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*W52iBW AIM The Story of a Tragic Life Drama BY K M. DAVY. CHAPTER 111? Contlnneil. For the remainder of the day I avoided the company of Dr Gascoigne, wandered a good deal* about the passages, and, as frequently as I dared, without exciting suspicion, lingered in the vicinity of a certain corridor. It was all in vain. Neither message nor note reached me; and I went toward my room at last, more disappointed than I should have cared to own. Ab I was about to open my bedroom door, however, I heard a light footfall behind me, looked round and there was tana. "At 11 to-morrow, in the 'Fernery,'" she whispered hurriedly; and, -without giving me time to answer, turned and Here was an assignation thrust upon me for the following morning, but which of the two ladies was the originator of it ?whether mistress or maid?I could not for the life of me determine. It might be that SIi6s Hargreave? availing herself of this means of communication?meant to claim on the morrow my promised aid. Or, equally likely, Edna Lynton, repenting her strange conduct, sought an opportunity to explain why she had affected not to know me. The situation was becoming complicated with a vengeance, but I bore it with the greatest equanimity, smoked innumerable cigarettes, and while I did so there Btole over me a feeling of such pleased confidence in myself, my appearance and say prospects as'for' five long years I had never known. Next day, Sunday?a bright, chill October morning?after watching a few stragglers set off for church, among whom was Mrs. Hargreave, I bent my steps toward the "Fernery," a small grotto situated in ' the grounds, close to Glendale House. It was filled so full of ferns and greenery, a fish pond and towering palms, that more than two persons moving about in it at the same time was impossible. 1 reached this spot early, and sat down on the solitary rustic bench the place contained. The distant churoh bells ceased to chime, 11 o'clock struck, and shortly afterward I could hear approaching footsteps. "He has not oome!" Miss Hargreavt exclaimed, impulsively. "Hush!" Then followed a few whispered words. By no means desirous of overhearing anything not intended for my ears, I rose and. Bhowed myself at the entrance. Edna Lynton drew back instantly, and. without looking at me, walked away; but Miss Hargreave, with a slight bow, en tered the grotto and sank on the rustic Vioti^Vi ab thnnoh AYhftTistari "I'm weak still," she said, faintly, and leaning back, she closed her eyes, while 1 gazed in silent admiration at the dark, curved lashes that dropped on the flushed cheeks, noting also the exquisite figor? set off by the tight-fitting velvet dress. "Sit down, Mr. Dudley," she said presently; bat I declined, and continued to 'stand over her, waiting, in a respectful attitude, till she should feel herself sufficiently recovered to say more. At length, with a deep sigh, she roused herself and looked straight into my face. "This is veiy humiliating," she said, with a laugh that sounded hysterical; ""very humiliating?for me." With all the eloquence I was master oi ?in words, in looks?I besought her to put aside such as idea now and forever She had but to c* urn unci, I would obey. Was I not her chosen knight? "How delightfully romantic!" she cried; her whole face, but above all, hei glorious eyes, lighting up with that look of espieglerie which Lad bo charmed me on first seeing her. "I, at least, am in earnest," I remarked, in a tone of pique. "And so am I. God knows I need help sorely! It is with the greatest difficulty 1 have been able to arrange this meeting. But for that good girl who came with me, I should have been powerless to do so. I must make haste ana tell you everythiog, Mr. Dudley, or you cannot understand. My own mother died before I can remember. My father married again about twelve years since?I believe solely on my account. I was a charge, a trouble, to him. I called his wife 'mother,' and 1 loved her, for she was very kind. Two yearB ago my father was thrown from his horafi?in the hnating field?and died nest day. Oh, it was a terrible time!" she said, shudderingly; and for a moment Bhe covered her face with her hands. "I was ill after that?so ill! And then * * * mother changed to me. She became less kind and, later, she tinned esvere, unfeeling, cruel. She insisted opon leaving om beautiful home, and Bhe took me about traveling from place to place. She says it is for my good, but I hate it?oh, how I hate it! My father was a rich man, I know it, and she has plenty of money. But I?oh, how am I to tell you for very shame?" Then springing from the seat and pushing back the little fur hat she wore, so that it fell down among the ferns, Bhe laid her beautiful white hand upon my lieeve. "I am not allowed to have even the imallestcoin you would fling to the poorest beggar!" she whispered, and the gleam of her dark eyes lixed on mine teemed to exercise a magnetic influence >ver me. "Fine dresses, jewels, anything that san be bought, are mine simply lor the iskiug, but I have no money. I have no freedom! * * Mr. Dudley," ane continued, speaking more rapidly and eag?rly, with both hands now clasped upon ny arm, "I am treated like a slave, a prisoner?dragged abo it this country, as ' was about the continent last year, from Dlace to place. We can keep no servants. If my mother engages a traveling said and I like her, she is at once dismissed. The servants mother approves I late. They are set as spie3 over me. L'ho girl who was engaged and came from Wexham yesterdiy will be sent away imnediately it is discovered I have made a friend o? her. But a man can help me oest?a man like you! There must surely ?e pome English law to protect a poor jirl placed as I am. But without money, qow am I to appeal to law? I want to enow about my father's will. He must aave left money that I should have, now I am of age. It is not possible he could t>e so unjust, so cruel, as to give it all to aer " "You would like me to find out particulars of your father's will, I suppose. Mi6s ^argreave?" said I, with difficulty reKtajning all outward manifestation of the burning indignation I felt against thii dreadful stepmother. "But can you?will you?" "Most certainly. All you have to do ii to tell me his name &ad place of resi deuce, aud date of death." "LeBter Hargreave, Whitmore Park Leicestershire. He died the 30th of December, 1878." "Thank yon. I will bring a copy ol your father's will on Saturday. I hope you trust me. Miss Hargreave?" 