JWWB'Wi.VT ' "r W. I I W f- r r 13 investigation, but what conld he do when ""half of the villagers, not to say anything about Bess, were determined to open the grave. The undertaker was uneasy, too. Both men knew that Mark was lying upon his face. "What would be tho result of such a revelation. Abe said Bess would go stark mad. The undertaker began to look upon himself as a murderer, although there was no doubt that Mark was as dead as Ab salom when he was coffined. Then, too, be had been summoned by Bess to be at the graveyard the next afternoon and unscrew the lid of the coffin and attend to the rest of the details of the re-interment. Abe could stay at home ou any kind of an excuse, but if he, the undertaker, were to remain away and the coffin should be opened, as it was sure to be by somebody, the question of his culpability would be far more pertinent than if he made a bold front and performed the terrible work with an air of honesty and . candor. There was a big crowd of Tillagers in the graveyard on the afternoon the body was to be disinterred. All the stores in the town closed their doois, and when school was out the big-eyed country children tramped through the hurrying ground and peered oyer the white-washed fence at the diggers, who were hurriedly working their way to the bottom of the sepulcher. When, at last, the bottom was reached, straps were placed around it, and then a, dozen pairs of arms drew the coffin to the surface. The under taker was pale but steady. His screwdriver twirled orer the lid with dexterous rapidity until the cover was removed. Then the glit tering blade went round and round over the rusty screws of the casket Four screws were taken out, and then, without looking within the coffin, the undertaker threw back the lid and walked away. For a moment nobody dared peep through the glass. Then Bess, staggering from faintness, approached the coffin, lilting her black veil as the did so. The villagers removed their hats in a desultory way and 8 u reed nearer the woman. Bess pressed het face against the glass. Then turning half round, with her hands clutching her head, she gave a shriek that chilled the blood of those that heard it. For an instant her eyes glared with maniacal lire and then the black form Jell heavily upon the grass and weeds. Mark was still on his face. He had been buried alive the villagers cried, as they turned their white faces toward the under taker, who was trying to talk despite his excitement Such a scene was never before witnessed in any graveyard. There was the unconscious woman in the weeds, and grouped about the open grave were villagers whose anger had crimsoned their faces and drawn their fingers into the palms 01 their hands. If the creaking of the white-washed fence had not broken the overpower- ing stillness, the undertaker might well have sought satety in flight. But just at that moment, when it seemed as though the stillness was to broken by some distressing demonstra tion a man, gray and grizzled, bareheaded and defiant in his earnestness, climbed laboriously over the ghostlv barrier about the village cemetery. Everybody there knew him and honored him. It was old Abe, stalking through the golden-rod, which reached to his waist, the friend of the dead, and of the living for that matter,- never said a word until he faced the villagers. He comprehended the situation. It was his time to speak. With a falter ing voice which soon grew so pathetic in its mellowness and earnestness, he told the story of the eccentric request of old Mark and of the faithful manner in which he had honored it If there was anybody to blame it was he not the pale undertaker over there in the weeds nor the pallbearers who took the body from the house. He knew Mark was dead when the body was placed in the coffin, for he had called to him and pinched him and Mark, if alite, would surelv have answered him. The villagers knew Mark's eccentricities. Abe's story removed the last suspicion in their breasts. With the sun sinking like a crimson world behind the hills, the body was re-interred without cere mony and without moving it from its strange position. The vines of northern Wisconsin are strangling the little cottage and swallows fly to and fro from the broken windows. The place is deserted. But you could not help pitying the poor creature whose scrawny gray hair and glittering eyes greet youat the door of one of the cells of the mad house where Mark's poor widow is confined. She has been there many years ever since the day she saw the uncovered coffin in the vil lage cemetery. Abe is still hunting bear in the Tamarack but he has had no lock. Even the undertaker got so poor that he had tojgoraiting on the Chippewa. A TENNESSEE CYCLONE. If It Could Akin n Tree it Could Skin a bherp, mo Jpd Went Free. 1WETTTEX FOU TBS DIEFATCn.1 Near Fayetteville, Tenn., shortly after the recent cyclone which did so much dam age in that State and Kentucky, old Jed Tompkins, colored, was hauled up be fore 'Squire Nason for stealing one of Colo nel Ballentyue's sheep. Before the trial the 'Squire, the Colonel, Jed and several others were lounging in front ot the 'Squire's dingy little office, all hands, with the exception of Jed, relating incidents of the terrible storm; the 'Squire winding up with a tree on his farm from which the wind had stripped the bark, and the Colonel "seeing" this with a brick wall on his place tnrongh .which the tornado had driven a wheat straw. On the trial the evidence was all against Jed, the Colonel identifying the sheep, which had been found hanging up on Jed's back porch. "I'll have to hold you. old man, unless you can explain how that sheep came there," said the Magistate. "Caint splain, 'Square," Jed answered. "W'en I got up in de mawnin' dat sheep wuz jes layin' dar." "And you don't know who brought it there!" "No, suh lessn de cyclome Mowed it dar." "Aha! 'lessn de cyclome blowed it dar,' eh? And did you ever see a cyclone that could skin a sheep?" "No, sub, I caint say as I has, lessn 'twar dat same cyclome what peeled 'Square Nassn's tree en drir de straw thoo Colonel Ballentyne's wall." The 'Squire pulled up his specs and took a long look at Jed, and the Colonel arose and stated that he would not prosecute the case further, as this was the first cyclone that had ever blown any of his property into Jed's possession. Polk Swaips. LOOKS UKE A THE0L0Q. llow flenrr S. Ives nml Ilia Farmer Are Getting on Nowadays. Stir York Times. 