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I dreame( I was married to Cousin Chawly, an< fe bought me such a lovely white satii drees. Isn't that an awfully bad sign What can be going to happen? An< he came home d-dr-drunk one night und the next morning he had on i golden armor, and the visor was studde< with diamonds, and--oh, how it di< blaze, and how magnificent he did look And I turned to admire him and tel him how much I 1-loved him, when saw lying at his feet a pair of bracelets each with a dozen bangles, and eac1 bangle a great, immense diamond 'Why, those are for you, Bessie,' h said, and, as I stopped to pick them up each diamond seemed a glittering sor pont, which was reaching up to em brace me. Then I woke, so frightened I am going to got right up and dress f I never, never can sleep again afte: 8 ,a dream." ' Mistress Bessie proceeded to pu her words into execution. Two daint, white feet, which Cinderella's slipper; might have encompassed, faced them selves upon the soft rug. A prett white hand throw back the snow; couvrietto, and Undino emerged froi the sea. Her toilet having been ar ranged to her entire satisfaction, thougl it must be said no great pains had beer taken with it, she sat down in an arm chair much too large for her, and, in i drowsy, yawning way, began to repen of her hasty conclusion to forego hoi accustomed morning nap. "Oh, dear," she yawned, "how aw fully early it is. I don't believe thero is a soul astir in the house. But tha horrid dream. Don't you know, Fred that catams of white wedding robe, and jewels are always followed by thi death of one of those to be married o: of some one near? And what if Cousii Chawly should die? He has had suel bad luck always. Everything seems t go against him," and she tied and un tied the kerchief around her neck a she talked. A long silence. "I thin] I hear Judith in the kitchen Perhaps you had better rise, Fred We can have an early breakfast if w< ih and then a ride through the parl .ezo4 you go into the city. But i anything is happening to Cousii Chawly perhaps we had better for such pleasure," she adde. voice. As . response from the bed she concluded, the occupant hai fallen asleo'p. Going to the windor she parteog' Jho curtains and gave th< shade an upward push, which sent it t< the top with a whack, much to he] astonishment, and thereby letting in r flood of radiant sunshine. She lookei very lovely as she stood there, hei slander figure enveloped in the sunnj glow. Her red-brown hair had beor coiled on the very top of her head, ani the bangs had been deftly parted ani brushed back at the sides-the whol la ing classic grace to the small well poised head. She was not think ing of.her personal ap)pearanco as she a oo&there, nor of the fine sunrise at which she scoemed to be gazing. "Oh, if ho should find out," she thounght, "it would spoil all. Only few more days and there would be n< secrets between us." So, stepping upon a chair and stretching her arm to ite greatest possible length, she graspell the cord auty drowv the shade gently down, and, closing the curtains, she softly left the room. Left thus alone "to 'sleep), perchance to dream," Mr. Frederic Mcintosh turned him upon his uneasy pillowv and sought rep)oso. With a slam of the blind lie shut out the amorous sunbeams that had lain so 1ov iDgly upon Bessie's fae, as if tc lighten and brighten her troubled sleep. Cousin Charles had been a rejected suItor of Bessie's, so he had believed, Uppn the basis of consanguinity; yet he anot positive of tilis. Heo had goe #ff to Dakota to growv up with the ~untry, they said. .Uwice in one week casie had dreamed of him 'and had been unusually excited each time. bosh I What nonsense. Yet it was father queem . they had never ceard from hiu. Comie to think about ~, Bessie had met some people fron 9akota at Waukesha. Could it lie she lad heard from him, was corresponding With him, and was keeping the guilty secret? He remembered nowv that one( 9vening ho came home unexpectedly SUnd found her in her dressing-roomr writing, and she had hastily hidden th( sheet at his approach and thought be had not noticed. Phew! What's in a dream I Never was one yet worth the acriflco of a nap after sunrise. And us he tried to throw the subject from ind or to account for it all in ai able and legitimate manner. But purpose. The imp of dark dancing jigs in the chambers - . Sleep had forsaken the at quiet room, which was 'by an ogre from dream dh 'vain efforts to court the ini determined to arise Col held Ws nothing. if not bold .the water to the th)e 'adding from a toed near on a A A ot water, and ha'6m last ob havr se and pro. .eer. for he trahizini f will cound L thme t,rcatm dyr'pepsia ai (~ "symphony in black and white," knowi , an Cousin Chawles, and done by Bessie's own hand. This fortunatel3 missed fire, but a tiny vaso containing one or two red blossoms, which had s been left upon a small writing table e directly under the picture, received