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' . * . ' * 1 - ' ' , , 4 - 1 - V . ' • * . *'. ' . * » • • ' -»i ""* " a,»$* & ffV«f-- •i- s> .;.#; y<: rv'>*'*% -mi % C \ ' mr:.w4 wJS;? m:- . < '•- TOO LATE. •ha I1»i m still the Uvo long day, ' She doth not movo or speak; 9b* kwm long have died away Upon her dainty cheek. ^ V I spoke her harshly yestennutft Her BgoniMtl surprise, Tt haunts me now--and tor my soon) The loTellght In her eyes! And now each bit'er word I said Accentuated HIT pnln -- » " i Etch taunt I leveled at the (MU Has burnt into ray brain. ." , Who is the wiser? I, whose test •".-*•• Must tread an earthly bell? ,. Or she who hears that welcome swe« "1'alr spirit, all Is well V ?• Though God forgive me in Hia grace, Hhen 1 have "crossed the bar," •;: "When shall I meet her face to lace Beyond the morning star. I dare not think that even thera. [ates of gold, bow to her aa fair Within the nates of gold, ly soul will show to he As in tne days of old. fc" "V4: V The dear dead days of long sgi >V" Whose tale was told above, When in ou hearts we fo t tha glow, The rosy dawn of love! •^Public Opinion. •|HE SPECTRE WEDDING. Mr. Martin Dupont was a J us t ice of the Peace in the little" town of Marl- burg. He had been elected to the of­ fice at the close of the war of 1812, and had acted in his present capacity for nearly nine years. Men of Mr. Dupont's type were very common in those days, and even now one does not have to search far to find one of these self-complacent, pompous gen­ tlemen, who delight in winning ad­ miration from their associates, who always have a$ their tongue's end a great many stories in which they played the leading part, but who are, nevertheless, very superstitious, so much so, indeed, that a glimpse of the moon over the left shoulder, or a bowling dog, has power to malce them melancholy for a week. Having failed to secure for himself as large a share of this world's goods IB he had wished, Mr. Dupont was fully resolved that his two children, Henry and Margaret, should not be "and we have aceC of jour services; descend frarauyour vehicle, do as we bid you, and on the word of a ghost you shall not be harmed." The terrified lawyer descended and stood by the speaker's side, while the other ghost tied his horse to a tree and joined them. "Yield yourself entirely to us and you shall be safe," said the spokes­ man. "You must needs walk far and must allow us to blindfold your eyes, in order that vou may not dis­ cover before your time the way to the land of the shades. No more words must be spoken. Obey." Mr. Dupont was so terrified that he could not speak, and in silence al­ lowed a cloth to be bound over his eye*; then, escorted by his ghostly companions he began to walk. It seemed to him that he would never be allowed to stop; seconds seemed ages; every attempt of his to speak was checked by impatient groans of his guic.es. At last, after walking half around the earth, as it seemed to him, he realized that he was being piloted up some steps and by the feel- iug of warmth he knew that he bad left the open air. '•The Justice of Peace may be seated," said the ghost who had done all the talking. Mr. Dupont sat down and the cloth was quickly removed from his eyes, revealing to his astonished gaze the interior of a room dimly lighted by wax candies. Every side was hung with black curtains, and on four black-covered stools facing him sat four white-robed spectres, while be­ side him stood another dressed like his companions. Before he had time to more than wonder at his strange surroundings, the spokesman .began: Mr. Dupont, we have a solemn duty for you to perform. You are a Justice of the Peace in the world of the living, and a man dear to us on account of your noble life; therefore are you here. We have in these abodes of the dead two young shades recently come from the other world U"UIj clllvl JlUlgaltl) SllUUlU IlUt Ut _ lacking in wealth. As for his son, he | Ea°h ot those died of a broken heart very wisely concluded that a good ed­ ucation, added to his natural abili­ ties, would secure for him a place in _ the world: and already Hoary was showing the wisdom of the plan, and by his rapid advancement in business was more than fulfilling his father's expectations. It had always been Mr. Dupont's desire that hi# daughter should marry some rich man, but Margaret had fallen in love, very foolishly, according to her father's idea, with the principal of the Marl- ** tiurg High School. Charles Foster had several times fjleaded his suit in vain before Mr. Dupont. There was no fault in the young man, Mr. Dupont rather srrudg- inglv admitted,except that all he had to depend upon was his salary, but 'still no man should presume to be- , come his son-in-law who had not money enough to support his daughter in better stvie than that in wnich she Was then living. He liked the school teacher very well as a friend, but as a son-in-law--that was quite another matter. Nevertheless Charles and Margaret 4lid not despair of their cause, al- 'though Mr. Dupont was seemingly Immovable. The thought of an elope- fficnt was banished by ttoem both as because a stern parent forbade them to marry? What do you