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And all my L-art Itb xcrct raptur j tilL I listfn calm It to it w.ir.lcrmi Whrre Tauialml iL.j tliuM olJ time h.ir!i an.l f. ar Tliat n,i to blaut h bjt chert, or an iff. t britis r.ef.rj my i-ht a l.'.ln.lltijt mint of tear. I mert il;o -yn nuw, truc.iui:, uncoccrra- Wbrre once a ii,fiV frt-Ltrtir. glance I Tbuan ryes that lon i:o a pnrliway l.ura- Into the luutr truiplo of my aoul. I bear the ol.I, fumiliiir vol. , itnraor.!. Wbom faintrt tone wa iuu2 lu that itaj; .o quii'krne.1 ,ri':iini. the .ice be- My iun t heart sti-a.'.fjiit on ber No blTtfrni., no .luuloir of rvgrrt t'uaiM up to D,jr n.T nraca with tfrret diml.t; I wi'iiUI ni t hvi. tin. p-.t aiiain. nor ypt He jn:t rntriit t. liare it b'.ottml utt'. Wan inrm'ry, hovi-riti near tli far rff cravn V( our juun; love, i-alla back, acro the That all !lir. tin.ln ii cuM au l liiVle aare XLe lew pair. luourniTi rio.en brr-it baa i.lacnl. Plwp on, thou short live.1 love; thy grave ll l!erp; Thy lilt, waa Mtter, bat thy rt-t i w.t; Though oVr thy burial p ace noue pause to !. It Is appruarUed by none ave unshoT teet. C A LU ATKO N IS 11 EV EN G E. Io yoa rerneiuber the iociJent tUut made so aiuch talk four or Cve yeurs sigo. t the marriage ot Antuuia Leroux, the banker's sou. with Mile, do la Cotube-mtix-Fontaines? Certainly ujly rumors run at that time upon the solv ability of this speculator, who bad been partner with au Italian, the Count Caleatroni; the Italian occasionally visited ti e I.eroux at that epoch, but be has tii.cj cea-sed to appear at the bouse. On two or three occasions some charitable souls pretended that the marriace was broken off, but the cere mony took place, in spite of the oracles. The wedding Rifts were numerous ami spleudid, and the envious persons asked themselves where that Clabuster Le roux had taken all that, maliciously emphasizing the word. Amouir the witnesses for the bride was the learned Desroches, librarian at the National Library, and a great friend of the Corulie-aux-Fontaines. His functions of librarian imposed duties that seemed contradictory. He was obliged to be the most obliginc of men, but also the most defiant. In each one of the readers who called upou him bis role was to see a brother la sclenca and almost a friend, but a friend whose finders he must watch unceasingly, and whose pockets he must sound with an exercised regard. Des roches often said: "1 have kuowu faithful cashiers who never ttoie; but there does not exist a human Lelntrwbo is not capable, at some hour hi Lis life, of Btullin? a rare or curious book under his coat." "In leaving the church the guests went to the bouse of Mme. Leroux, who offered a lunch. In one of the parlors the bridal gifts we're displayed. Among the jewels exhibited was a dia mond necklace, given by Autoniu's father. This presi-ut attracted all the attention, and reduced to nothing the evil reports spread about the specula tor's aQairs. The necklace was worth at least six thousand doiiais. All at once, as the elegant crowd attacked the buffet, a clamor arose. "The diamond necklace is stolen!" Iu this circumstance Leroux acted like a veritable grand seignoir. After turning very red at Crst, lie immedi ately recovered himself, ani as the confuslou increased, he said: 'My friends, it Is an incident with out consequence; don't let such a tritle trouble this beautiful day I A money wound Is not msrta). ily dear chil Oren, may this light and premature shadow be only one that ever obscures jour happiness!" "Let us close the doors and call the roll," cried some of the guest. Never!' protested tLe master of the house. In an Indignant tone. "1 will not allow any one to suspect the honor of my guest and tl ose of my daughter-in-law!" In an adjoining room Mme. de la Combe-aux-Fontalnes made her daugh ter breathe salts while saying to her friends: "This is what they call business society! I don't say anything against my son-in-law, of course, but a specu lator's friends are always rather mixed!" , In short, the adventure was painful, and a great many of the guests breathed more freely when they were in the oin air. In ten minutes the Leroux parlors were empty. Just at that moment a servant said to the speculator that some one was waiting for him in bis private room. He went there and found the old servant, Desroehes, greatly ag.ta ted. Monsieur!" beg.m the librarian. "I am accustomed by professional duty to watch evervthin that takes place around me. I saw the theft committed The one who did Ue act Is a man ot about fifty, leau Terv daric co:D" plexioned. You kuow him. for you shook his band several times at the church. Heie is a detail which renders all mistake imrHMsiu; that estimable enUeman was the only ue this morn ina who wore his decorations on a little chain. I followed him luto tba street and as I was about to sreak ta him. the crowd separated us, and the feliow lumped into a cab. But I took the number ot the cab, and here It n. The rest is your affair- It is use.ess for me to eay that I am ready to give my tes timony. Shall we por" At these words Leroux got up. aud with a stride placed himself against the .door. To see the movement you would have believed that LVsroches was the thief. "Think a little," said Antonln'a father. I know the the person that ,0VusTct!" cried the librarian. "I dont suspect bim; I saw him commit the theft, thanks to a mirror, aud put the diamonds in his pocket. This Jewel robber ahall sleep u prison to-night, ll U M t all. But don't let us lose r,mplW relied Leroux. thU unhappy man le8P.i" J.2 bed. Let him go and hang himself iuwwbtrV. I know him. .lightly, it .i toueT but we former! had certain bu'ines-i affairs together. I do not w sh any prosecution. Just think of the newly-wedded couple, their families and yourself appearing In the witne-ui box at the cntnir-.il court! And all that for a paltry live or six thousand dollars. I have not vet arrived at that point, thank Ileaveu! So. my dear sir, you have seea nothing, have von? It goes without saying that in the future this rascal will te deprived or shaking my hand. 1 am very much obliged to