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M< HENRY, nrn |?l<tin(lralrr VAN SlYKE. Publish*:. ILLINOIS. THE WOULD FROM T1IE SraEWALK. Did yon ever 8tnn<l in the crowded j»I'*r In the pi are of the city In nip, *. And liat-to the trend of thr million feet .\ k}, - In their quaintly musical tramp? Xstlif! surpng I:r« WD RO to anil fro, • "its ft pleasant sight. I wen, To mark the ftpurrs that c<mie and go >j In the over-changing scene. _ Here the piililican walks xrith the allUMt proad. And the priest in his gloomy cowl, ' And Dives walks in the motley crowd With Iinzams, check by jowl; • And the daughter of toil with her fresh young ' ' heart iv'-U At pure u her spotless fame, "*» '* .* Keeps s t ep Kith the woman Who makes her •* . mart •. In the hannta of Bin an J shame. I Sv* **?. f. '» How lightly trips the country law In the midst of the city's ills As freshly pure as the daisied grus That grows on her native hills! And the beggar, too, with his hungry oy®, And his loan, wan face and crutch. Gives a blessing the same to the paasoi As he gives them little or much. When time has beaten the world's tattoo^ And in dusky arinor dight Is treading with echoless footsteps through The gloom of the silent night. How many of these shall be daintily fed And shall sink to slumber s-weet. While many will go to a sleepless bed And never a crumb to eat I Ah me! when the hours go joyfal by. How little we stop to heed ;-A Our brothers' and sisters' despairing cry *;»! In their woo and their bitter need! £ -?•* • Tet such a world ns the angels sought This world of ours we'd call. \ I f t h e brotherly love that the Father taught Was felt by each for alL Yet a few short years and this motley throng Will all have passed away, •. . ' • And the rich and the poor and the old and the ,£/• yonng is • Will be undistinguished clay, f," * And lips that laugh and lips that moan " Shall in silence alike be sealed. And some will lie under stately stone, And some in the Potter's Field. Bui the sun will be shining just as bright, And so will the silver moon. And just such a crowd will be here at night, And jnst such a crowd at noon; rul men will be wicked and women wlfln, s ever since Adam's fall, h the same old world to labor in, Ami the same God over all. •JknOmymmts. THE STOLEN NOTE, 'b-f' m.-' apt that he indulged too freely in the use of the intoxicating cup, John "Wallace was an honest, high-minded and extraordinary man. His one great fault hnng like a shadow orer his many virtues. He meant well, and when he was sober he did well. He was a hatter by trade, and by in­ dustry and thrift he had secured money enough to buy the house in which he lived. He had purchased it before, for $3,000 paying $1,000 down, and secur­ ing the balance by mortgage to the seller. The mortgage was almost due at the time circumstances made me acquainted with the affairB of the family. But Wallace was ready for the day: he had saved up the money; there seemed to be no possibility of an accident. I was well acquainted with Wallace, having done some little collecting and drawn up legal documents for him. One day his daughter Annie came to my office in great distress, declaring that her father was ruined, and that they should be turned out of the house in which they lived. "Perhaps not, Miss Wallace," said I, trying to console her and give the af- " . bright aspect lied, "had the orteage on the :ve, but it is all Has he lost iH" "I don't know. I suppose sou Last week he drew $2,000 from the hank, jvHi Pafld l®nt it to Mr. Bryce for ten days." "Wrho is Mr. Bryce?" gj. ?" "He is a broker. My father got ac­ quainted with him through George Chandler, who boards with us, and who is Mr. Bryce's clerk." "Does Mr. Bryce refuse to pay it?" "He says he has paid it" "Well, what is the trouble then?" "Father says he has not paid it" "Indeed! But the note will prove that he has not paid it Of course, you have the note?" ^ "No, Mr. Bryce has it" "Then, of course, he has paid it?" "I suppose he has, or he could not have the note." "What does your father say ? " "He is positive that he never received the money. The mortgage, he says, must be paid to-morrow." "Very singular. Was your father--* I hesitated to use gone now i&'V- to look for the note it could not be found. Annie and I have hunted the house all over." "You told Bryce so?" "I did. He laughed, and showed me his note with the signature crossed orer with ink, and a hole punched through it" "It is plain Mr. Wallace, that he paid you the money, as alleged, or has obtained fraudulent possession of the note, and he intents to cheat you out of the amount." .?>•' "He never paid lU," pm ieplied, promptly. "Then he has fraudulently obtained pos-ession of the note. What sort of a person is that Chandler,who boards with you ?" "A line young man. Bless you, he would not do anything of that kind." "I am sure he would not," repeated Annie, earnestly. "How could Bryce obtain the note but through him ? What time does he come home at night?" "Always at tea time. He never goes out in the evening." "But, father, he did not come home till 10 o'clock the night before yon went to Bryce's. He had to stay in the office to post books, or something of the kind." } •.