'< Experiment* mm|e in tobacco culti vation throughont Europe hero not given much promise of success. The Harpers, the great New York publishers, are said to have on hand pore than $50,000 worth of accepted manuscripts. Welsh newsboys have a picnic in the opinion of the Chicago Herald. Im agine yelling " "Ere's yer wuxtryGol euids, Gwyliedyyds, Genedls and Ser •ncymrus! All 'bout der tur'ble uc tident.'' There are yet a million acreß of Government land in Kansas open to settlement, not a little of which was tramped over by "strippers in order to tako chances on getting land in the Cherokee Strip that is no better, and in many cases is worse, which they had to travel further to reach, and which is very uncertain property to itß pos sessor. Justice John M. Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, and one of the arbitrators of the recent Bering flea Tribunal of Arbitration, stated in a private conversation in St. James'b Hall, London, at a Sunday mission meeting, that he personally believed that on the occasion of a future differ ence between England and the United States the intervention of strangers would not V)e invoked* but au equal number of the judges of the highest courts of both countries would bo ap pointed to settle the difference. A keeper at the London Zoological Gardens was employed on account of his supposed fondness for animals. Ho was soon found to he disliked by the animals, who exhibited their aversion in many ways. It was suspected that while outwunlly treating them with kindness he must secretly hurt or an noy them. He denied having done anything of the sort, and his general manner seemed to bear out his protes tations. A watch was set upon him, with a curious result. It appeared that he never spoke to the animals, and for that reason alone his presence was intolerable. A Mexican paper predicts an im mense invasion of that country by American tourists this winter, and says that the railroads are already pre* paring to handle the expected throng. It thinks that the prevalence of cholera in Europe is sure to thin out the ranks of tourists thither, And that they must have somewhere to go to escape the winter's cold. "The prediction," adds the New Orleans Picayune, "seems to be founded on reason, and the same causes will doubt less contribute to swell the number who will seek the delightful climate of our own State and of the Mississippi coast. We may prepare for a specially large invasion this winter." fiince the loss of Jives on the const , of New Jersey at the time of the recent | great storm there has been an agita- I tion in the seaport towns and summer j resorts along that coast in favor of an • extension of the time of employment | of the men in the United States Life- Saving Service. Four seamen of the wrecked schooner Mary F. Kelly were drowned at Ashury Park, for instance, within thirty feet of the shore, while hundreds of people stood on the beach unable to help them. Twenty-four seamen were drowned off the New Jer sey coast in a range of ten miles, where there were then four unoccupied life saving stations. The life-Having crews are discharged on May 1, and do not get employment again until September 1. It is argued that violent storms occur in August, and that the- life-sav ing crew> at leant sbould'be employed from the beginning of that month. An iectric funeral-car in a California innovation. About nine miles distant from San Frai J( u wo are four large cemeteries and a crematory, and it was to bnng them near the city that an electric railroad company introduced the new hearse. Its first patrou whh a benevolent organization, one of whose members had died. At the time ap pointed for the mourners to leave the city the electric funeral-car, appro* priately draped in black, was in readi ness. Tim body was lift.fl by the pall bearers from ni i uiert-ftker'fl wagon to the car, and the hearers took their Beats in a secti.,n reserved t ,r them. The conductor rang the hell twice, the motorman clanged his gong to cleat the track of a mob of interested spec totori and the funeral procession started the mourners in electric carp followiug the hearse. The run from the starting point to the cemetery was mafic in on hour The car was switched off on o trook inside the cemetery gates and tin pallbearers lifted out the coffin. Then the fuueroJ procession was re formed And moved slowly off towards the chapel AFTER AWHILE. After awhile, we often say. When shadows fall and clouds nr'sa, There's sure to come a brighter day, With balmy air and sunny skies. After awhile a day of rest Will come to worn and weary feet ; What seems the worst will prove the best, And bitter things be turned to sweet. After awhile the aching heart Will flnd a cordial for its pain ; And as the flying days depart The joy of love will come again. After