THE OLD TJMBBELLA S LAMEHT. B* F. LLEWALP BROCK. ROh K N and battered and worn, \ TO ,lliy 8 ÜB °' u * neßß past, .ill// ]j I'm carelessly thrown aside- Mml Into tho aUey way cast. My silken coat, so glussy ouco, ' til [J Win Is ragged and tattered and r | ~T||l My ribs are broken braces Memories of the wrongs I've I've served my master we true, /* . In rain and snow, in sleet and I've douo my duty day by day. Ifw In burning sun and blust'ring ,y • received; ' * My only recompense at last To have the good 1 ve done de spised And bo in the alley way cast. BY YON LONE GHOVE. BY AD 11. GIBSON. By yon lone grove I found a grave Over which the daisies wave, In the sad-voiced autumn gales, Bweeping down secluded dales. Where tho rabbit's tread is beard, And the trill of woodland bird: There tho " ild vines climb and creep, Whore is kept that dreamless sleep. Underneath the falling leaves, Free from all that vexes, grieves; JUd of this world's mud strife And all the ills of human life. Who lieth there I cannot tell, Bleeping in that quiet dell; No name is on the low, gray stone At tho mound's head, viue-o'ergrown. Is that grave by all forgot? Does no one visit that lone spot In memory of the one once here, Who reveled in this life's brief sphere? It is as well. The spirit fled, Only the ashes remain there dead. BTAU VALLEY, Kau. SOME GENTLE SAVAGES. BY L. D. MURPHY. SITUATED at the foot of the Green - ho r I Mountain, iu the State of Colorado, lies the beautiful Apache valley. I "y small stream | hearing the same rock-bound caii nl The tall <>t -.nv • (roes which grow thick on either bunk form a broml belt of darker green across the valley's rolling bosom. This lovely spot, now dotted here' and there with the settler's rude cabin, was, at the time our story opens, occu pied by a village of Apache Indians, aud many specimens of their rude workmanship are still found there, such as stouo arrows and spear heads. The time had come for the great fall hunt, and small parties were sent in all directions to locate herds of buffalo. Black Elk, a young chieftain of some "COT AIA BONDS AND PLACED WEAPONS IN 1116 HANDS." note, went with six warriors up the Ar kansas River, and, coming in contact with a superior force of Blackfeet, his men were all killed, and himself taken prisoner. The victorious party at once set out for their own village, two hundred miles away. On arriving there quite a number of the principal men of the tribe were found to be absent, and it was decided to keep tho prisoner until their return, which event was daily ex pected. During his confinement Black Elk's wants were supplied by a young maid en, Wliippoorwill by name, whose soft, dark eyes looked first with pity, then with love, on her helpless charge, and she resolved to set him free. Accord ingly, when she went at sunset to take bis supper, she made known to him her plan. Black Elk had not been unmindful of the many acts of kindness shown him bv this little maid, but had not ex pected this. Should ho escape, she would at once be suspected, and most likely put to death, and his heart grow warm toward her who would risk so much for his sake. He refused to go and leave her to suffer iu his place, but told lier that if she would go with him and be his bride they would make tho attempt together. Wliippoorwill was unable for a time to decide; her lover, on one hand; friends, relatives, and the home of her childhood, on the other; but she at last consented to go. Returning to her own lodge she anx iously awaited the approach of night, for well she knew that should the ex pected war party return her lover v uld be put to death in the most cruel v. inner. Slowly the hours dragged by, ftn d at last, near midnight, all grew still. Bi ly as a shadow she entered the cap t 's lodge, cut his bonds, and placed v pons iu his hands. Slowly and < oiisly they moved awa&and suc c- ded in reaching the far* forest of pine and cedar, which covered the mountain side, without being discov ered. They halted not, but kept on their course until the rosy-tinted ea ern sky warned them that day was Lp p reaching. Entering a cavern they remained eonceaieu limit me snauows or nignt again fell over the earth, when they come forth aud resumed their journey, taking care to keep on ground over which their truii would oe most diffi cult to follow. They glided through the forest like specters, their light footfalls giving back no sound, for well they knew that many swift feet and keen eyes were on their trail. In this manner they reached their destination in safety, and great was the joy of his tribe at the return of ono whom they had mourned as dead. Black lilk at once announced his in tention to make the Wliippoorwill his wife, and ordered a great feast pre pared. The appointed time soon came, and every dusky face beamed with pleasure, save one—the