3 That energetic young financier Henry S. Ives is to be seen uptown of an evening now adays. He was in a popular cafe near the Forty-second street railway station the other night, and Partner Stayner, his old asso " ciate in the late banking firm, was with him. Both looked sleek and prosperous. Ives' gold-rimmed spectacles, smooth face, and jscdious air retain for him the guileless ap- pearance which helped him to take Cincin nati into camp. In fact, when he is seen near the terminus of the New Haven road the stranger within New York's gates wonld be likely-to size him up as a theolog from Br. Dwight'i educational and athletic establishment come to town to investigate personally the need of mission work in a great city. , ... But, guileless as he looks, it is not of rec ord that anv suave gentleman ever induced Mr. Ives to'guess which shell the pea was tinder. The young man likes a black straw hat, and wears one probably for that rea son. His ex-partner carries an air of benevo lence under a tall white hat It', an III Wind, Etc "Those pesky flies," was the silent ejacu lation or the bald-headed members of the congregation. "Bless those flies," said the minister to himself. "There will bo bo one asleep dur jSg the sermon." MIGHT MAKES EIGHT. Bolivia's Constitution is All Bight so Long as It Doesn't COLLIDE WITH ANYONE'S WISHES. A President Who Had 'Faithless Officials Shot at a Banquet. POISOHED AER0W8 AND SLATEEI. rcoEErsroKnrwci op the dispatch.! Bolivia, July 9. This interior division of South America was originally part of the old Spanish province of Peru, and arrived at the dignity of a separate Bepublic through the efforts of the Venezuelan liber ator of the continent, Simon Bolivar, and hence its name, Bolivia. Since Chili has taken off a corner of it, the Bepublic now contains 62,280 square leagues, making it about twice as large as France and three times as large as Spain. As nearly as can be approximated, in a country where the the census is never taken and many of the natives remain to this dav uncounted, its population is about 2,000,000, hardly one fonrth of which number are whites. There are several varieties of the native and mixed races, from the half-breeds to the still un conquered aborigines that prowl about the upper waters of the Amazons. Little is known of these savage tribes be yond the fact that they wear absolutely no clothing, and until a recent period they were extremely hostile to any white people. The story goes that their active hostility was checked by an accident that happened in this wise. GOT MORE THAN THEY WANTED. A fetr years ago when the Bolivian Gov ernment was making a survey of the Madeira river, a camp was established on the bank of that stream near its celebrated falls. Soon after its location one of the men came down with smallpox, and of cSurse he was immediately isolated from the rest of the party, a hut having been built for him half a mile further into the forest Though carefully attended by the camp physician recovery was impossible, and one day while the good doctor was bending over his dying patient the hut door was suddenly darkened patient the hut door was P half a dP2en. Dake.d ? enizens oi the woods bent on deadly mischief. The physician managed to escape," but the sufferer was as sisted in his exit from this world by the thrust of a wooden spear, and the Indians carried off in triumph his garments, bed and everything portable about the hut They carried ofl also more than they were aware of in the shape of the white man's most dreaded disease, and soon nearly the whole tribe died of black smallpox. The survivors regarded the occurrence as a di rect punishment from the Great Spirit, and have since let the pale faces religiously alone. These savages, and others that inhabit the almost unknown Amazonian frontiers ot Peru and Bolivia, kill their game with tiny poisoned arrows "blown through reed guns 10 or 12 leet long. The arrows are made of a species of iron-wood, or tipped with a bit of Hint poisoned at the point btrange to say, though the merest scratch of one ot these ar rows causes death in less time than it takes to tell it, the flesh of the animals killed thereby can be eaten with impunity, as the poison acts only through the blood, produc ing paralysis and instantaneous death, but is comparatively harmless when taken into the stomach. KEPT A CLOSE SECEET. The secret of the poison has never been reveled, it being kept within the know ledge of a few "medicine-men" of each tribe, and handed down from the father to the son. Sir Kobert Thornburg, who has maded poisons a liie study, says that it is probably distilled from the sap of the strychnos toxifera, a shrub resembling that which supplies the "Quaker button" of commerce, "from which strychnine is made. Others assert tbatitis taken from the poison glands of venomous serpents. More terrible still to contemplate is the possi bility that it is derived from the putrefac tion of human corpses. A recent writer states that the dead bodies after a battle, and often those prisoners taken in war, are devoted to this diabolical purpose; being stuck full of arrow points and left in the sun for weeks or months,until the flesn is all decayed and the arrows tho roughly saturated in putrefaction. Alter jemg subjected tn that process, even those who prepare the arrows must handle them with the prettiest caution, as the slightest puncture or graze of the skin means quick and horrible death by poison for which there is no antidote. Instances are known where arrows of this sort which have lajn lor many years in museums, have killed those who carelessly bandied them. Scarcely one-fourth of Bolivia's area is under cultivation. In this Bepublic the Andes present their most bleak and forbid ding aspect, as well as their grandest views. Between La Paz and Sorata there are more than 100 peaks, among the highest of which are Illimani, over 26,000 feet, and Illyapa, wnicn attains an altitude of 27,630 feet BOLIVIA'S CONSTITUTION. Though Sucre, or Chuquisaca, is the real capital of Bolivia, as incorporated in the constitution by the first Bepublican Con gress, the constitution 3lso says that Con gress may be called either at L3 Paz or Oruro, according to the exigencies of the occasion. The legislative power is com posed of two houses, Senate and Chamber of Deputies. They convene but once a year, the ordinary length of a session being 60 days. The executive power is most em phatically in the hands of the President The constitution says tbathe shall be elected, and if there are two or three candidates in the field, whose claims cannot be decided vox populi, Congress shall settle the mat ter by its vote. The truth is, however, that should such an emergency arise, the ad herents of each party would get up a revo lution against the others; and the candi date who could command the most money, and consequently the most men, would seat himselt, whatever Congress might have to say about it A President is elected for four years, and cannot legally serve two consecutive terms; but in this part of the world, where might is right, a President may succeed himself tor au indefinite period, as long as he can maintain control of the army. On the other hand, it sometimes