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Jf[e Kpaoi A N( 13? Mrs. Sliza (ISABELLA (Copyright, lf?2 ?c?J JfcHS, l> CnArTER XII.a CONTINUED. "All right; haven't I already told you that I always do; and, now, goodbye! You really must go," and as the door closed after the professor, the Hon. Clarence stretched his arms above his head, "yawned copiously and dropped into a chair. "This hypnotizing business is exhaustiug work," he said; "if this is how Yan used to feel, I can understand his need of a 6timulant. Poor old Van! He's just about crazy on the subject, and what an awful bore if one didn't choke him off from time to time. But it has been a good day. The Mendoza treasure secret unearthed and several valuable hints as to bow I may be able to gaiu some occult power over that Spanish girl. What a fine creature she is?a new type of woman altogether; but I must be careful how I let myself get too much interested in her. It needs no Professor Yan Tassel to point out that danger. I've seen other men in love, and they are a warning to me. Have I> by chance, the capacity within me to b? really in love with any woman? think not. But all the same, Clarence, my lad, I shall hold your fancies well in hand when you are in the presence of the Senorita Dolores Mendoza." Stanley had been hurriedly dressing as he thought and occasionally permitted his thoughts to run into words; and now as he paused before the largest mirror in his room, to put the finishing touches to his toilet, he was hugely pleased with himself, and more than conscious of his own physic*,. ical advantages. Like a great many *" men of his kind, he thought himself 1 rather a good follow than otherwise; I and if a severe judge of character had f told him plumply that he possessed / all the qualifications for a complete ) scoundrel, and had used his natural ) capacities in that line to great advantage, he would have been sincerely surprised. As he now gazed at the leflection of his own well-featured and liuely colorod countenance, he i - i 1 xi__ i r?ij. i. smnea compiacenti^y ?uu icit uuw natural it was that be should always have been so great a favorite with women of all conditions and ages. It was his face as it now looked with which ho was familiar, and he would have been almost as much surprised as Polly Hamilton could he have seen it at times when his mind was bent on acquiring money or at moments when other evil tendencies were entirely in the ascendant. "Well, I have a good many irons in the fire just now," he thought, "and between the lot I must certainly be able to smooth out the various little crumples and rumples that beset my career in life. If the Mendoza treesore turns out to be a myth, the earldom of Windermere and a fat rent-roll aren't such a bad look-out, and may yet be mine; and if all else fails, there is always Polly?dear, charming little Polly." Aud whistling an air from the opera ?Polly Hamilton's favorite air?Mr. Clarence Stanley at last turned from vne mirror, giancea aDout tne room to be quite sure that all drawers had been carefully locked, and with a light step went forth in search of dinner. Having dined, Stanley wandered about aimlessly, dropped into one or two theatre3, not being sufficiently interested to know what the play had been about wheu he came out; and at last, ^ < being in the neighborhood of his hotel, he returned to his room and went to bed. In the morning, he found himself somewhat despondent and inclined to take himself to task for wasting time on anything so chimerical as the Mendoza treasure; a quest which, as he very well knew, had brought only loss, despair and death to many a member of his family. "Am I," he questioned, "behaving like a fool thus to bo hazarding the substance for the shadow? There is pretty Polly Hamilton, with all her father's millions, waiting to drop into jay arms, and all that I have to do is simply to open them. Wouldn't it be the part of wisdom and good common sense to go to see Polly; and, well, perhaps, hold out my arms?" And full of these thoughts, which showed an uncommon degree of vacillation on the part of Clarence Stanley, he betook himself toward the home of the Hamiltons at an unusually early hour that afternoon. But, almost unconsciously to himself, there was in his mind the thought that he would see Dolores, and perhaps obtaiu the hearing of that mysterious manuscript, the story of which would, he fancied, shed