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t ERIN. BT KIL C0URTLA1TO, Tte h? songland, and In dreamland, XOH i. lOVB UJ U11U& U1 UICC) ' Like a radiant emerald flashing In a tone of purple sea. . And "where cotton-fields are whitening, Down the gold-touched autumn lands, I will sing thy songs, dear Erin I Captive held In cartlve bands. And I think of rights in shackles, Flung behind dark prison bars? Of thy lovely lakes, Killarney, Silver tears dropped from the stars. Oh, mavonrneen! from thy harp strings I would wring a happier chord, Wnr T pannftt. fltrht. t.hxr ImttlftS? Oh 1 I cannot wield a sword. I can only pluck the shamrock, And Its tiny leaves entwine With the Southern rose and lily? With the yucca and the pine; Only tell thy Wrongs in story, . Only, chant thy anthems sweet. t If I cannot bring thee glory, I can lay love at thy feet. So in songland, and in dreamland, Erin, oft I think of thee, Like a radiant emerald flashing In a zone of purple sea. Anderson, 8. C. MIMn'sffissii S Remarkable Romance. BY EMILY THORNTON. / \ ' CHAPTER XXVIII?Continued. M 'Reginald, for Heaven's sake, tell me why you thus deal with me? Have I i .J ?ver uaruieu juui " *You have by being in my way. Set Aside yoor title, estates; yes, even,' he laughed horribly, when, after a pause, he added, 'your future bride are mine! All mine! To-night I announce to you, all think you dead, and virtually you are aoV M 'Reginald! Reginald!' I shrieked, as he disappeared from view; 'hear me, take all, but leave me liberty and Constance!' "A mocking laugh was my only reply. "From that hour I have seen no human face, h?ard no human voice! "These walls, I know, are several feet thick, built so that nc sound can issue from them. Not a movement can be heard unless the panels are open, and men oui iaintiy. "So at once I knew, that to the world, | what he had said was true, I was dead! "Sometimes, even yet, I dream that , this is but an idle fancy, and once again ^5"wake to feel my chain, to loathe my prison. > "Then I seem to see my own loved Constance -near me. I call upon her, bnt as I stretch out my hand to. find her own the vision fades, and I know that it was an illusion of the brain. Yet the memory of those fearful words ever re'mains: Tour future bride is mine, all nine!' I *Csn this have become a truth? "Has my darling forgotten me; does he, too,, deem me dead? -v/u, UUUlbUiuei VAiiiawui^ci "So I start from my bed with her name upon my- -fevered lips; I open my arms to clasp her to my bosom. "In vain!* I am alone! Horribly, truly alone! "Often have I prayed to die! "Lffte has become a weary burden, but my prayers are not heard. For some purpose of his own, God wishes me to live.. "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good In Thy sight! "For months, with a pencil which I have found in my-pocket, have I, on scraps of paper torn from books, written <and placed on the plate a wild prayer fo^ at least pens, ink, and paper to amuse my lonely hours. "Books were at hand, a wells-tored library being in my room, but I wanted writing materials?something besides this endless reading. "At last, at last, my prayer is granted, and I have a new way to give vent to my feelings. j "Thank God for the privilege of wrlt1' ' "Here, now, have I written the cau?* and manner of my strange captivity. For no crime committed, no offense given to court or neighbor, I am yet a victim to a brother's jealous envy of my position and my funds; 1 am a close prisoner. "One thing J have expected at his hands which as yet has not taken place; I mean starvation. "I have thought that so selfish a being 4 * as he Ifos proved himself to be would ome day demur at the confinement con oniiont. nnnn attend In it to mv wants: I was sure ho would wish to travel, or visit, sway from Gfendenning Hall. "But 1 know his movements, I know his peculiar jerk, as he slides open the panels, and now, after eighteen years I <. am certain that no hand but his has opened them and given mc my food. *3uch food! "All cut up into mouthful9 (as they fear giving me a knife) mixed together upon one wooden plate. "Sometimes I loatho the Bight of this trange jumble, but whether I eat it or not, I always take it, fearing if I do not return the plate, even this nightly visit will cea9e, thi9 meager food be stopped. "I know now that he has married Constance. "As I prayed for pens, ink, and paper, * I always concluded, 'tell me, oh, tell me of Constance.' "So with the paper came at last this cruel note: ; gf&nt this one prayer. Never again dare send another line to me. If you ao disobey in this, your food will top, and you be left to starve. Once for all, I say, the world thinks you dead, and thinks Fitzroy your murderer. He was tried, and aa sour dead hodv yl&s not