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»- ^ i >4* t teS- i. p;; • r & pr GALS. -w*r *ii*r ~~- * *» -1 ilaerter think an£ow /%; istern gal's the best, £•* ,. ,' '^?*4 I'tbeu I Roiaewfiy coitoa m,x_ ,i ' • '-i'r **• gal frt'H) out th«west. ' >s'*41 "®fce eaatern g il has K M an e\% " V\ Uke briers Kbnrp an* keen, » . V ,^W" ,>;9But then that we tern nmi<l«li'igrtt A form that's like a quean. *3nm folich prpfer the one an' suim Prefer th > other sort, §j»tec;'?3B«t when a jedtfe has got- tO M7 , PS',j'/': It nocks b!m to report, f;^g>K. Wbt 'playuns differ when it QQMMMT Yo sige 'em :-i<lo by side, ?:$> \ WtejmshaJly who'i a "|>oor man • 1B coon tin' on a briile. /^y". - • ml-'. '"STtaar'fi 1'axaln' fn the east, I know. $1' > An' wealth ont In ilie went; Sgf X,JBwfc when i t come to choose between-* 4/ ,« Bvgum! thit is tho test. • jy , eastern uiiidii loves hur book, V fc;' i " , The western n»iid hnr farm.; • V »,o between 'cm both, yon «*r j < - iuoy have a takin' charm. V Ife, Iffcit deep In love with east and west '-h\ , An' don't know which to choose; M%J^rhapal'd better atop to think-- A • Bo h on 'em might refuse'. r, * ,111 try the east--tho west, I mean -- {Cv, . Eh! kissed plum on the mouth ? *10* 3t*vc chau^cd my wind, an' now I'll take few, ; ' _1tiis rosebud from the south. • "-aMK^C ' ' ; CHANGE^ OF FORI'UNE. li* RVE JOHNSON. •>: It was by merest chance that I was j ' * «*£ Johnstown upon the occasion of that ; terrible fl ood. That I came safely out <»f it, is due to more tiiau chance^ but ^ Ibeee is the story. My home for the nineteen years of uj life had been at Pleasantvjlle. We 'were miserably < poor, because father "W*« one of the sort who are easibr con­ tent A house, however poor, to shel­ ter him, enough food to stop hunger, -anything in the way of clothing, shabby «ar not, as the case might be, aud he •ewnxl f«H" nothing more. Mother was las opposite in every respect. Of a good family, sensitive, refined, intelligent, energetic, educated. I have -sspent hours of my life wondering how afteevev came to unite her life with that -«f so shiftless, purf>oseless a "n'er-do- MEIR AS father. I mean no disrespect Cor him in speaking thus, for I loved IHB dearly, and he was always kind to «K. I loved him, but as I grew up 1 And continually to smother a contempt JBMT HO unmanly a man. He had no gKide, no will, no purpose in life, yet at 4he same time he had no -vices, for vtuch we daily thanked heaven. Father's wages barely kept us in •food and house rent, so «mother and I <Mk in sewing and did Jtency work for the Woman's JBsctiange at Philadelphia. I also "picked and sold berries ia their season. wu?il when I was sixteen, mother for- l»de it. All the girls qf my age went • hurrying for family use, however, and I Aeijuently sold them mine in secret. '.Uras matters stood when two years ago •last spring, father was injured by the 3&11 of a derrick at an oil well, and died «£• J uly. This left us a number of heavv *ftls to pay, and we worked earl}' and J*te, denying ourselves all but the barest *«eoes3ai-»es of .life, in order to get out of as soon as was possible. As a con- «6Qwence mother became ill from work, •worry and iuBuiiicient food. Then work lu ted all at once, and actual starvation „ --atared us in the face. .ffit was a glorious August morning, *wi*p.R Icame to a realization of this, laa&d I stood in the door cudgeling my ferain for some means of raising money, ^•ben a girl friend ran in to tell me a party •03S jpoung folks were going blackberry ing SI wished my company. I was cast- about in my mind for some way to fee it possible^ when I found Elsie • Sad made every arrangement, and while we talked her mother arrived to stay " "vwitli mine during our absence. I shud­ dered as I thought of our empty pantry, Jbut a moment later Elsie's brother deoigie came in with a basket of ""goodies." Swallowing my pride I ran off to dress, and by the time I was ready the ^r&gon, containing a dozen merry boys sSDd girls, was on hand. Seven miles from town the driver left Hie roiul, and after driving a mile into 4ite deep woods a halt was made in a tiny "walley, on the bank of a noisy brook. All around were bushes, bent to the «arth with their load of luscious, shin­ ing blackberries, and I was one of the to begin lightening the burden. I flsTunght along a huge basket which s«$»rded much amusement to the rest, wlio were mainly bent on having a good €ma We had dinner at 1 o'clock, and •wly, if it was not a "feast of reason," ; 3b was a flow of soul." | ' After it was over, I went to work ' and was inwardly wondering if I « 5iild till my basket, when Susie Neef, ; <<Ja«ghter of one of Pleasantville's rich­ est men, approached and laughingly 4iaultered me to sell her my berries. It »«0®med she had promised to bring home 4b half bushel, and had idled away all *he forenoon. Three silver half dollars i «oon lay in my pocket, while she made -* triumphant journey to the wagon with ;%er luscious fruit. Seizing my now nearly empty basket, *rith a light heart. I clambered over J* stony ridge on the other side of which •the bushes were yet undisturbed. I "®rsts thinking bow surely Providence fielpa tlie ones who are willing to help #Wiemselves, when there came a report ;oC a gun and a stinging sensation in my ijieft arm told me I had stopped the but- t or at least tried to. For a moment c&me near fainting, but I realized that vrould be folly, for I might die and <*ever be discovered. Ere I could •)f' *uove, however, I heard voices and ««ra,mbling footsteps, and a moment |.r " two men came into sight. Both li'. - «carried rifles and one was saying: "It '4:., vva& here, in this thicket." Both jpaused abruptly at sight of me, & " mod an exc amation burst from both as $" «Khey saw me holding my arm, from '"which the blood was dripping. M f '"(rood God, uncle, you have shot t Afc ifiMrl" from the younger. "*1 have, indeed!" from, the elder a ittne looking man of middle age. I suppose I was white enough, for a '*3ead!y--sickness was overpowering me, and ere I fairly realized what was go­ ing on, I was seated upon a rock, and *fche elder gentleman was deftly and ^skillfully bandaging my arm.