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SWi-; »V" JUi"' I » Nellie Palmer was lying on -the jr lounge in her pretty bed room, cry ins s and looking very unhappy. And yet * she had been married only six months, tad to such a "nice, handsome man," as all the young ladies declared, that nurely she ought to have Dee n happy With him. And so she had been, lintil--until, to tell the truth. Mr. Bob Balmer, forgetting or seeming to for- get that he was a married man, had ' recently taken to flirting with these , tery voung ladies at all the parties in v Middleton, leaving his wife to take | , ̂ |p,re of herself. Surely It was enough tt> make any six months' wife cry-- " •specially one so sensitive as Nellie. «, 'Hallo! been crying again, Ideclare!"* *?\4!Jifcclainied Mr. Bob Palmer, suddenly Sjfeasmg his little whistle, as he en­ tered the room, on returning frOin ^ lis office. '•What's the matter now, Aeiite? Canary refused* to sing, or 1 ^lliadain "Viglini not put flowers fnough in your bonnet?" " "Oh, Bob, how can you?" sobbed « r r ^Uellie, beginning afresh. : i3."Look here, Ellen," said her hus- , ,; baud, sitting down on the lounge, //0^T^pnd speaking more seriously: "I ,v *' don't like this at alL I never come :% •* Hit;: home that your eyes are not red and What have you like to know? ^wsii's an insult w> me to go sniveling ,. . . , . .. . , . f•#!.about the house after tub tahto* | JSgTSS?!5S"SS?f ,4 * and moping away in corners, looking ;) , Vsullen and miserable, as you did last f- t *' night, at Mrs. Macklin's.. Why peo- &v > 'SY pie will think me a perfect domestic , ii: ;- tyrant!" * H-'C "Ah, Bob, don't speak sa I can't ?£>' help it, indeed. I do feel so mlser- &•>, %ble. You make me so. Boh" did not ilk». her ̂ pride afUMlwoke and she turned, as with a saddtn determination, to the gen- tlemen at her side. He was a recent comer to the town-- very pleasant and 'handsomet-^ttnd' Hellie Palmer forthwith began to try and make herself agreeable to him. He looked so pleased, and was Himself so agrees able that it soon cost her no effort to converse; and then her old lively •Dirits returned ^tnd to her surprise, she found that she was enjoying her­ self. Her husband didn't much no­ tice thia. but Miss Baden did.and her flirtation with Mr. Palmer lost much or its charm, now that his wife did not appear mortified and jealous, and' that people couldn't see that she w*s so. Wherefore Miss Baden grew in­ different and Mr. Palmer bethought himself to look after his wife. Not finding her looking over the photo­ graph alnums, nor talking to deaf old Mr. Brown, neither ic any of the "boles and corners" which she was wont of late to frequent, he became rather puzzled. At that instant a little laugh at bte elbow started him and turning.he saw Nellie, bright ana flushed, talk­ ing to a veiy handsome man, who aft. peared quite absorbed in her. Mr." Palmer stared a moment at the un*. conscious couple. • 'Why, the deuce," was his thought; ••what on earth can they hare been talking about all this while?" Then suddenly meeting his wife's eye, he smiled and whispered, "Enjoying yourself, Nell?" "Oh, yes, dear, delightfully! Don't trouble yourself about me, pray." Nellie Palmer had never sung more sweetly or danced more gracefully than upon this evening. "Don't you think, Nell, you've danced enough for one night?" said her husband, toward the close ot the evening; "for a married woman?" he added. "Perhaps so," she answered, cheer* fully; "but I've enjoyed myself so much! Really, I almost forgot that I was a married woman, and felt like a girl again." "And behaved like one,"he said, rather coolly. "Who is that fellow that has been in attendance upon you ail the evening?" he inquired, as they walke 1 down stairs. "That remarkably handsome man, with the expressive dark eyes, do you mean?" "1 never noticed his eyes or "that he was at all handsome," he an­ swered, stiffly. "Oh, I thought you meant Captain Lovell, of the artillery. Ah! here he is--just one moment, dear--I quite forgot--." * . And Nellie spoke a few, words to the Captain in passing, of which her know jo* thifh will m 16 m •II Weil, that is rich! Perhaps tyfr'you'll be good enough to let me know !