occurs that two or three revolutionary leaders make themselves Presidents during the term allotted to one man; and it is not impossible that the pres ent incumbent, who has yet more than half his term to serve, may soon be ousted by the rebel leader, General Camacho, who is now at arms against him. A BANQUET OP DEATH. That was a wise President in the past who, having learned that his Cabinet were con spiring with certain revolutionists for his overthrow, gave a grand state dinner, to which they were all invited, together with several leading malcontents. In the midst of the banquet in stalked a squad of sol diers, and at a given signal each shothis man, so that on the morrow a new Cabinet had to be appointed. According to the revised Constitution capital punishment has been abolished ex cept for two crimes, assassination or rebel lion against the Government Though the barbarism of hanging up men by the neck until they are dead is not perpetrated here, they are shot as traitors on the slightest pretext, if inclined to diner with the powers that be. That blessed fable, the Constitution, also guarantees civil liberty and equal rights to all and invites the people of all nations to come to"Bolivia and be happy. There can be no such thing as equal rights in a coun try where three-fourths of the population are kept in subjection by the remainder. After the struggle oi 1825 human slavery was abolished in all the South American Bepublics; but that en and women are bought and sold to-day may be inferred from an advertisement in a late Bolivian paper, to the effect that a einehona plantation was THE to be, disposed of at public auction, and among other goods and chattels enumerated for sale to the highest bidder were 180 peons, or Indian laborers. THE MODERN SLAVERY. The civilized Indians of this country, es pecially those located on the vast, estates, are slaves to all intents and purposes, as much as were negroes in the United States in ante-bellum days. For constant and ardu ous labor they receive the merest pittance, barelv enonch to keen bodv and soul to gether, and if one of them has the temerity to rebel, the whip is brought into requisi tion until he is thoroughly subdued. Most of them were born to their present condition, their parents and grandparents having got ten Into debt with the owner of the estate and given himself, that is, the labor of bis hands, as security for payment Once in debt there is no getting out of it with the scanty wages an Indian receives. So he takes the woman who would be his wife, if he ever had money enough to pay the mar riage fee, and goes to live in a cane or adobe hut near the scene of his labors. Their chil dren grow up around them, in due time tak ing theit places in the fields, the mines or as bouses servants, and all known as Senor so- and-so s peons, Thus it goes on irom genera tion to generation, neither debtor nor credi tor, master nor man, showing any desire to change his relations toward one another. This is no field for missionaries, though in all Bolivia there is not a Protestant church. The Jesuits, who have been ban ished from nearly all civilized lands, are welcomed here. They are now building a splendid monastery at La Paz, and one of their number is a Cabinet Minister. CAUSE OP THE LATE 'WAE. After South America gained her inde pendence from Spain and the Bepublics were being mapped out, Bolivia was given a little strip of land between Chili and Peru in order that she, being inland, might have a pathway to the sea. It was recog nized as belonging to Bolivia on all the maps of Chili, as well as those of other countries. It was a barren and waterless desert, supposed to be worthless in every respect, until some years ago rich deposits of silver and nitrate of soda were discovered therein. When this became known Chili suddenly ascertained that under some an cient grant this strip belonged to her, and she kindlv offered to divide it with Bolivia, but in such a way that all the silver and nitrate were left on Chili s side. Ot course Bolivia resisted, and having a treaty of offense and defense with Peru, she called upon the latter nation to assist in the de fense of her rights. This was the real cause of the late disas trous war, which took away all Bolivia's sea coast and utterly mined Peru. Chili's ostensible excuse for her part in it was that Bolivia charged too much export auty on nitrate, 10 cents per hundred weight; but now that Chili has secured the territory, 1 25 per hundred weight is charged for ex port duty at the same place. No treaty of peace has yet been made between Chili and Bolivia. It is believed by some that the former will restore the stolen territory if a treaty is made; but it is more probable that the aggressive little Southern republic, which has no "back country" to boast of, but extends a long and narrow strip be tween the mountains and the .sea will march up here some day and gobble all the rest ot Bolivia. As to Bolivia's credit, it is not to be won dered at that her currency is below par and the country so poor, when we remember that President Arce owes to the National Bank $1,000,000; his predecessor owes it another $1,000,000; and a number of the present Cabinet owe $500,000 more. Fannie B. Wabd. TWO OPINIONS OF WHISKY. A Parody on Ingersoll'a Tribute by m Nnrrn" (ransett ProhiblilanUr. Here and there at Narragansett Pier, says a writer in the New York World, you find a lingering touch of the old sentiment against the drinking habit It finds expression in verses and prohibitory sentiments scratched on the walls ot bathing houses and written even on the rocks. On one of the smooth bathing house surfaces which offer such a temptation to the scribblers some thirsty soul longing for a drink after his bath and finding none at hand had recalled Mr. Bobert G. Ingersoll's eulogy of good whisky. So he wrote it down. JLater on another man used the bathhouse, for in entirely different handwriting, and of mors recent date apparently, was the opposite view. I copied them both, and here they are. Take vour choice: BOB ISOERSOLl'S A PROHIBITIONIST'S OPINION. I send you some of the most wonderful whisky that ever filled witn snakes the boots of man or painted towns in cardinal red. It is the mingled- sonls of corn and strychnine. In it you will find the moonshine that made thn marshal chase the shadows orerthe West ern hills; the breath of flame, the whistle of OPINION. I send you some of the most wonderful wbisky that ever drove the skeleton Irom a feast or painted land scapes in tne oram oi men. It is the mingled souls of wheat and corn. In it you will find the sunshine and shadow that chased each other over the billowy fields, the breath of June, the carol of the lark, the dews ot night the wealth of snmmer and autumn's rich content the police, the hoodlum wagon, and 30 days in prison for