IWKtTTEJt rOK TOE DISPATCH. "Come, Janet," said old Fisher Ben one bright morning to his little daughter; "do yon want to go ont in the boat -with rae to day? The sea is as smooth as glass, and we shall have no rough weather to trouble us." Janet was not long in accepting the invi tation, for she loved the sea, and was al ways happy in glidinc over the waves in their little boat. She could row, too, and many a time had pulled an oar with her father, who called her his little sailor. This morning the waves danced merrily in the sunshine, and the small vessel guided by the strong hand of the fisherman sped gaily through the water. Suddenly the rudder with its iron point seemed to strike against a hidden rock. There was a crash, and then the king of the water nymphs appeared abeve the waves. "Fisher Ben," he cried angrily, "yon have broken one of the columns of my crys tal palace under the water, and you must mend it." Little Janet was pale with fright; but her father only laughed and said, "Away with you, old "Water King; I do not know how to mend your windows, and to-day have no time to talk with you." And the boat shot away leaving the angry king murmuring threats of vengeance. A short time after tins, a great festival THE 'WATER KI whs uUif in the village near the fisherman's liouic. Janet, dressed in her best clothes, was hastening to join her companion?; al ready she could hear tbe sounds of music and almost see the dancing on the village green. As she ran along the sandy shore she met an old woman carrying a basket of ribbons and laces. "Where are yon going, little girl?" she asked in a friendly way. "To the village," replied Janet, "do you not hear the music?" "But, my dear child," said the old woman, "1 have just come from the village, and there all tne maidens are adorned with gay ribbons, and you have none;" and bend ing over her basket, she selected a bright scarlet ribbon. "Let me tie this about your waist," she said, "and then you wiil be the envy of all." Janet could not recuse so generous an ofler and allowed tbe old woman to tie the ribbon on her. But when she turned to thank her friend, she saw not the old woman with the basket, but the aucry water king frowning upon her. Almost overcome with fright, she tried to run away: hut the king of the nymphs seized her by the arms, cry ing: "Sow 1 have caught you; and I shall tejch jour father to break my windows and tben make sport of rae. Come, you shall never more sail in jour little boat to injure mv crystal palace with your iron rudder." Tbe little girl called aloud for help: but no one heard her, and she was dragged away by the angry King. She disappeared under the water, and lor many weary days tbe father and mother vcaited and watched in vain for the return of their beloved daughter. At the door of tbe dark dungeon into which Janet had been thrown by her cruel captor s.it the sea king's only daughter, a beautiful little nymph who, unlike her lather, was kind and gentle, and grieved that the poor little girl had been taken Torn her home and placed in the dark, dark room. She wanted to speak or sing to the little prisoner; but she had been forbidden to do so, and dared not disobey. The hours seemed very long to Janet. A verj meager portion of the plainest lood was given her each day, and the dark room was so small that she could walk, only a few steps in any direction. She lost all count of time, and thought it might be years since she had seen her father and mother. One day the king opened the door 01 her prison and in a stern voice cried : "You may come out now and play in the garden; but in an hour you must return." How gladly Janet came out into the light once more. Belore her stood the crvstal palace of the sea king, with its glittering walls and transparent columns; and down the steps came the king's daughter, who greeted Janet kindly and walked with her in the beautiful gardens and played with her in the bright sunshine. The hour passed very quickly, and Janet was again led awav to the cold, dark room, where she spent many weary days. Another time the king allowed her to play an hour with his daughter. Then she wispered to the little nymph ( or the sea kin; was near): "Little Jairy, you are very kind to me, and I love you dearly. Can you not come sometimes to the door of my prison and sing or speak to me, for I ant very lonely?" "I would gladly do so," replied the fairy, "but father watches me constantly all day. and would punish me severely it he found me disobeying his orders. But at night, when all are sleeping, I can open your door and we can mount to the surface of the water, and then ride in my water-lily boat" "When the play was over Janet returned to her dismal room, but she was no longer uubappy and discontented, for she knew that tbe nymph would not forget her, and that night she would again ride on tbe sea. When night came and everyone in the crys tal palace was sleeping tbe sea fairy crept 10 Janet's door aud softly whispered, "Are you sleeping?" But Janet was not sleep ing and hastily followed her guide to the water-lily boat, which, as soon as they were seated in it, rose to the surface of the water and glided through tbe waves. How happy Janet was now. The sea nymph had brought her golden harp from which floated sweet melodies. Again she -JL