EE a raat out A SECRET ALLY. ns —_—— Col. Brierson was very angry. He had rec-ived a letter from his son fom, who wis uwiy at college. To make a lovg story short, the letter will explain itselt, It ran as follows written in a bi, round hand, not yet completely formed, but revealing, in every line ou frank and manly nature ! My Dear Faruer—I write to you on a subject which I have not men- tioned before, not from any want of fillial respect, hut because I feared, though [ trust my fears were without foundation, that your views on the subject woud nt agree with mine, aud | nated 10 wear your displeasure. But things a.ve reached the poiat where an explanation must be made. Tn brief I am in love and moreover I am engaged Loe married. The veung lady is not of just our standing in society, but she is prettier and more iuieligent than any other lady [ koow She has been well educated, hav nz been an attendant at the seminary here and would make any man a go | wife. I would not have spoken to her so soon, or without consulting you; but her mother—s widow—died a few weeks ago and left her alone in the world, and I ti d to comfort her in her distress—with the result that I asked her to marry her and she con- sented. I write to ask your consent to our speedy union; [ am sorry to interrupt my college career, but I am willing w do what duty requires and L go to work without further preparation. Hoping dear sir, that you will ap- prove of my course, and consent to our marriage, | am as ever your af fectiouate son, TrHOMAS. darling creatares! Ob, bat how you loved the girls! The stolen dance up in old Ritter's barn, and the cozy evenings when we played checkers with pretty Rose. Poor Rosel Do you know, I hope you'll excuse me for mentioning it. I vever did thivk you treated Rise just right. Who are you and what do you know about Rose? Ah, well, I know all about it. Your parents didn’t approve of your marrying tbe junitor’s daughter, and you broke your promise to her. They sald she died of consumption, but I know bet er—she died of a broken heart. It must not be supposed that Col. Brierson could sit unmoved and bear this impudent young intruder call up these scenes of his vanished youth. He remembered Rose—sweet Roce] He remembered the pretty frill apron she used to wear, the charming dress- ing cap ber French mother had made for her; her timid face, bold only in the consciousness of her lover's fideli- ty. He remembered the note he had written, bidding her farewell, and he remembered, too, with a bitter pang, the last glimpse he had caught of her as the train which bore him out of the college town flashed by her mother's house. She had been standing at the door and her white face and sunken cheeks had haunted him all through the foreign tour on which he had ac- companied his father. Who are you? he inquired, angrily, as the the visitor rose to go, Sand where did you get your information Nonsense ! the Colonel bad ex: claimed as he read this letter. Calf love! Some boarding house keeper's | brat! Married indeed ? Why, he| couldn't earn money enough to sup- | port himself! I wouldn't think of | allowing him to commit such a folly ! | The Colonel fretted and frowned | and finally poured a glass of wine | from the bottle before him and drank it. Then he lesned back in his easy | chair and began to think. He bad fallen into a reverie, when | be heard a slight cough, and looking | up he saw a young msn standing on | the other side of the hearth, bat in| hand. fellow, with a respectful air and a slight flush on his face as he address- ed the Colonel. Good moruning—sir, he said hesitat- | ingly. There was something It was a fresh looking young | strangely | tamiliar about this young mao, and the Colonel looked at him curriously without raising from his seat. (rod evening, he replied, sit down. The young mao drew a chair up to | the other side of the grate and sat down. It's a pretty cool night, he said rub- bing his hands and speaking modestly as was becoming in the presence of an older person, the Colonel still looking at his visitor cariously. He had seen that face somewhere, but couldn't ex- actly place it. The young man was dressed in a style in vogue twenty- five years before—very tight trousers, a very short coat4nd an embroidered gilk waistcoat, The Coloosel remem. | bered baving bad a similar waistcoat when he was young. By your leave, Colonel, I will try a glass of your wine. It will take off | the chill of the night air. I came a long distance to-night to see you, And | he poured out a glass of the rich wine and tossed it off, Aho! he resumed, mellowing under the influence of the rare liquor. That reminds me of the vintage of "27 we bad at the wine supper on Scribbins' birthday. Wasn't that a jolly time, though | I remember you gut drunk ~pardon me—I mean you became very jolly, sod finally got so sleepy that you fell under the table and had to be carried off to your room. Ah you were a bad fellow in those days. “You seem to know a great deal about those old days’, said the Col. onel, somehat stiffly, and not relish. ing