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?[iT?* Do tll0U Groat Liberty Inspiro our Souls and make our lives in thy tassossion happy, or our Deaths Glorious in thy Just Defence." BENNETTS VII J ,E.. U C.. MAY 9. 1888. KMBorounB ixKxwrcjn?ntNvar?m?iilnEU?'n BMW-1-aWBB rKSvrs/v/rKriv/ TJIUM vKtunwn NO. ar. ????wymHflwtati??tMi Wantoii. ?io hoad ol' H fountain. |r tho hand of fate, Jbot of a mountain, b^ohain of debate. ?- wi of fortune, ole" of tho South, utatn of knowlcdKO, tat'? mont li. |f norrow, of tho .storm, in of juatlco, of ?COI ll. repentance, ian'H heart, [pf a needle, [dart. Wa ol' Time, Winona, L-liy mo. Dorcas?" [been entertaining pontoon, anti abo ^out of tho wayj i and tho apart [\? whoii Utero joor, aud Utero ?light stood & /elhig shawl, 3, Torrance, kiri, "I'loase ll cold. 1'vo lora tho sta lo eat sluco IM rs. Tor fioobna'rra, livo with dead, and [io Baptist [rou didn't did you? ,though you be i? fats os3eu (i, albeit eor that ockor to Kt on tho Ktuld for Emily now. .She roso hurriedly, dressed herself and cunio down stairs. "Aunt Dorcas," she said, as she en countered that lady frying hain and eggs over tho kitchen Ure., "what is tlioro in this neighborhood Tor a wo man to do?" "Eh?" sild Mr?. Torrance in sur prise. "To earn my living, I mean I" ex plained Emily, "ls tho district school supplied with a teacher?" Mrs, Torrance nodded as sim placed tho slices of frizzling ham on ii bluo cilged plato, and arranged tho eggs in golden spheres above. Is there a factory hereabouts?" pursued Emily. "Used to bo," said Mrs. Torrance. But they failed, and it is has boon shutdown for ten months." "Do you know of any ono who wants a girl," asked tho city cousin. Mrs. Torrance set tho coffee pot on tho table, blue tho horn for Job, and then responded to her niece's query by a countorquesi ion. "Why don't you stay hore?" "Because," said Emily, with apb ii , "I want to earn my own living." . Well, you can earn it hero, can't youl 1 was calculating to hire a girl this spring. And if you'll work hon estly for it, I'll give you tue six dollars n month I was going to pay hired help." Emily's face brightened. "I Bhould Uko that," said she. And then Job came In, tall, handsome and Hushed, bis curls still wot from tho spring Into which ho bad dipped them, and a sprig trailing arbutus pinned into his coat, and spoke a frank welcome to the young girl whom bo had never be fore seen. "So Cousin Shadraclt Suely la dead," he said. "Yes," said Emily quietly. "Did you like him?" "No," confessed the girl. "He was cross and surly, and had no sympathy with anybody. 13ut I tried to bs kind to him. And bo kissed mo 0112e before ho died, and said I had been a good girl." "/nd thou ho wont and lort his furn yi^to ibo refuge'-iW Baptist wid*' owtfand orphansl" said Mts, Torrance. That's Cousin Shadraclt all over." "He had a right to do as ho pleased with his money," said Emily, a falut JpW rising to hor cheeks. &wel?, it's all over and gone," said $ Torrance. There ls 110 use talk bout it now." d she sighed softly to think how of life's bard augols might have voided in tho future, if only LShadrach had been less inter file Baptist widows and or good of tho month, Mrs. Tor forced to acknowledge that ' well earned ber six dollars a 1 board. The girl certainly bad r that wonderful magnetic ich philosophers dub "execu y," and New England house man "faculty." Siio was a Fook-she did things without 'to take any trouble at all. fn't understand il," auld Mrs. ML "A little, dark, slim thing [9 always brought up to sit with ks folded." Lio day In July when Job and Itmo in from strawborrlng, iionod fingers, laughing faces, le heaped high with tho fra Mra. Torrance started In of tho dalry, where she ?ottago cheese." she cried, "j wonder I of that beforo. Oh, Irl I can never consent ig world, that ovoid ng. , id ho, "Emily has ..,.7'lfe." into boars. twenty yours] ?1 than when my kother. Now but tell mo ?ault to find Torrance, a sweeter could," ct; "but ts when ho first in to Tor thu scout of tall white lillies iii thc a!r, Emily suddenly bioko tho silence. ".lob," eald she, "would you like to bo rich?,' "Well, yos," said Job, "i'd like money enough lo keep my wifo in lux ury." ""Would you, Aunt Dorcas?" said Emily, turning to Mrs. Torrance, "Of courao I should," said tho ma tron, vigorously applying her knitting needles; "but I don't ever expect it,') "But you aro rich," said Emily with a little tremor in her voico. "Job is rich-wo aro all rich