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•r;. BT THB SBA. L"%", '&0,ama6* A. coq/tntairr^ i &: well! that one short suramtt pkitli hisn who «u the dearest half of Byf texistpinoe; that one oasis in the '?§*««* year of city Ufe! Howlikea Kwwt dream it was to wander oath* jerrf tmaofa and listen to the prompt!** thi* »p»1 He hafl sti eyp for soefeert, 11 stofcff entranced t» tear his eleqWW ictnre new beauties in thcsoueued »•!«, - ̂ Invest the hoary summits wfUha f"t "t * Crown of nobler grandeur. t ""' ••. • -y -'f *&¥<!•,*. Each morn the strn j ] feoee from a sea of flame, and, Wtaefc hte eoun ,̂ *"«« done, he threw a softened glory o)#r . • : le mountain tope and hid his radian ̂̂ Face behind* veil of roseate cloud. l̂ ike to a Nereid. I said, sinking To her stamber Heath a crystal Hk. Bat e. wrought npon by that power that move* 'o finer fancies, said me nay; bnt likened t to her, the Queen of beauty, whose rare Arms the Thracian bard ntola, when she draws crimson curtains fore her dowtoy bed , wow sweet statiber, * JJe sketched, with cn fTntiriag hand, each cavern. hafbor, rale. Cliff, hill, and, when there came a inmmm from §he city to return, we went--he, with , : is sketch-book loaded with the treasure# of is art; 1, with a brain full of idle SVutctas. He to his easel, to embody 't "} i that shauld c*ll forth th* applatwe of tl>ou- inds, id to win an honored name; I to my »dy and my books--to meet th? nnceasing Jftotind of duties, and to feed on thoughts and • ' fancies that were engendered in our one •1'! %hort, fleeting summer by th' Inspiring sea. Woowrrocx, m. , THE SPECTER* J'i' A Tmie •/ fcwwi Lmke. BY DB. LA MOIIXE. ,p' ' ' ____ flfcrenty years ago the country tfat- rounding the world's most beautiful Jgheet of water, Lake Seneca, in New mode, was beginning to be Inhabited by the whites. Scarcely half a century before Gen. Sullivan made his immortal march through the fair valleys of the Genesee region. Indians, though friendly, were frequent visitors still to their former haunts. There are traditions of there being a lead mine near Watkins, and a salt spring near Havana; but the red men have well kept their secrets, for the whites hare never unearthed these treasures. Havana and Watkins are now universally known as the locations of two of the finest glens in the world; they have their tens of thousands of visitors annually from all parts of tne civilized world. Among the first settlers in this region Were my grandparents. Some off-shoots of their family tree still remain on the spot of its first planting. Many inci­ dents I have heard told at 4he fireside upon a winter's eve. The following •yarn" is merely a thread of one of these ravelin gs from the web of life in a fey-gone and "heroic " age. About sixty year* ago the dwellers upon the shores of the lake and its few mariners had frequent sights of a strange apparition. It seemed to be a tall, slim, dark-skinned man, with head looking down, arms folded tightly over a large cloak, and he appeared to walk upon the water. The .uncanny thing, whatever it was, eeemed to be at the mercy of the winds and waves. It would be down at Geneva, at the foot of the lake, one evening, and before next morning at Watkins, forty miles away, at the head of the lake. From the fact that it was never twice found in the same place, it was called the "Wandering Jew." Some of the mow poetical, or the more ignorant, of the whites started a «tory that it was the ghost of one Jabez "Lyon, a sailor who had been knocked overboard during a midnight tempest the preceding winter. By the way, Seneca lake has two remarkable proper­ ties; one is, it never freezes in winter {two seasons ago, however, was the only exception known to that indispensable person in a community, the " oldest in­ habitant"); the other is, whoever is drowned in the middle of the lake, after once sinking, never comes to the sur­ face. Thus, though Lyon's body was lost, his friends thought his spirit feecome somehow changed, perhaps, we might say, petrified, and so was still roaming over the lake. The Indians, who once in a while vis­ ited the lake, declared that it was none but the apparition of their ancient chief, Colfilgo, who was a distant relative of Brandt, or Thayendenaga, the Mohawk warrior, well known, execrable in the wars. Colfilgo had been mortally wounded in the battle of Newtown, fought between the Indians and Sulli­ van's troops, upon the right bank of the Chemung river, near where is now the flourishing city of Elmira. Colfilgo traveled with his retreating and dis­ heartened warriors as far as his strength would possibly allow; then, rather than be taken prisoner by the victorious palefaces, he chanted his death-song, and threw himself over a high ledge of rocks, into the lake, near