'In whom else should I have confidence, if not in you? Yes! Indeed, I trust you. Eut you must be n magician, Mr. Dudley, if you can do that." I saw she was totally ignorant of bnsi 2ies8 affairs, and felt the more euchnntod at her guilelessness. Taking one of hei hands from my arm, where It was still resting, and raising it to my lips, "May I?" I asked, doubtingly. There was no denial in those flashing gypsy eyes that met mine now so nrchly. I kissed her hand once, twice, thrice?encb time with increasing fervor?then let it go. iTou are my own sworn knight, yon know," she 6aid, as though that were excuse enongh. "And you, being my liege lady,*?tnd thus encouraged, I continued, "may 1 claim something more when my task is done?" "You may, sir knight. When that timt I comes, ask what you will, and I??" The sentence was not designed to be completed. With a startled cry, she sprang as far from me as the very limited space allowed. A shadow fell on us. Mrs. Hargreave stood there shutting out the sunlight. M AaA?maf Wliof ?rn tam rlfti'nrt Viava VJvVl^tV* ?? UUk UAW J VI* UViUg UViC) and who is this gentleman? He is no acquaintance of mine?or yours." She spoke in a voice tremulous with whal might be anger; but to me it more resem. bled fear. "This is?Mr. Dudley, mother." The girl spoke with a painful effort. I bowed; so did Mrs. Hargveave. The introduction thus effected was alike embarrassing to all. CHAPTER IV. FOBTUNE TUBNS HEB WHEEL. "Leave us, Geoerie," said the intruder after a pause. "I must speak with thii gentleman alone. It is incumbent on me My duty to you compels it." I looked at her, and believed I reac one Balient point in her character at onc? ?shewas a weak women whose greatest desire was to appear strong. "Not until I Know what you are going to say to Mr. Dudley. Not until I air sure you will not insult him for having dared to speak?to me," Miss Hargreavt exclaimed, impetuously. "If I were sure you had met byacoidenl ?if you were merely exchanging commot courtesies, but " jiiouier: you are mauuing mm now dj supposing anything else ipossible. Oh t^is never-ending suspicion!" she cried[ her face ablaze with passion. "You make a pretense of going to church, only to return and pry upon me. Tou drive me tc desperation, and will regret it some day. Your religion is but another hypocrisy, -while?oh, my God, this life is becoming unendurable!" Then, with one piteous, appealing glance at me, Miss Hargreave flung her* self upon the bench, and laying her face down on her outstretched arms, gave vent to a paroxysm of convulsive sobbing. "My daughter has been ill; she is suffering from an attack of nerves. Do you not see, sir, that you ought to go?" cried Mrs. Hargreave, excitedly. Of course I ought to go. There -was no doubt about it! And as I passed out she entered. I turned and hatched her sit down beside the weeping girl. I saw her place ' her arms around her and draw the tearstained faoe with apparent tenderness , upon her breast. I saw that Mrs. Hargreave's eyes also were wet, her lipi trembling, and I walked away profoundly puzzled how to reconcile the scene I had just witnessed with the tale of wrong I had only the moment before been told. j lam neither learned in phrenology noi , physiognomy; but in the same degree that the finely proportioned head of Dr. ] Gascoigne impressed me in his favor, so, . I must confess, did the weak face, but, above all, the white brows and eyelashes of Mrs. Hargreave warn me that she was cot a woman to be trusted. I left Glcndale House by the last train that night and, as it chanced, without again seeing the Doctor. Late as it was when I arrived at Coaltown my one thought on entering my ' lodgings was to devise some plan for obtaining a copy of Mr. Lester Hargreave's < will. I wrote to an old friend?the son of my father's solicitor?whom I had not seen since my prospects darkened, and asked him to use his best endeavors in procuring me the fullest information. I had some misgivings about applying to Charlie Hawks for these reasons: He was inclined to be wild when I knew him; Biiice then it had come to my knowledge j that he added unscrapulonsness to dissipation. However, it was the only means that occurred to me of obtaining the de- 1 sired information. I wrote the letter to < Charlie and posted it myself next morn- i ing on my way to the bank. ( My employers received me cordially ^ and expressed their satisfaction at seeing me restored to health. I took my seat on ' the high stool before my desk" and re- ] somed my work, to all*appearance as ] though I had never been awny from it. ] I 6ay advisedly "to all appearance," be- } cause in point of fact everything was changed to me. I seemed to have began a new era in my existence. Much as 1 had * disliked my life as a bank clerk 1 hitherto, i regarded it now with positive ] loathing, and felt convinced tnat Dr. j Gascoigne was right when he asserted J was unfitted. Having no desire to prolong my story, 1 it were needless to enter into <u>v da. 1 tailed account either of my life or "feelings during the next few days. j.i was uui uuiu ounuuuj ujuxuiu^ tuai the impatiently expected letter from London came. A large bine envelope lav conspicuous on the white breakfast cloth, and, had it contained a letter from the beautiful Miss Hargreave herself, I could scarcely have experienced deeper emotion than that with which I broke the seal. Throwing to one side a note written iD Charlie Hawks' hand, I spread out before me the sheet