you." Dwoches went out of the house completely astonished. Tor this fraukly-hocest man such exaggerated mercy seemed like complicity. So, after reflecting a while, he went straight to the police ouie and made his report, giving a description of the culprit, the number of the cab. as well as the address indicate! to the driver. Then lie went home, his conscience much lighter. The following day, za Leroux was stirtmg for an early miming ride, he received a visit ftoru a detective, who presented himself armed with ail the details given by Desroehes. The banker clenched his flat and vowed tb9 Indis creet librarian to all the fines; then, becoming calm, Le declared that be would not make a complaint against .he thief. The detective was obliged to withdraw without even knowing the name of the jeweler who had sold the necklace. Leroux refused to give him the empty jewel-case. "If you do not wish to prosecute the government will do so on its own account,'' said the detective, in retir ing. This declaration made a cold perspi ration appear on the financier's brow. Lint, like a strong-mindird man that he was, he soon took a decision, lie got into his carriage and was driven to the corner of the Boulevard and the Fau bourg Saint-Martin. There be sent away his carriage aud went up to the Foubourg on foot, until he reached a modest-lookiug house. He mounted thiee flights, rang at the door, and handed his card. Five minutes after wards he was alone with the famous coind.irt, formerly employed at the prelect utj cf police, and now at the heal the best private detective agency iu I'.uii. "Monsieur," he said, "in two words heie Is what happened to me. Yester d iy I married my son. Among the glints was a certain Italian count, whu was formerly asiociated with me in some speculations, aud who has since liecunv? ou3 of those numerous well dressjii ssv.udlers that abound in Paris. The nun's name is Ca'xatrooi, and he hits stolen the diamond necklace that I gave to my daughter-iu-law." "And you want us to follow him?" sai 1 C'ir: !4rt. in taking notes. "I want you to follow him, but. nudcistaiul, I don't want him arrested. I want Uis arrest prevented, and 1 must tell you that an imbecile has put the prefecture on his track. My re quest must astonish you, but without entering " "Nothing astonishes me. sir," eaid the ex-policemen. "You are not the first one who has asked me to perform a service of this kind. If the public knew ail it would be less astonished at seeing the police fail In certain cases. Hut let us return to your man. You desire that no disagreeable thing happeu to him! that Is understood. But do you wish to have the necklace restore! to you?" The financier reflected for a moment. That would be, perhaps, the best thing. But for myself the monetary question is a secondary affair. What I wish to avoid is an arrest; I don't want uny scandal or any judicial debates. It goes without saying that the uecessart ere Jit is placed at your disposal. Above all, don't lose any time, for the other ai.Ie is already at work." Thereupon the two wenook leave of each other. That very evening,' as Calcatroni cune out of the oiera, he stopped to light his ciar. A strauger stepped up to him aud very politely asked him for a light. Takiuir off his hat to thank Calcatroni for the favor, the unknown gentleman said to him, "Monsieur Cal catroni, do you intend to return home this evening?" l.eroux'3 former partner shrugged his shoulders in bearing hU name pro uouueed by this stranger, but he at once recovered his self possession, and with the smile of a ruau who was very much amused, said: "My dear sir, this is the first time In the la it thirty years that a human liemg ever troubled himself about my habits However, I don't mind telling you that iu half au hour I shall ha in my ld." "That's where you make a mistake," replied Coindart. "Iu less than ten minutes you will be in a cab with two detectives who are waiting for yon at your door. So, if you believe me, let us turnabout and sleep at my house. By the way, where are the diamonds?" Calcatroni remained perplexed for a few seconds. He had the jewels in his pocket. He finally said, haughtily: "Tn is Joke has gone far enough. To begin with, who are you?" "A fairy and a good angel, as in the Clack Domino.' " said Coiudart. "1 am the confidant of your friend Leroux, who does not wish a hair ot your bead to rail under the prison shears. You don't believe me. Come with me and I will show you in the distance the two detectives ready to nab you." "Let us go to your bouse at once," said the Italian. "We can talk better there." But they liaJ scarcely turned the corner of the Faubourg SU Martin whan Calcatroni had admitted his "hal lucination." 'A debt of honor," he explained. "Three thousand dollars lost at play that I must pay to-day. I put the diamonds in pawn for that sum. I.e roux needn't have any fear; I will return them to him. That dear Leroux! It is very kind on bis part to have spared his old chum! You will tell him how grateful I am." Calcatroni did not sleep very well at his protector's house; but. at least, the detectives who watched for him were obliged to return without their prey. From that moment it was an homerlc struggle between Coindart and his for mer comrades at the prefecture; while they tried to track their man he maLOjavred to outwit them until he should find an opportunity to send Cal ca'ronl to England. Between two alarms, Coindart went to Leroux and rendered an account of his stratagem?, aud told him about the Italian's grati tude. "I wl'.l call it square," said the ban ker, provided he returns you my necklace." That la impossible for the present; it is in pawn for three thousand dol lars. Three thousand dollars," repeated THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. MIFFLINTOTVN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNX. WEDNESDAY. Leroux. raising his arm wildly in the air. "Then the lenler did uot look at the diamonds!" "Are they wortb much more?" asked Coindart, who appeared to be greatly Interested. "Three thousand dollars." insisted Leroux, without hearing, "now shall I get out of it? If that miserable