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1)N.VU''E!) TO Pi,ITrC , 14RA1,I1Y, 1-;1UCA'IIU1 AN!) TO TI~E GENERtAL INFERE$r OF' Tay, COUITHY. By~~~~~ D. F.BALY&CIKN, S. (, THlURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 188g.. VOL XII. NO52 'r TO FACE WITH DEA,iT. I nreaq to Etld Their Lives 1* iGloat Vatsiroaheei tihung is more ourious than the fact lyjiug s one of a crowd, seems to lhore terrible to a7'iAAn than simply his own individual -death. Un onably there sooms to be no kind ath more dreaded by men than r death ' her from sudden oatastrophies 4:like% uat of the ]Ring Theat-ro at Vienna and that of the Olyde, for in 6 abOO-r from pestilence. No doubt !ACt pevfectly true that death cannot uo 'bared in the same sonse in whiclh a aril or -a pleasure can be shared; you vhmot, in all probability, bo colsciou:. the strengthl of companionship after '_begins to flicker low, nor are there L 6ve one or two people in tho world ith whom most men would covet the pnse of companionship in such a mo aont as that of death. Still it is somec What curious that death oin a graAd scale always seems to be more terrible, even to separate individuals, than the ordinary death by units. Of course, terror is very catching, and, therefore, the terror of a crowd always enhances the terror of the individualOBut though that ex plains the supreme agony of a sinking ship or a burning theatre, it does not iii l the least explain the additional dread of death which plaglue seems to inspire in individuals, for between the inhabitant: of a plague-s}1icken city there is always very much less active sympathy thal there was before the pestilenceappeared, and it is rather through the growth of mutual repulsion than through the lheightening of a con,on R"lympatlay, that the influence of pestilence is chiefly felt. Perhaps it' will be said that men d1o not fear death'the more on account of 'he number dying around thel, lmt uly as that number makes evident the :eatness of the risk. But that can cardly bo the explanation of the matter, %torwise we might oxpec! a nuela greater terror in every man to ahoml the doctors so frankly ~acknowledge that death is imminent, so that we ought to find in a healthy inhabitant of a plague stricken city, whose chance of death i:, probably much less than one in t wo As a matter of fact, very few patients 4tricken with ordinary disease, who ar tolt :lt death is inevitable. show any. panic avl, while the perfectly health'y m1an, suri-lnded by pcstilelace, is tolo often consr.ned with a orror whihi rend era hlim abs6nutely untit for the disacharga" of his dutics. It seems ce-ahil that til selfish terror inspired by tl.e sight of dying crowds does unnerve 1en in a manner in whiell a sentence of death passed upon themselves would not un nerve them at all. We wonder why this is, and suppose the reason to be that a is only a great risk in combination with the chance of etacapo that unnerves a maln whom the prospect of certain death would not unnerve at all. It is til eager passion with which all the mind rushes into the alternative of prolonged life that really uny lans a nature which would be steady enough in facing cer tain death. Mingle a great fear with a vivid ray of hop and you will turn ia 4 head which could hold its own against imevitalle fate. The tumultuous ch - lent in the catse of plague is, We Ie lieve, the seltislh desire to escape rather thaln the actual prospect of death. The panie felt" is really tle panic of tenpest a chr.s hope rather thau the panie of fear. Extinguish the h1ope and the panic will 1ften.cease nas Completely as if you hut extmIguished. the fear itself. The Cyclone Seaisonl. O 'ne tile fiercest of the many torna s that hlave occurred witin tihe last 10ou1 mIonaths was tha:t whlich1 swept over Southiern Michaigan on Monlday, .Jully '23. It p)layed 11avo0 with farma houses, b'arIs, fences, orchards, anid forest trlees stand inag ml its track. Several womieni and1 cih idron weare k illed, one womanl, accord inIg to the telegraphic dispatchues, beting Ilicked upl bly tile wiL anid torni to pie'ces. It was early last spring that this ex traordinary series of storms begani, and very few weeks havwe paIsed sincet thlen without bringing neCws of tihe fatal des trucetivo work oti one or more whirlwinids. Someqt imies several tornadoes hIave 0c culred nerl. o limullltane)oulsi li dilelrenlt laces.. D.isastrous rainbu)lrsts land thu11n deri storms have added to tile extralordi nary character of the weather, and only evidlence of a similar coniditioll of atmnos pherie distubance o etenldng all oiver tile world is needed to give very stror g tonlfirmnationi to tile views of the suna spolt theorists, for durinlg all these stormy monthls, anld up to the presenlt moment, thle sunl hals been1 spiotted like a leopard's sini, and plinaly algitated by trem ei~ us disturb,ing forces. Some shred i?'Y the required evidenice of a world-widd extension of mietIerologicalI disturbances have been obt ained, bult ihe record is very incomplete and nsat is tactory. There have, fer inIstanIce, bleen ex.traordlinary rains mi some pairts (of Errope, inludinlg watispoults in H1un-1 y, andi we) have hleard of di' estcive d ations ill Indtia, or a terile huir 0e at thle Samoan Islands, anid of floods in Binos Ayr'es. Stiil, no t of nature, ptroballly, woluld he to look -uponlI all thlis as proving -splots hlavo, anyting to do with her especilly since prelvious~ obI hut it may11, pile ps, .viden'ice fuirnihdb storms1 (If tile iast I wo) is favorable to the1 MIun I . ~, and that it would not11 re rient deal more (If tile samelI sorlt uco to inceline tile scales of judg :ei(ledly in favor (of tile thleory. ever the cause may 1)0, it is'cer at it wouiilde il ardl to matchl tihe e reord (If 1883, and, judginag 1) tlescopICic aspct (If tihe sunil the last six mlonlthls, anl inhaibitnat lIt'orb would have to bie a prt lIy tr citizenl to 11e able1 to reco leet 'a .a hunn stormlis had beeon so fre % tand so lrce.