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'»j*j r<- ~p&; mtmm KOSB AND THE FERSf ST OLIVER "WENDELL HOLMES. Blgh overhead the trejllsed rosea barn, ILady. life'* »we«t««t lesson wonldst thou iMurn, Come thou with me to love's enchanted bower; srhea thy feet behold the feathery A leaf without a flower. , <M' v; m»at though the rose leaves fall ? They still f c - i - a r e s w e e t , And have been lovely In their beauteous prime, While the bare frond seems ever to repeat^ •Jt*nr as no bud, no blossom, wakes to 1 he joyous flowering time Heed thou the lesson. I.ife has leaves to tread And flowers to cherish; summer round thee gloiiVH; Wait not till autumn's fading robes are shed, Stat while its petals still are burning red Gather life's full-blown rose 1 --Atlantic Monthly. her, t JANE WEST. •' ELLA ROCKWOOIfc * mwfc if yen -would only see father," pleaded Henry Wade. "I don't want to see her," curtly replied his father; "a stuck-up, proud-faced city girl--I know well enough what they are." But, father," urged Henry, "Minna is not proud, nor stuck-up, as you are pleased to express it; she is as sweet and amiable as mother herself'-- with a fond glance to where that mother sat .with a troubled look in her brown eyes, as she listened to the controversy be- .tween the father and son. "Why couldn't you marry one of our neighbor girls, I'd like to know!" con­ tinued Mr. Wade. "There's Mary Welch, or Nettie Martin, either one of them good, sensible girls, not afraid to work eithsr, as I'll wager your fine city wife will be." "Mary Welch and Nettie Martin are good girls, I agree with yon, father, but I do not love either one of them, and I do love Minna East on, and that makes all the difference in the world, yon know." "Well, if yon are bound to marry her yon needn't bring her here, that's all! for I don't want any fine city lady aronnd making fun of onr country ways," and to put an end to the conver­ sation he stalked off to the 1t>arn. ."I'm afraid he will never give in, Henry," sadly said his mother, after a , lew minutes' silence. "It's only prejudice, mother," was the reply. "If he were to see Minna, think­ ing her a poor girl, obliged to work for a living, lie couldn't help loving her. But the worst of it is, she won't marry me unless you and father are willing. She says she can­ not be the means of making discord between a son and his parents, and it looks as if father was going to stick to his prejudice and withhold his consent Heigho! what a world of trouble this is!" he added, "but you are just the dearest little mother in the whole land," with a loving hug, "and I shall tell Min&a&ll the kind and loving things you havesiid about her." sure my son could never make choice; but your father is so I don't |feaigh, "M rwent heldAclerkshii itm Mtablishmej r was oblif Ife said. "If girl, and had even by doing K*et object at all the idea thi •Had haughty, ^pertaining tot . y|l manner of persuasion to indue© ner to give up her resolve and marry him, trusting to time to soften the father's lieart. But she was "firm. "Let us Wait," was her reply, "something may ippen to change his mind." And so a was obliged to give it up. Early in October Henry was sent by "fjiis employer to a distant city on im­ portant business. He was to be gone Several weeks and on his return had planned to stop at his father's to Bpend - ̂ a t " t h e c l o s e o f a l a t e O c t o b e r (lay. Mrs. Wade was trying to catch the last lingering gleams of light, as she «§£ by the window in her low rocker jog some mending which she held r liand, when she heard a faint tap • kitchen door. jes," said she to her husband, rsat dozing over his paper by the fire. "There's some one rapping at the kitchen door. I think it is Mrs. Orms- Itee's boy come after the last Examiner. JtHtt step ont and take it to him, won't youf handing him a paper from the her side. Mr. Wade roused himself, and taking the paper from his wife's hand, went to open the door. , . Bat it was not Mrs. Ormsbees boy %vho stood there. It was a girl, appar­ ency about eighteen years of age, - j jn a plain hood and shawl. She , to see the lady of the house. •'fjbme in, come in," cordially invited ^former. "It's getting colder to-night; a seat by the tire. Samantha!" ing his voice, "here's a young wo- t wants to see you." e girl thus invited, entered the and took the proffered chair. ^ a moment Mrs. Wade entered the The girl arose. "I am trying to _ place to work," she explained, as 'elder lady looked inquiringly at her, as it is nearly night aud your looked so pleasant and inviting I jpped to see if you would not like ite help. Perhaps you will let me all night anyway," she added as , Wade hesitated. w Ton can stay all night and welcome, jthe reply, "but I don't know as I ^ any help." . n nv mother, this is just the thing, it in the farmer. "You know you jven't been feeling well lateb*, and ^ I |&nt to kill hogs next week, and there'll i too much work for you to do alone. Ull it providential that this young has come along." KelJ, take off your things and stay tight anyway," said Mrs. Wade, .see aboutit in the morning." a dread common to many which she carried, a large white apron with which she enveloped here elf,-aud proceeded to help prepare the evening meal. After tea she persuaded Mrs Wade to let her attend to the tea things, and that lady having given a reluctant