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r r 4 VOL, Xl' 13ereft. rouch with thy virgin lip theso flowers,',. twino Thom in thy hair and lay them on t.. breast. Among them thou wilt weave this heart of mine, And near thine own it lovingly miy rest. Thus, for an hour, my bliss shal be supreme: And, dreaming in thy smile, I may forgot That as these flowers fade so ends my dream, So fades my hope, and thou hast no regret.' Ye blossoms purel return her stainless kiss; f Your fragrant breath give to her sweeter si g h; Her haughty soul entrance till radiant bliss Reveals the love-look in her joyful eyes. o cruol maid! cold art thou as one dead I With whom my lovo eternal lioth urned. Thou vanished start whose light my spirit. Dpt not a spark of all Its warmth returned.j Seone day, perobance, in dreams thou wilt red~ call A sweet remembrance of ny love and we.: And say, "I was his queen and ho my tbrall.: My knightly lover in the long ago.' These parting flowers-then but a faded: wreath The emblem of my withored heart will bot Their 1erfutne and its passion lost in death. Gone like the visions I have dreamed of. thee. FOR IllS COUNTRY. They wondered, in that quiet little country village,, how Edward Dorranco could leave his family and go straight forward into the midst of deadly bat tie, and they wondered how Rachel could lot him go. Edward was twenty-oight years of age; a strong, healthy, intelligent, handsome man; a hatter by trade, with steady work, and sure of good wages. His wife, Rachel, was two years youngor; and everything as a woman that her husband was as a man. Before her marriago she had been the life of the social circle in which sho moved; no gathering for healthful amusement could be thought perfect that had not her for one of its directors. And their marriago did not remove them from society. Of course, they found not so much time to devote to lightor affairs; but the more weighty affairs-especially everything that had to do with the re ligious society with which they wor shipped-never suffered because of their absence. Their union had been blessed with two children-a boy and a girl-Eddie, aged five, and little Ella, aged three rwo beautiful, bright-facee goldon haired, laughter-loving children, be loved by all. The war had been going on a year when Edward Dorranco had fully como to the conclusion that ho ou,<ht to. go. He was a man of deep and strong con victions, and when his mind hadi been once-made up, nothing less than a stroke of Providence could turn him from it. "Rachel," ho said to his wife, as they sat alone lato in the evening, "suppose [ should live to be an old man, what shall I tell my children, and my grandchildron,when they gather around, and ask me to tell them the story of a battle? If I should tell them that I stayed at home, while others did the lighting, what should I give as my reason?P Ah, they would K'ot ask. They would shrink away, shamefaced and pitiful; and I can fancy their saying to themselves: "P1oor gr'andp~a! I won't ask him what made him afraid.' D)arling, think htow I have talked during the past year; how I have uirged others to enlist; and howv I have proclaimed the sacredness of our1 cause. And no0w, my pIrecious, I am offered a comp)any, if 1 will go. Charles Weston, and George Ambrose, and WVplter Jacobs are going-all mar ried, and two of them have children. Rachel, what say you?" 'First, Edward, tell me y'our own deepest, wish.". "Can yogeriously ask? I think I should ntever hold up my heaud atgain if I should hold( back.' a~.chel swvallow'ed the bigZ lump in her throat; she kept back the rising tears, anid finually, withI her' arms arotund his nteck, atnd her' hiead pil lowed upon01 his bosom, she htoars'l v whis poCred: ' "Darling. I will not be a cowvard. Go, and may thto God of battlcs be0 merciful.'' In just one week from that time Ed wardl Dorrance was in full ulniforml, witht his cap)tain's commuission in his p)ocket. People gazed in sulrpr'ise. It senmed to thenm strange andl unnatural, iIe .was so necessary to thte life of the vil lage, andl his little family was such a picture of comfort and happiness. * What nteedl was there? There wecre enouigh withiout him. hlow could Rachel endunre it? IIow they pitiedl her! htow thev p)itiedl her! But lie was going, and Ratchoel 5d@edI whien she last htold hiis hand and( ohceeHly bade him Godspeed. . They saw all that, but, they did not -see her aftet'wards, alone in the chamt beo', uipon hetr bended knees by her bed sidle, sobbing and praying, ad weep ing, as thtough her heart was b)reaking. Ah, they would have pitied her' then had thtoy seen, and they would have pltiedl with cause. But she rose btravely after a time, andI when the fir'st, ordeal was passed0( 81h0 resumed her' hiousehold dluties, and( soulght relief from painful thtought by mingling in society, and givinig her aid whterever it, cotuld be of bentefit as of old. At length came word of a battle ill whicht she know her' husband's reg-i mtont wyis engaged. She hastened for tho ne~wspapor', eager for the true int telligonce. That harm had befallen Edward did not cnter lior mind. Shte found tao paper andI carried it htomte. Littlo Eddiou was old enotugh to understand and p)os5sssd unid'erstanid ing pnlought to be anxious for news o'f p apn. ''Oh, Eddie! Eddie! Papa is at ma-. jor! Thero has been a great b)attle. 