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They include the best towns and best papers. Wo cau recom mend them highly. Send to Remington Brvtlitis, New Yvik, for copy. : '>T ■ TLKR. PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER '2l, 1K95. Austin AL **• grPIPV/ELL. i( CHAPTEK IX I began to see more and more what a fool I was to let myself be caught at such a time in such a land, but still had so much confidence in my good fortune that I felt I would be on time for the steamer on Monday. It was now 3 o'clock Friday. We were all aboard for Madrid and just pulling out of the station. We would be due there the nest morning. From Mad rid to Cadiz there is only one through train in 24 hours, and that leaves seven mornings a week; but, as it runs only 10 miles an hour and is seldom on time at that, one must figure on taking an entire 24 hours for the journey. Still as we would be dne Saturday morning I had a big margin for delay. At last we were off. On the train and in every group we passed there were signs of subdued excitement. Between Royalists and Republicans sharp lines were evidently drawn which soon were to culminate in bloody conflict. Soon after 10 o'clock we arrived in the walled town of Avila, about 80 miles from the famous Escurial built by the second Philip, and about 150 miles from Madrid. Here we got an ex cellent dinner and good coffee. But din ner was spoiled for me by the disastrous intelligence that martial law had been proclaimed and that the government had seized the roads running north from Madrid to transport tr<xjps. Here was a pretty pickle! I was en raged. I saw the chief of the railway at Avila, but fie was a fool, and under the unwonted state of affairs had lost what little head he ever had. So once more our baggage was all piled out of the train, and once more we had to go into camp on the floor of the station, with a terrific din around us. I arose early, and looking up the tele graph clerk and railway chief I made them both rich by the present to each of 5 escudos. Then I telegraphed Castelar and the minister of war that I was an English man ; that I had my family with me, and having important business in Mad rid I must not be detained iu Avila. I demanded that he should at once direct the military oflicials to send me on to Madrid by special train. I also sent a< telegram to Hernandez, president of the road in Paris, offering 5,000 francs for a special train. Another urgent message was sent to the superintendent iu Mad rid repeating the offer for a special train, the same sum to himself if lie expedited the train. I also authorized him to spend a similar amount if necessary in bribing the military authorities. At 11 o'clock I had a long telegram from him saying a train would be made up at Avila. But an hour having passed away I sent him a message to order up an engine and one car from Madrid. Another message arrived at 12 o'clock, and down came an engine and car. The local railway chief was more than anxious to see us off, as I had add ed another $."• to the s•"> already given. Just then the telegraph operator flew out with au order for our tcjim to wait the arrival of the train from Madrid. I stormed. I kept the wire hot with messages of protest to officials. Two messages came from Madriil saying the delay was but temporary. So there I sat in that musty compartment with my wife by my side and a heart full of bit terness, for I saw the precious hours slip ping away and with them my chance of taking the Sunday morning train so as to catch the Cadiz steamer. To miss it meant ruin. Hour after hour passed by, and there we sat. My secret cause of unrest had to be kept locked in my breast, while my young wife, all unsuspecting, was merry and happy, chanting little snatch es of song and telling me 100 times she was the happiest of women. She did not care for revolutions nor for delays. Was she not with me? Tho sun began to go down the sky, and the shadows fell. Still wo sat on, expecting every moment an order to proceed. The sus pense was terrible. Tho time wore on, when suddenly, toward midnight, tho operator rushed out of his office, and, shouting to the en gineer, flew up to our compartment, said goodby, and in a minute we were off. After that long and terrible day it was happiness to be moving. I had given the engineer a tip; he put on steam, and as we flew over the road hope returned. I felt we were safe. At the rate we were going I should have two or three hours to spare. We soon were at tho Escurial. As fate would have it, we found here an order to run us on a side line and to keep the track clear for a train goinjyiortb. For two miserable hours we wlßed, and no train. Then I set tho wires in motion again, and just as tho eastern skies grew gray we started. Madrid is situated on a high sandy plain, storm swept in winter worse than any plain in northern Europe. Wo had a wheezy engine. Four miles out it broke