Hector falls. One summer afternoon four hunters 4)ame to a settler's cabin, on the eastern «ide of the lake. After a while, two of them went after deer. An hour later the v others also started for the hunt. In a narrow inlet near the house, they saw . J this sort of a specter floating, buffeted by the waves. The hunters cried: 2 u Oh! there's the ' Wandering Jew!' Let's put him out of his misery; he'll make a good target." So one raised his rifle, took deliberate aim, fired, and hit the mysterious ob ject. His companion fired, but his shot was quite unfortunate. Over in the underbrush opposite to them a man umped into the air and fell dead. The hunter's stray bullet had killed one of hw friends who chanced to hp there, concealed, watching for a deer not far away, just around a point of land. The deer was coming down to the beach to drink. The first shot of the marksman had startled it It stood with hoad up­ raised, ears turned forward, eyes wide open, nostrils dilating and shutting, and its right fore-foot impatiently stamping the grassy sod. When the second rifle cracked, the deer, like lightning, gath­ ered its feet together, with one tremen­ dous bound regained the friendly thicket, and then fled "like a deer" through the woods. Afier this melancholy day the specter was more than ever shunned. Nobody knew whether anybody had ever exam­ ined it, or had ever been close enough to it to tell exactly what it was. In less than two years the harmless thing had (in one sense of the word) many diabolical attributes forcibly tied to its narrative, as the tail of a home­ less dog is sadly familiar with old, bat­ tered tin-pans. One winter night a truly awful tem pest raged in the lake region, and Lake Seneca had to bear the brunt. Each one of the schooners, barges and sail­ boats upon it had made good harbor, except the staunch schooner "Alsa," hav­ ing on board a cargo of sundries, and a crew of Mr. Lattin, skipper, two other men and a boy. One of the crew was a negro named Stone, but commonly called "Pete Nig." During one of the flashes of light­ ning, the crew saw the " Wandering Jew " about ten fathoms from their bow, bearing down upon them. "Pete Nig" vr& a very superstitious darkey, and the specter so scared him he lost his presence of mind. A sud­ den, mighty sea swashed over the deck, and " Pete Nig w«nt overboard. An­ other flash granteu *•shipmates to see him meet his enemy; they grappled, then all was blackness again. They were seen no more. The furious storm threatened eo, the ship was so hastened by the blast, nothing could be done to save the poor castaway, except to throw overboard a couple of planks which chanced to be loose upon the deck. One afternoon last summer I was sketching near Starkey. During an in­ terval of rest, while slowly widking along the beach, I saw in the sand and gravel a piece of bone, which I kicked, and unearthed a human "right" hu­ merus of the African type. Much sur­ prised, I searched and made an impor­ tant discovery. Wishing to have the skeleton for my own private collection of anatomical curiosities, and being de­ sirous of avoiding all scandal, I cov­ ered up my " find" and told nobody about it. At the noon of mght, when unlaid ghosts are said to arise, I reached my trieasure-trove. It was there; so the old saying about the movements of ghosts is quite wrong. Working briskly for about ten minutes, I obtained a negro's skeleton, tolerably well pre­ served. It was in close contact with a section 6f a maple tree whose roots clasped a large stone, over which they had grown in the forest. I had heard the tradition of the spec­ ter of the lake, and also of the drowning of the negro. I now surmised that the negro, clinging even in death to the tree, was washed ashore and buried in the beach by the tempest, where he had lain undisturbed till, by chance, I found his bones. I half dreaded to strike a match, but I did so, and, surely enough, I saw the ancient terror of the lake. The marks of a sharp ax were still visible upon it, showing how somebody had once rudely and fancifully carved it into a sort of a caricature of a man; it was so balanced that it would stay just about so, and seem to walk upon the rolling waves. Dear reader, if you should ever visit my office you may see the old darkey's skeleton behind yonder green curtain in the cabinet. I suppose my neigh­ bors, if they should happen to read this sketch, will now stop wondering where and how I got the quaint piece of wood and big stone, which chiefly ornament my back yard. The venerable Society of Antiquari­ ans is quite welcome to the historical information conveyed in this narrative, which is founded on fact. PAW PAW, 111. and denunciations of heavenly ven­ geance, and chastising themselves mer­ cilessly. They