lie lln TIME A-YVAITINC n ll V I 4 a a.walttncr jrntn o'er tlm b1n; , fen unci -iillii(t ' will cfirao to yon; ''fliannn, flurcii storm nrlso, I , winds from nftry skin Mv to w litre intl' liliMon lies, itv.t nulls tor you. ".(m-wfl!lii(f ' Unit's or luej i jllcu for your toll u torl'l o"1" roa'' . 'liiorne, bfr liile, IcUunm, Jluntb o.i the R.tti '! oa out while yt yun w,iit i'tfc world owes yon. ' ' m it-wiKIn ' b.it shouU be yonr; t':oinpnn will ooinn ej 'who iinlur; ill tho itoimi tbnt rle . jomid r sunny sklos, 1 fen hnM (i lnt surprise ll'Wtio aitttw. ,i . Mystery Yarn. rl 0000OS0O00OOO0O3OOCJ BOUT two your ago I left the service. I was lirod of it, and, ns I wanted Home moro exciting employment, loin ml a whaler We wore unlucky somehow I bring no luok anywhere wo wore nenrly empty. One bright nfter- ftar ei'j liellH, I mado up '. iuooketl t the door, ami ns '.. iiwered 1 walkod in. T I odd the captain hadn't . ifae, for thero ho was sitting Zi w'ta ui'1 hack to ,no' writ it lug ho w employed I told 1 brought tuo log, laid it 5 i le table behind him, and, as . no auewer, I walked out. c 3ook and the first porson I D ie cajiUiu. I was pnzzlod ''not make out how he had lefove uie. JId yon pet tiphoro?" I said. tyon writiuR in your cabin." tic;. Mob been in my cabin for rtUalf hoar," the captain nn .) -it I thought ho was dialling, ui like it. !as somoonc writing at your ""-.now," I said; "if it wasn't "1 iad bettor- go and see who it ' ') is made up. I have left cabin, sir," und with that I "Ikily away. 1 had no idea t..bhaffed by the cnpluin, to u'td taken a dislike. :r.: town," said the captain, who if-1 nettled, "yon must have fakeu, my desk is lockod. --we'll go down and see ' id the captain into tho cabin. b,Vas on the table, tho desk and the oabin was empty. 'ie, Mr. Brown," ho suid, "you mnst have been niis t,':desk is looked." positive. , ".Someone may -d the lock," I said. y eouldn't have closed it 1 captain sugKosted; "but to 1 will open it aud see if to are ufn, though there is 'n (ere to tempt a thiof." .qt fied tba- desk, and there on-fight across it was u Bkect 1 1-With the words '.ItJtoer X. ii'h in in odd, cramped hand. tsll- right, Mr. Brown; gomo 'l!ibeeu here. This is some ppear to suspect anyone in ck JtUe captain dotarmiued to 1 the orew. We had them tWt one. W examined them f all those who oould write 4erN. W.' but wo gained """One thing was very clear ' jjL have been old Shiol, who "'id to have, been forward at Jwas in the enptuin's cabin. a ry remained unsolved. Ijjning I nut with the captain ,! f. We were neither of ns rn I;e trtlkative. I tried to rnome, and the pleasure it tJ sen thold folks again, thought always waudereil " ' niystwiotia writing. I ;d, but! caught myself fur-' ,iog M t'j desk, expecting lUl, 'figure sitting there. ,i Uiu had not spoken for some was sitting with his faoo ,t pis hands. At last he aud-W-$A up sal aid: " fe we alter nor oourso to i Mr. Urown?" M0Mr bt ' was; I cannot !ie you uaderstand the foel k( If mind that followed those wh a case of relief from a jH'light.um e, I was ashamod cl.hh rlfitwuro I felt, bnt I i Lalp answering eagerly, t; hull I giYe the order?" ,' '""Kr, but hurried on "altoraJ tl course of theves- ''.o'flty night, and as ,, ; itrartely pleasod, aud WBlf churkling audrnbbing w;i at wl. I caunot say -I w th?n. imt agreatwoight "taken o!f my xaiutl. '''Sown to the cabm, and found P'iiKnpand down tho l.e atoppodas Ioaine '"Bkiug up ..i, abruptly: " do no harm, Mr. Urown," broozu ountinues," I an "' ve cau hold on for thirty "to, but then. I should think u ihallBndice. How's ! U)ot,i I ivns t 1 'ill. : )) con' 1 Willi i , if 1 north liy oast." motnmg watch to keop X ivns too resiles, to sleop on uenu tUe whole ven that did not satUfy "iiauy ruuniug up my glass, but every disappointed. Tho unquiet as myself. !ooted to happeu, to he we could form d offloer, I believe, yj indeed, I often t the state I was . aud nothing had ad with th flj on deck. It WM we was a mist low u; I waited iia It lifted .oon, Mmtkabtoni it I could sco llic shimmer of ice. I sent down to tell tho captain, who como on deck directly. It is no use, Mr. Urown," he siid: "you mnt. pnt her about." "Wait one moment, tho mist Jm lifting inure, it will bo quite cleat directly." The mint w.u, indeed, lifting rapid ly. ' Far ti tlio north aud west we could sen tho ice stretching awny in one ntibrokun flold. I was trying tn sco vhothcr thero appeared nny break in tho ice toward tho west, when the captain, seizing my arm with one baud, and pointing straight ahead with tho other, oxclaimed: "Good heavens! thero is i ship