breathed the fresh, pure air, and the moon smiled kindly upon her; all night longthe flower boat sailed over the water, sometimes along the shore and then out upon the deep, so that Janet sometimes even heard the fa miliar sound of tne church clock telling the hours. . . So the months passed. Janet was still in the power of the water king. Every night she sailed over the sea in tbe water-lily boat with the King's daughter. She had learned to sing the sea songs, and often when the two sweet voices, accompanied by the harp, sounded over the water, the fishermen would listen and wonder whence came the strange, sweet music. Although Janet loved her fairy friend, and the time spent with her was very pleas ant, she greatly longed for a sight of her dear parents. One nieht she told this to the nymph, who said: "Perhaps some day I can help you, but now I know of no wav." As she said this, they saw something dark floating in tbe water. Directing the boat thither they discovered the body of a little girl, which had been carried off by the tide. "Now," said the fairy, "I can release you. I shall take you to the shore, and while you are running home I shall put this little body in vour prison." The next morning while Janet was being received with joy and gladness in her own home, the wicked water king was rejoicing over what he supposed to be the dead body of Janet, thinking that now Fisher Ben would never find his daughter. But Janet did not forget her fairy friend; C1SA EAOE. and olten on moonlight nights she rides with her in the water-lily boat, and joins her in her sweet melodies. Patsie. TflEOUT OP INSOMNIA. The Nerves ControlUnEibeTlovr of Blood to tlic Drain Do the Mischief. Hew York Sun.1 Insomnia is most often found among brain-workers, whose brain activity causes the flow of too great an amount of blood to the head. The nerves controlling the contrac tion of the blood cells through weariness fail to perform their duty, and a temporary passive congestion is established, which effectually prevents sleeping the early part of the night. The victim should lie with the head raised very high with pillows. Frequently the sufferer who has counted himsell off into dreamland alter hours of misery is awakened toward morning again, and sleep seems more hopeless than ever. This awakening is due usually to the sud den aud violent contracting ot these mali cious little nerves who lail to perform their duty in the early part of the night, and wakefulness is caused by lack of blood in the brain. It requires strength to sleep, and this burnine attack ot wakefulness is usually relieved by a cup of beef tea, or a class of cold water may refresh yon, and set the blood again in the right direction. FEEDD1E AND TU LILT. They Are on the Oats and the Former ! Trjlnc to Cnplnre a Widow. Sew York World. , Fred Gebhard returned from Europe two or three weeks ago, and everything he has done and said since that time has tended to confirm the story in circulation to the effect that he and Mrs. Langtry have agreed to disagree and that the future will -not be marked, as the past has been, by recurring reports of an approaching marriage. "What the trouble has been which led to the rup ture is not known. That Gebhard is very mnch affected by this outcome of years of devotion is perfectly clear to everybody who ,has seen him. He has developed a marvelous fondness for looking on the wine when it is red and straw colored and various other shades, and has begun paying desperate attentions to a pretty young widow. Mr. Gebhard's friends honestly think that the result will be a reaction from the Bohemian lile he has led, and that he will marry and settle down to domestic liie in New York. FOB GIRLS TO UEME11BEK. If She bo a Princes Her Mother Is Certainly lb Qaeen. I have seen mothers, savs Ella "Wheeler "Wilcox in the Ladies' Home Journal, who have sacrificed youth, appearance, health and com "ort in the effort to save money to educate and dress their daughters, brow beaten, crushed aud virtually ignored by their daughters in return lor it all. The American girl is taught that she is a young princess from the cradle to the altar. It is a great misfortune when she lorgets that the mother of a princess mnst be a queen, or queen regent, and should be so treated. TELEGRAPHING TO A SALMON. Explanation of a biriklna; Phrase Used by the Expert Isaalt Wnltons. KewTork Herald. J "What is telegraphing to a salmon? Sim ple enough, my boy. Suppose the fish 'the beast,' the Scotch sometimes call him is lying at the bottom of the river. You keep a reasonably tight line, of course; but you are afraid to jerk or pull at him, for fear of yanking the hook loose. So now and then along the taut line and the elastic finely strung rod you send him a message' of defiance by a oudden Mow with your el bow on the butt of the rod." THE FROM MIND TO MIND. Transfer of Thought Without the Intervention of Language. OPINIONS OP WELL-KNOWN MEN. Almost All Concede That Hypnotism Has an Important Future. THB WONDERFUL POWEK OF BISHOP rrBErABEP FOR TBE DISPATCH. 