of paper on which the substance of the will had apparently been hastily jotted down. I read 'slowly, thoughtfully, weighing each item, and before quite reaching the end, paused. Was I fated to be forever reoalling some chance words of Dr. Gascoigne? "You should marry an heiress, my dear boy," he had said. I smiled as I repeated the words aloud ?I laughed?I broke out in a few bars of a light song. Here was the most charm- I ing girl in the world, with?now that she was of aj?e?a country seat in LeicestereViire =P30 (lftfl in fnnda nnd nil Vipr fnthfiT i died possessed of absolutely her own, with the exception of a paltry annuity, not worth mentioning, left to the widow* and the last words this lovely heiren had spoken to me were: "Ask what you will, and I " Tht sentence, owing to circumstances, had remained unfinished, but how easy to interpret it in the way I wished! Is there a devil? If there nB, most surely at that moment he whispered iu my ear that gratitude alone should prompt her to listen favorably to my suit. Was I not now in a position to unmask the perfidy of her step-mother? I got up and paced the room in my indignation when I thought of the girl's words: "I am not allowed to have aven the smallest coin you would fling to the poorest beggar!" And yet all was hers? all hers by law. Presently, recollecting there were still R few lines of writing on the paper, I took it np and read, with feelings more , easily imagined than described, the following: I. Lester Hargreave, etc.. etc., being of sound mind, but at the point of death, do Dereby revoke all former wills. I leave everything 1 die possessed of to Martha i Hargreave, my wife: and I appoint the said Martha Hargreave sole executrix of this my will, so that she. knowing my wishes?and huving absolute control over my estate? may be enable. 1 to carry them out to the best of her ability. To this end, so help her God! This codicil bore date Dec. 30, 1878, and the names of two witnesses were written below. Next I turned to Charlie Hawks' letter inclosed and and read: Deaf. Jack?It's taken me some time and been some trout'lb. but I've done the best 1 could lor you. Tue novernor drew out the ^ " 1 .1 wiir. of wllich I send you a rough copy. It doesn t matter, though, about being rough, for the will's no good. The codicil?added to the original document the day the old boy died?Is legal beyond all dispute. Suppose you are nuts on the daughter? Look before you leap, old fellow, and don't forget to "ask mamma." Yours, Charlie Hawks. Disgusted with the writer's flippancy, I flung the effusion into the grate, ate my breakfast in considerably subdued spirits, then set off for the bank?a good halfhour behind my usual time. Saturday afternoon found me once more entering Glendale House, Stepping into the comfortable, warm office-room usually occupied by Mr. Hill, "Can I have my old quarters until Monday?" X asked of him. "Certainly, sir; and I'm glad to see yon back," was the reply. "We're terribly Black?were never more so." "No arrivals or departures since I left?* There was an inviting-looking chair F laced beside the manager's, near the fire. sat down on it. "Departures, yes. But no arrivals since Mrs. and Miss Hargreave came." "They are still here, then?" I inquired, carelessly. "And likely to remain a while I hope. They've had the rooms finely fitted up. The country air seems suiting the young lady. They keep our carriages and onr best horses fairly well worked, driving about the neighborhood. If we'd a few more visitors like them, Mr. Dudley, the place might pay." ".Does it n5t now?" "How can it, sir, unless it's turnecHnto a regular hotel, or, anyhow, has a wine license! There's not much to be.made out of gingerade, I reckon! I don't care how full the place may be," he continued seriously, "it s impossible to make it pay. You know for yourself, 6ir, how low oui charges are! Well, if folks don't drink, it stands to reason they must eat, and I tell you for a fact, the longer they stop here?taking long walks, and finding the benefit from tne oracing air?tne more they do eat; but they pay no more! Now those two Indies"?making a vague movement with his hand?"theydont want the solid joint, but tasty disliea?bits of odds and ends cooked up, with a French name facked on. The wife's getting quite ofay at catering for them. Hotel-livme would suit them best, but I don't think they'd care much for my lady and her daughter at a swell hotel." "Why?" "Because, sir, they're?Blue Ribbonites." "What?" I asked, laughinft heartily at this solemnity. "True as I'm sitting here," he said. "The old lady?she's not old, but we call her that?has got some crotchets in her head you may depend! She spoke a few words to me in- here to-day, and soon showed one of them. 'It's a grand oause, this temperance movement,'said she 'and houses such as yours should be better patronized than they are; but why don't vou wear the badge?' I explained that to hold the position of manager here should be sufficient guarantee. With that ahe sighed and turned away." I rose laughing and looked at my watch. "I'll call in and have a word with Dr. Gascoigne on my way upstairs." "Pardon me, sir, but you'll not see the Doctor. He went away this afternoon, and we don't expect him back till Monday. " Was I disappointed? Scarcely. Somehow, in a vague, half-defined manner, I felt that this knowledge was a reliefl [TO BE OONTmriD.] Teutilation iu Winter. To exclude the cold on severe nights, bed-rooms are kept shut tight and the occupants breathing the confined air all night render it impure. To avoid this evil other persons ventilate their rooms more than is necessary, and catch cold. A. simple test to know if the air of the room is sufficiently pure is the following: Httll . t-aill A rm a quart uuitic auu it imu i>uc room tne air of which you wish to examine; empty the water and the bottle is immediately filled wiih air. Then pour into the bottle a spoonful of clear lime crater and shake it. If the air is sufficiently pure, the lime