th< full foi}e of the discharge, and fell in fragments upon the carpet. Stooping i to remove the effect of his bad u#rks b manship his eye caught the upturned basket, and what does he find theroi Numerous bits of torn and crumpled x paper, which revealed the address, Mr I Charles Barron; an envelope contain ing a part of the address, as the writer had not been uleased with her hand ant lact tried again. Then a lettel head commencing, "Dear Cousin Char a ly." Searching carefully through the basket he found no other trace of Bes sic's guilt, and folding these up in a small package he put them safely in ? his pocket. Ho finished his toilet care I fully and sat down by the window tc think it all out. He was quickly inter rupted by a rustle of starched muslin and the quick patter of slippered feet, and Bessie came into the room in a state of wild excitement. "Oh, Fred, there is a messenger al the door. A messenger. I saw him coming. It must b from Chawly. My dream, my dream," and down wont th, tearful face into the depths of a pillow. "If it is a messenger of death from him let us admit him with open arms, said Fred. t "Oh, how awfully cruel you are. I Chawly. would never be so cruel tc you. I think you really wish he was dead," and her tears were quickly dried in the sudden heat of passion. She looked at him with amazement. Then ] he took the small package containing the proof of her perfidy, and, rising - up in his indignation, stood confronting Sher-: "These small bits of paper tell all I want to know of you. It seems thai though cousins may not marry, therI is no reason why they may not keep up clandestine correspondence, dream of each' other, and perhaps exchange 1 visits." "A telegram." said Judith, throngb the hmalf-opon do.or. Bessie sprang foi ] for it, and, tearing opc: the envelope, read aloud: HunoN, D. T., Aug. -, 1883.-I was mar ried this 12 in. Congrats will be received. t t CHARLES BA RRON. "Oh, I am so glad," cried Bessie; and R she dar.,;ed all over the room and 3 laughed and cried alternately. r "How that horrid dream did frighten i me. It's safely over at last, but I won 1 dor why they hastened the day. But f you don't know anything about it Fred. 1 - and now I must tell you the jolliest i s secret. You know I met some ladies at Waukesha who had been to Dakota Mrs. Kimball and her two daughters. 1 . Well, I found they were acquainted 3 with Chawly, and it came out thai Chawly and M1is Lois woro engaged, f and we had such a nice time about it. 1 Well, as they were to be married on 1 keep it for one of the surprises on that day. But it was awful hard to keep. I Now that you know it, you must help r me write the letter of congratulation. I 3 have been trying, but nothing I can ) think of pleases me. What's the mat r ter, Fred, you look so queer ?" L "That's the bell. Let us go down to I breakfast," was all the conscience r stricken man could say. Clean and h appy E)utch People. [Holland Cor. St. Louis Republican.] The truthful record cannot say much ] for the taste of,the Dutch in their do mestie arcllitecture. The houses are c lofty and irregular, without lines of i beauty or advantages usually of I ca-i tion. They are very clean and are whlito with paint. Tile furnishing is grim and uncozy, b)ut it is pro en!inently whole- i some. The flower gard0zna are-models of neatness, if fosuuroloss as to arrange ment. Tho cleanliness of the people isi not only p)roverbial but is pursued to an I excess that amounts almost to a mania. One may rest assured of clean linen in Holland. The houses are wvashed in wside anid out. '.Uho chickons ar-o washed, thegoas,cows, oxen, nmules and 2 hores rowashed. Everything is scoured religiously. Vermin are consid-< ered a disgrace. A Dutch housewife on1 discovering a cobweb, wvill net only remiove it, but will scour and scald the I place where she found it and will insti- I tuto a hunt for the spider which is not I remitted until she has the inseot's f corpse under tIhe dust. Thme houses I have big gilt letter-s upon their facades 3 to express the sentiment of their own.- 1 er-s. They are all expressive of content C and full of kernels of phlilosophy of life. 1 "Lust en Rust" indicates the pleasure and repose of the owner, "Mijn Genoc jon" shows his entire satisfaction, "Mijn Lust en Loven" indicates that tile home , ihis pleasure and life, "Bunilen Zorg" e discloses that tile owner is without care J andi "Vrengdo bij Vrce" shows that he i has joy with his place. Some have 1 longer titles with fuller sentiments. The whole tone of the country life I leaves thmo impression that thme people I enjoy this life. Ilowie Knives. [New York Suni.] "Is tIhe present bowie knife the same 3 shape as tihe earlier onoe?" "There is niot much variation in the t shape of tihe real bowie. Many persons call almost any broad bladed hunting ' knifo a bowie knife. Tho real bowio I knife has a 'clip' point. There is a knife which has a spear point, and which is similar to the bowie knife