down, and then I gave up the struggle. At 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, nine hours too late for the Cadiz train, we arrived at Madrid. Too late to reach Cadiz by a special train! Not too late could the train have been started off as soon as ordered, but in Spain a special train is an unheard of thing. I telegraphed to Lopez & Co. t at Cad iz inquiring if they would hold tho El Rey Felipe for 24 hours. They replied thoy were under contract with the gov ernment and had to sail on time. So I said goodby to that plan. On consulting my memorandum I saw there was a French steamer sailing from St. Nazaire, on tho west coast of France, for Vera Cruz, Mexico, which would touch at Santander on Saturday for mails and passengers, and I resolved to go by her; this, of course, meant retrac ing our way throngh tho hated Avila to Burgos, and changing there for San tander. On Monday we visited the picture galleries and museums, and on Tuesday we got our baggage down to the depot once more, and purchasing our tickets we were off for Santander. I was too anxious to enjoy the scenery. Wo were a day and a night on tho journey, and arriving on Wednesday I still had bo» fore mo a day of anxiety. Early the next morning my servant awoke me, asking mo to look out of the, window. I ran to it, and, looking out,' there in the bay, just in front of the hotel, lay a steamer of the largest size' and magnificent in her beauty. It was a. ; happy sight for me. Nunn hired a boat for our luggago and a second for me, and then, after a hurried breakfast, wo boarded the steamer, Nunn following with tho bag gage. At last we were afloat, and now I was all eagerness to hear tho steam monkey start to bring the anchor apeak. It is simply amazing how a bad con science "moldeth goblins swift as fren zy's thought." Even as I stood there I was not at rest, but wae impatient and Susp: ens of every movement from the shore. Just then with a mighty throb the screw gave a turn, and it was music to my ears. But as I stood on the deck that night and watched the mountains sink into the sea I felt this all dimly and tried to shake off the feeling. I stood fasci nated, with many conflicting emotions sweeping through my mind, sadly watching the receding shores of Spain, and just as the highest mountains were sinking in the sea my servant, appear ing at my side, informed me dinner was ready and my wife waiting. Sending him away and turning my face to tho land I strained my eyes through the gather ing gloom to disceru the distant shore. Then with a bitter feelir g in my heart I set ont for tho saloon, but stopped, and quoting this line— Tho day of my destiny Is o'er, And tho star of my fate hath declined— I went below. Soon, under tho warming influence of wine, forgetting all my forebodings and looking into my wife's face beaming with love and content, I could not help saying to myself: I am a fool to doubt that happiness is mine. Am I not fortune's favorite? With love, youth, enthusiasm, health and wealth on my side, what else save happy days and nights and long years filled with content can be mine: So, shaking off my foebodings, the 18 days of our voyage over green Nep tune's back were Ideal, and we became objects of envy to all the passengers. After 18 days we cast anchor in St. Thomas harbor, and pleasant as our voyage had been we were glad to see land. Wo were to stop a day for coal ing. Taking the two sisters we went ashore in one of the many boats surrounding the ship, all manned by scantily robed black fellows. The town, with its hordes of gaudily dressed and noisy blacks, was most interesting. First I took the sisters to the cathe dral. Both were grateful and knelt at the altar for a full half hour while we waited. Then, after visiting several stores to make some small purchases, wo went to a circus showing there that week. I bought ten tickets for my party. Everything they saw in the town was marvelous and strange to them. When we entered the circus tent, the sisters were perplexed and thought it must be a new sort of church. But words would fail to express their amaze ment when they saw the clown and be spangled horsemen enter tho ring and the performance begin. They were in a new and hitherto undreamed cf world and gazed in childlike wonderment on the scene, and, like children, only saw tho glitter of the spangles and thought both men and women performers were angels of beauty. Even after the thing was over the magic and witchery of it all rested on them. To please them we sat until the audience had dispersed, and when going out one of them, speaking of tho pel-formers, told my wife they must be very near to God. The next morning I found wo were sailing along the Cuban coast, quite near the land, which looked so inviting that I made up my mind to go ashore and stay a month in Havana, so I bad my baggage got on deck. Soon after dinner the engines were stopped for some hours