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Come for Thy Rights !
Come, honest manhood, not ashamed to toil,
Stand In the garb or cnuse that honors tbeo I
Conie from the mill, the forge, or sterile
oil, t (
"We orown thee king, thou shall our
sovereign be I
Come from the ocean laden fish or peatla j
Come from the minus with all their precious
' ore
Come not as servant, serving moneyed ohnrls,'
But, in thy right, stand dignified before, '
Thon fondest kings ; they tax thee in returtj j
Thou clothest nobles, rich in courtly dross j
Thon diggest coal for them to cheerful burn,
But snvest little, each, thyself to bless'.
Jliou art content, pushed by unkindly hands,
btand out, the rightful ruler of the lands
Come for thy rights, as constant as the flfln 1
Stand for thy cause in eloquence of deed 1
Come with thy riches, when thy-toil is done,
As plants give bloom to multiply their seed 1
Wha't though the rioh and proud thy wages
take '
. Still strivest thou in faithfulnow of soul,
Till by thy care the flolda harvest make,
-That give a welcome to the living whole:
Nor halting here, to moan with selfish sighs
That others take as freely- as they choose,
Thon givest all to nations in supplies,
And rarely break'st thy serving to abuse ;
Thou guard'st, thou honorest here with high
repute ;
Thou plant'st the seed art generous with the
fruit.
Earth bears no blighting ourse by thee
imposed j
Thou art her husband, toiling, royal wed t
She bears no malice, when in death deposed
Thou eleep'st at last within her silent bed j
But kings and despots, ruling to devest,
Have wet her bosom deep with peasant
keops aooount, to settle by at last,
- When kings sleep well, bat sleep as kings
no more.
How can a deaUt-dethroned king relent?
He lies a subject, humbled in estate ;
The peasant has no carnage sown or rent,
And in the grave he is a king as groat t
He roaches forth in pleasure and in hope,
Nor dies debauched, a morbid misanthrope
C. ft Merritt, Springfield Republican,
THE TABLES TUILNED.
A large, old-fashioned, quaint gray
stone house, with a green, close-clipped
lawn, extending down to a very pictur
esque portion of the Avon. Seated on
the lawn were three young ladles in
summer toilets" with broad straw hats.
Two were at work; while the darkest,
prettiest, though smallest, was reading
aloud.
Suddenly, blended with the musical
dip of oars, the still, calm air (was
broken by a strong, clear, manly voice
singing: ,
"When the lads of the village, ,
Merrily ah I merrily ah I"
" It's Tom ! It's dear old Tom !"
cried the two girls who were dressed
nlike. " He's rowed up from Chesser
milL Come, Georgie, come." Georgie,
their cousin, appeared by no means
backward, and the three eagerly
hastened down to the river. I
Scarcely had they reached the edge
than a light skiff, in which sat a hand
som6 young English Saxon of about
flve-and-twenty, shot from the shadow
of the willows to their very feet.
" Here I am, girls 1" he cried, cheerily,
shipping his oars and casting the moor
ing rope round a post placed on pur
pose. " Yes, here you are, singing as much
out of tune as ever," said Georgie,
roguishly.
" Now, J ieaso don't begin your spar
ring," laughed Rosie, the youngest sis
ter. "We are so glad you've come,
Tom, whether in tune or not. "We
have 'something lo tell you and some
thing for you to do."
"Really? Prithee, fair sister, ex
pound," he rejoined," walking up the
lawn, a sister on either side of him,
though his eyes oftenest sought out
Georgie.
"But first," asked Lenore, the elder,
" how long are you going to stay here ?"
" Whitehall has given me a week.
My luggage comes by road."
" Capital 1 Now, let us sit down and
we will tell you."
The girls sat in a kind of semi-circle;
while Tom laid his whole length before
them, his elbow on the grass, his cheek
on his hand.
- " Now," he asked, " what is the mat
ter?" "Well," said Lenore, who by general
acclaim was nominated spokeswoman,
"you must know, Tom, that there'is a
certain room in this old house papa has
just bought which Is said to be
haunted."
" Nonsense."
" But it is true. Papa would not let
us know when he bought the place,
but we soon heard it from the people
about here. He, however as y
says it's all nonsense."
"Being a sensible, practical man,"
interpolated Tom.
"Ah; still he gives us full leave to
test it." , .
" And are you go'ing to ?"
" We wish to, therefore want you to
sleep there one night, Tom."