1 This article consists of replies to the fol lowing questions: 1. Is there not an odio or mesmeric or magnetic force by which thought transfer ence and mind reading is possible? Who possesses it that you know or. hear of? What is your opinion ol it? 2. What is hypnotism and what is your opinion of it? PKOF. ELLIOTT COUES. Science Supplies a Foundation for tbo The ory of tho Son!. 1. Unquestionably there is, and to the ad jectives you use to describe it I might add a dozen others, as akasic, astral, psychic, zoetheric, viogenic, nervanric, assthetoph orons, telepathic, prothylic, etc, terms in vented or used by various psychists of re pute to indicate a substance of universal oc currence, so far as we know, and which is supposed to be the common basis of both mind and matter. All persons arejjpartly composed of this ubiquitous ethereal substance, which makes no what St Paul, the theosophist, called the "spiritual body," and which theosophists of to-day snow as the astral body or soul case. This is the medium of all thought transrerence, the basis ot all psychometry, and tbe proper material for all psychical research. This substance is ordinarily inappreciable to the physical senses, but sometimes, as when ghosts of dead persons appear, or phantasms of the living occur, it becomes evident as a very real thing. It is probably capable of sustaining individual conscious ness and lile after the death of the physical body, and constitutes in fact what every body means, without knowing what they mean, when they talk of the immortality of the soul. This has its foundation in scien tific fact 2. "Hypnotism" is a modern and now fashionable name, invented a few years ago by an English physician, for an interest ing series of natural phenomena, to avoid giving Mesmer his just credit. Mesmerism and hypnotism are precisely tbe same thing, bnt the former is vulgar and cranky, and the latter is proper and scientific Bnt the word hypnotism is valuable, because under that name scientists have studied and ac cepted things they would not condescend to notice so long as they were called mesmer ism. I prefer the latter term for several reasons. It is only fair to Mesmer; and the explanation of the phenomena, which the straight-out mesmerists give, seems to me nearer the truth than those which it is now fashionable to apply to hypnotism. But call it wbat you please, tbe same thing itself is one of the most momentous, comprehen sive and interesting facts in humau nature. DE. ALLAN JTMNK HAMILTON. The Existence of Hypnotism nnd lis Value In a Sclenting Sense. 1. The belief in some peculiar force of a material nature which can be transferred from one person to another is, I consider, a delusive one. Prof. Crooke, of England, some years ago attempted to demonstrate a so-called odic force, bnt his experiments did not stand the test of subsequent investiga tion. I have long been a believer, however, in the cultivation of mental power for the purpose of developing in a second indi vidual certain initial psychical and, through habit, intimate physical changes. To be more explicit, I believe it is possible for two individuals, even though separated, to lead a prearranged plan of life, and to establish a mental discipline that will secondarily lead to such a series of habits that resulting physical changes will follow, and perhaps in succeeding generations there may be an approximation not only of a mental but of a physical type; but so lar as the actual trans ference of any force from A to B is con cerned, I look upon those, at least at pres ent, as purely fanciful propositions. And this leads us to a consideration of second sight or clairvoyance. The examples you suggest are often explained by ordinary causes, familiar to the student of mental disease. A long exisiting superstition and love of the mysterious will occasionally lead in certain communities to coincident" facts and to happenings which are sometimes simplv marvelous in their apparent reality. So-called reading of character is easily ex plained when we consider that nearly al ways the confiding person unconsciously gives the information, which is amplified and garnished by the pretended mind reader. 1. That there is snch a condition as hypnotism is a well-known scientinc fact. It consists in the abnegation of volition and suspension of the action of the higher cor dical layers of the brain, the functions of which are dominated by the mesmerizer. The hypnotic state is one that implies exag geration ot the expectant attention, when of course the individual surrenders himself up to all direct and intelligently applied ex ternal agencies. There is no doubt that it is simply an exaggeration of the condition which in human society rendera one subject subservient to another, and which enables the stronger person to control the weaker. The practical results of recent sludy are of extreme scientific value. Vicious mental states are easily corrected, many forms of disease are cured, and a condition 01 anaes thesia has been produced which has enabled surgeons to amputate limbs and perlorm pamiul surgical operations. The hypnotic state is being introduced every day by repu table physicians in the treatment ot nervons diseases, especially in Europe. DANIEL G. THOMPSON. Means of Communication D-lween Mind and Mind Not Yet Understood. I think there are means of communication between mind and miud,the nature of which is not understood, and which has not been properly explained. The facts of hypnotism are undoubtedly established in a scientific manner. There seems to be also some ground lor a belief in thought transference, though whether the assumed mind-reading of Bishop, for example, is anything more than muscle reading, as is claimed, may not be so clear; but enough has been established to make it evident that there are some things yet to be found out in the line ot "spiritual istic clairvoyants and uiediumistlc phenom ena." This does not indicate, however, any sub stantial basis for Spiritualism; there may be unknown properties of matter unknown modes of communication between one niiod and another of a material nature, which if fully explained beyond the occurrences of which we know without any recourse to a spiritualistic hypothesis. PKOF. E. D. COPE. Tbe Psychic Force la Capable of Yet Farther Demonstration. 