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all SHE DIED OF MORTGAGE We worked through spring and winter,. y rammer and through (all. But the mortgage worked the hardest and steadiest of them all; It worked on nighta and Sunday!; it each holiday; _ It settled down among na, and It nerer £nt away. Whatever we kept from it eeemed alm^ bad ai theft; It watched u» every minute, and it right and left Fhe ruet and blight were with ue aom^nee, and sometimes not; The dark-browned bcowling mortgage wj for ever op the spot The tree/viTand the out-worm, they wen* well aa came; The mortgage stayed forever, eating hefty the same. I It nailed up every window, stood guard every door, And happiness and sunshine made tig home with us no more, • I Till -with failing .crops and sieknefwe got *- ^ stalled upon the grade. And there came a dark day on ua w* the in terest wasn't paid; And (here came a sharp foreclosure >d I kind o’lost my ltold, 1 * - And grew weary and discouraged, aftho farm wan cheaply sold. The children left and scalteredjhen they hardly yet were grown; ^ My wife ahe pined and perished, i’ I found imsclf alone. What she died of was “a myatery’V the doo- ' tor’s never know, Bnt 1 knew ahe dtod of" mortgag^uat aa well as I wanted to. If to trace a hidden Borrow wefwithin the doctor's - Tlfry'd ha’ found a mqytgage ng on that woman's broken heart. Worm or beetle, drouglitor tewf, on a fann er’s land may fall, But for first class ruination tn a mortgage 'gainst them alt , , —Will Cabltox. Finding a Trail. Here in the shadow/ - this grim mountain is a camp of caij—200 men in faded and ragged Ae uniforms, every face snnlmrne<|tnd bronzed, every sabre and carbi showing long use, every horse lifting head from the grass at short intervals a swift glance up and down the valle] Here, at the foot of mountain, the Apacho trail, which 1 been followed -t^yesopen to discover any pass leading for three days, has gri cold. Aye, it ' llf » " * It is s| the white men has been lost bad followed a patWiich suddenly . ended at a predpic^’rom this point ' the red demons took |gs, and the old est trailer is at fault. | Thu men on piej looked up and down the narrow \fy with anxious faces. Down the vnl a mile away, a solitary wild horse jijand prances and utters shrill neighs vouderment and alarm. Up the valjs a long stretch of green grass, thofth as level as a floor, and no visib ?U8 of life. The pines and shrubs ai cks on the moun tain sid* might 1 ten. thousand In dians, but there ot the slightest movement to yon uspicion. It is a still, hot day. Nflbird chirps, not a branch waves. Ttyc of a lynx could detect nothing be; meats of the lone u valley, and the | the erratic move- horse adown the r flight of an eagle so high in the iV>at the proud bird seemed no larger a sparrow. For an hour ev nan and horse has looked for- “sigi but nothing has t>een jliaoovered nd what has been described. It”i*oet trSI” There is 'Use suspicion as 'en miles away the something in well as annoy: trail was as plaii^ country highway and the Indians no suspicion of pftr suit Five mile ck tfiere were signs pf commotion, e, in the centre of the valley, ever tprist suddenly dia. appears. Look, now ! rgeant with grizzly locks and fighti »w rides down, the valley followed ve troopers. They are to soont fop lost trail. Every man has unalum carbine, every sad dle-girth has t tightened, and every man of the sh a over the camp as he rides out as > had been told that be was biddin st farewell to com rades. They t a slow gallop. Each irnm casts swi noes along the monn- tain side to hist—along the monn- tain side to h: —»t the green grass under his hoi set. r -y What’s tha ar np the slops to the right someth ares to and fro for a moment, I' np the signal is answered. . i the valley on the other slope it iwered again. Down the valley, a ro miles beyond where the wild hor r stands a Agirre of stone, an: re the valley sweeps to the right be sudden turn of the river, the si< i caught up and 200 Apaches, ea txeited and mounted, draw back i s fringe at the base of the mounts wait The little! gallop straight down upon the Jporse. Now they are half • mils | end his breath comes quick and litrils quiver as he stands and stares i strange spectacle. A little neare his muscles twitch and quiver and isrp-pointed ears work faster. Oi hty rods now, and with a flares sn alarm and defiance he resrs up a sbont like a top, and is off down tfey like an arrow sent The sight Huqr thrill, in or asaa the pace of lbs men •se ethe 1g before them, but the Id their eyes more tjum right—to ths left— the ) kiattMtl r"— w spot, for s broken twig—fora sign how ever insignificant