2isten: 'Captain Edward 1)orrance, b his own personal bravory, and marve 1 louts daring, savedI lun rorman's D)ivi sion from rout, and so, in fact, saved the day for us.' And hero Is thie last linc: 'lie was muade a major on the field.' Alaisi howv many brave mtont fell,'' "But papa is safe?'' "Yes, papa is safe." ")h, I ant so glald I D)o youl think, mi hma, that, lie will be0 safe alwvays?"' What a pang shot thirough her hieart as the eager boy asked the childisht question, She could net answer, .i' to weeks and theo months >)assod C.. prot , "My joy. Ant. must find inisui have been promoted.' colonel of my regimont, of the very best in the art. am proud to know that I have of having done much towards br. It to its present high standard of collenco. Colonel Tapley died last week in hospital at Harrisburg. ' Oh, how I pity his family!" The days and the weeks passed on into history, as before, until at length the very air quaked with rumors of a battle more terrible in its results of mortality than any which had preceded it. Rachel hoard the rumors in the air, as she sat in her quiet little drawing room, but she did not, as before, hasten away for the paper. Something whis pered to her of dark and dismal fore bodings. She felt as she had never felt before. Heretofore she had been cager to as sure herself of her husband's safety, but now the feeling came to her that she did not dare to know. But little Eddie was moved by no such dark foreboding. When he heard them talking of a great battle, in which he know his papa must have taken a part, ho ran away to the post-oflico where there was a stand for the sale of papers and per iodieals, and ho got a paper, tellinn lie mian, ''Mamnia will pay you for it. And away he went to his home. "Mamma! M lmma! Another big bat tle. Read to us about papa.'' With trembling hands, she took the sheet, and opened it. She saw the wilderness of flaming head lines, and she allowed her eyes to follow them down. A few seconds, and then, with a low stilled cry, and a catchin, of her hand over her heart, she let the paper fall and sank senseless upon the floor. Eddie caught up the sheet, and looked where his mother's eye had i rested. He had learned to read easy words, and those bold head-lines he could make out, every one. Presently, two-thirds of the way down, he found it. "Colonel Edward )orranee among the killed." - 1' For days and weeks Rachel Dorranco lay hovering between life and death. But for her children, she would have given up and passed over to join her husband; but the thought of her little ones left all alone to battle for their weak young lives turned the scale, and she lived. When the warm springtime had come again, and the birds sang in the groat trees near her door, her eyes brighten ed, her face took on something of its old color, and she wvent once more about the duties of a mother. But she wvas broken in snirit; marks of age had come upon01 her lovely face, and the smiles weroe gone to return no more-so she felt in heri heart of hearts. She had thought at first that she should never care muoro for life, but as time passed on, andl the first terrible agony gave place to settled melancholy, and hat inturn, to true Christian res ignation, based upon Christian faith andl promise--after this, she entered society oneo more, giving herself, with every eniergy of body and( spirit, to the work of caring for other widowvs and orphlans more unfortunate thani her seif, for ther husband had owned the neat prietty cottage in which they had lived, besides nearly two acres of land around it, and Edward had left nearly five hundred pounds iln the bank when he went away. Nor was thiis all. She had net a nav ticle of trouble in obtaining a generous pension; in addition to whichl she es tablishied herself as a teacher of music, whence, in thle course of a few months, she derived enough to support herself and children; so that .when, as the value of real estate greatly increased in thle village, a wvealthiy man off'ered lier a large sumi foir a portion of her