1. It is possible that mind energy (psychic force) may be transmitted through material media other than protoplasm (brain stuff), but the fact is not satisfactorily demonstrated as yet 2. It is a state of trance which results lrom yielding the will energy, with or with out the influence of another person. The varions degrees of it account for many of the phenomena of influence between people, which are supposed to be supernatural, snintua1. etc., and its phenomena are the PITTSBURG DISPATCH, basis of various theosophical, Christian scientist and other opinions, true and untrue. MR. I. H. THOMPSON Cites an Kxtrrmely Astonishing Instance of Mental Telegraphy. 1. There is what I call a mental teleg raphy whereby intelligence can be trans mitted from one person to another. In Jnne ot this year a gentleman of Boston, a pupil ol mine in what I call mental progressive science, was called to Washington, D. C. On his return he had in New York an ex perience which disturbed him, and he could make no decision in tbe case. I was sitting in my room in this city (Boston), and heard his call for instruction, the case being in the line of mental analysis of a material condi tion. I noted the time of day, and mentally expressed two words "positiveness" and "silence." On his returning to Boston the next day T asked bim where he'was at the time I had noted, and what had disturbed him. He told me of his unpleasant experience, and said that as he sat in the parlor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York he felt that I stood beside him and used the words "posi tiveness" and "silence," and on adopting that method in the case he was relieved of anxiety. This mental telegraphy is not mesmeric nr magnetic; those forces cannot so far leave their material base as to act in the mental or brain wave. The magnetic or mesmeric and the mental are two distinct forces, and they are often antagonistic, which is a reason for'so much confusion among so called spiritualistic ranks. 2. Hypnotism is animal force. It is that which is called magnetism, and is that subtle force of animality which de presses the development of the mental forces, and deflects the natural mind into supersti tious fear. HAEQDISB Dl LANZA. Mind Render Bishop Not a Frnnd But a Mnn of Wonderful Mentality. 1. Thought, transference and mind read ing are very different, and can filly claim earnest attention and discussion. The late Irving Bishop possessed a mentality of a very wonderful structure and which was enormously developed. I do not believe be was a fraud or that be ever tried to cne it anybody. He positively had this psychic force under his control. Exactly what constitutes this force we do not know. The simplest natural phenomena are mysteries, but they are there, neverthe less. 'Second sight is another thing whose genuineness I have no reason to deny. The facts are before us, and until they can be proved absolutely lalse or aosolutely true we can affirm or reject nothing. 2. Hypnotism is a most interesting subject, but it should never be confounded with mesmerism, as is often the rase. With mesmerism the subject is controlled and put into an artificial sleep by means of some power emanating irom the mesmerizer. Hypnotic subjects, on the contrary, fall into the hypnotic trance throngh the medium of anybody at all, and they frequently hypnot ize themselves by merely fixing their atten tion on some object and regarding it atten tively. I have witnessed a great number of hypnotic seances andl baveseen "subjects," during the trance, do and say things which I do not believe they could accomplish in a normal state. KELLAR, THE MAGICIAN. All Hypnotic Phenomena Cnu be Explained on Natural Grounds. All the phenomeuaof hypnotism, I think, can be explained on perfectly natural grounds. Mesmeric experiments do not always succeed. Highly nervous persons, persons of an irritable temperament, pale, active people are most susceptible. The effect ot causing the subject to stare at some bright object is to cause irritability. Any one staring for sometime at a glittering ob ject held in the hand finds that the light be comes dim, objects begin to appear blurred and indistinct, and the medium becomes dazed; bis expectation of something strange about to happen gets him into a nervous aud excitable state, and he is ready to be lieve almost anything, and is in excellent condition to be hypnotized. The Hindoos produce the hypnotic state by repeating in a low drawling tone the words, Bam-Bam-Bam-Amar-Ram. Persons once hypnotized readily give vrtiy to the in fluence. I do not believe that the mesmer ist possesses any mysterious power further than being able to excite the nervous sys tem of the medium to such a degree as to exhaust and put him in a state of uncon sciousness, and when in that state the medium will perform certain acts impressed on him by the mesmerizer. ALEXANDER WILDER. Why Iiovers Sometimes Think the Same Thine Simultaneously. 