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,Ji-H'BD or i csiLn. aoaXs-mwso-rsnmnsvvu. amass-r. “ Why don't co dot up!" Thespeaker was a blueeyed msiien of ' four summers, a perfect little! airy, with her wealth of golden singlets blown hither and , thitherhythewantau brerne,sndalook in_ herliquideyeaalreadygivingindieattonof the - woman's soul and women's tenderness which made the pulsations of the tiny heart best more quickly to the promptings of a humanity found in even such a wee ‘ thing as she. The person addressed was a magnificent specimen of or rather would have been so considered under other drasrnetances. Tall and of ificent, build. withafacecontainin traces efgrcst manly beauty, but disfigu by many signs of dissipation, he lay on the ground in a stateef ‘ intoxication from which he seemed to he just recovering. The place where he was lyin was under a clump of cottonst on 0 banks of the Platte. near a beautiful cottage where his little questioner lived. He turned over on his side and, resting his head on his hands, gazed up into the faceolhiscoin nwithelook ofcon. alder-able interret and surprise. "Why should I get up 2” he asked by waylof reply, rising at ttliie seals time to near y a sittin are an touchin the hand of thg grim as age; zero someg~ thing too holy to be contaminated by his fingers. "00 will dot told and bean mi ht eat no. blamma would like no to tome ome with me and det someting to eat.” " Dots your mamma live in that cottage?" pointing in in direction. The little one sagely nodded her head and taking hold of his hand pulled as if as- sisting him to rise, and afterwards led him almost unhesitatingly to the house where her mother stood in the doorway watching the actions of her darling with some surpriie and anxiety. “Mainma, he is told and wants some- ting to cat," was her explanation in her sweet, childish way. Notwithstandin some hesitation the lady acceded to her chi d’s wishes with regard to the uncouth stranger, and he as hesitatingly accepted the invitation to later the h4 um, as he did so, feeling that he was obeying an impulse which he neither could explain nor account for. “'ith a shamufaced manner, and withal so polite as to prove that the in- stincts of a entleman ct remained in him, he said: “ adam, I ope you will pardon this intrusion. At first I thought to refuse the solicitations of your daughtir ; but her Winsome manner and something which I cannot explain impelled me to what I fear you will consider rashness, if not iinperti- nence. Yours is the first home which I have outlived for a long time. An outcastnpou the face of the earth, without friends or borne, I had about abandoned all hope and “ How did you know I was lost, M. given myself up to the despair of the lost. Claude 3" I asked fecbly as they carried ine Madam, you cannot imagine the shame along on the level. which now possesses me for the first time He did not answer for_a moment ; then he in many months. Once like thislittlo angel, Bald. rather gloomily. "1 (391mm: “The I was innocent, but that time seems ages fraulein was watching you with a telescope ago. Born in a little town in \Visconsin, I from Les Pcntcs." lIo did not say Fraulein was early possessed with a restless spirit. Isalino, and I knew why at “1'30; he didn't My father died when I was quite young, Wish the other carriers to know what he was leaving my mother with a small compet- talking about. _ . _ once and two children, myself and a sister “And she told you?’ I said in German, several years younger. That I was spoiled too. was not so remarkable. I was their idol, “ She sent me. I did not come on my own every whim and onprico being gratified as accord. I came under orders." . He spoke for as ible, and there was no length to sternly, hissing out his giittumls in an angry which their love did not carry them in lav. voice. _ ishiug its wealth upon the unworthy ob- “M. Claude,” I said, ”I have dine vcry jest. Nothing ha pened tomar the peace wrong. and 1 ask your forgiveness. ‘lou of our home until had reached the age of have saved my life, 'lll'I I own you gratitude ‘20, when a series of e vents occurred Which for it. I will leave Les l’eiites and the frau- brought misery and despair to the once loin to-morrow, or at least as soon as I can happy household. I hadacqnired habits of the safely be removed.“ ‘ . most pcrniciouscharacter:sll unknown to my He shook his head bitterly. _ “It is no dear mother, and one night in a quarrel over “'18 110W." he MSW?!“ With a. Slhh- "The a game of cards I struck a companion with a fraulcin does not Wish for mo. 1 have ask- chair and supposed I had killed him. In the ed her and she has refused me. And she has moment of remorse and fear following the been watching you up and down the 'Aiamllo deed, but one idea possessed incâ€"that. of the whole day with the telescope.“ hen she escape. I find, and found myself eventually saw you had fnlleiishe rushed out like one dis- upon the Pacific Coast, where I shipped in tracted, and camp to tell me at the school in a whaling vrsscl. After weeks of stormy the village. It is no useâ€"you have beaten weather we were wrecked u on the shores me." _ _ of Alaska. I here met a Iparty of gold- “M- Cluude."I said, “I Will plead for seekers and went with them a long distance on, I have’i'lono you wrong, and I ask your up the Yukon river, where fabulous deposits orgiveness. . _ n _ . . of the precious metals were said to exist. “ I owe you nonll-wdl.