* The fbultat had passed through the fleshy if»art above the elbow, making a jag- jsjred but n<* serious wound. I suppose I looked my surprise at 'the skillful manner in which the injury "•was dresaed, for the younger man pres- •eufcly explained: "It is Br. Arbuthnot, of Phi'adel- 't^lua, and I am his nephew, Barry Sex- stem. We are staying at Pleasantville • for a few davs." & E "You are a nervy lass not to faint. 1 am truly sorry you must suffer for my carelessness, but this is no titfSe for words. Let us help you to the wagon, so they can take yon home at once. I am sorry Barry and myself have no conveyance at hand." I found myself miserably weak, and was glad of the proffered assistance. When we reached the camp, we found most of the party already assembled, arid the doctor reprimanded them severely for allowing me to Stroll off by myself, adding: "She lias injured her arm severely, and I would advise an "immediate re­ turn home." There was a twinkle in his eyes aa he saw the effect his words produced, and bidding me be careful and keep the bandage in place, he shook hands with me, and they departed. He left a paper in my hand, but 1 was too deathly sick to examine it, so pnt it in my pocket along with my precious sil­ ver. The ride home was as uncom­ fortable as the one in the morning had been pleasant. I suffered considerable pain, and they were several times com­ pelled to administer the brandy he left them tp keep me frota fainting. The general impression was that I* had had a fall, and I did not trouble myself to explain. The shock of my injury acted like a tonic on poor mamma, who all her life had seemed equal to all emergencies. She petted me to my heart's content, so thankful was she it was no worse. When rested, and refreshed, I be­ thought me of the money in my pocket, ! and drew out with it the paper the stranger had given me. I unfolded it to find--a hundred dollar bill. Wa stared at each other amazed. Mamma was the first to recover. "This writing on the paper, dear." It had been hastily scrawled with a pencil, and was as follows: "The poor abused fore-finger on youHcft hand betrays the fact that you are a working girL I, by my wretched carelessness, have deprived you of the use of that hand for weeks, perhaps months. You must live, and the bill I enolose may be of service. 1 shall seek you out to-morrow, but let this subject remain, unmcntioned. " Sincerely yours, R. J. ABBUTHNOTT. However mtich pride counseled us to rofnse the gift, necessity gainsayed it, for without it we must have starved. Next morning found me restless and feverish, and mamma was very glad when about nine she saw the two strangers enter onr gate. One, middle- aged, erect, dignified, slightly gray, and with a look on his fine face which plainly said "good will to all." The other--well, Barry Sexton was the handsomest man I had ever seen. I had passed a wakeful night, and his earnest, sympathetic gaze had been ever before me, and the smile he gave me at parting. Mother opened the door at their knock. There was a moment's silence, and then I heard. "Ralph!" "Mary!" Then followed"a confused murmur of voices, arid presently mamma came in, • followed by the doctor. "Oh, Maggie, this is----" "The man who has never Marv Noble for marrying John Hosford until within the last five minutes," he interrupted, with a pleasant laugh, and I turned to find mamma'sj pale face flushing royally. I had: always though her pretty, but just then she was lovely in her con" fusion, and I saw the doctor thought too. While he was dressing my aria, mamma explained. She had knowA him in her happy girlhood and although she did not say so, I guessed he had been her lover. In fact, when he went away she told me how she had quarieled with him, and two days later married my father. Well, under Dr. Arbuttnortt's skill­ ful treatment I recovered rapidly. He and Barry Sexton were daily visitors, and the upshot of the matter was a quiet wedding a couple of weeks later, when mamma became the famous doctor's loved aud loving wife. Barry saucily suggested that we make it a double wedding, but the great man forbade it. And, inasmuch, as the audacious fellow had said no word to me on the subject, he pre­ tended to submit unwillingly, but with much enjoyment of my blushing confu­ sion. The day after the wedding we left Pleasantville, going to the Doctor's beautiful city home. Oh, how happy I was in seeing mamma's great good for­ tune. No more toil, no more hunger, worry and loneliness. At my earnest entreaty I was sent to a good school, where I remained until the holidays last winter. I-was a happy girl when, soon after my return home, Barry told me he loved me. We were married in May, and instead of going abroad on a regu­ lation tcur visited many places of interest in our own State. A friend had spoken so enthusiastically of Lake Conemaugli, that upon that fatal 31st of May we had arrived in Johnstown on our way thither. Some freak had made us decide to spend the day in the busy little place, and when the awful doom swept down upon the devoted city, we were walk­ ing quietly along one