1. I have no doubt that there is an ether or akasa, which affords a medium for mental communication. It pertains to the world beyond to which we really belong.and from which this world and our psychic na ture are projected. "Thought transference" and "mind reading" are in hat category. Lovers very much en rapport, think the same things simultaneously. AY hen minds be come awake, or at home in that world, they share and perceive each other's thoughts often, indeed, as though original with them selves. Scientific discoveries have some times been made by several persons, almost at the same time, who were distant from each other and, perhaps, not aware of each other's existence. 2. I suppose hypnotism, in good hands, intelligently employed, is capable of a vast ntility; but, like electricity, little is known respecting it in comparison with what is not known. Hermnnn. 1. I believe in magnetic force, but I am confident that it cannot be exerted to the extent of enabling thought transference or render mind reading possible. i. The existence of magnetic or bvpnotie force is too well established by scientific demonstration for any one to doubt or dis pute the existence of such a course. I my self have frequently exerted it. A MODEST INDIVIDUAL, Wbo Plays a Yery Important Part tbe Au dience Doesn't Know About. In the days of the old stock companies the prompter was a more important individual than the star, but iu these latter days of traveling companies he has fallen into desuetude. The accompanying cut shows the prompter's box in the Metro politan Opera House, Net York. It is lo cated just back of the footlights and facing the players. In this little coop, which he reaches by a stairway beneath the stage, he is monarch of all he surveys. A VerT Adroit Tblrf. Facte, t Procrastination is the thief of time; and everybody knows that time can steal by its self last enough when anything is to be done Convenient to the "I' roads, and located in tbe center of the most attractive part of the city, the Sturtevant House offers superior ad vantages to persons visiting New York. Broad way, corner Xwenty.nlnth street . SUNDAY, APRIL 20, MEN WHO WOH FAME. Olive Logan's Recollections of Thack eray, Collins and Others. CYRUS W. FIELD AND THE CABLE. Picture of Queen Victoria nnd the Prince Consort Tears Ago. RULES, FOR TnB WRITER OP FICTION rWRITTIK FOR THE DlSrATCII. Thackeray I met in Paris in 1858 and 1859, when hi was interested in the success of the submarine cable, then the wonder of the civilized world. The English stock holders, one of whom he may perchance have been, were trying to obtain from the French Government the right to land the cable on the Island of St. Pierre and Miquelon, a French possession near New foundland. The conduct of Mr. Cyrus W. Field, the leading spirit or this great work, was energetic and highly honorable. Wrought to the highest pitch of nervous frenzy by the obstacles thrown in his path, and the path of the cable, by narrow minded French officials. Mr. Field never theless refused a proposal from one of these to antedate a document which was to be laid before tbe Minister of Marine, simply saying that he should be on the ocean at that time and not iu Paris. "A mere detail a nothing at all 1" re marked tbe French official, shrugging his shoulders impatiently. "I might be shipwrecked, and here would he my signature claiming that I was in Paris iu other words, a posthumous lie," replied Mr. Field; "I consider that a good deal, and I won't do it." FIRST I5IPEKSSI01T NOT FAVOBABLE. t Can I picture Thackeray's appearance after the lapse of all these years? He was tall and broad-shouldered, and had a com plexion like Horace Greeley's pure milk and roses, inch as a girl might envy. His hair was very white, his nose was as flat as any negro's it had been broken, I believe and he wore large spectacles pushed close against his eyes. Neither in appearance nor in manner did he make a favorable im pression upon me; but then I wa a verdant American girl, and he was (I remember his using this expression frequently) "a great gun." He swore in the presence of ladies, an offense which in America, in those days, almost assumed the proportions of a crime; and this was Thackeray in Paris, a cele brated author, a critic of manners and in the most polished capital in Christendom! He struck me as being a coarse man, with out a throb of tenderness in his nature. I was mistaken. Our host, an English literary mm who resided in Paris, had a little niece of 10 years old living with him. She was a sad, shy child with no playmates; in poor health, and by no means a beauty. She rarely en tered the drawing room, and never when Mr. Thackeray was there. I always fancied she was afraid" of the noisy great author, and kept out of his way as much as possible. vrox the child's heart. One evening after Thackeray had dined with her uncle, and taken