thero." The mist had risen likn a eurtnin, and there, sure enough, about three miles ahead, was a ship seoraingly firmly packed in the ice. We stood looking at. it in silencn. There wiif soino meaning after alt in that niyste rions warning, was the first thought that suggested itself to mo. "She's nipped bad, sir," said oh; Shiol, who, with the rest of the crew was anxiously watching our new dis oovery. I wits trying to make hei out with tho glass, when the Hash ol a gun, quickly followed by the re port, proved that she had seen ns. Up wont the flag, union downward. Wo needed no signal to know her dis tress. Tho captain ordered tho sec ond officer off into the boat, 1 widclicd him as he made bis way ovet tho ico with a few of tho mon toward tho ship. They soon returned with eight of tho ship's erew. It was a dismal account they gave of thcii situation. Thoy might havo sawed their way out of the ice, but tho ship was so injnred that sho could not have floated an hour. Tho largest of their boats bad been stove in, the others were hardly seaworthy. They were, preparing, however, to tako to them as a last resource when our wel come arrival pnt an end to theiv fears. Another detachment was soou brought off, and the captain with the remain dor of his crew was to follow imme diately. I went down to my cabin and tried to think over the singular fate which had made us tho prcsorvorn of this ship's crew. I could not divest my self of the idea that some supernatural agenoy was connected with thatpapei in tho desk, and I trembled at tho thought of what might hnve boon the consequence if wo had ueglocted the warning. Tho boat coining alongside interrupted my roverio. In a few seo onds I was on deck. 1 found the captain talking to a fine. old, sailor-like looking mau, whom ho ntroduend to mo as Captain Squires. Captain Squires idiook bands with me, r,nd wo remained talking somo time. I could not keep mv eyes off his face; I had a conviction that I had seen him somewhere, where I could not tell. Every now and then Isoeinod to catch at some clue, wLich vanished as soon as tonchod. At last he turned round to npeak to somo of his men. I could not be mistaken there was the long white hair, tho brown coot. He was tho mau I had ' scon writing in tho captain's cabin. That evouing the captain and I told tho story of tho paper to Captain Squires, who gravely aud in silence listcnou to our conjectures. Ho was too thankful for his escape out of Hiieh imminent peril to question tho means by which it had bocn brought about. At the captain's request ho wrote "Steer N. W." We compared it with the original writing. There could bo no doubt of it. It was tho same old cramped bund. Can auyono solve tho mystery? l'owfr In Our l'owdfir. "Velocity and pressure." explained tho powder mill superintendent, "are tho two main requisites in provins powder. Tho Government is very spemllo in its contracts. It demands that when fired nnder .sorviee condi tions in the gun for which it is in tended powder must give to tho pro jcotile a muzzle velocity of at least a certain number of feet nor second without producing a pressure of more than a certain number of tona to the square inch. For modern guns the volooity required varies from 2300 to 2S00 feetpor second, and the press ure is Lot allowed to exoeod fifteen tons to the square inoh. In some of our guns of the present day the amount of enorgy stored up in the powder charge is so tremendous as to be utmost incredible. The limit of energy upon the projcutilo cannot be estimated, ho vast aro the possibilities. "For example, I may oito tho Ore gon's 13-iueh rifles. Five hundred and fifty pounds of powder in those guns impart to an 100-pound shot a velocity of 2100 feot per second, aud the energy of the proieotile is nearly 31,000 foot tons. This power is sulli cieut'to lift such vessel as the Ore gon eight feet out of the water. "These screens between theoannon end the breastworks are eleetrio chro nographs 100 foot apart from each oth er and the cannou, and they register the time of the projeotile'a flight with absolute accuracy." ' "And absolnto ooenracy is what?" "The millionth part of a second." fr'un Francisco Call. Judtfln $; hy Nnifi, Generally speaking, noses may be divided into five classes the Komau or aggressive, the aoquisitive nose, the aquiliuo, the turned up and the flat. Owners of Roman noses have ob stinate, aggressive natures and most always waut thoir own way in every, thing they undeitake. Irritability, warmtu of affection and fondness for society may also . bo charaoteristio of the owner of a Roman nose. Men suecessf ul in the fiuauoial world