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. ' A BHATTEBED! ILIUSIOJ. ST BX8SSLL CLIXTOII. ' I kncrw not if twere chanoe or fate That brought the maid and me togethtTJ At talle d'hote one night at eight Oar talk began about the leather. We had no introduction?no: But this displays no lack of breeding, Onr seats were next each other, so It was a natural proceeding. Efce dressed in stunning English style; Eer hair was neatly coiled and braided. "Ah! blesse.l,'' I thought, "is Britain's isla If home for eyes so softly shaded 1" Onr rambling chat that waxed apace Was interspersed with frequent 'fahncys,* 111 not deny the "fetching" grace Of "reahlly* slipped betwixt her glances. Btill something nameless inn da me doubt Her being truly, bluely Briton, Yet when one little phrase slipped oat, With horror was my bosom smitten. I guess " She could not call it back, And laughed to hide her sweet confusion. Oh. lovely Anglo-maniac. To shatter thus my fond illusion I *-Harpsr's Magazine, o Lost Lina; -0B-TBE BITTER AND T0E SWEET. i A Tale of Two Continents. BY MRS. IflKA LAWSO*. CHAPTER XXII.?Continued. As they came from the ball-room, Jeannette heardLenora singing; something told her that Ray was with the "little tramp," yet she must go and see. As they reached the 6itting-room door, Jeannette was compelled to clutch at the casing for support, while her face was ghastly white. "Oh, heavens! I knew it; something told me so. I cannot endure this sua- j pcnse any longer, or it will kill me. "What a fool I was for not putting, an end to that hateful girl's life before Bay came home. Yes, there he is, standing and looking at her, with eyes that tell only too plainly that he already loves her. "See?oh, heavens! ? see how he looks at her, and never looks this ay. "I cannot endure it, and I will not 1 Kay, my Ray, 6hall not be a victim of her treachery!" She quietly glided across the room to Ray's side. "Rav. Rav. mv dear, have von for gotten that it is time for our waltz ?" He did not hear her, but was still | lost to everything bat Lenora. Jeannette laid her hand upon hii arm, and gently shook it. "Bay, dear, it is I, don't you see ?" As she shook his arm he seemed to aken with a start from a happy dream. "You here,' Jeannette ? Why, yes, I had forgotten about the dance, she iings 60 sweetly;" and still in a dazed, dreamy manner. "But now, let's go to the ball-room; it is our waltz." "Ah, you here, Charley ? Oh, come for your partner, I see." Lenora caught the sound of voices behind her, and, turning around, 6he saw Charley Hall standing near her, ' while Jeannette and the young man she J had been singing for were just leaving : the room. But as the music ceased, Kay looked i back and saw that Lenora wa3 looking i at Mm. He -went back to the piano, picked up her card, and saw that the fifth number, a waltz, Tvas not marked. "May I have this?" But Lenora said not a word. She ; looked into his face and smiled back lier answer. The two oouples then went to the ball-room, and the dancing soon began. But neither Ray nor Lenora seemed pleased with their partners, for every time they passed each other their eyes i would meet in a long, loving glance'. "I want to tell you that little joke, Bay, after the dance is over; let's go to the conservatory, for perhaps there are Borne parts of it that you do not care about any one hearing." "All right, little sister; but remember, now, the joke must not be on me." Jeaimette slightly shrugged her shoulders in reply, and did not know just wliat to say. bne cna not want to displease him;" no, now of all*times, she could not afford it, but she bad decided to tell bim ber opinion of tbe "little tramp," and, if possible, save him, as she thought, from a terrible fate. Her chief object, though, wa3 to get Bay to send Lenora away from the mansion immediately. The waltz was soon over, and the different couples were leaving the hall, Borne going to one part of the mansion, while others went back to the drawingroom. "Won't you go through the conservatory with me, Miss Rice? I know that you are fond of flowers, for?you?you are so much like one yourself." "Lenora cast a auick. keen clance at her partner, and he soon saw^that he j pas treading on forbidden ground. > The conservatory wag empty when , they entered. When the music ceased Jtay and -Teannette were at the farther ' end of the hall from the entrance, while Lenora and Charley were just opposite the door. They soon reached the conservatory, and were far down the walks, and almost hidden among the flowers and I foliage when Kay and Jeannette entered. As Jeannette saw no one,she presumed that they were alone, anii as they walked along through the aisles she leaned very heavy and lovingly on Raj's Hall, who is that young gentleman with Miss Nathan?" Charley looked at her in perfect tonishment. ""Why, don't you know him?know his name ? He is Raynard Bristol, the master of the mansion."