Willow-Bough. She had long looked with jealous eyes on the young chieftain, and had fondly dreamed that some time he would take her to his lodge. She took no part in the grand preparation. Her little sav "DROVE IT TO THE HILT IN IIER OWN BOSOM." age heart was full of hatred for this daughter of the Blackfeet, aud the light that slione in her dusky eyes boded no good to the happy pair. The hour had come for the marriage ceremony, and Black Elk sat beside his intended bride within the nuptial lodge, now beautifully decorated with wild flowers aud ever greens, when suddenly, and be fore any one could prevent it, the Willow-Bough stepped in front of the open door, and, drawing an arrow to the head, let it tty, piercing the heart of Black Elk, who fell dead at the feet of tho horror-stricken girl so soon to have been his bride. Hastily throwing the how aside, she drew a long hunting knife from her girdle aud drove it to the hilt in her own bosom, and her spirit followed that of the one she had loved to the shadow land. Sorrow and gloom now fell on all. Loud cries of grief and lamentation tilled the air on all sides ; bereaved friends and relatives blackened their faces, and spent the night in mourning for the dead. Wliippoorwill, thus left among stran gers, a "d fearing to return to her own people, frrtmtered.ftlKJUfc for & time, and finally disappeared and was seen nc more. The superstitious red men supposed that she was transformed into the bird whose name she bore, aud all through the summer nights the note of a whip poorwiil could be heard coming from the grave of tho murdered chieftain. THE SOUL OF THE HOUSEWIFE. Much Vexed by the Servant Question. T - O bo a millionaire's wife is not to es cape petty domes /C \ tic troubles. Thai / S3 O* fact was indicated /rk hy u dialogue be ( tween two Fifth av i \ , ( ©alio matrons. vji VSW**" cir -- "I do have such a S. II Wsj '■ * bother about- ser |i|l vnnts," Raid one, complniningly. "We til keep two ehamber -11 ,r maids, and neither of those we hnve now has been in tho house a week yet. We have changed a dozen times in a month." "Well, I have got along tolerably of luto with my help," the other remarked, "excepta maid for myself." "But I thought you wore delighted with Marie." "O, she was tho quickest and neatest girl I ever had in tho house—pretty as a doll, too, wasn't she?—and she knew ev erything übont toilet and wardrobe work. Hut what do you think? She had cold hands, and I couldn't bear to havo her touch me. First along 1 thought it was impoverished blood that caused it, and I bad our family physician dose her with iron and other things; but it wasn't any use—wo couldn't warm hor hands. Sho'il heat them when about to dress my hair, or do any other job around mo, but they wouldn't stay heated, you know, and I really had to let hor go." Sc you see that wealth demands the utmost degree of refinement in luxury, but at the samo time encounters difficulty in commanding it. The soul of the housewife of the day is much voxed by renson of the servant question. It is a cry that the domestic is becoming uncontrollable. It, as n class, has dared to assert itself, and we hold up our hands and wonder what tho j upshot will bo. Tlio servant question is old. Our grandmothers and great-grand mothers, and remoter ancestresses still, sat in solemn conclave and lamented the days when servants knew their place and did their duty to the satisfaction of their masters; and as far back as we can trace the servitor seems always to have been ! regarded as a troublesome porson. The samo old story is repeated for genera tions, and will, I suppose, ever supply the housewife with a rich mine of com plaint. Tho reverse side of the modal is not often contemplated, but I would ask you to consider it; for while we rail in the parlor, know that we are a no less fruitful source of complaint in tho kitchen, and that wo should find it very bard to refute the charges against us if we stood arraigned in a court of domes tics. Lot us weigh against their inde pendence, insolenco and idleness some of our own little failings with regard to them. I)o wo ever remember, when we havo wearied ourselves in pursuit of pleasure, that thoro ure, perhaps, tired limbs and aching heads in the kitohon? Wo insist upon the "early to rise" side of a doubtless excellent but not strictly ac curate maxim, but its other half does not commeud itself quite so forcibly when wo have to iq ply it to the servants; and wo are apt, if we ever permit our selves to discuss such a question, to ex press st.ong views upou their proneness to "sleep away their senses" if permitted. Our own—shall I say tempers? —are not always strictly under control, either, and we are often led into little displays that are very uupalatablo whou served up to ns again by tho cook or chambermaid. We have a hnppv little