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] 0 * ? " 1 1 " 1 ' ? THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER J BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.?NO. 25. Su|?p tst?. He\ Suppose, Fadette, that I, ii steal of keeping tryet With you to-irfi!', h*d -taid away to doze, Or call upos Me?B a .t, or play at whist? Sup, cse V She. S-ppotto You 1 ad? Think j,..; I h! ould have cared? Lideed, Aint yon a bit com ei?don't take my rose? A gift to me. Fr ni whom? Well?Joseph Ke?d, SU|'I?. -so ? He. Supi one It s ? Then I :u t > tin ":er-tand, P?.dette? ] f I mu t rea<! \u: r words as plainest prose? t\y presence matters not to you?and-r-yet, S l( 1>080? She. Suppose Ton hre to under- t>?nd me so ? You're free; Do, if you wi-h! And-oh! the river's froze ; What skating we flioll h?ve ! To-morrow we? Tbr.t'* Jose? He. A:id JtiBo Be banged! 1c neetns to me, Miss Lowe, that yon Are acting rartier lightly: ramor goes That he?but since I t-eem to bore, adieu! She. Sup; o c? He. Suppose Wc SRV good-night. She. Good is'jjUt, sir, and good-bye ! He. What does this !_wtui, Fadette ? Are you? She. We'll close Tcis scene at o:>co. My words are plain,sir, I Suppose? He. Compose Yourself, Fadette. She. My name, eii, is Miss Lowe! He. Come-, comc, Ftdotte, do look beyoDd Your noeo, And? She. HeisV your ring, sir! He. I receive it, though Suppose? She.: Suppose You do, sir ??you? He. Euough, Mips Lowe. Farewell! 'Tis best. I've been deceived in you, God knows! Coquette! a heartless flirt! a haughty belle Who cboee? She. suppose? Oh!?oh ! let'u part as friends! 1 hato you ?tbere! Be. Fadette ! why, sweet, iu tears! This surely shows You'll pardon me, a bruto! She. Aud?Frank?we'll ne'er Suppose. ?Scribner for September. MY FIRST CLIENT. 1 baa been ca'led to the bar not quite a year, and was seated with my friend Frank Armitage in our chambers in the Temple. Frank had been called on the same day as myself, and we had agreed to make ohr professional start together. To that end we had become joint possessors of a set of chambers at No. 99 Figtree court, and of a boy named Blobbs, who was known as our "clerk," though his tender years and seedy garments made the dignified appellation sound almost ironical. His style of dress was peculiar, and gave one the idea that he had several brothers of various sizes, and had borrowed an article of apparel from each?his boots belonging to the eldest and his trousers to the youngest. There were sundry other boys on our staircase, with whom Blobbs was constantly having little differences and tightiDg them out upon the landing; indeed this, with occasional expeditions to Prosser's for commissariat purposes, formed the staple of his professional occupations. When ha first undertook his duties we had started him with a pint bottle of ink, a ream of draft paper, and a gross of pens; aud we had enjoined him to employ all h>s leisure time in copying precedents. He begun with great vigor, and copied ab< ut a page and a Lalf in a large schoolboy band the first morning, but he never got ? ? TKo i-nom r?f nnpf-r 41 tr i n - HI J^y luttuu. AUV 4V1.4U t"~L ^ I died somehow, and the ink disappeared to an extent which even the numerous little black devils, with which Blobbs had embellished his domain, failed to account for, until one morning I detected him in the act of blacking his I toots with it, and polishing tbem with the penwiper. Still, as boys go, Blobbs was not a very bad specimen; and as we really had no work for him to do, we were not disposed to be extremely augry with him for not doing it. Fortunately, Armitage and myself were both to a considerable exteut independent of our profession, for, to ail appearance, our profession was quite in dependent'of us. We had been called, as I have mentioned, very nearly a year, and neither of us had yet been favored with a brief; nor did there appear to be any particular likelihood that we ever should. We had a friend, Charley Larcombe, who had recently been arti cled to a solicitor, and who had promted that when he was out of his articles (which would be in about four years) and had passed his examination (which might be forty) he would "give us a lift." This rather vague prospect j roally appeared t > be oar only cnauce; hat with the natural sanguineness of youth we still looked for briefs, thoagh we had not the faintest notion where they were to come frrf<n. In truth, in the very early days of our professional career (when we had only been barristers for^a week or two) we used to watch with cnxious solicit ado any person of legal aspect who was seen to cross the court in the direction of our staircase; but we found that- the person of legal aspect invariably stopped short at the chambers of Cocksnre, Q. C., which wore immediately below ours, and the approach of a f-tr inger had now ceased to excite more than a casual interest. Our personal habits, too, had degenerated. At the outset of our career we had unanimously agreed that everything of an unprofessional character in our belongings should be rigidly tabooed. In particular we had decided that our breakfast should always be over and its remains cleared away before nine a. M.f and that smoking should not on any account be perm'tted in the room destined for the reception of clients. In accordance with these virtuous resolves, we were (or I should rathfr say we had ? ' P "? 1 *1. _ 1 * L been) always to De iouuu uy unii-puoi, nine, each seated in the rigidest of arm chairs, wearing the blackest of frock coats and the stiffest of shirt collars, attentively pernsing ponderous law books, and makiug copious notes with the assistance of a gigaDtio pewter instand, polished to a positively dazzling brightness. But this halcyon state of affairs was too good to last. We had screwed up onr virtuous resolves to too extreme a tension, and they had gradually sunk down again. Who was the first to give way is a mooted point. My own idea is that all would lmve gone well bad not Armitage insidiously suggested our allowing ourselves just one cigarette after breakfast; while he will have it that the tliin ei;d of the w:>dge was introduced by my surreptitiously reading an occasional French no "el under cover of 'Cook on Littleton." However this may be, we had npeedily fallen away from our original fcigh standard. Not having beeT^jrcuble^^^^hat frantic rush of clients which we Lad originally expected, we had become much less particular in our habits. The large law boo s were left unopened, the hour of breakfast had become gradually later, and short pipes and tweed jackets had become the order of the day until luncheon, and sometimes, I fear, even until dinner time. In our earlier days wo had made it a point of honor that one or otuer of us should always remain in chambers, so as to be ready for anything that might turn up, but now we made nothing of putting up the delusive notice: "Return in five minutes," and departing together for the rest of the day. In order, however, to keep up the pleasant fiction tha^ we -A-11 ??