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i iriiliil BKRRT SENIEth 'v - • I could not briilk ' i face to look t f flwjr $ook my httd and "the v led na* in, n.l tbijr MTt in* alone with my nearest kin •loo* In that silent place, 'ui dead and I face to face. and •peal Kith love I looked on her. Wttfc love and with rapture, and strange surprise ̂ I looted on the 1 pa and the close-shut eyes; 0 j tie perfect raat and the calm contiall' And the happiness In her leatarea blen% And the thin white handa that had wrought ao much flow. nerveless to kiaaea or fevered touch. ! j beautiful dead, who had known the strife, M pain and the sorrow that we call life. Who had never faltered l>eneath her cross, v \ Mor murmured when loss followed swift on loss. ed the smile that sweetened her lips always y light on her Heaven-closed mouth that day. i Al jamoothed fratn her hair a silver thretaV^"--"" /• Alnd 1 wept, bat I could not think her daM. " ' fjfelt with a wonder too deep for sp«teeh. ' fhe oould tell what only the angels-teach, ' And down over her month I leaned toy PS*V Iieat there might be something I should hear. en out from the ailence between us stole sage that reached to my inmost aoul: "Why weep yon to-day who have wept before fliat the road waa rough I must1 journey o'er f •Why mourn that my li pa can answer you not When anguish and sorrow are both forgotf "Behold, all my life I have longed for rest. Yea, e'en when I held you upon my breast, "And now that 1 lie in a breathless sleepy Instead of rejoicing you aigh and weep. •|ty dearest, I know that yon would not break-- If you could--my slumber and have ms wake, "For though life was full ofthe things that blei^ 1 have never till now known happiness." Then I dried my tears, and with lifted head lie ft my mother, my beautiful dead. BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. BY J. T. HVNTER. *1 visk you would not go, my daughter," and my mother bold my hands in a close grasp as the express thundered into the depot, and the hurry and bustle consequent thereon began. "I must, for ihe last time, dear mother." I choked down a dreadful lump in my throat and hurried away, not daring to give a second lcok at the tear-brimmed eyes that I felt were following me. The dear little mamma. She did not know how those two words *mv daughter" nerved me. It was my father's favorite expression and when he was murdered by the robber he had followed to his death his last words to me were, "You must fill my place and take care of the little mother, my daughter." People read carelessly, among the scores of daily raurd-rs, that Detective Erickson had been killed in an attempted arrest, and never gave the matter a seeo&d thought. • Bat O th« te-JTtbi« ia two women's L*'•?">* Hr h-t..: b^r. tricing the wkfrer fos weeks sad is recover ffce pcwwrty *>f <schK2» kti. to re- •ew toe '^uc.'..i! p>?£»rr ks» life. sad his wife -ifciE^r^r kS «2ao«t yeBailess. I fail be-is ay ftaira*"* ard ewapicicc. xs>i Ht v*zz ^EsSjait «sr» So sfcs»55 X* SsS 'SSI?- artSaer. Bat ha ww 4>*£ K<f I w*f ieft fc-> be-fir the dared not nerve and muscle ^rain^d to bear the •hock, whatever it might be. I heard htm creeping nearer. Bearer, and held my breath in n very agony of suspense. I heard his low I irenthing nnd then he suddenly gave a demoniacal yell which paralyzed me for a moment and left a ringiug in my ears for days after. "She never flinched A hair," said the younger voice, "she's deafer than the dead if she did not hear tbat howl, for it would have raised the seven sleepers." I drew a long breath as a form passed my chair, and as he turned to come back I glanced carelessly up from the book I pre­ tended to be reading. I saw a tall, hand­ some man with broad shoulders and a waxed mustache. He lifted his hat and smiled slightly, revealing his large white teeth. As I gazed it came over me with sickening force that the man before me was Edgar Nolan, my father's murderer. "His strong cruel teeth, Christine, white like nn animal's. They were set like a vise when he drew his thin lips back and dealt me that fatal blow." This my father had told me between his gasps of pain. The next ten minutes proved that my instinct was a' correct one. "She's safe enough, and now I'll tell you, Harry, how I worked that diamond racket," said the counterfeit Frenchman, resuming his seat. "If you're going to b i one of us, it won't hurt you to know how the job was done." Then followed a description of the robbery of the old diamond merchant, every particular of which was so familiar to me. I listened intently as he described the place where the booty lay hidden. I stabbed hing with a knife like this when he wouldn't give over yelling," said the fiend, coolly, "and flung the knife down behind the plaster where there was a hole in the wall. I never use a shooter, they are too noisy. These fellows do their work and never speak." Then I lived over again the horror of my father's death as he told the boy how he had been obliged to kill another man self-defense." « " They doubled the price on my head after that, to make men more willing to hunt me down like a rat," he ndded bit­ terly. Had he no conscience or sense of wrong doing? "How dare you travel through the coun­ try like this, with such a big reward up?" asked the boy. "I was a thin, pale Yankee then, with a smooth face nnd light hair," answered the murderer. "Now. thanks to my wig and heavy beard and to the tailor's art, I am a portly Frenchman. This confounded pad­ ding isn't very comfortable in a warm room, though. Their voices sank lower. My very life seemed centered in the sense of hear­ ing. I changed my position as much as I dared and through the tumultuous throb­ bing of my heart heard their plans for a burglary they intended to commit tbat night. An hour's ride farther on, the train would stop at L Junction, a little town where the road branched to the south. Ten miles away to the north was the village of Clifton, two miles from the lake shoreT It was only a cluster of houses, with