of fhe side streets. Many a gifted penman has striven WHERE IMNilUNTS SETTLE. t* to t describe tlie sound which heralded its »t or at least tried to. For a moment approach, but language fails to express e&me near fainting, but I realized that the horrible, crashing, grinding roar. Ere the ruin descended, one single cry had explained to us its meaning. "The dam has burst. Run for your lives to the hills." Appalled, we started to flee, but ere we had taken ten steps, the avalanche of houses borne aloft on the crest of the gigantic wave, struck against some large buildings just above us. The tremendous mass Beemed for an infinitesimal part of a second stationary, and a deluge of water rushing through struck us. Barry had clasped me in his arms, and the wave feemed to lift us above the very house tops. Breathless and half stunned we were swept along, .to be presently dashed to one side like a discarded toy. When we recovered sufficiently tp look about us, the awful work was done. Of that prosperous city there seemed scarcely a building remaining, and the turbulent, rioting water rolled through the erstwhile lovely valley. Sick at heart, we turned away. Of the terrible, heart-rending scenes we witnessed in leaving the place, why should I write? Much has already been written, but not half will ever be J told. I saw mothers who mourned • «T *R • TT i 3 n T their children, husbands their, wives, I am Maggie Hasford, I managed and children who wept for both father lo reply. I am here with a party of and mother berry-pickers,} but my home is at When we at last left the vaUey we z as ie. 1 carried with us a wee orphan babe, who At« Chnrrnwd in Cltomlag /• HOIMJ in the New World. It is interesting to observe hov^ the different nationalities that make up the stream of immigrants which lands on our shores liave a certain tendency to cluster in colonies, This i^ partly due to a desire to associate with fiiends or at least with people of fh§ same lan­ guage and the came interests, partly, also, to the fact that -certain places are better fitted for men of a certain claste. Of course, individuals of almost every nationality are scattered almost all over the United States, but still, with the exception of the English, Irish and Germans, \*lio are about equally divided among the different States, the diffei- ent nationalities prefer some certain lo­ calities. The Wejsh immigrants, most of whom are miners, go chiefly to Pennsyl­ vania, where their headquarters seem to be around Scran ton. At this place dur­ ing the winter, Welsh performances are given at a theater. •• 4? • The Scandinavians generally go to the northwestern States. TlieDakotas, perhaps, get the largest share of them, although Missouri, Wisconsin, Michi­ gan, Iowa and Minnesota also get a part. Few of them are skilled laborers or artisans, so most engage in farming. The Danes of late have largely gone to Nebraska, and the Fin landers seem to find in the forests of Michigan and Northern Ohio occupations and a climate itrhich suit them exactly. The Italians may be divided into three classes. Those who are merely 2ommop laborers, and who come chiefly From around Naples to work on rail­ roads, as street cleaners, etc., for a larger part stop in New York or its vicinity; from here they are then sent Sy their bosses, or padrones, all over the couutry, wherever railroads are be­ ing built. From Northern Italy comes a large number of miners, who go shiefly to the coal mihe3 in Illinois or Michigan, or to the mines of Arizona, Colorado or Montana. This class of people is of much higher intelligence than the first class. Then a great many farmers and wine-growers from North­ ern Italy go to California. To that State also go many French farmers from the Departments of Gascogne and Basses Pyrenees, as well as a few Swiss farmers. Otherwise the Frenchmen, if they do not settle in New York, mostly go to New Orleans or to French Can­ ada, while the Swiss, among whom are many dairymen and silk weavers, chiefly settle in this vicinity. The Hebrews, from Russia, Poland, Austria or Roumania, for the larger part settle in New York. More than half of tliem are tailors, about one-third ped­ dlers and the rest are divided among the different trades. Of the genuine Russians only a few emigrate to this country. During the later years a good many German Rus­ sians, whose fore-fathers about a hundred years ago emigrated from Wurtemburg to Russia, have come to this country. They Still keep up their German lan­ guage, traditions and customs and are all farmers. Most of them go to Da­ kota. They are large and powerfully built men and when they come in their sheepskin overcoats, with a row of child­ ren following them, all dad in the same way, they form a picturesque (sight. From, the Austro-Hungarian mon­ archy come the Slavaks, Poles and Hungarians, most of whom go to Penn­ sylvania, where they work in the coal mines or coal yards; the Bohemians, who go to the vicinity of Buffalo and Pittsburg; the Tyrolese, the Dalma- tions, the Kroatians and Moravians, who generally settle in Pennsylvania around Pittsburg. The Hollanders go to Paterson, N. J., or to Wisconsin, where their headquar­ ters is Green Bay, or to Iowa, or Mich­ igan. The Belgians are either oftFlem- ish or French origin. The former are chiefly farmers and go the same places where the Hollanders go, while the French speaking Belgians are almost all either glassworkers or miners. The former go to the coal mines of Illinois or Pennsylvania, the latter chiefly to Tarentum or Pittsburg, Pa. Most of the Icelanders go to Mani­ toba ; there is also a colony of them in Savreville, N. J., where