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Gonod aity notinelse utilyupe for TWy-IVElta youTS caCoa h uiesw fe.N >m ourtym or fifty reguar barer ill bote asetaen. atn prooreial lowratets.an T fee Donvenoin of loadtinmesxwhlle cmendT this ostoad eveyine. 2-y Tis commoiao rtendfe stuedo MAIN Letter, NWBER,S and At Risnwoe,and ivited t popl oeand NOa L S, jcal san reciow w at ca ednea l hour,towit:ALDEtr BOOK Be.at oetrn. A LEAP-YEA R PROPOSAL. Pray, gentk: ieing, give me heed, As kneeling humbly by thy side, With lacerated heart I plead That I may-be thy blushing bride. I long-I wildly long to press Thee to my heart-I know 'tis rash! I pine to print a fond caress Upon thy neck and mild mustache. Why, tell me why, thine eyelids drop; Why turn away so pettishly; Say, why with fierce, tumultuous flop, Thy bosom heaves coquettishly? Ikuowithat thou rt young and fair As tiny buds in early spring But thou shalt be my constant care Thou frail and fragils little thing! I'll sew thy shirts and darn thy hose, Thy victuals cook, thy fires will light 1-11 grease thy graceful Grecian nose Each snowy, croupy, wintry night, So surely thou'lt not tell me nay And bid me, dying, quit thy side Brace up; pull down your vest and say Th at J may be thy blushing bride. -Deadsood Pioneer. ClOWN OF GOLD, -0 'A light nourishing diet, and ood wine-that's what she needs,' id Dr. Osborne, sorrowfully. 4edicine can do nothing here.' He spoke sorrowfully because e knew right well that what be as recommending was beyond is patient's power to obtain, and is heart ached for the positive espair that showed itself in the tce of the listener. A beautiful girl of 19 or c0 years, erhaps, upon whose youth the light of care and poverty had then heavily. She was poorly lad in black, and as she put ack her dingy veil with a white d trembling hand, her large blue yes, full of unsbed tears, roved -om the speaker?s kindly face to e wasted, silent figure on the ed again with a whole history of ntold anguish in their depths. octorQharl-es- Osborne, young d tender of heart, looking into e sad blue eyes and falling each oment more and more deeply in ve with their owner, impulsive answered their despairing gaze he inght have answered spoken ords. '1 would to God that my means rere equal to my wil1' said be. am but a poor and struggling bysician, as you know ; other !ise your mother w ould want for The young girl blushed vivid imson suddenly, and drew up er slight figure haughtily witb look of offended pride. It was uly for an instant, however, the ext she held out her hands to im gratefully, and the tears in er b1ge eyes overflowed. '1 thank yon flor your sym. aty,' she said simpfy, 'and for our constant care, but for which e might not'-her eyes were n the bed and her voice sank w-'she might not, perhaps, ave been spared to me this long. 'or the rest'-with a deep sigh-'ii bere be any way in the world to btain it she shall have wine.' She stood for a few seconds, oking after him, and listening to is footfall as it echoed along the are staircase and hall; she let er face fall down on her hands ih a tearless sob. 'Can poverty bring us good ~ifts?' she moaned. '1f so it is nly to torture us. In my pover y a true heart has come to me, ut it can never be mine !' Then she went into the poor, are room, closing the door softly fter her, and bent above the eoping #gure on the bed. 'Good food and wing, she mup aured. 'And she will die without hem. flow can 1 get themi low ? Alas! It was easier tc sk than to answer that. .Every. hing they possessed that would aeb a dolhg bad been sold, and ud she not spent almost the vhole of this weary day in trying~ o obtain work and quite in vain ? 'I know not what to do,' sbh ~ighed, despairing!y, and turned way, and, half unconsciously, ook off her bonnet. As she dic bat, a bit of wire escaping fron he folds of crape caught in bel ,omb and drew it out, and dowr umnbled a glorious showe-r of gol le L ir upon her shoulders. 'A crown of gold !' she said sad ly and bitterly.- 'The lust of my ornaments. It was well enough when I was rich. When poor papa was alive to take pride in it, and call me Princess Golden Hair, and deck it with pearls and gems; but now-what do I want with it now ?' She took it down again, and shook it over her like a veil. and held it up, allowing the shining hairs to fall through her white fingers like golden rain. 