‘ he replied, in ‘his In shooting ono of the falls of the river our honest, straightforward hvviss manner. It boat was dashed to pieces and myself and is_not your fault if you have fallen in love companions barely escaped with our lives. with her. How could any form help it? After enduring unspeakable hardships and Living in the same house With her, tool having several encounters with the Indians, 4110718!” he. went on in French, resuming we eventually reached Sifka, where we ob- his.alterniitivo tongue (for he ipoko both tained some assistance from the United equally). . .. States authorities. A vessel was about to for tho dcctpr fromililon to see you. sail for San Francisco, and I shipped on her, By the time we had reached the farm- agreeing tu work my passage. After reach- . ing Sin Francisco,l tried in vain to find nothing employment. and wont to the mountains after all. . whrre I gained a precarious living washing force of the concussion. for gold. After a while, however, I was spines cod dcnl, aiil hurt the triijiiii of rather more successful. and, with a little the this I Md back, but had “0t broken money 1 had saved, inclosed a considerable any bones nor llljlll‘ed any Vital organ. So tract of ground, and engaged in the busi. when they laidme on the oldffashioned sofa. nose of fattening cattle for others, gradually in my little sitting-room, lighted a firoiii acquiring a considerable herd of my own. the Wide hearth, and covered mo over With Fortune seemed to settle on me until one a few rugs, I felt comparatively happy and day there was a terrible freshet, and the comfortable under the Circumstances. The water poured down the can can and on my doctor was sent for in hot haste, .but on his ranch, drowning all my oatt e, and washing arrival be confirmed my own view of the fences and buildings away, in fact I was case, and declared that I only needed rest again ruined. Wandering through the and quiet and a little arnica. country I have been alternately engaged Iwas rather distressed, however, when as cattle-border and minor, barely making a madame came up to see me an hour later, precarious living. Atlsstlfound my way and assured me that she and monsieur to Drover, where habits of dissipation con- thought I ought to be moved down as soon tractsd during my wanderings, have placed as aible into more comfortable apartments me lower than the beasts. Had I not met at .ausanne. whcra I could secure better at- your little daughter 1 should probably in a tondnncc. I saw in n inomrnt what that fit of rv-morsc have slinrtly made away with meant; they wanted to gut ino away from myself. As it is, there is nothing for me to labor. "lhcro are no more comfortable live for," concludod the man with a sad, quarters in .all Swnzerlaud, l ain_sure,.mn- despairing sigh. During his narrative the ' demo," I said; but madame was influxxblc. lady's eyes never left his face, and at its There wasahuglish'doctor at Lansaimo, and conclusion she came toward him in an sgi- to Lsiisamn accordingly I must go. I'A'l- tated voice asked the names of his mother dcutlyuit had Just begun to strike those two and sister. imagine her surprise upon learn. good, simple people that Isnlmeand I could ing that the miserable outcast before her ; just concolvubly manage to fallin love wrth was her only brother who had been mourned one anothc r. _ . as dead for s number of‘gosra. Their mother Might I ask for Mlle. Isalino to bring me had died shortly after 0 assault upon his a cup of tea! Yes, lsa'line would. bring it which had driven him from in a minute. And when she came iii, those fmm which the victim had not usually laughing black eyes obviously rod with trying, I felt my heart sink Within mo whvn I thought of my promise to M. asilant, and reformed from his evil ways, Claude; whilel be :in to be vaguely orn- become a useful citizin. and had married Icioua thatl WM ":0 lY find frilly very much the sister of the man who thought he had in love with pretty little lsaline on my own killed him. and is at this time sczuslfy m. account. _ gsged in business in Denver and is one of She laid the traycn the small table by its most honor“! citizens. The brother the sofa, and was goingfo leave the room found a home at last and emplo ‘ment in immediately. ” Mlle. Isalinv," I said,tryirig the store of his sister's husbani. and a to raise mysilf. and falling back again in happier family does not (xist in Colorado pain. "wrn't you sit with me a little to-dsy than those reunited nunâ€"Dram- while! I mm to talk with you." NI“ “ Mamma saidl must come away at once.” Isal‘ns replied dcmuruly. “ Ljhe isawghogt . . doubt bus and wants my air ." . n s 0 Keep the (hlldrrn “ W' tuiiml to go towards the door. Hllf tho lllnm and frolfulncsl of little “ Oh, no come back, mndcmoiselle," I obi dreu might be prevented by keeping cried raising inysclfagain and giving myself, them warm enough. They are 0 ten so am oh, such a wrench in the spine; “ dru't you equally dressedâ€"some parts covered to see how much it hurts me to sit up 3" axon-ll. and elite". more “(ll Ill". lift ll~ She turned back, indecisivcly. and not most unclothsdâ€"tbat they are in constant down in the big chair just beyond the table, discomfort. “It? cannot k“ "-0 illflimilv. hauling me the Cupllkl helping me to cream and thoughtless "tome" fulfill“ the Whole and sugar. I plunged at (nee is maf'ias subject with the general complaint of crap m. . nose. - Warm under tlsunels sufficed home- " You have been crying, madrmmscllc, ‘ I made woollen stockingsara ace ortbeyund said. "and I think I can guess the noun. computation in the winter eases. When ll. Claude has told me something about it. worn in the winter it is common toilrlsv lie has asked you for your hand, and you putting them on “hf-ll the seeds 0! a sad have refused him. It it not so!" This was cold are sown. Which may la~t for the season a little bit of hypocrisy on my part, I con- Of even for l“.- H "*0 13°11!" ll only b.- fees. for I knew what sbc had been crying fa. handed with her :lhflhligeu for the abcgt perfectly ; but Iwiahcd to be loyal to changing wool, this mi t prevent- hf. lauds. ed. lsaline blushed and lsnghrd. “I do not cry for )1. Claude " she said. “I may have other matters of my own to cry about. But 3!. Claude is very free with his cou- fidences if he tells such things for. stran- I.“ Kc" Listrn to me. Mlle. Incline." I said, “Your father and mother have asked me to VOL. XL. Katie’s Kisses. To me Katie I said. “ It's a taste L'v thim lips that I'd have, an'lndade They belong to me now wid yersill'. An‘ no party for kissin' were made.” But she answered an' tould me. wid eyes That no star in the sky could eclipse. "An' ll'r thrue the ' belong to yerself. Sure how ’ud ye 'ise yer own lips I' “ JLst as aisy.’ I cried, “as to spake. An“ swater nor honey. The sun Is cowlder by far.’ But she vowed The likes uv it couldn't be done. 