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The Light of Antumn Day.
What summer songs are sweet and fair,
aim wno snail sing tanm blythe and g$
With cadence flexile-soft as air
And cheery as the summer dav t "-
What poet comes w ith sandal ihoon,
And clear brown eye of dreamy gaze
Brown at the wave whoso foretit gloom
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Hag drunk the light of autamn days
The light of autumn days 1
Deep, doep within his quiet heart
lie holds the sunBhine of the year,
The diuhIo of the moadow lark
And bells that echo faint and olear ;
The hare-boll, may be, on the slope,
The bubble that the ware has broke,
Or the soft, sombre tones that fall
In memory of a birthday chime
Faded In that far lapeo of time
That oomes and goes for all ;
And thus within his eyes the haze
Deepens of autumn days !
The aky is blue, the sky is fair,
And writ with fleecy clouds in air ;
And boughs are waving fresh and free,
As foan-crent on a summer sea ;
And Lir Ik with wings whose flashing light
Makes the worn opirit yearn for flight
Are passing on to some bright zone
We picture in the heart alone ;
And nature chimes in nndertono
ltd murmurous antbom bright and clear
Yet he tpart
Drinks in with subtle sense and heart
The rapture of the year ;
And with his far-off gaze
TurnsMt to autumn days 1
He garuors up the porfect time,
lie stores at will of pain or mirth, -For
him nor season oomes nor clime
Ha stands aluno of all the earth :
To him the forest tells its tale,
The biooklet pours its plaintive wail.
The wild pine rock, the wild winds moan,
To him the torrent speaks alone.
The tempest from its mountain throne,
Tae tumult of the angry sea.
The murmur of the roving bee,
The pale anemone that blows
In sunshine o'er its native snows, .
The blue-bell or the meadow-pink,
Or osier by the streamlet's brink,
All tell their tales in murmurs free
The secrets of the land or sea I
And in his patient eyes,
Awaiting borrow and surprise
Gather like fating leaves or sunset rays;
A dreamy wiHtful gloom
A light too far 1 too soon 1 .-.
The light of autumn days I
William II. Briggt. ."
MY LOST POCKET-BOOK.
My name is Edney Philip Clement
Edney. That was my father' name be
f re me. Twenty odd years ago he had
a small hut comfortable dry goods busi
n ts in Utioa. But in the panio of '57
he met with severe losses; and he had
hardly weathered the financial storm
when he was taken down with a disease
from which he never recovered.
Ia his last illness he was deeply con
cerned for the future of his family, i
was the eldest hod, and he frequently
expresfed the hope to my mother and
to me that in some way we should be
able to find Harringford.
Thomas Harringford was a generous
hearted but rather unprincipled young
man who hod been in my father's employ
several years before.
He had got into bad company, and
was guilty of some irregularity, as the
modern genteel phrase is, having helped
himself to my father's cash to the
amount of several hundred dollars, be
fore hia dishonesty I mean his irregular
ity was discovered, lie was penitent,
and confessed everything, but it was
impossible for him to mako restitution.
He had been a favorite of both my
father and mother, and they could not
bear to have him sent to prison. Ho, on
his promising to reform, lead au honest
life in future, and repay my father
when he was able the sums he had stokn
I meau misappropriated ho was let
off.
He went to parts where ho was un
known, and only vague rumors concern
ing him had reached us since. One of
these rumors was that he had been seen
in Buflalo and Detroit, and that he was
doing a prosperous business.
On settling up my father's cttate, my
mother found that she and her little
family were left in straitened circum
stances. Then we remembered what he
had Baid about Harringford. I wrote to
him letter addressed Buffalo and De
troit, but failed to receive answers.
At last we were bo much in need that I
said:
" Mother, if you can spare the money
for me to make the journey, I believe
I can find Lira, and get at least a part
payment of what he owes us."
It - was a long time before she would
listen to this proposal. Bhe could ill
afford the expense. Though we held
Harringford'a note to my father, it was
outlawed, and she had not much faith in
my being able to got any money of him,
even if he could be found in either of
the two cities named.
