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- ' RjT?! kZ .Is* 8?^ t' ' ?; i g*\v" HOPE AND FAITH. Hope is the scented flower Which, in the breast implanted, Whe winds have swept the bosom's bower Still blossoms like a thing enchanted? Life's sweet inheritance and dower. Faith is the steady spark For journeying mortals lighted, Still beaming starlike through the dark On high where erst by sorrow lighted? And still where lifted eyes may mark. ?Alfred 11*. Harris, in the Current. THE MAJOR'S STRATAGEM. Major John Brindon, a member of the Arkansaw Historical society, was requested to read a paper relative to the days of the code within the memory of men now living. The major cheerfully responded in the following: Arkansas had been a State some ten years when I became one of her citizens. I was a very ambitious young man. Devoted study had failed to win for me a name of any distinction in the East, so, in this wild country, 1 was determined to get a living if nothing else. Know _ - -it - f T _ .1 mg noining 01 tuc mate, 1 uiui nu particular point in view, but mounted on a good horse, I struck out for some place to suit my fancy. One evening, when the winter's sun, losing his glare just above the tree tops, sank down like a ball of dull fire, 1 stopped at a large double log house. The surroundiugs spoke of refinement. The yard was a perfect wilderness of shrubs and flowers, and the fields lying adjacent bore evidence of a fine state of cultivation. "Get down, sir; get down," said a SK>lite old gentleman, coming out to the ence. "Here, Abram. take the gentleman's horse. Come in and have a seat." The room into which he ushered ine ! was large and comfortable. The furni- j ture was old fashioned, and as I held out my hand to the blaze, I wondered how the great old brass andirons had escaped .the cannon iuolder in the early days of the Amerieau revolution. My host. I soon learned, was Judge Blake, an eminent jurist of that day. When I told him lhad come to practice law, his face beamed with pleasure. "Young and ambitious, of course," said he. Well, I shall not discourage you. We have need of youth and ambition in a couutry like this. The ability that would often go unrecognized in an older State, many times meets with brilliant success in a country where oratory has a peculiar charm and where logic, although an audience may be uneducated, finds an appeciative conviction. Let me introduce my wife and daughter. " I arose and bowed to a pleasant middle-aged lady and a girl of surprising loveliness. "Jlr. Brindon will remain over night with us," said the judge. "Houses arc scarce in this section. My dear sir," turning to me, my wife brings me tne welcome news that supper is ready? welcome news indeed to me, for I have, as no doubt has been the case with you, ridden several miles to day. Come."' At the table, the young lady whom they called Jassamine, sat opposite me. I had ample opportunity for studying her face, at first a pleasure and then a fascination. She would occasionally steal a glance at me, and my eyes, falling, would rest on the eld roast of a bear into which my appetite, despite my admiration, was making something of an incision. After supper we sat around the log fire. I founa Jassamine to be Sroud and well educated, though she id not affect that super-refinement which prompts so many young people to despise their surroundings, v-. "If you are going to practice law," said the judge, "I don't know of a better place than this. Our county seat is about four miles from here. It is not much of a village, but its legal business is large. The letters of recommendation which you have shown me"?which I had shown, too, rather proudly?"will admit you into the best society. The one from Judge King should be treasured a9 a precious document. I am going to town to-morrow, and if you desire it, will assist you in locating." I thanked him warmly. I fancied Jassamine's eyes rested on me in ap provai. * * * >: * * The village was indeed small, but, as the judge said, there was a future before it. There was evidently not much of a past behind it. The court house and jail were log structures, very much alike ' in appearance, I thought. The business houses were small, and seemed to be filled up with the skins of animals. I decided to locate. Offices were few, but after much persuasion, I found room with the county clerk. A boarding house was the next question. This was even more difficult than finding an office. "Young man." said the judge, "if you don't mind the distance, you can board at ray house and ride in every day." I was delighted, and shook the judge's hand with a tight grasp of gratitude. I was anxious to knoAV what Jassaraine would think, whether or not she would . * like the idea of admitting a boarder, aud especially if she would like the thought of my being the boarder. That evening I found her alone in the sitting-room. Her face showed no surprise when I told her. "I hope you have no objections," said I, disappointed. "I? Why should I have' Whatever father does is right." "Don't you get very tired of living here in the woods? " "Oh, I suppose we all get tired living anywhere. It is the mind rather than the abode that makes life agreeable." "Then," said I, in an attempt at compliment, "life should be agreeable to you for j-qu have more mind?than? more mind than?" "Abode ?" she immediately suggested. Finding that I could not finish the sentence as I had intended, I dropped it; and catching up a handful of little nothings, discussed them. While we were talking, a footstep aroused Jassamine, and I fancied she changed color. She went to the door and said "good evening," in a cordial voice. A man entered. She introduced him as Dr. Gray. I did not like him. I thought that he rather overdid the work of smiling. Every time Jassamine said a word, he would turn to her and smile, lie did not smile at me but two or three times, fori gt'* frowned at him. After this he grinned at mo in a cold, merciless way. "Have you been here long?" he asked iyj of me when Jassamine had left the room. "Sprt of a lawyer, eh ?" "I am a student of the law." , "I am a kind of a doctor," said lie. fj^fl "If you ever need my services, call on "I hope that I shall never need you." "Probablv nor. but in a country town I like this a smart young chap never knows how soon he may need a physician." "Sis'" said I, arising. "Be seated. Supper is not ready. No, he dosen't know how soon he may need a doctor. Such a peculiar atmosphere in this country." and turning his face full upon me he grinned like a 'possnm. "The other day," he continued, "I had to fill a smart young man full of stitches. Lawyer, too, I believe. Kept fooling around a knife. Yes, sir, they need a doctor every now and then. Don't forget me, sir; in case you should get hurt." 