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Over' PT'G* Bdbum & Co. _ ie, Georgle, come.” Georgie, their cousin, appeared by no means backward, and the three eagerly hastened d#wn to the riven Scarcely had they reached the edge than a light skiff, in which sat a hand some young English Saxon of about five-and-twenty, shot from the shadow of the willows to their very feet. “ Here I am, girls !” he cried, cheerily, shipping his oars and casting the moor ing rope round a post placed on pur pose. “ Yes, here you are, singing as much out of tune as ever,” said Georgie, roguishly. “ Now, please don’t begin your spar ring,” laughed Rosie, the youngest sis ter. “We are so glad you’ve come, Tom, whether in tune or not. We have something to tell you and some thing for you to do.” “Really? Prithee, fair sister, ex pound,” he rejoined, walking up the lawn, a sister on either side of him, though his eyes oftenest sought out Georgie. “ Rut first,” asked Lenore, the elder, “ how long are you going to stay here ?” “ Whitehall has given me a week. My luggage comes by road.” “ Capital! Now, let us sit down and we will tell you.” The girls sat in a kind of semi-circle; while Tom laid his whole length before them, his elbow on the grass, his cheek on his hand. “ Now,” he asked, “ what is the mat ter ?” “Well,” said Lenore, who by general acclaim was nominated spokeswoman, “you must know, Tom, that there is a certain room in this old house papa has just bought which is said to be haunted.” “ Nonsense.” “ Rut it is true. Papa would not let us know when he bought the place, but we soon heard it from the people about here. He, however—as you— says it’s all nonsense.” “ Being a sensible, practical man,” interpolated Tom. “Ah; still he gives us full leave to test it.” “ And are you going to ?” “ We wish to, therefore want you to sleep there one night, Tom.” “Want me!” “ Yes ; so that you may inform us,” remarked Georgie, very gravely, “ whether there is a ghost or not.” “ Really I feel exceedingly obliged,” laughed Tom, “ but I don't quite see the joke. I am not anxious for a ghostly acquaintance.” “ Oh, Tom !” exclaimed Georgie, with a glance that sent the blood to her cousin’s cheek. “I didn’t think you were a coward !” “ Coward ! Come now, Georgie, that’s too bad,” he cried. - “Well, I think it cowardly,” re sponded the young lady, pursing her pretty mouth. “ I don’t believe in ghosts any more than uncle does ; and I want to sleep there, only he w ill not let me.” “I should think not,” said Tom, with quick approval. “ Rut what kind of ghost is it? What is the story ?” “ Why, they say years and years ago the heiress of this large estate—for it was a large estate then—was one night cruelly murdered in that room by her cousin, who, on her death, inherited the property ; ever since which period the lady’s ghost, attired in white, pays the apartment a visit regularly at 12 o’clock midnight,” and as Lenore ended thqre was a tremor in her voice. 4s Bosh!” laughed Tom, contenmt- uously. “ Why, Lenny, you look ab solutely pale!” have played me a trick. Consequently, I would rather say .nothing until I’ve had another night’s experience.” “Sleep there again!” ejaculated the girls, Georgie loudest. “ Assuredly!” Tom’s account but half satisfied his feminine hearers. “ I am sure he has seen something,” said Lenore, when they were alone. - “ I’m certain of it!” coincided Geor gie. “ Rut he is going to show how brave he is. Why can’t the silly fel low confess and have done with it ?” Tom had seen something. About mid night, in the farthest corner of the room, he had beheld a shadowy female fonYi, draped in grayish-white, occa sionally waving its arms, while faint sighs burst from the lips. He had felt startled, alarmed ! He had tried to think it the moonlight; but glancing at the window he saw there was none. So he had laid and looked half frightened, and half ashamed of being so. Abruptly, however, remembering Georgie’s words, he cared for nothing else; and being partially dressed, leaped up and advanced toward the ghost. For a second there was no al teration. Then it rapidly melted away —there was a click—and when Tom reached the corner—it was empty ! Can there really be ghosts,he thought, groping his way back to bed. Impos sible ! Yet—Ids eyes turned to his pistol-case—that might prove; but no —it wouldn’t do ! The second night the same thing oc curred—only this time the specter had sighed and moaned and wrung its hands as in direst distress, but it did not wait for Tom’s advance. It van ished after a few moments. “ It’s curious, to say the least of it,” he meditated, striking a light and sit ting on the side of his bed. Then taking the candle he carefully examined the apartment. It was a spacious oak-paneled room, with casemented windows. Mr. Har rison proposed to turn it into a ball room, when, he had laughed, the ghosts would have a happy time of it. Rfit Tom could discover neither ghost nor human. The door was locked as he had left it; the windows securely fast ened. “ It’s confoundedly singular!” he Re peated, finally throwing himself on to the bed. . The next morning he told exactly what had occurred. - Mr. Harrison pooh-pooh'd it, de claring it was Tom’s imagination or that he was jinking fun at them; but the girls took it differently. “ There,” cried the sisters, “ you see, Georgie, the place is haunted!” For a second Georgie appeared de feated; she pouted, glanced