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4.0 !I-1 ICKENS, 8. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBE~R23184 Unmade flay. We know by the clouds to tho castw.trd It wits going to ralin that day, And there was the wholo of thio mea-1w lot All spiead with the fragrant. hay. And the elouds grow darker and larger As tho wind the tree tops ioseed, ALdrd t uwhI t+wpprkl. . 1, i )lt' 1ahofaY vas lot M y fari was a,stall and poor one, An1 0 hay cros wits till I had, And I could not tfford to hiro gpan, ,+or the U.IniOMvas du 11 npid tm . At Ant hftter' werd ioking d tcury For me that, sutntner doy, WlqI hea ia sweet voico behInd me: "I wlll hole you-got it the hay I" - ti ro tcr iolly, And soft wus thelightof her downcast eyes, Aid he blush tot ke .pphpk tbkt'g owed. b 1 0 orou in a friendly way, And there b my sIde that atternoon -If 39 p. 9 0no gt gtt9ttQ.,hy;t..; 81h0 was no fine itly foebl Tit g c ry4 p{uinp in<d whit, And e it O all dns or me, row for row, Till tho fail of thu sutnmner it iulit; And then, who we uoased our labo-i, And the hay \vns store<d awa ", From the deptits of in eart litned her - or ier,lindne to idt tt yc y, And 1 took her hono to her cottage, utIddnot p iIo sp wQo; A nbd Jo tor1 Inarriago, Which I know she thought l'd do. 1 left, herj,urcostlIloI';tttvuWiy, 13Acth thb:ral at*. tbrmownm, And frbt her look<s 1 know sho was '-119 inadd(<tF girl in tow).: --Puck. M IDNIGII'' IN A 1) EAU)-IOUSE We we<.'e sitting alone in the twiligit leisuroly ptflu'ing. at our cigars whent one of the hospit:l nurses cn1ame out and whispered to the dootor that Sailot John was "anoin.." The p:at:sing away of t mortal is :ti ovent abott wlhich there is alw:tys sonethin,g of the mys terious, aniid so we walkt'd down the long corridor..aud entered Ward 12. The nurse was right. John was "agoin." Like an alto relievo, out of WhogrumpJed;pfio-reot r V face that v:t ?Iimtt hr is rugged tittline, and even tho - pinched - nose, sunken eyes and coii issd lips did not obliterate the likentess to some of those historic busts dug up atmong 1te ruins of early Italy. A student said it looked like Seneca, and.truly there was much to recall the old philosopher in the wrin kled features. The man .in, Ied 27, restless with fever, turned over so as to face the conch of the dying man, and with wihl staring eyes watched every sinkino respiration of the olt sailor. An awkward plethorih beetle buzzed itround the gas jet in an irre';ular or. bit, its hum being the only sound to bleak tihe silence which the f~aint breath ing*,%)f the sufferer softly punctuated. 1he d c:or lifted the sheet'and felt tI. pc.se o' the patientt. "it's aboult over., .ho roanIWtked;!ld ho laid down hie 'litese tas a 1attl6 in the throat, a long-drawn sigh, as if p11 tho. sorroavs of a lifetie i\'eN rol oved as it died away, and then tho oyes opened. They looked into t(fi doctor's, and seeming to find comfort in the returning glance of compassion, thuy closed slowly. Then there was a twitching of the mus cles around the mouth, atnd in a su preme climax of vfl'urt tho lips moved andi faintly catmo forth,' ''Hard it port it is, sir." A slight tremor shook his frame, and all was over. John had re;tched harbor. Then'there was a tread of feet in the corridor and the earriers of the dead came in, and John was taken out to the 7 dead-house and laid beside other storm tossed barks that had that day found a last uooi&'r-place, whither the whole armada of htluutnity .drift at 1:ast. Tme hospital' bell -gave. on stroke to an notunce the dep:rtturo of another soul, and1( then thle nutirses hooked ov'er thc wartd book to sedt who next shotild re ceive his tdose of medicine, amnd hos pital life restiumed its qjelet etiuent. Wo0 went? back to the~ por'tico anad re sumedci our11 tigars. ''A cturiotus fellow, that,'' said the doctor; this is lhis fift'h visit here, and he knew it wotild bo his *at lIt. was alway f>eg ,incm to bo itt hiis side wheni thle endimte, anud by g ooi Iluiak Ii hnnyted here to-li i-ht. "Strange as it, may seem to yotu, this same muan wats onco at kiing. You smile, but, ncyertholess, it is true. Hie was cast away in the Pacific anid 4 ~ reached one of the small islands ott there, wherd hib liVod -anmdi becamo the ruite of a little kingdom. Hie longed for white society and abdicated and weont baclyp the sea. "'But that; is not what I wvanted to sp)eak about,'' the doctor went on, light,ing a fresh cigar. "'It's his cur ious ideas of his ability to come back from the other world. IIe has talked to me by time hotir ont this subiject until 4 1~ pult him diown as a spir'itualist of the most orthmodox king. ~Io has promised me to inake hils presenco known on the night of his nativity, June 30, and has excited my curiosity:not a littlo.'' "'If