%f. of what enormity I've been guilty f ll that 'has turned yon into a modern Niobe?" "Nothing really wrong, dear; but, /' oh! if you knew how much a wife thinks of her husband's love; and--." Here poor Nellie broke down again. -fi'r - Mr. Palmer's eyes opened very wide. ' men discovered her attractions and S'^ "Whew!" whistled he; "If this piquancy, and coquettishness, and ,*'n isn't really absurd. So she's jealous'" flirtableness; and so in a very few ' "indeed, no, dear Bob! But--but! wee^> Mrs. Palmer was a belle. She f 1 ; _» 8he could hardly speak for the ' did not seem in the leaet care who •*|t> • cboiting in her throat--'"you can't ^er husband was attending upon, and understand the pride a woman takes thing about "that book. When Robert Palmer came hoihe next day, he round his wife, not cry­ ing as before, in her bed-room, but in the parlor, practicing a new song. "Captain Lovell called this morn­ ing," she said, "and I have promised to sing this for him at Mrs. Camp­ bell's." | "Ah," he answered, with an ex- ; pression Of indifference, and as his | wife struck up with the first feVtr notes, he muttered to himself, "Con­ found Captain Lovell." I At Mrs. Campbell's, Captain Lovell j was again in attendance upon pretty ; Mrs. Palmer, and then other gentle- in having her husband treat her; with affection and respect before: every one, or bow it humbles and j mortifies her to be neglected by him, and have other women consider them­ selves rivals--like Isabel Baden." { Mfc. Bob Palmer laughed outright* | and then he grew angry. I "You're an absurd little fool, BTel-1 K lie," he said. 4"As'if Isabel Baden! •> were anything to me beyond a pleas- j ant and agreeable young woman to amuse one's -self with" at a party., •-•"'•'Nonsense!" "She don't think so,w said Nellie; | "and--and the others don't think so. They all think you are getting tired of your wife, and Isabel flatters her- m r £V > " ' indeed, he could rarely get a word with her at all when at the gay as­ semblies which they constantly fre­ quented. He sometimes gave her a hint that she was "no longer a girl," and that he was her husband, but she only laughed and said there was no harm done, and that she was enjoy, ing herself so delightfully, and felt herself more a belle than even when a giri--which was true, because she had not flirted then, being absorbed, heart and soul, in Bob Palmer. But now it was Captain Lovell who ap­ peared chiefly to occupy her thoughts, as well as a good part of her time. She sang and danced with him; she read the books he sent, and so fre­ quent were his visits, so constant bis in ttyl sifbt ef fbe I adt not a slave, hilt a wife, aad demand the honor due to , rne.:" Her mpod was a new one to her husband. She sat erect and proud, looking him steadfily in the face, with bright, clear eyes, in whose depths he could still read srreat tenderness, and be^t onpe comprehended the whole matter, He looked at her a moment, as steadily as she at him, and then he rose and took a seat by her side. "And you really care nothing for this Lovell, Nellie?" "No more than I ought to do for my cousin Laura's afllanced bus* band." she replied. "Affianced?" "These six months; before I met him; and I would have told you of it, but She stopped, and looked half archly In his face. He understood her, and taking her in his arms, kissed her tenderly. ' Oh, Bob, how could you eyer have doubted me?" ^ • "I will do so no more, lore." u" "Never flirt any more?" "Never."-- New York -Evening World. ' • ; NATURE'S LOVE MAKIN4& •* L. 1 • ' 'V ; A*, -i1 Birds and Insects Must Do Thalr Pratt teat When Courting. The wooing of birds is most re­ fined and gracefuL Love tunes their respective pipe?, and they seek to captivate their mates by their sweet­ est notes and most varied warbllngs. Ihe wood pigeon eharms his lady­ love by a series of aerial evolutions and a curious flapping of his strong wing feathers, putting his breast and softly cooing. At mating time the plumage of male birds is more handsome than at any other period--indeed, some birds assume different colors in the spring. Yellow-hammers charm their mates by displaying their tall feathers in the form ot a fan; starlings chatter in the sunshine to show the metallic beauty of their breast feathers, and swallows circle and double in grace­ ful flight before their lady-loves. Bright shells, flowers, feathers and grasses are laid by the bower bird at the entrance of his partner's retreat; and tiny humming birds woo most assiduously, showing off their lovely hues ana engaging in fierce combat with a possible rival; even bringing nectar from choice flowers for the delectation of their fairy brides. Hen birds exhibit 41 the vagaries of their sex, and pretend to be indif­ ferent to the exertions of their ad­ mirers. Frogs have an original way of love making, and as soon as evening shades fall commence to croak loudly to their mates, sometime great num­ bers of them combining in one un­ musical chorus. Courting amoug insects is often a very elaborate affair. A male spider wiil approach a female and amuse her for some time with his antics. Tt is said that he twirls around and ex­ ecutes a sort of mazy danoe to excite her admiration. She is a very vicious lady and not always pleased with Ms lovemaking; sometimes he finds h5nself obliged to ward her off, for the has a painful mode of showing her displeasure, and and if she entirely disapproves of his attentions will fall upon him and rend him to pieces. One species of spiders is said to have a novel way of making love, the sexes communicating by meaDs of strands of web stretching from one retreat to the other--a sort of tele­ phone, so to speak. Glow woi'ms, according to some naturalists, use their luminaries as love signals. The females of one species seat themselves among the grass, while the males, attracted by the light, dance attendance round them. t Concerning fishes--the sticklebacks occasionally resort to harsh treat­ ment, attacking the females with open mouths and crected spines. As husbands their behavior is certainly eccentric, for after the female has de­ posited h«?r eggs within the nest that he has prepared for her, her lord and iqaster drives her away and pro­ ceeds to batch them himself.