knack, too, of taking tho edge off our tempers on these individuals. Wo may be mistresses of ourselves when china falls up-stairs, but our peut-up feelings, strengthened by repression, are all the more forcibly ex -1 pressed when our maid lays out the wrong dress. — Chicago Ledger, Staying Ills Sorrows. He was dressed like a cowboy and n wild look of despair had settled upon v t i®' countenance, as lie glided slowly into tho sanctum and seated himself mournfully upon the northeast quarter of the exchange raoie, was a pamrai picture. ±iis glar ing eyes indicated an overpoweriug sorrow or an undigested dinner. "Is this (he sanctum sanctorium?" "Struck it the first jump out of the box," said the editor, as he looked up from his proof-reading. "This is the place where the brainy ! men give their intellects rope ?" "The very thing." "And do you know that winter is al most here ? There has been a slight prejudice that way." "That the crimson-tinged leaves have been mournfully floating from the trees and nighing like human tilings, as they left the branches naked. That, liku memories of the long distant past, they have charmed the senses for a moment and then sunk into oblivion ?* "Shouldn't wonder." "The symphony of the winter winds, is weird, wild music in my ears. It is a sad, sweet sweep of melody divine that charms the listening soul." "Well?" "I was about to tell you. My life is like winter. Through the halls of memory there oonies a whisper that tells that the summer of my existance lias flown into the depths of the irre trievable past and that autumn, the heyday of the year, has wrapped the mantle of the flying years about it and is no more. Like the faint odor of for gotteu flowers, they are gone." "Yes." "Did you ever look over a musty packet of letters and come upon a sprav mignonette that brought back to you the touch of lingers that traced "the words ?" "Hardly." "I have. My life has been a bitter mockery and I have tried to diown the past in the flowing bowl. Such is my purpose now. I wish to stay the flood of sorrows that presses upon my spirit. But alas! 1 have only Ave cuuts.' A glass of whisky costs ten. Will you loan me a nickel?" The stairs to the street were not long, but they were sleep, and when he reached the pavement the past sor rows were engulfed in tho flood of pres ent pain.— Detroit Free Press. Better tlian Faith Cure. There were five men of us and tlireo women, besides the driver, who were staging it between two towns in Kau sas. We set out at 7 o'clock in the morning for ail all day's ride, and had not made over two miles when the old est man in tho crowd, who was from the Nutmeg State, and built on Y'an kee principles, suddeutly exclaimed: "By gosh to - quash!" "What's up ?" asked one of the lot. "The toothache 1 She hit me in that 'ere lower double tooth and I'm in for a bushel of trouble." ".Tust try and not think of it," sug gested one of the women. "Koep your thoughts on your family." He tried it for two or three minutes, .and a smile of affection came to his [fftGG- It-suddenly died away, how i ever, to lie replaced by a look of feroc- Sity as he yelled out: ; "Hang my family, but it don't work I I Has anybody got any camphor ?" Nobody had. We hadn't even a drop :of whisky. One man had some tobacoo, jbut tho Y'ankee couldn't go it. Tho ache, 'once started, grew worse, and as ho I began groaning a second woman i suggested: "I've heard any as imagination has i all to do with pains. Supposo you im- ■ j agino you are sound asleep and dream ling of angels and snob." He tried it, and for a minute or two I the ache let up. Then it struck him with a jump, and he seized his jaw and ! yelled: ; "Jerusha Jackson I but I'll he gaul darned if I hain't goiu' to die right here? Driver, stop the wagon!" It was stopped and ho panted to know how far it was to a town. He was | told that it was twenty miles, and ho fetched a groan a rod long and said: "It's got to he dono! Driver, come down here 1" "What do you want?" "You've got to knock it out I Y'ou are the biggest man in the, lot, and I guess you kin hit a purty hard blow. Dive me a lifter right hero on the jaw." "Do you mean it?" "Sartain, and don't waste any more time. Spit on your hand, haul off and sock me one righton that tooth. I want it knocked into a cocked hat." "But you will go with it." "Can't help that. Now, imagino that I've called you a douhle-harroled liar and whale away." The driver drew back and then landed on the exact spot, and tho Yan kee tumbled head over heels in the grass. Ho was up in a minnto, how ever, and he put his thumb and Jiiigt>r 'into his mouth and pulled out two teeth and shouted: "Whoop! It's ono extra, but that's all right! Shako, old man, and then .'drive on with the hand wagon! We ft hoop! Tooth aclio gone -happiness come to stay! Hero's a dollar, and if lyou want to brag