a post- office and a church and no railroad. A number of wealthy people owned summer residences there, but in winter it was gen­ erally almost deserted. I gathered from their conversation that Mr. Gleason, a wealthy old gentleman who owned a handsome house in the village, with the memory of his early holidays green in his heart, had brought his family, chil­ dren, and grandchildren, and a large circle of friends from the city, to spend an old- fashioned Christmas in the country. , "We'll have a good, dark night for our work," said Nolan; "glad there isn't any snow. Sydney has kept me posted. He says old Gleason's tribe are aft going over tfaa life" law whioh immamin .a should be laid apon him. I want op stairs to quiet 'the frightened cook, whom moans were Anally stifled in the bed-ciothea where she hid her head. 1 intended to but ,\ terrible fascination j.rew me below. I lighted my little dark lantern and, in spite of the remonstrances of the men agniust an old lady taking part in such an exciting scene, crouched behind a large sofa to await the expected arrival. The door was conveniently open, and he entered so cautiously that only the gleam of his lantern reveated his presence. Instantly my light flashed up and he saw four glittering revolvers leveled nt his head. It had been done so quickly that he had no time to draw the ready knife before he was overpowered and closely bound. Many nnd deep were the curses he uttered when he 6aw me, and vain his conjectures as t© how I hjui discovered his plans. "I'm Sure I aid not tell the ugly beldam on my way here, and I'm equaliy sure I never saw hfcr before," he muttered. "But you shall see me again to your everlasting sorrow,* I could not help answering. The boy was relieved from his bootless guajd at the door by the outside captors. They were taken, closely guarded, up to the city that night. In the confusion "Sydney" was forgotten and no one ever knew into what waters his yacht carried him. The appointed time for the trial came at last. "Christine Erickson" was called. As I put aside my veil in the witness box, the boy (who still clung to his wicked com­ panion) involuntorily exclaimed, "By Jove, it's the deaf and dumb girl." A look of deadly hate from the prisoner rested upon me as I gave my evidence. The re­ covered knife and the gems were used with convicting effect. Although I knew that the doom that was dealt was richly deserved by the confessed murderer, almost repented my part in the tanfec alrae- I is£ rsm ~S3z.-?m whirh way . _ . •» run*. I ewM I «miM not ito Oakdale to a ball, where the silly women cam tfnoagL f s5«r: ty et senile. ; will caper in calico for charity's sake, and My one w >_I ivr »n.l I felt j leave all their finery at home. We'll do a that with nrxe rear* pra-^uae and in- jlim liun I wooii W udepradent. One day I was sarins-d by a message from the Chief. He had ronferred many favor* upon my mother and myself, for mv father had been one of his most trusteed men. He had a delicate secret service which he considered me fitted to perform and which he wished to intrust to me. My '* 'pride arose in revolt. I could not be a "female detective." Such a dreadful name! But the compensation was liberal, and my father's last words came to me, "You must nil my place." Could I afford to throw away this ehanee for a mere whim? Be­ fore I left the office I had received my Instructions and since then had over­ ruled my mother's objections and con- Siered my repugnance for the work, for e sake of the support it afforded us. My present undertaking was of a secret nature. A large reward had been offered for $}te apprehension of a base woman who had plundered and murdered her benefac­ tors, a kind old gentleman and lady who had befriended her. I had studied the case day and night and felt confident that I had a clue to her whereabouts. If I could se­ cure the reward offered, the money would boy us a tiny home iu the little village which had been my mother's birthplace, fad with a roof of our own over our heads, kould defy want or care. The bare 500m of the strange hotel where they had carried hltn, and my father's dying face, came be­ fore me just as I had seen him on that last dreadful day, as I pushed through the crowd toward the waiting train, as if I might run away from my thoughts. •The conductor of the parlor coach "At- lantic" and a brakeman stood beside the fetck. ~ '"Hello," cried the conductor, looking straight at me, "here comes my deaf and dumb girl again. She made a trip in my car down to Plattsville last month." "Party good figure of a woman," com­ mented the brakeman, critically. "Wish ahe had half of mv woman's tongue. She llprs enough for two." ^ ' The conductor had been making such exaggerated motions to me that it seemed as if lie must do himself an injury, asking if I would go aboard. I stood irresolute, for I had intended to take an ordinarv car. "I'd like to know what she carries in that gripsack," said the conductor, intent won my personal appearance. "She Wing to it all the way down the other day Uke grim death. She talks on those little i*ory tablets Btickin" out of her cotft pocket." His last words decided me, for on the little ivory tablets, which, like the girl he mistook me for, I carried, were written in cipher words that would amaze the loquacious m,m. I would take advantage of his mistake and secure a auiet afternoon in these days of commercial travelers', if-one is moderately well-looking, there is t» privacy in a public railway coach--and don't suppose I really nm a fright. To carry out the innocent deception I clung do«ely to my traveling bag, which con­ tained two disguises, one of which had often metamorphosed me into a bent old woman, and the other which I prayed heaven I might never be obliged to don--a suit t which would tit a boy of just my size. The coach was empty as I too'k my seat, M|id no one entered until the train was •bout to move. Then I saw th it I was to have two men only for my fellow-passen- gers, or rather one man and a