamers anchor two miles or * more from the shore, and after the for­ malities of the medical inspection have been accomplished and) the quarentine flag hauled down,, small ftteamers are moored alongside^ the baggage is low­ ered, and tlfen the passengers have- to make perilous leaps from the foot of the- gangway to the decks of the tugs, start, panting and; puffing, threading their way through ships of all sizes and descriptions anchored in the roads. - The Panorama of the city is grand. To the left, forming the western point of the bay, is the Cerro, that gives its name, Montevideo, to the town; on the summit, 137 metres above the level of the sea, is a fortress built bv the Governor, Elio, after the capitu­ lation of the English in 1808,. and used as a light-house and observatory; at the foot of the Cerro the broad bay sweeps round, crowded with small craft, and joins the turtle-back promontory o» wiimVi flho nit? ia Knilf Btlck to lhx Smaller AVo "I have often noticed,""said a "that young people have a way of poring over dictionaries and books for the pur­ pose oi finding high-sounding and un­ common words to use in mystitying and. crushing their plain-spoken friends.. Nothing more clearly indicates bad taste and lack of education.. Ignorant negroes are always listening for new words, but poverty of thought 'cannot be disguised in a prodigality of long which the old town is built. Seen from the river the points that strike the eye ^ the hill on the left, and on the right vast custom-house depots, the fine hotel, and the towers of. the cathe- ^and the churches rising above the <e and Oriental-looking silhouette of e town, that slopes up from the water 0 attains in parts a height of 100 ||.i±ietres above the level of the sea. The ' Iki)ding-stage is at the end'of the cus­ tom-house, a wooden wharf or jetty pro vided with narrow wooden staircase,- at the head of which the changadores, or porters, wait in line to carry baggage. The want of good police regulations aud fixed tarifls makes itself felt here as in all the ports of South America. The new- Ncomers, and the natives too, have to i lubmit to much extortion,. although the Importers of Montevideo and the whole anu luxuriant words. To a man -.St' !ffud^g"8ntftgeA arebe^®r ideas the use of uncommon words VI /- to 140 degrees to 150 degrees F.. whence it issues in the form of elastic -- The Colliery Engineer. , „ l^aat of the Season. - Beginning last November in Missouri, the imaginative reporter has had wolves devour a wounded man in almost every Western State, and the item was last laid in a county in this State where a boy 3 years old could scare all the wolves in­ to fit*. The season is now closed, and the item must be laid away until snow T ^ „ JJ ; ^ T • i T, political intrigues which were the main elements of the history of Northern countries in the middle ages.---ITAe Fortnightly Review. An Old Master. A queer purchase was made in Lon­ don a few months ago. An "old master," begrimed with dirt, was knocked down f jr £7. It was promptly resold for £80, and again for £700, and it has now been acquired for £2,000 by a' conti­ nental gallery, and turns out to be a magnificent Terbnrg. This artist, it cqins wcw.flM*^ , t; cv W&f , r " \ jV/< ^ > ' * + • . • , , • 'v V nA yv 4 ;,.\j detriment. He wants the ability to ex­ press himself, but should use only the simplest words, eo that bis idea can be the more readily understood and; cottar prehended by the greatest numbe/ of people. As your language becomes more 'refined,' as vulgar people sav^ your circle of listeners narrows down, and you have not even the 6atisfaation of knowing that you have-the very best audience, as many of the brightest and: strongest intellects have not received the best educations. A\ man of. ideas has no need of many or attractive words. The ideas--a rarity-- are sufficiently attractive in themselves. It is well to know the meaning of many words, because you can assert your own with the pompous and the half-educated people, but the ute- of. any but the simplest words is very bad. taste. By 'the simplest words," I mean the- words in common use and*thereis no restric­ tion on the use of the more difficult words if they are the simplest that ean be used to convey an idea or express a sentiment. If you.wish, to say load,' there is no necessity of. searching the Greek and Latin dictionaries for a word that no one can understand;. *Bad' is good enough for 59,590,.000 el the people of this country. Anything else clearly indicates a neglected education or a pedant."