awhile the right will reign. j ' And conquered wrong will lose its sway . While ancient error's icy chain Will break and slowly melt away. 1 After awhile the clashing creeds i That lead to strife and hate with men Will yield to our superior needs And love will prompt the lip and pen. After nwhile the golden hours Will come with life's supernal days, And higher thoughts and nobler powers Will lead us into grander ways. —David Banks Sickols, in Chicago Satur day Evening Herald. MISS GWYNNB'S BURGLAR. BY VIOLET ETYNOE MITCHELL. f'T'jN the heart of i *j Wales, nestling be- I tween two dark ■ frowning inoun- I tains, uud lulled to I drowsy in d iffer -1 euce of the big 1 outside world by the the murmurs of the not far distant sea, stands the little village of Ceed-y- I Just outsidothc I | village, on the main ' road Ktnnds—o: did stand ten years ago—an old stone house in the middlo of a large garden, which was surrounded on ail sides ly Ift high wall, also of stone. It WHS the pride of the owner, Miss Gwyuuo. One night, in the early spring of tho year, there was to bo a wedding at Cued-y-Glyn—a wedding in humble life, but anticipated with great glee by the invited guests, among whom were Miss G Wynne's servants, the coachman and his wife (who was also cook) and Ylva, their daughter, em ployed as a maid-of-all-work. Knowing the disappointment it would bo to them if they were denied the pleasure of attending the wedding, she had declined the coachman's offer to remain with her, allowing his wife and daughter to go, and laughingly assured him that with her father's gun for company Rhe feared nothing. Miss Gwynne retired at an early hour, having locked up the house. She lay for some time gazing through the window at the twinkling stars, lost in quiet retrospection. I will let Miss Gwynne tell tho rest of the story in her own way, repeating as well as I can from memory the words as 1 heard them from her lipt ten years ago. I cannot tell if I dozed or not, but 1 was conscious of the moon shining; dimly through the clouds, and I won dered how long I had lain there. Beaching out for my watch, which lay I on the table, I was horrified to feel J my wrist grasped and held by a firm I hand. j To say I was frightened would be less correct than to say I was astound ed, for I have always been a woman of steady nerve, and the present occasion called for its use. The moon hail retired behind a heavy curtain of clouds, and the moon was in complete darkness, but from the drapery at my bedside issued a voice, and at the same time the python-like grasp on my wrist relaxed. "I beg to apologize, mndame," said this voice ; "I have chosen a bungling manner of awakening you—foreign to my custom. Pardon me, and do not be alarmed. I merely wish to relieve you of any superfluous silver, jewelry or bank notes you do not absolutely need. But as the vandalism of break ing locks is out of my line, I will re quest you to arise and show mo where ftuch things are kept." By the time he had finished this speech I was myself again. "Very well," I said, "I'll get up and show you; but, as it is embarrassing to dress in your presence, will you step out into the hall and close the door while I put on my clothing?" There was a soft rustling of the cur tains at the bedside, and the sound of footsteps on the carpet, and immedi fctely afterward tho door closed. "Five minutes, madame, is all I can | give you," remarked the burglar, as 1 he disappeared. \ It took ine (after lighting the ean- I die) two minutes to slip on a warm skirt, and a blue flannel wrapper over i 1 : then, sticking niy lout int , r. )i \ir of down slippers, 1 still timo to snatch a roll on a RPioiiMinr- t■> one hundred pounds mid ,i. „ , Mt]v to the lining of the can ~,, ttllova four . post bed. Then throwing open the door I atood on tho sill facing my vi. it or, and threw tho glare of the lighted cundlu full upon him, as he lolled in a careless easy attitude against the bannisters, I had been prepared for a burglar but I had looked for one attired ac cording to the traditions of my ances tors. But here was a gentlemanly, mild-featured individual, such as I should have expected to find filling the position of a professor of Latin—per haps of theology—iu Oxford Univer sity. There was no appearance of a jimmy, or tools of any kind. Evidently here was a type of criminal with which his tory wus unacquainted. "Madam I" ho exclaimed, bowing with the grace of a French courtier, "you are punctuality itself. And how charming! —no hysterics—no distress ing scenes. Allow me." He took the candle from my hand, and holding it aloft preceded me down the great oaken stairs, talking fluently all the while, but pausing at every other step to glance over his shoulder at me with coquettish politeness. "I wish to assure you," he remarked, "that I