they work in the brickyards. The Armenians, of whom a good many have arrived lately, are like the Arabs, peddlers or tradesmen, in which case they stay in New York, or they are silk weavers, and stay in New York or the neighboring New Jersey towns, or they are common laborers. The last named, almost without exception, go to Wor­ cester, Mass., where a large number of them are employed in wire factories. The Greeks have during late years begun to crowd the Italians out of the fruit and flower Belling trade in New York; some of them also go west and south where they compete with the Ital­ ians in the work on the railroad. It may safely be asserted that those who maintain that the class of immi­ grants has deteriorated during the last decade or two hpye not given the:Jm- migrant question a close study. If there has been any change of late years it has been for the better and not for the worse.--New York Tribune. Toorhees Outwitted. The late Major Johnatlian W. Gor­ don and Senator Voorhees were en­ gaged on opposite sides in -the trial of an important breach-of-promise suit at Paris, 111., Gordon representing the defendant and Voorhees the plaintiff. They stopped at the same hotel and had adjoining rooms, and were often together during the evenings. A local attorney was assist­ ing Voorhees in the prosecution of the case, and the Evidence tended strongly against Gordon's client from the first, and he had little hopes of a verdict in his favor. The evidence closed late one evening, and that night Voorhees entered Gordon's room at the hotel and the two entered into coversation. The time that each would require in the ar­ gument was referred to and Gordon asked: "Voorhees, what are you going to say to-morrow ?" The plaintiff's attorney did not an­ swer the question directly, but rising from his chair and bending over its back, as he looked Gordon in the eye, he entered upon a discussion of the case. As he proceeded he seemed to for­ get where he was, and madc the speech that he had mapped out in liis mind to deliver to the jury the next day. His denunciations of the defendant, as Gor­ don afterward described them, were simply terrific, his appeals in behalf of the fair plaintiff touching in the ex­ treme and his review of the evidence of the case strong and convincing. Gor­ don afterward declared that he felt at Gordon responded, apparently aa it little concerned, that he supposed the prosecution was entitled to the opening and the elope, and it was hardly neces­ sary to limit the argument. With this understanding the argument was opened by the local attorney. He pre­ sented the case of the plaintiff in^a. very fair manner and left to Voorhees, ks he supposed, the work of embellishment and appeal to the feelings of the jury* When lie hat down, Gordon rose and, addressing the court, said that the plaintiff's attorney had made a very fair presentation of the case and he Mould submit it without argument. # Voorhees saw the point in a moment, but his side having had the opening and the close, he could not claim more, and he contented himself with turning upon Gordon and vowing that he would got even with him if be had to follow him around the world. The jury returned a verdict for nomi­ nal damages against the defendant, and Gordon always contended that but for his sharp practice his client would have bcon 1'uined. --Indianapolis. Journal. Fruitful Nicuniurun. Nicaragua is a future country. Its resources are unlimited, but they have yet to be developed. The country pos­ sesses mines of great value. Gold, silver, tin, lead, iron, and other metals are found in abundance. Tly} placer mines, located between/ the Shyunee and Martis creeks, branches of the Prinzapulka River, are very rich. fJ?he diggings are several miles in extent, but thus far only a few hundred yards have been worked. The secret of their existeuce, although known to some for years, had been kept guarded until a few months ago. One of the first to begin operations gathered over $7,000 worth of the ptecious metal in the course of a single month, An Indian recently realized $1,000 on a few days work. The chief drawback to the de­ velopment of the diggings is the diffi­ culty of access to the region and the hardship of securing supplies. De­ velopment is also much retarded by the absence of suitable machinery to crush the quartz. Coffee growing pays almost quite as well as mining. The owner of a coffee plantation has a never-failing source of income. Coffee-growing lands can be had of the Government at the rate oi from $1 to $1.50 an acre. In the vicinity of Rivar, near Lake Nicaragua, *liere are many fine cocoa estates. The chocolate made from this is said to be equal to the best ever sold it. any mar­ ket. Cattle raising, too, is very profit­ able. On the rapidly flowing San Juan River niany ranches have been estab­ lished, but there is room for many hun­ dreds more in the nndulating lands ex­ tending back for miles from its banks-- lands covered with trees, of gigantic di­ mensions and which have only been partially explored. What Nicaragua chiefly wants to de­ velop her resources is a little brains and pluck. The native population are not equal to the task of booming its in­ terests. They are willing to work; they are incapable of lending. The country is destitute of roads except in the vicinity of cities and there they are poor apologies for highways. The peo­ ple are conservative. What was good enough for their fathers is good euough for them. But the more enlightened element are eager for progress. They pin their i'duth in tlie country's imme­ diate greatness on the carnal now uuder progress of