-New York 1Sun. TnE 13RA51nIAN ARMY' is in a rathIer disorganized clondtition). The ex-Minis tcr oif War in Brazil as ai mielancholy account of tilo ilasity (If d'eiplineP, not merely amorng the rank aind fWe, b uat ai1'o s1ong the hligher olelers. Onie o f illesI. oo)c,oni hearing that h1e hadl hlee sed..over, went to tile War D)epart1 .1t,.hused the oIflicials there, and awore thalt if tile EmpIeror dlid not 510 ju'sict.done hie would lot them kniow what three hlundtred blayonets coul11d (1( *in thifstreets of Rio Janeiro. The ills piitale in muany parts are sinIks of financial corrupteon. Some oflicers frequently receive for medicine f<mr or five times their active pay, and heechecs are hired four or five times a month at e&ghty 'enits e.ach every time. Electric colliaru are supplied at tihe costt of tensR 6f thou * as of adol lars, anld "feedin g hottles" .~U~J~'he opnUfta for ever fifty thou * ~ ~~1as ' tougih, ' addts the ir Ml11 ~ ticlly, "tile iilitary SIX L1ZTIL! MAIDENS. 1'il tah joa a story, I'll sing you a song, it's not very short and it's not very long, Of six little maidens : in whitu they were iressed, And oach was the swtetcst and each was the best. [nvite(1 for four-well, now, let me see Waiting was dull, so they got there at three. 1 ere were lit to 31nss Iatie and Nellie and St3o, tid little Miss lessio and 1'olls and Prue. [t might have been Juno, if it hadn't boen Ma, Thc first. of the month. and a beautiful (lay I hey hissed when they met, as the ladies a;1 do Kate, Susie, and Nell ; less, Polly, and PIrue. l'hey danced and they shipped and they sang aid they played, And they formItud pretty groups in the sun and the shade ; And I said, when they asked me of which I was fond, "runettes ao the dearest; and so are the blonde." \tnl that night as I bid them adieu at tho gate. iVss, P'olly, and Prue, Ste, Nellie, aid Kate, Flow I tt isbld that "goo-1-b. c !" coild havo been "how-d'v'-d !" \,nd I said: "Come at three !" so as to get them at two ! 'lhat Terrible Scar. Midnight had tolled its solemn chime, vet still the weary watcher sat 1besi,e he hearthstone plying her busy needle. fler eves were dim and simken, her -heeks thin and pale, her lips p1inehed ma purple, and her sletnder fingrls so .hrivelled with the icy chill that was Ist palsying her that the laii gold -iig on her wedding finger al the himlble that she hId were every noc,w oi,d theni dropping inito her lap. 1Ter elienite f?' n was shivcein eve'. umh-r he leavy shawl that she ita 1br,,wnt Ih! lt. helr so iubi1ledrs, and nth 'oIl~,lo l 'ft'ni wtitlh a wistfiul glanilce at the )ittle bas :et of fuel that stood beside the fire place. Another hour passed and the clock truek one. ''lIe must s(oon he hero now," whis iered she in a half-frighte:nd t'e'. 'I will lay aside my work an:d make clings as cheerful as I can." So she brul:shld the ashes from the hearth, drew the coaHl together, th:ew m1 them ahandliul of the carefully-::awed 'tel and fanned th' faint i.mI' I ill it 'lashed high in the chimney Ti: sh( 'ooked about. the rooni to t( e if aughit coldlt ho menued; 1 ut the few artiolt a it ield were ali inl their wonted lac'es, und everything as neat as the ha:,ts of 'ove could make it. An arm-cair was Irawn from a corner close to the raclk !ing tire, the dressing gown that hung 111011 it spread out anew and a pair of :lippers were upon the fender. The a.;mp w"as trimmed afresh, the i;be isted, and beside it was plaed a kuife tlmost as bright as though the hlade had been silver instead of steel. "I have done the best I can," said the nalo watcher, no again she saik into her chair. "Oh, if I were only sure (if one kind word," she" cont iued. "Il rk !" She started up and listened. "It is lie and how he bangs ihe gate? I shall have a fearful time with him." She hastened to the front di, and gently opened it. A man staggered in, and reeli' this way and th at, reached finally Ihe loom his gentle wife lid made so br'gh;t and cheerful. But what was her :e'wardl ? A colley of oaths so foul that it secend as if an atrmy of fiends hadl spokenci withI one0 voice. He cur-sed the nligg.u lly tir', tough to make t hat she and h er clilI dren had beenI halif frozen all dayv; hie swoic at the patche<d dreinxg-goiwn, though out oif hecr own thin wa(rdrobe she had planned it; he raved at the br(ea1d and meat, though lier own lean ting:ers had earned thema both. And when, angel like and woman-like, too, she gave him a smile for eriy frown, an eileniig epithet for every oath, and would halv( woiimd huer arms abont him to wviin huim back to reasoni and huimIself; lho raised his heavy hand aiid dealt lier a power nul blow; aye, lie struck her till everyI aerv' quivered with aniguish, sed sh'e. his wife aiid the~ mother of his be~auteonsx children ! And now. when shie hav piostrate biefore himl, lhe raised himsclit to kick her from thence. A sligh t y'ounig hand pushed off' the booted foot even as it was falling on the trembling woman, anid a voice, agonizied in its tonies, ex claimed: "'Forhlear, my father, if though yomi wife, she is yet muy miothlen, and 1 w ii! save tier from your ralge !"' Th'le eye5 oif tho drnunlkard <quailK miomlent biefore thle uti1turn'ed gaze lis tir:t-hornm, so moeurnfully holy was Ih, look that becameid from his tearfuil face then a fiendlih glare burned ini hiis own, anud exclaiingi: "'You, too !