carried their fanaticism to such extremes and conceived so many heresies that they incurred the hostility of the Roman church, and were finally suppressed with the greatest rigor by the Inquisition. Strange to say, there are to-day many of these Flagellants, or Penitentes, as they style themselves, ill New Mexico, as travelers in the Ter­ ritory have frequently seen. If embers of the singular order act very. much as they did centuries since in the Old World. During Lent they torture themselves most cruelly, and at other seasons go forth with nothing on but drawers rolled above their knees, bear­ ing heavy crosses until they sink from exhaustion. As they march they lash themselves over the naked shoulders and back with a Scourge made of the Spanish bayonet-plant or soap-weed, full of sharp, prickly points, nntil they are covered with blood.--New Yiifrk Times. w CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC. THE FLAGELLANTS. Every student of history remembers the Flagellants, as the fanatical enthu­ siasts were called who, from the thir­ teenth to the sixteenth century, ap­ peared in Europe, at different intervals, proclaiming the wrath of God against the corruption of the times, inviting sinners to atone for sin by self-inflicted scourgings, such as they gave them­ selves. In large and disorderly bands, often headed by priests and zealots, they went from town to town, bearing , banners and crucifixes, planting hymns - OLE BULL has taken out a patent for an important improvement in the violin. COLOB blindness is one of the fre­ quent results of abuse of alcohol and tobacco, according to Mr. Favre, of France. Two NEW properties have been ̂at­ tributed to salicylic acid--that of puri­ fying water, and of totally arresting germination. So DELICATE is the machinery used for cutting out wood for " papering" walls, that two hundred leaves are cut from an inch of white' maple, and one hundred and twenty-five out of wood with very open grain, such as oak and walnut. A WOVEN book has been manufactured at Lyons, the whole of the letter-press being executed in silken thread. Por­ traits, verses and brief addresses have often been reproduced by the loom, but an entire book from the weaver's hand is a novelty. AN Italian has constructed an appara­ tus which determines the purity of oils by the amount of resistance they offer to the passage of electricity. The ap­ paratus may also reveal the presence of cotton in silk fabrics, for a very small portion of cotton in silk tissues greatly increases the conductivity of the latter. considering geological climate and geological time, Mr. William Davies suggests that the heat which the earth once received from the moon ought to be taken into account by phylflpts. He thinks that, at one time, the moon must have exerted r an influence on the earth like that of a second or additional sun. # IT is estimated that there are 114,- 042,940 tons of coal consumed annually in England. If the quantity of sul­ phur contained in this coal be supposed to be 1 per cent.--there has been no ac­ curate determination of the percentage of sulphur--not less than 3,500,000 tons of sulphuric aoid is discharged each year into the atmosphere. HERB PECELAB says that the total coal production of the world for 1875 was 315,351,833 tons. Great Britain 149,476,769 tons; Germany and,the United States, each 53,294,460 tons; France, 18,605,758 tons; Belgium, 15,767,591 tons; Austria and Hungary, 14,821,536 tons; Asia, 4,587,240 tons, and other parts of the world, 5,504,019 tons. BECENT investigations made by mi- croscopists with the most improved mi­ croscopes reveal the astonishing fact that the atmosphere contains at least a hundred times more germs than has been stated, and probably the numbers will be increased if the future instru­ ments surpass the perfection of those now in use. The Average number of microbia of the air, small in winter, augments rapidly in spring, remains stationary in summer and diminishes in autufim. PAT ON THK BOA1K An Irishman, driven to desperation by the stringency of the money market and the high price of provisions, pro­ cured a pistol and took to the road. Meeting a traveler, he stopped him with: "Your money or your life!" Seeing Pat was green at the business, the traveler said: . "I'll tell you what 111 do; ni give you all my money for that pistol." "Agreed." Pat received the money and handed over the pistol. "Now," said the traveler, "hand back that money or IH blow your brains out!" * "Blaze away, my hearty," said Pat, never a dhrop of powder is there in it!" THE ravages of the yellow fever in the South, of the cholera in Morooeo, are now followed by equally, if not more appalling, ravages of the small-pox in North Brazil. on THE American people are treading 100,000 cords