consent, she gathered the dishes in a quiet, or­ derly manner which was like music to the careful mistress' ears, whose only idea of a servant's work was connected with noise and crash. Soon after finishing her work she asked to be shown to her room. The chamber to which she was assigned was one which had formerly been oc­ cupied by^her son, the lady of the house informed her-- her only son who was now in business in - the city. The walls of the sloping-roofed room were covered with boyish relics--butterflies, beetles, some dried cocoons, a cluster of arrows, "tipped with steel, and winged with feathers," the work of the young farmer boy in his leisure mo­ ments. Upon a shelf was arranged quite a collection of specimens in stone, minerals, and shells, while a couple of shelves in a corner held a few books, such as naturally would interest a boy in his teens. Bidding her good night the mistress descended to the sitting-room. "I'm sure I shall love her!" said she to her husband, as she set 'the chairs back against the wall, as was her . cus­ tom before retiring. "She seems so quiet and lady-like." "Lady-like, be hanged! if she only does her work well that's all I'll ask," wa^« her husband's response, as he wound the clock and prepared to go tobed. The new girl was up betimes in the morning. She seemed to know by in­ tuition just how Mrs. Wade wanted her work done, and was ready to do it. " She's a jewel!" was that lady's mental conclusion at the close of the first day. Jane West, as the new girl gave her name, continued to give satisfaction as the days went by. Butchering was over; !l,e last roll of sausage was hung in the smokehouse; the head-cheese seasoned to a turn, and the crocks of snowy lard were ranged upon the cellar shelf. Still Jane did not go. Mrs. Wade by one excuse or another kept her day after day. One night as the three were sitting around the fire--for they had insisted from the first that she should be one of the family, as is the custom in the country--Mrs. Wade broached a subject over which she had pondered much ip the last few weeks. "Why can't you stay with us always, Jane?"said she. "There's enough for two to do; I'm getting old and can't stand the work as I Used to." ."Yes," urged her husband. "We'd miss you wonderfully now. I don't see why Hetiry couldn't have found a girl like Jier/ he added half aloud. It Wtts finally decided that she should stay till after Thanksgiving, at which time she would give them a final answer. Two days before Thanksgiving a letter was received from Henry saying he would be with them on Thanks­ giving day. Such a feast as. was spread for the occasion! 'The fattest turkey in the flock was slowly browning in the oven; the table neatly set with the best linen and china, the crimson glow of a bright bit of color, with the late bloom- artemesia graced the • in • readiness, and ,ne who were giving to the table, were or the first glimpse return from the d gone to meet his SOMEWHAT STRANGE ACCXDINTB ANB UTOIDENTS OF ft!****.©** UAMMRN she added | nd." whlle city where he s mannfuctur- heavy heart is prejudice," poor country ur own living, irk, he would has somehow iris are proud e everything He tried Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven­ tures Which Show that Truth is Stranger than Fiction. MOST remarkable ease has come to light In Wash­ ington County, Pa. John Gregg, an old farmer, with strong and peculiar relig­ ious opinions, was about three years ago appointed administrator of the estate of a deceased friend. * A will had been mads disposing of the real estate, and Gregg followed its provisions to'the letter. However, the will did not cover the personal property, and a near relative claimed it under the law. Gregg deslared that he knew the deceased wanted the whole of her estate to go to the persons named in the will and re­ fused to make over the personal property to the other heir. The case went against him in court, but he was still obdurate. He was immediately committed to jail for contempt, and has remained in prison ever since. Gregg says he cannot con­ scientiously obey the court, and he will die in jail. . THERE was an unusual little scetie in a Pittsburg (Penn.) hospital receutly. A large green parrot, of evil inclinations and strident voice, is confined in the drug room, near the entrance hall. The parrot's cage is frequently opened to ad­ mit food and other necessaries. One day the hospital hallboy, who has charge of Polly, didn't close the portals of her prison properly, and this fact was speed­ ily ascertained by the sagacious bird. Nobody was around, so the prisoner slipped her bolts aud stepped out. Now, a small cup containing pure alcohol lay on the counter of the drug room, and Polly steered her course toward that cup. She was thirsty, and here was something drinkable. Polly drank, intending, like many another, only to take one drink and then to depart. But alas! The drink led to many others, and, sad to re­ late, Polly soon became intoxicated. Just then one of the house physieians^entered, and the depraved bird swore at him with frightful vehemence and bit him in the hand. Then, half-flying, half-leaping, Polly descended to the floor and com­ menced to make for the entrance hall with unsteady gait, swearing in a man­ ner that made the waiting visitors stop their cars. Just then one of the Sisters arrived on the scene and