land. shed would not sell. She had 1no neced of tihe mlonley, and since her son's father had let t it, to that soa should it deCscend inltact whleni she hiad done with it. Mauny of the soldiers-beth officers aund privates-of hier husband's regi mien t callhd uipon tier; and they niever tired of soundling his praises. Tholl ad jultant of thi' regiment-ho wvho was Adjutant, at, the Limle of the battle catlled, anld gave ther more p)art.iculars lium she hlad before received; for lie had beenm with thin advancing column, Said lhe: '\Vo should ha:ve had the body em bahnied andu senlt hionie, hnad the thing beeni possible; 1)u1t lie wvas killed b)y the~ buiirstiln. of a shetl--one of thle largest andi' mlost, dtestrulctive shells 1 over sauw. \ewere lined- to-hmandl with the onlomy) at, the timue, anld 1 am very sure that thle sameU mi ssiile thoat killed the colonel, killed more tha :n one( of thi r own numn bor. lie wvas- - liut, I will not tell you aliy more. "YsVes -- tell imio al1. I wvoubd r:ather knowv. I have wond(ered why hiis body coil d lnt hiave been embat):lmed anid snlt, thomelu to mei." Andi the h iCiio told hier lthat th le shell h:i tli te ratlly11 ti er husband to pieces. Thely couh i onlly gather up~ the poor man: lgled maliss anud (conlsign it to a grave by it self, w hichet they had carefully iThe days and tihe wooks anid the hand 2lone sIice tha:t dtreadtful dayL oin whiiicth heri tiusbandu had1( fallen on the fild of baittle, andi, liachiel sat in tier side, readiting to thlemii the glorious no.vs of the closing of the wair. Eddt iaud no0w growni to tbn a stouit robust boy of eigtht years, whtilo little Ella had1( roiuded out into au beauitifLul rosy-chioeked miss of six years. Theiiy were blessed clihidren, and a blessing to their mothter. "Oii, If Edward coul only have lived to se(e thieii thusi!"' lIow ofteni the cry weont up from lhor heart. 'iTie lamnps hadiu been Iilihtod, and( mother and chiild ren sat, by the center table, she with the da:y's paperC in tier hand, when the dloor-bell wvas rung. Sinen he ha such excllnt ....-ds -utterly U. garb, appeareu pleasant, honest eu Somethinz in his looi. ...... her woman's sympathy. and captured her at once. She led him into the room whero they had been sitting, and motioned lrim to : seat. Iis head was of goodly shape, thou(h covetredl by a thick mat of close-curlinlg wool, while his face, by far the greater part of it-was like wise ornamented. She had never seen a woollr beard so thick andt so heavy. "Ai,'' he said, s'cwly shaking his head, --dey tolo ue 'f I could finl nas'r colonel's widder I'd find friends, suah. Yaas'm 1 wer' de colonel's cook. Didn't he ebbuer wri:e to yer 'bout old Pompeyo Oh, wo lost a good man when he fl.!" Rachel wiped heor eyes and presently asked the poor mlani if he was hungry. He answered her tim-t he could not tell how hungry he rca:'ly was; whereupon she got up and went out into the kit chen; and as she opened the door load ing to the hall, the old dog, Prin.-e. a beautiful English spaniel which Ed ward Dorrance had purchased as a. pup when his son was born, eight years be fore, came boundino into the room. He saw the negro soldier, gave a sharp snapping yelp, and Eddie called to him to "lie down." But the dog did not obey. He drew nearer to the stranger, and prosently with a cry that was almost human-a cry of joy and jubilation-a cry not to be mistaken-he leaped upon the man, fairly clasping his forelegs or arms round his neck, lapping, and kissing, and panting and struggling to get nearer and nearer, like one possessed. Eddie stamped his foot and shouted with a vigor of authority that ought to have quieted the brute at once; little Ella cried with a terrible fear that old Prince would eat the poor black man up; while Rachel, having heard the frightful racket, had come in from the kitchen to see what in the world the matter could be. She knew that old Prince was a fastidious dog, and per laps l was trying to eject the dark ikinne : invader. As Rac!hel stepped across the thresh Ad into the parlor a wonderful thing Itappenled. lhO dog. in his frantic OF_ forts to get at the face of the strange vuost, had got his paws entangled In .ho matted wool, and presently--Io and eh -the whole wvoolly mass--from iend, cheeks, and lips-came atway. caving exposed to view a wealth ~of olden-browvn, curling, glossy locks; hieks white andI smiooth, with only a bently-trimmhed, hrandsomie moustache 11pon the upper lip); and the first thing rhe heard was a startling cry from Ed ie: "'Oh, papa, p)apa, papai! You are my )apa! You are! you are!" And then Rachel saw a pair of strong irms fly swiftly around her boy; saw uim drawn close upon the soldier's aos.om, and heard smothered sounds of rissing and blessing. 