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Humors of the Street.
A ludicrous accident occurred on a San
Francisco horso-railroad recently. An el
derly and very portly lady passenger sig
naled for the car to stop at a certain street,
but of course tho rear platform wont a lit
tle beyond tlio dry crossing, and as a con
sequence tbo step was just over the mud,
which was very deep. Tho old lady growl
ed a great deal, and tho conductor stepped
off the car and offered his hand to guido
her to tho crossing, when forgetting her ex
ceeding weight, she sank bodily into his
outstretched arms, and, as a consequence
the conductor sat quietly down in tho mud
and the passengor foil over his head. lie
swore and she stormed, and tho other pas
sengers laughed, but being behind time
- the conductor was obliged to goon his way,
leaving the old lady trying to wipe the mud
off her clothes with a seven-inch square
handkerchief, indignnntly vowing revenge
against the railroad company and all con
ductors. ,. . Promissory Notes.
A man drew a noto promising to pay
one hundred dollars. Ho used a printed
form, but did not close up the blank devo
ted to dollars, and after it had passed from
bis hands and becoming negotiable paper,
somebody inserted ' and fifty' after the one
hundred and before tho printed word dollars,
making the note read one hundred and
fifty dollars. The note thus altered got
into the hands of an innocent party, who
presented it to the drawer, but paymeut
1 was refused. Suit was brought, and tho
. Supreme Court decided that tho maker of
the noto was liable for its face, because
through negligence ho had not drawn a
line between tho written word "hundred"
and the printed word "dollars." Any tes
timony the drawer might offer to estab
lish the fact that he gave a note for oidy
one hundred dollars, must go for nothing
as "there was nothing on tho face of tho
note showing that It had been altered.'
Kvidonce of an alteration on tho face of tho
note would have changed tho case. Lpt
" the decision bo a lesson to all drawers of
promissory notes. No one can bo too care
ful in such matters.
tW The Frankfort (Kentucky) Yeoman
says a little urchin of not more than six or
fceven got on the track near Capitol square,
just in front of a moving locomotive, and
commenced running a race with it, looking
back the while and laughing gaily at the
frowning engineer. Ho had not run more
than twenty-five or thirty yards when he
tripped and fell near the rail. The loco
motive was on him iu a moment, but as
good luck or instinct would have it, the
little fellow raised one log in the act to
turn over, when the cowcatcher, striking
his uplifted leg, rolled him violently off the
track and over into the mud two or three
times,' without seriously hurting him.
tW A short time since a flue Newfound
land dog walked into the school house on
Poplar street, Boston, entered one of the
dressing-rooms of the pupils, took down
tho cap and coat of his young master, and
then gave an inquiring look at the children,
among whom he failed to see the owner of
the cap and coat. Walking into another
school room on the same lloor he found
the object of bis search and went up and
affectionately kissed him. Affidavit can
be produced.
tW A New Yorker wrote to General
Bpinner, asking for bis autograph and a
sentiment,' whereupon the veteran Treas
urer wrote in reply: "You ask for my
autograph with sentiment. My senti
ment Is this: When a gentleman writes
' smother on bis own business he should en
tiles a postage stamp."
POETICAL SELECTIONS.
NIGHT.
Night Is the time for rest j
How sweet, when labors close,
To gather round an aching breast,
The cut tain of repose,
Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head
Down on our own delightful bed.
Night la the time for dreams ;
The gay romance of life,
When truth that is, and truth that seems,
Mix in fantastic strife ;
'Till all Is ours that sages taught
That poets sung, and heroes wrought.
Night Is the time to weep j
To wet with unseen tears,
Those graves of Memory, where sleep
The jojs of other years ;
Hopes that were Angels at their birth,
But died when young like things of earth.
Throwing Away a Chance.
AN INTERESTING STORY.