found, acquitted, but all think him guilty. Under this suspicion, he left the country and no one knows whither went. I am Sir Reginald Glendenning, and your constant Constance has been my wife just sixteen years. This is the last communication you will ever receive from me. Beware how you send another line upon the shelves.' "After reading this note I must have fainted, for when I next recollected anything I was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. "In falling I had hit my head agains# the iron chain, and gashed open my fore' head under my hair. Would to God that I had died then and there! "I did not die; I lived, and crawled to m: bed, where I lay until the rays of the sun penetrated through the one window in the ceiling. "I lived, but my head whirls, my brain Is dizsy, I fear I shall go mad! "Oh, innocent, ruined brother! "Oh, forgetful Constance! "When shall I cease to think of these .-two? CHAPTER XXIX. THE JOURNAL CONTINUED. Carle Elfenstein paused when he reached these last words, and large tears ol sympathy still rolled over his checks, as they had often done during the reading, :f,v wnije every one of his latent listeners wa? similarly affected. Conquering his emotion by an effort, he again read on: "May 24, 18?Nearly seven years since I last wrote on these pages. Not once during that time has there been a change In my lot until to-night. "To-night a different hand opened the panels. " *1 "Knew Instantly that It was not Reginald's. "Something, certainly, must have happened to him. "The jerk was wanilng. "A soft, uncertain way of pushing them anart attracted mv attention. "There was a longer jiause. a seeming stuSy ol the modus operandfof the ra-1 volving shelves, and a slighter push made them turn more slowly. "Yes, I am sure a stranger has been let into the secret of my confinement, and that stranger, I think, must be a timid woman. "My God! perhaps it is Constance! "Can it be? Can she have the heart, even under compulsion, to keep me here a prisoner? Can she know that it is I, her former devoted lover, to whom she now offers this revolting food? "Anything but that, oh, Goi' Anything but that! "I cannot eat this stuff, fearing that my once loved darling deals it out to me. "But she is afraid! "I know it by her want of strength, by her feeble pushes. Sometimes she can hardly whirl the shelves, so I softly creep to her assistance, and with my own hands help them around. For the world I would not alarm her by the slightest noise. "My poor Constance! "I have been thinking so much, lately, that my head constantly aches. Indeed it always aches since I cut myself so badly in falling on my chain, seven years ago. 6But, as I said, I have been thinking. V. n K/t/tn m o nnor in JL liavo UCCU 0UUUJIU5 UUO UitvuuvA ?u which those iron shelves are fastened, and to-day I again examined the screws. "Only screws keep them in their places, and a knife would surely aid me to unscrew them; then I could push them over, and as I know the workings of the panels, I could soon be free. "To be sure I am chained! "But a knife would also unloose this chain, sever these bonds. "A knife! A knife! God grant me a knife! "Such is now my daily wish, my cry. "A Knife! A knife! "June C, 18 Something terrible has happened to my brain. I am wild! I am undone! I can remember nothing] "Who am I? Where am I? "Ah, yes; I have it! I was a peer; I am so no longer. "I aw a poor minister of the gospel, confined here for the sake of religion. "I am, in short, Rev. Edwin C. Stiles. "How strange that I am here! I can remember nothing. aBut I have a Bible, and I read and I preach long sermons, and pray contin| ually. "Yes; some day I shall, I think, be released, by God's power, and then 1 shall devote myself to his cause. "J shall preach the gospel. "How strange my head feelsl Sometimes I think I am going mad! KI pray that I may not be mad. | "July 18.?I am preaching and praying constantly. Night and day I plead with God to send me a knife. "Will my prayers be granted? Shall I ever have a knife? Can I ever cut my way out of this weary prison, out to liberty, and preaching God's holy word? "Heavenly Father, set me free, and my whole life shall bo given to Thy work, Thy cause. "July 19.?Glory be to God! Hallelujah! Amen! "My prayer is heardl A knife came to me with my food; sent me, I presume, by accident. It was forgotten, and now it is mine! "Accident did I say? No, no; it was sent by God in answer to my prayer. "T nUftll *?A n\AI*0 T cho.11 1 SUttlil TTiiro UV UlVlVi A >M stantly get to work; I shall soon be a free man. "But these pages, written a3 it were, with my heart's blood, I 6hall never once leave out of the reach of my hands. "I am Eev. Edwin C. Stiles, a minister of the gospel, and these lines are my