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'~F" ^ ' "** 2T - : 1 Jr *"v. $*r, #»• fli' HEATHKR IMLOOM. When autumn breezes Crisply bl< &nd autumn suns are mellow. When tiiajilr leaves begin to plow, And all tire woodland spaces sho^fev Their nomn of ivrt uid vellow. I>s. •» " •'" 4 * gjj£ i IJdrop my knitting on my knees,*^7 I fold my bands together, And far beyond the maple trees, And far norowe ib" rolling seas, 'I smell the moorland heather. !'A i frjlt : •' i* :Wl- The purple heather, blown about . JBy warm wiudn off tfcs border ~~*^^5™-""? .Alt, me! what memories blossom 5K_ 1 "What ordered thoughts are pit to rouf "~»" In tremulous disorder-- 4 » | . -. .. _-*Cl By just a color in the air,' ; , r »r An atmospheric glamor-- . That, ej>itc of wrinkles and gray but,* * - Has thrilled old heart-beats unaware * With new and noisy clamor, .: JPirpt love is sweet. It came to me In breezy autumn weather; __ A<sross the moor the wind swept fr«l, Warm shone the sun where I and to gat lcnee-deep in the he*tJ»«r y A waving, iragrant sea, it spreaa • All round in purple splendor; White clouds went sailing overhea A|(krk was soaring, when he said *• I low you," low and tender. 1 wondered, dumb with glad pnrprta?, Couldlhave heardhim clearly ? :' iBe saw the blissful color rise. , Be drew me, Mssing lips and eyes-- < ' ** Ymi kiwtw I fave pou dearly J" •<" And earth and sky seemed eeholng • " Those words of sweetest meaning; blackcock trilled them on the wing, t Trie very blossoms seemed to ring, While, on his bosom leaning, I built the airf towers that youth Can fashion so sublimely; o Nor dreamed how love would end in rutb, Vor joy that had no root in truth, .•)And hope that died untimely. - • ' , * Hta grave was made long years ago Beneath his English willows; Tar Kiv the scarlct maples glow. And evermore between us now ' " T^he wide Atlantic billows. My life has had its share of gain, , Mo less perhaps than losses; Ita:pleasure has alloy of pain, But haply I have learned to train Some flowers around my crosses. And still, when maple boughs are red In breezy autumn weather, Once more the moorland ways I trmd; Once more I hear the words he said That day among the heather. --Scribnfr far October. A CUT IS THE DARK* "I've been abouta bit in my time, sir, sure enough," says our second officer, as We look over the rail of the 44 look-ottt bridge" upon the floating masses of Weed that dapple the smooth surface of the Sargasso Sea ; 44 and I've had some queer adventures, too. If you care to near one as a sample (as there's a quar­ ter of an hour or so lefi of my watch on . deck) I'll give it you. " " It's a good many years ago now since Lwas at Victoria (in Australia, you ow), and, of course, like everybody else, I must try my luck at the diggings. You may think it a queer thing for a fel­ low to be digger and sailor turn about; put that happens oftener than you think, too. But in those days it was rough 1- T -^r i.„ll railways or' beaten roads then ; just a dfettle-track through the bush, and every thing to be carried by wagons, in some places through mud up to the very axle* We used to travel in great gangs then, |nst like a caravan going through the aesert; so that if Jack got stuck fast, Tom and Jim and Sam would come up and lug him out; and if eight oxen - oouldn't drag a load trough, they'd , harness three eights to it but they'd do It somehow. In those days I've known transport to go as high as £120 a ton ; and £. ton was sometimes just about as " much as two horses could manage, over gnch a mashed-potato Kind of soil as they had of it up country. „ "Then, you see, this traveling in gangs told in another way ; it was a sort Of security against being bailed up £obbed) by the bushrangers, who were #>outthen as thick as beetles in a sugar- Oask. Now-a-days, of course, it's a dif­ ferent thing ; but in my time, if a fellow went up the country by himself, or only two or three with him, he was pretty safe lb have to say a word or two to Frank tirdiner on the road." 44 Frank Gardiner! was he there then ? X know his name well enough. A friend of mine got cleaned out by him two day's i|iaxch from the nearest township, and lie begged for just enough to keep him when he got in. So Gardiner handed Imn^ back three dollars, and filled Ms 'baccy pouch for iiim into the fear- , "Ay, that's Frank all oVer ; he was vpty fond of that style. I 'remember hearing of a lady that begged hard to 4b$ allowed to ransom her watch, because her husband's miniature was iu the back of it, wiien what does Master Frank do totat hand it back to her, free gratis for nothing, saying, * it should never be sltid that Gardiner ever gave a lady any cause of distress.' And, d.