light on much that was still obscure to him in the history of his own family. And fate itself seemed to declare iu his favor on this day; for Tolly met him, radiant with delighc at his arrival, and triumphant in the knowledge that Dolores had promised to read the manuscript within that very hour ii ho should come. "She declared you were coming," said I'olly, "and I believe she's a witch?a lovely, fascinating witch ? fcr everything she suys comes to pass. She ha** gone to her room now, to get the papers, because site smd siie felt that you were coming. Now, Clarence, how in the world should sho have known that, when even I, who have known you so well and for so long a time, couldn't be quite sure of it?" "But you ought to have known, Polly," said Clarence, with a world of meaning in his large, dark eyes that were now gazing deep into the frank and innocent eyes of Mary Hamilton, raised to his with a look so childlike and confiding, that even his tough conscience felt a twinge. They were standing together just where she had met him a? he entered the room; and he was still holding her hand in a clasp that brought the warm blood in a tide of crimson blushes to her face. "I always know when you are near, Polly. Ah, if you loved me, dear mob?" . / I \ I ' sh (reasdre. S-C~? ? PDVEL. belli ? ?infer. CASTELAR.) y Robert Bonnee's Sons.) "Ob, Clarence!" exclaimed Polly, "do I uot? When have I not loved you?" "Really, truly, roily?" "Better than my life!" He had not meant to say so much. As he tcld himself afterward, it had been a mere accident. He certainly had not meant to commit himself so irrevocably; but when Polly spoke these words: "Better than my life':" and in speaking them raised her pretty rosy mouth toward his, she was so irresistible that Stanley bent and kissed her, and was ever aiterward rather proud of the impulse that made him do eo; for as he declared to himself: "A fellow would be a brute not to kiss a pretty girl when she so evi dently expected ix. "Hush!" said Polly. Then, gently withdrawing from the half embrace in which he held her: "Here comes Lorita." And almost with the words Dolores entered. She held the roll of msnusciipt in her hand, and was evidently ready to begin the reading of it at once; and nodding slightly to Stanley, almost as if she had already seen him, she seated herself at a little distance and near one of the windows. "We shall not be interrupted," said Polly. That is why I received you here in this little boudoir, Clarence. You are the only gentleman, except papa, who lever enters this room. It is sacred to my girl-friends, and I hope you will appreciate the honor. I have given orders that no one shall interrupt us, Rita." Dolores answered only by one swift look of thanks, and, smoothing out the pages of writing, she glanced hurriedly through them. "It is here," she said. "I make no apology for it. And I can only guess, the writing being my father's, that he was the compiler as well as the writer. I have called it 'A Legend of the Men dozas.' "A LEGEND OF THE MENDOZAS. "PART FIP.ST. "A tropic, sea so beautiful that nature furnished no other blue so deep, so rich, so wonderful with which one can compare it. A tropic sky without one cloud as far as the eye can see, and in the west the fading tints of sunset dying in a soft blending of purple, gold, mauve, pink and palest green?a color that, as it slowly fades into the night, leaves on the soul a hush like the last notes of exquisite music?and through all, the warm, sweet breath of the tropics blown from lands of spice and laden with the perfume of strange, rare fruits and flowers. "Over this tranquil sea were sailing three ships, bound for a shore to which it may be no ship had ever sailed; certain it is, no such ships had ever till then been seen in these waters, for they came from many thousand miles away, and they carried the first Hubs of the great chain that was henceforth to bind the old world to the new. The lar?re6t and the chief of these ves sels was callcd the Santa Maria, and on its deck now stood the man whom Queen Isabella of Spain had named 'Our Admiral of the Seas, Don Christopher Columbus.' His was a form and face to attract attention anywhere and to compel admiration even from envy and detraction. He was taller by several inches than any other man on board, well-formed and muscular, and he possessed the elevated and dignified bearing that bespeaks a conscience at