lie could only do thatt,'' said I, "'it would be the solvingo of all otir - doubts."' '"Yes,'' repliedi the dioctor, "'rio mes sago ever came from beyond t,he Styx, and gootd sailor as Join wvas, lie can not, I believe, recross that inky flood." Thedbovatio 01p1sode liappeneq in * the Charity hospital about thie middeil of May, 1869, anti time ietor spoken of *was one knowin and beloved through out time city and state. It is bt a little over a year since ho, too, crossed the Lothioan'stream, btut before his death h le told the writer the facets given be A low, speaking of them as a cturious co incidonce, and not for a mom'ont look . (hmin. a sumperstitms light. ' o was a mnanof remalrkab)lo nervd, was as bravo as Couir tie Leon anti would, be as .litt.lo daunted by the appearance of a simon-pu)tro ghost as hte would by the appr)toach of an 14d friendl. It was but a short, time boSoe histagt.ftmd wpdl.t U%tnal street was pindomnoniumm o'f soundi, andi htorns antd firecrackers wereom akng Christ mans Eve hideotus, that, sotodet it lisa office, t) o conversation tumrnedi on things s ,rnatutral. Tfhe trep)idations of youth or sp)ooks and thme fears qt 'the superstitious of older growth wYore laughed at, anti it wa:s not till after the sutbject drVifted.to hospital lifd that the doctor.exclaimhod: -''That's a fact; I don't bieliev'e I ever toltd y9u my experience in the dead hodsd of the Yiospital after Shilor Johmn's *death. ' I never cnrod about saying * anything regardino (It, for if [ have to confoBs 1t, for the 1I rst tIme in my life I was a littln wak., "X ou know tho dead-houso--t Char ity hospital and its InteriorP Well, I had had a case of aniui'T1m that puz zled all of us, and, being a young phys ician then, 1 had a natural prido in my diagnosis, which did not agree with that of the other surgeons. So I do termined that when the patient died, as he was sure to do, I would hold an autopsy myself. Well, the poor follow succumbed at-last. and, as 1 had boon busy all day, I could not got back to the hospital until 11 o'clock on the nightWf Juno 30. I remember the date well. Illuminating the inside room of the dead-house, there was but a single gas burner alight. Rigid on one of the dissecting tables was my subject, await ing ,e. .J" p eddn't tell you that, after all of my student life at the hospital, going out there alone at that time of night produced not the slightest impression upon mne. We were too used to such things to notice them. In fact, so great was my desire to provo my diag nosis correct as against that of other physicianls, I thought only of the case, and nothing else. "It was anything but a pleasant night. I may say that I cannot re meinber a more disagreeable one. A blustering iorther was blowing and a heavy rain falling. The wind moaned around the eaves of the hospital as if hundreds of sufferers were in agony, and the gurgle of water in the gutters leading to the cistern was anything but musical. Once in a while ~a ilash of lightniug threw out in relief the bodies lving on other tables awaitin< burial. Certainly it was a night of nigSits for a Visit to a dead-hetise. "Well, I tuck oil my oil-cloth coat, opene my dissectling case. and started to work. The wind stole in through cre i:c :ioi flareI the gas so that I was deltyed in my investigation con siderably. But after an hour's labor I approachd the solution of the problem over which I had so long studied. So full of anxiety was I my hand trembled, and seeing this I stopped, filled my pipe, an ; began smoking to conquer my eagerness. '"T1he face of the dead man was ashen in its lale.ess, and his flrsh was as cold as marble. Looking back at the picture now, I don't think v saw a more spectral corpso than The eyes were open, atni in the a of de:th the muscles of the mouti co-ntracted, so that in the rigor n1 Ie had a sardonic griln that was I ble in its leer. "The patter of the rain on tih was incessant, but it sounded plcr for it seemoned company to one. did not drown all other soumi niw and again above the storm cane from the female ward a w anguish fromt a poor sufferer i lirium11. "It took but a few minutes' sm to recover my steadiness of ham I resumed the work. "While bending over the bodN just at a moment when the gr deliency of operation was requi curious noise from one corner o dead-house startledI me. It w: like a foot-step, but was somewh: a shuflhing of feet. "Instinctively I looked in that tion, and noticed for the first some four or live skulls on the fl a partial state of preparation. younger students had been at preparing them for their cabinets grinnin(g faces looked as if to cli for worIing on such a night, bit I was too anxious about my c miss my opportunity. ''Applying myself again to m ject, I was soon lost in the peculi