'l'hln I ofiered the same to restore “'id a seal Just as flirue as the day: But she said, " I 'ud niver take back “'baf once I had given away." " An' l’ll llnd ye the loan uv 'cm, dear.” I replied - but wld infinite scorn She axed. did i think that her ups Were made for to rlnt or to pawnl Thin I sat jlst as mule as a stone. An' nlvlr a word did I say. , 'l‘rll Kate. unaisy like. poured her lips. (Och, the rogue 3) in a. ravishln’ way. An' wid dimples to timpt all the saints. An' wid' blushes way up to her brow. To be llndfn' t 0 loan uv‘ em now ’ Dream bcr. ISALINE. CHAPTER. III. the precipice. Something coming down, oh, how slowly. Thf ii I cry out feebly, and tho something approaches. hearty voila l" and I am saved. They let down ropes and pulled me up to cause me great pain, and then three mui carried me homo to the farm-house on a stretcher. M. Claude was one of the three, the others were laborers from the villaue. companion home, but died, as the wanderer supposed, but had ro- covcred, and fully as rcmorsefiil as his as- __....____â€"â€"..-. Two Remarkable Guns. Two machine guns have just been com- in lltrtford for General tar-ant, as all to the Viceroy of Chins and blika~ e of Japan. The guns are l’rstt a Whip ‘siai mtevertbe noneshnown leave hmto-morrowrujgo downto lau- x’thetimlaer gun. Th‘e‘usodele alter urns. lshallprohsblynrvsrseeyoosgsm. whlehthsse serenade haves Bet beforIIgonanttoplead inthyon 9% 9. for N. Gnarls. lie hassavvd my life. and Iowa him much gratitude. He loves you ; hslsa brave mama good man,atruesnd earnestmsniwhy willyounot msrrybiin! shots a minute. As soft as an angel she spake, " Cd '0 like -C. II. TIIAYER, in Harper’s Magan‘ne for Noises above me, I think, on the edge of M. Claudc'a voice calls out cheerily, “Eufin, ls i an FENELON I I feel sure he is a noble fellow, and he will make you a tender husband. “'ill you not think better of your decision 2 loan not bear to leave Lea Pentcs till I know that you have made him happy.” “ Truly 3" “Truly." “And you go away to-morrow 2" ” Yes, tomorrow." “ Oh, monsieur !" There isn't much in those two words ; but they may be pronounced with a good deal of difi'erence iii the intonaticn, and Iralins's intonation did not leave one in much doubt as to how she used them. Her eyes filled again witn tears, sni she had started up to go. Ingrate and wretch that I was, forget- ful of my promise to M. Claude, my eyes filled responsively, and I jumped to catch her and keep her from gozng, of course at the expense of another dreadful wrench to my poor back. “ Isaline," I cried. uncrn. seionsly dropping the msdemoiselle, and let- ting her see my brimming eyelids far too obviously. “ lsaline, do wait awhile, I im- plore you, I beseech you ! I have something to say to you.” She seated herself once more in the big chair. “ \\ el, man pauvrc mcnsienr,” she cried, “what is it 1’" “ Isaline," I began try in it over aga’ii, “ “'hy won'tyou mary M. lauds?” “Oh, that again. \Vell,” answered Isa- line boldly, "because I do not love him, and I l-Lve someone else. You should not ask a young lady about these matters. In Swnzerhns we do not think it come il faut.“ “ But,” I went on, “why do you not love M. C'aude? He has every good quality, andâ€"" “ livery good quality, an lâ€"he bores me,” swered lsalinc. “Minsieui‘,” she went on archly, “you were asking me the other day what books I had read in English. the top of the little crag, clumsily, so as to “Well, I have read Longfellow. Do you re- im mbcr Miles Standish?’ I saw what she was driving at, and laugh- ed in spite of myself. " Yes,” I said, “I know what you mean. \Vhen John Alden is pleading with Priscilla on behalf of Miles Standish, Priscilla cuts him short by say- inc ” I saline finished the quotation herself in her own pretty clipped English. “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John 3" I laughed. She laughed. \Ve both look- ed at one another, and the next thing I re- membir was that Ihad drawn down Isalinc's plump little face close to mine and was kissing it vigorously, in spite of an acute darting pain at each kiss all along my spine and into my marrow-banes. Poor M. Claude was utterly forgotten. In twenty minutes I had explained my whole position to Isaline, and in twenty minutes more I had monsieur and madame up to explaim it all to them in their tum. Monsieur listened carefully while I told him that I was an English advocate in no prac- tice to speak of; that I had a. few hundreds a. year of my own, partly dependent upon my mother; that I had thoughts of settling down permanently in Switzerland, and that Isoline was willing, with her parents' con- sent, to share my modest competence. Monsieur replied with true Swiss caution that he would inquire iii‘o my statements, and if they proved to be as represented, and if I obtain in turn my mother s consent, he would be happy to hand me over Isaline. ‘tToutefoisf’ he added quietly, “it will be pérhaps butter to remind your journey to blossom. The Gilon doctor is, after all, a sufliciently skilled one." So I waited on in peace at Les Pentes. . Madame bad insisted upon telegilaphing the news of my accident to my mother, lest it should first reach her in the papers, (Je suis mcro moi-meme, monsicur,” she said in justification of her conduct), and next morn- “we must get on quick and send ing we got a telegram in reply from my mother, who evidcnly imagined she must hurry over at once if she wished to see her house I had satisfied myself that there was son alive, or at least must nurse me through very serious the matter with me along and dangerous illness. Considering The soft snow had brokiii the the injuries were a matter of three dnys' I had strained mylsofa, in all probability, this haste was a little overdone. However she would arrive by the very first rapids from Paris ; and on the whole I was not sorry, for I was half afraid she might not her face against me marrying "a. foreigner," but I lelt quite sure any one who once saw Isaline could ' never resist her. That afternoon, whcii school was over, M. Claude dropped in to see how I was gob ting on. Ifclt. more like a thief at that ino- mcut than I ever felt in my whole before life or since. I knew I must tell bimthe simple truth: but I didn’t know how to face it. However, as soon on I began, he saved me ‘ the trouble by saying, "You need not mind oxplnin'ng. Mlle. Isaliiie has told me all. You did your best for me, I fool sure; but she loves you, and she docs not love mo. “'0 can not help these things; they come and go without our being able to govern them. I am sorry, more than sorry, but I thank you for your kind oflices. Mlle. Isa- lino tells me you said all you could on my behalf, and nothing on your own. Accept my congratulations on having secured