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.1 and PoWtlMMw 1LVKE. I51*R„T3T,OOU°* OFFL<'"R vwwSHMii pi una. *Oh,that*s you. Hamerton I I was just goioff to send for you. There's a row up Knnnazway, Jsmw of the po­ lice wounded. Gihazis ag&iu killed a , , r, „ thelong «»» thai had '!#|S cwsttylapsed before akflled cam «tm!d bebestowed upon it, and foi w< eks it was leaved it would gb bard with Billy. But in the end the "harum-scarum ONLY A a. i»ow«uu * - a thy ripple «hm might feoral 4M]T ft waif glimmer athwart the gloomy lot of people. I'm ordered to send an young davit*' got well, and the colonel intelligent officer to investigate the j had the pleasure of sending up a "con- thing and reuort. You'll have a tick- j iidantial report" of a very superior kind, tinh job, but I can rely upon you. I've ] together with a brilliant pomlant, which lm thinking whom you had better take. Yon *ee I can only spare one or two, either Bates or Thompson. Bates has the longest head, and yet Thomp­ son--well, if it oame to blows, somehow ! I should prefer Thompson. Bat do as •ou likew" the wster-crwies within the win-1 * As be said this the Colonel instinot- ywliow daffodil bealdethe ! iv«ly glauced at the pile of paper be­ side him. Bates' name happened to be r« ttmA of sliver, in weftiag wo i twine one * broad of lustra thro' tangled maze! SSI WTMVO tor ("firing. Or l*ooin« the Ung'ritig snow; »s raunn'rtiig masks, that only angels bring, •*?,«« e-ii, of soothing promts*, around the bed of wot; !• wavet»t o'er tha crystal laka thftt surely (ad«« away V» |MT« actln tha 1 mpid faoe like burnished silver, where, Rht/fu I'o ow the waters, bid, each llng'ring ripplet's play In Iff i upon tiie plastlo sand, a lasting im- ]>re8« there, Wm mfle thnt pivea a fretting--the smile that hf<l» us part,-- tBmt shimiiien Jit1 a sheen of gold when m-m'rioi fondest. pl%y. Jtea rifle- where rosy sonshine, gleam-gashing from the hwwt, •realm thro to limn life's flowery Vftles with <S«w of golden day. ' - flilw" Ocean. ! : tipi^rmost, with its everv question , snugly and neatiy answered. Thomp- sou s had frisked off gaylv in the open | door, and was bnt just saved from be- ; ing chewed under the table bv Hamer- ton's puppy, who had followed his mas­ ter in. ' "It shall be little Billy," said Maj. Hamerton to himself, and proceeded to the. discussion of . further details oou- ceruiog esoort and commissariat ar­ rangements for the small expedition. A little before nighfall they started, a party of fifteen iu all--the* two En­ glish officers, Billy in a state of the wildest joy and bursting with impor­ tance, a duffedar, and twelve sowars of the Khunaz horse. A seoond telegram Had been received soon after the lirat saying that the Gihazis, who were few in number, had taken themselves off; that a native hospital assistant was in charge of James, the wounded police officer, and that he was to be brought back here, because there wa9 no other European doctor nearer than Quetta. * Hope we come across the beggars,** Billy said gleefully. But the Colonel, who had ridden out a little way with the party and had wished them "good luck," found him­ self saying something like a prayer in his heart for the safe return of the two men, who were, in his opinion, the very pick of the regiment. In times of peace these inglorious little brushes with sneaking Ghazia are not among the pleasantest features of service in Afghanistan. To an old sol­ dier they savor too mnch of that plot­ ting from behind hedges to wnich no military glory is attached. He does not care about sending oat good men to fnrnish targets for skulking devils who have no ground for quarrel, but are merely possessed with a fanatical de­ sire to spill Ferringhee blood. Where­ fore the commanding officer was ill at ease, and for the next two days there fell a dullness and a malaise upon everybodv in camp. Upon the third day after the depart­ ure of expedition the Colonel rode out to reeonnoiter, along with the dootor, who was always game for a ride. The commanding officer was more anxious than he allowed to appear. Somehow, a two years' sojourn in those dreary wilds draws men very close together when they are made of good stuff. The party ought to have returned ere this, and the Colonel's heart was disquieted within him. He was scanning the horizon carefully, when suddenly he pulled up, and shaded his eyes. "What's that little cloud of dust, doctor? Is it a 'devil' or a oonple of horsemen ?" The doctor, whose eyes were younger, they indeed--all these youths-- answered that it was no "devil," but lous in well doing, all talented, all' horsemen, and that they were making tactful, all of equable temper? Had ; for camp. has resulted in the bestowal of the much-coveted Victoria cross upon Lieut. William Thompson of Ours. -- Vanity Fair. Aliens In Time or Wnr. \ . Afcorresponden "IncaseofWai between England and Am erica, would an Englishman not an American citizen, or not having declared his intentions to become such, if he did not leave this country after war had been declared fee liable to arrest as a prisoner of war, and treated as such?" This is somewhat awkward, but the meaning is plain. The prospect of war between these two countries is happily very remote, but the general question is one of in­ terest, turning, as it does, upon the rights of aliens and alienation. England