construction. Great good they hope will ' come " to the country when the sliip3 begin to enter the Car­ ibbean sea and sail up the San Juan to its magnificent lake, thence to this body of water dotted with islands and bordered by evergreen hills and the most magnificent scenery as far as the short-cut leading out to the Pacific. TI - t * ^ i. i - - „ouc, ,„v the time that if that speech ever went to There, as^the last touch was given ! had Strangely escaped while the rest of the jury his client would be mulcted m tZZftgZ ̂ Li!t •Ms.tauW W swept i drops of this, and you will be all right/ "This," was some brandy and it aearly strangled me, at which the doc- laughed genially. mm • J " I , ; ' I - , i / : „ away. The careful, tender rearing of this tiny waif shall be our thank offering lor our own extraordinary escape in that time of Peril- heavy damages, land he set about to de­ vise some means to offset it. "When court convened the next morn- iig, the Judge askAd if there had been ID agreement as to Wio argument, and A Phonograph Orchestra. The reporter was ushered into the handsome dining-room of Henry G. Bishop, where the instrument (an Edi­ son phonograph) and all its appliances were stationed. 'Mr. Bishop, with the skill of a person who had handled a phonograph for years, adjusted the in­ strument and turned on the battery. The various choice melodies which poured forth from the cone-shaped transmitter sounded very natural. Among the many selections were sev­ eral pieces played by the Seventh Reg­ iment Band, of New York, about lour years ago; a banjo solo, by a son of the Mayor of Newburyport, Mass., played about a year ago; a cornet solo; severa selections by a male quartet, and many other musical gems, most of which were played at Edison's laboratory over a year ago. Mr. Bishop has so arranged his pho­ nograph by the appliance of the cone- shapped transmitter, that whenever he starts it going the sound can be dis­ tinctly heard throughout the whole house. Mr. Bishop lias" also recorded the remarks of several prominent men of this city who have talked inti the instrument. It is very amusing to lis­ ten with what accuracy they have been taken and are reproduced. He in­ tends to have the Concordia Singing Society aud Jerome May's Banjo Quar­ tet give several selections at his home for the purpose of recording them. Mr. Bishop, it is understood, is the possess­ or, of the only phonograph of this kind in the city. "Why," said he, "with thi# little machine I can sit down to my breakfast and listen to the concert of the Seventh Regiment Band, played several years ago. and enjoy it as much as if I had actually heard the band it­ self." He is undoubtedly right. The working of this machine is something wonderful.--Uridfjeport (Conn.) Netcn. One Whom Santa Clans Neglected* It is to be hoped that most people were not so disappointed in their Christmas gifts as was a small damsel at the South End, who is Reported to have examined her numerous gifts on Christmas morning, and then to have asked gravely: "Mamma, will Santa Claus come back again to-night?" "Why, no, I suppose not," her mother answered. "He only oomes once." " Well, then," the child said, "I shall have to write him'a lettar." She is only beginning to write, and that with so much distaste for the ac­ complishment that nobody supposed that she had any intention of really carrying out this plan; but she retired to some secluded spot, where, in the course of an hour, she produced the fol­ lowing touching epistle: ' "Santyclws you may have all things you brot i rote you i wanted' a doll to talk you dijldpyt bring it i tliink you are mene." How the little one was comforted is not recorded, but her faith in Santa Claus will never be the same again.--- Boston Courier. '• f" •• * J. ^ *£*•> Curious Story Regarding Mrs. Hayes. An extraordinary and pathetic story of the late Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes was published in the January num­ ber of The Ladies' Home Mngaiine. The truth of the story is said to be vouched for by tex-President Haves hiniHelf. The story is as follows: Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes was one of the sweetest, stanchest and most sterling women tliat ever swayed the domestic destinies of the White House. She had her own views of life and they were exalted. To her mind they had no association with locality or social position. What seemed to' her to be the proper mode of life in the re­ tirement of private station, in her home at Fremont, formed to her mind, the proper rule of existence in the con­ spicuous place of wife of the President of the United States. How Women let in Jan. Compulsion is the woman convfct's drop of bitterness. The complete mor­ tification of the harmless sort of vanity which fills so much of a woman's life makes her durance doubly vile. All her line feathers ^are sacrificed ruth­ lessly. Her hair, which she has apos­ tolic authority for regarding as an or* nament, is shorn of its last lock as soon as her cell has been allotted to her; and the face which has gazed with per­ fect passiveness, almost to rouse a country's admiration, aud the tongue that has been mute under the finding of jury and sentence of Judge, raided to plead pathetically with the holder of the scissors, while the corri2- • dors sometimes ring again to piercing I cries for a sparing pity as the inexor- j able shears gather their harvest of j curls. But spring returns and the hair •ORE OS LESS AMUSINCt. * THE storm-cloud should have blew color. SOFT music-should accompany a low drama. THE $500 a night singer is truly •? high-toned artist. NECESSITY (of bringing