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OHOOD. .. . / at my tld*. i c£3a of va low wheat ' i.ounoai tag far aud wida ksA .Toy and I mads m«rry company; From Oat tbenbrnt we jiacked the And decked ns iu tl ' 1 ill Joy unto rue ( |ir gtowing bravery, "The way toy which we cstne la "very long; We started wnon each bir<l was in it* nest, And now the air is full < f flight and song; % Do tes tis atop and rest." The war we travoiced came hare to a stile J Met tilt • a tomb--a siutfle bra i gray il eaid, "Do you sit her, r I wiii go o^ Hloac," ani rest awefie; tV' I passed nnd left him sitting quietly, %*"" » Cheek uj on hand iu i hat geeta shady place; tS-^'ffSTor tuwieil athwart mv shoulder back to see S; iigiia fcis pleasant face. A ̂ 'Eat, a* upon tr.y way I farad alone. • w My thooghto .raw aoinber and I miasad the M.' **' .And liutned bnek, to find upon ttttctona i Engraved, "HarJ liiitli Joy." li': (1. . And mhilp I gazed upon the words against, if;.., Fale l'ain and Care came up «ni 8«td tome: 5^' •"Thou utedst not walk a'one, for to the last ,' &gj£&>„•. We two will go wiih ihae." | t-ooke- :.;,v A LOVE STORY. , Caroline felt very wretched as she \J- '.packed her trunk. She was accutely ^conscious of. many disagreeable >%' things. She observed that her pink V' 1 organdie was rumpled, and she knew i"" ishe had lost a shirt waist Moreover, ;VTV her heart was broKen. She might I 'in time, perhaps, recovcr her interest 'vs in life to a slight degree, but at pres- '&,/'ent fete felt that life was indeed a *f\,' -. ^ Vale cf tears, and a place which had I?,; . <y\. absolutely no attraction for her. She herself growing .drearily old. **y * ' 4' .missing tiiBMiiirtPiPH that Wjpfjp* 1 • " STORMJ vtfiilSiyiiife ited it something. "isn't it--1 am so glad," *he mur* mured after a while. "At leasts do pot let. uatf WNtfiypo >F 1RIPOU .toiine the ar- she ne, and h!s self- tly recover ed without $ p%- all the sweet and tender H?- ' things that make existence worth fU J |' while, her beauty fading, her enthu- tsiasm gone forever, nothing remaip- J^';"' | ing to her except a high sense of duty • \ ;and an infln.te patience with her 'M? nieces and nephews. , She was shed- *1' : /ding a few self-pitying tears when she K;br': #600» MORJJIXG," HE SAtD, "HATOtOU * -HE&S!> THK KEWS?" Hbrites,"»said ^ lknew how b Irival of hisjf 'preferred hy 'seeing that possession mad hers. So the morning pi ^ny unfortunate,ipmarlcs. < Now, two after Miriam's re­ turn Caroline managed to be provi­ dentially called home; 'She had not been able to avoid sbihethiBgso near a scene and an understanding that she trembled to,'$bipk how close she bad come to - one, but still, as she packed her trunk, she had the proud consciousness that she was martyring herself in the dause of friendship. That she was also martyring Miriam and Ferdinand was not a matter of sufficient importance to botbfer her. She felt sure that once lie was re­ moved from her, Mr. De TOR would return to his love. And,, meantime, she would grow into saintly spinter- hood and send Miriam> jkiibewitilul wedding present. : • r!- * * * ' <•*#•' " • Three months later Ferdinand De Voe sat uneasily in the little draw­ ing room of the Buell seaside cottage. He changed his position every few minutes, now looking out at the sea, and a.ain fastening his gaze on the tlreplace. He had waited at least ten minutes when Caroline entered self-possessed, charming, ,and ruddy. '•How do you do?" she asked cor­ dially. "I am SQ glad to see you! How is Miriam?" ' : a . • She was quite well when I saw her last," said the gentleman., "But that has not been for some time. Miss Bay right and 1 are no longer en­ gaged." ' Oh, I am so sorry!" exclaimed Caroline, naturally enough. . • 'I, am sure it is a foolish misunderstanding. You two were intended lor each Other." "It may have been a foolish mis­ understanding," said hp. "Our en^ gagenient was broken because--be­ cause 1 was in love^ with anqtlier woman, Caroline, and I jth>hk--I thought she was in love with ma" "Ah!" said Caroline, smiling. "Of eurse that puts a different aspect on the matter. Sometime you mast tell me all about it. Now I Want you to come out and meet Mr. Hethering- ton. I see him on the beach. 