receiver of stolen goods wishes to sell them! Monsieur Coindart, I beg you to bring me. to-morrow morning, the name of the man who loaned the three thousand dellars." But on the following morning it was not Coindart who called upon the financier. Calcatroni proudly sent in his card, and did not have to wait a minute in the ante-chamber. When the two men were alone and the door well closeJ, the Italian advanced with a firm step towards bis former partner, who seemed to be confounded. Had you seen him you would have said that it was Leroux who was "wanted" by the police. "Monsieur," began the visitor, "what they say is, then, true? You are about ruined?" "Ueally," stammered Antonln's father, "this language in your mouth." "Don't be so haughty," interrupted the Italian. "During a whole week I was stupid enough to believe that the remembrance ot our former relations inspired your conduct towards me. 1 was touched by it. I understand to-day why you were so afraid ot having the police look into your affairs." "My affairs!" protested Leroux, with what little energy retn.iliiel. "This morning," continued the Ital ian, coldly, "I did what I bad not thought of doing, considering you are an honest man I examined the dia monds." "Then you did not pawn them?" cried the bauker, radiaut. "Fawn them? flow long is it since gentlemen gave glass as security?" Leroux fell back luto his chair, trembling In every limb. "Ah, you are not so proud at Ou3 moment! So. In order to deceive the public on the state ot your affairs, you did not blush to place uoou the neck of your daughter-in-law an iamoble lot of glass beads! To conceal the gulf which is about to swallow up the for tune of your victims, you began by dressing a poor young girl who was proud in advance of bedecking herself with these splendid imitations." "I should have told her," stammered the speculator. "She would have com prehended that at the present moment. I am waiting for some returns." "Don't say any more, sir; its useless In leaving here I am goiy.g to present myself belore the justice of my country, which accuses ma of au imagine y crime. They do not condemn a man (or a few pieces of crystal. It is you who wiil succumb under the ridicule of the public; it is you who will be dis honored. To-morrow the crowd will besiege your office, demanding the sums deposited with you. That is what frightened you. That explains your care in preventing mf arrest. I am going to the prefecture." "Wait, I beseech you!" moaned Leroux. "What can I do to detain you?" I want three thousand dollars, I declared on the very first day that I needed this amount, aud I don't cou tradict myself. If your diamonds enter the recorders oCica. they will cost you more than three thouiaud dollars." How the three thousand dollars were found is what I ignore. AU I know is that Leroux did not find them in his cash-box. But. in fine, after long wailing Calcitroni pocketed them and went out with the prim and easy step or a man who had just accomplished an act of justice. He took with him to post a letter from Leroux addressed to the govern ment attorney, declaring that the neck lace believed to be stolen bad just beeu discovered behind a piece or furniture, and now reposed in its blue velvet jiwel-case. Siuce then the banker's affairs have grown brighter. His dau;hter-iu-law now wears real diamonds. But Cal- l catronl replies, whenever any on speaks to him of his former partner aud the family: "I no longer frequent those people." rtrmoval of Large I'aliu 1 recti; The huge palm trees on the Saunders place on San Fedro street have long been a oource of admiration to thou sands of people. They were there long before the present occupant took pos session, and are estimated to be from sixty-live to seventy-years old. The diameter of the largest i3 fully four fe?t aud the height over sixty feet, while the bodies of all rise like well-rounded pillars symmetrically lormed fortuity feet or more to the well-proportioned but not wide spreadinzs tops. Recently Mr. Saunders disposed of three of them to the Southern Tacitic Company for ornamentation of their spacious grounds surrounding the Wolfskill station. The work cf removing the first of these stately trees has been successfully ac complished, requiring the carrying along of a body of earth ten feet square and six feet deep, attached to and surrounding the roots. The apparatus for removal is similar to that used in transferring building?, and when the tree was properly placed upon it in an upright position it was moved along without the use of guy ropes to steady it uutil its place of deposit was reached. A well is situated between where this tree stood and two others known as the twins, and the roots of the trees pene trated the well at a depth of twenty feet or more. Uauqaet to the Dear and Dumb. A banquet to 200 deaf and dumb men and women took place at St. Mande. near I'aris, recently. Several speeches were made, which were eagerly followed, if not listened to, aud very much applauded. Perhaps this needs an explanation. The term deaf and dumb has become a m s nomer. Children born deaf are no longer dumb, as tbev were necessarily of old. They are now taught by in genious methods to understand and imitate the motions of the lips in ordi nary speech. The Abbe de 1 Epee is Siid to have originated the system whereby those born deaf and dumb are put into communion with the rest of mankind. His school was placed under the patronage ot the nation by an act ot July 23d, 1791, and it was to cele brate this anniversary that the mem bers of the Friendly Society ot the Daf and Dumb met at the Salon des Families. Frevent weeds by keeping the land occupied as constantly as;possible with a crop of tome kisd. V HISTORY OF THE CANE. Its IiflVret Usages. The antiquity cf the cane or walking-stick is a little obscure. Here and there history has mentioued a walking stick, but the article in those times, like the people, seemed best qualified for war. Abraham introduced the fashion of carrying rtlcks. When he went up into the mountains to sacrifice bit son he took a stick with him as a companion. Then Moses commended the cane