peace with itself, a heart devoted to the world's good and a mind full of noble, lofty, unselfish thoughts. His face was long, somewhat thin, and marked with certain lines peculiar to discoverers and in-, ventors. His complexion was fair and inclined to ruddiness, and his skin of the extreme delicacy that becomes freckled on exposure to the sup. His cheek-bones were high and his nose of a fine, but pronounced aquiline. His eyes were a clear, pale gray that deepened almost to black under the stress of feeling. When excited they glowed as if lit by inward fire, but in repose they were softly yet lustrously luminous. The whole countenance denoted the temperament which belongs to genius; nervous, sensitive, thoughtful and highly imaginative. Even at the early age of thirty the hair of Columbus had turned gray; but now it was snow-white; and reaching almost to his shoulders, it gave him an air of extreme benevolence as well as of patriarchal authority. His dress was simple but rich, aod his manners, engaging and affable, were the outward expression of that only true breeding, geutleness and Christian charity. "Of the other two vessels of this fleet, one was called the Pinta, and tbe other the Nina. Tuey were mere barks called caravals, open, but built high at the prow and stern, with forecastles and cabins for the accommodation of the crew, the Santa Maria being the only one of the three provided with a full deck. Tbe Pinta was commanded by Martin Alonzo Pinzon; and the Nina was in command ' ? - e il.- T7* i. _ o t anoiuer 01 tub uuiue, viueuve Yanez PinzoD. The crews of these ships, though numbering some few good and honest sailors, were mostly worthless men who had been pressed into this service by any means that could be found. From the first they had been dissatisfied. Superstitious, as are all seamen, they regarded every mischance, however slight, as an omen of disaster, and when, finally, after leaving the Cauary Island, they had lost in the deepening distance the last faint, gray, cloud-like trace of land, it seemed to their doubting and fearing hearts that they had "literally taken leave of the world!" "In vain their brave commander sought to inspire thom with some reflection of his own intrepid spirit. Tears and loud lamentations were their only response. From his fertile . imagination Columbus described in ' flowing words the glorious countries I t"> which bo would lead them; and | t'O vivid was the picture he painted to th<>ir fancy and so real to bis own believing sonl, that, at happy moments, they saw the future even as he showed it to them. But too ?ocn their brie? hopefulness gave place to fresh fears, and the slightest change of the fair and favoring breezes that wafted them onward was sufficient to plunge I them once more into despair. The j voyage had already occupied teu weeks, and to the impatient and almost mutinous sailors it seemed interminable. They were not victualed for such a voyage. And what would become of them if food should fail? Even the beauty of the ocean alarmed them, for they declared that everything in these Waters was so strange and unusual that its very tranquility boded evil. "Against these childish fancies Columbus argued -with patience, but his listeners now scarcely heard his words. Their selfish terrors varied and multiplied their imaginary dangers faster than he could think of arguments to reason them away. "The situation of Columbus was now indeed approaching desperation; but with the heroism of a great mind, his spirit constantly rose to meet each new trial to which it was subjected. He was aware of the mutinous condition of his crew; he even knew that they had determined to throw him overboard and turn tho vessel homeward unless they saw land within a certaiu number of days. But in the face of all trials, confronted with a danger that not only menaced his life but threatened to destroy the j great object of his existence, this extraordinary man maintained a serene ani steady countenance, soothing the more tractable of his men with gentle and hopeful words, offering to the ambitious the stimulus of future wealth and power and threatening the most refractory with signal punishment i should their murmurs ever take the j form of open'acts of insubordination. ; "Among the worst and most insidi- : ons of these malcontents was a Spaniard ! named Pedro Raphael Mendoza, a man j of strange and curiously mixed nature, possessed