1 had just written Miriam telling her of my engagement." JNmkKaY Mad fknaiara ltd th« Immortal Aanalt on the Private HtroaghoM. Mrs. Mel^r filliot Seawell, la her story of thft galtint careerh of Deca­ tur Hud i^G&ieTS, ({f ves Eu acconnt of the storming of Tripoli in St Nich­ olas. On the morning of August 3, 1804, began that immortal series of Ave as­ saults on the town, the fortresses, and the fleets of Tripoli that was des­ tined forever to destroy the piratical and barbaric power. The force of the Americans was but little. With one heavy frigate, the glorious old Constitution, three brigs, 1i| m ITS. Ik*i decid- and teir come on the carpets." and heat last two to til the v*u smashed an ammonia bottle, and the * V /-S]*ad train of her thouuhts was inter- , A -rupted while she hastily skirmished . ^ - about looking fdr dusters, wherewith , j to wipe the overpowering liquid from <' the floor. Then she resumed her meditations, pulling out her long suede gloves as she did so. At least she had been ArtlflOlM Silk. & The difficulties attending the pro­ duction and utilization of artificial silk appear likely to be overcome one by one, and the ingenuity by which these results are accomplished is in­ deed striking, partfcularly that ex­ hibited in securini; the necessary very noble, very honorable, and self- i hardness. The collodion issues in a thread of extreme delicacy--six being required to make a strand of the > s;*, > sacrificing. She glanced towards the 'mirror, half expecting to see a halo fv about her smooth, brown locks, or at anv rate such a saint-iike expression . in her eyes that all the world would "V . recognize her as a martyr. She was disappointed to find herself merely a --J**-little tired looking. Probably, how- l V ever, the saint-like look would soon Sv *i. appear. Self-sacrifice persisted in for ; to--that is, the little glass tube vVjJ any length of time must, of course, j which forms a part of the mechan- < result in an angelic look. She < ism is surrounded by a small reser- it>; t strapped its morocco case upon her A fan, thinking how he had fanned her f with it last night--her frien .'s •0" .fiance, the only man whom Caroline f felt she could ever love. W-t It had all come about so simply, as she told herself. She had gone to $•/>- Miriam Bayrigtt's country home. necessary cunsistence for ^weaving-- but this thread, owing tu Its viscos­ ity and softness, is not r.t to be rolled on spools, the substance being still collodion and not silk. Now, to produce the hardness desired, a very unique but simple method is resorted voir of the same material constantly filled with water, and wben the thread issues from the aperture men­ tioned it traverses this water, which takes up the et^er and alcohol, and the collodion^becomes solidified, or in other words is transformed into an elastic thread, as resisting and brill. which 6he had he.n promising to i iant as ordinary silk. Again, on ac. visit ever since they both left school, ' to spend a month. Miriam's lover, I • from the adjoining estate, was a con- $»:• slant visitor. He happened also to be the only constant masculine visi- k tor, which may have had something I" i\ to do with Caroline's sudden aflection for him. Sne had teen at "Gate- $$4} wood," as the Bayright place was called, only a fortnight when word ^ came that Miriam's godmother, from whom she had large expectations, was dying, and wished to have her last count of the materials employed in the manufacture of such silk--wood, ether, and alcohol--the stuff pro­ duced has been supposed to be danger ously inflammable Su h a contin gency is now obviated, it seems, bj simply plunging the spun thread in a solution of ammonia, thus rendering | it as slow of combustion as acty other > material.--Sun, >. r^' 'A V-> j. Vl How He Made-It. ^ v I made ^500 once," said the man hjurs cheered b/ the presence of her j jn the machintosh,. "by merely keep­ ing my mouth shut" •'Was it at an auction?"/'fcWtfed the man in the sloqch.bat • l,Na " '•High-priced doctor asked you to shnw him your tongue and you didn't do it?" ventured the man who bad his feet on the table '•No. It was " '•Found it on the street* and didn't say a word about it to anybody?" sug­ gested the man behind the green goggles. ' "Do it ou a bet?" inquired the man in the shaggy ulster. "liurgiar asked you wheie your money was hid and you were struck speechless and couldn't, tell him?" hazarded the man with the big spot of gray in his mustache "You think you're pretty smart," raid the man in the mackintosh, speaking to the crowd generally, "but you're not. None of you would ever guess it I made that $590 in the simplest way in the world. A rich old uncle who was visiting us told a leng story we'd heard him tell a hundied times before. } was the only one in the family tbs^t didn't yawn, and be remembered me in his will."--New York Sunday Mercury. r'- aMv "»OKE TIME TOtJ *U3T T$U« HS AJEX ASODT \ ns.' godchild. When she bad wrested from Caroline the promise to stay until she came back, and then to finish the month's visit, Miriam de­ parted, leaving her friend in particu­ lar care ot I>edlnand De Voe. Certainly Miriam could have found no fault with the wav in which be attended to his charge. They rode and dro^Q together. They walked and read and played tennis. Caro­ line pla.ed and sang to him in the twilight in the big old-fashioned drawing ioon!». He dined att Gate- wood half the time, and his sallies and Caroline's kept Miriam's mother, aunts and grand mother in a hilari­ ous state. All this wentou for three weeks, and then one morning came the news that the disappointing god­ mother was uut of danger and that Miriam was coming home. Mr. De Voe rode over immediately after breakfast. Caroline was sitting on Too pat to Walk*^' Sitting as a profession would seem a novelty, but that is the profession followed by a man in India^apols. Hs name fs Harry Jennings. He weighs 3*,0 pounds and his gpod na­ ture is in proportion to bja supera­ bundance of flesh. 