found this frightful example to all birds blasphem­ ing in the centre of the hall while the visitors were retreating in all directions. Aid was promptly summoned. Polly was locked up and removed into a room where she could sober up, and the entr^pcehall resumed its normal quietude. < A THRiiii.ixo story of an encounter with a leopard comes from Serajgunge, in India. Two young English gentlemen belonging to the locality went out to hunt a leopard that had been making its presence unpleasantly felt in the neigh­ boring villages. Neither was accustomed to hunting or"*o the use of firearms, but both were full of pluck and eager to show their prowess. They took up their wheels over the eard, Mrs. Wade into the oven to len hurries out to ing, oi center Evei .. Mrs. W the fin eagerly of Mr station, son. At last frozen gr gives one 1 see that al welcome he' „ "Why mother!" exclaims Henry, as divested of his wraps he seated himself in the big arm-chair before the fire. "Seems to me you are getting quite "citified," as father would. say. I don't know as I ever saw ilowers on the table before." ,. "Oh that's Jane's doings," replied his mother. " Jane," repeated Henry," why that must be the new girl father has been telling me about. He seems to think she is just about perfect; a little _ ahead of even Mary Welch or Nettie Martin, eh, father?" he added, with a roguish twinkle in his eye3. "If you'd been lucky enough to get a wife like Jane West you'd had no oppo­ sition fr >m me, I can tell you-that, was the response. "But where is Jane? turning to his wife. "She must have gone np to her room when you came; probably felt shy of meeting strangers. I'll go aud call her, and she mounted the stairs to Janes room but was it Jane who stood by the little window ? " Why, Jane!" was her exclamation, "how pretty you look! I didn't suppose } on had such a pretty gown; and how different you look with your hair fixed that way! But come down now, Henry has come, and we are ready for dinner." Jane was very pale, but she followed Mrs. Wade without a word, down the stairs and into the room. At the door she paused. "Henry, this is Jane West, the girl I--" Henry arose as his mother spoke, out U AV>AALRI* <V LLO VAA station on awaitin were chasi denly th and can lus danger, unfortu: of whi the gu tried comp upon cruu of cleared ground, that the beaters lair, when sud- ed on one of them the thigh, inflicting iseiyuilt safety-pin, with the use acquainted, had locked would not move. He leopard off from his ;he enraged beast turned ing his arm aud literally nd. Two of the beaters Hed their bamboos with the animal turned tail and drives, of baying a strange girl: . j of hk choice en. But the butchering was B before she had fini-died speaki" g he was across the room and had caught Jaue West in his arms. "Minna!" he ex­ claimed. "You here! What does this mean?" tiyni^ng to his parents, who looked on in amazement. "It means, dear Henry," replied Minna--for it was really the--"that I determined to come as a poor girl to your parent's home to see if I could not find a place in their hearts for th© girl who has promised to become your wife. How well I have succeeded I leave for them to tell." "Well, I vum," ejaculated the farmer, as he realized his position, "you've beat me all holler! and if Henry has been lucky enough to get you for a wife, why, as I said a little while ago, I ain't no objections," and he gave his future daughter-in-law a hearty shake of his great brown hand. . It was a very happy family who gath­ ered aronnd the table a little later; and when the Christmas bells rang ont in the city Mr. and Mrs. Wade were ther« to witness their son's marriage to the with sausage to make, lard and the various other things I with the annual killing of ffcc attended to, and, as her hus- said, she had not been feeling " II; so she made up her mind ,up with it for a couple t and let the girl stay and help lOOUld. like a tid^r girl, in her , «, with plain linen collar , and as soon as she laid aside Two Givers. Bridget--Please, mum, I'd like 25 cents to take to church, mum." Mrs. De Fashion--Certainly. But-- let me see--the smallest I hive is 50 cents. Can yon get change?" . "Yis, mum." "Well, bring me back two tens and o five. I'm goitig to church myself this evening.--New York Weekly. ~a*homeU ^ MUCH charity that begins ehe"took from a small bag j too feeble to go out of doors, returned to the jungle. The two Euro­ peans were removed to Serajgunge, and it was found that the first mentioned was in such a critical condition that he could not be moved. He died shortly after­ wards. His companion was _ sent to Cal­ cutta for treatment, and it is feared he will have to lose his arm. Only a short time previously a European gentleman nearly lost his life in the same plaoe from an unexpected attack by a leopard. A STRANGE and decidedly interesting event occurred recently at the residence of J. S. Seiberling, a prominent manu­ facturer of Akron, Ohio. Mr. Sterling's son Charles returned from an extended trip through South America, bringing with him, among curiosities, a large species of South American monkey. After tea the box containing the monkey was brought out to be opened amid gen­ eral curiosity of the family circle and a few.friends. The monkey was untamed and had been closely confined since it was shipped from Buenos Ayres via Lon­ don, and the