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\ > •< "i * ^ ( i DON'T LEAVE THE OLD HOME. Tm, BiU, I'f« thwaght about the set mm Tint row prowwa last »<«&<, •••••,& Mi And, speofcfn« (kia, is. s!o;«s t tocaa • To BM Um Ink I ti right ; Bomnt<BQ<*a wo bin to work, it's trto, W!h«® w« would rktiiM piny. mm • • • % • B«t tbaO no caniio. In rrasoa _ • Why we should ran away. ' Jfco ®-b ao'thor cruelty nor bmA •Todri*oua from our hi.moo. ^j|i^ For Ime in ov*ry thought aid dool v ' To oar lot. daiiy comes ; 4 AtMl 1 th* • onument. B? T<" ncfoll'iw ex] revert _ ' '* s ^ In jpwui uiot lior lesd last !"' ' ' •VtiMT at horn* is host."- '. : ^ " :"" ;,:g\ Wo\» bcoki ard Nature s piges tai^ <v from which to gr.iw in u<tud. And In the heal' Lf a work we do '; Wo'll etremth ofhodi find; Andwhttt awfe: cousCiouenaMW* To•riches m morr's stote, £,•% >: By doing ei'rnest duty in ;.<£ The sphere Uod mtUit as fori Tho time may ripen, T ill, ^ hen wo With "Goa speeds" frou. our i.wa Hay go fort h m the w> rid to pea i; If we the Htrengtii have grcwu To work our way t > he gum ot' But i ill that aav has . o i •, Let as cont ni e still to claim The cheei and L\e i f Loiko. fV, Let's brightru for tho oi<i fo •ki, The •ay* ot tlieir decline, J&aKXJ And v title we their life's measure Ml »* ith jov, brim yours au«i mlno; •' And if to b;isy ha'unts of noon :i. In iuture day* we roam. » •' ' A flood ot lav ghinii h\.n<bioe tn^n v ; tfUi link our hearts with home. ALABAMA COUBTsM. . W» • ' •f plat stone, l WheiW aireadycalll*i Ifc wae very *erk te lb* pints, How tb»* be was beyond the hotel, and Aylaaerw starved at Boding some one crtMcfciag betide his path. Pressing f«roe*4,<be was able to distinguish the form of a woman. She sjoke 10 as it hair rearrui ortNijntoail Violence. "i on't send me away, sir, please,** •he pleaded; "I don't moan no harm here" By her vok» he coold tell she was one ot the people of the ie«rim>; a peo- pie who are crvdo, vaca;tivated, un­ schooled, but simple and kind v, yet terrible when roased hf pussion. "Whatare fuadoioc here:" A>i- irers asked the qaesUoa not because he cared in the least, oat because it seemed incumbent upon dim to make some answer. • I was wait'Dft--to see him when he cuuiesuuL," we woman said, hesi­ tatingly. "i saw him through the winnow, dancing with his arui around that t&l), dark, beautiful K rl ** ^he stopped suddenlr, as if afraid she had said too much. There was an ominous note in her voice, as if it ather-} other *wav ---- were poor ItUClVM 1/UW Outside, in the dark night, the 5 ; |>ine trees were bending apd waving .ieforo the sweeping wind. Inside |jV ;Was light and music and the gentle *%. murmur of well-bred voices. Out- £."•v* side, an Alabama forest; inside, the comfortab e parlors cf a winter hotel. . i & h i ; . * a . - 1 1 » « K 1 A M * * ntmn rvArcAnc Ab tt siuau lai/iv wciv S man and a woman. While the V music went on they talked, in a care- less, haphazzard way. as if the mat- '% I ter under discussion were only of the slightest inieresf, yet when the fy music made pause they, too, were silent An (.pen maqazlne layjupon the tanle before them. Sonie one was i «• playiDg a waltz in bad time, - autf^Hibr ;jin ler its cover the vouog man ai£am (ooic up the conversational ball f f """ where his companien had dropped iU Ir*- fS am sorry you don't like my p Story, Eugenia," he said. "I rather iV-' fancy it is the best thing I have f- • done. If 1 could only have had I ;-' space to extend the idea. However f->k "It is lust the idea 1 donrt like," r:'.: replied the girl whom me addressed |»4* Kugenia. "It i> too greatly ex- pV _ panded already. As usual, you have |\ i \ finished off every phrase, every sen- Sfe tence, every paragraph with the ut- jf tnost polish or which your art is cap- £) • 4Ue, and it iscapable of a gr at deal. • S ' f % - * I t i s a s f l a w l e s s , " s h e h e s i t a t e a a n ! instant for the comparison, "as the t-:7" tnost perfect pearl. And it is as 't •; t: told." $Q •: ^ The young man flushed a little p'a ^rfth pleasure at Her wo ds of meas- I Ip. iired praise, but relapsed into his! fi/, . Iiabitual composure as she finished, j fei*> '#>t "That is what I meant it to be," j '•* « " ",|»e answered: "we have bad some-j What too much of the human pas- j v\ C tions in our literature People are pV t, being taught that a purely platonic ?, " affection cannot possibly exist be-. . tween a man and a woman. 1 think ; !,v> . • !;<. .differently. ! ' % i 4 , A n a s o y o u w o u l d h a v e t h e m p ? .marry without lovii g'r" She said 1 . ̂this with a suggeslivegathering scorn f' ,>#»boOt ber mouth. j ^ / - ) t # f -'By no means " he interposed; but ' »Just then the tuusicstopped again and | Iv toved with the eye-glasses in his ^ .liana. As he was about to resume j ? h - \Eugenia .oierrupted him. i ^ "let you make your hero, Palmer Ainsworth, choose his wife as he i g, # •would a horse--w th a-calm consid-! % /VrsiioQ of what was best suited to ' §£ 'L, Ihit- needs.'* j By t.h.