10
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY. JUNE 15, 1890.
river to a mined temple "Me an you an'
im )be indicated me,by a jerk of his head)
was there one day when Hi made a bloomin'
now o myself. You an' 'im stopped me
doin such an" Hi was on'y wishful tor to
desert. You are makin' a Digger bloomin'
show o' yourself now."
"Don't mind him, Mulvaney, I said.
"Dinah Shadd won't let you hang yourself
yet awhile, and you don't intend to try to
either. Let's hear about the Tyrone and
O'Hara."
"There's no fool like an ould fool. Yon
know you can do anythin' wid whin I'm
talkin'. Did I say I wud like to cut Mul
ling' liver out? I "deny the iznpntasbin, for
. iear that Orth'ris here wud report me, ah!
Yon wud dip me into the river, wud you?
Bit quiet, little man. Anyways, JIullins
isn't worth the trouble av an extry p'rade,
an' I will trate him wid ontrajis contimpt
The Tyrone an O'Hara! O'Hara an' the
Tyrone, begad! Oald days are hard to
bring back into the mouth, but they're al
wnvs inside the head."
Following a long pause:
"The Tyrone was recruited any fashion
in the ould days. A draf from Conne-
niara a arai irom .rorismoum a arai
from Kerry an that was a blazin' bad
draf here, there an' iverywhere."
".But to reshume. JU.y room twas before
I was married was wid twelve av the scum
av the earth, the pickin's av the gutter
mane men that wud neither laugh nor talk
not yet get dhrunk as a man shud. They
thried some av their dog's thricks on me,
but I dhrew a line round my cot, an' the
man that thransgressed ut wint into hos
pital for three days,-good.
"O'Hara had put his spite on the room
he was my color sargint an' nothin' cad
we do to plaze him. I was younger than I
am now, and I tuk what I got in the way av
gali and punishment dhrill wid my tongue
in my cheek. But was different wid the
others, an why I cannot say, except that
some men are burrun mane and go to dbirty
murdher where a fist is more than enough.
Afther a wboile they changed their chune to
me an' was desn'rit frien'ly, all twelve av
thim cursin' O'Hara in chorus.
" Eyah,' sez I. 'O'Hara's a divil and I'm
not for denyin' ut, but is he the only man in
the wnrruld? Iet him go. He'll get tired
st findin' onr kit foul our 'contrements on
properly an' kep'.'
" 'We will not let him go,' sez they.
'"Thin take him,' sez 1 an' a poor yield
ye'll get for your trouble.'
"'Is he not misconductin' himself?' sez
another.
" 'Has he not put his spite on the roomful
av us? Can we do anythin' that he will not
check us for ?' sez another.
" 'That's thrue.' sez I.
"Will ye not help us to do ought ?' says
another, 'a big, bould man like you.'
" 'I will break his head upon his shoul
dthers av l.e puts hand on me,' sez I; 'I will
give him the lie av he says that I'm dhirty,
an' I wed not mind dncking him in the ar
tillery thronghs if ut was not that I'm tbry
ing for my stbripei.'
'"Isthat all ye can do?' sez another.
'Have ye no more spunk than that, ye
blooo-dhrawn calf?'
" 'Blood-dhrawn I may be,' sez I, gettin'
back to my cot an' makin' my line round nt;
but ye know that the man who comes
acrost this mark will be more hlood-dhrawn
than me. No man gives me the name in my
month,' ez I. 'Onderstancl, I will have no
part wid you in anythin you do, nor will I
raise my fist to my shnperior. Is any wan
comin' on ?' sez 1.
"They made no move, tbo' I gave thim
fnll time, but stud growlin' an enarlin"
together at wan ind av the room. I tuk up
my cap and wint out to canteen, thinkin' no
little av mesilf, an' there I grew most unda
cintly dhrunk in mv legs. My head was all
reasonable.
" 'Houligan. I sez to a man in E Com
pany that was byway avbein'a frind av
mine, .'I'm overtnk from the belt down. Do
you give me the touch av your shoulder to
presarve my formation an' march me acrost
the plain into the high crass. I'll sleep ut
off there," sez I; an' Houligan he's dead
now, but good he was while he lasted,
walked wid me. givin' me the touch whin I
wint wide, ontil we came to the high grass,
an' my faith, the sky an the earth was fair
rowlin' undher me. I made for where the
grass was thickust, an there I sleD' off my
liquor wid an easy conscience. I did not
desire to come on books to frequint; mv
character havin' been shpotless for the jrooil
halfava year.
"Whin I roused the dhrink was dyin out
in me an I -felt very bad. I had not lamed
to hold my liquor wid comfort in thim davs.
'Tis little betther I am now. 'I will cet
Houligan to pur a mussick over my head,
thinks I, an' I wud ha' risen, but I heard
aome wan say: "Mulvsney can take the
blame av ut ior the blacks'lidin' hound he
is.' 'Ohol' sez I, an my head rang like a
watchman's gong; 'Fwhat is the blame that
this young man must take to oblige Tim
vulmea?' For 'twas Tim Vulmea that
sphoke.
"I turned on my belly an' crawled through
the grass, a bit at a time, to where the
apache came from. There was the twelve av
my room sittin down in a little patch, the
anry grass wavm- aoove their beads an the
sin av black murdher in their hearts. I put
uic Hiu usiue to pei a clear view.
"Fwhat's that?' sez wan man, jumpin'
up.
"'A dog,' sez Vulmea. 'You're a nice
hand to this job! As I said, Mulvaney will
take the blame av ut comes to a pinch.
" ' 'Tis harrad to swear a man's lite away,'
sez a voung wan.
" 'ThanK ye for that,' ffainks I. 'Now.
fwhat the divil are you paragins conthrivin'
against me?'
" 'lis as easy es dhrinkin' vour quart,'
sez Vulmea. 'At 7 or thereon O'Hara will
come acrost to the married quarters. Wan
av us '11 pass the wurrud to tbe room an we
thtart the divil an all av a shine-langhin
an crackiu' on an' frowin' our boots obout
Tbiu O'Hara will come to give us the ordher
to be quiet, the more by token, bekaze the
room lamp will be knocked over in the
larkin'. He will take the straight road to
the inn door, where there's the lamp in the
veranda, an that'll bring him clear against
the light as he shtands. He will not be able
to look into the dhark. Wan av us will
loose ofl, an a close shot ut will be, an'
shame to the man that 'misses. 'Twill be
Mulvaney's rifle, she that is at the head of
the rack; there's no mistakin' that long
shtocked piece even in the dhark.'
"The thief misnamed my ould firin' piece
ontavjeaiousy I was pershuaded av that
an' nt made me more angry than all.
"But Vulmea coeson: 'O'Hara will dhrop,
an' by the time the light's lit again there'll
be some six av us on the chest av Mulvaney
crying murdher. Mulvaney's cot is near the
ind door, an the thmokin' rifle will be Jyin'
nndher him whin we've knocked him over.
We know, an' all the rig'ment knows that
Mnlvaney has given O'Hara more liD than
any wan av us. Will there be any doubt at
the coort-martial? Wud 12 honust sodger
boys swear away the life av a dear, quiet,
swate-tempered man such as is Mulvaney
wid his line av pipe-clay roun' his cot,
threatenin' us wid murdher av we over
shtepped ut, as we can truthful testifv?'
"'Mary, Mother a v Mercy!' thinks I to
mesilf. 'It is this to have an onrnly num
ber an' fistes fit to use. Oh, the sneakin'
hounds!"