* In an instant Lenora's faos was ghastly pale. Even her lips were colorless. Now. it all flashed through her mind; what had happened, and who it was that she had given her heart to that very night I She knew that her face was pale, and that her hands fairly trembled with motion, but she did not want Charley to see how terribly she was shocked, and with tottering footsteps she started for a recess just off one of the main 0 walks. Charley followed her, wondering at her strange actions. "Let's sit here and rest a little, for I feel a little tired, and the air seems so close in this room." As they sat there they were entirely hidden from view bv the heavy vines that had grown up and completely covered the fine iron wire of the frame. They were quietiy sitting there, Lenora exerting every nerve in her body to calm herself, and Charley was feasting his ejei on the strange, ba- j pitching byautv of the girl in front of him. Lenora heard the "hum of voices in the distance, but Charley did not hear and did not wish to be disturbed. The voices came nearer; Lenora could not see, but knew who it was. Hark! "What did she hear? Thej were just opposite the recess now, hut they could not seo her. She pressed her" hand closoly to her Bide, a3 if to etop the wild "beating of lier aching heart. Jeannette's strong, harsh voice sounded like thunder in her ears, as she heard them come nearer. "I tell you, Buy, that she is actually 'little tramp' or a cunning adventuress. Just think of the way she managed to enter thi3 house, in an old rough box, and all wrapped up in blankets; and, too, those blank papers were abominable. She thought she would create an excitement by throwing an air of mystery about her." "I do not see how it can be so, Jeannette, for she looks so " The sentence was not finished, for just behind them they heard a call for "Help?help?she has fainted!" It was Charley Hall's voice, and Ray recognized it; and, too, lie remembered that the little stranger had been his partner and that they leffrthe ball-room together. > He quickly unloosed Jeannette's grasping hand from his arm and ran back. Charley met him at the entrance of the recess, and his face was ghastly pale. "Oh, my God, Ray, she fainted and fell over before I knew it! I noticed that she turned very pale as you came near, and before you had scarcely passed she fell." "Jeannette, run for the smelling| salts, and you, Charley, bring some water and wine, quick!" As the two started for the restoratives Eay went to Lenora and knelt down by her side. She lay there on the soft, green grass, and her ghastly, cold face, with its dull, stony eyes, seemed to stare him in the face and reproach him for listening to what Jeannette had been telling him. As he saw her lying there, so pale, so death-like, a great flood of passionate love for her rushed through his heart and shook his very 6oul. He gently lifted the Limp little form in his arms and pressed her to his bosom, while the warm", loving kisses were pressed to her cold, ashen lips. TTA? n r*A mirto \J JUy XUL > JVU uiy uiiuvr uvui V and soul, and jou know it. You, my little angel, my ruling queen. You fought bravely with your own heart tonight, hut when I gave you mine you had to yield, and I was so happy, but now, oh, God, what is this that they come and tell me about you ? "Speak, tell me, darling, that it is not true, and that is all I want. "Speak, my little queen; I am with you." And he kissed the still, cold lipa again and again, but she did not answer him. "Oh, God, why are you punishing me so to-night? Why have you sent her here to punish me in this manner, when I would die for her this very moment? I know it is all false?she can't be wicked. No, 6he is as pure as the angels in heaven." He pressed her close to his bosom again and she slightly moved. "Thank God! she lives." He gently laid her down on the grass ! again and her eves lost that cold, stony expression. She turned her head and looked straight in his eyes. "Please do not believe it, sir, do not believe what she said, for it isn't true, i I am not wicked, but, oh, bo lonely and j homeless." That was all Ray wanted; he was i then the happiest man in all the world. | "I did not, I could not, believe it when she told me. You know all now, and shall never leave me while I live." Lenora had closed her eyes again, but as he finished speaking she opened them and looked at Ray, while that j same submissive smile played about | moiifh that, teas for nim onlv. It I was sweeter and more eloquent than words to Ray. In the confusion, Jeannette and t Cliarley had been somewhat detained, ! but they soon came. Lenora drank * some wine that Charley brought, and i Kay bathed her face and hands in the cool water. In a short time the four returned to 1 the drawing-room, to rest awhile. Ray j was Lenora's partner for the next j waltz, and as they entered the ball- j room his face glowed *'th happiness, and he was more radiant than lie had [ ever been se?n before. Mrs. Bristol quickly saw the change, . and divined the cause when she saw that her pet was Ray's partner. Had she not been so positive that Lenora