in every other respect. Nine p)eopl out of ten wvill toll you that it is a bowie knife. Formerly bowie knives had blades froem ten to fifteen inches in length, and were two inches broad, and prop)ortionateiy thick. No'v tihe blades are often made as short as the inches, c and rarely are longe- than twelve inches. A five-inch bowie blade is one inch wide and a quarter of an inch thick. Tile bowie knife has a singleo edge. The point is sharp, and strong. r Tihe 'clip' extends about one-thiirdl the length of the blade, and gives the knife a wicked apearance." w ia iff ai woman 1r called "curios- C it " in a man is grandiloquentl mag n ed into the "spirit of innry. George Washington weighed 209 t ds at the close of the revolUuin wrar. 3ECOND-HAND SCHOOL BOOKS. healers Who ell to Nevw Genera tions the Books That Others Have Used. - Now York Sun.] "The traclo in second-hand school 3ooks, through a r,gont industry," said t dealer, "lias grown int4 considerable roportions, and to-day thero is not an mportant city or village in the country vhich has not its dealer in second land school books. Hero is my last atalogue and prico-list, which will give rou some idea of the magnitude of tho )nsiness." The catalogue contained a list of noro than thirty thousand text-books, nostly standard works, all listed at Ibout one-half publisher's prices. "Where do you got your books?" the reporter asked. "There are many sources. Publish :rs frequently introduce their books nto schools by taking the text-books, ilready in use and allowing something or them. We could formerly get theso )ooks for a little advance on paper lealers' prices, but many publishers iow guard against this by having chop )ing-blocks and cleavers in their estab lishments and chopping each book in wo crosswise. There is no way n which such a book can be made alable. The old plan of tearing off overs was no safeguard, since we can ecover school books of medium size for welvo cents per hundred. We got a reat many books, most of which are mused, from teachers in district ;chools, to whom they are mailed by le publishers. But of course a ma ority of the books come from the upils themselves, who are glad to part ith them, an ild school book having io value to most of them. Then we et an immense number from the smaller lealers in other parts of the coun ,ry. Our larger New York houses iave men constantly out for that pur )ose. It may be that a second-hand baler in Omaha will be the man to supply me with the particular text ,ooks I need to complete my stock. Publishers try to moot our competition 2y constantly changing their editions. But these changes react ag4in, both eachers and pupils in many schools eing opposed to the changes and ad iering to the old editions. The only ext-book, which is not much changed vith each new edition is 'Webster's 3pelling-book,'of which a million copies year are published, and which has een changed in no important respect mco it was first published in 1800. k ou can buy one of the latest edition or 5 cents, but one of the first would )o worth more than $5. Five years is he average life of a school book. fter that time the editions have so nuch changed that the book is value ess. Rules for Riding. (Bob Burdetteo In mounting, r a the near side of he horse, The near side io the sido iearest yourself. If you stand on the igilL sale of the horse, which is the vrong side, when you mount you will ace the crupper. Then everybody Will :now your name is Johan Gotlieb Erni igelfolger. If you cannot mount from hq ground, lead the horse to the fence, limb upon it, say "whoa" two or bree times. and jump over the horse's ars. You will light somewhere on his icck, and you will have plenty of time o adjust yourself while the horse is -unning away. Another method of mounting, largely )racticed by young gentlemen from tho ity, is to balance yourself on one foot m the fonco, and point the other leg at he horse, in the general direction of ,he saddle, saying ''whoa" all the time. L'he horse, after this gesture has been 'opeated a few times, backs awvay, pulls1 he alleged rider off the fence, and ~t a rapid gallop. This gives the rider, ni about ten minutes, all the exercise ic wants for a week. If by some mira be you manage to get into the saddle, xold on with both hands and say "whoa." L'ho sater the horse goes the tighter 'ou must hold on, and the louder you must "holler." If you are from New York or Phila lolphia, you will shorten the stirrups: mntil your knees are on a level with 'our chin. Then as you ride you willj ise to your feet and stand in the atti-| ude of a man peering over a fence to ook for his dog, and then suddenly all in the saddle like a man who has top)pedl on a banana peel. Tih,is is the English school. It is hard on the horse mut is considered- very graceful. A man an not wear false tooth, however, and ide ii this manner. Dlismarck's Nuperstition. [Chicago Herald.] Many distinguished persons in all gee have suffered from the