together, with Cousin Shadrach Seel y's monoy." "But," cried Mrs. Torrance. "1 thought he lort it all to the Baptist widows and orphans." "Not ail," said Emily. "It's a se cret, but I may toll you now. Half was left to tho Refuge-the other thirty thousand is mine, to bo paid over to mo on tho day on which I marry a man who, ignorant of Cousin Shadraoh's bequest, has loved mo loyally and well. It was the old man's wini, and I bavo respected it. Oh, Aunt Dorcas, I carno to you because in my loneliness and bewilderment 1 knew not wbero clso to go-but I little dreamed that I was entering directly into tho kingdom of a noble heart." lt was truo, Shadrach Seoly eccon trie in life, had boon equally eccentric in death-and when Mr. Musiybill, tho lawyer, paid over tho legacy, ho said, chuckling: "It's all right. It's exactly as my poor client would havo had ltl 1 con gratulate you, Mrs. Job Torrance." And Mrs. Torrance, the elder, had a higher opinion than over of her daugln ter-ln-law's attractions; now th ut they are set in a background of gold. Br?ale fust nt Sandringham. Tho Princess of Wales prefers light colored dresses, oven In winter; ber cachemires and serges aro trimmed with fur, but they aro of somo soft gray or brown tint, evon in December. While at Sandringham she comes down to breakfast at a reasonable hour, and di; - penses tho tea herself ~sho ls snld to prefer this beverage to coffeet even. ,l? tho mornings-ont of a handsomely chased sliver toa service Tho china, which ls of the choicest, is all inscribed with tho heir-apparent's motto, "Ich Dien," and the tablo ls always gay witli flowers. The prince generally puts ic an appearance at this repast, which h a moro sumptuous one than hh mother's mututinal meal-gamo, ham pates, plover's eggs and plonty of sub stuntlal, good things covering tho woll spread table. Tho whole party as sembles afterward in tho long saloon Tb is room-tho samo In which tin birthday and other balls are held-ii full of family portraits, the prince am princess, their children, in Scc??I costumes, the king and queon of Dea mark, &c. Two things th this saloon are alsi sure to atract the attention of all thosi who enter lt for the first time-a hug' boar, killed by tho prince, and stufte? In so lifelike a manner as to glvo to th, beholder quito a start, near tho door and a magnificent jasper vase, a presen from tho czar to his favorite sister-ln law. Breakfast over;, tho prince be takes himself to his library, whoro bl secretary assists him to dispose of a vol uminou8 correspondence, whllohis wif and daughtors, if tho morning be line aro almost suro to make a tour of lr spectlon round tho farm. Tins is th princess' dearest hobby; all the build lugs have beon arranged according t her express direction, and the innc walls ure covored with ? paintings an sketches, many of them fron^ tl)^ brua of the Duchess of Manchester, of oom try lifo lu Donroatk and England, Curious A11'iimnlor^,"ilotofl. -. A local photographer, s^who does fashionable trade, has a curious albui of photos. They aro of women 'a bandi and every hand is distinguished by or ling. Some years ago, ho tolls mo, > young socioty woman who had vei pretty hands experienced the fancy i have tho ono on which hor sweotfroa: bad recently put an engagement,, rln pictured. Tho fashion being thus si ls, ho says, still kept up. ^ Not all < tho hands aro beautiful onos - by ar moans. In fact really pretty ham are in the minority. T^i.oro 18 , preponderance of fat palms and st ubi fingers that does not speak Well for tl manual rellnement of our beat soi'l?t But evon tho host kept bands, nulo thoy are symmotrioal In proportionna Hablo to look clumsy In a phof?$rap Tho variety of rings on this coilectic of pictures is a credit to our Jewelei Indeed you can trace the fashions rings Tor sovoral years by thom. I had tho value of those rings," sa j tho photographer, meditatively, ' Ithink I could spend a year in Euro] and not havo to swim home." I QlHIiS WHO WO UK. j^tutnl a Couti Clmuec ol'Ccttlnj? j Mm i led Well. ? -y* In immy stores !n lower Broadway, Nassau-st, and tho streets that cross thom > are young lady uashiers wheeo1 wages por in lt them to pay $100 a year for commutation tickets to country towns, whore they live with a degreo of connon not obtainable for tho . same money In the city. They are a prepos sessing lot of gil 1?; well dressed, bright eyed, rosy cheeked and plump, who aro a great deal more Uko rural than city women in their habits and methods