think sir, of such a parent as that?" Mr. Dupont wiggled about uneasily in his chair, and at last said: "I think, good shade, it was very wrong of him." '•We knew you Would," resumed the ghost, "because you are a kind man, and one who loves his children. Now do we understand you to say that if the poor girl had been your child it would never have happened?" "Surely it never would," replied the frightened Mr. Dumoht. "We have not misjudged you, then," replied the shade, while the other four ghosts nodded approvingly. "We have summoned you in order that you may unite th^m in wedlock, so that in this world at least they may be happy. Such a marriage as this is not common among us, so we brought you here, a good justice of the peace, rather than a minister, who might have been shocked at these proceedings. You can marry them just as well as a clergyman. Now, sir, will you oblige us by marry­ ing these two shades? If you will consent, you may depart at once to your home. Will you?" i Marry the two shades? Of coarse being dishonorable, and as no other "he would: any tiling to get away from plan seemed practicable, they very #isely resolved to wait until some kind fate should come to their aid. This, then, was the condition of af­ fairs when our story begins. j Mr. Dupont's duties as Justice of] #ie Peace did not confine his law this terrible spot. And so, without the precaution of stipulating his fee, he stammered out: "Oh, yes, surely, anything you wish." No sooner had he given his consent than one of the black curtains was Jffactice to Mariburg, but very fre- j drawn aside and two other beings in quently he was called away to attend Various lawsuits in neighboring towns and hamlets, and it so happened that .1ft this particular time he was en- white entered and^ stood before him. The other shades rose, and Mr. Du­ pont, not wishing to be the only one to keep his seat, rose too. The good $aged in a case of some considerable j justice had never married shades; he Importance in an adjoining town. On account of the nearness of the place, ft was Mr. Dupont's custom to drive His own horse back and forth and to spend his nights at home. One night, on accountof an unusual press of business, he was obliged did not know quite how to proceed. ! They looked exactly alike; he "lid not know which was the bride and which the groom. He wished he were well oift of it, and the only way to gain i his wish was to proceed quickly with . „ . j the ceremony, and so he began at .So remain beyond his ordinary time of ; once. In some way he managed get leaving, and after the work was com- j through, although he could not have leted he yielded to the urgent in vita- j told afterward how it was done. He IK k r - m jlion of his client to chat for a few fnoments. As they puffed away at ,fbe choice Ha van as, they began to ; ie* each other of curious exciting ad- ji Ventures and wonderful experiences. Time slipped away so rapidly that it was after 10 o'clock before Mr. Dupont suddenly remembered that a seven- mile drive lay between him and his home. Hastily bidding his friend good-by, he started for the hotel stable i to get his horse. ! I The weather had changed while the j two gentlemen had been chatting, and ! now the ominous stillness and the! cloudy sky admonished Mr. Dupont j that, if he wished to get home before j the lain began to fall, he must hasten, j Hastily throwing a, quarter to the sleepy hostler, he sprang into his buggy and set out on his homeward way. The road hopie was a lonely one; houses were few and far between, and a few miles out of Mariburg some lonely woods lined the road on either side, and adjoining the woods was a graveyard. As Mr. Dupont drove on into the darkness he began to become nervous, the weird stories that he had just beefi hearing kept flashing through his mind, a great many wrong deeds of his life came before him, magnified by the darkness and j solitude, and among other things he j began to wonder if he was doing just' right in refusing his consent to his ; daughter's marriage. In this frame of mind he approached the woods; in­ voluntarily he tried to quicken his , horse's pace, but the darkness and the low murmurings of thunder seemed to have affected the horse too, and the ^ sagacious brute tried constantly to slacken his pace. How lonely it V-i - seemed there, no houses, no living f, being--nothing but the dead in the graveyard beyond. Suddenly the Sv horse stopped and snorted. Mr. Du­ pont saw two white figures suddenly dart into the road; one stood beside his horae, ind the other beckoned him to descend from his wagon. His hair nose„ and his tongue seemed glued to his mouth. The silence was terrible. If those white beings would only speak; but no sound came from them. At last' in desperation he ^stammered out-. "Who are yau, and what do you mean by stopping me here in this way*" "We ate spirits of the departed 4ea£" a aeoulcbral voice replied, AM. EYES QN BABY, An* turned to the bride when he said: .i 'Do you take this woman to be your wedded wife?" and to the groom when he should have addressed the bride; but at length, much to his relief, the "I do" was said by each, and the Justice finished with the "I pro­ nounce you man and wife." But all was not yet over. No sooner had the words left his lips, than one of the beings before him threw aside its ghostly robe,,, and there, in a beau­ tiful weddinggown. stood--his daugh­ ter, Margaret. Mr. Dupont started to speak, but he only gasped, for ifround him stood the other ghosts; thev too had thrown aside their robes and stood revealed. Could he believe his eyes? Yes, there was no mistake, he had married his daughter to Charles Foster, in the presence of his wife, his son, and three family friends; and the. Justice knew enough of law to realize that the ceremony was binding. The black curtains, too, were torn down, and there they all stood in his own parlor. There was no help for it, conse­ quently Mr. Dupont submitted, and someway all his friends thought that he was very glad that the joke was played upon him: at any rate, in later days, as he trotted his grand­ children on his knees, he never tired of telling over and over again into their wondering ears the tale of the spectre wedding.--Amherst Literary Monthly. Wim Cooing While Itoath•' Ws« Close. • : J '} ' ' 1 W -i ' •* • For nearly ten minutes yesterday afternoOti, Says the Chicagb News- Record, a wee bit of a child! arrested traffic on Clark street and blanched many a face with horror. , A crowd numbering thousands appeared to be paralyzed for the moment. High above their heads, on a nar­ row cornice that runs around the fourth floor of the County building, stood a 3-vear-oId boy. The breeze tljat came up from the lake tossed his yellow curls about his laughing face as he playfully swung his -arms about and looked at the ever-increas­ ing mass of people that watched him from below. His little dress was wafted about by the wind, while the spectators expected every minute to see the daring explorer pitch head­ long from the dizzy perch. No one dared to cry out, for fear of frighten­ ing the child, who calmly looked about, up and(%)wn the street, leaned over to get a better view of the side­ walk, and gazed at the towering Ash­ land block on the opposite corner. Below was a scene of intense ex­ citement. A hackman rushed to his hack and snatched a heavy blanket from the seat. Several men grasped the edges and stood close up to the building, directly below where the child was standing. Officer Frank C. Snyder, of the Central Station, stood on the corner in front of the Sherman House. A small boy ran up and called his ^ttentioh to the child, and he made "a wild rush for the elevator of the county building. Officer Timmons also witnessed the scene at the same time. About a score of men had now recovered their senses, and through every en­ trance of the building they raced for the elevators. Officer Timmons made a mistake, and was carried up to the top floor. Officer Snyder, however, made a better calculation. Running down the hall and into Judge Adams' court-roopi. he saw the innocent cause of all the commotion out on the ledge in front of the open win­ dow. The court-room was deserted, and the child was alone. "Da. da, da," he was saying softly to himself, utterly oblivious of the presence of the officer. Cold drops of perspiration stood on the officer's forehead as he softly tiptoed toward the child, for he realized that his sud­ den appearance before the startled child meant instant death, Still the child prattled away, giving itself up to the enjoyment of the ncvel posi­ tion. . The officer reached out to grasp its dress, when a wild, hysterical shriek came from the hall behind him. The child turned and began to totter, and a horrified cry arose from the street. Officer Snyder's hand shot out and he held the boy in his arms- Only for a moment, however, for a woman in whose face there was not a bit of color snatched the child from the officer's arms, and then dropped limp and fainting to the floor. The big-eyed boy looked about him curi­ ously, while the roam began to fill up with people The mother of^the child, for so she proved, clung tena­ ciously to him. When she became calmer she said she had been in the Probate Court-room, and her boy was playing and romping in the hall. She had not been aware that he was else­ where until she heard the people rushing down the hall. He had pushed open Che door of the vacant room and climbed up on aj chair to the open window. The offi-1 cer chided the woman for her careless­ ness, but the was so happy at the es­ cape of her boy that she paid little attention to his words, but showered passionate kisses on the child's face. She was a comely-looking and youth­ ful (ierman, and spoke English with difficulty. She would not give her name, and left, clasping the child to her breast. A sigh of relief went up from the crowd, which had blocked the side­ walks and extended across the street, when the child was taken inside. It necessitated the stoppage of vehicles and street cars, for in the suspense of the awful sight not a spectator moved, while a* wondrous silence was caused by the unwonted specta­ cle. The passengers on the cable trains craned their necks out of the cars to get a sight of the child, and many women turned away with frightened faces, as if to avoid Wit^ nessing the anticipated