*ye see, that was a wide-awake game of his, too ; for when he did get cotched (as he did at last, sure enough) then a lot of these folk that he'd been civil to spoke up for him, and said he warn't as black as he painted. " But, for all that, it wasn't bad fun in ' those days--for them at least as could rough it, and didn't want hot water and blacked boots every morning. You just brought a sack of flour with you, and a small cask of whisky, and mayhap a chest of tea (tea's a great stand-by in the bush), and then you were independent of both baker and bar-keeper, so loni? as vour > ftoclc held out. As for meat, it wasn't so dear as vou'd think on a log in fflreek, or spout me a bit of Homer, or some of those old chaps, for |il I the education I ever got was a very ,different sort, ^ad I don't know a B €rom ft bull's foot in either Greek or Jjatin. ' * 44 But what I liked best was hearing him sing, for he had a fine, clear pipe of Iris own ; and he wrote his own songs, too, he did--words and music and all. There was one I liked specially, because It was just my own way of iluukiug put into words ; and it went to the tune of > I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tre»?.' Iiiiudc hizn give me a copy, arul here His: Y-V " This world is a good one In its wty, - ,, - ' ̂ If you \vfll but take it fair; i Whenever Uie sun shines, make your hay, • And laugh at sorrow and care. Aid wbat if at tinges the sky turns black, And down comes pelting rain? Just wait, and you'll see the sun come back, And all will go rights again ' •^•Wherever we go there is work to be done, Then do it, and never sav die; T» ere isn't a thing beneath the stin "• ; , 'That's worth a whine or a sigh. So never you fret when things go wrong, For it's useless to complain ; Just set your teeth and hammer along, . Till all comes right again" " Well, we worked together, hini and me, for a spell of four months or so, and did pretty well, take one day with another --notlxing very tremendous, but quite enough to keep our pipes alight. At last, one fine day, we happened on a fine rich ^pocket, and made a very tidy haul; and the news of it got about (rolling up as it went, as a story always does) till we got 'the name of being lucky una. And that, mark ye, is just about ttie worst name you can get at the diggings ; for if a fellow's overburdened with money there, there are always plenty of kind 'Christians to relieve him of it, and, if he don't see it in -their way, to let light into his undcrstand= ing with a big knife. But as the thing was done, why, it couldn't be helped, and the only thing then was to change the best part of our gold into notes of the Sydney Bank, and carry them always about us. "Well, sir, just about this time I •oticed three fellows loafing about, whom I hadn't seen before ; for, you see, this gully of ours was a small place at best, with not many in it, so that you could spot a new face directly. They weren't quite the sort you'd have liked to meet out on the loose after dark, a good way from home, that's a fact. One was a long, skinny, black-haired fellow, with a com­ plexion like a bad cucumber, whom I took to be a Greek ; the second was a tall, bony, sly-looking Yankee, with a very vicious look in the corner of his eye ; and the third was a great hulking, red-headed beast, with a broken nose and one eye, precious like a lag (convict)-- which was just what he was, as I after­ wards found out. They planted their tent not very far from ours, and tried to scrape acquaintance with us a bit ; but I kept as clear of them as I could, and warned my mate to do the same ; not that he needed much warning, for he liked the cut of their jibs as little as I did. " However, it's not yery easy to be stand-offish at the diggings, especially if you're naturally fond of company, like me ; and by dint of doing us little turns every now and then, and always having plenty of liquor going, these tliree beau­ ties managed to get pretty thick with us at last. The Yankee and the Englishman had a hail-fellow-well-met way with 'em that rather took my mate, and me too, after a bit, but I never could quite fancy the Greek. For, d'ye see, I'd had a taste of their quality up the Levant, and was quite of the same mind a« the old saying, 'The Greek wines steal all heads, the Greek women steal all hearts, and the Greek men steal everything.' " Well, it happened one day that I was left alone in'the tent (my partner had gone to meet some stores that were com­ ing up from the township for us) when up comes this big red-haired chaji, and asks me to come over in the evening and •have