'iho next fewv minutes we wvill leave :o ;he reader' s imagination. It was [Mwi~ard Dorrance, in his own proper )orson, alive and well. "'Pardon imie, darling," he said, after ie had wamshred his face-a face as fair lndl as handsome as ever-Rachel ,hought it a thousand time handsomer --"pjardon me. I (lid not assume this lisguise in sport-far from it. I shrank rom tihe w'ld( turmoil and uncomfort ible interruptions that would inevit ibly result from my sudden and un icralded appearance among old friends, ifter hiaving been thought dlead so long'. ''Furthermore, I had' a misty Idea of illowving thre truth to break upon you radiually; but the keen p)erceptions of ald P'rince dished that parit of it. And Vet, my precious, I do believe if 1 had appear'ed at your1 dooor as I am at this imoment. the shock would have been severe. The comical manner of my e-alment took away the shock, and brought. it to you pleasantly.'' And Rachel agreed with him. In telling the story of that terrible hay, when it was believed that lie had been killed, lhe said that some other man, b)attered out of all shape or r'ec >gniition by the bursting of a shell, had een miistaiken for him. 114 had on that occasion adlvancedl a ~onsiderablo distance be1yond the spot vhere the shell had1( Cxploded, suippos-I ng that his men were behind him. IHI and sprung forwvard fo the purpos)05e of 3apturinig a battery that had been dleal ng dleathr upon0 theIr ranks wvith fright ul effect, and so eager and dleterminedt vas lie that lie never thought of look nug rounrd untiilihe was directly uinder Ie muzzles of the enemy's guns; then ie tu rnied, and found iiot a man of his eOgimenit, ini ght. Hie was eai tured and sent to the oni my's rear, and on tire next morning, ~vithr imny others, lie wvas sent awvay oa dism i:al prison, where lie hiad b>een (et through thre long anid wveary niorths5 and1( years thart, had since p)assedl iway. Hie hrad written several letters, )ut, it wams lainlhy to be seen they had bee u iaierceputedt amnd dostroyed. lIn act, heO hadn beeni so informed on beino' ot fr2". for a jailer had said to him: ''Colonel, you1'll surp'jriso your peop)le wvhen you get home, for niot one of your ett era hais been suffered to go through."' What need( to tell of tire joy of that rouisehiold?P Truly thre occasiorn was to ~hem a golden dawn-*--tho dawirng of 1 hotter day than they had over known. Fifty years ago a lBoston man wrote Af tihe niew railroads: "'The rich arid poor, them euatedl and( Ignorant, the polite arid vul gar, all herd together in thiis miodern iniplroveent ini traveling *andl all t 1 is for tire sake of do ng very unieomfortably ini two (lays whfat would be done delightfully in night or ten days." still lingere . toying with his fork in a pL. _ . forent manner, when a sylph-like maid en, wondorously clad in gossamer robes, flitted before him and caused him to remain with the crab's claw poised between his taper fin ger. Such was the impression produced upon the -dude by this apparition that ho allow ed the claw to fall real-heavy-don't-ye know on the plate, while he himself turned to the individual behind the counter. "Deuc.d pwetty girl," he lisped, his voice sounding like the summer wind among the trees; "dayvillish pwetty girl. Who is she, my man? I'll give you a nicklo if you tell me. 'Pon me word, I will, and the expense." The individual addressed, however, with a remarkable disregard for busi ness enterprise, declined somewhat in dignantly to be interviewed, leaving the dude to depart. That parody on youth roamed about the lower dock for fully thirty seconds, when ho espied the object of his search seated with an other girl just before him. "'Ia! ha!" said he, 'hero's luck,'. and drawing a stool close to the femi nine couple he bestowed his impercop ti ble outside upon it and cast Ian-. guishing glances at the object of his particular admiration. His gleo reach ed a climax when the maiden smiled seraphically upon him. It was no timid smile, but an open, undeniable salutation. She was evidently pleased to see him, aud his soul rejoiced with in him. "OfY to Coney, alone?" he said, with an eve to business. "Yes, sir," said the damsel, with a bewitching laugh. "No one ivill run away with me,'I hope." '1'he dude looked as though he would have liked to soar far above terres tial nuisances, Coney Island olephants, and such vanities, with the young girl, but he restrained his ardor and only sighed, emitting a sound like the buzz ing of insects among the marslens. "I think I have seen you somewhere before," he said at length, after his gaze had rested upon the sylph-liko form for a minute or so. "You have," was