around alxiut knock ing a feller fourteen feet I won't say s word." Called Out of Name. Irish stew is a dish unknown in Ire land. Kid gloves are not made of kid, but of lamb skin or sheep skin. German silver is not silver at all, nor of German origin, but has been used in China for centuries. ' Dutch clocks are of German manu facture. Baffin's Bay is not a bay. Turkish baths are unknown to th Turks. There are no leaves in Valombrosa, lNlilton to the contrary notwithstand ing- ... Turkey rhubarb should be called Russian rhubarb, as it is a Russian monopoly. Why are turkeys so called? They do not come from Turkey. Slave means noble or illustrious. Tit-mouse is a bird. Sealing-ft-ax contains no wax. Shrew-mouse is no mouse, liiee paper is not made of rice or the rice plant. Cat gut should lie sheep gut. Blind worms have eyes and can see. Cleopatra's needles should be named after Tliotnies 111. A source ot Annoyance. A gentleman, coming homo at even ing, spoke harshly to his little three year-old, who was playing vory noisily. The little lady dropped her play things and retreated hastily to a cor ner. "What's the matter?" asked papa. "Well," said the child, "I've been a good girl all tli> day, and new you come home and inaku trouble tho first thing." Tnis is a world of contradictions. Men praise heroic actions first because they are well done and then because i they are rare. THE BERTILLON SYSTEM. HOW TIIK FRENCH IDENTIFY AND DETECT C'ItiMINAL.B. Tlio IMttii Tested wltli Hood Results In Chicago and Klsewhere- How tho Meas urements Are Taken The Instrument* Used. OWN' at tho Armory Po- M Ike Station hi Chicago I fr-M'" n tcn ts °f which aro of i who may bo in vited to enter it A small. right board, eight foet high, fastened to tne i wall, with a horizontally foot to iho right of this board another vertical strip of wood, and to the left about th > same di.-t meo is what seems like a blackboasd with an infinite number of fine lines crossing its surface In u vertical direction. In one corner stands a photographic camera, in another are two oases, each containing a windlass, on which are arranged hundreds of cubinet photo graphs, while on the opposite wall is seen a la ge cubinet. which looks liko a section or the postoffice. owing to an airay of pigeon-holes all filled with cards. Hanging on the wall are a pair of large calipers, and what appears to bo a large und smull enr nonter's square, each having a short sliding urm working at right angles to the longer arm of tho t-quare. The casual vis.tor wonders what all this peculiar parrphornalia is used for, but tho criminal who is compelled to submit to Its operation realizes that the examination he there undergoes will stand as a perpetual menace to him. and will prove his entry into the criminal classes. It represents the famous Bertillon system for the identifica tion of criminals, adopted by the Trench Government, and now used very extensively in Europe and in this country. "One of tho most difficult problems con fronting tho police force of a large city liko Chicago." said Chief Hubbard to an Inter Ocean reporter, "is the control of that class of men known as 'habitual criminals.' It is made up of men, women, and a largo "Mi umber of children, who arc tho product of Inherited criminal tendeneies through sev eral generations, and on whom the ordinary methods aro entirely thrown away. As a stream can never rise higher than its source, it is useless to expect that a man whoso ancestors were criminals, and who was born into and has always lived a lifo of crime, can come to anything but a crim inal end. Our Ftuto prisons wore originally Intended for reformatory as well as cor rective institutions. Owing to the difficulty that has always existed o: separating tho older and more hardened criminals from those who havo committed their first of fense. perhaps through some momentary thoughtlessness or lapse from virtue, nianv u man who. If le't to Ills own remorse and self-communing, would leave its walls re so'ved to rogain and maintain his lost manhood, comes forth to bo a menace to society and a oontinual expense to the State through association with the des perate characters that aro so numerous there. "If tho police, on tho arrest of an indi vidual on suspicion, or for the commission of anv crimo, can know for n certainty whether that individual has over before been guilty of any criminal proceeding, whether lie lias over undergone sentence, where that sentence was served, his char -6I '.J actor as a piisoner, and whether, through his escape from jail or tho officers of jus tice, there is an unexpired term of punish- Cjiont that ho should serve, they are fully prepared to treat him according to his just deserts and better enabled to protect society. With this knowledge in their nos hes-don there is no danger of their reloas 'ng a man