Veloplments my eye discovertd momenit, whetn I was again an by a distinct sound1( from the corr "Glancing ini that dlirection, it be confessed I was not ai lit] pInedl to see Otto of the skulls mn slowly towvard mec alotng the fIa of the floor. I rubbedi my eve looketd again. TIhtere it was--tli less sockets of the eyes gazing a theo unievent, jagged teeoth giV. gniast.l,v grin to the mlouthi. '"it 13 a little dillicult for mc I exactly wvhat wero tmy feolinigs. they were pculiar I frankly adni. fell to st udtying about the cause o)1 mot.ionl on tho part of thle sku!l examtined closely to see whether thero was a string attached studtent playing one of his p)ranlk ''Butt no. In the light I could ly (discern that thetre was n attached to this relic of hiun 'Ten whIiat, miovedi it? ''Still entgrossed with my end to solve this myistery, I ditd no ity eye-; off t his skutlI. "'Slowly, stealthily and stea, c:nne 01n direct-ly towvardsj whert sit ting otn a hiigh stool. Thio i produticed a dull, gratinig so-u some1 sIha:rp p)rotulberanes of scratched on the marble slabs. "'After it hiad advanced about feet it stopipedl. ''I latid downi my pip e, still kt Inty eyes on the unnlileasant tob)ljt ,tiled to lawt h away' the mkorbidj met'.I. that, and nowv began i to rist mi init. I whlisperedt to mlyseli much I wvould hiavo raile til *brother physician shiould Ito hat' ing of ntervotisnhess uinder sinJli: eumstances. Even the Studlents havo ret a iled the affair. as an in ld of miy efieinntiey had they kno burely therot wereO mechia Iiical to produlce these resul ts. I knern tion to I the subs)tainil. M\yn ii - phit,losophly told meit that there mt ist lho arebPt at wtork to impeh)l that grinm trag~itmnt of ai hiumain frania t9ward 1u0, )Yeb what:t force was. itP SVI dterned no to,enV\e mty seat to attep ls npectin feariin'v 1( be rewatrdedc by thet lautghter of thloso wiho wtieiieneavormig to astontishi me. Ilhtie dreary mnottono of the ra in and the.unearthly sobbing of the wvind turned my reflections to a moro sombro color, andt some things came back to oa I had reatd in Robher tJDalo Owen's Footprints on the Boundaries of Another WVorld' -- curious thiings, aunthentlcatedi by nflldavlts and all the solemmity of oaths of remalirkaiblo re visitants from the grave. WVhile dIwell log on those subjects I recalled tho many contversations I had had with my patient., now (lead andl burled some three weeks, Sailor John, and lisa er sistent asseveatns ofe possbiltie of the intellectual spirit returning to this world of the flesh. "There! The skull moved agai. On it came, still sliding along in a dl.. root lino toward me. I "Do what I would I could not shako m off a fooling of uneasiness and disquiet. h I did not like the situation-that about expressed It. 0 "E-c-c-eks," grated the skull's I bony points on the floor, the sound K tingling my nerves as when one w scratches the finger-nail on brick or F a rough surface. oe "My pulso grow more frequent. T ex- of porienced a chilly sensation down my 0 back, and a cold perspiration dampen- 0 od my forehead. ii "Around me the corpses lay, the gas- t light making thom saffron yellow. "They at least did not move. "1 could stand this strain no long r. t It was unbearable. I was becomig the victim of a weakness for whibh I would have reprimanded a child. I d felt pale, if that is nossible, for it seemed as if all my bl~ded had rushed to my heart. "With a bound I sprang toward the e skull, and stooping, grasped it with 4y hands. I lifted it from the floor P "Out jumped a large rat and ran scampering away. I cannot describo v m q feelings when I saw the cause of ' v discomfiture. At first I laughed, e and then became angry with myself a for, even for a moment, allowing such a an incident to disturb my equilibrium. I "Examining the skull I saw how it had occurred. The rat had entered the cavity in which the brain had been through the foramen magnum or aper turo tTrough which the nerve matter of the spinal column communicates with the brain. ''he skull turned over, im prisoning the body of the creature, and permitted the use of his feet only through this foramen. Ho could move the skull, but while it was on the floor he could not get his body out. "Pasted across the whitened brow was a slip of papor, and on it a stu dent's name-'inry J. Stubbs'-'-and below 'Skull of Sailor John, a King of I one of the Polynesian islands; Aied May 12, 1869. Charity Hospital.' "In an instant I remembered the day of the month. It wns June 30, the d he 10 onl f the have 'ould s n for have t elled :es of c ions. n of fee l and .und miso, led." f the vari- t king 1' 'retty s .rove- 0 cono- V r we Sspeed trips i nt is a n her h uring than 0 's of R 'ania, 9 but r it an I: 2teen I -(day. C 1 th at inick E ating 2 en a :ain- g volvo t, in 'ri- * tons -Ii over ~o to| n ired ' *onal l rato' d to a ickor r itnd e gers ' rate and i coala 1)Oed ?