fall. Green Rosea. Green roses have been known In th«> vicinity of Philadelphia for .probably a century. There is no difference theoretically between the petals of a rose and a rose leaf, and the transfor­ mation of one to the other is very easilv accomplished. A green rose, therefor, is nothing more than a rose in which in forming the flower, the rose has persistently refused to allow its leaves to be transformed to petals --they still continue as leaves. The petals of the green rose are, there­ fore, nothing more than green leaves. Outside of its interest as showing th€ relation between leaves and flowers, there is no interest in the green rose. Certainly it has no beauty. THE surface of the earth will event­ ually be covered with buttons that have fallen trom the coats of men whose wives are Pro Bono Publics women. Dangerous Negligence. £very one knows, in a general way, how fatal habits of carelessness may prove. Yet few mothers--we say mothers, because the training of the young is mainly in their hands--are sufficiently impressed with the im­ portance of vigorously training their children to habits of carefulness. An old Latin proverb said, "The i mothers of the timid seldom weep" We do not wish children trained to timidity, but to thoughtfuloess--to considering the probable consequences of their conduct. Certainly, in the transition period from childhood to youth the formation of right habits in this respect can be begun. "I didn't think" should not be a full excuse for many little misdeeds, or for a costlv piece of carelessness. . If the habit of negligence is once formed, it will assert itself through iife--possibly in a disastrous way. If j a habit of carelessness is formed, 'it will be a life-long benefit--probaoly beyond all that its possessor may realize. Stagingsarc constantly giving way, resulting in death or broken bones, because those who put them up were careless in their construction. A friend of ours, a retired liousebuilder, never had an accident of the kind during his long life. He had formed the habit of assuring himself that every stick of timber and every nail was spund, and that every'naii was well driven home. A gentleman who had gone to watch with a sick friend opened a door which led to the cellar, but from which the stairs had been removed. He fell and was killed. What a wicked neglect to have such a door unbarred in the front hall! A mother stepped out for a mo­ ment, leaving a tub of boiling water on the floor and a young child in the room. She# was detained somewhat, and returned to find her child scalded to death. At a camp-ground last summer a lady intending to do some ironln* filled her stove with wood and Went to a neighbor's while the irons wefe heating. The stove door opened, coals fell out, the cottage and several others were burned, and the utmost exertions barely saved from destruc­ tion all the other cottages and public buildings, with many grand and pri<«ie«9 trees. A physician left' his horse 'and buggy in a lane a short distance from his patient's house, where he thought he could see them from the window. The horse was well broken, kind, tractable, and accustomed to stand untied for hours. But it quietly backed out of the lane and ran, and killed another horse. The law held it a case of gross neglect, and the physician had to pay for the other horse, besides the cost of the suit.--- ¥outb's CpmpaniOtt. : r > • v»•;' • *"• •-.I ^ v*• _ Chewing Uum. " 1 * "A great many false stateraenlsMve been made as to the composition of ordinary chewing gum. Of course, where spruce gum is used, every one knows what the basis of it is, and the article is sold to-day pure and in good quality at from 50 cents to $1.50 per pound. Mo6t of this gum, according to the Indian Rubber World, is gath­ ered in the Green Mountain regions of Vermont, and is sold through the West, as other kinds are more popu­ lar on the Atlantic sea-board. The gum, however, that is sold from candy stands and in drug stores to-day is of totally different origin, and, as a rule, it is a manufactured product To a certain extent this is a secret, as all India rubber compounds are secret to ordinary observers. What is known as Yucatan gum is made of gUm chicle, sugar and a variety of flavors, with certain ingredients which are kept secret, but help to make- a homogeneous mass. The flavors t hat are used are peppermint, wintergreen, licorice, pineapple and some few medi­ cinal ingredients. Experts in chewing gum manu­ facture can tell in a minute Whether good flavors are used, whether the best gum is incorporated and just what the quality of the compound is, but in order to tell this accurately they are obliged to test it by chew­ ing. The gum has a ceitain quality of sugar added to it to sweeten and make it palatable. It will be noticed that in chewing gum, after it has been in the mouth awhile, the sugar and flavor is entirely gone, and what remains is the rubber-like product, whish is the chic'e gum nqarly pure. This gum is the sap of a Mexican tree which is called sapodilla. It grows in other countries besides Mexico, but that is the only country where a business is made of tapping it. It is collected like India rubber sap, by