8o fat ,is he that walKing is almost outof the question, but he manages,to; go from place to place where he ceftves at bt/r profes- sion. He has several oustomera $%v the piazza, wonder,ng why the unex-; they are rifcen toho conductollicefe, but pected return of her friend gave her no pleasure. When she saw the boiseman she suddenly compre­ hended. She wished very much to schooners, two bomb vessels, and three gunboats manned by 1,060 offi­ cers and j men, Commodore Preble stood boldly in to attack the town defended by the Bashaw's castle, not less than a dozen powerful forts, a fleet of three cruising vessels, two galleys, and nineteen gunboats, manned by 25,000 Turks and Arabs. The harbor was, moreover, protected by a line of shoals and reefs perfectly well known to the Tripolitaos, but very imperfectly known to the Amer­ icans, and which the Constitution could not approach closely without incurring the lqj.e pf the unfortunate Philadelphia. But whatever "Old Pepper" lacked in ships and guns, he made up in men; for every soul on the American feet was worthy to serve under the flag .that few from tbe mastheads. ( A In considering the claims of his different officers in leading the at­ tack, Commodore Preble had at last determined upon Decatur and Som- ers. The larger vessels were to cover the advance of the gunboatvwhkch were to do the real fighting; and these gunboats were divided into two divisions, the first unaer Decatur, tbe second under Souiers. As the two divisions of three gun­ boats each formed and pulled away, they sa wtwo divisions oS^ Tripolitan boats, /much larger, ^stronger, and more /fully manned pull slowly out from behind the line of reers. The windward division consisted of nine gunboats, and the leeward of five, "while a raserve of five others lay just Inside the harbor, protected by the reefs. As Somers took his place in the gun boat, be said to the man tiller: "Do you see that division of five boats to leeward? Steer straight for it* and get within pistol-shot cf it, when I will give you further orders." The breeze was easterly, and with one lateen sail drawing well,'the boat was soon covering the distance be­ tween her and her enemies across the blue water. The firing had begun, and a terrific roar, and the Constitu­ tion barked out all her guns in broad­ side, showed that the ball was opened. Somers wat hed until bis boat was abreast of the Tripolitans, when, himself sighting the one long gun amidships, he fired, and saw the skot bad instant and terrible effect. Somers turned fbund and saw the next boat to his, under Lieutenant Blake, a brave young officer, drawing off, obeying a signal i»f recall which, however, was made by mistake from tbe flag-ship, and the very next mo­ ment the third boat, commanded by James Decatur, caught a puff or wind that brought her head round and carried her directly into the other iivision of boats, which was dashing forward to attack tbe nine Tripolitan gunboats. ery well," said Somers, with his usual caim smile, 'fes Decatur says, tbe fewer tbe number, the greater honor! So we'll go ahead, boys." The sailors gave a cheer, and in another moment they were under ttre of fljre gunboat* The situation of Somm was now critical in the ex­ treme, but he gave no sign of it in his manner, which was as cool as if he was at anchor in a friendly port. He opened a steady and #ell-directed fire that soon began to weaken the at­ tack of the Tripolitan boats, and not one dared to come near enough to at-,, tempt boarding him. Still he was drawing nearer and nearer the bat­ teries Commodore Preble, who was watching him from the Constitution's quarter deck, exclaimed: "Look at that gallant fellow, Som­ ers. I would recall him, but he wguid never see the signal." At that tbe commodore heard a boyish voice at his elbow, and there stood little Pickle Israel. "If you please, sir," said ho v/ith the air ot one making a great discov­ ery, "I don't believe Mr. Sdmers w nts to sefe any signal." ' "You are right, my boy," cried Old Pepper, who was in high good humor over tbe gallant behavior of his "school-boy captains," "but at least he shall be supported." With that he gave orders, and the ship advancing slowly, b.ut as steadily as if working into the roadstead of a friendly port, delivered a tremendous fire upon tbe batteries that were now trying to' get tbe range of the daring little boat In spite of Somer's efforts to keep from drifting too far toward the reef and reserve the squadron, by backing his sweeps astern, he soon found himself under the guns of one or the large