~ our; T' t, in im-. tI that t liemi >ver P con-. koly cean ;tslou3 Battery P'arK, "" -- - 01843, e whenC1 alteration)s were m--.ho iin the park, and the statue warsd6d at public t auction for $260. It was boug ht by I Mr. Jaques, a gatherer of rolics, and removed to South Norwalk, Conn. When Mr. Jaiques (died In 1860 the t statuo was suhi to A. D)ecora to, q New York, for $300. On Tucsdlai was again sold at auiction for' $30 to D)avid ,J. Schiff, a tobacco dealer at 278 a West One Hundred and1 Twenty-flfth j street, who will erect it in front ofL hir store as a sign.0 lr. Ernest Hart has been vi sitlu N:aphe-s atnd describes It In the BJriUti MEl (/ uarnal ais the dlirtiest, ragged e'st and mluost squalid city In Eu rop%f isi but 50.uo plersons out of a total 1n11mh ..r Of cn on , s]. How Clay Took His Defeat. 'he .,fol owin . interost pg incident as related ian oears .ngo b" Mrs. obert Todd, o Kentuoky, the step Lother of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and as never before been printed: Tho Toddi. and Clays wqeg olways intimato terms, and in 1844 were ving near each other in Lexington, y. Henry Clay and James K. Polk ore then rival candidates for the residency, the chances, as was goner ily supposed, being strongly in favor E tkgreat Whig to er. As it turnod at, howev , the cbit bI, Was much Loser than had been anticipated, and nally advices from other States showed iat the result hin d gpon the vote of ow York. Th'oo *atho telegraph in ioso days, and news had to come by ie slow course of mails. The New k inil*a5 d4iP'fexi ton about o elock In the evening a certain ay, and it was known would tell the tory of victory or defeat. As it hap oned, a young lady relative of Mr. 'lay was to be married on the same veuing,.and insisted upon his prosenceo ough under ,t rumstnces ho ould much vat e 'av' rem.ained at onib.' Mr. and Mrts. Todd attended his memorablo wedding party, which ras not large, and composed almost xclusively of the family connections nd intimato friehds-.-Mibkdent Whigs, nd of course deeply interested in the ending political event. As tha hour for t#o a al of the mail pproached Mrs. To d saw two or hroo gentlemen quietly leave the room, nd knowing .their errand watehed agerly for their return. When they aho in ejxo know by ke c pression of ach oouhtepanca that New York had ione -omoowatio, ThT bearers of the )ad tidings consulted together a mo nont in a corner, and then one of hem advanced to Mr. Clay, who was itanding in the center of a group, and tanded him a papor. Mrs. Todd, aware )f whab'it contained. fastened her eyes ipon him. He opened the paper, and, is he read the paragraph which sound. id the death-knoll of his political hopes ind life-long ambition, she saw a dis inet blue shade begin at the roots of As hair, pass slowly over his face liko i cloud, and then disappear.' Without aying a word upon the subject which nusthave monopolized all his thoughts, io laid down the paper, and, turning o a table, filled a glass with wine, and, aising it to his lips with a pleasant mile, said: "I drink to the health nd happiness of all assembled hero." letting down the glass, he -resumed he conversation as if nothing had ecurrod, and was, as usual. the life nd light of the company. But Mrs. 'odd said. that as soon as the contents f the paper were known, "a wet lanket fil1 upon everybody," and in alf an hour all the guests had depart d with heavy hearts- feoling that allant "Harry of the West' had aught his last Presideutal battle and :st the prize forever. -St. Louis Globe )cmocrat. Jones Goes On An Excursion. We met our dear old friend Jones ho morningr after the excursion and ho )oked mad. We asked him the roa Dn, and he told us he had been to the xcursion, but would be-if lie ever rent to another. He gave us the fol wing reasons: Because Maria, she's my wife, would ]sist on me oetting up at four o'clock nd holding the baby while she dressed erself. Because Maria hurried me off with ut any breakfast because she was sure re wore late for the train, made me run 11 the way to the depot with the baby 1 my arms, only to find we were a full our ahead of time. Because while raiting, for the train the baby got ramps in its stomach and it cost me fty cents to get 'em out of it. Becau~se when [ grumbled, Maria, leaning mie,said some men are just too ioan to live. Because when I 'wanted to go and et a drink Maria would insist on my iking the baby with me. Because when Tom c arneo along ith his girl, and he sawv me with the aby in my arms and the twins leaning p promiscuously against me, and the illain laug'hed, an d, p9inting to me, uid something to the girl, and she oughed, too. Because when a very important g ar ient peculiar to babies sipped dowvn [aria would insist on straightening it p before everybody and making me old the pins while sho did so. Because all the boys caught on to it ud laughed. Because when the conductor came )und (or the tickets Maria tried to rowd the twins down so 'thai they iighc only pay half fare, but tile con uctor Insisted on unraveling them out ud make me pay full fare fQr them. Because when I wanted to slip away see a fellow Afaria Would in ast on ipping with me, and when I pniidly bjected she began to cry, and said it 'as just like me. Because I hdd to stand in the cars uo wh,ole way home and most of the me hold the baby. Because I hate excursions.