the love (I the sweetest girl in all Switzerland.” And he shook my hand with all honest henrtiness that cost me several more twingcs, both in the spine and the half-guilty con- science. Yet after all, it was not my fault. “ M. Claude,” I said, "you are an honest fellow, and a noble fellow, and I trust you will still let me be your friend." “Naturally," answer M. Claude, in his frank ways, "I have only done my duty. You have been the lucky one, but I must not bear you a grud e for that;though it has cost my heart a bar struggle." and as he s ko the tears came for a moment into his honest blue eyes, through he tried to brush them away unseen. " M. Claude," I said, “ you are toogener- ous to me. I can never forgive myself for this." fore many days my mother came to hand duly, and, though her social prejudices were just a trifle shocked at first by the bum house. with its harms and maize, which I had found so picturesque, I judged rightly that lsaliiio would soon make an easy con- quest of her. My mothnr readily admitted not my accent had improved audibly to the naked car ; that Isaliu's manners were sim- p‘.y perfect ; that she was a dear, prettyucsp. tivating little thing, and that on the wholc she saw no objection. save one ssible one, to my marriage. "Of course, said, “the Clairons are Protestants, because harlie," she cine, it appears that in Brazil, where FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DEC. i he proposed I should undertake to cultivate, ; and my mother waited to see us installed in zone of the prettiest toy chalets to be seen i anywhere at the Villeneuve end of the love~ ly like. A ha pier or sweeter bride than dearest Isaline I) defy the whole world, now or ever, to produce. From the day of :ur wedding, almost, Isaliue made it the business of her life to discover a fitting wife for M. Claude, and in the end she succeeded in discovering, I will freely admit (for Iialinc is not jealous), the second prettiest, and second nicest girl in the whole Pays de Vaud. And what is more, she succeeded also in getting Ll. Claude to fall head over ears in love with her at first sight ; to propose to her at the end of a week, and to be accepted with ef- fusion by Annette herself, and with coldness by her papa, who thought the question of means a trill: unsatisfactory. But Isaliue and I arranged that Claude should come in- to partnership in our vineyard business on easy terms, and give up schoolmastering forever ; and the conscquence is that lie and his wife have now got the companion chalet to ours, and between our two local connec- tions, in Swilzerlanl and England, we are doing one of the best trades in the new ex- port wiiis traffi: of any firm along the lake. of course, we have given up growing Yvorne except for our own use, confining ourselves entirely to a high-priced vintage nine, with very careful culture for our English busi- ness, and I take the opportunity of recom- mending our famous phylloxera-proof white l’ic-dcilaâ€"Baumc, London agents,â€"but Isa- line says that looks too much like an adver- tisement, so I leave off. Still, I can't help saying that a. dearer little wife than Isalinc, or a better partner than Claude, never yet. foil to any man's lot. They certainly are an excellent people, these Vaudois, and I thrnk you would say so too if only you knew them as well as I do.-â€"Be/gravia. -â€"â€"â€"I‘OO‘0.'>”pâ€"â€"â€"â€"- AN 0L1) TORTURE CHAMBER. Some of’ the Implements of Punishment Used in Olden Tunesâ€"A Horrible Collection. To the right of the primipnl entrance to the burg or castle at N ureinberg there stands a pentagonal tower, part of the old fortifica- tions. Interesting as is its external appear- ance, its contents are still more so, for on entering it by n liw and small door we were surrounded by numerous and curious old woodcuts, illustrating or rccording instances of almost every possible kind of torture and execution, out by ii collection of the instru- ments by which some of the tortures were inflicted. Hanging against the wall is a great wooden board, split: in the middle, with a. hinge at one end and a place for a look at the other. The board is about four feet long, with a. hole at each (in! large enough for a. person's neck: between these holes are four smaller onzs large enough for his wrists. The instrument was for com- pulsory coupling together quarrelsomo hus- bands and wives, who were then paraded in public, the object of ridicule, if not worse, to all passero by. Here, too, is another and a rougher pun- ishment for a different classâ€"the sturdy beggar or vagrant. It is a large iron cage, some five or six feet high, into which the of- fender was put, and then the cage and he were lowered into the river or most and drawn up againâ€"n process repeated as long as was thought: necessary ; a possibly effec- tive enough remedy, for even now beggars are said to dislike col 1 water more than any thing else. Much more horrible is a small table with a little bit of raised metal work at one side. The metal work consists of three small upright; pieces of metal, with jagged cross pieces between hiil a brass screw on top. Between these jagged pieces of metal the thumbs or fingers of the unfor- tunate victim were placed. A few turns of the screw sufficed to inflict the most intense pain, and then a handle attached to the tibia by a sort of rachet work jsricl the table and so inflicted additional suffering. Close beside this was another implement of deviltry, its nuns probably showing its on- ginâ€"“thc Spanish donkey.” It is an up- right board, two or three inches thick,sharp- ened at the top to a sharp ridge. Astride of this the victim was placed, heavy weights were attached to each foot, and then the sharp Wood slowly cut into the flesh. One might think that human ingenuity, or, rather, human deviltry, could not; go much further, but one would quickly be un- deceived. Here is a sort of framework about seven feet long and some few inches off the groundâ€"bars of wood running diagonally, with gaps of a. few inches between. On this the Victim was stretched, and then there was a heavy wheelâ€"the size of a small cart wheelâ€"with a sharp edged piece of metal some few inches long attached to it, which by a little skill was rolled on to the victim so that the sharp edge just hit him on the porticn of his limbs between the gaps in the framework, and so