« time the suggestion of j gls . iscorn had deepened until it indicated j It* ' positive cou eiupt. and the Hashing «! ! ,«• 'jglances from ttureoia Kingdon's eyes WttQ UUU wcii iyt. «IIM that she had seen him with his aria about that other woman. • You s?aw h m dancing, eh? And with another girl? Then yousmean your lover, I suppose? But how can that hurt you." You will have him all to yourself after awhile, won't you?" He spoke half-mockingly and hiS COQtciSpiin^a uQtc Caught tu6 woman's ear. "1 don't know why I should tell you," she arrtwered, sulkily. "I know you are laughing at me. But I will, for I must tell some ode No--I sha'n't have him--After awhile be­ cause he doo't care for me But he sha'n't have that other girL My poor woman," said Ayimers, mgentiy ttoau was h.s wont, -•! don't know whom you are talking about, but if I did 1 should caution | him to look Out foryoo--espec a ly on | a dark night like this. And my ad- ] vice to you is to go home and to bed." I "l'ou don't kaow who 1 mean? ; Then--loot!" The woman seised his arm and I pointed back toward tike bote', where ] in the sudden glare of light from an I open door two tlgures were revealed j in distinct silhouette i Something in the attitude of the I two, in the way the man bent | toward his companion^ and the in- { ten t» ess with which she appeared to i listen to the words, slang Aiymers like a whip turned to the woman with renewed fttterest; he be­ gan to understand the' j^tssios that : swayed her a ad to feel some kiaship : with her. -iuo I "What is lie to you?*he-asked, j "I Know him and he is not like | other men. fie is kiad aud geatl*-- j not rough and coarse n > | "But you see, there Ss^'the other | woman, the one he is W^tttnow." la spite of the hurt to himself be felt a malicious pleasure in adding to the . woman's torment. j "What is she to s»e? Thai!" Aiymers beard a twig snap quickl? in her hands and shrugged bis shoul­ ders at the suggestiveaesfr of the sound. "Don't be rash, my good woman: it won't pay. And it don't matter very much if we doa't get just wka.b we want." „ "Maybe notk ta ye»** The man laughed at thfe ready apw plication of his philosophy. "Well, I am going in," he said, "and it might spoil your chances if Feathcrstone saw here tegother. Besides, this wind is tot doleful. ".viuch he'd care" sha answered, "and I like the win* It suits- me to-night." In the parlors an hour later the jgmuma mean. woman vmwm. found la >m^.;Ml3|||y. It is catit fli|r^pierstone too m >*tJ|»%let*ft:U8 speak of her," t-errupter! EuAaaia. And then ;iieIf-Cocfcradictioa she continued: ••But she is not to blame She has not been educated to our superior plane She has not learned that the emotions are outtrf date." fclie spoke with a forced rapidity and lightness ot tone that caused Ayimers to look at her in surprise "Sometimes 1 think I do not un­ derstand you, Eugenia," he said, "but yet I want ta" He looked about the room to see if there was any danger that he would be overheard, and then went on in an even, careful tone "I want to understand you," he re­ peated. "1 wish that we might un­ derstand each other. I care very much for you. If you will trust yourself to me 1 shall try to keep you happy. "And safe,*' she added, as it prompting him to a word he had for­ gotten. "Yes, and safe," he repeated with­ out noticing her manner. "Which means," she said, adopting his own even monotone, ••that you > v , ..Vf x « WIOAi UiU <H/ UV J IS 144 Vtf AtVIo ••Certainly," said Ayimers; ' what else could it mean?" "Very well,"" sffe answered; "then I will be Mrs. Gordon Ayimers. I think I shall like the name." At the approach of spring Ayimers and Eugenia decided to be married before their return to the North. /• ll> ** ~ a --» itm /\ ti S AO --^1 ̂9 S A V* xuoic no? a4uiou vvcuujug tti tuo hotel, and Featherstone was among the guests. When he congratulated the bride he whispered something in her ear that made her turn pale. But she answered him with careful dis­ tinctness. s;. "You fotget that ;1 |:now Bess Montross." 1 . In the throng that surrounded them as they went to the train Bess Montross crept close to tugenia. ' "i lied to you that night," she said. "I thought 1 would tell you. But if you bad not given him up I would have done with you like-« tbat " And again she broke a twig sharply in her hands. When Ayimers and his wife had gone, Featherstone mounted his horse and rode gloomily towaid the mines. On the road he came upon Bess. She made a gesture as though she would stop him. ••Out of my way!" ho cried with an oath. "You have already done me barm enough. Let me never see your face again." When he had gone on a little way he drew reign suddenly, turned and rode back to where the woman still waited. "Bess," he said, "how much do you care for me?" • The woman laughed drearily. ' "Don't you know? I've lied to keep you here I've sold my soul to the devil to drive her away." Featherstone looked at her closely. She was not uncomely, albeit illy dressed and showing the unmistak­ able marks of toil and poverty. Hugh reached down and took her hand. "Come, Bess," he said gently, "let us go to the parson. Perhaps this is best after all. Neither of us is platonic."