"Want me I" $
" Yes ; so that you may inform us,"
remarked -Georgie, very gravely,
" whether there is a ghost or not.
" Really I feel exceedingly obliged,"
laughed Tom,, "but I don't quite see
the joke. I iim not anxious for a'
jrhoMtly a'vjua'tance,'1
j "Oh, Tom!" exclaimed Georgie,
with a glance that sent the blood to
her cousin's cheek. "I didn't think
you were a coward I"
" Coward I Come now,- Georgie,
that's too bad," he cried.
"Well, I think it cowardly," re
sponded the young lady, pursing her
pretty mouth. "I don't believe in
ghosts any more than uncle does ; and
I want to sleep there, only he will not
let me."
"1 should think not," said Tom,
with quick approvjil. " But what
kind of ghost is it? What is the
story?"
" Why, they say years and years ago
the heiress of this largo estate for it
was a large estate then was one night
cruelly murdered in that room by her
cousin, who, on her death, inherited
the property ; ever since which period
the lady's ghost, attired in white, pays
the apartment a visit rejrularly at 12
o'clock midnight," and as Lenore ended
there was a tremor in her voice.
"Bosh!" laughed Tom, contempt
uously. "Why, Lenny, you look ab
solutely pale!"
" They will not even pass the door
after dark," remarked Georgie, with a
toss of the head. " But don't you quiz
them, Master Tom, for you, also, are too
l Tightened to face itl What coward
ice!" with a little shrug. " I declare,
if any man loved me and I found he
was a coward, I'd never, never marry
him!"
Perhaps it was accident, perhaps it
was intentional, but Georgie's dark
eyes rested on Tom as she spoke.
" There goes papa!" cried Rosie, at
the instant starting up, as a tall,
elderly man passed along the terrace in
front of the house. " Let us tell him
Tom has come."
" Let us all go to him," said Tom.
They rose and the sisters went on
before; but Tom somenow managed
to drop a little behind with his cousin.
"So, Georgie," lie said, "you
wouldn't marry a man who was a
coward. I hope you meant that for
ine, because you might marry me if I
were not. Oh, dear coz, you know
how I love you! I'd face all the
ghosts in Christendom if you would
only say you would by my wife!"
" Yet you will not face a probable
one, Tom," she laughed.
"I will without demur, if you would
only say yes, Georgie," he whispered,
earnestly. "Ghosts wouldn't frighten
me!"
" I'd like to have that proved. I am
not so certain," she rejoined, saucily,
as they came up to the rest.
" Well, Tom," exclaimed Mr. Harri
son, " these stupid girls tell me they
want you to sleep in the haunted
room, for our old house is respectable
enough to possess one."
"So I hear, sir, and will willingly
test its ghostly character , if you have
no objection."
" None in the least, my boy, only I'll
make this proviso I'll have no fire
arms used. Should anything appear it
will not be supernatural in which 1
no more believe than that the moon is
made of green cheese."
So it was agreed that Tom should
sleep there.
" I hope he will see nothing," said
his sisters.
" I hope he will," said Georgie, "and
prove his courage."
"I shan't sleep a wink to-night,"
remarked ltosie, as they saw Tom dis
appear down the long corridor.
"I don't think I shall much," agreed
Georgia, very thoughtfully.
The next morning Tom's appearance
at' the breakfast-table was anxiously
expected. When lie came his expres
sion was certainly more serious.
" Well," smiled Mr. Harrison, " what
did you see, Tom? Giles Scroggins'
ghost or anything else?"
" I can't quite say, sir," answered
his son.. "I certainly thought once I
saw something; but I was so dead
tired that my half-dazed brain may
have played me a trick. Consequently,
I would rather say nothing until I've
had another night's experience."
"Sleep there again!" ejaculated the
girls, Georgie loudest.
" Assuredly!"
Tom's account but half satisfied his
feminine hearers.
" I am sure Jie has seen something,"
said Lenore, when they were alone.
" I'm certain of it!" coincided Geor
gie. " But he is going to show how
brave he is. Why can't the silly fel
low confess and have done with it-?"
Tom had seen something. About mid
night, in the farthest corner of the
room, he had beheld a shadowy female
form, draped in grayisa-white, occa
sionally waving its arms, while faint
sighs burst from the lips.
He had felt startleO, alarmed ! He
had tried to think it the moonlight;
but glancing at the window he saw
there was none. r35 he had laM and
looked half frightened, and 4Sialf
ashamed of being so.