forts. was thunder.ng at tbe forts, but thi# one was a little too near, and her shot fell over it. The situation of Somers was now desperate, but his indomitable coolness stood him. in good stead. ? - ' 'If we can knock the platform dpwn that holds those guns, my men. we shall be all right, he cr ed, '^nd »ee. it is very rickety." Then ordering a double charge put in the long gun, he sighted it himself. A shot went screaming oyer tbe water, and immediately a cloud of dust, bricks, and mortar showed that it had struck tbe right spot The platform was destroyed, and the bat­ tery tumbled down among tbe ruins. Somers then turned hts attention to tbe five gunboats, that he could Caelent fthortbMid. How many of the Students who un­ dertake to master shorthand in tbe many schools kept open for its teach­ ing ever become even passibly useful In the occupation they expect to take up? It is sate to say that not one in ten reaches that point of pro- flciency, and those who fail complain bitterly that their time has teen three j thrown away. But before taking up the study Jihe pupil should know that his time and money will surely be wasted unless he is sufficiently in­ telligent to write a good business letter on his own account. And then it should be known to him that in the different branches of business re­ quiring the services of shorthand writers there are an infinite variety of technical words an^f btrases which must he mastered before bis services can be made of Value there. So it necessarily follows that it is not all of the shorthand writers profession that he shall be able to make the pgthooks and decipher them at a given rate per noTrTute. There is a degree of Intelligence without whicb it is folly for any young man or woman to enter upon the study of shorthand with the ex­ pectation of making a living »t it Many employers get along with the services of incompetent writers be­ cause they do not think they can af< ford to pay the wages demanded by those who are competent, yet the work done by such tells its own story to all who receive their letters, A typewritten letter abounding in errors in spelling, misplaced punctu­ ation and capitalization is evidence of either a penuaious employer or one whose busine»s cannot afford a well- paid stenographer. So it is doubtful it tbe Employment of incompetent graduates in shorthand is advisable for any consideration. With a proper foundation to build upon, the ac­ quisition of the knowledge and skill of shorthand brings an accomplish­ ment that is sure to be beneficial; but a great deal of more or less val­ uable time and money are thrown at the i away in the learning of it by those j who should be told in advance that no possible benefit can come to them. / Col. Fred, tirant. Of all of Gen. U. S. Grant's sons, the one who has created tbe most in­ terest Is Col. Frederick Grant, late Unites States Minister to Austria. He is now a resident of New York, and he and his handsome wife, the sister of Mrs. Potter Palmer, can often be seen in society and at the theaters oi^irst nights. The Colonel is tall, broad shouldered, and is grow­ ing stout He weighs over <2o0 pounds, but his large frame can take on a great deal of adipose tissue and not disfigure him. There is no re­ semblance to his father, except in solidity of build. He has high cheek bones, alaige, broad face, and a nose highly aquiline. The great firmness of his father's mouth is wanting, but on the whole, his face could not be called weak. He wears a dark mus­ tache of medium _ length and thickr ness which effectually conceals his upper Up. In dress he is always neat, not loud, and somehow in looking at him one is convinced that he has a wife who has excellent taate in mat­ ters of dress. He looks phlegmatic and in repose his face has a sad cast No one could picture him as a cava­ lier soldier or a gay, rollicking cadet, and, in truth, he never was. As a cadet, be was somewhat studious and passed a creditable final examination. His walk is slow and deliberate, and no one to see him on the street would imagine he was anything but a mer­ chant who has had a fair share of Success. He lives in good style up town and has plenty of leisure on his hand.i His mother often spends a WQAtb at bis homo. , :i^ . : mk*. know how he felt l- He looked rather pale as he came , «P on tn^ piaira * "Good morning, Miss Caroline," he , v #: «ftld. "Have you heard the news?" ' ?-.."About Miriam's return?" faltered V '• Caroline, "ifes. We had/a letter this morning." Then there was silence, during whicb Ferdinand De \ oe looked at ?r Miss Caroline Buell. And silence is ' v m » Kood thina with which to greet , now drive still closer to the reef, and who employ tio clerks, and in order to ' QQ which every shot from his boat keep their offices while they go to j wa9 telling. lunch or other meals, employ Jen-h And so. for an hour longer, did the niugs to occupy a cha r and, attend to (little American boat, with her one business whieb may "dropTO"during j JJUU( her resolute young captain, and their absence. One of these offices has a telephone, and Jennings takes a seat at the telephone where- fie will not have to'$tir during the/hour he is on duty. Jlis great pleasure is to sit in a reverse .position in a chair with his chia resting oh the back. He will sit thfe way for houH with­ out hardly nmrti^'He draws a pen­ sion for obesHj.