--mnsat. T level my~ hone hold erc I can finid peace ?'' lie seizedu II glistenineiL knife and strinck his chi id. * * * * * ''Will lhe live ?'' mioaned thle l>'0i amot her to the sur'geonu, when lie had hanuudaged the boy's head. '-Ito is ver;, pale anid weak.'' "It~ is a ghanstly and daniugerous wound. saidl the (InrVeon ; ''only 11he e1ight of iii mcii dleeper anid It w~ould haive hi< ni fatal-- yet with enre lhe miighit suirv've. "'Mother,"'-- here waus a pathos in the tone t hat drewv her' eyes ear1niest ly tin the ear,a strilpling of about 17'yearsm "miiothler, T am11 goinig away.'' ''Away !- -and where, Ernest ')" s iminuired. ''I cannoi(t say," ho rehed ; .. 6 must direet my steps--but go from her. Imust. The cira of the dlri(ukrd's son is oil mei. N< iie will re'gard me fl(nO even give me work. Anld moire. mother, if I stay here T most forget mn Bible, for how can I hionor my fathmi whenOl lie so dihioinors hi mself ?'' Very long id thuo boy talk andli plha diro he WOn bet tearfuul conisenit ; ist iih, gave it al lengt h, and, *ith a littlec kniap sack on his back, his mother's Bile iii onto pocket and her slender purso in th. )other, Et ast went for'th in the greii world to iek, not so much fortune oi ae.a that ten a 4a~ ..fn urunlien father would not givo ;i ii his home. Years passed away, and there cane n udings from .;rnest, save that after tl first one, and each (lullrter brought th( mother a remittance, and each succes sive quarter on of a higher figere. Welcome, too, were they all ; for, but for such generous aid the workhouse had claimed her and her children ; for d(Ai i ward, still downward, went her hus1heid, his absence no longer counted by hours but weeks 111(d months. In a bustliig city, many nilce from his native town, a stranger one ni found him in a gutter, half rozen. starved, weary and sick. Like ( good Saitnaritan, he picked him up, ant as h(. was too weak to wtalk, placed hi'i in a Conveyance and had him taken to his ows home. A warm 15th, eleln t'a 1 ments, wholesome food and a sdt hled were freely offered him, and passie as a child when worn ;.' anguid, IL suhf fered them to deal with him a tl,e% chose and oo11 sank into a dee, re freshing R'umber. It war hours ere he awoke, an< tihe, he seemed as in a dream. Th(;tth, gutter in which lie had lost hi col seiousnessi wias now exchanged for alow u, lied, with pillows white and soft asiow, with snow-whito counterpane and (maslk hangings. His rags had disappired. and in their stead he saw hir ') r: hed in fine linen. The dirt uwa washI from hi,t fac: and hand.', hi:4 hair was conbe,, and his tangled beard neatly shyn. He put back the curtaius. Glad, gr, ,1 (;mmnbeams were stealia throughi1. erimson drapery of an alcoved win6w, and their brilliant light showed it lety chamber, wit I frescoed walls, a cart;t f;om Oriental !'oims, and furniture tht( a prine' might covet. "It is a dream, 1br1-athed he, amnd he closed his eyes. Ligit footsteps aroused him soon, an bnelosing them again lie saw bendin over hin a noble-looking man in life: e :rly prime, and beside him a lovek w (man, and in fth( eyes of both l'lrg tears were standing. "Tell me," eail he, eagerly, "do 1 1ream, or am I the poor drunkard s( ie:nt ly' cared hl-?" You are sick and we must minister t( you," replied the lady. "Siek ! :y, sinl sick," he said. 1111ut y(it (1o) not know how vile I am, or voi w'.1uhd cast mle ouit at once. .Listen.' h::ve broken the heart of my wife. Iha% driven my oily son from liome; ay, n haif killed him tirst; and I have ill-treat. my other ehildren till they fear lm' more than the evil one. Will you car< for inc o11w ?" Hle itbuost skrieked out the quest : and it seerllea as though life and t':1 t nuig on the answer. "We must forgive ever as We Won!, he forgiven." iaid the master of 1!, house. "While you ca-1 be happy, 't:: nith u"." A week passed away, Rnd still the ol man tarried in that b eau,'ffnl home, 11%N toying gently with Lily, t:e wee, deli" cate babe, and then playi g gay pranke with Harry, the pride of he household, a boy of four sumineis- now dreamnup in the pleasant chamber where lie first awoke again to matnlhood, and then lolling in an arm-chair in the plrlor, tears and smiles chasing each other over hi wirinkled cheeks as the uvely lady of the mansion sang, now a g.y3 ditty a nd ther a solemn hyn. But lie never oflered to cross the threshld "I dar11o not," le i"oulid say, wher asked to ride or walk "there is danugel in the street. and th:ili alm is so V(er sweet. If it could o1Jy last.'' Amd them he would sigh, ma111 Snidsetimes weep im isuh like a child. "There is to be a grand rally of tih friends of temloernnee to-night-the new -ima splihendid h li 1is to lie iniauguirated. lHanniers wiill wia'e, music ring, aii( ladies smile ! SI 111 I invyitoi you, my wife, toi am pmin)i y me ?"' saidl the mas tenriof the house.' ''Of cou)lrse, after such a programme,' said she, gaiyly, "aid yout may dein-ni upon01 my going, l. How soon1 must lie re,.1y ?" "'In an hour's time,'' li replied. "'I will seind a carriage for yeu, andi meet i.eou myself at. the door oif the lal!. lb sure that you are ready, for there will li( a I'tmendout s emowd." "'I iil lbe iln te-tru1)st me for that.' st id she, and hiasteund to