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§* VMI tLYKE, Editor awl WfcNstof. "* ILLINOIS. TttE NEW STREET-SWEEPEfc. lilto not til* starving ;irl, with fingers bony *n<l blue, Wbo Hf^H the gleam of gold In apencyscop- pe- y hue. . ' •lib not the wrinkled croae, hanleued to «jib- ery'B doom, i could ride on a pitch's jaunt by mounting her worn-out brojm. I not the hug® machine, with duk of Its Iron rhyme, ; murders vonr sleep serone, Mid strangles the steeple's chimc. •Bit qnpta, tk form so Ia.r that & colder hpttrt minlu dti « ""I*' \ . •. Vtokia.s in a rapture sweet the h«n ©I her regal train. Stat I pause In wonder mute to s^e thftt queenly train flhrce;> through the dost tb*t cling*, and drag through niiies that stein, <'f costly lace, reokioss of sheen that . * eliineB Vtoatn tlio rich brocade that weaves suggestive tmuous lines. C tMuk of the fable traced by poets in myths of old, 4, wneresfl fair to the waist, and below, a snake ui<rollel; AlMl I'fe&r the leCeud is true, as I look on her foi eliead pals dor the woman I dreamed I knew leaves behind ;•' ' ber a serpent's trail •' ' » . v' r4\« •** -- • • . VEKV FECI LI AR CASE. At the time it happened--thirty fears ago---it was a bachelor. TiVfiifHn * drawing-room communicating by folding doors with the IxMl-rtumi be­ lli nd it, not a hundred milei> from the Regent Cirrus. None of tlie furniture •was my own save one or two easy •chairs, a writing-table, and a rather •shabby, dilapidated old bureau or •escritoire--n relic nf my grandfather's I believe, and preserved by |ne as -rep­ resent imr pretty nearly/ all the property I ever inherited. It stood in the darkest corner of . the sitting- room. though near one of the two long French windows. I s<>lrlom went to it, usiug its numerous drawers. pigeon-holes, etc., only as receptacles for oid receipts, bills, papers, and a few oJd accumulations of no value, which. for some reasons' I did not wish to destroy. The key to its circular top I had. with reprehensible care­ lessness in such matters, mislaid for weeks. This gave me no concern. I could look for it when I wanted it-- that was enough. Other lodgers were Jn the house, which was kept by a re- •tlred butler and h;s wif\ who, with three servants, attended on the in­ mates. A young man'sllfe fn London,with­ out his being the least, unsteady, fre­ quently involves hiui in late hours when he has a large circle of ac- •qfuaintances. It was so with me, especially during one particular sea- con. Operas, theaters, suppers, and dances crowded so thick and fast upon each other that, for nights together. 1 never had more than three or four hours in bed--always having to be up -early. Then, by degrees, when I •could turn in in reasonable time, I «ould not sleep, and on this account -even the thought of a long night in feed gradually became a terrior to me. TPhe fact is, my nervous system was Incoming thoroughly unstrung, though at that time I did not know What that meant. Certainly I never thought of it as an illness, and equally certain, would have scouted •ny idea of seeking advice about it. v In addition, another thing was Worrying me greatly. For the past •Month or more l felt convinced I was lieing robbed. I did not possess much Jewelry, but I was constantly missing •certain little trinkets and small ar­ ticles; among others a silver match box, a large crocodile leather gold amounted cigar case, & pair of gold •leesve links, a small locket, contain­ ing some of my mother's and father's ihair, a set of studs, a pearl breastpin, and the like; also a pocket letter or card case, which I well knew con­ tained two £1 Scotch bank notes-- oausual money, not easily forgotten. X felt sure that with every allowance Cor careless habits these and many another similar objects had vanished Aft the most unaccountable way. Search high and low as I would, they Were .not .to be .found anywhere in my s. /1 had lived there nearly, two years when this vexation began, and I toaew not whom to suspect. It was fcorribly awkward and most ° unpleas­ ant The landlord and his wife bore an impeachable characters, and I could jiever have looked either of them in tfie face again had I breathed the feiptest suspicion of their honesty. ^Fhree other men, two of whom I knew slightly, were lodging in the $ouse, as I have said, but as to sus­ pecting them of this petty larceny, the idea was out of the question, j ing: indeed, Ho, it must be one of the servants-- tmt which? One of three was a lad «f 18. He was a newcomer, truly. ^Fheifcwo women were in the house When I took up my quarters there-- respectable "elderly parties." ; JI did not know what to do for tBie best. To lock up the rooms was impossible, and even to do the same With all my drawers, writing-table, wardrobe, etc., now. after never hav­ ing previously turned a key on any­ thing, would be at once to cast a slur an the establishment. Besides, I liever could tell exactly when I missed 4<his or that article, because, as I re- Jjjeat, ray careless ways had often led toe to imagine that I had lost a thing When I merely mislaid it. Presently the idea occurred to me ,that I would set a trap. I left a .