diplomas, my badge of office. "Ha, ha; a knife is mine; myownl And now 1 shall work myself free!" Elfenstein paused and passed his hand ov?r his forehead In deep thought. A sudden idea had seized him; it was this: Ethel Nevergail and he must have been in the cprridor when this poor creature escapedl Yes; pfioi1 creature! These last lines told that ho must have been Insane, or nearly so, at least, when he escaped. But he had no time to think; a few moxe wpjrdj? remained, to be. read and his audicnce were eagerly waiting. These were written in pencil and the letters were crooked and feeble, as though done In great weakness. "August 18, I am sick, dying perhaps! O, joy if this should prove to De death! "I am weary, tired, worn out, but I thank God I am again myself. "Now I know 1 am Sir Arthur Glendenning. Lately I have been confused and thought myself a minister. "My brain, my poor brain, was unstrung. At last I am myself. "A knife came to me and I took out the screws from the shelves, opened the panels after pushing the shelves aside and escaped from my prison. "In the corridor I came upon a young girl and a man. "Strangers; I knew that at once. Both were strangers. Yet I reared recapture. "I rushed forward, dashed the light from them and then another frenzy seized me and my poor head nearly burst with pain. "I uttered a cry in my agony. Then another, as I rushed through the wellknown ruins. "My God! had those cries betrayed me? "Would Reginald pursue and drag me back? I vowed not. I would be wary. I would utter no more cries, even If I died in suppressing them. "The night air revived me. "Blessed air. I had not felt its cheering influence, drawn a fresh mouthful of outside air, in twenty-five years. "I opened my mouth, I expanded my chest, I drank it ail in. "What cared I for the storm, the howling wind, the falling rain. "It was delight, it was rapturel I wan free! I was freel "I knew not where to go, but sped away, away, and rested not, until I was hidden In the cave in Demon's wood. "There I slept and rested. There I quieted my overwrought nerves* and thanked God for the blessed knife that He, and He alono, had sent me. "Morning came, and again I tried tc think. "My brain seemed heavy, and I could scarcely remember my own name. "But it came to mo after a while. Rev. Edwin C. Stiles, a minister oT tEe gospel. But how could I preach in theso threadbare clothes? I must get suitable garments. I had money; I always had hac 1 money. 1 had it in my pocketbook whei cast into prison. My persecutors did nol rob me. "So I took the cars and went to Liver pool, where I bought a suit of clerica i clothes, and books and papers, to sell foi J Christ. "I also bougnt a little .yrallefc. in whicl to loci tip These pagSB. Something "tells me I must never part with these papers. "Yes; I have them safe. Now, lying here, the wallet is safe in my hands. "I returned to the village then, and ' must have wandered around, selling my books, as Rev. Edwin C. Stiles. "But now I am sane. My senses have returned. I am Sir Arthur Glendenning, J and I am dying! "I know I must have been insane, or partly so, for the last few weeks; but, thank God, my mind is clear, perfectly clear to-night. "It came back to me in such a strange, unlooked-for wayl "It came back, and I found myself standing at the foot of Reginald's bed, in my own old room, at Glendenning HalL *1 stood there, I say, gazing into his eyes, and he seemed very ill. "Horrible! How he glared when he saw me silently looking down at him! "He half raised himself, as if to push me off, and shrieked out: " 'Great God! Mercy! Mercy!then } fell back senseless upon his pillow. "I could endure no more. j "Horrified at finding myself in his presence, and fearing another imprison- } ment, I turned and fled. s J "Fled! Yes, fled! Fled'from my own t room, my own house, my own brother, ] back to this cave, where I immediately \ was taken ill, and could scarcely mova j forjdays. *1 had food to last for a week or mor?, " and I crawled out, once in a while, lor water. "But now food has gone. I am too i weak to drag myself to the spring. I 3 thirst I am burning with fever. I think i I shall.die! i "But if I do, what of it? t "God knows best. ] "But supposing I do not die. What ^ i tnenr . "Shall I make myself known, and so expose my brother, and reclaim the title ] and estate he has wrested from me? i "Never! Never! 