ItIIAYKD DKATII IN THK FLAME.
A Mother Runhe* Into M Horning Room to
Ke*ctte Iter Child.
iiv tl* explosion of a lamp in the cabin
of the canal boat A.Chandler,lying at the
foot of West Sixtieth street, New York,
early on Sunday morning, Dennis Daily,
three years old, the son of Captain Patrick
i , Daily, was burned to death, and Captain
Daily, his wife Ellen and two other chil
dren were so severely burned that they
bad to be taken to the hospital. An as
tral oil lamp was suspended from the cen
tre of the cabin and about half an hour
before miduight this exploded, scattering
the burning oil over the sleeping inmates
and setting the cabin on tire.
Mrs. Daily screamed and then picked
up two of her children and pushed them
tluougli the window to the deck of the
canal boat Pratt, which came along side
to render assistance. Two other boys
were saved in the same manner. Captain
Daily was awakened just in time to save
bis life.
In the cxcitoment Mrs. Daily forgot all
about her youngest boy, Dennis. She
heroically rushed back and found liirn in
his bunk, and when she carried him on
deck he was-still nlive, but almost burned
to a crisp. Several canal boatmen put
out the tire and notified the Roosevelt
hospital authorities. The boy Dennis
died a few hours afterward. The other
two boys are badly burned, and the two
girls were also injured.
SIGNING THE St'ALK,
How tli Cambria Iron Company Overcame
Certain Scruple..
• Pittsburgh chronicle, Monday.
There appears to be an importaut rea-
I son why the great Cambria Iron Com
pany has leased all its coke ovens and
coke properties to Mr. Isaac Taylor, for
raealy Superintendent of that department
in their works.
It is a well-known fact among working
men that tbc Cambria Iron Company has
for years adhered strictly to the policy of
refusing to sign any scale with any organ
ization of workiDgmen. To sign the coke
workers' scale, therefore, would be a vio
lation to this policy.
The coke workers would operate in no
mines nor charge auy ovens unless a
I scale was signed beforehand by their em
ployers. Therefore it was with the Cora-
L pany either a question of closedown or
I singn the scale. To run the works known
r sepiratelyas Wheeler and Morrcll with
with non-union men was out of the ques
tion, and the situation when coke was
■ needed was a desperate one.
> " Therefore,' 1 said a coke man, "it be-
R came necessary to do something, Mr.
Taylor was trusted by tbc firm and a
I lease of the property was made to him.
I He can sign a scale."
lie ManUtui a Hat.
Along about the middle of the coach
was a young lady, not ji beautiful girl,
but just ordinary, although she had a
very jaunty hat and a sealskin sacquc. A
yonngman got on at Castile, who stood
at the door and looked the passengers
I over for a minute or two, and he then
I walked deliberately down the. aisle and
■j plumped himself down beside the girl.
As he did so there was acrasli and a crush,
and he sprang up to discover that he had
B| sat down upon a bandbox and mashed it
"lam so sorry—so sorry 1 " he stam-
H mered as he turned all suits of colors.
" Mister Man ! " she replied as she in
spected the ruin, " have you got sl2 in
cash about you ? "
. " W-whatl I really beg your pardon.
■ Indeed I didn't ."
" Fork over!" she interrupted holding
■ out her hand.
" Twelve dollars.'"
•' Exactly. You have mnshed a §l2
■ bonnet, anil I want the money."
" But, Miss—but ."
" My brother Bill ia forward in the
smoking car, and if you don't pay I'll call
him ! There's nothing cheap about Bill.
He'll knock SSO worth of jaw off your
chin before he gels through with you."
" I'll pay, miss."
- " That's business. Fifteen dollars, eh ?
Twelve from fifteen leaves three, and
here's tlie change und the hut. Next
time you go to kerplunk down beside
anybody look out for breakers."
" I beg to apologize, miss," he replied.
If you hadn't smasheil the hat I'd have
pulled S2O worth of hair out of your head
anyhow."