-- Bos­ ton Globe. Ara Not by any means are all Africans negroes. Nor are ail our colored peo­ ple in America descendants of African negroes, though we ate apt to regard them as such. The diversity in the population of Africa is as great as it is in that of Europe, it is only anions the genuine negroes that can­ nibalism exists as a custom, though among some of the negroid people the eating of human flesh is occasionally indulged in. Among the genuine negroes it has always been a custom to go to war for provisions or for captives to be offered as sacrifices to the ghosts of the King's ancestors, as is still done in Dahomey--often with great slaughter, it was this that convinced the 'phil­ anthropist, Las Casas, that it would be a good thing to buy the captives and bring them to America. He argued that this would keep them fromjbeing eaten, while at the same time it would prevent the Spaniards from working to death the Indians, who are incapable of long enduring such labor as the negro can stand without great inconvenience. This theory was responsible for the opening ot the slave trade. The characteristics of the genuine negro are sufficiently well known. Occasionally it is possible to find specimens tn America, |though the greater part of our people of African descent are far from the nigro type, xhis is not necessarily due to inter­ mixture in America for^ in Africa many of the most numerous tribes have long ago lost the characteristics of the negro. The Kaffirs, for in­ stance, are generally classed as ne­ groes, but they are not negroes at all They have woolly hair, and occasion­ ally thick lips are to be seen among them, but their complexion is clear and the red blood shows through in a way which has been greatly admired my many Europeans. It is also worth remembering that the Hottentots, who are supposed to be one of the lowest races in exist­ ence, are not negroes at all, though thev have some negro blood. Their complexion is yellow and their char­ acteristics are those of the Mongol rather than of the negro. It is sup­ posed by ethnologists that they are descended from Chinese or Malay colonists, probably from the former. The Bushmen, the only people of Africa who have no reWgion of anv kind, not even fetichism, are a tribe of Hottentot origin and are very much unlike the genuine negro. On the plateaus of the eastern part ot Africa are shepherd trloes with eome negro blood, but with skins al­ most white, and very tar removed from the negroes of Dahomey or the Guinea coast. The Africah in Africa represents the blood of many races, and it is not to be doubted that many of the negro tribes are capable of becoming highly civilized. This is true of the Kaffirs, and though the genuine negro, of un­ mixed blood, may seem almost hope­ lessly a barbarian, the native popula­ tion of Africa embraces thousands of people who, though they have the black skin and thick hair which show negro admixture, are yet so far re­ moved from the negro type as to be capable of adjusting themselves at once to the great changes which are promised in the "Dark Continent." on. rs. would could have got­ ten su$(^tti iiite& say a mile a sec­ ond, the inertia or resistance of the air would have been m great as steel, and the quick a$mMtti6ns of these shutters would have driven the ma­ chine upward, but I couldn't get the speed. I believe that before the air­ ship men succeed they will have to do away with the buoyancy chamber." Too Liarjce a Story. Among the Open Letters of the Century Magazine is one containing the following anecdote of Mr. Francis P. Biair, who, though not an officer of the Government, was more emin­ ent than either of his sons, Mont­ gomery Blair, a member of President Lincoln's Cabinet, and Frank P. Blair, a Major General In the Union Army. His son-in-law was an ad­ miral in the Navy. During the last years of his life Mr. Blair lived in Montgomery County, Maryland, not very far from Washington. One day duriner the Civil War, Mr. and Mra Blair were riding about the country on horseback, according to their daily custom. They were about eighty years of age; Mr. Blair wore a green veil about his hat to shade his eyes from the dazzling sunlight, and his wife, for the same reason, had pulled her