* "How did he get in?" "He has a night key." " "No harm in seeing him," added Mr. Wallace; "I will go for him." In a few moments he returned with the young man Ch&ndler, who, in the conversation I had with him manifest­ ed a very lively interest in the solution of the mystery, and professed himself ready to do anything to forward my views. "When did you return to the house on Tuesday night?" "About 12." "TwelveI" 6aid Annie; "it was not more than 10 when I heard you." "The clock struck 12 as I turned the corner of the street," replied Chandler, positively. "I certainly heard some one in the front room at 10," said Annie, looking with astonishment at those around her. "We're getting at something," said I. "How did you get in ?" The young man smiled as he looked at Annie, and said: "On arriving at the door, I found I had lost my night key. At that moment a watchman happened along and I told him my situation. He knew me, and taking a ladder from an unfinished house opposite, placed it against one of the second-story windows, and I entered in that way." "Good. Now, who was it that was heard in the parlor, unless it was Bryce or one of his accomplices? He must have taken the key from your pocket, Chandler, and stolen the note from the secretary. At any rate I will charge him with the crime, let what may hap­ pen. Perhaps he will confess when hard pushed." Acting upon this thought, I wrote a lawyer's letter--"demanded against you," etc.--which was immediately sent to Mr. Bryce. Cautioning the parties not to speak of the affair, I dismissed them. Bryce came. "Well, sir, what have you to say against me ?" he asked, stiffly. "A claim on the part of John Wal­ lace for $2,000," I replied, poking over my papers and appearing perfectly in­ different. "Paid it," he said, short as pie-crust "Have you?" said I, looking him sharply in the eye. The rascal quailed. I saw that he was a villain. "Nevertheless, if within an hour yon do not pay me $2,000, and $100 for the trouble and anxiety you have caused my client, at the end of the next hour you will be lodged in jail to answer a criminal charge." "What do you mean, sir?* "I mean what I say. Pay, or take the consequences." '• It was a bold charge, and if he had looked like an honest man, I should not have dared to make it. "I have paid the money, I tell you," said he; "I have the note in my posses­ sion." "I got it when I paid the--" "When you feloniously entered the house of John Wallace, on Thursday night, at 10 o'clock, and took the said note from the secretary." "You have no proof," said he grasp­ ing a chair for support "That is my lookout I have no time to waste. Will you pay or go to jail?" He saw the evidence I had was too strong for his denial, and he drew his check on the spot for $2,100, and after the unpleasant , . word, which must have grated har^t11J JWlWU t!IJ?eDtiQD affair, rs where the pictures of Wasfithgtowy d Lincoln do not hang on the walls, e by side with those of departed ends. One of the very first ob­ is the child learns to name and int out, is the picture of Washing- and Lincoln; and now another will d to the number. Grant w»»l a few years ago, leaving a handsome on the ear of the devoted girl. "Mr. Bryce says father was not q] right when he paid him, but not bad." "I will see your father." "He is coming up here in a few ments; I thought I would see you and tell you the facts before he cai "I do not see how Bryce could Jij obtained the note unless he paid money. Where did your father keep ,-f-V-, « 'He gave it to me, and I put it in the iretary." "Who was in the room when you put It in the secretary ?" "Mr. Bryce, George Chandler, my father, and myself." The conversation was here inter­ rupted by the entrance of Wallace. He looked pale and haggard, as much from the effects of anxiety as from the de­ bauch from which he was recovering. "Blie has told you about it 1 sup­ pose?" said he in a very low tone. "She has." 1 pitied him, poor fellow, for $2,000 was a large sum for him to accumulate in his little business. The loss of it would make the future look like a des- ertLto him. It would be a misfortune which one must undergo to appreciate it "What passed between vou on that day?" "Well, I merely stepped into his of­ fice--it was only the day before yester­ day--to tell him not to forget to have the money for me by to-morrow. He took me into his back office, and as I sat there he said he would get the money ready the next day. He then left me and went into the front office, where I heard him send George out to the bank to araw a check for $2,000; so I supposed he was going to pay me then." "What does the clerk say about it?" "He says Mr. Bryce remarked, when he sent him, that he was going to pay me the money." "Just so." "And when George came in he went into the front office again and took the money. Then he came to me again and did not offer to pay me the money." "Had you the note with you?" "No, now I remember; he said he sup­ posed I had not the note with me, or he would pay it. I told him to come in the next day and I would have it ready -"-thai was yesterday. When I came years ago, leaving a property to Chandler and his wife, the marriage between him and Annie hav­ ing taken place shortly after the above narrated circumstance occurred. The Doctor's Candor. "What a candid man Doc. is," said that mischievous young Pointedtoes as he slid into the best seat in Dr. Wiggle- ton's office. "You know if a person dies of a ma­ lignant disease, the physician has to re­ port it to the health authorities, filling up a long blank with name of disease, cause of death, etc." "Yes," said the clerk. . "Well, Doc. had a case which every­ body thought was clearly scarlet fever, but it wasn't." "What was it then?" "The report read 'Cause of Death-- August Wiggleton, M. D.'" "Oh, well, you know that was only a mistake. I got the signature on the wrong line," said the M. D. "So I suggested to Dr. Hoyt, but he said he guessed not. There" were lots of euch cases, but physicians had sel­ dom your charming candor."