-- Winni. eg Siftings. "Johnnyl" Qriea a mother to her oy, whlo 'was y'cllingo with the peculiar itensity of a small boy with the thirot to wide op)en. ''Oh, J~ohnmny! I' 'Yes, a'aim." "For heaven's sake what are ou yelling at that way?"' "Ma'am?'' 'I suid what are you yelling at?'' ''I'm olhing at the top of my voice.I bought you kniowed."'---Mrcha'nt T1rav icr. Mr Pimnpertonm. who hias accompanied he family of his naianiced to Long tranch, stands on thte beach contem lating ber as she emerges from tho illows. 'Groat haanVus, Mary! Is atyou? You never relnindied in so mch .f sug~ar *ts yeu dto eiow" "Be ause I look swvecter thanm ever?" she sked, uncbly. 9$; because one-half f you aJpoars to have b)een (dissolved Mioden ernterprise far surpasses that t ti,e palmy'days #f anclopt Babylon. merican showmnen are now exhibIt ig threo separate and distinct skohotens ! Guiteau--his skeleton whenm he wasi boy, his skeleton wvhen lhe shot Gar-| sld, and his skeleton after ho was snged. -The man who secures the colotonm of his ,host will make a for me...... 1"v. OU.,w(d Chimneys. Two gentlemen wore walking through the manufacturing district along the North river above Fourteenth street the other day, when their atten tion was called to a tall brick chimney of an unused factory. Tho chimney was more than 150 in height and stood apart from the building to which it was connected by an iron flue about six foot from the ground, but the fluo had boon taken away. Under the hole where the flub entered the chimney was a pilo of brick and stone. The hole itself was apparently open, but a sec ond look showed that heavy coffee sacking hung over it on the inside of the chimney wall, which seemed to be about twenty inches thick. When the men first looked at it a boy of 13 years was climbing through the hole into the chimney. "The boys have a den in there, I presume," said the elder of the two men. "It is warm and dry and very like the caves they read about in their dimo stories, 'black as a wolf's mouth,' you know." "Don't the light shine in at the top of the chimney?" inquired the young man. "Yes, but it does not reach them. Let me tell you something about chin noys. That pile of brick is twenty feet square, and whero that boy went in it is 20 inches thick. Then conies a space that is more than three feet across and then a twelve inch wall - surrounds ia flue that is about seven feet on a side. That vacant space between the inner and the outer walls makes a fine cave for the boys. The chimnev is ,hick for its size. 'horo is one in Lawrence, Mass., 234 feet high, and is no larger on the base than this one. Down town near the North river ferries is the larg est chimney in the world. Tho inside of the flue is 27 foot 10 inches long by foot 4 inches wide. It is 221 foot high. It takes the smoke from four tiers of boilers, 32 in all, in which 1,000 tons of coal are burned in a (lay. "There are some very queer chim neys in the world. I have road of one in a Mexican factory which was made of sun dried bricks that were ten inches long and seven wide, and three thick. There is a chimney in Pennsylvania that is made of old iron rails that does good service. Queer, isn't it?" "Yes," said the young man. "The house that Christine 'ilsson was born in was made of unhown logs piled up with mud chinked into the cracks. The chimney is said to be of wood also. Long flat pieces were split out of the logs and laid up as were the logs of the house, but into the shape of a fireplace, tavering ol' into a flue where smaller sticks were used. Inside of the fire placo a wall of round stones was piled up and thickly plastered with mud, as was the inside of the wooden flue above. When, as occasionally happened, the mud fell off, her father climbed up in side and plastered more on. Whether that chimney was mado so or not, plenty of others are in the West and SOuth.'' "Speaking about firopiaces," said the older man, "reminds me of a very sin gular place where they were formerly used. One hundred and fifty years ago stoves wero unknown. The fishing smacks that sailed out of Gloucester in those days were small afi'irs of from twenty to forty tons, but they had to carry a fire, of course. In the fore cuddy they built a brick fireplace, with a brick flue running up through the dock. I never heard that any of themr burned, either, though the back log must have been well shaken utp when they got into a chop sea on the George's bank. The Willow, the Blaney, and the Squirrel were 'pinkerys' whlenx thiey fitted out in that wa:y between 1720 andt 1730. Tradition says that the ilues were good p)laces to smoke herring, and that the fishermen wecre aibou' as badly smokged in the enxddy as the her ring wecro in the flue.