Abruptly, hovever, remembering
Georgie's word? he cared for nothing
else; and being partially dressed,
leaped up and ail vanccL toward- the
ghost. For a second there was nnjrighten me. I can scarcely
teration. Then it rapidly melted awtiv
there was a click ad when Tom
reached the corner it was empty !
Can there really lie ghosts.he thought,
groping his way back to bed. Impos
sible ! Yet his eyes turned to his
pistol-case that might jirove; but no
VpuUlnt do !
The second night the same thing oc
curred only this time the specter had
sighed and moaned and wrung its
hands as in direst distress, but it did
not wait for Tom's advance. It van
ished after a few moments.
" It's curious, to say the least of it,"
he meditated, striking a light and sit
ting on the side of his bed. Then taking
the candle he carefully examined the
apartment.
It was a spacious oak-paneled room,
with casemented windows. Mr. Har
rison proposed to turn it into a ball
room, when, he had laughed, the ghosts
would have a happy time of it. But
Tom could discover neither ghost nor
human, The door was locked as he
had left it; the windows securely fast
ened. "It's confoundedly singular!" he re
peated, finally throwing himself on to
the bed.
The next morningjhe told exactly
what had occurred.
Mr. Harrison pooh-pooh'd it, de
claring it was Tom's imagination or
that he was poking fun at them; but
the girls took it differently.
"There," cried the sisters, "you see,
Georgie, the place is haunted!"
For a second Georgie appeared de
feated; she pouted, glanced at her cup,
then exclaimed, with charming consistency:
"I don't and
are ghosts! As
been deluded!"
I won't believe there
uncle says, Tom has
" Well, Tom is going to give it an
other trial," laughed the young fellow.
" Oh, no, don't do thatl" exclaimed
Georgie, quickly. " We've had enough
of it!"
"I don't think so," rejoined Tom,
delighted at this involuntary interest.
" And if it comes a third time I'll
take it for a sign "
" Of' what r
" That I have proved my courage,"
he whispered, " and merited the re
ward for facing a ghost."
"There are no ghosts," persisted
Georgie, blushing.
" Then you do not believe me?"
" I fancy you were deceived."
That night the sisters implored Tom
to sleep in his own bedroom ; to which
Gcorgie.the bold disbeliever, even added
her entreaties. They fancied that he
had been more frightened than he
cared to confess, for he had been re
markably quiet and thoughtful all
day, had kept aloof from them, and
wandered about the house like a ghost
himself.
But Tom was firm, ne said he was
resolved to believe his eyes and brain
had deceived him, unless the poor lady
ghost appeared a third time.
" But suppose she may not come
again ?" suggested Georgie.
" Then I'm resolved to sleep in this
room until she does, or put it all
down as nervous bosh and optical
delusion !"
With that Master Tom strode off to
his haunted bedchamber," while the
girls crept along to theirs.
Scarcely had midnight chimed for
somewhere, no doubt, it did chime,
though not in Mr. Harrison's house
than in the dark corner of the oak
paneled apartment again appeared the
shadowy figure. That it was a woman's
there could be no doubt ; the loose
grayish draperies flowed round it,
drooping from the waving arms, while
a gray mist apparently enveloped the
head.
It repeated the same evolutions as on
the previous occasion, only its moans
and tokens of grief were more earn
estly expressed ; but, after all, this
night was destined to be materially
different. As the ghost's time for de
parture arrived, lo! and behold, there
was another ghost!
The last was taller, clothed entirely
in white, and, standing behind the
first, frantically waved its long arms
with a hollow sepulchral moan.
Evidently, however, the smaller
spirit hadn't expected this ghostly
companion, for, perceiving it, with a
ringing shriek it fled toward the bed,
crying:
"Oh! Tom Tom, save mel There
is a ghost and it's here! Save me
save mel"
But no Tom sprang to her rescue.
Only the taller ghost pursued, ex
claiming, in a very earthly voice and
amid much earthly laughter;
"So, Miss Georgie, I've caught you,
have II The tables are nicely turned,
upon my life."
"Tom!" gasped Georgie, the smaller
specter, plucking the gray gauze from
about her head, " is it you ? Oh! what
does it mean ?"