for repacking, the captain informing mo that it was doubtful whether we should arrive in Havana in time to go ashore that night. At 6 o'clock the sunset gun is fired, the cus tom house closes, and no more debarka tions are allowed that day. If I went ashore tho next day, I must be up and off at an early hour, as tho ship sailed at 7 :30, so I told tho captain if he ar rived before 6 I would go ashore and wait for the next steamer, but if we were late I would go on to Vera Cruz with him. It was well on to 6 o'clock when we steamed past Moro castle and dropped anchor in the harbor. I engaged two of the boats alongside, our baggage was hurried into them, my wife went down the ladder, and speaking some hurried farewells I ran down after her and sprang lightly into the boat. That in stant the sunset gun was fired. Two minutes later, and the custom house officers on board would have forbidden my leaving the steamer. I say two min utes, but it was less than half a minute. Half a minute! Thirty seconds changed my destiny. One day's stay in Cuba convinced us we could spend a month very happily on the island, and discovering that Don Fernando, the proprietor of tho hotel, had a furnished house in a lovely situa tion to let, we resolved to remain, rent ing the house for a month at a fixed rate per day. This rate included the ten serv ants —slaves—in tho house, he to fur nish good horses and everything except wine. The service proved good and the cooking exquisite. This was rather ex pensive, but certainly a handy kind of housekeeping, taking all worry and household cares from my wife's shoul ders. Our house was ou a lovely slope in full view of tbo gulf of Mexico and in the midst of what was more like a trop ical plantation than a garden. I made the acquaintance of General Torbert, our consul, and was introduced by him to the Spanish officials, includ ing the colonel of police. I assiduously cultivated the acquaintance of the lat ter and frequently had him out to the house to dinner and lunch and felt pret ty confident that if any telegrams came about me he would certainly bring them to me at once for an explanation. Even if my presence became known and telegraphic orders for my arrest should arrive no speedy action would be taken and ample time given me to escape. We had been some weeks in Havana. It was well into the month of Febru ary when one day. being in my ham mock on the veranda, with my wife sit I leisurely opened it. ting near me, my servant rode up with the papers, and handing me the New York Herald I leisurely opened it while ' batting with my wife, but could not suppress an exclamation when my eyes fell l upon an Associated I'ress dispatch Loudon which read : London, Fob. 14, IS7& Au uniuZiUK fr:»ud ha* lieon jKrp. tratid up- it :b<> B»nk of England by a young American gave tiie iinxuo of Frederick Albert War ren. The loan of tho l ank Is reported to be from three to ten milli. us, and it Is rum. red that many London have b.-. n victimized to enormous amounts. The greatest excite ment prevails in the city, and the forgery, for surh it is, :s the one topi -.of conversation on the exchange and in the street. The police are completely at fault, although a young man named N<.yes, who was Warren's clerk, has been arrest.xl, but it is b» lieved that he is a dape. The bank has offered a reward of £5,000 for Information leading to the arrest of Warr. nor any confederate. Not a soul in all Europe knew I was in Cuba, and so long as mv name did not transpire I was as safe in as if in the de.serf. Consequently I determined to go on in the same way since our landing. In the meanwhile I would watch the pa pers, and if any signs of danger appear ed I could take instant measures for my safety. The next French 6teamer for Mexico was advertised to land at Havana for passengers and mails for Vera Cruz in a few days, and I determined to sail by her. Had I known of the clever work of the detectives in London and the dis coveries ill Paris I should have been ill at ease, but had I known that Pinkerton and his aid, Captain John Curtin—then a member of the Pinkerton staff in New York, but now (1895) of Ban Francisco —had with perfectly marvelous intui tion and rare detective skill let daylight into the whole plot, and had reported that whenever F. A. Warren was dis covered he would prove to be Austin Bidwell—l say if I had known this, in stead of going off on a ten days' pleasure jaunt into an isolated corner of the world, I should have taken instant flight, leaving Cuba, not by the usual modes of departure, but by sailing boat and alone for one of the Mexican ports. CHAPTER X. Captain Curtin had been detailed to work on the New York end of the case, to look for clews. It seemed a hopeless task. He is a warm friend of mine now, after 20 years, and has long forgiven me for the bullet I lodged in him in 1873. A few years after arresting me in tho West Indies lie went to San