--&& i'&ul Herald. ~ t - ... j Rapid Transit. " " „ Although only a couple of miles long, there is nothing slower than an Austin street car unless it is perhaps the wrath of God. Bill Yerger mentioned at the supper table that, when he rode home on the street car, there was an old man who was so old and feeble that he could not walk at all, "I guess he hopped on the car at the other end of the line when he was a boy," remarked Gilhooly.--Texas Sift­ ings. FASHION is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being over­ taken by it. It is a sign that the two things are not far asunder. COULD not the doctor's fee be justly , called ill-gotten gains. STUDENT LIFE IN JAPAN. rh« Dlsclpllno Very Strict--Etebating Cluha --The \ounf Men the Hope of the Co\in try. Four or five hours a day the student is required to attend lectures. To pre­ pare for these he is supposed to spend as many more in study. Many students ken hours a day, taking no exercise, slight meals and little sleep. Their food, too, is innutritions, and their lodging places crowded and comfort- j less. The evil results of this overwork and disregard of health are painfully mauifest in the hollow cheeks and fee­ ble appearance of thoso mentally most promising. Many fine young men, af­ ter years of such work and such living, sucrumb perhaps at the close of their studies, at home or abroad, to the scourge of the country, and especially of the higher classes--lung disease. The danger is already perceived, by the authorities, at least, and they are giving more encouragement each year to physical culture. Still this is far from being cordially and systematical­ ly pursued. Over-indulgence in ath­ letics by Japanese students io hardly conceivable. Active outdoor sports have littfe charm for Eastern people. The student, imbued with the idea of his own superiority, as resulting from the superior dignity of mental culture, looks with contempt upon bodily train­ ing, and considers it fit only for unlet­ tered soldiers. In him the old warlike spirit of his class has been transformed into a patriotic longing to bring his country up to the level of Western en­ lightenment; hence his intense and too exclusive devotion to knowledge as the only means of reaching the great end. College discipline is strict, and its methods, owing to immediata supervi­ sion by the Government, are French or German, rather than American or En­ glish. The students board and lodge, with few exceptions, on the college premises. At 5 o'clock in the morning they are arbused by the bell. Lectures begin at 8 or 8:30 and end about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Then those who choose can leave the ground, but each must first get his wooden billet from the gatekeeper. At 9 in the even­ ing the gates are shut, and if any luck­ less student has not at that time re­ turned his billet he is reported for dis­ cipline. Penalties differ little from those common everywhere, but are strictly enforced. There are few dull­ ards. idlers, and revelers, and such as appear are summarily dealt with. Debating clubs, societies for special duty, literary and scientific periodicals --one devoted to Japanese and Chinese poetry--give the college world oppor­ tunities for sooial intercourse and ex­ change of thought There are chess clubs and clubs for playing the difficult native game of go. Giee clubs, how­ ever, are unknown, as Orientals have their singing as well as their dancing done for them by professionalists, and laugh at the idea of doing either them­ selves. Politics is a constant theme of discussion. Advanced liberal views have the majority of adherents. One society, devoted to maintaining a high standard of honor and morality, is especially noteworthy. It is made up of the choicest spirits; and to be­ long to it is esteemed a high honor. If any member falls into bad ways, or is suspected of having done so, he is reg­ ularly tried, and if found guilty, is so completely ostracised that he generally thinks it best to leave the college. In- leed the standard of morality main­ tained in Tokio University by the pub­ lic opinion of its members--and that in the face of unusual temptations--com­ pares creditably with that of any insti­ tution that I know of. It is to these high-souled young men that we must look for the abolition of polygamy and of the oppression of women. On these fundamental questions they have high and strong ground, and the strongholds of darkness are manifestly giving way. «•*»•University Quarterly. William Hunter was sorry 1m was not able to "write how easy and delightful it is to die." Infants die as serenely as they breathe, and not a few among'the advanced in years treat death as a friend to their aflirmitios. Hanging is naturally rated, next to crucifixion, a most d stressing procedure. But it is reported of those who have been saved from strangulation that the agony promised to be brief, and was rapidly I replaced by hallucinations of fasci­ nating variety. One would fain be­ lieve that the kind God who suffered us to feel no Bigh in coming would take no delight in turning our fareAvell into writhing--nay, He does not quit us at the last. He is our greatest benefactor in alloying us to sleep out of veariness. Death is, assuredly, no tax collector; its jaws are not the clutches of an assailant; there is no "victory to the grave;" the ghost speeds away from us as it entered, with no ruffle. The sense of death, as Shakespeare ha? it, is most in apprehension. It is the fear of the lonely night, not the throes of nature, that makes the leaving painfuL-- Medical and Surgical