"The big dbrops ran down my face, for I
was wake wid the liquor an' had not the full
av me wits about me. I laid stbill an' heard
thim Workin' themselves up to swear my life
by tellin' tales av ivry time I had put my
mark on wan or another; an' mv faitb, they
was few that was not so distinguished.
'Twas all in the way av fair fight, though,
for mver did I raise my hand except whin
they had provoked me to ut.
" "Tis all well,' sezs wan av thim, 'but
who's to do this shootin'?'
"'Fwhat roatther?' sez Vulmea. "Tis
Mnlvaney will do that at the coort-martial.'
" 'He will so, sez the man, 'but whose
hand is put to the thrigger in tbe room?"
"Who'll do ut?' sez Vulmea, lookin'
round, but divil a man answered. They be
gan to diehpute till Kiss, that was always
playin' shpoil five, sez: Thry the kyardsl'
Wi'd that he opined his jackut an' tuk out
the greasy palammers, and they all fell wid
the notion.
" "Deal onl'sex Vulmea, wid a big rattlin
oath, 'an'the black enrse av Bhielygh come
to the man that will not do his duty, as the
cyards say. Aminl'
dealln.' Black Jack, eorr, I shud expayti
ate to you, is the ace av sphades, which from
time immimorial has been intimately con
nected with battle, murdher and suddin
death.'
"Wanst Kiss dealt an' there was no sign,
bnt the men was whoite wid the workins.av
their sowls. Twice Kiss dealt an' there was
a gray shine on their cheeks like the mess
av an egg. Three times Kiss dealt an' they
was blue. ,'Have ye not lost him?" sez
Vulmea, wiping the sweat on him. 'Let
ha' don' quick?' 'Qcick ut is,' sez Kiss,
throwin' him the kyardt an' ut fell face up
on his knee. Black Jack!
"Thin they all cackled wid laugbin'.
Duty thirpence,' sez wan av thim, 'an
cheap at that price!' .But X cud see they all
dhrew a little away from Vulmea an let'
him sittin playin' wid the kyard. Vulmea
sez no word for a wboile, butrlicked his lips,
catways. Thin he threw" up his head an'
made the men swear by ivry oath, known
and unknown, to stand bv him. not alone in
the room, but at the court martial that was
to set on me. He tould off five av the big
gest to stretch me on my cot whin tbe shot
was fired, an' another man he tould off to
pnt out the light, an yet another to load my
rifle. He wud not do'that himself; an' that
was quare, for 't but a little thing.
"Tbin thev swore over again that they
wud not bethray wan another, an' crep out
av the grass in dlfFrint ways, two by two.
A mercy ut was that they dud not come on
me. I was sick wid fear in the pit av my
stommick, sick, sick, sick! Afther they was
all gone, I wint back to canteen an' called
for a quart to put a thought in me. Vulmea
was there dhrinkin' heavy, an' politeml to
me beyond reason. 'Fwhat will I do, fwhat
will I do?' thinks I to xneself whin Vulmea
wint away.
"Presintly the Arm'rer Sargint comes in
stiffin an' e'rackin' on, not pleased, wid any
wan, bekaze the Martini-Henri beiu' new to
the rie'mint in those days we used to play
the mischief wid her arrangemintt. 'Twas
a long time before I cud get out av the way
av thrying to pull back the back-sight an'
turnin' her over afther firin' as if she was a
Snider.
" 'Fwhat tailor men do they give me to
'work wid? sez the Arm'rer Sargint. 'Here's
Hogan, his nose flat as a table, laid by for a
weee, an' ivry comp'ny sendin' their arrums
in knocked to small shivereens.'
" 'Fwhat's wrong wid Hogan, 8argint?'
sez I.
"Wrong'' ses the Arm'rer Sargint;
'showed him, as though I had been his
mother, tbe way av sbtrippin' a 'Tini, an'
.he shtrup her clane an' easy. I tould him
to put her to again an' fire a blank into tbe
.blow-pit to show how the dirt hung on the
groovin'. He did that, but he did not put
in the pin av the fallin' blok, and av
coorse, whin he fired he was strook by the
jumpin clear. Well for him 'twas but a
lijank a fall block charge wud ha' cut his
oi out.'
" 'How's that, Sargint?' sez I.
'"This way, ye blnndheriu' man. an
.don't yon be doing nt,' sez he. Wid that
he shows me a Waster action, the breech av
ner all cut away to show tbe inside, an so
plazed was he to grumble, that he demon
strated fwhat Hogan had done twice over.
An' that come av not knovrin'the weppm
you're parvided wid,' sez lie.
'"Thank ye, Sargint,' sez I; 'I will come
to ye again for further information.'
" Ye will not,' sez be. 'Kape your clan
in' rod awav from the breech-pin or you
will get into throuble.
" 'I wint outside an' I cud ha danced wid
delight for the grandeur av ut They will
load my rifle, good luck to thim, whoile I'm
aways, thinks I, and back I wint to the
canteen to give them. their chanst
"The canteen was fillin wid men at the
ind av the day. I made feign to be far gone
in dhnnk an' wan by wan all my roomful
came in wid Vnlmea. I wint away walkin
thick and heavy, but not so thick an' heavy
. uuj n.u .uu un hUH U1C OUIC ttUU
thrue, there was a kyartridge gone from my
pouch an' lyin' snng in my rifle. I was hot
wid rage against thim all an' I worried the
bullet out wid my teeth as fast as I cud, the
room bein empty. Then I tuk my boots an'
the clanin' rod and knocked out the pin of
the fallin' block. Oh! 'twas music whin
that pin rowled on the flare! I put ut into
my pouch an' struck "a dab av dirt on tbe
holes in tbe plate, puttin' the fallin' block
back. 'That'll do your business, Vulmea,'
sez I, Ivin' easy on the cot. 'Come an' sit
on my chest, tbe whole room ay you, an' I
will take you to mr-bosom for the biggest
divils thai iver cheated halter.' I wud have
no mercy on Vulmea. His oi or his life,
little I cared!
"At dusk they came back, the 12 av thim,
an' they had all been dhrinkin'. I was
shammin sleep on the cot. Wan man wint
outside in the veranda. Whin he whistled
they began to rage roun' the room, an carry
on trcmenjus. Butlniver want to hear
men laugn as tbey did skylarkin', toot
'Twas like mad jackals.
in the dhark, an' pop goes the room lamp.
I cud hear O'Hara runnin' up an the
rattlin' av mv rifle in the rack an' the men
breathin' heavy aa they stud roun' my cot.
I cud see O'Hara in the light av the veranda
lamp an' thin I heard the crack av mr rifle.
She cried lond, poor darlint, being mis-
Jianoieu. Jext minut nve men were hold
in' me down. 'Go easy, sez I; 'fwhat's ut
all about?'
"Thin. Vnlmea, on the flare, raised a howl
you cud hear from wan ind av cantonmints
to the other. "I'm dead, I'm butchered, I'm
blind,' sez he. 'Saints have mercy on my
sinful sowl 1 Slnd for Father Constant I On,
eind for Father Constant an' let me go
clean!' By that T knew he was not so dead
as I cud ha' wisned.