home a gen-; erons string of fiah) is the mother of in- • vention. !1 No intensity of tatire, nor injustice renews itself, and the girls grumble that of criticism, ' could move her a hair's a thoughtless administration provides breath from what she regarded as thtf ,%them with no hairpins. HAS the papers to show it--the pub­ lisher whose journal dooap't true way As she lived she died, calmly, oravely and with a serene confidence. Some of her nearest relatives had died of paralysis, and she had a premo­ nition that she. too, would pass away with the same disorder. She had a long talk with her husband on the sub­ ject about three years ago. He endeav­ ored to chase away her fears with light and kindly words. ' \ Early last autumn, just about the time of the anniversary of the death of lier brother, who had passed away in paralysis, she spoke of her premonition again. Her fears now amounted to an absolute conviction, and she spoke of her end by paralysis as an event cer­ tain to take place. None of the endeavors of her husband to turn her thoughts to a more cheerful subject could avail. She quietly in­ sisted on arranging with him her "busi­ ness and other affairs. She put her house in perfect order. "And now," she finally said, "if I be stricken with paralysis, as I believe I shall be, I will not, as you know, be able to speak. But perhaps I still may be able to hear. You may ask me then, whether my mind is serene and clear, whether I am at ease and from pain. For the answer yes to those questions, I shall press your hand. If I cannot truthfully reply in the affirmative, my hand willl not clasp yours." Three days after this, what she feared would happen came to pass. She was suddenly striken down with paralysis. Her organs of speech were benumbed. She could not utter a word. Then all that she had said came sadly back to the memory of her devoted hus­ band. Looking down into her shining eyes, he took her hand in his, and asked the questions which days before she had suggested: Wife, dear, are you at ease, is your mind serene and clear, and are you free from pain ?" Slowly the poor white fingers closed upon his, giving his hand a gentle re­ assuring pressure: The next day the brave and loving wife was dead. Catching Turtles. ™ The South Sea Islands are the place for .turtles, and the islanders are experts at capturing the clumsy creatures. There are several curious ways |oi capturing them. When lying asleep on the water in the sun, a canoe will silently approach, its crew seize the an­ imal and tumble him aboard "before he knows where he is." He is turned on his back, for otherwise he would climb out and swamp the boat in short order. A native will also swim up quietly behind the sleeping creature, spring on the back of his shell, and hold on in such a wav that he cannot dive. Hav­ ing no idea of escaping in .any other way, he can be steered whithersoever his captor chooses. Considerable agil­ ity and nerve are necessary in accom­ plishing this feat, for if the man should miss his leap and fall back into the water, he is liable to be daugerously cut by the animal's flippers. An inexpert person or one who wished to have some fun with tlie turtle might grasp him by the tail. If so, like the Irishman who devised the plan of catch­ ing the bull by the horns and rubbing his nose in the dirt, he will do well to have his laugh first. The turtle has his idea of a joke, too, which is instantly to shut his tail close up to his body, whereby the man's hand is held fast as in a vise, and then dive with him to the bottom of the sea. Most of the turtles, however, are captured on the beaches, whither the females land to lay their eggs, and the males accompany them out of gallantry or to keep guard. The eggs are laid in a perpendicular cavity about a yard deep, at the bottom of a great circular excavation^ which the female scrapes by whirling round like a fly with its wings singed, and violently plying its flippers. When surprised, the turtle offers no resistance, but makes off at a pace sur­ prisingly rapid in so clumsy an animal, and which a good runner can hardly keep up with in the Band. To turn a turtle weighing439 pounds on its back, and thus capture it while it is scutting through deep^and, requires more knack than strength. A turtle's progress on land is by a series*of wrig­ gling jerks from side to side, and the fisher, taking advantage of the moment when it cants away from him, overturns it with ease. The young are hatched in a month, making their appearance when about the size of an American silver dollar, and are prepared to begin life on their own hook at once, which they do by rushing for the sea as rapidly as pos­ sible. Many of them never -reach it, however, being caught by birds if it be day and by land-crabs at night. A Sad Comparison. "It is sad for me to contemplate tlie difference between man and the lower animals," said Binglcy. "It pains me to note to what an extent the brute creation has a monopoly in gdnerous in- piincts of all sorts." "You are talking nonsense again, Mr. Bingley." said his wife. "No, I'm not. Take for instance a man and a cow. Notice the base sordid tendencies of the former as compared with the open disposition of the latter." "In what way?" "Why, the cow gives milk, and the man goes to work and sells it."--Mer­ chant Traveler. . The Critical Question. Patient -- Doctor, I have beea imag­ ining that I can see things in the air-^I can shut my eyes and see snakes and all that sort ot thing. I would like to know what I have got, if you can tell me. Doctor--It does not depend on what you have got so much as on how much you have got. Until I find that ont I cannot tell whether you are threat­ ened with nervous prostration or the jim-jams. ' , MINCK PIE will ke^p a man awake longer than a guilty conscience.