am no ordinary house-breaker. Burglary is with me a profession, though not the one (I confess) chosen for me by my parents. I saw, at an early age, that I must either descend to the level of the burglar, or raise him to the level of an artist. Behold, my dear lady, the result." He stood at the foot of the stairs and looked up at me. "Shall we proceed to the dining room?" he asked airily; "and, as I wish to give you no unnecessary trou ble, let me say that I do not dabble in plated spoons; nothing but solid sil ver. " I opened the old mahogany side board in which Grifilths had, for years, placed the family heirlooms at night, and beheld my gentlemanly burglar stow them, cne after another, in a ca pacious felt sack, which he carried in his hand. "Charming!" he cried. "I am a " , connoisseur, I assure you, and I know silver from plate. These articles are really worth the risk of the enterprise." You ask me if I was not alarmed. No, I was not. Personal violence was not in his professional lino, unless op posed. I summoned all my energies to outwit him. I thought much and i said little, for I had no intention of al lowing him to carry off my mother's silver. After having rifled all the rooms of all the moet valuable articles, he re turned to the dining room. On the table the remains of supper ' still stood, consisting of a fowl, hard -1 ly touched, some delicately cut bread ' and butter, cake, and a glass jar con taining some fancy crackers. I "I will make• myself entirely at home," ho remarked, sitting down to the table, and helping himself to a wing of the chicken. "Really," he proceeded, "I have thoroughly enjoyed this evening. Not only have I met a most charming lady, but I have been able to provo to her that the terms gentleman and burglar may be synonomous." He now began on the cako. I pushed the cracker jar toward him. "Try them," I observed. I Still smiling indulgently, and talk ing, he took out one of tho crackers and begftu to nibblo on it. It was very dry. I rose, and in absent minded man ner placed on the table the remains of A bottle of old Burgundy, which had been opened the day before. "Now, really," ho prattled, "I'm a very harmless man five months out of ; six—l never steal unless other means j fail, or a tailor'B bill comes due. I'm a t respectable citizen and-—a church i, member in good standing when I'm e not on one of my professional tours, s I took up burglary more fts ft resource than from necessity. Candidly speak ing, now, am I a ruffian?" I "No!" I replied, looking directly at him. "On the contrary, you are a - very fine-looking man." A glow of vanity spread over his >' face. I poured out a glass of tho Bur- I gundy and pushed it toward him. i I "England to Wales!" he cried with j gallantry. "I don't generally drink," he added, "but these crackers make j me thirsty." | "If I could only find a wife suited .to my tastes," he mused, "such a woman as you are, by George! I'd ' give 11]) aesthetic burglary and settle | down to quiet domestic bliss." He j looked questioningly at me. "If"— i he hesitated—"you could be sure I ! would abandon my profession would you—do you think you could—con done my past and —marry me?" | 4 That is a matter for consideration," I replied. He helped himself to another cracker. "Your proposal is so startlingly uni que, I continued, "to marry one's burglar! Really it is quite a joke." "Isn't it?" ho chuckled, evidently enjoying the idea of the oddity. "We lire kindred spirits!" he exclaimed, coiivivially, but was interrupted by a violent fit of coughing. Seizing the bottle of Burgundy, he drained the only drop or two left. "I think, maybe, there's another bottle down in the cellar," I cried, artlessly. "I'll go <lown and sec—l | feel thirsty myself." I "We will descend together," ex- I claimed my burglar, gallantly taking the candle from my hand and follow ing me to the door leading to the cel lar steps. \ Wo descended tho steps chatting pleasantly—ho discoursing on matri mony, I answering rather vaguely, but measuring tho distance to tho wine bins by my eyo. They were at tho far end of the cellar, and were five in num ber, each large enough to hold a quar ter of a ton of coal. Before the furth est one I paused. "Here," I said, "is the brand we are looking for." I raised the heavy lid and looked in. "I will hold tho can dle," I observed; "will you get the 1 bottle? I can hardly reached it." lie handed mo tho candle and bent low over the bin. Ha ! ha ! Quicker 1 than a flash of lightning I tripped up his heels (he was easily overbalanced), and into the bin he fell headlong. - j Down came the heavy lid. But there ' no padlock on it. I must hurry ! I Blowing out the candle, I ran, for I r? : knew the way, straight to the cellar - : steps and up them like a cat. Then i with a locked door between myself and