his leave, little Lucy came running into tbe drawing room, with heightened color, sparkling eyes and smiling lips. She had been sitting alone in the ante-chamber when Mr. Thackeray came out; be spoke so pleasantly to her, and put a golden louis, a 20-frano piece, an un usually handsome present for a child, in her hand. And how prettily he must have talked with her, from her accountl About dolls be had known, many of great beauty and accomplishments; she must buy the nicest one to be had for the napoleon he had given her, be said. She,was a dear lit tle girl, he remarked, and he was sorry to see her so lonely; he would come some day to make a visit to her particularly, and would tell her fairy stories, of which he knew many. Till then goodby, said he, patting her npon the heid. "Was not tbat'a charming incident? We were all touched by its sweetness, and I "re constructed" my opinion of Thackeray's coarse nature. No one but a gentleman a man of gentle feeling would have gone out of his way to cheer a lonely child. Thackeray prided himself on his knowl edge ot the French language. He inter larded his conversation with the identical phrases which are frequent in his books.and which would be considered trivial nowa days. ONE OF THACKERAY'S JOKES. Lucy's ancle was scarcely so well pleased as the little girl was with th: present from Thackeray. There was a wager about some thing or other between the two men, a new hat the forfeit. Thackeray lost, and sent his friend a new hat, elaborately wrapped up and inclosed in the box of a fashionable hat ter. On opening the parcel the new hat was brought to view it was a toy soldier hat, a plaything bought at a joujoux shop in the Passage Jouffroy. 'Capital joke just like jolly Thackeray!" cried thetother with a laugh. But his eyes and lips told a different story of apprecia tion; "I can't endure practical jokes," said his wife. "But this was Thackerayl" protested the husband, "It is capital cap " The wife threw the capital cap into the corner. Thackeray never spoke of any member of his family, and I do not know' to this day whether the rumor then whispered about, that his wile was in an insane asylum, was false or true. I never heard bim name his wife, children or parents; whereas poor Thornton Hunt invariably managed to bring in a reference to his father soon after an in troduction to any stranger. This of course always called forth the exclamation, "What, are you the son of Leigh Hunt!" The glory of the dead father's fame shed a radiance over the son. QUEEN VICTORIA'S HUSBAND. In one sense I may claim to have met the Prince Consort, the adored husband of Queen Victoria. Fancy me, an American girl just out ot my teens, turning this cor ner and that in the multitudinous streets of London, and suddenly meeting the Queen's Majesty going to open Parliament, in her wonderful glass coach, with her beanteons consort sitting by her sidel That was a sight, I promise you! Long ye-irs have elapsed, and many aud many a comely gen tleman have mine eyes beheld, but never no, never, the equal of Prince Albert. Hts profile, was purely Grecian, his complexion fair, his hair and whiskers dark, his eyes of the richest brown, and glowing with the most soulful expression of tenderness and love for his peerless wile. His form, too, was superb, aud his bearing distinguished in the highest degree. No one who has ever seen the Prince Consort can wonder that the Queen incessantly mourns the loss of such a paragon. In those days Her Majesty was very hand some, with nect, shoulders and arms of sur passing beauty. Conjure the vision of this royal pair to your mind, the Queen wearing robes of state and a diamond crown, Prince Albert in uniform, with many jeweled orders, both seated together in a coach of glass and gilding, drawn by six or eight horses, richly caparisoned and led by grooms in scarlet livery, followed by a gorgeous retinue ab, well, the days for such (airy story-book splendor seem to have fled. THE FAMED -WILKIE COLLINS. Wilkie Collins I met after he had achieved his renown, so long after that his fame might be said to be ou the decline. He baa published all his great novels and was now "turning ont," in rapid succession, stories which almost any of the clever con temporaneous romance spinners of the sec ond class in Loudon could easily have equaled. Who, but Wilkie Collins, could have written "The Woman in White?" Wto, that is an acknowledged fictionist, could not have written "The Guilty Itiver?" Yet, as with tbe partiality of a mother for her plainest children. Mr. Collins evidently felt a distinct lavoritism for his later books. For instance, he led the conversation nwnv- 1890. from "No Name" and "The Moonstone" to speat with fervor of "The Black Kobe." "The Catholic clergy are attacking me for it," said he, "but I meant it to be compli mentary to them. I respect the Eoman Catholic religion and those of its followers whom I know." I asked him to give me some hints about fiction writing, and the leading points of his advice were as follows: BULKS FOR WRITING FICTION. First Keep the story moving. Second Pay great attention to the literary style. Third Delineate characters as they are.not as they are traditionnllv pictured in fiction. Fourth Never go back on your tracks in the old lashioned wav, which