--New Orleans Tlmes- Lemocrat. • oenoiied clearly that she at least, * three drew together again. / would not l e chosen in that manner. ! ^ : "That is quite r gbt," said her com-' _ panion, with the stubborn persistence . i that authors always show in defend- £ 9in*r their work, wbeU»er they are right or wrong: "you see. it led to happiness--ior both." | "In your story--ves. In real life j " it would have been misery and shame i ' r 3*«d humiliation--to the woman-*' ' * ^ when she came to know how easily • ^she had given herself up." ; ^ **< "She should never know." He; ^ ..' spoke with a quiet emphasis that y | seemed to invest the conversation with some ijersrmal element that it had before iaekel. Eugenia took ad- / vantage of another lull in the music to av id an immediate reply. ^ 7 »j Some one suggested dancing, and the various groups about the parlor disintegrated and reformed about a common center to discuss the propo­ sition. Eugenia rose to take part in dining-room "I have had a unique experleaee, Hugh," said Aylmeia, "Out here in the pines 1 chanced on an admirer of yours, who bad come out merely for the pleasure ot watching you through the windows. ** Featherstone tried to repress a look of annoyance as he answered: ! "Bess Montross 1 suppose A poor girl here who seems to have taken a fancy to me Why, I can't imagine" j Ayimers laughed easily. "It was too dark oat yeoder to j judge of her style or beauty," he ! said, "but I think a man weald have his bands full who wodld undertake , to curb her temper.** ' Eugenia rose and walked away' from them to the end of the parlor, i where the low windows led out upon the gallery. She paused there a mo- ' men and then lifting the sash steoped out into the night. At -a little distance, beneath thetiees, sbe could make out the form of a woman. { Sbe stepped down leariessiy upon the carpet of soft pine needles i | "You are Bess Montross," shesaid. 1 "Yes," answered the woman, ! brief.y. ; I "Then tell me, and tell me truly, as one honest woaian to an­ other, what is he to you?" In the intensity of her feeling Eugenia had seized Pea* by the arm and brought their face* dose togeth­ er, so that she*had only to whisper in a this, while her companion retna ned j? and turned thoughtfully ,*the pages VV - that scintillated with the brilliant « V -and epigrammatic, but Icily cold, j ( V' i offpourings of his pen. j J Suddenly a voice interrupted bis ;i; f revery: | "Come old man, don't sit hero, mooning. We a: e all going to the to dance Let's 6ee if ! wfe can't make noise enough to keep out the sound of the wind. It howls j* to-night as if the witchei were |^;v.t abroad." her last words. Aod it § Ayimers lobkel up curiously into whisper that Bess answered: 1 the bronzed aod bearded face above 1 "He is mioe--mine-- mine?* , ":v\ him. • In the sight o God?** 1 , / Ah, Featherstone, you are hero, ! "in the sight>of God--yes." are y«u? Didn't know you could' Eugenia touched her gently. "My leave the ini.ne and the black dia- poor girl," she said. luondj long enough to show in society But l ess shrank from Iter aod fled PI'p ' --even the society ot the piney away into the night. woo<ls. And, by the way, since when i Featherstone WaS superintendent ~?y,e you lwen troubled with fancies '. of the Lenoir mines, where they were ^ .r *wut witches?" [digging black diamosds trout the % \ wtherstone laughed softly. ) bowels of the earth. In the morning 'Mot so long as you have about h s work called him away early, an i ,VCl iU(lge, Gordon. At he left without having sesa Eugenia •®a8»i A n'Ave not attempted to develop again. At the mine the#|> Was some Among the Spaniards. lot Cataluna you are constantly m* minded, among the women, of the comely type of Provence. Straight, well-balanced women, w th bright, eager glances, so different from the other Spaniards of their sex; not beautiful, but alert, easy of carriage, ^hea thy, aud Mitheful workers, and at times surprisingly free of the no­ ticeable degradation of the mouth, which is characteristic of a people in decay. ISot so attractive as the pleasant Provencale, of a surety, but with sometbiug of her square brow and look of diminished Roman. The men are rougher and plainer, and, while both sexes gesticulate an l are voluble enough, they possess as little of true Provencal effervescense as they do of Castillian courtesy and charm. Good nature the women offer as apology for brains, but, the middle and lower class male is frankly, exe­ crable. : i The very dialect he speaks and writes is so hideous to the sight and ear that there is fear of the foreigner j approaching him with prejudice. Just so suave and beautiful is the ; language of Castille, composed of the most musical vocables, and hardly : less harmonious on the printed page i than in the educated mouth. Just so harsh and barbaric is this dialect of Catalonia. It is not, I think, improbable that the sound of the si eech we habitually utter may be a guiding influence upon our manners. I offer this as an ex­ planation of the politeness of the French and the courteous Tus ans, and the dignity of the Castillians, who speak, one a graceful, the other a sweet, and the last a noble lan- guagei St. Francis of Assisst had conversed in vain with bird and beast in Catalan; and ;~ir Philip Sidney were less captivating if bis chivalrous sentiments had been expressed in speech so barbaric. --Good Words. VANITY THAT COST A MILLION. THO folly of a Jtofk»r Tfcwrtr *#ay.» for­ tune at tho