to prove that men have passed that way. They find nothing. The signals np the mountain side were visible only for seconds. After the first wild burst of speed the lone hone looks back. He sees that he is not being poshed, and he recovers courage. He no longer runs in a straight ine, bnt he sweeps away to the left- swerves away to the right, and changes his gait to a trot When he heara the shouts of pursuit and the lender thump of the hoof-beats he will straighten away and show Hue pursuers a gait which noth ing but a whirl wind can equal. Look I It is only a quarter of a mile now to the torn in the valley. The lone hone had suddenly stopped to sniff the air. His ean are pointed straight ahead, »is eyes grow larger and take on a frightened look and he half wheels as if he would gallop back to those who have seenungl/ punned. Five, eight, ten seconds, and with a snort of alarm he breaks into a terrific ran, takes the ex treme left of the valley, arid goes tearing out of sight as if followed bv lions. “Halt!" ‘ The grim sergeant sees “signs” in the lotions of the horse. Every trooper is ooking ahead and to the right The green valley mns into the fringe, the the fringe into dense thicket, the thicket into rock and pine and mountain slope No eye can penetrate that fringe. The Indians may be ip ambush there, or th horse may have scented wolf or grizzly. “Forward!" No man knows what danger lurks in the fringe, but the order was to scon lieyomi the bend. To disobey is igno miny and disgrace ; to ride forward is— wait! There is no air stirring in the val ey. Every limb and boogh is as still as f made of iron. There is a silence which weighs like a heavy burden, and the harsh note fit hawk or bozzard would be a relief. Here is the bend. The valley con tinues as before—no wider—nofiarrower —level and unbroken. The wild horse was out of sight long ago, and the six troopers see nothing but the grass as their eyes sweep the valley from aide to aide. “Turn the bend and ride down tin valley for a mile or so and keep your out. “HaH r - / It it more than a mile beyond flic bend. No pass has been discovered No signs of a trail have been picked np. The sergeant has raised himself np tor a long and easeful scrutiny, whbh ai xclamatiou causes him to turn his fuc tip the valley. Out from the fringe ri-1 the demons who have been lurking to drink blood. Five—ten—twenty—fifty —the line has no end. It stretches clear across the valley before a word has been spoken. Then it faces to the right and 20Q Indians in war paint face the grim old sergeant and his five troopers. “Into line—right dress." It is the sergeant who whispers the order. Six to 200; bnt he will face the danger. To retreat down the vaUey-is to be overtaken one by one and shot from the saddle or reserved for torture. Down the valley there is no hope; up the valley is the camp and rescue. The two lines face etch other for a moment with out a movement. “Now, men, one volley—sling carbines -^draw-sabers-andieharae-l^ A sheet of flame—a roar—a cloud oi smoke, and the six horses spring for ward. Then there is a general yell, a lush by every horse and rider, and a whirlpool begins to circle. Sabers flash and clang—arrows whistle—revolvers pop—voices shout and scream, anfl then thfr ^whirlpool critse*. ' ir'ul not three minutes since the first carbine was fired, bnt the tragedy has ended. Every trooper is down 'and scalped, half a dozen redskins are dead or dying, a dozen horses are straggling or stagger ing, and turning the bend at a mad gal lop is the sergeant’s riderless horse. He carries on arrow in his shoulder, and there is blood on the saddle. In five minutes he will be in camp, and the notes of the.bugle will prove that the lost trail has been found.—Detroit Fret J'rfM. ' ' A MIDNIGHT HIDE. A MYHTERIOirs ADTKNTURS IN TBS HOUTflWBST. A Physician la Aiimaaa la AraaaaS at alcht, HlladtaMeS and Compelled to Ac company Two Nirangero aa a Joarnoy to a Waaaded Man. six feet tall and heavy feet in proportion, but every pound of weight seemed to ] be muscle," said Doctor Bishop. “I knelt down beside him and found the wound was immediately over the heart, and that it ha| been made by a large-siaed revolver.’*'. CONFIDENCE BOOKSELLING. INTO FROM AN EXPERT ABOUT A WOOD STANDARD SWINDLE. / A Beautiful Girl. A lady correspondent of Meriwether’s (Memphis) Weekly saw in the asylum for the insane at Sacramento, Cal., a very handsome girl, with whom she lie- came well acquainted: “I used to take walks with her, and would almost forget myintaToundings and circumstances un til my companion wonlcFrelease my arn with the remark, *1 most go now, m) spell is coming on.’ This beautiful gin was really -two beings, now sensible, modest, amiable, a companion to me, suddenly, by some wonderful process, she was transformed to a writhing, con torted lonatic. She always new When this change was approaching, 'and re tired to her room to remain until thy paroxysm had passed. Whan my visit was over, and I was taking my leawe of the asylum, this little friend shook hands witlotears in her eyes. ‘If you think of me at all’, she said, ‘only re member me as we walked together— friend* and happy. Please don't, don’t think of me os that other girl, raving and crazy^ j Too heavy to carry—“Bah Jove!" exclaimed young Dudiboi, "the weathal i - getting so hot, yer know, that I mast nave the ferrule takec^aff myoane. It’s u» beaaUy 1* » WMK *7. & _ [From tha Albuquerque Journal.] Williams, Arizona, is on the line of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, at the foot of Bill Williams’s Mountain. New ly opposite the depot is Dr. Bishop's 1 office. It was in that office that a strange adventure began. “About the middle ol last November,” said Dir Bishop, “on a very dark and chilly night, after reading until quite late, I turned down the light and was soon asleep. It must have been II o’clock when I was awakened by a knock at my front office door. I asked what was wanted. The answer came that a man had Wen badly hurt and required my presence at once. After lighting a candle the door was opened, and in stepped two gentlemen, both, well dressed, and both indicating by their faces that their education bad been in no wise neglected. In fact, they were East ern born and Eastern bred. “The spokesman, who was the tallest of the two, and who, by the way, was a splendid type of manhood, urged upon me the necessity of being somewhat in a hurry about making my. preparation; •for,’ said he, ‘you most go with us, and we .have a long ride to take before morn ing.’ ” The Doctor demurred at going at all, and said that it was certainly a very strange proceeding to ask a man of fifty years of age to go out on such a night,, and especially with two men of whom he knew nothing whatever. “It doesn’t make a particle of differ ence who we are,' what we arp, or where we are from, ” remarked the tall stranger. “You have got to go with us, and the quicker you make up your mind to do so the pleasanter it will be for all con cerned.” “How was the man hurt?" inquired ihe doctor. “He was shot,” was the answer. Arguments based on the age and icalth of physicians were of no avail, and so it oamd that hurried preparations were made, and the party were oat in the cool, damp air of the night. It took bnt a few moments for the strangers to find their horses and to point out a splendid big chestnut, whose every motion proved him to be ' a thorough bred, as the animal upon which our friend, the Doctor, was to make the on- known journey. “That is your horse, Doctor,’’said the stranger. “He is a'good one, and aa sure-footodja-any man in Arizona. Yon need never be afraifi-of him for a mo ment; he’s as gentle as a kitten.” Into the saddle went the now thor oughly mystified man of medicine, and thetwo strangers mounted two horses nearly, if not quite, the equals of the chestnut stallion. The party had hardly got clear of the few midnight lamps at Williams when a halt was called, and our M. D., was informed that it would be necessary to blindfold him, as his companion had no idea of allowini -tlMLfaiutent conecptiuu of the'Tfireciion In which the trio were traveling. The Doctor, of course objected to this kind of treatment, bnt he was qaickly voted down and compelled to submit himself to the inevitable. A sack, which one of the party carried, was quick ly drawn qyer ius. Jiaad, and then they were again ready to advance. The horses were given the spur with the admonition to the Doctor to “give a free rein,” and away the band dashed. On they rode hour after hoar, np hill and down hill,now crossing a narrow stream, now a broader one, into and across ax- royss, through what seemed to be dense forests, and out again on the satady plains, never onoe stopping, not even speaking a load word, the whole ides being bent on the early arrival at some specified point. Night began to break into morning and morning into broader day, the sun came up in all its Western Splendor, and yet onr travelers never once spoke of stopping. It must have been eight o’clock when all a( onoe the rein of the chestnut stallion was grasped and a halt called. And now, for the first time since midnight, Dr. Bishpp was allowed to look around him, his forced blindness having been removed by his guides. They bad halted immediately in front of a