1 "He is my brother, child of the same j parents, and?the husband of my lost j love! . ^ "Poor Constance! She shall never bo ? made sad by acts of mine. She shall not . shed a tear over the loss of wealth, title, or reputation, if I can help it I y "But, blessed be the name of the Lord, < I shall never sigh for my lost home, for I i am going to a rich inheritance above; 'A i house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.' "I know by my waning breath, my fading sight, that this is death! "Farewell earth! I shall write no more; but with my latest sigh, I thank God that I die a free man." [to be continued. | TEMPERANCE. THE FOOL'S DBEAY. A little whisky now and then Is relished by the best of men ; . It soothes the wrinkles out of carp, " And makes ace high look like two pair. When everything looks blasted blue, And misery sticks like so much gluc? A nip that reaches toes and hair Will make a man a millionaire. When it has wandered down our necka, It fills our eyes with magic specs. Which brings the bright side full to view, And makes one quarter look like two. An ugly woman loots divine. Our burial lot becomes a mine ; j The trees all walk, the fences run, , Vnd silly tales sound full of fun. J ?New York World. ( ? t ALCOHOL AND T?E BRAIN. T. Morton, M. D.. In a recent letter to the editor of the London Temperance Chronicle, ( writes "There ia no known drug, and prob- t ably no unknown one, that can restore the j integrity of the brain-cells damaged by prolonged drinking habits, though nature can do much if alcohol is entirely and permanently * withdrawn." A permanent cure for inebriety 1 upon any other basis than total abstinence is ( quite impossible. In the light of Dr. Morton's declaration it is vastly better to stop knm'nninn VoflAno) TufTl? C ITC^lUUlUg IV UAUftAt ilUVWUlti *WM?- perance Record. PHOCBEC3 OF TEMPERANCE. In a recent editorial review of the progress o! the temperance reform the New York Observer says: "Friends of the temperance cause should find little reason for discouragement in the present situation. If political prohibition, judging from the returns of recent elections, has not made the progress hoped for it, prohibition through education has scored a rapid advance. From many quarters comes confirmatory evidence of the steady growth of a public sentiment against the use of intoxicating liquors, and in favor of a closer Restriction of the liquor traffic." A MISTAKEN NOTION. An old but very mistaken notion is that drink gives strength. A test was once tried to determine the strength-giving power of aiconcj. TWO gangs OI men, as aeariy equui . In size and strength as possible, were put to , work breaking stone. Both gangs contained ' an equal number of men, bnt to one gang J liquors containing alcohol were given. At first the alcohol gang did by far the most work, but when the effecto of the alcohol ' ceased, the men fell far behind the other men J in their work, so that at the end of the day i the gang which did not drink had done the , greatest amount of work. This was continued for three or four days, the result being ' the same. The experimenters then reversed 1 the gangs, giving tne non-alcoholic gang al- , cohol, and allowing the alcoholic gang none; but the men not using the stimulant came * out ahead as before. 1 J TEMPERAS CI NEWS AND NOTES. The United States had 219,863 retail liquor dealers July 1st, 1893. The criminal arrests in the United States * have inci eased more than fivefold since 18G0. i Out of 4000 liquor saloons in Brooklyn, < about 3200 ore said to be mortgaged to brew- , ers. The Chicago Tribune says liquor was the cause of 748 murders reported in its col- 1 umns in 1398. According to the Swiss Federal Statistical Bureau, Switzerland, though so largely a wine country, has also 324 breweries. A large" number of souvenirs, in the form of little square bottles of "Mt. Vernon Whisky," were given away at the World's Fair. At Burgstadt, Saxony, those of its inhabitants who are delinquent tax-payers are not allowed to be served in the beer shops and cafes. Of 611 paupers in the Edinburgh poorhouse not ono was an abstainer, and 407 admitted thut their poverty was due entirely to intemperance. Alcohol insanity is twice as common in France now as it was fifteen years ago. and tho number ot persons placed under restraint on account of it has increased twenty-live per cent, in the last three years. The generally accepted theory that alcohol is no good "to keep out the cold" has once more received conllrmation by the fact that the celebrated explorer, Dr. Nanseu, who started on his voyage to the Arctic regions on June 24th, has taken no alcohol whatever with him except for purposes of fuel, i Benjamin Franklin died in the year 1790 | (over one hundred years ago); but even in | those times he had the s^nse to know that | "Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners." At an inquest held the other day in EngI land the evidence brought to light tho queer i fact that the dead man's life had been int aured for $100 by the liquor dealer whose bar he chiefly patronized. No secret was made about the matter, it