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?=??T-T-.? . Bereft. Icuch -with thy virgin lip these fiov;ers; then j twine Them in thy hair and lay them on tby j breast." i Amos# them thoa v.-iJt weave this heart of m ino. And nc:;r thine own it lovingly may rest. Thus, forr.n l:o:;r. myb iss shall be supreme; Arid. drc-an:ia<r in tby smile, I may forjfct Tljr.t as these flowers f?<ie so ends my dream. So fades my hope, and thcu hast no regret.' Yr- blossoms pare I return her stainless kiss; Your fr?jrrsint breath give to her sweeter * sis-hs; ; 'Mr . E^r haughty soul entrance till radiant bliss ; E^veals the icvc-iook in her joyful eyes. ~ " ??-i ?* ??< > ?? rtonr? i u crue: ns-iu. iw.i. tiu ;UUU - With whom my iovo eternal lieth urccd. Thou vanished star! wbose li^ht my spirit " - led, ; j Ent not a sprrk cf all its tvari2i.ii returned^ Seme day, pcrcr.r.rce, in dreams thou wilt re-' *ea!l A sweet rcmcmbr&r.ce of my love and wo, And say, "I was his q ueen and be my thrall. : My knijrhtiy lover ia the Ion? ago." These pi-nirtg iioweis?t-ben but a faded 1 rc-re:ubTbe emb.em of my withered heart will be;! j r . Ireir i errume and its passion lost in death. Go:;e:ike the visions 1 have dreamed of > taec. . acraaa=a^.. . ' I ________ trGil HJS COUNTRY. ' . They wondered, in that quiet little jh country village, how Edward Dorrance couM leave his family and go straight j ? forward into the midst of deadiv battle, and they wondered how Rachel f conhi let him no. Edward was twenty-eight years of { age; a strong, healthy, intelligent, handsome man: a hatter by trade, with steady work, and snre cf good wages. His wife, E::chc3, was two years i yonnger; and everything as a woman ! that her hnsbrtiid was as a man. Before her marriage she had been ! the life of t :o social" circle in which I she moved; no gathering for healthfnl amusement could be tncusrht perfect : that had not her fcroce of its directors, j And their marriage did not remove j them from society. Ox course, they found not so much J lici-lit/ir fiflTriirc- h?lf. i iiUiC 4.V sreiviv. .._, the more weighty affairs?especially ; . everything that h:;d to do with the re- j fcVions society with which they worshi]>p?id?never suffered because of their absence. Their union had been blessed with two children?a boy and a girl?Eddie, aged live, and little Eila, aged three? | two beautiful, bright-faced, golden- j children, be- j The war had been going on a year.! when. Edward Dorrance had fully come j to the conclusion, that ho ou^ht to go. j lie was a man of deep and strong con- i victio.ns, and when his mind had been j Ponce made up, noting- iess man a j stroke of Providence could turn him ! from it., "Rachel," he said to his wife, as tliey sa'. alone late in the evening, ! "suppose I should live to be an old man, what shall I tell my children, mr? tot- o"-sn<I(>h:ldren.wheathev gather L around, and ask me to tell them tbe story of a battle? If I should' tell them-that I staved at home, * while others, did the.iighung. what should I give as inyrenson ? Ah, they would not ask. They would shrink away, shameiaced and pitiful; and I can fancy k j^rocir .saying to" themselves: "Poor I B grandpa! I won't ask him what made j fe*/' him afraid.' Darling. think how I Hr " . hare taiked during the past year; how H*. Ihivre ux>;eu orhers to enlist; and how "I. :.v.- knoi the sac-redness of And now, ray previous, I " I,, y '* - - 11 ie qoin.-:?ail marC-; aa.i-two oL If ear Jiavo..- cnSSifSSri Sue v 2at say yon?" j % ,,rk s.. Edward,' tell me your own i - 'deepest wish?' j Can you senousiy nsjsr jl iiuiuk. x should never hold up my head again if ^ y I should ho^i back." RacKel swallowed the big lump in her throat; she "::cpt back"the rising tears, and finally, with her arms arounvl'his neck, and her head pillowed upon his bosom, she hoarsely whispered: \f-~: ' "D ;riin^, I will not be a coward. Go, and may the God cf battles be merciful." In just one week from that time Edward Borrance was in full uniform, with his captain's commission in his pocket. People gazed in surprise. It seemed to them strange and unnatnrah He was so necessary to the life of the village, and his little family was such o nicture of comfort and happiness. What need was there? There were enough without him. How could Rachel endure it? How they pitied her! how they pitied lior! Bnt he was* o-oina. and Rachel sinjied when she last held his hand and - - oheerily bade him Godspeed. They saw all that, but they did not see her afterwards, aloae in the chamber, upon her headed knees by her bedside, sobbing and praying, and weeping; as though her"heart was breaking. Ah, they would have pitied her then had they seen, and they would have - . pitied.with cause. Bat she rose bravely after a time, and when the first ordeal was passed r#?snrr>f>d lwv household duties, and - - sought relief from painful thought bv mingling in society, and giving her aid wherever it could 'be of benefit as of old. r At length came word of a battle in which she- knew her husband's regim en t ^vasjyi^sed u^mi ^ iCpaper, eajrertfor the true inteiiigcr.ee. * That hr.rai had befalien Edward did not onter/her miud. She found the ptpic and carried it home. Little Ed&3 was old enough to understand and possessed understand:nsr cnon^h to bo. nuxions k>r news of, -Oh; "Eddie! Ei lie! Papa- is a major! There has be m a great battle. r.;C'?r.. T*Krartl Dorranee. bv his own personal bravery, and marvellous dar:n~ saved Hansrernian's Division from rcut. and so, in fact, saved the day for as.' And here is the last line: 'He was made a inapt on the ----- fie id.' Alas! how raanv brave men fee;* feu." %:a \ "Bfti papa is;s>ue? "Tos. papa ia^snfe." "Oh, 1 ana .