Toy burglar, I could breathe. , t heard the man kicking about down e? be*ow, for of course he got out of the bin at once. But our cellar is ft laby rinth. Seizing father's old gun from ? its lasting place in the hall, I sat down | near tlie door at tlie head of the stairs, waiting for the worst. The door was fairly strong—that I knew ; but he was a powerful man. So f dragged a heavy table from the sit ting room and placed it against it. Suddenly I became conscious that he had found his way to the stairs and was rapidly approaching the door, which was all that lay between me and j his revengeful fury. i Bracing myself against the opposite wall, I raised the old gun, and, delib erately aiming it, waited. He began by pounding with both fists on the door, but, not receiving any answer, he tried threats. An in stinct seemed to tell him I would re main on guard. His language, I must confess, while threatening, was not abusive. It was, in fact, incredibly elegant for a burg lar, and strictly grammatical. All at once there came a crash, fol lowed by the creaking of heavy timber, and tlie door fell. Down ho came on ( top of it, sprawling at my feet on the floor. I raised my gun and fired. "Hit him?" I interrupted. "No," replied Miss Gwynnc; "here in the wall of the dining-room tho bul let lodged, and is still there." The next thing I was conscious of was Mrs. Griffiths bending over me, and her husband's voice exclaiming: "He'd never have escaped if we had not left that door opened when wo came in. You see we got home just in time to hear you fire the gun, and as wo ran in he ran out. Drat him!" I raised myself on my elbow and looked eagerly about. "He had 110 time to carry off a thing," said Mrs. Griffiths. * * m * # • "I would like to set my eyes on him,** I remarked, when Miss Gwynue had concluded her story. "You are a dis tinguished woman and are—l believe —tho very first one who evor received an offer of marriago from a burglar.*' The lady smiled. "Do you not re member reading about the capture of a notorious bank robber, several years ago? The case created quite a sensa tion, owing partly to the difficulty in tracing the thief, who was clever enough to puzzle the most expert de tectives and evade the police, and also to the respectability of his position. No ono could believe him guilty." "Indeed I do remember it," I an swered. "Not only that, but I saw the man after ho was in prison. I happened to be going through Chester Jail at the time and J was pointed out to me. Ho was quite distinguished looking. In fact, I did not believe him guilty." "Nor would I," said Miss Gwynno. "if I had not known." "You mean," I said, "that he— ?" "I mean that you saw my burglar?" —Outing. WISE WORDS. Taste is the microscope of the judg ment. A quiet conscience makes one so serene. If poverty make man groan, he yawns in opulence. After crosses and losses men grow i humbler and wiser. ' 111 humor is but the inward feeling of our own want of merit. Sinco wo cannot get what wo like, let us like what we can get. Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action. He who can conceal his joys is greater than who can hido his griefs. Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. The highest reach of human science is the scientific recognition of human ignorance. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Wrong ever builds on quicksands, but the right to the firm centre lays its moveless base. Those who have but little to attend to are great talkers. The less men I think the more they talk. The cheerful live longest in years, and afterward in our regards. Cheer fulness is the offshoot of goodness. Good temper, like a sunnv day, sheds brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother I of disquietude: Our yesterdays follow us; they constitute our life and they give character and force and meaning to our present deeds. . The Peerless (iladsloiie. j The liaio old age of Mr. Gladstone has caused some delving in history to find parallels of statesmen who have attained a remarkable age. There is one instance mentioned in French his tory, that of Cardinal Fleury, who served his king up to the age of ninety. Another is that of Lord Lyndhurst, ' who, while verging on his ninetieth year, made a stirring speech in the House of Lords. There is, however, it is believed, no instance in history whore a man of Mr. Gladstone's ago has been capable of such energy us he has shown. —New York Sun. A Substitute for Coffee. In the Island of Reunion is a plant known as the wild orange, which pro duces a fruit, green at first, afterward bluish, and then verging into purple* as it ripens. This has been tested and found to mako a beverage in every way equal to coffee, and at a ranch lower price. The product is called "mussaendn," and it can be used alone or mixed with pure coffee. It is an nounced that about 24,000 acres of this plant are now being cultivated. It is most likely, however, that chic ory, more than coffee, will suffer from the introduction of "mussaeuda."