Fran cisco and started a private inquiry office of his own at 328 Montgomery street. When, after 20 years' incarceration, I ar rived there one lovely May day in 1892, he was waiting for me at the ferry and gave me warm greetings, and as hearty congratulations, too, as any man could give another, then introduced me to his friends everywhere, and, in fact, from the hour of my arrival until my departure, three months afterward, was never tired of doing me a service and forwarding my business, so that, by his kind offices I made a great success out of what, by reason of the great financial depression, might otherwise have proved a failure. But as Captain Curtin, after effecting my arrest, having recovered from his wound, was one of the four who took me to England, I will wait until a later chapter to tell how it was be discovered my name and located me in Cuba. There was not a single cloud on tho horizon iu Havana, but it was soon to blow a hurricane. My wife had sent out invitations to dinner for Thursday to 20 friends. There was then a steamer in tho harbor advertised to sail in two days for Mexico, and I had thought of going by her. Had we, this narrative would never have been written. As invitations were out for Thursday I concluded to wait for Saturday's steamer, but determined to sail on that day without fail. On the day of our dinner I was strongly tempted to give some hint to my wife that I was in some way entan gled in a web, but as she was so happy I could not do it, but resolved to wait until we were settled in Mexico, and then to tell her a little, but not all the truth. My wife, all unconscious of the frightful calamity impending, entered upon the last half day of happiness she was to know for many long years. The same statement would be true of my self. As the guests were arriving I was in a happy vein, and in the same happy frame of mind sat down to dinner. Twenty happy mortals, but not one di vined tho termination of that dinner party, least of all the proud and happy hostess. It was a great success, and at 8 was drawing to a close. The long windows were open, while tho warm breeze from tho nearby gulf was pour ing through the room. The clock had just chimed the quarter, when there camo a sudden rush of feet over the ve randa and through tho hall. All eyes were fixed on the open door leading to tho hall, when an eager, resolute faced man, evidently au American, stepped with a firm pace into the room, follow ed by a dozen civilians and soldiers. With a quick glance over the company his eyes rested on me, and comiif); di rect to my chair, while my guests stared in amazement, he bowed and said in a low voice: "Mr. Bidwell, I am sorry to disturb your dinner party or fo annoy you in any way, but I am forced to tell you I have a warrant in my pockot for your arrest upon a charge of forgery upon the Bank of England. The war rant is signed by the captain general of Cuba. Everything is in due form, and you are my prisoner. lam John Curtin of the Pinkerton force.'' Every man who enters the arena and joins in the struggle of life has more or fewer takedowns iu his history. But my wish is that between this hour and my last I may have no more takedowns so near the freezing point as this was. I shall never forget the look on my wife's face. First she gazed at tho intruders with indignation, then turned to me with a look of eager expectation, as much as to say, "Wait till my husband raises his arm and you will all go down.'' Bnt instead of seeing me rise indignant and angry, driving tho in truders out, she saw mo talking quite calmly to Curtin. Then her face grow deadly white. None of the guests heard Captain Curtin's words; but, as will bo easily imagined, there was a painful silence, which I broke by standing up and saying that there was some unhap py mistake; that I was arrested upon the charge of furnishing arms to the in surrectionists in the eastern provinces. I requested my friends to withdraw at once and everything would l>e explained on the morrow. Thero were fivo soldiers present, Mr. Crawford, tho English consul general, and Captain Curtin, my servant Nunn being in custody of the latter. It was a strange and unhappy scene, and every one felt extremely awkward and ill at ease, especially the writer. In tho rear of tho dining room was a large sitting room, where I kept my valuables in trunks and did my writing. I turned to Curtin and said, "Will you come in the other room?" "Certainly," ho replied without the slightest hesitation. Tho room was brilliantly lighted. Motion ing him to a seat, I said: "Will you have a glass of wine?" "Yes, but I never drink anything but Cliquot,'' replied the captain pleasantly. A sen-ant brought in a bottle and glasses, and I turned the conversation upon the subject of money. The captain, being a itrangor to me, guided by for mer experiences with Irving & Co., I fancied might bo bribed. Sometimes tho police are