whom they feel morally cortain Is a desperate character and guilty of many misdeeds. I ut whom they can not convict fdmply beou>e they cannot prove his per sonal identity with tho author of other crimes, and aro therefore compelled to give fiiiu 'the benefit of the doubt.' By the method usuallv pursued by the police they were compelled to rely upon a photograph and verbal descriptions that more fre quently served to confuse than to aid in their scutch. "Toinurly it was extremely difficult to detect a criminal by me.u a of the descrip tions wo sent out. Those descriptions would give Iho height, apparent weight, color of his hair and eyos, and an attempt at a description or his features, accom panied by a photograph which might have been taken five or toil years previous to the commission of the crime. Within a month after wo sought to socuro him ho might bo arrested in Sun Francisco for a minor of fense. In the meantime he has shaved his face, tanned his complexion, dyed liis hair, and otherwise altered his appearance to the extent that is possible. He gives an alias, and when his photograph is taken and com pared with the one we have sent the authorities there no resemblance can be traced. Ho serves a short sontonoe. at tho expiration of which lie is discharged, the officials not knowing that he is the individ ual for whom the whole polioe force of the country is on the qui vive." "But wnerein," asicea tne reporter, "is tne Bertillon method hotter than the old?" "You must understand." continued the chief, "that when a criminal is captured in any of the cities where this system is in vogue ho Is subjected to a series of measurements such as will bo shown as we proceed." Ordering one of the operators to strip to his trousers, two of the others, after first taking a front and profile photograph of liia face, proceeded to measure first his hoight, thou the distanco between the points of the middle lingers or the hands with the arms outstretched: the height of the trunk, the length and width of the head, the right oar. tho left foot, the left middle finger, and tho loft forearm. "You will see," said tho operator, "that the instruments are so designed and the pris oner is compelled to assume such positions while the measurements are being tuken that only tho length of tho bones is se cured." "I should think," said tho news paper man, "that the man's natural growth and any muscular change due to a special lino of physical work would render iho measurements of no value after a year or two had elapsed." "It is a well-known fact*" replied tho ohiot. "that the bones of the body attain their full development at 22 years of age. At that timo their length is determined for life. While measurements aro frequently taken at a younger age. still we are not inclined to class such cuses as professional criminals. "This system Is now in use in Boston, Philadelphia. Columbus, and Joliet, asl-i Chicago, and IR rapidly commending itself for adoption to the authorities of other cities. As soon as the measurements of a criminal aro taken in any one of these ||p places, and a classified description made of ull marks and scars upon his person, to gether with tho pigmentation of his eyos and tho contour and appearance of his nose, they are recorded on a curd prepared for the purpose, which is then forwarded to tho Bertillon Bureau at Chicago, wbero it is placed on record, the original entries still remaining at the local office. Should this bo a first olTunso tho criminal is entitled to what leniency the law allows, and when sent to prison, instead of being placed in a coll with an old and hardened criminal who would soon overcome what little moral sense ho has remaining, ho has for a cell companion one wl o. like himself, is in a re pentant frame of mind and capable of ref ormation. in case tho arrest, should occur in Boston or Philadelphia, the chief of police woul t telegraph to Chicago, using a private code of words which stands for certain meusurerants. and which are sont in the order in which the measurements are taken. "Bv this means tho cost of a lengthy de scriptive telegram is saved, as it all comes within the regulation ten word*. On the receipt of this message at tho Central Bureau tho records a* e examined, all pre vious arrests, convictions, sentences, ser riocs and escapes noted and forwarded to ;he inquirer, placing the authorities in full -t possession or all facts bearing upon that particular criminal. "By tho old method, when seeking infor mation from Chicago concerning a crim inal. a photograph was sont with a verbal description. This entailed a close and careful examination of something like 8,000 photographs, a process requiring a long time und only reaching a result which de pended entirely upon the examiner's judg ment and skill in physiognomy. It is right hero that tho efficacy of Bertillon's system is apparent. It will take but a minute to locato the record of any criminal who has previously been arrested within the juris diction of any polloo department using the system. It is done in this mannor In tho Bertillon Bureau, and tho identification and rocord are found with no more difficulty than a word in the dictionary. Supposing that thero aro lO.OOJ photographs divided, according to the hoight of the body, into large, medium, and small. It Is found in which division ho belongs through that measurement, and we have disposed of G.GGG photographs. Taking the 8.333 remaining photos, they are again subdivided by three, acoordlng to tho length of the outstretched arms, in tho same manner. and it is found which of these classifications he bo longs in. and we have 1,111 photos loft. These are again subdivided by three by the hoight of the trunk, again by the length and width of tho head, and so on through the remainder of the ton measurements until wo are brought down to a particular number. Tuning to a case in which tho photos a o arranged. 1.000 in each case, wo hnd a front and side view of hit face, and opposite ma number; in a noon, kept ror the purpose, is his complete history, with a ciose and mathematical description of all marks, scars, or apodal features that would be purely personal and Individual. The nose is class I lied into throe divisions as to length, three as to protuberance, three as to outline, and three us to inclination of base. Thus it will be seen that although It is barely possible that in the measurement of ten thousand criminals there may bo two that correspond, yet the scars upon the body, thick or thin lips, the shape or twist or the nose, tiie inclination of tho facial lino, all of which nro determined, not, as in tho old method, by tho eye, but with mathe matical accuracy, irom certain recognized and fixed points upon the front and back of tho body, supplemented Anally by the pho togiaph, rendor tho identification accurate and complete beyond a doubt. "The metrical system of moasuremonthas boon adoptod by all countries as it fur nishes a basis for international use of the Bertillon mothod. and is much simpler than tho use of feet and inches. To illustrate, in tocording. telegraphing, or writing one meter, Ave centimeters, and three milli meters, wo can write 1, 5, 3, and every one would understand that by the metrical sys tem the last figure. '3* would mean milli meters and nothing else, but unless defi nitely expressed as three-quarters, three eighths. three-sixteeuths. or three thirty seconds of an inch, it might bo misunder stood for any one of these subdivisions, allowing throe times as many opportunities lor error. The non-universal use or the metrical system is no obstacle to Interna tionalism. It is quite sufficient In coun tries where the metor system is not in use that the figures of the instruments should be regarded not as measurements of length, but as figure signs, Indioes of a particular sort. It is not tho length in any Axed meas ure that is required, but tho length; it is a figure of so much, figures that shall always represent tho same quantity, wherever used." Our illustrations show tho instruments used in the application of the system MoLLIE MATCHES—VOUB VIEWS. and tho manner of taking some of tho measurements. Tho reador can soo by tho four portraits of "iMollie Matches," about the most adroit criminal of ids class in the country, the unreliability of the photograph. Who would recognize the dignified, intellectual indi vidual with the professor-like beard in tho smooth shaven tough, but tlioy are one and the same person, photographed on the oc casion of UifTereut arrests. Not Foreseen by Webster. It was Daniel Webster who object ed to the organization of a Territorial government for Oregon, because it was "so far off that it could never be gov erned by the United States," and a delegate to Congress from there "ooulil not reach Washington until a year after the expiration of his term." What would the unproplietio Daniel say now if he eouhl have witnessed the election in tho Northwest Oct. 1, as one of the preliminary steps tor four Territories to come into the circle of the States? Tho giants of a genera tion or two ago evidently had little idea what a development awaited the republic.— Troy Times. A Keck less Experiment. Mrs. Gotham Mercy on us! What lias happened? Wore you run over? Mr. Gotham (much dilapidated)— Worse. There was a terrible panic in Patriot Hall to-night, and I got caught in the rush for the doors. "Horrors! Did n fire break out?" "No; but just as the vast assemblage came to order, and the Chairman had announced that the meeting was in aid of tho World's Fair, some crazy fool jumped up and lagan to pass around the hat."