T WAS right on the Atlantic, and tho
stewardess of the steamship City of
was preparing herself for bod, all the lady
passengers having retired to their berths,
when her attention was called by a low tap
at the cabin-door. It seemed to bo given
by a cautious finger, unwilling to be heard
further than was necessary; and, supposing
it to bo a warning from tho steward that it
was timo to put out the lights, she glanced
at her watch in surprise, and then going to
the door she exclaimed:
" Why, Mr. Oreen, it is not eleven yet,
and I am not quite ready. Walt a bit."
"It is not Mr. Green," replied a voice
outside. "I want to speak to you, Mrs.
Ford. May I come in ?"
"Oh, certainly, madam," was the imme
diate reply, as Mrs. Ford opened the door
to one of tho lady passongors The young
woman entered, and after closing tho door,
she addressed tho stewardess in a low cau
tious tone, while holding and turning over
a long, thin parcel, which sho drew out
from the towel loosely wrappod around it,
" Mrs. Ford, will you put this in your
trunk for me ? You say we shall bo in tho
harbor to-morrow, and we don't want to
have this littlo parcel overhauled at tho
Custom House. Uo put it iu your trunk
till we can tako it quietly ashore."
Mrs. Ford hesitated. Of course, it was
not her business to disoblige passengors;
but, then, smuggling was dangerous; this
looked something uncommonly liko it.
Still the lady who made tho request was
well known to the stewardess, and seemed
particularly friendly to hor. It was not
the first time she and hor husband had
crossed the Atlantic in tho same ship; so
they were already such old acquaintances
as to seem quite like friends. Moreover,
this time Mr. and Mrs. Beaton had an ad
ditional charm for Mrs. Ford, being accom
panied by their infant son, a fine, lively
little fellow, about two years old. Mrs.
Seaton had kept her berth, on plea of sick
ness, far most of the voyage, and the stew
ardess had profited by the occasion to be
come nurse to the child, a charge she glad
ly accepted, and fulfilled with care.
Observing Unit she hesitated, Mrs. Seaton
continued, in a half-careless, half-flattering
tone:
" I told my husband you were so good
natured, I was sure you would oblige us in
a trifle of this kind, but, of course, if you
would rather not, here is an end of the
matter. We hope, if wo are not disappoint
ed, to make quite a fortune for little Fred
dy. But If this is injured, by carolessless,"
and here she again glanced at the parcel
in her hands, " my husband will be awful
mad."
" I would be very glad to oblige you,
madam; but it would be awkward, if I got
mixed up with any smuggling matters.
The Company would dismiss ine, and one
must think of oneself."
"Smuggling !" said Mrs. Seaton, smiling
blandly; " goodness t this is no smuggling,
It's just the most innocent little machine
in the world. I am sure kind as you have
been to us, I would be the last person to be
so mean as to injure you.
I guess it will do you no harm, any way,
It would be too unkind to get you into
trouble, when you have been so good to
Freddy, all along."
" I am sure you were welcome to any
thing I could do for the little darling, mad
am; but it is quite another thing '
Yes, yss; I know that. But, bless you,
it will not hurt yon. It U a machine for
milking spools, and my husband wants to
patent it in tho States; but then, it is in
just such a condition now, that, if it bo
meddled with, it will be ruined, that's nil.
If they do, by any chance, get hold of it,
we must put up with its being spoiled; but
I guess they will never interfere with you."
Mrs. Ford remembered now that, during
the last voyage, Mr. Seaton had particular
ly admired a new kind of spool which he
had seen in her work-box, and had asked
several questions concerning it; so sho con
cluded that it was in tho manufacture of
similar articles he was at present engaged,
and, without further hesitation, sho took
the parcel. The great weight of the article,
compared with its bulk, surprised her as
sho received it; it being, as she supposed,
a thin bar of iron, about six inches broad
and two feet long, but not, apparently,
much thicker than a piece of card board.