large bonnet far over her face. ' They were well known by the country people for miles about Silver Spring, where they lived, but the roads into Washington were guarded by pickets, some of whom were deficient in local knowledge? It chanced that one of these men was struck with the odd appearance of the couple, comporting so ill with the HAVING A TOOTH KILLED. Xdaaghlag Oaa Caused the Patient a H«*p of Trouble. i ^ * The dentist assured the tall man that if he took laughing gas the extrac­ tion of his tooth would not hurt, and so he settled back in the chair and the dentist administered the an .es­ thetic. The tall man was soon in dreamland. He first imagined that he was on his way to the World's Fair, and when the tram was oajKhe down grade and going sixty miles an hour the wheels left the track. The air brakes broke, and the cars rushed along at a terrible speed. It was with the greatest difficulty that the dreamer kept in his berth. Tremen­ dous jolting was caused by the wheels running over the tiea The suspense was something awful; the wreck of the train was inevitable. The' car was filled with the shrieks of the terrified passensrers, mingled with, the crash of glass and the rattle of the train. , Suddenly tbere was a deafening report and a tremendous concussion, and the cars appeared to crumbly-sway. The tall man found himself ia total darkness, but sud­ denly, to his horror, he discovered a streak of lurid flame through the wreckage, which told him that he would be roasted alive if immediate succor did not'reach him. He could hear voices directly over him, but do as he would not a sound could he utter. The flames were making rapid progress toward the place where he was confined, and their hot breath 'was beginning to singe his whiskers. sThen came the crash of an ax di­ rectly over his head. The first blow struck him squarely in the back of the neck, and he felt that his time had surely come. The next one cut fine blooded horses they rode, and i ear, and the third opened self that she has cut me out, and is ( attentions, that at last Mr. Robert A I Polinap'a wratn hrnlTA fnrt.n trying to let peoole see it* 11 > 'Fiddlesticks," said Bob, rising impatiently from tbe lounge. "I'm , astonished at you, Nellie, and had i really given you credit for more sense .j as well as temper," he added severely. "I wish you'd amuse yourself in so­ ciety, as I do, instead of going mop­ ing about in this fashion. You can't expect to have me tied to your apron strings; "and I'd much rather see you flirting a little yourself than skulking away in holes and corners, like a spider, watching your butter­ fly of a husband, to see if you can't detect him in doing wrong. Yoa make me quite ashamed of you, I de­ clare." Mr. Palmer took his hat and walked out of the room with an air of mingled dignity and injured in­ nocence. His wife saw up, wiped; away her tears, and mused awhile with eyes flashing and cheeks flushed with wounded and indignant feeling. "Yes," she said to herself, "since he has requested it I will amuse my­ self as he docs and see how he likes it. Ashamed of me, is he? And he did not used to be so when I was gay ahd happy. Oh, Bob, if you only knew how I loved yoa" And once more, despite her reso­ lutely ciosimr her e es and pressing her fingers upon them, the tears would come. There was to be that very even- -fe, ing. a party at Col. Johnson's; ana Nellie took particular pains in dress­ ing herself for It. She had been of late rather careless on this poiut. and was now rewarded for her extra care by her husband's glance of approval, and bis remark that that pink silk was becoming to her. In consequence her eyes and cheeks were brighter, and ber spirits more buoyant, as she en­ tered Mrs. Johnson's crowded draw­ ing rooms. Scarcely, had they paid their respects to the hostess, when Mr. Palmer accosted or rather, was accosted by Miss Baden, a brilliant, conlident girl, who tr ed to' ensnare Mm before his marriage: and at the j^jiueot a gentleman addressed Mra. Palmer's wrath broke forth. "Ellen," he said, as he one day closed the door on the departing Cap­ tain, "I really cannot permit this to go on any longer. Your conduct to me is most unexpected--most as­ tounding. You are by far too inti­ mate with this fellow LovelL He is constantly in my house, and last evening he scarcely left your side, while you stood for two hours, the center of a group of chattering, grin­ ning popinjays like himself." "Why, Bob, you yourself blamed ine for playing wall-flower, and spider, and said you were ashamed of me." "1 am much more ashamed of^you now," he retorted, severely. . . "Now, dear, this is quite unreason­ able of you. Didn't you tell me that I would please you by enjoying my self, and flirting a little? You know you did," added Nellie, reproach­ fully; ' and now that I am obeying you, you get jealous." "Jealous! not L But I am fended and