— New York Weekly. A Sign Which Failed. Young Husband—"Seems to me, my dear, this cliickon is pretty tough." Young Wife —"I know it is, aud I can't understand it at all. I picked it out myself." "Did you examino it clonoly ?" "Indeed I did. I looked iu its mouth the first thing, and I could seo it hadn't even cut its first teeth yet ."—New York Weekly. A Disinterested Lover. "Are you going to break off your en-, gngement with Miss Prentice?" in quired Merritt. "I hear she will be a cripple for life through that railway accident." " I intended to break it off at first* returned liia friend, "but I have jutrt heard that tho company has offered her twenty thousand in settlement."—- Epoch. A COMPANY has beon organized iD the South to pay Jeff Davis' debts. It might extend its operations so as to in clude other people without making them enemies for life. FASHIONS FOIIOUB BOYS. ITYLKS FOB THE CONING MEN OF AMEIUCA. Don't Take Your Somt Out or Kilt Hulls Too Soon—Difficulties in Determining Where the Tadpole Age IJn.ln aud That ol'the Frog Begins. tHERE IS SO LlT tie change in boys' fasn ions from season to season that there is very little informa tion to bo offered aud yet the little fellows takes quite as much pride in their appear ance from the dav of their first rebellion against the pinafore as do little girls, and something ought to be said. There has been a tendency of late to put boys not over 3 or 4 years of age in long trousers, but how any mother who cher ishes the all-too-short babyhood of her little son can have the heart to do this is beyond comprehension. One never runs across these elderly dressed manikins with out a half regretful tmile of amusement, followod by an involuntary thought of '•What a pity!" Keep the little boys in kilts as long as you can. llest assured they will rebel soon enough. On the other hand don't keep a boy In knickerbockers until he is 14 or 15 years old. If he is a manly boy it will occasion him such bitterness of mortification as ouly a boy made the butt of his playmates can feel, and if he is, unfortunately, a natural born namby-pamby who prefers to he babied even to the matter of his clothes, there is all the more reason to put him into long trousers at suitable age and thereby at least give him an appearance of manliness. It is ditlicult to fix definitely iu9t what the suitable age is to make the change from kilts to knickerbockers, and from knickerbockers to long trousers, on ac count of tho difference in growth. It wouid be obviously absurd to insist, for TnE PLAID KILT. instance, that all boys should be takon out of kilts and put into knickerbockers at 5 years of ago, for one boy might grow so rapidly as to necessitate the change one or two years earlier, and another might grow so slowly that the infantine skirt could be retained for some time longer. A boy whose mother kept him in knicker bockers until he was Hi years old, but per mitted him to crown himself with a Derby hat, was a caricature that his acquaint ances will never recall without a laugh, and in the same wny an abnormally fat boy of 14 who persisted in retaining his knickerbockers and shirt wuists made a sight of himself that wus ridiculous to the verge of disgusting. Generally 0 soeins a proper ago to dis card the kilt and 13 to assume long trousers. For the first stage dresses are made with kilt skirts, and with them are worn the jersey waists or jacket-. An olive-green A NATTY SUIT. cloth has a skilled skirt, ushirred silk stiirt and jacket with coat back, ornamented with velvet buttons of a darker shade; cuffs and colors are also of tho velvet, as is the revers. A different style will have a velvet vest aud jacket open to show it; or a cambric shirt is worn, aud in thi9 case the jacket buttons at the neck only, and is open below. With this shirt is worn the turnover embroidered color and cuffs. This style of dress is made in velvet, plain dark cloths, in the bright wooieu plaids or in a blue and white stripe. The first trousers are plain and rather tight fitting aud are just long enough to cover the knee. The ja ket and veßt are one piece, the former uaving a sack back and turn down collar. The plaited suits— that is those having jackeuj with plaits and a belt and buttoning straight down in front —are not worn so much as they have been. All the new stylos have the Jacket and vest A Chance to Servo Two Masters. Attorney—Look hore, Smith, you will oblige me and save yourselt trouble by handing mo that S2O which you owe Townloy. Ho has placed tha bill in my hands for collection. Smith —Sorry, Briof, my boy, bat I can't accommodnto you. Attorney—Oh, very well; I know how J can collect it. Smith 'l'hcn you'd bettor make tha amount SSO, aud help ma as well as Townley, besides i jcreasing your own commission. I'll willingly divide tha additional SSO with you, it yon can manage it. ' '
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