Everybody felt sorry for the man. He
got into a seat at the end of the car, clos
ed-himself up like a jackknife, and every
time the door opened what we could see
of him turned pale for fear it was her
brother Bill.
Retired After h Hervlce of a (Juarter of a
Century.
■ At a congregational meeting in the En
glish Evangelical Lutheran Church, held
on Sunday forenoon after the regular
Sabbath services. Rev. 11. A. Fink, D. D.,
■ was at his own request retired as pastor
emeretin on a salary of cot less than SOOO
per year. The scene was very affecting.
The reverend gentleman has bean pastor
of the church for nearly a quarter of a
I century, and of late years he has become
quite enfeebled by age. He will retain
the position of active pastor until one is
| chosen to that place. After that he will
; perform only such duties us his physical
stale will permit.
Will Now l>e a Murder Case.
Albert Digick—the Hungarian who had
1 a hot poker thrust into his bowels—died
at the County Almshouse yesterday morn-
B lug. Andrew Robiutis, who has been in
I jail awuitiiig the result of the wounds he
■ inflicted on'Digick, will now have lo an-
I awcr the charge of having caused the denth
■ Of ilu-latter.
LICENSE AI'I'LICATION .
Tim Whole Number In the County XSS of
Which 104 Are In This City.
Elsewhere will he found a complete list
of the applications for selling in this
| county, including retail and wholesale
j dealers, brewers and bottlers. The whole
i number is 255, Of these 104—niuety-
I three taverns, seven Wholesale, three
brewers, and one bonier— are in this city.
The ward having the most applicants
! is the Third, which has twenty-four. The
| First ward of Cambria comes in for six
| teeu. There are no applications trom the
j Second or the Fifth ward of Johnstown
i borough.
! The increase in the license does not
seem to have much of a deterring effect
j except on Prospect, which comes in for
1 only two taverns.
I Grubbtowu people will have one stand,
if license is granted, at which to slake
their throats.
About $50,000 of revenue will be col
lecled from the licensed houses in this
city, should all the applicants succeed
getting the desired papers.
Whether or not there will be any at
tempt lo prevent the granting of any ap
plications by remonstrating will bo de
veloped in a few days.
MERRY-GO-ROUND,
The only weigh to be honest —sixteen
ounces to the pound,— Wcwhtngton Star.
Never judge a man by the umbrella lie
carries ; be may have just left an old cot
ton one for it at the last restaurant he
patronized,— Judge.
Bhe—Bo you really love me ?
He—Yes—with all my heart.
She—Then why did you ask roe to
marry you.— Chicago Lyre.
" There's a bright future in store for
me.,' snid the stove as the servant girl
approached with the polish.— New York
Journal.
Teacher—Now, my .children, wo wil]
parse the sentence, " John refused the
pie." Tommy Jones, what is John ?
Tommy—A darned too\i—Hinghamton
Leader.
Razzle—There's nothing like meeting
trouble bravely.
Dazzle—l never meet trouble; it always
seems to be going my way.— Detroit Joui
nal.
Tramp—lt is needless to ask you the
question, madam. You know what I
waut.
No Flower Language Now.
The fact that fashion has found its way
into the flower garden and decrees what
flowers shall be favored and what flowers
shall be cut, or rather remain uncut, has
of course wiped out what was known as
the language of flowers. And that
language is now much more of a dead
language than either Greek or Sanscrit.
It is one of the very few silly tilings that
fashion has ever blotted out. The usual
process is for fashion to build silly things
up. It may have been all right a number
of years ago for the fond lover to pro
claim his devotion by nn-ans of a bunch
of heliotrope and fur the maiden to IC
spoml encourageniant witli a few sprays
of golden rod. But as heliotrope and
golden rod are very cheap and inexpensive
flowers, and as fashion is absolutely ignor
ant of their existence, it is now consid
ered to be in much better form for a
young man bubbling over with devotion
and a earning for matrimony to use pen
and ink and heavy while paper if lie is
afraid to use the English language per
sonally, and for the young girl to respond
after the same fashiou. In other words,
if the result must be reached by corres
pondence. floral correspondence is no
longer allowable, because the flowers
which the poets hold to he significant are
not fashionable and the flowers which
swell people declare are fashinalile have
no significance.