"O'Hara picks up the lamp in the veranda
wid a hand as stiddy as a rest. 'Fhwat dog's
thrick is this av yours?' sez he, an' turns
tbe light on Tim Vulmea, that was shwim
min' in blood Irom top to toe. The fallin'
block had sprung free behin' a full charge
av powther good care I tuk to bite down
the brass afther takin' out the bullet, that
there might be soniethin' to give ut full
worth an' had cut Tim from the lip to the
corner av the right eye, lavin' the eyelid in
tat hers, an' so up an' along by the forehead
to the hair. 'Twas more av a rakin' plow,
if, you will nndherstand, than a clean cut,
an' mver did I see a man bleed as Vulmea
did. The dhrink an' the stew that he was
in pumped the blood strong. The minut'
tbe men sittin' ou my chest heard O'Hara
spakin' tbey scattered each wan to his cot,
an cried out very politeful, 'Fwhat is ut,
Sargint?'
" 'Fwhat is ut?' sex O'Hara, shakin' Tim.
Well an' good do you know fwhat ut is, ve
skulkin', ditch-lurkin' dogs! Get a doolie,
an' take this whimperin' scut away. There
will be more heard av ut than any av ye
will care log.'
Vulmea sat up rockin his head in his
ment you have conthrived, but by fwaht
I've seen 1 know that you cannot commit
murdher wid another man's rifle, such
shakin' cowards you are. I'm goin' to
slape,' I sez, 'an you can blow my head off
whoile I lay.' I did not slape, though, for
a long time. Can ye wonder?
"Next morn tbe news was through all the
reg'mint, an' there was nothin' that the men
did not tell. O'Hara reports, fair an' easy,
that Vulmea was come to grief through
tamperiu' wid bis rifle in barracks all for to
show themechanicism. An' by my sowl' he
had the inipartinince to say that he nas on
the spbot at the time, an' cud certify that ut
was an accidentl You might ha' knocked
my roomful down wid a straw whin they
heard that. 'Twas luckv for him that the
bhoys were always thryin' to find out how
the new rule was made, an a Jot av thim
had come up for easin' the pull hy shtickin'
bits av grass an' such in the part avthe lock
that showed near the thrigger. The first
issues"av the 'Tinis was not covered in an I
mesilf have eased the pull av mine time an
agin. A light pull is ten points on the
range to me.
" 'I will not have this foolishness,' sez the
Colonel; 'I will twist the tail of Vulmea,'
cez he; 'but whin he saw him, all tied up an'
groanin' in hospital he changed his will.
Make him an early conyalescint,' sez he to
the doctor., and Vulmea' was made so for a
warnin'. His big bloody bandages an' face
puckered up to wan side did more to kape
tbebhoys from niessin' wid the inside av
their rifles than any punishment.
"O'Hara gave no reason lor fwhat he'd
said, an' all my roomful were too glad to
inquire, tho' he put his spite upon thim
more wearin' than before. Wan day, how
ever, he tuk me apart very polite, for he cud
be that at the choosin'.
'You're a good sodger, tho' you're an
insolint man,' sez he.
" "Fair words, Sargint,' sex I, 'or I may
be insolint again.'
Tis not like you, sez he, 'to lave your
rifle in the rack without the breechpin, for
widout the breechpin she was when Vulmea
fired. I should ha' lound the break av nt
in tbe eyes av the holes, else,' he sex.
" 'Sargint,' sex I, 'fwhat wud your life
ha' been worth had the breechpin been in
place, for on my sowl, my life wud be worth
just as mach to me av I tould you whether
ut was or was not. Be thankful the bullet
was not there,' sez I.
" That's thrue,' sez he, pulling his mus
tache, 'but I do not believe that you, for all
your lip, was in that business.'
" 'Sargint,' sez I, 'I could hammer the
life out av a man in ten minut's wid my
fists if that man dishpleased me; fori am a
good sodger, an' I will be threated as such,
an' whoile my fists are my own they're
strong enough for all work I have to do.
They do not fly back toward me,' sez I,
lookin' him betunethe eyes.
" 'You're a good man,' sez he, lookin' me
betune the eyes, an' Oh, he was a gran
built man to see. 'You're a good man,' he
sez, ' an' I could wish for the pure frolic av
utthat I was not a Sargint, or that vou
were not a privit, an' you will think me no
coward whin I say this thing.'
'"I do not,' sez I; 'I saw yon whin Vul
mea mishandled the rifle. But, Sargint,' I
sez, 'take the wurrd from me now, spakin'
as a man to a man wid the sthripes ofl,
though 'tis little right I have to talk, me
being fwhat I am by natur'. This time ye
tuk no harm an' next time ye may not, but,
in the ind, ye tak harm an' bad harm.
Have thought, Sargint,' sex I, it's worth ut,
isn't ut?'
"You're a bould man,' sez he, breathin'
hard; 'a very bould man. But I am a bould
man, tu. Do you go your way, Privit Jlul-
1 will go mine.'
YICTOKIA'S LETTERS.
Her family Record as Ii Appears in
Our State Department,
SIGNATURES AT 18 AND AT 71.
Joyous Words on Her Wedding and Thank
fulness for Each Heir.
OTHER IHTEEESTIKG COEEESPOXDBSCE
(COsnxsrowDENCE or thi dispatch. 1
Washington, June 14.
HE great deuartments
of Washington have
hidden away in their
musty records the ro
mances of the greatest
men of the United
States. There is a tra
dition that some very
spicy love letters of
George Washington are
hidden away in the
State Department.
Others of the records
contain references to the
troubles which existed nt the time that
Peggy O'Neill, the handsome daughter of
the Washington tavern keeper married
Major Eaton, Jackson's Secretary of War,
and set Washington society by the ears, and
still others describe tbe troubles which
Alexander Hamilton underwent through
the persecution of the pretty Mrs. Reynolds.
By all odds the most interesting volumes
of love and marriage, however, found in
these departments are those which contain
the letters of kings and queens describing
their marriages, and in glowing terms pict
uring their gratitude to heaven for the birth
of a prince or a princess. According to the
fan- yW 3ilunA
'ttS&UcAsj
cember, less than a year after her marriage,
and it announces the birth of her first child.
She writes as follows:
Tbe Almlehty having in His infinite goodness
been pleased to grant us a Princess, who was
born at 1:50 o'clock on tbe 21st of November,
we hasten to notify you ol this happy event in
tho full conviction from the sentiments of
friendship which you Bare evinced toward us
on former occasions, that you will take an in
terest in an event so important to onr domin
ions, and so gratifying to ourselves and to the
Prince Consort, and so with our cordial wishes
for your welfare and prosperity, we recom
mend you to the nroteciion of the Almighty,
etc.. etc
BIEX1I OF THE PBIJfCE OF 'WAXES.
Just one year later comes the announce
ment of the birth of Albert tEdward, Prince
of Wales, which is chronicled as follows:
Tho proofs which we have received of your
friendship and of the interest which you take
in all that concerns our person and family, do
not permit ns to derer announcing to you that
the Alinighty.ln His infinite goodness,bas been
leased to grant us a Prince, who was born at
ucktngham Palace on the mornins of the 9th
Instant. In communicating to you an event so
highly Important to onr people, and so joyful to
ourselves and the Prince Consort, we embrace
tbe opportunity of assuring you of our con
stant lriendsbip, and we recommend you to tbe
protection of tbe Almighty, eta, etc
Two years later another Princess1 came,
and a few pages further on we find the birth
ot a Prince recorded, and so it goes, Princes
and iTincesses pepper tbe pages of this
great autograph book, and at each new birth
Victoria expresses her thanklulness to the
Lord and recommends us to the protection
of the Almighty.