At last, however, thinking the journey
might do me some good, at any rate, she
consented to it, and in July I set out.
I went first to Buffalo, where I began
with the post-oifice and directory, but
without being able to find the man I was
searching for there, I proceeded to De
troit. No luck there either. I returned
to Buffalo, stopping at Cleveland by the
way and finally gave up the search,
concluding that Harringford must have
gone elsewhere, and that the world was
trtxj large a haystack for me to hunt in
for such a needle.
Butmyroother had told me to be sure
to visit Niagara before my return : bo
one afternoon I went down bv a late
"uo, anernoon j. went uown Dy a law
train to the Falls, which I saw by moon
'1'ght for the first time.
I was of course too poor to go to a
l flrBt-olasa Lotel, but put np at one both
.I small and obsenre. The nexl mornintr
9 JL- wlB J" K0"1' epirn.s, in npiio
of theiajlure of my undertaking, for 1
had youth and health. I passed the
day at the Falls, but, for economy's
Bake, I felt that I ought to leave on the
night train for Utica. Bo I prepared to
take leave of the great cataract.
" But I am going to drink oat of it
first, anyway," I said to a young man
whose acquaintance I had made that
afternoon.
Tho American shore of the river was
not fenced in from the publio in those
days, as I found ithen I was there a
year ago. We stoaJ at the very brink,
near the edge of the fall. Tho wild,
tumbling rapids shot past us, seemed to
pause an instant on the verge, broke
into curves of marvelous green water,
then crumbled into masses of foam, and
fell thundering into the abyss.
With that view before me, boy-like, I
got down on my hands and knees for my
drink. My lips touched the swift water.
I had my drink, and was about to rise,
when something dropped out .of the
inner breast-pocket of my coat, and shot
away from my reach and sank from sight
before I could put out my hand. In my
astonishment, I was near making a leap
after it, but the sight of the steaming
gulf below brought me to my senses.
" Gone " I exclaimed, flinging np my
hands in despair. " Did you eee it ?"
Bee what ?" said my companion.
" My pocket-book," I replied, full of
consternation. " It dropped from my
coat pocket into the water, and is lost.
I came within one of going after it I"
He had seen nothing. I explained
how it happened. I had always car
ried my pocket-book in that way, and
never dropped it before. But in stoop
ing far forward to bring my lips to the
water, I had emptied my pocket, and
lost in an instant all my money, together
with that poor outlawed note of Har
ringford'a among other more or loss
valuable papers.
My chance acquaintance expressed his
sympathy in well-sounding words, but
all at once ho appeared to have grown
oold toward me. Perhaps he expected I
should want to borrow money of him ;
for money I should certainly need in
getting away from the Falls. I still had
my hotel bill to pay, and I could not
very ell travel by rail for nothing.
. We had already exchanged cords, and
I had ascertained that his name was
Eastmore that he was a reporter, or
tometbing of the sort, for a Buffalo
paper. I thought a young man of his
experience ought to be able to give me
good advioo, if nothing else, and I
begged him tell me what to do.
"Have you any friend in town that
you can call on for assistance?" he asked.
" Not one," I said ; and added, with
out thinking how he would take it, "Yon
are the or ly acquaintance I have here
except the hotel folks."
Hn laughed aud looked embarrassed.
" That's bad !" he said. 41 1 would be
glad to lend you a little if I had any to
spare, but I haven't. Perhaps the hotel
folks will help you, if you can convince
them of the truth of your story."
A horrible suspicion flashed across my
mind. I might pass for an impostor.
"The truth of it!" I exclaimed.
"Whv. I had mv tocket-book riarht
here, with twenty dollars in it ! And
what motive could I nave In my
bewilderment I could not finish my
question.
Of course you. had your pocket-
book," he answered, with a smile ; "and
mind. I don t say you nave any motive
for making a false pretension. But the
world is full of impostors, who are al
ways inventing excuses for borrowing
money or for omitting to pav their bills.