was slow in aconowledging the right of its subjects to throw off their allegianca. The distinction, so far as England's own authority was ooncerned, between a naturalized and an unaturalized British subject was long denied, but the old law of nations to the affect that the sub­ ject of a hostile country is necessarily an enemy has never obt ained in this country. According to Grotius and other au­ thorities on the law of nations a State has the right on the breaking oat ol hostilities with another country to treat persons as enemies who owe allegiance to the Government of that other coun­ try, but modern governments have dis­ carded that relio of barbarism. Even as long ago as the days of King John's magna charta the English people, at least, were not unmindful of the inhu­ manity ef holding friendly aliens re­ sponsible for the hostility of the mother country. "If," says the great charter* "our merchants be safe and well treated there, theirs shall be likewise with us." This terse statement sums up the law of to-day. Of course there would have to be reciprocity in kindness, to insure its continuance. It is also obvious that in case of war with England an Englishman in this country would bear watching, especially if he had shown no disposition to be­ come an American citizen. Slight ground for suspicion would be sufficient, BO doubt, to occasion arrest. A genuine John Bull sympathizer might find it to his advantage to cross the line into Canada. In theory a Southern rebel was safe at the North during the war, but they were all under special watch, and liable, on the slightest provocation, to be suspected of plotting some sort of crime against the State. It is not a prudent thing, in time of war, to be in the country of the enemy, no matter what the theory of the law may ba-- Inter Ocean. To tlie Fair on the Installment Plan. Every week signs multiply that at­ tendance at the Worl'u Fair will include ?ractically the entire population of the Tnited States. Companies are spring­ ing up to take time by the forelock and secure transportation, lodging, subsist­ ence and admission to the fair daily for stated periods for everybody ^outside of Chicago. In St. Paul a World's Fair Transportation Company has been in­ corporated. Its charter members are well known and responsible men, in­ cluding the Attorney General of the State, the Land Commissioner of a great railway, the State Treasurer and others of equal conspicuousness. Ap­ plicants for membership in the company will pay $1 a week from the time of ap­ plication until the sum required is paid up; and this sum will bring the mem* ber to Chicago, take care of him or her in all respects and furnish admission to the fair as often as desired for one week. The object of the company is precisely stated to be "to enable persons of mod­ erate means to visit the World's Fair." The example of the Minnesota com­ pany will be followed all over the United States and over a good part of the rest of the world. There is no novelty in The black fellow bolted who 'was 'ISSk- j undertaking except the advance in- ing after James. Can the doctor go at •ailment plan of payment. For years once, sir? This sowar wants a fresh Jhe practlce °F ^MGRPLE tounDf horse--that's all "' for a sum net' Pa-VIQK 411 expenses and After a word or two with the com- Prov.id,mK guidance. hj« been in sue- mandant the doctor sped toward the ! ope^tlo°- ,Ifc certaiQ .. „ , - camp with the sowar at his heels. He ! LaVe h«nd^d* personally con- *imseIf, and, if the truth be told, had a ! paused for a moment by the side of £ucted P111^68 flom EuroPe du"D« th.° »KbaUty for the type so pithily de-! Biliy and looked him in the face. Fair under the manft?ement of the van- nbed in those three words. He would I "I shall be under wav in ten minutes." °US comJ,a°,eai °ow engaged in the busi- • .1 - i. ness and of others whom the tempting ^•?TH0MPS0N OP OURS, There between Quetta and Candahar ft gets very cold in January--a nasty, fcfting, blustering cold that nips the Kver and shortens the temper; that comes! whistling round your mud but with a northea^t wind from off the ODOWH, and cracks'the shriveled skin off yon like old parchment. The Colonel blew on his fingers, (howled for fresh word to be piled ty>on the tire, and fell to the contemplation <mt his thumb. wh:ch was frost-bitten. Before him ui»on the table lay the loathsome sheets of foolscap known as the "Annual Confidential Reports." Some of these were already filled in, some blank as yet. Each was headed fegr the impertinent personal riddle*sent rly for commandants to answer, Now, even when forced to look from ffca point of view of disapproval upon «nv one of his "boys," this honorable, Mndty English gentleman held the of confidential disparagement in liorror. But really this morning, what with the cold, and the maggots in the which had put him off his break- and the extraordinary delay in the il letters, she felt incliued to damn •very man-jack of them, himself in- alnded. With a roaring blizzard search­ ing; your bonej, and a suspicion of fever (• your blood, and nothing decent to aafc, yot don't feel like certifying that •very soul under your command is re- •Mrfeabie for ail qualities that go to asake saints unon earth. Anyhow the Colonel did not feel like iL He began turning over the sheets with that sickly. languidoKfeeling of •volt