Altogether the Queen has had seven chil
dren, and she has enough grandchildren to
NO MOEE WRINKLES,
Modern Cosmetic Art Has Succeeded
in Making the Old Yonn2.
TAKING SILVER OUf OP THE HAIE.
Hints In Eegard to the Proper Perfames
and Hot to Use Them.
COARSE WHOLE MEAL FOOD THE BEST
Napoleon III, When President
The Queen' Signature at IS.
hand an' moanin for-Father Constant.
"Bedonel sez O'Hara, dhraggin' him
np by the hair. "Ye're none so dead that
ye can't go 15 years tor thryin' to shoot me.'
" 'I did not,' sez Vulmea, 'I was shootin'
mesilf.'
"That's quare,' sez O'Hara, 'for the
front av my jacket is black wid your pow
ther.' He tuk up the rifle, that was still
warm, and began to lauch. 'I'll make your
life hot to you, sez he, 'for attempted mur
dher an kapinyour rifleouproperly. You'll
be hanged first an' tbin put undher stop
pages lor 4bnr-fifteen. The rifle's done for,'
sez he.
'"Whv, 'tis my riflel sez I, comin' ud to
look. 'Vulmea, ye divil, fwbat were you
aoin wia ner answer me mat
" 'Lave me alone,' sez Vulmea; 'I'm
dyinT "
" 'I'll wait till you're betther,' s"ez I, 'an'
thin we tu will talk ut out umbrageous."
"O'Hara pitched Tim into the doolie, none
too tinder, but all the bhoys kep' by their
cots, which was not the sign av innocent
men. I was huntin' ivrywhere for my
fallin' block, but-notflndin' ut at alllniver
found nt.
"'Xoxr fwbat will I -do?' sez O'Hara,
swingih'thVveranda light in his hand an
lookin' down the room. 'Light the lamp,
ye dogs,' an' wid that he turned away, an' I
saw him walkin' off.
"So wan said a word for a time. They
was all ashamed; past spache.
"Fwhat djon think ha will dot' uz
wan of thim at last. 'He knows we're all
inut
"Are-weso?'i,iezI-fromr my cot. -.The
man that's lhalTKJ-'me will.be hnrtr Tdn
'"Black Jack is the maither, sez Ki, J not know,' sex V'whal onderHanddhril.
vaney, an l will go mine.
"We had no further spache thin or
afther, but wun by another he drafted the
twelve av my room out into other rooms an'
got thim spread among the comD'nies, for
they was not a eood sort to live together, an'
the company ofPcers saw ut. They wud ha'
shot me in the night av tbey had known
fwhat I knew, but they did not."
An' in the ind, as I said, O'Hara met
his death for his diviltry. He wint his own
way too well, Eyab too well! Shtraight to
that affair widout turnin' to the right or to
the let' he wint, an' may the Lord hare
mercy on his sowl. Amin."
"Ear! 'ear!" said Orthens, pointing the
moral with a wave of his pipe, "an' this is
'im oo would be a bloomin' Vulmea all for
the sake of Mullins an' a bloomin' button!"
"Orthens," I said hastily, for the ro
mances of Private Ortheris are slightly too
daring; for publication, "look at the sun;
it's a quarter past six."
"Oh! Three-quarters of an hour for five
an' a 'arf milesl We'll have to run like
Jimmy O."
The three musketeers clambered onto tbe
bridge and departed hastily in the direction
of the cantonment road. When I overtook
them I offered them two stirrups and a tail,
which tbey accepted enthusiastically,
Ortheris held the tail, and in this manner
we trotted steadily through the shadows by
an unlrroueuted road.
At the turn into the cantonments we
heard carriage wheels. It was the Colonel's
barouche, and in it sat the Colonel's wife
and daughter. I caught a suppressed
chuckle, and my beast sprang forward with
a lighter step.
The three musketeers had vanished into
the night
THEY'LL GST A CHANGE.
conrt etiquette of Europe whenever a son or
daughter is born to a ruler a letter is sent to
the State Department, These letters are
carefully filed. They are bound in great
morocco covered books, and they constitute
the most valuable autograph collection ot
the United States. Manv of the pages are
bordered with black, announcing the death
of a ruler, but such an announcement is al
ways accompanied by the proclamation of
another to the throne, and the old rule, the
King is dead, long live the King, ever
holds good.
VICTOEIA AT EIGHTEEN.
It takes one large volume to contain the
court letters of Great Britain, and there are
many autographs of Queen Victoria scat
tered through the pages. The first letter she
writes was penned when at sweet 18 she
stepped out of private life into tbe the throne
of the greatest Government on the face of tbe
globe. Her letter announcing her ascent is
written on blue foolscap pajier, with a nar
row black border in honor of the death of
William IV. The signature is boldly penned
jrtAJr $ mriihjuud
uCeLli
The Quten'i Signature at 71
Mr. Madison Square Drops Onto the Loss of
Appetite Rnalnrns In Good Time.
Alex. E. Sweet's Correspondence.
"What is tbe matter with you, Matilda ?
You don't eat as fluently as usual," re
marked Mr. Madison Square to his wife at
the dinner table a few days ago.
"I have not been feeling well for some
time. I think the girls and myself will
have to eet a change of air this summer,"
replied Mrs. Madison Square languidly.
"O, you do, do you? Your health is in a
precarious fix? If all you want is a little
change, I'll lend you a quarter. So you are
off again this summer to some health" resort?
Suppose you take me alone. That will be a
change. You want to go to Saratoga, where
the porter collects 60 cents if von look at
him, with 25 cents extraifyou sneeze. And
you can't fool me by saying that mavbe one
of the girls will catch a husband, for I know
what these seaside engagements amount to.
Because Eebecca bagged Jacob at a well
that's no sign that our g'irls can
do the same thing at a water
ing place. The men have learned a great
deal since then. You have got your mouth
fixed for Long Branch, where you can sit
on the piazza and talk three Lours at a
stretch and listen to a brass band that makes
the tide ebb before its time. You and the
girls will stay right here for a change, with
the accent on the change, where the change
will not be spent before the summer is. If
yon really want the wild enjoyment you get
at the average summer resort you can sleep
out in the woodshed and d.iub your face
with walnut juice. Want to go to a water
ing place, do you? What's the matter with
the pump on the corner?"
Exit Mrs. Madison Square, indignant.
WOMEN CHECK-WEITEES.
Unscrnpnlons Persons Can Easily Kalse tbe
Amonals In Olany Cases,
"It's a great wonder," said a Pittsburg
bank cashier yesterday, "that lady deposi
tors are not continually being defrauded,
because of their manner of drawing checks.
Of course, when they draw them at the bank
we can correct the. Bnt the checks they
write during their shopping tours would, I
should think, be a constant temptation to
people with tough consciences. -They could
be so easily raised. Nearlv all, except the
experienced ones, ail to fill out the line
after patting down the amount and any
bungler could raise the figures. It is a bless
ing, therefore, that most" of the checks are
drawn to the order of the reputable business
houses of the city.