Hotel keepera have to deal with such
characters pretty often, and we can't
blame them for being a trifle suspicious
of men who have lost their pocket
books I"
He must liave been impressed by the
horrified look I gave him, for he imme
diately wont on :
"Of oourse I am as much convinced
that you lost your pocket-book in the
way you say as u I Tiad Been it go over
the falls. But even if I hod seen it, I
never saw the money in it though
don't understand me to say that I have
any doubt of that either. I am only
stating tho ease as it might look to other
people, if yon didn't carry such an hon
est face about with you."
"Thank you for bo much I" I said,
bitterly; for now I peroeived by some
thing in his look and tone which he
could not hide, that in his own mind,
my-tory stood Badly in need of con
firmation. I couldn't blame him, however. Im
postors are in the majority among
smooth-tongued people in want of assist
ance; and the worst of their Bin is that
they throw discredit upon honest peo
ple who have been really unfortunate.
I was destined to find? that out to my
sorrow.
I felt that the first thing to be done was
to make my case known to my landlord,
and I went back to the house. I told
him, in as cool and business-like way as
I could, what bad happened, and asked
him to trust me for the amount- of my
bill.
Eastmore went with me, and I hoped
he would Bay Bomething to corroborate
my story; but he was very cautious. He
stood at my elbow, a little behind, and I
suspect there was something in hia faoe
which did not help my cause.
The landlord, a short, stocky, red
visaged, wall-eyed Irishman glanced over
his shoulder with the one good eye he
had, and seemed to receive intelligence
to my disadvantage.
I turned quickly. I don't think East
more had made a signal, but he had not
concealed his incredulity. I found then
that I might better have gone alone to
the landlord.
"I don't know anything about your
losing your pocket-book," said the Irish
man, after hearing me out. "If you
have no money, you must get some. My
business is to keen a hotel, and I can't
furnish guests with board and lodging for
me line stones mey may ieu.
The words stung me, but I managed
to reply calmly
" I don't ask you to do any such
thing. I shall pay you every cent I owe
you. But I have lost my money, and
can't very well afford to stay here until
i receive more.
Then it oocurrod to me that that was
just what he would like to have me do
He could hold my valise for security,
and my bill would be increasing, so I
added
I shall be obliged to leave your
house, anyway. If you will let me take
my valise, I think I may get passed
over the railroad; and I promise to send
fou tne two dollars i owe you as soon as
reach Utica.".
"What time is it t" he asked. I took
oat my watch and told him. "That's a
good-looking turnip," he said. Leave
that, and you may take your baggage."
The watch had been my father's. I
wouldn't have trusted it in his hands on
any account.
No thank you I" I said, and put it
back into my pocket.
He saw that I distrusted him, and be
came abusive.
"You're a swindler!" he cried. "I've
heard of you before, How many
pocket-books have you lost this week?
I've a cat here that could eat them all,
and lick her chops for more. Ah!" he
shook bis fist at me angrily "I'm the
wrong man for you to try your little
confidence game on, If you come into
my house again without the money," he
shouted after me as I was turning' my
back on him indignantly, "I'll have you
arrested! I'll have you in the lockup!"
I think I was never so angry in my
life; but what is the use of arguing with
a wild beast? I held my tongue, and
walked out of his miserablo hotel with
out my baggage. I had been poorly
accommodated there, and his charge,
alter all, was extortion almost as much
as I should have had to pay in those
days at a first-class house.
I should have found no fault with that,
aud would gladly have sent him the
money if he would have let me off; but
to feel that I had been imposed upon as
well as insulted increased my in
dignation. Eastmore followed me out, and spoke
some words intended to appear sympa
thizing; but I had no patience with the
cold, suspicions, non-committal charao
ter of the fellow, and gave him but a
curt reply. So ho went hia way, and I
mine.