being perfectly fair and J above board, the liquor dealer only wishing ' to insure himself against the loss of business r consequent onthe death of a valuable customer. The practice is stated to be quite fre? quent. HUGE GOLDEN DOME. THE NEW LIBRARY AT WASHINGTON WILL BE CONSPICUOUS. fc. Palace of Glass and Steel?Its Cost $6,000,000 ? Vast Stores of Books-A Talk With Librarian Spofford. fHE New York" Press has an interesting Washington letter describing the new National Library building. The writer, Frank G. Carpenter, says: I spent an afternoon this week in going through the new National Library building. It will be the finest public building in the United States, and it will be the most beautiful library in the world, tt covers nearly four acres and it is already under roof. Its walls are as high as those of the tallest New York Elat, and you can lose yourself in its long corridors and winding passages, [t has a dome plated with the purest Df gold, larger than the largest circus tent, and the golden torch which ilames over its top, though it looks aot bigger around than your fist as riewed from the Capitol, is in reality is big as a hogshead, and it may be ieen from Alexandria and far down the Potomac. Thi6 new library building s a work of wonderful art. Its ex;erior is made of drab granite cut in places so smooth that it looks like narble aDd ornamented here and there vith wonderful carvings. The building has about 1800 windows, and the "our sides ->f the main gallery have I ihirty-three great arches, the keyitones of which are images representng the heads of all the races of the *orld. Every type of man known to ;thnology has a place in one of these irches, and the faces are marvelous in iheir execution and character. Over I ;he main entrance are the types of the lighest order of men, such as the 3reek, the Latin and the Saxon, while it the back of the building you find -he lowest types, such as you find in Africa and in the South Sea Islands. I san't describe the wonderful execu;ion of these figures. They are the nost lifelike pictures in stone I have iver seen, and they seem to almost :alk to you as their stern, stony eyes ook down at you from over the winlows. The building covers nearly as much [pace as the Capitol. Its dome is not 10 large, but its plate of gold makes it nfinitely more conspicuous. If you nil take five city lots and carpet them rith twenty-four-carat gold you will fet an idea of the golden quilt which .1 _ J rm :overs xdib immense uorne. xuerc ib 10 room in the United States bo large hat it woulcl fit this great golden car)et, and it is the largest golden dome n the United States. It has been jailed the largest golden dome in the vorld. But this 18 a mistake. The lome of St. Isaac's, in St. Petersburg, las a smaller diameter, but it covere nore space, and it cost infinitely more han this. It took 200 pounds of solid jold to cover it, and when you remem3er that gold at the mints is worth ?17 in ounce you will see that even at that low rate the St. Petersburg dome cost $40,000 to gild. The gold on the dome at Washington lid not cost one-tenth of that amount, tt was put on in little sheets, each of vhich was about four inches square * * i n .1 xl ma one one-nunareci ana nuy-iuuuiandth of an inch thick. It takee two thousand such sheets to make an ounce of gold, and this amount will 2over a space about as large as that of the average hall vestibule. The gold made in this form costs $27 an ounce, and at that rate it must have cost over $60,000 to gild St. Isaac's. I went up to the top of the golden dome yesterday and took a look at it. The gold is laid upon copper, and it is polished so that it is as bright as a new wedding ring. It is said to be very durable, and is on the whole, I doubt not, cheaper than the white lead with which the Capitol dome is painted nearly every year. The gold was put on by specialists, who worked under canvas, and one of whom nearly lost his life at the work. /rmwilCU hon. a. j*, spopro^i*. I can't describe the wonders of the interior of the National Library. My head buzzed as I walked through the many rooms and tried to undei stand it all. You could lose yourself in its basement as in tho catacombs of Home, and wander lor hours trying to find your way out. The grand staircase, which takes up a space equal almost to that of a quarter of an acre, is to be finished in whit9 marble, and the great marble columns which rise one above another are already in place and surrounded with wooden boards t keep them from injury. The readin room will be the rotunda in the cente of the building, and it will be covere with the dome. This room will be t THE GOLDEN DOME. large as the rotunda of the Capito and its area will be about a quarter < an acre. It will