LICENSES GRANTED IN IIIMKHSXr
COUNT*.
That County Will Not be no " Drv " as For
merly.
The day set by the rules of Court of
Somerset County for the hearing of appli
cants for a retail license to sell liquors (or
tavern license), is Monday, of the Febru
ary term of each year
In accordance with this rule on Mon
day, the 24th iust., the applications filed
with the I'ruthonotary weie presented to
the Court, and the following applicants
were granted a license, there being no
remonstrances or charges filed against
them ; Charles A. Mitchell and Edward
Nicklow, in Petersburg, Addison town
ship ; Joseph Walcher, in Davirisville,
Conemaugh township ; Bcott Sterner, in
Confluence ; Mary Buckman, in Rock
wood ; Charles Broadwater, in Glen
coe, Northampton township; Sam
uel Custer and John H. Bite, in Stoyes
town, in all eight.
The following applications were held
over for a further hearing and argument,
there being remonstrances, or charges,
brought against each : Andrew McCJuade,
Berlin ; Thos. S.Williams, Elklick town
ship ; Nathaniel Slicer. Robert Uutucrie.
and Ellen Kyle, Meyersdnle ; Jane Win
ters and Geo. H. Tayman, Somerset, and
Abraham Miller, Ursina, eight.
It is not known what action will he
taken in the case of those held over.
There were no applications for licence
granted from Somerset town, and con
sequently that town will he high and dry
as usual.
TIIE great majority of so-cal.ed cough
cures do little more than impair the di
gestive functions anil create bile. Ayer's
Chery Pectoral, on the contrary, while it
cures the cough, does not interfere wiih
the functions of either stomach or liver.
i
Itrnatiiis Donnelly iius retired into ob
scurity ai)• I no one seems to cipher his
I ADVERTISING SCIENCE.
JAN EXPERT GIVES HIS OPINION
UPON THE SUBJECT.
He Say* NewHpupeni Are the Only -Satin
factory Medium —Claim* to Have Origi
nated Several Style* of Advertising
Which Had !Slg Runs.
"Nobody lias tried more different kinds
of advertising than we have," said a
member of a well known clothing firm,
a few days ago, "or tried the different
kinds more thoroughly, but we have set
tled down now to regular newspaper
advertising, and believe that, for a per
manent business, that alone pays. We
were the first to use the sails of vessels
in the harbor as an advertising medium.
Then we got up the 'alphabet puzzle,'
and gave away a halT a million puzzles
while the craze lasted. Afterward we
invented the Waterbury watch idea.
We had to do something, because three
of our principal competitors had failed,
and their stocks were being sold for next
to nothing bv assignees, so we decided
to give a Waterbury watch with every
twelve dollars' worth of goods pur
chased. We advertised the watches
'wound and set.' To wind them fast
enough we had to rig up a little machine,
worked like a sewing machine, that
would do the winding, and we kept sev
eral boys at work winding and setting
them. Before we quit we had given
away forty thousand of the watches.
NEWSPAPER "ADS."
"But nothing ever pars us like the or
dinary newspaper advertising. The fact
is, there has come to be in this city o
class of advertisement readers, just as
there is of news readers. They read the
advertisements every day, and, of course,
the man who wants to attract them has
to get up an advertisement that will do
it. The day of standing advertisements
in the pai>er, 'Go to So-and-So's for cloth
ing,' or 'Go to This-and-That's for shoes'
has passed, just as the day for painting
signs on rocks and fences or on the sails
of boats has passed. You must have
something interesting and fresh every
day in the advertisement, and it will be
rear). We have proof of this all the time
m our business, for an advertisement of
any certain thing is sure to bring throngs
of people into the stores inquiring for it
next day. By the number of such in
quiries we rate the success or failure of
an advertisement. I can guarantee to
bring a thousand |>eople to our stores any
day by the insertion of an advertisement
of some specialty in the morning papers.