havo the acquisitive nose which in curved.' It iudicatos a cautious and keen disposition with defensive powers toward any personal possessions. Tho aquiline or Greek nose is the most beautiful of all. It donotos a nature full of refinement and ahows that tho owner is a lover of the fine arts, has an aotive disposition toward things in sympathy with his own ideas and is of e. conragums spirit. The turned np nose ia seen every, where. I to owners ask questions in a childish way instead of finding out things for themselves. The flat nose is usually the herald of a good naUred person apt to be rather rain and shallow, bnt with in tuitlve faculties Chin Xawa WllY YOUNG MEN FAIL ONE MAIN CAUSE CIVEN BY SUCCESS. PUL NEW YORKERS. IK Drmiintt For Tontlis Who llaptny a Tor tnln rimrm trlllc UimriiMy of Pinil lug Ilia KlRht Hon to rill rui. An Kipeili"c In Jonrnslltin. HY is it that ho many yonug men havo difficulty in getting along these doys?" is n quontion winch has recently been pnt to a number of professional and business men by a New York Evening Post re porter. For tho most rart, the persons talked with (mou of position in professions mid business) had lit Ll o hesitation in answering. They answered in a way hardly complimentary to tho young mon concerned. One after another of them accounted for tho majority of present failures by a single word laziness. Though tho importance of intelligence and education as essential factors in n Biicco-fful career was not overlooked, tuo general opinion ap peared to be that tho ono indiiqicns oblo quality was industry, willingnesn and ability to work. And this, accord ing to tho statement of several of tho leading business men of New York, is the quality that i most lacking iu young meu to-day. The first persou interviewed was u successful lowyer in largo praotiee. "Young meu complain that thero isn't any ohaucoto get uhead in law nowa days," suggested tho reporter, aud the reply came qnickly: "That all depends upon tho ynnng men. I usod to bo a youug man my self, and I have been watchiug youug men ever since that time. I havo made up my mind to ono thine; that is, that tho chief trouble with a great mauy youug men is that they are afraid ol work. This is true of every ocotipatiou, end I have seen illustra tions of it mauy times in ray own pro fession. Hero is a case in point: You noticed thut I was interrupted just now by a young man, who camo in and ankod ine a question, and you perhaps observed that I said 'No' rather impatiently. The reason was that the question was too silly for any man to ask wbo had ever got a place iu a law office. In point cf fact, that, yonng man has had tho host advan tages. Ho wont for throe or ftmr years to ono of tho flnost fitting schools in the country, theu ho had four years in ono of tho largest col leges, aud afterwards threo years in what I eonsidor tho best law iichocl. Yet I somotimes think that ho dooa not know any more law now, after he has boeu some time in this office, thau bo did when ho left homo for the pre paratory school. "And tho chief reason is because ho never was willing to work bard, and there is not tho slightest reason to suppose ho will begin at this lato day. Of course, there aro other reasons why yonng men do not succeed as lawyers than laziness. For example, I know of a man whose legal learning is extraordinary, and who obtained a good place in a leading law firm, bnt after he had been Here a dozen years his employers said that he was not worth $2500 a year. The trouble in this case was because he could not utilize his great learning, aud he could never got ou with clients. Bnt, after making duo allowance for all ex ceptional oasos, I am convinced Mint laziness is tho chief obstacle to suc cors in the legal profession, as in every other walk of life." "What do I think is the reason why young meu don't get ahead faster iu tho railroad business?" It is the President of an important railroad, which has its offices in this city, who speaks now. "My opinion is that the great trouble with most of theso young follows is that they are not willing to work as hard as they must if they aro ever going to auiouut to anything. Let me tell yon my own experience and observations. It is, let me see, fifteon years since I left eollogo, and deoided to go into railroading. The first ohanoe got was a job at $10 a mouth in the oilloe of a railroad out in the Kooky Mountain region. There were a number of other young men in the ofllce. I soon observed that the rest of them seemed to bo chiefly in ferestod iu soeing how little work they could do in return for their pay, and how early they could