>9 gind! Do you think, mamma, thai ?tv will be s?,fe always?" What a pan^Kot ihrous^ her heart lis the easor ooy asxeu mp eauuisxi question. She Cviild not, answer. The weeks ancfcjthe raoclDt passGd on, and other unties were foatht; and when the news of 'he battle catie, jctaciici con1.;: li:: i no tcaee till sW had obtain el the paper \nd read 1& full account. \ \ At the? end of six vaonths a \*tter came from her hnsbati that made her proud and happy. -My darling'he wW "give^e joy. And*yet, alas! hov many oth^s * must find misery instep or" joy. ;j b~ve b=ea promoted acfaiti I ura nov colonel of nr.- regiment, :ul it is oi \ of the very best n the ar?y. And I ran proud to know that J haVthe credit oi having done much towarujjringing it to its ptosent high stands^ of cxcciiencc. Colonel Tsploy &>d last ' week in hospital at Harrisburg. Oh, | how I pity his family!" The days and the weeks passed on into history, as before, until at length the very air quaked with rumors of a battle more terrible in its results of mortality than any which had preceded it Rachcl heard the rumors in the air, i as she sat ia her quiet littio drawing room, bat she did not, as before, hasten | away for the paper. Something whisi pered to her of dark and dismal foreI nodm<*s. She felt as she had never : felt before. Heretofore she had been eager to assure herself of her husband's safety, but now the feeling came to her that she did not dare to know. But little Eddie was moved by no. j such dark foreboding. When he heard them talking of a great battle, in which he knew his papa must have taken a part, he ran away to the post-office where there was a stand for the sale of papers and periodicals, and lie got a paper, telling the man, "Mamma will pay you for it'' And away he went to his home: "Mamma! Mamma! Another big battle. Read to us about papa." With trembling hands, she took the eliAAf- on/? rmonA/? if She saw the wilderness of flaming head lines, and she allowed her eyes to j follow them down. A few seconds, and then, with a low stifled cry, and a catching of her hand over her heart, she let - the paper fall and sank senseless upon the floor. Eddie caught up the sheet, and looked where his mother's eye had rested. He had learned to read easy | words, and those bold headlines he could make out, every one. Presently, ! two-thirds of the way down, he found i it. "Colonel Edward Dorrance among ! the killed." For days and weeks Rachel Dorrance lay hovering between life and death. But for her children, she would have given up and passed over to join her ! husband; but the thought of her little ones left all alone to battle for their I weak young lives turned the scale, and j she lived. When the wartn springtime had come again, and the birds sang in the ?roat trees near her door, her "eyes brigntennrl no-r <->r> Tnnl- r\n comfi'limcr of ifj? old color, and she went once more about the duties.of a mother. Bat she was broken in spirit; marks of age had come upon her lovely face, and the smiles were gone to return no i more?so she ielt in her heart of hearts.: j She had thought at first that she should never care more for life, but as time passed on, and the first terrible agony gave place to settled melancholy, and that, in turn, to true Christian resignation, based upon Christian faith and promise?after this, she entered society once more, giving herself, with every energy of body and spirit, to the work of caring for other widows and orphans more unfortunate than herself, for her husband had owned .the ; neat pretty cottage in which they had rlrfed,"* besides nearly two acres of land around it, and Edward had left nearly i five hundred pounds in the bank when | he went away. . Nor was this all. She had not a par! tide of trouble in obtaining a generous ! .pension; in addition to which she es [ tabiishcd iiersei: as a teacner or music, | whence, in the coarsc of a few months, she derived enough to support herself and children; so that .when, as the in the village^ a wealthy "inan offered ner a large sum ioF~tt^JJQPtibn oi Iie'r ' land, she would not self. She had no need of the money, and since her son's father had left ir, to that son should it descend intact when she had done with it.. Many of the soldiers?both officers and privates?of her husband's regiment called upon her; and they never tired of sounding'his praises. The adjutant of the regiment?he who was Adjutant at the time of the battle? caiied, and gave her more particulars than she had before received; for he had been with the advancing column, and close by his colonel's side. Said he: 4'"VVe should have had the body embalmed and sent home, had the thing been possible; but he was killed by the bursting of a shell?one of the largest and most destructive shells I ever saw. We were hand-to-hand with the enemy at tire lime, and I am very sure that the same missile that killed the colonel, killed more than one of their own number. He was But I will not tell you any more." "Yes, yes?tell me all I would rather know. I have wondered -why his body could not have been embalmed and sent home to me." . 