"We were the first firm to introduce
the use of outline cuts in newspapers.
An Englishman who had done caricatur
ing on the other side, olfhnnd sketches
as a part of the entertainment of a show
of some sort, and had come to this
country, first brought the matter to our
attention, and we tried a few of the cuts
as an experiment. They succeeded so
well that we made them a regular feat
ure. After a while the papers them
selves caught onto the outline idea, and
now that is almost the only style of
newspaper illustration used. A while
ago we concluded to try the experiment
of dropping the cuts. They are expen
sive, because besides the cost of them,
the papers charge double rates for the
space they occupy. It has been poor
economy, however. The cuts were worth
much more than they cost as an adver
tisement, and we shall go back to them.
MUST BE TRUTHFUL.
"Another tiling about advertising of
late years is the gradual increase in the
truthfulness of it. People are learning
that it doesn't pay to lie in an advertise
ment uny better than it does anywhere
else. The theory that 'a sucker's born
every minute and lie's just as likely to
come in here as anywhere else' won't do
for a permanent thing. I think that there
has been a noticeable improvement in
this respect lately, and that business meD
are rapidly learning that honesty is the
best policy in an advertisement as well as
outside of it.
"A curious tiling is the difference there
is between advertising for women and
for men. For a man an advertisement
must lie short and to the point. It ought
to treat of hut one subject and to be writ
ten as tersely as possible. Men read ad
vertisements on the jump; they never
deliberately sit down to go through the
advertisements in a paper. For the
women, on the contrary, you can put
in as much detail as you please;
once a woman is attracted to an
advertisement Bhe will read it all through,
no matter how long it is or how fine the
type is. Then there is no use putting an
advertisement for a man in a Sunday
paper. If you make it big enough to be
seen in one of those enormous sheets it
will lie too long to be read by a man. An
ordinary advertisement, such as would
attract liiin in a week day paper, is bur
ied in the great Sunday editions. But
you can take a page on Sunday and be
certain that the women will look for it
and read it all through carefully. Thou
sands of them buy the papers, and espe
cially the Sunday papers, for no other
thing than to read the advertisements.
The big dry goods houses know that, and
that is why they ull use the Sunday pa
pers so freely,"—New York Sun.
Chicago'* Millionaire*.
Down to the present time Chicago's
citizens have been occupied in acquiring
wealth. There has been time for its en
joyment ad interim, but enjoyment has
not been a prime motive. There are the
Pullmans und the Farweiis, the Fields,
the McCormicks and others who have
long been able to throw aside the cares
of business and devote themselves exclu
sively to pleasure, hut they have not
done so. Marshall Field and the Far
wells still manage the two greatest dry
goods houses in the west. George M.
Pullman is at the head of the mammoth
Pullman Car company. There is a sec
ond generation of McCormicks, but the
click of machinery still goes on monoto
nously in the reaper factory. When will j
these people imitate their brethren in |
New York, and, leaving their counting
rooms, give themselves entirely to lead
ing the pleasure gatherings of the fash
ionable people of their city?- Selected.
ALCHEMY.
A dull gray sky and a chilly air,
With never a glint of tho golden sun,
The trees are tossing their brandies bare.
All stripped of their leafage fresh and fair;
I am lonely; my heart is full of care,
And 1 wish that the day were done.
No cheer; no comfort, my grief to deaden
He did not cornel and the day is leaden.
•• •
i Was ever a cloud so soft a gray?
And keen and pure is the chilly air.
The delicate branches softly sway;
I Etched on the sky seems each twig and
■pray;
How swiftly the hours speed away
And my heart has never a care.