--r tiaoL her brave crew, hold in check a force five times her own, aud not until a general recall was ordered did she leave her perilous position, and re­ tire under the guns of tbe frigate. 'Household Economy. "Have you taken up your carplte . , this soring?" asked due neighbor of Iddianapolls gep- another. French Lieffal Casuistry. ^ A tei tease of a kind to gladden rnl hearts of the lawyers has been brought ! before the French law < ourts uy the I members of a Freemasons' lodge, j who deposited June 3 last a fune al | crown on the statue of Joan of Arc i in the Hue de Kivoii, Paris, says the | Paris correspondent of the London I Daily News. The crown was taken | away by a young man named Cochin, i who is being prosecuted, therefore, ! for Williul damage to a public monu- j ment. M. Cochin has secured tbe services of Maitre Eugene Godefroy I of the 1 aris bar, who seems to be a ' remarkable adept at casuistry. <tc- , cording to M, Godefroy, a crown i placed on a monument ceases to be ; the p.operty of the person placing it there, since it has been voluntarily given up without what is called in commerce consideration received. Neither is it the property of the city or of the State, since the legal for­ malities required in the < ase of adeed of >fift to a public body have not been cdmplied with. It is no wonder that the Judge whose fute it is to have to solve this knotty point has taken , . tim'e to consider his decision. M. i ®1 Cochin's act was prompted apparently by a desire to avenge the dectructlon of a similar crown placed on the same monument by the society styl^}. tbe Boyalist Youth of Franca A Potato Retort. An Australian mining' journal is responsible for the following story: A miner in that country, who was obtaining fine gold by sluicing, was asked ho.v he saved it. He replied that he employed tbe common amal­ gamation process, but used a novel and ingenious retort for the purpose. After amalgamating with quick­ silver, "I get a potato," said the miner, "cut off one end, and scoop out a cavity in it large enough to take my ball of amalgam. I next take a spade or a piece of fat iron, and place that over the fire; and then upon that 1 place the potato with cut side down. As the amalgam gets bot the 'silver' evaporates and goes all through the potato; but it can't get through the skin. Wbon it is cool I have my gold button on the spade and my •silver* all In flue globules in the potato. 1 break that potato up under water and I have all my 'sil­ ver, »»»--pbiladel phia Ledger. S*v» Arthnr Ipatti Mock Attention to Soeiety Forma. Gen. the White gotis* a*ya Harper's Mag azine, Mr. Hayes had lived in Wash­ ington as a representative at a bote! or a boarding house. Gen. Gartield bad settled in the capital in a house of his own, and had enjoyed the kind of social lite that may be had any­ where in this country, and that runs to literary clubs that are formed to facilitate the escape of unpublished manuscripts. To encourage talent and literary ability was # great pleas­ ure of the President, whose murder ,cut short the term that would have been marked by more geniality and agreeable talk than is usual at the White House. Mr. Arthur brought city manners and customs with him. People who did not know bim were greatly mistaken in him. There had been a good deal of refinement and elegance in Mr. Arthur's hornet and its influence made the White House more of a social center than It had been before or than it has been since. Then came Mr. Harrison, who had passed s x years in the senate and a Washington boarding house, and Mr. Cleveland, who went to the capital a bachelor, having lived most of bis life in apartments in a Buffalo busi­ ness block. None ot these men adopted the manners and customs of court life, with the exception of Mr. Arthur, who insisted that those arith whom he came in contact should pay bjs office a respect something more than the formal decent respect of good manners. The rest knew nothing of the rules which Washington society nad laid down for its own and their guidance, and which were as con­ flicting as the various interests that invented and frequently modi e I them. Moreover, they have seemed to care a good deal less. They or their wives or their secretaries studied up the neccssary regulations that overn the intercourse between the head of tbe Nation and tbe diplo­ matic representatives of foreign pow­ ers Aud, although Mr. Jefferson in. sisted on taking out to dinner what woman he w u!d, regardless of her