"Frequently their checks are for ridicu
lously small amounts. It is the new depos
itors who write them. It is a novelty, and
they appear to leave all their small change
and big change, too, for that matter at
home, for tbe purpose of enjoying it I have
had as many as 16 checks Irom one woman
in one day and some for amounts as small
as 5 cents. Tbe other day' a check was pre
sented here for 19 cents." .
in a schoolgirl hand, and she evidently
wrote it very carefully. The ink is ns. black
to-day as it was when it reached 'the State
Department during tbe administration of
President Van Buren. and the indorsement
of the great Minister Palmerston appears in
the same ink below it. The letter reads:
Victoria, bv the Grace of God. Queen ot the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Defender of tbe Faitb. etc, etc, to the Presi
dent ot tho United States of America. Sendeth
greeting:
Onr good friend: It is with .the deepest
affliction that we announce to you the decease
of our most honored and beloved uncle, bis
late Majesty King William the IV., of blessed
memory, whom it plcasetb God to call from
mis worm on ine morning oi tne -via instant,
at 2:12 o'clock. In the 72d year ot bis ago and
the seventh of bis reign. Wbile-we thns com
municate to you tho earliest Intelligence of this
mournful event, we feel convinced that you
will participate-in our own and the public grief
for the loss of a sovereign whose memory is
justly dear to his family and to his snbjects of
evory class. In acquainting you at the same
time without accession to the tbrono of this
kincdom, we eannot omit to assure you that It
will be our most earnest deire to cultivate and
maintain tbe relations of friendship and good
start a township. She has a number of
cousins, and her family costs England
about $4,000,000 a year. I saw Queen Vic
toria in Scotland about three years ago.
She is fat and dnmpy now, and all the
romance has gone 'out of her soul. Her
silly attachment for John Brown made her
ridiculous.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S FUf ANCE3.
She has an immense private fortune from
which she has a big income in addition to
that received from the Government, and she
manages her money so well that it grows
from year to year. Her husband, when he
died, felt abont S3.000.000. and tho letter
chronicling his death, which I find in this
autograph album of the State Department
was written by Albert Edward, Prince of
Wales, who was then 21 years old. This is
tbe first time that Albert Edward's name
ocenrs in our state correspondence. It is
probab'y the first time he had anything to
do with the governing of England, and it is
worthy of record. It reads as follows:
Albert Edward, Frlnce of Wales, to the Presi
dent or the United States of America, Sendeth
Ureetlng:
My Vert Good Fbiesd The Queen, my
beloved mother, has sustained an overwhelm
ins loss in the aeath of my beloved and
mourned father. His Royal Highness, tbe
Princo Consort, Prince Albert Eduard of Saxe-Coburc-Gotha,
Duke of Saxony, whicb took
place at Windsor Castle at 10.50 o'clock. In the
night of tbe 11th ultimo, after a short illness,
in tho 43d year of his age. You can well con
ceive tbo utter desolation and grief of the
Queen under the unexpected bereavement
wnlch Her Majesty, her family and her coun
try have undergone. In these deeply afflicting
circumstances X have been commanded to
write in this one instance on behalf of my dis
consolate mother, lor tbe purpose of announc
ing tbe fatal event. Tbe Queen is persuaded
tbat you will kindly receive this notification as
from herself, and that you will give her your
kindly sympathy unaer tbe heavy trial whicb
It has pleased Divine Providence to visit her.
And so I recommend you to the protection ot
tbe Almighty.
x our very uooa x riend,
AXBEBT EDWABD.
Osbuen House, tbeSth of January, 1802.
HOW SIGNATTJBE3 CHANGE.
Her last signatures have materially
rWMTTEX TOB TUB DISPATCH.'!
What the modern cosmetic art does not
hold for women is hardly worth looking for.
Come with me to a New York toilet house
I have in mind. A page opens the door to
the shadowy, scented interior, delieiously
fresh and cool with its tea rose tinted walls,
polished floor, bare bnt ior a Turkish rug
here and there, and the harmonics bric-a-brac
which fills without crowding the room.
The semblance of & shop is almost lost, for
there are no counters or wallcases, but white
and gold tables strewn with luxurious toilet
wares, and Louis XVL cabinets, also white
and gold, loaded with charming things,
each in its own color, one violet scent bags,
boxes, cbina pots and perfume .cases all in
the favorite tint, another jonquil yellow, a
.third robin's-egg blue, a fourth jade-green,
a pretty and soothing attention to color. A
white and gold hamper is piled with pale
purple satine bags of lavender flowers for
scenting linen, generous bags holding a pint
of the sifted flowers, the sweetest, freshest
scent in the world. Another great basket is
heaped with almond-meal bags in white
muslin for the bath, yet another with the
finest velvetv sponges. One glittering case
is filled with brushes and combs in cm
bossed silver of rich designs, others with
tortoise shell and gold, in Marie An
toinette's taste, and you can order a toilet
comb set with rnbies and pearls, if you like,
with your crest in the middle.
SPECIALTIES IN PEBFUMEBT.
The scent sachets are a specialty, for the
perfuming of houses and -wardrobes is a
business by itself nowadays, and an order
for scenting a house is a very .welcome and
profitable thing The variety of sachets is a
credit to the invention of the makers.
These lengths of wadded and painted satin,
a yard and a half by three-eighths; what
are tbey for but to line bureau drawers, so
that every piece of lace laid in them will
take tbe perfumes as it waits tbe wearing.
Longer and broader ones in pale India silk
or chinee with flowers are to lay in tbe great
boxes which hold rich dresses, or hang up
in closets against the wall, so that gowns
and cloaks may take the scent Long ones
are to hang inside the skirt of dresses when
worn, thin ones to baste inside jackets, and
round ones to wear in the crowns of bonnets
to perfume the hair.
Glove sachets of white satin, embroidered
with the flower whose fragrance they carry,
are luxurious enough for tbe pillow of the
loves and graces together; and ladies have
their foot-rugs interlined with vertivcrt and
sandalwood dust to keep away moth. As
all women know, it is the hardest thing to
find a really good and lasting sachet powder
that will "carry the essence of the flower
without more ot the base, as perfumers call
it, tbe infinitesimal of musk, ambergris or
pimento, which serves to give it body.
changed from the first Her V's are now
made with a great flourish instead of being
an ordinary wedge, and taking two signa
tures, one written when she first ascended
the throne and another penned but a few
months ago, one would not imagine the two
to be written by the same person.
The same thing holds good of other signa
tures. These royal autograph books contain
the names of Napoleon during different
periods of his lite. When he was first
elected President of the French Eepublic
ho wrote his name L.N. Bonaparte, and the
letter in which he announces his acceptance
of the place is very moderate and full of
patriotism and republicanism. On another
page a letter is pasted in. It is dated only
a year later, but in it Louis Napoleon ha&
thrown off bis title of Bonaparte and signs
himself simply N. Napoleon. In the next
-A
T X-d &u
Signature or the Prince of Wales.
understanding whicb so happily subsist be
tween tbe two countries; and tbat Itwill always
afford us further opportunities of proving the
Interest we take in the welfare and prosperity
of the United States, and so we recommend
yon to tbe protection of tbe Almighty.
Given at our Conrt at Kensineton, tho
twentv-third day of June, in tbe year of our
Lord 183, and tbe first year of our reign.
Your Good Friend,
. VlCTOlIIA B.
SHEEP'S EYES AT TATJX.
Victoria's next letter is on white paper.
It gives the credentials of Henry Stephen
Fox as Minister to America, and again rec
ommends us to the protection ot the Al
mighty. Tbe letter following- this reads
like copperplate, and it contains tbe an
nouncement of the Queen's marriage with
Prince Albert Victoria was then 21 years
of age. She had several lovers before she
fell in love with Prince Albert One of
these was Lord Elpbinstone, a tall, fine
looking Scotch peer who was made Governor
of Madras, in India, in order to get him out
of the way of the futnre Queen. Another
was Lord Fitzallen, but Fitzallen was a
Boman Catholic, and he fell in love with a
Hse
on CtAvtA
Napoleon JIT. When Emperor.