'It is worth something,' she said, thoughtfully. 'If I bad want-' ed to purchase it, when I had money, I should have paid well for it-a hundred dollars, perhaps. I wonder if Lily Edison would give me twenty now ?' 'I'il try,' she muttered, resolute ly, and began to coil it up again. 'Lily's hair was of exactly the same color,' she mused anxiously. 'But she had not ao much on all her bead as I twist into one of these braids. She used to say, laughing, that she would gladly puy mine for its weight in gold. Well, I'll try. Once more she put on her bon net, and leaned over the bed. 'You shall not die for want of. wine, while your child wears a golden crown. Never, dear!' :;ily Bdisop was an heiress and a belle. Not so handsome as the fair rival who had been her bosom friend two years ago-beautiful Dora Tremaine-but handsome enough, her rival having disap peared from society and being forgqttp. 'I wonder what did become of Dora!' Lily would say to herself sometimes, but she never cared enough to do more than wonder. Else she might have learned that, like others, 'poor but proud,' Dora and her mother had hidden themselves in their reverses of fortune, from all who had known them in their prosperous days; sinking slowly and hopelessly be neath a 'ses of troubles,' unti! gt last they left not even g sign be hind to mark the place where they had sunk to ruin. So Lily Edison's surprise was great indeed when her maid ush ered Dora unannounced into her boudoir that evening. 4.phe pale girl came forward, with out stretched hands and excited eyes that sawv no one but Lily. 'Do you remember me?' she asked almost wildly. 'We were dear friends and schoolmates once, you and I!' She pulled the faded crape bonnet from her head. 'See ! you used to envy my golden crown. It's all that's left of those old. days. .My mother is sick-we need money very sorely. Lily, will you buy my hair ?' And she took out the comb, and dowvn the glittering treasure fell, no more lilke a golden crown, but a cloak of shining beauty. Dora held it up in her trembling hand. 'Buy it for Heaven's sake !' she said, and burst into a storm of tears. 'Help me save her life I' And then, before Lily could gather breath for a reply, a firm and caught Dora and placed her in a chair, and a brusque, deep voice somewhat shaken with emo tion said: 'I'm your customer ! There, there, cry my poor child, cry allI your grief away. You're with friends-look up and see if you don't know me ?' Dora looked up to the speaker's face. 'Doctor Gray !' she cried, and hid her face in shame. 'You here ? I thought Miss Edison was alone. I thought-' 'That she would buy your crown of gold,' said the old doc tor, merrily. 'So she would, i've io doubt, be glad of the chance ; but I've bought it. Whatever she offers I'll double, my dear ; and you're bound to sell to the highest bidder. Besides, it would do Miss iLily no good. .'m treat ing her for the headache already,' 'And what will you do with it ?' cried she, who by this time was embracing her friend. 'Keep it on the original owners Ihead until I want it,' said the old man. 'Hlow much do you bid, Miss Lily ?' bA undred, and bore's half of it ,o hbe-in with.' So Dora went home in the old co doctor's carriage, and in his com- uti pany and care. He laughed when be she apologized for their miserable pe room. 'Pooh ! pooh !' said he. 'I an was present when you made your Mt first appearance in this world, als child. You hadn't even your frc crown of gold then. Poor enough, do forsooth ! Ycu needn't ever mind hu me. Who's been attending mo- dis ther ?' 'W 'Dr. Charles Osborne,' she told gei him timidly, and a blush stole over of her pale, beautiful face. Then as she saw him start and give a long str whistle: ha 'Do you know him, sir?' tb !Heard of him,' said the old IW n>an, brusquely. 'Smart fellow, cai but poor. Well, wel, your mo. pr( ther is my old patient. You shall sat pay him, and I'll take this case sic myself.' lar He did. Took it to his own! ho luxurious house, thence to the eg; seaside-restored Mrs. Tremaine ch1 to health at last, and surrounded lat both her and Dora with every ne comfort. dif 'low are we ever to repay you?' the girl asked him, and his answer no fairly took her breath. Th 'I want a wife,' said he as ab- Cy' ruptly as usual. 