- N. Y. Hun. A BeofuddliocI Gr'oom. A verdant looking couple, evidently from the far interior, called at the City Clerk's ofice the other day, ev idently 'on a delicate errand. It was qjuite easy to see from the lentiful whito ribbons that bedecked the bonnet of tho girl, and the white gloves in which her hands wvero encased, thant she was a prospective bride. The youno man was very bashful, and, nlotwitlistand.. Ing several nudges and( whispered promptings from h is ladiy lOVo,hle couild not muster up1 courage to state his er rand. But the genxial clerk helped him over his dileinma, and asked: "D)o you wish a marriage license?" "WV (do,"' resp1ondedQ( the miaideni. The necessary blankc forms were pro duced, and the clerk asked the usual questions concerning the geneal>gy' pad family hjstory of the candidates for matrinony. TIhxo young man, not equal to this ordeal, slipped away to a seat i thme ("orner, while the bride-to be gavo t he requiredl information. "Thie maiden name of the groomx' s mother?'" queried the clerk. This wvas too much.. She was not "up")' in the intricacies of the faraily history of her intended husband. "'Samwvell ! Samuwell!'' she called. "What was your mother's maiden name?" ''flow shold I know anything about it?'" resp)ondied SamwellI. "'She dlied a great many years before I wa:s born1."' -Boston P ost. The nunmber' of shocks in an earth-l quake varies indefinitely, as does the length of intervals b)etween thxemi. Sometimes thu whole earthquake only lasts a few seconds. Thus, tihe city of Carac'ons nw d~(ostroyedl ini about hlxxf a minu .e, 100,000s lives being lost in that time. Lisbon was overthrownx in five or six innutes, whlilIe a success1in of shocks many conxtinujo for hours, (lays, weeks or month s. TIhe CaliIa brian eart b-l quake, wvh ich begun in F"ebruaxry, 1783, continued through IL series of shocks for nearly four years, unxtil (lhe end of 1786. The area shaken b)y an1 earthi quake varies with the intensity of the shock, from a mere local tract, where a silenxt trembling is experienced, up to such catastrophes us .that at sis bon, which convulsed not only thme l'or'tu latid on the oue hand and into A frica en tihe other, agitated lamkcs, rivers and springs in Great Britain, amid catised Loch Lo)mondh to rise andl subside with startlinry suddeirnes A Woman's Fault. They were lovers. All the romance and sentiment of the world was theirs. There is something unfathomable In this thing called love. It tyrannizes over body and soul as no other fooling can. It creates happiness from the greatest sorrow, light from the deepest darkness. Through her tears as they parted shone such a light of love that ho al most dared call her wife. She knew that she was loved in return, and that knowledge created a faith in her heart which was to endure oven to the gates of Heaven and beyond. "In a year!" ho whispered as ho left her. And sho answered: "1 will wait a year-a lifetime!" When a year had passed and no word came from him they tried to shako her faith by creating doubts. Mien had no constancy, they sneered men would wring a woman's heart and have no pity. 'Tears cate to her brown eyes. but again she answered: ''lie will come back to me!" When the one year had become five the old sailors in the taverns and lofts shook their heads and said to each other that the ship had surely been lost and that her young captain would never bo heard of more. Wives felt a pity for the heart longing and waiting through such uncertainty, and they wtisp)ered that it would be no sin to love again. "1 shall seo him again-ho will surely return!" was the answer of Faith, with her sorrowful face and aching heart. Thto five years becano ten. The brown hair was streaked with gray, and the girl's fair face had become the face of ai woman who carries asobbing, waihing misery in her heart. Men showed their cruelty by seeking to awalken i new love; women exhibited their bitterness of heart towards their own sex by ridiculing her faith. But the light of a never-dying hcroism burned in her eyes as she answered them: "lo gave 1110 his, promnise-I am watching for his ship!" And the ten