was innocent of Jeannette's DilU ?UU1U 11 vJ > CI UD ttUlC l/u lUi" give herself for what she had done that night; but as it was, she only looked on with a pleased, happy smile. As for Jeannette, no one knew what she thought or felt as she saw her "little tramp'' whirling round and round the room like a fairy, treading on the ; air, and Eav?her Ray?was the hateful creature's partner, and he had his arm round her waist, and from the expression on his face as he looked down in Lenora'a lovely, dreamy eyes, Jeanr.ette knew that he loved the "little tramp" ten thousand times more, unworthy as she was, than ho had ever loved her. "Ah, the misery of it all I Just to look at them is burning the heart out of my body," she would sigh and murmur to herself over and over again. "Is it too late yet ? I have never failed to do anything I once undertook to do, and I have said that I would be the mibtress i of the Bristol mansion, and I will I It seems to me that eternal punishment would be easier borne than to give all up to her. It will be a very easy matter for me to call on her to-morrow morning, when she takes her chocolate, and season it with a certain liquid that I have in my room. Ah! mv line lady, we 6hall see then who shall bo mistress of the Bristol mansion!" * ? # ? The Christmas ball at the Bristol manBion had been a grand success, and all enjoyed themselves except Jeanette Nathan. The night had been a beautiful, crisp, starlight night, and the morning dawned bright and clear. Bay awoke with a sweet sensation. He had been dreaming of the little Btranger. Ho knew that Lenora loved him, and how he longed to make her his wife immediately, bnt there was a , barrier between them, and it was not j within his power to tear it away. ! Lenora must do that herself by tellj ing him who her parents were. He lay for some time with the vision , of her lovely face before his eyes. The girl also felt happy that morning, yet there was in her heart a tinge of sadness. She now looked upon herself as one who had merely tasted the sweetness of true love, and then all had I ^ _ _ ? I carry the burden of her lost love forever. As she stood by the window, looking oat over the broad Bheet of sparkling whiteness, conscious of something fouijd and something lost, there came a gentle tap at the door. "Come." The door was open, and Jeannette, with a light step and a bright smile on her face, entered. "Good-morning, Miss Lina; I hardly expected to find you up so early. When you fainted, you frightened me terribly last night, and I was most sure that you would be sick this morning; but, upon my word, I believe you are only looking the better." "Thank you, Jeannette, for your kind consideration for my health; but I am not feeling much the worse because of my dissipation of last night; it is nothing uncommon forme to faint and I soon get over it. But have a chair. Here comes my chocolate. If yon have not had yours yet, Btay and lunch -with me." "Thank you; that will be delightful. No; I never lunch until ten, and it is always so delightful when one has company." This was just the opportunity that Jeannette wanted, and she was indeed delighted at having succeeded bo nicely, thus far. The only difficulty that now remained was as to how she could get tho poison in the cup without being seen. The opportunity soon arrived. Some of the guests were leaving and Lenora went to the window to see who it was. As quick as a flash she drew tho bottle from her pocket and dropped its contents into Lenora's cup, just how much she did not know, but she hoped it was enough to send the breath of life quickly from her hated rival. Lenora soon returned to her chocolate. "How many were going?" "Only two gentlemen." "Ah, yes, I remember now. They bade me good-by last night; two friends of Ray's from Boston." "How strangely this chocolate tastes this morning. Did you enjoy it, Jeannette?" "Oh, yes; only I thought it a little strong, and I do not feel very well since I drank it." "I generally enjoy my cup very much, but perhaps I have not yet quite recovered from the effects of the ball." Still Lenora drank of that awful steaming cup of poison, and Jeannette looked at her with an inward feeling of victory. "Oh, dear! I feel very uncomfortable I If you will excuse me I will return to my room." This wicked, deceitful woman rose and went to the door, and just as Bhe passed out she saw Lenora set the empty cup on the table. [TO BE CONTINUED.] WORDS OF WISDOM. Good habits are better than wings. Love gives what money can not buy. There is a good deal of preaching in a smile. To be patient is better than to be iamous. The man who lives fast will be apt to die quick. The more people know the less they brag about it. Self-conceit is one of the first gods that men worship. If all flowers were alike the bouquet market would be dull. We can not choose our duties, but we can resolve to do them. No man can look at the stars without wanting to live forever. It would be a calamity to have flowers and grass change