of sufficient good qualities i to make him more difficult to deal with j than if he had been wholly evil and | with just enough cleverness to make j him dangerous. Mendoza occasionally boasted that some of the bluest i blood in Spain flowed in his veins, and he bpre on his left temple, ns an heir-,' loom, the family mark of a certain branch of the Mendoza family. Thia mark was a mole, small, heart-shaped and as perfect in form as if it had been traced by the pencil of an artist, and as black as ink." "What is that?" exclaimed Clarence, j "Pardon me, fair cousin! Will you ! read those words'again?" Dolores gravely repeated the description of the birthmark, and then she resumed her reading of the "Legend:" "Mendoza was a handsome man, tall for a Spaniard, being almost the height of the admiral, and of a figure wl'AH" nrrnnn and Brmmotrt liorl Cdn. tured many a female heart. His complexion was pale olive, his eyes large, lustrous and of midnight darkness, and his glossy hair as black as the Mendoza birthmark, which it always carefully concealed except when accidentally pushed aside. . Ho had been the most unwilling man in the crew of the Santa Maria on that memorable Friday, j August 3, 1492, when she sailed out of Saltes. Though he had joined the expedition of his own free will, he chose now to consider that he had come aboard on compulsion. The ruling passion of his nature, J,to which in all times and seasons ho continued faithful, was avarice. Gold was the god that this man worshiped, and it was while his fancy was captured by the glowing descriptions of riches to be gathered in this voyage that ho had determined to join this expedition in search of a new world?a world in the far west, where he might in reality pluck apples of pure gold, no longer fabled. "Nest to gold Mendoza loved ttie young wife and the pretty child whom he had left in Spain. But he had parted easily from Juanita while his thoughts were filled with the wealth he was to seize; and he had laughingly kissed her, desiring her to weep on, however, till her tears should swell the ocean, as he meant to bring back a pearl for every tear. Unable to reach his soul with her own sorrow, poor, Juanita raieed the little sleeping Raphael and laid his warm, glowing face against his father's. The child waked at the touch-and, crowing and laughing with de'^ht, clasped hiB little arms about Mtmdoza's neck. * TO BE CONTINUED, i. Remarkable Statues Discovered In Egypt. Two of the most remarkable statues ever found were recently unearthed by M. Georges Legrain, a French Egyptologist, from the ruins of the temple at Karnak on the Upper Nile, in Egypt. One of these is in alabaster, and represents the great Theban god Amnion. This alabaster god is eighteen feet high, and was origiually made from one solid block of stone, the largest alabaster statue in the world. It was found in three pieces, which were easily put together. The artistic finish is perfect. The second statue is one that was set up by King Usertesen I, in honor of his lather back in the days of Abraham. On the lap of this effigy is a slab upon which are carved inscriptions proving the work's autiquity. Accompanying M. Legrnin when he made the discovery was Charles N. Crewdsou, corresponding secretary of the Chicago Society of Egyptian Research, who is touring Egypt in the interest of the society he represents. ?Chicago Times-Herald. f ' The Little Boy'0 Quofttlon. It is told of a certain English Bishop that while dining at the house of one of his friends he was pleased to observe that he was the object of marked attention from the son of his nost, wnose eyes were nrmiy riveted upon him. Affcgr dinner the Bishop approached the boy and asked: "Well, ray y^mng- friend, you seem to be interested m mf. <>Do-you find "YeB, sir," paij|i-th<e h$L a glance at the Bishop's knojfebreeohes. "You're all right; onlyu(fcMitatiflijly) won't your mamma you \ wear trousers yet?" k ,, , . . HEwST M _ ?> Designs For Costurr i?