small bnt neat appearing log house, the door of which stood open. Only three persons were in sight, the two strangers, companions in the night’s ride, and another man whom the Doctor had not seen before, “Go down to the brook, Doctor, takes drink of water and refreshing bath, and by that time break fast will be ready.” • - “I did as directed,” said the Doctor, “and I don’t believe there is another snch stream of water in Arionua I can assure yon it was to me the giandest bath I aver took." As yet the surgeon had not seen his patient, bnt breakfast The preliminary few questions elici though s 45-calibre yet it was by no mi -ball was probed for patient never ottering a complaint The wound was bandaged Rp, an application tion and a the fact that al- was still inside, dangerous. The extracted, the prepared for its geon’s mission was < the first part of the at the camp, and again saddled, and i and the snr- All day and | ening waa spent the hones were ride homeward only a repetition of the night be fore, including the blindfolding of the Doctor. “We arrived at Williams ati a. m., before anybody was moving,” said Dr. Bishop, “and I was landed in my little home here none the worse for my thirty- six hours’ experience.. The tall stranger, without asking me M to my charges, immediately counted oat $50, and, handing it to me, remarked that they were a little hard upfnst now, bnt wonld pav me folly in a sheirt time.” The Doctor went oil to state that the strangest part of ths whole affair hap pened only a few days ago. “The wonnded man came ov&r to my office just before the train foiled ont, and lay ing $100 on my desk, remarked that I ought to consider myself paid. Bosh ing ont, he just caught the train, and that is the lost I hare ever heard of any of the trio. I CIVIL SERYICK REFORM. * A Few ol ihe Qnratlaaa of tha Applicant* lar the Lower GraSe af Ofltoea. The following questions were asked of the lower or £900 grade applicants for positions under the United States Government: Fill ont blank form of application for position, stating age, place of birth, legal residence, postoffloe address, and experience in business and Government service. Then followed several examples in addition, multiplication, and division of simple numbers, and others involving the use of decimals. -> ' - Que-fifth of a barrel of flour contain ing 198J pounds Was lost, one-third was given away, and two-thirds of remain- [der was sold for $7.59. What did it bring per pound ? * A clerk in on office has his salary raised 20 per cent,, but in a short-time is reduced 20 per cent, which fixes his salary at $648. What was the <wigi- nal salary? _ . A man holdiug a note of $950 has it cashed for $800. What rate per cent, (hseonnt dfrYhepsy? ~ r- Reduce £468 17s. 6d. to United States State an: currency, pound sterling being 4.8566. Dictation of section 11 from civil-ser vice rales and regulations, to write and punctuate. _ ' : — Copy section 5 of the same. Write two sentences of not less than ten words, one to contain a transative and one an in transative verb. Write a letter to the Governor of your inning hiia-ot-joiu wjaatfnir the town in which yon reside. Name fifteen States and fifteen cities of the United States. ^ ~ Name fifteen principal rivers and the cities on each. . ; Name three principal ranges of moun tains and the principal States and Terri tories in which they Ue. Name six principal American generals in the Revolutionary War and as many popular statesmen at the time. What Presidents have been generals in time of war and in what Wars were they engaged? What does “confederation" mean and what States constituted it? When was the Constitution of the Uni ted States signed? • Name particulars of territory added to the United States since the Revolution ary War? In what manner are the Supreme Judges chosen ? A man purchase# $625 Worth of goods, giving his note on December 23,1882, interest 7 per oeni, payable in fifteen days; paid the same on second day of grace. What amount did he pay, and on what day? • Barprteia* Raral Atfaata with RalaaS Can* alaaaieBta af MhaSdy Talaaias-Tbe HanL hank Racket - Ceavaatent “ Bank- raster.” [From the New York Sun.] , “For a steady, all-the-year-ronnd game, my friend,” said a good-natured Bleecker street swindler to a reporter of The Sun, “yon must go into books.” “Book making at the races ?" The deUcate features of the swindler assumed an expression of disdain. “I’m no sport, thank yon. I do not mean anything of the kind. I refer to book publishing—the cheap press, my son, is onr standby. The first thing is to get a book to publish. The most important part of the book is its name. Something