to the prohibitionists of his time. He smote a rock with a rod and the rock immediately gave forth water. The three wie msu from the East are painted, though not described, at- car rying sticks, and It is often mentioned in Biblical history that shepherds used a two-story walking stick to guard their Cocks, dogs not being generally known in those days. Adonis, the Adonis of mythology, had a sort of walking-stick given him that was magical in its power, bet be paid little attention to his present, having a mania for the cross-tow. And with a short jump into Greece, just across the Hellespont, the Alemanui carried short, thick t-tcks as sidearms to their broad swords. lining apparently fulfilled their mission as weapons of war, walking slicks fell into disrepute. For ceutu ries nothing was heard, or at lea-t nothing was written, about them that outlived them. In the last chapters .of med :e?al history they came to the front, but as au article of the preserv er's wardrobe instead of the destroyer. It is said that tn the sixteenth cen tury physicians began the carrying of canes as an emblem of their ofiice. In the court of Frrnce, in the days of the latter Louis, the court physician car- ried a hollow cane filled with smelling salts. The custom extended to En gland, and in the canes of some of the physicians all sorts of medical proper ties were stowed. The fashion devel i.pcd into the doctor placing a disin fectant in the chamber of bis walklng- s'.ick when he was obliged to associ ate with contagious diseases. It seems that the Mexicans first nsed canes in America. When the Spanish conquered the country a queer custom was introduced. The chief ex ecutive of the town carried a stick with a gold or silver Lead. It was a kind of sceptre. The people, of course, rarely knew how to read or write, and when any one was wanted for a crime fne of the Mayor s subordinates would take the cane, find the culpUt and place it horizontally upon the latter's cheat. The proceeding was equivalent to a summons, and the man had to ap pear before the Mayor under the pen alty of being cast into prison. This custom was borrowed from Spain, where it still prevails iu the more im portant sections. The English, first to dispense with the Bword, doubtless originated the cheme o using a cane as an article of ashlon merely. It is said of Dr. John son, the philosopher of the last cen tury, that he had a weakness for canes which grew out of prospective slander. Samuel Foote was an actor of very lit tle merit, but as a mimic and cari caturist probably never had an equal. Foote was a cripple, having but one leg. Johnson affected to despise him. Foote was anxious to obtain recognition from so great a man, and he thought it would gain him the acqauintauce of the philosopher and the applause of the public if be would mimic Johnson. He thereupon announced that be would burlesque the stage. Johnson learned of Foote's intentions. "How much can a stout cane be pur chased for?" he asked of a lriend. Half a crowu," was the reply. "Then," commanded Johnson, in his premptory way, here is a crown. Buy me a doubly stout one. I'll make that fellow walk with no legs.' Shortly after Johnson died the walking-stick fell iuto disuse. A crutch made T. shape was affected for a while, but never gained popularity. and the walking-suck came to the front once mote, aud its place as au assistance to gentlemanly carriage lias never since been usurped. The cane of early American history, like that of Biblical times, was part of the repertory of the leaders of the church. It was the principal badge of the deacon. The cane was about five fettt long. One end was embellished with a big kuob, the other with feath ers. Winn the small Iioy rebelled against the straight-backed pew, he got a rap on the head with the un charitable end of the cane. If the head of the family got to dreaming about his old English borne and the cosy little nest in or.e cf the shires, the turkey's plumage en the deacon's cane feathered the sleeper into life again. The lris'i have always been associ ated w.th a blackthorn stick of short and thick dimensions. They used these queer little tide-arms in the invasions of the English Kings and In the re ligious wars. Even in its uni-olishea state the b.ackt'iorn stiqk is one of the most cherished by cane connoisseurs. HINTS FOIl BOYS. What boys need is a few hints in the art of living. Mistakes made early in life go on with us, either to be fought with through valuable years or else to wreck our chances. You want, or need to want, first of all, to see clearly that you have but one chance in life to make the most of yourself only once that you can go over the ground; and you must be sure and positive as to what you are doing. Then it will never huit any body to stop and see how very few do have a fair sort of life; and then consider why so large a proportion of human beings have a petty, low, or even brutal plane to live on. The next thing that I am quite sure a young chap needs is to get a good glimpse of himself. This is not the hardest task in the world, although some make the accomplishment very difficult. A good deal of self knowl edge can be obtained by a quiet consid eration and moderate estimate of what we like to do, to be, and with whom we like to associate. And one who re ally wishes can find out his special dangers, and his special advantages and powers. He can know if be is liable to hasty outbreaks of temper, or to sensuality; or is naturally revengeful or Gckle. or envious. (Jan any one tell us why a person shall not go to work upon himself as he would at any thing else; to change and modify, and eradicate the evil and increase the good? There Is no property more di rectly our own than ourselves; and it is every hoar reshaped by our wills. But the best plan does not seem to be to try to kill out evil in our disposi tions, but to give cultivation to the good. The evU will get smothered out. farmers have a good way of going through their corn once with a hoe to cut off weeds. But wbea the corn is well up and strong they only go through to stir the soli and hill op the stalks. They say the corn