smashed any bones it came in contact with. Beginning with the ankle, this bonerbreakiug business would be repeated every few inches up the leg. Change the scone, and then comes a revâ€" elation enabling us to realize it all. Under the rathhnus at Regcnsburg (or Ratisbon, the name by which it is better hiiown)tbere are some subterranean dungeons and cham- bers in which the implements abovodercrib- ed were freely used. Descendin a flight of steps, and guided by the light 0 a lantern held by an attendant, one finds oneself in a vaulted chamber. At one side of it there is a wooden trellis-work, bshiud which sat un- seen tho judge or rfficial who was to write down the sentences wrung from the victim by the tormmts to which he was subjected. Close to this trellis-work was the rack or whatever other infernal implemmt of tor- ture was deemed most likely to wring from the sufferer the needed confession or inform- ation ; and close by also stool a seat for the doctor, who was present to prevent the pun- ishment too quickly ending the sufferer’s life. Dragged from a dungeon into which neither light nor air over entered, bailed before judges who knew not what mercy wasâ€"here in the darkness, beyond tho reach of all help or even criisolation, the matched being was subjected to the most agonizing tortures. untii he was finally done to death. -â€"-Pall Mall Budgd. -â€"â€"â€"â€".oâ€"‘.oâ€"â€"o Alcohol and Coffee in Brazil. According to the statement of the vice- ' director of the Rio Janeiro faculty of medi- great quantifies of coffee fare used and where all otherwise I could never think of giving my the inhabitants take it many times a day, consent." knew the village lay just on the borderland. and some of the people were Catholics while other: were Reformed. I had not the rcmotcstnotion to which of the two churches Julius belonged. "Upon my soul, mother dear," I said, “it has never struck me to inquire into Isaline's private abstract opin- irn of the pope’s inlallibility or the Geneva Confession. You see. after all, it could hardly be regarded as an important or an- tboritative one. However, I'll go at once and Gail! “kl" ed h Claire s , as it turn on t e ' as Eldrmed, and so my m‘dther'a one 031;. were jection fell to the ground immediately. Ciairon's inquiries were alsosatisfsc , and the final result was thstllsaline and were to be quietly married before the and of the summer. Thegocdfather bade uicelittle vineyard estate at Pic de la Bennie, which alcoholism is complehly unknown; it is This was a poser in its way, though, I further stated that the immigrants arriving in that country. though beset with the pas- sion for alcohol. contract little by little the habits of the Brazilians, acquiring their fond- ness for drinking cation and their aversion for liquors ; and as the children of these into mi ts brought up with ccfi‘ee from their ear y years never coatract the fatal habits known to their parents, it would seem that the number of drunkards in the country is in inverse ratio to the amount tf coffee con- sumed. A South American correspondent of The Medical Tina confirms the above statements, asserting that the number of cafes in the large cities of Brazilâ€"where multitudes of persons from the highest down to the lowest classes go in to take a cup of that delicious beverage whi :h none but Brazilians know how to nuke properly-â€"is was, while drinking saloon-or hansre , very few, and their patrons fewer still. 1. it SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. The First Electric Light with Under- ground Wires is {renting success. After fighting the most formidable obsta else for ten months, the Philidelphia Sm- tioual Electric Underground Company suc- ceeded recently in establishing the claim it made when the proposition to convey unv dergronnd electric light_ telephone and tel- egraph wires was first made to City Cann- cils. W. H. J ohustone, president of the NO 40. Women Auctioneers ln XenIYork. The speaker was an English woman. She was dressed in a neat suit of black. Iler dark hair hung in glossy curls at her back, and was brushed up from an rxpansivc fore- head. Her black eyes sparkled and her eyes glowed. The ulisr interest that attached to her was the fact that she posses- sed the distinction of being the only female auctioneer in this country. She said she had followed that callin for the last fifteen years both in Englan and America. "But it seems to be a novelty here." she company, promised to have a Simple elec-fcontinned, “for a vmman to be an auction- tric light on Chestnut street, with wires un~ ‘ eer. derground, three days after the street was opened for laying the conduits. \Vork was begun on Saturday night, and at 9 o'clock “’oduosday night there were three lamps in successful operation ; one at Ninth and Chestnut streets, one on Chestnut street above Ninth St., and one at the south west corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets. The light is perfectly white, burns steadily without the suspicion of a flicker, and for the practical purpose of lighting the street is as superior to the over- head lights ns they are to gas lamps. The problem of preventing induction appears to have been solved, and the fate of the net- work of wires in the air determined. The light furnished for the initial experi- ment is sup lied by the Under- ground Electric Eight and Power Company, a corporation that simply uses the conduits as a vehicle for carrying its wires. It uses the system of the Excelsior Company of New York. The supply station of the com- panyis at No. 1'23 South Eleventh street. where 600 lights are to be stationed. The Underground Compony will continue to lay its conduits until stopped by the frosts. It is confidently expected, however, that be- fore I):cember l the eraincloscd by Chest- nut, Market, Front and Fifteenth streets will have the wires underground. in front of every building there will be u “hand-hole” in the conduit, so that the wire can be drawn out, coupled and the lighting appar- atus made complete inside of an hour. An attempt was made to cut the wires of the Electric Light and Power Com- pany a few moments before the current was produced. It was discovered, however, lo- cated in a few moments, and the damage re- paired. oâ€"‘Ohâ€"uo Charles Lamb’s Dog. Charles Lamb once owned a dog, present- ed to him by flood. that he might not be