'Sir, I amnot a ruffian." "Oh, no, of course not. The rutfians don't get hurt. Only the smart men ?lawyers, mainly. Strange, i^n't it?" "I do not care to talk to you, sir."' "It's only through politeness that I am talking to you. The physician's business is to carve rather than to court a fool." I sprang to my.feet in a rage. Just then I Jassamine ontered. "What is the matter, gentlemen!" sho j exclaimed. "Oh, nothinjr," replied the doctor. "This young Bacon wants to tight. 1 have not thought much of the subject, i but I will consider it. Chancellor." j turning to me, "my friend will call on , you." "For what purpose?" "To make suitable arrangements, my dear Chancellor." "To fight a duels'" "Yes to arrange a mild encounter." "I will not accept," 1 exclaimed. "I j am no shot, while you doubtless are." "I will give you time to practice?or, j perhaps you prefer the sword. The ! choice of weapons, you know, my dear ! chief justice, will be left entirely with yourself." "I will not accept. I was taught to look upon the code as an arrangement of* murder." "Then it will be my painful duty to post you a9 a coward." ] ' f "You arc right. It will be a painful duty." "What will the jurist do?" "If you refer to me, I can tell you. lie will beat you with his fist?beat you within an inch of your life." "That is the way cowards fight." "It is the way cowards meet with just punishment." Jassaniine, without cxcitement, stood regarding us. "You certainly do not refuse to light him?" she said, turning to me. "I will fight him in .1 civilized way," I replied. "Yes," lie suggested, "and with the I weapons of a brute." I could no longer stand his taunts. With a blow which he did not expect I knocked him down. Jassamine screamed, but by tlic time the judge and his wife had run into the room, 1 had given the doctor what the men in the east would have called a sound thrashing. * * 1 soon learned that the doctor bore the name or a desperate character. lie had fought several duels. 1 expected that he would post me as a coward, and lie did so, but he kept out of my way. The people, I saw, attached great importance i t.-? ivhnf tlmv termed the defense of honor. Xo matter how promptly a man resented .in insult and knocked the other down, he was not to be taken into the fold of brave men until he had shown his willingness to bum dangerous powder. When anyone reproached me for not lighting the doctor, I attempted to laugh it oil, but to my sorrow I found it was a serious matter. "lie would have killed me," I said one day to an acquaintance who sat in my otlice. "Presumably," he replied. "Well, then, do you suppose I waut to be killed "Of course not, but what is life unless it is honorable?" "Do you mean that since I have refused to fight a duel with that desperate man, mv life is no longer honorable?" "The fact that people do think you have acted dishonorably, you cannot deny." "I don't believe that Judge Blake thinks so." "But I warrant you that Miss Jassamine docs." My blood tingled; my face burned. "Why should she pay any attentions to the unfortunate affair?" "I don't suppose she pays any more attention to it than she can help. Gray loves her, and regards you as a rival." I "But she cannot love him?" "I don't know. Stranger surmises have proved to be true. Miss Jassamine is rather a peculiar girl. You cannot i-.. i.._ v.. i ? T it'll iil'i uy ucr ttuiiuns. v/uvv, x iuuu^uw I could. I thought she loved me. When 1 asked her, though, she told me confidentially that she did not. As I rode home, ! tried to recall Jassamine's looks and expressions since the doctor had challenged me, but comparing them with her previous actions, I could detect no change. I could disguise it irom myself no longer. I loved the girl. As I neared the house, I saw her walking along the path toward a large spring that flowed from the foot of the hill. I tied my horse and joined her. I shall never forget the golden light of that evening, falling on her hair. I made numerous experiments in trying to work myself to a point where I could suddenly break off and make a declaration of my love, but my tongue wa9 not eloquent. My mind- was afire, but its flues were choked. Finally, with a desperate effort I said: "Miss Jassamiue, I love you!" She stopped, looked at me calmly and replied: "You have made a mistake, haven't you?'' "Oh, no, how could I make a mistake? How could anyone make a mistake in loving you ?" "I don't know, but I do know that I did make a mistake in loving you. Keep away from me No, you shall not take my hand. I loved you once because I thought you were brave and chivalrous. I suppos. if Gray had in suited me you wouiu nave rciuseu xiis i challenge?" "I would liavc killed him on the spot." "Very likely. No, Mr. lirindon, it is useless to talk to me of love. I cannot marry a man who refuses a challenge." "How can one so fair be so bloodthirsty.'" "It is not blood-thirstiness. It is love of chivalry." "You are a curious girl. Good evening." Late one evening Jassamincand I were strolling in the woods not far from her father's house. I had not spoken to her of love since the time of her refusal. I knew that she would never alter her de> cision, for I could read determination in every expression of her face. "Let us return. We have walked far i enough." "No, let us go to the brow of the hill i and look down on the river. I had scarcely finished the remark i when four men sprang from behind an j enormous log. Each man wore a mask. I Jassamine tremblingly grasped my arm. "What do you want?" I demanded, s drawing a brace of pistoK "We have come after that woman:" 1 replied one of the men. 1 liaising both pistols I fired iu rapid < succession. The rascals fired at rue, but i luckily their shots took no ellcct. Jus- .< saraine fainted just as the rufliaus closed i upou me in a hand-to-hand encounter, t When she regained consciousness the i ruffians had gone. She looked up gratefully, and when I supported her in my arms she placed her head on my breast. 