have seats for 3(1 readers, and the desks of these run i concentric rows around the centri desk in which the manager of th reading room will Bit, and from whic he will have connections with all pari 01 tne norary uy pixcuiuttmu tuuco vj other modern inventions, which wi enable him to send a message in th twinkling of an eye to any part of thi great book palace, and by the toucl ing of a button bring back the boo he wants. Electricity and everythin; that the modern mind can think o has come to the aid in adding to th conveniences of the library, and it i now thought that an electric railroa will be built to carry the books froi the old library of Congress in the Cap itol over to this new building. From this great central dome nr out like arms massive buildings i] whioh are to be housed our nations library of the future. These ar known as book stacks, but the wor< conveys no idea of their character Imagine u great, long warehouse, wit] glass walls as high as one of th largest New York flats and hundreds o feet m length. Let the sides of thes I be wallled with glass set into squar JL rHE NEW NATIONAL ' LIBRARY AT WASHING' columns of white enameled brick an have the plate glass wedged into thes columns without frame work, as is th case in windows. Make the interior t consist of one mass of iron networ running from the floor to the roof, s that when jou stand within it you se V>n+ ii-nn fronioa T i ni n nr liUKUliig UUV 4AVU li I4UAVW above the other and filling the whol vast high room. This may give yo some idea of the book stack. The iro network consists of book shelves, an these are reached by stairs which ru from one tier of iron to another an by walks of iron paved with marblt which are suspended between the tier at regular intervals from the floor t the roof. There are several of thee vast book -warehouses in the building The one I have just described will con tain 800,000 books or more tha are now in the National Library. Th walls of glasp give perfect light an the books are so arranged that th greatest number can be packed int the smallest compass, making ever pamphlet thoroughly accessible. KEYSTONE FACES. I have not spoken of the 1800 wii dows of this building. Those of ti interior and of these stacks are s< into the walls, great, massive pieces < plate glass, as large ae good-sized stoi fronts. It is not possible to raise c lower them, and they are made so fc the protection of the books, in ord< that no dust may enter. The ventili tion is all done from the roof, an these windows are washed from tl outside by means of a little railroa wTiip.li runs around them from story i story. on which the washers can stan and scrub them clean. The acres of floor in this great boo palace will be of marble. The wal of the rotunda are of colored marbli j from all parts of the United State; and in the whole vast, high four acr< of wonderful rooms not a splinter < wood has been used. All is compose of iron, stone, cement and glass, an< as Mr. Green, the engineer in charge told me, there will not be enoug wood in the building when it is cod i pleted to make a match. I This buildiug is to cost ?G,000,00i I The State, War and Navy cost $10 J 000,000, ami upon the Capitol has bee ; expended, all told, something lii j ?18,000,000. Uncle Snni will get moj I for his money out of this than out < j either of the others. All of the woi I is being done under tlie Governmen ! and everything is built to outlast tl j ages, and of the very best material. ] i one of the rooms I found an army < I carvers at work making wonderful de j orations which are to adorn the e: I terior, and throughout the who building everything went on like tl work of an army under perfect coi trol and in perfect order. The buildir will be completed in about two year and within two years and a half tl new library will be in thorough open tion. From here I walked over to tl Capitol and took a stroll through tl library of Congress. Every availab room in the building is packed wil books, and the library proper is eo fu o that yon have to march through single g file in order to get from one part of it ir to the other. I pushed my way past d a mountain of bound newspapers up is to the main desk, and asked Mr. Spof ford, the librarian, to tell me some. thing about the condition of the library to-day. There are in the National Library nearly 700,000 volumes, and in addition to this there are over 200,000 pam nhletfl. Mr.Snnffnrd'flbTainiR riinil that he knows just where each one of these I 700,000 volumes stands; and he can [ tell you in an instant just which of | them ought to help you on any subf ject you are studying- It is the same r with the pamphlets, and the wonder is how one little iron gray head can hold it all. He is a curious looking man, as