a glass of grog with him and his pals. It was a murdering hot day, and the very mention of grog made me lick my lips like a dog in front of a butcher's shop; besides, there was nothing in our tent worth taking, and even if there had been, I knew I should be back again long before dark; so, as you may suppose, the short and the long of it was--that I went! " I found the three beauties sitting at their tent-door, seeming to have knocked off work pretty early. For at the dig­ gings, you see, cftie don't find many watch­ es about; a fellow just looks up at the sun, and says, ' Must oe towards noon-- I'll have a bite of snmmut!' or else, 4 Sun's only a foot high now--time to knock off!' You never heard anything of half-hours or quarter-hours among us --not you! " Well, they gave me a great welcome, and told me to sit down and make my­ self comfortable ; and we had a regular jollification. The Yankee spun some ?ueer yarns that made us all lauph, and sang 'em one or two of iuf mate's songs; and, altogether, we were as thick as thieves. At last the sun began to go down ; and then I thought it was about time for me to be stirring. " ' Gammon !' says , the big sandy- haired chap. * The bush ain't run dry yet; what the blades are you in such a hurry for V " *You stop little bit yet, Johnny,' says the Greek (these heathens always call everybody Johnny, you know), ' by- 1 by we hab supper, little game cards play ' eh?' "And with that he gave mo a tap on think it very good, but, in reality, I managed to spill most of it into my beard, which was a good thick 'un. But: by the drop or two I did swalow, I tasted that it was drugged, just as I thought. "So then I said good night, and came away wishing very much that my partner would turn up, for I didn't much \ik«- the idea of having these three beauties on my hands all at once. However, when I got to the cent, there was no sigti of him, so I lighted a candle (for it was pretty iark by this time) and sat down to tailor up my clothes a bit, by way of passing the time. " I'd been working about an hour, as near as I could guess, when I bethought myself that if I kept the light burning, they might pot me through the canvas ; for, with a light behind you, your shadow shows through a tent just like through a blind ; so I lay down on my blanket, took off my jaoket and put it under my head, and then blew out the light, and waited. ' " I don't know how long I lay there in the dark (it seemed long enough to me, I know that), when, all at once, I heard somebody breathing close by the tent. I had heard no footstep, nor any­ thing of that sort; but my ears are pretty sharp (especially when my life depends on keeping 'em cocked), and I was sure I heard this breathing. " ' Here they come!' thought I, and fisted hold of itfy revolver, when--blest if I hadn't forgotten to load it! " " There was no time to think about it. The very next moment I heard the can­ vas quietly ripped, and a hand came sliding in, right toward the place where my head had been a minute before, and where my clothes (and the belt with 'em) ought to be. "Now, there was a big log on that side of the tent, and I'd nailed the can­ vas to it to keep it firm, and over this log the ht»nd came creeping. I watched till the wrist showed white in a stray gleam of moonlight that came through the hole, and then grabbed my hatchet and came down with one good blow that chopped the hand clean off! " Then came a yell that I never heard the like of, and a sound of feet patter­ ing away. I ran to the door and looked out; but the fellow's screech had roused the whole camp, and there was such a rush from all the tents--some in their shirtsleeves, some in their stocking- feet, and many with nothing on at all-- that I had no chance of seeing which way my man went. In the crowd I caught sight of a man I knew,and sang out to him: " ' Sam, my boy, come into my tent for the rest of the night, and I'll stand you a quart!' " ' Done with you, ' says he, and in he came, and we kept watch till sunrise. But nothing came near us, and about daybreak my partner turned up. So then I too'i my revolver, and went to look after my three beauties; but, just ss I expcctcu, they and then* tent were clean gone, and I never saw any more of 'em. " Now, then, here comes my relief; so I'll just go down and turn in." The Greek Husband, Olive Harper writes to the St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat of life in Greece : Here is indeed, in one respect, the "promised I land" for the women, for more devoted husbands women never had. A Greek man is only content when he can lavish upon his wife all the luxuries in the way of dress the