itself will kill the weeds, it depends on which gets the best start. If you give your weeds the best chance they will come out ahead in the character. Bnt if you give goo 1 willing the batter start very shortly it will overshadow evil, and you will have little trouble. I have known people, young and old, work on the other plan, spending a great dei-l ot time in remorse and repent ance. All which is nonsense end time wasted. They only grow weaker willed and punier in character. No one gets a bard job done by regretting that he has done something else. So take my ad vice in this matter and simply go to work and keep to work, cultivating fine tbincs. If evil habits are formed. don't fiht them, but smother them with the opposite. To tell you the truth, what set me to writing this ar tlcle was a very doleful letter from a reader, who is miserably eating up bis time aud his force on remorse. Flan something noble, my boy! Get at something useful, and always be cneerful about it. The Greeks had a name for honorable men, that is men of the right sort; they called them upward lookers." The finest thinr one can be is to be an upward looker, Unless Ode has self control, or con trol of self, or course some one else has control of him. It is quite a study.and a study well worth the while, to find out who really is in control of us. It is uot Impossible that, when you think it well over, you will see that it is a very contemptible lout who is ruling you. A boy said to me uot long ago "I have made up my mind that If I cannot rule myself I shall never amount to anything." To be sure, lad, you will not amount to anything unless the one who rules you is a very noble per son, and if he is that, be will only aim to teach you to control yourself. There is something very grand about a well managed body aud mind. There is no other such property iu the world. I think very few boys ever have any idea how much they are god for. The res tilt is they aim for something quite too cheap and small. V hat a world this would be if all the millions born into the world each year should do their best. The worst of all Ideas is a bad or insignificant notion of life a cheap notion. It you get a good ideal of li:e to aim at you have at least a right purpose. Does this sound too much like preaching? If It dues, some preaching is just what we all need. Like a preacher, 1 now make a iother point. It cught to be very strongly emphasized; that is. learn to l.ke good company. If I were sure you had been brought up just right, I would put it this way, "Never learn to like bad company. ' I do not at all mean to seek always to be with pious people people of hii?h strung goodness aud generally of the goody goodness sort. I do not know more damaging peaple than those who are all the time worried about their neighbors. There is, however, a law or nature that we become like those with whom we associate. It is a fixed law, and sometimes seems a great pity, because weak witted persons find it so difficult to get away from strong leaders. 1 am quite sure 1 have seen one boy lead t euty of his mates, and almost take control of them. So far as I cau judge, about one person in twenty is a born leader; the rest are naturally followers. If you have an ambition to lead, and are high spirited, take care not to be selfish, but to be generous in leading. It you are naturally led. then of course you must be careful who leads you. Some people are made up as boys make a snow man each boy puts on a band lul of snow. S3 I have seen a person made up of bits of everybody about him; a notion from Tom Jones, a pre judice from another, a belief from an other, a habit from another and, all in all, a queer hidf undue. loitaJ Jliir;;rap.jy. "How about the difficulty of Illegible handwritings?" asked a reporter of the Superintendent of the Chicago Post Odice. "Well, that is. generally speaking. not as bad as might be expected, espe cially in a cosmopolitan city like Chi cago, which cau buast of all sorts of national handwritings. Long practice has skilled our eyesight aud gift of dis tinction so that we but rarely have difficulty in deciphering any style of writing. Id my twenty years' expe rience 1 think I remember only two or three occasions when I was unable to make the writing out. Judged by nationalities the Chinese are by all odds tl e worst penmen that Is, of our style of writing. You'd die laughing if you could see sometimes the chirography some of those alinoud-eyed gentlemen Indulge in. "The Italians come next as illegible writers, and then some ot the Scandi navians and a few of the Germans, who affect German script and get off some very bold figures with the pen. The Americans are, that goes without say lug, the plainest aud most distinct writers. But even among them there are a good many who affect such pecu liarities of handwriting that puzzle us not a little. Especially what's called the 'back-handed' ones it may look pretty enough, but the characters all ruu into each other and make the effect of blurring the whole. It takes study to decipher this style, of writing, and you often have to twist the letter and turn it sideways and upside down to get any sence of it." Ozone and Malarioiu Kuaanations. The air of mountains possesses a greater amo unt of ozone than that of the seashore. What particular effect ozone may have upon the health of man has not yet been clearly made out. In some directions it seems to be abso lutely injurious. There is good evi dence to show that it is often produc tive of bronchi 1 affections and espec ially of influenza. During epidemics of this disease an increased amount of ozone has been found in the atmos phere. On the other hand there is no doubt that ozone is a great purifier of the atmosphere, and it is doubtless owing to the increased amount of this agent in the air of mountain regions that its salubrity Is in a great measure due. I have subjected putrescent meat and vegetables to the action of ozone, and invariably the bad smell was at once corrected. It may, therefore, be regarded as a destroyer of certain germs which are capable of producing disease. This is especially true as re gards what we call malaria, and which, as everybody know, produces in the human system some very characteristic diseases. Bsveral observers have found that this antagonism between ozone and malarious emanations really exist. OCTOUER 24. 