companionless in the long morning walks he indulged in when emancipated from London- hall strett and its uncongeniul desk work. Dash’s habits were oxtravagantly erratic, and the source of much displeasure to his supposed master. He went scouring streets and roads beyond Lamb's ken, leaving him in a fever of irritation lest the animal should get lost, while he had not the heart to curb his spirits. Regent’s park was Dash’s favor- ito goal, and for that rcascn thither did Limb oftenesl‘. wand his way. No sooner was the park reached than Dash vanished, well aware that his master would not dare stir from the spot until he chose to return. At last Limb's patience gave way, and he transferred his troublesome friend to Mr. Putmore. But he did not: forget him. \Vritiiig to Batman, he scnt his love to Dash, and affecting anxiety respect- ing his sanity, said: “Are his intellects sound, or does he wander a little in his con- versation 2 You can not be too careful to watch the first symptoms of incoherence. The first illogical snarl he makes, to St. Luke’s with him. Try him with hot water; if he won’t lap it up it is a sign he does not like it. Does his tail wag horizontally or perpendicularly? In his general department cheerful ? Has he bitten any of the children yet? If he has, have them shot, and keep him for curiosity, to see if it was the hydro. phobia. You might pull out his teeth if he would let you, and then you need not mind if he were as mad as a Bedlamite : he would be like a fool kept in the family to keep the household in good humor with their own understandings.” If Mr. Pstmore had the slightest suspicion all was not right with DJBh, he was told to clap a muzzle on him and lead him in a string to Hood's house, where he would be taken in at any time. l’atmoro replied that he found Dash the best behaved of his species, but Lamb was not tempted to take him back again.-â€"0]uim- bers’ Journal. s ¢ The Greatness of London. Everybody knows that the metropolis has increased, and is increasing in size. importance, treasured stores of gold and goods, and above all in souls of men, women, and children beyond all the experi- ence of history. In truth, no ancient or modern centre of human life existed or cx~ ists which can be compared with the Lon- don of to-day. It is a nation rather than a city, and holds. with fixed and floating in- habitants, visitors, foreigners, migratory working people, and diurnal toilers, nearer five than four millions of human beings. Thus a seventh of our entire island pala- tion is concentrated hero, and Lon on be- sides being the greatest ci is also the largest port of the earth, having become the sale-hall and store-house of the commodities and products of the whole globe. Exchanges, bourses, markets, all the ramifications of finance, and all the countless lines of com- merco concentrate in our prodigious capital. The busiest and biggest towns of the mid- land and the north are scarcely more than back-offices and counting houses to its enor- mous imperial life. Their citizens coming up en music for a holiday to “see London,’ would be lost in its roaring thoroughfares like rivulets in the ocean. The banks and businesses depend upon Lombard strco and Threadneedlo street, as the limbs and extremities of the body live and move by the actlon of the heart.â€"London Telegraph. .1 Fireman in Flames. The Cape May express on the IVest Jer- sey Railroad left Camden at 3.20 .m., re- cently. Just after ing Westvil estaticn fireman Richard B cLsno began firing up. The engine was running at the rate of about thirty-five miles an hour, and the engineer was lookin out ahead. Pretty soon the engineer noticed that he was alone in the caboose. Then he clapped en the brakes and brought the train up with a nary I’OCll’l turn. About a mile back McLsnc was found with his clothes in a blau. While firin ups spark from the furnace lodged on fiis oily blouse, and in an in- stant it was fanned into a flame. lie at tempted to extinguish the flame, which was shooting into his face and s ered out of the caboose and fell over. The fall did not kill him, although it partisll stunned him. He gained his feet with di culty, and, in his ony, clutched at his burning ts. Tum ling over the iron rails, hero ed down a rites embankment into a clump of brierr. Ilere ewes found senseless and with the fire eating into his bod . Several of the passengers tore the ole es from him and thus extinguished the fire. The man was placed ins carsnd carried to Woodhulz; where his injuries were attended to. ' left arm, iudplaoes, were burned to a crisp, and his lies and face was badly gushed. His rightarm was broken in two places, and charred r is and bruises covered his wholsbod . eLenehas arugged consti- tution, an may pull through. Now, in England it is not an unusual thing. Twelve years ago there were pro» bably half ahundred engaged in the busi- ness in different country town: near London and Manchester. There are not so many now. They've got rich and retired. I sup- pose l'm really the only one who ever went into the business here." “How do the womiu auctioneers begin 2" "In the first face, they're not called auc- tioneers in Eng nd. They're rules-ladies. They get a regular license from the city authorities or country authorities, and thrn start out for themselves. The license is in- dispensable, however. Thcy go about from town to town on regular tours. Sometimes they stay a day in (no plsco and sometimes a month, according totho business they find. They don’t care anything about the regular store-keepers. It doesn’t affect the auction trade at all whether the town has one or a dozen stores. Indccd, I have known many cases where the townspeople went to the auctioneer to buy rather than to the regular storekeepers. They found more enjoyment in it and more bargains." ‘But do they get bargains 2" “Well, that depends upon how you look at it. They get all their money's worth, but of course they don‘t. get things as cheap- ly as it would seem they do. It is one of the arts of the Cheap John business to make people believe they’re getting goods cheap. It is different from ordinary aucticiiecriiig. In the latter the auctioneer begins at the lowest bids and talks the goods up too high- er price. The sales-lady in the auction busi- ness, on the other hand, begins with the top figure and lots tho price slide down until the purchases