nnseeptible to this form of temptation, and I was at bay and des perate. I intended to offer him a fortune for u bribe. If he refused to take it, I resolved to shoot him and dash out of the window, for at my elbow was an (ipt-n arawor witn a 1>..u10l rf-volver ready at my band. 1 said, "You know the p< v. r and value of money?" "Yes, and I need and want pi. nty of it" Pointing to a trunk, I said: "1 liuvo a fortune there. Sit where y u are ten minutes, give no alarm, and I will give you $.">0,000." Then a scene ensued that if pnt up m the stage would b.' deemed farfetched '■ * incredible. When I said this, tho capu "v>ved a muscle, but lt*>k ed at xneoei. - - w tlv, then drop peel his eyes to th did so I placed my band on the u . .... He took the bottle np, filled his gla», and looking steadily at me drank it off, and replacing the glass on tiie stand coolly remarked: "Why, sir. that is $5,000 a minute!" "Yes, and good pay, too,'" I said. "But I won't have it!" he interject ed and sprang to his feet as he saw me make a movement, but I was too quick for him. I fired point blank, and down he went as if by lightning. I rushed to the window, when the Venetians were torn violently down, and William Piukerton, revolver in hand, sprang from the outer darkness through the window into the room, and the eth- 1 Jin'd point blank. ers came with the soldiers. My wife, too, white faced, itulud in from tho dining room. A lively struggle follow ed, in which Curtin, having risen from tho floor, joined. The struggle was soon over, leaving mo a prisoner under dose guard. My bullet had struck tho captain, break ng a rib and glancing off, but he was game, and when we shortly after departed for the city he rode with me in the same carriage. I tried to soothe tny wife's fears, but it was attempting the impossible, so we drove away for the city in three carriages, Pinkerton assuring my wife that I shonld sleep at the hotel. By the time we arrived the news had spread among the American colony, and as the hotel was a sort of American club delegations of my acquaintances speedily arrived All were loud in de nunciation of the outrage. Of course they saw things on the surface only. Soon our Consul General T<irbert arrived and assured me ho would see that I should be treated with every considera tion until such time as the unfortunate mistake was corrected. That night I slept at the hotel with Curtin, who took his wound and close call very good natnrerlly and said he did not blame me at all, but felt taken down to think I had got the drop on him. Early the noxt morning my friend, the chief of police, Colonel Moreno de Vascos, called on me, indignant and angry that I should suffer such discour tesy. He was particularly indignant over the insult to himself in not being consulted, so that ho could have sent me a note to call on him and explain. Then he turned to Captain Curtin and told him to liberate me, as lie would be responsible for me whenever wanted. But the captain knew what he was about and knew his business too well and the backing he had to pay any at tention to Colonel Vascos. I claimed the protection of our consul, but Torbert regretfully told me that on account of orders from the state department at Washington he was forced to consent to my detention, but he would not permit me to be kept in the ordinary prison. So about 12 o'clock next day I was transferred to tho police barracks and put into the lieutenant of police's room and a guard of soldiers placed over me. So at last justice had laid hold of me, but I thought it a very shaky hold, so much so that I was confident I could break away from her, so that she should never weigh me in her balance. My wife spent many hours with me daily. All my meals were brought from the hotel. Nunnwas kept a prisoner for two days, then liberated. I took him into my confidence, telling him I was going to escape and directing hint to make all outside arrangements for that event, and he was greatly rejoiced when I told him he should accompany me m my flight. Pinkerton was awake to the danger of lr sing his man and had lodged a written protest with the English and American consuls against my being con fined in tho police barracks. The only result was that Colonel Vas cos issued an order to keep him and bis men out of the barracks. Men like William A. Pinkerton, who had now arrived, and his lieutenant were not going to make fools of them selves by arresting a man they could not hold. I was confident that my sur render was only a question of time, and I resolved not to wait for it, but to be off. At my request Colonel Vascos had sent a guard of soldiers to my house and brought to the barracks two of my trunks. I had SBO,OOO ill cash ami bonds, besides many valuables its well, in them. I gave my wife $20,000 and my servant SI,OOO in gold and $.">,000 in Spanish bank notes. Pinkerton bad in vain tried to seize my luggage, but tho Spanish law stood in