^ome >ar 'n New York City (Special).?The shape, material and trimming of jackets are the topics that are uppermost in the feminine mind to-day. Two popular novelties appear in the accompanying cut. One is in dark brown cloth, criss-crossed with narrow lines in white braiding bordered with yet narrower lines in black fur. These cover the sleeves, lattice fashion, as well as the jacket. The fronts are tight-litting and have a line of scallops down the middle. The basque is scalloped as is tho high, rolling collar with its' finish of narrow black fur at the edge. The other jacket is in bright blue cloth and its front fastens over a narrow vest-like piece in scarlet cloth, stitched in dark blue. ? v L jacket n0veltie8. Continued upon the shoulders this vest expands into quite a shoulder cape. The foundation of stitched cloth is fairly concealed, however, by the broad inner facing of ermine. Ermine forms the very,high collar. The sleeves have caffa in.stitched red cloth. This mode of jacket is peculiarly chic and may' ne'^eprdiittced in any combination of colore oi/ma. * VWMflAy r kr . terials. Adaptable Walita. 'JjtjjSbjL The group of waists illustnfreflH the large engraving affords a gooS scope to the clever woman. Either! of the ideas will serve for a cotton I waist, and as the coming season { / I" WAISTS APrilOPRIATE T promises to be a -white season, these styles are particularly adaptable. Any other material would serve for the severe shoulder yoke indi cated in one of the models; tucked lawn with a dainty lace or embroidered edge would conceal the connecting line between yoke and bodice, and if properly made a waist could be produced r.t a moderate price that would greatly please the weurer. There are two or three ideas which can be taken from this one model *uVn'nVi +Vio nni^lr pvr nf the deaicrner -1---' J - -- a . will lecognize. The second model in this group would act well as a midsummer design. The insert in the front would fee of allover embroidery or very fine lawn spaced with Valenciennes insertion. The remainder of the waist could be closely tucked and the wide scallops that outline the insert would have a straight line of insertion banding the edge. It is not necessary to confine the design to single tucks. Narrow, that is, one-half iuch box plaits, would produce a beautiful waist. Of course, fine shirring could be used in these soft waists, but shirriugs are so difficult to launder that such a garmont is not favorably received. Cni^Iine Hat* in Felt. White felt capelines are worn this season. The shape is very elegant if it is allowed to droop sufficiently over j the eyes and at the back of the hair. [ The smartest of them will be trimmed wilha twist of black punne around the crown ami a large bow of the same silky material pieced somewhat on the brim in lront, the enda curling toward the back. In order to make this hat rest well upon the hair it is necessary to run a couple of handsome pins through the brim at the back. Some of them are attached with a jeweled bar, which i3 both novel and effective. asc- i , t. _ _rf The large blue tur^xoises, wmca are coming into fashiptf~;again, will look well upoa^these white hata. V Pla&rir Jewelry U the FaMiion. Many of the most expensive jewels are the moat simple in effect. A big gold-brown diamond set with a few email white stones is a pendant for the neck and worn on a slender chain i of platinum, which u hardly visible i on the wearer, and which gives the |: - v. ... lL' ; SfM I ? ? r-i _ ^ I les I nai nave db- p the Metropolis. ^ || ornament the effect of being a plain bit of jewelry, but its price is elaborate. The pins for chatelaine watches when they are studded with gems have a platinum foundation, as in ornaments for the hair and corsage, and which is almost invisible. A Daring Color Combination. One gown shows a rather daring color combination of golden brown and old red. The main part of the costume is of the golden brown, the bodice having a yoke effect of the old red, and the tunic is cut up to a point in front to display the skirt beneath ol old red. The back is a simple princess cut. A Feather-Trimmed Far Boa Now. Not only do hats, the homes of feathers, show much fur trimming, but now the tables havo'been turned and the newest fur collars are feather trimmed. A new collar of mink, for instahce, ends with two big bunches of marabout feathers in place of the nsual and commonplace Heads ana tail. Short Skirts Not the Vogue. We read and hear a great deal about the short skirt coming into vogue, and the women taking to it kindly. This is all nonsense, the smart woman has not and never will take to the short skirt for the street, unless for stormy weather, the croakings of the wiseacreB to the contrary. New Shirt Waists. The newest shirt waists have three narrow box-plaits on either side of the front, each covered with lace or