husband's rank, modern Presidents have done their best to observe the propriet es iu this respect ^. FilUty Had a Pull*- y-»" Pretty nearly eve y one knows j6r ought to know what an old-fashioned "candy-pull" means, says the Hart­ ford Courant It used to beat the "apple-bees" and such country affairs away out of sight, and was a much sweeter wav of enjoying a winter evening. It chanced recently that a family in tbe outskirts or the city thought they would indulge the chil­ dren in one of these pastimes, and things were made ready. It was just at the end of the last snow, and when the molasses had been boiled sufficiently and bad been "tried" by dropping a few drops on a bit ot snow, the dishful was placed on the snow just .outs de the door, tbe quicker to <&ol off and be ready for pulling. Some half-grown pigs had been ca­ pering alKiut tne yard, likely to keep warm, and one of them chanced to come upon the dish of sweet stuff, whicb by that time had become con­ siderably cooled on the surface, so that when the fellow's nose touched it it was not in toe least uncomforta­ ble. The supposition is that, with his usual'avariciousness, the fellow plunged his "snout" away down to the bottom of the vessel. Naturally he got a p.etty warm reception when he hit tbe miudle of the mess, and quite naturally, U>o, he pulled-- pulied for dea.- life. The half-cooled candy stuck to him like a leech, and with an audible grunt he fled as best he mighu The people who were chat­ ting within while tne cooling process was going on hurried to the door just in time to see piggy lighting out, candy and all, for freedom. They gave cha«e, but they' might as well have tried to catch a cyclone. The youngster Anally ran himself out, so to speak, the candy having meantime cooled out sutlciently to make it quite a difficult matter to remove the incumbran e from the poor brute's nose It Is understood the "pull" that was down for the evineng was indefinitely postponed. , V' The romsi®^iPiiitts and: jewelry, has often attracted thoj attention of tbe novel Sot and story writer, and* mom than one nterawt? tbr;ili«tf narrative b^s been fowftlea on tbe history of some-celebrated irem, which by its value has roused tbe cupidity of unscrupulous men, inciting them to robbery and murder. Thrilling as are the romances connected with the annals of the best-known gems, they become almost commonplace when compared with the stories which cluster about the discovery of many mines of gold and silver. The German folklore contains a story which, in a legendary way, accounts for mining romance on tjge theory that all mines of precious metal are under the protecting care of genii, and when these guardian spirits, from any cause, take a particular fancy t3 a human being they lead him by a way that seems altogether accidental to a spot where he can make a discovery of the outward and surface indications of the hidden wealth beneath. The history of every mining country is full of narratives so strange, so unusual, and yet so credible and so thoroughly well at­ tested, as to excuse the superstitions common among miners and almost to justify a belief in the old German fairy tale which gave over the owner­ ship of the mines to the genii of tbe earth. The history of our Western mining States is full of stories that illustrate tbe purely accidental and fortuitous manner in which the most important discoveries were made, and when these stories, repeated among the miners as they while away the long winter evenings in their solitary cabins in the mountains, are taken into consideration the devout belief of every miner in the potency of luck bacomes much more intelligible. One of tbe most productive mines in California was discovered through an accidental fall of the discoverer. He was one of a hunting party that had gone out from San Francisco dur­ ing Christmas holidays. While pass­ ing along the side of a steep hill on a narrow trail bis hoi*& suddenly slipped, and, with his rider, went down into the gulcth Happening to be the last in the line, and some dis­ tance behind the others, he was not missed for some moments, but wheu his absence was noticed the part)' turned back to look for him, fearing some untoward accident He was nowhere to be seen, but the place where his horse had slipped and fallen t>ver the bank, together with the traces of tbe fall, were nearly visible. Following the tracks made by the failing b rse and man, and wheu near the bottom, the men suddenly came upon an interesting spectacle. Just behind a clump of bushes which the man and his steed had crashed through on their way down stood the horse, apparently unin ured, while near by, on a slab of rock projecting ftom the snow, the man was capering like an Indian at a ghost dance. The first impression of the rescuing party was that the man had gone suddenly crazv, but as he caught sight of them he instantly ceased his gyrations and shouted for them to approach. They