'And then he told her that the shell had literally torn her husband to pieces. They could only gather up the poor mangled .mass and consign it to a grave by itself, which thev had carefully marked. The days and the weeks and the months passed on, until three years. had gone since that dreadful day on which her husband had fallen on the field of battle, and Rachel sat in her little parlor, with her children by hen side, reading to them the glorious new3 of the closing of the war. Eddie had now grown to be robust boy of eio^^eais^wfille little I . EllsJttRfrwmcfed out into a beautiful i "rosy-cheeked miss of six years. They j were blessed children, and a blessing to their' mother. "Un, it Jiawara coma omj nave ! lived to see them thus!" How often the cry went up from her heart The lamps had been lighted, and mother and children sat by. the centertable, she with the day's paper in her hand, when ibe door-bell was rung. Since she had such excellent success in her music pupils, Rachel had found it for her interest to employ a servant, and that servant answered the sumi mons at the door; and presently she i came in and reported that a soldier, o i nogro, was at the door asking for food, | and for shelter, and rest for the night. | He had be on told, he said, that he I would be sure to find it at the home of j the widow of his old colonel. ! "What!?a man of Edward's rcgiI ment?" "So he says." "Then brins: him in. No?I will fro myself." And she took the lamp and : went into the front hall, where the ap! plicaut stood. He was a colored man j ?utterly black?habited in a -soldier's , i s:arb, appeared' neat and clean, and of ! I pleasant." honest countenance. Something in his look- appealed to : her woman's -sympathy', and* captured i ! her at once.' She led hi?n into the room where ; they had. been sitting, and motioned i Mm to a seat. His head"was of-goodly [ ! shape, though covered by a thick mat of close-eurlmg wool, while his face, ! by far the greater part of it?was like- ! wise ornamented. < She had never seen a woolly-beard so' ' \hick and so heavy.' ' !\ "Ah" Via sn.5f? slntvlv slmtinor his 1 1 u^d^dey tole inc 'f I could find mas'r ? colonel's widder I'd find friends, suah. Yaas'm I wer' de colonel's cook. Didn't be ebbcr write to yer 'bout old Pompey5 Oh, we lost a good man when be fell!*' Rachel wiped her eyes and presently asked the poor man if he was hungry. He answered her that he could not tell how hungry he really was; whereupon she got up ami went out into the "kitchen; and as she opened the door leading to the hall, the old dog, Prince, a beautiful English spaniel whicii Edward Dorrance had purchased as a pup when his son was born, eight years before, came bounding into the room. He saw the negro soldier, gave a sharp snapping yelp, and Eddie called to him to "lie down." D.-.+ 4-a T7o /Irrv.v JLJUU bUV uv/, uim uw vvvj? *??*? ? nearer to the stranger, and presently with a cry that was almost human?a cry of joy and jubilation?a cry not to be mistaken?ho leaned upon the man, fairly clasping his forelegs or arms round his neck, lapping, and kissing, and panting and struggling to get nearer and nearer, like one possessed. Eddie stamped his-foot and shouted with a vigor- of authority th:;t ought to have quie.cd tiic brute at once; little Ella crieJ wit:'. :t terrible fear that old Prince won.d cat the poor black m:in up; whiie Uaciiel. having heard tiie frightful racket, had come iu from tho kitchen to see what in the world the . - ? lit. ^1 - 1 .!.??. ?J.| mauer couiu ?>? . ouu kucw uuit, um Prince was a fastidious dog, and perhaps lie was irying to <j:ct the darkskinned invader. As Rachel slopped across tho threshold into the parior a wonderful thing happened. The dog. in his frantic efforts to get at the face of the strange guest, had got his paws entangled ia the matted wool, and presently?loand behold!?the whole woolly mass?from head, cheeks, and lips?came away, leaving exposed to view a wealth of golden-brown, curling, glossy locks; choeks white and smooth, with only a neatly-trimmed, handsome moustache upon the upper lip; and the first thing she heard was a startling cry from Eddie: "Oh, papa, papa, papa! You are my papa! You are! you are!" And then Rachel saw a pair of strong arms fly swiftly around her boy; saw him drawn close upon the soldier's bosom, and heard smothered sounds of kissing and blessing. The next few minutes we will leave to the reader's imagination. It was Edward Dorrance, in his own proper person, alive and well. "Pardon me, darling," he said, after he had washed his face?a face as fair and as handsome as ever?Rachel thought it a thousand time handsomer ?"pardon mc. I did not assume- mis disguise in sport?far from it I shrank from the wild turmoil and uncomfortable interruptions that would inevitably result from my sudden and unheralded appearance among old friends, after having been thought dead so long. "Furthermore, I had a misty idea of allowing the truth to break upon you gradually; but the keen perceptions of old Prince dished that part of it And yet my precious, I do believe if 1 had appeared at your door as I am at this moment, the shock would have been severe. The comical manner of my revealment took away the shock, and brought it to you pleasantly." And Rachel agreed with him. In telling the ""story of that terrible dav. when it was believed that" he had been killed, he said that some other a, a by tie bursting ofiirshell, had been mistaken for him. He had on that occasion advanced a considerable distance beyond the spot where the shell had exploded, supposing that his men were behind him." He had sprung forward for the purpose of capturing a battery that had been dealing death upon their ranks with frightful effect, and so eager and determined was he that he never thought of. looking round until he was direcliy under the muzzles of the enemy's guns; then he turned, and found not a man of his regiment in sight. He was capturcd and sent to the enemy's rear, and on the next, morning, with many others, he was sent away to a dismal prison, where he had been kept through the long and weary months and years that had since passed away. He had written several" letters, but it was plainly to be seen they had been intercepted and destroyed. In fact, he had been so informed on being set free, for a jailer had said to him: "Colonel, you'll surprise your people * ?? /vAf U Ama fr\y rtrtf f\rtCk rvf VATIT* WUUU Jf UU ilViliV, X\JL uvvviivvt jv/iu letters has been suffered to go through." What need to tell of the joy of that household? Truly the occasion was to them a golden dawn?the dawning of a better day than they had ever known. That Made a Difference. "Now,1' said the railroad president, as he sat down with the secretary, "I'll dictate, and you begin as follows: 'We congratulate stockholders on the improved condition of the J. & J.' " "Why, wc are in pressing need of 50 miles oi new raiis, 5eYem,j-?ivj2.