Ah, love Is the wizard gray and olden.
He eaine! lie camel And the day isgoldcnl
—Housekeeper's Weekly.
CHECKMATE.
Old Mr. Archer was a devoted chess
player and an expert, at that. Me held
chess to be the only game fit for a gen
tleman. There were few of his acquaint
ances who could cope with him, and but
one of them who could match him fair
ly. That was James Bittles, his lawyer.
It was a close contest between the two
first one ahead and then the other.
Bittles stood high at the bar, but he
mainly won and retained Archer's con
fidence by his ability as a chess player.
He was barely 40, and Archer maintain
ed that by the time lie reached CO he
would surpass all those around.
Archer had a daughter his only
child. Iler father had married late in
life, and ten years after the birth of the
girl her mother had died. Letty held a
place in bis heart next to chess itself. A
bright, lively and pretty girl was Letty
Archer, and she would be an heiress to
something over a million. Her father
feared she would become the prey of a
fortune hunter, and endeavored to avert
it by the provisions of his will. He neg
lected to execute his testament, bow
ever, until Letty was nearly twenty
years old, und a spinster still. It was none
too soon, for the week after he died sud
denly of an apoplectic fit.
When the will was opened it was found
that Bittles was named sole executor and
constituted guardian of Letty until she
was 21, and trustee of all the estate, real
and personal. The conditions of the
trust were that, if Letty married with
the consent of Bittles, the trustee was
to turn over to her all the property on
the day of the wedding, and so long as
she remained unmarried after 21 to pay
her the rents and the interest as they ac
crued; but if she married without his
consent, she was to receive only five
thousand a year, and the residue of the
estate beyond that necessary to secure
this payment was to be conveyed to a
third party or her heirs. This third party
was described as;
"Catherine Sinclair, daughter of Gor
don Sinclair, now or late of tho city of
Baltimore, and the state of Maryland, if
she be still single; or, if she be a married
woman, then to the said Catherine Sin
clair, by whatever name she may be now
known, to her and her heirs forever."
A further provision was that in case
the said Catherine Sinclair, by whatever
name she might be known, was dead,
and had left an heir or heirs, the proper
ty over and above the reserved amount
in the contingency mentioned was given,
devised and bequeathed to him, her or
them. Who Catherine Sinclair or her
father was, Letty could not tell, nor
could the lawyer, but it was suggested
that it was an early flame of Archer's,
Some thought that the possible legatee
was mythical, and brought forward to
scare Letty from making an imprudent
match. But the power of Bittles in the
matter was as absolute as pen and ink
could make it.
Bittles proved himself to be a vigilant
guardian and a careful trustee—guard
ing his ward against adventurers, and
managing the estate with prudence and
vigor. Everything went well until about
ten months after Archer's death. Then
the current of affairs rippled a little.
Letty and Bittles both fell in love—Letty
with Carter Cooke, a young man who be
longed to what, before the late war, was
known as "one of the first families of
Virginia," and Bittles, in spite of his
forty-one years, with Letty, who did not
care a snap for him, looking upon the
middle aged bachelor as a venerable per
son, and bestowing her heart upon lus
younger rival. Love is like the measles,
and if we be attacked with it in middle
age, the disorder assumes an aggravated
form. Bittles had a very severe att*ck
indeed.
Letty might well be excused for recip
rocating the feelings of Carter Cooke.
Tlie young man was not only by blood,
but by culture and associations, a gentle
man, with no censurable habits, and
witli polished manners. He had a well
proportioned figure, as well as a pleasing
face; and he did not even drop his r's, as
so many of the tidewater Virginians do.
He was well liked in New York, where
ho spent about half of tlie year; and
though not by any means a fifth as rich
as Letty would be, was possessed of a
handsome competence Bittles pro
nounced liim to be a fortune hunter, and
frowned upon his suit, really because it
interfered with the one he wished to
make. Letty was not of an age to re
flect on the serious consequences of her
guardian's disapproval, and, had she
been, her cheerful temper would have
led her to optimism. Then CarterCooke
was a skillful chess player, and Letty,
who hud been taught by her father, was
about as expert as lie, which strength
ened the bond between them.