-3 irt UnwA nlianfa onmfl /Iftr bill! tJJLJJfUtCU LKJ uavu v/iiouvo we had made a .bet. Each of us had i backed himself for ?5 to get the first brief, with the proviso that (if ever the bet should be decided) the winner to stand a dinner to the loser, in order to i commemorate the event. Imagine our i emotion,.therefore, when on the morn- < ing of my story, soon after ten, a heavy step was heard to ascend the staircase ' and pause at our door ; and when Blobbs i (who had been, according to his usual habit, settling a little difficulty with ! Cocksure's boy upon the landing) rushed in, and in a hoarse whisper said, frantic with excitement: " A gentleman for Mr. Browne 1 And he've got a bundle o* papers." I must say that Armitage's behavior did him credit. My landing the first prize must naturally have been a disappointment to him ; but in the most magnanimous way he exclaimed : " Good for you, old man I Go in and win. I'll hook it into the next room 1 rtorrrv aaqof. nloar fnr ttati " And he bolted accordingly into his bedroom. I would have given much to have been able to assume a more dignified attire, and to straighten things generally, before the entrance of my client, but it was out of the question. I had only just time to pitch the end of my cigar in the fire, open one of the big law books (upside down, as I afterward discovered), and to compose my features into the most professional expression compatible with a flannel jacket and carpet slippers, when the visitor entered. He was a snort, puffy little man, middle aged, and of a good naturedly ] unintellectual cast of countenance. He wore a shabby white hat and greasy black gloves, and his trousers were shorter and his umbrella fatter than is genera'ly considered desirable in those i articles; but, notwithstanding, there i was an air of snug respectability about < him, and the bundle of papers, tied i with red tape, which he carried, hod an eminently business-like appearance. He began: "I must apologize for disturbing you i at this early hour, Mr. Browne " (he was I evidently ?ot a high-class practitioner); ' " but the fact is, I liave come to bepr < notio^ott/ifl in O TMTX7 nrCiiTlf. " ( jviu aooiotauvu *u w *v*^ ^v--v I tried to look as if very urgent cases ] were matters of the most ordiuary occurrence in my professional experience. ' "Ah," I said, "quite so. Take a 6eat, ' Mr. " I " Ward, sir; Gibbons & Ward, of i High street, Bloomsbury. You have 1 heard the name, I daresay. Gibbons is 1 dead?has been dead some years, in < fact; but we keep up the old name, you < know." 1 I didn't know in the least. I had 1 never to my knowledge heard of Gib- 1 bons & Ward, bnt it would not do to admit the fact. Not to know Gibbous & ' Ward would clearly bo to argue myself unknown. I took my cue accordingly. "Oh, yes ; Gibbons & Ward, a most ' eminent firm? I am delighted to huve the pleasure of making your acquaintance, Mr. Ward." ' " You are vt'ry kind, sir. Well, sir, < ne I was saying, or rather as I was about t to say, I have become conuected with a i case, a ve.ry peculiar case?indeed, a i mrwt. rvunnliar Rase : and hearioe of vou 11 from my old friend Mr. Wiggins, I 1 thought that, though I'm a stranger to < you myself, I might venture to cull and i ask you to assist me in it." " Dear me," I thought, " whoever 1 would have thought of old Wiggins (my I hair dresser) sending me a client!" And 1 on the prinjiple that one good turn de < serves anothi r, I mentally resolved to < go and have my hair cut the very next 1 day. I replied : < " I shall be very happy, Mr. Ward. * Have you the particulars in writing ?" 1 " Well, not exactly," said Mr. Ward, | depositing his bundle of papers in his 1 hat. " I have a few "Ti^h memoranda, j but I'll tell ynu in half a dozen words ' the stare of the case. The party I rep- 1 resent is u Mrs. Podgers, and I think ' you'll agree with me that she has been ' very badly used. The fact is, she was ' the daughter of an old fellow named ! Glubb, in the oil aud color trade, a 1 man reputed to be worth a mint of 1 money. When 6he married Podgers, 1 who was a pork butcher in a small way 1 of business, Podgers naturally wanted ; to know what the old man would do for them. A little ready money would have ' been very acceptable, and as they knew ! that Susan (that's Mrs. Podger's) was the only daughter, and would come in for all the old man's money at his death, they didn't see why he shouldn't give 1 'em a little at once, on account like. But old Glubb wasn't to be had in that ' way. ' No,' he says, ' if you marry j Susan, when I die you'll have all I've got, which may be ten thousand or it 1 ?? >? a < ? i?i T>? Ullty UO bWCUl'jr, uuu A 1JJ. UUU irv undress before I go to bed, as the saying iB!' So upon that, and quite relying that the old man would keep his word, Podgers goes and marries. They all knew the old man couldn't last very long, so on the strength of his expectations Podgers puts in a new shop window and starts a pony trap. Trade was bad and Poilg?rs found himself outrunning tho constable a bit; but he didn't rniud, feeling sure it would bo all right when the old man went off the hooks." T liHtrun t,n seo rnv wa". Podcrers had married on the strength of the old g- ntlemau's promise, and the old gentleman had subsequently changed his mind. Here was an opportunity of impressing Mr. Ward with my legal acumen. " Excuse my interrupting you one moment, Mr. Ward," and 1 rung the ! bell. Blobbs entered. " Blobbs, give ! me ' Chitty on Contracts,' and then go J and ask Mr. Cocksure's clerk to oblige j me with the loan of the sixth volume of | ' Meeson and Welsby.' I think I can | erive vou a case just in point-, Mr. I Ward." Blobbs banded me " Cbitty on Contracts," which in point of fact was j on the inantelpieco immediately behind j me, and departed to execute the rej mainder of my order. I referred to the j index, murmuring audibly : " Con- j sideration?good?valuable?marriage? j page 18. Then turned to the passage j and silently perused it with much atten-1 tion. " Ah, yes, I thought so I" Blobbs here returned with the borrowed volnme, in which, with an air of deep reflection, I turned to an imaginary authority. " No, that won't do. I had forgotten for the moment that that case was overruled by Jones vs. Robinson. Pray proceed, Mr. Ward." Mr. Ward had more than once attempted to continue his story, but, with a gentle wave of the hand, I had courteously yet firmly deprecatc d interruption. He resumed apologetically : "I'm afraid I'm giving you a deal of trouble, Mr. Browne." " Not at all, Mr. Ward, I assure you. I always like to make sure, from the outset, as to the broad principles applicablo." " Qaito so, sir; very true. But I am afraid there is a little mi|understanding." "I think not. I have followed you with great attention. A married B's daughter 0 on the faith of an undertaking by B that he will, on his death, leave O the whole of his property; B (that's Glubb, you know) dies, and he does not leave the property to 0 (that's Mrs. Podgers), but to somebody else. Isn't that your oase?" And I leaned back in my chair and eyed him with a deny-thatif-you-can sort of erpression. "Just exactly so, sir. If you'd been one of the family yourself you couldn't have got it more pat. They all went on as comfortable as possible till one fcjun1 * !