" Only that I've discovered the
ghost," laughed Tom. "The second
night I suspected the unsubstantiality
of my visitor and employed the next
day in minutely examining my room,
whh led to the discovery of a secret
sliding panel, which conducted into a
passage that ha another secret outlet
in ihe corridor near your room. I then
speecin divined who was my lady-
"Oh,4Tora," she murmured, half
angrily, "its a sname you snouid so
:2 riKhten me. I can scarcely stand. I
really thought you a specter. Yes I
owji it wanted to test your courage
and"
" I have tested yours, who were so
fcrave."
" Tom, can you forgive me ?"
"If you will only reward me for
faciffj; the ghostj Georgie,"
"Tom," she laughed, "this isn't a
time to play Romeo and Juliet nor
the toilets. Oh!" she added, hearing
steps hastening along the corridor, "do
keep my secret, Tom. Do, please !" she
added, imploringly, as she tied through
the panel.
But the secret did creep out next day
and the laugh as the tables were
turned on Georgie, who, trying to
frighten Tom, had been awfully fright
ened, herself. Georgie angrily declared
she would never forgive her cousin;
bnt it is supposed she did, for the first
ball held in the haunted room was in
commemoration of their wedding day.
Effect of Music on Sheep.
The following pleasing anecdote of
the power of music is related by the
celebrated Haydn :
"In my early youth," says he, "I
went, with some other young people
equally devoid of care, one morning
during the extreme heat of summer to
seek for coolness and fresh air on one
of the lofty mountains which surround
the Lago Maggiore in Lombardy.
Having reached the middle of the
ascent by daybreak, we stopped to con
template the Borromean isles, which
were displayed under our feet in the
middle of the lake, when we were sur
rounded by a large flock of sheep, which
were leaving their fold to go to pasture.
" One of our party, who -was no bad
performer on the flute and who always
carried the instrument with him, took
it out of his pocket. He began to
play. The sheep and goats, which
were following one another toward
the mountain with their heads hang
ing down, raised them with the first
sound of the flute, and all, with a gen
eral and hasty movement, turned to
the side from whence the agreeable
noise proceeded. They gradually
flocked around the musician and lis
tened with motionless attention. He
ceased playing and the sheep did not
stir.
"The shepherd with his staff now
obliged them to move on; but no
sooner did the fluter begin again
than his innocent audience again
returned to him. The shepherd,
out of patience, pelted them with clod.i
of earth; but not one of them would
move. The fluter played with addi
tional skill; the shepherd fell into a
passion, whistled, scolded and pelted
the p.oor creatures with stones. Such
as were hit by them began to march,
but the others stiii refused to stir. At
last the shepherd was forced to entreat
our Orpheus to stop his magic sounds;
the sheep then moved off, but con
tinued to stop at a distance as often in
our friend resumed the agreeable in
strument. " The tune he played was nothing
more than a favorite air at that time
in Milan. We were delighted with
our adventure; we reasoned upon it the
whole day, and concluded that phys
ical pleasure is the basis of all interest
in music."
Two Singular Men.
A stranger with long hair, a white
coat, a white hat with a crape band
and other evidences of lunacy, entered
a Griswold street restaurant yesterday
and said to the proprietor:
" Sir, let me explain in advance that
I am a singular man."
" All right, sir. A singular man's
order is as good as any one else's."
"I want six oysters on the half
shell on the left hand half, if you
please."
The oysters were opened and placed
before him, and when he had devoured
them he said:
"Now take six oysters, run them
through a clothes-wringer to remove
the dampness, and fry them for me In
olive oil."
This order was also filled, when fri
called for a cup of salt water, added
milk and sugar and drank it down and
asked for his bill.
" I also desire to explain in advance
that I am a singular man," replied the
proprietor. " Your bill is f 2."
" Impossible !"
" Just $2, sir."
" But that is monstrous !"
" Perhaps it seems high, but that's
my singular way of charging for singu
lar lunches."
" I'll never pay it 1"
" Then I'll sadden your heart !"
The safl proceedings were about to
begin when the long-haired man forked
oyer and walked out. The lesson
seemed to si nk deep into his heart, for ho
halted at a fruit store and, without any
explanations in advance, paid the usual
price for a banana and carried it off
without asking the seller to dip tho
ends in rose-water. Free Press.
The metropolitan board of works in
London controls an area of 122 square
miles, covered by a population of
nearly 4,000,000. The royal parks
cover 1,742 acres and other open
spaces 1,676 acres.
The figures given of the losses by
the strikes this Bummer are large.