cutting incisions in the bark, between the months of November and April, and after the gum has been gathered it is packed in sacks, 200 pounds to the sack. It is then a light-colored mass that appears to be about half­ way between gutta percha and India rubber. In the factories it is washed, dried, and mixed, much as India rubber is, only it needs no process of vulcanization, and when run off on the spreaders is cut into sticks, wrapped and packed ready for ship­ ment. Want of Sense. Great learning is not always ac­ companied by large measures of "com­ mon sense." The celebrated Doctor Chalmers came home on horseback one evening, and as neither the man who had charge of his horse nor the key of the stable could be found, he was puzzled as to the best temporary residence for the animal. At last he fixed on the garden, and leading the horse thither, placed him on the gravel walk. When Miss Chalmers, who had been away from the; house, returned, and her brother told her hfe had been Unable to find the key of she stable, she inquired what had been done with the horse. "I took him to the gardep," said the Doctor. "To the garden!" she exclaimed. Then all our flower and vegetable beds will be destroyed!" "Don't be afraid of that," said Doc­ tor Chalmers. "I took particular care to place tlw horse on the gravel walk." "And did you really imagine that he would stay there?" "I have no doubt of it," replied .the Doctor, with calm assurance. "So sagacious an animal could not fall to be aware of the propriety of refrain­ ing from injuring the products of the garden." "I am afraid." remarked Miss Chalmers, "that you will think less favorably of the discretion of the] horse when you have seen the gar, den." True enough, the horse had rolled in and trampled upon the beds till they were a scene of pitiful 'devasta­ tion. "I never could have imagined," remarked the Doctor, in deep dis­ gust, "that horses were such sense­ less animals!" A retort about the surprising ig­ norance of a certain other order of animals must have been on Miss Chalmer's tongue, but no doubt she kept it back. MINING LEGENDS. liw' t»Mer Dwsrt and the Fsmou Meas­ ure of the Mutlre U'Oro. "Amqng the strange and weird de­ mons and bogies which are believed by miners to haunt the workings un­ derground not the least horrible is the i'Ladder Dwarf,"' said a former prospector to a Washington Star man. "I never saw the creature myself,but he is described as hunch-backed, with a short body, large head, and enor­ mously long and powerful arms. In fact, he resembles an exaggerated gorilla. His favorite trick is climb­ ing the ladders by means of which the miners leave the mines, raising himself with his long arms, and, as he passes the rungs kicking them out one by one. He is supposed to al­ ways do this just, before an accident l>f some kind in the mine. "In the mines of Mexico formerly the descent and ascent of the shafts were made by the aid of tree trunks with notches cut out of them, in which the laborers rested the great toe as they stepped from one to the other. The demon in such places was be­ lieved to have on each big toe a huge nail or claw, with which he would gouge out the pieces on which the feet of the miners rested. According to either legend the fiend always left the ladders or tree trunks after hav­ ing destroyed their usefulness to tan­ talize the unfortunate men who were thus imprisoned. Another Mexican superstition very common among miners in that country relates to the •gold snake.' This species of serpent is perfectly harmless and very hand­ some, being green in color, with a golden iridescence in its scales. Faith is entertained that wherever a gold snake makes its nest there is a ledge containing the precious metal, and there are many miners who will lo­ cate a claim at once if they find a gold snake. "The story of the famous treasure of the 'Madred'Oro' is an old one. It comes from the Aztecs of Mexico. Somewhere in south-eastern Arizona there is a small valley about five miles long and two miles wide, walled in by towering mountains. The sides are bo precipitous that it is impossible to climb down them, and there is onlv one entrance, through a cave, which is carefully hidden by Indians, who guard the treasure for the second com­ ing of Montezuma. It is said that even among them the entrance is only known to the three most aged men, and is never communicated except when, on the death of one, it is nec­ essary to give the knowledge into the keeping of another. The valley it­ self, thdugh surrounded by inhospit­ able rocks, is a paradise. Watered by the stream which flows through it. its soil is covered with flowers and beautiful trees, through the branches of which flit bright-hued birds. The only reptiles seen are the gold snakes, with their glittering greenish yellow scales. "Stretching across the valley from one side to the other is a ledge of pure gold, its masses of virgin metal gleaming and glistening in the sun­ light. It is said to be five feet, ten feet, fifty feet, 100 feet wide. The gold lies in it in great veins and nug­ gets imbedded in clear quartz, the sharp angles of which glitter in the sunlight like gigantic diamonds. Across the