-" -^1-3 rli'nn/1 rmfli fVlA Hay 1/LitJ U1U uauvu nn? vuv Podgerses, and he found a caterpillar in the vegetables. He would have it they did it on purpose. Ha went home at once, tore up his will and made another, leaving every penny of his money to the asylum for incurable clearstarchers. The excitement brought on an apoplectic fit, and he died the very same night. Personalty sworn under ?25,000; and Podgers all but in the Gazette I begun to fear that the case would prove to be a Chancery matter, and that my share in it would be limited to giving Mr. Ward an elaborate opinion to that effect. But it clearly would not do to make any suggestion of the kind at the present stage of the proceedings. "Ah, just as I thought, you see." jl tried to look as if I had anticipated every detail of the caee, even to the caterpillar. " Well, now the question is, what evidence have we, first of a distinct agreement on the part of B (otherwise Glnbb) to leave all his property to his daughter, and, secondly, that A (otherwise Podgers) married on the faith of that promise. You hear what Chitty says: ' A valuable consideration i* such as money, marriage, or the like, which the law esteems an equivalent given for the grant, and is therefore founded on motives of justioe.' That's the law; but how about the facts. Mere assertion won't do, you know; wo must have evidence. "Well, as to the evidence I'm afraid there isn't much in a legal sense. Mr. Cocksure has advised upon the case, and ho says that we haven't any evidence; in fact, that we haven't a leg to stand apon." It was flattering and at the same time n little alarming to be consulted in a case iu which Mr. Cocksure had already expressed an adverse opinion. If Mr. Cooksure was timid I had better bo at least cautious. " You will have up-hill work before ? nrnl T oli1 /I rn/inmmon/1 y uu, i uituiaiu) uau j. ouvuiu iwwuiutvuu you, Mr. Ward, as a man of business (that is, of course, between ourselves) to see your way very clear as to your :osts out of pocket. The incurable 3learstarchers will fight hard, sir, you may depend on it." j "Oh, dear, yes, sir; no doubt they , tvould. But we've quite made up our j ninds not to go to law about the mat- ( ;er. It would only be throwing good j noney after bad; leastways it would if ] ivo had any to throw; but we haven't. . Podgers ran away to America last Mon- \ lay, and his poor wife and five young ] shildren are this moment living in a two- jair back in Camden Town, sustaining i miserablo existence on the 6canty re- , nains of the stock in trade." , A horrible misgiving crossed my mind, md I shut up Chitty. ' I thought?I mean to say I supposed ] ?I really don't quite see, then, in what < tvay I can bo of service in the case, Mr. < IVanl." 1 " Well, you see, Mr. "Wiggins told me i i=? you wan an uncommon kind hearted I ''' T I?^,11 nnA I <eiiue;a;ui, bu jl uiauu uuiu tu uuu nuvi < 13k if you wouldn't put down your name < 'or a trifle for the widow and orphans? iot that Mrs. Jf. is precisely a widow, ] ior yet the children exactly orphans, aut rather worse if anything, in my ( opinion, and another expected almost ! immediately, sir." I I was fairly caught. Not for worlds < ivould I have let Mr. Ward know that I I iiad been laboring under a misapprehension, and had been mentally wel- i joming him as my first client. On the >ther hand, after the extreme interest I 1 nad exhibited in the case, I could not I lo less than give him a handsome dona:ion. Smiling amiably, but inwardly < Dreathinp: the most awful imprecations i igainst Wiggins (and very nearly vow- ' ing, on the spur of the moment, never 1 :o havo my hair cut again as long as I I ived), I expressed my extreme gratification at having the opportunity of con- i :ributing a sovereign to the necessities jf the Podg^rs family. Mr. Ward 1 beamed with delight, and pressed on my icceptanco his card, asf-uring me that, | ii jl snouia ai any time require anyimng ( in 1 is line, it would be his most earnest endeavor?those words, by the -way, he Apparently spelt with an h?to give me j .satisfaction. Ho insisted on shaking bandH at parting, and appeared to find . considerable difficulty in tearing him- ' self away. At last, however, he departed, leaving mo still holding his card. My one absorbing thought as soon as I could think at all was how on earth to conceal the facts from Armitage?what possible fiction to invent which should save my dignity from the exposure of the horrible truth. What dreadful falsehood I might ultimately have given !>irth to I cannot say, for I was saved from the ordeal by hearing a burst, or rather a succession of bursts, of frantic laughter from the room to which Armi tuge had retired. I pushed the door, which yielded to my touch. My worst feats were realized I he knew all. He was lying upon the bed, his feet considerably above his head, cramming a pocket handkerchief in his mouth, and every now and then breaking out afresh into a peal of maniac laughter. " Well, Brownie, old boy, I hope you've given the new client a good sound iogai opinion. Oh, dear, my poor sides! When shall we have the dinner, eh, old man?'" "Oome, Frank,*' I said, addressing him more in sorrow than in anger, "don't add insult to injury. You've had the door ajar, you scoundrel; so I needn't tell you any particulars. But at ontr rofn nrnmisin +n lrppn mv oonrot. " " That I'll be hanged if I do, old boy; the j^ke is a great deal too good to keep to myself. Itow about ' Chitty on Contracts ' and ' 6 Meeson and Welsby ?' Oh, you old impostor ! I'll be hanged if I don't tell the story to every fellow I meet." So, for fear that the facts should be misrepresented?I hate misrepresentation?I determined to tell it myself. Tough on the Bather. A sea captain of jocose humor, in a 9eaeoR8t town, met an acquaintance the other day who wag rather noted for not very cleanly habits in person. "Well," said the latter," "I have just been in bathing." " You don't say so ! Bathing, do you say?" asked the other. " And where did you go ?" " Oh, down to the beach." "I am afraid, then, some of our vessels or boats will run foul of a new bank formed there of which they never heard before." In 1852 the English Parliament voted for education, art and science an ap-1 propriution 6f &2,858,810. This 3tar I the amount was 816,890,196. Fearful Accident?The Rejected Dispatch. About this time the circus agent bursts into the oounty newspaper offioe and says, breathlessly: " You the editor ?" " I am, sir." " Correspondent for some of the metropolitan press?" " Yes, sir." "I've got the biggest sensation you ever saw, and I want you to send it off by special to all the big papers." The editor gets out his pencil and a quire of printing paper, and says: "Pile in." The circus agent says: "Pat down that Blowhard's Gigantic? Mammoth Golden Megalothasallarian Circus?it's a big thing, I tell you, and I am agent; Barnum's is a sideshow to it, and Lent would have to burst up and go home on foot only our old man lent him money? have you got that down ?" " I have." "Well, add that we have been tenting up in the Northwest and been coining monoy everywiiore, wnne an tne nine one-horse concerns that get up big posters and obtuiu money under false pretenses haven't been taking in stamps enough to pay for their licenses?houses papered, all of 'em." "Go on." " Well, last week while we were moving the show from Oshkosh to Howville in seven special trains and 163 cars, the train. carrying the Zoological Carnivorium ran off the track and all the dens were smashed to pieces and the animals got loose." ?? "Rloaa m*7 anill VflTI (Irm'fc RAV HO [" J ? J ? ? "The anaconda a wallowed the only real African giraffe in this country, imported specially for us at a cost of 8158,500, all but ten or fifteen feet of its neck. The poor animal's efforts to es cape from its living tomb were frantic, and the look of dumb, almost human, agony in its large, lustrous black eyes, moved the sternest advance agent to tears." "Dear me!" "Then the royal Bengal tiger, the Sumatran lion, and the big horned rhinoceros got into a three-cornered fight, and the way in whioh the air was full of howls, and dust, and blood, big chunks of meat like sirloin steaks a-whizzing round?it makes mo shudder to think of it." " It must have been terrible." " Terrible ain't no word for it. Then the Chiflspian gigantio orang outang and the blue faced gorilla came up with clubs formed of saplings sixteen feet long, and as big round as your leg, and sailed in like policemen into a primary meeting, and in 2:14j they had flattened out them tigers, and lions, and rhinoceroses, till there wasn't one of them dared say his soul was his own." "Wonderful I wonderful!" "You're just talking. Then the elephant, Mercutio, turned wild with fear and rage, and trumpeting like a thunder storm, rau into a fold where a farmer had a flock of 100,000 merino sheep, and such