—• New York Advertiser. Ivory white moire is immensely pop ular. J Stylish hats are still in plateau shape. The bell skirt still maintains its vogue. Hard times have notably affected tho attendance at Vassar College. Epaulettes 'appear to be quite as much a feature of fashion as ever. Lady Isabel Morgesson has devised a woman's pocket that, she says, can not be picked. | The English Queen's Scoth jour neys cost her $25,000 a year for trav eling expenses. Five men and a woman recently ran a foot race of 200 yards in Henderson County, North Carolina. The woman ' won easily. Edward Terry, an English musical editor, says that women compose some of the finest danco music and some of tho best songs. The number of unmarried women in England and Wales exceeds tho num ber of unmarried men by the majority of nearly 200,000. At Ferncliffe, Mrs. John Jacob As tor's place at Bbinebeck, N. Y., the fair chatelaine is often seen riding about her grounds on a tricycle. When Queen Elizabeth of Austria entered Paris in 1751 she dragged after her a train seventy feet in length. It was borne by thirty-five pages. It was after Miss Martha Lumpkin, now Mrs. Camptou, that Atlanta, Ga., was first named "Marthasville," in 1843. Her father was Governor of tho State. i Velvet is to be much used as a trim ming for hats. Black jetted wings will also bo popular. In combination with black, sapphire and peacock-blue will be seen. I Queen Victoria is a skilful and in- I dofatigable knitter. She and her I ladies iu waiting have knitted many quilts for the use of soldiers in tho , hospitals. I The new winter coats are thirty three inches long, made with a very ■ tight waist, and tremendous sleeves. [ Nearly all have cape effects about the collar and shoulders. The most beautiful 6iJk which has appeared to tempt womankind this season is of heavy satin, with a Baya dere stripe in velvet. The combina tions of colors are simply exquisite. Soft, rich tartans of all wool, finished with a corded silk blouse-waist, com pleted by bretclles, sleeve-puffs, and collar of velvet, are among the pretty dresses designed for misses' best wear. The autumn tints in dress take their hues from the dying woods. Browns, reds and yellows, with modifications of sea greens, are the tints of fall. Such are seen in the gowns, such in the hats. An old-timc-looking dress has the skirt finished with seven ruffles, the lower one about five inches deep, and each ono growing narrower, the upper very slightly over-luj>ping the lower ones. George Pullman's daughters give the names to the palace cars which their father has built—very pretty names they are, too—and the very pretty little sum of SIOO is the fee for the name. Mine. Scalclii, the operatic singer, has a collection of eleven parrots in her home at Turin, Italy. The par rots are accomplished birds, and among them speak all the languages of mod ern Europe. The Albanian girl puts all lier for tune into gold and silver coins and mounts these on her high cap, that not only the groom but all the assein bled company can discern her value at a glance. A pretty example of the gray hats is a turban with gimp crown. Gray vel vet is folded loosely around the crown to form a brim and falls at each side in iu ear. White applique lace drapes the velvet and the hat is completed by steel ornaments. Several men fired at a cougar which had been treed near Five-Mile Lake in Washington the other day, but failed io hit it. Fiually a Mtr. Glover asked to be allowed to take a shot at the beast, and she brought it down dead at I the first discharge. | Black Hercules and other braids are used with remarkable liberality as trimming for cloth wraps. Jackets have the skirts trimmed with rows ol braid in graduated width. Colored jlotli capes are overlaid from rear to lower edge with black braid put on in waving cross lines and other designs. 1 A notable Louisiana woman is Mrs. Bechet, of Haynesville, who, though eighty years old, rides on horseback So and from her farm every day, p iistanoe of six miles, superintends all the details of its management and dis eoses of the crops in a buaiiiess-liko Way that would do credit to auy man. The will of Esther Pomeroy, which has been filed for probate at Spring- Held, Mass., is a peculiar document. It specifies with great detail how each irticle of personal property is be queathed, and even gives direction to the executor to fininh quilting a bed quilt, that it may bo in good condition to give to a relative. Tight-fitting velvet coats are to be ivorn in black, dark green, also in plum color. 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