of speech. They know much more about tobogganing, skating, straw rides, homo coming, donation parties, sur prise parties and class meetings than about tho'theaters or tho signs and shows of Ibo town. A great many aro courted and wedded in the country and there settlo down for lire, but a student of this now element in business which is putting young giris side by side with, and oven above mon lathe stores and ofllces, has found that marriages between them and tho men they work with aro growing more and more frequent. Indeed bo says that a less proportion of thom grow into old maids than of factory girls or girls who don't work for a living. The men in charlo of tho largo shops and such establishments as the telegraph operat ing rooms declaro that the girls pick out tho smartest of tho men around them for their husbands, and do not, as la so of ton tho case with wemen who stay at homo, marry tho empty bends, drones, ?drunkards, or "bad eggs." These same authorities declaro that in all other malters tbeto well-paid and skilled girls aro loss ?--entimeutul and moro practical than their move fortu nato, stay-at-home sisters, ^.t tho same timo Umso who have a taste for eewiiur make and mend their own apparel, and those who like household work and cooking, practico it at night and on Sundays and whenever a chance is af forded them. ^lu?ta picture all this presents. 4^S:-.\^//< t|li*U8aPrta- ?^ young women employed at nice work, with good pay, living In tho country at least half the day, forced to bo neat and as pretty as possible while at their work, liable to marry early and well, growing practical aud wiso, and yet remaining as womanly asthelr mothers. Fortunate Now York, to have such a host of well nigh perfect gals. '.? A FIELD FOR- ISIiOOUTION. ?ict'Aymen Should Take Lesson*) for tho Hcmcflr, ol'Their Coil SL'?fraiiouH, Thore Is a branch or tho profession of the elocutionist that seems,thus tar, liayJ6?|g?Si)odlhogra?pof thoub quit in quarters who aro ci ntiaually scour ing Ino town In quest of novelties. This may, however, bo duo to tho fact that it ls of so delicate a nature in it self that it sensitively shrinks from publicity. I knoW. 'that In' my own casent chanced upon lt by Occident. I found my flrst clow to it in a business prospectus, and oj?j^ofjl\\e first persons to: assure me thapojfi? ' Know nothing about it and had never heard of suoh a thing In his life was au eminent divino, who, I was subsequently convinced, was ono of those who proil?od most largely by it. 'For my parrara bo s?to, I carno to soo why a clergyman should be ashamed to admit that he Is laking lessons In elocution, certainly it is no crime against society or tho church for ^MflS^li?r to improve his methods of flM^^cal delivery. Actors rehearse their pans and painters make sketches and ^Studios for their plfltyuroB. Why a pul Tit expounder ?silo?id not make some pindar preparatloh for his sur .nous and lectures is not clear to mo, and that some of our beqt and most popular pul pit speakers do so is, it seoms to mo, simply a tiibute to their common sense. If they all did lt, it would bo to the benefit ot' their congregations, who havo nowadays to sit out a vast deal of poor speaking to got at the meat of the aorijii?|fi^e.livored Tor tholr good. ThertMrnG two w^ys in which our mlnisters*bmploy the elocutionist to improve thom as speakers. These might bo called tho direct and indirect. Tho direct consists in regular lessons In elocution, often .involving rehearsal of tho sormrm^il^elf. The Indirect consiots of einp?p^lliVg'tho export to liston to and crltici^^'itbo orator, so t hat by acquainting} litm with lus faults ho U warneu to avoid them. Th's sort of thing is ?ailed, I bel levo, "instruction In clorlca^r,eftdJng., Tho elocutionists mako a special feature, I am told, ol prayers, for ?tho Impressive reading of which many divines carofully prepare thomselvos. fA natural orator ? like Henry Ward' Beecher even did not disdain to occasionally employ an ox pert to listen to him and furnish him -villi a careful criticism of lus speak* ng. With this point in view it can bo mderstoodhow advantageous the couti ?el and assistance of the expert must ie to hundreds of preachers, who, no natter how largo their learning and volo their powers of analysts and com position may be, do not possess tho >rator?cal gilt of tho great Brooklyn Histor. Tho ability to write a sermon >y no moans guarantees tho ability to Io!'"cr it eloquently? as a great many people who go