#mall sovern purse in a corner drawer «>f the dressing-table, whence I could i ;r , declare many tnnk£U.. and valuables ft i " • •j^uid been purlolnyfi; butv there it re-- unained. I shifted it, i&ifeilly cov- >' , '«red it with other thin^LaTif by ac- -eident, or as if it had been forgotten; it was always forthcoming' when- <v«ever I looked. I put a solitary sov- lf?-t'Jviereign on a corner of the mantlepiece; ' fthe housemaid twice drew my atten- jjtion to the fact that the coin was still ^ , -tyinjir there. No, nothing that I ever " . :placed as a bait disappeared. The (V' depredations »were confined to such ^-1* ̂ '©bjee'Gs as I hadn't been thinking eyes. It was the old story; Iwas ac­ customed to it. Suddenly, amid the host of perplexing and even awe-in- spiring thoughts whirling through one's brain under these conditions, I remembered that pocket letter con­ taining the two £1 Scotch bank notes. Whore was it? » I had not seen it for weeks. After restlessly striving to drive away the desire to get up and get it, Jt mastered me, and out of bed I sprang. For fully an hour I carried on the quest, bat all in rain. Every conceivable corner, drawer and pocket was ransacked. The key of the es­ critoire had been mislaid, so I could not examine that: but I knew it con­ tained little or no papers. At length, entirely exhausted, irri­ tated and fevered, and with the chamber candle expiring with a splut­ ter, I flung myself on a couch in the drawing-room. Dawn had not yet broken, but in a few minutes as I lay there rolled up in my dressing gown, I unexpectedly fell asleep--a restless, dreaming sleep, full of fantastic, weird-like indescribable shapes. When I awoke it was daylight, though the room was still shadowy and obscure, save the one spot close to the window, where the Venetian bliud was partly raised--the window nearest that dark corner occupied by the old escritojre. The head of the couch was toward the mantel-piece, but almost facing the door from the lauding on the further side of the wall. At the moment I opened my eyes with a feeling of relief at having Just escaped some visionary peril, to my amazement I saw that door slowly open and the figure of a man stealth- ih entering it. It did not make the faintest noise on its hinges, nor did he with his footsteps--not so much as the creaking of a plank. The light in that part of the room was far too dim to allow of my seeing what he was like. His face was slightly averted also, and, except that the general looks of the man seemed to be not altogether unfamiliar, I could not in the least tell who he was. The first impulse, of course, was to sit up and call out, but for some in­ explicable reason I retained it--per­ haps because the thought instantly crossed my mind that here was the- thief, and upon that I suppose I rapidly concluded to watch him, and pretended to be still sleeping. However this may be, I did not move as I observed him creep noise­ lessly across the room to the end of the mantel-piece farthest from that where I was lying. H^ appeared not to notice me, and, after feeling for a moment between the edge of ;the looking-glass and the wall by the mantel-shelf, he took something away, and instantly crossed back to the window by the escritoire He passed the little gap of light so quickly into the dark corner that I still failed to recognize him. Then I cquld dimly make out that he was apparently unlocking the lumbering piece of old furniture, though still without making the slightest sound. "Ho! ho?" thought I, "my fine fel­ low, now I've caught you, have I? You have found the key and are go­ ing to exercise your calling in that di­ rection, eh? Well, there's not much that's worth your attention Ahere; you won't find that a profitable hunt­ ing ground!" 1 was not long, you may depend, in coming to a determination. While he was still fumbling at the escritoire I rose, and, stealing softly up behind him, suddenly seized him by the back of his collar. He endeavored to writhe out of my grasp, but I turned him around so quickly that we both stag­ gered and fell on the floor in a hud­ dled heap together--he undermost. In the fall I struck my forehead severely against something, probably a projecting chair. the blow seemed to blind me; but as we had rolled over into "the gap of light from the window I caught sight of his face, tnrned up as it was to­ ward mine, and I saw--whose face, think you? Why, no other than my own--yes,' my very own, as I well knew it in the looking-glass. That one instant of amazement and consternation in which, as by a flash, I made this recognition, was followed by a total oblivion of all sur­ roundings. The face and figure seemed to fade away beneath me and to vanish with my consciousness. How long I lay prostrate, face down­ ward on the floor, 1 know not; but in that position I found myself when my bewildered senses slowly returned. For awhile; of course, I could remem­ ber nothing--how I came there or wjiat had brought me to such a pass. Only very slowly did the circum­ stances recall themselves. What on earth did they mean? 5Jy forehead was unmistakably cut and still bleed- there was a patch of I arrive at the conciasion-rT^epi the thief was myself! Verily, this was an alarming siip# position, and confirmed my worst dread. I must be suffering under some frightful, inexplicable brain dis­ ease, for that I had done this thing I WJIS wholly and totally unconscious. For days and days, however, I took no action. I hesitated to breathe a word of the extraordinary affair |o a soul. Who would believe it? Every­ body would say I had gone out of my mind--I thought so myself. I doubted if any doctor would accept as veracious this wild account of my dread awakening to the truth. Yet, as I knew it to be the truth, I set this record of it down while it" was all fresh in my membry, and-eventu­ ally, being unable any longer to bear the horrible suspense and /per­ plexity in which the strange experi­ ence had left me, I put it before a medical friend. To my unspeakable astonishment, he believed every word of it. Then, after answering his endless, search­ ing questions, and when he had listened to such verbal additions to the narrative as I could give him, he did no doubt one single point. •"Yes," he said, "among other com­ plications, you probably have been walking in your deep and yourself secreting the various articles from time to time. The key, to wit, of the escritoire, which you imagine to have been the object taken from behind the looking glass, by the figure you fancy you saw, had been placed there by your own hand. Your brain retained some dim perceptien of your having done so, and the dis­ ordered condition of your nervous sys. tern accounts for that perception as­ suming the shape of a figure resem­ bling yourself, and in a state of partial unconsciousness you dashed upon your imaginary burglar--your own ghost, in fact--fell and fully restored your senses to their equilibruim by that rap on your head. However, it is enough for you if I tell you that your nervous system is wholly broken down, and that if you don't take a long holi­ day, go into the country, and for the next three or four months lead a per­ fectly regular, quiet life, I won't answer for the consequences. No, I shall give you very little medicine. Fresh air, quiet, and regularity are the only drugs you stand in need of." His. advice was followed to the letter, for I was thoroughly fright­ ened. Thirty years have passed; I have long been married, and I have never missed a single piece of prop­ erty, large or small, since that extra­ ordinary night.--All-the-Year-Round. I' /fcabout until I wanted them. ? ,* The month was August, the nights and sultry, and less than ever <v Conducive to sleep I had nothing to . do that* evening, and, although I /turned in early, it was wf^h the usual •s/ 'yvfWBult. The clock had j^st struck /aae, and,! bad beeu in beeh in bed «1b££ ll otelflcJr -aifcbnut closing my congealed blood on the carpet plainly visible in the broad flood of early sun­ light now streaming in beneath the half-raised blind. Had I been dream­ ing? More likely I had had a fit; anyhow, I was so utterly bewildered that it was some time before my thoughts became coherent. Then alarmed and fully conscious for the first time in my life that I must be seriously ill or laboring under some mysterious mental aberration, I rose from the floor and sat dowu in an ad­ jacent chair. As my eyes wandered vacantly ar6und they fell upon the circular top of the old escritoire It was practi­ cally open. Some one had been at it, then; that was clear. That was no dream, no fancy--scarcely due to a fit, one would think--at least, not of the sort I had tremblingly thought of.* Yes, and there was the missing key in the lock. When these facts had been fully broken in upon my cob-webbed brain, they led to but one idea. Acting upon it, I pushed the lid full open, and with the rapid­ ity of thought pulled out one drawer after another, and there, in most of j them, were deposited a lot of the ar- j ticles and objects -1 had so long missed--there, in this neglected, use­ less piece of old furniture? I turned them all out in a confusion worse con- confounded than my thoughts. But there they were--almost every one; cigar case, silver match box, trink­ ets. locket and pocketbook containing the Scotch bank notes. Then, how on earth did they come to this place? A thief would hardly have stolen them to conceal them thus in my own apartments, unless-- ujaless^-and then, very reluctantly, slowly, and at first but vaguely, did Tbrea Women Walk to Inner Africa. Three women footed it in July and August last from the Indian Ocean over 200 miles to Mashonaland. They were members of an Episcopal order, and were trained nurses sent out to take charge of the hospital which had been started in that new country. The Bishop of Mashonaland expected that provision would be made to car­ ry these young women in hammocks into the interior, but the force of porters was unexpectedly small, a/id the women said they woqld endeavor to walk. With extraordinary courage tltey set, out on the journey. There was no wagon road and for much ol the way no paths were found. The party suffered terribly at times from thirst. At night the bush was always alive with lions, hyenas, buffaloes, leopards and other animals. At one time the party observed two lions drinking quietly thirty rods from them. The grass often exceeded tw.elve feet in height for miles and miles, and some days the little caravan marched through incessant rain. They suf­ fered severely from the