thinking you could fight Drink it. and you will bear the voices or comrades sing ing "When Johnny Comos Marching Home," mingled with the laughter at the boys. Drink it, and all golden witb im prisoned lleht Drink it and yon will hear the voice oi men and maid ens singing the "Har vest Home." minded with the laughter of children. Drink It, and you will feel within your blood the star-led dawns, the dreamy, tawnv dusks ot many you will reel witmn your head a sense of swelling the boozy bliss of many high old sprees. For 0 days tins liquid fire has been within the meek and perfect days. For 40 years this liquid joy has been within the happy staves of oak, longing to touch the lips of man. mud-eyed demijob n , longing to scorch the throat of man. MME. CABNOrS FAIL. The Introduction of Abhorred Color In the Fnablonable World. Boston Herald. It is a pity when Mme. Carnot had suc ceeded in gaining a firm foothold in the good opinions of the Parisians that she should go and upset everything by reviving "magenta red" as a fashionable color. Such an aberration as that ought to cost her hus band the Presidency, bnt of course it won't and the horrible color will soon find its way over here to blind sensitive optics and give one a qualm under the waistcoat. Oh, Mme. Carnot, how could you? Remember the fate ot the Empress Eugenie, and beware! A brimmer Maid. iwju'iTJif ros tiie marATts.1 Her gowns were white and simple. Her ribbons blue and soft: ' Her eyes v-ere either downcast, Or gently raised aloft She seemed like one whose spirit At earthly pleasures scoffed; The maids of old romances Who fainted at a word Were much like ner, I fancied, Especially when I Heard Her sing an old-time ballad Where love and wealth demurred. I noticed that she never Went forth with aloen crook To scale the shaggy mountain. Or ford some pebbly brook, But sat about tbe porches And read a summer book. The other girls. In suiting Of rough and dnsky blue, In sailor hats and collars. Went daily out to woo Rude health and rustic freckles And sunbeam's sylvan hue; While her enchanting pallor And mournful, listless air "Were such as cloistered maidens May be supposed to wear Sweet nuns that tend pale lilies Far from tbe daylight's glare. Wltb gravest pains 1 wooed her Has she changed, or have 1 7 Herllstlessnesshas vanished , Since marriage. Hanging high, Her mandolin confronts me, Its mnslo stilled for aye. She makes me keep on record Jnst what I spend a day. Bhe goes to earlv market Her thrift may none gamsayl She's just a busy housewife And I like her best this wayl -ETA WttDM MoGrLASSO, . ITTTSBUEG- DISPATCH, GENIUS IN THE10ME. An Inventor Who Would Sweep by Means of Suction Draughts. JAP HEAD-RESTS FOR THE LADIES. Faded Colon In Pronounced Shades acterize Importations. Char- H0W TO DKBSS THE PB0ST WINDOW rwnrrriN ran im dispatch, j , Fashionable women with elaborate coif fures have borrowed an old custom from the Chinese in head rests and-now al low themselves cat naps by the aid of the Orien tal device. When a lady of China has her hair dress ed she indnlges in an xpensive and elaborate luxury, and at night she reclines on her neck upheld by a pocket or brace. In this way her hair is not in the least disturbed. The custom was looked upon as barbarous for many years, but next winter the extreme fashionables will be pro vided with couches in their waiting rooms with Japanese head-rests attached. In this way "the maiden of the dance," fatigued by the evening's excitement, can take a nap without rumpling her back hair or disturb ing her bangsv A comfortable lounge is not often or easily made, but the illustration here shown gives one an excellent idea how tn construct a cheap, and better still, a very artistic one. It's all in the "know-how." The frame you can buy without trouble and the mattress is merely a sinele width affair. As the illustration shows it, the couch is already completed with the exception of a rug or any suitable covering to throw over it A genlus,-with a profound thoueht mill, has taken up the subject of dusting and sweeping by means of suction draughts. He has a perambulating machine which, by means of fans and hydraulic pressure, gets . draught through a spiral hose with a nozzl. shaped at its terminus like the trouble em of a trombone. He starts up a grand racket on the carpet till the dust flies, then turm on this blizzard machine and a condensed cyclone is immediately precipitated. He moves his hose end round like the snout oi a Jersey hog, and wherever the clond oi dust arises the suction of his mechanism draws it, and it immediately goes "up the spout," so to speak. The idea is all right; the only difficulty which stands in the way is the possibility of his getting too big a draught on and shooting in stray leaves Irom the family text book, odd socks or J sister s pangs. This idea, which is chronicled as an in vention in the Patent Office at "Washington, is on a par with the rocking chair, which came out eight months ago. The inventor arranged under the rockers a pair of bellows attached to a series of pipes running up the chairback to about where your neck would rest As you rocked the chair the bellows worked, and you were given hysterical breezes. It worked all right for the man who could stand shower baths, bnt it cost one furniture dealer I know ol three good customers by neuralgia, pneumonia and croup. In another case the customer tried it and had to run a block to catch his wig. It's a good idea though, bnt like all those things, you have to get someone to think so. As for myself, I think the sweeping scheme would be better employed shooting coal into a cellar, and the man with the bellows rocker would make a fortune if he worked it up around the eaves of a roof and blow the snow into the next county instead of down tbe back of the neighbor who always gets under the roof at the wrong time. For the iast five weeks the big American importers have been quietly receiving their foreign goods; but, like all careful players, they have been averse to showing their hands for fear of giving their opponents a cue. The last week or two, however, has compelled them to display their goods. As a result, in almost every case, faded colors in pronounced shades are the rule. "Faded colors in pronounced shades" may be a lit tle paradoxical, but if you think for a mo ment you will understand what I mean. A good color, no matter how good it is, will always fade to a certain extent It will sotten. ButstiU its character is pronounced. On the other hand, a poor color, made ot cheap dyes, will, when it once starts to' lade, rapidly tun into the where-is-it. The color ings that are being'shown to-day are copies of antiques. The blues which were made 200 years ago, and which are still fonnd in charming Flemish, French and German tapestries, are still bine, softened only by time. The