ledge the stream flows, forming a little waterfall, below which the nuggets of gold can be seen in the water and out. Gold in the ledge, gold in the scales of snakes, gold in the stream, gold in the birds, gold, gold, gold, gold is the refrain of the golden story. "The fearful precipices which sur­ round the place, the strange ceremo­ nies and horrid banquets which have seryed to keep the secret safe, the tribe of aztecs living only to preserve for their mysterious ruler this treas­ ure house of nature, have all aided in giving to the story a strange interest. Small wonder it is that the pulse should quicken and the eye grow bright as you hear the tale from the lips of men who more than half be­ lieved it. The lonely desert surround­ ing you, With the tall cacti looking like ghosts in the half moonlight; the long-drawn melancholy of the coyote's howl, the prospector's fire of grease wood, the men with their rough cloth­ ing and quaint language, all vanish as you listen, and in imaginat A Poaalble Blotting In Dlngnlse. The average Londoner is fairly case-hardened in the matter of fogs and accepts them as a matter of course. They are, in fact, regarded as a necessary evil. It is now as­ serted, however, and by no less an authority than the President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, that fog is the chief cause of the low death rat^ in London. He says that the fog is caused by sulphur emanating from combustion of soft coal; that in London about 350 tons are thrown into the air on one winter's day, and that it is this large quantity of sul­ phur which counteracts the effects of the deadly germs discharged from re­ fuse heaps and sewers, by its deodbriz- ! ing and antiseptic properties. Franking Privilege** The strangest things were franked under Treasury warrants and sent by post until the early part of the eight­ eenth century. Mr. Scudamore has extracted from the rscords, among the others, "Fifteen couple of hounds go­ ing to the King of the Romans with a free pass," "Two maid-servants go­ ing as Laundresses to my Lord Am­ bassador Methuen," "Mr. Crichton carrying with him a cow and divers other necessities." told twice that it was in the ihircahua mountains. It is alwavs said to have been found merely by ac- ident by men who were either hunt­ ing or prospecting for ledges, about the only two occupations which will make unscientific men climb the mountains. It can only be seen from the upper end and after the morning mists in the valley have cleared away. Then, as one stands on the rugged peaks and looks down he sees the ?reat ledge spanning the valley be- ow him, the virgin metal glittering in the sunlight, and he knows that tie has before him the nlace of which he has heard so much and dreamed so aften." Manned hy a Veai-Miito Crew. There is a little two-masted schooner lying at anchor iu the stream which, besides being a funny-looking craft, is manned by a strange crew. The vessel is the Mary and Belle of New­ port, li. I., having arrived from New­ port with a cargo of fish oil. The schooner has a square stern and a blunt bow and only one topmast. When ajMercury reporter went along­ side he asked a man on deck, whom he took to be the mate, where the vessel was from. The man motioned that he could not hear or talk and went below. An elderly man poked his head through the companionway and the reporter repeated his ques­ tion. This man also shook his head, and then the first man appeared with a piece of paper on which was written, in a very good hand, "What you want?" The reporter wrote out his query and the answer was written. Then the reporter learned that both captain and crew were deaf and dumb, and that they work the little vessel and make a living out of her. Her captain is George Bennett, and he doesn't have to shout at his crew. No speaking trumpets are necessary aboard this craft.--New Bedford Mer­ cury. Kind rate. Real life sometimes furnishes In­ stances of good fortune which are as remarkable as the story of Monte Cristo. Some years ago, said a West­ ern man, I had in my employ an Irish­ man, a clever but totally uneducated fellow, who did odd jobs about my place in Helena. You remember what a feverish state that country was in about that time over the rich finds in gold in the country adjacent. My Irishman caught the fever, and astonished me one day by asking me to Joan him $200 with which he wanted to buy & prospect­ or's outfit. Well, I let him have it, and away he went. In about a month he came back with a mule load of the richest of ore. He bought three more mules, hired three men, went back to the hills and struck down shortly afterward with four more mules loaded as the first one had been. A representative of an Eng­ lish syndicate happened to be in Helena about this time on the look­ out for mining investments. He saw the Irishman's little packing train, took a sample of the ore, had it as­ sayed, went out and examined the claim and then offered the Irishman $1,000,000 for his claim and twenty-five per cent, of the net profits. Mike asked my advice in the matter, and of course I told him to sell, which he did. • It proved a good investment for all concerned, as the Englishmen have