desertion oi For the moment fe^heir P°rters'and of the thirty-two [carriers with whom they started only four remained at the end of their .ourney. The women had no tent£ to sleep in, and altogether they made the journey under conditions which would have tried the strength and courage of the stoutest men. The1? safely reached their destination, how­ ever, and they are the first white wo men to have made such a journey into the interior of Africa, the others traveling either on steamboat or be­ ing carried in hammocks or chairs. Lsr|«it in ttui World. The St. Bernard dog, Lord Bute, which arrived at New York on the White Star Line steamship Nomadic, is not only the largest dog of his kind, but the largest dog in the world. He Was bought by the Menthon kennels of Phoenixville, Pa., from Thomas Shillcock of Birmingham, England, for $3,700, foj breeding purposes. His success on the show bench throughout England has been almost phenome­ nal. He has won in all twenty-sia first prizes, as well as a number ol cups and medals. He stands one incb higher at the shoulders than the champion, Sir-Bedivere, and is more than twenty pounds heavier. Lord Bute is thirty-six inches high at the shoulders, and weighs, when in good condition, 24? pounds. His pedigree is of the best. The one time cham­ pion Save is his father, while the world-famed Plinlimonon bitch-.Sab- rina is his mother. Sabrina was by Bayard, out of Donna. Asa stud dog he stands unrivaled among his kind. He is the sire of several of the lead­ ing prize winners of the day. A small barrel is attatched to his collar, which is a drop-a-nichel-in-the slot arrangement. He has collected several thousands of dollars in his miniature barrel for hospitals and various charitable organizations. * SUCKERS FRO!** XRiSOHMU Tl»ejr- A. Woman Kallrosd Contractor, It is not generally known; we be­ lieve, says the Montesany (Wash.) Democrat, that a woman contractoi was engaged on the railroad work in this region, but such was the case. Sophie Johnson is the name of the lady, and she is now erecting a hand­ some two-story building in South Aberdeen with money she realized from her. contracting. Superintend­ ent Clayton gave her a contract for fifteen stations, but seeing tha$ she could not get it done in time, cut her down to ten, which she completed in good condition. It was a little strange to see a woman shoveling dirt on the railroad, but she seemed to enjoy it. The limit for a woiuin is evidently not drawn here. A WOMAN can say more with a few Coubln't Rliic s Uttia Slt» .l|#t Tlw; Would Bet. The vaqueros on the Tejon rancho were paid off a few days ago, but there isn't enough money left in the pock­ ets Of the whole crowd to buy a wad Of brown cigarette papers. The finan­ cial embarrassment was brought about'by two young fellows who said they were cowboys from Arizona The two* young fellows came into earap on pay day, got drunk, and jeered at the riding of the vaqueros, who were amusing themselves by doing al! sorts of queer things on bo"rseback. Tho vaqueros endured the insulting criticisms of the stran­ gers as long as the laws of hospitality required, and. then they wanted to know what the Arizona men kuewf about riding. The Arizona men said they , could ride anything that wore hair, and challenged the vaqueros to bring out their mustangs. Two ugly little broncos were caught up and saddled, and the Arizona fellows, with drunken recklessness, climbed aboard. They were pitched off with neatness and dispatch, and proved to be very clumsy fellows in the saddle, but that didn't 8top their bragging. The elder brother, who was very drunk, ex­ plained that the younger, who had displayed the more clumsiness, was a little too full to show what he could do, but offered to bet all he owned, that the boy would, on the next day, ride any horse that the vaqueros could drive into a corral. The vaqueros had sized up the Ari­ zona lads, but didn't want to take any advantage of them,, and persuaded them to wait until morning before making any bets. When the morn­ ing came the elder brother was still a little soggy, but he gloomily insisted upon making good his drunken chal­ lenge. The vaqueros told him that was all right, that thev didn't expect him to back up all his whisky talk. : He wouldn't have it that way. No­ body could say that he was a bluffer or a quitter, drunk or sober, and what he said he would back to his last bean. The younger hrother, who was sober, tried to dissuade hink "Come now, Bill," he said, "don't be a blasted fool. .These boys don't mind what we said yesterday, and they don't want our money. I've had enough and want to go home. Quit your foolishness and come along. I don't want to ride any more mus­ tangs." Where upon the elder brother be­ came noisier and more insistant than ever, and abused the other outrage­ ously, calling him a coward and a tenderfoot, until the young fellow could endure his taunts no longer. "All right," said the young man. "If you want to blow in all j'our stuff, go ahead. Nobody's holding you. You shan't say I'm a coward if you are drunk, and I'll tackle any plug you point out. But don't blame me if you pack blankets back to the ranch. You'd better get long odds in your betting, though." The vaqueros were very willing to give odds of two to one, and upon that basis they put up all' the money they had or could borrow. 