pe-rform he10 duties to the little on(es; ht what we h er astonish ment whieni shE retuirned t< thme piarlor, all honneted arA cloaked, ta find her stantge'r gutest aiwuRt ilig hier. "I cannot surely, lie 1 ttd theare,' mid he, in a low', sad voice '"but if you: ill suffler me1 to iride wih you I wiu -dadly go. It may lio thma tif shall coim pIle there the salvati(l hero c(on1: miience'd. (Gladly did1 thme lady neOniese in th<a re<hilest, a.iid tliey we(re s(fii at thie d<,<i it- ih thronged-hll!. N< lien husbiand. bit an) intimate fr',end of Jisjoinied theu here, and led them to >)me rcserve :,'ats niear thle pllat form. There had been stirin music lay fh< ibiid, fervent prnayers b iy ho clergy and bil lig speeches from 'Hit(irs fro'nm dis i parts of the couint.i thle hearts of hi t vast mutltIitude w~(~e< rousied a1s theiu il never be'en before 14 the dangier~s e cup. Thlen, while Vt they were ea iveted to the subh ject, I e pr('sident an1 letuned "'a voice fr4 our hom11]. l'here was a breathl"sj silence for: .nmiienit, anid then long id lond acclama -atioi. greeted the go 1 Samitaritani1 ouri sketch as hie lIower to the waiting irong. It lud seeme Ito them as tli laist speaker hushied hivoice, that t h liheme, world wide as it , was quite rex haute(d, but so im)pat iont' eVwas lii 'louenCico that nowv rstered1 it, thna hey hunig upon every >rd as if he' ha po(ken1 oif somrethinlg fr hi fro m heaven Where others had ge talkzed, lie in] -lividutalized. lie did et take the was 't drunikards, butt 0only tie out of then 1ll, andl he portrayed 1I course in suel vivid colors that the lidiencCo Peeme gazing upon dissolvint iews rr.iher th'a listening to choen orda; and wrought up were they lat- wehen he pie timed that51 horrible se in thme trageud if drintk, whterei the I band levels t he floor tihe wife wv ht onen slept s ~weetly uiponi his boso the wife that h e mother of hlis chii en, they seeme to hear the gentle anfl ronged 01n0 fall and sobs and sighs b)1 0 forth from thl .isembly. The spen . paused till tihe; wore quiet, wipoD ~m rnwhile, the tear fromhisown QheQ~ "Do you ask," said he, when ho agt rnuiimed liis theme, "do you ask why stand here to-night and speak the tlaigs ? Why, I nlot only speak but i< thml? Look at this," ho said, liftii the glossy locks from his left temp ''Io y)tt see that sear on my forehead Iu the brilliant gaslight it was pt feetly visitilo to manly at w'atchful eye. was a ghastly frig h ul1-looking Se: marring the beauty of a brow t lit w1i' otherwiso have beeni a painter's mod, Slowly and solemnly did the speatk titter och word, then as he stood pttF ing back the raven hair, he colttin( "After the drunkard had felled his wi to the floor he would havo kicked h prostrate form but that her young sa ruslhed bhetweel the two. What did t driunkatrd (1o then ?" he exclaimed inl voice of thunder. Another pause and breathless hush. More slowly, me solemnly did h3 sneak: "IIe seized knife,'' lie conliue'd; "aye, and the on t,o, his geti le wife herself had laid I sile his plate for him to eairve the th tier wora and weary fingers had e.". to in1stain his life: he seized it and this '' and lie pointed to his foralme. '"'To my grave shall I carry this sear a not till I rest in my grave shall I ec: to plead for the drunkard's cliire'' With these words fresh on his lips i withdrew. There was no applldalilt: I l, a silence as of death rested in 1i vast, hall. Ere it was broken 1,y pra, or hymn an aged maii, older though' se(Iied with grief than years, totter( 11pon the ilatform. Trembling in eve l;wrve and muscle, lie leaned against i1 desk, and finally grasped it for supp' Miy tine?( did his lip4 rnove ere oull utter an au(idibl sound, , ,ind wh io did speak his words were r atuer f t.,1) heard. "' non has spoke'n," he t .aid, "N let the fait,,. With the st:ar on i frehead yet lleedin M Ernest, I first horn, my noble lo.. " \ent from I home to seek among phrang 'rs the pe: his father would not f;ive hin on his 0' Iearithstone. Te. years from ulat tin one WCk ago tc-night, that soe ;i.c u his fat hr croni t gutter, and' juste of spturnin" him as at fallen sm er took lin, to his home as though lo h baeen eit( angel inistead of the de\)On youth. )ep is the scar on 1js fo ned but deeper are the scarsl waut. Te have heard him-ye see Ir iAt the story and the sight e 'our s vat ion, as it even now is my owt," The old man was exhatulsted 'iid1 Ilck into his Son's aims.- Truth. A Singul:ar Case. A singular dicorce e:ase is before t 0 urts of New York city. In his a dtvit the plaiifill' says that he arriv in this country ii dJa'nnary last., ind April 1 made the acquaintance of a you woimna1. It Was a case of love at fi: sight, and while they were spending eyening tOgether the (liestioni of 1I rm e l Cme up in conversation. 