water will remain ilear; but if there is too much carbonic icid in the air, the lime water will become clouded or milky. A few trials of this kind in different rooms will give the jxperimenter a good knowledge of the purity or impurity of the air of the rooms. A convenient way is to fill the bottle over night, carry it into the badroom, empty it out the first thing when pou get up in the morning, cork the aottle tight, and try the lime water in aroad daylight. If the lime water xenains clear, a single breath of air blown nto it through anv tube or a straw will juickly show the chalk in the water,and indicate bow readily the air is vitiated 3j breathing.?Country GentlemanWhat They Are Worth. J. J. Hill is worth $15,000,000. E. B. Coxe is worth $20,000,000. Jay Gould is worth $75,000,000. J. G. Fair is worth $20,000,000. A. J. Drexel is worth $'20,000,000. John I. Biair is worth $40,000,000. P. T. Barnum is worth $5,000,000. David Sinton is worth $20,000,000. W. D. Sloane is worth $18,000,000. Robert Bonner is worth $6,000,000. John P. Jones is worth $15,000,000. Sidney Dillon is worth $15,000,000. J. W. Mackay is worth $30,000,000. Philip Armour is worth $25,000,000. Marshall Field is worth $15,000,000. Levi P. Morton is worth $10,000,000. Russell A. Alger is worth $5,000,000. Claus Spreckles is -worth $20,000,* 300. Senator Gorman is worth $6,000,000. James McMillan is worth $10,000,300. Leland Stanford is worth $40,000,300. C. P. Huntington is worth $40,000,300. * Andrew Carnegie is worth $40,000,300. Ex-Senator Palmer is worth $6,000,300. John Wanamaker is worth $15,000,300. The Astor family is worth $200,000,300. George S. Crocker is worth $12,000,300. John D. Rockefeller *a worth $60,300.000. The Vanderbilt family is worth $230,300,000. Greeley Wrong Again. Little Dot?Mamma, didn't papa say General Greely predicted high winds for to-day ? " -v-- J i a a .*? iuamma?iea, uct?r, uci?u iu jxi iuo paper. Little Dot?Well, they isn't high at all. They is so low down they 'most blowed me over.?New York Weekly. Theodore B. Fleqleu, an old gailor of the Monongahela, now living in the Soldiers' Home at Norton, Coon., is to receive $3),000 as bis share of prizj money won by Admiral Farragut's squadron during the war. irr the Virginia .Penitentiary there are 2 white men, 721> colored, two white women, and ninety-five co.orai women. I : " i HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. PRESERVING VINEGAR. To preserve vinegar for domestic purposes cork it up in glass bottles, set them on the fire with cold water and as much hay or straw as will prevent them knocking together and breaking. When the water nearly boils take the pan off the fire and leave the bottles in it for a quarter of an hour. Vinegar thus prepared never loses its virtue, though kept many years or occasionally left uncovered, and is peculiarly suitable for pickles.??New York Herald THE GREAT POINT IN WASHING WOOLENS. Never soak woolen garments. Make a ? O strong lather of soap with very hot water, let it cool, and when lukewarm wash the flannels quickly, without ever rubbing soap on them. Shake them in the water, clap them between the hands, but avoid the ordinary rubbing, a9 it is apt to pull them out of shape. If not clean repeat the process with a fresh lather; rinse at once in .clean, tepid water, without blue, changing the water until there is not a trace of soap left; shake each garment out well, pull it into shape, hang out to dry as quickly as possible, but do not let the things be near a hot fire. Rapidity is the great point in following out these instructions.?Brooklyn Citizen. THE ACCIDENT DRAWER. The accident drawer or shelf ought to be an institution in every family, foi the articles belonging to it are frequently needed, often instantly, and are rarely to be found quickly when an accident comes, unless there is a nlace for them: and accidents in a family of children are the unexpected things that always happen. Keep all the old handkercniefs, both linen and silk; rolls of soft old linen; several old gloves of various sizes; a box of glove fingers; a spool of strong cotton, or one of silk which is even better, and a small needle book with several needle9 of large size. Have also two rolls of bandages, one wide and the other narrow; a sheet of adhesive plaster, and a paper of arnica plaster; bottles of some good linament and lime water, anu arnica; a pair of sharp scissors, and your accident shelf is complete for all home needs, or will furnish what is needed until the arrival of the doctor. In case of a burn where the skin is broken cover the spot 03 soon as possible with a thick coating of -fiour, preferable wheat flour; if the skin is not broken put on lime water and wrap in soft linen dipped in.?American AgricuUuritt. how to qeuve rabbits. The low estimate placed upon this game, writes Mrs. E. R. Parker in the Courier-Journal, causes many cooks to consider it useless to go to any trouble to serve with variety. This ii a mistake. as rabbits may be made into very acceptable dishes, and as they are cheap and abundant at this season of the year, housekeepers will find them economical, and, if properly cooked, quite as acceptable to the family as other game. In soups and other dishes they may be made to take the place of fowls. To be good, rabbits should be tat and plump, and freshly killed. %Tney should be well cleaned and wiped dry as soon as killed. The following recipes will be found excellent for cooking rabbits: Grenadines of Rabbits?Take the backs of two rabbits, cut away the ribs, leaving the backbcnc with the solid flesh on each side; which divide into sections, t.wn iAintH in eanh. Lard them with "w ? thin strips of fat bacon, and braise for one hour. Take up, arrange in a circle, and pour over and around the joints a pint of brown sauce. Fillet of Rabbit?Take a fat rabbit, half roast it, and remove the solid flesh from each side of the backbone in long fillets. Cut two cucumber pickles, add one onion in slices; lard the fillets of rabbit, season and lay in a saucepan, cover with a pint of white stock; lay over the onions and cucumbers. Let simmer for half an hour, take up, lay on a dish in a circle, put the onion in the center, and pour white sauce over; garnish with fried bits of bread. A Civet?Cut a fat young rabbit in pieces; cut half a pound of fat bacon into slices, and fry in a saucepan; when brown lay in the rabbit and fry for fifteen minutes; drain off" the fat, add a glass of cuirant jelly, a bunch of sweet herbs, half a dozen mushroons, with a little salt and pepper; let simmer one hour; pour in a pint of brown sauce, add half a dozen onions, and simmer half an 1 1 - ?