I had already resolved what to do. I
walked boldly into a first-class hotel,
entered my name on the register, and
then asked the clerk to be good enough
to put my watoh in the hotel safe. It
was an unusual act. I knew the clerk
would wonder why I requested it; but I
made no explanation. I then took a
room and wrote a letter to my mother,
which I thought would reach her the
next morning, and serve my purpose as
well as a telegram. I got my letter into
the mail and took "mine ease in mine
inn." I determined to enjoy my Btay at
the Falls, while waiting for money to
get away.
The neit day, while walking out of
the hotel, I met Eastmore walking in.
He gave me a curious smile and went to
the desk, whre he seemed to be looking
over the register for names.
I didn't have anything more to say to
him, but sauntered away, with my head
np. I looked eagerly, the next morn
ing, for the expected letter from home.
It did not come. But I got an interest
ing bit of news instead,
I took up at the breakfast table a news
paper which a gentleman had laid down,
and read with feelings which you can
perhaps imagine, this item, under the
heading of " Spray from the Falls;"
Don't drink out of the Cataract!
That is what Philip Clement Edney at
tempted to do on Tuesday, in the pres
ence of our reporter, and thus parted
with a large and well-stuffed pocket
book, which took that occasion to leap
out of his breast-pocket and dart over
the American Fall like a fish. Philip
Clement Edney wob hngely disgusted;
bo likewise was the landlord of the Eagle
House, when he found that the said P.
O. E. had nothing but fair promises
wherewith to settle his bill. Unfortun
ately our reporter could not swear to the
wallet and its contents; and in this age
of dead beats and confidence men, P. O.
E. naturally fell under some enspicion.
" If an impostor, whioh our reporter
did not believe, he is a very young and a
very good-looking specimen, if an honest
person, as he appears, we can only say
that it was an expensive drink, and refer
the prudent reader to the morai of our
story, which, to insure ita being read,
we have placed at the beginning, and
here repeat at the end, Don't drink out
of the Cataract t"
Hot and cold streaks shot over me as
I read this smart paragraph. I burned
to get hold of Eastmore'a sagacious nose,
and be rude to it. My name the name
which the reporter had given in full
was on the hotel register, and already,
no doubt, I was. an object of suspicion
by the clerk. I arose hastily and left
the dining hall.
I went to cool my head under the oliff
below the Falls, and did not return to
the hotel until noon. Again I asked the
clerk for letters. There were none for
me; but there was something else a
card.
" H. F. Marston " was the name I
read on it; and I was informed that Mr.
"Marston had inquired for me.
" I don't know him," I said. " Who
is he?"
By way of reply the clerk struck a
bell, called a messenger, and sent him
off to see if Mr. Marston was in his room,
and tell him that " Mr. Edney " had re
turned. Then he said to me
"You are the young man who left a
watoh with me, I believe. Do you wish
for it ?"
"Ihallwish for it," I said, "when
I have money to pay my bill, which I am
expecting by every mail."
"Then it wasn't Bimply for safe keep
ing that yon handed it to me t" he said.
" Not altogether," I replied. "Ihad
no baggage; and to avoid anpleasant
explanations, and perhaps still more un
pleasant suspicions, I thought I would
place that security in your hands. "
He smiled as he took the watoh frcm
the safe and handed it back to me.
"I don't require the security. I be
lieve you are honest, Mr. Edney. The
paragraph in this morning's paper has
excited interest, and one or two persons
have asked about you. Mr. Marston
wishes particularly to see you. Walk
up stairs."
The messenger had in fact just xe
turned for me, and I went with him,
wondering all the way what woold hap
pen next.
I found a tall, well-dressed, fine
looking gentleman waiting for me in
his private parlor.
"Is this Philip Clement Edney ?" he
said, with a smile, which brought np a
host of recollections.
I stared at him, all a-tremble with
excitement. I might have passed him
twenty times in the hotel without know
ing him; bnt now I was sure of my man
at a glance.
"That is my name," I said; "and
you"
He stopped me with another engag
ing smile.