the familiar allusions to his college life, at least from the lips of a strang- er. Well, 1should say so, said the young fellow, ard then what fine times we used to have in your room when Jones and Brown and the other boys would come up to play poker. An, the glcrious game! Do you ever try & band vow adays? The Colonel could not help feeling some of the enthusiasm of this volu- ble younz man who kept on a little more seriously, Aod the gir! e!ibprotty girls, the about my private affuirs? I must say that your manner———-—— Why dido’t I introduce myself? said the young man, laughing softly. You ought to have remembered me. Don’t you recollect this coat? Baker made itt. Why I am the ghost of your youth! I came a distance of thirty years to-night to see you, sud I'm glad to find you looking so well. Good night! And with a familiar gesture of farewell, and young man opened the door and went out. As he opened the door, the strong draft from the outside blew down the tongs, which fell on the hearth with a noisy clatter. The Colonel started aod rubbed his eyes, Bless my soul! he said, it's ten o'clock, and I haven't written that letter to Tom, So saying, he poured out another glass of wine, of which he took a sip, aud theo indited the following epistle, which brought joy to the two | young hearts less than $7,000. The fire was thought to have been accidental. Some time after the servant girl brought to Mrs. Gribben two pieces of jewelry and said that she had found them in the ashes of the burned house. As the articles did not show any marks of fire Mrs. Gribben suspected that the girl knew something about the affair and by questioning her prevailed upon the girl to make a confession, She said that she had poisoned the ponies and robbed the house twice and that she threw the stones, and she ac- knowledged everything except setting the fire. She finished her confession aud being intensely excited she cried in frenzy : Now I have told you all punish me if you wish to, bot do it quick; cut my throat; kill we, soy thing | The next night an officer was concealed in the building withing hearing and the girl repeated her con’ fession, A warrant was issued for her arrest, but as Mrs. Gribben wished to recover some of the jewelry it was not served, because the girl promised to return the jewelry the next day, The girl then skipped and the detectives have lost trace of her. aeesm————_— a ————— THRIFTY UNDERTAKERS. It must bave been remarked by every one what an especially prosper- ous class of people undertakers are as a rule. Occasionally one is found who seems to have a hard time in keeping the wolf and creditors from his door but such a cass is cause for comment among all the other members of the craft and gives food for as much gos- sip as a constableship election. There was pever an undertaker made poor who attended to his busivess. In this city the funeral directors make a clear profit of from $2,000 wo $10,000 a year each, according to the amount of trade done and the social standing of the patrons. An undertaker never seems to be busy, never tries to push trade, and apparently cares but little how many interments he conducts in a week. The secret of all his appar- ent apathy is the enormous profit made on every article sold by the director and the extortionate price put upon his services. A coffin which costs him at wholesale about 825 he trims up at an peose of, say $10, and then sells it {at $125 10 8150. If the friends of | the deceased are well off he puts on a increased ex- [little more trimming and another 18100. The very commonest Kind of coffin is sold by the maker for §7 $60 for | | The undertaker gets $50 or |it. They will exhibit a cloth-covered My Dear Tom I won't say that | coffin which they w i tap pleassotly I am pleased at the contents of your letter, though I was at first very much surprised. I will be down at the college next week, snd will look into the matter you write about If I find the young woman what you represent her to be, I do not know that I shall be inclined to oppose your wishes. In the meantime do not neglect your studies, Your affectionate father, J. H. Brigrsox. A SERVANT GIRL Suaroy, Mass. October 18.—Kate Agnes Gleason, a servant girl, 19 years of age, rec vtly made a scme- what startling confession which ex. plains the mysterious crime which took place in the beautiful residence of Mr. Charles J. Rue and his sister, Mrs. Gribben, near Norwood. These incident's took place during the sum. mer months and and resulted in the destruction of over $20 000 worth of property and eaded in the destrue- of the mansion by fire. Mr. Roe ig an Englishman and built a fine man- sion, which was richly furnished and filled with costly bric-a-brae and ar, ticles of vertu, which he had collected during his travels, He lived here with his widowed sister in retirement on the income of an ample fortune. In May last, ear- ly one evening, two heavy stones were thrown against the house. The next | night stones were thrown through the window, but Mr. Roe was unable to discover who threw them. A few days later three Shetland ponies, which he haa imported at a great ex. pense, were poisoned by Paris Green The stone throwing continued at fo. tervals, and twice the house was rob- bed of money and jewelry. No clue wa iacosered bo the identity of the On dl 9 te t2 the grou i + orbs > 1 ' pd | and then announce to yon that it is | of solid chestnut. The chestnut used | in coffins is of the poorest quality and | the only merit it posesses is that it will last somewhat Jonger than other woods. | good pine, and two-thirds less thao walout. The meek looking occasionally lose a little by bad debts, bat it is very seldom that funeral ex- | penses are not paid. a boycott cannot be put upon the whole class but it really can not.