get away from the olUoe, in order to have moro time for curds, billiards, the theatre and other amusements. I was inter ested in my work, and after I had douo my day's duty in the office I would go to my room and devote the evening to reading railroad publica tions and studying all the books bear ing on railroads that I eould find. Of oourso, my superiors soon' noticed the difference between mo and the rest of the fellows. It was not long before a hurd job of wor'k was to be done, not at all in my regular line. I was'givon a chance to try my hand, and I did tho work eo well that I was soon promoted. It was not long after that when I found a better chance in an other railroad office, and eaoh ohange I made afterwards was in advance, until I was offered my present posi tion. All this time I have been work ing as bard as I could, and it is be cause I have worked hard that I have got on. The lazy fellows whom I first struck iu that oflioo out West have either gono to the dogs, or are peg ging along with no better pay now than they used to get fifteen years ago." A newspaper man, who has had thirty years of experience, and who for a long time was managing editor of an important newspaper, was asked for bis views. "1 attribute my owu Buooess," he said, "chiefly to the fact that I have always worked as hard as I oould without running the risk of injuring my health and that excep tion haa not always held. Oqlhe other band, I can recall a great many oases of men who have never got ahead for no other reason than be cause they were lazy. It would as tonish you to learn how little energy great many yonng fellows show. When I was managing editor, I dis covered that the oity reporter on the newspapers did not take the trouble to read all of the looal matter whieU it contained every day. aud many el them were nftcn ignorant of tbo edi torial atlitnde of tho paper regarding local matters. Tho oonseqnonoo was that, when a man was given an assign ment, it might turn out that he knew nothing about what the paper had printed regarding the matter before hand, or what the editorial policy of the papor about this subject was. It is very hard work to indnco roporters to get to the office promptly. Unless ihey nro hauled up sharply evory lit tlo while, many of them pnt the paper to inconvenience by being late. I havo actually known of rimes where youug men in rigorous henlt'j, who wero anxious to secure regular posi tions on tho oity staff of an evening paper, were so lazy that they would not get around until nearly noon to sco if there was a chanco for them to do any work. My opinion is that most folks aro lazy, ond I certainly know that laziness is tho only reason why many young -men in the tiewspa per business whom I have known did not succeed better." Ono of the leading life insurance company 1'rosidents, whoso opinion was requested, held tho view that: "Whilo thero are palhetio exceptions, I think it can bo regarded as a rule) that men who fail in lifo fail princi pally because of iudolnuoe. Genius w ituout industry, I find, accomplishes very little in this world; while in dustry without genius accomplishes a great deal. Somo ninn Kmerson, wasn't it? has defined genius as tho infinite capacity for tnkiug pains; and it ii this inlluilo capacity that, in the long run, proves successful, "It is true that thero are some cor porations thut are guilty of nepotism and favoritism; that promote rather tho sons ami tho nephews and the cousin; thau the men who havo dem onstrated their fitness for advance ment, but these corporations always have to pay dearly for it. 1 think that all business meu now recognize the principle that tho most expensive habit they cnu acquiro is to disregard niorit." A bank president, who, iu' his earlier years, wus a newspaper reporter, talked iu a similar straiu. "The great mis take that young mou make," ho said, "is in keeping too cIosq, watch on the time of day. Thoy begin to put on their overcoats ton or fifteon minutes before tho pointer reaches tho hour when they uro free to leave tho office. The majority, therefore, never worry about anything except the particular work they are required to do. "They pay little attention to the men just ahead of them, und make no attempt to familiarize themselves with their work. Tho result is that wheu a vacancy occurs I havo no ono in uiy ollico wbo enn fill it. Thero are mauy opportunities for promising young men during tho year, but I usually havo to go outsido to get tho proper pursous for them. It is not because tho average clerk is not oapuble. It is because ho is lazy. Ho is foarful of giving more time to his