+V10 rrrarrv nrlfl fltpft. IlUUl iUU^Cl ) OblUiu vuu Oam*J 1 m cup of tomato sauce, two tablespoonfuls of jelly, and a tablespoonfui of walnut catsup; arrange the pieces of rabbit in a pile, pour the gravy over, and garnish. Stewed Rabbit?Cut in pieces. Soak in salt and water, put in a saucepan with two or three slices of fat salt pork, let simmer until tender. Dram off the water and add to the rabbit a teacup of rich milk, with a chopped onion. Thicken with grated cracker, let come to a boil and serve. Stuffed Rabbit?Make a rich bread stuffing, put into the body of the rabbit and sew up, dredge with flour and baste with lard. Set in a very hot oven until done. Serve with fried parsley ar ' butter sauce. Jugged Rabbit?Skin and wipe dry with a towel and cut in pieces; season with salt and pepper. Put in broiling fat and fry brown with two anchovies, a sprig or thyme, some nutmeg, mince j and cloves with lemon juice. Put a layer of the seasoning in the bottom of a wide jar, then a layer of very thinly sliced bacon alternately with the seasoning nnHi ail is used, nour over half a *6 ? ? ? r pint of water, set the jug in cold water and boil three hours. Take the jug out of the kettle, skim out the scraps of bacon, add a little butter, flour and a teacupful of tomato catsup and a tablespoonful of currant jelly. Pour over the rabbit and serve. Barbecued Rabbit?Grease the rabbit all over with butter and sprinkle with pepper and salt. Liy on a gridiron, turn over and cook done. Put in a pan. spread with butter and sec in the oveu for ten minutes. Take two tablespoons of must ird, two of currant jelly, lour of vinegar and the juice of a lemon, mix and pour over the rabbit and serve hot. The new fiber-cleaning machines recently tried in the Bahamas, are capable of cleaning 50,000 sisal leaves per day, extracting 3000 pounds of fiber. The old hand nnchines only clean 3000 leaves in ten hours, extracting 180 pounds of fiber. Three experts are-no win this country studying our railroad system on behalf of. the French Government. I . t ' . : . i . ' i L . : it, - - ?1 ww \ at ^ \ ??* , ???? SHIPS FOR THE FAR WAR VESSELS WHICH SHOULD BE HONORED AT CHICAGO. The Gallant Record ot the Constltution, Better Known as "Old Ironsides" ?America's Four Big Frigates. The old frigate Constitution, now lying at Portsmouth, N. H,, in an honored old age, should not be disregarded in the great centennial celebration at Chicago. When in 1848 she had become a mere hulk, and it was proposed to break her up,Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this vigorous protest: Aye, tear her battered ensign down I Long has it waved on high. And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Dr. Holmes's poem called forth such an outburst of popular indignation at the j proposed destruction of Old Ironsides that in 1850 she was rebuilt at more than her original cost by the son of Hart, her first builder. If the noble old frigate is not present at the World's Fair it should call forth widespread dissatisfaction. The British Navy will be represented there in models of both the old and new types of ships. The Victory will probably float the ensign that never quailed until the Constitution opened her broadsides and leveled its pride. How galling it would be to the old Constitution if the British Naval flag floated at the Fair, while she was lying forgotten and neglected in far-off Portsmouth I Of all the ships in the American Navy there was no other that did so much to level JcSritish naval priae as tne uonstitution, and there was no other which the English were so anxious to capture. High rewards and rapid promotion in ranks awaited the British commander who sailed into Spithead with the dreaded Constitution as a prize. When she escaped the British squadron in 1812 Captain Byron, of the pursuing squadron, wrote to a friend in Londontj "Nothing can exceed my mortification from the extraordinary escape of the American friarate." When in 1815 the Constitution again almost miraculously escaped a powerful British squadton, which had followed her from Boston across the Atlantic to the coast of Portugal, the British commander is said to have committed suicide from the chagrin over his failure to capture the hated Constitution. This noble ship in the "War of 1812 captured over 1000 able-bodied prisoners, killed nearly 100 English bluejackets and wounded more than 200; a better record than that made by any American army in that war. The four gTeat frigates of the American Navy in the first fifty years of our national existence are the Constitution, Constellation, United States and President. All these ships or their prototypes are in existence to-day except the United States. The Constitution is at Portsmouth, the Constellation at New London, and the President at the West India, South Docks, London, England. All these frigates were launched within a short time of each other, and those still in existence are approaching their centennial year. They are the representative types of the marine force that made the United States a possibility. The Navy of the Revolution, including privateers, which were no less that the militia of the sea, took more than 24,000 nnannpTO of wbp. nr twirs ah manv a9 the Army did ia the entire struggle, besides carrying the war into the enemy's country, and nearly annihilating her commerce. In