Reporter. Does Death Sting! Dr. G. L. Beardsley concludes that the dread of dying is quite as intense as the instinct of self preservation. In­ deed, it is not improbable, adds the doctor, that numbers would care less about living were the modes of leaving the world a theme for happy contem­ plation, or an innovation to the routine of plodding that was agreeable. One is remarkably exempt from the crime of hasty induction if he affirms that there is no sane or healthy mortal who anticipates his extinction with any de­ gree of pleasure. The function of dy­ ing is actually vegetative--we fall to pieces like a flower. This very fact, that the process is chemical, confirms us in the conclusion that the final throe is as painless as the inconvenience is nothing to the foetal pilgrim when he touches on daylight. A moment's ex­ amination of the way we are to die will show marks of goodness in our taking off. The degree of sensibility is pro­ portioned to the integrity of the tissues. An inflammation heightens it; age de­ preciates it. Any defect in nutrition disturbs the comfort of the individual Until the carbonic acid generated in the devitalization of the blood becomes fixed in the cells or is no longer dis­ placed. The sensory ganglia every­ where part with their irritability by virtue of this poison, and cease to con­ duct currents. The criteria of death are being satis­ fied, and the process is consummated when this extinction of sensibility pre­ vails at the ultimate filaments. During the progress of this dissolution of the nerve force, this creeping on of the numbnesB of death, the individual is rapidly passing into a condition of re­ pose, and instead of torture or pangs, degree of self-satisfaction oft ap­ proaching to enthusiasm is realized. The sensations peculiar to the thear- peutical operation of opium, hasheesh,' ether, etc., are not improbably akin to the mental activities of the dying. Barring the hallucinations experienced in the stupor as it gained on the sub­ ject, the moribund is familiar with naught that borders on suffering. This carbonic acid has poisoned or narcot­ ized the several ganglia, and reflex productions are interdicted. A con­ summate analgesia prevails. In short, the notion of pain is forbidden the in­ stant that any stimulus fails to excite a response. The condition of this irri­ tability is that the nerve center and the track is sound. If this vigor vanishes, reflex phenomena are at an end, and suffering, physiologically speaking, is impossible, because of the arrest of the function of the sympathetic. Fortun­ ately, for a wholesome study of one's lemise, there are assurances abundant from the vivisection, the testimony of those who have been restored to con­ sciousness and the affirmations of the lying that there is no physical recoil from death. Burney tried hard to resist the efforts made to resuscitate him from drown' ing, so bewitched was he by his pro­ longed slumber. Dr. Solander, the traveler, was so delighted with the isolations of excessive cold that he was 'he first to lie down in the snow to realize the luxury of such a death English Bank Notes. The "Library" of canceled notes-- not to be confounded with the bank li­ brary proper--is situated in the bank vaults, and we are indebted to the courtesy of the banknote librarian for the following carious and interesting statistics respecting his stock. The stock of paid notes for five years --the period during which, as before stated, the notes are preserved for reference--is about 77.745,000in number. They fill 13,400 boxes, about eighteen inches long, ten wide, and nine deep. If the notes could be placed in a pile, one upon another, they would reach to a height of five and two-thirds miles. Joined end to end they would form a ribbon 12,455 miles long, or half-way round the globe; if laid so as to form a carpet they would very nearly cover Hydo Park. Their original value is somewhat over 1,750 millions, and their weight is about ninety-one tons. The immense amount of space necessa­ ry to accommodate such a mass in the bank vaults may be imagined. The place, w'ith its piles on piles of boxes reaching far away into dim distance, looks like some gigantic wine cellar ̂ oz bonded warehouse. As each day adds, as we have seen, about 50,000 notes to the number, it is necessary to find some means of de­ stroying those which have passed their allotted term of preservation. This ie done by fire, about 400,000 notes being burnt at one time in a furnace special­ ly constructed for that purpose. For­ merly, from some peculiarity in the ink with which the notes were printed, the cremated notes burnt into a solid bluf clinker; but the composition of the ink has been altered, and the paper now burns to a fine gray ash. The fumes ol the burning paper are extremely dense and pungent, and to prevent any nui­ sance arising from this cause, the pro­ cess of cremation is carried on at dead of night, when the city is comparative­ ly deserted. Further, in order to mit­ igate the density of the fumes, thej are made to ascend through a showei of falling water, the chimney shaft be­ ing fitted with a special shower-bath arrangement for this purpose. Passing away from the necropolis of dead and buried notes, we visit the treasury, whence they originally is­ sued. This is a quiet-looking room, scarcely more imposing in appearance than the butler's pantry in a West End mansion, but the modest looking cup­ boards with which its walls are lined are gorged with hidden treasure. The possible value of the contents of this room may be imagined from the fact that a million in notes of £1,00C forms a packet only three inches thick. The writer has had the privilege ol holding such a parcel in his hand, and for a quarter of a minute imagining himself a millionaire, with an income of over $30,000 per annum for life! The same amount might occupy even less space than the above, for Mr. Francis tells a story of a'lost note fox £30,000, which, turning up after the laps of many years, was paid by the bank twice over! We are informed that notes of even higher value than this have, on occasion, been printed, but the highest denomination now is­ sued is £1,000.