-ears, and half a dozen of new lp&?fiiotives!" said the secretary...--""' "That's all rcght, sir; go on with the circular]--.Say: 'The net earnings of jbe road warrant us in predicting that the next dividend will " "But we can't even pay the interest on our mortgages," ihtcrrupted the secretary. Mr. Secretary, this is a circular!" "Yes, sir; but why " "A circular to the public, sir." "I kr.ow, but such state*- " "A circular to be sent to Europe to induce a demand for our slock!" thundered the president. "Oh?aw?that's it, eh! Ob,.well, that alters the case! We are warranted in predicting a January dividend of eight per cent, of course."?Wall St. News. ?=> O o The Blonde Reporter's Lesson. "In soft, adumbrant meshes of sieved silver the sunbeams melted through me leaves and dripped spangles of gpld upon the brown and black moquettrie shadows that led to the ragged edge of the curb, where a fragile little fragment of humanity lay moaning." "That's all riuht enough," said the managing editor, "but it's a little too Ion?. ~ Make it shorter." ..T> ^ T o:?J" "OUl YVlKlb S.iilli x o.l\ y on i ?ioo.uvi the blonde reporter. "Ob, I'd just say, 'Hennessey Mulcahey's little boy Pat fell into an open sewer and broke his nose.' That'll do for an introduction, and then you can 20 on and say what is necessary about the careless manner in which these things are conducted, and that under another administration of our local frovernmcnt, and so on, you know. Give 'em a rap, that's ali.?Pittsburg Dispatch. T>: ii?. JL iiU jjupci. iu. tuo uuitwu Slates is published at Glendive and is called the Siar. It is a two coiurnn weekly, and its columns are less than an inch wide. Homosickncss. Reader, were you ever homesick? : When you first left the parental roof ! r.nd went out into the wide world to , hew out a road to fortune and fame, d'd : you not feel that vague sense of unrest , that made it seem impossible that you ' could live another hour away from | home? Where one has not had this cs| pericnee a hundred have. Well do I | remember when, at fifteen years of age, I went out from father, mother, home and friends, and sought an education nearlv five hundred miles away. The novelty of my new surroundings in the city, having' passed ali ray life on a farm, sustained me for a month or ; more, and then I felt the gnawing at j my heart one evening, and for weeks I and months it came and came again. ! I was standing in the fiont yard at my j boarding place, when suddenly a lump ; arose in" my throat and almost choked ; me. I was looking in the direction of i my old home, and ray gaze went over ! the houses along the river, and over | the tree tops on the bluff beyond, ana. | wandered on into space, where I saw in I imagination the old fireside. Mother, ! dear old mother, was sitting there at. j her accustomed place knitting awav^gj^ | if her life depended upon "turnie^fv^!^ j heel" of that stocking before sleeping ; Father was reading tae village papbr, ! just as I had seen him do a hundred ' "" U?Afl\A?in r-Mo fnro rvftfo ! UlLies. -iU-Ji uiuiuui^ duu cwivu > I all there as usual, and the cat dozed ! and purred before the fire of crackling j branches, and the back log of hissing hot elm rolled from its place and scatj tered embers here and there, as X had j seen it do over and over again. The I shouts of the children, the terror of the ! cat, the hurry of mother to brush the ! glowing coals from the old rag carpet j before they should add to the number i of unsightly holes already burned in it, | the activity of father in checking the j progress of the back-log with iiis boot, ! the overturning andirons, the choking : smoke and all the accompanying ex| citement and effort to repair damages, were as I had seen them often; but 1 was not there to help, and an unfathomable longing to go - and participate in the dear old scenes came upon me. What wouid I have given for the* ' poor privilege of burning my fingers in j a futile effort to set up the "fallen firej dogs? How I should have leaped and j danced for joy even to have coughed I from breathing the smoke! It wouid j have been only second to heaven to I have had mother bind up my blistered j lingers ana.little sister toput nercnuoby hands upon them and hurt them in | her anxiety to find out whether I was i shamming. But no;- this picture is bat | a mirage, and I must waif. One day ! letter came. It said another sister had ; been born to me. How strange I felt, i I had a sister I had never seen, and i when I talked about it at the table, the ' other boarders laughed at me and said j I was homesick. I cried each night I when I had gone to bed, and in the ! morning my pillow was wet with tears, j and at table my roommate told how I j had called for mother in my sleep, and so I was laughing-stock again. The lady of the house was kind to me, and often when she found me weeping, had stroked my hair so like my'mother had" in years agone,' I wept afresh. At last a day came when I was going home. The hours seemed ages, and the minutes to elapse before the train would come were hours of torture. At last, good-bye was said to my new friends, the bell tapped, and I was on the way. .1 Xlig.sofi.cd ?was, far too slow, and J aK! ' mosr^eic'itrari^A; were on foot. When at last the brakeman began to call out the names of stations that I knew, my heart beat high with every rising'hope, and I was in an ecstacy of joy. ~ At last the whistle sounded and the brakeman called the name of the station near my home. The train it seemed would never stop. The platform reached, I sprang ofll What change had