taken millions of dollars out of the mine. But now comes my point. Instead of commit- ing the usual follies that poor men in­ dulge in when they become suddenly rich, Mike set about to get the high­ est benefits of his wealth. There lived in Helena an English lady, widow of an English officer who was pos­ sessed of a high degree of culture and refinement, though in very needy cir­ cumstances. Well, sir, the first thing Mike did was to go to this lady and bargain fot an education, He placed himself absolutely under her dictation, lived in the same house, and she taught him how to hold a knife and fork, how to enter and leave a room. Then followed the rudiments of a literary education and a year or so of travel. I met my Irish laborer in the parlor of a London hotel about six months ago. You never saw a more perfect, gentleman in your life. He has acquired a classical education, is as easy and graceful in manners as a courtier, and, above all, had the true instincts of a man and a gentle­ man in his heart. And could a man <^be anything but a gentleman who had evidently made it the dream of his life to be one at the first opportu­ nity? Tea, Especially Green. Tea is a plant that grows in China, Japan, and other parts of the world. There are two varieties, thea nigra and thea viridis--black and green tea. The same plant produces both kinds. Green tea is made by one kind of treatment, black tea by an­ other. The shrub is raised from seed like hazel nuts, planted in nurseries; it is set out when about a foot high; lives for fifteen or twenty years and grows sometimes as tall as six feet. It is picked four times a year. The first picking is the best when the leaves are covered with a whitish down. This is in April, the next in May, the next in July, the last in August. One Chinaman can pick about thirteen pounds of leaves per day, for which he receives sixty cash or six cents. The green leaves are spread out on bamboo frames to dry a little, the yellow and old defective leaves are picked out, then they take up a handful of leaves, cast them in a heated pan, get them warmed up and squeeze out the superfluous juice; this juice contains an acid oil, so acid as to irritate the hands of the work* men. Then they dry them slightly in the sun; then every separate leaf is rolled up into a little ball like shot; then they throw these trreen tea shot into a pan slightly heated, stirring them up so as to warm every part ,alike; then they cool the tea, and the shot are picked out one by one, the best for the first or finest chop. Then it is packed. Convenient Rooto. A visitor to Brazil records a. tact which seems to show that in South America, as elsewhere, one use of the law is to increase the sum of human ingenuity. The climate is very wet, and a sloping tile roof is in universal use. It is easilv put on, easily repaired, affords excellent shelter from the tropical rains, and what is deemed a capital advantage, it is readily taken off. A law of the country forbids the eviction of tenants for the non-pay ment of rent. When a landlord's patience is exhausted, therefore, in­ stead of warning the delinquent out of the house, he takes off the roof for repairs, and the first heavy shower does the rest •QMC FAMOUS FIND9. L> Oil Datlm for the Baby. "It is well known that the skin is a great absorbent, and nutrition even can be conveyed through its agency, says a trained nurse. "A physician once ordered a beef tea bath for a baby that I was nursing, who was apparently dying of some exhausting bowel trouble, and with admirable effect. And I myself have found that rubbing delicate persons with warm olive oil is an excellent tonic. If had the charge of apunv, sickly baby, I should feel inclined to give it oil baths instead of water baths, and try the effect. The oil is quite as cleans­ ing, and it stands to reason that such tiny beings, particularly if thev are badly nourished, should not have the natural oil of the body continually washed away." He Had Wasted It. Tommie's mother had left him to entertain Johnnie, his younger brother, while she went out to do an hour's shopping. When she returned Thomas was on hand with an im portant question. "Does little boys about Johnnie's size, mamma, have hair on the inside of them?" "Of course they don't," she ex claimed. "Why do you ask that?." "Oh, nothin'," he said, "starting off, "only I guess I've wasted a bot tie of hair oil in Johnnie. % Kxhumed from the Ground " ffom Ancient Tonitw. ^ The recovery oi the Spanish galleon wrecked off Hispaniola, of which tho bullion was secured by some English speculators in 1687, has cost later generations dearl}', says an exchange. The Duke of Albemarle, Governor of Jamaica, received 90,000 pounds sterling, the royal share was 10,000 pounds, gentlemen who had adven­ tured 100 pounds took 8,000 to 10,000 pounds. Innumerable have been the disastrous enterprises which this suc­ cess promoted. Within the last few years we saw at company formed to recover Napoleon's- army chest, sunk with the vessel that contained it at the battle of Aboukir. Perhaps the most interesting find, saving those wondrous tombs in Southf Russia, was the "Treasure of Guar-< razar," discovered in 