with which monotony in its un­ pleasant- forms is apt to inspire one after long years of patient grind. He hated grim skeleton sketches in black white. It was always the same thing--the same weary struggle to com­ bine strict truth with fair words; to put •Tea" where it ought to be "ifq," and •No" where it ought to be "Yes." For of *hey. every one of them, beeu endowed from their cradles with unnatural sa- Mcity and aptitude for command? Were they, in short, ready-made gen- «ra!a from the moment they entered the ••rvice? Alas, no! The Colonel's eye By Jove!" exclaimed the Colonel with his field glasses up, "it is--it's Thompson with a sowar 1" In another moment they were cut­ ting across to meet them. . . Billy was riding a length or two in labile red to his crippled thumb again,*1 front, and his jaded horse pulled up of MkJI J3 1 ' 1 « *. .. * wi tLeu back to the sheets under his «ther hand, and presently fell upon a certain name heading one of them. Whereupon he cursed the authorities in fc&t heart for a pack of fools and sighed. St was Thompson--Lieut. William Thompson--known by the name of •Billy." The Colonel took it in his hand and fighed again. There was not one, or its own accord as he neared the ap­ proaching riders. The sowar saluted and remained stolidly immovable in the background. Both men and horses were caked with dust and wore a weary, dejected air. _ "We're bringing in James all right, sir," answered Billy, in response to the Colonel's questioning gesture. But we had a fight--Ghazis, this side Khunaz. fcardly one, of those cut and dried ques- j Hamerton's badly wounded. I've come "tarns that could be answered gracefully, I on for the doctor--his only chance J* conscientiously, as regarded this 1 " jonng man. "I could describe him in three words," groaned the Colonel-- "harum-scarum young devil." Toenf for he liked the lad, he began 4d wonder how on earth he was to fill i that report. He was a keen soldier •he kne w was the kingdom of heroes. JFheghosts of many haunting tragedies wira crowding into the old soldier's arind aa he sat fingering that infernal Did any of these have such with him in the field | he said. "Look here,"old fellow, yo^Fve ne88 a?d °* *h® temPjin* tfcaa softie others for whom perchance had about enough; go home and turn I wlU add their number. id on paper. Of such in." He was strack by tfte look of Lver? Amenoan community will avail agony and mental strain on the boy's face. ^otd^To^ the i JTiU provid,ft ho&rA and so that young fellow was done up, and ques- 'these vexatloua Problems shall be solved tioned him little. His mouth was of reduced rates of transportation by land and water, and if, in addition to this inducement, reliable companies paper. Did any of these harsh moral .... _ , photograph* of them, with " Yesses" | tioned "him" TitTla"" HiT moutti4 wi ! wî OUt e?(°rfc °n u't ̂ ,il?divda»l «md 3*u©s in the most unbecoming parched, so that l.e could with difficulty V1?lt°1f3' the multitude of fair guests ^ , h V " » , „ ? a t i n p . r h . p . » H i s . w * ̂ f l g ^ •Adjutant-General's offices? T?e got up shivering and kicked the logs into a blaze, then returned with •«fc».r.o determination to the study of the ^-waxing questions in hand. What could 'he say for Billy Thompson ? The lad Ikad the temper of a game bull-terrier, Che tact and judgment of a Newfound­ land puppy, and about as much ability and acquirement as the average Eng- liah schoolboy. The thought of Biliy Thompson as ornamented with the •oaiplete list of "confidential report" virtues was nothing less than was bowed over tha horse's neck. An A„ • • •«. - J -,i - - they were nearing camp the doctor with ! ^?ncaQ ">vemton and will prove pop- is a purely JNa^e. / tie glanaed down the list. very morning he had spent a bad half hoar in wigging the youngster for short­ comings in almost every item. Late Main for parade.. Violent with a Sepoy. Hadn't the faintest notion of lib drill, •ad so ou. What on earth am I to say to r yon, he asked angrily, tapping the bun- me of uncompromising papers, at which wily glanced with rueful despair in his •owsst eyes. "You are distinctly care- .ttsa,. wanting in tact, useless at office V1*4,8 tl;ie use of complaining of jrour writer-, inattentive and argu- S!»fcall(ve-1 Ride? Of course; Sd feat s about all you're lit for. That and ^--ms: but unluckily these won't ad- tee you in your profession, nor gain respect, nor fit you for a command." Then the Colonel had stolen a look at the frank, bright face, and thought for the millionth time how ridiculous it all <wes. The lad was honorable and brave Why not trust to time and training to | at dk> the rest? He wanted a tight hand I the his escort rode out and called back some cheering words to him. Five minutes later they out of sight. Once within camp limits the oolonel dismounted, and, giving his horse over to a syce, walked beside the yenng offi­ cer's horse with bis hand on his nock. Several fellows came up with greetings and congratulationa. "Come straight to mesa and have something to drink before you tell ua gro- j anything," said the colonel, taking hold of the horse's bridle a9 he spoke. At Why,that j the same moment he felt it slacken within his grasp, and looking np saw that Billy was reeling in his saddle and that his lips were bloodless. "I--I think I'm done." he mattered feebiy, and fell sideways