mutton juggling I never saw in my life. Ha'd just yank up a sheep with his trunk, and give him a jerk, and? sip! that sheep would go .shooting ' ' " * "i 1 A .i. tbrougn tlio air, ana come auwu u?i, aa a pancake six hundred or seven hundred pards off. It was just old chain lightning, and it would have made your eyes *tick out to see it. Why, once he had seventeen sheep in the air at once." "How many livet lost ?" "None, thank Heaven. We always have a 6team Are engine filled with 3hloroform on the train with us, and as joon as we- could get it out and get steam up we begun playiDg on them, xnd, of course, when they were stupelied, it was the easiest thing in the world to catch them and put them back in the 3agoa." "I understand; but how about that poor giraffe ?" " Oh, we gave the.anaconda a barrel Df emetics, and the giraffe came up kitiug, but the action of the anaconda's gastric juice has taken all the color off sf his hindquarters and half-melted off tiis hoofs." " How wonderful are tlie worts o: nature !" " You bet. Now sock it to them redliot and lively, and I'll ante up all the rickets to the Bhow you want." Tho editor does so, and goes to bed to 3ream that he is an anaconda trying to iwallow a long necked circus, marked "special complimentary," when he is wakened by the telegraph boy, who brings him tho following: "Your special about circus accident refused. Please pay bearer $G5.14." The Presidents of the United States. The following table may prove useful for reference as showing the political sentiments and the date of inauguration 3f each President, tho length of time he lived pfter that event, and his age at the time of his dsath : 1. George Washington, Federalist, inaugurated 1789, lived ten years, age sixty-eight. 2. John Adams, Federalist, inaugurated 1797, lived twenty-nine years, ago ninety. 3. Thomas Jefferson, Demoorat, inaugurated 1801, lived twenty-five years, tU.fm "{5? -uiiiovj. 4. James Madison, Democrat, inaugurated 1809, lived twenty-seven years, aged fifty-eight. 5. Jam?'S Monroe, Democrat, inaugurated 1817. lived fourteen years, age seventy-throe. 6. John Q. Adams, Whig, inaugurated 1825, lived twenty-three years, age eighty-one. 7. Andrew Jackson, Democrat, inaugurated 1820, lived sixteen years, age seventy-eight. 8. Martin Van Buren, Democrat, inaugurated 1837, lived twenty-five years, ago eighty. 9. W. H. Harrison, Whig, inaugurated 1841, lived one month, age sixtyeight. 10. John Tyler, Vice-President, Independent. inaugurated 1841. lived twenty-oue years, age seventy-two. 11. James K. Polk, Democrat, inaugurated 1815, lived four years, age fifty-four, 12. Zachary Taylor, Whig, inaugurated 1849, lived sixteen months, ago sixty-six. 13. Millard Fillmore, Vice-President, Whig, inaugurated 1850, lived twentyfour years, age seventy-four. 14. Franklin Pierce, Democrat, inaugurated 1853, livod sixteen years, ago sixty-five. 15. James Buchanan, Democrat, inaugurated 1857, lived eleven years, age soventy-seven. Ifi. Ahralmm Lincoln. Republican, in augurated 1861, lived four years and I one and a half months, age fifty-six. 17. Andrew Johnson, Vice-President, Independent, inaugurated 1865, lived ten years, agesixty-snven. U. S. Grant, Republican, inaugurated 1869. Tyler was eleoteJi Vice-President as a Whig, and Johnson as a Republican. Their "Independence" followed their inauguration as Presidents. Sitting Bull,?In our 0ght on the Rosebud, says a soldier writing home, we could see Sitting Bull standing on a high point, out of gun-shot, directing the movements of his warriors with a , small looking glass. It was notioed that j wherever he threw a reflection with the I glass, there the Indiana would instantly 1 charge in foroe. SUSPENDED ANIMATION. A Few Ineldenta on thelRnbJeet Given na by GhurleaHeade. the Novellat. A journal called the Los Angelos Star recorded the following incident at the time it occurred : A gentleman in the city had a very large and beautiful torn cat, which he i had reared from a kitten. It was now five years old, and the two animals were mutually attached. Every morning, when the servant brought in the water for his master's tub, puss used to come in and sit at the side of the bod, and imm TjrifVi nd miration at Jiia flmnlnuflr and sometimes mew him out; but retired into a corner during the tubbing, which he thought irrational, and came out again when the biped was clothed and in his right mind. One day the cat was seen in the garden tumbling over and over in strong convulsions, which ended in its crawling feebly into the house. The master heard, and was very sorry, and searched for the invalid, but could not find him. However, when he went up to bod at night, there was the poor creature stretched upon the floor at the side of the bed, the very place where he used to sit and gaze at his master, and mew him out of bed. The gentleman was affected to tears by the affectionate creature's death, and Ins coming there to die. He threw a handkerchief over poor torn, and passed a downright unhappy night. He determined, however, to bury his humble friend; and no' tim? was to be lost, the weatner Deing uoi. do, wnen me aervuih came in to fill hia tab, lie ordered a little grave dng directly, and a box to be found of a suitable size to receive the remain*. Then he got up; and, instead of tubbing, as usual, he thought he would wash poor tom's body for interment, for it was all stained and dirty with the mold of the garden. He took the body up, and dropped it into the water with a souse. That souse was soon followed by a furious splashing, that Bent the water flying in his fac> and all about the room, and away flew the cat through the open window, as though possessed by a devil. Nor did the poor body forgive this hydropathio treatment, although successful. He took a perverse view, and had never returned to the house "up to the time of our going to press," Bays the Los Angelos Star. The cat is not the only animal subject to suspension of vital power. Many men and women have been buried alive in this condition, especially on the con'kirmnf wharfi thft law enfnrftAH Hneedv in torment. Even in Britain?where they do not shovel one into the earth qoite as fast?live persons have been bnried, and others have had a narrow escape. I conld give a volnmeof instances at home and abroad. One of them an archbishop, who was aotually being carried in funeral procession on an open bier, when he came to, and objected?in what terms I krow not; but the Scotoh have an excellent formula in similar cases. It runs thus: "Bide ye yet, mon; Iliae a deal mair mischief to do lirrrst I" Two recent English casos I oould certify to be true?ono, a little girl at Nuneaton, who lay several days without signs of life; another, a young lady, not known to the public, but to me. She was dead, in medicine; bnt her mother refused to let her be buried, bocauqe there was no sign of decomposition, and she did not get so deadly cold as others had whom that mother had lost by death. Thi3 girl remained unburied some days, till auotber of God's creatures put in his word; a fly thought her worth Siting, and blood trickled from the bite. That turned the scale of opinioi, and tho gii-l was recovered, and is alive to this day. However, the curious reader, who desires to work this vein, need go no further than th&index of the Annual Register and the Oentleman'i MaqaA n l/\w MA T wmib^ nnf V\A ^nmrv^/i/1 AO IUI AUG, J. UIUOU XiUU uu ircLu^b^u outside ?ay immediate subject. The parallel I shall confine a very large theme to is exact. At the opening of the century the public facilities for anatomy were less than now. So then robbing the churchyards was quite a trade; and an egotist or two did worse; they killed people for the small sum a dead body brought. Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on tho dissecting table, and then the vender received his money apd went. The anatomist set to work to open the body; but, in handling it, he fancied the limbs were not so rigid as usual, and he took another look. Yes, the man was deRd; no pulsation, either. And yet somehow ho was not quite cold about the region of the heart. The surgeon doubted. He was a humaue man; and so, instead of making a fine tra*sverse out, like that at which the unfortunate author of " Mauon Lescaut" started out of his tranco with a -1?!-t. J.- J 1,? nn-wia BIiriUK, IU UIO ill ctuiicoi/} uo i the poor body a chance; applied hartshorn, vinegar and friction, all without success. Still he had his doubts; though, to be frank, I am not clear why he still doubted. Be that as it may, he called in his assistant, and they took the body into the yard, turned a high tap on, and discharged a small but hard hitting column of water on the patient. No effect was produced bat this? which an unscientific eye might have pa?sed over?the skin turned slightly pink in one or two places, under the fall of water. The surgeon thought this a strong proof life was not extinct; bat, not to overdue it, he wrapped the man in blankets for a time, and then drenched him again, letting the water strike him hard on the head and heart in particular. He followed this treatment up, till at last tho man's oyes winked, and then ho gasped, and presently ho gulped, and byand-bye he groaned, and eventually uttered loud and fearful cries, as ono battling with death. In a word, he camo to, and the surgeon put him into a warm bed, and, sa medicine has its fashion.", and bleeding was the panacea of that day, he actually took blood from tho poor body. This ought tn have sent him back to the place from whence ho came?tho grave, to wit; but somehow it did not; and next day tho reviver showed h.m with pride to several visitors; and prepared an article. Befiurrectus was well fed, and, being a pauper, was agreeable to lie in that bed forever, and eat the bread of science. But, as years rolled on, his preserver got tir^d of that. However, he had to give him a suit of his own clothes to get rid of him. Did I say years f I must have meant days. He never did get rid of him; th* fellow used to call at intervals, and demand ohnfity, urging that tke surgeon had taken him out of a condition in which he felt neither hunger, thirst nor misery, and so was now bound to supply has natural needs. However, I will not dwell on this painful part of the picture, lest learned and foreseeing men should, from the date of reading this article, confine resuscitation to quadrupeds. To conclude with the medical view. To resuscitate animals who seem dead, but are secretly alive, drop them into water from?or elae drop water on them from?a sufficient height. Peter Cooper's Early Days. A gentleman who has known the venerable Peter Cooper, a candidate for the presidency of the United States ever since he came to New York city and is personally cognizant of his business reverses and successes, said a few days ago in conversation : A great many people seem to think that Peter Cooper was always successful and that everything he ever attempted turned out profitable. This is not so. Mr. Cooper had a hard row to hoe when he first came to New York. I knew him when he first came here from the country. A tall ra-w boned young re an with any amount of energy. He was full of new ideas, however, and some led to disappointment, others to prosperity. He started a grocery about where the Cooper Institute stands now, with all kinds of truck in it. All groceries sold whisky in those days, and nothing was thought of it. His wife tended the store, dressed in a homespun petticoat, with a white cotton short gown. The concern was very popular, and Peter made considerable money. Then one of his brilliant progressive ideas took posses ?ion of him, and he went to work with a will to execute it. His scheme was to provide rapid transit from the foot of Ortley street (East n? hi. -L i. \ - i. T Hiignia afreet auwj to a puiut wuoro Bellevue hospital stands at present. There was a clear stretch of water from one point to the other, and Peter thought a ferryboat run by an endless chain would be very profitable. * He bought a great ferryboat, purchased an enormous chain, about two miles in length, and started business. At first the concern was a great novelty, and was well patronized. But by-and-bye accidents happened, by which the farmers and people using the ferryboat were detained in the river. The traffic grew lighter, and one fine morning the sheriff pounced down upon all of Peter Cooper's possessions. The next day he took a walk early in the morning out of town, up where the Murray hill residences now stand. In the midst of a pasture stood the old powder house, used for the storage of ammunition during the Revolution. He thought what a fine building it would be to occupy for the manufacture of glue. He went home, consulted his wife, got his breakfast, and, calling upon some of his friends, obtained the requisite means. In that place the foundation of his immense fortune was laid, nnA TT?V>ar> fVia orrrtnrfli nf frVio mftfrrnnnlin obliged him to abandon the building as a glue factory, he was a very wealthy man. Anonjma, A singular story of social jealousy and intrigue is related in a letter from Washington to the New York Herald. Although there were hints of this thing before, it was never publicly known that a series of anonymous letters written to members of the cabinet, and even to Mrs. Grant, and attributed to Mrs. Williams, wife of the attorney general, had been made the shbfiect of an investigation,' and that Mr. Williams' forced retirement from the cabinet was due entirely to the reffttlt of this inquiry. The facts printed, the Herald sajs, come as ? ?n.TAU*i'nn nnf. on mnoVi r\f f.hfi official and personal corruption which underlies public life at Washington as of the social ambitions and jealousies whioh form so strong an element in Washington society ? In reviewing these revelations, we would not 6peak unkindly of or deal harshly with the woman to whose hand these anonyma were traced. At the bottom there was trnth, probably, in most of the charges, and a vast outlook of conjecture is opened up by the mere suggestion of a cause for a course so remar kablo in a woman so distinguished. There is btill a mystery behind it all, the unraveling of which would probably begin with certain newspaper carrespondent. These correspondents (females) have been trying to teach the " official ladies" at Washington that they ought to be something more than good wives and mothers. In a city of boarding house3 and treasury clerks they have been trying to set up laws of social precedence, and within a few years there have been "first ladies " and " second ladies," " diplomatic ladies" and "cabinet ladies" in Washington society. The puffery has been disgusting, and many events of late have shown the results of the puf fery and rivalry to have been disastrous. Mrs. Belknap and Mrs. Williams might bavo been rivals in the ballroom and at receptions without much harm, but both aspired to lead and each tried to crash the other. In these rivalries Mrs. Williams was detected, or suspected in certain acts, and in consequence the attorney general lost his place in the cabinet. In her efforts to shine in a place where modesty was her best recommendation, M?r. Bolkuap led her husband into a persistent a ml systematic acceptance of bribes, aud his downfall is her shame also. In all this social rivalry and tomfoolery?these efforts to be first ladies in society and to get puffs in the newspapers?there can be only shame at last, and