moment the box cover was loosened the animal broke the fastenings and escaped to the drawing-room. Catch­ ing up a costly vase the monkey dashed it into fragments, knocked a French clock from the mantel, demolishing it, and ran about the pictures, curtains, bric-a-brac and interior decorations with all the freedom of the Amazon forest. The animal resisted all efforts to capture if, but was finally driven into the dining- room, where the* battle was renewed, and the monkey bombarded his pursuers with knives, saucers and plates. Several gen­ tlemen were severely bitten and scratched before the little South American was forced to strike his colors. The damage done makes him undoubtedly the costli­ est monkey in the country. IGNORANCE of the contents of the Koran almost cost an enterprising Ger­ man photographer his life a short time ago in Constantinople. As it was, his nationality alone protected him. The Koran forbids the reproduction, in any way, of the face or figure of a human being. Not knowing this, the photo­ grapher placed himself in a convenient place to observe the Sultan when he made his regular Friday visit to thts mosque. Success crowned "his efforts. But just as he was on the point of packing up his. h apparatus w ith the excellent negative of f Ills Maiesiy, he was discovered by an officer of the palace, who had accompan­ ied the Sultan. The officer broke out into a terrible rage against Christian bar­ barism, broke the photographer's instru­ ment to pieces, destroyed every vestige of the picture and arrested the sinner. The unfortunate man appealed to the German Ambassador, who succeeded in having the death penalty changed into a mouth's imprisonment and banishment. MRS. SMITH, of Ansonia, Conn., who is upward of eighty years of age, has long been troubled with rats about her house. They arc canal rats, a tribe an­ alogous to New York wharf rats, big, bold and starved. On a recent Thursday she determined to get rid of some of them. She lay down on a lounge in her kitclien, holding a string which was tied to the door-knob. The door was left open. Pretty soon a monster rat came in, and he was speedily followed by three more. After they had got well Into the room a pull of the stringclosed tJ^dddj^' and then the old lady got to work. With a poker she killed three of the rodents. The fourth got away and ran upstairs to the bath room. She 'pursued him. Ho got into her clothes, but instead of screaming and fainting, she shook him off and killed him. Mrs. Smith is rated in this community as a brave woman.' IN Zurich, Switzerland, the other day, one of the law courts closed a novel case. A beggar who opened the garden gate in front of a house where he intended to ask for relief was attacked by the watchdog and bitten in the left arm. Soon after­ ward he commenced a suit against the owntr of the place, calling for heavy damages, on the ground that the wound he had received rendered him perman­ ently unable to earn his living.' The de­ fence was that he could beg just as well as evef, and that the injury in question, far from being a disadvantage, only in­ creased his chances in his profession. But the court held that the proprietor of a house is responsible for the security of the people who come to visit him, even when the object of his appearance is to make an appeal to his generosity. So the beggar won his suit. RECENTLY in East Java a band of con­ traband opium dealers, passing through a jungle, saw two tigers following them hard. They lost not a moment in hasten-, ing their steps, but the least nimble of them found the beasts of prey at his heels, when he spied a tiger trap. He crept into it with the forbidden freight on his back. The trap shut the closer for the heavy weight, and when danger no longer threatened, the fellow thought he could lift up the door of the trap, but all his efforts proved unavailing. Next day the setters came to have 8 look at the trap and rejoiced to see it closed, in the hope of finding a tiger caught. . Their joy knew no bounds when the prize proved to be a smuggler with forty pounds of opium. A SPECIAL meeting of the Executive Committee of the Grant Monument Asso­ ciation was held recently in New York, to discuss the proper form Of the memor­ ial for Gen. Grant in the event of invit­ ing competition. A resolution was offered by ex-Mayor Grace that outlined the gen­ eral idea of the proposed memorial at Riverside Park. It proposed a structure of such altitude and capacity as to pre­ sent an attractive elevation and afford ample room within it, not only for sepul­ chre for Gen. Grant and his widow, but also for a memorial halh The resolution was adopted. AT the Vienna General Hospital the medical officers have fceen watching a curious case. The patient is a man of about fifty-four years of age, who was a navvy up till last year, when he hurt the forefinger of his left hand. The finger had to be amputated. Since then the left hand, has always been in motion, and now the nervous affection has spread over the whole body and the patient is obliged always to turn to the left side. When lpng i° bed he gives sudden jumps into the air like a fish when lying, on dry ground. A similar case attracted recently the attention of medical men at Paris. A STRANGE battle is reported to have taken place in Tokio, Japan. A stream runs through the compound of Tobukuji Temple at Sugamo, and