"I am Henry F. Marston, please
remember. If I had another name once,
I should be glad to have it forgotten.
But I am willing that you should know
who I am. When I saw your name in
the paper this morning, I knew it must
be you. Then I found you were stop
ping at the same hotel with me. Your
father was very, very kind to me, Philip;
and when I learned"
The tears actually came into his eyes,
as he faltered; and at that moment I
forgave him all.
"You were a little shaver when I knew
you," he went on, with another flashing
smile. "I should not have recognized
you; but you have your father's name,
and your mother's eyes. I don't know
why I have neglected to communicate
with them. When I found that you
were here, my heart yearned toivards
you. How are your parents, Philip ?"
tie had not heard of my father's
death. When I told him. and described
the straitened circumstances of our
family, he appeared greatly astonished
and coDscience-stricken.
"Why haven't you sent forme?" ho
asked.
"My father, in his last moments, beg
ged U4 to let you know of our circum
stances, and I have gone through three
cities in Bearch of you," I replied. "But
no Thomas Harringford"
lie stopped me again. "Of court e
not," he said. "There is no such man
now, and never has been, sinoel left
Utioa and began a new life under a new
name. I have been much to blame that
I never paid your father. Do you know
tne amount of the debt ?
"The faoe of the note was seven hun
dred and forty dollars," I answered.
"iiut that. I am sorry to say, went over
the falls in my pocketbook. But
I have a letter to yon from my
mother, whioh I have left in my valise
at the Eagle House,"
"Go and get it, he said.
"I can't," I replied, "for I have no
money to pay my bill there."
He at once opened his pocket-book.
" Take that and get your valise."
He put a twenty-dollar bank note into
my hand.
In half an hour I had redeemed my
baggage, told the landlord of the Eagle
house in plain language what I thought
of his conduct, returned to Harringford's
room -7 or rather Marston's-with my
mother's letter.
In reading it he had to hide his face.
Tears were still in his eyes, though he
was smiling again. Then he turned to
me.
" That was a lucky paragraph in this
morning s paper, be said ; " and a
lucky accident which detained you here.
In your absence I have oompnted the
present value of that note at compound
interest ; and now it gives me the great
est satisfaction to repay your family in
a time of need. I nave deducted the
twenty dollars I just handed you ; and
here is the balance. "
He put a paper into my hands. I
oouldn t believe my eyes. It was a check
for twenty-three hundred and ninety
dollars.
I did not wait for my mother's letter,
but took the next train for home.
I found my letter there waiting for her.
She was away, and it had not been for
warded. She soon returned, and I had
the joy of putting Harringford's check
into her hands. We felt some anxiety
lest it shouldn't prove good for the very
large sum of money it called for ; but it
did ; and it proved also to be the turning
point in our fortunes.
Jn my delight at tne nappy termina
tion of my adventure, I forgave every
body who had wronged me. I forgave
the wall-eyed landlord. I even forgave
Eastmore.
I have visited Niagara Falls more
than once since. But I never again felt
any desire to drink out of the cataract.
J. F. Trowbridge, in Youth's Compan
ion TIMELY TOPICS.
Dr. Sohliemann has found 904 marble
objects at Olympia, 3,734 bronzes, 904
terra cottan, 429 inscriptions and 1,270
coins.
At the great international German
shooting match which recently took
place at Dusaeldorf, a woman won three
prizes.
A resident of Sacramento, Cal., has a
breadfruit tree in full bearing. The
fruit averages a length of four inches,
and is pear shaped, with a flavor like
that of a cantaloupe.
Fifty thousand eucalyptus trees are to
be planted about the city of Mexico.
These trees grow very rapidly, and in a
few yerirs will make a material modifica
tion in the rainfall about the Mexican
capital.
Astronomers find that the average
number of meteors which traverse the
atmosphere daily, and which are laree
4 enough to be visible to the naked eye
vn-aaarK clear night, is no less than
7,500,000.