--Chamber's Journal. Wood in the C'omstock Mines. No person unfamiliar with mining can form an adequate idea of the vast amount of wood and timber that has been consumed in the furnaces and used for timbering in the deep mine; of the Comstock. When the entire line of mines, stretching along the lode from the Keystone on the north to the Dayton on the south--a distance ol more than ten miles and numbering over forty mines--were in full blast, the consumption of wood for fuel an0 timbering was simply enormous, re­ quiring over 200 cars" daily to convey it over the line of the Virginia & Truckee Eailroad to the Comstock. From 1873 to 1880 over 1,000 cords of wood were brought to Virginia daily over the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Prior to the closing down of the lowqr level at the noVth end the daily con­ sumption of fuel still amounted to 400 cords. In the last twenty years the fuel consumed in keeping the ponder­ ous machinery on the Comstock in mo­ tion has cost over $40,000,000. The above estimates does not include the mighty forests of fir, pine, and tama­ rack that have been transferred from the surface to the bowels of the earth for timbering the miles of shafts, in­ clines, drifts, and winzes which will swell the amount to $80,000,000 ex­ penses for fuel and timber consumed and utilized in protecting the numer­ ous mines on the Conjstock.--Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. Patti's Good Heart. Patti is very generous to the peas­ ants living in the vicinity of her castle in Wales, and no matter in what part of the world she may be in, never fails to send Christmas presents to be dis­ tributed among them. But hers is so kindly a nature that the adulation of an entire world cannot spoil it. Once a lady journalist called upon Patti, and after the conversation ended the diva said: "Is there anything else I can do for you?" "Yes," replied the lady. "I am, as you perceive, somewhat deaf, and, there­ fore, from the front lose some of your notes. Will you sing me here privately, 'Home, Sweet Home?' Here I shall not lose a note." Without an instant's hesitation Patti sang the sweet old song of "Home" as one might believe the angels sing.-- From a letter of Celia Logan's. Two FI8HKHS were talking. "I have found a splendid place for fish recent­ ly--a new place, where they bite like anything."--"Ah, have you?" Where is it?"--"A little above Sevres. I was there yesterday."--"What did you catch?"--"The six-forty train ooming ; homa" * V x> Grant as a Soldier. At the close of the war, the man who had led the victorious armies was not 43 years of age. He had not changed in any essential qualities from the cap­ tain in Mexico or the merchant in Ga­ lena. The daring and resource that he showed at Donelson and Vicksburg had been foreshadowed at Panama and Garita San Cosine; the persistency be­ fore Richmond was the development of the same trait which led him to seek subsistence in various occupations, and follow fortune long deferred through many unsuccessful years. Developed by experience, tahght by circumstance, learning from all he saw and even more from what he did, as few have ever been developed or taught, or have learned, he, nevertheless, maintained the self-same personality through it al.l The characteristics of the man were exactly those he manifested as a sol­ dier--directness and steadiness, self- reliance, and immutable determination. Grant's genius, too, was always ready; it was always brightest in an emergen­ cy. All his faculties were sharpened in battle; the man who to some seemed dull, or even slow, was then prompt and decided. When the circumstances were once presented to him, he was never long in determining. He seemed to have a faculty of penetrating at once to the heart of things. He saw what was the point to strike, or the thing to do, and he never wavered in his judgment afterward, unless, of course, under new contingencies. Then he had no false pride of opinion, no hesitation in undoing what he had or­ dered; but if the circumstances re­ mained the same, he never doubted his own judgment I asked him once how he could be so calm in terrible emer­ gencies, after giving an order for a corps to go into battle, or directing some intricate maueuver. He replied that he had done his best and could do no better; others might have or­ dered more wisely or decided more for­ tunately, but he was conscious that he had done what he could, and he gave himself no anxiety about the judgment or the decision. Of course he was anx­ ious about the accomplishment of his plans, but never as to whether hes ought to have attempted them. So, on the night of the battle of the Wil­ derness, when the right of his army had been broken and turned, after he had given his orders for new disposi­ tions, he went to his tent and slept calmly till morning. * * * Not that he was indifferent to human life or humam suffering. I have been with him when he left a hurdle race, unwill­ ing to see men risk their necks need- lesshr; and he came away from one of Blondin's