dark as a Spaniard. He has black - hair and whiskers, now mixed with 1, gray. His eyes are bright. His frame )f is short, lithe and wiry, and every 10 atom of it is made up of muscle. He n is the busiest man in the Capitol build11 ing and he knows how to do wor& te quickly. He dictates all of his corh respondence, and his ordinary converts sation, which is clean cut and exact, is r as classic as the mass of books which II surround him. I always feel afraid to e report him. He says just what he is means, and if you misplace a word or i- a figure you feel that it will cause his k black hair to stand on end in indignag tion when he reads it. >f I asked him as to the story of the lie brary and as to the new building. He s said: 'Before Congress came to WaBhd ington it had access for a time to the n books in the Log^nian Library in i- Philadelphia. The little city contained a number of scholars and there n was not much trouble in getting infori mation. When the capital was moved J to Washington, however, Congress e found itself in the woods and there I were no books of reference or general libraries. When Jefferson became ti President the library was first estabe lished, and an appropriation of $1000 f a year was devoted to it. In 1814 we e had here about 3000 volumes. Then e the British came and burned the Capitol HJiljli. .j&lljillffil 1 in ^ ton, d and the books went up in smoke. ie A short time after this, President e Jefferson, who had gotten into financial o straits at Monticello, offered his k library for sale to Congress. He had, o all told, between six and seven thoue sand volumes, many of which were b valuable and rare. Congress paid him e $23,000 for them, which was, it is u said, jast about half what they cost n him, and they were hauled in wagons d from Monticello to Washington. Parn ton, Jefferson's biographer, says they d made sixteen wagon loads of books, and that Jefferson was very sorry to s lose them. In 1851 the library had o increased 55,000 volumes. e Then another fire occurred and 35,000 of these were burned, including - many of the most valuable. The fire n took place from defective flues, and e only 20,000 volumes were saved from d the ruins. By this time Congress e thoroughly appreciated the need of a o good library and the year following y $72,000 were appropriated for new books, and the appropriations have - gone on from that time to this until * /*OA Ai A 1 ^ ^ J ? we now nave oou,u*u voiuiuco uuu I 220,000 pamphlets. Last year we I added about 18,000 volumes to the library, and the copyrights are now increasing our stock at the rate of 50.000 and upward per year." Leap.Year Privileges. Why is it that ladies are permitted to propose in leap year ? Here is the answer: It appears that in the year 1288 a - statute was published by the Scotch i- Parliament ordaining that during the reign of "Her Maist Blessit Majestie, it Margaret," every maiden and lady of high and low estate should have "e liberty to speak to the man she liked. If he refused to take her to be his t wife she should have the privilege of fining him $500 cr less, according to * i 13 his estate, unless ne couici mane jd opd pear that he was betrothed to another woman, in which case he would be free d to refuse. After the death of Mario garet the women of Scotland became d clamorous for their privileges, and to appease them another act of Parliak ment allowing them to propose every Is fourth year was passed.?Pall Mall 38 Gazette. s, A Curious Illusion. 3f A curious trick may be performed id by means of two conical bodies and a 3 couple of walking sticks. Take two ?) lamp shades and fasten the edges tok j .i- ! TJOLLTNG TIP HTLL. ; ; c" i gether. Then make an in inclined s" plane by means of two walking sticks 'e in the manner shown in our illustraie tion. Let the space between the two sticks be wider at the higher than at o the lower end. Then place the double p> cone at the bottom of the incline, and ie it will roll to the top. Although at first sight the trick suggests a disturbance of the natural law of graviie tation, it is only an adaptation of that ie well known principle. As the sticks le widen the cone is correspondingly ;h depressed, and the center of gravity ,11 ie equally lowered. NO USE IN IT I H No use in mopin' H When skies ain't bright; B Keep on a hopin'? flj It'll soon bo light! jfl Sio use in gnevin 'Bout the milk you spill; Eeep on believin' That the cow'll stand still 5 No use in rowin' 'Cos the crops is slow; ! Keep on a-plowin' \ An' they're bound to grovl No use! the heaven Is above the skies ; Put in the leaven An' the bread will rise! ?Atlanta Constitution^ . * PITH AND POINT. A rip saw?Go it while yoa're young.' A wind instrument?A fan.?Truth.' A man who courts trouble will soon