come upon the world? The buildings I had thought so high two years before, were very low; the boys I knew were almost men; the girls were in long dresses; and my little sweetheart was so tall and slender, shy and blushing, that I could hardly speak to her. At home, it was the same. Father and mother were more gray, the children larger, and I called the one I had never seen by the name I'd called the next one older when I went away. The cat was sleepy and inactive, and the fire npon the hearth not half so bright. Alas! a change had come, and home was never home again.?F.E. Huddle, in Through I Mail. j The Architecture of South American Tndinns. There is considerable variety- in the shape and appearance of houses made by South American Indians, even oft^same tribe. In this village th(g^&?w three different designs. I was the open-sided shejS^S^pp^ared : to be used "in cojEiSion by the whole village for costing purposes; then there wej^-ftrfee rectangular buildings with - roofs sloping nearly to the ground and sides made of split palm leaves woven in and out between small poles, which, were occupied by the 'larger portion of the villagers; and last of Sll was a large, round affair with a conical roof , of palm thatch, and with plaited sides, j which was occupied for sleeping . pur| poses, but, singularly enough, solely ! by the men. These last four houses were provided with narrow entrances, j but were unlightcd in any other way. Their i!oor? were' of Mother Earth, trampled hard by many naked feet,and their* roofs inside were shiny black from the soot and smoke which had accumulated there. Strung wherever space could be found were the small cotton hummocks of the Indians, and beneath each during the night bur-ned a iiule lire to warm the naked body of the sleeper. In the rafters overhead, stretched from pole to pole, were the long, straight bows and shiny yellow arrows of' the warriors, and may be among the lot the deadly blow pipe, or hanging from a peg the paddle-shaped war club used by these people. Various earthenware utensils lay around, and the ingenious basket-work matapie, or cassava strainer, was never absent.?British Guinea Correspondence I C.hifnnn T-rihmt.p ~'~y? J ,. ^ t Among the Bakiraoreans just back from Europe is Rev. J. \V. M. Wil- j ; liams. Speaking of ins tcr.r in Ireland | I he said to a -reporter: "We went to j j Cork and risiteu the famous Blarney ; : Castle. I was determined to kiss the j blarney stone. It is attached to an i : iron rod extending some distance be- ! i low the gallery. I had two stout fel- i , lows hold me by the heels and lower i i me over the gallery, head downward to ; I ?v.? Tri th?o nnsturo f fnnnd mv ! ! nose very rnueh in the way, but I finally ! | succeeded in kissing it, and, on getting : up again, saluted a lady of cur party j whom I had a ri^ht to kiss. It was ! then ber turn to kiss the blarney stone, : but she would not comply with the ! rule." ?Baltimore Sun I ' - > Aj-drtishdfi ; a'Cocerl 'IsTaifd Wat/ crowd'oil the steamer wouid. lost.amid the wild dissipations of West" BrigSfjfn,.. XUe^tatcJv elephants. was i already yisibie.'-.- W'iid strains of al- ; leged music smote the ears of the susceptible passengers as; a dim foreshade\viag,u>f?tiic pleasures to come. Among the |>?^efnge?s was a faint young dude wit^tf lmtercaptible 'outlhitf.;* asftt-astill,. jZaDre" imperceptible *jmou staph ej; andamaarrelous' collar,, beneatir Trincii: he feeemedito -be-' constantly sinking.HepnSed'himself up from its depths, uu\^evtsjy a-nu lvsvucq.-<iiuisvu uuiu citerwinStioii. ' * ' ~wBe had b^n-diseussirfc-'a' soft-sfreK erases being; ;t die^artfculanj^.'appi-o-' priaie to. hii':tehdei. being. . A claw/ stiiTliagered on his pla+e,- and lie .was toyin^-.wi^ torforkdn x pretly,* in difieTt^jj&imTiert when asylpfe-lifctfiaaiden. - Wonxieronsly- clad in gossamer robes, flitt^>before h:m_ and; caused" him to remain will; the.; crab's claw poised between his. taper fingers. Such wa?-ihe impression producedupon the dues by this apparition allow-' ed :Jie" claw to fail ^eai-ke^v^-donr^yekrj^&onMid nlatc.~ 'white' ilc' himself .aflP-tfto .the iadiviuaal' hchinrd. :lhe'coilfltcr, ' . "-Deuced pwelty girl,1.'' he ii3ped,: .his Toifco souring like, the ...wsprnmcr wind among the trees}- *'dayviiBsh- pwetty giri. "W-hoJsVhe, my mant^F-l^giTS'j TT<-1 rf n mVHo if rvm .fft.]}-- ? '12on me- I ward, I will; and-?the expense." * ** The individual addressed, iiowever, with a remarkable disregard- for business enterprise, declined somewhat indignantly tt> be interviewed, leaving the' dude to depart. That parody on youth roamed about the lower deck for fuEy 'thirty'seconds, when he espied the object of his search seated with an-otjier irirl just before him. "'Ha! ha!" said he, "here's luck," and drawing a stool close to the feminine couple he bestowed his imperceptible outside upon it and cast languishing glances at the object of his particular admiration. His glee reached; a climax when the maiden smiled se^aphicailv upon him. It was no timid smiie", but an open, undeniable sajhtation. / She was evidently pleased to^ee him, and his soul rejoiced withiii^.im. ,"02 to Coney, alone?" he said, with ' an. eye to business. "Yes, sir," said the damsel, with a j bewitching laugh. "No one -will run away with me/l hope." The dude looked as though he would i hare liked to soar f:ir above terrestial nuisances, Coney Island elephants, and such vanities, with the young girl, bttt he restrained his ardor and only sighed, emitting a sound like tha buzzing^f insects among the marshes. ?I think I have seen you somewhere before," he said at length, after his gaze had rested upon the sylph-like form for a minute or so. "You have," was the answer.' .'"Ah, you remember me, do you? 0, bilss," ecstatically* rejoined the dude. "You bet I do," was the