places. There is hope for the man who is conBcious of his own faults. Three-fourths of total depravity crops out in out-and-out laziness. Men care least for honor when most in need of bread and butter. If men had made the world, how the man in the moon would grin. If you can't do what you like to do, try to like tha work you have to do. It is a good deal easier to be contented without riches than it is with them. There is more power in a soft answer than there is in a ton of gunpowder. One of the test3 of a fine nature is the effect joys and sorrows have upon it. If the earth wa^ covered with flowers all the year round the bees would get lazy. Love and hope always live together. Kill hope and love will bring it to life again. One of the sweetest things in the family is to see children helping one another. Indulgence is like the self-devouring rocket: by? cheerfulness is like the starry lieavens." If you want to have power to mould other men, learn to control the man who wears your hat. Some people's lives are like warm water on a hot day; nice to look at, but one taste is enough. A Brave General. Among the stories they tell of blul! old Oilman Marston, ot New Hampshire, who died recently, are these: He was badly wounded in the arm at Bull Run, but' refused to have the member amputated, though the surgeons told him his life depended upon that operation. He insisted upon being placed upon his horse, and was led to the front amid cheera from the "boys" of his regiment. He once refused to allow his troops to board an overloaded transport, because he "had brought those men from New Hampshire to fight, not to be drowned." The orders of a tyrannical superior to build a trn.irdhousc "without so much as a crack in it," lie obeyed literally, solid logs being so used that there was not even a door to enter by. On one occasion he coolly walked along a parapet under a terrible fire of shot and 6hell that he might inspire a wavering brigade.?Boston Traveller. A Snake With Logs. Dan Hendricks, living near Viola, Iowa, killed a two-legged rattlesnake the other day. It was three feet long, and had two legs two inches in length,placed about six inches below the head. When first seen it was walkiug on the legs, wriggling the lower portion of its body. It had five rattlea.?Cincinnati Enquirer. ; - : : " r-j ,-c MEXICa SCENES OF INTEREST AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS. Life in the Capital?Moving an Aztec Idol?Famous Popocatepetl IVith Its Almost Inaccessible Peak of Snow. Morning in Mexico is a season of delight. The weather is usually so pleasant and unchangeable that our North American salutation "it's a fine day," is unknown to the Mexican. If such a remark is made he seems surprised and will answer, "one day is like another here, and all days are fine." Even in the rainy season I was told the sho wers fall at night and the days are clear and unclouded. But the morning has the most enchanting atmosphere; there is a buoyant freshness in the air, the skies are blue, the sunshine delicious, as tempering the chill which is iuseparable from night and shade, in the high altitudes of the capital. Being within the tropics the sun rises and sets at nearly the same hours every day in the year. After sunset it soon becomes dark. The people go to bed early. The pulque shops are closed early by law, and about the only loitering places are the restaurants. There is a prejudice against the nisrht air. and few persons are in the streets after dark, though the city is well lighted by electricity. The work of street sweeping, which our people are accustomed to do at night, the Mexicans postpone until the fresh and early hours of tho? morniag. It is done with hand brooms byn large force of peons?so thoroughly done that nothing better in the way of clean pavements is to be wished for. Blocks of grayish volcanic rock, cut in large squares and laid diagonally across the carriage way, form the pavement. The same kind of pavement is to be seen in Rome, Naples and in ancient Pompeii. The 6ize of the blocks suggest to the Northern eye danger from breakage, but as the vehicular traffic of the city, though great in volume, is not heavy in weight, the stone3 remain unimoaired. MEXICAN STREET jrEIlCIIANT. For several days during my sojourn in the city workmen were engaged in moving from the Vera Cruz Railroad station to the national museum a great basaltic porphyry idol?the "Goddess of "Water." An Aztec idol of uncouth appearance, strangely and intricately carved, it camo from the region south of Tlaxcala, where f!r>rt/>c fnnnrJ Viic fircfc rpsistflnrft and nf terward his most approved and courageous allies. Its -weight, by the railway ecales, was twenty tons. Boilers, monoliths and ponderous machinery of great weight are moved on trucks by the use of horses without much ado in our Northern cities. In Mexico it was slung &s it rested on iron rails from under the axles of a vehicle with wheels ten feet in diameter, and moved slowly by horses and capstans over a railroad track