thinks he has got the article real cheap. That’s one of the beauties of the Cheap John." ”Can women sell goods as well as men I" “\Vcll, I should say they could. Many a time I've seen a man turn away from non of our male assistants without buying anything, and I’ve brought him back and sold him a good order by simply running down to him and wishing him good-day or good-night, saying I was sorry we could not sell him anything, and hoped he’d call again. Man is a peculiar creature. A little soft soap goes a good way with him." “\Vhat salary do the women get 2” "They don’t work on salary as a. rulo. They get ncommission of ten cents on the dollar for everything sold, where they are engaged by a. proprietor. As a. general thing, however, they own their own waggons, and ccnsequcntly the profits go into their pockets directly. That system is very agree- able, as you will readily admit. When I first came to New York with my husband, thirteen years ago, I was introduced to ii. Chathnm street Cheap John, who offered me $10 a week on the spot. In two “'Ctki I was getting $20. But I liked being my own boss better, so I bought out n. waggon near Harlem bridge. That waggon is there yet. It is now a photogrrphic inschino for the manufacture of tin-typcsâ€"‘thrce for a quar- ter and a perfect likeness, or money return- ed.’ Wo did is rushing business there for a while, until my husband fell sick, and I had to give the place up. Afterward I started an auction stand in Pittsburg. and ran it for six months. until my husband went back to Europe. Since my return to New York the Cheap John business seems to have expired. I can’t find nstore of the kind an where. There is room for a good one on the owcry, I know. There will be plenty of money in the scheme, and I’m oing to start it as soon as I get the cnpi together again. In the meantimes, as you see, I have gone into the lace business. That's a line I was per- fectly green at two months ago, but I have built up quite a little trade at it. I have many customers on tho west side of the town. I go about with this box of samples, and I sell to houscwivcs the material for chrtnins and tidies and bureau covers. Sometimes I take part payments, at regular intervals, and sometimes I sell for cash. I can get goods on credit from many of the big houses. They find I'm good for the order, and us it pays me, why naturally it pays them to have me not as a sort of local or travelling agent. I believe that women can at along if they’ll only make up their min s to make the at- tem t and dspend on themselves. Just wait till open my place in the Bowery, and you can come and sue me at work in my old profession. I’ll show New Yorkers thcfino art of anctioncerin . and, incidentally, I'll have a full pocket- ook to exhibit as proof thata woman can boa success as the com- I petitor of the male auctioneer."â€"Neio York . Paper. wd-‘mwâ€" WHO IS BOSS f Wisdom of the Canadian Methodists on tho Marriage Question. Tho Canada Methodists have madoa mov in the right directionâ€"n move which shows that the Methodists arc the clearest-handed people in the world, and have the courage of their convictions. They have deliberately stricken the awful word "obey" from the marriage service; and after this all the women of tho planet will build up Methodist churches. The reasonleiuco, made an unprccctlontfd catch. for taking this startling step is obvious. It is an old rule that we can do best what wo know how to do; and since woman don't know how to obey, and are the hardest people in the world to teach to obeyâ€"some of thorn not learning up to their dying hour â€"tbe Methodist determined not to handicap the feminine gender in thoso little domestic difficulties which are sure to arise in every well-regulated household, and to give wo- men an open field and fair play. Further- more, it is not the business of too Church to teach women to utter a falsehood on the] SUNDAY SMILES. , ‘ People are getting so superstitious now that it would not be surpriu any Sand ' to see the deacona using the fill: punch with the watribution-box. A sad eyed humorist writes us: “There is one department of your paper that is very interesting, and yet always t ‘0 long. It is the death column." . f A New Jersey man has been jailed for having fourteen wives. lie should. insf‘éad, | be awarded a chronic for patience. Jab 1K wouldn‘t have won his rrpuution if he had . bad fourteen wives. 5 “No.“ said Mr. Cirrfizlboly, “I nvvrr ,asy a good word of any man. How do I 3 know but Ill‘ will be up for (dice some day or other! I ain't ‘omg to out myself off from the privilege of lsmpsoning a candidate, . l not if I know myself." "I have my opinion of a min who tries to boat a street railroad company out of his fare," said the man who was coming don-ii- town the other day, " ml I cover try to do it except when I am short of ccntribuliin- box change on a Sunday morning." ll:cton girls have brcn prohibited by the priests frtin selling their hair. If this pro- hibition should extend to othrr of tho hair- producing countries, it would not bu long ere pino-upplo cuts would become fashionable among the ladies of America. It is sail that theru are four thousand more clergyman in the Church of l-Iuglind than can find anything to do. This In tho most encourazing news that we have heard for years. We have no idea that the people of Great Britain had become so good that preaching is no longer necessary. Ur is it that they are past praying for! He came into our sanctum last Tuesday morning with a beautiful Thanksgiving poem. He was dressed in scaly block, were a plug hat, bzulu mole on his chin, and slanimcred in his spcrcb. If this (Inscrip- tion meets the eyes of any of his friends, we hope they will sand for his romaine, which at present fill a bushel linskct 2n our cool- :n. A fond Cincinnati father tells of hisd- year-boy who was presrnfud with a trumpet. with which ho was greatly infatua'ml. All day the boy rooted away dolightudly. hlhl at bedtiiiio when his graudmotlirr tilil him to put the trumpet down and my his pray- crs, the littlo frllow said: " Oh, no, I‘ll til you who: let's do, giaii'inu : you pray and I'll keep on blowing." if i . a«->» . .. Wuriiod of Death by ii Partridge. The mystery attending tho dmtli of Lifayctto Cook at South Auburn, Me, in no no Iltffil'LI' solution than it was at first. 