says, "We must now return so and so," but go on with the story, right straight ahead. Fifth Don't tell people's back histories, but pick them up from whee you met them, and go on with them from that out, just as we do in life. A friend of mine who has read all Wilkie Collins' novels tells me that he has violated every single one of these injunctions, not once, but several times. Many portraits of Wilkie Collins are extant, and they give a fair representation ot his lace and head; these were large and commanding there fore all the greater was the surprise of one who met him as I did with the idea of an imposingiigure being the necessary adjunct, to find him short man, very much below the average height. In the last year or two ot his life his back was bent almost donble over the band which held his stick, and he then looked like a dwarf. With hislong fray beard, his spectacles, bis stick, his ent back and puny legs, he appeared the wizard of enthralling fiction, even as the mind of childhood pictures him. Olive Loqan. FUGITIVE BANKER NETTEB. He Has Just Hauled In $300,000 on Bio De Janeiro Scheme. New York Press.1 Albert Netter, the Cincinnati banker who cut quite a swell in New York financial circles for a brief period and then skipped by the light of the moon, was reported some time ago to be in Bio Janeiro, Brazil, where, under an assumed name, he had secured control of a great street railroad scheme, and was displaying a financial sagacity that promised to make him speedily a rich man. I have a letter from London saying that Netter has succeeded in placing the stocks and bonds of his street railroad scheme with London capitalists. The total amount of tbe securities was (7,000,000 and his com mission was $300,000 and 40 per cent of the common stock. Out in Cincinnati it is as serted that D. O. Mills, the California mil lionaire, is backing Netter. KEW STILE HAIR CUTTING. It la the Same Thing as Obtnloed Twenty or Thirty Years Ago. It will only be a short time now till the old style of cutting hair, which middle-aged people remember as the fashion when they were courting their wives, will be in again. This style demanded that the hair be cnt pretty short behind and square across, left thick and long about tbe ears, and that thick and long part brushed forward in front of the ear and around into a hook with the point nearly straight up. All of this style except the hook is al ready among us. It gives a man an actorish and rather loppish appearance, and, in fact, it was the actors wbo brought it West from Boston. COST OF RUNNING NEW I0RK. The Expenses Foot Up More Than Three Times Those of the State. New York San. The expense of running the city govern ment of New York is more than three times tbe cost of the State government. The city has to par almost half the State taxes. There are only two items in the appropria tions of the Board of Estimate and Appor tionment which are larger than tbe State taxes. They are the interest on the city debt, (5,305,819, and the appropriation for the Police Department $4,647,791. The State taxes amount to $4,519,641. The State wants more taxes, but the city reluses to pay more. Tbe demands of tbe State were tor almost $6,000,000. THE AGE OF CHITALRT Has Net Departed, nt Least Not From the Riling Generation. Baltimore American. I Let those who say that the instincts of chivalry are dying out in the rising eenera tion listen to this true tale and forever after hold their peace. At No. 20 Primary Public School in this city a child was asked lately if the following sentence was correct: "Is it him or her?" The child promptly replied: "The sen tence 'Is it him or her?' is not correct. It should be 'Is it her or him?' because a gen tleman should never go before a lady." ANOTIlEii B0I KING. The 13-Year-Old Who Rales the Frontier Kingdom of Servln. A short time ago The Dispatch pub lished a picture of the little King of Spain, the youngest monarch of Europe. The next youngest is Alexander I., of Servia, now only 13 years of age. He became king on the abdication of Milan, whose quarrel with his queen, Natalie, was one of the scandals of Europe. The royalty of Europe Is watching this boy, for his conduct in little Servia may mean much to them. Alexander is represented, as a britrht. brave, handsome ladj but he has a sabV history behind him in the domestic and political troubles which bave ended in the divorce of his royal parents. In 188G the young Prince Alexander made a journey with his mother to the Crimea; thence to Florence, and finally to Wiesbaden, where Queen Natalie had hoped to remain and educate her son. But in 1888 a demand was made for the boy through General Protesch, and he was taken to Belgrade to assume the grave responsibilities that might well daunt the bravest of men. Tne education ol the young King is being carefully snperintendeu by Dr. Lazar Do kitsch, "assisted by Mme. Pelingre, a talented lady of Swiss birth, who instructs her royal pupil iu the elementary branches. Alexander already speaks German, French, and a little English; but until recently he has not been taught Bussian. Bussian influences, however, seem now likely to assert themselves in the royal household of Servia. The young king is just now greatly worry ing his mamma by his tendency to emulate his father. The other day she burst in on him and found him drinking and playing tbe great American game ot poker with court companions. The precocious youngster is in danger. Alexander X of Servia. THE FIRESIDE SPHINX A Colloction of EsMcal Its for Home Cracflng. Address communications for this department to E. K. Ciiadbourn. Leuiston, Maine. 