like ‘Ten Thousand Hints for Farmers,’ or, ‘Information for Common People,’ is what yon want The book can be com piled from the hundred and one similar works by legitimate authors that have gone before it. Having the mame and the compiled volume, we tako the man uscript to some rat printing office to get it printed. You would be astonished ta see what s large bound book we can get np for twenty-five cents a copy on large editions. When yon see them on. ihe shelf or in a )>ox they do not Iqok at all bad. The paper is soft, the type is old, and the stitching doesn’t count for much, bnt we have a few samples put together in bettorTbape. “The selling is the easiest part of the business. The printing we usually pay for; it takes too much time to hunt up printing offices. To get rid of onr stock which we always call the fifth edition, we send out onr commercial traveler and an assistant. , Yon wonld call the traveler a steerer in a less dignified busi ness. H« is a gentleman, every inch of him. He has a knowledge of the world, of the farming community, of human na ture in general. He also has a suave manner and a little cash. He seeks the village hotel and gains the acquaintance of the crowd that gathers there. Among them he finds the man of wealth who thinks he knows s good thing when he sees it. The man of wealth is cantious. The commercial traveler has discounted that in advance. Wc do not wish to sell oar Itooks to him for cash. We want to introduce them. We want **maa of in fluence to look after onr interests in that town. Onr book is exhibited to him, and it is explained to him jnst how easy it will be to shove the book on his inno- sent and confiding neighbors st fl2 a volume. To him ihe price will be 50 per cent off. To start him we say we will consign him one dozeiu-on commis sion. He has an idea that when goods are ‘consigned’ they are to be paid for after they are sold. He will try one dozen on these terms. Then we produce tfie little blank order book. Half the blanks have apparently been used in neighboring counties. We take care that he observes that The following is the blank: ,$.... ** 188 Messrs. O. Piums A Co., New York QsxtlzxuiYou will please MafljM toztn oryour work entitud “That doesn’t seem to be a ’ stake for profit, after alL” “No, not very large, bnt we avenge two ! sales a week by working two adjoining I villages at once. It isn’t a bed 1 considering that it verges OH honesfl trade.”' —• -> • “Any other dodges in the book lino?" “Plenty, my sen, plenty of then, pot they are not so safe as this. Perhaps the next best play is the herd book. We work that uqw and then. We start oat to make a beYd book by seeaviag from country postmasters the names of all the owners of good stock in their neigh borhood. Then we send oat e . drooler setting forth the advantages of having stock registered in the herd )tx>ok. We say that we intend to pnt tab book in the reach of all We will insert the ped igree of one animal and give the book free for $2. By urging that honest ped igrees Ire gi Yen we obtain a certain credit for honest dealing. As e clincher, we write, to each farmer a personal letter. We say we know that he has standing in the community, -and- that to Mike the work popular in his neighborhood we will register his stock for $1 for each an imal, provided he won’t mention the price, bnt will recommend the book. Sometimes we get as much as $6 from one man. When wehaYegathered in the boodle we get a few peges of the book set, and then onr firm fails. A notice of the bankraptcy is sent to eeeh of the victims. It is all regular. “One of onr fellows was arrested for the game in Buffalo. The charge was using the mails to defrand. The ease come on before the United Stotee Oom- missioner, and he was acquitted. He showed that he had signed a contract with a firm of printers to get out the work, and that the book had been com menced. He said he intended to com plete the book as ’soon as possible. That cleared him. Ill health censed his failure, of course. Change of nltmata r». stored his health. THE SPONGE. m BMMUIRV Utt MZ is AT Heals USB OF DIFFBRRNT YAROnOS. Infi atlas Ahant tu C« Raw It la Seat ta MarfcnC. So soon as the sponge fishers hove filled their boats they go to some mart of trade, writes a correspondent from Florida. On reaching it the bunches are placed on shore to dry and thnranghly and then add to ehantman. I wss surprised that they received from $3 to (8.50 each for these bnnehes of sheep-wool sponges. So when they have “good luck,” as they call it, they often net $150 per, week for their work. Knowing that the of Nassau and the Bahamas were fall of sponge bearing rocks I