1 Ah, delightful moment of love. "I have judged you hastily," she said, 1 as we drev; near the house. "Your bravery surpasses anything I had ever hoped to see." I kissed her. * * * * JP ^ The entire country rang with my praises. There were no sensational daily papers in those days, or I would have been indeed a far-famed hero. The ] judge took me warmly by the hand when < I told him how 1 loved Jassamine, and j said: i "You have made a noble fight, my t boy. When you presented those letters ( of recommendation, I knew that you s were generous and brave, even though ( others thought differently. I have for | some time known that Jassamine loved ] i,,,f T 1,0- fnnlu-l, . ideas of chivalry, she would not marry ] you after your refusal of the challenge ( unless you could do something to redeem < yourself.'' , Jassamine and I were married with j great ceremony. All the neighbors were , invited. Wi'ole calves were barbecued; | and it seemed whole distilleries were | turned loose. Shortly after our marriage ] we moved to Little Rock, then a Hour- i ishing town. My busiuess prospered. , and within a year I owned a well fur- , nished house. . One day, about six years after our re- | moval to Little Hock, Jasper Patterson. , with whom I had been intimate during the days of my courtship, paid me a visit. I was delighted to sec him. and late at night lie and I sat in the library talking over old times, as we termed the tirst days of our acquaintance. The lamp was burning low. We sat by the fireplace. My wife had gone to bed, 1 thought, but I afterward discovered that she was dozing on the sofa. "I never shw anything work so well,'' | said Jasper. "You not only secured a wife, but it made you a hero. Your wife has never suspected anything, has she?"' ' >"0, not- a thing. The boys played their parts well. I was afraid that Nick Jones would ruin cverpthing, for after Jassamine fainted he snorted. lie was so full of laugh that lie could hardly run T away. 1? Hip! Something struck me on the | head. The room swum. I saw Jasper getting out of the way: I saw my wife standing near me, and then I eank to the 1 floor. When I recovered I was lying on j the sofa. Ja-suminc was bending over I me. "01), don't die.'' she was saying. "Dout die, for I didn't mean it. I found the paper weight in my hand and I threw before I knew it. Hut it was cruel to ! treat me that way." "Yes," I replied, "but it was because I loved you." "Yes, I know, dear," slipping her ' hands under my head. "'There, now, it's all right." As I lay there in a setni doze I thought I heard ?asper lean against the house and laugh.?Arbtmuac Traceftr. Wisdom dwells in blu'j skies and j broad sunshine, and the wide hills anil the infiuitc waters; in jiep.ee of mind and j ; freedom, and the worship of the earth. ' ; He is poverty-stricken who is so ab- j sorbed in the one little enclosure of i which he holds the title deed that he loses his grasp on the bending universe. The Eton is a new cutaway jacket i pointed at the back and very short at the j side, where it barely reaches the waist I i line. I j OUR MERRY MISCELLANY. COMICAL CRUMBS FBOM THE FEAST 07 HUMOR. Inured to It?('heniltttry, Practical and Theoretical?Hotli sold?Roller Skating?Peck Taken In. " Yes," remarked the Mean Customer, (Jiving into a fresh box of raisins, ''experience has shown that clerks and salesmen stand a campaign in the field better than laboring men." "That's so,"said the Sharp Grocer,absent-mindedly shoveling a few scoopfuls of 20-cent coffee into the 40-cent bin; ' true as preaching. 1 remember during the war that the young fellows from business houses stood the fatigue better than the volunteers who had been outdoor workers. I suppose it is so in the English army, too. Five pounds of sugar I believe you said." "Might; five pounds. Yes, it is the same in the English army. Thev say the only soldiers who were not a flee ted by the sard winds of the Soudan were those who had worked in grocerv stores."? Call. Chcinlntry, Practical and Theoretical. ' Young gentlemen," said tlie lecturer in chcmistry, "coal exposed to tlic elements loses ten per cent, of its weight and heating power. This is due to the action of the alkali constituents of?" "But what if there is a dog sleeping near the coal, professor?'' "Xone of your levity, young man. This is a serious matter.'' "That's what dad thought when seventy-two per cent, of Ins coal pile disappeared during three nights of exposure. Then he asked my advice as a student in chemistry, and I told him to buy a dog. He bought a dog with baywindow teeth and the string-halt in his upper lip, and now we don't lose one per cent, of our coal a month. That's the kind of a practical chemist I am. Now go on with your theory."?Free Press. Iloth Sold. An old fellow who has a habit of walking up to a man attentively engaged in talking or listening in a crowd, and leading him out to one side on some trifling pretext or other, was pulled up with a short halter the other day. "I understand you have a cow to sell,*' said he in a low voice to a man whom he had walked away some forty feet from his companions, with an air of great importance and secrecy. "This way," said the victim, with a meaning toss of his head, counterfeiting the manner of the other to a dot. "Come with me." lie then led him across the street, through a blacksmith shop where the old man burned a new boot by stepping on a piece of hot iron, out through the back door and into a new building over the way. They climbed up two ladders, get ting mortar spilled on their clothes, and finally brought up on the third floor, and sat down side by side on a skiu, uotu blowing like belligerentB at the close of a fuss. They sat there silent for three minutes, when the old man began to get impatient, and leaning forward, said: "Well?" " She's sold." "Aad so am I, by jingo!" said the old man, as he hopped up and started back to the ladder.?Chicago Ledger. Roller Skating^ A man by the name of lJrown left a village in this State about two years ago. Last week he returned, and just as he was strolling down the street of his native village he met a farmer by the name of Smith, who was not prosperous when he left, and lived just outside the village. Brown was surprised to sec the stranger attired in a dress suit, with a silk hat, and a big diamond pin blazing on his shirt front, and inquired: "Been to a funeral to-day?" "Why, bless you, no." "No? I fee you have got on your best clothes. Arc you farming yet?"' "Farming? Well, I should say not. I am running a roller-skating rink down here." "Where is your son Jim?" "Oh, he's running a rink." "And jour daughter Liz!'" "She is skating under the management of Tom Jones, in the Maine rinks." "Is Elder Longsennon preachiug here still?" "Xo; he resigned the ministry, and is now a rink instructor." "Who is preaching in the place?" "Nobody." "Nobody? What's the matter?" "Church turned into a skating rink." " i ou uon t siiv so: ''Yes, sure as preaching.