female heart can desire. He is only happy when, in company with his wife in the house, in the street, ®r on the promenade, she is the best dressed of all the fair. With the Greek husband there is no grumbling consent to bestow upon you enough to buy a pair of boots, while he spends ten times that amount with his friends in champagne suppers ; Ho long-drawn visage as he doles out a stingy sum while delivering a solemn lecture as to female extravagance. Not a bit of it. On the contrary, the Greek husband does not lead his wife through by-streets for fear of dry goods stores, when she wishes to go out for a little walk. He leads her, on the contrary, past the most fashionable stores, and observes with the eye of the critic all the new styles, and is really (ladies), re­ ally and truly willing to spend his money for liio own wife. jEveii for fear she should ndt be considered as lovely as some one else, he goes to a perfumer's, he buys cold cream, rice powder, deli­ cate pink for cheeks a little blanched by the stern realities of motherhood,; he buys a little black for eye-laslies, to brighten eyes that have become some­ what dimmed by tears, perhaps, or vig­ ils over sickly babies, and he not only gives his full and free consent to their use, but he liimself will artistically ap­ ply them, and afterward compliment his wife upon her beauty till her heart swells with love that he knows so well ho# to retain, fresh as when the first vows were plighted. Yes, of a verity, the Greeks are bad men, but good hus­ bands and tender fathers. 1 l 4 ; many'sthe time I ve bought a pound for a sixpen<k And 0 x, after a hard day s work, when you'd got | the side with the back of his hand, as if into dry things, and shoved a good al- j iu play. It was no more than any man lowance of damper and mutton down might have done ; but it struck me all at your throat, with a gl ss or two of grog | once that he did it to feel if I wore a to send it «lown, and you lay by the fire I belt; for, in that climate, men don't on your blanket, smoking your pipe, I wear thick leathern belte under their why, you wouldn t call the Emperor of ! clothes for the fun of it; and, if I had Rooshia your father. one, there was safe to be something in it. " My nmte was a young man from > " Well, this put me more and more on Trinity College, Dublin, and a right' my guard, and I began to think I'd bet- good fellow he was. I never knew how , ter uot have come at all, as one always he came to that pass, for he was mighty does when it's too late. However, to close about his past life, as most of that sort are ; but I suppose he'd just fooled away his money, like many another, and then had to shift for himself. But, for all that, lie could do a day's work with any man out; and instead of being down in the moutli whenever anything went wrong, or grumbling and grunting be­ cause everything wasn't like a London hotel, he was always whistling and Bing- ing over his work, and laughing and cracking jokes, so that it was quite a treat to see him. It used to be great fun for me sometimes, when the day's work , was done, and we were having our pipes by the fire, to make him chalk my name make the best of a bad job, I up and said I'd had a vetry jolly evening, and must have another Soon; but that now I'd got to go and see if my partner had turned ^ up yet; for I thought they wouldn't be so game to play any tricks if they fancied they'd got two men to deal with. So then Master Greek sajra tome: " 'Well, Johnny, you take parting glass before you go; tnat much proper.' " And with that he opens a fresh bot­ tle, turning his back while he did it. I guessed directly what lie was up to, but 11 never let on that I'd spotted him; and 11 pretended to smack my lips over it and THE losses by the French inundations amounted to 24,000,000 francs, and 18,- 000,000 francs have already been col­ lected by subscription. Of this sum about 1,500,000 francs go from abroad. England has furnished 700,000 francs; Switzerland, 300,000 francs; Alsace-Lor­ raine, 200,000 francs, and micellaneous subscriptions in Europe, 300,000 francs. The largest contributors in France, pro­ portionately, are the inhabitants of Cette, which cit$ containing 25,000 souls, has given 75,000 francs. Among depart­ ments, the Gironde stands" foremost with 1,050,000 francs. IJELMONICO PUDDING.