The loss to employes is estimated at
000,000; t0 employers, $12,000,000;
and to the general public, 130,000,000.
Nnety-iv locomotlvL3and 11,097
car wheels i5re exported from the
United States last year. During the
same period there were exported
2,104.6-13 pounds of iron rails.
FOR THE LADIES.
Superstitions Aboat Love.
From the earliest times no event in
human life has been associated with a
more extensive folk-lore than marriage.
Beginning with love-divinations, these
are of every conceivable kind, the
anxious maiden apparently having left
no stone unturned in her anxiety to
ascertain her lot In the marriage state.
Some cut the common brake or fern
just above the root to ascertain the
initials of her future husband's name.
Again, nuts and apples are very favor
ite love tests. The mode of procedure
is for a girl to place on the bars of a
grate a nut, repeating this incantation:
If he loves me, pop and fly ;
If be hates me, live and die.
Great is the dismay if the anxious
face of the inquirer gradually perceives
the nut, instead of making the hoped
for pop, die and make no sign. One
means of divination is to throw a lady
bird into the air, repeating meanwhile
the subjoined couplet : .
Fly away east and fly away west,
Show me where lives the one I like best.
Should this little insect chance to
fly in the direction of the house where
the loved one resides, it is regarded as
a favorable omen.
Another species of love-divination
once observed consisted in obtaining
five bay-leaves, four of which the
anxious maiden pinned at the four
corners of her pillow and the fifth in
the middle. If she was fortunate
enough to dream of her lover it was a
sure sign that he would be married to
her in the course of the year.
Friday has been held a good day of
the week for love omens; and in Nor
folk the following lines are repeated
on three Friday nights successively, as
on the last one it is believed that the
young lady will dream of her futun
husband:
To-night, to-night is Friday nighty
Lay me down iu dirty white;
Dream who my husband is to be,
And lay my children by my Bide,
If I'm to live to be his bride.
In selecting the time for the mar
riage ceremony precautions of every
Kinu nave generally been taken to avoid
an unlucky month and day for the
knot to be tied. Indeed, the old Ro
man notion that May marriages are un
lucky survives to this day in England.
June is a highly popular month. Fri
day, on account of its being regarded
as an inauspicious and evil day for tho
commencement of any kind of enter
prise, is generally avoided.
In days gone by Sunday appears to
have been a popular day for mar
riages. It is, above ail things neces
sary that the sun should shine on the
bride, and it is deemed absolutely nec
essary by very many that she should
weep on her wedding day, if it be only
a few tears; the .omission of such an
act being considered ominous of her
future happiness.
In Sussex abrideon her return home
from church is often robbed of all her
pins about her dress by the single
women present, from the belief that
whoever possesses one of them will bo
married in the course of a year, and
evil fortune will sooner or later inevi
tably overtake the bride who keeps
even one pin used in the marriage
toilet.
" Flinging the stocking " was an old
marriage custom in England. The
young men took the bride's stockings
and the girls those of the bridegroom,
each of whom, sitting at the foot of
the bed, threw the stocking over their
heads, endeavoring to make it fall
upon that of the bride or her spouse.
If the bridegroom's stockings, thrown
by the girls, fell upon the bridegroom's
head, it was a sign that they them
selves would soon be married, and
similar luck was derived from the fall
ing of the bride's stockings, thrown by
the young men. There is a super
stitious notion in some places that
when the bride retires to rt on her
wedding night her bridemaids should
lay her stockings across, as this act is
supposed to guarrantee her future
prosperity in the marriage state.
Fashion Notes.
Carnations, marsh-mallows, poppies
and ox-eye daisies are the most fash
ionable flowers for trimming fall round
hats of dark straw.
nandsome "Roman" and "Egyp
tian " pens, clasps, jeweled bands and
buckles, made in the United States, are
a prominent feature of millinery and
cloak garniture tills season.
The proper colors for elegant wraji
pers are cream white, pale blue, pale
rose, shrimp pink, mauve, terra cotta,
hussar blue, dark reds, dark blues,
gray and black. The trimmings should
be embroidery, ribbons, velvet ami
lace.
The center parting of the hair is now
made as inconspicuous as possible, and
many ladies obliterate it altogether by
cross partings taken above the fore
head, while the greater part of the
chevelure is combed bick without any
parting at all.
Small capotes of white or tinted
satin, completely covered with suit
fluffy white ostrich tips, uro worn.