— | Brooklyn Eagle. ————— - EMUGGLING AT NIAGRA, Quite a thriving smuggling buisness done by boatmen on the river, and at least three Fort Erie boatmen make their living in this way, while there are dozens of others who carry contra- band goods occasionally. The Fort Erie fisherioan, who were drowned last wiater, had their boat loaded with five hundred pounds of coal, which caused the craft to capsize on the ice-floe when a break-up cecurred on the lake. The peoalty for smuggling into Cana- da is heavy, and there are some queer wrinkles in the law. For instance, the informant gets a large percentage of the proceeds of a seizare. Then, if a peison should smoggle a small amount of goods while entering the larger part, the whole is a subject to seimar. When Root & Keating's con- fidential elerk, Erp, embezzled several thousand dollars, he built a fine house over the river in Fort Erie and fur nished it io excellent style. Ho eo tered his household goods on the frie list as having been used several months, but afterward smuggled over several Jace wan low curtains. A Fort are three distinet wild tribes left— | tribe, ready to change their hamlet if | wear scarcely any clothes, eat the | conrsest food, love indolever and |dis- It does not cost as much as’ | ture, and spend all they can in drink. MArau. | Still as a rule, they are quict and ders on the domestic and public purse | | themsel yes. | nor steal. It is a pity that | teachable and harmless. They are | hard-working, the women doing quite furniture, and has some of it now in her house in the village. The seizure #0 broke up Erp that he returned to Buffalo and gave up all he had left on condition that he would not be crim- inally prosecuted, - A veteran boatman said to-bay: “Smuggling is going on all the time along the Niagara river front. Itis mostly from this side into Canada. Small boats are used, and every even- ing dozens of parcels are carried over Fort Erie people get seven eights of their supplies from Buffalo, and sev- en eights of this pays no duty. They bring the goods down to the water front and leave them with some boat- house keeper or friend and give some boat-man over the river a tip to ferry- ry them across. They'll do it for twenty-five cents and deliver the goods after dark. The Canadian of- ficers are honest enough, but they have got too much to watch and can not cover every point. “I ferried over four young felows one night who each had a new suit of clothes: People save fifty per cent, on some things and then they can’t get what they want over in Canada, Poor coffee costs forty cents a pound, when just as good can be got in Buf" falo for twenty-five cents. Tea is the same way- You can not get a decent pair of shoes in Fort Eriee House. keepers go to the city’ order ten or | twelve dollars worth of goods to b® delivered at a certain place along the | river, and during the night the goods | are transferred across. — Buffalo Cor. | Chicago News. | - - | WILD MEN OF BOMBAY. —————— The report of the Bombay forest | commission contains some interesting | information about the wild tribes of the Katkan, the strip of land in Bom- | bay that lies between the western (Ghatz and the Arabian sea. The wild tribes are a great pumber of persons of different aboriginal races, who led so unsettled life and who subsist for the greatest part of the year on the wages they earn as car- riers and distributors of forest pro- duce among the local residents. There the Katkaris, 30,000 strong; the Tha- karas, 50,000, and the Varlis, 20,000 in streogth—individoals who lead a | savage life altogether, and eke out a | precarions living by a sporadic bill | cultivation, by collecting forest pro- | duct for barter or sale at the nearest markets, and also to a certain extent, by killing and eating various sorts of wild an‘mals, hovels in or near the forests, The Thakuras are an They live in miserable unsettled a child sickens or a cow dies. They sipation, have no thought for the fu- live all They They are truthful, honest, peaceable and together by neither borrow as muuch work as the men, and they are much more thrifty and more sober than either the Varlis or Kate karis. Some of their villages are very orderly and elesn, the people showing much respect to the head man, who belongs to their own caste. Thakur means “a cheil,” and in days very remote they probably