how terrible is the disgrace which is sure to follow ! Truthful and Obedient. " Charley I Charley I" CIrar and sweet the voice rang out over the common. Tiint's mother," cried one of the boys, instantly throwing down his bat and picking up his cap and jacket. "Don't go yet I" "Have it out!" "Just finish this game I" cried the players. in noisy chorus. " I must go, right off, this minute. I told mother I'd come whenever she called." ' " Make believe you didn't hear!" they all esehiimed. " But I did hoar." " Shti'll never know you did." " But I know it, and "? "Lit him go," said a bystander. " You can do nothing with him. He is tied to his mother's apron strings." "Yes," said Charley, "and there is where every boy ought to be tied; and in a hard knot, too." " But I wouldn't be such a baby as to run the minute she called," said one. " I don't call it babyish to keep one's word," said tho obedient boy, a beautiful light glowing in his blue eyes. " I call it manly for a fellow to keep his word to his mother; and if ho doesn't keep his word to her, you see if he keeps it to any one else." Unn't (Jn. A correspondent of the Pittsfleld (111.) Old Flag, writing from Dendwood, ir the Black Hills, says: Wages for common labor are from four to five dollars per day, but a great many are complaining that they can't get work. I would not advise any man to come to the Hills this fall, as there will not be any great amount of work going on this winter ; but I would advise them that are doing well to stay where they are, for a man will have to travel further than I have to find a better place than old Pike, taking everything into consideration ; but still, this is a great deal better country to make money in than I expected to find it. To them that have money and leisure I would say, this is the place to spend the summer and breathe the pure air, aud drick the clear, cold -water, and chaae the red deer over the hill*. A PERILOUS POSITION. Crowing th* Eut Ktver on a Wire Two Hundred and Seventy-Six Feet Iron the Wnter. The man daring enough to be the first to cross the East river on the wire stretched from New York to Brooklyn, says the Sun, was Edwin F. f'arrington. He is a master mechanic, and, it is said, has no peer in the putting together of the wire work of suspension bridges. He gained a reputation at Niagara and Cincinnati in the construction of bridges. He is about fifty years of age, 'and is as brave as a lion. The working rope is endless, reaching ; from pier to pier, and is 6,800 feet in length. It is the longest single belt connecting machinery in the world. A i " boatswain's chair," not unlike an oroi- ; nary little swing used by children, was i attached to the wire. The board seat is ] about two feet long and eight inches j wide, and the ropes were less than fonr i feet long and joined close togethor around ( the wire at the top. Mr. Farrington ( wore tight fitting buckskin gloves, and ; when he took his seat his grip on the i cable was firm. Then he folded his arms | around the ropes, and the red flags on j the Brooklyn and New York towers were j waved, and the wire began again to re- j volve. A gun was fir<;d on the New j York side and Mr. Farrington was on j his perilous ride to the Brooklyn tower < from the anchorage. The people in the j streets and on the housetops, near the Fulton ferry, lustily cheered, and Mr. ( Farrington swung his hat and waved ] kisses to the ladies. He took his watch j and noted the time. Five minutes after- ] ward he approached the tower. Then ] he was standing in his seat. This, Mr. i Martin, who was superintending the en- j gine, explained, was the only point attended with peril, and he felt some anx- < iety about the working of the engine, ] for, in case it went too rapid, the chair ? might be dragged over the pulleys and i ita occupant thrown ont. He watched f the signal man anxiously, and when he learned that the chair was within ten feet of the tower he stopped the engine. Then he ordered it to work very slowly, and to 8top again as the chair touched the tower. His caution led to a most perfect result. Mr. Farrington was touching the granite pier when the engine stopped. Ho was pale, and nis lips quivered. He held tight to the cable. I)aring workmen reached for him, and he was drawn upon the pier. He trembled somewhat, but said that he was not nervous. He shook hands and spoke to the bystanders, one of whom encouragingly said : " Well, old boy, you carry your life in your hand in "crossing that river. I wouldn't make that trip for a million dollars." The little *wing or boatswain's chair was made fast to the cable on the river side of the pier. Mr. Farrington said that he was ready to start. He stroked his short gray beard, and looked curiously at those about him, and then with real bravery and much nimbleness he swung over the side of the tower and clutched the ropes of the chair. He waved his hand. The spectators, oheered, the red flags were held aloft, and the journey across the river was begun. Ail the ferryboats, tugboats, and steamers in the river set up a screeching. Every pilot seemed simultaneously to have seen Mr. Farrington on the a# fVio forrvVt/iafa tppro WLLO, UUiUO Vl VUV WuH?u v.w , Btopped in the middle of the river, and , the ladies on the boats, on the piers, , and on the honsetops frantically shook j their handkerchiefs. Men and boys < shouted and swung their hats, and !&. , Farrington, seemingly enjoying his ride, held his haudkerchief to the bieeze. When near the center of the crossing he \ dapped his hands, and seemed immense- ; ly pleased. While nearing the New | York pier the wire was bent so that the trip was almost perpendicular, and Mr. ( Farrington stood in his seat, and was ] tLisafely carried to the top, and the i flrht man who crossed the great bridge w.is greeted with terrifio cheers. The ( trip from pier to pier was made in six ] minutes and forty-fiv^ seconds. The j ride from the New York pier to the | anchorage was acomplished in four min- j ures. Mr. Farringtou said he had a de- ] lightfnl ride. Many persons applied at ] the bridge oompany's office for permission to cross in the same chair used by Mr. Farrington. His trip was merely to satisfy the public that the wire is seen ro. He was the first to cross the Cincinnati bridge and also the Niagara one. Tbis is the only unbusiness venture in the work of the bridge, and the other trips aro to be made for useful purposes. A new working rope is to be lashed to the upper cable and pulled across, as was the boatswain's chait. After it is stretched from anchorage to anchorage, two buggies, one from New York, the other from the Brooklyn tower, are to be started down the rope to the anchorages. Each will descend by its own ' weight, and as ifc goes the workmen in- i siiliTof it will cut the lashings, thus free- * ing the working wire. This done, the t buggies are to be returned to the two < towers, and adjusted to the cables in the I same way. They will descend to the < middle of the stream, from opposite di- t rections, by their own weight, and the * lashings will bo cut as they go. They i will meet in the center of the < river?it is hoped without a violent 1 collision, as there will be nothing to re- 1 strain them in their course. The men < in the bnggies are to lash them together, f and then tie them flrmly to the endless 1 cable. They are then to swing the new t wire free, and are to be pulled to the < Brooklyn tower by working the endless rope. 1 i Who he Found. < rT" "L.'i i? 1 'xno umcago i.7~iuujks uuo luroxuc^vgu ? a letter sent by Stanley in Africa to the i Herald, describing a great battle be- i tween himself and 25,000 natives. He ? soys: "I have previously mentioned i in my letters that reports were current f