a few days ago some hundreds of bullfrogs gathered on either bank. Then a terrific battle en:, sued, lasting from 9 a. it is stated V ^ mocked to such finishe^ut with the bodies of the slaiu - that the course of the water was almost totally impeded. Large numbers of peo­ ple visited the place^ to witness the strange spectacle. ;> WHILE Mrs. Belie Mprty, of Blake's Mills, Ohio, was in the garden gathering flowers late this last'fall, a rose-bug flew into her ear, and she has not yet been able to dislodge the little insect. She suffers constantly the most excruciating pain and annoyance, and from the con- tinnnfi i\nrfiimr iinfl movinc-about feel- OneMeaf rw (ion'e'D'ry, That sweet little woman Mrs. New- lywed .feels in dispair of ever becoming a practical cook. It chanced the other night that she had prepared for her dear Edward a meat pie, and the dish used to bake it in being larger than was needed for so small a family, she adopted a little expedient she had been told of by a more experienced house­ wife and placed in the middle of the dish a teacup upside down to hold up the crust at the central point, filling in the receptacle round about with cubes r)f beef and gravy previously prepared after the fashion of a stew. Finally she covered the whole with a nice crust, neatly trimmed off at the edges, and put it in the Oven to bake. • For such is the way, she had learned, to make a meat pie. When Edward came home and was ready for dinner it was with no little pride that she placed on the table with her own pretty hands the hot disli fresh from the oven, and as he plunged his knife through the brown and appetizing crust, she gazed with fond anticipation upon the result of her labors, the de­ licious qualities of which were on the point of being developed. She was helped first, of course, six or eight •cubes of beef and the brownest bit of crust falling tc her share. But she no­ ticed with alarm that of the gravy, so essential in a preparation of the sort, there was not a single drop. She tasted one of the pieces of meat, but it was as dry as Dead Sea fruit. "My treasure," she faltered, "I fear there must have been some mistake in the recipe for this pie. I never saw a meat pie before withont plenty of gravy. Certainly I put a quantity in, But it seems to have all dried up." "I think it very good myself," re­ sponded the new-made husband. . "I am sure that I have never tasted a more delicious pie." - As he spoke he was tillable to restrain a little choke over one of the dry pieces of beef, and the eyes of the young wife filled with tears. "I am sure I did my very best to make it nice," she said, with a little golp- • "My preciousf* "My darling!* , By this time the formalities of the table had been dispensed with and she was sitting on his knee shedding a few consolatory tears into his napkin. When she had regained her accustomed cheer­ fulness by this natural method she be­ gan laughing and they both fell into the merriest fit imaginable. Then he said, jokingly: "My angel, what is that' cup for that I see turned upside down in the middle of the dish ?" "Why, don't yon .understand, you sweet old goose," was the reply. "It makes the pie look pretty. If the enp wasn't there the crust wonld sink down in the center." * With tfeis she leaned over and taking the cup between her-dainty thumb and forefinger lifted it up--when, lo! there flowed from the cup into the dish quite half a pint of rich brown gravy. It had all the time, but, in the proc^^^^^^Hcing, the cup fitting closely tol^^^^Kn of the re­ ceptacle, the airj^^^^H^cup had be­ come rarified by^^^^Hand thus all the gravy in the alfs^iaturai phenomenon to Iiis bride, and now she says that no such wicked l a w o f p h y s i c s -- c a l l e d i t shall ever cheat gravy for her meat pie aga^^^^^K this she will look under that settingihe jail on-fire, together witk some other prisoners. He was tried for arson and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment! He had already served nineteen years of his term." . <' * "I was astonished when .1 finished reading lhe letter. I knew that the Supreme Court had decided time and time again that an attempt to break jail by burning was not arson. I tele* graphed immediately to the authorities at that place. The f elegram was a long one, gave the prisoner's story of the case, asked for its confirmation or ge­ nial. In about half an hour I received a reply stating that the case was exactly as it had been stated by the prisoner. I immediately wired his pardon, and before night he was a free man." "I don't see," concluded the Gov ernor, "how the authorities there coalc have had BO little judgement or have been so ignorant as to hold the prisoner for nineteen years."--Atlanta Journal, time or have beneath it.--Bo J;r ' Drink, Pretty Creates " *,• "Come, drink, T implore you.