employer than the regulations reqnire. Legally this custom may bo all right; but it is the most fatal error tho youug mo ciiii fall iuto." Incroimff of Formlntlon. Some interesting statistics iu regard to the incroasoof population have just beeu compiled by Sir Robert Giffon, a distinguished English export ou this subjoct. He shows that Englanct now has possessions cn all five continouts, and thut a quarter of tho population of the entire eurth is subject to her suzerainty. The extent of torritory owned by England amounts to 13, 000,000 square miles, and ou this im moiifio traot is n population of 420, 000,000. During the last twenty seven years the English realm has in urcased 2,851,000 square miles, and within tho same poriod 125,000,000 havo boeu added to the population. Since 1871 the population of the United Kingdom Engl.ind, Scotland and Ireland has increased from 32, 000,000 to 40,000,000. At the begin ning of this oentury England, Scot laud and Ireland had a population of 11,000,000, and Franoo of 26,000,000, yet to-day the proportion of popula tion in both countries is almost alike, Itnosia has increased her population by 00,000,000 sinco 1870, tho result being that she has now a total popula tion of 130,000,000. Germany had a population of 20,000,000 at 'the be ginning of this century; now sho has between r.0,000,000 and 00,000,000, of whom almost a quarter is tho result of the increase of births over deaths. Germany, too, ia making vast strides as a colonial power, and her popula tion in those distant possessions al ready amounts to a considerable nnm her. Tho nnrlnr't Wlln. The doctor's wifo has, indeed, tuns', noed of patience. She sees but little of ber husband, and wheu she does see him, late at uight, early in the morning, or when they are driving to gether to a dinner party, their chances of sustained conversation are but few. This ia why the consultant's wife rare ly or never employs her owu husband as family doctor, bnt intrusts tho care of tho family's health to n gen eral practitioner. It might he weeks before the great man could find time to examine Fi eddy's eyes or see whether baby was sutToriug merely from teething, lush or front measles. It is told of a celebrated physician, not long dead, that having ono day met in Hurley street, not fur from his own door, a nurse aud two children, with whose charming pppearance he was muoh htruok, he stopped and chatted with theui. "May I ask whoso children those are?" ho said to the nurse on partiug. "You own, sir," tho nn r so replied. Temple Bar. Parent! Ilolmlona. One of tho teachers in tho Sundiy sohool of the First M. E. Ch ir.h, of Germantown, was ondo.voriug to in still into tho littlo girls of her class recently a duo appreo atiou of parental affection. She spofe o tho mother love for ber children and o'. tbo respect whioh the ohildr i should how to the mother. For some reason she rather omitted to lav as mu b stress upon the father. Finally one of the little girl remarked that she thought children should love their mother muoh more than their fathers. "Why do yon think that?" asked the teacher. "Oh, well," said the little tot, "your fathers are only delated to you by marriage, but to if mother are related to yon by bornationP Philadelnhia Reoord- GOOD ROADS NOTES. Itnail Mrndinn. WITH tho opening of the riding and driving seasou, and especially with tho reappearance of bicycles, we shall hear muoh of good roads. It is wished that in this country wo might seo as much as wehearof tbem. Whero the highways aro improved they are valued, aud people who use them are never again willing to go back to the kind of trough of sand and mud that passes for a turnpike in many ports of this country. The good roads movement lias not coased from moving, and cheering news comes, every now and again, of the laying of asphalt in oitics und of mac adam in tho country, yet so littlo it dono in proportion to whit ought tc bo done, ami miiHt bo done, that one loses heart, now aud again, and fear that for tho noxt oentury this countrj is doomed to travel over almost the worst roads in all tho world. A trav eler who has just reached tho East, ou his return from a wheeling tour ol nearly threo years around tuo world, reports that bo found the roads iu Illinois worse thau those iu China, which were heretoforo supposed to bo tho moancst that could be found in any laud that had roads at all. Ono of the chief causes of the nlow ness with which reform progresses will probably bo found in tho fact that in our country districts tho farmers discover thut good roads do not stny good forever. They appear to thiult that their whole