among the Waganda that Gammonbana- 1 gara was oconpied by a race of white 1 negroes. Having this in mind, I ? watched intently during the battle for < some of these strange people. Discern- i ing a tall, fleshy, white faced man, who < seemed a leader of his fellow?, mingling 1 in the thick of the fray, I captured him. i After the battle, remembering the cap- i tive, I hastened to him, wishing to learn 1 something of the strange phenomenon? ( a white black. Upon coming into his > presence, I looked intently at him, when i suddenly a thought flashed through my brain, my feelings overcame me. I thought: Has fortune reserved forme this crowning feather in the cap of dis , covery ? I advanced, a thousand emotions swelling in my bosom. The captive arose. I said: ' This is 'I am,' said the seeming apparition. It was Boss Tweed." A Solid Dinner. Some of the hotels have bills of fare with the fly-leaf covered with cards of various business houses. An Oregon man recently took a seat behind one of them, when a waiter appeared with "What will you have, sir?" To the utter confusion ot me waiter, ne leisurely remarked: " You may fetch me a new set of teeth, in gutta peroha; an imf)roved sewing machine, with patent ock-etitch, a box of Brandreth's pills, and a pair of number seven Frenoh calfskin boots." In a moment the waiter replied: "We haven't got any of them." "Then what have you got them on the bill ?>f fine for?' retorted the customer. LIFE ON THE PLAINS. DIuloii ol a Traveler In the Western Deaert?A Prairie Incident. As for me, says a correspondent of the World, crossing the plains, I like to get ont on the platform, late at night, when the moon is sheddiDg her radi ance over the awful, desolate, yet beautiful scene, and think the thoughts and recall the legends which are appropriate Mia f*onfa nf oil bU lb* vjliuo m a yyuuy vuv iuuvw v* mm old trail appear. How many a white man, how many a white woman crossed . this dreary country long years ago, never to retorn to or even to hear from home and friends again 1 How many nights were passed by pioneers here I How many tragedies, as gloomy as that described by Cooper in "The Prairie," have been enaoted in these solitudes, unknown to Eastern men and Eastern law! What episodes of tenderness and honor, of grief and pleasure, have 3tirred the hearts of those who perished, or who have since triumphed in the Kreat struggle upon the Pacific coast! Looking out toward the pale bluffs that serrate the southern horizon, the specters of wagon trains arise, and voices from midnight camps. Distant fires Sicker. The coyote's cry?the "wolfmusio " whose only grace was.that while it lasted it assured the absence of hostile tndians?offends the listening ear. The joyotes were the natural watch dogs of ;he white man's bivouao. Tears ago, before*the railroad or the jverland stage route, or even the overland pony express was thought of, a soliary family of seven persons, accompanied by three men, started from IIinois to cross this waste. They had wagons, mules, provisions and houselold furniture in abundance. The family was of good origin. It consisted of the grandfather, father, nother, three daughters (the eldest, iged nineteen, being very attractive) ind two little 'muscular sons. Of the ihree men outside the family two were past their prime. The yoangest, the ! over of the eldest girl of the party, and jy her beloved, was befriended by her grandfather, her sisters and both her jrothets, encouraged by his elderly 1 nale companions, and cordially hated, 1 )n account of an hereditary feud, by the girl's father, (the chief of the expedition) md his wife. | One night the young man was missed n camp. So arbitrary was the rule the 1 shief pioneer had established that no 1 illusion was made to the circumstance ' luring his silence at the evening meal. ! Sfext morning the girl was gone. Still j ;he father said nothing; nor did the ' nother make one sign. The rest of the 1 ,rain were silent and subdued. Toward ' loon it was noticed that the grandfather, ! vhose affection for the absent girl was 1 rail tnnten In nmnnnt.W'.n devotion, had 1 ikewise quitted the camp, carrying his 1 ,veapons. This discovery was the sig- ' lal for the pioneer's action. Shoulder- 1 ng his rifle he commanded his two sons ' )0 stay in camp, and then started off in 1 m eastward direction at a pace that in- < iicated his perfect knowledge of the 1 thereabouts of the absentees. The rest )f the story I give as closely as I can 1 recollect it in the language of one of the ;wo elderly men who soon left the camp sn the trail of the departing pioneer: "We didn't like the looks of old 3am'I," said the narrator, "and so we followed him. It was about a seven or sight mile stretch, and just afore we some to the place we begun to sort of suspicion where it was. It was a bluff like. We walked fast, and got around where we could see what was goin* on, ifore old Sam'l come up. It seemed that old Sam 1, the second night previous, had 'ticed young off'n the trail around by this here bluff and shot bim through the chist and left him for a goner. The girl had watched which way they went, and when the boy didn't come back next day she skedaddled the next night. So when we got^here she'd got him down by the brink of a little tvater bole; ana tuere mey ooia was, she a-holdin' hia head on her arm and keepin' the sun off his face with her ipron. Pretty soon old Sam'l come ilong the other side o* the bluff. He looked around a second or so, and got tiis eye on the gal. I seen him raise his rifle and p'int it at her, and I raised nine and p'inted it at him. Wo both 3red at the same time, for just as he sefeled over I looked, and the girl was i-lying face down, flat across 's Dody. The old granddaddy?he just ;hen riz up 'longside o' fhe water hole. 1 But I didn't stop to see anv more. Me ind my partner both lit out, and only stopped long enough in camp to git 1 iway with our blankets and a little 1 jrub. I never hearn of any one o' that ' am'ly sence." 1 I A China Boy's " Cousins*" A. "China boy" has no end of i ' cousins'* (sounding the i as it sounds : n pin). From one to half a dozen j Dhinamen will loiter round a kitchen if hey dare, and one may feel certain that ivery Chinese of them is hungry. To i so hungry. seems, indeed, their normal i :ondition, for they live by scores in ' iheir washhouses and other haunts, sub- : listing on the smallest modicum of food, i n order to save money. When they < Irop iuto our kitchens to call on a com- < ade, therefore, one may be certain that i ;hose bright little eloping eyes are on ;he alert for forage. We have happened mddenly down stairs and fonnd snch a i risitor in the closet, his hand in the sugar bowl. A neighbor met another jmerging from her pantry, eating pie. When thus confronted, they laugh and leave immediately. Not a word is said In self-defense, and the housekeepers jonsolation is, that they do not dare to :ake any but small quantities But it nakes housekeeping with them not a state of entire confidence. It is quite a i question whether or not to put things mder lock and key. If trusted, they seem to put themselves somewhat upon lonor, not to allow, at all events, any arge amounts to be abstracted. This, lud the faot that no drudgery of locking jan really prevent theft, determines nost housekeepers, we think, in favor if open closets. Whether this ingrained iabit of pilfering is at once eradicated n those who accept Christianity, we do lot know; but we have been told by relumed missionaries that they have to jcttle the same question, with about the ?ame solution.?Scribncr for September. A Pin in His Back. The Albany Times says : One of the dodges of the innumerable multitude which is always striving to live without