-- "WHEN you let anything fall it gener- ;;,fl ally makes a loud noise--unless it is ":.' your voice. NOAH was just like all other sailors. \ [ The moment he got ashore after his ' voyage he went and got drunk. WHEN a man walks you can often tell ^ him by his carriage; but you can tell ar f baby by its carriage before it walks. SHE--And that scar, Major! Did you get it during an engagement? He --No, during the first week of out honeymoon. PBOFESSIONAL beat (to hotel proprie-One woman, whose hair continued to • be suspiciously resplendent as of ma- j tor)--Is there any danger of fire here? i cassar, after weeks of incarceration, was an object of some wonderment, even to the chaplin, until she ex­ plained to him in confidence that she allowed her broth to grow cool, and then skimmed off the fat to glitter in her orown of glory. Another girl certainly rouged, and rouge tells effectually on | the pallor of prison confinement. Great was the envious indignation 'ol her sisters in servitude against a friv­ olity so unattainable, but greater still, perhaps, was the curiosity to discover how the accomplishment of such friv­ olity could be attained. At length it was discovered that the red threads ! woven among the blue skirts which she had to sew would, when drawn out and chewed, yield the bloom yearned after by the cheek of beauty. The manner in which nearly every woman finds it possible to disarrange Proprietor--Not if you settle for your board in advance. A GOOD hotel clerk will room a stut­ tering man and have his baggage sent up before the new arrival has time tt>2! tell what sort a front reom he must - have. PAT---The windys in tnis shop are sc durty Oi can't see out of thim. Fore- ; man--Well, why don't you raise tht , I windows. Pat--Faith, .they're so durty ,,, Oi can't see oq.t the hole. \ SAM JOHNSINO--Did you heah d« ^ % parson say dat whoeber had stole hi?"." pumpkins would go ter de bud place? Jim Webster--Heah! heah! ain't I glad I didn t steal nuifin but cabbages. CALLER--Is your husband still in the" asylum, Mrs. Lakeside? Mrs. Lake-! sid|> (cf Chicago)--Yes, and the poor dear is getting crazier every week. In present the fascinations of a crinolette is so comic that it lias been known to wring a smile from the gravest among men-a prison chaplin. And a woman without a looking glass! Only the au- sterest and severest orders of nuns re­ nounce that. And perhaps it is .the fe­ male prisoner's most oppressive pen- nance, for the relief of which she is even willing to risk the imposition of extra punish ment-a task the more a meal the less. By an accident which she de­ clares a>he will regret for a lifetime, she has broken a window. The hole is there, sure enough; but where is the detached glass? Days after this it is found concealed in a corner of her cell, and behind a strip of black cloth, her substitute for quicksilver. And all for what? There are 110 male hearts to break, and few males eyes to see--only those .of governor, chaplin and doctor. and double one of her underskirts and h^ ^t letter he says he wants to pay liis debts. ON the way. to Sunday School--; "Mamma, you haven't given me five cents vet to send to the heathen." "1 have just given it to the heathen my­ self, Tommy. The conductor charged me full fare for you." JOB SON--What are you busy with now. Jepson--I'm baggagemaster on the Central Railroad. What are yonf doing? Job--I've got into the trunk manufacturing business. Jep--Ha! Let us form a combination. CLARA--I wouldn't like to have such 5 a fat husband as Emily has got. Bes- S sie--Neither wonld I. Bnt they do Bay she puts the portfolio of autumn leaves under the cushion of his chair and he. presses them out splendidly. SHE knew the grip--By a quick shot; he had just rescued her. from the clutches of a bear. " What were youi thoughts when ' bruin commenced tc squeeze?" was his inquiry." "Oh, Charlie, I thought of you." LITTLE Willie has beeu summarily corrected by his mother for repeated • acts of naughtiness. The punishment; being over, "Papa," he sobs in tones of = anguish, "how could you marry such an ill-tempered woman a$ mamma?" LITTLE girl (who is traveling with t her mother in the sleeping car)--I guess I won't have to say my prayer to­ night, mamma. Mother--Certainly; why not, Flossie? Little girl--Why, in all this noise, mamma? €tod^ couldn't' hear a word I said. CLARA (at breakfast table)--I don't think there is much, if any, differei.ee between absent-mindedness and rev­ erie; perhaps the latter is a more dreamy condition. Now, last night, for instance, when George was here, I dropped into a reverie, and I seemed to have gone miles and miles into dreamland before -- Tommy (inter­ rupting)--I'll bet there was only one lap to the mile. HOFFMAN HOWES--Ah, deah boy, saw you came out of Lapelle & Sleeve's. Changed your tailor ? Madison Squeer --Had to, deah boy. Corduroy doesn't know what style is. Hoffman Howes-- Why, deah boy? Madison Squeer--• Ah, deah boy, I saw Corduroy's portrait in the Clothier and Furnisher, and what do you think, deah boy ? That fellow still wears a scarf pin. Hoffman Howes--Oh, howwid! Stories for Lawyers- Occasionally lawyers get together aud swap stories about the funny things tbev have heard in and around the Court House. A Jiepublic reporter was in the ear-shot of several eminent barristers, and heard two anecdotes re­ lated that are worth repeating. Wheu Judge Kombauer was on the bench he one day made a ruling against a young