answer. "Don't you recollect it is I who bring j rfrrad your Sanday collar and ycur j one pair of cuffs every Saturday morn- i And, sir, mother says she shan't J auow you to have those articles next j waok "unless you. pay her the eight j cents you've been owing her for a fort- I tHght:"' . ^There was-silence,- and the dude fell hf?ok overwhelmed- The big elephant j blurred from; bis sight, and the j their interest for him, and he sighed when at last he saw the heartless damsel masticating a toothsome Frankfort sausage between two crusty pieces of Dreaa ana uib.yjg ii?i piacc uh ? jjucj.xy-gc-round. An Anecdote of*liincoIn and Davis. Judge David Davis, who for eight years rode the same judicial circuit iu Illinpis with Abraham Lincoln, related many capital anecdotes about him. One was a scene in court soon after Davis was appointed judge, when Lftc<Jln had defended a fellow named Lindsay, who had been indicted for highway robbery. Lindsay had pleaded guilty, in the hope that the .court would give him the lightest sentence imposed by law. The crime, however, hnd no lenient features, and the char .icier of its perpetrator was very bad. At the close of the term Lindsay was arraigned for sentence. The judge alluded to the youth" of the prisoner, and dwelt upon the enormity of his crime. He had robbed a helpless man of his hard-earned wages, and committed a crime that tlie law characterizes as akin to murder. Gathering wrath anil indignation as lie proceeded, the judge closed his philippic witli" the T contfln/1.? mil to legislature!'' SBE^^Kc arose with a quaint"gleaar ^oflittmor on liis fr.ce, and said: "May it please your honor, ::s the friend of the court, allow in" to suggest that the law does noi permit cruel and unjust punishment. Your honor has sent this man to the legislature when he ought to go to the penitentiary." . _ * "The difference is so slight that the court has no hesitation in adopting the suggestion of its learned and experi enced adviser," the judge responded. Thereupon he imposed the full sentence of the law, :iud everybody laughed except the defendant and his counsel.?Ben: Perley I'oore* -cr-o oFirias at a Crisis. Senator Fessenden was not destitute of humor, as has been asserted. On the contrary he enjoyed a good repartee or a good story, and he would sometimes illustrate an argument with an anecdote. One afternooa in February. 1858, Jefferson Davis, A. G. Brown and other Southern Senators had declared that when the people of tbe North and South got divided on any question there would be a crisis and the Union would be dissolved. Senator Fessenden was nnf- flicnncflfl to hn fritrhtenfirL He was reminded, lie said, of an incident which j had occurred in the Mexican war, ; when a general rode up lo Capt. Dancan, who was in charge of a battery, and with a very grave and sober face, said, "Capt. Duncan, fire; the crisis -has arrived." Duncan turned to his meD, who stood at their p.eces with matches lighted and ready, and jgavei the order to fire! An old artiilerym^l walked up lo him and said, "Capta^ I do not see any of the enemy range. What shall wc lire at?*^H at the crisis," was the respoq^@BI you not hear the general sai^ has come? Fire at tha^fl Senator Fessenden, it men, I think, in refercg^ ter. They are al\j^g ready to Bre at thc? has arrived half my rccollcction^j The the ^oniM while t]^| land^fl ' - . - " - ; the Craze For Small Feet. JZhe competition between dudes" in ! "the matter.of small feet has become so intense that they are visiting the consulting room of prominent- surgeons i and asking to have their big tof>s amputated, so that they may be able to get into boots of the smallest compass possible. Professor William H. Pan? j coast, Of the Jefferson mcdical college,' has, during the past month, been called upon by three men" and one woman all of them making the singular request-In every instance'he refused to perform the operirlion, -and. the' wouia-Depauems v/em; away aisgasied. The idea cf the surgeon's knife aiding them in their efforts 'to attain the beautiful seems to have occurred to hundreds of "people simultaneously, like an epidemic. ~ " *1 can'faicconirt for tMs remarkabledesire for beinsr mutilated'for the sake of-appearance,*' :said Dr.- Pancdast to a Press reporter, "but-l ean say it has, like all fashionable crazes^ sprung up in a very short time. It must be due to the,pointed shop. You see, the cutting off the big to^ -vtfoij&d not materially shorten-: a foot but it would make; -the end of it carrower;so that tfie tient 'would be able to wear pointed as a dagger. This se'emJ^o be the .modern Tconceggfijj^of pedal beauty; Bj^sat^byriST poStew^afeoe ^ssili^rCut and then these people wnTr are having their big toes sliced oft will besoxry." "J ' "Would the slicing off a big toe. hurt a dude?" asked the reporter.. "Not materially," answered the physician. "In fact, people whose toes have had to be amputated through disease seem to get along all right I . have had lots of patients whose toes have been removed, and they have always been consoled when told of tho dainty boots they will be able to wear. A n/l f -mol 1 rr fliinlr t.hoTr toes. It is a curious fact that most of the applicants are men. Popular prejudice would at once conclude that* none but a woman could be so vain. Qne of my visitants was a farmer, though what on earth he wanted with small feet I can't imagine. _ "It is a common thing for surgeons to have patients who want meeting eyebrows eradicated," Prof. Pancoast continued..' "in these cases we remove the hair by the roots an;l then apply electricity, which gives the person a sharp, stingingpain. After this treatment the undesirable brows never return. Ladies who are so. unoa fn liQ-rrn mncto/>l>AC arA ivl vuuiicv vfco bv uutv *uw>;?mvuvw Mi, w treated in the same way, but it is so painful that they can only have half a mustache removed a day. They go away looking very funny. It is getting quite common to do away with defects in the ear or nose. Aii these items are part of a physician's reguiar routine; that is,, all excepting the big toe treatment, which I would never perform for anyone. I call it flying in the face of nature. The big toe is not a superfluity; in fact, it has a very decidcd use, and the profession should discountenance any attempt to abolish it.''