year:; becamo twenty. Mlen and won'i Ii:1l gone to their last rest ontil senrcely oet( w:a left who re meinbored when the los, shtit sailed or who was her captain. Biut thero were children who h:l heard the story, and fts they sioothed down the gray hairs with their soft hiands they whispered: "It is so s:at! And he was lost at sen?" "-Lost!" she answered. "Aye! even thoiih the whole worli told me so I shonlbl wait ani watch for him!" And the twenty years became thirty. On. night wiheni the storm-vexed sea lashed the shore in fury and men utter ed brief prayers to (Ot't -.s they turned their fa:'es ilpoii the snips niakinlg a brave light for life, Faith 13 dying. lhe end had comie. A hiunan heart, trttbiled aid bruised and acarrod by waiting in vain-by hoping, to bo ever disappoited-was about to be stilled. For a mnoineint tihe storm lulled, just as a ma i draws a long breath before dash ing iiito soie great peril. As it screamed and roared again in its ven go:ico Faith lifted her thin hand and whispered: 111e is coming back to ie! I shall see hiin again and hear his voice once more!'' Thio il so iovOd nearer and wlis peroil kind words, but Faith waved her aside and cried out: '')o not como between us! I hear his footsteps-he is here! I loved him, and my reward has coie at, last! Let me casp his iaind- -let, o look into his eyes!" And agalill thie stormi lulled, urntil the galo d ied to sobs~ ani I whlispers, and tilo rear of the siurf sounided miles away. Biefore the futry galtheredI itself for a fresh attack two'( spirits p)assedl out of the 011d house handt ini handii and1 wvcro af:ir on the path to l leaveni. She had listeiied, ami1' his footfalls htad at last echoed iniI hei earts. She had1( watched3(, and her gIlazed eyes had at. last been oladdened.i Shze hiad waited, and( ho Cnd iimI to be with hier through the perils oif the dark valley. Your (w sivsteri ma SOmI(en as' M:u lyv young 0 tn arc always very reay onceplt inivitationis to other pe's hiomie cir'es. They~ iare very mu'(l ch oe aittenttive to o(ther people's sisters than1 thliir owni! A -young 1man1 shouIldl be fomioil in his hiome, and spend suittiienit timi) thieie for his in tGuee to tell upor0 lie family and for him to cultivate manly disp)ositions t hat, will be at lessing to) huim in years to con'iie. AlI:u y youn menJb- are like crows theuy comu~ eoac to their nests to roost, cnd at the dawn of dayv thtey hiaste to youri b)rains ini aniybody's complany whencu yen ouight to he in yotur family ciroh-, ini the house of your father and1 moether. I think it is a duity aund obli gaion thiiat yout sh ould be attetIive to tbe rIoluiremn(its andiu needs of your sister3. Wh ly not somtiimes take y our sister (out?P take hter for a walk? Why nt 1somnet ies Inake hiet to a concert? Whyi ntut someet imies brinzg home pres ents nud give themu to l'vr? Why, when you1 (come hiomet, shiouihl you he stillen, and silentl and10( morosce, as though somo body had1( been t read inig on your corns all day. Why not come home and tell thioset wh lihiave beeni shiuit up all dlay somii of the iniicietso that have hap) peineid durinig the dlay, and1 lie bright, tiuih merry andii cheerful, anud so con tr-ibuoto your1 shiaro to the fiamily joy :and4 yon will have it all eack agaitn tn A:ow:i:ii is)4ay is i'O longer pro veewh," '-s Eidgar 'Yawoott, the niovezis:. "People (Zm's to us fronm European ou a:s :.i( ld arvel at tIle scale of min i:lleence on which our revelries are confdte~d. We are foreign an 0( nitative only in our snob hery. .eul -might 1 add-u ot;r immor ality." - A colored childl hud- aw falls from a secomd stoky window th< .othoe day, anId his mother in relaing theQ Incident at the grocery store said': "Doro (dat cild( wvas a-comni' don'i feet fest, wid every chance of bimng killed, when the a.wd Ho turnedd him- over, the child struck 01n his hiead, and there wasn't so mntch 11. 11 l,,t-OI o" WIT AND Mi.J, When you go flahi g whse th mosquitoos are the io eet TtIo never be troubled to get a bite. "Called Back" is the title of a new meloudrama. It Is probably a sequel to "Forgot to pay for hisdrink." A Montana girl has been kidnapped by a bear. Sho probably got one _ug from the animal and followed It of A Burlington girl has a diary devoted entirely to notfug down the visits of her beaux. She calls it her court docket. As they passed a gentleman whose' optics wore terribly on the bias, little Dot. murmured: "Ma, he's got one eye that non't go." VVassar College girls are not allowed to receivo calls from men, but we be lieve there is no objection made to wo men, children and dudes. "The pootiest woman In all Bpstoa," said Micky Muldoon on his retuM from the Hub to his home in Kensingfon, "lives in Philadelphia." The fly to be almost invariably found in the