asked my Jack Alick why he did not sponge there. He said “the sponge is not so good there,” and when they took their bnnehes ashore there the merchants wroatfl take them and pay their own price, while at Key West and CedaT Key Be could trade fairly. Of the varieties of sponge fottnd off the West Indies and along the “sheep’s wool’’ seems to bring the highest price. It is large, soft and tough, although not of the fipest fibre. It is the kind usually need for bath pur poses and for cleaning flue eaniagea. The spoilges need in Tbi dressmakers of aity have straok. They say their -fet is m eieptiouaDy hard one. They eleim that on an sv« reM the yeer rouBd a mb cannot earn atom then five or dz doUms a week, ea&p urem tofoor. iwyreee represented see good workman—d neeted with e hags firm te Franklin street, produced Us book and showed _2 that during busy times be received only from six to seven dollars weekly. Another working for a Broadway boose showed that he and hie slater togethu received from fonF dollars end a half je seven dollars for doing nine days’Mtrt. “I tell you truly, we ere the poorest paid class in the world,” said e mass- be. of the Union. ,r Wb have to work from eight o’clock in Itte *»g until six o’clock in the. eveniag, with hardly twenty- minntas for ottir taek. - There are men in this room who oennot afford to boy proper food and nourish ment, and I ask you to look about and see the thin faces. Yon will noi nee a room looUBg-Jn the lasst ’ stoat,” end snob was the fact. One young man exclaimed: “Look at me. 1 am only 18 yean old, bat I have bed tc struggle so hard to feed myself and others Jnat it has made me look more like 25.” It was explained by the the bosses, when the str&e thought they could get all done by eontraetors, who hire people to work so cheaply that they ere forced to labor from 5 o’clock in the morning 'tilt 10 at night to earn an existene* Thousands of eiroolan, printed in English, German sod Hebrew, were dis- tnbated throughout the eiiy by the Xx- ecative Committee of the strikers, in which they my: “The hemtlamnsm oi employers has worked it so far \het a workingmen is obliged to work for f$ a week. This cannot remain so; fore, tello#-workingmea end call ob * iyti to join ns and declare every body a traitor to our oenae who contin ues to work under those -New York Star. -gfo 1 She Welted in Tain. Thai one of the nldost msmbws ef Island bar set in bis deavoring to eateh a little rest from the trying labors of the day, the door slowly openedrend e negro woman, for foam be ing comely and well-favored, and with a shrill, ear-piercing voice, walked into the room end inquired fail meiit: __ \ ‘ fi ire you Marne “Thetis my nemo, ms dam,” he; "what con I do for yoo?” I want ter know ffla yar one ting, minister ob de gospel forgUa of, the bacon and the beans being de voured with a relish, and then the patient was disclosed lying upon a pile of Navajo blankets in on* corner of the log building. N " -***• “He most hare been t jama 80 yaaa of ana. bleak hrir. Uask nvaa. kadfifit .W FWlf The latest rxpokt of the British Consul-General at Havana expresses the opinion that although the definite aboli tion of slavery in Cub* will not be ac complished until 1888, slavery will hare practically ceased to exist before the end of 1885. In 1880 more then 6,000 were freed, in 1881 more than 10,000, and In 1882 about 17,000. The Autono mists, general opponents of Bpeniah rale, and the active humanitarian olsos eageiVy watch for abuses committed by slave-owners, finding therein a fertile source of attack against the Government Nor, says the Consul-General’s report are bona fide cases of fU-naafe alone re lied open to stir np an agitation against the alare-’bolders. Cases have occurred soon disposed I whelre braises have bse£ .simulated by ESuB?' #££■ 2 - means of vegetable* juice robbed into the skin of the slave, and as braises are accepted by the Court as e aaffident evidence of ill-treatment the device bee been successful in enabling the man so discolored tq obtain e deeree of emanci- as well re to bring EJXXt fall liltw. “Tea Thousand Hints for Fsrmsrs.' I agree to tak« them frorn ’the express office as soon as notified that they have arrived, and to pay all charges. I agree to recommend them to mv neighbors, end to ase my best endeavors to sell them. I will not sell any one of them for le:iM than $2. Signed, * - --- - ..... sr .v r ,,r,.