his way. Once among the rebels all pursuit of me was at an end, as army after army had been sent from Spain to crush the rebellion, and each had iu turn melted away before the valor of tho relic Is or the deadly climate. Nunn volunteered to accompany me and I gave him $2,000 to send his wife in Paris that his mind might Is. easy 011 that score. No one knew my real desti nation save Nunn and my wife. It was hard to obtain her consent, but at last it was given. I arranged with her that she was to leave Havana as soon as she knew I was off, cross to Key West, wait one month there, and if she then heard nothing of me she was to telegraph my sister to meet her in New York, take the steamer to that city and live with her until I rejoined her. Among other things Nunn, by my or ders, procured good maps of the country. A Spanish gentleman, a warm friend, but whose name I will not mention, was my counselor iu the plot. He advised me to go to the isle of Pines, as Senor Andrez had promised to keep me safely from all pursuit. I let my friends think that was my destination. I purposed, as when on my visit, to embark fromCajio, but to take a westward course along the coast, and when well off Pinar del Rio and night fell to put about and steer to shore under cover of the darkness, once ashore to get as far inland as possible before dawn, then to keep a lookout for any body of rebels and join them as a volunteer in tho cause of "free Cuba." Wo were sure of a welcome, particularly as we would come well armed. I had given the sentinels iu the jiolice barracks a bottle of brandy every day n box of cigars every second day during my stay besides what were to themwflloable presents, so I \vas highly poj alar in the ban We had fixed on tne i; _ht - f March 20 for the venture. Myr>»'ini is in th> ud story of the barr:!. k . 1 I'.t I was allowed t . go freely through all the rooms on that tt<)ur, fol lowed in* ve < r less by a gnard, There was a r. > :.i le..dii:g to an < j; :i window, but the di«>r was ki-jit arranged to have it unlock, d with the key cm the in ! : ..t 10 o'clock that night. I was t walk ;.l >ur u.- usual, and when the honr came sutldcnly step through the door, lock it behind me and then bolt through the window into the street. Nnun and i.i.v friend were to await me outside i f 11.> window with orders to shoot any man, not a native, who at tempted to stop me, as I feared Pink erton or his men might Ik> on guard in the street, and once in the street I did not prop -e to go back again -'live. The guns and two ( xtra revolvers had beeu in ado into a bundle and left at the station. At n nearby r nu wore disguises for Kunn and myself, i nsisting simply of cloaks and whiskers. We intended to board the 10:30 train going south, and once well out of the station would dis pense with all disguise but the Spanish cloak each of ns wore. [TO BE CONTINUED.] OvrratlUi't Wliiii. The body can be killed through one organ, and iu yonth and middle age mortal injury of body and mind comes usually through one organ as the pri mary seat of eviL It is an evil of fre quent occurrence and greatly on the in crease. A man is said to "throw him self, heart and soul, into his work." Such a man it iu danger. He ha.- four great parts of his body to consider—his heart and blood system, his lungs and other organs associated with bre.uliing, his muscles, his brain and nervous sys tem. Bat he does not heed them at all. He runs or cycles excessively, and iu a much shorter time than he has the least idea of ho makes his heart too strong for the rest of his organism and endangers the finer ramifications of the vessels which are under the domination of the heart. He rows without studying conse quences, and long before he is convinced of troublo he has produced an injury of the chest mechanism which may soon be permanently established. He takes to some muscular training, which puts the muscular organs to an extreme of tension. Largo and small muscles alike are exposed to strain, botli the strong muscles that give propulsion and the delicate muscles that guide, and beforo he has become conscious of the error ho has committed he is a strained man, from which predicament he is for tunate if he make anything like a com plete recovery. Another man entei s into competitions in which his mental organs are kept awake for long intervals, charged with expectations, anxieties, fears, nay, excess of satisfaction, and while ho is yet young he grows old. Saturday Review. A Famous Dug. Railway Bob is the name of a fa mous dog in Australia Ho passes his whole existence on the train, his favor ite seat being on top of the coalbox. In this way he has traveled many thou sands of miles, going over all the lines in South Austrnlia. He is well known in Victoria, frequently seen in Sydney, and has been up as far as Brisbane The most curious part of his conduct is tiiat he has no master, but every engine driver is his friend. At night he fol lows home the engine driver of the day, never leaving him or letting him out of his sight until they are back in the rail way station in the morning, when he starts off on another of his ceaseless lourneyiugs.