primitiveness is matured. The fantasque curtain is a novelty among lace goods. Irish points will be popular with the middle classes, particularly. Not tinghams will sell more than ever, simply because they are shown in such superior styles. Renaissance lace will undoubtedly be taken in large quantities. Clunya and arabes will hold their old-time prominence, and with those goods sash curtains to hang snugly to the windows inside of the regular face curtains win oe almost universally used. People who never thought of buying these goods in addition to their regular lace curtain will buy them now, inasmuch as tbey are shown at low prices and the style is a graceful one. Chenille curtains will be shown in tinsel designs, either in all tinsel, or in designs in which tinsel comes out con spicuously. This tinsel work or chenille curtains is an absolute novelty. Ap. pliqued embroidery work on plain plush will also be much in vogue next winter, and we will see a great deal in yellow and black and rose pink and dead green. Sharp-Indian colorings are not so popular as they have been for the last three or four seasons. The front window is a source of incalcula ble anxiety a to how to "keep it well dressed and at the same time Useful on a Sunday afternoon wnen the "back room" loses its charm and a sight of the beglit tered and fashionable worshipers, is as good as a street parade, and gathers a house hold at the window like flies at the transom light If your curtains are caught at the top, of course yon can't throw them at will back out of the way. What you should do is to use really two rods caught at each end of the casement on hinges, so that by throw ing both eadl out oa the hinges yon can O if SSWWjBmi0mfffi Mi vim '9 11 1 M A COMFOBTABLB HOME-MADE LOTJNaE. ' SUNDAY. AUGUST 8, clear an open space at the window. Then there are cornice grilles, as they are termed one piece of fret work going clean across your window space; from the bottom of this tret work is the rod, to which the curtain is appended. This entire fret work moves from a hinge on one side, and the entire curtain structure swings out like a door. There are a great many beautiful im ported hand-painted tapestries now sold in this country and the native painter is wondering how in the world they can be sold so cheaply. The way it is done is simply this: In some parts of France and Germany whole families are put upon the work. One of the family is skillful at painting faces, one has a strong eve for shading, someone else is an adapt at figures. "Whatever the taste of the workers, he is allotted his share of the labor in hand. The subject is taken from some group of magic lantern sketches "Psyche and Venus," "Perseus and Andromeda," "Phryne" or the "Alps Climber." A re production of it is thrown upon canvas with an ordinary magic lan tern. The picture being here reproduced, the artist runs over the outlines with char coal and thus gets the exact proportions. When this is done the most djfficuRpart of the work is completed, and the filling in of the details in color is a comparatively easy, mechanical job, and three or four pair of hands at it get through it in short order. In European villages where the work is done the people are easily satisfied, and as long as the industry yields them a steady liveli hood they are content. Prices therefore do not take the fictitious flights which an artist would quote. C. B. Clifford. BOBBED OF HEB HAIR. A Tonne Wife's lions' Black Braids Cnt by a Mysterious Stranger. New York San. Two weeks ago young Mrs. Henry Yehstedt, of 246 East One Hundred and Twentieth street, received a note containing the word's, "with my compliments," and three hairpins wrapped in the paper. Mrs. Yehstedt, who is only 18, and has been married but six months, had a beantifnl head of raven-black hair, which hadn't been cut for ten years, and which hung down in a braid two feet long. Her girl friends had long envied her such, an attraction, she says, so she took the note as a hint that they wanted her to do it up. A week ago last Friday she received an unsigned note asking her to stay at home that night She did so, but nobody called. On Saturday morning their bell rang about 10 o'clock, and Mrs. Vehstedt thought it might be the postman, so she went down tairs to the vestibule to look for a letter, 'he hall has several turns and is quite dark. ihe saw nobody as she went down, but jnst s she was about to reascend the stairs a fig ire sprang upon her from a recess and seized her long hair. "Hold your head down low," said a wom an's voice in a loud whisper, and Mrs. .Veh stedt was too startled to make any resist ance. A big pair of shears severed the braid within a few inches of the roots before she took in the sitnation. Then she shrieked, and was fleeing up stairs when the woman threw the braid up after her. "Henry won't find you so pretty now I" the woman said, as sbe'ran out the door. Mrs. Yehstedt says she has no acquaint ances who lnight be led by jealousy to wish to spoil her looks. A MUSICIAN OF FAME. Career of Herr Xnver Seharwenka, of Berlin, Now VUltlair America. New York San. The arrival in America of Herr Xaver Scbarwenka, Director of the Berlin Con servatory of Music, and a composer known throughout the world, has made a consider able stir in musical circles -this side the Atlantic, where he has long been known. He is 48 years old and a na tive of Samter, Posen. He was educated at Kul 2 lak's Academy, in i Berlin, where he 5ffon distinction ': - .. even as a boy for his musical compo sitions. He made Xaver Seharwenka. hj8 first public ap pearance as a musician in .Berlin when he was 27 years old. After that he became an instructor in the academy where he had found his own education, and taught there until 1873, when he was compelled to enter the army. In 1877 he returned to his be. loved musical work, appearing in public for the first time as a concert pianist. He produced at Hanover hir first important composition, a concerto in B flat minor, op. 32. This was also played the same year iri me .uonaon crystal jraiace Dy Mr. Dann reuther and the following year Scbarwenka produced it at the Gewandhaus, Leipsic. In 1879 Seharwenka went to London, playing at the Crystal Palace and the Musical Union. He also appeared at the Philharmonic So ciety's concerts. In 1881 he made his third visit to London, producing his second con certo in C minor, op. 36, which he had alreadyplayed at Vienna. The same year he opened an institution for mnsical instruc tion in Berlin under the title of the Schar wenka Musikschnle. Many Americans have since been his pupils. His works now number nearly 70. In chamber music he has produced two trios, one quartet, one violin and one violoncello sonata. His "Polnische Tanze" have become very popular. He has written an opera which may be brought out next season. His plav