1SSS. THEC VTS NAME WAS SMIIH. The Embarra-ieing Mistake or an Absent-Minded Gentleman. Up in New Hamphire, some few years ago, there lived a family who weie engaged in farming, and who had employed a mysterious hired man, who gave no other name than "Mr. Smit'i." and was never called otherwise. He served his engagement faithfully, and, departing, left behiud him a pretty kitten, which he bad picked up some where, and which was named by the family in his honor "Mr. Smith," 'Mr. smith" grew to cathood,aud was a greatly esteemed member of the family being affectionate and faithful, possessing all the feline virtues, so that when the family finally left the farm and moved down La well they brought Mr. Smith along with theai. One Sunday morniag. after they were settled in their new home, which closely adjoined another house, the head of the house stepped to the back door, and seeing the cat, saluted him familiarly: "Aha. Mr. Smith! Taking your air ing, eh? You're a fine animal, Mr. Smith!" He noticed that a spruce-looking man in the next yard looked up In some surprise at this remark, but said noth ing. Another day, later on. Laving pone out to call the cat, he again sainted him thus: "Weil, Mr. Smith, how do you ilk. it down here? Do you get pleutv -rats to eat?" Glancing over he saw Lis neighboi again, and this time the neighbor v peared to be regarding him Trj intently, with a queer expression Oj his face. So be thought to propitiate him by a friendly salutation: "Good morning, sir." "Morning. But why in the world do you ask me whether 1 get rats enough to eat, and why uo you call me a line animal?" "I I didn't know I did, sir." "Well, you did. I am the conductor on the Boston and Blank Iiallroad ami my name Is Smith; and you are alwayj coming out of your door aud calliug 'Mr. Smith! Mr. Smithl' or making some such confounded remark as you did Just now. I want to know what It all means." The explanation wasn't particularly difficult; but out of consideration for his neighbor's feeliags the owner or "Mr. Smith" has given up the use of that name for the annual out of doors. Tlio Publishers Gencroit y. A well known local author came out of the office of a publishing firm looking black as thunder. "What's the trouble, old man?" asked a friend. "Yon look as If your mother-in-law had lust arrived for a six months' visit." "Troublel" echoed the gloomy au thor. "Why, what do you think? Here I've worked night aud day for three months on a 300-page story a good, lively yarn, with an interesting plot and innumerable exciting incidents just such a story as the depraved tastes of the limes demand and get. I took it to that wretch in there (iioint ing scornfully toward the publisher's ollice); he read the manuscript, pro nounced it excellent and timely, aud asked what I'd sell It for. 1 am a little hard up for ready cash, so I thought I would be easy with the fellow aud re plied $300." "How much?' he screamed. " 'Three hundred dollars.' I re peated. '"My dear sir,' responded the heart less scoundrel, 'you have extravagant ideas as to the value of literary work. Why, that is a preposterous figure. You must step down a little before I deal with you?" " well, make me an offer.' I sa d. desperately, 'and be as liberal as you can." " 'I'll give you S73 for the story. be said, coolly drawing bis checkbook toward him. "'Seventy-five dollars,' I cried in amazement. "Yes, that's very liberal the-e times.' " Of coarse you will allow a royalty as well.' ' 'Nary a royalty,' said the publish er, seventy-five Is for an out-and-out sale.' "I grabbed the manuscript indig nantly, aud asked him how he could expect American literalure to thrive under beggarly rales. ' 'My dear sir,' be said blandly, ! am not the; conservator or promoter of American literature. I print and pub lish books to make a living, l ou turn up your nose at 573. Why, I cau get the plates of works of popular English authors all ready for tiie press for SloJ.and those books command a ready &ale at ci leap prices. Sj you see I'm teally dealing liberally with you. Come, you'd better take a check." "Of course you spurned the money." That's where you are wrong." an swered the disconsolate scribbler of fiction. I owed two months' board aud wanted money. Besides 1 knew what he said about those foreign w( rkf is true that publishers get the plaUn for a mere song and are callous to the claims of native authors. He's got the manuscript, aud I'm going to acquire a Milesian accent, join the hod-carriers' union, and shoulder bricks and m-rvta for the rest of my natural lite." Colonel Joyce on Himself. "I have travelled," he said to a Chicago newspaper man, "in every country of the globe. I have had deal ings with the white, black and the rcu. 1 speak several languages. I Lav seen prosperity and enjoyed it. I have seen adversity I know what it is now. I have been In the insane asylum and in the penitentiary. I have never yet been in a corner that 1 didn't get out of It. I have never been broke very long, lor just when the day seemed the darkest the dollar turned up some where. I have always been able to hold my own wherever I was. "God endowed me with quick per ception and abundant language. If I meet Mr. Gladstone 1 have the faculty of making Mr. Gladstone believe that I am his equal or as good as be. I have It in me to read men quickly. I am getting on my feet again now. The ploughshares of time are in my face. ! the snow is in my hair. Sometimes ' when I look Into my mirror and think and think and think of all I have seen : and of the people whom I have met, and what, has occurred and the lngrati- j tuae or man, 1 wonder that 1 am living. x wonaer wny a. was norn." Cricket far ladles in England seem likely to become popular. TOO BIG A HUltn-. Advice to City People The Craze fot KapliI Traniiiu Rapid transit! So that is what you want? Well, you don't want anything of the kind, taking want to mean