duty is douo when a propur foundation is In id aud it smoothed by a roller. Thoy do not think iu this wise of thoir houses or tbeir churches or their farms. They know that buildings need repair; they know thut troes need trimming; they know thut fields nood plowing, aud they gather tho stones and stumpsout. of them every now and then; yet the road that passes their dcors and is used by hundreds of thousands of pernous, is buried in snow in winter, is scorod by rain and pierced by frost, receives no attention from them what over. They do theso things butter abroad. Thoy first niako a road with a clean, broad, properly graded sur face, then they appoint men whose daily business it iu to go over it and make repairs. (noons Couniy has spent millions of dollars for macadam, and it has se curod tho best roads iu tho State of New York. If they nro allowed to gi to ruin tho work will all havo to bo douo over again ot u tremendous ex pense. A road raend-jr can keep at least a couple of miles repairod; and his pny will not bo moro than a couple of dollars a day, unless ho is in poli tic. It is wiser to pay this nnm thau to have a bill of thousands of dollars to meet at. tho ond of some years. In Europe the monders watch tho high ways just as track walkers watch tho railroads. Whonovor a heavy rain has started a littlo channel in the pave ment it will widen aud deepen with every succeeding rainfall until that part of the pavement is torn beyond ropair. A littlo tampiug with gravel, a htouo put in tho channel, a shovel ful of earth hero aud there, a cart rut obliterated, a loose stouethrowu asidii now and then will keep the road in serviceable condition for a lit'o time. The way not to do it ib finely illus trated iu Prospect Turk, whero it couple of mou of intetligenoo and a littlo moro diligonco thau wo see in public service would rnako further ro pairs neodless; but absolute neglect, follows the surfacing of evory path and drive. Tho stitch in timo that saves nine is nevor applied. It is not sufficient (o mako good roads. It is just as important to keep thorn good. Now Y'ork Mail und Expross. Tlio Rcannuiin l'linnf. Speaking of good roads as an ecou omio proposition, thero is no doubt that if tho common highways of tho United States wero plnoed iu anything liko proper condition they would save millious of dollars annually. A Gov ernment expert estimates it at half a billion dollars, or one-halt' tho appro priations of the famous 'Billion Dol lar Congress." Thero was a national good roads movement on a different principle early in the century. It iucluded the building of a national turnpiko from Washington to St, Louis. Tho advent. of railroads mppud the movement iu tho bud, and all that remaius of it to day is tho Cumberland turnpike. Hut highways wore nuodud aud tho uccok. sity wus recognized. The iron rails have boon made tho leading highways during the past hnlf century. A railroud is a highway of comtneiv-j iu tho same sonso ns a public road, a'ld so aro rivers, barbom and canals. Tuoy are the artorius of trade. This country has spent billions of dollars for railroad building, hundreds of millious for canal ami id ill more for l ivers and harbors. Yot not ono ounco ot any commod ity, of any'kluoV that is hanled over railroads, oanals, rivers and harbors, but is first, hauled over couutry rondu or city Directs. . Tlie War la Gut Cuail llitailn. One bears a good deal from time to timo of tho good roudo movement. Is public sentiment behind it? Do the farmers of Now Yorlt really want first' class highways, or aro t'ney coutent with thoao they now drive on? The troutmont which the bill pouding ut Albany appropriating $1,000,000 fot good roads j;eta will throw light on these questions. It i.i provided iu this measure that- the appropriation shall be spent in accordance with Ihc provisions of tlio law of 1838. by which the Stato piiyu fifty per .-font, of the cost of roud improvement, the county thirty-five per ceni. and the town or abutting properly owners immediately interested tho :cmaiaing ven P"' cent. This ooitainly ia a fair division, or. at all events, it is n division which enables those who detiro good roads to secure them without placing too heavy a burden upon their should ors, The bill is ono of tho results of the good roads convention lately hold in Albany. If (ho farmers as a vrhole desii c ite passage aud bestir themselves tc that end thoy can havo thoir vay. If they remain pns'ivo the Legislator will be justified in conclnding that the timo la not ripo for making so large an appropriation. New Ygrk Mail and Express. A FORCOTTEN HERC Mnjor Rrnra-n Crngnan