the answer. "Ah, you remember me, do you? 0, bliss," ecstatically rejoined the dude. "You bet Ido," was the answver. "Don't you recollect it is I who bring round your Sunday collar and your one pair of cuffs every Saturday morn ing. And, sir, mother says she shan't allow you to have those articles next wveek unless "on pay her the eight cents you've been owving her for a fort nighlt.' T1here was silence, and the (dude fell back overwhelmed. T1he big elephant was blurred from his sight, and the gleaming houses en the island lost their interest for himit, and lhe sighed when at last lie saw the heartless dam sel masticating a toothsome Frankfort sausage between two crusty pieces of bread and taking her pla1cC on at mer ry-go-rountd. The Eund of' Two Monster Ships, For a fewv days there will be some life and activity in the lirookly'n Navy Yard for a large number of workmen hnve already been engaged to destroy two hulks knowvn as the Colossus and Java. For the past twenty years these two uincomp)leted vessels have never been moved from the ways on which they were originally built, and the very timbers on wvhich they lie are almost rotten from long exposure. Thle Java and Colossus have always attract ed a great dleal of attention from visit 0rs, andh from their battered appear anice many p)eolo supposed that the two ships niust have been through some frightful naval battles. The Colossus wvas to be a (10uble1 tur reted monitor carrying four fifteen inch gunis. She was designed by llen jamiin Delano, one of the most skillful naval constructors of his day. Tw'io millions and a half wvoro to be 'expendl ed on her, but when the wvar wats more advancedl ordhers were received from WVashington to stop work on the Colos suie. This was (lone, and many men in consequence thrown out of employ ment. The ship's engines had just been put in her, and she was all ready for l aunc hing when the men ceased work, andI nothing has been (lone to her from that day to this. "What about the Java?" "The Java was designed for a fast steam cruiser for the purpose of pur suimg such fast vessels as the Alabama andi others of her class. She was to h)o capable of attaining a speed of seven teen kuots an hour; iu1 fact, she might have eqiualed1 the speed of the Arizona. Tfhe Java was mainly built for speed, andi all her woodwork was of the best white oak. She would have made a formidalo mate to the Colossus, andi( espiecially in those old wvar times the two vessels could easily have wvith stood the attack of any other two men of wvar. It is a pity to see them go with out having eveni touched the salt wa ter', but then the space that these two okM hiulks occupy is very val uablo and( will be usedh for something olse, I1 hopo, mioro usef ul thatn orntamentaL".' "'Whieuinar you going to begin the wo' 9 (destructionP"' "We have commenced to dlemiolishi tb'c Col.ssus already, tand as soon as we take on more hielp we wvill lay the Java low. It wvill take about live months altogether to brieak upn the two ships." -iroolkyi EiCale. 'The s mallest paperhii in thle United States is publishied at Glendive and is called the $tar'. It is a twoe column weekly, anid its columtns are less than arose in , ,nroat an . . . d me. I n%.is looking in the direction of my old home, and my gaze wont over the houses along the river, and over the tree tops on the bluff beyond, and wandered on into space, where I saw in imagination the old fireside. Mother, dear old mother, was sitting there at her accustomed place knitting away as if her life depended upon "turning the heel" of that stocking before sleeping. Father was reading the village paper, just as I had soon him do a hundred times. My brothers and sisteii were all there as usual, and the cat dozed and purred before the fire of crackling branches, and the back log of hissing hot elm rolled from its place and scat tered embers here and there, as I had seen it do over and over again. The shouts of the children, the terror of the cat, the hurry of mother to brush the glowing coals from the old rag carpet before they should add to the number of unsightly holes already burned in it, the activity of father in checking the progress of the back-log with his boot, the overturning andirons, the choking smoke and all the accompanying ex citement and effort to repair damages, were as I had seen them often; but I was not there to help, and an unfath omable longing to go and participato in the dear old scones came upon me. What would I have given for the poor privilege of burning my fingers in a futile effort to set up thie fallen fire dogs? How I should have leaped and danced for j6y even to have coughed from breathing the smoke! It would have been