Font. A number of racing men were chatting in an uptown hotel on Broad­ way a few evening since, says the New York Sun, undone of the party, who had been abroad in company with Walton, the famous plunger,, when that, heavy spenlator made his second trip to l.ngland, told how near the American came to creating a sensation which would have made the country ring from one end to the other. ••The vanity of a jockey," said this man, '•cost Walton aod his friends 81,000,000 and this is how it all hap­ pened. Walton had in his stable among other horses Mr. Pickwick, Sutler apd. the 3-year-old Hopeful, which he^tiil owns and has in the stud somewhere near New York. We had been winning our share of the money, both on our own horses and on those of other owners and the sea­ son had opened up in the most propitious fashion. All of the Amer­ ican contingent took advice from •Petie' as we called Walton, and we had maae the ring wince several times on settling day. Sherwood, who trained for Walton, had a very high opinion of Hopeful, and wanted to run him in a stake race, but we begged him to hold off and pick out a selling event instead, and prepared to make a coup that would be talked about for months to come. After seeing the City and the Suburban run we ran back to London, and from there took the train to Epsom, where our horses were quartered. It was our purpose to deceive everybody as to our intentions, and that morning the horses were brought out, trotted and centered, and carefully put away, as though they had had all their work for that day. In the afternoon, when the Downs 'Were deserted, Hopeful and Sutler were brought out in company with Richmond, a high- class horse, then trained by Sher­ wood but afterward bought by Walton and brought to this country, running third in Pontiac's Suburban. The trial was a great success and showed us that Hopeful was a grand :>-year-old, of quality sufficiently high to win many stakes for race horses of his age. Richmond beat him about a length, aud the 3-year-old beat but­ ler away off; in fact we were in high feather and considered the money we intended to place on Hopeful in the cjming race as good as won. "Racing in England is vastly dif­ ferent from the sport in this country, and the great public knows l»r less about the merits of the horses than they do in America Horses run fewer races,are trained privately, and some­ times are not seen in public for months together. As a consequence form is much harder to follow, and those who have a bottled-up good thing and know how to guard their secret get a price that is at times as­ tonishingly good. We were amazed to get as good at 10 to 1 against Hopeful, and the strangest part of it all was that the more we bet the more the ring seemed capable of absorbing. We told our jockey (I won't mention his name, but he was a good one in his day, and most of you know him) that we stood to win a fortune and to take no chances. From the staru Hopeful was in a good position, and after making a splend.d turn at Tottenham Corner we began to cheer, fojr our chestnut beauty was striding along in front and moving ov?r the turf in magnificent style. A hun­ dred yards from the finish ire were exulting in our triumph, tifty yards from the liae nothing but a miracle could keep us from getting the money. Whips afere flying behind us and our colt was still in hand. When I think of what happened then 1 grow.faiht and want to swear. Our jockevotiWith the insane desire ot J showing what a good thing it was, { t ok a pull at Hopeful's head, the , great,- long-striding c.lt became! tangled and was thrown off his ; strde Webb was on the nearest of i his competitors, and he had all but | given up riding, but, like the great: horseman that he is, he gathered his ' horse, by one of the grandest efforts i I've ever seen, nailed Hopeful and | beat him on the post. I went broke over the race, but nothing could stay Walton's luck that day, for despite his losses on the race he quit the day i»36,0u0 to the good. What would he have won if our jockey hadn't blun­ dered? Full/ $1,000,000; aud the entire story of his life might have been,changed. Had he get that much money together they never could have made him surrender. I'll never for­ get what Webb said after the race It was this: 'The over-weight oeat you!' pointing to his upper lip, which like all of England's jockeys, was clean shaved. Our man had a mou* tache." IN NEED OF A SOLOMON. ^ 2 is pll be could fp|pi the .8 ft k otay not fea ItttlMl without reference to an Mint* mathematical and legal lum­ i n a r y > ' • . . ; • 1 . • . ^ y \ V The Making of ThlefM, ^ There lias sufely been of late a very great and significant increase in the number of child criminals that are brought to our police courts There are more of them, aud they are much younger than they used to be, and they are vastly "tougher." Their manned shows piaimy that the street has been their teachers and that thev have been apt pupils. Its method is simple and varies in Hell's Kitchen and in Jewtown only in the opportunities offered. To begin with the boy Idler In the street during school hours is there in defiance of law, whether the fault is his own or not, and be knows it. He is in the attitude of opposition, the VI/VMtVt A1 nl'tlf A 9 • A n • ^ TI m « uviuiai auu.vuuu vi viic quiJLLie policeman is his enemy and the police­ man stands for the established order of things. Thus the ground work is laid for whatever mischief comes along. It is not long in coming, rarely longer than the dinner-hour of ' ..