exhibitions at Niagara, angry and nervous at the sight of one poor wretch in gaudy clothes crossing the whirlpool on a wire. But he could subordinate such sensations when necessity required it. He risked his life, and was ready to sacrifice it, for his country; and he was ready, if need came, to sacrifice his countrymen, for he knew that they too made the offer­ ing. It was undoubtedly as a fighter rather than a maneuverer that Grant distinguished himself. He was ready with resource and prompt in decision at Belmont and Donelson, but it was the invincible determination at both these places as at Shiloh that won. As with men, so with armies and generals; skill and strength are tremenduous advan­ tages, but oourage outweighs them' alL In battle, as in strategical movements, Grant always meant to take the initiative; he always advanced, was always the aggressor, always sought to force his plans upon the enemy; and if by any chance or cir­ cumstance the enemy attacked, his method of defense was an attack else­ where. At Donelson, as we have seen,' when his troops were pushed back on the right he assaulted on the left; and this was only one instance out of a hun­ dred. This, too, not only because he was the invader, or because his forces were numerically stronger, bul because it was his nature in war to assail. In the Vicksburg campaign his army was smaller than Pemberton's; yet he was the aggressor. In the operations about Iuka his position was a defensive one, but he attacked the enemy all the same. It was his idea of war to attack inces­ santly and advance invariably, and thus to make the operations of the en­ emy a part and parcel of his own.-- Gwh-A^lam Badeau,inthe Centary. An Uncanny Story of Annabel Lee. About thre^ years ago the people of Fordham determined they would re­ move the village graveyard. Few of them knew of Edgar Allan Poe or his beautiful Annabel. They began to remove the bones and lay them away promiscuously in a sort of charnel ground some distance out in the coun­ try. A gentleman in New York who knew much of Poe's life, who loved his poetry and was aware that his wife was buried at Fordham, heard of the re­ moval of the graveyard and went out to protect the bones of sweet Annabel. The grave had already been opened and he came near being too late. He col­ lected the precious relics, wrapped them neatly in a paper, and brought them to his home in New York, where, he kept them for nearly two years. One day a gentleman called who had known Mrs. Poe and who was very fond of the poem Annabel. The con­ versation drifted toward these beautiful lines, and verse after verse was re­ peated over and over. Finally the gentleman of the house rose and said: "I will show you something." He then proceeded to unwrap the bones of the poor heroine. "These," said he, "are the bones of 'Annabel.' " He then pro­ ceeded to tell the story. The bones were soon afterward sent to be interred at Baltimore. The above is but a part of as wierd and uncanny a story as any Poe ever brought out of his peculiarly uncanny imagination. This sequel lias but recently cpme to our knowledge and every item in it can be proven much more satisfactorily than many incidents of Poe's daily life and habits. Names and places are withheld in this article, but can be furnished on de­ mand.-- Port Chester (Pa.) Journal. London Saloons. A fsecent Saturday night a count was made' in 200 London saloons, and it was found that between the honrs of 9 and 12 they were visited by 48,805 men, 30,784 women, and 7,019 children, or in all by 86,608 persons. It was also found that in one of the best quarters of the city 1,250 well-dressed women entered at twelve saloons between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock, 1,122 of whom took malt and the balance spir­ ituous liquors, which they drank in every case over the bar. In none of the saloons, were screens before the doors or windows. WITH contentment, the lowest hovel is more of a palace than the loftiest mansion. Diogenes lived happily in a tub. TAKE cart of the poor Indians, and TteeDay in the West. The new spring holiday in the west­ ern country grows in favor every year. They call it Arbor Day, the word arbor being Latin for tree. The boys and girls, however, call it, when they are talking with one another, Tree Dav, which is a betternkjne for it. On that festive occasion every woman and every child is expected to plant at least one tree. The schools turn out and make a day of it. Colleges and universities have a holiday, of which they spend a portion in tree-planting, and another portion in celebrating the beautv. srlorv and utility of trees; and you may be sure that some sonorous student does justice, or gallantly tries to do justice, to Bryant's, "Forest Hymn.*' It was but natural that this exquisite holiday should not have been devised in the great West, where both wood and woods are so much needed--wood for daily use as fuel and timber, and woods for beauty, protection and the garnering of the precious moisture upon which fertility depends. It is inter­ esting, as one rides along over the prai­ ries, to notice how the settlers have striven to extemporize a little shew of wood, and to shelter their homes from the steady, strong, unrelenting prairie' winds. Sometimes, howevor, the trees are of too slight a texture to stand many winters on the ope A plain. Nothing answers the purpose except good, solid, hard-wood trees, such as compose the forests of Ohio, and western New York --oak, beech, hickory, chestnut and ash. Another thing surprises the traveler going West for the first time, and that is the splendid