*' "Where is Bill Beck, the grocery man?" "lie went out of business a year ago. He's got the ice crcam stand down in my rink." "Pshaw! Where's Aunt Sally Backon md Deacon Schultzer?1' "Why, dang it all, they're traveling iround visiting rinks, doing the old man ind woman act on skates. I tell you :hev'rc immense." "Say, Dan, what became of your old shepherd dog Cairo!" "Blamed if the dog didn't get the fever, and one day he sneaked in behind :bc place where I kept skates to hire, put jn a pair, and rolled on the tloor just as aice as any human being, when, all of a mdden, his hind pair of skates got mixed jp with his tail, which tripped him up, ind he fell backward aud broke his icck." "Poor dog.'' "Gosh, 1 can't help crying when I ;hink of his sad and tragic end." ':Is there anybody left in this town who does not skate?" "Yes." "Where are they?" "Up in the cemetery on the hill."? Bangor Commercial. Peek Taken In. George W. Peck, the inventor of the jLHUI JJUV) 11113 I'CUIl aUjUUI Uill?? JU Florida, in search of health and strength. "When I threw up the curtain my lirst norning in Jacksonville," he writes, 'and iooked out in the park in front of he hotel and saw green trees of all kinds, >range trees filled with ripe, yellow fruit, ;hade trees outside the walks with jranges on, and ladies with parasols, I jegan to look around for the South pole, [t was an enchanting sight to a man right rresli from a sleigh ride in Milwaukee,and [got out in'o a couple of pants pretty piick and went out to wallow in all this verdure. I wanted to go and roll in the ijrass. I went down stairs without waiting for any elevator, rushed through the office, forgetting all about breakfast, and began to walk about the park and the town. The oranges didn't look right to me. I couldn't sec how they could grow I here in the streets, right within reach of every little boy in town, without being stolen. In the North, the sourest crabipple that ever broke a man's jaw or puckered up a pretty mouth would not be safe a moment as exposed as those oranges were, and I :-ould not believe that boys in the South were more honest thuu boys in the North. Then I got to thinking, and made up my mind that the oranges were tied on the trees with pieces of wire, and were iutended to deceive Northern people. I thought it was a mean deception, and I made up my mind to expose it to the world. I asked a colored man if there was any objection to a man picking an orange, and he said he reckoned not. So I reached up and got hold of one and picked it. I looked for the wire string, but it was actually a growing orange, and I had more faith in Florida ! than ever. I shall always believe that he colored man smiled when he saw me take out my knife and cut a piece out of tiiat orange. Anyway, uc turacu ins back when I started the piece of orange toward my mouth. Many of my readers will remember my mouth a* it was when I lived at the North. It w;>s a pretty decent sort of mouth to stub around home with. A plain, cvery.day sort of a hole, with teeth aud tongue and lips, when 1 took that piece of orange in. Ye gods! j The orange was as much sourer than vinegar as vinegar is j sourer than honey. And bitter! Aloes and rhubarb and quinine combined would be molasses beside that ' orange. My lips began to curl up and ! draw around under my left car, my teeth j became loose and rattled around like d:ce in a dice-box, and my tongue clove to the roof of my mouth. One eye opened so wide that the eyeball looked like the face of a six-shilling bull's-eye watch,and ; the other closed spasmodically and winked so a colored nurse girl who I thought I was winking at her got up olT a bench and hauled the baby wagon away, and the baby cried as though a pin was sticking in it, on account of the expression on my face. I reached around to my pistol-pocket for a handkerchief to cover my face until I could unscrew my mouth and get it back in front of me. and the colored man thought I was ?oing to draw a pistol, and started off on si run. Well, if I had a picture of my face when I took a mouthful of that '-.i-'- .*forange, they could sell them by the thousand in dime museums as the wild man of Borneo. And that is the reason oranges are safe growing in the streets. They are too sour to eat, and a boy will not steal anything he cannot eat. SELECT SITTINGS. When a "Bedouin lady marries her husband tattoos her chin. By the Venetian law, giving love potions was held highly criminal. The Romans believed that the genius of death announced his approach by some supernatural warning. The smallpox was such a terrible plague in old times that its name was used as an imprecation. When the thermometer is fifty-eight | degrees below zero cats' cars become very brittle, and are often broken o!F. Invalids are now fed 011 baked milk The milk is put in a glass jar, covercd with paper 011 top, aud baked ten hours in the oven. A large amount of oil exists in the stormy petrel, and when fat, according to the lirunnich, the inhabitants of the Faroe islands use it as a lamp, obtaining their light from a wick drawn through the bird's body. Some tcachcrs of penmanship now teach their ]>iij>ils to write with both hands. The method of instruction is to make the pupil write his name in pencil, and then go over it with a pen held in his left hand. Constant practice gives proficiency. Oliver Cromwell prohibited all persons called fiddlers or minstrels from playing, fiddling or making music in any inn, alehouse or tavern. If they prolTered themselves or oiTcrc;! to make music, they were adjudged to be rogues and vagabonds, and were to be proceeded against. The heathens regarded the number seven of great efficacy in religious ceremonies. An ancient writer says: "Desirous of purifying myself, I wash in the sea and dip my head in the waves seven times, Pythagoras having thought that this number is, above all others, most proper in the concerns of religion." A writer in the Atlantic for March, speaking of the maliciousness of the mocking bird, states that if young birds are placed in cages where the parfcnt birds can have access to them, they will feed their offspring regularly for two or three days, and then as if in despair, will poison them, givinc them the berry of the black ash. Some years ago travelers in Balmatia noticed large tracts of land covered by a wild flower near which not a sign of insect life was visible. The bloom was the pyrethrum, whose odor deals death to the lower forms of life, and whose powdered leaves form the basis of "insect powders." The seed of this flower was distributed in the United States, and a Dalmatian has been growing it with great success in Stockton, Cal. In 1G(J.j a brigantine from Madagasea came to anchor ol! Sullivan's Island, in Charleston harbor. The governor went on board at the invitation of the captain, and