laid down upon the pavement. A guard of soldiers, almost as numerous as the gang of workmen, were observant of the work. The idol advanced about a block a day, and was a fortnight in getting into position. Undoubtedly it is the heaviest object transported through the streets of Mexico since the days before the conquest, when relays of Aztecs, thousands in number, laboriously brought the great calendar or sacrificial stone to the teocalli where Montezuma, and the priests who preViim -nprfnrmprl thfi flpatll-dcalillD U.U,, rites of their gloomy religion. There are few, very few, manufactories?the bustling, steam propelled, coal-consuming, irou-requiriug factories of modern times ?in Mexico. There" arc few of the great wholesale aud distributing houses of ou* commercial cities to fill the street* with numerous vans and loads of mer MOUXT POrOCATAPETL. chandise. Neither is the disintegrating clement of frost known in tlic climate; consequently the pavements of Mexic: wear well, are smooth and clean. Mexico is 7350 feet above the level of the sea. The descend?"bajada"?from the city, as the railroad time-tablc3 put it, that is, to go down toward the coast, either toward the Atlantic on the east, or the Pacific on the west, the circle of volcanic mountains which surround th? Valley of Mexico must first be climbe-!. It is the most remarkable range of 70Imiipi in the world, forming a rampart on a parallel sixteen miles south of the city. They are not all in sight from the capital, because Popocatapetl, the highest mountain in Mexico, and Iztaccihnatl, its companion and neighbor, shut out the view. The traveler need not journey far to the eastward before Orizaba, tne most symmetrical snow-shrouded conn in the list of mountains, with its crater shining like a star in the night, will be seen towering up in the sky. If he goes westward s^on the peak of the volcano of Toluca will present itself, which is united by a chain of smaller volcanoes with Iztaccihuatl and completes the inclosure. It is the strangest sight, this circle of volcanoes, and one that has arrested the attention of physicists and geographers, both before and since the time of Humboldt. Old Vesuvius dominates the horizon of Naples; his smoke V;. -' V;\ drifts over the "beautiful "bay and city? a landmark visible from a great distance. People go from all parts of the world to see it. The volcanoes within sight of Mexico are more numerous and more remarkable. If they were to go into eruption at one time they would encircle the city with mountains of fire. On the great plaza of Mexico, between the great cathedral and the national palace, is a monument to Enrico Martinez, the illustrious Mexican cosmographer. On this monument is inscribed the latitude and longitude of the spot and various other measurements, including the very important one which shows tue mgnt oi water in .LaKe iexcoco, nearest the city. Standing beside this monument I at once saw; that should the lake submerge the city, of which there is danger, the water would be two or three inches above my head. The lake is smooth and salty. Bulrushes border its banks And the mountains are reflected on its surfuce. The train left Mexico early in the morning, the intention being to run down to the tropical region, pass the best portion of the day there and return at night. The ra;iroad people had provided lunch, din vA'vJ) timm .'^=5$^ 'W^a^/^L. |*W x^TTJ/ fnd BTBEET SCENE IN MEXICO. "ing cars being as yet not introduced into Mexico. Everything was at hand except coffee, and this was to be served at Ayotla, a station fifteen mile3 out. A band of music was on board, consisting of six violins,, four guitars, four clarionets, two bass viols and six brass herns. The company disembarked for their coffee and the band played outside the station. The sun was just rising, lighting up the snowy peak of Popocatapetl in the immediate background, the shadows being quite deep upon its western side. The other volcano, Iztaccibuatl, is connected with the greater one, the ridge which unites them being two or three miles long. Iztaccibuatl is an Indian word, meaning "the white lady." At sunrise in the morning the long ridge of fhe mountain, covered with snow, bears a resemblance to the form of a woman, shrouded in white. The feet are nearest to Popoeatapetl, the head farthest away. The resemblance is not so apparent as the sun mounts higher and the shadows fall in other directions, but the figure of a woman is much more plainly to be made out at all times than is Antony's Nose on the Hudson, or the man's head on Jit. Washington. While drinking the coffee and looking at the wonderful mountain scenery, the band begins its concert. A peon acts as music stand. He holds a sheet in his hands for the clarionct, and has pinned to his back, or to the red serape on his back, two other sheets for the brass horns. He guards hi3 face from the air of the clarionet oy noiaing me music as a shield, but he cannot protect himself from the brass horns which assail him from the