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
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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.
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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
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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. Per
haps this notion came from hearing; of the
pride which the Duchess of Fife take in
the butter which she herself has made.
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