A new purse has been invented in
London. When yon open it it appears
simply to be an ordinary portmonnaie,
but by touching a spring at the side,
the trigger of a small revolver drops into
your hand; a portion of the end of the
purse opens out, discharging the muzzle,
and you suddenly find yourself with a
most useful protector.
The consumption of coal in London ia
steadily augmenting, both in arithme
tical and geometrical ratio. Thus, in
1681, the consumption was within 200,
000 tons; in 1851 it increased to 3,500,
000 tons; in 1861 to 5,073,275 tons, and
in 1877 to 9,000,700 tons. For manu
facturing purposes alone 1,500,000 tons
are used up annually in that huge city.
A peculiar system of weather warn
ings for the benefit of farmers has been
established at Leipsio, under the direc
tion of the observatory at that city. Four
different signals are given by means of
drnms hoisted to different heights. One
indicates fine weather, another change
able; a third rain, and a fourth that
no trustworthy prediction is possible.
These forecasts are already highly es
teemed by the agricultural proprietors,
for whose guidance they are intended.
It is estimated that the amounts of
wheat for export from the countries
named during the current crop year will
be approximately as follows in bushels:
North America 85,000,000
Russia .40,000,000
Austro-Hungary 20,000,(00
Austral asia 15, 000, 000
India 5,000,000
Chili : 4,000,000
Total 170,000,000
In the Laccadavies a spesies of rats
suddenly appeared, whioh, living in the
crowns of the palm-trees, nibbled off the
young nuts and threatened to rniu the
colony. The Indian government being
appealed to for aid sent over a stock of
cats, bnt as the cats could get fish to
eat below, they declined to climb ninety
feet np the trees to get rats. Tree
snakes were then tried, but the villagers
were prejudiced against reptiles and
killed them. Then the government sent
out a consignment of mongooses, but
the mongooses declined to climb trees af
ter rats while they could get chickens on
the ground. With cuts and mongooses
on the ground rofusing to ascend to the
rats, the officials decided that all that
was required was to make the. rats de
scend to the cats and mongooses, so
they sent the islanders over some owls.
But they had overlooked. the popular
prejudice against these birds, aud in
committee assembled the people decided
that even rats up in the trees were better
than these "devil-birds." They accept
ed the birds in all apparent gratitude,
but as Boon as the coast was clear, the
owls, cats and mongooses were all con
veyed in procession -to a boat and sol
emnly deported to en uninhabited reof.
Historic rostofftces.
Two United States postoffices have
been established at placas of historio
note in Virginia. While there are
twenty-three Mount Yernons in Ihe
United States that are postoffices, the
one from which the name sprung has
been without postal facilities. The sub
ject was brought to the attention of Postmaster-General
Key a few weeks ago,
and it being understood that the lady
regents desired a postoffioe there as a
convenience as well as for the business
of the Mount Vernon Association, and of
the neighborhood, arrangements were
made for an office, which was ordered
established. It is thought that the post
office will derive some especial revenue
from visitors who will desire to send a
letter home direct from Mount Vernon.
Another postoffioe on the same route
is also established at Gunston, Fairfax
county, former seat of George Mason,
the author of the Bill of Rights of Vir
ginia. Gunston is now owned by a
oompany, and a co-operative farm is
established there. It was here that
James M. Mason died, several years
ago, well known at one period as United
States Senator from Virginia, and after
ward as Confederate Minister to England.
Items of Interest.
Language The dress of thought.
The feathered tribes the Indians.
A fast walking-stick A hurri-cane.
Real estate conveyances Dirt carte.
There are 100 volcanoes in South
America.
It is not fair to strike an average when
it is down.
The forerunners of a plague A mos
quito's legs.
rTSoldiers have to be mustered before
they are peppered.
The color, indigo-blue, is now pro
duced from coal oil.
It is said that no yellow fever epidemic
has ever prevailed in China,
A kind of timber or which there is no
further call summer board.
Postmaster Key has thirteen children.
The biggest bunch of keys we know of.
A man's character is like a fence
You cannot strengthen it by whitewash.