—New York Tribune. There is in Norway a wooden church of unknown ago, but undoubtedly sev eral hundred years old, which is held to illustrate old methods of building ad mirably. The queer, peaked, many an gled roof has almost an oriental appear ance. It is asserted that "the only wealthy people in China are officials uud ex offi cials, and not a single person can be found who has grown rich from honest industry." At the Pyramid*. "Have an Egyptian cigarette. They are some I just got from New York. " Trnth. Taking It For Granted. He (confidently)—By Jove! I can tell you, the woman who could make a fool o' me isn't living. She—Poor thing! What a satisfaction it must be to you (hat she so thorough ly accomplished her mission before she died ! —New Budget. A Slight Mifcft-nnd<*rHt*ndlnff. —Truth. ••Not Getting: on Very Well/* N044 ONCE AND TODAY. A wreath of lilies and of passion flowers For golden days slew strunp, A chain of mcmon* to link the hours Whose knell so soon wiu rung; A pift of pride and lore must h< nceforth craes To bear what death Healed lip*, no more may say. Sad, widowed eyes that toward my silence stray. Ah. fading wreath, too quickly cast away. That may not mingle with my lonely dust, Ah, warm ,N«»ung life, that cannot near me *tay, JBv poverty led forth to stranpers trust! Sweet, mi r >oul, that in lift- nothing gr»ve. Yet now bcqifteathfe great tears in generous showers. You btarved my love while wealth, youth, life were ours! Oh, fairest face was been since Eden's bowers. Oh, ripe, red lip by too great scorning stung, Short, willful chin, cold, bright eyes—dearest dowers Of woman's beauty ever lover sung! Oh, heartless, trustless sou! could cvci brave The chance to grieve when rosy youth grows gray— You would not hear me nice—you love today. —Xc w Buugt-t. ACTION OF THE RAIN. The Wonderful Factor it Is I:i the Disin» teg rat ion of Itocka. The rain tailing on tfie rocks sinks in to every crack and crevice > -ryirg with it into these fissurt - sail. mate rial which has been t';-gi .•!( 1 v the weather, and thus all . .tnx sufficient to start the gr >v tii c: rgota tiou and afterward t> u.iii. n the plants. The fibers auii roots . these plants, bushes and trees thu:' i.rought into life, growing and expanding, act as wedges to split up the surface of the rock and to commence the process of wearing away. From this quality of de struction a large class of piauts derive the name of saxifrages, or lock break ers, from their roots penetrating into the minute fissures in search of water, and so assisting in the process of disintegra tiou. Iu winter the water collected in the hollows and crevices becomes froz en, and expanding as it changes into ico acts like a charge of blasting mate rial iu breaking up the rock. The pieces thus detached become further disinte giatod by frost and weather, and, being rolled over and over an drubbed against each other as they are carried away down the mountain torrents, are ground gradually smaller and smaller, till frßm fragments of rock they become bowiefs, then pebbles and finally sand. As the mountain stream merges into the river the pebbles and coarse sand continue to be rolled along the bottom of the chan nel, while the ragillaceous particles and salts become mingled with the water and flow on with it either in suspension or solution. While this disintegrating process is going on inlund the rocks and cliffs on the coast exposed to the sea are suffer ing degradation by n similar process and are also being worn away by tbo inces sant action of the waves of the ocean beating on them and attacking them, not only with the impact of the water, but also with the fragments broken off, which, dashed against the face from which they have been eroded, are thus used as implements of destruction. — Longman's Magazine. A Rare Sign. "Hush, there are visitors in the draw ing room 1" "How do yon know?" "Listen 1 Papa is saying 'my dear' to mamma."—Punch. A Rare Specimen. Mrs. Donovan —Michael, wud ye luk at that lovely goat? Be the powers, if we had that big divvel in the front yard, we'd be the invy av the whole neighborhood. Mr. Donovan—Go an wit' yon an yonr ignorance! Can't ye see be the sign on the birdcage that he's wan o' them Oryx Licorices? Mrs. D.—Arrah, thin av coorse it is that same, an 1 might av knowed had I noticed his beautiful licorice horns.— Troth. A Mix Tp. The elements were s<> mixed in hini that nature might stand up and say to all the world, This was a man !—Shakes peare. —Life. Difficult. "Before I came up my wife says to me, 'Don't ride facing his tail, George.' But how am 1 to know which is his tail?" —London's fonder.
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