influences of uperstition. Of living men, Prince hismarck is cited as an examp)le of its orce. Hie will never commence an tndertaking on Friday, nor sign any mnportant document on that day. IHa iesitated to aceplt the title of count Iccause there had been great mort'ality mong the counts in Pomerania. He is aid to have p)redicted the month, the lay.and even the hour of hisowvn death. Io is very greatly interestod in astrol gy, and has been known to commend hose whlo get their hair cut at the rano of the moon, although, as this is very common German sup)erstition, o0 is scarcely answei'able for it. A..Crlons F~lower. [Chicago Hleraldl.J D. M.. Taylor, of Indianapolis, lhas ucceeded, after fiteen years' constant fort, in p)roducing a bloum on the )am peril or Australia glory pea, a rent curiosity in the horticultural ingdom. The flower is of striking enauty, the petals forming an outline f the human face surmounted by a elmet. The leaves of the plant fold p at night like those of the sensitive lant. It grows in dry sand; the least toisturo applied to either leaves or oot being fatal. Worse and Worse. The Boston Globe thinks it time to all a halt on the An glomaniacs who o substituting English terms for the ] nmerican ntames used to designate huited S9tates money. It is bad enough< a hear a nickle called a "tuppeneeha oenny," but when it comtes t.> calling a I 5 note "a pun," it's enough to make se esarle *tretoh his ak and naaat True Dramatic Art. [Labouchero in London Truth.j Art consists in concealing art. N groat actor or actress that over live was really natural, a1 thoueh ma have pretended that they were. If girl on a stage approaches a precipit of cardboard, over which sho is to 1 hurled on to a concealed feather bet she may portray the emotion of fea but she c-mnot really fool it. If sho imploring some one to save her li1 with whom she knows that she will 1 gossiping five minutes later, she ca not herself imagino that her life is i danger. In both cases she must simi late, and she is a good or bad actre in proportion as she does this effec ively. Tragic intensity isnothing moi than the perfection of art. I remember once being bohind til scenes in a theatre while Rachel wi thrilling an audience before the curtai: When she caie off she was perfect] cool and collected. I asked her wheth< she really had felt what she had bec portraying. Her reply was to paroi the scene. That Miss Anderson inigl with advantage throw a little more i: tensity into some of her scenes is tru but to expect her really to believe th she is in the power of a savage, or th her father is about to be enslaved, simply to ask her to be a fool. "Thme 'sensibility' that TaLna sa is the basis of true acting is nothir more than a nervous organizati< which enables its possessor simulate sensibility at will. Talma w supposed to excel himself by the w in which ho pronounced the words 'l might have died.' Now, evidently, had studied how to say them, and h( to look when ho did say them; and certainly never imagined that he w actually the stern father in who mouth the words are placed; if lie h lio probably would have uttered the most ineffectively. Full allowance mn be made on the stage for what may called 'stage perspective.' Nothing more erroneous than to suppose th 'natural' acting is natural. An arti doing precisely on the stage what in like situotion would be done off'it won look\; ridiculous, except in 'tea ci comedy.'" The Wonders of the Baby Oyster. [New York Journal.] Prof. H. J. Rico, employed to atter to experiments in fish-hatching, sai addressing a reporter: "I will sho you the proboscis of an oyster, som thing rarely seen except by scientis experimentimg like myself. You st in this little bowl of water somethin that looks like a piece of thin seal with a fragment of substance to it, a the size of a lady's finger-nail; wel that's an infant oyster, about a .,4lnt old. I will now place it under the in eroscopo, and you will then discover tb proboscis." In a moment the professor had ai iusted the lens, and the reporter lookei He at once arew back tu nurror, rn grasped for the table. The professc smiled. Through the tubes of the m eroscope the reporter gazed again, int a wide sea, wherein lay a hideous moi ster, and from its indescribable hod there rose a great serpentine coil whic swayed hither and thither as if searc ing for a victim. "We aro not certain of the functior of the proboscis yet, but think tha like an elephant's trunk, it is made nE of to catch and pass the food to tli mouth. When the oyster is five mont old it loses its proboscis; that is, it absorbed and becomes part of the lips. "I have counted the pulsations of tli heart," said the professor, "and it ra fromn thirty-five to fifty a minute; the of a full-grown oyster does not beat fast. I will now showv you its tentaclea. Again the lens was adjusted and th] imonster examuince4 ai from itms de stretced away out into the sea wecm number of long arms, but withiou hands