She thought of this as sho laid it in tho top
of her trunk, having a misgiving whether
it might not iu some way injure tho apparel
beneath; yet sho felt unwilling to secrete it
further, under tho circumstances. Her
visitor, with many thanks, retired, and Mrs.
Ford soon forgot tho matter in sleep.
Late in tho afternoon of tho following
day, ns they drew near tho end of their voy
age, just before going ashore at tho Custom
House, Mrs. Seaton sought another tote-a-tete
with Mrs. Ford. Sho held in her hand
two letters, and offering them to the stew
ard ness, asked if sho would slip them in her
pockot. "And besides," she continued,
" I want you to come ashore with mo, and
carry Freddy, if you do not mind the
trouble."
Mrs. Ford replied that she had no objec
tion, but was afraid sho might not have
timo.
"Now, there's a good soul," cried Mrs.
Seaton, "do say you will, right away. I am
in troublo, and I am sure, when you know
it, you will leave the under-stcwardess to
fix all around, and just do as I ask. Now,
listen; my husband has got himself in a
tight place, just now, and I guess I shall
have enough on my hands as soon ns we
get ashore. Wo know there's a pellceman
waiting for him."
"A policeman !" criod Mrs. Ford, in
alarm.
"Oh, never frighten yourself," replied
Mrs. Seaton, with her bland sinilo; "it is
nothing of any consequence. You must
know ho holds a situation under tho govern
ment, and ho has got wrong in his accounts,
It Is not much, but ho will be arrested as
soon as he steps ashore, and all the business
of getting my things through will full on
mo. So you sue I do want a friend, and I
shall feel real bad if you do not help mo.'
'Well, of course, we had rather it should
not happen," was the reply; "but what's
the uso of thinking of that ? The real thing
is to gut out of it as quickly as possible.
Mr. Seaton has friends who will come for
ward right awny, just as soon as they knew
it, and that is why I want you to carry the
letters ashore for me. Put them In your
pocket, thero's a good soul, and keep them
till I ask for them, and Mr. Seaton will not
bo In this difllculty more than a few days.
What it would lie if I could not mail those
letters at once, I really could not say."
Mrs. Ford slipped tho letters into tho
pocket of hor loose cloth jacket, and arrang
iug with tho undcr-stewardess that she
would be back as soon as possible, pre
pared to accompany Mrs. Seaton at once
They reached the shore, and, after land
ing at the Custom House wharf, as Mm
Seaton had anticipated, a policeman quick
ly arrested her husband, who quietly walk'
ed off with him after exchanging a signifl
cant glance with his wife. " 1 tola you
so," whispered she to Mrs. Ford, who bad
been a few steps behind, with the child in
hor arms, but who now drew near expec
ting to lind the bereaved wife in great dis
tress. This, however, was not the case,
Mrs. Seaton was far more composed than
her companion, who felt too much frighten.
ed and puzzled to pay attention to anything
around her, or she would have observed the
scrupulous care with which the baggage of
the passongers was examined. Mrs. Beaton
was actively engaged in opeulng her boxes,
She paraded rather ostentatiously certain
now articles of apparel, and drew the officer's
attention to her silks and gloves.
"Oh, yes," she said quite carelessly,
she knew she would have duty to pay for
those things, and was quite teady to do so.
Bhe had no wish to smuggle, not she, in
deed. The officer eyed her keenly through
his half-closed eyes, and continued his ex,
amlnation with minute earn, quite different
from the usual process. Nothing, however,
of Importance seemed to be the result; the
matter of duty was not very complicated,
and when tho necessary stops had been
taken, Mrs. Suaton drew Mrs. Ford
toward tho great gateway and prepared to
quit tho wharf in mental triumph.
"This way if you pk-nko ladies," said
another officer, who now stepped forward
to meet them. "We must troublo you to
walk this way for a minute. Allow me "
and bowing and backing as if ho had been
groom of the Chambers, escorting a prin
cess, he ushered thorn into n small room
and closed tho door.