received from the latter a bag of tnfnrmtitimi of thp mpthods of its cultivation in Eastern countries, and of its suitableness for food. The governor divided the grain among his friends, who made experiments with it in different soils. From this small beginning arose the cultivation of this staple of South Carolina and Georgia. A Floor-Walker's Duty. "Yes, it requires considerable will power to prompt one ol our profession to walk up to an innocent-looking womau and accuse her of a crime of which we know she is guilt}*, and which we arc sure she will strenuously deny," said a Chicago iloor-walker. "We avoid doing this in the open store when possible, but usually get her to enter the private office under some pretext, and then as quietly as possible uncover her guilt. A novicc in the business is rarely caught at thieving the second time. I remember while in a Now York house a few years ago, a singularly pretty "irl came into the store ! one afternoon and, going to the hosiery department, had the clerk lay before her a fine display of footwear. After looking the stock over she made a trifling purchase and turned to leave. I noticed that as she came down the store she walked with a hurried step that seemed unnatural, and her cheeks were highly Hushed, while she kept her eyes fixed on the door as if she was measuring the distance inch by inch that lay betwccu her and the sidewalk. 1 at once felt assured that she had been doing something that made her uneasy, and when I laid my hand on her arm she started as if she were stung, while a look of fright enme into her face. Un my invitation she re luctantly followed mc into the manager's office, where I told her she must give up the article she had stolen. At first she showed signs of indignation, and accused mc of insulting her; but I was sure that I was right, and told her if she did not do as requested I should get an officer to search her. This threat had the desired elTcct, and in the midst of hysterical sobbing she took several valuable pairs of silk hose from beneath her cloak. The sorrow of the girl was painful to behold, and 011 her knees she begged mc not to make her cuilt public. Of course I promised. The strangest part of the story, however, is that two years later the same <jirl was married to a well known business man, and the secret of her first and only attempt at shoplifting lies between her and myself. We sometimes make mistakes and suspect persons who prove to be innocent. In a case like this there is always more or less music in the atmosphere, and when the matter gets to the ears of the firm we are sat upon so hard that it makes our bones ache. According to the law of human nature we get no credit for the good work we do, but when we make a blunder wc never hear the last of 1 it. You often read nowadays of kleptomaniacs, and they seem to be increasing yearly. Why, there are ladies in this j city who move in the best society and possess all the money necessary to meet 1 their demands, but they can hardly en ter a drygoods stofc wituour appropriating some article, and, strange as it may seem, they very seldom take anything of material value; they don't seem to choose anything l?enausc of its worth, but me- ( chanically pick up the first article they ! can appropriate when they ihink no one ; is looking. We have to watch them from the moment they cqter the store until they leave." An Incident in a New York Telegraph Ofllcc. John Jacob Astor stood beside me as I we wrote messages in a Hroadway tele- 1 erapli office. My curiosity was quite im- i pertinent enough to make me ovetlook j his composition and see what it was I about, but naturally the manner if not i the matter was covertly watched. Al- 1 though distanced by newer millionaires, i his half of the Astor is worth fifty mil- ] lions or more, and the penalty of so much 1 wealth is submission to constant scru- 1 tiny. However, John Jacob Astor is so 1 retired and quiet in his habit*, and so 1 lacking {in striking personality, that he i can walk the length of llroadwav with I out being recognized by other than ac- i <|iiaintances. The curious fact about the ! ?>lnrri-nm wliirli ln? UTntf! wns t ll:it 111! \V!ls I 1 as long at the job as a nearly illiterate i person might have been, and that lie ! spoiled and destroyed no less than three blanks before getting one satisfactorily ] tilled. "Mr. Astor wasn't bothered a3 to what lie wished to say in the mes- 1 sage, for it was a trivial matter," said the receiver, after the rich man had i departed, "but he was struggling I to compress it within the limit of ten ; words, so that it would go at the single 1 rate of fifteen cents?the price for a city i dispatch of uo more than that length." "And as he so stingy as that?" I ex- 1 claimed. "Oh, he isn't stingy at all," i was the reply; "it was mere force of habit. The iclea that telegrams must be so concise and brief as not to exceed the fifteen cent limit is common among the wealthy as well as the necessarily 1 economical. Some business use the < wires freely, and you newspaper men '> telegraph as copiously nowadays as < though your manuscript was going by j mail?provided your employers will staud it; but old fashioned men like Mr. Astor, will spend time and brain issue in the most excruciating efforts to couline their messages to a single rate. In this iustauce he actually risked a misunderstanding by the person who will rcctivc the telegram, and labored assiduously five minute? in order to eliminate four words. If lie had left them in they would have cost an additional eight ccnts. Of course, he never thought of the expense at all, but was the victim of a habit which you can see illustrated every hour of the day in a telegraph office. There seems to be a weird fascination about it."?Brooklyn Eagle. ? ( The duchess of Norfolk has the finest j rubies in the world, exclusive of crown ] jewels. , .. .. . _ - - . A BULL FIGHT IN MEXICO. HOW THE MEXICANS "AMUSE" THEMSELVES. The Brutal Exhibition* that are Vl?. ited by all CIa?MC? of ItlexIcanSorletv? Rtilh Tormented to Death. A letter from the city of Mexico to the Clipper, of New York, sajs: The bullfight is the national amusement here. Adopted from the Moors, and brought over by the Spaniards. In every city in Mexico there is an arena for these bloody and disgusting exhibitions, at which, on Sundays and great holidays, the elite of society, as well as its dreg.