only second to heaven to have had mother bind up my blistered fingers and little sister to put her chub by hands upon them and hurt them in her -nxiety to find out whether I was shamming. But no; this picture is but a mirage, and 1 must wait. One day a letter came. It said another sister had been born to me. How strange I felt. 1 had a sister I had never seen, and when I talked about it at the table, the other boarders laughed at me and said I was homesick. I cried each night when I had gone to bed, and in the morning my pillow was wet with tears, and at table my roommate told how I had called for mother in my sleep, and so I was laughing-stock again. The lady of the house was kind to 'uo, and often wvhen she found me weeping, had stroked my hair so like my mother had in years agone, I wept afresh. At last a day came when I was going home. The hours seemed ages, and the mini utes to elapse befu--o the train would come were hours of torture. At last, good-bye was said to my new friends, the bell tapped, and I was on the way. The speed wvas far too slow, and I al most felt that I could go faster if I were on foot. When at last the brake man began to call out the names of sta tions that I knew, my heart boat high with every rising hope, and I was in an estacy of joy. At last the wvhistle sounded and the brakeman called the name of the station near my home. The train it seemed would iievcr stop, T1he platform reached, I sprangr off. WVhat change had come upon the wvorld P The buildings I had thought so high two years before, wecro very lowv; the boys I knew wvere almost men; the girls were in long dresses; and my little sweetheart wvas so tall and sleni der, shy andi blushing, that I could hardly sp)eak to her. At home, it was the same. Father and mother were more gray, tihe children larger, and I called the one I had never seen by the name i'd called the next one older when I went awvay. Tfhe cat wvas sleepy and inactive, and the fire upon the hearth not half so bright. Alas! a change had come, andi home wvas never home again.-F. E. Hiuddie, in Th'/rough WVall Street Wedl(iockc. C. P. IIuntingoni, wvhosc recent mar i ingo is the latest app)learance of WVall street in wvodlock, wvill probably dur ing the coinng season make an at tornpht for a first-class social position. This will not he diflicult for the vice p)resident of the Cenmtral Pacific Road. HIe waso one of its builders, and made an immnnenso fortune out of its coni tracts, and hie has b)eeni able to retain hiis posit ion nis vice-presid ent., whIilIe Sidney D)illon (president of the Union Pacific) was ob)liged to resign. Whien Central Pacific wvas above par IIuntin<g tonm was estimated at $15,0()0,()00. lie began poor, :md~r now that hie is rich ho likes to talk about the time wvhen $50 a month was big wages. lie ha:s a splIendid house on Park avenue, to whlich lhe will bring his bride at the close of their presenCIt tour. Stocks be gani to adlvance the very day this wed ding took place. WVhat an omen to future hiappliness! T1heso WVall street nmrri,alges are very successfuil. Comn miodoro Vanderbilt, for inistanee, left his widowv $800,000 in brids, wvhich yiel an income of $1,000 a wveek. August Jielmout settled a fortune on his wife, including a Fifth Avenue pal ace. T1hme old1 Cornmnodore is now merre hy a nmemory, and Wall street abounds im similar ass)c'iations. -Cor. Cinc in nati A'unirer. Tihne Iilestion of a speed ier moans of executing cr,imi inalIs is being dIisc ussed in Enaglanud. Tihe Lancet sauys- ' capitaition dIoes nt. cause in sttat death, hanginig is toituringly slow and( nitPher prussic aidt noer electricity would be qu ick (eough in fatal effect. Th'le total su perticies of thle seas in the wVorld is El,1915,005) quare miles, while.that of all thei con tinients anid Is lands is only R4,8n4,9u smuare miles hiis remarkable uesire ror beinsr mutilated for the sake of appearance,'' said )r. Pancoast to a Press reporter, "but I can say it has, like all fashionable crazes, sprung up in a very short time. It must be due to the pointed s11oe. You see, the cut ting off the big toe would not material ly shorten a foot, but it would make the end of it harrower, so that the pa tient would bo abio to wear a shoe as pointed as a dagger. This seems to be the modern conception of pedal beauty. By-and-by, the pointed shoe will go out and then thes people 1) ?wh are havino their big toes sliced oll' will be sorry.' "Would the slicing off a big too hurt a dude?" asked the reporter. "Not materially," answered the phy sician. "In fact, people whoso toes have had to be amputated through dis ease snem to get along all right. I have had lots of patients whose toes have been removed, and