this country's two years' war with France, the work was all done by the marine forces, and nearly 100 vessels were captured from the French, while only one American warship was lost, and that one was only recaptured. Again in the war with the States of Barbary the fighting was all done by the Navy, which succeeded where European nations had failed. In the War of 1812 568 vessels were taken from the enemy. Allowing the moderate sstimate of thirty men to each captured vessel (some of them having over 400 men) you have a total of over 47,000 able-bodied men taken from the enemy in that struggle?most of them seamen whom England could least aiford to lose. Did the American armies capture one-thirtieth or even one-fortieth part of the number of English soldiers in this war? If Wei land Canal is not too small, the Constitution should by all means take the place of honor at the naval exhibit of tbe TVorld's Fair. The fourth ship, the President, was captured by a British squadron after a long chase. Although this frigate made no important captures in the war and was regarded as an unlucky ship, yet 3he always occupied a large place in the affections of the people. This was the frigate which was challenged by the Guerriere to single combat at the outbreak of the war. The challenge was as singularly worded as the events which followed it were strange. "Captain Dacres, commander of His Britannic Majesty's ship Guerriere, presents his compliments to Commodore Rodgers, of the United States frigate President, and will be very nappy to meet mm or any other American l'rigate of equal force to the President off Sandy Hook, for the purpose of having a social tete-a-tete." The Guerriere did not have the satisfaction of meeting the President, but she met her sister, the Constitu3ion,and history informs us that the tete-a-tete was entirely satisfactory?to the Constitution. The President also was endeared to the American people on account of her heroic defence when under the command of Commodore Decatur against the squadron of Captain Hays. This ship left New York early in January, 1815, in a heavy gale and attempted to get to sea in spite of a powerful blockading squadrou. In crossing the bar at Sandy Hook she unfortunately grounded and for two hours thumped on the sand and became "hogged" or broken-backed,and this serionsly impaired her sailing qualities. As it was impossible to repain port, however, she got to sea acd was clm?cd lor twelve hours by the British ships. About nine o'clock at ! night when it was seen'that the enemy's | leading ship, the Eudymion, must inevi tably close on her, Captain Decatur addressed his crew as follows: "My lads, that ship is coming up with us. As our ship won't sail we'll go on board them, every man and boy of us, and carry ner into New York. All I ask ot you is to follow me. This is the favorite ship of the country. If wo allow her to be taken we shall be deserted by our wives and sweethearts. What, let such a ship as 4 this go for nothing! 'Twould break the heart of every pretty girl in New York." X howitzer was ioaded with round shot and pointed down the hold 30 as to blow a hole through her bottom when the time for boarding the enemy came. But the Endymion, taking advantage of the President's crippled condition, kept off at long range. The American fire was so destructive, however, that she was compelled to drop out of the race, so that the President was captured some hours later by two other brigades of the squadron. The defence of the ship has ever been regarded as equivalent to a victory by the Americans. She would complete the famous trio of the early American JNavy. It would be a handsome act on the part of Great Britain and a substantial recognition of the general good feeling existing between the two nations if she took this occasion to return the old ship President to the United States.?New York Tribune. The Hotel Clerk's Memory. ' I have traveled pretty extensively I during the last fifteen years," said Eugene O. Burton, of Omaha, at the Hotel Cadillic, "and I have made a special study of hotel clerk's memories. You are aware, of course, that a good memory for names and faces is one of the most desirable facultieb that a hotel clerk can possess. The majority of men who travel are just vain enough to ecjoy being remembered and called by name when they enter a hotel after an abseucc of several months, or even years, and the man behind the office counter who can always "call the turn* is SDeciallv valuable to his employer. The most marvellously gifted man in this respect that I ever knew was a clerk in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Not being blessed with a good memory myself, I am unable to recall his name, but that is immaterial. As an illustration of what this man to whom I refer could do in the line of remembering names and faces, I will relate an experience with him of my own. When the Knights Templars conclave was held in San Franciscp in 1863, I landed in that city early one afternoon with a party of Eastern knights who made the journey over in a special train. More than 400 of us went to the Palace Hotel, which can accommodate a small army, you know, and as rapidly as possible we filed up to the register,inscribed our names thereon and were sent to our respective rooms under the guidance of bell boys. I took a bath, changed my linen, and in the course of an hour or two strolled down to the office to see if there was any mail for me. I approached the clerk's desk, but before I had time to utter a word Mr. Clerk nodded pleasantly to me, and with apparent solicitude inquired: "How do you like your room, Mr. Burton, does 306 suit you?" "Well, sir, i was auouDlounaea. mis man nan never seen me befoie in his life, except for tho half minute I had stood before him while I wrote my name on the register; fully 425 persons had passed before , him ioside of two hours, and yet he was able without the slightest effort to remember my name and the number of the room he had