off his horse into the colonel's arms. They carried him over to the mess and began taking off his military great­ coat. Then something made him open his eyes, and his face took a little, brave, distorted *mile. "Hold hard!" he gasped; I think I've got a bullet somewhere, and--and--my arm's smashed^" " Why, damn it," groaned the colonel, laying him gently down, and looking round upon the circle of horror-stricken faces, "he knew tbî and he has sent away the doctor!" I It was some weeks before Maj. j Hamerton was able to tell the story of I Lieut. Thompson's heroic conduct; how, when he himself was wounded and the mercy of the murderers, young officer defended him ular. •ver him of course, but wny ^ be forced J single:hauded; how afterward he •j send np a nasty, disparaging report pushed on into Khunaz and brought him to headquarters? cut James of the police more dead than b .mehow the Colonel could not find alive; and how, finally, while conceal- nt id his heart to do it, and was still j mg the fact that he" •worrying over it when a telegram was " iKought in addressed "To the officer Eiding.*" This was followed by a knock at .the rough door outward on to the oold wind- ,, -- had been shot in the right arm, he rode forty miles in to get the doctor, and thus for the second time saved the Major's life. It was longer still though betore Billy was out of danger. The woand t* * atruggte to chat the j had set up inflammation and fever from 1 Two Bldderft An Iowa man, wbo is a great lover of horses, and who keeps a grocery store and a livery stable, was desirous of ob­ taining a certain horse which was to be disposed of at a public sale of a gentle­ man's estate. He knew that it wonld never do for him to bid in person, as the auctioneer, aware of his weakness for fine animals, would manage by one means or another to ran ap the price. The story is told in the Chicago Her­ ald: The grocer and livery-keeper ar­ ranged to have another man bid off the horse for him, but when the hour of the sale arrived he felt that he must be present, and see that his instructions were carried out. He arrived a little late, and just aa the horse was being sold. Yes, there was his man Jones, trne to his trust, in the midst of the crowd that surrounded the fine animal. Just at that moment Jones bid $105. Some one must have immediately nodded five better, for in another mo­ ment Jones bid £115^ From some un­ seen bidder the auctioneer reoeived an­ other advance of $5. That was as mnch as the horse was worth, but Jones had orders to buy it at almost any price, and he promptly raised his offer to $120. So matters went on till Jones' bid was $135. At that point the livery-keeper mounted a box to see what fool wanted the horse so badly. On the further edge of the crowd stood Smith, and just as be noodded another five, it flashed upon the livery-keeper that he had told Smith to do exactly what, in his forgetfulness, he had afterward in­ structed Jones to do. He lost no time in stopping the fan, which had already cost him about $4(X Ir life really were a poem, it is doitfe ̂ fnl if any one would be averse to & . Iff TEHROR Of DEATH. Us Story of ft Stmnith Mot her "a Ordeal. "You know," said Manned, "what a sorrowful day for Tarragona was the 28lh1811. But yea cannot imagine the horrors attending the tak- iag,ot the eity. Yon did not see 5.000 Spaniards perish in ten hours; you did not see houses and churches in flames; yon did not see unarmed old men and helpless women slaughtered in cold blood; you did see tho modesty of maidens, the dignity of matrons, the sanctity of nuns outraged. You did not ape pillage and drunkenness mingling with lust and murder. You did not see, in short, one of the greatest exploits of the. conqueror of the world, the hero of our age, the demi-god Napoleon I. ;. • • I saw it all-1 1 saw the Kick rise from the bed of .suffering, dragging after them their .aheeta, like shrouds, to perish at the hands of Joreign soldiers op t^ie threshold over which the day beA^re had passed the Yiaticum 1 I saw lying in the street trie body of a. woman they had slaughtered, and at her side ber infant still nursing at its dead mother's breast. 1 saw the husband, with hands tied together, witnessing the dif.honor of the wife; children weeping with terror at the horrors that sur­ rounded them; despair and innocence taking reluge in suioide; impiety insult­ ing Che dead. « . "Dangerously wounded and unable to take further part in the confliot, I fled for refuge to Clara's house. "Full of anguish and terror, she stood at the window fearing for my life and risking her.own-to see me in case I should chance to pass through the street. . f • "I entered and fastened the door, but my pursuers had already caught sight of Clara--and she was so beautiful! "They saluted her with a roar of savage joy and a burst of brutal laughter. A moment more and the door wonld yield to the axe and the flames. We were lostl "Clara's mother, carrying in her arms her year-old babe, led us to the cistern or reservoir of the house, whioh was very deep and which was now dry, as no rain bad fallen for several months and there we concealed ourselves. This cistern, the floor of whioh might meas­ ure some eight yards square, and which was entered by a steep underground flight of steps, narrowed, toward the top, like the mouth ol a well, and opened into the