ing is said to be marked by strong character and originality. He is described as a fine and brilliant player, with a rare technique. He has been classed with tbe highest of players, and pages of the English and Ger man newspapers and mnpazinM havA Tin devoted to him. One of his concertos won the approbation, ot Liszt, while he has also devoted time to mere ballads. His ostensible object incoming here is pleasure. WH1TELAW EEID'S CASTLE. It Will Rival the Uockefcller Mansion In Beamy and IUulveae. KewYorkSan.l One hundred granite columns of enormous size and highly polished have been received at tbe Ophir Earm, the home of Whitelaw Beid. They are to be used in the construc tion of af40,000 portico for his granite man sion, which is in the course of erection. It is said that Mr. Beid's residence will be al most as handsome as that of the. Rockefeller mansion on the Huds6n. The building is modeled after the anoient German castles of the fourteenth century. It is built on an elevation and commands a fine view of tbe surrounding country. Erom the castle tower Greenwich Harbor, Long T.lonrl Rnnnd. Staten Island, and on lr day the spires and Brooklyn bridge in New XorK can do seen. JCTil wtmMV .mm rww 1890. WITH GEIT AND GEIP There's Not Much Danger That a Young Man Will Fail in Life. PDT BAUD UNDER THE WHEELS And Keep the Brakes Beady to Stop Any Slipping Down Hill. A COUNTS! PARSOK'S TALK TO B0I8 rwarms fob tub owrxrcB.i It may be just possible that prudish peo ple will term the title of this article, "Grit and Grip," somewhat slangy, but these words best express the lesson I desire to teach. For real success in life both these qualifications are necessary. The reader may at first glance fail to see the difference between them, but I expect to show that tbey are as diverse as" the poles. It is possible that a man may be possessed of any amount o! "grit" and at the same time be wolully deficient in "grip." The first indicates a firm determination to do something against all opposition, and the other a still stronger purpose to hold on to acquired results. Tour life, young man, will never be a marked success unless you have the neces sary grit to make it so. A GooO War to Benin. Since this article is intended especially for the thousands upon thousands of young men who read The Dispatch, I will sup pose that the school days are over, and that life is to begin in earnest The first thing for a boy to do, if he has not already done it, is to fall head over heels in love with his mother. Someone has beautifully said, "Of all the love affairs in the world none can surpass the love of a big boy for his.mother. It is pure and noble, honorable in the highest degree to both. I do not mean merely a dutiful affection. I mean a love which makes a boy gallant and courteous to his mother, saying to everybody plainly that he is fairly in love with her. I never saw a boy turn out badly who began by fall ing in love with his mother. Any man may fail in love with afresh faced girl, but the boy who Is a lover ol his mother in her mid dle age is a true knight who will love his wife as much in the sear-leafed autumn as he did in the daisied spring time. Too many young men commence life with the notion that the world owes them a liv ing, and all tbey have to do is to collect tbe bill. Thus native talents are allowed to corrode for want of exercise. A locomotive ascending a high grade sometimes requires a good deal ot sand to be thrown nnder the wheels. Have you never seen the engine wheels whirl aronnd upon tbe track, mak ing no headway? A little white sand. deftly thrown by tbe engineer, and the mighty machine goes dashing on her way. Life is' an up-hill journey, and in order to reach the nummit we must throw out con siderable sand under tbe driving wheels of progress. Mind you it must be thrown upon the track or it is altogether useless. Yes, young man, your first and best friend is always your mother. She will have con fidence in you when all others may doubt A church of England parson once de sired to secure the services ot a boy to do odd jobs around the parsonage. Hearing of a boy, he accosted the lather, who drove what is in England called a carrier's cart The boy was satisfactory, bnt the parson de manded re.erences. AVith this object in view he asked the father to whom he could recommend him to inquire of theboy's char acter, etc. This was considered essential. "Well," said the innocent and somewhat humorous old man, "I think if you went to see his mother she could give him about as good a character as anybody." . Don't Bother About Philosophers. In connetcing your life from this stand point, young man, take tbe bow of good in tentions, and pulling the string to its fullest tension shoot the arrow of desire up to the mark of your ideal, and then throw out the grit and commence to ascend. Never mind the wise sayings of would-be philosophers, because you will find that some kinds oi so called philosophy is mythical. Give me an ounce of determination and tenacity, and I can outweigh a ton of idle philosophy. Horace Greely said "fame is a vapor, popu larity an accident and oblivion a de.id cer tainty," but Horace was not immaculate by a long measure. The first step in the ascen dant is self-reliance. Don't expect to be hoisted over every hillock by your friends. Never mind what yonr ancestors may have been. If your father was a scavenger, try to be a statesman. If your lather was as wise Solomon, you will not be likely to inherit his wisdom unless you throw out the sand. A very quaint Russian fable will illus trate this point. A peasant was driving a flock of geese to market He was beating them and hurrying them along the dusty road. In the way thev met a traveler. Said the geese to him: ""Where can you find geese more unhappy than we. See how this peasant is hurrying us along, just as if we were only common geese. Ignorant fellow that he is, he never thinks that he is bound to respect us. for we are the distinguished descendants of the very geese to whom Borne owed iti salvation, so that a festival was in augurated to honor them." "But," replied the traveler, "for what do you expect to be distinguished yourselves?" "Because of our ancestors." "Yes, yes, I have heard all about that, but what I want to know is what have you your selves done?" "Why our ancestors saved Rome." "But what have you done?" "We? Oh nothing." Replied the traveler: "Of wxat good are you then? Do leave your ancestors at peace. They were honored lor their deeds; but you, my friends, are only fit for roasting." What a Trip to London Does. Have the grit to build your own founda tion, and you will feel prouder of the super structure when the building is finished. Be careful of your reputation at the outset Josh Billings said: "A reputashnn once broken may be repared, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot ware the krak was." "Don't write there," said a father to his son. "Why not?" said the boy, who was scrib bling on a window pane, with a glazier's diamond. "Because you can't rub it out," replied the father. Young man, you are writing your char acter. Have the grit to write it in such a mnaner that you will be content to have it stereotyped upon the page oi time. If you would succeed in life have the grit to be a man and not a donkey. Don't be a dude, but do try to be a gentleman. To my mind there is nothing so contemptible as the American young man trying to ape the En glish fop. Oh, how many steamships sail from New York having on board the ma terial to make men, who after they have spent a few months at the west end of Lon don, are by some mysterious process trans formed into something as near like monkeys as possible. They are only fit to bepetrefied and turned into dummies for cigar store signs. Of course this idea has its limita tions. Young men can learn a great deal by foreign travel, and fashionable dress is not to be condemned without any reserva tion. A 8lory of Chief Justice Marshall. Never be above honest labor, even If it does eqiI the hnnds. Soap is only 5 cents a bar. A good story is told of Chief Justiee Marshall. He was in the habit of going to the market himself early in the morning. A young man at the same stand as himself had just purchased some game, and, being too I proud to oarry it, demanded that it be dellr- ered right away. This request the mer chant could not at once comply witb. Said the Chief Justice: "Where do you reside?" It so happened that it was on a street the Justice would pass through, so he very po litely told the merchant he would leave it for him. Taking up his own purchase and the young man a the Justice quietly walked away. Said the yonng snip; "Beg pardon, who is that old codger?" "Ob," replied the man, "that is Chief Justice Marshall, of the United States Court." I tell you, young man, when you get above your work, and are ashamed to be known tor what you really are, you would be about as much value to lertilize the earth as to en cumber it. with your presence. Always maintain the dignity of your manhood, but beware of false pride. Show your grit in always speaking the truth. You are not al ways to tell all the truth, far there are times when silence is golden. A reputation for speaking yonr mind is not always an envi able one. Never allow another person to suffer because of any fault of yours. It is base and cowardly. Have the grit to be strictly honest. A clean conscience is bet ter than a reputation for liberality, when that reputation is purchased at the cost of honor and honesty. Have the grit to say ''no." You will never succeed in life in the best sense if you are not able to say "No," and say it emphatically. Thou sands of young men are occupying felon's cells to-day because of their lack of moral courage in this respect. Thousands of men have left this world with a hempen cord around their necks because they did not have the grit to say "No." Grit is re quired in every avenue of life. You need it in the valley of first endeavor and on the mountain top of achieved success. You need it amid the waves of opposition and aaown tne gentle stream of victory. Keep What Von Have Woo. But, as intimated in the beginning, there is another element jnst as necessary, if not more so, in gaining permanent success. Grit is all very well in its way, but grip is just as needful. Courage is one thing, dis cretion is another. Poor old Jumbo thought he was doing a big thing when he collided with the locomotive. It is one thing to have the grit to commence an enterprise, it is another to carry it ont to full fruition. Whatever yon do, be thorough. Horace Greely failed three times before he finally succeeded in life. He was a man of grit, but grip did not come at once. Grit is a good dog, but grip is better. What you have acquired keep. Do not be mean. In grasping lor and holding on to results ac quired do not evolve into a miser. Mean men do not enter the kingdom of heaven. I have as much respect for a thief as a mean, penurious man. There is a stream that runs between profligacy and penury. Find it, and stick to it. If you are learning to De a carpenter, be a good one. Do not be ashamed of your ig norance, or rather ashamed to learn! A 12-year-old boy tautiht me how to drive a nail in a piece ot wood without splitting it and swearing every few minntes. The "latter, of course, if I had not been a parson. Read, voung man, but try to remember something of what yon read, or you might as well spend your evenings cracking walnnts. Hold fast that which is good, but if you have formed bad habits let them slide. Impetuosity is sometimes a good thing but tenacity is always better. It is the duty of every young man to try to improve his condition, bnt it is no nse cramming the brain with knowledge that has no utility. j. ueiicve in evolution to a certain extent, especially in the mental realm. The ranks ot great men would soon be depleted if it were not for the fact that the demand is so often supplied from the common herd. Men nre like horses and potatoes. They need a change of soil and clime to retain all their good qualities. A man of brain is not always the progenitor of brainy children, but no brain can be so dull, unless it is per fectly imbecile, that cannot be cultivated to some extent. If all the young men who stand at the street corners cracking their heels, with their hands in their pockets, ex pectorating tbe mucus membrane of their Inngs upon the sidewalks would but take advantage of their environment what a grand and noble nation this would be. The Cotjntkt Parson. A HOME OF MB. GEEELEY. The Qnnlnt Eelic of Earlier Day That lie Once Occupied. New York Herald. Tbe recent destruction by fire of the old Greeley homestead, at Chappaqua, brings to mind the first homestead of the Greeley family, in Westchester county, which was located at Purdy's station, some miles be yond Chappaqua. When a very young man Horace Greeley rented the little house shown in the picture, paying a rent ol 5 a month therefor. The house was at that time smaller by several feet than at present It had three rooms, a sitting room and kitchen ou the "&3&fXhr Mr. GretleyU Old Home. first floor and a bedroom on tbe second. It is about a mile and a half from the depot at Purdy's and sets back about 12 feet from the road. An old-fashion stone wall surrounds the house, and an old swinging gate, on which the Greeley children used oftto swing, gives entrance to the grounds. Mr. Greeley occupied the house, so tradi tion says, for about two vears and then moved to New York with his family. The new tenants of the honse built an addi tion, but of materials so like the older part that the improvement in the space makes but little difference in the