1007 the world's fair captors. D. M. H. 1008 decapitation. Within tbe last of whole we find Men of a most peculiar kind. And amongst tbe motley crew I'm pained to see some women, too. How odd their notions do appear! Their brains are addled all. I fear. For snch droll notions tbey have got, They seem to be a half-crazed lot. Each has his hobby, each his whim. That Is tbe world and all to him "Whims so stnpld and so droll As to pervade his inmost soul. Duns may make us melancholy. Fools may vex us with their foil;; In prisons we may robbers pat, And madmen In asylums shut; Book agents pesky we may boot. May poison rats and mad dogs shoot; Bat with tbe whole 1 have in view What is tbe the thing we ought to do T Kelsoxiax. 1009 CURTAIX2IEXT. A speck or spot I have here bro't. To claim attention meet; 'Twill brighter glow. As yon must know. When 'tis deprived of feet. A bngle strain Will tben be plain. Or witty short remark; Do jon agree At all with mer I trust it Is not dark. Bitter Sweet. fir I T ft O IIH A L U P BIDMMLD 0I I D P L POD D I TJ D O D M L P SI I H TJ 8 O I OJ The key is tbe name of a Greek painter and scnlptor wbo adorned the temple of Ceres at Rome. H. C. Burger. 1011 SYNCOPATION. When In Wall street I chanced to meet A man I'd seen before; Bald 1, -Why pnsh with such a rnshT Of days there will be more." "No more forme, indeed," said he ''I'm in for sundrv stock. And so through Wall I bave to alt To pay by 4 o'clock." O. how men cheat In that mean street With its temptations vast. And funons craze in business ways. It really seems a last. NELSOJUAS". 1012 NUMERICAL. The one who's 3, 5, 7. 9, 10, And never yielded to defeat. May well be called by other men. Very persistent and complete. It will not 6. 9, 8. andl Bad fortune to sit down and wait; Bat be who work and waits, my son. Is almost sure to conquer fate. 1 10, 2. 4. 6 this is true, "All things come round to those wbo wait." If they are helping bring them, too, Not waiting in an idle state. ' Bitter Sweet. 1013 SQUARE. L Cider-brandy. (U. 8.) 2. Pertaining to a mineral discovered in 1789. 3. A species of hickory. 4. A substance of tbe natnre of glas. 5. Hereditary. 6. Minute Pimple eyes fonnd in many articulate and other inferior animals. H. C. Burger. 1014 TRANSPOSITION. I am the --want of fixed direction," Am "wavering in mind" And am not guided by reflection. Nor to piompt acts inclined. While others may be up and doing With purposes in view, Naufrht at all am I pursuing, I know not what to do. I.imso very undecided I always lag behind: " Bv no impulse ever gtdded, I'm like a creature blind. To succeed yon must keep trying; Of labor be afraid not; I can tell yon without Iving, 'Ufen inert I aid not." Nelsonian. 1015 ENIGMA. If all my various meanings you shall ask. To tell tho whole would be no easy task, I am a place where prisoners are consigned. And on a ship I'm what you'll always find. I'm wbat you seize when ou ruay neea support, I'm sometimes, too, a castle, or a fort. I'm found in music, as all singers know, Tben as a verb I tell ynu what to do. I tell you to restrain yourself, refrain. And say unbroken, nnsnbdued remain; And now in ending hat I have to say It Is my own injunction I obey. MARCH RESULTS. Prize Wtnnert: i. Annie E. Wilson, Rankin station. Pa. 2. H. U. Burger Alliance. O. 3. R. E. Buss, Pittsburg. Pa. Holt of Honor: Old Man, J. S. B., Henrietta, Glass, Henry L. French, Wui. Hughes. R. P. M., Thomas Lawrv. Ida Robsnu, Sdisy Krieger. Lillian W. Fence, Geo. A. Perry. L. McGreal J. C. Balis, R. B. L. Harry M. Fink, Robert W. White, Barbara Insllis, HughC.Dorworth. ANSWERS. 998 Begin with "T" in the lower re-entrant angle and read around tbe outside, then begin with "B" in the lower left-band point and read around the other way. Motto: "Trust in God, bnt keep yourpowaer dry." 999 Society. 1000 Tycho Brahe. The Danish astronomer (1515-1601) J 1001 L I T H O O W U N D E R O O 8 C R I B E R Temple T 1C02 Second-hand. 1003 Silent. listen. See last division of Canto 2 of part 2 of Evangeline. 1004-D ETERMINATE DEMEANTJRE DISTANT TERNS TOE N 1003 Dulcimer. 1006 Knar, nar, rank, ran. BREAD BAKING TEE EAGE. The Proper Girl In Nrw York Hai Taken to Practical Thlnga. New York Sun.l . By the by, did you know that it was con sidered rather smart lor very young women to have simple tastes about things to eat? Arrayed in her tailor-made suit, with her little togue on, tbe giri who wants to do the swagger thing declines at an afternoon any thing stronger than milk and vichv, and with it she eats a piece ot brown bread and butter. The butter must be absolutely fresh, and the bread must be sweet and homemade. Hostesses are extolling their bread and batter exactly as tbey might their plum cake, and tbe girl wbo can make bread really make it, and maka it good is very prond of possessing a talent greater than that of painting flowers, modeling in clay, or writing mysterious or erotic books. 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