need, as properly it does. What you menu to say is that you desire rapid transit. Very well; you are a very foolish per son; that's all. You desite rapid tran sit as children desire things not good for them. Why do you pine for rapid transit? What are you m a hurry about i To get to business? Theu start teu minutes earlier and take your time; you will do your work better and more easily if you take it up with unshaken nerves. To get home? Home will lie "there" at 5 3o 1'. M. just us surely as at 5.23; "the kids" children, if you are too proper a person to accept t e Classic fil.nfT nil thair mrttlior li.i.l i rather see you come home in a placid than a rulll-d state of mind. What are you iu a hurry about, anyhow? Forevorj- bi-atiiur pulse we toll Leave but the number less. So sung a very pious and truthful versifier of the last century. Why do you desire to double the number of pulse beats by the uncomfortable ex citement of "rapid transit?'' "The numberless" is accomplished rapidly! enough by the slowest process. "Soon shalt thou forget all things; soon by all things ehalt thou be forgotten," Slid Marcus Aurvllus some 2,000 years ago. Why do you desire to quickeii the trot of the procession toward the inevitable chasm of oblivion? What you need no matter what you desire is comfortable transit. Transit that jars no nerve by rumbling cahle Jolting spring, clatter of hoof on stony pavement, direful groan of laboring en gine, more direful shriek of steam whistle or most direful Jangle of brass bells out of tune. You don't want to be packed in a surface traveling car of any sort; you dont want your nerves to qulver with apprehension for the fate of the reckless newsboy too often newschild who exposes himself to j more danger while hopping cars" for au uuui man uinuj t urn bio ueiu 11.3 closed In a day. Aud you don't want to lie noisteu into an eiiiargc-a edition ot a cash and parcels basket, and whirled oy steam or electricity at au elevation too high for safety, too low for comfort High enough to insure disaster in casj of accident, low enough to catch the smoke of household chimneys, and the odors of household cooking. Still lead Jo you want to be shot through tho bowels of the earth by atmospheric or other force. As has been said, you will explore the subterranean regions soon enough. "Jam te preuiet nox, fabu'te iue manes," said Horace. Tney were too wise to hanker after under ground railways In his day. But the more comfortable transit, how are you going to ge,t that? Enily, ir you Lave a talented p;r oi le:,v, otherw'se, with dillijulty or not at ail. And even the most git ted legs will suf fer disquiet at t e bridges au 1 crossings of the most crowded streets. Comfort able transit is as yet afar iff from you. Your grandfather had it; your uncle who lives In the country has it. But your grandfather was never in a hurry, mid your uncle never is. Theiet . -.-your grandfather's nerves were au i your uncle's are as of steel. The Her jolt aud hideous rumble of the thimble skein farm wagon are aud wtie to theiu luxurious and musical. You have hurried your nerves into a jumble of sensitive mucus. For you comfort means quiet. It will be so "only moie so" with your unfortunate chlldien. Science and humanity will provide for them; they cau hardly be expected to help you, who are the ougiual sinful hurrier. The coming man may cea- from being iu a hurry, or humanity may decree that every other street be reserved for passenger tralllc and font travel only; or some large and strong tamable birds, graceful us the swans of Lo3la, may be di-covered, UK)ii who-e backs, or drawu by whom ia aerial cars, the tired and nervous may be borne quietly, aud quickly, too, to and from j business; or balloons may convey people at salubrious heights through the calm ot air. or chloroform iii-:y be adminis tered to each street car passenger by the conductor In such quantities as to render him or her oblivious t. the perils aud discomforts of travel. This latter j experiment might well be essayed un der the existing condition of street transit which is neither comfortable nor ! rapid A Itomanl in Maiden's M .stake. She was very romantic. Her father was a millionaire, whose life had been devoted to sausage raising. He was very practical naturally, but ail the poetry of her family was right In her. She was beloved by another million aire's son, but she bad been lea li.i ; romances and stuff, and when he pro posed to her she declared be must do .something poetical for her. "Dearest, what can I do?" "liecome a poor artist." "I couldn't be any other kind of an artist." "1 mean you must pretend to be a jioor artist. I'a does not know you. You must come and make love to me and I will fall in love with you. I'a will object and make a row. We will elope and get married, and when it's ail over we'll tell hi in, aud it will be de lightful." And so he became a poor artist aud took a poor studio and daubed on can vasses and pretended to paint pictures. And there was another millionaire's daughter got to coming to his studio and sitting for her picture. In those delightful little tete-a-tetes he forgot all about the romantic maiden, aud when the romantic maiden came one night in peasant costume as a sweet surprise to run away with him she found be was married to the other girl and had gone off on bis honeymoon. She thinks that romances are all lies now, and that nothing happens in real life as it happens in books. She's about right. Severity ot Scarlet Fever. From an analysis of over G.003 cases of scarlet fever. It appers that liability to the disease is very slight during early infancy, reaches the maximum in the fourth or fifta year, and diminishes every year afterward. The severity is greatest in the first two yeirs, lessen ing year by year throughout childhood and adolescence. Females are more liable to attack after infancy than males, but attacks among males are more fatal. Becent Investigations have dispelled the common belief that freezing purifies water. Editor and Proprietor. NO. 44. NEWS IN fiRIEF. An English amateur has purchased Milan a Stradivarlus, dated 1710, for $4,000. The Atlautic cables vary In length from .050 to over .'