--One quart of toflk ^liroe even tablajtooonfulls oPcora flour, mssolved in calf milk ; the yelks of live - agra; Hix^j^blespoqpifuls of sugar. Boil three or<,Mnr mjluipes ; pour into a i%ld'iig-diH^d baKW about half an Irour^ Beat the whites of the eggs with six tablespoon fuls of sugar ; put it over the top and return the pudding to the oven till it is a nice light brown. This is very good eatencold. CARET the news to Mary and the other girls! Ahmed-Fedji-Gwalir, one of the most powerful Rajahs of the East Indies, has retained a large suit of apartments at the Grand Hotel in Paris. He is enormously rich, unmarried, and very handsome--a trifle bronze-colored, per­ haps, but that's nothing. Poor fellow ! Let him look oat. Forewarned is fore- Ahmed. --LUer- Ocean. A POLBLE TRAGEDY. Wtte-MnMtor a«Mt Sufcld«Near ir«r Bruns­ wick, N. J, " ' Mention has already been made of the attempted wife murder and suicide by Prof. Garland at New Brunswick, N. J. Late New York papers furnish us with additional particulars of this strange affair, and the following facts have been made public: The Professor was verging on 50, Hi* wife being only a few years his junior. Their married life extended over twenty yea s. For two years things have gone badly between Garland and his wife, arising from an insane and utterly groundless feeling of jealousy of his wife on the part of the Professor. He became jealous ot' her cousin, a boy still i in his teens, who was taking musical lessons from the Professor himself. Within the last month his attitude toward his wife became positively brutal. He would come home drunk and abuse and beat her. Finally things came to such a pass that the wife took the neces­ sary steps to procure a legal separation, which was granted her a short time since, and on the day of the occurrence Mrs. Garland was to have opened* a music store with her son Alfred, and the breaking up of the family was to take Slace. What fellowed is taken from the few York Herald : "On Sunday last the family met as usual at the table. The Professor at­ tended the Second Reformed Church, where he played the organ. Mrs. Gar- laud took her,place as usual in the choir of St. James' Methodist Episcopal Church. < t Ysstsrdfty nidrxiinpj (KP entirs f&niily pat down to breakfast. Between 7 and 8 o'clock he left the store andjproceeded to his store in Albany street, New Bruns­ wick. Breakfast over, Mrs. Garland fin­ ished packing up the furniture she pro­ posed removing with her. About 10 o'clock her husband returned to the house, but went away soon after, with­ out saying or doing anything noticeable. He returned at a few minutes after 12 o'clock, and, after walking around the hous« abstractedly several times, en-" tered the dwelling by the kitchen door. Mrs. Garland was there with, her daugh­ ters packing up. The Professor wore a very strange look, and had something in his hand, which subsequently proved to be a Colt's seven-barreled revolver. Sud­ denly he leveled his weapon at Mrs. Garland's head and fired, the ball enter­ ing her mouth, crashing away her teeth, and passing out through the back of her neck. The horrified lady, almost para­ lyzed with dread, sank on her knees be* fove her murderer. " ' Oh, James, James, for God's sake, don't kill me !' implored Mrs. Garland, but her husband shot her while on her knees, the ball entering her head. Then Miss Anna, a daughter of 14, courage­ ously sprang forward and thrust aside her father's right hand in which he still grasyed the revolver. Before he could fire at his wife a third time, she, with a desperate effort, sprang from the house into the yard, and there dropped ap­ parently dead. The Professor darted from the kitchen, sprang up-stairs to his room, threw himself on the bed, leveled the revolver at his own head and fired. The ball lodged just over the right eye. Finding himself still alive, he took a pen knife from his pocket and slashed open his throat, inflicting a frightful wound, breaking the blade of the pen knife in his frenzy. This did not kill him, so he rushed into the hall, procured a hammer and then crushed in his skull, making a hole twice the size of a silver dollar. Soon after this his son Alfred, who was awa£ from home arrived, and, with the assistance of a Mr. Short, broke in the door of the Professor's bedroom, and there witnessed a sight wlricli "jaade their blood run cold. Sitting on the edge of the bed, his head and face, and shirt- front covered and streaming with blood, was Garland, utterly unconscious. The floor at the bedside was covered with gore, and the walls, and even ceiling, were bespattered with blood. It was ex­ pected that every moment he would breathe his last. His powerful physique, however, held him up. At about 4 o'clock he became conscious. 44 4 Is wife dead ?' he asked. 