We may joke when we please, if we
are always careful to please when we
joke.
A steel is what makes a blade sharp,
but a blade that makes a sharper is a
stealer.
Ode asked why B stood before C. Be
cause said another, a man mustB before
he can C.
A Paris cafe strikes Americans with
awe by displaying among its edibles,
" Ponkeen piah."
A joker challenged a sick man's vote
at a city election on the ground that he
was an ill legal voter.
Patienoe and gentleness are potent
and powerful, but they can not turn a
mill-wheel nor break up a setting hen. -
You may talk about the " lean and
hungry Cassius," but did you ever take
a Bide view of the man who has run a
store ten years without advertising ?
When a dealer tell you; the stiff, un
comfortable looking boots he wants to
sell you are calfskin, remember that a
f nil-grown cow, or bull, is a calf's kin.
At a great shoe manufactory in Lynn,
Mass., recently, a pair of kid side-laced
woman's boots was made from the stock
in just eleven minutes, in sight of
visitors.
" How is it, Miss, you gave your age
to the census taker as only twenty-five, ;
when you were born the same year I
was, and I am thirty-nine ?" " Ah ! you
have lived much faster than I, sir."
" This country." remarkod a traveler
in northwestern Iowa, " settles up very
rapidly." " Ya-as," replied the native,
nervously watching the movements of a
constable, dodging along the other side
of the field, " country settles up a blame
sight faster than the people do." And
before the travfler could ask him to ex
plain, he was making a mile a minute
across the trackless prairie with the con
stable a bad second. Bttrlington Hawk
eye. .
People have different notions of time.
A laudlord, who is his own rent col
lector, recently called on an old tenant,
who, with pale, trembling lips faltered:
" I am very sorry, but times are so bad,
and and I am not quite ready. Ifyou
oonld only give me a little time. "Well,
well, you have always been , a good
payer,' said the landlord. "A little
time eh? Certainly. I am going-upstairs,
and I will look in as 1 come
down."
A Yellow Fever Pen Picture.
The following communication, ad
dressed to the chairman of the New York
Chamber of Commerce by the president
of the Howard Association and the act
ing mayor of Vicksburg, Miss., is a vivivl
pen picture of the terrors -of yellow
fever, as experienced in that city : "Our
eutire force, as well as the physician,
nurses and well nurses, are solely occu
pied in this fearful struggle with dealL.
Doctors do not pause for neoeasnrv
sleep, and continue their endless rounds
eveu when the dread destroyer is in their
own households, and we therefore fail to
havo reports from them of the number t -i
cases uuder treatment. Thoy have trkd
to report in person, but we have always
to request their immediate departure t
see other and later cases. Most of v.1
on duty at our rooms and elsewhere Lav.
fever iu our families, but we are tryir ;;
to supply the calls for doctors, nurses,
medicines and food, and to do so under
such rules and regulations as will pro
tect ns from impostors and enable us t
meet the wants of all the needy.
"There is, however, but little danger
of charity going astray or being wronged
when the entire city and its suburbs is f.
vast.hosnital, with every ohamber occu
pied and no outlet save to the grave.
The struggle is now eo desperate thut
we can scarcely realize other wants than
the immediate necessities of the sick,
dying and dead, and this takes over $'2.
000 daily of our funds and fully as much
from outside organizations. But as tho
fever lessens we then shall have dint me
in another form. The children will be
for bread. Death's horrors are reduce
for want of Bubjects. Nature will aiM
itself, and the survivors of the wret-k
will be helpless mariners afloat, withou
rudder, sail or motive power.
"The fever may subside by the mu
die of October, but no work or traffio or
commerce of any kind will come to u
until the middle of November gives e
suranoes of no contagion. Wo are be! .
less to set the wheels of our life iu in.
tion sooner, and must need the go I
will and kindly offices of those ei
happily fcituated. Till' then, if ti.
was not another case of fever to o
we should still be isolated and sir
for no cne would come to us nor
us tocouje to them,"