Hero stood two women whom tho stew
ardess immediately recognized as female
searchers, and somewhat startled at what
occurred, sho said at once thcro must bo
some mistake sho was stewardess of tho
City of , and was anxious to return on
board nt onco, having conio on shoro only
to carry Mrs. Scaton's baby.
" You shall go as soon as we havo done
with you," replied tho searcher, with some
thing of a sneer; "but whether on board
or not depends on other matters. Come,
it's no uso resisting," as Mrs. Ford tried to
cvado the hands which began at onco to
remove her outer clothing.
"It is no use, indued," said Mrs. Beaton,
who seemed to treat the wholo thing with
most sereno philosophy, although any one
who had watched hor carefully would have
seen an anxious glance at Mrs. Ford's cloth
jacket. Tho searcher took it off, threw it
on tho bench, and Mrs. Seaton, with affect
ed carelessness, Immediately laid over it a
largo railway rug which she had on hor
arm. " My good Mrs. Ford, you and I
know it would be useless to search cither
of us," said she. " We havo not tho first
bit of smuggled goods about us; at least I
can answer for myself; and as for you, I
know you had no notion of coming ashore,
except to carry Freddy, why, of course,
you have not either. Freddy is not contra
band, I suppose," sho added; laughing;
"sol guess these good ladies will have
their troublo for their pains. Take it easy,
do now; there s a good woman."
But it was no use saying " Take it easy"
to Mrs. Ford. It must be an exceedingly
unpleasant operation, I should imagine,
being searched by a strange woman, who
strips her victim in a cool, business-like
way, regardless alike of shyness and doll
cacy. i no stewardess knew that it was
uncalled for, and felt it an insult. Even
to passengers tho thing is rarely done, uu
less under very suspicious circumstance;
and sho, having been so often in that port
without ever passing through the search
ers' bauds, could not understand why she
should now be subjected to this degrada
tion. Sho would not submit quietly. Sho
pushed off tho coarse haftds which iutrud
ed on her womanly feelings of delicacy,
She shrank from tho examination, sho sob
bed, she grew hysterical; and, her nervous
excitement being mistaken for guilt, sho
was in consequence subjected to a more
rigorous examination. Every part of her
clothing was felt; even her hair and her
boots were examined, while each moment
she bcoame more painfully agitated, and
her sobs and outcries grow louder.
Tho process was nearly completed, and
she was about half dressed again, when
tho uproar in tho littlo room attracted at
tention without. For, added to Mrs,
Ford's hysterical screams, were the remon
strances of tho searchers, delivered in tho
highest key of a Yankeo voice, tifo attempt
of soothing on Mrs. Beaton's part, and the
loud cries of Master Freddy, who would
not be pacified after the strange hands of
this woman had meddled with his own
littlo person. The noiso arrested the at
tention of two persons passing by, who
opened the door and looked in.
" What are you doing to my stewardess?'
asked the Captain of the City of .who
had recognized her voice.
"Oh, Captain Stebbit, Captain Stebbit!'
sho criod as she saw him. "Hue what they
are doing to me; they've been searching
me. Oh, what have I done? Oh, I am so
ashamed I" Her voice was broken by sobs,
and she was half choked by her tears.
"Why, what's all the row about?" asked
Captain Stebbit, who was the jolliest, most
good-humored man in the world. ' " What
has my stewardess been doing? Sho is no
smuggler. Here," added he, turning to
bis companion, "your ship is close at hand
could you not ttep on board and bring us
your stewardess. They are frightening
Mrs. Ford into fits, and she needs a friend
to look after her. You know Mrs. Lock
very well, she will come to you."
The summons for Mrs. Lock was answer
ed by herself immediately, and - in con.
sequence of htr presence, Mrs. Beaton who
had her own , private anxiety . about the
letters in Mrs. Ford's pocket had uo chance
to ask'for them, for Mrs. Lock hurried her
friend away aboard her own boat, and Mrs.
Seaton was left to her own devices.