to church no doubt mow. Tho sooner the elocutionist gota his Ino work in among our literary mon :he better lt will be for them. If ibero iro any worse realtors or speakers ?xtaut than ttio average person who writes poetry and books 1 should not Uko to bavo to listen to thom. At tho recent authors' readings In this city I leard some or tho worst specimens of oratory from some of tho cleverest of >iir wielders of the pen, that I expect to hear in my lifo. All over town I rall in with mon of letters, who read Vii sorts of productions to mo willi a fascinatingly ridiculous absence of that grace of dollvery and expressiveness of Intonation that make a reading worth bearing. If only for tho sake of the friends whom they call upon to pass judgment on their compositions, these gentlemen should call upon tho elocu tionist for some assistance toward ameliorating tho torrors they incarnate when tho Ono frenzy or speech Is upon them. Ail An?cdota ol Horneo Greeley. When I was a cub-back in tho thirties-I was living with my mother ?ind stop-father In Brooklyn. One day I was sent over lo New York to deliver an Imposing stone lo the firm of Greo ley & Winchester, who were then pub llshlng Tho New \)Torld. I was told not to deliver tho Btono unless I got my money, When I arrived at Horaco Greeley's ofllce he Immediately ordered bis men to hoist tho stono to tho third story with a block and tackle, and it was hoisted. I had insisted with Mr. Greeley that I . could not leave tho 3lono without tho money, but he simply answered mo by saying, **My son, tho stono ls in the th lid story; how are you going to get it down? You come over Saturday and I will pay you for tho stone.I told him if I went back without tho money I would get a terri ble threshing, and which, by the way, I unquestionably got. I went back Saturday and Mr. Groo ley, wanted to put me oit again. I told him of tho beating which roy step father had given me. Ho soemed to doubt it, so ? pulled off my jacket and showed biro how blade and blue my back was. When he saw tho marka he said: "My GodI what a brute a man must bo to beat a child in that manner. Sit down. I'll got tho money, although I'll have to borrow it," In live minu tes ho returned with somo apples and ginger cako for me, and then he went out and was gone for an hour, when he appoared with tho money. When I re ceipted tho bill ho handed me $1, say ing: "This will take a little of tin pain out of your back, aud, if ever yoi want a friend and I can serve you come and seo me." I did not meo: Greeley again for seven years, when met him in Washington. I was n need of a friend then, and he intro Jr>ced mo to Henry Clay and Danie Webster, and did all he could to fur Iber my Intorests, which by the way was my first successful stepping Eton? In life. Women "Who Want Shoes. It Is an onay matter for an experien ced man to handle women who wan shoes. If she asks for a certain num ber bo will not go away and got tin size. Ile will take off her shoe am have a look at her foot, from which In can tell at a glance Just what sort of i shoo will flt her, Get one that \vii make her foot feol comfortable am that will look nice, and she purchase at onco. If you take her word for th number, the chances are that you wil be decelvod, for a woman has an un accountable objection to telling ho exact nnmber,even if lt ls in tho threes A groen dork soon loams this little pe cullnrlty aftor ho lins shown everythlnj In tho show to several who will no buy. Another rule with women is no to aliow them too much. Let them se several nice things and their choice i easy. If they aro aultod; but show then your whole stock and they want to se moro. I find that ladles aro not s given to oramping their feet as formei ly, so ns to make thom seem smalloi Young mis?es still do that, but womo of tho world aro not so willing to ir jure their feet. The Introduction c English styles has done this, for Enp llsh ladles always wear comfortabl shoes, regardless of a tight Mt. NEWS i?F BRIEF, --The Republic of Switzerland niect?? a President every year. -Tho torm Derrick ia an ?bbi'ovla tion of Theodoric, a hangman iii Ty burn in tlio 17th century. -Thoodoro Tilton 1? living in a re moto quarter of Paria in by no means alliuent circumstances. -Tho Princesa ot Wales ami ber daughter sometimes sing to tho in mates of London hospitals. -Tho bat Mo of Buena Vial?, was fought and won by General Taylor on Washington's birthday, 1817. -Tho party which conducted tho Mlnndun chief to his