rear. Nevertheless he stands perfectly still in the centre of this wind blast. The music has eidher charmed or paralyzed him. Popocatapetl?an Aztec word meaning the mountr.jn that smokes?has an elevation of 17,720 feet, or 1945 feet higher than Mt. Blanc, which Byron "crowned monarch of mountains." It has not been in eruption since 1540, twenty years after the conquest by Cortez. A variable column of smoke ascends from it. The entire mountain is owned by a gentleman who resides in the City of Mexico. He derives a revenue from the sulphur mined from the crater, and alsg from the charcoal which is burned from tne wooa that grows upon the mountain side, below the snow line. The ascent is not often made. It la not dangerous, but very cold and disagreeable. To get to the top it is necesMMmfkll A' fmf^s - ?- -? " tiie cncncn op amecameca. sary to start the day before and stop ovcj night at the sulphur miner's cabin, just below the snow line. The discomforts of a nisrht here are something that few care to endure, and the climo tnrougn the snow up the icy crater next morning is rery trying. The atmosphere is thin on account of the enormous elevation, and only strong men can stand it. Tho sulphur odors have also to be endured, and as a few incline to such hardships, not more than a score of men have stood on the top of Popocatepetl since the day that Diego de Ordaz, under the command of Cortez., made the first ascent in the year 1519. The Emperor, Charles V., allowed Ordaz to use a flaming volcano on his escutcheon. As Cortez says no one could reach tiie top or me muuuuuu i oa account of the vast accumulation of | snow at that time, it k probable that Ordez boasted of something he did not parform. In that case the brothers Frederick and William Glennie, who climbed it in 1827.. are the first who should be credited with ha5ing reached the summit. All who undertake to go up the mountain first get a permit from the owner and an order to his sulphur miners to render assistance. Then they go by railroad to Amecameca,twenty-five miles or so from Mexico, and there equip themselves with extra clothing, ponies, etc., and begin the wearisome accent. At this beautiful village at the foot of J the mountain there is a lofty rock or hill, sacred by ancient tradition, on whose top is a church. Many people | make pilgrimages to this church at Amecaraeca. We do not stop there except to taka more coffee and look at the mountains from a new and nearer point of view. In the fields, rich with a dark, volcanio soil, the bare legged peons arc plowing. The plow ij a stick set into a heavy beam. Horses and oxen pull it. It is an antiquated sort of plow,such as Abraham might have used in the days when he was the most advanced farmer of the world. Those who have teen Egypt say the scene reminds them of that ancicnt land. It has a strange look. The fields are full of peons cultivating the ground, and the vegetation might very well bo Egyptian. The peons are good workmen. They lose no time in soldiering; their motions are quick, and their industry keeps them in ceaseless activity. The sunshine burns us, and yet a little way above us is the land which touches the shivering region. About one-third of Popocatepetl, measuring from the top, io r.mr*rf>d -with snow. That is to SaV. there is a band of snow about the giant's cone that is fully a mile wide. A Mexican gentlemen tells me that it is 500 feet deep in the barrancas and hardly less tnan iuu ieet deep anywnere except on the southern side. White summer clouds come drifting up toward the peak. "Where the sun strikes upon the clouds they show whiter than the snow. The lowest of these clouds is more than two miles below its crest; occasionally a light one ascends near to the top. The snow is more permanently white than the clouds with a tinge of indigo to its whiteness. As noon comes on the clouds disappear, and the glare of the sun on the mountain top becomes stronger.?Detroit Free Press. It Will Eclipse the Eiffel Tower. London is to have a tower higher than the one at the Paris exposition that attracted so much attention and to nval which has been one of Lhe ambitions of Americans who are especially interested in the Columbian exposition. The London tower, which is to be erected by the Watkin Tower Company a mile or two north of St. John's Wcod. is to be 1200 feet in height, and to be constructed of steel. Four lifts and two staircases are provided, situated in the legs of the tower, which rise to the principal stage at a height of 200 feet above the cxound Here the designers have provided for the benefit of visitors a large area consisting of a great central hall, which under able management would prove one of the special attr? ' jns of the tower. The hall would J\ of an octagonal form, 20,000 feet\ ea and Bixty feet high, the spaces between the eight legs of the tower at the angles of the octagon forming eight recesses for restaurants,management rooms, etc. Over the recesses, and clustered round the central hall, the authors suggest the construction of a hotel, of ninety bed-rooms, with all TiortjiconMTKnflio finrl other fimnmmodfltion. As the special features which the hotel could offer would be the advantages of pure air, sun-light and open prospects, the whole of the bed-rooms have been placed on the external faces of the tower, The restaurants on the main platform would provide dining accommodation, one being especially set apart for the use of residents, and the kitchens would be arranged on the mezzanines over the serving-rooms attached to the restaurants. ?Chicaao News. JKoa Committal. : ii A * /\F\ f ^'V' <*. > ... - Girl9 (excitedly)?"Oh, Mr. Tumbledown, are you killed?" Tumbledown?"I can tell you better after I reach the bottom! 