insulted--yes, ana trusted as well. If only you could hear the remarks about yourself and that Lovell ." "Similar to those that I heard in regard to you and Miss Baden, I pre­ sume," said the wife. "What is Miss Baden to me?" he demanded aqgrily. / "And what is Captain LOvell to me?" "You encourage him, madam. You flirt with him." " "As you do with Isabel Baden." "A man may do what is not per­ missible in a woman. "Ah, that is it!" All That Glitter* Is Not GMcL What imagination will do where gold is concerned is illustrated by the story of a certain volcanic island in the Indian Ocean, the sand along the shoie of which is filled with gold- colored crystals of chrysolite or "cold stone." These crystals glitter brightly in the sun, and about a century ago a crazy Frenchman, struck with the brilliancy of the pebbles, supposed that he bad hit upon riches compared to which the wealth of Ormus and of Ind was as nothing. He collected quantities of the crystals, heated them in a crucible, aiyl fancied that he produced ingots from them. His delusion was quite harmless, but only a few years ago a lot of chrysolite- bearing sand from the island was shipped to France and made a great sensation. Great numbers of people went wild about it, and companies were organized to begin mining oper­ ations along the strand of the golden Isle. It was declared that the sup- of- j plies of precious metal to beobtain^l dis-' from that source were inexhaustible. Much money was spent in the wild­ cat enterprise, which, even to this day, has not been wholly abandoned. her old sigh. "You men may neglect a wife--may wear out her heart and life with anguish--may expose her to the pity or ridicule of all her ac­ quaintances by showing devotion to another--and she, poor slave, must not presume to turn, as may even the trampled worm, but must bear all in meek silence--never even imploring mercy, lest she offend her lord. But I have had enough of this. Bob; and now as you do to me will I do to you. Spanish'Yellow as a Garniture. Spanish yellow velvet ribbon is a fashionable trimming for cream- tinted nun's veilings, clariettes and similar sheer wool fabrics, for young rladics' wear. Some pretty brides­ maids' dresses worn recently were of cream-white crepon so trimmed and supplemented by empire sashes of i,liberty silk, soft and flexible in quan­ tity and uncommonly wide, that said Nellie, with f were laid in light folds around the waist and knotted at the left side with falllnsr ends like the Orientals. When the waist is slender and the style .appropriate this fashion is a graceful one In adopting yellow garniture, the temptation to multi­ ply them must be guarded against- Touches of the color are sufficient for good effect, more tends to vulgarity, slight variations of shade also making all the great difference between the becoming and the unbecoming; A Fabulous Valley. The story of the famous treasure of tbe Madre d'Oro is told by Dan de Quille in his book on the "Comstock Lode." It is derived from the Aztecs of Mexico. Somewhere in southeast Arizona is.a small valley, about five miles long* by two miles wide, walled in by towering mountains. Tbe sides are so precipitous that it is impossi­ ble to climb down them, and there is only one entrance, through a cave which is carefully hidden by Indians, who guard the treasure for the second coming of Montezuma. The valley itself, though surrounded by inhospit­ able rocks, is a paradise. Watered by a stream which flows through it, itsteoil is covered with flowers and beautiful trees, through the branches of which flit bright-hued birds. Stretching across the valley from one side to the other is a ledge of gold, its masses of virgin metal gleaming and glistening in the sun­ light. The gold lies in it in great veins and nuggets imbedded in clear quartz, the sharp angles of which glitter in tbe sun's rays like gigantic diamonds. Across the leage the stream flows, forming a little water- . fall, below which the nuggets of gold can be seen in the water and out. Gold in the ledfee, gold in the scales of the snakes, gold in the stream, gold in the birds, gold, gold, gold, gold, is the ^refrain of the golden story. ^ First Known Metal. Probably gold was the first metal known to the ancients. It abounded in the sands of many rivers of an­ tiquity which have long ceased to be auriferious. From the readiness with which it was to be got in those early times one may imagine how such prodigious quantities of it were col­ lected as are spoken of by authors who describe the wealth of Solomon, the statues, tablets, and vessels of gold dedicated by Semlramis, and the riches of Cruesus. Boman conquerors fetched gold home with them literally by wagon loads. , These great accu­ mulations were usually the results of conquests. So it was with the enor­ mous treasures gathered at Babylon under Semiramis. at Jerusalem under .Solomon^ at Sardis under