0When the bets were made the vaqueros rounded up a band of horses, drove them into a corral, and pointed out a vicious, Roman-nosed plug, at least ten years old, that never had a saddle upon his back, and was known to be hopelessly cussed from his forelock to the tip of the longest hair in his tail. The youngster from Arizona, look­ ing very glurn nnd disgusted, climbed to the top of one of the gate-posts of the corral, to the great amusement of the vaqueros, who knew that it was useless to attempt to put a sad­ dle upon the Roman-nosed horse. They thought the young fellow was afraid and they laughed joyously un­ til he began to peel off his clothes and fluqg them to the ground. Coat, Vest, trousers, and shirt were flung aside, and upon the top of the gate­ post stood a lithe, athletic young man in tights with a few yards of rope coiled around his waist. Then the vaqueros rdlled cigarettes and woh- dered what he would do next. The elder brother opened the gate just wide enough t& let one horse pass out at a time, and began driving out the band. When the Roman-nosed brute came along and jumped through the opening, the man in tights dropped upon his back from the gate-post like a panther from a tree upon a deer, and like ii deer the astonished horse bounded 4cross the plain. Away he went, distancing the vaqueros, who spurred in pursuit, and in a few minutes the dying horse passed out of sight, the man in tights still sitting upon his back. And then the vaquoros returned to the; corral, rolled cigarettes, smoked and waited. In half an hour or more, the Roman-nosed horse lopecjl heavily up to the corral, wild-eyed and foam- flecked, and the man in tights sat upon his back and controlled him easily with a hackamore, roughly fashioned out of the coil of rope that he had worn around his waist when be started. There wasn't a kick or a plunge or a back-jump left in the old horse, and his wind was all gone He was covered with dust and sweat and mud, and it was evident that he had been down sideways and back wards half a dozen times and- had rolled over on the ground in vain at tempts to crush.his rider. He would have smashed a saddle all to pieces, and would probably have * driven the horn of it through the breast of rider in some of his wild back fallp, but the man in tights always landed upon his feet, ana when the horse got up the man leaped lightly upon his back again. , ,, , The man in tights w%s n champion bareback rider from McMahon'scircus and the drunken elder brother was a gambler from Tucson. They carried away all the money on the Rahclio Tejon, and the vaqueros aren't sav­ ing much about suckers from Arizona. Butcher's wrapping paper doesn't make very good cigarettes, but that is all the boys can get just at present. --San Francisco Examiner. <. BI-CHLORIDE OP GOLD PERRY'S VICTORY, Keeter MOM pieces of rope, about the size of a small clothes-line, and bound to­ gether at intervals by cross pieces of leather. They end in iron rings. The heavy Mexican saddles have long thongs of leather, which are used in­ stead of buckles to fasten the cinches to the saddle proper. By taking sev­ eral hitches with these cinch-straps a purchase can be laid which enables the rider to almost cut his broncho in twain, despite any effort the little animal may make "to bloat." So great a pressure can be brought to bear in this way that the action of the heart in a small pony can be stopped, and the animal rendered In­ sensible.--New York World. v > sw Words A bo at Or. !;• ' Core.' Dr. E Foote, of New York, re- { The Meaning of the Word "Cinch." The word "cinch" has made its way into Eastern journalism, mean­ ing a "tight hold" or a "bind" upon a thing, aiul yet very few people know the derivation of the word. It comes from the plains of the West. A "cinch" is Spanish for a paddle-girth. The cinches ituide of parallel Tli» Alan W ho Had Ueen Thar*. They got on at St. Thomas to come West. Everyone could tell at a glance that they were a newly-married couple, and the light of love and hap­ piness shone in their faces with thirty-two candle-power. As they sat down the young husband put his arm around her waist, and a minute later there was a grunt from an old man in the seat behind. "Speak to me, sir?" queried the husband, as he looked around. "No! I h'aint sayin' a word to no­ body," was the reply. Pretty soon the young wife rested her head upon her husband's shoul­ der and the old man uttered a "humph;" which caused the bride­ groom to turn his head and inquire: "Were you addressing me, sir?" "No! I h'aint addressed nobody fiv over two hours." Five minutes later the bridegroom reached his right hand up and pinched her cheek in a playful way and the "by-gosh!" of the old man was heard half the length of the car. "See here!" said the husband as he turned about, "are you speaking to us?" "I hain't bin speakin' to nobody, as I told ye before. Are yan.gQin' right through to Detroit?" , •sr " • 'Yes. • sir." ^ ^ "Right in this car?