of wood all the while-- shoe-pegs. QUEEN COW. AUeffUmve Otre Mm . Whatever we may think of our an­ cient ruler, King Cotton, there is no question as to the allegiance we owe to Queen Cow. Everyone of our agricult­ ural products, with the single exception of Indian corn, is surpassed in value by our dairy yield. The value of the cows, and of the land especially devoted to their support, is reckoned at $1,300,- 000,000. The annual production of cheese is estimated at 350,000,000. pounds, and that of butter at 1,500,000,- 000 pounds. Their combined value- estimated at $350,000,006--is only one- fifth less than that of the corn crop. uction has increased 33 per past year, and since the the American factory system in the manufacture of them, they have become important objects of export,the foreign sale amounting during the last season to $13,000,000 for butter, and $14,000,000 for cheese. The exporta­ tion of the year have paid more than $1,000,000 freight, or enough to support a weekly line of steamers to Europe. They have paid $5,000,000 freight to the railroads of the country, and milk pays nearly as mucft more. Dairying is a quiet industry, which is so dispersed among the great majority of farms in all parts of the country that we fail to realize its aggregate impor­ tance. As a money-producing industry it is, under the combined influence of the factory system for cheese-making and of the introduction of improved Inethods of butter-making, rapidly ex­ tending in every direction. One of the very best butter-making regions of the coftntry, both in quantity and quality of product, is Northern Illinois and the adjoining parts of the States to the north and west of it. A few years ago it was believed that good butter could not be made in the Southern States. There are now important butter dis­ tricts in all parts of the South, and there are indications that the Northern cities will soon be supplied with fresh grass-butter throughout the whole win­ ter from Mississippi, Tennessee, and other regions, where, before the war, the profitable growth of grass was re­ garded as an impossibility. No single influence has had more to do with the' increased attention given to butter-mak­ ing in these new districts than the in­ troduction and wide distribution of the cattle of the island of Jersey. These were formerly the " Alderneys" of the lawns and paddocks of the rich;they are now the practical but reproducing animals of the best dairy-farms throughout the country. The favor with which they are regarded from an industrial point of view is based upon the physiological fact that, having been bred for centuries by the small farmers of Jersey, with, whom the sale of butter has always been an im­ portant object, their butter secre­ tion has been, by artificial selec­ tion, more completely developed than has that of any other breed. Not only is the quantity of butter greater in pro­ portion to the amount of food con­ sumed, but the butter-globules of the milk are larger and richer, developing more readily in the churn and working into a firmer product. This excellence has been recognized for half a century among those who sought to produce butter of finer quality for "fancy" use. IMs now fast becoming known to those with whom blotter-making is a business industry, and the extension of the knowledge promises to make the pro­ duction of butter for export a much greater source of national wealth than it has hitherto been. WARNING TO HUSBANDS. BY W. J. N1LKNOC. • I live on the first floor--counting from the roof--of a three-story block, and, the other day, while cairying up a scuttle of coal, by some queer turn I knit a stitch in my side, just as I had reached the upper landing. I let go the scuttle, and it did go when I let it. The coal jumped out and started down stairs (the flights are straight), rattling and banging, as it made its way and its mark. The scuttle stood one moment on its head, then jumped down four steps, lit on its left ear, forfeited its bail--as many a rascal has done-- scratched the bannisters in several places, turned a handspring and several summersets, landed on the ground floor, danced a double shuffle, and quietly sat down on a heap of coal to rest. All this I saw, but did not heed at the time, for the stitch occupied not only my side but also my attention. I moaningly entered the presence of my wife. The noise had. frightened her, and for a moment (ah, precious moment, but for my pain I) she said nothing. When she spoke, it was to ask, what on earth was the matter. I told her the coal was, and began telling of my pain. She flew past me, gazed down stairs, where nc^jp, upon the second landing, stood the occupants of the second floor --counting either way--and then began railing about the dirty steps, broken