or fingers, and the monster kel stretching them out and pulling them Thme Chinese in Ore gor. [Portland Cor. B3altimnoro Aniorican.] We all made another visit ,mong tIh Chinese quarters, and found that tha Villard party had almc A depleted thiei: stock of curios, leaving for us a lot o dried meats, fish, and such uninvitinj and unsavory things. l1hce Chirmesi shops are to me great curiosities, as ar tIhe Chinamen who conduet them. Yo; often see the finest of Ch inese goods like silks and crepes and a $enor-al as sortment of the costliest arteles, mifxe( iul with a butcher shop and vegetambh store. When01 you go in to amy you art at once surrounded by ten or a dozm of the Celestials, who chatt(c like mag. p)ies, ,and seem to be enga;td in con nultation as to wh'lo you are, 5i; wvhe1 he: they will allowv you to p)ur<haso theiu goods or not. When a bargain h struckc they all seem to b< delighted, and a p)euliarly child-like fnd bland( expr1ession covers their idi tic-lookinn faces that resembles a stm1 ak of suni shine over the Snake river 4 A inswvorth station. Themy areo very hmomlest in theiu dealings, and one Chinamnan ran sib squares to give me a bundle I had left behind. _______ Taxing BachtlIors. [Cincinnati Enqhirer.] Thme colonists in America were not slow in adlopting measures of taxing bachelors, for in 1695 the local authaori Lies of Eastham, in Massachus@tts votedl that every unimarried man inthd township should kill six blackbird( or three crows yearly while lie remiaiaed ningle, and that as a penalty for iot :>boymng thme order hie should1 not et mnarried until lie had dostroyed o~ requisite number- in area. In 1850( ~ho assembly of Maryland laid a tIx >f 5 shillings a year upon all bachiolors ibove 25 years of age who were pp lessed of $500, and of 20 shillings a rear upon all bacheclor-s .and widoweb nithout children who were above tht ago andl possessed of $1,500. The 4Great Beauty of It. [Chicago Tribune.] There is a story told of the lat ?rof. Henry Smith that when ox plaimt ng some nowv discovery in the theory >f numbers to his Oxford p)upil s he 4ded the remark: "And the great >eauty of the thing is that it cannot ossibly bo of the slightest practical wse to anybow1y." A MARYLAND E8TATE. Slow the NegroeN Wero Proviled for --Their %viowauce of Food and r;lothing. : Fred ))ouglass, in his autobiography, thus dseribes the managoniont of a Maryland estate, in the times of slavery : j "Th men and tho women slaves on r Col. Lloyd's farm received as their monthly allowance of food eight pounds of pickled pork or their equivalent in ffish. The pork was often tainted and rthe fish was of the poorest quality u herrings-which would bring very little if offered for sale at any northern market. With their pork or fish they t, had one bushel of Indian meal, unbolted, , of which about 15 per cent. was fit only to feed pigs. With this one i pound of salt was given, and this was the entire monthly allowance of a full 11 grown slave, working constantly in the p open field from morning till night every day in the month except Sunday, e and living on a fraction more than a quarter of a pound of meat per day and 1 less than a peck of corn meal per week. 1 The yearly allowance of clothing con o sisted of two tow-linen shirts, such as n! the coarest crash towels are made of; at two pairs of trousers, one for summer i; and one for winter; one winter jacket, I one pair of yarn stockings, and only one pair of shoes. Tho slave's entire g apparel could not have cost more than ) $8 a year. tc "The little boys and girls were nearly as all in a state of perfect nudity. A coarse blanket, such as cover horses, 1E was their only bed. The little children l1 stuck themselves in holes and corners i about the quarters, often in the corner lI :if the hugo chimneys, with their feet in am the ashes to keep them warm. More se slaves were whipped for oversleeping na than for any other fault. Neithcr ago q nor sex found any favor. ''ho overseer . stood at the quarter-door armed with the bie stick and cowskin, ready to whip any who was a few minutes behind time. Young al mothers who worked in the field s were compelled to take their children with them, and to leave them in the ld corner of the fence to prevent loss of time in nursing them. But in the great house of Col. Lloyd the table groaned under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries, gathered with painstakin care at home and abroad. Fields ,- for d ests,. rivers and seas were made tribu d tary there. Fifteen servants waited on Ns the groaning table, some armed with e- fans to cool the heated brows of the t, alabaster ladies there. Splendid rc coaches were in the stable, besido gigs, g phmotons, barouches, sulkies at s".:,', 3. silver-mounted bn.