They are very pretty and becoming to
youthful ladies. For their elders the
6ame fashion in black, bronze, brown,
garnet and dark, green is much, foK
9ved,
The Fast tire Ban.
If all the skies, I do believe,
Had all the year withholden
Their gala tints to guild thnt eve,
It would na been more golden
The wee birds would na sing so fin
If they had been invited ;
The cows came proudly in a line,
As if tljoy were delighted.
We linger'd by the pasture bars
Till sunset changed to gloaming,
Till twilight clustered into stars,
And through the clouds went roaming
And when the moon glowed up the sky
It found us still belating :
Yet none but my own Joe and I
Knew why the cows were waiting.
James Jud.ion Lord,
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
A man is known hf the company
he keeps away from. Picayune.
Pretty new ballad by the house
keeper, dedicated to the grocer: "Take
Back the Flour."
" Something left over from the fight
of yesterday," was the Duke of Wel
lington's definition of hash.
Albert Schwill i3 an Indiaiapolia
man who has had nineteen fights be
cause somebody said: "Give him to the
hogs." Boston Post.
What is the difference between
freight and cargo ? A horse-car con
ductor says the parsengers make tho
freight and the horses make the car
has been ungallantly said that the
telephone does what society rules have
always been unequal tcj compels
women who use it to talk one at a
time.
Yesterday wersaw a man with a
black eye, a skun nose and arm in a
sling. He had a revolver and wanted
to know who invented hammocks.
Boston Post. .
When a man kums to mo for advice
I find out tho kind of advice he wants
and I give it to him; this satisfys him
that he and I are two az smart men az
there is living Josh Billings.
A sad-hearted poetess ask3 in the
columns of the Philadelphia Bulletin'.
"Why do we sing?" Perhaps it's be
cause you don't know what the public
feeling is in your immediate neighbor-
hood.
When Hood wrote "There is a happi
ness that makes the heart afraid," he
was probably thinking of one evening
when he sat up very late with his girl
and did not know what minute the old
man might come thumping downstairs.
In seme of the mountainous sections
of Pennsylvania real estate has taken
a sudden downward tendency. About
two hundred acres slid down into the
valley the other day. It will be some
time before it goes up to its former
height. ISif tings.
An easy time of it " I don't want
' any man's advice," said the man with
the big bump of self-esteem. "I do
my own thinking." "Yes," mur
mured Fogg, "I should think you
might and not be greatly overworked
either." Boston TranstTipt.
The title of the lesson was: "The
Rich Youg Man," and the golden text
was: "One thing thou lackest." A
teacher in the primary class asked a
little tot to repeat the two, and looking
earnestly into the young lady's face
the child said: "One thing thou lack
est a rich young man."
"Where are you going, anyhow?"
asked an irate conductor on the Central
Pacific the other day to a " beat "
whom he had kicked off five or six
times, but who always managed to get
on again just as the train started.
" Well," said the fellow, quietly, " I'm
going to Chicago, if my pants hold
out.' Chicago Tribune,
A contemporary tells a yarn about
a Better dog which trotted up to a small
boy and dropped from his mouth into
the boy's hand a new jackknife which
the dog had just found. This is, how
ever, no circumstance to the Philadel
phia dog which trotted up to a boy and
dropped at his feet a tin can and a
piece of string. Philadelphia News.
The Cats of Cairo.
Among the curiosities of Cairo is an
amateur branch of the humane so
ciety, for tho especial ljcneflt of poor
Puss. A curious legacy was some
years ago left by a wealthy burgher to
enlarge the permanent income of the
cadi, on condition of his nourishing
amtcherishing all the unclaimed cats
in Cairo. Like most Mohammedans, he
must have shared the feeling which
made tho Prophet cut off the wide
sleeve of his robe, sooner than disturb
a favorite cat which had fallen asleep
thereon. Consequently a largo court
yard has been devoted to their especial
benefit, and hero thenice, soft, furry
creatures" lie and bask in tho sun, and
are fed at stated intervals, and alto
gether have a very good time of it. It
is a curious fact, however, that al
though daily additions are made to this
large feline home, tho inmates rarely
amount to more than lil'ty. This (in
the absence of sausage machines) is a
very remarkable problem. I supposo
that a candidate for tho olllco vk cadi
has to produce a medical certificate to
prove that he is not troubled with that
unconquerable aversion to dear old
Puss with which so many of the mas
culine genug are alllieted. Unit U mau'if
tUa'jo.:me,