scuttle, scattered coal, and scratched bannisters. Wore b time, I told her again of my pain, which How grew worse, but she scolded till she was satisfied, and I was altogether so. Then she made a dive for the xftus- tard. The pain lay on my left side, and pretty well in front, and there she placed the draft. My pain, ndt wishing to be drafted, retreated in very bad order, to to the rear. My wife then plied the draft to my back, and, lo! the pain re­ appeared in its original lodging. Then she prepared a long plaster and wrapped it all around me. I then felt as if mus­ tered in for three years or during the war. My pain, however, feeling itself surrounded, surrendered to the powers that were, and evacuated under cover of the bed. That was three days ago. I am still badly blistered, but I feel it my bounden duty to my sex to write this word of timely warning--especially to those who live, as I do, high up in the world--and tell them of the danger lurking in coal­ scuttles, stitches in the side, and mus­ tard-plasters. I have, also, long be­ lieved it a wife's duty to carry in the coal, and I am now convinced of the correctness of my early conviction. I stepped out of my sphere, and my pun­ ishment was but just. CELINA, Ohio. WHAT BLIND MEN MATE DONE. The long list of the names of the blind who have been eminent in the various branches of learning from the time of Diodatns', who lived fifty years the Christian era, to the present is well worth remembering. The follow­ ing are some of those to whom we refer: Diodatus, of Asia Minor, celebrated for his learning in philosophy, geometry and music. Eusebius, also of Asia, lived from 315 to 340 of the Christian era ; became blind at 5 years of age; died at 25. And yet, during so short a lifetime, this blind man, by his theological writings, has come to us, and will go down to pos­ terity, as one of the fathers of Chris­ tianity. •" Henry, the minstrel of Scotland, au­ thor of "The Poetic Life of Wallace," was born blind in 1361. Margaret, of Ravenna, born in 1505, blind at 3 months; celebrated for her writings on theology and morals. Hermann Torrentius, of Switzerland, born in 1546? and Author of a history and poetical dictionary. Nicholas Sanderson, of Yorkshire, England born in 1682; learned in math­ ematics, astronomy, and wrote a book on algebra. ̂ Thomas Blacklock, D.D.,of Scotland, born in 1751; blind at 6 months; cele­ brated for his learning in poetry, divin­ ity and music. Francis Hnber, of Geneva, Switzer­ land, born in 1610; wrote on natural sciences, bees, ants, and on education. John Milton, born in 1608 in London; author of "Paradise Lost." John Metcalf, born in 1717 in En­ gland; road surveyor and road con­ tractor John Gough,born in 1757 in England; blind at 3 years; wrote on botany, nat­ ural history, jstc. David Macbeath, born in 1792 in Scotland; learned in music and mathe­ matics, and inventor of the string alpha­ bet for the blind. M. Focault, born in Paris in 1799; invented ̂a writing apparatus for the blind. M. Knio, of Prussia, born blind; was director of an institution for the blind, and wrote on the education of the blind. Alexander Bodenbach, of Belgium, born in 1786; member of the Belgian Congress, and wrote several works oh the blind and the deaf-mute. William Henry Churchman, formerly Superintendent for the Institution for the Blind at Indianapolis, Ind., and au­ thor of architectural designs and reports for the institution.̂ )The writer of this once had occasion to correspond with him, and received much finer specimens of autograph penmanship from him than was sent in return. MEMPHIS AND THE YELLOW BE FEB. Senator Stanley Matthews, having re­ turned to Cincinnati from his visit to Memphis as a member of the Yellow Fever Commission, said to a reporter: " Memphis people dread very much the recurrence of an epidemic of yellow fever. They are encouraged to believe that the severity of the winter will de­ stroy the germs of the disease in thi country, and prevent its reappearing next season. But in the event that it should break out again next summer in New Orleans, the feel­ ing is such that the people of Memphis and along the river would certainly iso­ late New Orleans completely--if not with law, then without law. They would not allow a boat to ascend the river, and if necessary would plant cannons on the bank to prevent it. They would not al­ low a railroad train to carry a passenger from that point. That is their present feeling and expressed determination, not confined to any one class." THE women clerks in the Treasury Department are said to excel as count­ ers of bills, quicker than men to detect, counterfeits, but not good at figures. i Kniunate: tie said to ntniacit. I coula not ter suited. The merost chance, too!" Then, ; to the