1 relatlives represen'1ted that aceontirling the law and customs of N. Y. State it n I ecessary to hamVe the eigagemeut Ia lied by anit official at the City Hall, 1 olbjected to these s5nnumaryro 1)teed(in on the ground that he was not su cieltly aettuainted with the 'oun3g la, nor her antecedenits, an;d that le desir first to consult with his mother, w was then oin her way to tli. city . It ' represented how+"ver, he atlleges, tli the ceremony at the City 11211 al merely a matter of form, and not at hinding on one of the Iehrew faith, a that the real maiiague must be sub; q(uently costuiimIna(te1 ltefort a Jew;: Rabbi. Accordingly, on the orni of April 2, the plaintifll, who could n speaik a word of Eniglishi, went left one of the Aldermen iiitt wals miiwilling mnaied to his fair inamorata; helieri that the ceremiony wtas merely a1 1 tr'othail. He contisimetd to call on M Moses, being unaware, as is allegt that she was his wife, and on April mazrrietd her according to Jewish rit< Early the next. morning his britde we insane10, and( was1 so) violent, that lie I niever sinice hen alde to live with I< and1( has eveni f'oun~d it necessary to t tine her ini an asylum (on Blackwelt' Island. lie states that she hais heel luinat ic foirsoma~ years. lie has ltearni lint she has occasxionl lueid iinterva lastiing for pleriodts from five days tot) months, dunring whichi timnes 'she rei izes that she is mentally unh1 aliae( bult has bee.n aissured by lph~ysicians fth if she nmarried and(1 tbenie a nother perman~l3ent eure'( would bt e affe'cted. T. p laini itf fuirther echarges fIat she w nijtoyinig one (If thotse qupiet periods the time (of their acequa(intamnce anid m: .ig, and1( t hat hier retlaitives malicious mai2de him the inistrumeInl'3t of her ve ~aiprobtal e recovery. Oni these grouni li t ekils to have thle maia~'zge annuiIllt The b ritde is not w ~in . te a5ylum thle 1)1 sicitans of whieb wtouldl not allow t 1papers1' sei'vedt 1upon3 her, fearful the r'esults if this was' (1011. A 'omeANY has heeni formed in1 Pai with 2a capital of $1 50.000t, " for tIe ptose of dragginig thle Retd Sea to r'ci Stho ebariot andt armas tf Phiarao Phar'aoh may1 have own3ed a pret ty g geliusI chiott, 1bult it has been'1 ini the ter so lng flint we don' at b elieve it worthi mulclh no(w. A muchl lit 03ne c'an he' puriibiast'd forz less flint Sl1 (10P An ais Il for P'Iharaoh's alrms, uiii thmey ire petiiedai, t hey wonl 1 1be of mt o' vahtie than11 his) legs.--N XorrJis/( lirald. A LO-r Or Tum-:r. -D)uring 15 years libel suits, with idanniiiges aggregat two millitn o12 f dtllar13s, hav be''t en broui ag(ainlst the( B3al tiimore st?imeca, -the paper hias pa33itd onily 8500) to th li gio ast 20 goinig inito 1bus0ili'ss and1( falil on a basiA of onet-quarit er to f (ol' n' er 1says Burdettec. Say that a neCwsp Saiin't ai goodl comm arcial investment. A SWINDTJF.--A Coloradlo swiudhC Sto buy ai lot of "'remniants" of '10 herds, mostly barren cows and be Ssteers, he them "'hookted," compl the increase by ordinary rules, and al a wihiile, sell the lot 013 the range n coause, without counting. It. is ~ that in this way berds of 2.000 h - beenj sold and naid for en 10,000. A HOTEL WEDDINU. I -l) lioa It In Prepared for tind Carried out. Ig "Well, now, take a wedding in a hotel, Ic. and the man and his wife start out on it ?, perfeotly fair and square basis," said a ,- prouinent hotel clerk. ".It's give and it take from the word g<-, and that's the . correct thing in matrimonial life. This h is the way it. is mnaged. The groom ,l and the bride's father come here and make nil the arrangements two weeks hlI before the event. If they are wise they (. wil also pay all bills in advance, even to tippig the 11a11 boys and waiters. " Then they will not he bothered by de mands for money during the festivities. The bride and her mother ancj friends come to the hotel somec hol' "' -e the a ceremony and busy the ins "es 1 i le toilet.. A suit of rooms - .s at thlei lis posal, with abiolujtey '' everything t e1(hand. Trained atttetndIitts of all lin(\ are at a moient'", eall, and no conven iince is lackiny -- The groom has also , room, which ' ,used a. a sor't of coIsola tion apartin t((nt by thu friends of lt d-ecased-I mean the friends of tl gr.on. "All this time the c;ergyman and tl mnemhers (,)f the bride's andl(] groom' families I tre receiving their friends it the suite . of parlors. At. the proper mo nent th, proccssion is formed, and thee. all mart h into the parlor and1( are married Then IeIV till into breakfast or sup per,- whichever the case mr1 h, without mg to the usual trouble of Putting on . h sheir wraps and iihting their way t< their carriages. After all this is ove: - tho well-balanced and evenly-s01r1led li' couple drive off together. Thus every (n thing is accoimpllishd without hu.tl (It confusion, or unfniruess, and there is n< danger of the bride or the lady guestA 1\\ catching cold by exposure at the churel usdoor." o " Are there many hotel weddings ?" uIs "'3less you, yes. Miavy are not o cc the elaborate scale I have just tutlined \'l though \ro had one hero ]list week al me, which there were 400 guests, and evau ed more extensive ones take place. Somlle itd times people grt married at a hotel Ib. t' cause there is sickness in the bridle's al family. There are other instances oIf whero a wealthy groom has hesitated it "c- ask his swell friends to his sweetheart'H ny humble home. Sich a case occurred Li'. recently when a millionaire toy m:lanu sib facturer married one of his factory pirls. She w11 asnounrcd as i native of r eli small town in Massachulsett,s, but th< deception was so thin that even the em ' ployees of the Ia use aw through it. Sis was a lovely firl. "A large proportion of hotel weddings are contracted by p ople living out of lie to.W11). ''hey come to New York for the [i- tone o -'e thing, you lnow, and as th.e ed seldom have friends who keep h' -ntis on here, they resort to the big h}l,,tr. og Some of these couple1 ?re united 'n il est public parlors simply and c1i."'tl ;v, whit ali otliers are joined h)nimb)ly i in a sing) r- room. In suchi cases one of the 1ot< er pro)prietors or the manager C-r the cleri to or may 11e all of thn, aro (called i ti as witness the ccremony. .Sll h1 u