The wooing went on in spite of the
frowns of Bittles, and the latter began
to show the bitterness of defeat. This
was seen when the young lover, with
Letty's consent, made a formal proposal
to the guardian for the hand of his ward.
"No, sir; decidedly, no!" replied Bit
ties. "I have nothing against you per
sonally, Mr. Cooke. Your respectability
is undoubted; hut I do not consider you,
nor will any one else, a match for Miss
Archer in fortune. I have examined the
statement your counsel laid before me,
and find you have barely four thousand
a year, while the property of my ward
yields twelve limes that amount, most of
it in real estate that is rising in value. I
shout 1 be false to my duty if I approved
of the mutch under such circumstances."
"Very good, sir," retorted Cooke. "Far
be it from me to say that disappointed
pretensions of your own prompt your
refusal. 1 will ndtuit that it is a mere
sense of duty, if that admission pleases
you. But lam authorized by Lettv to
say that when she arrives at the ;ige of
21, should your consent to our marriage
be refused, we will marry without it.
That will be the next move on the board,
Mr. Bitltes."
"You are playing a costly game, sir."
"Not at all, sir. At all events, I shall
call on the bisltop to capture yourqueen,"
replied Cooke, good humoredly, and
bowed himself out of the office with
mock courtesy.
When Ix-tty heard of this jiositive re
fusal, in spite of her avowed contempt
for money, she was disposed to be down
cast. But Carter whispered to her a se
cret, a proverbially dangerous thing to
do to a woman, and Letty, after a look
of astonishment, burst into a ripple of
silvery laughter.
"Oh, you dear, delightful Carter!" she
exclaimed. "Who would have thought
it!"
Anil Letty renewed her laughter, for
the secret seemed to her the most comical
thing in tlie world.
Bittles did not desire at all to exact
the penalty; but he did very much de
sire to break the disagreeable connection.
But how? Letty went into society undei
the chaperonage of Mrs. Burroughs,
Bittle's own sister, a well to do widow,
who was four years his senior, and liked
the mild kind of dissipation which 6he
enjoyed bv virtue of her office. At all
routs, kettledrums, parties and the op
era, or wherever Letty went. Carter
Cooke was sure to be; and Letty suffered
him to assume the right of prospective
ownership in away that drove all other
suitors from the field. Letty made no
secret of her feelings, and wore her en
gagement ring openly. Mrs. Burroughs,
who liked Cooke, tacitly aided and
abetted. It soon became known that
Bittlee frowned on Cooke, and folks
were curious to learn how the affaii
would end, as though, in such a case,
with two willful young persons, it could
end in any way but one. Bittles was
duly informed of his open courtship, and
the lectures he bee to wed on Letty in con
sequence only increased his ward's dis
like to himself, until it deepened to posi
tive aversion.
Bittles trusted to time and the chances.
He did not believe that Letty, when the
pinch came, would sacrifice so large a
portion of her property for a mere girlish
love, which might be destroyed at any
time by a lover's quarrel; nor that Cooke,
whom he had brought himself to believe
had mercenary motives, would care to
take her with so much less money. Nine
thousand a year to one of Letty's expen
sive habits meant almost exclusive rural
residence; and ho knew that Letty did
not like living in tlie country, except
during the time of flowers and sunshine,
and then varied by Newport and Sara
toga. Bittles waited, not without hope.
lie had calculated on an ally in his
sister, and, to insure her co operation,
told her of his hopes and fears. She
laughed at him.
"James," she said, "this is the most
absurd thing possible. She is about half
your age. You have staid, old bachelor
habits, and Letty, though she's a good
girl, is fond of life, society and racket.
She'd drive you mad in six months, and
put you in tho grave in less than a year.