assigned me to. As you see, there is nothing whatsoever out of : the ordinary in my appearance, and for the life of me I couldn't understand why I should be so readily recollected by this mild-mannered clerk. Well, in order to satisfy myself that I wasn't the only member of our party who could be thus i remembered, I lounged around the clerk'e desk for fully an hour, and I hope to be ; deprived of all my rights as a citizen of the United States if I didn't hear that wonderful clerk call fifty of my acquaintance;. none of whom had ever been in San Francisco. before, by nams and ask them the same question he had put to me. "George Segur, who was for-many years clerk at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York, was another such man, and had a truly phenomonal memory. The first time I ever saw Segur I registered late ODe night at the Kennard House ia 1 Cleveland, whero he wa9 then chief clerk. I left at daylight the next morning, so that he had scarcely an opportunity of siz'ng me up, and yet when I walked up to the clerk's desk in the Metropolitan in New York, five years afterwards, Segur, who was there on duty, held out his hand, pushed the register towards me and said: 'Hullo, Burton, old boy, how aTe all the lolksin Omaha V "?Detroit Free Press. Protecting Bnildings From Fire. An interesting method of preventing a building from catching fire when adjacent buildings are burning has been adopted in the offices of a Glasgow (Scotland) paper. There is already in the building an efficient installation of automatic sprinklers for extinguishing tires which may come from within; but it is considered that there is just as much danger, if not more, from fires originating elsewhere. A supply pips is therefore taken from the water tower which i feeds the sprinklers and connected with a system of perforated malleable iron pipes which are carried along the ridge of the roof, the eaves affd all over the i windows. The pipes are usually kept j absolutely dry, and to prevent their rust- *j ing they are coated with zinc. A pump is providpd for forcing the water through J the system of pipes, and it can be brought ; into action almost instantaneously. The < exterior of the building receives such a j constant flooding when the pump is in : action that there is absolutely no danger 1 from an adjacent fire.?Courier-Journal. 1 ? 1 Continental Currency. Along in the latter part of the last century the continental money issued to < the extent of $240,000,000 has been J sinking out of sight. Just before the | final collapse a desperate effort was made i to hold up the currency, but notwith- j standing all that the Government, aided by the leading men of the period could do, a dozen eggs sold for $5 in conti A eilL* Kof r\ f fVlA < nentai paper moaey uuu a ana. uuu k period, which would be worth $7, cost $140,000 in continental currency. The j word was burued into the language, and then, as now, utter worthlessness ot a thing was conveyed by the expression, c "It is not worth a continental."'?Cki- * cayo News. ? 1 Deersiiins. ^ Though deer are not abundant in the c markets, deerskins may be boug'n^ in New York at from $1.75 to ?2.50 each. An unusually handsome skin may cost $5. Taxidermists charge from $3 to ?6 J for curing them, and furriers charge as I high as $25 for the cured hides. The 5 hides of deer shot by pot hunters are of- j ten damaged with bullet holes, and are, v therefore, cheap. ( jpiii. billarp. ^ Th? preachers arere?250 of them, aad / a whole lot more of men and editoft and / professors of col legend the board ft ado- ;. cation. It is the not Georgia Methodist ' conference?a power tie land and apower for good. Ther<! are ae bishops hire, too, y notable men, notable; piety and,learning ; and eloquence. It is %Bt to our jpeopl* U> listen to their picked as the/dhpeuw wisdom from our pull They aire casting' bread upon the waterthey are scattering seeds of repentance axiove aodkiodnm that will grow and ?r and ft*#. . Their influence is all r^oolour ctty.tatters did not increase thoolice like they-do when a circus comes, ' when a political meeting or an election fcates the community. We don't lock oudoors nor hide our chickens. Thev didn'thmn hunorv and they don't look hungryad those who have honored our mansion y feasted on Mrs. ^ > Arp's good things oat ofjpect to her. They know it is bad manners a guest to slight the bounties of providen at a generous ta-' ble. They are good comoy?rich in pleasant memories and witnd anecdote. A more unselfish, genial, tifcful and self-saeriflcing assembly than itf ethoditt conference cannot be found in tfeublunary world. If the love of money to r<y the root of all evil, just think what a gia curse these ministers escape. Most of ththave families ta support for it is a phifephic fact that preacher will marry if can and it looks like they all can. And thi- .,5 good wives, too, for a woiuan is ob)i(fco be good who I makes up her mind to mar* preacher, sad especially a Methodist picher. She has got to forswear the fasbio and the follies of life, and live for her uband and her flg children?her duty and herod. It is easily possible for a woman to 6 that and move every two years besides. N,elr children are trained to economy, and )y always*have children?lots of children bo are born on the fly, sorter like some oturs were when my wife was running frotnie foul invader and dodgin* their scouts at try crossroads; sometimes they are in a ptty good house and sometimes in a poor oneuit has a leaky roof and walls that are Iivel>y night But the comforts of the <cuit riders are hfiinff cmirlimllr fmmvivctf) a# fVtam have four churches to saffei^tb, and hav? to provide their own transpouion. whether it be an old Methodist mare 4 saddle-bags or a Presbyterian horse an&uggy. Sam Jones says he furnished his 01 nag the first year he rode the circuit and reived $65 for the support of his family. T average circuit rider's pay in this rontonce u row about $400?some more and ?4e less. I set* one name on the list