?Fhiladelphia Frcss. Starting a Boom. He was a man about 25 years old. He had a prominent nose, red neck, fighting jaw and sheet lightning in his eyes. He had been hnnting for a certain eiti- _ sen for half a day without success, and when finally asked if it Was very par-' ticular business he replied: Howants^to "Boom?" ' "Exactly. He wants a county nomi-* nation, and Tm-going to work it up for him." "How do you boom a would-be candidate?" was asked. "Well, it's easy enough. There's three brothers of us. He divides $50 among us as a starter. That makes us solid for Smith. We bejrin to hurrah for him. Somebody hurrahs for Brown. We pulverize'cm. We talk Smith .in saloons, on the street, out in "the country nnH <vll nr<vr_ Smith's the chaD? stands in with the boys?no aristocrat ?good fellow?honest man?sure to ; git thar'?got to see h?m through." "But suppose another faction wants ! Collins?" "Clean 'em out! Lick a Collins man and he begins to whoop for Smith. Keep treating and hurrahing and knocking down tili the day of the counI ty convention, and then watch your j delegates. Bribe some, lick some?get I others too drunk to sell you out. Just as easy as grease when you know. how. Hang it, Smith ought to be on hand. I know of two places where I've got to set up kegs of beer to-night, and 1 expect to lick three different men before midnight. 'Rah fur Smith!"?Detroit Free Press. , | Tlie American Oyster iu EnglandAmerican oysters are for sale all over England. The price is high?three shillings a dozen. I saw a wholesale oysterinan at tlie Billingsgate fish-market in London.who told me how they managed them. He waited a few moments, while a dozen barefooted women swore and wrangled about a box of bloaters, and then said: "We ship little oysters from America and plant them in English water. We select the mouth of a river. After staying there " Here the Billingsgate women swore so loud that the conversation was interrupted. "After staying there a year, as I was saying, we take them up and sell then^j See," he said, opening one, "they littlesalter than your oysters, but^B good, and " ? Here the market woman loud that my friend had to^^fl walking up to the nearest,I "Women, I want you^fl and swear harder*" JM "What ye HHH asked. J&"Why, tliiSTs^M tn America to cal campaign^? miliar witi^^B ?7 mt "a in wh^fl tnM The Bluebird, " So far as. the chickadee is. concerned, I see-nothing whatever to wish/different; bat nm glad I to believe thirt* for mj-day and long after* Jre will-remain' the same unassuming, careless-hearted. , creature that he how_ is. If X may be 'allowed the paradox;' it* would be too bad for him to change, even for thefcefc-; ter. -But. the bluebird, who like the tit-.: % mouse is hardly to be accounted, a mnr .. * sician, does 3?em lo be somewhat blameworthy. ;'0hce in a while, it is* true, he takesifi 'jpefcch and. sings; but for the most part* he iscontented, with; i few simple notes, having no sem- .: blance'ofa tune. . Possibly' he considers that fcte piir^ isorrtfatto^Toiee'YrHdi" not rememhec .ever&o hnya'fcesrd "from' him any note of ::sepzxn<y:9P i mezzo-soprano quality) ought.by itself "to be a- sttiScIent (EsHhcSdnf'but^l think it likelier (hat his' slight"attempt : at musiCiisi-ozrly ^onfemamfestatidii of the habitual-reserve wMch, more than anything else perhaps, "may be said, to ' characterize hrnif' Eow differently he and the rdhjft- impress^ u^^ this'par ticaiaxL.JrjU* ir.sc- up t^e/^bode in -our door-y aad^or^'rdsjili^b^e-.. nest in boxes put up . for his accommodation, .and 'making the roofs of oar -houses bis favmte* perching stations, v&jt; while; the robin" is noisily and' jauntiiy^^aniniar; the bluebird maintains a"digrnllethr^crfe^^ . going about the premises, but keeping his thoughts to himself and never becoming cne at us save- by the mere accident of local proximity. The robin, again, loves to travel in large flocks,. when household duties are over for the season; "cut arrtbotfgii tne same nas' been reported of the" bluebird, I iave never myself seen such a thing, and am satisfied that, as a rule, this gentle spirit finds a family party of six or seven company enough. His reticence, as we eiieerfally admit, is nothing to quarrel with; it is all well bred, and not in the least unkindly; in fact, we like it, on the whole, rather better than the robin's pertness and garrulity; but, none the less, its natural consequence is *hat the bird has small concern for musical display. When he sings, it is not to gain applause, but to express bis affection; and while, in one aspect of the case, there is nothing out of the way in this,?since his affection need not be the less deep and true because it is told in;few words and with unadorned phrase?yet, as I said to begin with, it is hard not to feel that the world is beins: defrauded, when for any reason, however amiable, the possessor of such a matchless voice has no ambition to mr.ke the most of it? Bradford Torrvy in Oct>6er Atlantic. The Pyramids Built Downward, _____ Mr. Cope WIiiteTiousc, who seems to be treated as a crank by the Science Association in meeting at Ph iladelphia, got the stage of the. academy as the scientists were leaving the L.V.l Wednesday, and proceeded to give an illustrated lecture on "The Libyan Deserts." Some of the audience remained and-others out of curiosity turned back