1 ain't dead up to the present time, but the prospect before me is pretty serious."?Muiwey's WftUy. A Millionaire's Electric Plant. At Mr. Rockefeller's splendid estate on the Hudson Kiver a system of electric lighting, costing over $150,000, has been installed. lie can now, by moving a small button in his library, illuminate acres of his beautiful grounds at midnight, if he pleases. The wires are all - i carried uuaer tac sou uuu uui and the lights are arranged in a wonderfully artistic fashion in the trees and foliage. Such a fortune as that expended in electricity, and in lighting a country ?)lacc, is unprecedented in history. Even jthe new roof in Blenheim palace, about which everybody in England has been talking, cost less than $10U,000.?Buf'talo 7.) Courier. tfR TEMPEfiAKCir^? \ FOB EVERYONE. Here Is a little verse, which, though not intended as a puzzle, has a moral so good that we have copied it for your benefit. It was quoted by a great speaker when making an 1 address on the subject whether or not it would be possible to close the public drinking-saloons. He said, "This is a difficult auestion, truly, my friends, but will we not o well to remember that "There is a little public-house Which every one may close; It is the little public-house Just underneath your nose." ?Youth's Banner. IN NORWAY AND SWEDES. An habitual drunkard in Sweden and Norway is treated as a criminal in this sense, that his inordinate love for strong drink renders him liable to imprisonment, and while in confinement it appears he is cured of his bad propensities on a plan which, though simple enough, is said to produce marvelous effects. From the day tne confirmed drunkard is incarcerated no nourish* ment is served to him or her but bread and wine. The bread, however, it should be said, cannot be eaten apart from the wine, | but is steeped in a bowl of it and left thus tc | 6oak an Hour or more before tne meai is served to the delinquent. The first day the habitual toper takes bis food in this shape without the slightest repugnance; the second day he finds it less agreeable to his palate and very quickly he evinces a positive aversion to it. Generally, the doctor states, eight or ten days of this regimen is mora than sufficent to make a man loathe the very sight of wine. DRINKING AND APOPLEXY. The Irish World presents to its rearlera the following wholesome lesson concerning alcohol and apoplexy: . "It is the essential nature of all wines and spirits to send an increase ! amount of blood to the brain. The first effect of taking a glass of wine or stronger form of alcohol iff to send the blood .there faster than common, Hence the circulation that gives the red face, i J| It increases the activity of the brain and itl works faster, and so does the tongue, but the blood goes faster than common to the^U brain, it returns faster, and no immediate, ^ harm may be done. But suppose a man keeps on drinking: the blood is sent to the bram so fast in large quantities that in order to make room for it the arteries .have to charge themselves. They increase in siza, J J-.* fliAniAM. U.L1U, iu UUIU^ Sf*J1 UiOjr |Jt wa agaiuab wvutuivr yielding, flaccid veins which carry the blood out of the brain, and diminish the size of the pores?the result being that the blood is not only carried to the arteries of the brain faster than is natural cr healthful, but is prevented from leaving it as fast as usual Hence a. double set of causes of death are in operation. Hence a man may drink enough brandy or other spirit* in a few hours, or ' even minutes, to bring on a fatal attack of h apoplexy. This is being literally dead drunk." WHAT AN OLD BARTENDER SATS. "Do you know," said an old Jpartend^v I recently, "that every time I sell a man a drink I feel like a criminal? I have been do- ing it for twenty years, and I have never* known the taste of liquor in my life. But I > have seen men drink it to their ruin and* never one to his good. It actually makes me angry to see men stand up to the bar cod drink liquor. I have often been thought surly, but it was not surliness, it was anger that made me seem so. You cannot get brutes to touch the stuff, and they show * they are a good deal smarter than men. X am not a Prohibitionist and would not votethat ticket under any circumstances, because I know enouzh