Napoleon 111. When Prince.
barmaid. His family sent him to Athens
to get him out of the way of the barmaid
and be lost the Queen.
It is said thai the Queen later in lire cast
sheep's eyes at our own new Congressman,
Mr. Vaux, but however this may be, she
married Prince Albert in great style and
began to raise children as rapidly as any
poor man's wife on the Western" frontier.
Just about a year after the ceremony she
had her first child, and there is no doubt
that her marriage was a happy one. Tbe
letter in which she announces ber marriage
i. written in tbe following jubilant lan
guage, and is signed iu a bold, round hand.
It reads:
ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEE MAERIAOE.
The celebration of our marriage with His
Royal Highness, the Prince Albert Francis
Augnstus Charles Emmanuel, second son of
His Serene Highness the reigning Duke of
Saxe-Cobnrg-Gotba, having taken place at Lon
don, im the 10th of tbe present montb, we lose
no time In notifying you of this event. The
sentiments of friendship which you have
already manifested toward us on, other occa
sions, afford ns tbe assurance tbat you will
take an Interest la an event whicb, by tbe
blessing of the Almighty will, we trust, con
tribute to tbe welfare ot our people and secure
our own domestic happiness. And so with our
cordial wishes for your welfare and prosperity,
we recommend you to tbe nroteetlon or th
Almlehty.
1'he sen letter u aatea the lita of Be.
letter he drops the Louis and comes out
boldly as "Napoleon, the Emperor."
Shortly after he became Emperor he an
nounced bis marriage with Eugenie. This
mnrriage took place in 1853, nearly 20 years
before he lost his throne. It was a love
match, and the letter written in French
which Napoleon sends about it is interest
ing. He says tbat he hopes that the mar
riage may promote the friendship between
the two countries, and closes by recommend
ing us to God and signing himself, "Our
Good Friend, Napoleon."
The book of French autographs is full of
social history of the royalty of France.
Louis Philfippe shortly before his ascension
to the French throne announced the mar
riage oi his son to the President of the
United States, and a short time later I find
his signature appended to a letter stating
that the Comte de Paris, his grandson, has
been born. Louis Phillippe is one of the
best penmen of all the kings. His letters
look more like diplomas tbat State corre
spondence. Miss Gbundt, Jb.
FASHIOHABLE WETTING PAPEB.
Tellow and Other Pale Tints Are Popular
Just Now Cards for Teas.
Detroit Free Press.
Yellow, very deep yellow, known as
"pumpkin," is the new color in writing
paper, and is stamped with silver and lead.
A caprice is to stamp the paper with the
day of the week in Spanish or Arabic; the
letters in red on yellow having a peculiar
effect For those who like a more delicate
paper there are a variety of pale tints, two
combined running diagonally across both
the envelope and paper and dotted here and
there with a tiny butterfly of another shade.
There is little change in form, but some of
the en'ftlopes are long with square flaps.
Cards for "teas" are cream white, a trifle
longer than they are wide. Across the top
a teapot in the style known as "Japan
esque," a cup and saucer, and sugar bowl
are embossed in copper or silver, underneath
in letters of silver or copper are the words
"Thursday, tea at 6," "Come to tea," or
"tea party," there being a multitude ot
forms to suit tbe taste of the tea giver.
WOJTDEBFUL SCALES.
They Will Weigh a Hnlr or a SIsnataro In
Lend Pencil Upon n Card.
St. Loals Globe-Democrat. 1
A fine thing in tbe way of delicately ad
justed scales has just been turned out by a
Philadelphia firm lor the mint at New
Orleans. There are two pair. The larger
has a capacity of 10,000 ounces troy, or
about 785 pounds avoirdupois, and when
loaded to its full capacity will indicate the
variation of one-thousandth of an inch.
The other, pair is intended' for lighter work.
All of its bearings are of agate.
This instrument is believed to be the most
delicate In the world. It will give the
precise weight of a human hair and is sus
ceptible o the slightest atmospheric change.
A signature written'on a card with an or
dinary pteucll will make a perceptible differ-
esce lnxno weigni oi ut card.
INDIVIDTAIiinr IN PEEFUMES.
A lady's perfumes are serious considera
tions, for they carry her individuality with
them, and it behooves her to be careful
what she allows about her. Some women
always suggest the odious English white
rose sachets, which smell of pepper and
musk combined, wiih a suffocating effect,
and others have cheap heliotrope which sav
ors too much of tbe vanilla bottle in the
kitchen, and others use those cosmopolite
scents which belong to no flower in particu
lar. The odors of white flowers now suit
fashionable taste from an idea that they are
more delicate than colored ones, at least the
suggestion of flower and scent together is
more pleasing. Accordingly, white rose,
wbite lilac, white violet, white iris, jonquil
and white orchid figure on the list of new
perfumes.
The heavy cut crystal bottles with silver
or enamel holders are the choice at present,
but porcelain flagons are the best to keep
scents in, for an experienced chemist says
they shonld be kept cool and dark to pre
serve their essence, and prevent their grow
ing flat. The delicate and costly handker
chief extracts are used in spite of the para
graph that everything is scented except the
kerchief, one of those emanations which
smells of the brain it came Irom. The toilet
waters ior spraying rooms and using in tbe
bath are usually tinctured with some re
freshing herb, lavender, citron, or the East
Indian grass vertivert, and a rich, old-fashioned
scent breathes of sandal, cedrat aud
bergamot in skillful blending, an odor
which charms and invigorates.
SOFTENING THE HANDS.
What do you want to supplement vour
defects, It one may imagine you to have any,
madam? Something to whiten and soften
the hands and keep them supple and soft
while you are camping out this summer in
the Sierras, where one grows so healthy and
so orownr uream oi strawberries, it you
please. Here it is, a delicious looking, del
icate scented emulsion, tempting one to
taste it as some luscious fruity confection.
It is nnrivaled for the hands, whitening
and softening them to perfection, the newest
and one of the oldest French cosmetics re
vived again.
The latest Parisian lotions are colorless
liquids which astringe the skin and neu
tralize its oiiiness, or creams, with glycer
ine, which keep the face in a perpetual
moisture, plumping the tissues and erasing
lines; There is real benefit for wrinkles and
sallow complexions in tbese famous recipes,
if intelligently used. This charming little
pot of toilet cream will last two months
rightly applied, and soften the face to a
marvel by its protecting layer on the skin.
I saw it made the other day in the labora
tory, and bad a band-in tne mixing, just to
say so; and for all there was iu it I should
not be afraid to eat it now, The freshest of
fresh eggs and lemon juice, sugar, almond
oil and rose water mixed with utmost care
and cleanliness, stirred and beaten for hours
upon hours, smelling delicately as if a rose
had been dipped into it sometime, should
make a tempting cosmetic to create beauty
or restore it to itself.
SWEETENING THE BBEATH.
Cosmetic medicines form a separate branch
of study, and supplement a toilet dealer's
stock iu trade as naturally as tooth brushes.
I think you asked me awhile ago for some
thing to keep your breath as sweet as your
lover's, madam how did you know it was
so sweet? No matter.