edditg ti. ar usually good funl foi us, and wesome Ie times give the newly imart:ed colliple gs little dinner, and we always hiss thn li- bride.'' lv The clerk sm'iled a gentle adieu to ith ed reporter at this, point, grace fully assumllle( ho another pwstlr(l, and reslumed1 him as haughty surveillance of the porters, at [ill Hints About Canning Frnits. d '- There are various methods practicel il for preserving the fruits and horr"ie. "g which are so plenty in many stect ion,s at of this season. Mrs. George W. Ladd re Bradford, Maiss. , gives hier metlho<d o 1yj caninig fruits, for which sho was gawarded first premiuma at. the last exhaihi e- t ion5 of thea Essex Coun115ty Agricultuisra as Socl(iety, as i illows: "'As the season (II di, ipe a fruit advances, I prepare sucha quiani 15 tit ies of syrup as I think I may need, it 's- this way: Three pound1 s (If granutlten nlt sugar to 0110 gallon of waiter anad haoi as t wenty niniutes; this I puit ini glass jairs -r, when (coo1, ad set aiway for future uisa' Tii Pencahes, peasS, apples, pliumsl&, pine-aip aples, rhaubarbi, crab-lapplles, and, in fact a aill fruits (If this kinad, I peel, (quairte is a< pla5ce ill a dish of cold watter (to Ipre Is, vent discolorat ion), unt il I have prepl:s lea 0ensoughi to till a jar; I thlen pack themn a 11- solid ats possible ini a jair, and( thn IilI d;5th jar wvith th li yrnp) previously pie at 1paredl. I thena pla1ce a wire st aina inl ths ai ho(t.tom of my preservinag kit IeI, (In whiiel lhe to place the jair, thent till the lknt i as~ with col waiter iuntil ht jai tat is two - thirds covered ; leav tr- . she jar 01pen, jusst cover the ketitle an, ly boIlil unat il than fruit is sulflicienStly soIft ry have re'ady a. littlet b oilig syrutn, as nieeded, to fill LIhe jar fail to ( oIve-rIlowintp d. T1heniae the1CI a rubbe r hmsald51 asound thI 3- neick (of the jair andi( screw thle cover o ISO as tighatly as po:asib le; then ina from th re of to five inultesi give the cover asnoth< turn, ini order to be sure it is air tighs and you will have 11o mortal troubll w-th1 i. I 11se jalrs with muettallie porea ur1- For cannsing iherries anal sr-li frsui vsr Afra. JoLdd gives thle fllowinlg thire h.'' tion: "'Place the frumt ill a preservi (Ir- ket tle, and1( then addl jaust water eanois vat- to) prevenit burninig atd boil fromt fi, 's to ten nliintes- then place a weg,. II, ter aroundl( aiad uinder the jar, then-t fill II >O,- jar- with the boilinag frutit .uii seail imunil es dtiat&ly. I (10 snot use anly sligLar iit 51( openi t hem for the table. 'The preser Wfl y earlI have filled 150 jaris and htave nto b roke-n a sintgles otne. Of hers v-ay I Ii abovo method11 s *,omeiwhait. TJhen nmi 501 Object by all met hods is to hseat I I inag frusit susfaicien thy to drive out. thea air an1 ghst destroy all germs, thien seal inuneidia tel lus and1( keelp in a cool, udark pla1c." is as A HIowonUn~U NEwsPAPER lias 1)e smg pulshin so excessively plaial at.' to King Kahakaua. It tells him that. nec perh (Ito aiamng his adlvisers commands 1(1( ul)1 lie respect, thant thie public money bleing~ squiandeCred to gratify persomsu is vanaity, tIat thes public works sare shamfli ras fully neglcctedl, that the (Goveranmes miy contract system is a scauidal, anid ti utte 0on1y the remarkable prosperity of th ter ,'at1iont rstrainls the people from givin Iof venit to their opinionis. "' Let that pro aid perity have a slight cheek,"it says, "as tvo .1w ivle a~mr will dron like a pack < A ARON BURlt's LOVE LIITE'ES. What . Veternu New York F.ditor tarts to May About Thesr. In his antoijograiphy, Thurlow W'eed tells some interestinlg faets alb(iut the correspondence of Aaron Burr, wlili ho learned from Mr. Mat hew L. I ).vis, who was Burr's literir.v exeentor. Fo r nearly forty years, 1lr. 1)avi w1s the only reliable friend whom 1bur had. During his absence in Eur:e n lie eorr s sponded only with his dautightt r and Mr. )avis, the litter being the only p)ertsoun who weleomed the return of the once pol ulir-Vice President. )avis informed Mlr. Weed that Colonel Burr's first in(puiry on laniling was for Mrs. Eden, a widow lady, once happily and pro-perously situated, biut who h nd during Burr's absence supported herself and two daughitters as a laundress. Colonel Burr's first professional serviee after his return was in bringing the well uiown ejeetuenit suit, which, after two . trs df litifhtion rsulted in favor cf tht Misses Eden, who, has Mr. Pavis info led Mr. Weed Confilenltitlly, w( re the I ural daughters of Colonel Burr. Colon lurr made Mr. Davis his literar y executor, witl the iuderstanding that with the i terials beqlueatlhed to him a history of - iffe should he writtien. lho conflt -1 female corresp}ondener of Mr. iurr co .tituted a large portion of these materil , leaving Mr. 1)ivis, so far as he m1iilerst l the views of Colonel Burr, at liberty make such use of t hose lit ters as lie wit think proper. Says Mr. Weed: "The preservatio; )f such letters careftlly filed, and, wheu eif her anon ymotis or with initials, Iiving the fil name of the writer ind,rsed, was an net of treachery and basen of which happily for society, few h *lAn beills,s have been found ca 1:le. li. Colonel Burr looked upon the matter withl eyes and from a standloint still Inom unnat rral, for on the day before his n'iel with Uei'eral Hamntilton, inl a letter to his dat.ghter, Mrs. Theodosia Allen,)ie le lnea(lied, in the event of his fall,\these eonfidential letters to her, indigiting the boxes in which the'' would be fCundi and instructing her to rend them an\l to urn all such as, if inado public, wold mijure any person. As, however, I Lnm ilton instead of Burr fell, those l-tters were preserved from 1801 to 18:(, and then bse<iieathed without instruction to Mr. Davis. For two or three years he fore Colonel Burr's deathi I oce'".'