'l‘lH' coroner has failed to show any physical cause for death, and is conviiimd that tho old man did not. take poison. The men who watched with Cook on tho Sun lay night say that the only movement of the body during the night was a slight expansion of his chest occasionally. Thu death flutter was noticed at 7.55 next inoiiiiug. Cook was fifty yours of ago. 11-3 Ind worked in cnn room for five years, making overalls, and was much reduced in flash. At the time of his death no innisturo oxudud from his mouth or eyes. A rolntivu says that for two weeks prior to his death he had predicted that rvc-nt. on the day on which it occurred, and went into a trance at that tiniu. Nearly two months prior to his own death, Cook had atteiilud the funeral of an only daughter whom be greatly loved, and very soon after predicted his own death. It. was one morning, when a. grandchild came running into the bonus and said that; a part- ridge had flown into tho \vosdslicd and could mt got out. Cook was greatly dis- turbed ovur this llll ovinml iniiuh four, tiiiii‘iig pale and ti'cinblin: violently. The child and a. son‘in-law of Ciok’s nttciiiptcd to catch the partridge, but; tin: bird "show- cd fight" and ovadcd tliciii. Tue sou-in- law thin started for his gun, but Cook in- torfurcd to saw the bird’s life. The most singular part of tliu affair is the changed conduct of tho pm'triilgn tuwm-il Cook, which is vouched for by Alr. Unus- ley. Tho sond'ii-luw says that as soon as Cook wont into tho shod, the bird flow to- ward him and flow in lIUll‘Cltl about his feet. She sat on his shoulder llllll [)L‘rUklltl at his face. lllll afterward iiliglitod on his hands The bird was placed on tho floor and soon repeated the inovununts. It was then placed in a tree mar tho liouso, Cook forâ€" bidding any ono to shoot it. It runainud in that; vicinity, imiiiifostiiig all the tiiiio (b i'. Cook was near the utmost affection for him, “purring" and piping, purtrhlgu-likc. li‘iiial- ly, it flow away in tho direction of the burying-groun'l vvlioro Mrs. ka was buri- od. Sorii uftor tho bird departed Cook full into a trancs and remained unconscious for ten hours. ____ . ._... ~..__..._ .____.___ Cuii ii Mother Forget lloi' Child! Can a mother forget her child! From a story at the Thames police court recent» ly, it seems that sho can. The mother in question has a son in tho royal iizivy. To her came a young man asking for l'nlgings no a friend of her son‘s, bucsuso ho was sun: that " the mother of such a man must ha a good woman." The mother was favorably impressed, and, captivated by his pleasant ways, took him in~â€"iii another scnsu. Find- ing her so cruululoun, he told her a week later that ho “could keep up the door: ilion nolongcrâ€"thntliowasliimsulf tho-long almost son." Ilcr objections to this nsnortion-â€"-tlw.t he was shorter and darker than llt‘l‘ sonâ€"- were explained away by tho statement that a foreign clinmto had changed his color, flllfl that “ hard campaigning liml piillml him down ;" and when the good woman's husband called her “ ii fool for not knowing livr own boy " film was convinced. S's tlm tutti-d ("III was killed. A day or two latur, having ob- tiinud from the too crcdiilous mother the sum of £50, the young man went forth and never returned. Than the inotlv-r i- (.3 .xml alcttcr from tho goiiuiiic son, and to tho truth came out. Tnu story is it good lllll’llrll' ties of the all proverb us to the proportion- ate strangouiss of truth and heliumâ€"Sf. um"- ”'- ‘h 1‘11“”. i. ”a... A .‘icwburg Fish fury. A Ncwburg fisherman of Homo local famu, ¢-o-â€".. a '. go to work to. who was fishing at Little Pool a few days He had throw ii his line for out into tho pond, and after waiting a inorm-nt received is bitn which made his eyeballs jlirglc. llu know thorn were no sturgmn in the p'md, and whip the supposed fish struck tnu hook it fairly paralyzed him. lie sour recovers-l his equilibrium, however, rind uommuicml roclin ' in the monitor of the deep. As tho end 0 the line camo near his boat than: was a fluttering sound, and to his horror and as- ' tcnisliincnt there arose from the water and .startnd to fly skyward a murmur luon or “ llhllv'lll‘cl'.” fjur brave fisherman " play- threshold of mugged life, and since no no ell " him in the air for a few moments and man was ever known to keep her solemn than landed him stile in the bait. 'l'iiu covenant of obedience, the problem has fowl probably dovo‘for affair which at tho been {W 3:11", and the entirely unnecel. same tlmc to’ilt the llnlwrman'rl liltlt, and fl;- husbsnd in holy wrath. ”mustn't there be a head to evrry family, and can the family be run without a head any more than a manu- factory 3" Most assuredly, our simple- minded friend. There must be a bass, and by this time, unless you are pusing through the sweet illusions of the bone mean, you have learned who that boss is, 'on? 021, nol She! Oh, yell flow absurd, then. to make the person who begins by promis- ing herself that she will be boss, and who always keeps that momise. swear at the al- tar that she will obey 2 Things are coming out right at last, and the new eneiation will begin married life by aw ng to do just what they have always done since Eve told Adam to bite into the apple, and, like a true husband. he did it. â€"â€"â€"â€"-‘”<-MO.â€"â€"â€" A Vermont man who went to a neighbor‘s barn to steel a cow was disgusted to find when he got the animal home that it was his own cow, which his neighbor had stoeln earlier In the evening. He says his neigh- bor is a confounded thief. vow left out. " But," cries the excited . gather with the fish swallowed the book. â€" nâ€"<--.O--¢.Oâ€"â€"o.â€"â€"_â€"..._.. l lloiv Slip lini-w. , Iloâ€"" llzfoie you give my old overcast to lthat beggar, my dear, liavl you not l.:ttrr 5 look through the pockets 3" Sheâ€""When till] you wear it lost 3” lieâ€"“The latter part of last March, I think." Sheâ€""Then I know there's nothing in the . pockets." lleâ€""llow so 7" Salim-“Because that was before you stop- l ped drinking."â€"I‘hilndelpliiu Cuff. 1 § “ It was pitched without," said a clergy- , man having Noah's srk for his theme, and an old base-ball player who had been gmlml slumbcring awoke with a start and yell "foul." The lint bass from the ! choir came down and put him out. We”. l Texas claims a goose sixty-five years old, ‘The Baltimore Dav wants to know when: first goose was during the war. J’M’