attorney, whose superfluity of diplomas was only equalled by his scant knowledge of the law. Much disgusted, the lawyer said: "I don't know wh%re your Honor goes to find such law as that." ' When ruffled. Judge Rombauer speaks with a strong Bohemian accent, and he replied in very emphatic language: "I am not surprised, Mr. , zat you know not where I go to find ze law, for I find it in ze boclcs." The'second ireident was that wherein a judge had overruled a motion of Coun­ sellor Garvev, one of the best known lawyers at the St. Louis, bar. The counsellor is usually most respectful to che court, but he lost his temper this time, and declared in his broad though rich and cultured Irish brogue: "Your Honor, I hope for your Honor's honor that it will never be noised abroad to your Honor's hurt that this honorable court ever made a ruling so dishonorable to its own honor." Mighty Slow Sometimes. "There isn't a business in the world," remarked the division superintendent, "that can show one tithe of the energy, progressive spirit aud general enter­ prise that the railroad business does." "Oh, come off!" said the reporter, "why there isn't enough enterprise in your whole corporation to run a six-col- umu weekly with boiler-pltite mattor. Last week you ran a gravel train into your limited express at a water tank, and the next day vou broke down a bridge and dumped thirty-two freight cars into the river, and there wasn't a man about the general offices, from president to door-keeper, that ever knew a t' ing about it until they read an account of it in the Hustler, and that was written by a new reporter, working on space to get in. Enter­ prise!" and the disgusted scribbler went away to "do" an embezzlement that the directors hadn't heard of yet. --Burdette. * , Why They Sinj Well. Minister (to choir master)--The mu- sib went splendidly this morning. Choirmaster--Yes; I flatter, myself that it did. Minister--I am glad to see the sing­ ers give their whole energy to the im- portaut religious work. There is no deception in such singing as that. Choir master--Well, no, I should say not.. You see, Mr. Thumper, I told the choir last night that an operatic manager would attend church to-day for the purpose of finding some good voices.--Judge. -M :>;31 'there right In the Parsonage. "Henry," cried Mrs. Smythers, ' are burglars in the house! Get up, and go downstairs." No, my dear," returned the rev­ erend gentleman, "I hear them in the study now. Perhaps they will get away with a few of those dressing-gowns aud pieces of knitted brie a-brac we have received. I don't know what else to do with them.--Harper'* Bazaar. Postscript, become of your seen her for some AtcLuuak That inevitable Smith--What has wife ? I have not time past. Jones--No wonder. She has been staying with lier mother for the last two weeks. I got a six-page letter from her this morning. What does she say? I don't know. I haven't got to t&« postscript yet. > A CLERGYMAN of Hoquiam an­ nounced recently that tho subject of his next Snnday evening's sermon would be "lieal Estate." A local dealer offered him $25 to speak a kind word for Camp­ bell's addition.--.San Francisco Call. She Cost Her Weight in tiold. Mrs. Jesqp Castro, an aged Mexican lady, who recently died at American Flag, in the Santa Cataliua Mountains, Arizona, was, perhaps, the only woman in the world who oost her husband her weight in gold. In the early gold-dig­ ging days of California .she was a resi­ dent of Sonora, Mexico, in which State she was born and grew to womanhood. When about 17 years of age a paternal uncle, but a few years her senior, re-"; turned gold-laden from the newly dis­ covered mines and soon fell despor- atelv in love with his niece. He sought her hand iu marriage and was accepted, but the church refused, OIL account of the near relationship of the pair, to solemnize the marriage. Pei- suasion being in vain, he tried the power of gold to win the church his way, and succeeded only by the pay­ ment of her weight in gold. She at that time weighed 117 pounds and against her in the scales, the glit­ tering dust was shoveled. The hus­ band still had sufficient of this world's goods to provide a good home.--Denver Times. . Happiness AssnreC "FirstPaterfamilias--Beg pardon for intruding the fact is your son has pro- ^ posed for the hand of my daughter; and t as the two families are almost stranger*, you knowing nothing of my daughter and I nothing of your son, 1 thought it would be a sensible thing to come around and compare notes. Second Paterfamilias -- Excellent idea. Has your daughter always had everything she wanted--dresses, jewels, waiting-maids, aud so on ? "No. She lias had to help her mother. How old was your boy before you stopped thrashing him?" "Well, 1 thrashed him pretty regu­ larly until he was nearly grown up." "I am satisfied.". , •^ "So am I."--New York Weekly. v Trout Caught in a Mink Twp^ ̂ 1" A young man in Bowdoinham, Me, reoently set a box trap beside a brook for the purpose of catching a mink he % had seen in the vicinity many times. % He baited the spindle of the trap with 5 meat. Soon after he had set the trap a J heavy rain set which caased the brook to ri-e over the ground where | the trap was placed. Alter the water had subsided somewhat he went to look ;• ! after the trap, and found it was still ^ where he had s-et it, but it was sprung. ^ i Thinking he had caught th'* mink, he < carefully peeked in, but instead of a mink, he found a trout abouti fourteen inches long. . " THE first thing Colnmbus did when . he discovered America, was a blunder. j Who. he actually put his foot in it. ""•J" I «i ' 'a ' \ •