^ *ua 1 , the first day. The boy is hungry. He pli®dTtf®K®ner^1 -nTrrnt>,in,? " I think not. THE ELOQUENCE OP SILENCE u u thm *"**Tbmt *«Soon aftefl ltad commenced tho j> actice of my profusion in Boston," fsaid Mr. Webster, a 'circumsifciiii: oc­ curred which forcibly Impressed upon my mind the sometimes conclusive eloquence of silence, and I wonder no longer that the ancients had erected a statue to her as to a devinity. "A man in New Bedford had in­ sured a ship, lying at the. time at the wharf there, for an amount much larger than its real value, in one of our insurance offices at Loston: this ship had suddenly taken fire aud been burned down to the water's edge. It had beeu insured in the Massachu­ setts Insuran e company, of which Gen. Arnold Wells was president and myself attorney. '•Gen. Wells told me of the mis­ fortune that had happened to the company in the loss of a vessel so largely insured, communicating to meat the same time the somewhat extraordinary manner in which it bad been destroyed. " 'Do you intend?' I asked bim, to pay the insurance?' •• *1 shall be obliged to do so,' re- hunger. is not like a man's, which can be appease with promises.*, He wants some­ thing at once. If he is playing hookey, he does not want to go home to get it Anyway, there is no need to do so. The street can show him an easier way. The grocer's stand is hnn/lv or u niA wnurnn J<<il ij>r ct.ill j, -- * r» -- , a soda-water wagon; the bottle is worth to much cash at the junk-shop. The driver's back is turned; the boy "swi es" one It is not a very great crime, but it Is the stepping-stone to many greater. A horse-blanket or a copper-bottomed boiler may be the ne *t thing. It is the first step that costs an effort, and that is not a very great one, with the clamor of a hungry stomach tcdiown the warning vol e within him that whispers of the policeman and the lock-up The friends he makes in the street soon help him to contempt for the one and a secret pride for the ether.--The Century Magazine : y W;^ "f ? • • $ Bay fancies into a cult. Yes. I've read it Deucedly clever sketch, but, I'm sorry for you if you believe it Eugenia had come up and stood listening as the men talked. At the } 'first pause she turned to Ayimers: \ «• batl you dance, Gordon?" she : Caked. "No, you know I don't care for it." **We must do something to break the monotony of this awful place. You won't refuse, I hope," she said a»itb ^n appealing glance at Featber- stone ••Only too happy. If Gcrd< n will oeMpy? was the ready but half sar- answer. \ »*r»h, don't mind me I will go out jjiiui look for your wit hes, Hugh." v ^'And we will discuss your theory Calked Down. . jYoung Snoberly is very anxious to create the impression that he is "a don" at French. A few evenings ago, at the clubroom, he took a French comic paper, and for half an hour he preteuded to be absorbed in its con tents. Every once in a while he would smile feebly, as if he had been carried away by the .okes, and say, audibly, "Bon, tres bon." There were several gentlemen at the adjoining table who had been no- Uase That May Not Bo Settled Wlthoat a Mathematician and a Uwyor. In Helena recently the possessor of t diamond ring re uested a friend to take it to a reputable house and bor­ row $10 upon iu The friend com­ plied and soon returned with the money. The ring was placed in the \ Bare by a man who furnished the i cash, there to remain until it should j ent. ( ' A Barbarism in a Code. A curious case is reported in the law journal, New York Supplement, which illustrates the hardship of an inflexible code made to order. The law of that State gives an attorney who appears for a party a lein upon his client's course of action which can­ not be affected by any settlement be­ tween the litigants This is to pro­ tect counsel who commence actions from being frozen out of their fee by the parties to the suit coming to­ gether and settling their dispute out of court. It is natural that lawyers,should wish to protect themselves from this unpleasant tendency of clients worn out with the law's delay or repentant of having rushed into litigation in­ advisedly. It was to be expected that a code made by careful lawyers should contain a provision to protect vested interest in their clients' cases, but this is how it works. A Mr. j Crouch brought suit against MrHoyt j for ,000 damages for the alienation ' of the affections of his (Crouch's) | wife. Hoyt was arrested and im- j prisoned, when Crouch repented-- I perhaps discovered that his suspicions | were ill founded. At any rate he executed a general release to the de- I fendant and consented to his dis- [ charge from imprisonment. Hoyt's j counsel then applied to the court for i his release from imprisonment, and here the code comes in wfth its kindly care for the interest of lawyers. The repentant crouch had failed to settle with his lawyer for instituting pro­ ceedings against