Croesus, again at Babylon under Darius, at Alexandria under Alexander, and af­ terward at Rome, while she Was at the summit of her power. The first historical mention of gold lis in the Bible, where Abraham is described as being "very rich in cattle, silver, and gold." It is an odd fact that geld was used at Rome a» early as 300 B. C. for the purpose of securing arti- cial teeth in their placea Cloth also was made of it at tbe same period, without admixture with other mater­ ials. when they came in sight of him he called. "Halt!" He asked the usual questions, which were all answered satisfactorily, and theu added one o! his own: ••Well, who are you, any way?" Ihe old gentleman looked at his wife with a smile of quiet humor, and asked: "Betty, who are we?" Smiling in her turn, the old lady turned to the picket, and said: "Well, guard, what would you think if I said we had a son who was a Cabinet Minister, and another son who was a Major General, and an­ other so* who --" "And I suppose," interrupted the guard, "you will say, another son who is an Admiral!" "Yes," responded the old lady, "an Admiral also!" "Well, now, old woman," said the soldier, "that's coming it a little to<i strong. If you had left out the Ad­ miral-1 might have believed you; but as it is 1 think you are both subjects tor headquarters. So come along!" There was no course open but that Of submission, and the three rode along together. At length a group of officers approached, and halted to Gfpeak to the captured "rebels." "Why," said one of them to Mr. Blair, "what does this mean? One might suppose you were prisoners, and on your way to headquarters." "Well," said Mr. Blair, '-so fpO are." Tbe officer turned upon the crest­ fallen picket, and demanded what he had been doing. "Why, sir," he explained, in an abashed undertone, "when I ques­ tioned the old man, I believed he was all right, but when the old woman told her story about her having one son in the Cabinet, and one sdn a Major General, and then on top of that added another son an .Admiral, I couldn't believe but they were real spies! So 1 arrested 'em on the spot!" They Leave the Broom Behind. "1 have moved a dozen times in my short married carreer," said a young matron, "and each time I have lost a broom. Professional movers and storage keepers will not move brooms. When I last moved i tried to get a small grate-broom packed in one of the boxes. " 'Don't forget that,' I said to the colored mtn who was doing tbe work. " •Nome,' he said. "In an hour I went back and foand the broom lying on the floor and the box gone. " 'Why didn't you pat that broom in the box?' 1 asked. " kDar's mo' boxes yet, missus,' was the evasive answer. "But not one of the many boxes got that little broom within its bounds. After all were packed and the wagons on the way down the streets, I went through tbe house to see if the men had cleaned the place out thoroughly. They had, all save the brooms. My little hearth broom was still on the floor, and in the Kitchen stood the large broom. It is a superstition that I cannot under­ stand, or a deep-laid plot of the broom-makers."--St. Louis Republic. up a space In his cranium the size of a saucer. The fire had now crept up to his feet, and tbe left one was 6lowly roasting, when another blow from the ax, greater than all the rest knocked bis head clean from his !x>dy. He experienced a singular buzzing in his ear; there was a gleam ot light in the distance, and with a bound he returned to conscious­ ness. The doctor was standing over him, holding a double tooth In his forceps. "That was an old stager, and no mistake. How he did bang! It took all my strength to dislodge him," and the doctor wiped his dripping forehead with his handkerchief. "Where a-a-am I?" were the first words of the tall man. "Why, right here in my office," re­ sponded the doctor. "You would have had a tough time if you hadn't taken the gas." "Well, if it had been rougher than it actually was I would now be a corpse," and the tall man paid the $1. oO and went out into the street, feeling as it.he had b&en walking in a treadmill for a week. Failures of Edison. Mr. Thomas A. Edison has con­ fessed that he has made some abort­ ive experiments in the line of serial locomotion. Says he: 4 Once 1 placed an jpriai motor on a pair of Fairbanks scales and set it going. It lightened the scales but it didn't fly. Another time I rigged ijp an umbrella-like disc nf shutters, and connected it A Financial Episode. A Plttsburgher who found himself in possession of a check for $600, marked "payable only through the clearing house," presented the paper at the bank on which it was drawn "We can't cash it," said the teller as he handed the check back. "It must go through the clearing house in the regular way. Deposit it in the bank where you do business." "I have no bank account," replied the man with the check. •'Then take it to some man you owe money to. He wiil know. ,it is per fectly good, and will be glad to cash It for you to get what is due him." "Don't be so fast. I don't owe anybody anything." ••Don't owe anything?" repeated the bank officer in astonishment. "Great Scott, man,- then you don't need the money."