-non'1i visited hii in1 eompan'; witfei Mr. Davis, :nui althonugl gei.erally reticent, he was song). times drawn inlto conversation .iout early and interesting events, al vavs in the morbid spirit of a disap l.oiinted muan. his m:mner was quiet unid subdued, and although seldom in dnlging in b itteruess of language, lie ever sp1ke al,l r :ingly of any of the .listingishued men with whom he had been associated. I frequently visited Mr. Davis while he was preparing his l fe of Burr, and had free acerss to'the 'bluo boxes' which contained the conil dential female correspondence. Th" letters were from ladies residig in New Yo1.irk, Tr(unton, N. J., Phi}9l hii, Pia., ii'ichmlond, Va., Now Jltve(l, Conin., Albany, N. Y., 'Troy, . Y., etc., and nost f then from ,itiemhlers of weJIl. known families. J"n some eIses the cor ies)ondence wls literary or llat1oni, ilt generally of t loo (lit-stionlie Suharater, In several instances the let ters ellraced n period of several years, onc1ludinlg with charges of treachery, falsehood and desertion. Mr. Davis was particularly anxious to rest( re all sueh I0t ters to the p ersolns who wrote them. Two packages were dehllver'd by Mr. i )avis personally to lades residing inl the oitv of New York. One piackage was. . t ranmsmtitt,d tol a hldy in ltichmnond, Vi., i1hr4 nigh Genieral Scott. Mr'. D avis i'airnest ly req'uiested mie tio deliveir a paiick igi' to a highly re'spe(ctablle lady with whiom I wats atc(ltiiuti'd, lbut whleni I de eliie'd flint toto delicate duty lie comn mtitted them to the' flames. It is dint to he lmemory of my otlid frien'd 1Davis that I hould say fliat, althiouighi a por1 muan, vnig upn thle wc''dyI li Iomenisationl of woe glulcus r1". '( fior h ltters wriftteni thle Lonoo. limes, his hionor and ini ti 'grit y resisted lar'ge oiffers' of compenj )'lsa iioni for Coilonel huirr'~s coi lenm 'tal ciir e:imndence. Tr.e~ late Mijor MI. Kt Noah was net only tliera in his oflirt fr mione~y, lint. imposrWatmm it his apl 'als to Mrti. IDav is. All, hoi wievr riioved( inleffetua. Mr. D )iois maide' mn ''tl of the matter by consigriug all the ftiers that hiad niit beeni rettwv,ed to tf he wr'iters to thIe flames." A Veteran Goine. Captain John Leitch, theo oilst esip. fain in service of thie Cunard com'iipany. 1(1d perhaps the oldest co)lmanidie irss ing the Atltantic,died as sea Tu'stday, ,July 2 ith. Owing to f ailing lealf hI t hei cap r :ain asked to he transferred to thle Medi . trraniean fleet, and ninie vear's ago lie Smade his last trip across, taking oneo of thet Cunard steamers with hiIiim. Since thi'n Captain Lecitch had comnmatided lie Saragossa whiiich runs fromu Livei po~ol uip the Mediterranean, IlJo was g ckhnowledlgedl to bo by far the caolest tman aboard a chip dturing the imost try iig miomenOtsi, aind was kind and conisid eraito to those umnder his conmnmnd. is careful mnanagemenit and watch finemoss earned for him thin repuitationi of - beinmg ai safe custodian of human freight, tand many persons about to cross the tAtlanutio would often wait lcngthy e eriods to sail across with the Sgenial captain. Captain Lottch was horn in Scotland, and at the time of his 1 death was about seventy years of age. hi Ie had been in the service for over fity years, and those who knew him and will read of his death will regret to learn flhat his last resting place was in the bot "tom of thle sea, lHe was buried from his own vessel, the Baragossa. IVIDP.ND TN .ENOTnAND.-Thi0 lowest Sdividend per annum among the joint Lstock banks of England is that of the Londoni and Yorkshire, wvhich paid fiye iper cent., while ont of thirteen corpora St\ons, eight paid ten per centk or more, ~'o paid en~ fiteen' pei' cent, or more Sand one, tl Irmingham; naid. twerity - per cent., a it hab during the,. past five (1 years with sent4ro regularity. Bimilar >dividends are com 9g en the (oniin 91 Emop/ TAKIN. ALL OF 'T'1E CAK A W*LL DRAWN PIUTVRR OF VWO$Y ANUD DFBAT. The Bey fse Hull (Iub ad the Welcome Ilela I it Recetve. There is probably no prouder period in the life of a boy than when he irst belongs to a base ball clu = d puts on red cap and goes with IC ub to an ldjbining town to play a match against riVal club. To a boy of twelve years Lhere is no position on earth that he would exchange for that of pitcher of iuch a club. The other day the editor >f The Sun was going into the country, d a victorious boy base ball club, that md just defeated another club, got on lie train at a station t) go home, and he pride that was visible on the faces >f the victorious boys was only equaled ,y the look of sadness on the faces of he boys belonging to the rival club svhich was at the depot to see the visi :ors off. Residents of the defeated vil age, grown persons, were at the depot, inuiliug sickly smiles at the victorious royn, as they got on the cars for the re urn home, and the same citizens looked ross at their own boys who were do eated, and as the train moved off with ho elated rod caps, the loe'%,uo caps lunk to their homes down bacn 'treets, heir heads down, anxious to get out of ight of the neighbors, who were s1 amed of them because they got beat. The dofeated town actually hat a ,loomy, forsaken look, as though t treat