appearance of the honse. The house is very old. so old. in fact, that the oldest inhabitant at Purdy's station cannot fell when it was built, and it is at present occupied by a poor family, the head of which' ekes "out an existence irom the little garden which he tends on the place and from work on neighboring farms. While the old homestead has gone to ashes the older house of the Greeley family still stands a curiosity to visitors to the little town of Purdy's station. AH ELECTRIC PAETY. Novel Entertnlnmcnt at Which Even the Fireworks Went br the Correct. New York 8nn.l An electric lawn party was given a few days ago by one of the leading electricians of the country at his residence in Connecti cut. As the visitor was ushered into the oaken hall he w:s greeted with music from an electric organ. An open box of cigars lay on the center table and overhanging it was an electric cigar lighter. On the side board, in an electric teapot, the fragrant Bohea was brewing, and novel and almost weiid effects of electric lighting were visi ble all around,whiie the air was cooled with electric fans. Two objects of unique interest, taken side by side, were one of tbe first phonograpbs and the very last perfected instrument made. In the evening there was a grand display of fireworks, ignited by electricity direct from the lighting circuit, a thing never beiore attempted. The fireworks, which were shown about 150 yards from the house, were lighted from tbe piazza by the turning of a small electric switch in the hands of a lady. Hcvr They Froneanoe It. Boiton Trastcrlpt Pblladelphians call It Borr Horbor, Chi cagoans say Bahrr Harburr, and true Yankees speak fondly of the present diplo matio headquarters as Bah Hahbah. LcSsc THE FIRESIDE SPHINX A Collection of EnianaM Ms for Home CracUng, Address communications for tMs department to E. R. CHADBOURN. Lewiston, Maine. Copyright 1890. by E.B. Chadbofbx 1130 a mabhter's WAmriHo. D.M.3 1151 A3AGBAM. A "fortune tellfr" here we see, One of the GERMAN SORT is he: To learning be makes much pretense. While destitute of common sense. He's wise In astrolngic lore. And loves the heavens to explore: To solar walks and milky-way His flights of fancy often stray: Indulging in prophetic fiction. He rivals Wiggins in prediction. We learn from snch nmtpnn nf vn That some fools are surviving still. Nelsojiia. 1162 DECAPITATION. Here, on the total of this verdant hill, Here let us two; Of this pure air to slowly drink our nil, Admire the view. Faintly the bell In yonder beUry tower. Hid 'mid tbe trees. Bends us tbe tidings of the noontide hoaf By passing breeze. Fain wonld we linger tbe long afternoon In Idleness; What is so rare, so fair as days In June, Which mortals Mess? BtttkeSwiet. 1153 the magic pack. Kemove the honors from a pack of cards (aoe, king, queen and knave) and arrange the remaining card- in a square composed of nine pile of four cards each, in snch a way that MI the cards of one suit shall be In one layer, that the sum of tbe points on the four cards in eaea pile shall be equal to tbe sum of the points oa the tour cards in any other pile, and that in each layer the sum ot tbe points In any line, horizontally, vertically and diagonally, shall b equal. J.H.FEZANDIIS. 1154 CHARADE. First. The make or form of anything Is what I am defined: Thus explained I may not bring My features to your mind. Call me, then, prevailing mode Or enstomary way. Or tbe name that's oft bestowed On things tbatmake display. Ask Mrs. Grundy to express Her views; she will declare I shape tbe pattern of a dress, Or anything to wear. Second. A business man you find In me, A trafficker, no donbt. One who may soil you gin or tea. Or cabbages, or trout; Bnt me alone you do not And, Another goes before. So that I always am combined With what I keep in store. Whole. To follow first near as I can Is what I always try; I style myself a gentleman, Above the common fry. I may be called a city swell, A dandy or a fop. The name of dnde applies as well. Or that of a milksop. Nelsoniax 1155 ALMOST A COITTBADICTIOir. Though I am solitary" and "alone," Vet In pairs I'm often known; While in oceansl am found I'm always used to plow the ground. Some esteem me good to eat. Others tread beneath their feet; In forte Pm near where cannons roar. Yet steer the ship when far from shore. Though at the bottom of a mine. Am sometimes caught with book and line; All things that stand upon me rest; Without me you would scarce be dresssd. Whene'erl see I use two eyes, This, ot itself, wonld not surprise. But what to you would be a bother. One eye is placed above the other. M. C. Woodxom. 1155 MXTI.TIPI.ICATION. c o s I TK HE T 8 F T K 1EROE TFK CB BCK T IPIHTKOK Certain well-known farming utensils will glT the key to this problem. K. E. A. i)nta. 1157 ETOLXTTIOIT Or OWXS. l-2 Here fs an owl wltb monstrous eyes. He seems to think he's very wise. 8-7-8-9-10-11 "W hat have we here I 'tis not a fowl; O, no; it is another owL 7-8-9 And still another! Can it be? It Is, Indeed, and this makes three. 7-S-9-10.il I'm tired of owls: bere Is one more. Which brings tbe number up to four. 1 to lL Together now I group the lot And, as I count five owli I've sot NXLSOSlAir. 1158 SYNCOPATION. Whole. To Borne ray origin I trace. For there I was a market-place: In me her orators renowned Gave utterance to their thoughts profound; In me stern justice did decide The fate of culprits in me tried. Last. Bo many shapes I can assume That full description needs much room. Connguratlon, frame nre mine. And mold and model I combine, A mental transcript I may be. While some in me a phantom see. But to the world of puzzledom In different shape from thee I come. For 'tis my mission in this sphere In garb of mystery 1 appear. 3. If. ATOUST'S BEWABDS. A handsome prize will be presented the sender of the best lot of answers to the puzzles published daring the month of August The ' solutions should be forwarded in weekly in stallments. ANSWEBS. 1141. Sit on a chair under a tree and over see me undertake to beat on a drum and play on a fiddle. 1H2. Personification. 1143. Blurt blur. U4i Tbe clock goes 25 hours In every 24, or 1 1-24 hours in every nonr. Therefore, the clock will strike 10:30 In 10f hours divided by 1 1-24. or in 10 2-25 hours thit is to say. at 8b. Sim. 4&. P. M. " 1145. Tapster, spatter. lMS.-Shadow. 1117.- M CAR MALES MA LA Q A 8 OALICOLAB M ALAOO LI T E8 BEG ULATEB HAL 1 T ED SATED BED S 1148.-Pat-a.cake. 1149. Ctfrfew. Two Ways of Drinking. "Now gentlemen," said Sheridan to hii guests, as the ladies left the room, "let ui understand eseh other. Are we to drink like men or beasts?" Somewhat indignant, theguests exclaimed, "Like men, of course." "Then," he replied, "we are going to get jolly drunk, for brutes never drink: mora than they want"
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