Hoyt, and, so rules Judge McAdam, the defendant must linger in custody until Crouch pays his own lawyer his charge of 8250 for putting Hoyt in prison. "There can," says the court, "be no valid discharge of Hoyt until the law er who incarcerated bim consents to bis release," and this he refuses to do until he has been paid his fee. Hoyt is impecunious and canuot himself pay CroScb's debt of $2i>o, so unless Crouch settles satisfactorily with b is lawyer the unlucky Hoyt must linger in^aii. She Mado Papa Tired. A veteran editor of this city came down to his club a few n gbts ago chuckling over u "good" one on his wife Sitting at tea he said to her: • 'My dear, we have now been married nearly fovty years, and very happy years they have been. 1 would like to ask you a question." Pleased rather to see him . in this sentimental mood, sbe replied: "Any question you please, hus­ band." ••Well, it's a little egotistical, but I want to ask whether in all these years you ever met anybody you liked better than you do me." ••Why, no: of course not " ••Well, did you ever see anybody you liked as much?" ^ "No, indeed; certainly not." '•But how about John?" Now John was the eidest soli, and the apple o her eye. •Oh, well," she said, that is differ* You know 1 bore him." trouble with the macttapeb!; and be ' ticing Snoberley's antics. At last one of them sa d,-- "See that >noberly over there pre­ tending to read that Krench paper? I am certain that he does not under­ stand French. He is just doing that to impress the people with his knowl­ edge as a linguist" "I suppose he must understand French," replied one of the party. "I'll bet a bottle of wine that he doesn't, and I'll prove it.*' "I'll take the bet" [ The gentleman who bad made the bet walked quietly over to Snoberly, and said, •Monsieur, qu'elle heure est 11?" ("What o'clock is it, sir?") Young Snoberly smiled a Parisian smile, and gracefully handed over the did not return for some days. So Ayimers and Eugenia%ire iett much I to themselves for companionship There was more restraint between them now than there had beeu, and Ayimers thought fiugenia looked pale and troubled. As ior bimselt, ; he was noticeably less self-possessed j than usual, and less ready ih conver- i satijn. Perhaps it was because ! neither felt bright enough to start new topics that the talk often weat back to Aylmer'» story. "terhaps my criticism Was too se­ vere," said Eugenia ••It may be best, after all, not feel too stroogr ly. One is safe then. I can see your meaning, as far as that5* ••Yes; and we can see what the 4"^' ,L IT I S be redeemed. Later on No. 2 who pawned the ring for No 1, concluded that he would like to have *10, and us the jewel was a valvable one, he returned to the man with the safe and asked for the money, which was readily furnished, the safe man sup- ' posing the ring belonged to No. 2, ; the maniwho pawned it. Nos. 1 and 2 now had 910 each, provided they had not spent it. Later on it happened that the safe man went home for the night and bis place was taken by another. The second safe man knew nothing about the transactions of the first safe man concerning the diamond ring. When another man (No. 3) presented himself and courteously stated that he had left a ring in the charge ot the first safe man and de­ sired to get it, the second safe man be­ ing convinced that the ring belonged to No. 3 handed out the glittering circle of gold without unnecessary delay. No. 3 on obtaining possess­ ion of the ring, found that he also needed some money and at once. He therefore lost no time in putting up the ring at his uncle's for an equiva­ lent in coin of the lealm. The result, says the Helena Inde­ pendent, is the first safe man is out t.0. Ha 1 is out» diamond ring "Well, so you do uie, then the father weut to --National Expreea dear." and the club.-- Two Yearly Newspaper*, ^bat would you thknk of a yearly newspaper--one that is only printed once through the twelvemonth? There are at least two such in the world, and there may lie more. One is alied theE*ki 1 o Bulletin. It is issued every year at Pilnce of Wales' Cape, Ber ng Straits, *>n the arrival at that isolated place of the yearly steamer. This brings news from the outer world, and the p.iper then has something to print besides its ioc.'al news, that everybo .y knows, at any rate. The other paper is printed in Paris, and it comes oat once a year now, just to preserve its name, The Twentieth Century. It* publishers think that w 11 be a very fine name for a journal when th* twent eth century is actually here, and for f ar some one will get ahead of them in it they will issue the r taper once a year unt 1 1900, and thus be first In • the field. A KEEN look at the wolf at your ! door will show him to be the ghost of your ill-management and shiftless for I have no doubt, from the circumstances attending the loss, th&t the ship was set on fire with the intent to defraud the company of the insurance' •••But how shall we prove that? and what shall I say to Mr. Blank, when he makes application for the money?* '••Say nothing.* I replied, *but hear quietly what he ha3 to say.