center of the court­ yard, where the breast work was built around it, above which two buckets were suspended from hooks attached to an iron bar for drawing water. "The child I have spoken of, whose name was Miguel, was Clara's brother, that is to say, the youngest child of the unhappy woman whom the French had just made a widow. "In the cistern we four might find safety. See from the yard, the oistern seemed a simple well. The French would think we had made our escape hy the roof, "They soon declared that (such was the case, uttering horrible oaths while they rested themselves in the shady yard, in the center of which was the cistern. "Yes, we were saved! Clara bound up my bleeding hand, her mother nursed Miguel, and I although I was shivering from the chill which had fol­ lowed the fever caused by my wound, Bmiled with happiness. "At this moment, we notioed that the soldiers, wishing, doubtless, to slake their thirst, were trying to draw water from the cistern in which we were con­ cealed. « : . "Picture to yourselves our anguish at that instant! ? "We drew aside to make way for the bucket, which descended until it touched the floor.. "We scarcely dared to breathe. "The bucket was drawn up again. " 'The well is dry!' cried the soldiers. " 'There must be water upstairs 1' ex­ claimed one. " 'They are going away!' we all said to ourselves. " 'What if they should be concealed in this well!' cried a voice in Catalan. "It was a renegade!-r-a Spaniard who had betrayed us 1 " 'What nonsense!' responded the Frenchman; 'they oould not have got down there so suddenly!' . ' 'That is true,' responded the rene­ gade. "They did not know that the cistern could be entered by an underground passage, whose door or trap, carefully conceaied in the floor ofa dark cellar, somewhat distant from the house, it would be almost impossible to discover. We had, however, committed the im­ prudence of locking the iron grating which cut off the communication be­ tween the cistern and the passage, and we could not open it without making a great deal of noise. "Imagine, then; the cruel fluctuations between hope and .fear, with which we had listened to the dialogue carried on by those wretches on the very brink of the well. From the corners in which we were crouching, we could see the shadow of their heads, moving within the circle of light on the floor of the oistern. Every second Beemed to us a century. "At this moment the babe Mignel be­ gan to cry. "But at his first whimper his mother silenced the sounds that threatened to betray onr hiding-place, pressing the infant's tender face into her bosom. " 'Did you hear that?' cried some one in the yard above. " 'I heard nothing,' responded an­ other. " 'Let us listen,' said the renegade. "Three horrible minutes passed. "Miguel struggled to get his voice, and the more closely his mother pressed his face into her bosom, the more violent were his struggles. "But not the slightest sound was audible. ' " 'It must have been an eoho!' ex­ claimed the soldiery i t , r "Yes, that was it! assented the renegade. W,';. • i • "And they all took their departure, and we could bear the noise of tiiejr steps and the clanking of their sabers slowly dying away in the dixeotion of the gate. "Thedanger was passed! "But, alas 1 our deliverance had oome too late. "Baby Mignel neither oried nor strag­ gled now. "He was dead!"--Translated from, the Spanish of Pedro de Alofoottrby Mary J. Serrano. « ' Kotltschild and the About forty years ago the first Russian political refugee, Alexander Herzen, settled in London and founded the first Russian free press and paper, called the Bell. He was a wealthy man, and be­ fore starting for his voluntary exile ho converted all his landed property into bonds of the State. On coming to . England he wanted to realize on these i bends; bqt it somehow happened that Cmurfc in, and close at ITEMS hii?«ir«^rti^^he iKX obeytea, '§* a matter of course, although it was contrary to law. But Herzen found a atxtmg man to take care of his interest, Mr. Rothschild the elder, who sent to the Gaar's Government a note intimating that since the bonds in ques­ tion were in all respeots as good aa other Russian bonds, he would coosidei their rejection as an evidence of in­ solvency and would declare the Czar of all the Russias a bankrupt upon all the stock exchanges of Europe. The Czar Nicholas put his pride into his pocket and ordered tbe bank to accept Her­ zen's bonds. This story, says "Step niak," is perfectly authentic, and Her zen relates in his Bell very wittily and in all details how "King Bothsohild sent his orders to Emperor Nicholas and the Emperor obeyed." Queer Superscription a. The-Washington Pout prints an ac­ count of a collection of curious envelopes and postal cards now in the possession of a clerk in the Postoffice Department. Some of the addresses indicate a high degree of ingenuity in going wrong. They look, indeed, more like cunningly devised riddles, than like the blunders of ignorant writers. On© envelope is superscribed, "bin harmson, Washim T. C." That would have puzzled almost any one but a pos­ tal clerk. It was surmised, however, that the letter was intended for Benja­ min Harrison, President of the United States, and the surmise turned out to be oorrect. The missive probably con­ tained some advice about running the Government. An applicant for office