'Your crown of tb( gold is mine, Dora, will you give Cb me all the rest ?' tb< Poor Dora I What is a crown ma of gold compared to a heart ? She cot had sold the first. After all, no E one seemed to want the latter, as she thought sadly. She had n9i- ral ther seen nor heard of-and then gel she checked herself and left of Charles Osborne!s name unuttered at and retninded herself' of the debt dr< of gratitude to Dr. Gray. ed ' owe you more than my life,' m0 she sighed, 'but I have no heart to give you. If my respect, es-. to teem-if my deep gratitude will at suffice you=' ,They will,' said the old man. th' 'I believe you love rue dearly into dir the bargain. Will you give me cai your hand, pray ?' Qn 'Yes,' she sighed and placed it 7y in his reluctantly. He gave it a in sounding kiss.hi 'Pretty little baud !' said he. 'I shan't keep you long. I shgil give er~ you to that lucky dog, my ne- let phew 1' and he threw open the sal door. 'Come in, Charley,'s~aid he. to 'Here-i give you a wife1,'m 'st. sul 15zteflant9z. w S O ME OF N EW Y OR K'S se( QUEER INDUISTR!ES. g sa' 'M. Quad' writes about some of ' New York's queer retail stores as ne follow in the Detroit Free Press: w The pawnbrokers' windows in an any city are objests of interest, gr but in New York more than any- wc wer-e ele The exhibition in yo every such window, from Harlem ser to the Battery, is mainly comn- nu posed of watches and revolvers. Sa, It would seem as if these were del almost the only articles ever palt wi in pawn. The display begins with lig an old fashioned 'bull's-eye' watcb so 'marked down to $1.50,' and closes with a navyv revolver 'for sale at a bargain.' There is every sort of~ mu watch ever made, and every kind for of revolv~er ever invented, and if the window is large enough there is a side-show of dirks, daggers ev~ and bowie-knives. To judge from th these displays one would imagine tin that N4ew York was a city of shooters and slashers. Bu it does a poor man a deal of' vej good to tramp up and down the fer Bowery and Chatham street and ha: see what splendid bargains are ne offered under the shadow of those y gilt balls. Eanging ini a conspic- an os place in a well-filled window mc you will discover a diamond pin los with a center stone as big as a ser filbert, and on the card is written: w 'A litle off-color - only $35.' ] Gracios! but bow it makes a Ish man's hair plin)b up to read the hal figures, anid to think of bursting he in on an evening party with that to pin throwing out ten thousand me sintillations a minute! 'Off-col- if or' is pretty good, but 'all glass' set would be more appropriate. The next window will reveal 'this 4 solid seven-pearl ring only eight wvt dollars I' A. young man with tbat of ring o.na i finger would 'mash' a e antry town in just fifteen min ,s, and fifteen minutes after tha might discover that the sever irls were worth a cent apiec< i the ring only well washed may of the regular jewelers are o up to tricks. 'Can't be tok m real diamonds-only thre< lars,' is the legend borne by ndreds of cards on which are played sets of ear-drops, and orn by a lord a Saratoga for a uine stone,' is the story told many a 'diamond' ring. )ne of the sights of Chathan eet are the dealers in second 2d clothing an4 furniture, and ,re is one place in particular ere almost every article one i think of or ask for will be )mptly handed out. On the ne counter were swords, pistols, kies, coffee-mills, jack-knives, ips, nutmeg-graters, button )ks, candle-molds, grindstones -beaters, riding-whips, dog tins, horse-collars, hymn.books, pwicks, paper collars, knitting ;dles, fire-fenders and fifty other erent articles, he second-band clothiers let chance pass to drive a bargain. cy look at every man with an a to buy or to sell. I got ofi Elevated road one day at athacn square and walked down street just behind a gentle n from Pennsylvania, whc ints his dollars by the million, had on as fine a suit of clothes money can buy, and his gene bearing was that of a perfect tleman. Yet, as he passed one these clothing stores, the man the door pointed to an old iss coat which had been patch. and dyed, and boldly re ,rked : 1 want to call your attentiop this pgat which is a bargain four dollars !' the millionaire halted and gave ) fellow one awful look, but it n't affect him a bit, for as I ne up he gave me dead away a pair of checked pants at 'on two dollars,' and long enougl the legs for