44 4 No, but she's ' 44 4 My God, I'm glad of that!' and ht> back." edition of 1873. In accordance with the said ruling, the card submitted was rendered sub­ ject to letter postage by the writing of the date on the side designed for the address, and hav­ ing been forwarded without the prepayment of such postage, it became liable to double the letter rates -- six cents. In collecting the above, however, the Postmaster at Chicaed should have deducted the one cent originauj paid for the card. THE FASHIONS. Why She Stopped Her Paper. She came bouncing through the sanc­ tum door like a cannon-ball, and without pausing to say 44 How d'ye do ?" she brought her umbrella down on the table with a mighty crash, and shouted: 441 want you to stop my paper." 44 All right, madam." "Stop it right off, too," she persisted, whacking the table again, 44 for I waited long enough for you to do the square thing." She quieted down fc^a moment, as we run our finger down ilM&pt of names, and when we reached her'Jimd scratched it out, she said: 44 There, now mebbe you'll do as you'd ought to after this, and not make light of a woman jes cause she's poor. If some rich folks happen to have a little red-headed, bandy-legged, squint-eyed, wheezy squaller born to them, you puff it to the skies, and make it out an angel; | but when poor people have a baby you | don't say a word about it, even if it's I the squarest-toed, blackest-haired, big- j gest-headed, nobbiest little kid that ever kept a woman awake nights. That's what's the matter, and that's why I stopped my paper." And she dashed out«s rapidly as she came. _ H«W Not to Address Postal Cards. A recent telegram contains the follow­ ing, which will doubtless be of interest to our readers: The Postoffice Depart­ ment received a letter to-day from a firm in Chicago, complaining that Six cents additional postage was charged them on a postal card sent to their address, on the face of which, in the lower left hand corner, were written the words, " Sept. 13, 1875." As many complaints of this character are received at the Depart­ ment, the following reply to the above letter is furnished for the information of the public: GENTLEMEN : In answer to your letter of the 15th inet., I have to state that, by a ruling of this Department, anything whatever, except an address, written or printed upon tliQ side of a jxxstal card intended for the address, renders such card unmailable, and the same cannot be legally forwarded, unices prepaid at the letter rate--three cents. If, by inadvertence, it reaches its destination without such prepayment, it is chargeable with double the letter rates, under Section 152, Postal laws """liif Styles In Dresses, Hats, lO&t' The 44 Cardinal" costume, says a New York fashion writer, seems to be attract­ ing considerable attention. 1 have not had an opportunity to examine it person­ ally, but the modistes assure us that it is becoming to all figures, economical in goods, and worn in all materials. The Gabrielle dress will be worn here this fall. The French ladies have already adopted it. The perfect figure can never be displayed to a better advantage than when attired in this robe. The stout fieure is not recognizable as the same which so lately appeared in the bunchy, unbecoming costume ; and thai, ladies, consider that you can get a styl­ ish dress out of ten yards of twenty- seven inch material, i am sure thai is something during these panicky times. I saw one trimmed all around the skirt, from the waist lengthwise, with broad velvet bands, ftnished at the ends with bows. The trimming on the waist and sleeves corresponded to that oa the skirt A popular polonaise worn just now is made with plain fronts, and but slightly raised sides. The back presents a more dressy appearance. This has a basque finish, with a full back breadth, forming a puff between the crescent-shaped ex­ tensions of the fronts, falling below in a full drapery, which is increased in effect by the addition of an elaborate sash. An insertion of silk ornaments the back of this showy polonaise. The sleeves may be of a darker shade of material than the body and are trimmed with side plait­ ing, double ruffles and dace to corres­ pond with other portions of the garment. This garment is exceedingly handsome in black cashmere combined with black silk. Long outside garments will be, worn. These are .ircular, plain polo­ naise, and paletot shape. Tne prevail­ ing colors of ladies' hose will be navy blue, seal brown, and cardinal red, worn in solid colors. The bonnet, as every woman knows, the principal article of her out-door toilet, is not likely to change muoh Bib- fore the month of October. Between this time and then the different flaring brims which distinguish both hats ana bonnets will be retained as the most de­ cided favorites, although such other shapes