about the business to know that an attempt to enforce such a law simply means that you make liars and sneaks out of all drinking men. But I know that drinking does no man good, 2nd the man is a fool who says that a drink when he is feeling badly is just what he wants. I've' seen those men turn drunkards. You maythink that mine are peculiar views for a barkeeper No doubt they are; but I have had __ long experience, and I tell you the opium eater has stronger arguments in favor of his drug than the whisky-drinker has for his- y whisky. Why don't I get out of the busi- M ness? I got into it, and I know it; I don't^ know any other, and I am too old now to- J learu." ' HOW TO ESCAPE INTEMPERANCE. In a recent number of an American' , magazine, Mr. Jefferson tells a pathetic story; of meeting in the wilds of Australia a shepherd who nad once been a man of rank and) position in London. He had become a; drunkard, and after trying every means of reform had at last fled to Australia and1 buried himself in the bush, alone but for ft! dog that bore him company; he would not] tempt him to drink. For years he had re-j mained there solitary, not seeing the face of! a human being for months at a time. Bat: he had conquered the habit which was mak-'. ing a beast of him. Perhans amonc the readers of this story.] there is some young man upon whom t&ej love of liquor has taken nold He is-, ishamed, terrified, anxious to shake it off,' but be feels its grasp in the weakness of his! will to resist. What shall he do? In the first place, recognize the fact that, this'is a practical, physical evil, and calmly bring practical, physical remedies to bearonj it. First seek help from a higher than, human source, and then use the rational | remedies which He has provided for this dis-; ease of the body and soul. If alcoholism is] hereditary in his family or if his immediate ancestors were moderate drinkers his danger; is greater, and the need of prompt actioni more imminent. Ho should put himself in i the care of an intelligeut physician who will I be able somewhat to appease the intense craving for stimulant. But he must himself counteract the cansei which drove him to drink. If it was a desire for "fun" and excitement let him find some ? r Al VA. imussmentsai aerem iruui iume iu nuitu utr lias been indulging which will drive it from his mind. If he began to tipple in secret, let him, >hun solitude and find cheerful, entertaining society. If on the other hand lie drinks only when with certain associates, let him give them up at once and wholly. Occupation, healthy and absorbing for A jiind and body, is the surest safeguard for lim. For after all, "the way to stop drink- ?'V Jig is to stop drinking," and whatever strengthens the weakened will and helps him to refuse to taste even a drop is the most rational remedy.? Youth's Companion. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. True goodness and bad whisiy won't mi*. No man who really believes as C*ist taught ever sells whisky. The man who makes a practice of drinking when he wants to will some day have to i irink when he don't want to. From a consular report just issued it ap-. I pears that the population of Munich conmmes the enormous quantity of 4S5 quarts ->f luw rwp head ner annum. Dennis Conwav, of New York, never tasted liquor until a few days ago. The heat made him feel week, and he tried a stimulant in the shape of whisky He died that night. One of the best moves the devii can make is to persuade a big-headed man to trust in, his own strength. There isn't a drunkard^ on earth to-day who didn't formerly believe1 he could drink or let it alone The Piutes had a big pow-vow near Wadsworth, Nev\, that lasted all of one week. The, burden of the speeches made by the old men: was in favor of total abstinence from liquors, and the rising generation were urged to go to school at Carson. The police of St Petersburg has sent notice to all the saloonkeepers in the neigh** borhoodof factories thattney will be heavily | Gucd if they continue selling spirituous drinks to laborers on trust, or beguile the m drink in anv other way "Men declare that they couldn't got along without tlieir beer or whisky,'1 says the wai^1 den of Joliet Prison, "but in two weeks after, I get hold of a drinker be no longer craves for it, and in a month there is such a change; in hi n for the better that you would hardly know him/' A gentleman iu Cincinnati has in his pos- A session a copy of the original edition of the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher's famous "SutSer- tP mons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils / 1 and Remedy of Intemperance'" delivered in' Litchfield Conn., 1826. These sermons awakened the most lively interest in temperance throughout the United States, and may almost be said to have originated the temperance movement in this country. Their publication immediately caused the formation of the "American Society for the Promotion of Temperance," and many other kindred societies. \ C ' : ] ? M