to hear him. Mr. Whitehouse enunciated some singular scientific theories, based upon the most careful-researches. One of . these was that .tie.Pyramids, had been built practically downward, not up- J -ward. He took Herodotus and other j ancient writers for his authorities, and f .opiaioV that t^trchambefsrar^^^^^j .of the Pyram*Ls, had been used for; temples and were constructed, beneath the center of - big hills,. and that the apes of these hiKs had been tut ol? and, through the holes thus made the big boulders of rocks had been dropped one upon another until they had risen to a new apex The hills, he said, were then smopfhed off and the sides of the Pyramids molded, leaving them ? tVior- seen tn-dan The theorv presented by Mr. Wbitehouse is not noveL ' It has been advanced before. Whatever its merits, says the New York tribune,?and if the judgment of the standing committee be taken as final, it has none?it is the subject of much comment to-day, that the committee should have shown such animosity in the matter. There are probably many more dangerous 'cranks1' in the ranks of the association than Mr. Whitehonse. There ' are many scientists whose opinion is entitled to weight who think that'Mr. Whitenouse's services in other branches of science have been eminent. He is, for instance, recognized as an authority on the Lybian deserts. But his notions regarding the Pyramids are generally ridiculed and little attention paid to She Will Send For A broad-shouldered, tiomp^B young woman with . bro^afl hard hands sat in the pot waiting for the depj4| for the East She h^fl town from Dakota^| "Marriage?" some remark bjM what all ihe'sdM men that Xjdflj harvest ca^ want to^fl morojm kot^w s^B nT.EAxrxfts. -Sandwiches are a great staple in <%, ' London. "Forty thousand men are said to be daily engaged in vending them, An '''experienced "physician" is quoted as saving tbat iaere-is: afgrav^ waiting not far ahead for. children who are. "never hungry" for breakfastr" The new reservoir of Sichmond, Va., holds :40,000~ 090 gallbirs cf' water, Male ils population requires daily for cooking and drinking. 200,000. gallons. \ Over $5,000 have been raised in penny contribations-lo the. monnjnont of Eeter Cooper. The committeenoweall for suggestions from artists and sculp 'It is estimated that the population ?f the JJn ited -States ' to-day is aSout'57,000,000. Dr. Loring. predicts that at " the close of the present century it will be'tOO,000,000. One of the' largest . sheets of plate glass ever imported has been placed in position in Pibsbtirg. The plate meas nres 186 inchos*"by 10-f; inches, "and is ; witl^nt a single flaw. A strong decoction of the leases and , stems.of. tomato plants: Is said tiv be . cneii^s'ot'regeiiitioa swithodt ..being^ injnrions to the plants. . Walia Walla, W. T., can ^Ssf^of two Chinamen who arej?gtfti!ed to vote, Shoo Fly and Andijs^Johnson. ;Both wcreiorn inthajfest, and are conse "queS^naUj?^orn citizens. ' Dr. Pratt, cf .^London, - ia .authority for the statement that between the ages of twenty-five and "thirty there are sis deaths to tho thousand among 'married men and ten among bachelors. Paper is" made Li France from the hop vine, and it is. claimed that the fiber secured is the best substitute for ra^s yet obtained as it possesses great length, strength, flexibility and delicacy. ' In the Empire of Morocco there is only one subscriber to a newspaper. He is the Emperor. As soon as there aro two or three more it .is likely some Yankee will happen-along and start-a One of the most remarkable collections of minem! w rings is Catoosa Springs, in No.-t.; 1 Tgial There are fifty-two springs .Ay all different in charactcr, witL?i?. space of a twoacre plat. The high pr-i; > ; id in the New York market fw;- - ' >ping and mud turtles has indn- . uany farmers in Rockland and 0.-;> c. Counties to go into the raising of ;ucse ; animals as a legitimate trade. Some idea of the , magnitude of tho wheat crop of California may be obtained when it is stated that "it would take the Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, one year to move it with their present facilities. A very unpleasant sect to disagree with is a new religious body whose existence has within a few months come to light in the Crimea. Members deem it their duty to kitl, on the earliest opportunity, those who differ with them. German physicians are claimed by many to be (he most skilful in the worm. xaey. siuuy tairteea years,in -jggrv/ an ordinary college for five years, then Jb&Bm attend a medical school six years, and end up with two years in a hospital. in"coal mines, made in Pennsyivajoia, ^ve^?B-:qui? enco^^agio^ *Itis be-Expenmeats with an electric tricycle are driven by a storage battery, carry two persons and :tre* expected to run at the rate erf six miics an hour on level Mrs. Emmeline Rogers, the. "Texas Cattle Queeq," has turned the naif century line, while her-recently-acquired husband Is twenty-three years her janlor. She has induced him to abandon the ministry, but permitted him to be elected to tlie Legislature. . Captain Benard, of France, the inventor of an alleged navigable "balloon, claims that the problem of aerial navigation. is completely solved, and that it ? is now only a question o? tame and money. He saysthat a balloon postal system is as easy as a railroad system. The oldest church of English origin in this country is in the Isle o! Wight County, Virginia, and it was .built, it is thought, in 1682,. and of imported brick. "The thick walls and tower are still firm, but the windows, r j|s| doors, and interior, woodwork are gone. Adulteration of leather is thexlatest, and comes from Germany. It i3 accomplished by soaking the tanned -hides in gli^ose and drying'them, which adds . Wi ^^j^^xeight and apparent solidity iue It wss deMiPMl||||j| hi " in '