* "Some few days after this convei- sation Mr. Blank came up to Boston and presented himself to Gen. Ar­ nold Wells at the insurance office Mr. Bland was a man very careful of his personal appearance and of punc­ tilious demeanor. He powdered his hair, v/ore clean ruffles and well- brushed hair, and had a gravity ot speech becoming a person of respecta­ ble position. All this demanded civil treatment, and whatever you might think of him, you would naturally use no harsh language toward him. He bad a defect in his left eye, so that when he spoke he turned his jright sound eye to the person he ad­ dressed, with a somewhat oblique angle of the head, giving it some­ thing such a turn as a hen who dis­ covers a hawk in the air. Geu. Arn­ old Wells had a corresponding defect in the right eye. 1 *1 was not present at the inter­ view, but I have heard it often de­ scribed by others who were. Gen. Wells came out from an inner office, on the announcement of Mr. Blank's arrival, and fixed him (to use a French expression) with his sound eye--looking at him seriously, but calmly. Mr. Blank looked at Geo. Wells with his sound eye, but not steadily--rather as if he sought to turn the General's right flank. "They stood thus, with their eyes cocked at each other, for more than a minute before either spoke, when Mr. Blank thought best to take the initiative. " 'It is a pleasant day. Gen. Wells, though rather cold.' It is, as you say, Mr. Blank, a pleasant, though rather cold tiay,' re­ plied the General, without taking his eye down from its range I should not be surprised, Gen­ eral.' continued Mr. Blank, 'if we should have a fall of snow soon.' •• 'There might be more surprising circumstances, Mr. Blank, than a fall of snow in February.' '•Mr. Blank hereupon shifted his foot and topic. He did not feol at ease and the less so from his des­ perate attempts to conceal bis em­ barrassment. " 'When do you think, General,' he replied, after a pause, 'tb&t Con­ gress will adjourn?' •• 'It is doubtful, I should think, Mr. Blank, when Congress will ad­ journ; perhaps not for some time yet, as great bodies, you know, move slowly?' •• 'Do you hear anything Important from that quarter, General?* ••'.Nothing, Mr. Blank.' "Mr. Blank by this time had be­ come very dry in the throat--a sen­ sation, I have been told, one is very apt to feel who finds himselt in an embarrassing position, from which be begins to see no possibility of escape. He'leared to advance at d did not know how to make a juccessful re treat. At last, after one or two des perate and ineffectual struggles to re­ gain self-possession, finding bims If all the while within lointblank range of that raking eye, he wholly broke down, and took his leave, without the least allusion to the matter of in surance "He never returned to (^01 the money."--The Green Bag. -- -- Japanese Panodait The absence of buildings of any size and antiquity in Japan is as­ cribed to the destruction of tbem by the frequent earthquakes which oc­ cur. The only structures which seem to be earthquake-proof are the pago­ das, which are erected before the temples. The;e are many pagodas which are seven or eight hundred years old and as solid as when first, built There is a rea on for this, and it lies in their construction. A pag oda is practically a* framework of heavy timbers which start irom a wide base, and is in itself a substan­ tial structure, but it is rendered still more stable by a peculiar device. Inside the framework and suspended from the apex, heavy balk of timber two feet thick or more This hangs from one end, and to the other end are bolted, at each of the four sides, four more heavy timbers, and if the pagoda be very lofy stiii more timbers are added on to these. The whole forms an enormous pendulum which reaches to within six inches of the ground. When the shock of an earthquake rocks the pagoda the pendulum swings in unison aod keeps the center of gravity always at the base of the framework. Consequently the equilibrium of the pagoda is never disturbed, and this is the ex­ planation of the g eat age of many n' them, when from their height o would suppose them to be peculiarly susceptible to the effect of an earth­ quake. Hithertn the long sticks of timl er In the center of the pagoda have been supposed to be for the purpose of sup­ porting the framework. It was not until the recent earthquake brought tbem into prominence that their pur pose become known among Buro ueant. roots TME CONFIDENCE Bow a Oaitelofs-Looklnr Tva*«ih>g BK*a" .. Hoodwink* th© Hnnke BMalwrs. There is a growing fashion among travel lug men to attach id t^ilr satchels aud vaiiaes those well-known little straps fastening to the fc|{ijtl)e of the baggage a small leatber tMr, into which is slipped a card hMrlng the owner's name. As a traVftlat walks, along the street carrying nis baggage thus tagged it is often easy to read his name by walking a mo» ment at bis side and glancfhg at the tag. The confidence men and bunko steerers have not been slow to dill- cover that lact, and they not infre­ quently in this way learo the actual name of their intended victim witih out the assistance of the usual con­ federate, whose business it is to learn the victim's name and place of reil- dence 1 have a friend who travels a great deai, but whose appearance of guile­ less and child-like innocence attract* the bunko man as sugar attract# flies. He has become accustomed to them now. They never dupe him, but their attentions sometimes annoy him.