If you must make an exhibition of your
self matrimonially, choose some rich
widow of 80 to 40, who would suit you
better."
"Hang rich widows!"
"Quite polite and complimentary, con
sidering that I am a widow with a com
fortable income. You had better give it
up. I have sounded Letty to tlie depths,
and know that she loves young Cooke;
and lie is—barring fortune —a capital
mate for her. I would have preferred
her to have made a richer match, but
they will have enough between them."
"No, they'll not; for I will never give
my consent. I'll take her from you—lock
her up, if need be"
"You are a lawyer, and know better,
James. You may refuse your consent,
though every one will penetrate your
motives and laugh at you; but as to the
locking up—they do 6uch things in plays
and novels, not in real life."
"She is under my control until she is
21."
"Oil, yes—doubtless; that is, nominal
ly—for three months more. Then she'll
marry in spite of you. If you strip her
of all but five thousand a year, you'll in
cur general reproach and gain no satis
faction in the long rim. Tho best you
can do is to keep off the wedding for a
short time. Give in. If you were ten
years younger I might strain a point to
help you —not as it is."
As the Irish peasant girls say, "she
was as stiff as lie was stout," and Bittles
fell hack on his move of the forfeiture,
which lie thought would deter both par
ties for some time, and, in the mean
while, no one could tell what a chance
quarrel, a newer face or the whims of a
woman might do.
Just then fate seemed to come to the
assistance of the guardian lover. It as
sumed the shape of a new suitor, or
something like it, und, to the delight of
Bittles. it was also a Virginian—Maj.
Boiling.
"Fire fight fire," thought Bittles.
Maj. Phil Boiling was considerably
older than Carter Cooke, as he should
have been, since he had fought in the
sectional war, ridden with Jeb Stuart,
and tasted the horrors of prison life at
Elmira. Originally in comfortable cir
cumstances, tlie war had stripped him of
much, and reduced liim to a plantation
on tidewater, large but not profitable,
and some houses at Richmond, whose
rents formed his income. Tho major
was of tlie old school, popular with the
ladies, to whom lie showed a respect
almost reverential, and liked to come
north for two or three months—his win
tering there, nnd his summering at the
White Sulphur, consuming his surplus
means, lie was very much attracted by
Letty Archer, and she liked to chat with
liim, and draw out his old fashioned
courtesy. They moved in the same set
and met frequently.
Carter Cooke was at this time called
southward on business, and tire major
sli 1 into his place in spite of his years
and displayed an attentiveness that led
people to suspect that he had preten
sions. To the surprise of Mrs. Bur
roughs this grew into an almost conti
dcntiul intimacy. Cooke seemed to have
been forgotten in his absence, and Bit
ties chuckled. The gallant ex-ofticer
showed himself to be under a spell, and
expressed his admiration in the most
positive tortus.
"I assuali you, my dealt madam," said
he to tlie widow, "that Miss Ahchuh is a
young lady, that, besides her youth and
beauty, litis mo' of the cotely ntannah of
the fuhst families of Virginiah than any
gentle woman except you'self, that I have
hail tl*e good fawchune to meet yet ia
societv."
Letty and the major got along fa
mously, and his adulation apparently
quite supplied the absence of Cooke.
This was supplemented by the atten
tions of her guardian, who hecame kind
and bland again.
Letty's twenty-first birthday came
around, and Mrs. Burroughs' stately man
sion was thrown open in honor of the
event. It was tin informal reception, to
hist during the day. The major was
specially invited; so was Carter Cooke,
who had just returned from his place at
Highover,where he had been superintend
ing repairs and alterations in the old
family mansion. Bittles was there, of
course, gorgeously arrayed in honor of the
occasion.
About noon Letty was uiissing, and
tlio absence of the major was noted.
Cooke had not yet come. Letty was not
to be found in the house, but one of the
servants had noticed that she and the
major had gone out together, entered a
coach in waiting on the corner, and been
driven away. It was most extraordi
nary, and Bittles grew excited over tlie
fact. Tiie guests present heard of it, and
admitted that it was a singular thing at
such a time. It was, probably, a girlish
freak, to result in some surprise; and se
it proved.