* Gladys Javhawk's contralto voice- so low as to .be almost decollete--fal­ tered as she whispered this exhorta­ tion in the Rea-shell-fcinted ear of which Gaston Montespan possessed two. She punctured the remark with a con­ vulsive sob, as if her larynx had slipped its moorings. At this sound the younp man felt his whole being thrill as it hae never thrull before. "Never 1" he exclaimed, with an ex­ pression on his face which could have earned him $10 a week as the villain cf$ an "Uncle Tom's Cabin Company, They were from St. Louis, these two, but they were to be pitied rather thai) condemned for that. They were born there and knew no better. Gaston be­ longed to one of the old French families while the father of Gladys had made * fortune by inventing a patent cork­ screw. They were well matched, ana the world said that when Gaston Montespan led the lovely heiress to thtf altar, the good old city of St. Louis knew no happier proprietor of a ¥sof| snap" than he. They were sitting in the twilight just now, and the gloaming was just begin­ ning its usual gloam, while the purple haze of coming'night was doing busi­ ness at the old stand. As Gladys uttered the words witk which our story opens, she stood with one white arm about, Gaston's neck, while with the opposite hand she held a slipper of white satin. The satin in the slipper had been intended for the manufacture of a ball dress, but Gladys found that there was a superabundance of material, in fact enough for a pair of slippers for herself, and' so the ball dress was abandoned and the slippers were made instead. "Drink." The monosyllable was uttered in a tone that was half a prayer, half a man­ date ; yet Gaston vouchsafed no answer, save the. low soft refrain of ^"Little Annie Rooney," which he whistled pensively. Striking a mad scene in - "Article 47* attitude, she exclaimed: "Gaston, you have said that you love me, then listen. This slipper of mine contains the contents of two quart bot­ tles of champagne, and de- ' champagne from the slippers of reigning belles. I fain would emulate them* II you love me, drink." In harsh, firm tones the yoting man answered: . . "Gladys, heaven know* I love your Id cup every I j caimot drink two quarts of eham- hisv Musical AeMMPtrated. At a trial in the court of king's bench as to an alleged piracy of the "Old En- pagne at one fell gulp. That were mad­ ness. Girl, you would fain get me paralyzed." . . , ,, And so saying he strode into the gloaming. With a shriek of. anguish Gladys mr- • 5 v- - ... .. . 1 AfitcA. ;• tbm laftunoBs Trwflio m Human «| Village* In *l«e Dark Continent. In the slave sheds, says the Century, all ages of both sexes are to be seen--• mothers with their babes; young man And women; boys and girls, and even babies who cannot yet walk, and whose » mothers have died of starvation, or per­ haps been killed by the Lufembe. One seldom sees old men and old women; they are all killed in the raids; their marketable value being very «m*H, no trouble is taken with them. Witnessing groups of these Door, helpless wretches, Avith their emaciated forms and sunken eyes, their faees a very picture of sadness, it is not difHnnlt to perceive the intense grief that they are inwardly suffering; but they know too well it is of no use to appeal for sympathy to their merciless masters, who have been accustomed from child­ hood to witness acts of cruelty and 'brutality, so that to satisfy their insati­ able greed they will commit themselves, or permit to be committed, any fftrocity, however great. Even the pitiable sight of one of these slave-sheds does not half represent the misery caused by this traffic--homes broken up, mothers' separated from their babies, husbands from wives, and brothers from sisters. When last at Masankusa I saw a slave woman who had with her one child,4 . whose starved little body was clutching to her shrunken breast. I was attracted by her sad face, which betokened great suffering. I asked her the cause of it» and she told me in a low, sobbing voice, the following tale: "I was living with my husband and three children in an inland village, a few miles from here. My husband was a hunter. Ten days ago the Lufembe attacked our settlement; my husband defended himself, but was, overpowered and speared to death, with several of the other villagers. I was brought here with my three children, two of whom have already been purchased by the traders. I shall never see them any more, Perhaps they will kill them on the death of some chief, or, perhaps, kill them for food. My remaining child, you see, is ill, dying from starva­ tion ; they give us nothing to eat. I ex­ pect even this one will be taken from me to-day, as the chief, fearing lest it should die and become a total loss, has offered it for a very small price. As for myself," said she, "they will sell me to one of the neighboring tribes to toil in the plantation's, and when t * come old and unfit for work I shall killed." There were certainly 500 slaves ex< posed for sale in this one village alone. Large oanoes were constantly arriving from down river with myrohandise o| all kinds, with which they purchased these slaves. A large trade carried on between the Ubangi and Lulunga -rivers. The people inhabiting the mouth of the Ubangi buy the Balolo slaves at Masankusu and the other markets. They then take them up the Ubangi River and exchange them with the natives there for ivory. These natives buy their slaves solely for food, paving purchased slaves they feed Ihem on ripe bananas, fish, and oil, and when they get them into good condition they kill them Hundreds of the B. slaves are taken up the river an victims }or~i^*fewote$ch mflnL Much life is lost in the capturing oi slaves, and during their captivity many succumb to starvation. Of the xe* mainder, numbers are sold victims to cannibalism aud fice ceremonies. There ai who are allowed to live an mt .VW; - :--4t •n; << t * -Vs1- <* * If i tinued buzzing and moving-about feel­ ing she imagines that the bug is still alive. A surgical operation failed to bring any relief, and the woman contin­ ues to suffer the most intense pain. A DEVOTED couple, husband and wife, committed suicide recently at St. Etienne, in France, because the husband was attacked with a fatal malady. They took the usual suicidal precautions to stop up all the chinks and crevices before starting up the carbonic gas, but only the husband got a sufficient dose to take him off, and his wife was resuscitated. On recovering herself fully she remarked that she felt as though she had just waked up from a deep and long sleep. THE Hu Pao, a Japansse paper, says a gigantic fish was seen one day lately at glish Gentleman?; one of the first wit- \ CTi^ 'hM hftye to drink it myselt"- . Harry B. Smith, in America. nesses put in the box was Cooke. "Now, sir." said Sir James Scarlett, in his cross-examination of Cooke, "you say that the two melodies are identical, but different. What am I to under­ stand by that, sir?" "What I said," replied Oooke, "was that the notes in the two arrangements are the same but with a different ac­ cent--the one being in common while the other is in triple time;consequently the position of the accented notes is Afferent in the two copies, _ "What is a musical accent? Sir James flippantly-inquired. "My terms for teaching music are a guinea a lesson, said Cooke, much to the merriment of the Court. "I do not want to know your terms for teaching," said the counsel, "I want in one Snaoki Siang, floating there not far from I you to explain to his lordship and the the beach. A bold boatman went off | jury what is musical accent." Sir James waxed wroth. "Can you see it?" he continued. "No," was the auswer. "Can you feel it?" "Well," Cooke drawledOttfc, "a musi cian can with a line, leaped on its head and made the line fast, and the fish, not moving while the end was taken ashore, the peo­ ple on shore began to haul on the rope, thinking it was dead. The fish, how­ ever, suddenly cavorted round, and the boatman was washed off and drowned. The fish was hauled ashore. JOHN DARBY, a farm hand employed by F. W. Stout; near New Brunswick, fell from a haymow and injured his neckj A neighboring physician was called in, I what you call accent/ _ who discovered Darby's neck was un- "Musical accent, rejoined Cooke, is jointed, and he said that the man could emphasis laid on a certain note, just as live only a few hours. Darby disagreed you would lay stress on any v> ord when with the physician, however, and said I speaking in order to make yourself bet- that he would act well. He was alive at ter understood. If I were to say, you He Wasn't Making a Break on tke Purfesh. A tramp who was making his way around to the back door of a house on Madison avenue found a man sawing wood in the rear yard, and after gazing at him for a moment called ont: ; "Are you working for old clothes,?'* "No, sir," was the reply. " Hain't sawing wood for your dinner?" "No, sir." "Haven't quit the purfesh?" "No, sir." . ... "Say, what are you tioing at that wood pile anyway ? Working at my business. I saw wood for a living." . " Oh I Then yon don't belong ?" •No." "And it's regular?" «Yes." "Then that's all right and I've no fault to find. When J walked in here and saw you at work my heart jumped right into my mouth. I didn't know Mr. Allen's La , "Private" Allen, the for of the House, w group of friends the other of the hotel lobbies, when the subject of five minutes debate in the HOuae happened to come up. "I was very much amused," said Mr. Allen, "when Gen. Spinola, of New York, in a recent rough and tumble de­ bate on the floor incidentally re­ marked : " 'I see my young friend over there smiles.' "The discussion wad on -war matters and pensions, and Representative Wil­ son, of the State of Washington, think­ ing that the Nov/ Yorker lae&pt to con­ vey the impression that he (Wilson),was too young to have been in the service, arose to correot the statement. Gen. Spinola then said that he was not re­ ferring to Wilson, but to the _ 'gentle­ man from Massachusetts, with the Shakspearean forehead.' That brought ^ i Mr, Morse, of Massachusetts, to histfeet, whereupon Gen. Spinola had to tell | him that he, too, was mistaken, as he ^ had referred to Representative Green- , . / halge, of the Bay State. "I oould not help thinking," added Mr. Allen, of a oase I was trying onoe 4' in Mississippi It was that of a man prosecuted for drunkenness. He was :«y ttr^wT™?^iaWn^ I So"itwM one of the boys making a j £~lawyel. and made a speech in his own J "Will vou exulain^to his lordship and U>reak and calling down the purfesh. defence Why, gentlemen of the jury,'| tu know Regular, eh? Well, you keep right on said he «a tbing that is habitual is cer- ^ ]URV . I AN/1 «t AIRAV TILITL/I TV\A "Pm after a warm I Mainly different from a thing that hap- ... ; . pens sometimes. Now, at my house w# Sunday wear, and if she's the right sort of a woman I'll hit her for half a doHar in cash besides." nothing about music--the meaning of | ̂UncTa ̂ pe^able^khig suiuS that he would get last accounts and was quieting his nerves by smoking a cigar. AN Italian soldier who was bathing in an African river was bitten on his knee by a crocodile, and died from the bite a few days after. He had been cautioned against entering