a man eight feel [he secondhand furniture deal. have even more cheek. They no one pasts. A man with a chel in each hand, just ready start for his home a thousand les away, is earnestly invited tc ap in arid examine this parlor te, at only forty dollars.' ] s tackled in this way so often Lt I finally went in one day tc what the furniture regly was I what further the dealer would Mfost people would take this for v furniture,' he confidentially ispered as he pointed to a sofe I six chairs upholstered in en and sadly worn, 'but ] n't try to deceive a man like LTo tell the truth they were t down here from a Fifth ave e parlor to be sold on the quiet I ase that. Husband died sud ly-property all i ncumibe red low left without mneans-ob. d to sell off her furniture, and forth.' Is that so ?' Pon my sacred honor. Uow h do you suppose I gave her this suite ?' Seven dollars.' rhe look he gave me I shall r remember, but he swallowed lump in his throat and con ued: Yes-ah I I'm a joker myself t, seriously, I gave $42 for this y suite, which I am now of. ing at even forty. I am not d-earted enough for this busi is, and I'm going to c,uit iW uen I got up there she cried took on so that I gave $10 re than 1 ought to. I shall $2 by the operation and it es me right. Now, then, at do you say ?' said I lived in the Sandwich nds, was short of' funds and I neither wife nor home, but lowered the price to $35, then 30, and ran half a block after to say that he could take $25 I'd agree to keep it a profound ret as long as I lived. )ur life is like Alpine countries, ere winter is found by the side summer, and where it is but a p from a garden to a glacier. TRICK ELEPHANTS. How They are Trained. The London Spectator gives the following accouut of the process I of training African elephants iW Alexandra Park, near London : "The 'juniorest' elephant is se lected to have his lesson first, and comes slinging down to the ring in his heavy trot ; the occasion is quite a private one, but there's a Nubian looking on, who has learned thp English method of applauding, and be softly clasps his black palms together as the pupil entangles himself in his rope to begin with, and feels up Mr. Fe lix's sleeve for consolation in the shape of carrots. He does not get them at this stage of the proceed ings, but he knows they are com ing, and it is very funny to ob serve him in the widst of his les $on, twitching bis trunk in some new direction, which it suddenly occurs to him to explore, and then lie resumes his studies as if he had not had a momentary distiaction. He weighs seven hundred weight at present, and if be can on ly be kept from injurious food and inflammatory diseases will grow to ten feet high, it is expected, and furnish - remarable refuta tion of the general notion that African elephants cannot be high ly trained. They are not, indeed, equal to the Indian elephants in intelligence ; one has only to look at their 'brain-box' to see that but the four little olephants, all newly come into Mr. Felix's bands, are making rapid progress under the system of kindness, patience, praise, reward and 'no knocking about. 'Come, my ba wy l 'That's a fine boy!' 'Ab, brave, bravo ; you are a beauty !' 'Fine boy ! beautiful boy!' Such are the phrases, perpetually re peated, which enQourage the big little scho:ar as he climbs on a wooden pedestal, lifts one clumsy leg after another, admonished by a gentle tap of his teacher's stick -never used to hurt or frighten bim-or turns his lumbering body in the valse whbich, when he is perfect in the accomplishment, will be hailed with peculiar de light by the public. - Thbe valse is a performance which the little elephants learn very readily. They are at first held by one huge, flapping ear, and turned by the teacher, whose steps they follow-the movement comes easily to them ; af ter t wo or three lessons, they nee4 only to have the stick held on the side from which they are to turun a few more, and the wave of the teacher's hand in the required di rection is enough. Three of Mr. Felix's pupils are as yet not suffi ciently advancd to appear' in pub lic ;it was most in teresting to see how they took in the idca of what was required of them, and to hear him praise them when they succeeded in do ing what he indicated. He never lets them be tired ; and observes them so closely that when the clever little black