nml Ills flrfrnM rf Tort Mcphrnnoit. It is noteworthy that the reputation of onr great soldiers was iu every cast bnilt up of long ns well as brilliant service. In no case ha:i it been tlu result of any single deed, bowevei horoic. In. fact, others have per formed single clued of heroism sur passing in brilliancy, perhuit:i, any single deed of any of thuo great sol diers. Iu such cases, us n rule, these heroes ore kuown only to the reader of abntruso history. A single in stance will servo to illustrate: Just whero the town in O'.iin per petuating tho name of tho firH 15o publican candidate for the Presidency and tho hamo of a moro sitreesMful subsequent candidato for that high office, is now sitnitnd. was. a wretched stockr.de called Fori Stephenson. It? armaineut consisted of ouc gun anil :i garris.in of 100 men, commanded by Major-Gnnoral Georgo Oroghan, . youug otlieor of twenty-two. .Mown born not fur from Louisville, Kv., in 1791, and came of fighting utoek, fo his father had been an officer in the Continental Army and his mother a sister of (loorgn Hoger ('lark Graduating from Willirn and Mary Collcgo in 1810, he entered tho army was in the hattlo of Xippecauoo in 1811, and a year later was mado cap tain in tho Seventeenth Infantry With this rank he served uuder Har rinon in 1812 and 1.813, und so diHtin guished himself in a sortie from For Meigs that he was appointed an uido de-Ciimp with tho rank of major, an assigned to the defense of For Stephenson. Lest Tecumsch and tho Indians who wero coming across country from Fort Meigs should make a tlauk attack Harrison had authorized Croghuu tc burn tho fort and retreat. This be did not do. "Wo are determined t maintain this place," he said, "and by heaven we will!" Harrison, thero upon dispatched an officer to reliovo him. Hut Croghan wont to head quarters, carried his point, aud when. ou August 1, the English commander summouod him to surrender, sent back a stout defiance. Tho next day tho bombardment began, and toward afternoon an assault was ordered. The English soldiers, iu threo columns o 120 men each, wero to attack turc sides. Tho Indians wero' to storm tho fourth; but as they came out of tho woods into tho open a steady and well-diroclod tiro from tho fort drovo them back. Tho Lritish troops, thus left to light alone, oatue on bravely to tho very gates, inado every possible ctVort to got iuto tho fort for two hours, and theu retreated with all ol tho officers aud one-fifth of tho men killed, wounded or missing. The wave of cuthusiasm w'lich rolled over tho couutry as tho result of this vie tory equaled auythiug of the kind seon in our day; but who to-day knows auythiug of the personality of Major Croghan .'Frank Leslie V. The Ocean' niumtly fiiiat. "During tho gales of last wiuter, uuequaled it) tho records of tho Hydro graphic Office for force and porsist enoy, more than twenty tramp steam- era wero lost. Ton wero nevor hcurd from aftor leaving port. Moro than 150 broke thoir shafts. Iu over sooro of instances they also lout their propollors, oud wore suvod from beiug overwhelmed by sea anchors, which hold their heads to the combors, aud n liberal uso of oil which smoothed down tho crests. Some of tho under ballasted tramps from British ports, whioh, in ploasuut weather, mako the voyage to Sandy Hook m fifteen days, were thirty-five days and forty days breasting tho great winter gales. Two of them rolled their funnels out, and another spent fifteen days either at tempting to mako her way through the orestod billows, or wallowing in the trough. Clill-uko waves, breakiug in cataracts over her weather bow, or leaping aboard auiidnhips, carried away all her lifeboats. She rolled at au anglo of nearly forty-five dogrees, tho rolling period being twelve or fifteen times a minute for hours ond hours' togethor. During these fifteen days tho weary skippor found, when he had a chanco to mako an obsorvu tion, thut tho ship had made HO knots leeway. Iu this tumultuous poriod vory few of tho officers were able to got nny sleop, except tho merest cat naps. The food was hardly fit to eat through bad cooking, the cook being unablo to work properly, and tho water, impregnated by the searching brine from invading seas ecu spoon drift, did not do much toward quench ing thrist." Aiusloo's Magazine. ftoinetlilnK I.lka m Kerluotlnn. It was at recent gathering of an electrical association, iu a small city, at which a week's exhibit of various eleotrioal goods was made, that a New York snpply man unpacked his illumi nated sign in the presence of tho agent ol tbo local eloctrio light company. re lates the Electrical