as the sailor hat, set far bade upon the head, and the drooping brim, which is modest and stylish, are found among popular varieties. There is at present no perceptible difference be­ tween hats and bonnets, except that dif­ ference which may be suggested by different Irimutiugb. Elderly ladies wear ribbon-strings, and matrons in middle life add any drapery of lace which may pass from the back of the hat, fastening beneath the chin. This style is generally becoming, be­ cause it softens the expression of {he lower part of the face. Often both rib­ bons and lace are omitted, and the masque veil, which still retains favor, is bordered with a scant ruffle of real lace. Low crowns are universally seen, and a shape which has recently made its appcarance is called the "plate," from the fact that it has no crown whatever. Milliners add simulated crowns made of ribbon, or velvet, and flowers, with usually a single ostrich tip added. The newest Derby hats, chosen for traveling purposes, are dark brown, and dark gray, as well as black. They are intended to be trimmed with a color matching that of the traveling dress, to which leading milliners add either a brilliant wing, or a slide, or buckle of filagree silver. Bot­ tle-green veils, of silk grenadine, are yet worn, either in masque form, or covering the hat A Victorious Sheep. While several gentlemen of this neigh­ borhood were out on a fox hunt one morning last week, one of the dogs saw a sheep a good way off and made for it as fast as lie could. Instead of running off, a? most sheep do when they see a dog coming, this one moved forward to mett his antagonist, with a determination to save his life if possible. Both ad­ vanced rapidly, and when witliin ten feet of each other the sheep sprung high into the air, and fell upon the dog with such force that he was knocked flat to ground. The dog succeeded in regain­ ing his feet, however, before the blow could be repeated, and ran off very fast, followed by the victorious sheep, jumping gullies and fences with as much activity as the dog. The chase was nearly three miles in length, and would in all probability have terminated in the death of the dog had not some children interfered. --Ham­ ilton (Goi) Visitor. A Broken Back Mended. The Manchester (N. H.) Union and American relates this instance of natural surgery: "A singular case is reported from Brentwood. Two or three years ago Mr. James Hoyt sustained an injury to his back, which was called a partial dislocation^ of the spinal column. In consequence the young man was par­ alyzed in the lower extremities, beftig un­ able to walk or stand. His ease was pro­ nounced incurable by the doctors. A few weeks since he had a fall, which ap­ parently came near proving fatal, but af­ ter recovering from the shock, it. was as­ certained that he could use his^ limbs, and can now walk a mile. He is now engaged at different kinds of work, and is gaming every day. Probably the fall replaced the dislodged fragment without injury to the spinal marrow." THE abundance of the harvest has be­ come a tame subject. Everything in that line is immense. Corn, broom- corn, sorghum, potatoes, melons, tur­ nips, etc., are better than ever we knew them in Kansas. It is quite common to hear such remarks as " Garden-spot of the World," 44 Garden of the Nation," by men who were talking of leaving the State ninety days ago. --Leavenworth Commercial. Do YOU know that if you spoil a stamped envelope when addressing it you can get the value in stamps by presenting it at the Postoffice ? You can. MOIXY MORIARTY. 4f. •r-\ •-fSv, tfMM- Molly Moriarty, Pink o f propriety, Since like ID icicle Molly HAS |iuwlf' Och, 'twas your eyes HO bine, Cut my poor heart In two, Each «. half of it. carried it oK Then when I spoke ot love, **?#»""• Swore by the stars above, - Sure, 'twas unkind of you, IMly,** soafe JS " * Oft at my cabin door, ; When the dull day is o'er, Sadly I sit and send sighs on ^ Rain from my weeping eyes i'ully a stream supplies, Where drink the cows that are grasefl'in tbeiflAs * Pigs in a pratie patch, - /• **•> Running a rootm' 11 Latch, Sow in the buttermilk drinldng her 111 • Cow in the c a b b a g e , ^ " . Making Had ravage* -- • Everything gone to destruction at ijBfc" " . Soon in the waters deep, , . , 11m's weary head shall sleep, ! ;;* „ Suckers and shiners shall nibble •jriSUBVlS!!?' Waves rolling o' er me, 1 Singing a lullab,. . • Or a sad requiem when the wind btomk t What's that you're sayin', joyt ' »• Tim, come and kiss me, boy 1" Here, honld my hat, while I skip tfo the Son* Come to my armn, my love, " Molly, my turtle dove, . ,/if.j Whoop! what a jewel you are