boy. The *«lder was apparently a Frenchman with a very imperfect knowledge of English, for the younger, who attended to all the business, explained that his uncle could •either speak nor understand the language. The train got under way, and we whirled , ®Mt the little villages and through the - Broad pasture lands, that lay brown and dead under the gray sky. The conductor work of charity, too, in taking it away so they will not get vain. There don't many of the servants sleep in the house, so we can go through it easily. The primitive people don't think much of bolts and bars in that Arcadia, so there won't be much sawing. Sydney will be at the shore with his swift-sailing yacht. We won't stay to be saddened by the mourning for lost "jewels and plate. Such scenes always sadden me so. We'll stop and get the other plun­ der that I buried, and then away where ex­ tradition papers are unknown." Merciful Heaven! how conld I, a feeble woman, thwart this desperate villain, whose hands were already stained with the blood of two vic­ tims. I would ran no risks and take no chances. A fierce exhilaration took pos­ session of me. He should be captured at Gleason's. I would secure swifter horses at the Junction and drive across the coun­ try fast enough to reach Clifton first. I must not be seen leaving the train, for I had heard the conductor tell them my des­ tination as well as my supposed infirmity. I knew what my fate would be should No­ lan's susp^ions be aroused. As the early twilight fell, and we drew near the Junction, I entered a small state­ room, which held a sofa and a long mirror. When the train stopped and the other pas­ sengers left the coach, an (apparently ) old lady, with snowy hair, spectacled, bent and leaning upon a cane descended upon the opposite side. The men did not enter the depot, and I hurriedly asked for the nearest livery stable of the first man I met, who seemed to be employed about tha g tat ion. "There ain't but one," he answered. "Want a rig?" I explained that I must go to Clifton at once, and as no one had come to meet me I wanted two horses and a carriage imme­ diately. "Folks sick?" he inquired with Yankee curiosity. Very dangerous," I replied, briefly. He volunteered to go and give my order, and I seated myself in the dimmest corner of the ill-lighted waiting-room. He re­ turned in a few minutes with the intelli­ gence that the only "rig" in the stable had just been hired. "A young feller is takiu' his sick father over to Clifton," he said. "I tole 'im how anxious you wuz to go, Granny, and after parleying awhile with his pa, he said there wa'n't nothin' agin your ridin' on the front seat with the driver, if yoo was so set on goin'." I knew inetantly who the "sick father" was. I could not put myself in his power again, but the cool touch of the revolver hidden iu ' Granny's" pocket reassured me. I knew I was a better marksman than the assassin who stabbed his victims to the heart. We started at once. The ten miles could not have seemed longer had they been stretched into twenty. As I rode through the darkness I constantly imagined that my dis­ guise had been penetrated by the muffled figure on the back seat, whose breath I could almost feel. I knew he would not hesitate to let out my heart's blood could he know my errand, and his murderous knife seemed poised al ove my head. I was very glad to be set down at the edge of the quiet little village, and made way with all haste to the postoffice, which the combined postmaster, grocer, and drv goods merchant was about to close. He evidently thought me a lunatic, but pointed to one of a half dozen men seated around the store, when I demanded an officer. I knew the robber's plan was to go down to the shore and make sure that his pal was 111 waiting. The Gleason mansion stood halfway between the shore and village. I told my story and after a sufficient interval the whole six himself away from the atory teller in the baggage car, who, as he informed my fellow voyager, had "tit In­ juns;" only he supplied an adjective which he doubtless would have omitted had he known that his lady pasaenger "was fitted with the third sense. 0B we flew, when suddenly I awoke from * d««P reverie, with a premonition that the men behind were discussing me. . *phe don't look dumb to me," said a ftifaa which I believed belonged to the boy. *ITI aoon find out if she is deaf," said a transaction, and could" think cf nothing for days but the terrible words of his sentence, "You shall be banged by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy upon your soul." * . » * * * « • • My mother and I have lived in our little home for a year. All day I paint the flowers and birds and butterflies around us and find no difficulty in disposing of the studies to generous patrons. A# evening I watch for the familiar form that never fails to come, and with a sigh for the past and a smile for the present, I listen to the lov­ ing voice whose music shall sound through all my future. Stealing an Invention. A little more than 100 years ago the manufacture of steel may be said to have had a beginning in England. About that tiiue there was living in Sheffield, England, a man by the name of Huntsman. He was a watch and clock maker, and he had so much trouble in getting a steel that would answer for his springs he determined to make some steel himself. He ex­ perimented for a long time in secret, and after many failures he hit upon a process that produced a superior quality of steel. The best steel to be obtained at that time was made bv the Hindoos, and it cost in England about $50,000 a ton; but Huntsman's steel could be had for $500 a ton. As he found a ready market for all the steel he could make, he determined to keep his invention secret, and no one was allowed to enter his works except his workmen, and they were sworn to secrecy. But other iron and steel makers were determined to find out how he produced the quality of steel he made, and this is how they accomplished it at last: One dark and bitter