At 1 o'clock a numlier of coaches drew
up before the door. From the foremost
of these descended the major, who handed
out Letty, who was followed by Cooke.
From the other coachee there alighted a
number of "the set." It was quite a lit
tle procession that filed in, the major at
the head, as proud and self appreciating
as a drum major at the head of a street
parade.
"Well, here you are," said Bittles. "I
really began to fear, major, that yon
and my ward had eloped."
"Nothing of that kind, salt, I assuah
yuh," replied the other. "I was me'ly
the best man on this joyful occasion. I
have the honah to introduce you to Mr.
and Mrs. Cahtah Cooke!"
"Married!" cried Bittles, aghast.
"Yes. sir," responded Cooke. "My
bishop in the shapeof asurpiiced clergy
man has enabled me to capture your
queen." And he drew Letty's arm with
in his own.
"Very well, sir. Miss Archer is of age
and has a right. But, us she has mar
ried without my consent, she has thrown
away a large fortune for a beggarly five
thousand a year. I shall search for the
heirs of Catherine Sinclair to-morrow.
You have taken the queen; I cry check
to the king, sir!"
"Excuse me, sir," retorted Cooke, "but
you utterly mistake the situation on the
board. Mrs. Cooke will liavo a larger
allowance of pin money. I shall make
it ten thousand, with an unlimited com
mand of a check book, which your ac
tion has made equal to a heavy drain."
"My action! pooh! stuff!"
"Oh, no, sir! You need not hunt far
to-morrow. My cousin here, Maj. Boi
ling, who is the genealogist to both fam
ilies, can show you by the record that
Catherine Sinclair, daughter of Gordon
Sinclair, married with the fourth Carter
Cooke, of Ilighover, and unfortunately
died three years since, four years after
her husband. She left one "heir, a son,
the fifth Carter Cooke, whom I have the
honor to present to you as the husband
of your ward and the happiest man ou
earth. Mr.Bittles, checkmate!"— Thomas
Dunn English in New York Ledger.
Thinning Appl,-*.
The following advantages are given by
a successful orchardist of thinning the
apples on heavy bearing trees while the
fruit is small: (1) You get rid of the knot
ty and wormy apples before they have
grown long enough to occupy the places
of better ones. (2) You thus destroy, be
fore they can increase, the insects in such
as are stung by the curculio and infested
by the codling worm. (3) The liest ones
being left, they have plenty of room to
grow into large, fine, salable specimens.
(4) You are not obliged to gather twice
as many small ones, the labor of picking
depending on number and not on size.
(5) The bad ones are removed in time at
less than half the labor required for hand
picking when thev become large. (8)
You avoid much labor in assorting the
gathered crop and in separating the
scabby and knurly from the best fruit.
(7) The moderate crop which is allowed
to grow will exhaust the trees less than
the heavy crop of poor and seedy speci
mens. He thinks that to allow all the
poor and worthless apples to grow is
like the practice of the farmer who
would permit all coarse weeds to grow
in his corn, to be assorted from his graiu
r.ftvr harvesting.—Country Gentleman.
Mimical Flume*.
The well known experiment of mak
ing sounds by holding a tube over a jet
of buring gas (usually hydrogen) is often
omitted in chemistry classes because no
suitable tubing is ut hand. A fact not
noted in any text book I have seen, and
unknown to all teachers that I have con
sulted, has been brought to light in my
classes, viz.: a bottle will serve in place
of a tube. A "philosopher's candle"
properly burning will yield a fine sound
if capped by a wide mouthed bottle, as a
quinine bottle or a large test tube. Of
course, this is according to the principles
of acoustics, but it seems strange that no
text book gives it. I should like to know
if this fact is known to any one else.—
T. Berry Smith in Science.