find himself married to it. ?Atchison Globe. Great men are those who profit the most from the fewest mistakes. ?Atchison Globe. \ A boy's face always looks as if he had just been eating something.? Atchison Globe. J It is awful to see some people try to laugh when they are not amused.? Atchison Globe. Men never become so old that they are not a little scared by a bJuff.? Atchison Globe. Give a friend a club, and he is very apt to hit you over the head with it? Atchison Globe. The trouble with giving women spending money is that they spend it. | ?Atchison Globe. Good fortune sometimes comes to see us in a very shabby-looking carriage.?Ram's Horn. Very often you can show a man up by simply turning him down.?Hartford (Conn.) Journal. Turn about is fair play as the fellow said when he reversed his caffs. ?Hartford (Conn.) Journal. The blessing in disguise should greet us with a wink, if it expects to be recognized.?Truth.. When a man approves of anything his wife does, he mumbles hiB approbation.?Atchison Globe. Adam was the first man to discover the value there was in a spare rib.? Hartford (Conn.) Journal. Some people could trace their ancestry back to Adam if they only knew his last name.?Atchison Globe. An American's idea of chivalry is to protect a woman against every man except himself.?Atchison Globe. A Western poultry fancier has a hen of the MacDuff breed which has laid M an egg every day for over a year. Lay H on MacDuff!?Life. 9 Inventors of flying machines should H not forget the valae of dynamite. That H will make almost anything fly. ?Hart- Mb ford (Conn.) Journal. He (raptuously)?"You accept me? Bf Then it's a bargain." She (calmly)? HE "Certainly. I shouldn't consider it if H it wasn't."?Detroit Tribune. Cfl When a girl is in love, she walks |H away from the crowd at a party, and Kfl plays the piano, in the hope that he Hfl will follow her. ?Atchison Globe. Shakespeare spoke of the seven ages H of man. This proves his discrimina- NB tion. Woman has one and generally st.iMrs t/i it.?Philadelonia Times. A good deal is forgiven a certain H9 poetess in town; people read her U poetry and remember what a good pie Ha baker she is.?Atchison Globe. j^H Express a mean opinion of yourself H| occasionally; it will impress your H friends with the fact that you etill Hj know how to speak the truth.?Ate hi- B9 son Globe. |H The man who has no family says his ME failure is due to a lack of some one to BK "encourage him;" the married fail- IB ures refer to th?ir families as "drags." Hj ?Atchison Globe. It a woman says somemiug ujowwur able of herself in the presence of her husband, and he 'doesn't deny it, in HI three days she will say that he said it. BaR ?Atchison Globe. SB Brassey?"Most people take life very seriously." Fender?"Well, I Hj cpnfess I can't imagine a man becom- BB i_g a murderer with levity. Taking life is a serious matter."?Puck. |H Widow?'-Sir, I want to collect the life insurance upon my husband's BB policy." Manaper L. I. Company? H| "Is he dead?" Widow?"No, but he ^B 3 U "Mono. jjB lias movea iu ruusuupiiia. ger?"Step up to the next window and get jour check, madam."?Town ^H Topics. ^H Man of Fashion (reading in a news- ^H paper that a village schoolmaster had ^H shot himself because he could not pay HE a debt of fifty marks)?"Ridiculous f B9j Why if I were to shoot myself for K5 every fifty marks that I owe, I should ^H be kept at it all the year round!"? Fliegende Blaetter. Ml The father of the twin babies had H| been left temporarily in charge of ^H them. At the end of half an hour he ^H weakened. "Angeline," he called ont H to his wife, in a voico of agonizing HM protest, "you'll have to come and take B[| one of these boys. No man can serve ^H two masters!"?Chicago Tribune. JBH "What does love care for rank?" exclaimed the young man. "Cupid is no |H nobleman." "I don't know about BE that," replied the pretty girl. "You BBS never heurd anybody call him 'your ^H Lordship,' did von?" "No. But I think it would be perfectly proper to HI refer to him as'your Courtship.'"? HH Washington Star. ^H Ethel?"Why, Maud I You have spelled lots of words wrong." Maude BH (typewriter)?"Can't help it. I took BS it down just exactly as Mr. Knibbs ^H dictated it." Ethel?"Bnt, surely, he HR didn't stop to s])ell the words out to ^H you?" Maude?"Of course not. But HH I'm familiar with his style of orthog- ^H raphy."?Boston Transcript. Jg "Why do you use such peculiar BH terms?" asked a lawyer's wife of her ^H husband, who had returned home ^H worn ont by his day's labors. "I don't HI se* how you could have been working ^H all day like a horse." "Weil, my ^H dear," he replied, "I've been drawing BH a conveyance all day, and if that isn't BH working like a horue, what is it?"? BH Green Bag. HB