cold winter night a wretched- looking beggar knocked at the door of Huntsman's works and asked shelter from the storm that was raging with­ out. The workmen, pitying the sup­ posed beggar, gave him permission to come in and find warmth and shelter near one of the furnaces In a little while the drowsy beggar fell asleep, or at least seemed to do so, biit beneath his torn and shabby hat his half-shut eyes watched with eager intent every movement made by the men about the furnaces, and as the charging of the melting-pots, heating the furnaces, and at last pouring the steel into ingots took several hours to accomplish, it is hardly necessary to add that the forgotten beggar slept long, and, as it seemed, flouhdly, in the corner where he lay. It turned out afterward that the ap­ parently sleeping beggar was a well-to- do ironmaker living near by, and the fact that he soon began the erection of large steel works similar to Huntsman's waa good evidence that he was a poor sleeper but a good watcher. . ----- stalwart men (who j. h. r i s' s&i? * from the fascinations of a ; to the big house, accompanied by an old woman, who walked with as firm a stride ax the strongest, for the thought that my father's death would be avenged cave wings to my feet. Great was the consternation of the two servants when we reached tht house. Two men were stationed outside, screened by the bushes, and the others con­ cealed in the room where the safe stood which held the valuables. "Remember it is for murder you are to arrest him," I 5 i . 4 i cautioned the oflicer for the twentieth time. voice m the broadest English. | He should not escape with the behind me and , lesser penaltv for the bnralarv Itttewthat l was to be subjected to some test, j and wait until his crimes were r**a®Cree2>1/ 8en8atlon came over me. I s half forgottep.but «hould ansae* Sot the *P5I Tricking Gen. Logan. A gentleman who recently visited the Soldiers' Home in Milwaukee tells an anecdote which reveals one of the tricks the bovs used to play on the ^officers, and also shows the amusing tone of superiority they use towards veterans of armies which they think took no im­ portant part in the war. "I was going among the old boys,"' he said, "answer­ ing questions about the old commanders, etc., when an old Irishman saluted me, and I found out that he had been in the Seventh Missouri. 'D'ye iver see the ould bye now ?' he inquired. 'Do you mean Logan? Oh, yes, often.' 'Well, if ye plaze, sor (kape away the Army uv the Potomac minj--if ye plaze. sor, wud ye moind tellin' him av the thrick I played on 'im at Yicksburg V It was a mane thrick, and I'd l.oike to know that he didn't liowld it agin me.' 'What was the trick, Barney ?' 'Well, it was this way, sqr: I was divilish thirsty, sor, an' was dyin' fur a drap o' whisky, so I tuk me canteen an' a scrap av paper an' a stump av a lid pincil an' I goes up t' him quite brave like where he was stliandin' by one av the navy|goons, an' I makes me salute. (Now, ye divils av Potomac min, go away wid ye; what have I or the gintleman to do wid th' likes o' vou?) So I says: "If ye plaze, giniril, I'd be afther likin' an ordther for a quart av whisky. I've a powerful wakeness in me stummick. "An' he smiles a bit, an' he says: "Write out the ordther, Barney." An' I writes: "Give , Barney OToole for cash 1 quart av whisky," an'he takes it an' scratches out for cash an' writes: "Charge to John A, Logan." I thanks him an runs off, but whin I put a hill bechune us I puts an's' to the quart an' I makes an ilegant 4 out av the 1 an' I gets three more canteens and gets four quarts of whisky charged to John A. Logan. (Now, phat bizniss have ye Potomac min listliinin to a dacent Army av th' Tinnissee man? Go'way wid ye.) An' minv'.s the other fellow played th' same thrick on th' good-hearted ould man. An' a foine riputashun he got wid th' timperance people at hidquarthers.' "-- Chicago News. FOURTEEN HCNDBED blackfish were driven ashore by men in boats at Wood End, Provincetown. The fish were speared and sold at public auction at an average of $1.21 apiece, the gross pro­ ceeds being nearly $1,500. This amount was divided among those who were engaged in the catch, each re­ ceiving about $30. The average amount of oil from each fish is one By » Saewt torvleo itatecttv*. The first greenback had not been floated six weeks l»efore counterfeiters were making preparations to reproduce it, and during the war the task of dis­ covering and breaking up dens of coun­ terfeiters gave employment to Scores of detectives. Perhaps the boldest work of these "queer" men took place in Bal­ timore, right under the nose of one of the sharpest secret service detectives in the employment of the government. • The detective occupied one portion of a terrace or flat, being a brick building with a basement and two stories. The terrace was built for four families, and one day in the spring of 18(53 the family 011 the corner moved out and a strange family moved in. The detective lived next door to the corner, and from what he saw of the new family on the day they moved in he took them to be mod­ erately well off and very respectable people. It was only a day or two be­ fore he ascertained that their name was Williams, and that the man speculated in /;otton, tobacco, and other things. It wasn't a week before Williams found opportunity to introduce himself in per­ son, and he proved to be a man whom almost anybody would take to on sight. Inside of four weeks the detective was smoking cigars and drinking cham­ pagne sent in by Williams. His wife called on Mrs. Williams and found her a perfect lady, and l>oth families were mutually pleased with eoeli other. Dur­ ing the spring and summer they visited back and forth, the ladies going shop­ ping together, the men having a game of checkers once or twice a week, and all going to the opera in company three or four times a month. Meanwhile, the entire bureau was upset over two or three new and dan­ gerous counterfeits which flooded the country. The bills