would at least have addressed the President as "Mr." "Nasel true brunbum, Washen," was the address on a letter from Trenton, Kansas. Even this did not baffle the expert officials. They concluded that the writer had in mind the National Tribv/ne, and this proved to be the case. A letter superscribed "p E n. E baker an son" was meant for Pennybaker & Son. For some time the clerks nuzzled over "For Misses Sole a tornela W," but it was finally decided that Messrs. Soule & Co., attorneys-at-law, were the parties intended and so it proved. "On the big penselvania avenue in the care of boin havelton in the grocery Store of George Jackson," was the ad­ dress on another envelope. The refer­ ence to a grocery store took the letter to Barbour & Hamilton, grocers, and Mr. Jackdon received As mail. An envelope directed to "Uncle Sam's Seed Barn" was delivered to the agri­ cultural Department, and was found to contain a letter, evidently written in good faith, from a Pennsylvania farmer, who wanted his share of Government seeds. A postal-card directed to "19 Sanckle" went to 19 Iowa Circle, where1 it belonged. An Eooentrlo Man's Funeral. Jared Wharton, an eccentric charac­ ter of Forks Township, died at the age* of 91 years.. He hated music, and he stayed in churoh only while the sermon, was being preached, because, he said. Mr. Ba m thettpafaa; the eMonaehair.ttNi ether on **d, dneetly ifc fanbt of the surro- gate. Mr. Jagger looked at ffea dog with the solemn eye of a suttogale, and •hook his head as only a surrogate can shake it. , :: "Are you the witness?" inquired he of the dog's master. *1 am, sir," replied Mr. Bawley. *1 was-subpoenaed to testify." "What's that animal doing hare?" de- manded the surrogate. "Nothing," replied Mr. Bawley. "He comes when I cornea. He goes when I goes." "The animal most leave the oourt Its contempt of court to Bring him here," said Mr. J agger angrily. "Re­ move him instantly." Mr. Bawley had frequently been in Attendance at the police courts, and once or twice had a slight taste of the sessions; so that he was not as much struck with the surrogate as he other­ wise might have been; and he replied: "I make no opposition, sir; and shall not move a finger to prewentit. There's the animal; and any officer as pleases may remove him. I say nuffin ag'in it. I knows what a contempt of court is; and that ain't one." And Mr. Eawley threw himself athiably back in his chair. "Mr. Slagg P said the surrogate to the man with a frizzled wig. "remove the dog." Mr. Slagg laid down his pen, took off his spectacles, vfont up to the dog, and told him to get out; to whioh Bitters re­ plied by snapping at his fingers as he attempted to touch him. Mr. Bawley was staring abstractedly out of the win­ dow. The dog looked up at him for in­ structions, and, receiving none, sup­ posed that snapping at a scrivener's fin­ gers was perfectly correct, and resumed his pleasant expression towards that functionary, occasionally casting a low­ ering eye at the surrogate as if deliber­ ating whether to include him in his demonstrations of anger. "Slagg, have you removed the dog?" said Mr. Jagger, who, the dog being under his very nose, saw that he had not. "No, sir; he resists the oourt," replied Mr. Slagg. "Call Walker to assist you," said Mr. Jagger. Walker, a thin man in drabs, had an­ ticipated something of the kind, and had accidentally withdrawn as soon as he saw that there was a prospeot of diffi­ culty ; so that the whole oourt was set at defiance by the dog. "Witness 1" said Mr. Jagger. Mr. Rawley looked the court full in the face. "Will you oblige the court by remov­ ing that animal?" said Mr. Jagger mildly. "Certainly, sir," said Mr. Bawley. "Bitters, go home." .Bitters rose stiffly and went out, first casting a glance at ^ G- ! the man with the wig, for the purpose of being able to identify him on some future Occasion; and was soon after seen from the window walking up the street with the most profound gravity.--John T. Irving, in "Attorney." A Disappointed Man. A big, burly man, about 30 yeafp <4 age, entered a shoe shop on Grand Ar • r , , i , n ' , j curoicu a oui'o ouuu uu viaiiu the singing irritated him. Several years River avenue the other day and after ago the congregation bought an organ and after that he never entered the church. The old man had been tooth­ less for forty odd years, and whenever his friends urged him to buy artificial teeth for himself he declared that the Lord would cause natural teeth to grow in his mouth before he died. In the summer time Uncle Jared went about his place barefooted. When it rained he visited the neighbors, and as he plodded along the muddy road from house to house he had. his trousers roiled to his knees and an old cotton umbrella over his head. He seldom wore a hat in hot weather, and his white hair was strong and thick when he died. Many years ago the old man made a coffin for himself out of two-inch white oak planks. The handles were made of horseshoes that had beeu worn by a mare of which he was very fond. The beast was killed by a stroke of lightning, and the old man buried her where she had fallen. A few months ago Mr. Wharton lined his coffin with fox skins. He often ex­ pressed a wish that a bear-skin robe be­ longing to him should be placed under his head in the rough oak box, and that his own sons should act as bearers. Every wish of the aged dead man was carried out to the letter, and on a beau­ tiful afternoon the eccentric nonagen­ arian was laid to rest in his oaken casket.