who recetd only $131 I wouldent live in that nabonod if I could help it; I wouldent settle down any naborhood where th* people didn't pr the preacher. It ie a bad sign. It is tign tnat the \ land is poor or the people mo. But, the ?, preachers mast sro where thevre sent, and it i> missionary work to go to? poor and toe igrnorant and proclaim theospel. The preacher can do this from a sise of Christian duty, bat it is hard on thsrife and the children. It is a school whei tho young preacher can learn how to prci, and can develop, if there is any gum inim. It is like a young lawyer practicing t a justice's courr. It give* confidence in hlselc. and it he makes a blunder there is tbody who knows it. It is likea railroad ma beginning his railroad life as a track raiser ?1 climbing higher and higher, until, like B. Thomas, he reaches the highest pl?ce. Tsse bishops and presiding elders were all ciuit riders at the start and are full of thmemories about their first experience and ieir many hardships. The example of J<& Wesley still animates these Methodist*, t> he crossed the ocean to preach to savages. He forded rivera, crossed swamps, slei on th? ground, and went bare-footed, at with all that he lived to be eighty-eighty ears old and has left a name with moretmeeakee than any Christian name in the wld. But he. too. had troubles worse than idians or swamps. He married too late, an married too mucb?a widow with four cttiren cap hardly mate happily with a man fty years old. She robbed h m of his sabance and ran away several times, and at kt he let her go and wrote in his journal: " did not forsake her, I did not dismiss* her, will not recall her." Fo^utely there werno children born to thenflb It seeacB to ?e that I CO a Id veryasily be. a Methodist. To say that I could nt would be a reft ction upon thousands of g?at am good m n who nave lived and dit in the ^B[ Faith ai <1 are now among the blesse. And Hm bo, too 1 could be a Baptist or arG iscopalian, 1 wouldent hare far to go. But I uke my own church government te best. The other day the preacho.s answ?ed the question why are you of your faith, ad each gave some plausible reasons, but all (them ^ left out the reason that aniu. ates moslChiis- * flj tians when they choose a church am a H Baptist because my father is or becase my I mother was. This is the kind of reaso that /I controls 95 out of every 100 members f any 1 church. Most every church member wnt to ' a particular church in youth, or to a articular Sunday school ana then and thee got their religious association fixed, and the. had no desire to change it. They knew si the usages of that church, when to stand u,and when to sit down and when to kneeand when to sing, and bow to take a nap o the sly, if the day was hot and the preacher ulL As my sood friend, Dr. Powell, would ay; "It all aepeuds either on the Heredity' <3inT? environment." Ths learned <doctor hour guest, and, having lor twenty years bad charge of the State lunatics, he has rnfle a j specialty of thi laws of heredity, andt is 1 both instructive and entertaining to list* to J him. ' If there is no heredity," saidhe, "then environment comes next." The lea is, that if a man was of Scotch descent jid his ancestors fer several generations we John Knox Scotchmen, he would be a Pssbyterian just as naturally as water ras down hill. He might be left an orphar,ia infancy and ?tqw up without reli.^ous treni-g, and le as wicked as Satan, but if he ecame converted at a Methodist revivalhe would join a Presbyterian church. Tha is i nereuiiy, nuu it piwaiuiu on uvuviuiuawma j to a large extent. It is stringer than enviria- ? ment, both in man and bea?t. Now, Mrs. Arp was a Methodist?a vey exemplary Methodist wheu I married hr, but her heredity on that line was not overv strong, and so, like a dutiful wife, she cam . over to my church. I was her environment ^ and it was stronger tnan ber heredity. bl>' 1 would ba e joined most anything for n? J then. If it was to do over again I have nr I doubts, fur now &be is my environment, ani M I am the prisoner. We have Dr. Powell an< fl Dr. Glenn with us, and we bad Mr. Yarborough and Mr. White, and they were discuss ing-the prodigal son, when Mr. Yarborough^MB remarked that "the return of the prodiga^^H and his generous, overwhelming fergivenetaHK was the central figure in the ptinting, andflH all that about the envy of the elder Si>n waa^^H just shading puc in by the artist to fill upHH the picture. The world is full of things real- ^Hj ly unnecessary, but put in as ornament. No Hf Joubt that there are parts of a horses' leg W that the horie could hav? got along without f just as well." Right here Dr. Powell bounced ad him and denied that there was anything made without a beneficent purpose?not even the color of the hair on a horses' leg?and ne made the for fly for a while. They fought hard all round, but when the dinner bell rang they closad much nearer together than when they started out. Tho dinner bell does have a harmonizing effect. j Blessings on the preacher*. May they live I long, and have free course wherever they so. j It is safe to welcome them, for besides their I example, their influence ?>nd their delightful A zompaniooship, the good book sayr, "touch not mine anointed and do my prophets ny S harm." Mr*. Arp says they shall not shaM v 1 the dust off their shoes when they leave heir front door.?Bill Abp, in Atlanta Constitution. There Is renewed agitation m Springfield, Mass., of the dress question, the point of attack being the ong dresses which sweep the streets ind carry into the houses not only lirt but the germs of disease. It ?ill be necessary, however, to bring ome stronger argument against the ong skirt before woman will consent ; -! -o abandon it. What is mere health j jompared with fashion? Sore too officious Sabbatarians In Pittsburg propose to arrest every lewspaper man they find working on x Sunday. It appears that in getting id of her smoke Pittsburg has not vholly freed herself of pestiferoua v luisances.