elephant was coming on finely in the art of rolling a ba.rrel with his fore feet -it was delightful to see his sat isfaction when be discerned what he was to do, and that his hind feet were to be kept clear of the barrel-Mr. Felix stopped the les go.n at onco on seeing him begin to tremble. Good marks in the circus school translate themselves .into lumps of sugar and chunks of carrots, and bad ones into derisive ob cervations -about thbe self-respect wi-ich the idle pupil ought to feel, but doesn't. One of Mr. Felix's pupils is still very timid. He was scared and ill during the voyage to this uncongenial clime, and at fir.st he would not let any one ap proach him ; but he is a promising youngster now, and lends his bark-like neck to a friendly scratch with mucb atfability. On none of these animals is to be seen a scar or a 'prod,' tl'e 'no knocking about' system is to be traccd in their bodies and in their manners, and they look for their rewi ards-addi essed to their stomn ache-with cheerful confidence. One of them, the nervous one, had i~n nnxiou and puzzled look during a portion of his lesson but reiterated assurances of his bravery, his beauty, and his baby hood, induced him to 'perk up,' as the nurses say, wonderfully." MARRIE> ON A SLIDING SCALE. What pruved quite an exciting event in social circles occurred at the marriage of Miss Belle Cham berlin, of Belvidere, and Mr. John Gripp, of Bonus. A large party had assembled at the resi dence of the mother of the bride to witness the ceremony, when, as the bridal party had taken their positions, and the Rev. J. White bead, the officiating clergyman, was about to commence the ser, vice, the floor gave way and sank about three feet, mixing bride, groom, clergyman and spectators in one common mass. The lights were extinguished foi tunately without any damages, and for a few minutes confusion reigned su preme. It was soon ascertained that nobody was hurt, and no damage, except to the floor, sus tained. The lights were relight ed, the bride and groom again took their positions, the guests being by this time arranged on a sliding scale, and the ceremony was conducted without farther interruption. Had there been a cellar under the floor, the conse quences must have been disas trous. As it was, the affair is laughable. (.Milwaukee (Wes.) Sentinel. ALLIGATORS HATCHED BY A HEN.-A lady residing at Cow island, in Louisiana, and wishing to set a hen, went into a field ad joining her residence, where some of her chickens had been laying, and procured some seventeen eggs and placed them under the hen. When in the course of "hu man events," the chickens were batched, lo, and behold, there came forth four small-sized alli gators. It is supposed that alli gators from an adjoining marsh had deposited their eggs in the field; and she, .not knowing the difference, placed them under the hen. And what is more strange the young alligators follow the mother hen Dround the premises as happy as a Colorado beetle in a p)otato patch. (New Orleans lYmnes. Unceasing vigilance is the only way of safety. "While men slept, an enemy came and sowed tares in the field." So will it be with our precious fields if we are neg lectful, or sink into a careless slumber with regard to these dangers. "In everything give thanks." Even with the manacles of a crim inal about his wrists, Paul writes: "Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and suppli cation with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." An article in an exchange is headed: 'Wind a New Thing. in Politics.' The idea of wind being a new thing in politics is funny. It is as old as politics itself. Russia and China are going to have a wvar, and it is consoling to reflect that the party in the wrong will be defeated, which ever side wins. Eugenie's health has been re stored by her sojourn in Zululand. We call this fact to the attention of E. P. Weston, who is reported sick. A medical student says that he has never been able to discover the bone of contention, and de sires to know if it is not the jaw bone. In some- respects the gentler sex far surpass us. No man, for instance, can deliver a lecture with a dozen pins in his mouth. The Cincinnatti Co mm e rcia l thinks 'a steamboat should have a polite bow.' But they generally have a stern appearance. The higher up the mountain you climb, the higher you can