were not only well executed, but they were "shoved" in such a way that nobody could be impli­ cated. Complaints reached Washing­ ton daily, and the best men in the bu­ reau put forth their efforts in search of a clue. On one and the same day these, counterfeits were put forth in New York, Buffalo, Detroit, Cincinnati, Chi­ cago, and St. Louis, thus proving that we had a large gang to deal with. The great object was, of course, to discover the headquarters, and for this purpose detectives passed weeks in various cities, and Uncle Sam spent thousands of dollars. ^11 work had been sus­ pended to hunt for these counterfeiters, audit was apparent that some of us would soon get our walking papers if a clue was not turned up, when the Bal­ timore detective was taken ill. On the second day of his illness I happened to call at his house, and during my visit one of the servants announced to the lady of the house that the water pipes in the cellar had bursted and were flooding the basement. I, of course, volunteered to go down and make an examination before a plumber should be sent for. Between the basement of the detective and that of Williams was a room which belonged to the detective's side, but was not in use, he having plenty of space without it. It was a pitch-dark room, running clear across the house, except that a few feet had been taken off for the ser­ vants' bath room. The water came from this room, and I took a light and investigated and found the leak and temporarily repaired it. While I was at work my ears were greeted with an old familiar sound. I was a newspaper man previous to going into the bureau, and the sounds which no doubt would have greatly puzzled the detective lying ill above, were plain enough to me. In one place there was an opening in the brick wall which was covered by a board, and when I put my ears to thin I knew that printers were at work on the other side, I sent the cook for a gimlet, and with great care I bored a hole through the board. My ears had not deceived me. I saw three men in the room, which was lighted by gas. and I knew by the sounds that two Gordon job presses were at work. No legitimate job office had any business in such a place as'tliat, and in five minutes I was satisfied that I had discovered the source of the dan­ gerous counterfeits. When I returned up stairs I dropped no hints, and as soon as I could excuse myself I took the train for Washington. That night six bureau detectives entered the detect­ ive's house one by one, and all had a peep into the pressroom. Later on we made a descent next door, and with strange results. While Mrs. Williams escaped, to be captured the next week in New York, we got her husband and three other men, several plates and nearly $50,000 worth of spurious goods, just ready to be sent out. Their cap­ ture led to the arrest of a New York en­ graver and a Baltimore paper dealer, and before we were done with the gang we had eleven men in various peniten­ tiaries and four or five others had been chased out of the country.--Detroit Free Press. . uinwufc Blue, as the Libwaloolar, was adopted by the Ctavena&ten as against the Mar­ ie t of the King's tro^pa, and they took the color from the Book of Numbers, in whioh the children of Israel were di­ rected to make fringes to their gar­ ments, and to put upon the fringe a rib* bon of blue. Gradually the reason fades out of memory. The colors be- oome conventional, but they are sym­ bolic, like the crown and scepter of royalty. Now, fellow-republican, why not a ceremony of dress, since royalty's self is but a ceremony? A man should dress with propriety. But what is pro­ priety in such a matter but a nice re­ gard for the fitness of the occision? In the same sense ambassadors and ministers are but ceremonies, and if a republic chooses to send a minister to a foreign court, what better guide in re­ gard to social conventions can there be than common sense ? When a sensible Protestant enters a Roman Catholic church, he does not emulate Brown or Jones or Robinson in Doyle's delightful picture, and stand bolt-upright starin p about him while the congregation around him is reverently kneeling to­ ward the altar, nor does he abjure the Lutheran heresy and become recon­ ciled to Rome because he behaves like a gentleman and not like a Hottentot. So when the Misericordia passes in Florence, and everybody lifts his hat in salute to that swift errand of mercy, does the American who is worthy of the name pull his hat over his forehead and sneer at superstition ?--George William Curtis, in Harper's Magazine. Court Dress Abroad. Fashion is a great humorist, and it happens that the dress which an Ameri­ can gentleman properly* wears in the evening at the President's reception is also that of a waiter in many a fine for­ eign house. Our republican pride is naturally great, but it is not wholly clear that it must be agreeable to re­ publican pride to have the Minister of the republic mistaken for a waiter. Undoubtedly man is superior to accidents, and dress is the merest acci­ dent. Undoubtedly, also, the resplend­ ent costumes of courtly ceremony are mediaeval and even grotesque, like the triple crown of the Pope, or the uni­ form of the British beef-eaters. And* again, undoubtedly simplicity is the best decoration of the lady or the gen­ tleman. But these comfortable axioms do not atone for the possible d^nity of ordering the American Minister to bring a glass of negus, nor do they console his compatriots who have their own opinions of titled flunkies and a lofty scorn of royal liveries. At the State receptions of the first President of the French Republic in the palace of the Elysee, the President, whose name was Louis Napoleon Bona­ parte, stood in a military uniform be­ neath a portrait of the first Napoleon, who was depictcd in imperial velvet and ermine and lace--a costume in fact which would cover an American Presi­ dent with the utmost ridicule. But it was not ridiculous when Napoleon wore it, aa the four stars upon the shoulder of