nation has re turned. Tho journey was performed in 101 days. -Tho "Great She': is the name of tho latest gold mino sp?culative com pany in London. The mine io KM ld to bo In South Africa. -During 18S7 eleven and one-half tons of postage stamps-nearly 170, 000,000 In number-wore sold afc the Now York, post olllco. -Japan hus a twolvo yenv?ohl girl whoso fcot mensur?lo luches in length. Hut her heieht ls eight feet, and she weighs ovor 270 pounds. -A Greok named Dlmitrlus Autlppa lately dlod at Constantinople at tho age of 116. He knew Robespierre, and possessed several of his lotter8. -In tho State of Ohio, which* lies between that river and Lake Erie, we learn that tho population already ex ceeds 200,000. It baa 4 banks nud 13 weekly nowspapers, -Lithographers will bo pleased to know that lithographic stone is found in Dallas, Texas, fully equal lo the stone Imported from Europe, it costs from $10 to $55 for a stone 30x40. -There is a woman living nt Hau Ibal, Mo., who ls so heavy that 3he can't walk, and is wheeled about. In a cart by an able-bodied attendant. She weighs 410 pounds, and otherwise is In good health. -Her Majesty tho Queen ot Eng land has subscribed 8200. toward tho fund for tho purchase of tho cottage in which Milton wrote-" Farad lae Lose." This ls not a very largo -um, but it is Tour timos as much aj Uiltou received for tho poem. There ls a curious law in vogue lu Switzerland which compels every newly-married couple to plant trees shortly after tho coromony. The trees ordered to be plantod on Weddern? days aro tho pine and weeping willow. On natal days tho suggestive birch tree is selected. The Klug ot Bavaria has moved out and William Vandorbllt has moved in. That Is, William bas rented tho palace and estate ol' the hildy deceased idiot. After while the American millionaires will own all tho available palace property in Europe and rbynltry will have to pay lodging in ita nncestral halla. Eight sportsmen shot over the preserved ground of Lord Manslleld at Scone, Perthshire, recently, when the extraordinary number of 1,400 bead of game fell to their guns. Of that hum ber 1,100 were pheasants. Ono ol' the party used throe guns,, which wero kept loaded by two hoopers, and at one spot during tho day's work ho had about 300 pheasants lying around him. -A Hungarian miner who was.re cently treated by a physician at Pfroe nlxvllle, Pa., had been living lor imreo montbB at an expense for food ol only two cents a day. Ho was earning SI a day, but ate only blaok bread. As a consequence his teeth were falling out when the physician bogan to treat bim, and he was slowly starving. -A Kafilr vanished,and groans were heard. Ho was searched for without result, but on the following night groans were still heard. Tho search continued, and tho man was found murdered. His murderer was arrested and executed, but the groans still con tinued, to tho dismay of their auditors. At last they wero traced to a mocking? bird. That bird, alone ol' living things, had seen the deed of blood. -Tho crawi for Japanese bric-a-brac which hus so thoroughly oaught and held American collectors ls tho growth 'of,' a little over thirty years. When Commodore Perry returned to Wash ington from Mikado land, about 1854, ho brought tho ilrst Japanese curios over seen lmre. Among them wore two largo lacquered bowls, with covers, ono of which waa bought by Edward Evorel t. Lacquered ware was ??oatly admired, and it was declared hat tho Japanese had made w?od mal leable. . -i~A quoer custom prevails amoru? tho Indians of tho KuBkowim country. It seems that if a native woman is agreeablo to a change of husbands, thu question of hor possession is decided by a wrestling match between the two rivals, m which tho victor carries off tho woman. Tho vanquished combat ant does not appear to entertain the slightest fooling of anger or resentment against his more successful opponent. -A physician in sending a certificate, of birth to the health ofllco gave the following account of tho parentage of tho child: "About a year ago Rosl Forraro/a widower with two children, advertised for a wife.. Von ie RaiTol called to seo him, and thoy wero mar ried by Rov. F. Andreis. Ho treated hts children so badly that 1 hud him arrested. Threo months after tho murringo ho took his two children and returned to Italy, deserting his witt*. Sho ls now cared for by friends, and nb she possessen is 12 cents. Hbo had lil, but considering that an unlucky hum ber, she gavo ono-away, yesterday,*'