attendant,* "• I. stand In need of aaubieot •ovv, and thi* oris i* exactly wbat 1 want. Has MAYING THE PEN ALT |% ~ . a -* 4 • By Mr*. M«ta Victoria Vict Of. W- CHAPTER I. Vtw scene opens in the Morgue, <New fork, when the body of a handsome young man has just been brought in, and where it lies under the dripping of the iced water, which fella upon it to arrest the progress of decomposition. The man who attends to guard the dead did not ob­ serve a siim female figure, which weemed to- arise out of the earth, so silently and suddenly did it stand there. She was oending over one of the five marble slabs on which lay the dead body of a splendid young man--he could not have been more than 23. " Who are you !" said the attendant, suddenly becoming aware of the girl's presence. * I am Liz," she said: ' and that a my hus­ band lying there!" " Do you wish him sent homer" said the man. " Heavens--what use? I bare not a cent to bury him!" " Come now! yon had better go home. It's getting late. " She f lued bor foreb«ad to th« (lam anata. eta ad Ins there motionless, until the officer, not aaaMitty, pat Ma hand on her arm and drew her away. « " 1 cannot, even get at him to kisa him MaMr," ahe •aid, pitifully. *' 1 wouldn't want to "f 1 was you, mi goad Ctrl. Oome, come! home Is the bust place (or you.'* " Home! I never baa a home! I came up on the streets--I Khali always li*e on the streets. Ueorge p«om- i*ed to take cmr« «( me--he :>nid tor my little room--bat George is KOI". Ob, oh, oil'" Two mltiutcs later, one of the hospital surgeons--a Teiy xrnat surgeon indeed, a man of authority--rao lixi'-tly down thn stops of the morgue, and stood thought­ fully looking through the gliuts cut Sain "How fortunate! "Jis ea:<l to hinvielf. " 1 could not he batter roiled. turning f to-morrow, any one claimed it?" " The chap's wife was here--said she wac too poor to bury it--don't think it will be claJiped, doctor." " Can I have it to night?" " 1 should say so." " Good! Casey, 1 know I can trnat to your {discretion. This body its not to go into the college, it is for a pri­ vate use of my own, and it is to be sent to my house. You will be on duty hern at midnight. I want you then to get an ambulance and bring this to me at iny home. 1 will be there to receive It, and I will contrive to have the policeman on that beat out ot the way at that hour. You and 1 can bring it in. Here is $5u for roar trouble, and--you are to make no remarks." •' All right, doctjr! I'll be there to the minute, sir-- nnd many thanks. My wife will make good use of tbis money." The great surgeon left the morgue; his carriage wait­ ed for him outside the hospital gate, and waa^dtiTen rapidly toward home. CHAPTER H On the previous day Dr. Fordyoe had been summoned to the house of his next door neigh­ bor, Mrs. Remington. On his arrival there he found Mra Remington and her daughter Flora in the agonies of grief. On a bed was stretched the unconscious form of Clymer, the son of Mrs. Remington, desperately wounded by % pistol ball in the right sjdaj " How did it occur? " A moan from the mother was her only response. " Oh, doctor, is he dead?" whispered Flora. " Not quite, my dear, not quite. His heart beats, I think." The surgeon turned down the sheet to examine wound, which he found of the most critical character; ano, a* he stooped over the patient, heard a violent ringing of the bell and knocking of thu j-treet door. He observed th© two ladies shiver, as If from a blow. A tap at the chamber door soon followed. Dr. For- dyce hirmnlf respondo t to it, stepping into the corridor to hear what the servants had to say. , "Tue officers a re herewith a warrant to arrest our young maBtor, sir. What shall I do? 1 told 'em he wasn't lit to be laid hands on." " Ask them to stop up stairs with M little BO1M»« pos­ sible. I will speak to t.hem." Presently two ivide-awako officiate OMMip, with an expression on their faces which said, as plainly as words: • No tricks now! We can't be humbugged by that game; We're going to do our duty, if yon are rich people here." " What do yoti want, my men t" " We hor« to arrest Ulyiuet' Remington." answered one of the two, reading from a paper," for the killing of Cadet Kdouurd De Vivo." •* Is yonng De Vive dead ?" asked the surgeon, much shock, d. " A SH door-nail." " W 11. the man you are after to not mush better off. In all h imnn probability he will not live the night out. He is shot in the right lung. It Is Impossible for yon to move him. Step in and take a look at him; you will see for your-elv«f> tii» condition the boy isin." Tno officers came in on tip toes, ani saw at a glance that a few minutes would close hie mortal career^ • • V ' • • * ' • ~ ̂ When Lie found that her IOVST'S body had disappeared, and heard of the, d$el, ahe had