It was some time before Mrs. Ford re
covered her equanimity. The disgrace
hich sho felt hud been put on her
made her absolutely ashamed to lie Been,
and even when good-humored Captain Steb
bit paid a visit, and joked with her about
smugglers and searchers she was too much
overcome to reply. ;
Unconsciously the same evening she put
her hands in her jacket-pocket, and as she
snatched them out, she exclaimed : "Good
gracious I If I havent got those letters still
hero that Mrs. Beaton imvo mo. What
shall I do with them ?"
"She will como for them, I expect,"
replied Mrs. Lock, when she had heard the
story. "I would keep them until she
docs."
Tho next day she had another unpleas
ant surprise. 1 ho saloon steward of her
own ship paid her n visit, having gossip
about passengers to impart: "Do you
know what happened to that friend of
yours, that fellow, Seaton ?"
Yes; I know he was arrested. That is
how I got into trouble;" and Mrs. Ford
proceeded to repeat to Mr. Park tho par
ticulars which Mrs. Seaton had confined
to hor.
A very pretty story," laughed Mr.
Park, "only it happens that none of It is
true, but tho arrest, llo was caught and
detained on a chargo of forgery."
The two stewardesses, dumb with the
unexpected news, stared Inquiringly at Mr.
Park.
"Yes," continued he, "on a charge of
belonging to a gang of forgers who had
been passing counterfeit green backs. I
suppose you know nothing about that,
Mrs. Ford not an accomplice, hey?"
Mrs. Ford hesitated a moment, and then
drawing from her pocket tho letteis intrust
ed to her, showed thein to tho others, and
asked what she had bettor do.
Tho steward examined their exterior for
moment; then, without any remark,
opened and read them in auxious silence,
tho two ladies looking on it iu a state of
suspense. Ho had no sooner read them
than he tore them carefully into the mi
nutest fragments and scattered them out
of tho cabin window, whore tho tiny mor
sels fluttered away, and woro soon lost be
yond all possibility of detection in the
waters of the dock. ,
" What wero they?" gasped Mrs. Ford,
iu great alarm. ,,
" Evidence of his guilt, which, fouud on
you, would have been considered proof you
wore an accomplice, and given you a share
of his probable twenty years in tho State
prison."
Good gracious !" criod Mrs. Lock; "you
don't say so ! Why, my dear, wiiat an
escape you have had."
"Yes, Indeed; what an escape. They
wero in my pocket when I was searched,"
said Mrs. Ford, faintly.
"Quite a providential occurrence," ob
served Mr. Park, as people aro apt to say
when they meet an occurrence for which
they have especial cause to be thankful. "I
strongly advise you to say nothing nbout
them to any one ut present."
It is not quite clear in my own mind
whether Mr. Park was justified in the
course he pursued, or whether he ought to
have retained tho letttcrs, and handed
them over to justice as evidence against
tho prisoner. He feared to compromise
Mrs. Ford; but I havo been assured that,
in this case, If she had como forward with
the evidence she possessed, and with a
character so well known among the line to
which she belonged, she would have come
to uo harm. Hewever, they acted as they
believed to be the safest and best, and least
likely to involvo Innocent parties and ac
cording to the rule, that it is better the
guilty should escape rather than that the
innocent should suffer, it seemed the most
prudent course to tako.
" But now, look here," said Mrs. Ford,
when the last morsel of paper bad disap
peared, " there's another thing of theirs 1
have;" and she told the story of the parcel
which was still in her trunk.
. "You must get rid of it, certainly"'
cried Mr. Park, in great alarm. "There
is no telling what It may be. Get rid of it
at once."
"But how? My box U locked, and I
have the keys. Shall I go en board at
once, and throw It out of the window ?"
"No, no. It might lead to suspicion, if
you went off in a hurry. If thiy think
you are a confederate, you will be watched,
and it would not do for me, either, to go
and meddle with your trunk."