* " "Of course." ' "Jest bin married, I tike it?" "We were married two hours ago, sir." "Wall, I hain't flndin' no fault about it. I merely wanted to ask--" Here he reached down for a bundle tied up in a linen duster, bapd queried: . "Well, sir, what is it?" "Would it hurt yer feelih'Sif into the next car?" 1 "Of course not." "Then I'll ask to be 'scused. I wouldn't hurt yer feelin's for a thou­ sand dollars, but I've beqn married three times myself and-- "And what?" " ; / The old man bent over and Whis­ pered in his ear, loud enough for a dozen people to hear: "Everyone of 'em either run away from me or died on my hands, and I Can't abear any recollection of it!" He dropped a celluloid collar and a sock out of his bundle as he passed down the aisle, but he was too agitated to stop and pick them up.--Free Press. : A gDKRSItlVS Nickisms, "Philadelphia is a queer town," said the drummer at the Cadillac the other evening to the usual crowd of listeners. "Of course the grass doesn't grow knee deep en Chestnut street,as New Yorkers would have you believe, but, all the same, it is a fearfully quiet place, if you've been used to hustling. I was there on my last trip, and had to go to the postoftlce for a letter I was expecting. There was a yap evidently from Jersey at the general delivery window, and I had to wait for him. He was having a dispute with a very saucy young clerk, who was doing his best to queer the Jersevman. " 'Did you say,' inquired the clerk, that you* wan ted a letter for Miss Philadelphia Pickling?' ». Yes,' said the yap, 'I said Phila- deiphy Picklin'.' The clerk took out a pile of let­ ters, ran them over and tossfed one onto the window sill. " 'Is that right?' he asked. "'Course,'replied the man study­ ing the address a moment. 'Is that all?' "'Course,' mimicked the clerk. 'You don't wan't the earth, do you?' "'Yes, ef I can git it,' said the other unexpectedly. 'Got any more questions to ask?' " 'Well, yes, I have,' said the clerk slowly. 'Will you tell me if "Phila delphia" is that lady's real name, or is it a nickname? I never beani of such a name for anybody.' •> V ' " 'It's her nickname.' v ^ v " 'And what in thunder did they give her such a name as that for?' " "Cause she's so doggoned quiet that folks don't know half the time whether she's dead or asleep.' "Ashe got out to let me to the window he grinned till the back of his neck- showed through, and the clerk's face was a study."--Froo Press. «; • tf- • fVe*l«sloy*« Intubttfid Pfiraftes The list of words, phrases, and ex pressions to be avoided by young ladies of Wellesley College includes the following: "I guess so, " for suppose or I think so. "Fix things," for arrange things, or prepare things. The use of "ride" and "drive" inter­ changeably. "Real good" or "real nice," for very good or really nice. "I have studied some," for studied somewhat, or "I have not studied any," for not studied at all. "Not as I know," for not that I know. "Try an experiment," for make an experi­ ment. "Had rather," for would rather, and "had better," for would better. "Right away," for imme­ diately or now. "Well posted," for well informed. "Try and do," for try to do, or "try and go," for try to go. "It looks good enough," for it looks well enough. "Somebody else's," for somebody's else.--Phila­ delphia Times. f ,. ,A Cool Keply. i-^nlndian prince, remarkable tor his pride and ill-humor, once walking to the window of his presence cham­ ber with a foreign ambassador, said to him: ' 'Do you know, sir, that one of my ancestors forced a person of your de­ scription from this balcony into the street." "It may be so," was the reply, "but probably it-was not the fashion then, as it is now, for ambassadors to wear swords,"**--Mew Yom. Ledger.? ( <•, y j- cently visited one of the institutes es­ tablished for the treatment of the drink disease, by the Keeley process. In his Health Monthly, he writes edi­ torially as follows: In another place will be found an article by our friend and contributor, Rev. Jesse H. Jones, presenting his views of the Keeley Gold Cure for dypsomania, and the opium habit. We accompanied Mr. Jones to Dr. Keeley's institution at White Plains, and it is but fair to Say that the im­ pressions made upon our mind while there were quite the same as those Mr. Jones reflects in his article. As we saw the long line of intelligent men awaiting their turns to be stabbed, We could not but think Dr. Keeley was certainly a great benefactor if he could save them from their slavery to a habit which has been carrying them to physical and moral destruction. We are not yet prepared to say that Dr. Iveeley's remedy will do this, but if we were to form an opinion upon the many testimonials sent to the press by those who have been cured, and who are presenting their state­ ments in vindication of Dr. Keeley, we should be compelled to say that the discovery possesses all the value which is tilaimed for it. Nor will it do to upbraid Dr. Keeley for not giv­ ing his secret to the world.. As one of his associates remarks, Dr. Keeley has spent nearly the best part of a man's lifetime, his strength, time and capital, in making this discovery, and Until the past two or three years has found no recompense for his services. The New York Daily Sun, in a recent editorial, remarks: "If it is really a discovery so important, and Dr. Keeley had followed the unvarying rule and practice of the pro­ fession, he would be entitled to recognition and he would deserve it. * * Every physician and every medical society would assist in the celebration of his name and his remedy." What warrant has the Sun for speaking of it as the unvary­ ing rule and practice of the profes­ sion to make known a private formu­ la? Did Koch^do it when he thought he had discovered a consumption cure? For months the men of the regular profession both in this country and in Europe gave Dr. Koch full recognition at the very time that he declined to make public the means that he employed. All he would do was to furnish samples of his prepa­ ration, and he flatly^declined to let the profession into nis secret. The Sun in the course of its editorial says: Dr. Keeley's conduct is unprofes­ sional; he recognized no obligations to the healing art. He is a selfish money-maker, and not a Denefactorol the race entitled to praise and honor­ able renown. Our correspondent's talk the professional prejudice which keeps his remedy out of the public hospitals; but it is not preju­ dice," says the Sun, "it is judgment arrived at after years of experience. No such secret preparation can be in­ troduced properly and justly into a public institution. Its composition must be known and the medical art must have demonstrated its operation and efficacy." Again we ask, was the nature of Koch's remedy known? Was not this introduced in the hospitals? Did not some of our most noted old- school physicians establish private hospitals for the treatment of cases? A physician who makes such a dis­ covery is just as much entitled to make money out of it as a mechanic is who makes an invention. The more valuable the discovery the more justly is he entitled to a large com­ pensation for what he may have worked out or found out. We once heard of a Scotch physician who made a valuable discovery in medicine, and at the time we read the account the circumstances were minutely given, so that there was no doubt in oui minds of the truth of the matter. Well, this physician was belabored l?y the profession because he would not make known his secret, and so he gave it to the profession, and that man actually died in penury, and none of his medical brethren came to his assistance. If Dr. Keeley has been spending the best portion of his life in experimenting, and finally discovering that which will cure the taste for liquor and opiates, he is per­ fectly justified in keeping the secret within his own family, until hie family has .the full benefit of the dis­ covery in a compensation commen­ surate with the value of the dis­ covery. It is clearly Dr. Keeley's duty to confide the secret to some person besides himself. Otherwise the valuable discovery might be lost to the world by his death, but we are ihformed that the formula has been intrusted to his company, and some time in the future when the Keeley family shall have been sufficiently compensated, the hungry medical profession will doubtless come in. pos­ session of the valuable knowledge the Keeley family are able to impart. We have no patience whatever with the inconsistency, the jealousy, or the greediness of the old-school men ol the medical profession. d. m Hannahs Wrii«« an interesting tor to the Chicago Tribune. Mr. J. M. Hannahs, In a letter to (the Chicago Tribune, says: It to I strange that matters within the memory of the present generation are so differently understood. One your correspondents says as follows: The British brijj-of-war Detroit, whleh was sunk in Lake Erie during the war of 1812, is soon to be raised by Capt. Michael Carr, of Buffalo, who will have it pidTin condition in time for exhibiting at tb« World's Fair at ChicuRO. The Detroit was one of the last boats to go down after haul­ ing down her colors to Commodore Oi H. Perry. Ever since her sinking the Detroit has lain off Squaws Islands. Saluting the Soverelga. MHe is a fine looking fellow,f said an Austrian lady not long ago, as she looked at his Highness, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in his carriage. Her remark reached the ear of the public prosecutor, who, deeming the word "fellow" disrespectful, ordered her arrest, and she was sentenced to six month's imprisonment. The lady was rich enough to be able to appeal to the Supreme Court in Vienna, which ordered her release. When the Emperor of Austria recently visited Reichemberg a woman who was kept out of a street through which the Emperor was to drive grew impatient and exclaimed: "Es ist zu dumm" (it is too stupid.) She was instantly ar­ rested for contempt of ^royalty and sentenced to three months' imprison­ ment. In Austria it is an indictable offense to neglect saluting the Em peror when he appears in public. A few weeks ago a university student in Vienna was arrested for this offense of omission. He only got off by plead­ ing that the sight of the Emperor had so dazed him that he lost all his presence of mind. THE laziest man is he who wont labor under an impression. The facts are that among the ves­ sels captured by Commodore Perry in the battle on Lake Erie Sept 10,1813, were the bark Detroit and the brfg Queen Charlotte, which were sunk and so remained until about 1836, when they were raised and put into the merchant service