they have al ways been consoled when told of the dainty boots they will be able to wear. And I really don't think they miss the toes. It is a curious fact that most of the applicants are men. Popular preju dice would at once conclude that none but a wom:an could be so vain. One of my visit ants was a farmer, though what on earth he wanted with small feet I caln't imagine. "It is a common thing for surgeons to have patiemts who wallt meet ill eyebrows crad mated. " Prof. Pancoast. continued. "l these cases we remove the hair by the roots an.i then lvpply electricity, which gives the person ta sharp, stinging pain. After this treatment the undesirable brows never return. Ladies who are so un fortunate as to have mustaches are treated in the same way, but it is so painful that they can only have half a mustache removed a day. They go away looking very funny. It is getting quite common to do away with ciefects in the ear or nose. All these items are part of a physician's regular routine; that is, all excepting the big toe treatlent,, which I would never perforl for any one. I call it flying ill the face of na ture. The big toe is not a superillitr; in fact, it has1 a very dlecideod use0, an:d the profession shiouh di Iisco)untenlalIce Thle Pylralids nuutil Downwavrd. Mr. Cope Whlitehlouse, whol( seems1 to be treated as a crank hv thle Science Association in meletinlg at'Philadelphlia, got tile stage of thel. academiy as the scienitists were leavinIg tIle hall Wed nlesday, andu prtoceeedt to give :ui ilu trated lecture on1 'The LiAhvan l)cs-. crts."' Some1 of tile atud ienlce~rem ailn ed anId othlers out of culriosity turnIled back to hecar him. Mr. WVhitehiouse?Il enuncia:tedl somne s In gular scienitille thleories, baused upon01 the most careful researchles. One0 of these wvas that tile Pyramnidls had0 been built p)ractically dlownI1ward, not up. ward. iIe took Hlerodotuls and other ancient writers for hlis authlorities, and oIl tile strength of plersonal exam'uwa tion, wVhich lie hIad miade, expressed the opinion1 that, the chamb) ers, at tile base of thle Pyramils, had beenl used( for temples anid wvere conlstructedl beneath the con ltr of big hills, and that tile ape0x of these 1hills had lbeen cut off, and, thlroulgh tile 1101es thus1 made thle big bould ers oif rocks had1( ben dIroppled on10 upon0 allothler11111 un ilthy hlad riseni to1 a 1new apex. The hl..,, hie said, were then1 smoothed0( off and tile sides. of Itle Pyramllids moild(ed, le avinIIg them11 as they aro seen1 tp-dayi. Th'ie thIeory p)resenlted by Mr. Whiitehiouse is not novel. It has been1 adlvancedl before. Whlatever its mlerits, says the Newv York T'ri/munc-andt if thle judltgmentl (of thle st anding 0111 cmi tteo lie takenl as li na :l, it ha :s inone1--itI is the sub ject oIf much01 comm11en1t to-dany, thlat tile com1 mitten should have sho0wn such anlimos10 ity' ill the matter. There airo probabily maniy mor0e danllgerouls '"'ranlks" ill tile ranks of thle associaltiollIl tall Mr. WhIiitohouse. Theire arne man1Iy scien1 lists whlose op)iniion is en titled to Weight who thlink that Mr'. Wh litehlouse's ser' vices ill other branchles of science hlavo beeln emfinenlt. lIe is, for inistanle, recogniized as lan thiori ty 011 thle L v bian deserts. lut hiis notilolls regard inIg thle Py)ramuids5 are gene10rally ridi. culed and1( little atotention paid to Thle 1 lnce1lprt.'sLssn ''Iln soft, adumII~bran lt meshles of sieved silv ~er tIle sun11beams meltled Illrough the leaves and drIippied s panhgles of geld upon01 thle brown I and( bl1ack mloqulettrio shladows th~at led to thle ragged edlge of the curb, whiere a fragile little fra ment of humllanity lay mioaningu."' mfanlagingo editor, "'but it's a little too long. Make it shIorter." ''But what shall I say, sir?"' asiked the blondo(1 replorter. '"Oh, I'dl jutlt say, 'lilennossey Mutl cabiey's little boy Pat fell into an (open1 Hewecr and b)rohn hisi nose.'' That'}1 t(1 for an1 introduction, and1( then yotu can go oni andt say whlat is necessiary aibott the careless manIlner In which those tinigs are~ coniducited, andu that under another admtinistration of our local goverinmenit, and so 01n, yout know. Give 'eni a rap, that' s all. -Pittsburg Dispaich. Poor Carlot,ta, ex-Impress05 of Mexi. co, spends only a fewv thousands a year In her madhotise, anid the acculmuf .ted lintorest of her immloniso fortuno hlas becomo onlormious., 11cr heirs wvill be Ihi. nat' nl(.. to b, think aLt muns. the hah. anytthiiiw cht an:r ( an( tith L i . i. tieuliar! ii our1 dloor:,-n bird g oes so 1 our a hu.illiijy nest in boxes pml datiol, th d t t l r an e housesi his fai : ,pCry.. Bhit, while tho x: ity hs I, jauntily famuiliattii