--Scranton Republican. Horses In Spectacles. One bf the curious effects of the un­ wonted cold weather in Europe during the past winter was observed in Aus­ trian Moravia, where the inhabitants are said to be very fond of their horses, and humanely inclined toward them. For many weeks the . ground in Moravia was covered with a thick coat­ ing of snow. As this was unusual, and the people found that their own eyes were unpleasantly affected by the in­ tense whiteness of the snow, it occurred to them that their horses must be af­ fected in the same way, and needed pro­ tection for their eyes. The farmers, therefore, procured quantities of goggles and spectacles with black, blue, or green glass, which they tied over their horses! eyes when­ ever they went out. A marketjday in Moravia during the prevalence of the great snow is said to have been a fuany sight. Soores of horses, dragging wagons through the snow, or else improvised sleds and sledges, were seen in the streets, and nearly every horse had en apair of blue or green spectacles. The white horses were especially comical, and if they possessed a sense of the ridiculous, as some horses are thought to do, perhaps they wished they werie black or chestnut, for on colored horses the glasses were not so conspicuous.--Youth's Companion. A' Netr <3ol<l-Colored Alloy. An alloy ol copper and antimony in the proportion of 100 to six, is made by T. Held, by inciting the copper and subsequently adding the antimony, and when both are melted and intimately mixed, fluxing the mass in the crucible, with an addition of wood ashes, magne- sinm, and carbonite of lime, which ha& the effect of removing porosity and in­ creasing the density of the metal when cast. The alloy oan be rolled, forged, and soldered in the same manner as gold, "which it very olosely resembles when polished, the gold color being un­ changed, even after long exposure to ammonia and acid vapors in the atmos­ phere. The cdst of the alloy in the ingot is stated at about twenty-five cents per pound. WHEN a man wears an air of resigna­ tion, he may be suspected of being a bank officer about to visit Canada. looking all around and closely soanning the proprietor, he said: "You are not the man who ran this shop fifteen years ago?" "No." "Are you his son, brother or aa#' In*' lation?" "No" M A "Where is the man^ *He is dead." • .' «« "What--dead!" "Been dead fourteen yeanLj£tare yon anything?" / "No! I owed him something. I owed him the all-firedest licking a man ever got, and I came in to give it to him to­ day !" "Well, you are too late. Why did yon wait so long?" "He was'a big fellow and had a bad look to him. I was only a boy when I oame in here one day fifteen years ago to have a lift put on the heel of my boot. I accidentally upset some of his traps, and he put the lift somewhere else. I tcld him I'd grow for him, and that's what I've been doing." "Sorry for you," said the shoemaker as he phaved away at a piece of sole- leather. "It's a maan triok 1 It's fifteen years thrown dead away 1 Have his heirs any claim on this shop?" • V "None whatever." ^ .< f * "And you are not nhw[!|% "Not in the least." X' ;> "Then I couldn't puneh yofiar headon the old account?" "Mercy, no! Might as well punch the Chinaman next door." "Well, I'm sorry, but I don't see how it oan be helped. I suppose I ought to have kept closer track of him. You don't want to stand up betore me ?" "Oh, no, no, no." "Well, good day. I'd like to give you oue punch for the sake of the de­ parted, but I'll let you off this time."-- Free Press. A f*ivlui( Library. The Barkhamsted Hollow correspond­ ent of the Winsted (Conn.) Herald writes that paper: "I have recently seen an ancient book, whicn has quite a history. Years ago Mr. Jehiel Case,1 while cutting down a tree, found a book in it, the wood hay­ ing grown over the book. This was over sixty years ago and the book is now in possession of hit* children. With their permission I copied the following: 'A collection of some principal rules and maxims of the common laws of En­ gland, with their latitude and extent. By Sir Francis Bacon the Solicitor Gen­ eral to the late renowned Queen Eliza­ beth and Lord Chancellor of England, --London.--Printed by the Assignors of Jbhn Moore Esquire, 1630. Bor­ rowed by Secretaiy Kimberly, August, 1708.' "I also saw a book of church music, published by George Goodwin & Sons, of Hartford, in 1817, from which I took the following: 'Church Music Selected by a Committee of the First Ecclesia* ti- cal Society'•iu Hartford and designed for the use of that Society, together with a few useful rules of psalmody.'" Peculiarities in Uomss. After a woman has passed 30, she does not go to dances aud parties as often as she used to, but her olothes go just the same. A good-natured unmar­ ried woman of 30 in a neighborhood is the best friend young girls have. Sho always has ribbons, gloves, fans, jeweiry, opera glasses, and little things she used to wear when she was younger, that she is willing to lend, and the younger crowd are always willing to borrow. The old beau in society very often recognizes a peculiar fan or pin on the girl he is with that recalls PERTAINING TO AND LABORERS*, 1st Colnmn mf Fartlenlftr