- "ar pnu-hirty-fivo Il fine horsoe " - A lanker's Family Traveling Coach. [Chicago Timos.] A coach in which a banker of Penn sylvania is travoling with his family is described as follows: The outside has seats for three in front'and two back; d two large lamps are on each side of the front seat, and one large headlight is on the dashboard. Hero also are a clock, an ax, a knife, a pistol and other things. On the left side of the coach, near the box, is a private locker con taining viands. On top is a large willow trunk, immediately back of which the +ont, camp chairs and blankets ardtored. Undsr the back t step is a plsco for.another largo willow trunk, haging behind which is a step ladder t( Oe used by ladies when taking seats the outside of the coach. In side tl boot all kinds of cooking uten sils o packed. On the side of the coat i are willow eases for canes, um1 br,las, fishing rods and guns. Inside c .ct o roy seats facing each other, acconmmodating six persons. In the cnshions of the doors are map pockets, and on the cushioned wvalls hang a ther Imometer, a barometer, a compass, a clock, night hamp and match hox, and near the top) are racks filled with note paperC and envelopes. The vehice weighs only 1,370 p)ounds, a4 the reins arc handled by the ownner, who generally makes f om twventy-five to forty miles dlaily. Tfhe party go into campl at 12 o'clock. The horses are then picketed and the camp) lire is kinctiec. '[Cor. London Gilobo.] iAppearances are certainly not in fa vor of the view that there is any seri ous lack of discipline in the middle and elementary schools of the empire. T1' 1 judlge by the regulations, thme gvmna , iun, for instance, is quite a model ol - sticieness and p)ropriety. T1heo scholar is kept in ordler by rules from the very outset of his educational career in one of these establishments. There arc. rules regulating his attendance at church and his behavior during dlivinc services; rules showing him when lhe is to have holidays and1 when to return. from them; imdler what pr-etexts lhe may forsako his eIL . :st> with what dlili Igonce ho n.E ' ake up for time lost (luring ilh;..; rules fixing his behav ior to his teacher inl and out of school hours; and a variety of other rules ini Iculcating p)olitoness, honesty, truth. early rising, etc. Relaxation must 1)0 .indulgcd in care fall,y; amusement he cannot have at all if it can only take the foi-m of ''theatrical reprIesentations harm fulI tc the moral sentiments." Masquer-ades lie must not visit, nor must lie enter- the wine cellar, thme coffee tavern, or the confectioner's shop. He is held te cleanliness of p)ersonl and forbidmden tc smoke tob)acco or- drink spir-its. Long hair is an abomination 'with the school authorities, and if the pupil has un-i wittingly encour-aged the grotth c f a beard, ,hmo can only hope to escape punishment hby a timely visit to thme barber's shop. Ornament of all kinds. in fact, is forbidden, and so into thee same category with the "unnecessary' beard are thmrust the unnecessary ring, walking-stick, and eyeglass. Saluting the emperor when met in the street is ( provided for by a very strict regula-r tioe, the observance of which has fallen into desuetudo of late years rather owving to want of opportunity thanm lack of will. Of course thme scholar has a uniform. military itica howv to shoot, and it gives material assistance to the polico, who I Iare empowered to enforce the regula-I tions prohibiting the visits of students \to masquerade balls, wine cellars, and 1other objootionable places of rcaort . Deserted Faras in Vermont. [Rutland (Vt.) H[erald.] Vermont fairs show better butter and o Iheese, better cattle and sheep, than lihey did fortv years ago, but the farm ers' teamis do not stand for as good horse stock as they did then; thero are rower farms we suspect in Vermont; thoro are as many deserted farms and dlecayed towvns in southern Vermont LI to-day as there ever wvere in our his- T tory; at least that is the testimony given us by a very intelligent farm- Ti brcd lawyer who has rocently person-H divy visited the towns that touch eitherH side of the Green mountains, from the Massachusetts line to Addison county. In Stratton, where Webster, ini 1840, addressed the great Whig mass-meet- ~ img, the farm house whe Webster spent the night is a ruin and the farm deserted. In the woodland you meet. the ruins of the old four-foot stono 10 wall; in Somerset yeu find in the forest ti stone walls and the remains of an old gi highway; the decaying abutments 'of a former b)ridge across tho stream are all i that remain of the civilization that was on.co represented by a church., a grist gi mill and a country store. 11 Tholi woodland~ has so eneroached ai upon these deserted farms that our W friend is confident there is more wood- P land to-day in the mountain towns of fc Vermont than there has been at any h time (huring the last forty years. in W the old counties of Bennington, Wind- di ham, Windsor, and Rutland our in formant found, ho assures us, plenty of si evidence of deserted farins and decay- sl img towns along either side of the at mountain range, and these deserted f farms are not being reoccupied by any ei returning wanderer, although most of these towvns are places of much nattLral" beauty tnd attractiveness. Among" these towns are Rcadsboro, Somerset, tI Scarsburg, Sunderland, Wnrdsboro, hi yamaica, Peru, Lanagrove, Weston, ti Plymouth, Shaftsbury, Windhall, and k several mountain towns in~ nutlnd1 county. Our friend thinks that towns" touching the mountains on either side e. have beeni permanently deserted. 