restaurant bowl of turtle soup is not supposed to have been placed there as seasoning by the cook, but to be a genuine case of accidental drowning. At great heights, Pq;"ziar Science Aonthly says, dogs lose their power of barkmng. It is a fine scheme the1, to keep your dog in the garret, or tio him up to the swaying limb of a tall and lonely tree. "Did you water the whisky in that barrel of common yet this morning?" asked the grocery man of his boy. '-Ne sir; 1 put a bucketful in it Saturday." "Oh, well, that's all evaporated by this time. P'ut in another bucketful.' "No, she is not what you would call a pretty girl," said a young man to his companion, "but she is beautiful to me because she has a lovely soul." . "I never thought to look at her feet," said the other. "Perhaps you are right." It is said that an applicant for the vacancy in the state board of fish com missioners based his qualifications for the position on the fact that he sold salt mackerel and codfish for fifteen years. He was certainly more familiar with the duties of the ofilee than the average member of a board of ish commissioners, and should have been appointed by the governor. Big feet are now the proper caper and the larger a man or woman's feet are the more fashionable they are. Looking reflectively at ours as they re Po in all their native grandeur up on top of the desk, we are satisfied that we will never be compelled to pad them out to make them conform to the rules of fashion. Wo will be able to lead the giddy throng in this city.-Evansille Argus. "Wife and I quarrel awfully!" said a Burlington man confidentially to a riend. "I am very sorry." was thq reply. "Now nr wife and I'have been married eight years and not a single unploasant word has passed between us. ' "How can that be possibleP" was the astonished exclamation. "Oh, my wife lives with her father's folks in San Francisco."--Burlinglon Free Press. "I hear you intod to send your two sons to college?" said Alpha to O>noga. "Yes," replhed Omega; "I have en tered them at X - college." "Why, gracious man!" almost shrieked Alpha; 'you might as well throw your money away! X- collego is only a fourth class institution. "it has never won a boat race in the whole course of its ex ,tence, and cannot boast of a base ball nine!" Theebawv, King of Burmah, became seized with an irresistible impulse, the other day, to marry. The fact that his wife was living didn't prove much of an obstacle in the way of the fulfill momnt of his desires. lie poisoned the Queen and her mother and married the Queen's sister. He said said that was cheaper than a Chicago divoree, and dioosn't leave him with a mother-in law on his hands to foment trouble. How his new wife must love him! Norr'istown Herald. The Medical Summary recommends the external application of buttermilk to ladies who are marred with freckfes. There is a woman In this city who wvould require about fourteen churn Ings a day for about forty years for th-.... successful removal of the freckles on ber person. She is so freckled that a man who found her g athering black berries shot at her, believing her (o be in escaped leopard, but the bullet itruck a modest little freckle on 'her ioso and glanced off, killing a cowr in ,neigh boring p)asture.--Boston Coutier. Jim Kee, a Philadelphia washerman, ut In a tough year of it with. an I~sh >ridoe, llridhget McNulty by name. ~hn he fled from him, after rollingj u dry reeds bills aggregating 49 cents. Jim (eo hasn't taken to whiskey, or done m~ything equally rash, but -he has, In. totd a notice in the papers th~at hi. vifo must not bo trusted on his 'ao 3ount, adding,. in a foot-note, theI re luest that all who see the same will iave their shirts washed at 1117 Ridge Lvenue. Thus does the moon-eyed ifongolian imp rove oxn the methods of ho haughty Caucaslan.--Bugalo Ez ress. On Sunday afternoon the storm raged uriously and heaven's.artillery flashed >f ten to the ,consternation of mapy a voman. After thie storm had obased 5aroy Robertg, colored, Went to the itablo to feed his mule.' Re saw the nule standing on its fore, feet and rest. ng on itsbhaunches, as if in the set of ising, and said: "BIl,[]e u. 'uRt Bill1 listened not to his *ds.' Sup. posing the mule was too laasy to rise so shook Bill's head, but there no~st movement on Bll's part, ltIs tail wvas twisted in vain--Bill wd The lightning had killed tte the act of rising, and ther'e, stdtf4Sm it stood on its fore foet. Billhasslw his last furrow and now, aoWqE ite with poor rchy1 * Thei authorities 6f'Norlitre' t9nlg tile pavenments for.the'qtreefse, The tiles are molded int biQoks.7,4 ,Iphes square and 8,9 in0 J.io th1ok. pd gy pirognatedi ' With bitumiieu' ragt upi to 20 per cenit oftei ous. Teo are laid on Goncrete .sa ibah filled wih t *ottar. 0