the stream on account of are a donkey, ' the accent rests on don-1 _ ~ - inTls, don Ley/ it restTou youJSir James^nd Sre might not ^und ^1 I - - * Ltthe gentlemen of the steady flow of tiresome sound all ^e is not ift the The Talking Bore. If he would talk anything save him- comes from one source--egotism. Un- the large number of the animals it con- J JJ. usefu}( too, since it may serve to tained, but defiantly replied : "Oh, croc-| .mpre3S upon the mindg of that very I have no doubt that the gentlemen as an instance Oh, croc odiles are nothing but a bugaboo to scare children." A I<ARGK roost of robins has been dis­ covered eight miles west of Columbus, Ind. The bird# assemble there nightly in countless numbers, and thousands of them are slain by hunters. Several per­ sons kill the birds and strip their feathers for the purpose of making feather beds for family use. • Mourning Woman. The woman who puts you into mourn­ ing is making herself indispensable. She has long existed in England, but we have only just imported her. A be­ reaved family sends her a telegram. She appears, takes ycur measures and those of the children, She procures the stuff for the mourjiing frocks and bon­ nets and sees to it that they are instantly made. More "leisurely she chooses the mourning handkerchiefs and note paper, and, if you carry it so far, the undarwear. She tones down to proper decorum the decorations of the drawing-room. She adds everywhere the shadows that ga to a proper mourning trousseau. By and by her occupation may vanish, like Othello's, for by and by black may cease to be worn by intelligent women.-- [New York Letter, f rge circle of people who plume them- jelv es on being musical some faipt notion of what accent in music really is. It is the outcome of that wonderful in­ vention, the division -of music into bars, but for which music m) f 11 utill be only the magical accomplish 'fi'>Tit of a few, Story or a Pardon. Some time ago a party of gentlemen, of which Gov. Gordon was the central figure, were discussing the pardoning of convicts,, when the Governor said : "I did recently a thing which is prob­ ably without a precedent in the par­ doning of convict prisoner?--I pardoned a man on account of his own letter." There was a general request for the story of the pardon. "It was this way," continued the Gov­ ernor; "I received a letter one day which began in a most respectful man­ ner : " 'His Excellency, John B. Gordon, Governor of Georgia; Sir,' the iirst j^ntence read, 'don't you think I have i.ion here long enough?' He Mated his case plainly. When he I mere boy, he said, 15 or 16 years old, he was a party to some mischief and was put in the County Jail. Arf any boy would feel he was deeply humi­ liated and at temp; ed to get out by listen in muty despair. If our modern wizard, Edisop would but invent some attachme"^ whereby a bore could be stopped she*# at every ten words, manhood would up and bless him. And here lei me add a caution to those loquacious persons who weary others, but possibly without actual guilty inton< tions. When* the helpless listener bt comes silent, and makes no effort*, stem the Niagara of your talk with the frail shallop of his own little chirp, lie is, ten to one, a prey to silent despair, and not, as you fondly imagine, over­ come with auditory delight. As he grows more and more quiet he is, sooth to say, nearer and nearer the land of slumber, to which, alas! politeness for­ bids him to fly. This is the precise moment when, if you are merciful, you will allow him to escape in peace. then have biscuits sometimes, but that doesn't mean that we are in the habit of having biscuits at our house every day, and because I get drunk som^ times, does not signify that I am in the habit of getting drunk, Why the most distinguished lawyer in the State of drunk sometimes, but habit of getting ufunk every day. There's a big difference.' "Just then an old lawyer over in the other end of the court-room arose, and looking squarely at the man who w*a pleading, said: "Yon are mistaken, sir; decidedly mistaken. I get a little mellow ocoa- sionally, but never get drunk.' . '. ' Hff)' I am not alluding to yon General* .*£$£!., said the defendant. _ "When the case was concluded ther^. General approached me," concluded ^ Private Allen, "and said; 'That fellow % " claims that he was not alluding to me but d -n him, Allen, he was. I know- he was.'Washington £QV, York Tribune. . , , / X ---- • " •I1!* , Sure of It* ; >, You ask my daughter's hand marriage," mused the old man as hf "BE not over zealous in urging your friend to disclose a secret," says a phi­ losopher, and he is right. Let her alone, and she'll let it out herself be­ fore .long. THERE is no beautifier of complexions or form of behavior like the wish to spatter joy and not pgin around us. WHY aro rats better than tomatoes? Because tomatoes make only catsup while rats mak# a oat supper. looked the candidate Yure you love her?" "I know I do." °\ .. "And cajh you support lit oa y<W "lean. • v\: "You know Ellen has expensive I tastes," 'You bet I do I She's oosting m& aft*'. - [ high as $6 a week for ice or earn, sod* Hud caramels, but that leaves $4 for "rent and provisions, and I am sure we I pan pull through.--Detroit Free Press, THE man who is always aaying that he wants but little here below generally means the little he hasn't got all IS i&Li