*, assemble to witness a spectacle worthy only of a barbarous ngc. It strikes me with horror and surprise to sec ladies and gentlemen looking on from their boxes, while the gaily-dressed bullfighters torment their victim, applauding with fervor each '-brilliant" feat on either side. So there arc sport and excitement, it matters little to the audience which side wins. A successful charge by the tormented bull, bringing the horse and rider to the mound, calls out equal applause with a skillful thrust of lance or sword which draws a stream of blood from the poor victim of this "sport." Let us enter the "Plaza dc Toros del lluisaehal" and see how the Mexican people enjoy the sport. The building is circular, open to the sky, witn tiers oi seats sloping upward from the arena,like the scats in an ordinary circus, and capable of holding G,000 people. One tier is divided into boxes, where the wealthy and aristocratic part of the audience is seated. The arena is a circular space surrounded by a fence about six feet high, with a number of small detachcd wooden structures of the same height in front, just space enough being left between them and the main fence for a too closely-pursued fighter to dodge into for safety. These are called burladeros. At last a blast of trumpets interrupts the hum of voices, and a body of combatants enter the ring. They ore gaily dressed, and present a most striking aud brilliant effect. Marching to the center of the ring, they bow to the authorities, and then t&kc their places in readiness for action. At a given signal a small gate is suddenly thrown open, and a furious bull bounds frantically into the ; arena. As if petrified with astonishment at the strange scene around him, he i stands motionless for a few seconds, staring wildly at the audience and vehemently pawing the ground. This ( lasts but a moment. Catching sight of ( a red rag waved before him by one of the : banderillcros (or foot-combatants), he J rushes frantically at his antagonist, who evades the charge by vaulting over the inclosure of the ring or dodging behind one of the smaller fences. The raging . animal, balked of his victim, plunges desperately toward one of the picadorc^ (or mounted horsemen), who calmly and1 ' fearlessly awaits his approach, and, by a masterly thrust of a long lance, repels 1 the furious onslaught. Thwarted a sec- ( ond time, the bull becomes more frantic than before, and his low, suppressed i roar, expressive of rage and passion, ' sounds like distant thunder. Half clos- 1 ing his glowing eye* and lowering his . massive head, he rushes again at one of ] the picadorcs, and with such tremendous j force aud swiftness that the horseman's i lance ha> no power to avert the charge. < Down go horse and rider to the ground, < while shouts of wild applause fill the < arena. "Bravo. Toro! Bravo, Toro!" aud other erics of encouragement for the bull fill the air. The picadoro loses no j time in springing to his feet and re- . mounting his trembling horse, from | whose brea3t pours a stream of blood, j The moment the bull, whose attention , has been diverted by the banderilleros, catches sight of the blood he makes another furious rush at his antagonist, and, 1 thrusting his horn-; into the horse's body, 1 almo-t lifts the animal from the ground, i inflictine a ghastly wound, from which 1 the animal's entrails protrude. Unable any longer to sustain himself, the horse 1 falls to the ground and dies. Other 1 horses (-hare the same fate, and their mangled bodies lie bleeding in the arf na. 1 The bull is now becoming perceptibly 1 weak, and his own end is evidently ' drawing near. For the purpose of stimu- ' lating and arousing into momentary ac- ' tion his rapidly waning strength, the as- I .-ailants on foot attack him with barbed < d.irts, which they thrust with skill and ' precision into each side of his brawny * neck. Sometimes these little javelins 1 are charged with a prepared powder, | which explodes the instant the sharp 1 point sinks into the flesh. The torture ' thus inflicted drives the wretched ani- 1 mal to the extreme of madness, and he J bellows and,'plunges in his agony and ' terroras if endued with new life. ( Hut hark! another blast from the trumpet, and the ring is instantly cleared, and the animal stands motionles and alone in the center of the arena. Slowly the matador by whom the death 3 stroke is to be given enters the rin?, and ' after bowing to the president aud throw- J ing down his cap in token of respect, 1 deliberately approaches his terrific ad- j versary, who stands as if chained to the ! spot by a consciousness of the destiny j that awaits him. The matador, undismayed by the ferocious aspect of the ' bull, cautiously advances, with his eye fixed firmly upon him; a bright blade ! glistens in his right hand, while in his left lie carries the muleta, or crimson flag, with which to exasperate the declining spirit of his foe. Intense still- ' ness reigns throughout the vast assem- 1 blage. The most critical point of the 1 tragedy is at hand, and every glance is ' riveted upon the person and movements of the matador. A single fal.-c thrust j may launch him into eternity, yet no expression of fear escapes him; cool and ! self-possessed, he stands before his vie- ! tim, studious of every motion and ready to take advantage of every chance. At 1 length, like an electric flash, the polished (. steel of the matador flies in the air and ] descends with tremendous force into the s neck of the doomed animal, burying i?- ' ?if it.. *V.o J,;if Tim 1 bull ill liic llUdLL U|f IV UIO UIIII Aitu . blow is well made, and from the mouth . r>f the bull a torrent of blood gushes forth. He slaggers, drops on his knees, ; recovers himself for an instant and then falls dead at the feet of his conqueror, ' nmidst the tumultuous plaudits of the ! excited spectators. A team of gaily- ' caparisoned mules is then driven into the arena, and the dead body of the bull is ! dragged out to give place to another ex- , hibition of cruelty and brute endurance. A Ilattle of Flowers. A Paris letter says that among the fea- ' tures of the carnival at Nice this year 1 was the battle of flowers. Precisely at 1 2 o'clock the guu at the chateau gave the signal for beginning the hostilities ind by o'clock the battle had really begun. Vehicles richly decorated with j flowers, fruits, ribbons, straw and other ( decorative material paraded the ('orso and : bouquets fell thick as hail upon the crowds, wliif h extended in a thick mass . from one end of the course to the other. The people on foot responded with vigor ( to the attacks of the riders,many of them ; liaving provided themselves with large baskets full of small bouquets, in the manufacture of which a whole army of lloristshad been engaged during theprer?t!clin<? dav and niirlit. There was a con- , o ? ^ | I jtjuit shower of violets, mimosas, lilacs, } pinks, anemones, roses, and, in