growth of hard-wood trees in portions of Illinois, and even in newer Iowa, which within the mem­ ory of farmers now living, were naked prairie. There are woods within 100 miles of Chicago, which, after a growth of less than forty years, exhibit much of the luxuriant beauty of the primeval forest in the Eastern States. Such woods show how adapted the prairie land is to the growth of trees, and give the greatest possible encouragement to tree-planting. Arbor Day is now celebrated in many ways, according to the needs of the re­ gion in which the celebration is held. In the far West the eflort is made to set out the greatest possible number of trees, for the field is boundless and the need urgent. In other places teachers and pupils direct their efforts chiefly to planting shade-trees along streets, and country roads, and in public parks. In Cincinnati the school authorities have set apart in Eden Park, a space of six acres for an Author's Grove, which is a center of interest for the students of Cincinnati ou iA.rbor Day. In the same park there are other groves for a similar purpose, such as Pioneer's Grove, Battle Grove, Presidents' Grove, Citizens' Memorial Grove, in each of which trees are planted in honor of noted individuals of the classes named. On Arbor Day in 1884, 17,000 child­ ren were assembled in Eden Park, ready to plant and dedicate trees to honored persons, living and dead. The scene presented \jy this immense num­ ber of children, with their parents and teachers, many persons carrying trees and shrubs, was most animated and picturesque. At a signal, each school assembled in the grove previously chosen, formed a circle, listened to essays, poems and speeches, and wit­ nessed the careful planting of memorial trees. After the ceremonies, children, teachers, and parents resolved them­ selves into an extensive picnic. It is urgently recommended that the May-day holiday of the Eastern States may be converted into a festival of this kind, if only to accustom children to value and respect trees. Certainly, there is a great need for some influence to come to the rescue of the few forests we have left. The State of New York is making an effort to save the precious woods of the Adirondacks. All who visited the White Mountains last sum­ mer will agree with us in thinking thai the State of New Hampshire should, in some fair and reasonable way, say to the owners of forests on the White Mountains: "Woodman, spore those trees) Touch not a single bough t" The great giant trees of California, we lament to state, are falling fast. The woodmen are bringing down these peer­ less giants of the woods,not merely witli the axe, but with ingenius machinery, as well, which enables them to cut down a tree ten feet thick in two hours Such a tree require 1,500 years to grow. In a day it is converted by axe and saw into red-wood lumber. We hope there is taste and patriotism enough in Cal­ ifornia to stop this murderous work be­ fore those mountains are stripped ol their majestic trees. Let there bo an Arbor Day everywhere! Poetry and prose alike demand it--Youth'8 Com• panion. 'J he lomb of Darius. One of the most remarkable tombs ol the ancients was that carved out of rock, by order of Darius for the reception ol his own remains, and which exists tc this day at Persepolis after a duration of twenty-three centuries. The portico is supported by twenty-four columns twenty feet in height, and in the center is the form of a doorway, seemingly the entrance to the interior, but it is solid; the entablature is of chaste design. Above the portico there is what may be termed an ark, supported by two rows of figures, about the size of life, bearing it on their uplifted hands, and at each angle, a griffin--an ornament which is very fequent at Persepolis. On this stake stands the king, with a bent bow in his hand worshiping the sun, the image of which is seen above the altar that stands before him,' while above his head hovers his feroucher, or dis­ embodied spirit This is the good genius that in Persian and Ninevite sculpture accompanies the king when performing any important act. On each side of the ark are nine niches, each containing a statue in base-relief. No other portion of ihe tomb was intended to be seen, excepting the sculptured front; and wi must, therefore, conclude that the^n- trance was kept secret, and thp« tho ayenues were by subterranean/ffassages so constructed that none but; the priv­ ileged could find the way. We are told by Theophrastus that Darius was buried in a coffer of Egyptian alabaster; also that the early Persians preserved the bodies of their dead in honey or wax. Then and Now. New Minister--No, sir; I don't like choirs. I want congregational singing, and you will oblige me by disbanding your choir before next Sabbath. I dis­ like to offend you, sir, but I feel stongly on this subject Organist--But choirs have been used for years, and I supposed all opposi­ tion to them had ceased in this denom­ ination. New Minister--I believe, sir, in keep­ ing close to first principles. There was no choir singing in the days of the apostles. Organist--Of course not The operas hadn't been written then.^-Phitadel- p Ma i'diL 'S'"' 3PITH AND POINT. MAW has no sorrows that do not tick­ le the devil.--White Hall Times. IF wheat is not a blooming plant, where does the flour oome from?-- Merchant Traveler. IF tbe question of giving credit was put to a vote, the great majority would stand by the tick-it--Marathon Inde­ pendent. IT was a little 5-vear-old who, in de­ scribing the affliction of a neighbor, said "he is blind from head to foot"-- Norristown Herald. "WHAT is the best remedy for ennui ?" ssks an exchange. Go into the woods with a picnic party and sit down on an ant hilL--Boston Courier. _ SOMETIMES kings have asses for ad­ visers, but it has often occurred that a bucking broncho was the power behind the thrown.