to be rare. 1. Rth and Point. ̂ WHAT people can nover live long nor wear greatcoats? Dwarfs. IN what ship has the greatest numbed of people been wrecked? Courtship; • OIJE swallow doesn't always make,a summer, but it sometimes makes some err. WHAT pupil gets most punishment f The pupil of the eye, for it is continual-' fy under the lash. A SATimcAii writer in a German pog>er observes that if people go to apoth^a- ries because they are cheap then doctors, must be frightfully dear. _ MR. BENJAMIN GINNING some time' since presented the poor of the city of Liverpool with £200, upon which a w$g Wrote: 44 A good B. Ginning." A STORY is told of an Iriskmam who,; bound over to keep the peace agaityst al' her Majesty's subjects, exclaimed; 44 Then heaven help the first foreigner I meet 1" , I>R. NARRAMORB, of Kocheeter, ha» married a Miss Ella Fant--white, we be­ lieve. Paradoxical. For while he hftg, secured a white Ella Fant, sheisanEU^ Fant Narramore. ^ ' 441 NEVER sot my hand to jrritin' poe­ try till two years ago," said a young' man, tilting back in a grocery chair, • 44 but the minute I took to goin' wi#*, that Johnson girl, by gosh! I oouldn't help it." 44 CAPTAIN," said a son of Erin, as a' ship was nearingt t}ie coast in inclement weather, 44 Have ye an almenik on board?" 44 No, I haven't." 44 Then, be jabers, we shall have to take the weather as it comes." 44 THE kind of woman I particularly abhor," says an oH bachelor, 44 is the' one witii a spirit of disputation in her soul, who picks me up on the point of a sharp sentence as though 1 were a < dropped stitch in her knitting work." AN elegant dressed lady of some twen­ ty-five summers, in leaving the train at the Central depot the other day, re­ marked, 44 Well, I am here. For fifteen long, weary years I looked forward with anxiety to the happy period when, as with others, it would be my lot to go to the Falls, and at last it lias arrived, but--I had to comc alone."--Niagara FttMa Register. SAID a very email wren To a very large hen: " Pray, why do you make such a clatter* I never could guess Why an egg more or less ' ' Should be thought so important a Then answered the hen To the very small wren: " If I laid such small eggs as you, madam, I would uot cluck loud, Nor would I feel proud, Look at these! How you'd^erow it you had 'em!' --St. Nicholas for October/' THEY were husband aud wife, and as they stood before the soldiers' monu­ ment, she asked : 44 What's that figger on top?" 44That's a goddess," he an­ swered. 44 And what's a goddess ?" 44A woman who holds her tongue," he re­ plied. She looked sideways at him and began planning to make a peach pie with the pits in it for the benefit of his sore tooth.--Detroit Free Press. Elk-Shooting in Colorado. Elk are found in almost every part of the Park, generally in the timbered country or on mountain slopes, singly, and in bands of 10 and 15, according to, the season. With proper care they can be stalked as near as 150 yards, but a good hunter who 44 jumps" a herd at 500 yards will bag three-fourths of the number before they are out of range. When dressed they weigh 800 to 1,200 pouuds ; but as a dozen tall fellows, their shapely horns laid back, go crash­ ing and thundering through the thick pine forest, leaving a storm of branches and dust iu their wake, each elk may easily be estimated to weigh a ton. If wounded at close quarters in the timber, they are dangerous foes, and quick and accurate shooting is needed, unless the hunter prefers to climb a tree, which is an awkward predicament, detrimental to temper aud garments, and provocative of unfeeling remarks from comrades when one returns late at night to camp. The beauty and majesty of the stately crea­ ture require no description, and often will the hunter grieve over his glory laid low ; yet elk steaks and roasts are so nice, his hide makes such excellent buck­ skin, and his branching antlers form such an elegant trophy and memento, that tears are seldom shed at his demise. just Retribution. A man with a red goatee ran up to,,ft small crowd of men on Jefferson avenue yesterday aud stated that a man had fallen from the roof of a three-story building near the market. A hundred persons hurried to the spot, but found no sign of an accident. The man wirfi the red goatee came sauntering along, and when pitched into he replied : 44 And so a man did fail. He was right up there on that roof." 44 Where did he fall ?" was angrily de­ manded. 4'Down on the roof of that other building," was the reply. It was a distance of twenty inohes or so, and the joker was chased up an alley and driven over a board fence head first. --Detroit Free Press. k- k