fact, ( every flower to be found in bloom at the I j reason in that portion of France. Some of the vehicles were remarkably | , pretty, and among the most noticeable I ' ivas a victoria entirely hidden with scar- j j let pinks, even the wheels being covered j j rt iih these (lowers. Another vehicle was j i cart covered with verdure and vege- j tables and occupied by three pretty peas- j , intgirls, who threw leeks, carrots, caiilillowcrs. and even lar^e cabbages as well | , us (lowers among the people. There ! ' was, of course, a great variety of cosLumesand the battle was a scene of aniination and beauty. The Orlffiu ?r Music. < In ail countries legends exist ascribing ' ;hc origin of music to celestial source. } L'hina, (Jrcece, Home, Assyria, Kgypt . nul India all concur in civin^ the art a :livine origin, and also in returning the 1 ^ift to its Maker in songs of praiee. Egypt. however, recognized ilie dual character of music by a legend which described music as springing from two sources, the one good, the other evil. ( The Egyptian was more sparing of music * in religious service than Roman or (Jre- ( cian, but deserves thanks for at least un- ' leratnnding that music, like any other J irt, could be abused. Even to day, the ' division between the sensuous and lofty [ in music is a strongly marked one; and, 1 unfortunately, the tendency of modern 1 composers is too often toward the former ! style, and the oratorio school seems al- j most extinct.?Musical Herald. i t It is said that a bee can draw twenty s limes the weight of its body. But it is c not by a pull that a bee gets the best of n liis victim; it's by his push.?Neio York f Journal. i m' vV v..-.. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Under the name of benepline, Irish poplins are revived. The new spring hats are very high in the trown and na'rrow in the brim. A Kentucky belle glories in a head of hair which is tive feet ten inches long. Yellow plays an important part in millinery and toilet accessories this spring. The queen of Greece is Baid to be the most beautiful woman now on a throne. Lace bonnets will be much worn as soon as the weather will permit their use. Ribbons striped in canvas gauze and watered silk come for bonnet trimmings. The new capote bonnets arc of medium size and are very quiet and modest in effect. Mrs. Frank Leslie, it is said, boasts of having the smallest foot of any lady in the United States. Mrs. W. IS. Dodge, of New York, is worth $4,000,000. She spends her money in missionary work. Stockings arc in b!ack and nhlin dark colors, and are ribbed. Few clonkings or stripc3 will be worn. Queen Elizabeth, of Rouman'm, lias been granted a medal by the Toulouse academy for literary merit. Narrow linen collars with fine embroidered or hemstitched borders are much worn with house and street dresses. Among the novelties in colors are vervinc, a delicate lilac; pactole, a yellow brown, and griotte, alight garnet. Bonnets made of small white natural flowers, and "good for one occasion onty,vare in high vogue for bridesmaids' wear. KeJincd and dainty designs are to be had in prints for dresses. Some have the cfTect of corded bands in pink and crimson. Some of the new cashmere giovos have the long wrists embroidered in chain stitch on the closcd tops, with silk of a paler shade. For full dress many sashes are lace* edged, and in one instance the 6ash itself, over a surah toilet, was mado wholly of lace. A Corean woman has no name. She is always somebody's daughter, sister, wife, mother. Their individual existence is not recognized even by name. Among the splendid novelties sent over from Paris are dress trimmings and embroideries of gold and silver appliques on shaded chenille, and imitation jewel incrustations in relief upon velvet, satin and brocade. Mrs. Johnson, the once radiant Harriet Lane of White House memory, now a widow, is described as 4'still a gloriouslooking woman, despite the sorrow expressed in the stricken face and the drooping figure." A pretty collarette for the neck is a straight band of velvet with the ends crossed at the front and finished with a wide frill of lace. A ruching of lace is inserted round the neck and a fancy :lasp holds the crossed ends in place at the front. Crepe de Chine, grenadine and lace promise to become the favorite fabrics for summer. In thefirst named are shown some really artistic designs?beautiful delicate leaves and flowers in pale, faded :olors on cream, light blue, rose or lavindcr grounds. A rich visiting toilet is of garnet cloth. Around the skirt, which is quite plain, 13 ft UCCp UttUU lUpiUSUULiny lu^cou j * ivork, with Louis "XIII. designs embroidered in faded colors. The polonaise is trimmed with a narrow band ot the same embroidery. Tricotinc satin is one of the new fabrics of the season. It is closely woven irid the slight ribbed effect familiar in jersey cloths, and in more marked weaving suggests knitted stuffs. It is all silk with a lustre like satin, and may be had jf a single color or of two changeable :olors. The royal seraglio of Persia contains 10 European or male persons over the ige of eleven. Each royal favorite has her separate pavilion and her staff of servants, her equipages, her jewels, and aer revenue. The principal favorite generally has some high-sounding title conferred upon her, such as "The Height of the State." The ladies are never icon abroad unveiled, save one or two of :hc handsomer or more flighty of their lumber, who sometimes, when driving n their glass coaches, purposely give a ather liberal display of florid charms to nvssers by in carriages or on horseback. It is quite certain that no innn save the <ing enters the royal harem, or, having lone so, leaves it alive. A Night in a German Inn. On a large deserted square a iarge ?1?a..... rumuuilg 111 II iuiuw xio uuojmvuuiu loors, and welcomed us as if we were :hc one party in the world the host lad been looking for since the inn was jpened. The storm was not so severe jut we could straggle around the town in the evening, and explore the dimly ighted streets. The sultry air. scarccly pooled by the rain, made the interior oppressive, so we wandered around as long is we could, and then sought our quar:ers. We found that the rooms had aeen prepared for us with careful attention. Everything was neat and fresh md comfortable. Iu about five minutes ifter retiring to our respective chambers ive all appeared in the hallwaj again, in various stages of undress, clamoring for the servant. A blushing chambermaid >oou appeared,'and was shown in turn :hc three couches, each with a mountainous feather bed as a coverlet