came, when be showed them several lumps of almost pure gold he had hastily knocked from the edge with a stone for a hammer, and announced his discovery of a gold mine. The sliding horse had brought up against the ledge, aud the restive animal, kicking vigorously in the efforts to rise, had struck off the moss from the stone and disclosed the fact that it was a gold-bearing ledge of unusual richness. The find was appropriately named "The Christmas Gift," and a valuable gift it proved to bq, \ INSTEAD of asking a member Of tbe finance committee of a church social how much they took in, the Not Very ConHtateill^'1":' "James, dear, will you bring me up a scuttle of coal from the cellar?" said a busy wife. '•That's just tbe way with you," said James, with a frown, as be put down his book and rose from tbe arm­ chair. "Just the way with me?" ; ••Yes," he snapped. "As soon as you see me enjoying myself, you have something or other for me to do. Didn't you see 1 \tfas absorbed in my reading?" "Well, dear, I will do it myself." "Yes, and tell everybody--your "mother especially--that you have to carry your own coal up from the cel­ lar. No, I'll do it. Let me mark my plate" So be marked the place in the book at whkh be had ceased teadlng, and when he i went down to the ellar, grumbling all the wav, she pi ited up the volu i e. and found that it was a love story, and that,the* passage he had been absorbed in was as fol­ lows: 1 • My darlin?, when yo-a are my wife, I will shield and prote t you from every tare; the winds of heavep shall not visit your fa e too roughly, those pretty hands shall nevet* bk soiled by menial tasks, your wish shall be my law, your happiness--" Just then he reappeared, and, dropping the scuttle upon the floor, said: "There's your coal! Give me my v- ar': v r. An ifciele** Meat* v ^ ky^ One of the most remarkable struc­ tures in nature is the nest of a bald eagle. One found iu the famous red­ wood forest of California had sticks in it as large as ordinary fence rails. The nest was .';00 feet from the ground, and was built on a frame­ work composed of the heavy timber that was solidly fastened together. They were arrat-.ged together at the corners like a rail fence and on the frame was built a solid platform of heavy stioks and brush, making a complete nest These nests are used i-yeur after year by the same pair of 1 birds unless they are disturbed or What He Didn't Rn One day on a train which leads or follows through "red brush" Ken­ tucky, a native came in at a small station and took the seat in front of me. It was an accommodation train and. therefore, sociable, and the man wasn't long in striking up a conver­ sation. He rattled around a good deal before he struck his gait and at last got on to personalities. 1 'Air you married?" he asked. I expressed my regret that I was not "Don't know nothing about raisin* half a do en children an' gitt.in' 'em offen yer haids?" "No." "Ner how hard it || make a livln* fcr so many?" "No." "Never trotted up an' down half the mght with a squalin' baby?'.' 1 was glad to say that I bad nto and he went right on. "Don't k»Q« scold in' wife?" > y..;,- "No." . "Ner one that never gives you a minute's peace, unless," and ho chuckled over the joke that was com- i ng, ( unless it Wot a piege uv her mind?" "Never.w "An' you never wuz a widower?" and this time the smile he gave me had something se aphic in it "Certainly not" He reached over and laid bis band affectionately on my ktaee. "Well, young feller," he said, "you don't know a doggon thing about the delights of matrimony, you {isn't; an'you have my sympathy. the to v _ was »i>en I waspuyhigXoienioiB a comic opera compauywhlob Iptefer shall remain naineleu far reasoarot my own. We had y.t a pavl. ion in a summer garden, lb was a good engagement* too, add went cut there with our hearts 41 full of hope as our pocket** wet^eiM* ty of money. It happened, that we struck one of those nasty cold summer months. This coldest thai I ever saw. It was posi­ tively arctic. But the place was popular and a lot ot people came on the first, night. Show was a dead frost, though, and we bad to walk back." * "Didn't the people line it?" asked the Buffalo Express man. "Couldn't tell. You see, there wa* a big crowd, but it was so blamed cold that they ail wore ear-muffs atsft couldn't hear the gags." * "Huh," said the man who rents, "that ain't a marker to the luclc I had to-day. Here I am a man with a sick wife and a lot of other things on my hands, and when I got home to-day I found that it would be abso­ lutely impossible for me to stay thet$ any longer. All there is to it, I've, got to move. When vou think that my wire is flat on her back, you will realize what an affliction that is. I've got to move; think of it." "Well," inquired the reported "what have you got to do that for* Shy on the rent?" "No; I'm not shy on tbe rent, but a lot of my old creditors found tb#; place the other