embroidery, and small tucks fill in the centre of the back. A yoke in the back is no longer considered indispensable, and the prettiest are m^ae without this ugly feature. Tucking in High Favor. Evei^thing is tucked. Silk waists 'have long been tucked crosswise, lengthwise, on the bias and in the lattice-work pattern; cloth has been :SUt^e4;ted to the same process, and so j&S .JUtfty^cbiffon and even velvet, tUo it', pity to distort velvet r^BB^tany Color* arifoieph's Coat. fc-^Phere is no cliade atir color which tlmttel may bstited wbieh is not made iiifco shirt waist3,^. n, * 0 THE WHITE SEASON. A Comfortable Chamber Kobe. Illustrated herewith is a chamber robe portraying just the right air of comfort without the negligee easa>, which is so often too evident in gar-.; menis mat wutsii oeive -iui wc uicaftfast room as well as the seclusion of ! one's room. The feature that tends ..tawarfit obviating this objectionable point with many, is the cape collar and high stock. French flannel builds the garment, which falls loosely from the neck and i3 drawn to the figure by a heavy cord of wool that encircles the J rr.rxcH flannel cjiamiitch nonr j waist. The culy trimming features ; are the blocks around tbe caj'e, cut's I md stock, which are bound with satiu I ribbou headed by feathtr stitchius. i POPULAR SCIENCE A blackbird will stand at tbe side of a hanging wasp's nest and deliber ately tear it in pieces in order to gel at tbe larva?, apparently undisturbed by tbe swarm of angry insects. The German exploring vessel Itfowe stopped on its last cruise at two small isolated islands, Matty and Durour, the inhabitants of which strikingly re j semble the Japanese, though the isl ands are only a short distance from New Guinea. In a recent paper by Francis Galton on "Finger-prints of Young Children,' he demonstrated that clear prints ol all ten fingers of a baby would suffice for after-identification by an expert, but bv an expert onlv. Although new ridges may appear in infantile life, the type of each pattern persists all through life, and is never doubtful to a practised eye. The Arctic Ocsan, says Nansen, is a kind of lagoon separated from the Atlantic by a submarine ridge, stretching from Spitzbergeu to Greenland. To this ridge is due a curious condition. The Arctic is covered with a layer of slightly salt water from the Siberian rivers and Bering Strait, and under this is the normally salt Gulf Stream water. If the two layers were i mixed, the average temperature would | fall, but this average would not be as cold as the; surface layer. This accounts for the enormous formation o) polar ice. ' There is a wonderful spider in the Transvaal, which has apparently been discovered for the first time by Mr. Distant. It lives, we are told, in large communities, and builds itself a nest like a bird's. Thereat is of irregular form, and in the interior are several artistically constructed'' galleries, which serve as honflBrt^for all the spiders of that partiomair family. One of these nests may be sraq'ui the London Zoological Garderaffit- is very large, and is deftly coram>''Jfith dry leaves. The spider in consE&tfing * nest takes the utmost pains to^mike ii of such a colcrr that it rilfcjtttekpe the eyes of its enemies, and in- ttii3 laudable task the ingenious little ordittaxf almost always succeeds. Astronomy in the nineteenth oeit" tury has not only snccessfclly ;cnltit? vated, but Las greatly enlarged,..evei? Held of investigation which itip&erited from the proceedin g c eafcaty*'? I'he instruments and the mjtWdg o? re-> search have been greatly and to them have beett'iadded 'celgreWy photography and spectroscopy, whicti are distined to prove no le?9-patent;, and efficacious than the telescope/] Photography has shown itself to be ? : valuable adjunct to the telesoope, and;, 4-1-1A or>r>li/>ofinii nf +V10 eiie^trnHrtrmA . has not] only rectified the ideas, of I preceding centuries as to the congtita?J tion of .the universe, b?t has' an absolutely new brap^j^^siriito|ttBtl that is to say, the chefi?tfXHgffi|HB tial bodies. j tats c-g . , old fiaherma^?^^ or ' thottwuida , of drowned cats nevertheless mr ofro. We had a'<atl^iliaa^^^4J to get,rid of, and a9^H|^p^K^p^;'| any tojlill it-was by put a couple of bke)i^^r<^R|H.' j a> of an old grain sack, aad put ifc;i?e7 cat, and tied the bag up carefully *$?