between Buffalo and Chicago. Up to that year Lake Michigan had only been navigated with small vessels for the transporta­ tion of military stores and in the fur trade. Those captured vessels being two large for Lake Erie traffic were left under water until there was a de­ mand for long-distance shipments. The bark Detroit and the brig Queen Charlotte were great stubbed un­ wieldy vessels, with high bulwarks and full square rig after their class id ac­ cordance with British naval oroerot that day--that is, before the use of steam; they were built not for com­ merce but for battle. When they were seen under full sail, or at anchor in front of the Village of Chicago (for they could not cross the bar), their appearance was grand and impressive. And they were reminders of the story of Perry's victory which, together with Commodore Perry's brief dis­ patch announcing the same, which was, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," so flred'the American heart. " As there were no return freights in those days probably these vessels did not pay and they were superseded by more suitable craft. Along in the forties it was announced far and wide that the old bark Detroit was to be sent over the fails of Niagara, but I never heard--to speak in the slang phrase of the day--that she made the riffle. In 1836 there were also two beauti­ ful, well-appointed, full-rigged ships --the Julia Palmer and the' Milwau­ kee--on the route between Buffalo and Chicago; they and all other ves­ sels carrying passengers. But such vessels soon gave way for fore-and- afters for freight and a daily line of splendid sidewheel steamers for pass­ engers and freight. About 1839 came the first propeller, the Van- dalia--driven as it was then called by the Archimedean screw--to be fol­ lowed in process of time by the nu­ merous great iron screw steamers now in the grain and coal trade between Chicago and Buffalo, steamers well adapted for ocean service and which, • if the Canadian canals were enlarged --say by reciprocity treaty--would no doubt command the bulk of the grain and provision freightage to Europe ; and the emigrant travel and the heavy freight from Europe to Chicago; or even for European travel that part between Chicago and the Gulf of St. : Lawrence would be the finest excur- ; slon route in the world. * * * * * * * * C o m m o d o r e Perry was a pusher. No sooner were his ships off the stocks and their sails bent and his guns on board than he , wa,s away to meet the enemy, with < the woodwork of his ships unfinished ; and the carpenters still at work. During the battle his flagship, the Lawrence, being disabled. Commo­ dore Perry transfered his flag to the Niagara, and on his way by boat from one ship to the other it is related that J a cannon ball went through the botr : torn of the boat, and in a patriotio song it is related that-- v ' & "He off with his coat ^ And pli-gged up the bo»V^,_ £ , And through sulphur and tire away he dfeflitiMR , Swift Traveling. A stirring incident took place not long ago in Courbevoie, when Paul Leprince, the aeronaut, and one of his friends, made a balloon ascension, j They had reached an elevation of 1,500 feet, when they began to hear a peculiar whistling sound. Leprince climbed uoon the ringj and discov­ ered a tear, a lew inches long, made by the branch of a tree, against which they had swept in their up­ ward passage. What followed is re- j lated by Leprince in L'lllustr&tion. At this moment, the sun dispelled , the clouds and shone with all its force : upon the balloon. This produced such ' an expansion of gas that the valve was not sufficient to lessen the strain, and the fabric tore apart, with a noise like the rustling of leaves. Through the opening poured the uas in great volumes. "We are lostl" cried my friend. "The ballast!" shouted I. "Hie ballast!" In an instant two bags were thrown out. I saw by the barometer that we were nearly five thousand feet from the ground, and then the fall began. We threw out everything of any j weight, and prepared to cast off our • clothing, and resolved to cling, at the ; moment of striking to the netting ; Above* Fortunately, there was a strong wind blowing, which carried us along at the rate of thirty-five or forty miles an hour, and enabled us to fall at an angle, thus softening the shock. The balloon was violently shaken in its flight, and kept swinging and swaying in a horrible manner, but this motion was, after all, what saved us. . During one of the most vigorous of these movements, the lower part of the balloon was thrown to the upper r part of the netting, and rested there , against the valve, in the shape of a dome, forming an immense parachute. At once, the fall was sensibly ar-; rested, but we were still 100 yards from the ground. The time had come \to throw overboard our clothes, but there proved to be no time. Scarcely had we reached the ropes attached to the ring, when a terrible shock was felt, and we, the basket, ami balloon, were rolled over on the , ground together. We were not injured, nor did we even lose consciousness, and thus was a tall of nearly a mile accomplished in less than four min- s%ht '••4 5 ' 'v •If : i S3* m -.rfV.IS 1 - V sum J, * .k, ... Ai.\ ilk...» • >k\V c-.id A.'A . vi !•