ltoviow. "How much for current to light the sign for a week?" said the supply man. "Thirty dollars," answered tho supply mun. "Too much. I only paid $35 for four weeks in New York. Give you $20." "Call it $25." "Not muoh; but, say, you pnt in u meter and I'll pay your regular rales." The olootrio light man could not let this "bluff" pass him, so he agreed. On the last day of the exhibition he came around to whore the sign was being packed np and said: "Seo here; perhaps yon feel that I was try ing to charge you too inuoh for cur rent for that sigu. I've got tho meter bill, but supposo you just pay us 810 and call it square." Tho supply wnu said ho agroed tn pay the meter bill, aud that wus what he intended to pay neither moro nor less. Aftor some argumont it was produced. It amounted to twenty eight oents. CHINESE SMUCGLINO. KontrMl An f;npprDltly AndUnM. The weary mau knew but one girl at the afternoou tta, and they sat on a divan wedged in by the crush for the bettor part of the afternoon. Wheu be flnully escaped man he kuew said: "I see you are on speak ing terms with Miss Chatter ton." "Not at all; not at all," Raid tho weaty one. "Merely on listening terms. "--New York Commercial Ad-Tertlier. th Ilradqaarlara t Halns la Canada. Montreal is the headquarters ot Chinese smuggling from Canada to the United States. The " Canadian Pacific railway, by means of its steamers and Its limited transcontinental express, keeps pouring tho Celestials Into the city, and the Chinese companies keep shoving them out across the line at ft good round sum per head, to be paid in weekly Installments when the travelers have Hiicreedcd lu establishing them selves In some United States town. The company patronizes two different classes of people to carry out their schemes eurcespfully. The moro ad vanced patronlzo the "Border Smug gling Trust," ns it Is known, anrl which Is said to consist o( a number of United States border lawyers and Chi nese interpreter. These people agre" for ,i certain stipulated sum to see all tho Chinamen which their employers niny send safely to tho United States, with tho proviso, however, that they nro to Buffer a whorl time of pre liminary Imprisonment. Tho consign ors are to sriid one or more photo graphs of the men shlpp-rt und, with tho uld of these, spurioin relatives are faked up, who at tho proper time are brought forward to swear that the man who whb arrested when he entered the United States has lived there for years, and has only been on a trip to China. Their testimony is backed up by tho man's certificate, which, however, Is not his, but belonging to a man who nrtually has gone to China and has sent bark his certificate. The fact that to the American nearly nil Chinamen look nllke facilitates this fraud. Often "crtificntcs lire short nnd their scarcity rompels even tho moro advanced rep renentatlves of tho Chineco companies to turn to the men who still carry on the smuggling business In the qld ro mantle style, with all tho dangers at tending tin.' work. Men and women are engaged In tills, acd tho Chinamen ore sometimes driven und sometimes railroaded Into tlii3 country In dis- ' guise. Whole freight cars by somo pri vate arrangement havo at times been chartered for tho purpose of smuggling In whole crowds of Chinamen ut the same tlme.but driving Is considered the safest way. Tit (irnl Wall to II. I Dntrnyvd. It Is curious that when China is Just on the eve of Introducing western methods of engineering she should threaten to demolish tho greatest en gineering work she possesses; that is to say, tho Great Wall, erected 20U years B. C, for tho purposo of keeping back the Tartars. It is stated that an American engineer is cn routo to Chlnn In behalf of a Chicago syndicate which Is expected to take a share In tbo con tract to be given out by the Chinese government for the demolition of the wall. The Engineer states that on French, two British, and throe Ger man firms aro also bidding for the work, payment for whleh Is to be In the way of rlcb concessions. Chem From tha Wonndcd, Charley Reynolds, one of the Kansas boys, relates the following Instance ot good Kansas nerve: "Tho firing pirn In my rifle broke and I started to the rear to get another gun. About fifty feet behind our line I came across one of Company Fs men lylnB on the edge ot the road, shot through the shoulder.) We exchanged guns and I started back. The last I heard of that man was his cheering. That appeared nervy to me, lying In the road helpless, giving his rifle to a comrade, and then yelling to the boys to go ahead." MARKETS. 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