--Pittsburgh Chron- iclft ; A Successful Dramatist. . Miss Louise Imogen Guiney is quite elated with her dramatic success, iv is said. She brought out a play In Boston last year that was pronounced a success ana now one is about to be presented at the Grand Opera House which she has translated and the an­ nouncement is just made that a third has been engaged lor the Globe The­ ater next year, a translation of Emit Augier's "Marriage d'Olympe.'! Demoralizing Practice. Permitting large and promiscuous overdrafts in tbe banking business is a pernicious practice and detrimental to the best interests of banking in general Those banks which require notes and securities for every dollar loaned need have little fear in times of stringency. Unsecured overdrafts ire one of the ugly phases of the Pa­ cific Barfk's report of assets, and |a glance at the list covering large amounts, is enough to convince conservative business men of the rottenness of the concern's way of do­ ing business. For merchants to extend a line of indiscriminate credit on book ac­ counts is also a practice which should receive the same corrective attention which tbe San Francisco Clearing House has already given to the draft nuisance. The difficulty with an open account is that no fixed time is evident on its face at which it shall be closed, and room is thus left for frequent disputes, disagreements and litigations. We observe a quite gen* erai movement in some parts of the country to adjust the credit system to some approach to equity and busi­ ness-like regulation. If buyers of goods cannot pay cash they ought not to object to giving notes or paper which the jobber or other merchant may use at bank in case or need. Ex­ perience in the business worid has long since shown that the man who is required to meet his obligations promptly, can do so often with less discomfort than when he is allowed much more latitude. A habit ot prompt pay begets confidence, and extensions may often be obtained by such a man where others unused to the business-like ways of banks need ask no favors with any hope of re­ ceiving them. "Pay as you go Or don't go" is a very good maxim to ob­ serve. But credit appears as yet to be a necessary part of our commercial system, hence to curtail, regulate, and reform it is a pressing need of the day. A very long stride in the right direction therefore would be the sub­ stitution of securities for overdrafts at bank, and for book accounts with the merchant.--Cal. Fruit Grower. ARAB LION HU«T*- SUPERSTITION has It that the baby boosted up a stepl&dder before it is 24 hotirs old will always have good luck. -V?' The City Editor's Rustic Song. I would flee from the city's Wt.V and law, from its fashions and forms cut loose--aud go where the straw­ berry grows on its straw and the gooseberry grows on its goose; where the catsup tree is climbed by the cat as she clutches for her prey, the guile­ less and unsuspentlng rat on the rat­ tan bush at play. I will watch at ease the saffron sow and the cowiet in their glee, as they leap In joy from ttough to bough on top of a cow-slip tree; and list while the partridge drums in the wood, and the dog devours the dog- rose fruit in primitive solitude. O, let me drink frt#o the moss- grown pump that was hewn from a pumpkin tree! Eat curds and drink milk from a rural stumR from farm and fashion free --new garnered mush from the mushroom vine, and milk from the milkweed sweet--with lus­ cious pineapples from the pine! Such food as the gods might eat! And then to the whitewashed dairy I'll turn, where the dairymaid hasten­ ing hies---her ruddy and gold-red but­ ter to churn from milk of her but­ terflies; and I'll rise at morn with the earliest bird, to the fragrant farmyard pass, and watch while the farmer turns his herd of grasshoppers out to grass. , IN what part of a man's auatomy x* M Imperilled ot Beasts. General Margueritte of the French army, who has greatly distinguished himself in Algeria, where be studied tbe Arab character very closely, r$» lates in his memoirs the fo lowing curibus story of a lion hunt. It i!» lustriafces the Arab respect for m lion's Intelligence, and also his beliet in the direct intervention of ajOL averting power in the affairs of lif« Tbe story is in the words of El-Arbl*' an Arab chief. Many of our cattle had been stolen by a lion. It was necessary to kill him. We knew that his lair was la a certain thicket of cork oaks; and there the tribe went to destroy thai ravager of our herds. We left our women on a high roclt near oy, and all the men of tbe tribe divided into two ranks, approached the thicket, oar