Gen. Sheridan are not ridiculous now. It was simply the conventional costume of an Emperor, as the distinct­ ive buttons and stars upon the coat are the conventional uniform of the Ameri­ can General. But the dress in l>oth cases is symbolic as well as ceremonial. Charles Fox used to rise on his field days in the House of Commons dressed in blue and bnfl". Thev were the tra­ ditional colors of the Whigs, and Dan­ iel Webster, the great American Whig, also wore them when he made an im portant speech. The colors were tra- One Kind. One style of man finds hislocal paper too high priced--he can get certain papers four times as large for half the money. He usually takes the weekly edition of the New York Eternity, con­ taining two hundred columns of New Jersey snake stories and reports of the cotton market for reading matter and twice as many columns of patent medi­ cine and prize package advertisements. _ This mail prefers to read the adver­ tisements, not because of their superior literary merit, but because the type is larger. He is one of these kind of men who does not read ^he common, domes­ tic English language iihat the Puritans b»ouglit over in the Plymouth Rock with as much case as he might. He grapples quite successfully with the second reader brand where the large >rc» have been all sorted out and sent to President Cleveland to use in mes­ sages but throws up both hands when he comes to where the language is taken just as it comes, as in this family journal. He may be on quite intimate terms personally with each individual member of the alphabet, butlwhere they get together in groups of elver six he finds that he does not recognize the combination. There are so many words mixed with the matter in his local paper that contain more than six letters that it makes very disjointed reading for him. In the New York sheet it is different; the same matter appears about so often and he has rather got the hang of it. Every six months brings the sftne question about bow to cure bone spavin, with the old regulation answer. The same old snake legends crop out, the same directions for laying the foundation for a goose berry pie, the same leading editorial on moral suasion as a factor in weaning calves, the same anecdotes of Benjamin Frank­ lin, the same ground plans for an improved pig trough that the swine can't get their feet in. An editor with an under jaw like a gang-plank sits in the office and makes up the paper from the old files year after year. That's the kind of a newspaper the man gets who thinks his home paper is too expensive. He takes it till at last his wife gets a divorce and his children move off in the direction of the tall timber. How this man most love, week after week, from. July to eternity, to wade through this kind of matter! Never a word about his own town or even his own State! While the local paper notes the fact that he marketed a spring's turkey that weighed 47 pounds on foot this New York gathering of gloom is talking about introducing domestic fowls in the Dried Missionary Islands. When this man is at last frozen to death his home paper, despite the fact that he never took it, will devote a column in telling of his many virtues and the editor will ruin his last chance for salvation by saying that the deceased will Be greatly missed, while the New York Solar System, if it mentions it at all, will do so like this: "An unknown man perished in the recent storm near Waddletown, Dacotah Territory. He was rather weak-minded and was under the influence of frontier whisky at the time." The man who stops his local paper alleges many reasons, but this is the manner of him who does it because the big Eastern messenger of misery is cheaper.--Estelline Bell. Carl Pretzel's Philosophy. Der demplerenz^question in boli- dicks vas voost der same like dot plate of hash, vhich vas slikituated bedween ice gream und der nut kracker. Der bolitician dot dond vas dry vas yoost so scarce in dis vorld like an angel's bustles. Vliere impudences vas vit, it vas foolishness to said sometings. Then you got your heart und lifer, und brains, in dheir right places und keeb em dhere, you could vhear a canes und shplid your hairs in der center of your head. Vlien your face vas got a shmall vart on its nose, dots besser you laff about it myself. It vould been a good schoke on der feller dot dond got some wenerar tions for nadural imberfections.--Na­ tional Weekly. . He Didn't Exactly Know. "Jimmy, what's a clearing house?" asked one street laborer of another as he leaned wearily on his broom to wait for a reply. "I'm not exactly on to it," was the answer. "It can't b*e a sugar refinery ?" "I think not. I think I had a case of it once myself, but I may not be right. I put a little mortgage on my place, and when it came due the fellow cleared me out of the house so fast that we en­ tirely forgot one of the children and had to go back for him."-- Wall Street News. Educational Item. "I tell you I think the common schools are good enough," said Wheeler, who had been asked to contribute to a fund to found a college. "A college education is all right in its way, but it is all wrong to suppose that an educa­ tion is a substitute for brains. It's all a mistake to educate u fool." "That is true," replied the solicitor for the fund, "and I have no doubt that your father regrets his mistake, but dislikes to apologize to you for if*-- Newman Independent. \ enus, so well known to as all as the loveliest object in the heavens, the even­ ing and the morning star, resembles closely our owa earth. Its siae is about the same, its diameter being 7,660 miles; its day is almost the same length, and its density is rather less than five ttmes that of water. It revolves round the sun at a distance of 60,000,000 miles in the space 224 days. Like Mercury, however, Venus is moonless. Passing tl»e earth in the meantime, we come to Hie well-known red planet, Mars. This planet is particularly interesting in many points of view. Next to Mercury, it is the smallest of the four