0 The future of Vermont, if she is to h increase henceforth largely in wealth b and p)opul ation, lies in manufactures, a not enlarged agriculture, and this is C true, not only of Vermont, but of all it New England. If the railroads would l( only give manufacturers a fair chance 0 to live, they would increase and multi- 0 p)ly. The growth of Rutland, of Bel- 5] lows Falls anid of the other -A"'" inl { . Vermont that show -' .neLgo mercasIe in ti wealth a popul ation, is due to tho I aecvelopment and growth of muanufac- ti tures. There is water p)ower enough 1 wasted mi Vermiont that, if utilizedl in tI manufactures, would add a fourth ti; a our population and wealth in twenty a' years. But, unt.il t.he rairoans stopi i rubbing out the manufacture:r with 01 their exorbitant freights, the streams til will 1>0 vexied b)y no0 new wvater-wheels wv nor the sky dimmed by any new and ai strange smokes. di We presume that deserted farins are St not so common in the northern half of et Vermont as in the southern part, b)ut of an excellent lawyer of Chittenden di county', who has a very l'u'o rarmner sI 5Ie-uitanKtIce, informns us that hope lessly mortgaged farms in his county and section of the state are very comn mnon, and the number of such mo(rt, gaged farms is something of a clue to the severity of the average farmer'sa fight for a competence in Vermont. Ci A Idfe-Long I)eba:uch71. a "No, I'mu obliged to you, I don't a~ drink," v&. lied Judge (ib'bons, of Laun caster, in. 'ho bar-room of the Girard1 huou.se. "I am (13 years old and hav'e tii never used tobacco in any form, neoverI have tasted malt or spirituous liquors, never have beeni at a horse race or o attended a circus or a. theatre." "Yours has been ani exemplary life, b judge," replhied The Tfimies man. "Well, I don't knowv that it has," oi* continued the judge, sadlhy. "I am, , 1ftor all, no better than other men ; for th thue p)ast forty-eight years I have beent tho abject slave to one ungovernable ippetito. This indulgence has gained . iuch absolute control of me that I can not exist four or five hours without t rratifying it. I resolve and re-re- m1 solvo to break it off, but I am weak very weak-and finally yield. I can "1 riot go half a (lay without it. No, I< lar-en't travel wvhore I can't obtain it. fri I[t is killing me. Twenty years ago I weighed 220 pounds. Nowv I weigh ~ 120. It is destroying my life, slowly ha 'ut surely. I shall (lie of it."d "What form does this deadly dissipa-di ion takeo?" asked the reporter, in " niazement, prepared for an appalling 3on fession. wa "Mush and milk," was tihe solemn tia and humiliating rejoinder. thm Tnoe Tragenl1es or the Nest. toi [John Blurroughs in Thle C'entury Time song birds nearly all build low; heir cradle is not upon tho tree to1). t is only birds of pr'ey that fear dan- ii ~er from belowv more than from ab)ovo of hat seek the higher branches for their WI: uests. A line five feet from the gr-ound at vould run ab)ovo more than half thio th<i esats, and one ten feet would b)ound to nero than three-fourths of them. It is j Th nly tile oriole and the woodl pewee | w lhnt, as a rule, go higher than this. I T [h crows and jays and other enemies e f the birds have learned to explor-o l his b)elt pretty thoioughly. But the eaves and protective coloring of most csts baffle them as effectually, no louibt, as thley do the p)rofessional o ologist. ______f___h Their P'etting PrAoiinsIties. tei The New York Journal has been is tal) ertaining the petting propensities of ai Inl umber of leatTing actresses, from ar< rhich it is learned that Mrs. McKee lau Ian kin's favorite is a Mexican dog, Ada nie lilman's a squirrel, Agnes Elliott's a nonkoy, Mine. Ponisi's a cat called i[ethiusalem, Agnes Booth's a parrot, klma Stuart Stanley's a. dog, given to ier in California; Ad a Dyas cultivates vhito mico, Rose Coghlan divides hmer pr Lifction between a pug and a Skye fC errier, Fanny Davenport keeps fish in em aquarin-m, Alice Harrio inclines o o numerous dogs, Ettio Henderson e lotes on ponltry, Mary Anderson has a of afssion for flowers and eurious shrubw, m.d Saralt Jewett has no pot but her (yatnes Loglo Roberta6dne fair is life, as foam bells on the wi ,x fot frail as fair, as fragile as A little while to flourish and look A a long while to molder in the gr ' * a beaut born of. flesh what, w save? ['be lion's eyo tho leopard's glossy fell ['he visionary grace of the gazelle, -- to at Itlovollet-graceful, brilliant, bravet o land has bubbles as the water has, - t.nd those are of them. Comes the