--Texas Siftings. A MAINE woman of 3-score years and 10 has sued an octogenarian for breach of promise. They are trying to settle up old scores before they die.--St. Paul Herald. A COUNT from Portugal has married an American lady. A friend said to him, "I hope you will s'portugal now that you have married her."--Carl Pretzel's Weekly. THE woman who is making more noise in the world than any of her sis­ ters just at present, is a member of a female brass band in a Western town, and beats the big drum.--Norristoum Herald. AN English clergyman has struck a new idea in the prayer line. He in­ cludes "editors of newspapers" with the list usually mentioned, and Sunday fishing in England is said to have been cut short off.--Detroit Free Press. A PEG-LEO correspondent who is about to have his wooden leg ampu­ tated just above the knee, because of premature decay, asks our advice as to which he should take, chloroform or gas. He can take ether.--Chicago Suv. "How did you come to fall in love with Mattie Cook, Fred? Her face isn't the prettiest in the world." "I admit that, Bob, but then she's a lovely character, and such a pretty foot" "Oh 1 then it was her foot that led you to adore Mat?"-- Yonker's Gazette. "WHAT and When to Eat" is the title of an article in an exchange. This is a subject on which we are posted. The "When" never gave us any trouble in all our eating, but we have been com­ pelled to do a thundering sight of skir­ mishing after the "What."--Newman Independent. IN a Mississippi court: "Gentlemen of the jury, I know that the proof is very much in favor of the witness, but I charge you to hang him." "Why?" asked the foreman of the jury. "Why? The best reason in tho world, sir. He married my daughter and I have had to support him ever since." The man was convicted.--Arkansaw Traveler. THE healing power of earthquakes is a subject for discussion in the Spanish medical press. This is another county heard from. There can be no doubt that earthquakes as a medicine are beneficial; the only objection that could be raised is in favor of the pa­ tient, as he or she, as the case may be, would be "well shaken before taken." --Brooklyn Times. CHEWING GUM. "Do you chew gum?" Yawned pretty Kate To "Gawge," who was A "courting late." "I did-aw, once, -JF y deah," blushed he "Then don't chew gum Again," said she. He left at once, And thought with pain Why sho said, "Don't You come again." --JET. C. Dodge, in New York Journal. A Frightened African. A contraband was engaged by one of our staff officers as a body servant. Said officer had served gallantly in several engagements, and at Antietam lie lost a leg, below the knee, the ab­ sence of which had been supplied by an artificial limb, which the captain wore with so easy a grace that few peo­ ple suspected his misfortune. The captain had been "out to dine," and upon retiring he called his servant to assist in pulling off his boots. "Now, Jimmy, look sharp," said the captain; "I'm a little, jest a (hie) trifle flimsy, Jim-(hic)-my, t'night. Keep yer (hie) eye peeled, an' (hie) pull steady." "I'se allers keerful with flimsy folks, cap'n," Baid Jim, drawing off one long, wet boot, and standing it aside. "Now, (hie) mind yer eye' Jimmy. .The other's a little tight--easy now, (hie) that's it. ' Pull away!" continued the captain, good naturedly, enjoying the prospective joke, while he loosened the straps about his waist which held his cork leg up; "now you've got it! Yip!--there you are!" "Oh, lord! oh, lord!" screamed the captain, as the contraband, cork leg, riding-boots and ligatures tumbled across the tent, and lie fell back upon his bed convulsed with laughter. At that moment the door opened and an officer entered. "G'way fum me! g'way fum me! lemmy be! lemmy be! I ain't dun nuf- fin!" yelled the frightened contraband, rushing to the door, really supposing he had pulled his master's leg clean off. "Lemmy gol I didn't do nuffin-- g'way! g'way I" Jimmy put for the woods in desperation, and, perhaps, that darkey is running yet--TheBiver• side Enterprise. Making Haste to lie Rich. The agricultural chances in tfiis country never were better than now; the railroads are rather at the mercy of the producers; the society in much of the South is perfectly settled, and in the present depression the lands can be bought cheaply, and are good in­ vestments for those willing to wait. Thedem@P in our economy is the idea tJure we alrtmg^t to be made rich in en years. The tfen-jta^s is the limit of a man's endeavors. With this eullvic^ tion, nevertheless, no man ever stops working in this country. He cheats himself with a lie and then forgets the cheat Hardly any American does not believe that he is going to get rich and stop a little ways in advance of him, and none of them were ever known to stop.--Oath's letter. An UitfiHt Accusations » A burly negro was brought before Judge Tegener, accusod of vagrancy. "It is a tam shame dot a pig strong man like you vas should pe guilty of so mooch idleness." "Idleness, Boss?" "Yes, you never got some steady em­ ployments." "Go slow, Boss. Ton am doin' me injustice. I has worked like de berry debble for de las' two yeahs." "Where vas dot?" » "At Hnntsville, in de penitentiary, for stealin' a hoss."--Texas Siftings. Many young married ladies, obliged to wear last spring's clothes, prefer di­ vorce suits. NS , \'4 m. s