< j securely and walked down to the^^M of a wharf and stood there and swunfl] the bag with the cat and the bricks in J it round like a sling until I could givefl it a good momentum and then let it>fl <rn nnrl alnntr it nnt to fall and sink in?H the water, I should say twenty feqtii "I supposed, of course, that tl^joj was tbe last of the cat; but the*2t0M| t thing I saw wh&uS Lionse was the c&twjjlF New York Sun. In Another Character. If clothes do not make the man, they may be said, in a certain senee'a j to make the dignitary. A railwjg# j train came to its destination inraEj large city. As the passengers tiling slowly out of the cars oaflKPi them, n lady of somewhat severe1 pect, wa3 observed to pause at top of tbe steps. "What do you mean, Bir?" she said sharply, to a man standing on the platform below. "What do I mean?" he responded. "To help you off. madam, of course.' "You are au eutire stranger to me, sir," she said. "I prefer to get ofl without your assistance." "1 am the conductor." he explained. "I think not." "But I am," he peristed. "This is the eud of my run, and I have changed nay coat and hat." "Then you are not the conductor, sir. You nre not in uniform, aud are merely a private citizen. Please stand aside." "I don't know but you're right, ma'am," he said, complying with hei mandate. |fc.. Perhaps she was right, as a luattei '$f principle, altljougti sue hjif^ut nave ^eeEfjafew degrees more civil abou* jPl^jrouth's Companion. WfRviy 'Mlftulten For :i Cliinam.'til. General Fitzhugh Lee received much attention during his recent visit to the United States. He had stories to tell,.and one of them concerned bis name. It was after he nnd gone to Cuba, aud the manipulators of the telephone were not very familiar with his name aud reputation. "What name is that?" asked one operator. "Lee?Fitzhugh Lee," was the response. ".Spell it, please." "F-i-t-z-ii-u-g-li L-e-e." "Thank yon. Plague take these Chinamen!"?Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. *? y'M THE GREAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. < Only a T)rnnkar<l ?New York Society Wrought Up Over the Revelation** I About the Drink Habit* oflhe WoiueD' in tlie Swell Set?Sorosis Shocked* Ouly a drunkard! a pitiful thing, Whnafl r/tiif?h moh^u.1 raimunC plnCAlv doth cling v V.! To tlitj rum-stricken form, while the wintry winds rave ''* With the moans that -will echo so soon ; 'rouDd Ills grave. Yet pity him now, for the sake of the days When liis feet followed free in the happiest ways. Aud the marks ou the flue open features, were no: The skeleton brand of a sin-saddened sot. Think of the time, ere the world drove him wild, When helovinglv laughed as an Innocent child; A. mother prayed over him, ovor him wept, Taught hlin while waking and watched while be slept, To crown hhn with culture, toiled early and late, A.nd dreamed of a manhood both honored. and great. ifl Somebody's darling, somebody's joy,. Somebody's brother, somebody's boy, Somebody's hero, somebody's love, Worshiped as next to the Master above. College friends flattered him, happy and Kay, Conquering obstacles day after dayWinning In wisdom the rich golden grain,. Easy to him of the brilliant brain; Bright eyes grew brighter with love when be came, rodu 01 nis lancies hdii prouu vi uia imuo,. And wept with delight, and a worshipful pride. When he kissod her, and blessed her, and. called her his bride. *' 'Twas then at the feast that he fell to hi3- v foe, And he drank to tho day in the wine's ruddy glow. Little by little before it he tell, Following fate on the highway of hell; Deeper and deeper he followed it down, On to the damnable dens of the town, Torturing, starving, and cursing his wife, 'Till death gave release from her rumridden life; And theoity authorities laid her to rest, In u pauper's poor tomb with her babe on her breast. How it pursued him! The Demon, desire^. With its horrible thirst and its fancies of fire. Forcing his feet to the terrible brink Of the Pit in which rages the maelstrom ot t drink, ^Ijtoaieiess, and hopeless, and loveless his Jjjfrbtok'y-worD. ram-maddened, bottle* ^ SrarQQluird! And yet let us throw cloak o'er Ills ways and his woe, .9t*iVT?gto lead him In love to the light, P^rcJ^lt the gloom with the rays of the Met-''Edgar Jones, in the National TerngS^.perance Advocate. ^^.SocletlgjWoine 11 Drink Cocktail*. ;"<Th'? reo?