"We all ieel the charm of balmy breath
that doth almost persuade justice to sheathe
her sword," and this bottle of clear red
liquid, with a few drops poured iu a glass
of water, will Durily the breath and all
within the lips that one need not mind how
closely the hearers' attention hangs upon
them. The same liquid is sovereign for
dyspepsia, and reduces the interior to an
amiable state very quickly. It is nice to
have something "one can depend on to neu
tralize the breath from a decaving tooth in
that state where the dentist cannot work at
14 or undo the effects of a sleepless night,
which never fails to leave tbe breath af
fected. A few drops of such a tincture will
often prevent the toothache, which comes of
eating sweets. In short, a really.'good tooth
wash is the first of cosmetic necessities.
TAKING OUT 'WBINKIiES.
But all that is in bottles you can become
acquaiuted with as easily as I can tell vou.
What you want to know more about, Iup
pose.are the wonderlul mystic performances
ot toilet specialists who take old society
women, jaded, and wrinkled and thin, with
the galley slave life they lead, and turn
them out smooth rounded and growing
younger as the weeks of treatment roll on.
What with electricity, facial massage, air
pumps "id toilet cupping, a realfv old
woman bids fair to be a novelty, outside the
country, wo will assume you are old,
wrinkled with the tell-tale parentheses each
side tbe mouth and the line across the top of
the nose by which men say they tell a
woman's aze. Ther will have to learn
more if they think to know a woman's age
hereafter by anything but the expression of
her eyes, .which can not be counterfeited yet
awhile by most people. And beware of
those who can imitate the tender, innocent,
appealing look as of a stray seraph, for they
come from the other place direct.
The specific treatment for wrinkles must
bekept up for six week vigorously, and ap
plied afterward as occasion requires. At
night bath the face in hot water, as hot as
can be borne, and steam it till the pores are
opened when a fine unguent is gently rubbed
into tbe skin which nourishes and
strengthens it Then the operator begins
the massage, which is not rubbing so much
as working the parts. She begins by stros
ing with the thumbs above the eyebrows
you can't do it yourself pressing outward
perhaps 25 times. Then she works all
round the orbit-of the eyes, and you have no
idea how it rests the tired nerves of sight
TWENTY 3IINTJTE3 OF FUSSING.
Down the temples is the next pass, then
the cheeks are stroked round, increasing
their plumpness or tbeir tendency that way.
The lines at the side of the nose and mouth
are very gently stroked across and upward,
and the drooping muscle of tbe lower cheek
has especial attention and a dash of salt and
brandy lotion sometimes to restore its firm
ness. A skillful operator will fuss over
your face 20 minutes and if you don't bap
pen to look exactly beautiful, immediately,
you feel so. All this massage is worth every
dollar it costs for the nervous relief it gives.
Many women never know for years what it
is to feel rested and soothed till they come
nnder the hands of a masseur.
The massage alone is enough to take 20
years off a woman's age, but when the wrin
kles are deep, after the penetrating ungent
has had time to nourish the skin a little,
cupping is employed. The apparatus is a
glass cup with rubber bulb attached, which,
when pressed, creates a vacuum under it.
ine ssin is drawn into tne cup and the suc
tion takes the creases out Tbe wrinkle
treatment is harmless enough if one wants
to bother with it Taken in time, with
enough exercise given the parts of tbe face,
wrinkles will become only a word in tbe
dictionary, or there will be shops which
supply them for lady physicians and poli
ticians, as they supply gray hair switches
for those who want them.
BEAUTY'S FBOPEK FOOD.
The most skillful and best informed toilet
specialists of the cities make the coarse
whole meal food an indispensable part of
their diet, as it aids the work of beauty so
effectually. It makes fine flesh, it feeds the
nerve, and teeth that have begun to crumble
and decay renew themselves on .this food
with sound bone and euamel. There is no
need to write to me for this bread. It is to
be had wherever one can grind good wheat
between coarse stones without bolting it,
and bake such flour cakes mixed with milk
and water in a very hot oven till thoroughly
brown. That is all. Such was the bread
the patriarchs ate when they lived hundreds
ofyears. It is good solely becanse it con
tains the elements needed for the body in the
best and most eatable shape. It is notable
when living on sound food how quickly the
hair and nails grow, and how the
former renews Its gloss. I have latelv heard
on the testimony of a very creditable and
conservative medical man, of hair which
had turned gray, regaining its color with
health. If any one else has proof of such a
phenomenon, it is too interesting not to be
made public. Nature has secrets to reveal
of her renewing powers, unaided by the
sfc.ui oi even nign ana intelligent art We
may be thankful to accomplish so much for
beauty by means of perfumed and delicate
cosmetics. But there Is a bolder step to
take when we can look to the serene and
simple processes of nature for restoration.
Shibley Dabs.
THE AMERICAN GIBL
Has Pushed Herself Forward Into
Every Field of Usefulness.
FITTED TO MEET MISFORTUNE.
A Traa Exponent of the American Idea
of the Dignity of Labor.
THE WHOLE TBUTH FEOH A "fflTMBS
PHILOSOPHIC REFLECTIONS.
rwairnHr tob thi dispatch bt a countbt
PARSON.
THE doctrine of tha survival of tbe fittest Is
a fact. Tha works of nature demonstrate the
truth of such a proposition. True it Is. tha
demonstration is often the wort of time, but it
is none the lesfa verity. Tho frail trees of the
forest succumb to tbe onslaught of the tempest,
while the sturdy ones stand the blast. In every
ace of the world, and In every conntry from
time Immemorial the question has been put,
"where shall we get tbe statesmen, tbe war
riors and tbo orators like nnto tbosa that
garland the world with glory to-day?" Ood
has always answered tbese questions by fllllne
emercencies as necessities arise. Ont of an
apparently chaotic mass of embryotic material
have been evolveu men to fill the empty niches
of tbe world. There is no probability tbat tbe
author of material and spiritual things will
lose His cunning.
PitE3iDENT .LrNCOLN was not a man of the
mostrebned tastes of aesthetic cultnre. His
philosophy was tho outcome of a sturdy man
hood that gained its maturity amid the work
shops of nature. Artificiality and effeminacy
were non-essential to tbe success ot bis mission.
The elements were so mingled in tne man tbat
tbe problem of human slavery, in its outward
form, at least, was solved. The great alchemist
so mixed the constituent parts of bis character
that tbe divine prescription eradicated tbo dis
ease. AND yet reflection suggests tbat Lincoln was
only an atom of a great whole. He was but one
treo in tbe forest Seward and Grant and tbe
thousands who took up arms for their country
in Its time of danger, were Inst as pecessary in
their varied SDiieros as was Lincoln. It is little
less than folly to spccnlate or look upon future
necessities with pessimistic eyes, when tbe past
nas oeen so iruiuui in men ior emergencies.
Futurity is always pregnant.
The colored problem, so-called, is a bugaboo
tbat alarms a goodly portion of onr citizens and
our statesmen are scratching tbeir craniums
for a solution. Some where in God's universe
there is a method and a man. Tbe method is
in the mind of tho Almighty, and the man's
mother may be rocking him to sleep in a home
made cradle to tbe music of the trees that
sing around a lonely log cabin in tbe woods or
amid the unfamiliar ravines of tbe Bocky
Mountains.
What an age of progress we are living m.
Hygiene Is increasing tbe length of human
life, electricity is abolishing distance, or rob
bing it of its influence. Over-cautious men
tell ns the world is moving too fast; man is
presuming too much; he is handling the forces
of nature too flippantly. In Isolated cases tbis
may be true, bnt as a fact of broad accepta
bility It has no existence. The wheels of
material progress have always been lubricated
wltb human blood. Strange! Yes, tbat must
be admitted, but over all tbe doctrine of tbe
survival of tbe fittest remains a fact. Fair
weather never made a good sailor, peace a
good soldier. The existence of danger In gen
erated power is never provea wiwout disaster.