1858. Some, peasants traveling near Toledo noticed! obiects of gold and jewel work washed partly out the ground by heavy rains. They broke them to pieces and divided them. Happily an intelligent man! ; heard the story in time, bought up every fragment, pieced them all to- gether and fled to Paris, where ho- sold the lot to the Musee Cluny. The objects proved to be eleven crowns--mostly "votive" -of Gothio monarchs who ruled Sapin during the, seventh century. Of the owner it* two cases there is no doubt at all, • for they bear his name in letters of gold hanging by gold chains froicK the circlet, with a jewel pendant front each letter. One bears the simple inscription^'; "Sulnthila," who reigned from 621 tof 631 A. D.; the other, "Reccesvinthu$ rex offerret." His date was 649 to 672 A. D. Two, if not more, are queens* crqwns. One, the largest has thirty big sapphires and thirty pearls of ' great size; below it hangs a cross setji with large sapphires and pearls, which, again, has jeweled pendants* The "treasure of Hildesheim" also is priceless. It was found by soldiers digging a trench for siege practice near the town of that name in 1860. We cannot doubt that this gloriouC trouvaille was the "camp equipage'! of some very rich traveler--probably a Roman general, though conjecturo has boundless field for speculating, how it could find its way to Hilde­ sheim, which the Roman armiea never reached. There are stewpans. pots, plates, a batter ie de cuisine complete, all of silver^ exquisite in form and orna­ ment; the legs, so to call them, of a table, stands for lamps and other things indefinable, all silver and lovely; a complete dinner service, plates, dishes, cups, goblets of beau­ tiful Greek work in silver with gold wreaths and attachments. One might say in truth that the goldsmith's art could not go beyond the grace and richness of these articles--many of which are ascribed to the first cen­ tury A. D.--had not the Russian finds surpassed them. The Hildesheim treasure is at Ber­ lin; the Russian at the Winter FW- ace. That, in truth, is glorious be* yond imagining. Of one piece Thiers declared in rapture that a na­ tion would be justified in making wa| on the Czar for possession of it. Thii is the "Nikopol vase" Volume* c. have been written and libraries wil be written on these marvels. Tbej; have been recovered from tumuli ii the neighborhood of the ancient Greek colonies on the Black Sea. What Is the Mini's Corona? One of the greatest mysteries of science is that magnificent display of coronal streamers and soft banners of light that is seen around the totally eclipsed sun. Several recent investi­ gations tend to show that this won- derful phenomenon is of electric or magnetic origin. Mr. M. I Pupin of Columbia College, has just furnished most suggestive facts bearing upon this question, through a serious of experiments on electric discharges in imperfect vacus. Photograhs of such discharges, made by Mr. Pupin, bear an aston­ ishing resemblance to the solar corona. Inasmuch as the space immediately around the sun must almost neces­ sarily contain large qantitiesof vapors and meteoritic dust, it does not seem difficult to conceive that a condition of things exists there which is suited to electric manifestations on an im­ mense scale. The imagination is profoundly stirred by the picture thus presented to it. Some of the coronal streamers are millions of miles in length. What a tremendous center of electric power the sun must be, then, if such pheno­ mena really are of electric origin. Yet, after all, when we think of the tremendous energy of the sun, which is able to make daylight upon the earth, to warm with its life-sup­ porting rays planets that circle around it at a distance of tens and hundreds of millions of miles, and to awaken tho magnetism of our globe until the air is aflame with auroral lights, we can hardly wonder that it should causethe nearer regions of space around its own sphere to glow with strange radiance."--Youth's Companion. Most Serve i» the French Army. A very important nationality case was decided a short time ago by the civil court at Bordeaux. The well- Known brandy manufacturer, Mr. Ex- shaw, who resides at Bordeaux, though admittedly a British subject, was born in France. He has a son, Alfred, who was also born at Bor­ deaux on Feb. 24, 1871, and under the nationality law of 1889 he was Inscribed on the conscription list, and, after the usual drawing of lots, was adjudged to serve in the French Army. He and his father protested an the ground that on his coming ot age he had elected for the British na­ tionality, and, secondly, that by ar. tide 2 of a convention between Eng­ land and France, concluded In Feb­ ruary, 1882, it was enacted that "the subjects of each state, when residing in the other, shall not be liable to Military service." The convention aad never been repealed, and it waul contended that the law, of 1889 could oot have a retroactive effect and de­ prive him of his foreign nationality. The court, however, held that, a» both father and son were born in France, Mr. Exshaw, Jr., must be tield to be a .Frenchman, and that he fir as bound to serve in ATiny.--• London Standard. . r,i£