had a po- sition of some standing. The Katkaris, or makers of kat— toat is, catechu—are the poorest and least hopeful of the threetribes, drunk- en, given to thieving, and nuwiliing to work. In I825 according to Bish- op Heber, they were charcoal-burn. ers, and so wild and scared that they would have no cirect dealings with the people of the plain. They brought head loads of charcoal to particular spots, whence is was earri- ed away by the villagers, who left in its place a customary payment of rice, clothing aud iron wols. Eleven years later Major Macintosh describ. ed them ws great theives, stealing corn from the fields and farm yards, com. mitting robberies in the villages at night, and plendering lovely travel ers during the day. Their women of wood their husbands had guthered in the forests, They are very poor, | : . | tion without hearing a | duty as water ally in ‘and often Ta pur ‘§ small body of them, however, will not ! eat cow's meat, and are allowed to draw water at the village wells aad 10 enter Kumbi houses, The third tribe, the Varlis, are con- siderably better off. They are uc- shaven and slightly clothed and live in small bamboo aod bramble buts, They are very innocent and harmless, but immoderately fond of liquor, They commit crimes of violence only when they are drank, and they joi in thefts and gang robberies only when they are starving. themselves they are extremely fond of tan and very social. With strang- ers they are timid st first, but with Europeans whom they know they are frank and very truthful. Nothing will induce them to leave the forests. They are passionately food of sport and will take their guns ioto the fore est and stay there for days together, shooting sambhur; bhenkri, peacocks and joogle and spur fowls over the forest pools and springs. These types of savage life are to be found within an hour or even balf an hour of Bom- bay. Among men AI— 5 THE MEADE STATUE Gisnt democracies do their fight- ing in sober fashion. Of the four great leaders of the North whom bis- tory will remember—Grant and Sher- man Meade and Sheridan—two were generals who never aroused personal They gained their sue cess without it enthusinsm, They inspired devo. tion by creating confidence in their own devotion to duty and thair abili- ty to discharge high trusts. Like Marlborough, it was the fortune of General Meade to win the great ani decisive battle of his day and genera. tithe of the shouts lesser men have awakened on | less significant fields, For such men history and posterity supply the praise of which contem- poraries were chary. Its first insiall- ment came t0 General Meade vester. day in the statue erected by the citi zens of the city which he defended to which he belonged, and with which his private and personal life was as sociated, He was the soldier of Phila- delphia in something more than resi- dence and his command at Gettys- burg he was the soldier of Philadel- phia. The spirit in which he won his great battle on our soil was the fash- ion in which Philadelphia fought its share of the war. Through all the struggle Gen. Meade rose to every rises to its level, with 00 thunder in the index, but with the certainty of natural law in the out The streets of Philadelphia never rocked with the noisy snd tumultuous enthusiasm which blazed down Broadway at the opening of the war; but its Come, grim determination vever flagged, its confidence never wavered, quota was always full, with patient, pitiless patriotism it poured men into the hopper out of which was ground war's grim grist until the crisis of the struggle came and the city Seni out its last man to the last line of the union. Bo Meade fought, #0 he maintained through an evil and doubting repoit more bard to endure than battle bis strenuous devotion to duty. For half the time in which the Army of the Potomac was an body he He led it from vie tory to victory aod discharged the sober respouosibilities of a subordinate with the faithful care he had given to its vudivided command. He left pothing in his career to be forgiven no frailty to be pardoned, vo blot to be glossed. He did his duty. All he was hi* country bad to the utter most, organized commanded it when such a man receives the fin. | and lasting honor. of the statue yester- | day unveiled the city and state in which it stands testify to the maoner of man and of life which they delight to honor and rejoice to praise, His stotue will stand a monument not iess to a igh standard of poblic de v tion than to the man it commen - ates, About it will come and cluster life aud memory, In its shadow «hil* dren will play, grow old ahd pass away; its extended a.m will point 1, one generation after aoother; it will stand as other statues have stood wutil | centuries have changed the very sen. blance and form of the hills which sur of rward roucd it. and it will will remain sign | symbol nod prof of the viriwe, char. roter and patriotsm which his gener. sought aod found in General G Meade : . ! lips do wore agreeable duty a VARIETIES OF HANDSHAKING, How ths Custom First Originated. Pee. | h / Harities of Different People, 1 “Did you ever consider how people first began to shake hands? No? Well then, sit down here and I'll tell vou | what I think about it, for I have give this subject some study,” said a gent 3il 0 man to 8 reporter. “My opinion is in eary and barbarous times, w EVEry BAVAZEe OF Sein) SAVAgZe wa his o law-giver, judge, soldier and pol cond Kes and had to watch over his own safety, in Jefault of all other protection, when two friends or acquaintances, or two strangers desiring tc be friends or acquaintance when they chanced to meet, offered eo: rge to the other the right hand alike offense and defense the hand wields the sword, the dagger, the the tomahawk or other weapon of / Each did this to show that the hans empty and that neither war nor trea was intended. A man cannot wells another while he is engaged in the | shaking hands with him, unless he double<dyed traitor and villain strives to aim a cowardly blow wit left while giving the right and pres ing to be ca good terms with him, “Did you ever observe that the never skake hands with the cord Wing IN Jon = a of men unless it be with each ! The reason is obvious. It is for t to receive homage, not to g t. 14 cannot be expected to ghiow | the other sex a warmth of gr might be misinterpreted persons are very closely relat p ) civmes handshaking is 1 “Forery man shakes hands a to his nature, whether 1t ager save, p or churlish, vu certainiy ond or humb Ar or refined Ler i reat art in han 1 tell wou the kind of hand and that is jolly g those guecze it until the tears run xr cheek ard then, 1 BAe manner as a pump on skaking the tine he vou, letting it rest easy foray #0, with the exception of a ic shake now and again, o We ' Lhe Do to start it afresh ih ) imagine he is doing it because he i gihin th extremely glad to see vou, but when 3 see him manifest the same cordialit un. Ax ward whom he t for 1 rofl wilwlo bw ward those wit \ m! 14 gin the § ag one of the =» 3 fellow handshakes, Une gue . 3 » ws will grasp your : fring # Food “Another and even mone ww ki of handshaker is he wi band, but will not per hold of it. T tempt of super % scorn wh mode of salt i not to be salute at all 1{ hands are be shakes t it be done proper Another KH of handshaker | detes is the mas flers vou one finger stead of five, as much as to say, ‘I either 100 preoccupied mysell or 1 too little of you to give you my w wr © the hand. With such a man the interchange Se BG of any but the barest and scanties ped Lo courtesy is rendered difficult by any oz a Soript: who has a particle of self-respect fom this “Yet another objectionable man i= 1 baring 1) one that shove { his jeit han i Or two in ng That is discourteon wi dor intentional and sometimes 1 spudiully an a hat 1 rae g i seemed 10 commit ih &r r for the int it should be more discourts it Jor the kiss the left cheek instea ] but doubtless the cus tha right hand imperative in a tatu tes ir tho was of ne left hand t one w i be of as much value and st righ i as the wit fool ¢ strong as the night foot or leg they are both used equal, has fale disrepute af well a8 Ino comparat ve nee, until 1 has beOme An acces phrase to say of any proceedings that inausp ns artia iT secrelly cious, that it is ‘sinister’-—that it is lef handed “ 3 N 1 do not he oonlinuedg thal BANGS ON certain o0ca If this perpetaa Shake, shake wil everybody that | object to. Itisg ant to touch the hand of an honest mar or woman, and to be on such ten acquaintanceship with either of these masterpieces of creation as to justify v in the thought that you are their equal Even to grasp the paw of an intelliges Irish wun dog, who holds it up for you to shake « ith md being asked to do so, is something pis f- tion ant For the dog unlike some me y wonld scorn to give his paw to one whose eve and in whose face he, by | fine instinct, in some respect the equal not the superior of resson, discover a treachery or evil. As 1 have said, it the continued handskaking with Ts Dick and Harry that ought to be p : stop to, L “Copy” from the Telegraph Ope is His day operator at once com to take the report from the sounder on a type writer, He is loperator, and he takes on an a seventy-five words a minute. He take more if it were possibile to i faster. A woluminous ooxde is 0 a facilitate the sending. Thos 4" « -» for “the,” “Wsha" for “Washingt 3] e “fm” for “from,” “mim” for “sn 3 » facturers” ete. These words are out on the type writer while they coming in abbreviated form over - wire, - A batch of “copy,” neatly type wri rg w soon ready, and a boy dashes 4 airs with it to the telegraph edit the afternoon paper, who cuts it up. CO» suitable “heads” to the different ite i. and sends them to the printers, | CN the news comes over the wire, and " operator sits impassively, with unch . ing countenance, taking murders, ri weddings, bank failures, jubilee ite conspiraion, desperate batties clicking monotone, without anything d " O6 htm, from acther ox. the and a new line, the we... “ i { To Pm Po A mask of
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