an lnstinotive Idea of what Dr. Fordyce's object had been in buying her hus­ band's body. Gambler and rogue as he had been, she love3 him, and, with brains sharpened with destitution, •he resolved to make her market oat of the see ret. " I will make these proud oreatures in silks ktiuw that I am a match for them!" She smiled haggardly to herself to think that George would be spared the horrors of Potter's Field--that he would be dresstnl in broadcloth an J smothered under tuberoses and cape jttsminus in his tine rosewood coffin with the solid silver iiandlos. It almost deadened the dull pain at her heart a little while to think of the splen­ did funeral her George would have, jolted along in a sumptuous hearse for miles and miles, and followed by halt the proud ladies ano gentlemen of Filth avenue in their glittering carriages, driven by fellows in capes and buttons innumerable. As for herself. she would take a cheap ride to Green­ wood by earn, find out the family plot of tho Remingtons, and be ob band to see her lover put in the ground, wilu the Bishop himself to read tho prayers. CHAPTER IIL A beautiful ohild of 11 years was sitting .in a sum­ mer house in the midst of a most blooming garden over­ looking the broad, blue Hudson, as it wound by the Pal­ isades. The house to which tho garden belonged was called the Hall, and was the home of Madame De Vltro.'a widow of French descent. ,, The lady had married Capt. De Vivo after reaching this oountry. Both were wealthy, and had purchased and improved an elegant place on Washington Heights. The Captain had died after fifteen years of tranquillity passed in his American home, leaving two ohildren, a boy of 14 and a girl of 5. True to her race, which had always been military In the instincts and ambitions of its male scions, the widow had placed her son at Wett Point, grateful to know that be was within a few hours' travel oi hie home while he was fitting fer the career beloved of all true Frenchmen. Kdouard J)e Vivo grew up tow.urd tn*nhood with nil the" faults and virtues of a true cadet. He was proud, fiery, vain, handsome, honorable and brave. Alas! poor boy! What matters it to us what he might have been, sinoe he was doomed to so eariy a deBt.h f Let us go back to that bright, sweet afternoon in late Slay, when Dulcs De Vivo, a lovely little girl of 11, satin her bower, quits lost in the fascinations of a volume of the "Arabian Nights " Her brother's particular friend, Clymer Remington, had bought her this bewitching book. If there was a person In th® world whom sb» adored, it wis Mr. Rem­ ington. Dulce hud as arden and aff.-ctionate a little hwart as ever beat in a child .s bosom. 8he loved her mot her, ber old grandmother, her brother; but the feel­ ing she had for Edooard's friend was a kind of worxhin- ping admiration. While she was musing on Glymer*s perfection#, tho dead body of her beloved brother was .brought homo. He had boon slain in a duel with Clymer Remington. CH APTER IV. The mock funeral was over, and the gambler and tho scapegrace George was burled in the vaults of the Rem­ ingtons. when Liz, the gambler's wife, made her appear­ ance at the stately mansion of the Remingtons. Here she tells Flora what she has discovered, and demands hush money. " Tou didn't hurt ny husband; he was dead afon. Ton gave him a splenild funeral. But your secret is worth a mint o' money. Pra poor--starving! I mean to live In comfort alter this. I mean you shall pay my way." Flora stretched out her white hand, where a large diamond sparkled, and thrust her purse In her visitor's clu'oh. " There are $800 there--all the money I had in the house to-day." " All right. Ton have lots more in the bank I want a settlement lis writing, you see. So nnsh • MM" " 1 will do as well by you as I can." '• !'<} like that Hng on your Anger, that shines so, miss. It ft a bftAuty! May I have it V That jewel hadI been In th« Remington family a good many years, but Horn immediately took it oil and passed It over t.> Liz, whose black eyes glltterid grsed- sismed?" *h:iU 100m* ** h,T*th* *ritlng Orawn up an* " In a week." "Very well. You can have Dr. Fordyee to fix it for you. I won t oring no witness; but you must give me a paper. So now. good night, miss, and don't worrv too si,,c5,r5"bV~"Ub*--""" - •» withdrew^ MoDoni«to •"«*. made a <£urt£y^£d The continuation of this admirabll and exciting story will be found in Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner, No. 714, and now ready at all news depots. Iff 0SDta weekly, 94 per annum. Address Frank Iinslls's ISBUIUU HOMO. 63, M. and 67 Park plaoe, New York. A DECISION has just been rendered in St. Louis that the city cannot be held responsible for damages when a person is run over by fire companies while hastily answering «a al