* He drifted into the city again not ion* aK", auu as lie miu uis satcuei upon the hotel desk I was surprised to see that it bore one of the little leather tags containing the card of "Mr. Jabez L. Simonds." Now Jabe/t I. Simonds was not my friend's name, and 1 laughingly siid to him: •.'What's this mean? I'll bet you've swapped baggage on the train and have gut SOluc Oilier fellow's SalCuci." My friend smiled, winked slyiy at the hotel elerkf and said mysterious­ ly: "No, 1 haven't. That's my satchel, but it isn't my name. Come outside with^ me after a while'and I'll show you I how it works, if we have my usimI luck." We went\ accordingly, and my friend carriedV^be satchel with bim. He bad his' "usual luck," and I saw how "it worked." We had not walked three blocks from the Grahd Union Hotel when a dapper little fel­ low came up behiud us I didn't no­ tice that he even glanced at the satchel, but he must have done so, of course. He walked up briskly, as though to pass us, then, tarn lag with a well feigned look of recognition, he held out his hand, effusively greeted my friend as "Mr. Mmonds,"and was starting in on the same old bunko formula, when my friend nudged m* and interrupted bim-- "Glad to see you, Johnnie,'* he said. "My name isn't Jabez L. Simonds, and I'm not so green as A look. I just keep that tag on my baggage for the sake of chaps of your kind, who are so fond of recognizing old friends. Good day, Johnnie; hope you're not offended." "1 like to do it," he explained t^ me as we started back toward t^i hotel. "It's just a fad of mine." •fil The Saint and the Czar. ' i'v,, St Philip cameo: a wealthy family. " He wa> attached to the Court of ttte j Czar Ivan the Terrible, hut in what capacity I did not leara x si! At all events, in 1639 be left the Court and entered Solovetsk as a s| monk. He found it a place of little % wooden chapels and miserable huts; ^ he left it with a fortified stone mon- |g astery, a really tine cathedral, and ^ more than one well-built church. In short, the whoe working organism of Solovetsk is due to bim. They called him back to Moscow after be had been seventeen years in Solovetsk, || and made him Metropo itan of all Kussia. - :'3| isow, Ivan tne Terrible, among his other eccentricities, was like Norman Kjctgs, in that he loved to lay waste rthe lands about. But be was much f| worse than they were, for he did it not for purposes of sport, -nor did he do it in so kind a way. His idea was || simply to thin out tbe districts, so ^ that there might be no mutterings | and no crowd. Therefore, when a district became a little too much !; overstocked for bis liking.out be rode ' with sword in hand and thinned it. And one day, when starting on a" || hunt of this kind, in which he ex- pected extraordinary sport, and to || be able to depopulate pretty well a certain district, he chanced upon his Metropolitan, whom he straightway f.0, asked to bless the expedition. But f j Philip the 1 isbop not only refused, but expostulated with bim on bis cruelty. Hereupon, without more demur, Ivan dropped hiin into prison 4J and had him strangled there This? was in 1509.--Longman's Magazine. J Clothes foe* the Emperor. ' • t v Though the German Emperor am* ^ ploys Berlin tailors he believes in >|| giving provincial employment also. In every good-si ed town there is a icourt tailor who occasionally has the | ihonor of supplying the Emperor with • J a uniform, and as his uniforms are as diverse and numerous as the stars # of the heavens there is good business ^ done, especially as his majesty differs very materially from his grandfather; ^ who had his uniforms and caps re- paired and cleaned so often th^t the ^ tradespeople had to dec are at last ^ the garments would bear no more • S renovation. The Imperial measure m is always kept in stock by the tailors, J so that oniy the minute details are sent when an order is given. .A tunio | for the tailor costs on an average be- tween $40 and $-0. „ . Ty{B-. . .> """ .. >v' >5. Submarine Boat. ^ f A. submarine beat is a desideratum for peaceful as well as warlike par- i po-.es. Mr. Simon Lake of Baltimore^ claims to have Invented such a ves- ^ sel, in which the crow can live com- fortably for days at a time and per- 14 torm a large variety of sub-aquatic 1$ work without going outside of the boat To wreckers and bridge hUild- ^ ers as well as to the United States ^ naval constructors (who have long been searching for a practicable sub- marine.torpedo boat), an invention Of this character should be a subject of tvery great interest. • s : * ' F o o d . Among the Chinese there lis a cttn*' ^ ous belief that it is possible to econo­ mize in food by abstaining front muscular exertion. Thus when ^ wages fall below a certain point* poor Chinamen prefer not to work because they consider that thev would have to take more food to re­ pair the wast9 than the work done would produc?. THE only time the woman foik do. 4 not say "Don't** to a boy is when b#- > | ineaks off to bed ealrly. p 4?>. V*L r' Jt/. '•'.-'•I, -y^ihw. fee *1 >"?> * «:»*' .. 1. *. • 5 J ' *-*r S I