interior planets, its diameter being only 4,200 miles, or a little more than half of the earth or Venus. Its distance from the sun is 141,000,000 miles, and it com- {•letes its circuit in 687 days. The angth of its days does not differ ma­ terially from that of our own. Mars has two moons, and one of them pre­ sents a phenomenon unique in the sys­ tem. No other moon behaves like this one, for it goes round Mars about three times every day; that 'is to savy it goes faster round Mars than Mars does on its own axis. Im­ agine our moon rising and setting three times every twenty-four hours. Another interesting feature in Mars is this: We can see through our telescopes what seems to be the conflagration of its con- tinentsr aud oceans and also accumula­ tion of snow at its poles. We next turn our attention to the other group of planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. These are dis- tinguislied by their enormous size, immense distance from the sun, rapid revolution on their own axes, and very small density. The change from Mars to Jupiter is indeed remarkable. The latter planet, familiar to every ob­ server of the heavens, is indeed a giant among giants. In mass it is equal to all other planets put together, its diameter being no less than 85,000 miles, and its distance from the sun 682,000,000 miles. It takes 4,332 days to complete its yearly revolution. A1 though of such enormous dimen­ sions it turns on its own axis in less than ten hours. From the small density (1.38) of Jupiter we should imagine it to be composed, in great part at least, of fluid or gaseous matter not yet cooled sufficiently to form solid land. From certain phenomena on its surface it is evident it is almost com­ pletely enveloped in clouds, and it is doubtful if we have actually seen the real solid nucleus of this planet. Jupiter is attended by four moons, which revolve around him at various dis­ tances. The study of these bodies is of great interest; from watching their movements we got the first hint of ve­ locity of light. Next in order in our outward journey comes Saturn, at the distance of 884,000,000 miles from the sun, and taking no less than 10,758 days to complete its revolution round that luminary. This planet, though less than Jupiter, is still of gigantic dimen­ sions, its diameter being 11,000 miles. Saturn is the lightest of all the planets, its density being enly 0.75, so that if placed in a huge ocean it would float with a fourth of its bulk above the level of the water. The most remarkable thing, however, about this planet, is the system of rings by which it is sur­ rounded. What these rings are has long been a puzzle to astronomers, but the most plausible explanation seems to be that they are composed of myriad hosts of small meteoric bodies circulat­ ing some distance round the body of the planet. Saturn has no less than eight moons under its control, and if it lias any inhabitants like ourselves-- which is not likely, however--the heav­ ens must be a strange sight to them, with these eight moons and meteoric swarms.--CasselVs Family Magazine. How an Alphabet is Developed. Suppose that some old nation of Asia, after having for ages drawn an ox when they wish to recall an ox, began at last to draw the picture of an ox also when­ ever it was needful to write about plow­ ing. Then instead of an ox it would convey an idea relating to an ox, aud would be what is called a symbol. After a while someone would say to himself: What is the use of drawing all of the ox when the head alone, which everyone will know from its shape and its horns, gives just the same thought ?- Now suppose this ox-head grad­ ually gets to mean the sound of ox in all words of the language wherein that syllable occurs, as in the name of the river Ox-us. Then the ox-liead would appear in words having nothing what­ ever to do with cattle or plowing. Then it is called a piece of so?md-writing, because it does not recall a certain given thing, but a sound. Sound- writing is thus an improved kind of picture-writing. You all know sound- writing, and have probably composed sentences in it, but you know it under another name. Hardly a magazine for young people is printed in which you will not find rebuses. Well, many re­ buses are nothing but sound-writings. And many, many thousand years ago our ancestors had no other kinu of writing. And the next step onward from sound- writing was syllable-vrtiting. Remem­ ber that people who had reached that stage thought of a sign or symbol as representing one syllable at the least. Suppose the ox-head was called aleph. It would soon be found more con­ venient to employ it in all words where there was the sound or syllable of al. And this was the process with as many other letters as there were in such early writing. We will call this the sylla bary stage, because signs stood for syllables, and so distinguish it from the alphabet that came later. The next advanoe would be to take the little picture for the sound a alone, and tbns begin to use a real alphaliet.-- "Wonders of the Alphabet," by Henry Eckford, in St. Nicholas. A Student of Human Mature. Stranger (to fellow passenger)--Ex­ cuse me, but am I not right in taking you for a professional man ? Fellow Passenger--Yes, sir. Stranger--Thanks. It's not often that I make a mistake in judging my fellow men. Your work is head work altogether, of course ? Fellow Passenger--Oh, yes sir, en­ tirely so. Stranger--Er--Lawyer ? Fellow Passenger--No, sir;barber.-- New York Sun. OUR years are milestones on the road of life. Happy they, who when' near their journey's end, can look back with pleasure on their past life. IT is but a narrow stream that divides time from eternity and happy they are who are prepared to cross it. CONTENTMENT may be a bar to pro­ gress. ilf all were content there would be no improvement, THERE is not a word in language so disregarded aa prudence. AHB moT< • v j '"/v.'