|Cdlspute iu the Eclectic Club* jrer the;qff0stion of cocktails for women ba&fttrrea up no end of trouble in Qotham iad'nbW comes more of the leaders of the ;)W^Mt of all the swell sets and say that -tib6r4.lA.no doubt th:it the society women, db'drlnk more of the insidious decoction tUlU^fe good and right and proper for ^:.A^a matter of fact, the question has be,4:6m6 80 serious that Oscar, the head waiter afllftiW.Waldorf, has Deen asked to tell what fttft'.fcnows about it. When a topic gets over ytte.heads of the swell set there Is only one Nwo do?appeal to Oscar. Oscar is a. Kin.' He is also a clever man and one' ^^HraalJy alive to the enormous responHEMwtitis tnat rest on his devoted head. jj&OQ BO when the good women begun to get 3ara 4-'enarl over the cocktails somebody srpought at once 01 uscar. said the sage, "the women do- J fldrifik too many cocktails, and tbev are not Jftjiter or foda cocktails, either. They aw jHM*sal thing. But, 'added Oscar"aIudy af&lways a lady, cocktail or no cocktail.'/' nC?J#r*a3 an afterthought, and it was tnePflWtag.clause in tlje strong statement ot > Bwjfcan who tells even the Astors aod .the what they shall and shall not ilhdfltorttnJts disposed-jof in the 400. But Jlhese woman don't tste issue with Oscar. They are too wise to a&that. They merely ^y that there Is a iclfljjtte out somewhere. 8atro, HttWever, is somewhat JW?t'fce3itate to say so ia 'i arteflfipafr .wfoito.- She is a Soroais woaathe habit and its '."I IclotwUtee 'that women are every iiy seizlngnpon new liberties. They bavo jlaid hO'd of tbe cocktail, but they must let tfjo. The.jAme^icjan cocktail is strictly un.Jeminlne and was never meant for a wom5?'e<wdtte. It ^essentially a man's drink." TAgd it is a-conceded fact that the npjfttifrejbrtflfied dripks is fast developing among th'e female members of New York's -liAttiie big hotel restaurants, Turkish. bath# and places of social resort for wornen of good social standing this is apparent. 1'he order books in the liquor departments dttUeblKgrocerytiOuses show, too, a waudoxlally increayd demand among tue fashionable patrons for bottled cocktails and {absinthes. Oth*rfsociety leaders do not care to be quoted in cold Ink on the topic and haveJMrtftJly avoided saying unything on thewiaiw-Except to admit if the great America'n aocktall is really demoralizing theArotbimNadieBit is really too bad. Nothing heea said vet about a reformation. : ' Noble Ke?olve of Students. students of.tbe Toronto University \rtcently met to decido as to whether illqaors sboald be excluded from tbo unafu&l dinner, and the following resolution Pr&tesoWed, That in the opinion of this Society the use of intoxicating liquors n't Student functions is uot iu the best interests of the students or the university, and that the society wishes to place itself as opposed to its use at functions con- a trolled by the Literary Sociery." . jr Admiral Sainton a Teetotaler. Ia a letter to a no-license meeting in Cambridge, Mass., a few nights ago Admiral Sampson said: "It is my opinion that the only certain safe position for any person to talteou the question of using intoxicating liquors is the position of total abstinence. Iu like manner, I Relieve that no-license is the only position for any community to advocate for the absolute security of its people." The Crusade in Brief. lit* mcwi 1.-? atui a jiuicuw taikU. lii politics. Tlie mo-', proline source of strife is tbe glass of wine. Habitual brandy drinkers give out sooner than coM wator meu. License is uot intended to stop tbe liquor traffic. but to perpetuate it by law. Let us lememlier that the American * -J Sabbath i? to-day troddea down beueatJi the feet of'ibe saloon. Tbe English Government lias announced that Belgium has invited the Powers to a conference at Brussels upon tbe African liquor trade. TUe date is uot yet set. A saloon keeper discharged a clerk for getting drunk. A distiller advertised for two teetotalers to run bis still. Switzerland has three Institutions for the cure of drunkards which record permanent cures in one-hak'.tbe cases treated. A drunkard is at a discouut with all people. Even tbe devil wants a mure respectable man thau a drunkard to work for him. Spirituous liquors are no help in roughing it. Gn tho contrary, they Invite sun stroke acd various otnsr unpleasant visitors incident to tbe life of a traveler. Tbe Arn y canteen got in its work at Elo Grande City, Texas. Colored soldier* quartered there got drunk on Goverutneut liquor. iired into tLie towu. aud a race riot was threatened. i