incased in a sack of whi'e linen. Explanations and expostulations were of no ivail. She could not understand the ;ause of our complaint, but insisted on the purity of the home-spun linen and the ioftness and lightness of the feather bed ;overlet. At last the whole household tvas aroused, and after great difficulty the proprietor was made to conceive the ract that we could not sleep that sultry August night under a feather bed which tvould have suffocated us4in midwinter. \fter earnest declarations that all Kibaitz people slept under one feather bed n summer and under two in winter, he tvas obliged to confess that there had lever been a call for upper sheets and blankets in his house, and he had none. We as a last resort severally emptied the feather bed out of its sack, and used j :his as a sheet. But for the perambu- | lating watchmen, who made night noisy j with their unintelligible hourly cries, wc would have slept soundly.?b\ 1). Mil'cl, in Harper"1*. An Island of Orange Groves. Out in the Atlantic, over 1,200 miles from Land's Knd and about 000 miles lue west from Lisbon, lies the beautiful sland of St. Michael's, the largest of the j line islands forming the Archipelago of j lie A/ores. It is beautiful iu its variety j )f mountain, lake and valley scenery, iu , lie rich verdure of its cultivated lands, j ts equable, mild climate and in its wonlerfu) thermal springs. The principal :ommercc of St. .Michael's i3 the orange j :rop. The mode of picking and packing j cumins unaltered since early days. The : jity l'onta Delgada, the capital of the | sland, is set in the midst of orange gar- j lens, and the air in the early morning or ; ate in the evenings comes laden to you ) vith the fragrance of the orange bios- | ioms. Hither in the town or suburbs you see he gates of many orange gardens invitngly open, and you will be politely in,'ited to walk in riul help yourself to tlow?rs and fruit. If you arc a stranger the 'cabcca,'' or head man of the garden, .vi 11 bring you a bunch of lovely camellias md a branch on which hang clusters of ipe oranges and invite you to be seated m a garden bench, for though it is the nonth of February you can enjoy sitting jut of doors. There you can watch the juvenile toilers sorting the fruit and the lried leaves of the Indian com. The liekcr can eat as many oranges as he ileascs and take away every evening a jag or basket full of fruit that lias fallen "roin the trees, which lie sells at thirty >r forty for a penny.?I.eiiure Hour*. A Cat Fishing For Its Living. j Four miles from here, says a Johnston j jorresponucni ui inu v n.inusion v .) Xeicn null Courier, one of the county jommissioners, Henry Gallmac, owns a nill and pond and griiids corn for the mblic. .He has a man by the name of Pnyt, who attends to the mill. I'ruit nvns a largo cat that as soon as the mill a stopped, by shutting down the gate. ,vill immediately run down behind the nill and get 011 a lor: just over the slieetng over which the water is flowing, she will then look very intently into the vater, which is from eighteen inches to o two feet deep, until she spies a fish, ihe then plunges into the water frejuently burying herself under it, but ilmost always coining out with a fish. 5he then quietly sits down 011 a rock j iear by and enjoys her meal. j HUMOK OF THE DAY. a Agricultural reports?The corn popping. Like the worm, the roller skate will turn when trod on.?Merchant-Traveler. Bakers are generous. They never keep all the bread they knead.?Siftings. The business man who's truly wise Is always sure to advertise ? Chicago Sun. Mule jokes, like a tramp's shoes, are always out at the heels.?New York Journal. Speaking of spreading one's self, the skating rink seems to be the place of all others to do it successfully. ? Oil City Derrick. The Wisconsin hog which ate two quarts of nitro glycerine is the American animal which Bismarck should be invited to kick.?Baltimore American. Tho thief who steals a dollar Can never rest content, And enjoy the blissful peace Of him who earns a cent. ? Whitehall Times. You may have youth, beauty, health, spirits, everything that can gladden the sold and charm the senses, and yet feel like an ordinary human being when you find a hair in the butter. ? Chieaao Ledger. According to a Chicago paper, "An Illinois doctor has discovered a sure cure for rheumatism in geranium-leaves." This will be welcome news to geraniumleaves afflicted with that distressing trouble.?Puck. NOT QUITE HKLENTLKSS. " Give you a kiss," iudeed, said she, " Givo you a kiss? my goodnessl 'Tis strange that you should bo so freo, I wonder at your rudeness. I could not such a thing endure And then with manner nervous Sho added. ''For I'm very sure That some one would observe us." ?Ronton Courier. Lady (to small boy, to whom she has given a sixpence to console him for the loss of one he has dropped): "Why do you still cry, little boy? There is nothing to cry about now." Boy: "Why,a-cause if I hadn't dropped the other sixpence I should have had a shiliing now." [Sobs bitterly. |?Judy. Now the maiden is returning From her trip across the sea, And she wanta to air her learning In the language of Faree. Now, of course, it is improper, Ho they told her over there, To say either "pa" or "popper," And she greets him with "mon pere." Tlien she turns toward the other. Who can naught but stand ana stare, As she hears no longer "mother," But a far-away ''ma mere.'' ?Puck. Bernard Murphy, Champion Youth nr. e a ? i- lf-1 vraiKor 01 Auairuua, says iu iue iueibourne Sportvman: "On Monday previous to the match with Ormes, of Sydney, I was attacked with the 'stitch.' I could not walk another yard, and gave up all hope of winning. 1 was advised to try 8t. Jacobs Oil. I did so, rubbing a little on my side. I have not been troubled since, and won my match." The Bible is circulated in Pennsylvania in twenty-two languages, and sixty languages and dialects are spoken in the State. "She tried her prentice hand on man. And when she formed the lassies, 01" "What is woman's worth?" asked a fair damsel of a crusty old bachelor. He did not know, so she said: W. 0. man (double you Oman.) But a woman fee's worth little if disease has invaded her system and is daily sapping her strength. For all female weakness. Dr.R. V.Pierce's "Favorite prescription" stands unrivaled. It cures the complaint and builds up the system. Send two letter stamps for pamphlet to "World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Street cars in Venezuela are always open ones, and will seat only twelve persons. Pierce'" "Pleasant Purgative Pellet*." 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