*- •* » % A TKIPKBANCK 1 TIHTTBFNY on the water. • A MAW who writea poetry Im fci» hat is a versatile man. • ^ 5 I* not considered necessary in soci- ety to return a biU-ooUwtorti caU. %*, r; WE -treaidfer* t oould properly be called "The house of »• - * *" ' ̂ correction.n 1 1- ̂ A MAN never realizes how much of eponge is until lie slips down iii H puddle and mops it all up. •- •V; IT was a seaman returned from aiif % Arctic voyage who spoke of the disad- ^ J vantages of a "cold deck." £ *'7 ? "I'IA make you dance!" cried ,H irate mother, pursuing her erring son, ^ < slipper in hand. "Then, " remarked.. the juvenile, "we shall have a bawl." GERMAN professor of drawing; to new ^ S student'--"Just bleeze boint owt vich ? ,'?» von of dose statues you half drawn «Vr from, dei} vill i your drawing griticise." . "DID you hew: the lecture last night?" f asked Williams of his neighbor Beas- { . - ley. "No," replied Beasley, "my wife ,f wasn't at home."--Newman Independ- " ent. ;'•••' ;\r::*v;tj GROCER---"Half a pound of tea? Which will you have, black or green?" if? " ^ Servant--"Shure, aythur will do. It'a A for an ould . woman that's nearly • „ bloind." ' *" - '-al "ONE firm in Western Massachusetts H last year made 130,000 dtutna, using ^ 4 half a million feet of lumber, and 35,000 sheepskins." We now see where so ,* t many drummers come from in sheep's clothing.--California Maverick. MRS. YEKGEU is much given to gad- - ding. She is everlastingly on the streets, while Col. Yerger is much given to staying at home and smoking his » pipe. "I believe you love your nasty old pipe more than you do me," she re­ marked, indignantly. "I guess I do. My pipe doesn't go out as often as you do."--Texas Siftings. THE Trial Justice in a South Caro­ lina county was called on to decide a case between two citizens of equal re­ spectability. The evidence was about equally balanced. After argument the attorneys the Trial Justice said sit here both as Judge and jury. *As jury I fail to agree. As Judge I grant a new trial, and it is so ordered." A GOOD story is told of a Kentuckian who was fond of 'fine whisky and id- ways kept his jug. He it was who said : "I never saw any mean whisky. Some is better, but all is good." One night when he had company at his bouse he was observed to take one guest out at a time and treat to a choice swag. When asked about this he said: "Why, by drinking with them singly J get half of my whisky myself. See?"--Atlanta Constitution. A MAN went to a. Dakota lawyer, handed him $10 as a retainer, and said: "I had a little trouble with one of my neighbors yesterday. You see his hogs got into my yard and did some damage and I shot one of them. Now I want " "My good friend," broke in the lawyer, "I positively can't listen to any more of your case without another ten. Money is absolutely essential to the legal profession, never expect to secure advice without making a liberal appro­ priation. "--Estelline Bell. THE PARTED LOVERS. Tn the calm and lovely moonlight,' 111 the soft, romantic moonlight, Silvering all the sleeping world, two Lovers walked. And their hearts with passionate yearning Both were filled, with euger yearning, As with conversation saccha-- f Rhine they talked. - But not long there in the moonligl|L In the soft and tender moonlight/^ Did they wander CIOBO together*. , Yet apart! For all love must have its ending^; t Everything must have'its endinglfe ' ' And sometimes when they don'f WaMtMt^ Friends must part. Not a word they spoke at parting, Not a tear they shed at parting, . ' As diversely they sped o'er tto Garden plats. ^ Bnt one wail of hitter sorrow, *'«'» vM?" Tenor sorrow, alto sorrow, til r,^| Echoed through the shudd'rlng * From the cats! --Somerville Journal. .a Aphorisms. In^writing as well as speaking,; quo great secret of effective eloquence is to say what is proper and to stop when you have done.--Colton. rf,To do one work well, or to be caa$ful in doing it, are as much different as working hard is from being idle.-- Ischomachus. Let your wit rather serve you for ,a buckler to defend yoursdlf, by a hand­ some reply, than the sword to wound others, though with never so facetious a reproach, remembering that a word cuts d'eeper than a sharper weapon, and the wound it makes is longer curing1.-- Osbom. Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. --Spanish Maxim. Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.--Ben^Jonson. Of all our infirmities, vanity is the dearest to us; a man will starve liis other vices to keep that alive.--Frank­ lin. "Improve your opportunities1' said Bonaparte to a school of young men; "every hour lost now, is a chance of future misfortune." Inviolable fidelity, good humor, and complacency of temper, outlive all the charms of a fine face, and make the decays of it invisible.--Tatler. Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing, for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite belvavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.--Steele, An inward sincerity will of oourse influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is a great reason to suspect the absence of the other.--Sterne. He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a "low voice, and never oeaaes nibbling.--Lavater. Incrustation of Boilers. A German method to prevent the in­ crustation of boilers is thus described: The feed water is forced through one of the usual feed contrivances into the steam dome, in which it is mixed by a jet of steam entering concentrically, in order that it may, during the mixing, be cast violently against the cover " of the dome. The effect of this movement is that all the water receives the fall temperature of the surrounding steam. By this sudden heating, air and car­ bonic acid are withdrawn from the water, and not only the carbonate of lime bnt the sulphate of lime and magnesium are extracted, and the pre­ cipitate occasioned is periodically removed. ONE of the Latin poets says "times change'and we change with them." He should have said fashions. WW- IMPRUDENCE is the messenger sent to invite disease, b'-- k-it. 'Ml, -, ti-Jj