work is thus described by a resident: A strong, healthy looking man rang the door bell and asked for a few pennies to buy him some bread. They were refused on geueral principles, and then the sturdy beggar begun writhing as if in miHery, and explained that he had a pin sticking in his back, which hurt him severely. He would like to go into the house a minute, in order to remove the troublesome thing. In the case referred to, suspioion was aroused, and the man vith a pin in his back was ordered t.? move on. In others, however, the impostor has been allowed to go into a room alone, when he has helped himself to whatever he conld lay his hands on. The trick was quite common a few years ago, and in one instance the lady of the house, who was alone, was rudely insulted. Our readers will do well to beware of the man with a pin in hi* back. In Lore. Laura 0. Redden, or " Howard Glyndon"?the lady whose marriage was coupled in the newspapers with aa account of her learning to tali: after being a deaf mu:e until sixteen years of age? publishes a new poem- Doubtless it was written duriDg the honeymoon, for it contains this verse : There's a beautiful country that gleams from the distance, Exceeding the country^hat Moses looked on Whet. his sad, dyiDg eyes, with pathetic per Biawuce, From Pisgah's high top sought the fu horizon. 'Tis the land that ia loved of the low-leaning , lover; Tie the land that is loved of the lass he leans over; For the snake never hides in the sweet-scented clover And oloads never darken the bine of the sky In the sweet by-and-bye 1 A Woman's "Wit. A gentleman connected with the press was in 8t. Louis recently, and confided to a friend the details of an adventure in a Boston hotel. The story is brief, jA but with an immense moral as showing ? how, in some things, lovely woman.^will bright I always come to the relief of a sister in -1 distress to outwit the tyrant man. Thy-J journalist above referred to, stopping a; the hotel, a private one where the guests v: I were accustomed to the entire freedoms j of the house, felt, one night, the inj-JgggHH perative necessity of eating some before retiring. It was too late to oat to buy any; he did not want to <1 aroase the servants of the house at so late an hour, and yet fruit or preserves or something toothsome of the kind seemed to him a personal necessity. Ee knew where the storeroom was, know that the door was left open, and finally resolved to go down quietly and prig enough sweetmeats to satisfy his need. No sooner was the thought conceived than acted upon, and, within five minates, he was in the storeroom hooking preserves out of a jar and enjoying him self immensely in satisfying the craving which had come upon him. For a few minutes the enjoyment of the man at the preserves was complete. Then he was startled by a light, swift step in the hall, there was a whish and rustle of garments, the door opened sud 3enly and some one bounded in with such snddenness as, coming squarely igainst the form of the midnight raider, ;o knock him half way across the room ind fairly off his feet. Leaping up at moe he clooed with his unoonscious assailant, to be startled by a subdued shriek and to find that he had captured i woman I Further, he discovered that ihe lady, who had wanted something to aat as well as he, was only clad in a night dress. Still, though trying, the occasion was not one of unmixed horror by any means, and in a moment the gentleman's nerve returned and his curiosity rose to fever neat. "Who is this?" he demanded. No M28W6F# " Who is it ?" he repeated. "You'll not get out of this until you tell." Still no answer, but a struggle in the darkness, the lady trying to get away. Again the query was repeated, wuu equal lack of response, but this time a resounding slap in the iace from a hand that was doubtless pretty but which hit ' with decided force, was the reward of the questioner. He was put on his mettle at once. "You think you'll get off unknown! We'll see about that!" he exclaimed. "I've a device that'll work, I think." And then, after a silent but determined struggle, he caught a little bit of the lady's right cheek between his teeth and bit it?not so badly as to break the velvety skin, but sufficiently hard to leave a mark which he knew could not disappear for a day or two. Then he released his unknown prisoner, and she flew like the wind along the passage, disappearing in some room impossible to locate in the darkness. The next morning the gentleman with a mystery to solve came down to breakfast early. No ladies had yet appeared, bnt at his table were one or two intimate male friends, and to them he confided the story of his adventure in the , night, relating also the means he had taken to secure the identification of the unknown lady. The most intense curiosity at once prevailed at the table, and the advent of the ladies was awaited with on impatience scarcely to be controlled. Five minutes later the door opened and the belle of the hotel entered demurely, glided across the room and seated herself for breakfast. Eager eyes followed her, and as her face was fairly exposed, fcLere was a sensation among the gentlemen. Upon her right cheek was a strip of courtplaster an inch long ! The men exchanged glances and whispered and smiled. The mystery was solved early. But just then another lady entered, this time a dignified matron. As she seated herself there was disclosed upon u"~ a niepfl nf <vmrtDlaster uci nguu uawa M j/.ww ? A identical in appearance with that upon the face of the halle! Another and auother lady entered. Upon the right cheek of every one of them appeared a piece of conrtplaster. The tables Oiled up and not a lady at one of them bnt wore courtplaater on the right cheek ! And then the gentleman looking confidently for a revelation wilted. They comprehended the situation. The lady who had been captured in the night had confided her extremity to her friends, and they had come to the rescue, to outwit* male humanity. They had succeeded, too. The discomfited men at that particular table knew that beneath one of the many pieces of courtplaster in the room were hidden the marks of teeth, but which was the identical bit of courtplaster they could not tell. And they never learned. Commodore Yanderbllt's Children. Commodore Vanderbilt has ten living collar en, two sunt* uuu o^uu uaueu>^.u, some thirty odd grandchildren, ami half a dozen great-grandchildren?one, a son of William H., being a man grown. The probablo shape of the will is being discussed. It is understood that William H. Yanderbilt, the elder son, will be well provided for and endowed with a large part of the railroad interests,which his father has managed with such consummate skill. _ f?n / nnpflrninc xorii 13 IUU Ui ^uooij/ vv**vw.~?y the probable provision tbat will be made for the other son, Cornelius J. Vanderbilt. Those who believe the commodore to be a man of stern justice thiuk the second son will be endowed with some important railroad interest, while others ?Ml accept the current rumor tiiat no win uo classified with the daughters, and, like them, receive only a small portion of the vast estate. Cornelius is a man of perhaps forty. For thirty years of his life, beginning in infancy, he was the victim of an affliction which entirely incapacitated him for any exertion. Some eight years ago he began to throw it off, and his constitution has now acquired nearly its normal tone. He is tail, about six feet, and a slight stoop of the shoulders betrays a mark of the disease which ho has conquered. He has a thin, higb head, clear blue eyes, facile speech, an earnest manner, and quick, expressive gestures. He dresses with neat jjlainness, and looks like a Methodist minister without a pariah. , tf g