-rt8^1 “The blank ‘$ ’ is not filled in. A figure 1 is written in at the left side of the blank before the word dozen. It is very simple. Jnst an order for a dozen books on commission. - . “Bnt the skill is required in handling that blank. The assistant, who keep* in the back-ground usually brings in a word jnst at ths right time. He may say, for instance, that it is only s matter of form, anyhow, for it’s a transaction among friends. Then the gentlemanly salesman brings ont a fountain pen, and his new-fonnd friend tries the new fangled notion for the first time in his life. The assistant signs as witness. The blank onoe signed, we always stand treat We set ’em np to the success o 1 the new enterprise. We invite np all the boys to drink with us. We tell them that our man of wealth has a good thing. We agree to advertise for the man of wealth. We get a notice in the village paper that he has the exclusive agency'for that towq. “Then we raise the order from one dozen to (me gross by inserting a figure 2 after the little 1 inine blank. The $ blank we fill in to read $144. We send on the books after every one knows that the man of wealth has the agency. He takes the box home from the express office), wondering why it is so big. He flncU that he has more books than he ex pected. One collector happens around about the time that the books arrive. He presents the contract for twelve doz- ru books and asks for the money. He is very polite. He is not angered by rough language. He Mill accept a note if the man of wealth has not ihe ready cash. He mentions thfiL notice in the village paper, end say* that folks Mill think the man of wealth an innocent if he"tries to back out of a fair bargain. floBietinwa a lawyer is engaged to clinch the argoment iu an obstinate com, but that uot (ffton necessary. We slwavs get the nursery are gotten from the Mediterra nean. The iriend of Oelymnos is Che greatest mart of trade in these, bat they are taken at greqf depths and by diver* and bring immense prices. For the unscientific reader I may say the word sponge is derived from e Greek word signifying “to squeeze,” and indicates the nse to which it was applied in that far-off day when'its momenclatnre was given. Homer, wha wrote eight hundred years before Christ, describes Vnl can as “spongingbis visage, arms and brawny neck” after the labors at the forge. The ancients lined their brazen helmets with it, not only because it was soft and elastic, bnt, being slightly moistened with water, it protected the soldier’s head from the fierce heat of the ran, it was long supposed to be s soophite, a combination of plant and animal, and while perhaps Huxley or Haeckel would like still to adhere to this cloaoiflcation we now know it to be a very interesting marine animal, possessing nearly all ths fnutions of animal life. They are sus tained by taking in and ejecting the see water by a system of pores and rereela, through which it passes with all the ap pearance of the regular circulation of fluids in animal bodies, and thna if eon- veyed to itself the animaleoto of the eea as food. Under the magnifying glass cau be seen the cells of the polyp and the glittering internal viscera, with every individual tentacle. In the spring there are engendered germs, yellowish white, which,"bursting, sends forth embryos. These have the vibratile dlie en to swim about. Finally, losing 1 cilia, they become gelatinous discs, apting themselves to rook or eon shore, develop into the sponge of lone, and might not remember th* entire women stood: the reply, and finally 1 -intense excitement, re 1 “Brio’ God, promise me. jined to collared wench last] nigger head ob it, an’ghB jort on her dnde ah’ went to dot wsddhT all riled np re' moanin' mieskiif, yer bet yer swept life, jest der same. I jeet got near dst ooapie, aa’I wailed fog dfttifcht time to stop dor wsddin’. De mfofofot married dam after ‘ Tisoopel style,’ an* I was jest wailin’ tor beer dai foodbrod- der my 'Ef enny man kin show jest eoMe why dey may not krfnllj be jined to gether, let him now speak or after for ebar hold his peace.’ Maasa, J went dare to break npdeshoM, an’ dat minister dene gone forgifc patiab lb eldMoiu^ - - \ - ■ai de servis, hi’ H seems to die dat she kin prerent dat deoeitfal chap from Ubin’ Mid dat wench. What am •yer adrioo?” ' The lawyer quietly explained to hit that the clergyman had obeerved all the proper forme of the service, and that she most make up her mind to dwell a little longer in single blemednem, adding a word or two shout “m good fish,” eta. Tteiroro temd. ud mattered something ebonl “wantin’ del deceivin’ nigger’s heart,” whereat the lawyer soggeated that ah* might bring ^ ji • M 1—*_ YA. t A M .A. «-i* ’ meree. Members or the English PABUARBnr are uot by reason of the sarily recognized by the One of them complaint when he begged the La to invite him to e was an insulting claims, “who el