! tKX) miles, accord ing to the distance between connecting stations. The demand in the London market for lilies has Income so great that lily growing has become a reat industry lu Bermuda. The largest railway station In Eu rope and probahly in the world is the new Central Kailway station at Frank fort on-the-Main. reople iu Alaska at this time of the year cuu s.-e to read without arti ficial light from 2 o'clock in the morn ing until 11 at night. The duke of Westminster has an income of JjO a minute. That is to I say Ue CMia v''" -''"try I evel ' Umo lle breathes. about SI I he tanninir of !oa constrictor hkins forms a branch of industry iu Hamburg, X. .1. They are made into l.ockotliooks principally. - "lie-ho" whittle factory, near Erie, lias manufactured oOO.oiK) of them already this campaign and is making 2i.i.k(i j-r dav. A milk-white go; !ior su;ike 17 feet 0 incht-H lone;, ami having a part of his tall c:iit off ;it that, has just b-en slain down m Glynn county, Ga. Among lawyers, Erskine at the Knglisli bar and rinkney at the Amer ican bur stand at the fiont for vanity combined with great abilities. England claims the largest electric light in the world. It is in the light house at St. Catherine's, and its ca pacity Is 0'i.iM'J can. ile power. There Is a coachman at Saratoga who Is attracting a great deal of atten tion by i.is wo..i,eiful resemblance to the pictures of the Hi. -.t 1 iko of Wel- "Blon- A Scotch tui'tT has this Minirular advertlsementi "To be let, a beggar's stand. In a good, charitable) neighbor hood, bin, Ring iu about thirty shillings per week. Some coo I will is lequired." A canary bird that had reached tho ) age ol eighteen years and six ! died lately at Iro iuois. l T months He re- j taiued his singim; powers until tho last year, wh-n he st-eme.l to b in his dot- age. The Italian c -ral fishery seems to l be giving out. The 4,u"0 w.nkmen ; who use I to bt. cin;loed have de . creased to 1.000. Calcutta is now the chief inuket, Ameiica and Muroj j taking comparatively liltle. A cynic at a diiminer hotel linds anusement In the number ..r broken j dish' s. He says !;c expects to hear at i least one terrific cra-h or crockery cveiy day in the iliumg loom, and ! duriii-r a visit of tlue wc-ks he has ! not been di.sap pointed. ! A California company has been or i paiiizl to manuf ictur.? soap oui of a material that is hkiiumed liorn a lmll j lug spring in that S!a!e. The sub I Ptance hardens by exposuie to t'w air, ! is I ke soft clay , an 1 Is .sn;.po e.l to le ' a mixture of borax, a'kali a:i-i lubiica ! t'llg oil. "Among the Northern nations of KiUope theie was an ancient pi act ice : for newly mani.-.l couples to ill Ink inn. jthegliunr mea l, a h, ii I 1. 1 w, n tn.tdo ; from honey (hyiliom.-lj lor thirlvdavs j after marriage. II. -nee the term honey inontii or hoiieviu o:i. Attila. tho I Hun, drank so much mead at his wed ding feast that h.! u.ed." It would t .'tvo. according to calcul ations, 0,:iln,iio l e,m i i trans;.,, it the whole of the ijoli I hmd down to the Hea. Should the whole of the solid land bn leduced to one level u: der the ocean then the surlace of 1 he ea-Lli would be covered by an ocean with a uniform depth of aoout two luiies. At Portsdowu 11,11, I! igl-ind, an extremely curious grawaid lelic was recently found. It was a human nkel eton ma good stale ol pi e-i-i val Ion, which was buned in tl e chalky soil of the loc.iliiy in the second century. The skeleton was six feet in length, ami in its ieit Land weie found twent; -two Woman coins. At one of the schools f.,r colored people in tho South the guls learn housekeeping practically by being j placed lour at a time, lor a month at a I time, iu a cottage, l,i re they live and have complete conlioi, under the ovei- SIJ t of a matron. Tl.. v keep sitict j account of their expeu lames, practice I economy, and sweep, cook, wash aud I iron. I It Is supp ised that fie veil was ' taken from ancient lelig ous ceiemo I liles. It is also supposed to repiesent i the, lui'r when left uncoiiliiied. fho ! orange ilower is appropi iat to brides, irom Us delicate, cr.-amy blos.oms and ! leaves. The custom ol wearing uiange 1 blossoms originated in the east, where ; it is the i.ai binder of a piospcunis war j ricd iife. ! Grant Allen suggests that the evo I lotion of pottery may I.e. traced to the ! gourds of vano.is forms used by the primitive savajes lui coii.a niug water. The go. mis were probably smeared with wet clay to piotect them when held over the c.tmp-hre, us Is .still .lone by savages, and the durable co tt; iug thus produced, outla-t ng lh- inner fchill. gave the accidental les.-ou lit molding d.shes from natuial objects. Oieeu Victoria has won quite, a reputation Huiong English agiiculMi-ri.-ta as what may be called a royal farmer of the geMler sex. At the show of the Isle of W.ght Agricultural so ciety recently she ti n three pn.es for farm horsrs, one for .J-rs-y cattle and four for Down sh.--:.. Winning the champion pr.z-) for tne lies', ram and the award lor tho br-.t pair of ewes. The Cattle of Ila.-fburg, seat of the loundeis of the pre.-e .t Austilau dynasty, is owned by the state of Aar gau, in Switzerland, and the govern ment has just refused to sell it to the Austrians It istiue, the Swiss said that tne castle is the ancestral seat of thq Imperial house of Austria, but it is also a monument of Swiss history, hav ing beeu conquered by the Berne re publican soldiers In 141, when they wreslled Aargau from the Ilapsburgs. A remarkable, funeral took i.'ace at Bingtutnton. Dr. Wheaton, an old and lutluential citizen, a believer lu the dogma of good cheer," died, after having directed that, no outward signs of mourning lie assumed at his funeral. Accordingly the frit-ncs of the family, when they met at ti e api-oiuted hour, were astonished to find the widow and daughters of the deceased attired in the purest white and wealing bouquet of flowers. 1 he corpse lay on a bora cov- ered by a many coloied robe, and was not removed to the coffin until the last moment. ... V.
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