Tbe death of one man from tbe touch of tbe
electric wlro may save a hundred other lives.
The explosion of a six-horse power boiler may
save a thousand lives on board a steamship.
Equiixbbiuu Is only maintained in the man
ner indicated. It is well to weigh probabilities
in tbe scales of past experience, to anticipate
possibilities from present environment but
there is no need for over-anxious solicitude
about tbe future. The fading rays of thepast
aro sufficient to illuminate the pathway of the
future far enough ahead to -avoid irreparable
disaster. Tbe Sontbern question, tbe alien
problem, tbe supply of meu of brain and brawn
to meet coming emergencies are all In tbe bands
of a power ot illimitable magnitude. It is as
true as truth can be, "There is a divinity shapes
onr ends, rough hew tbem bow we will."
fWBlTTXX 70S TUM niBPATC&l
"It is a curious fact that there wers bo
girl babies in the Garden of Eden."
"No boy babies, either, I believe."
"That is of less consequence," said tha
first speaker, who was a mother of daugh
ters. "Of course, there wouldn't be boys,
because no mischief was contemplated.
Ton see, it was already a place of perfect
happiness; so the girls were not needed.
Afterward, when Adam and Eve had been
driven out and all the trouble in the world
was on their shoulders, God in His mercy
sent daughters to comfort them."
Tho mother who evolved this novel ex
planation intended no disrespect to the boys.
She wished merely to emphasize tbe girls.
But was there ever a time when the import,
ance of girls needed, emphasizing? It cer
tainly does not now, for the girls are declar
ing themselves; and in the most sensible
and charming manner possible. Just at the
time when a good many of our young men
are turning their backs scornfully npon all
industry save tbe toil of spending the money
their fathers got for them, countless multi
tudes ot onr girls have suddenly grown
tired of constituting a leisure class, and
have swarmed into every field of work and
enterprise.
Into Every Field.
"Within the memory of middle-aged
people, tbe girl who was unhappily
compelled to earn her own living had this
range of choice: She could teach; she could
sew; she could go out to service; she could
take in washing; in a few localities she
could work in the factories. Now the girl
who is compelled to work and tbe girl who
is not compelled has stepped with self
possessed grace upon pretty nearlv every
round of the industrial ladder. She becomes
a doctor, and is just as likely as her brother
to get a good practice. She'becomes a law
yer, and gets along somehow. She studies
architecture, and succeeds at it She studies
art, not merely that she may paint pictures,
but that she may get money returns. She
takes possession of business offices, and long
ago she became the majority behind tha
sales counters. And every day she under
takes something new and mates a success
of it
The girl who works is no longer regarded
with compassion. Bather she is admired
and many times is envied. It is not alona
that necessity drives her that she works. It
is because ambition calls. She wants a
career of useiul activity, and she makes it
for heself. She has as much social lile as
her ambitions brother, and she enjoys it
with a keener zest than ever before.
And she will marry when the right time
and the right man presents himself, and if
the hand of misfortune shall smite, she will
not sink helpless nnder the blow.
MUTING IN GBAVE TAED3.
A Half million Dollars' Worth of Gold Goes
to Auierlcnn Cemeteries Each Year,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 3
Some French crank, with a taste for
statistics that are of no value to any one,
has figured it out that the dentists of Amer
ica annually insert in the teeth of their
customers about 1,800 pounds of gold.wbich
represent a costb? $450,000. This gold is
never recovered, of course, but is buried
with the person in whose mouth it is placed.
The statistician then goes on to show tbat,
allowing lor the rapid increase in the popu
lation of the United States, and the still
more rapid deterioration of American teeth,
that within 100 years the cemeteries of this
country will contain more gold than is now
in circulation in France. When that state
of affairs is reached, mining companies for
the working of cemeteries will be a matter
of course.
Helpless In Misfortune.
"Oh, if I could only do somethlngl" said
a widowed lady to me one time. As the
daughter of one rich man, and the wife of
another, she had lived through her years of
envied happiness, secure in the certainty
that privation could never come her way.
And yet just now her rich husband had
died and left her without a dollar iu the
world. Her inheritance had gone aud
without a spar to cling to she was cast into
the deep waters to sink or swim. And not
only she, but tbe crippled child which was
the only precious thing she now possessed.
She could play very well; she could sing
very well; she could paint tolerably, and
she could embroider. But not one of her
accomplishments had a commercial value
which she could exchange for a calico gown
or one day's food.
Training Tip Independent GIrli.
A man I have in mind who possesses
much wealth, includingsons and daughters,
has had every one of his children taught a
trade or a profession. And the teaching has
been so thorough aud so practical that each
member ot that household could any day
turn effort into money. The peculiarity In
tbis case is that tbe father has been more
diligent in having his daughters made self
supporting than in having his sons taught
A boy has a better chance in the world, he
says, but a woman needs the best equipment
she can have to battle against adversity.
And, iu this country particularly, adversity
may come any moment; for fortunes are lost
far more easily than they are gained.
"It my daughters," he says, "have
capable husbands and well-provided homes,
what I have taught them will do no harm.
If otherwise, what I have taught tbem will
do much good, and should I lose my money
thev will not have to marry Tom. Dick or
Harry in order to keep from starving."
Tbey Are Trne Amerleana.
It is a rather startling thought that just
now American girls seem to be the truest
opponent of the American idea. They are
the ones who eagerly and of their own free
will assert and maintain the dignity and in
dependence of labor. So that, after all, tha
women are likely to be the true conservators of
the Eepublic. And tbe charming part of it
all is tbat the girls are doing tbeir patriotic,
work without fussing about theories and
principles and high abstractions.
He Told tbe Whole Truth.
Th'e robust and healthful independence
which should always be suggested by the
oaue "American" has not been wholly
monopolized by the girls, much of it as they
now possess. A man of very genuine and
inspiring independence was a witness in a
Western Pennsylvania court not long ago.
A lawyer, who had the cross-examining of
this witness, tells the story. Everything
went well until a certain question had been
asked, and of much as it answered as ful
filled the lawyer's desires.
"Stop, therel Don't tell any more about
thatl"
"But there is more to tell. Iharea't folly
answered the .uestion."
The muzzle was held firmly in place, but
the witness was not subdued. Even when
the Court had rebuked him he was still re
spectiullv insubordinate,
"I have been brought here by authority,"
he argued. "I have been required to tate a
solemn oath to tell tbe truth, the whole)
truth and nothing but the trutb. Now. yoa
must allow me to keep the oath yon made
me swear. Neither Court nor counsel has a
right to force me into perjury just because
the connsel don't want just quite the whole
truth. I insist on my right to give the re
mainder of my answer."
"And, if you'll believe me," said the dis
gusted lawyer, "that hayseed court sus
tained him, and I lost my case."
James C. Pubdt.
CODE OP TTTP, CABLES.
A Conference to Itednce the Limit for Oi
Word to Eight Loner.
There is to be an ocean cable conference
at Paris thissnmmer.and the principal busi
ness to be talked about is a motion to reduce
the limit of letters in a code word to eight
instead of ten, as at the present time. Tho
proposal has caused a wail of indignation,
not onlv in tbis country, but also in
England and Paris. This ten-letter limit
has been in vogue so long that the codes are
nearly all based, on It, and a general recon
struction of all codes will be required if the -motion
prevails.