guns Cocked and at our shoulders, not doubting but we should be able to kill tbe lion at the first fire, upon his issuing from the ticket. Urged on by tbe cries ot our w& men, we marched upon the thicke& and paused lust before it Then I called out in a loud voice: "O do- vourer of cattle, come out of your lair! Come oat into the sight ot men! Your day of reckoning is here!" v But the lion made no answer. Sometimes it Is so, my lord'; you haVi to repeat the invitation. , r' "Do not be a dog," I called to thi lion. ' 'If you are a man, come out* I say!" - 4- To gtwforce to my words, I threw a stone into the thicket; and so did several of my companions. Instantly we heard a roar as of thunder, and the lion was upon ill like a stroke of lightning. We fired* but the lion did not appear to hear or feel the shots. He sprang, un­ harmed, straight upon three of our men, and bore them down to the ground beneath him; they were Ben* Meftab, Ben-Smail, and my uncle Habah, who was at the bottom of th* heap The rest of onr men turned to fi; and 1 was with them; but from tl rock 1 heard the cry of my cousfh Aichia, to whom 1 was betrothed: , "O El-Arbi! Save my father! Sa^ him. or else I will never look at yoa again!" I turned back upon the lion, re-" solved to give my life for Aicha If need be I had a charge in my gun, but I approached closely, intending cot to fire until I should be sure I should not hit either of the three men whom the beast had beneath hi* teeth and claws* But at the moment when, three yards away, I was taking aim at his head, the lion left his prey and leaped upon me aud knocked my gun out of my hands. Thus disarmed <1 ran; but the lion was close behind me, and would surely leap uoon lttf back and crush me to tbe ear to. Close by there was a large tree which had been felled. Its branches were still upon it. Just before the lion would have struck me down, I crawled beneath the trunk of this tree, and the lion fell upon that in­ stead of me, tearing its bark with his teeth and claws. Then I heard a great wail go dip from my relatives and from Alcha, who regarded me as dead already; for how should 1 escape the lion now? He was searching under the tru$|» of the tree with his terrible paws, t felt them touch me, and I felt, too, his hot and fetid breath. He|roared so terribly that the air seemed fuli ot thunder, and then paused, his fore­ feet on the ground on one side of tbe tree trunk, his bind feet on the other. What should I do! There is bttl one thing to do in such a situation-- to invoke the aid of the Prophet I did so, and he put an inspiration into my mind. You have heard, it may be, that #: lion can understand tbe words of l man if they are spoken with a certain tenderness of tone. I spose thus to the lion. • "O, Sultan of beasts, you are the strongest and bravest of beings: be also generous to your vanquished en­ emy! if you will let ine live, 1 call Allah to witness that I will never again attack you, nor anyone of yoor race!" The lion, as if be bad understood and accepted the compact, roared once more, and theD got off the tree and walked slowly away to the foresti casting one look back at me. I was overjoyed, but did not get out from under the tree as long as the animal was in sight. When be had disappeared in the wood 1 ran out, and found that Ben-Meftab was dead, with his head quite crushed, and Ben-Smail was also dying, with many wounds; but my uncle Rabah bad received but a few slight hurts, though the crushing weight caused him to faint And since that time I have kept my word with the lion. The beast may take the cattle and the sheep, but one's promise is given to be kept; I shall not harm him. Nor is there, anything done In this world save by the hand of Allah All other things pass away. He alone Is immortal. Standing Dp for His "Are you the editor that takes in the society items?" inquired the caller, an undersized man, with a timid, appealing look on his face. "Yes, sir," replied the young man at the desk. "I can take in any kind of items. What have you?" "Why, it's this way," said the caller, lowering his voice. "My wife gave a swell party last night, and I'm willing to pay to have this write-up Of the affair put in your paper." "We don't charge anything for publishing society items," observed the young man at the desk, taking the proffered manuscript and looking it over. "That's all right," was the reply, "You don't understand. I wrote this up myself, and I put in a line or two that says, 'Mr. Halfstick assisted his distinguished wife in receiving the guests.' That's the way I want it to go in, t.nd 1 don't care if it costs $1 a line. I want my friends to know, by George, that I still belong to the family!"--Chicago Tribune. f&V*- J:'4y . ;lif*easor of'BiMK. Egyptians attributedmt vention of beer to Osiris. :: :J "J ~:Wl "i 881 -.Aof •t? ISM mm: i'gifij I ' . '*"k \ , ... ** - a .. 1- 'L. at. /+1 & 'yjr: