BLUE GENTIAN,
I shall never be a child,
With its dancing footsteps wild,
Nor a free-footed maiden any more,
Yet my heart leaps up to see
The new leaf upon the tree,
And to hear the light winds pass
O’er the flowers in the grass,
And for very joy brims o'er,
As I kneel and pluck this store
Of blue gentian,
I shall never climb thy peak,
Great white Alps, that cannot speak
Ot the centuries that float over
like dreams,
Dumb of all God's secrat things
Sealed to beggars and to kings—
Yet I sit in a world of sighs,
Color, beauty, sound and light,
While at every step, meseems,
Small sweet joys spring up, like gleams
Of blue gentian,
If thou wakenest these poor flowers,
Wilt Thou not awaken me,
Who am thirsting after Thee ?
Ah! when faith grows dim and dles,
Let mo think of Alpine skies
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE,
spacious parlor, his head enveloped in
heotio vocabulary of yoath, which no
tongue oan expound, there's mo such
work as fail-—or words to that effect,”
“Consider me your vassal-—command
and I will obey—and if you succeed in
routing the enemy"
“Well—if I succeed?”
‘You have oarte blanche on my pock-
otbeok for a week.”
‘*Adien, my brother; I go but will
return again; meantime, dress yourself
for the opera, order round the carriage,
and await me here,” And Harry Tup-
per disappeared through the half open
door,
“I wonder what idea the fellow has
in his head?” mused Edward, after his
brother had gone. ‘I was only partly
| in earnest, and still I have half a mind
| to let him have his way, He is fertile
| in schemes, and perhaps this may be
productive of some good; so here goes
| to dress for the opera.”
Dolly Tapper was looking her very
prettiest this evening, and many ad-
miring eyes were turned upon the
tre,
| otreles, recognitions were frequent, and
young man with her might be—a brother
| probably, and undoubtedly a desirable
The opera ‘Fra Diavalo” was one of
and curled gracefully from the daintily |
colored bowl of his elegant merschaum;
for the said Edward was a connoisseur |
in pipes, and among the many that he |
had laid away as he took up with a new |
love of more exquisite design than ths
former, this special one had never lost |
favor in his sight; and whenever he
found himself especially moody, this
was the one that was always fished out
from some obscure recess, aud filled and
lit to soothe his mind to a proper state
of complaeency.
Poor fellew! He had been married
but the short space of eight months,
and already he felt himself sadly neglect
ed; and yet how could this be? The
dainty slippers that adorned his ele-
gantly formed feet were the work of his
wife's hands; some elaborate workman-
ship was also displayed in the erown of
a hat tossed carelessly into a corner,
evidently the work of the same loving
hands, and everywhere might be seen
evidences of that same kindly rigor |
that makes home, to a man, that place |
of all places nearest to heaven,
Poor Edward! Everything had gone
on happily for him until within the past
week, when an old friend of Dolly's
(Dolly, by the way, was Mrs. Tupper)
came to the city; and Dolly, dear, kind
Dolly, took kim in and made much of
him, much to the delectation of the said
friend, and much to the chagrin of the
indulgent husband. i
Dolly meant nothing by this. Frank |
Olmstead was a very old friend whom
she had known for many years, and her
dear little heart could not conceive how
it could be wrong for har to make much
of him whom she had known long before
Edward came to be the bright particular
star,
Edward had borne it patiently, never |
uttering a syllable of reproach, and our |
dear Dolly was probably all unaware of |
how the poor fellow’s heart was bleed-
ing; and though her kisses were as
warm as ever, still he thought he de-
tected a coldness that made his heart
bleed and his brow darken, and almost
made his food go down the wrong way. |
Strange, is it not, what a close affinity |
there is between a man's heart and his
stomach ?
This evening Dolly had capped the |
climax by actually going to the opera |
with Olmstead, and leaving her liege
lord to the tender mercies of the hired
girl and the eveming paper.
“Confound it,” muttered Edward, |
forcibly, rising to his feet and shaking
his legs out with a vicious jerk, *'l be- |
lieve I'm getting jealous of my little |
Dolly—but I'll be blowed if I don't |
think { have cause.”
“Cause? Of course you have cause!”
laughed a cheery voice just outside
the door. **May I come in? Where's
Doliy?”
“My dear brother,” answered Edward,
smiling in spite of himself, “you might |
be six men, and you would still make |
your friends wonder why yon were not
made seven to balance your lingusl
powers.”
“You never mind me, Ed-—I'Tl take
care of myself. But where's Dolly? I|
had a box for the opera this eve, and
my girl has left me, Thought I'd come
over and take her,”
“Well, you're too late, Harry, this
time,” said Edward, moodily; *‘our mu-
tual friend, Olmstead, has her there by
this time.”
“Whew! the dev-—exouse me, my be-
loved, but =o sets the wind, does 11? Bee
here, den’t you go to blaming Dolly,
You may be her husband, but when you
married her, you made her my sister, and
you bet I'll stick up for her;” and the
young scapegrace assumed a very deter-
mined attitude, and awaited his brother's
reply.
“Oh, I'm not blaming her—but you'll
admit it’s confounded hard on a man to
see his wife rmoning around like this,
Now, Harry, you've a good head on yon
if it is an airy one, Can't you think of
some plan to show her that she’s in the
wrong without hurting her feelings too
much?
“Yes, I admit that an airy head is
better than nary ome,” laughed Harry,
thumping the article in gunestion vi-
ciously, “But why didn’t youn ask my
advice before you married her? I'd have
advised you not, and then tried for her
myself,”
“The way I feel to-night yon might
have her and welcome,” growled Ed-
ward, viciously, ‘But seriomsly, can't
you think of something?’
“Let me see,” mused Harry, “She
still loves you?”
“Idiot—of course she does!”
“Exclude the pet name, if you please
—yes, I have a plan,”
*“Tell it me,”
“Yon must promise explicit obedi-
ence to my will and recognize my sway
a8 SOV in the whole affair,
“Very well,” exclaimed his brother,
“But be careful and make no mistake
in this matter, Don't make a failure,
for pity's sake,”
“You're a sweet object to excite
ity!” with mock disdain. ‘In the
pleasure was the thought that would
come to her of her poor Edward at
home alone while she was out enjoying
herself. It troublad her a little, and
onos in a while a little twinge of con-
thought that perhaps she had gone a
trifle too far. Then, as she thought
how kind and tender to him she would
be that night to recompense him for
his loneliness, a pink flush stole over
her cheek that made her look like the
tender, loving little woman she waa,
‘““You are looking lovely #o-night,
Dolly,” whispered Olmstead, bending
toward her that he might look into the
shining eyes that had become too dear
fo him of late for comfort,
But Dolly was in a strange humor te-
night, and turned away her head with-
out answering him; things were begin-
ning to assume a new light to her now,
snd she saw in her friend's eyes too
much that was dangerous to her own
conscenoce and his peace of mind,
The curtain had just raised on the
second act when a party entered the
left box with a great flurry and spread
of skirts, and of course all eyes were
lady and gentleman had just entered;
the lady had seated herself in the front
of the box, bnt her escort was still
busy in disposing of the wraps, and as
his back was turned, could not be re-
cognized.
The lady was handsomely attired, but
loud in the extreme, and many s fem!
nine nose was eleyated disdainfully in
polite abhorrence.
Then the man turned and oame to-
ward the front of the box, and alter
some jest that caused his companion to
titter and raise a daintily laced hand.
kerchief to her face affectedly, he took
his seat by her side, His face was
turned so that Dolly conld not see it,
bitter apprehension. Her eyes burned
patiently for him to turn that she might
she saw his head turn slowly, and then
— his eyes met hers without recognition,
pauion.
“Take me home!” gasped Dolly,
boarsely,clutehing Olmstead by the arm,
smother here.”
“Calm yourself,” whispered he, hur-
A carriage was soon in waiting, and
he conducted the angry little woman to
gavs way to tears, and sobbed as though
her heart would break,
“Dolly,” whispered Olmstead, pas-
sionately, *‘you know I loved you long
before this man ever saw you. Give
me the right to take you away from this
neglect, and I swear to yon"
“That will do, Frank, I see where I
have been wrong, and though I shall
a way that will enable me to look the
world in the face with a clear oon-
science, and you are a coward to take
advantage of this moment to insult me.
After to-night 1 do not wish to see you
again, ”»
Olmstead was abashed, angry and
silent, and remained so until they
reached the house, Then he left
her without a word, and drove to his
hotel.
Dolly hurriedly changed her dress
for a gray traveling costume, put on her
wraps, and sat down to the table to
write a few parting lines to her husband
before she left the home that had been
so dear to her and in which she had
found so much happiness,
Poor little girl 1 Her flery disposi-
tion could not brook the slight-—the in-
sult—Edward had put apon her in tak-
ing some shameless creature to the
opera before her very eyes. She did
not once stop to think of what the pro-
vocation might have been; it was
enough that he had ceased to love her
~~had transferred his affections to an-
other, Innocent as she was of a wrong
intention, she could not see how he
could be so false to her-—he whom she
had loved with her whole heart,
A noise in the hall warned her of her
husband's retarn, and with a smothered
sob She kissed the paper that was to be
the ror of her parting message and
started for the door, She waa too late,
however, for footsteps were already ap-
prosching on the other side, so with a
quick turn she sprang into the next
room, whioh was a little alooye with a
pretty bay window looking out into the
garden, and pulled together the heavy
curtains just as the door opened and
Edward and the lady entered.
Edward flang himsel! moodily into an
easy chair, while his companion, Hling-
ing off her wraps, pulled a chair up to
the table, © 1g her feet upon the same
in a very careless fashion, and lit a
cigarette,
olly was a witness to all this from
benind the ourtaius, and her pulse
throbbed fast with indignation.
‘“Tothink of his bringing the creature
home with him,” she thought, to this
very house! Oh, how I was mistaken in
him!”
Meantime the figure at the table had
noticed the written sheet upon which
shies had placed her feet, and quickly
pulling it from under them read it
through,
‘Here's a go, Ed!” grumbled the airy
female in the unmistakable voice of our
young scapegrace, Harry, ‘Dolly has
levanted."’
“What!” exclaimed Edward, hoarse-
ly. “‘List me see it!” and hastily snateh-
ing it from his brother, he read:
“My Deas Epwarp:—Still dear to
me, though mine no longer, I leave you
to-night forever, Do not attempt to
look for me, for you will never see me
again, I shall always love you, but
think from appearances that it will be
an easy matter for youn to forget the
past, Good-by, my darling
“Dorry.”
He had hardly finished reading it
room, Quick as thought he sprang
through the ourtsins and would have
taken his weeping wife in his arms; but
she repulsed him with a shudder, and
stood up before him with her eyes flash.
ing.
“Don't yon dare!” she cried. ‘‘Keep
your embraces for such as the woman
in there, and let me go my way.”
“You are unjust, sweetheart,” re-
plied her husband, tenderly, “You
went out to-night with another ecom-
panion—why should not I do likewise?"
“You might at least have had seme
respect for me—who is that in the
next room?” Her eyes were flashing
now, and Dolly looked dangerous, ‘“Tell
mel”
“That, dear, is one who loves you
very much, and who would do much to
make you happy.”
‘*Who has done the most to make me
utterly missrable.”
“See here, sweetheart, IL.oek be-
tween these curtains and you will see
that I am guilty of nothing but a little
attempt to deceive youn.”
Doubtingly she took her hands from
before her face, and with a gqnick move-
ment peered into the next room, where
the obnoxions Harry, tired out and
sleepy, had divested himself of hat and
the sleep of the just
A glad little smile—humorous and
happy—played for an iustant over
raised to her husband’s neck, and the
sweetest of all lips sought his in a kiss
of reconciliation,
“It was very wrong in me, Edward,”
she whispered.
‘““Hush, darling, never mention it
again, but remember that what is sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander;
s0 if you must go out with another
man"
“If I do,” laughed Dolly, *it will be
with the sleeping beauty theirs, whom I
shall kiss before he wakes.” And she
did, and followed it up with a sharp box
on the ear, and then ran off to her own
room.
“This is the way the great benefloi-
ary of the human race is treated. Well,
I must take these togs off, or I'll be fall-
ing mm love with mysell,” And he
floated away to his room,
sm——I Pe
Machine-Made Teeth,
In olden times 1t was the custom, when
one's teeth ached permstently, to have
the offending members taken out, but of
late dentists have been able t0 change the
have their partially decayed molars, osa-
nines and incisors filled with little goiden
plugs, The interest of the dentists in this
system 1s obvious. No man can have the
face Lo charge more than a dollar for pull-
ing a tooth, while for boring sad gouging
and sawing and filling and filling aud ham-
mencg snd sand-papering one he can and
does charge all the way from $3 to $20.
Then the old filling gets loose in two or
three years, and the whele thing has to be
done over again; 80 that a deotist who has
ten or a dozen regular patients can, by ju-
dicious management, make then afford
bim a handsome income.
But the dominion of the dentist is about
to be disputed. A great discovery has
been made which will revolutionize the
whole business and emancipate the suffer-
ers. A factory has been established, with
plenty of capital to back it, for the pur-
pose of making sets of artificial teeth by
machinery. All that any one whe 1s
troubled with his teeth will have to do will
be to get them all pulled out. Then he
can purchase a brand-new, machine-made
set, and be exempt from toothache all the
rest of hus life.
There is, of course, nothing new in the
making and umng ef artificial teeth. Den
tists, with the guile that distinguishes
them, have got this business iato their own
bands, and derive a great profit from it,
but it will be easily seen that the manufac-
ture by machinery presents great advanta-
ges over this antiquated and unsatisfactory
method. When the making of watches by
machinery was started, there were many
protests that the new way could never be
#0 good as the old, But the exactness soon
attained and the convenience of having the
parts interchangeable, brought about a re-
volution, and the factory watches now
rank above the handmade. The same ad-
vantages will be bad in the factory teeth.
If one of a set gets broken, or comes out,
an exa tly sumilar one can be ordered from
the factory at very small cost, If the
plate gets cracked, It can be replaced in
the same way. All that will be necessary
wiil be to give the number of the plate, and
a new one precisely like the old will be
sent by return mail
I ————
The Clergy Club,
The advanced tendencies of the are
shown 1n the establishment of the gh
Club in London. On the committee are
the Canons of Chichester, Westminster,
York, Lincoln, and Bristol, with four other
clergymen, and only two laymen, one of
whom Is Sir Coutts Lindsay. The initia.
tion fee is £5 bs, after next September,
and the aovual dues £4 44 for town mem-
bers and £2 24. for country members, Its
club house is in New Bond street, and it
professes to be for the members of the
Church of England (clerical and lay,) aoa
of churches in communion therewith,
The Texas Fly.
“When 8 Texas fly tackles a Texas
steer there 18 immediate high kicking
the cowboy views
ton street butcher to a reporter. ‘‘The
fly is a beauty, no mistake; even more
besutiful * ban our handsome
generous sting.”
“‘Does the steer
bystander.
“Yes; he keeps up a constant bellow
at the time he endeavours to kick the
tormenter on the ears with his off hind
hoof.
reen to care in the
riding his kicking steed.
fly 18 & dmsy, no mistake.”
“Po they ever come to New York”
asked the bystander.
“Once in » while
to the etock yards,
whether they come
cattle or fly overland.
one fluds his way
It 18 not known
by rail with
many opinions,”
“Coukd you give me samples?” was the
next modest request of the innocent
man.
“Samples of opinion! Yes, Take Bol
Sayles, for instance. He argues that the
Texan pest goes on summer trips, taking
in all the stock yards aod slaughter
houses on his way from home to the At
antic coast. He swears that a friend of
his in St. Lows caught one with a lasso
and tied a piece of black thread to his tail.
Then he telegraphed to Bol that he had
set the fly loose and that he took a straight
course for New York. The next day Bol
went up to the stock yards. Just as he
mad, jumping over cleavers, meat-axes,
falls, beeves and everything else.”
“What was the troublef”’
‘Texas fly on his arm with hus stinger
in the best vein. The man was po paral-
yred that he could not brush him off. Bol
caught up with the pair and captured the
fly. And there on that fiy's tail was''—
“The black thread,” said the bystander.
“Not at all,” returned the butcher; ‘‘on
that fly's tail was a piece of white cotton.
Now Bol isin 8 quandary as 10 whether
that was the fly hus friend sent him or not.
changed the black thread or perhaps his
friend made a mistake. Bull, Bol's mind
same old fly.”
‘“Was Lhe billen man badly hurt?”
“‘He had to be taken to a hospital. His
arm was swollen out of shape and looked
like an immense bologna sausage.
promptly doctored or he might have
shared the fate of snake-bitten Rellly, who
died yesterday.”
“Then the bite is naturally fatal is 101”
“It is if immediate precautions are not
taken. Sull, no man to my knowledge
bite.”
“What do the cowboys do, if bittent”
‘‘History has never stated that a cowboy
was ever bitten by a Texas fly.
due to & natural respect they have for each
other. ‘The cowboy stands smde and
gives the fly a fair chance at lhe steer and
the fly repays the compliment by letting
the cowboy alone. But the fly makes lots
of work for the cowboy all the same
able-bodied fly—and mckness is rarely
known among the fraternity can flampede
and rushes abesad. It makes no
iM a man, another steer, or a
In fact, he would
jifference
Of course, the other callie
s0 they start for the
“The cowboy-—where is hel”
It is astonishing how quickly he
digs lus spurs nto tbe horse's sides and
dashes ahead of the herd, strikiog to
windward. Should ms horse fail him he
animals. The result is miraculous. As
fully browsing io that sait,
to the human race.”
“Then the cowboy saves the entire
herd!"
‘‘Not exactly.
speck down in the horizon, rapidly dimin.
ishing in a cloud of dust. ™
“*% hat is that?’
“It is the Texas fly riding the steer! ”
ss —— A An
Richelseu's Mead.
The greatest minister Franoe ever
produced was Richelieu. He was at
onoe Cardinal, Duke aud Peer, Com-
mander of the Order of the Saint.
Esprit, general of three monastic or-
ders, Grand Master and Superintendent
ot Marine and Commerce, Lieutenant.
General of Britanaoy and First Minister
of the Kingdom. When ill he crossed
Fraaos in royal state and the towns
broke large breaches in their walls to
allow free passage to his paliet, which
was carried De teon bearskin-hatted
guards. The people had surnamed him
tho “King of the King,” and when his
task was fulfilled, when he had crushed
the nobility, disarmed the Protestants
levelled the house of Austria, founded
the French Academy, raised up the
Sorbonne, built the Cardinal palace and
the Richelien castle, the two first mn-
seums of the seventeenth century;
when he had built ap the financial repu-
tation of his country, ereated her navy,
given to France Canada, San Domingo,
Guyana and Benegal, he lay down in
the midst of his glory and slept, worn
out, under the vaults of the Sorbonne,
Ons day, more than hteon years
ago, the mayor of a small village in
Britanny obtained an audience with the
Emperor, Napoleon LIL. He carried
under his arm a small osse, which he
ed to open, and with-
w a neatly wi . a ke
it. This he unfol
human head, whose sk
disclosing a
waa dry and
wrinkled, its large eyes deeply sunk in
their huge orbits, its mouth contracted
and teeth intact; the beard, moustsehe,
eyebrows and a fox: hairs still remained,
®
|
““This, sire,” said he, **is all that to-
day remains of Richehen.”
Through what strange means had this
In December of '93 citizens Dubois,
Hebert and Graincounrt, with a neigh-
boring hosier named Cheval, one of the
mont ardent patriots of the Thone dis.
triot, were ordered to pillage the tombs
of the church of the Borbonne, The
| this was going on the church was in-
vaded by the soldiery, who threatened
to destroy the famous mausoleum of
Mackay sand his Cabling
In the first months of 1860 times
were tough on the Comstock, The
winter of 1850-60 was terribly severe,
as all old-settiers well remember, Hap.
plies oconid not be brought over the
mountains from California, and before
spring many ‘of the Comstock went
hungry to bed about three nights inthe
week, That winter a jolly crowd made
their headquarters in a cabin that stood
on the hillside above the Ophir offico,
near the California shaft, The cabin
was a sort of cave, In entering it one
The roof was
composed of a layer of brush, a stratum
of dirt, and over this a canvass cover
the Cardinal, when Alexander Lenoir,
not without great difficulty, interfered
| and succeeded in saving the chef d'
| ceuvre of Girardon, not,
| doing,
i vault,
One of the soldiers got into the
open, but the body remained intact;
the head severed after death to facilitate
turned to its onginal position,
| helding it up in trinmph, making be-
| Cardinal,
| Citizen Cheval seized
| appropriating it.
upon the idea of
nnderstand that pillage should take
| place without joining in it,
himself of the absence of the workmen,
| he
| his coat, covered with a piece of the
i
| B
| test of his wile, who objected to the
| newcomer, hid it in a cupboard in his
| back shop.
| All went well till the Ninth Thermi-
dor; then the heroic hosier grew fright-
| ened; his opinions were known in the
| district; he hod shown his glorious
{spoil to some of his friends; perbaps
| they would arrest him, He confided
| his anxieties to a client, the Abbe
| Nicholas Armey, begging him to re-
| lieve him of go compromising an orns-
ment,
fresh
| wo Brittany, and gave it to his brother,
| an inhabitant of Plouriro, on the Cotes
du Nord,
{ All was not over. One fine day the
| new proprietor discovered that the in-
| soots were eating away the flesh. Ad-
i
| whom he consulted could nut advise
any better plan than to cover it over
with a yellow varnish, as he was so-
| customed w do in natural history cases
| The unhappy waif was once more res-
| cued, but for how long? Its future was
bequeathing the sad legacy to his sen,
the Mayor of Plouriro,
for its possession, ended by deciding on
the most sensible course to pursue. He
decided to go to Paris, and it was he
| who had sought the audience with the
| restored to the tomb in the Borbonze,
On December 15, 1866, the Arch-
| bishop of Paris received the precious
deposit rehigiously developed in =a
| casket, at the Sorbonne, and it was re-
placed with great powp and ceremony
under the monument of the Cardinal
himself, in presence of the Duke of
Richelieu, the represeniatives of the
government, the clergy, the French
Cottier, previously begged for and being
allowed to take & cast of the remarkable
head,
———— A ——————
Value of Manners.
We have heard it said that you can
do everything, however unpleasant it
{only do it in ihe right way; and the
instance given to prove this assertion is
| taken from humble life. A cat walks
day, and with a benign glance at the
company and a melodivus purring
sound she walks leisurely around,
| selects for hersell the warmest place in
the room, perhaps the only warm place,
right in front of the grate, curls herself
up and goes serenely to sleep, secure
| that no one will be so unreasonable as
to question her right to sleep wherever
one calls it selfish, no one is annoyed,
| because she has done it so pretiily, so
gracefully, Indeed, every one experi-
in themselves from beholding pussy’s
blissful repose. Now, imagine the same
thing done in a different way and by a
| leas self-possessed individaal—if it were
done hurriedly, or noisily, or diffidently
even, or in any way obtrusively, what a
storm of indignation it would excite in
the bosom of all beholders| How
thoughtless, how inconsiderate, how
selfish! No, it must be done as
the cat does it, without a sound or ges-
ture to provoke criticism, or it muse
not be done st all,
es — --—
Need of Economy.
One of the hardest lessons in life for
young people to learn is to practise econ-
omy. It 18 a harder duty for a young man
to accumulate and save his fret $1,000 than
his next $10,000. A man can be econom-
ical without being mean, and it 1s one of
his most solemn duties to lay up sufficient
in bis days of strength and prospenty to
provide for himself and those who are or
may be dependent upon him in days of
eickness or misfortune. Extravegance is
one of the greatest evils of the present
age. Itis undermining and overturning
the Joftiest and best principles that should
be retained and held sacred in society. It
is annually sending thousands of young
men and young women to ruin and mis-
fortune.
Cultivate, then, sober and industrious
habits; soquire the art of putting a little
aside every day and for your future neces.
sities; avoid all unnecessary and foolish
expenditures. Spend your ume only la
such a manner as shall bring you
to hold it all in place. The cabin con.