Interest to Who Earn Their Batty ftrMul--What Iftksr Is Dstag sod What to IMfef far later. E B L I N girl waiters orgai*- ; N E W Ion purse maker* won. BOSXOK haa a Peddlers' Union. DUBLIN has the argest brewery. A TBOY eleo- trie car cost $10,- 000. O A T M E A L is controlled by • trust. PITTSBUBOH reporters have a anion. INDIANA has a Bankers' Association. YABNISHEBS talk of a National Union. A WOOD carving machine is success­ ful. _ ,2 * INDIANAPOLIS working women areoi* ganizing. LOCOMOTIVE firemen will build i' $150,000 hall. SAN FRANCISCO paper hangers have organized. LONDONDEBBY, Ireland, has 700 Knights of Labor. ILLINOIS miners averaged $1.16 Ik a* last year. CANADA letter earners get $860 to $600 a year. BOSTON plnmbers will not push the demand for $4. SAN FRANCISCO painters and decora­ tors work eight hours. WILKESBARRE miners demand their pay every two weeks. 'FBISCO seamen kiok against the com­ petition of Japanese. CLEVELAND, Fort Worth and De­ catur unions will build hails. A POUND of phosphorus is sufficient to pit 1,000,000 matches. INDIANAPOLIS clerks object to stores that are open on Sunday. A NEW YORK Italian barber oharge* 10 cents extra for negroes. ONE of the latest novelties in trade is an electric carpet beater. BOSTON freight handler* were refused the Saturday haif holiday. TWENTY-EIGHT unions compose the New York Hebrew Trades Union. WOMEN in California canneries ^pt from $1.16 to $1.90 per day. BOSTON clothing operatives will send a delegate to the Brussels convention. MISSOULA (Mont.) laborers are boy­ cotting people who patronize the Chinese. A YOUNG woman is Secretary and Treasurer of a Helena (Mont.) lttmber company. MEMBERS of the New York German Farmers' Union won 45 cents an hoar. INDIANAPOLIS laundry girls are induce ing employers to pay for jlrork after 6 p. m. FRANCE has prohibited the working of railroad firemen and engineers over twelve hours a day. DURING the last ten years the Paris Gas Company has paid into the city treasury $40,000,000. To HELP the boycott on a box factory San Francisco grocers will not handle goods packed in the company's boxes. BROWNSVILLE (L. I.) cloakmakers will build a $20,000 hall. Each man will be assessed $5 in installments of $1. NEBRASKA'S Eight Hour law went into effect Most of the employers have decided to pay by the hour. Brick­ layers will get $4 instead of $4.50. WITHIN two days after the Boston street car companies put on a new time table that increased hours 2,500 men joined the union. They have been working ten hours a day. A MUTUAL benefit society may be or­ ganized among men employed on elec­ tric railways throughout the country. If the organization^ takes place head­ quarters will be in Boston. A RAPIDLY revolving brush, which gets its motive power through a flexible tube attached to a small electric motor, has been found to operate praotically in the grooming of horses. THE new University of Chicago will include in its departments a school of electrical engineering. A school of arts will be organized, in which the eleotrjcal section will be a prominent feature. THE harbor authorities at Southamp­ ton, England, have decided to adopt electrical cranes for the unloading of vessels on acoount of the greater rapid­ ity with which the work oan be per­ formed. THE American GluoOse Company, which has factories in Buffalo, New York, and other cities, and agencies in some of the large cities, has commenced a general reduction of 10 per oent. in salaries and wages. THE gross value of oiir manufactured products during 1890 will probably be $8,600,000,000, and increase of about $3,300,000,000. The capital invested will probably reach $4,600,000,000, and the increase during this decade exceeds the total capital invested in 1370. The wages paid will be close upon $1,500,- 000,000, au addition of $500,000,000 or $50,000,000 annually. The number of hands employed will be about 3,650,- 000, an addition to our army of wage- earners of 900,000 during the decade. ACCORDING to a recent estimate, four- fifths of - the engines now working in the world have been constructed during the last twenty-five years. The steam engines of the world represent, ap­ proximately, the working power of 1,000,000,000 men, or more than double the working population of the world, the total population of whioh is usually estimated at 1,455,923,000 inhabitants. Steam has accordingly enabled man to treble his working power, making it possible for him to economize his phys­ ical strength while attending to his in­ tellectual development. FIFTY thousand men work on the Liverpool docks. The best paid among them get 5 shillings a day when they have work. The majority of less skill­ ful hands get very much less. Clerks, porters, and salesmen and women about the markets receive from 8 to 18 shill­ ings per week. Tramcar drivers get aa high as 24 shillings, but conductors never above 21. Barbers, caretakers or janitors and watchmen, milkmen, bakers' men, grocery and market trap drivers, express and railway package and freight collectors receive only from __ is with tnat recalls a 10 to 18 shillings, while corporation day girl he used to dance with tan yeara laborers ar# from Iti to 30 shiUinpi before,--Alch ison Globe. & 44 per week t , 3 "i. . v;y& \ ^ J Jim ' > ••LJ •»¥m "r « * ' \M,r. •H -- \ -.1 '"a K ' *&! • 1 -mm )• /'.» ... . * ^ /• v M»V*V<a -j-*.. . -W*