mnadl hour, Loy lighten in the sun; obnes fate, they pai Aftor a little, little lease 61 wer xxllessly o'er them runs theeble graslt~ And all their monument's ah len flowe. THE MAJOR'8 8N E. ow a Famous "Three-Timei" hre"0" Averted a Military Disast (Inter Ocean "Curbstone Crayons. Tho sneeze was one of the old nod whoopeo-oo-whoop, three-t' ree order, and as the stalwart strange Lve himself up to the performanod ry much as a frisky horso would let 4, msolf loose in a kicking exploit, o hackmon and the people asnorally ,therod about in smiling enoburago ont. As the sneezer righted"hii3olf 'ter the storm, and was wiping his fab ith his handkerchief. I was eur' . -ised to see my friend, the captain, step rward with eager spryness, and hear in shout, with the joyfulness of a man lio had made a discovery, "Why, how you do, major 1" The two men clutched each other and ook each other by the hands and the toulders, and finally made me under and that they hadn't seen one another r nineteen years. The major had anged greatly, and he asked, in be ilderment, how th,o capamoa know him. By your snooze,"' was the answer. l'hero is no other sneceze like that in us country, you know. And when I ard it ring out, I remembered that mo at Guyandotto, you know, and I 2ow Major Mitchell wan before me." Then turning to me the captain said: Tlhat was our first scouting expedition irly in the war. We landed in the ening to look up some guerrillas who ad made a dash that day to the steam Dat landing. The regiment divided, id tho men went scampering over the )untry in gleeful recklessness. Soon became very dark,nnd both battalions ist their way. Moving forward in line, ic battalion came suddenly on a body troops formed to receivo thoni, with ,ir *rs out. Ncither officers nor en wore clear as to what the regula Lns called for in such a case, and thoro as a hurried, excited conference. The oops might be our own men, but they norod every cnallengo, and we know at they, like ourselves, were ready to e. There was a minute of terrible sponse, everybody excited, everybody doubt. Then suddenly there rang t from the ghostly line in the distance o major's double-shotted sneeze. It as like the ringing of a joyful knoll, id in our relief both battalions fairly Lnced as roar after roar of laughter Lceeded the sneeze. It was a narrow cape from a mistake too common then, one Union regiment ren <Li muur rous 'o su another. The major's cozo saved us, don't you. see?" Webster's Mpelling-Iook. [Magazine of American History.] Although the Webster Spelling-Book not so common in the New England id middle states as it was thirty years o, and in many places has entirely sappeared, the trade in it does not >ate. As.long ago as 1847 the claim the cover was "one million copies e annually sold," and precisely the me claim is mado by its publishers -day. But thme great bulk of the edi >n nowv, I think, goes to the south and ~st. Trho aggregdfted-sales from the ginninge of its publication down to to, amount to the astonishing number 75,000,000 million copies. The hundredth bitliy:car of a school ok, still in successful life, is not an dinary affair. But this year the ends of Webstor's Spelling-Book can lebrate that anniversary. Few among oso that are nowv happening are more >rthy of honor. liut wvhat p)leasant memories remai th those who.long ago studied Web ~r's Spelling-Book i Thelvery pages their precise form are pictured for onl indolliblo tablets. It was a great umph when the youngstudent'got to aker," for it wvas the first step awvay >m monosyllables. But ,it seemed - o a long road to him befcro ho would t to ''immateriality" and "incompre usibility." Howv or when-hoe was to it seemed incomprehensible enough mn. Those who, in boginning.to read, Lcoveredl that "She fed the old lhen," nn can hem my cap," "Fire will burn od andl coal," "A tiger will kill and a man," and ether similar facts, little )ught that in all after life nothing 3y might learn would ever seem so tching and significant. P'ueb)lo Tharashing WVIaeat. [Cor. Inter Ocean.] n one or two places the thrashing of eat was goimg on by driving a band horses around an inclosed ring into ich thme wheat had been throwvn; and other. places men wyore tossing over grain and throwing it into the air, let the wvind blow the chaff awvay. is is thme only manner of thrashing ich the Taos valley dwellers practice. o process is slow, but time does not ~er imto thme calculation of those poo Gfreat FatI ft ee Abroad. [Domorest's Monthly.] [n Paris the law forbids,the erection houses more than five stories high ot there are none of the eight ~ B tory build ings in the French c ,which are so numerousinNowYo Eanglish cities those greatedf ( orbidden on the ground that idi owner has a righmt to eKoluda gbrfrom the light and air. Legal Magneity. [Detroit Free Lreus.3 - "My son," said a Chios o faUh vo just made my wig, an 1. operty to you, wit Sm.I{$ Liter." The smart you6h rpied~ "Then o1ham pit. Ll,Qr if g'ot WaM