tained four bunks-—two on the south
John Mac-
kay had the lower bunk on the north
side, and Alexander Kennedy slept in
{the upper one. Pat B. Corbett—at
present United Btates Marshal Corbett
| —and Jack O'Brien occupied the south
| bunks,
At that time Mackay, Kennedy and
others were running the old Union
Tunnel, and were working every day,
| As times grew rough aud grub scarce,
the number of jodgers in tue cabin in-
creased, Jack MoCaffery was taken in
| on the understanding that he was to
furnish wood for the household, and
| Johnnie Walker in consideration of his
doing all the cooking. The new-com-
ers brought their blankets and slept on
i the floor, Virginia City was then a
town of brush shanties and canvas tents,
{and it was good to find shelter any-
where, Lumber being $500 per 1,000
| feet, palaces were not to be expected,
As the winter wore away provisions
| of all kinds became ecarce, and famine
prices ruled for a time early in the
spring. For a few days a square meal
“down town” cost $2. Those of the
| boys in the cabin who started in with a
| little money had either got to the end
of their string in keeping up their part
of the expenses or had gambled off
thelr coin,
Jack McCaffery, who was to furnish
| wood, began to make night raids on the
{ woodpiles of the neighbore in order to
| keep up his part of the cabin supplies,
and, the weather being cold, he was
sometimes prowling about half the
{ night, though the Ophir woodpile was
{ his chie! dependence. One stormy
| night Jack was gone so long that his
cabin mates grew uneasy about him,
Johnnie Walker, the cook, said Jack
bad whispered imyhis ear as he left that
Le was going to the Ophir woodpile. A
| search party was sent out, and to their
quiring whispers they finally got a
faint reply. Following up the sound
they presently came upon poor Jack,
Blinded by the driving snow, he and a
big stick from the Ophir had tumbled
together into a prospect shaft, With
the stick of wood on end and standing
on top of it, Jack's extended hand still
failed to reach the top of the shaft by
about two feet, He was hauled ont,
| out, bruised and nearly frozen, Next
morning there was no wood with which
to cook breakfast, but as there was not
| much to cook, as board or two from the
bunks furnished sufficient fuel,
Finally hunger got into the cabin,
{and not a man except Mackay had a
| cent of money. An attempt to starve
| the more shiftless into ‘“‘rustling for
| grub” had proved a failure; they could
{ do nothing, and, lying back on their
| blankets, gave up, like some of those of
| whom we read among the explorers in
Arctic regions, I'he cook had an easy
time of it, By this time some provisions
| were beginning to be packed in, but
prices were fearful high, Mackay had
| just $30 left—it was all the money he
had in the world. ‘“‘Here, Pat,” said
| he to Corbett, handing him a 20 and a
{ 10 in gold, *‘go out and see if you can
| find a sack of flour.”
A man had packed in from Placer-
{ ville that day, and Pat found him near
| where the Bank of California now
stands, 1t was all plaza then—all open
country and sage-bush along the present
| line of CU street, The packer had just
| one O0-pound sack of flour left, The
prioe was §26. Pat handed the Placer.
villion the gold, got back $4 in silver,
| and, shouldering the flour, climbed the
| hill to the cabin, Mackay took the $4,
| and handing it to the cook, sent him
{in search of bacon, fea and sugar,
| When the flspjacks began to brown,
| and the savor of the bacon pervaded
| the cabin the spirits of both the regular
| inmates and transient boarders went up
to the fair weather notch, and it seemed
that there was nothing more in the
world to be desired.
Finland.
The Czar of Russias has appunted a
commisson to revise the laws relating to
Finland in the direction of a complete
suppression of the local government. The
Diet of Finland will be limited to a con
sulting role. The initiative of sll laws
will be delegated to the governor general.
The reasons for this project are that the
Nihilists are making Finland the basis of
plots against the Czar and his government,
and that the plots are connived at by the
Finnish authorities and people. Since its
conquest by Russia from Sweden in 1809,
the Grand Duchy of Finland has preserved
certain autonomic rights which are very
dear to its inhabitants, and will not be
given up without a struggle. Finland has
an area of 144,000 square miles 5
ulation of a little over 2,000,000. Of its
inhabitants, only about 40,000 are Mus-
covites, The province, at its annexation
to Russia, stipulated for the preservation
of its ancient constitution. By this charter,
the legislative power was vested in a
national Parliament composed of four
estates —the nobles, the clergy, the burgh.
ers and the peasants. By different ukases,
the functions of this Parliament have been
greatly narrowed, so that at present the
executive and much of the legislative
power 1s vested in a governor-general.
For cementing brass on glass Pusoher
recommends a resin soap made by boil
None but a fool is always right.
Necessity is a severe schoolmistress.