calamity had befalleh the comnmu ity. The local squire, who was on the lepot platform,' end who had acted as ltpire of the gamo, seemed to feel the prevailing sadness, as though he feared tis coimniunity would lay the defeat to Minl, sal make remarks about his ruling it a critical moment of the gamo, but here was a look of conscious innocence )n his face, as though ho felt that he lad done as le would bo dono by, and vas willing to suffer martyrdom if nced L)e, at the h ands of his disappointed and grieved neighbors. The 'bus driver who had brought the visitors to the depot, was also grieved, and tyhen a jpy be longing to the defea'ted club, ")t into the 'lis to ride down town, the driver said, "Here, you go out of that 'bus you aro no good," and the poor boy, who had rni his legs off, felt the shame that. comes to the limsuccessful laborer in this world, and he crawled out of the bus, the latigling stock of tihe crowd. 'ho editor of the local lper was at the lepot, and he looked ts though the de eat was a fearful blow to him, and it - iet'ed as though his next week's pal vould contain a sarcastie artiele ^ the bhrowing of the gamn tb eo umpire, xlose wife's sistv lives at the success tl town. loii how difTerent it was on the cars, vith the successful club. Citizens who, ul aecompani:uaied tihe boys to the camp if the enemy were all smiles, and made oust anot, inlquirics ats to the bruises of the ihort stop, the sprain of the first baso ain, the black eye of the catcher, which le wore proudly, and all was ihappiness. rime players who were so tired they wanted to lay down, walked up and lown the cars with hall bats, and can vats iag bases, the l iteher held the ball in his hand, and couidn't help tossingj, u) 1h top of the ear to catch it as it cate down, wilt neighbors wold look on from the otier end of the car and say, "Ilie is a daisy." The dirty, per spairmng boys were very hnaj'pp), appier than the president, or any millionaire on "arth. It, showed tt'e diffeeco between sccess and1( failure beCtter thant any small thing we ever saiw. 'lThe traini aipproachled the station where the bgoys lived, andu all was hurry. TVhey hlurried through the en' and triedi to suppress''5 the smile of satisfac tioni, or look digntilied, as though defeat mng rival ball 'dlbs was an every day oIWcurrece with them, which didl not elate thleimiat all. But whmen the train stoppeiid, antd half the N- nti was at time. (dpot to meett theI v'if e, and thtov wimo wleomiel withl a ies, and handl amkes, and m iotherts vouild plick out their bouys, who wenlt aiway ini tho morn imig so cleanl, and camto back at evening so dirty, anid kiss them, the( boy's looked as t htonsh thait was a famiiliarity they co,uldl not enlCourage', and they 'would im'l away from thle loving mothers, and get into the crowd where th'y could be chseerd hbystout. lungs, instlea'd of bseing kjissedl. Thej1 local editor of thme victori onis townl, was there with hai ,unnbrella, and1( his face was all smiles, an the. shookr h:mds with the boys as though thoe had biroutght time nmilentium back with them( inhmadl of lame.' baciks.J As thie train imoved off, atnd the vic~ torioums baise-hatl. boy3s were formed i line, to march dlowni towvn, one carr,. inlg a biroomn, as ai tokeni thlat they l "cle:aned (iut"' their rivals, anid tile , ment stanmding arounld 1amg1hing, andl a ( mog tas thIaongk thle coup .ry was safe, ml( okdtiand younig womenCl,'aOld girls. loingtt. onl hiovinigly, tand wavting handmhkerelf iefs ait tihe victorioius, happy-hearted kids, it renminde(d us oIf a re'gimnent returaning fr< m the wair. Few of those who wel com<tn d t heir victors, tho iught of thlopoor, dlefeted fellows of thte other side, who were carryinig heavy hearts abolit with thlei. It is so wvithi everything,;etvery whero. Siecess isi whatt ti Ies the cake, while failure takes the crumnbs. Boys, alIways auneeeed, if you can. buit renmemn her' th n11iext time thea othlir rond ma ty wVipe oul otit, iad thon yoa will kitow i>w it is-iyouirelve's. low They Strike in France. 'TheI city of Mt,r Jles laos beCen, dur ing the presenit na~nith , the senie of twe no(w strik(es, the motives (If which are out (If the comn i run. Oat the 6th of July about 1,300 Piedrmonte employed in tile St. Just Oil Factory left work and tried to pire.vent thaeir coiunt$ymnen in the agdlalen lFactory ikom wsdrking. Th'le main cause of 'liscontentt 'on the part of the woirk men was not th r small play-fromn 55 to 80 enrts a 'tay for twvelve hours' work-but the fy any of the companies, which keep 1 d'oors closed dulrinag working hours, a that the men are coImpllelled to buy fro the ini side canteens whait the need or break fast or lunch. Thelly 1 I r half an hour for break fast and an bumAfor lunch, a practical reducti>n of an hour and a half ia the wvorkpng day. The other strike was that ci 2,000 witers em ployed in the hotels, restaurants, (cafes, and saloons (of thme gr@i seaport. It be gan on the 12th insti it, the first demand' of the knights of thm while apron beiag the liberty to wear m noustachec. Thley refused to suf>mnit I n~ger to the custom oliging themi only to wear whiskers atnd took the grontgd that, when out of work, they were natakent for lawyers, which, so thoy said, deeply wounded their sell-Jove. "SArY George," said the married man wvhose Vife had beeni ill, "I've dig obarged thaut p1use weo had, and i'm taking her plaOomiTyself now." "Takhi l)sr phtaeS" ingnired Goor~p "Wha part of hiekwork pau yon 40 1 man ?" "Oh, I eaca i& about all" 4g ier.