Lf . bluebird f ttins Ia diniled1 tloailoss, c aonin gole! aOt the aren e, but keoephl his thoughts to himsylfy atl neier b Conung one of us save by the tner '. cident of local proximity. Tho r :. agaif, lovs to travel in large O when htseho dities a over for season; I athou!hll the same been reported of the bluebird, I hav never myself seen such a thing, and am" satishie lthat, as a rule, this gentI spirit finds a family party of six or sov on company enough. His reticence, a wo cheerfully admit, is nothing t" quarrel with; it is all well bred, and not in1 the least unkindly; in fact, we like it, oil the whole, rather bottor than the robin's pertness and garrulity; but, none the less, its natural consequence is that the bird has small concern for musical display. When ho sings, it is not to gain applause, but to express is aflection; amd while, in one aspect of the case, there is nothing out of the Way in thlIS,-Sin1C his affection nood not be the less deep and true because it is told in few words and with un adorned phrase-yet, as I said to begin with, it is hard not to feel that the world is being defrauded, when for ily reason, however amiable, the possessor of such ai matchless voice has io ambition to imake th1 most of it. lirad/or<l 'T osry in Octobcr Atlantic. 'l'ho Americlet Oyster in E9ngland. American oysters are for sale all over England. The price is high-thrco 3bidlings a t'Jzen. I Saw i wholesale >ysterman at the li n ga f.. :t _ish-mar. set, in London who told me howv they ianaiged them. iIe waited a few me tuents, wvhile a dozen barefooted wo len swvore antd wranlgled abotut a box :> bloaters, and thlen said: "'We ship little oysters from America andl planlt them in English water. We select thle mnotuh of a river. Af tersay ing there - "sty liero tile lBillingsgato women swore to loud tihat the conversation was inter "'Aft.er staying there a year, as I was maying, we take them up and sell them. see," lhe saidI, openinig one, "'they are a itilo salter thlan yotur oysters, but very oodl, anld" lIero tilt market wvoman swore so ouid thIat my~ friend had to stop, and, hvalking upl to tile nearest, he said: "'WomOen, 1 want youi to talk louder andi swear hlarder."' "What for, ye blaggardP"' they as ked1. "Why, thlis mxan lhe is going back to Anmerica to participate in thle politi.. ::al campaign and he wan.' to get fa. mii:iar wvit.h tile Iillingsgatn slang,an ''O, go lonlg wvid ye, ye sore-hlcadod spatlpiene, ye!"' theiy all ycl led; and while thley were lirinlg at my market fnerOl 1 escaped..--Eli Perkins in the Chica!go T1ribune. Ftiing at aI Celsis. of lhumor 01, as~ hias becen atssertedl. On the con trar he) ItonjoI]yedI a good rep)artCo or a goodi stor'y, anid het wvoutil sonVtimoes iisitralte an1 arlgluent wVith an anec d on'. Onie aifternloon inl F'ebruarv, .1858, ,Jelfersoni Daivis, A. G. lIrOWnl and oth erI Sou the Crn Senlat ors hiad declatred that whien tile iPeopl of the Northl and Sout h got d ivided on anly quOestion there woul hibe a criis an th1( 1le iJnion would bie diissolvied. Sena tor' Fessend1 en wats not,i dimpsledS to lie fr'ighltened. l1e was reindeiid, lhe sid, of an incident which had oit curred11 in tile Me(xicanl wvar, whlenl a general rolo up to Capt. Dun can1, who was ini charge (of a battery, an iii til a very3 grave an ld so ber face, said. "Caplt. Diucan, fire; the crisis hias irrived."' Duncan tutrnled to his mlenI, whoi0 stoodi at their* p)iicOs with natchelts lightedi and ready, and1( gavo lie orderC I to fire! An old artillecrym an walked uip to hlim anti said, "'Captain, I do nuot see aniy of thte teny wVithin ranlge. WhIat shl~l we lire at' "'Fire ait thle Crisis,'' wias tile resp)onse; "'didi youl 1not hear the general say tile crisis his comie? Fire at that."' So, said1 S :-naItorl Fesen l, it is wit h gentle imlen, I thmillk, inme ferenoce to thiis ma it ter. They are ailways~5 i charged andl( ready to IireO at tihe crisis. I helieve it lhas arrived half ai dozenl timles withini myI rectollectionj.--Icn:l lirley Poore. 'The lar'gest amoun it of a bank noto ill circlationl in I182i was ?1,000. It is salid that two notes for~ .L100, 000 each, and two for ?50,000) ech, were onIco enlgravedl anld issueud. A but?cher who hIad amal sseid tan ill)1enOse fiortunO in the1( war t imes, wilnt one day with ono of these ?30,000) notes to a p)riftttO han ker, askinog for thle loan of ; alli ishiing to) deposit the bigtQ*a .: securiity illn thO banlker's hlJtv lhe h:uh kept it for years,' was bandeditl over, but the ig4 ait the( .sam)1 thlo to the bi folly oif hoarding suchi a suni ih e illterestI. "WeryOt trutL 1 the btIc her. "b'ut I tikes wVery well that I haLvO t,otb@ samei kind ait hlome."'~