--St. Louia- Republic. Consultation at Seat. A certain physician in a large New England town had acquired an unenvia­ ble reputation for making his bills as large as possible without much regard to the state, of his patients' purses. There were people who furthermore Baid that it really seemed as if there were "visits" on. his bills which had never had existence anywhere else. But he was a skillful physician, and his tendency to overrate his services only served to amuse some of his pa­ tients who had plenty of money, and were not especially sharp in looking af­ ter it. "Why," said one man to another, speaking of the doctor, "he brought my daughter Jennie up from her attaok of pneumonia, when twp other phvsioians had said their was no hope for her; but when she was quite well again he charged me for three calls he made, to Inquire in a friendly way how she was getting on!'" "That seems a little forced," admit­ ted the other man, "but it's nothing compared to an experience I had with him, at the seashore a year ago. '"We happened to be in bathing at the same time one day, and I swam up to him, and inquired for his wife. " 'She's very well.' said the doctor. * 'And your daughters ?' I asked. " 'They're perfectly well both of them,' replied he, rather shortly, I thought So I Baid, 'I'm delighted/to hear it; remember me to them,'and swam away. . "And what do you think I reoeived from him a week or two later? An itemized bill--one item. " 'To consultation at sea, five dol­ lars!'" Although no one has ever seen that bill, the story clings to the doctor's name to this day, after a lapse of many years. ______________ TIME is the silent barber who mows hotels of Mon to video are'all poor, the food they provide is inferior, and often execrably prepared, and as there are no otLer restaurants except those of the hotels, there is no alternative but to iffer.,--From "The llepublic oj ] uay," in Harper's Magaz inc. An .Engineer Loses HI* Nerve. George O. Clinton, one of. the oldest railroad superintendents in the Country,, is now on a visit to this ci$y, and. is at the jfalace. / Vtfhen I was with/the- Missouri Pacific some years ago^ he said. last night, "there was if our employ an engineer named Werf Haley, who was onlyof the besl^men I ever saw in cab. iie waa a cheerful man and. con­ scientious to a fault, so far as his work was concerned, but for. all that he seemed to have no conception of the meaning of the word. fear,, and known as the fastest runner on the linet. For that reason we put him on the fast mail between Kansas City and. Sedalia, and for more than a year he took that train through on time, I aannot rc call au instance during that time when he was a minute late* "At last however, misfortune cwet> took him. He had been engaged to i>€ married to a yaung lady who. lived at a umali station along the line, but, a£ lovers will sometimes, they quarrelled, and Wes left in anger. She wrote him to come back, but he was obstinate and made no reply. After a few days he reconsidered the matter and asked for • lay-off, intending to go out and straighten matters up once more. He sent no word, intending to surprise her, and that very night she threw hersell in front of his engine and was killed* Wes was on the train, but riding or the rear coach,, an extra man being it his place in the cab. I never saw man so completely crashed in my life "He came back to work in a fei days and took out his old run, but h|j heart was gone. For several nights noticed that his train was reported latel and I sent for him. I asked him abouf it, andt he broke down and cried like ; child. His courage was gone, he saidl and he dared not rush his engine to thJ old speed. The upshot of it was thai we were compelled to put him on slow run, and he never could be inl dnced to pull a fast train again. H« is only one of a number of engineer! whom I have known during my railroa experience to lose their courage, and never knew one of them to regain it "It requires a nerve of iron to pui one of the modern flyers, and that nervd once lost by any mishap an engineer i| useless for all time as a fast runner This is a fact known to all old railroa men, nearly all of whom have mt with stories similar to that of poor Wc Haley."--San Francisco Call. J Charming Woman's Way. Marquette Mich., has the most ol stinate member of the female sex y€ known. A woman recently refused tl get off the track for a passenger trail saying that "it was just as easy for th| train to take the side track as it was fc her." She was carried from the tracj by the irate conductor. WHEN the average man says frankly "I can't afford it," you will usually fisl on investigation that it is somethin] his wife wants and not lowering he wants himself. m If' ' . 4,*%„!nJiAils JL-Xi V ^ •;