day. and there's noth­ ing to do but get out or their way." "You fellows make me laugh," said the dry goods clerk. "You actually make me laugh. You talk as if you knew what hard luck really is. Why you ain't in it with me. 1 bad a jo|> as floor walker that Wld me $30 ai week. Part of my duties were to paint the signs used so extensively in the store. I always was handy wltfc a brush, you know. 1 had a big sign to paint for the candy counter re­ cently. It was to read 'Fresh To­ day,' meaning some particular kinds of candles. I painted it, but an in» fernal imp of a bov who worked in the store painted another just like it that read 'Fresh Toddy' and hung it in place of mine. The highly moral head of the firm had a lit when he saw it and fired me without giving chance for an explanation." 1 • ' Beneath His Dignity, The church wardens of an English - village had placed an organ in their little church; and, in the delight of their hearts, they told the arch­ deacon what they had done at his next visitation. He fell in with their enthusiasm, and advised them to have a grand opening at which.: Dr. G--a well-known musician-*^ should be present ^ The advice was eagerly taketfA Placards were posted, and the serv­ ice was advertised in tbe local paper*. The all important day arrived, and with it Dr. C., who was at once shown up into the singing-loft, where stood the instrument in a case brill* iant with gilded pipes known to th* profession as "dummies." « "But where is the keyboard?*' In­ quired the great man, who bad ready been somewhat disconcerted it' the size of the organ. i "Oh," said the church wardeM "we turnun r, und wi' that therey® pointing to the handle. * The amazement and indignation of Dr. (1 were beyond words He had been invited to open a hand- |>rgan! ^ . i-i Original Phrasing. • There are many wonderful dtateeSa in existence, says Harper's Magazine. One of these is what might be called the suburban domestic dialect; that used by servants in the rural com­ munities in the daily routine of house­ work. Several examples have come to hand. A suburbanite was greetej, one morning, as he entered his dining^ room, with this choice specimen: v "Mr. J., the colt has friz thai pipes. They've bust* and the lettajHs all afloat" V The same domestic, while at work in the hail adjoining the library where her employer was writing, thinkinft; he might prefer not to witness ttitt operation of polishing, tbe floor, eHk tered the room, and said:' "Mr. do you want the dopr clux» or the curtains drew?" , . ' - f t kmu. : >. .2 What Counts Nowadays* 1 heard a clerical gentleman tell a story the other evening that amused me. He was pleading for a healthy min­ istry, arguing that those Who were dyspeptic took rather a blue view of life. Then, too illustrate, he told this little incident: A poor, dyspetic little minister was walking out one Monday morning, wben be chanced to meet two brother clergyiueu-^-hale, hearty-looking fel- lows: After the customary greeting tbey asked him how things looked. He pulled a long fa e and said every­ thing was very bad, it was a dying world and the outloox was wretched. "Now, brother," said his question­ er, "ycu are wrong yourself. "Some­ thing is the matter with your brain. You want to get that right like ours," slapping his comrade on the shoulder, "then the world will look brighter to you." The dyspeptic lookel at both his "brothers" a minute and then said: ••I'd rather have tbo stomach of one of ye than the brains of both of ye."--Boston ilerald. V Smart John Chinaman. , ACtolnese cook in a San Diego house notfiid the writer washing negatives. The "heathen," who w$s supposed to know nothing but tbe>Airt of «oolt- ery, sweeping, and b©d-niak^,;; b€tr;[; came interested in the pictures, and - quizzed the amateur and asked to £e.,/ instructed in camera work- He iv«iXt bought an outfit with a three doltyr^; and-a-half lens After practicing ai odd moments by hlmspllfopt less a fortnight, John Chinamdn amazea his instructor by exhibiting prints far superior to those made by bis teacher, who used a le'na. Chinaman wanted a wit#. /--tJ picked up his belongings, ahd is nt in China with his valued camera, where he is probably doing a lucra­ tive business r botographing his re* labions' neighbors. THE women at tbe summer resorts are writing longer letters home which would indicate a shortness of money. BCTLL fighting has been supp: by Government order in tbe city Salta. ' THE Argentine Army has 1,666 of. fleers, the total strength being about 6,000. ______, a V; HE only has the best who is eon- tented with what he has, «• IT is seldom tbe right one |̂ " solicitous about you. , ^ A GOOD many of the lies in a oe«a> , paper are brought in. IF you -borrow trouble you must pay • heavy interest J TBE only work some people do working others. MUSICIANS never abuse bad musician. I B.W9 &<*» «'•» i» Borzoi. *. * " > J „A' ' * 1. x ...SJtdl£± .5.'!.,.* > -m, J'1 . * : -id