at her cup, then exclaimed, with charming con sistency: " i “ I don’t and are ghosts! As uncle says, Tom has been deluded!” • “ “ Well, Tom is going to give it an other trial,” laughed the young fellow. “ Oh, no, don’t do that!” exclaimed Georgie, quickly. “ A Ye’ve had enough of it!” “ l don’t think so,” rejoinetU^To delighted at this involuntary interei “ And if it comes a third time take it for a sign—” “ Of what ?” “ That I have proved my courag* he whispered, “ and merited the i ward for facing a ghost.” “There are no ghosts,” persist Georgie, blushing. “ Then you do not believe me?” “ I fancy you were deceived.” That night the sisters implored T< I Oh, Tom,” she murmured, half atgrily, “ it’s a shame you should so f ighten me. I can scarcely stand. ] r ally thought you a specter. Yes—I o ,vn it—I wanted to test your courage - -and—” “ I have tested yours, who were so b rave.” “ Tom, can you forgive me?” “If you will only rqward me fof fi icing the ghost, Georgie.” “Tom,*’ she laughed, “this isn’t a tijme to play Romeo and Juliet—nor the toilets. Oh !” she added, hearing sieps hastening along the corridor, “do k ?ep my secret, Tom. Do, please !” she a ided, imploringly, as she fled through tme panel. . . j But the secret did creep out next day -Land the laugh—as the tables were turned on Georgie, who, trying to fi ighten Tom, had been awfully fright- e led herself. Georgie angrily declared si le would never forgive her cousin; bht it is supposed she did, for the first ball held in the haunted room was in commemoration of their wedding day; } Among the Natives of Alaska. A correspondent of the &in Fran cisco Bulletin, describing hfe expert ence in Alaska, says: We experienced no trouble from the natives, except in the early part of winter they would come and stand about our doors and windows and get in our way generally, so that they became a nuisance. When the frost gathered on our windows they kept peepholes open by licking off the frost with their tongues. This we finally got rid of by making a strong decoction of cayenne pepper, and painting the outside of the glass, so that licking was not at all comfortable. A few of the respectable ones were oc casionally let into the house. If any of these did not behave themselves we treated them with very little ceremony, so that they soon became afraid of us and were very civil. At first some of them had the habit of opening the door and walking into the house as if they were the owners, and after a short tiqpe we got tired of this and kicked a few of them out, and by that means they have im proved in their manners considerably. TherdMs very little fight in them, and they never stick together or stand up for each other. If you cuff one, the rest stand around and look on and laugh and say it is “ Nakoomk” (good) and the fellow getting chastised is “Aseeruck” (bad). They are not at all handsome, but then they are quite well for savages. The women when young are much better looking than the men, but all are very dirty and never dream of washing any jiart of their bodies. The men wear a large jiair of bone buttons like shirt studs in their under lips, and it gives them any- ^UiingJjut a pleasant appearance. The ’womeij tattoo their chins, which they I won’t believe there- -consider a great mark of beauty, but I eannofl say that I agree with them on tfiat p^int. I We i*ave built a small block house whi£h the Gatling gun is mounted as t<L comm and all the approaches our house, so that if we ever have fight( we can do so with every ad- ntage, Duringthe winter a Noowuk n named Oonaloena came down, it said, with the intention of cleaning t the whole kabloonas (whites), but he came accompanied by his wife, intentions were not of a very des- rate character. At all events he e and had<i “big talk,” loitered (out for a coujile of days and finally k his departure for home, and sent down a deer as a present. That the nearest approach to trouble have had. act being considered ominous of her future happiness. In Sussex a bride on her return home from church is often robbed of all her pins about her dress by the single women present, from the belief that whoever jrossesses one of them will be married in the course of a year, and evil fortune will sooner or later inevi tably overtake the bride who keeps even on6 pin tised in the marriage toilet. “ Flinging the stocking ” was an old marriage custom in England. The young men took the bride’s stockings and the girls those of the bridegroom^ each of whom, sitting at the foot of the bed, threw the stocking over their heads, endeavoring to make it fall upon that of the bride or her spouse. If the bridegroom’s stockings, thrown oy the girls, fell upon the bridegroom’s head, it was a sign that they them selves would soon be married, and similar luck was derived from the fall ing of the bride’s stockings, thrown »>y the young men. There is a super stitious notion in some places that when the bride retires to rest on her wedding night her .bridemaids should lay her stockings across, as this act is supposed to guarrantee her future prosperity in the marriage state. Fashion Notes. New sifver bracelets are made in exact imitation of the handcuffs worn by criminals. A pretty dress stuff for children’s suits is a crape-finished serge in broken Scottish plaids. Carnations, marSh-mallows, poppies and ox-eye daisies are the most fash ionable flowers for trimming fall round hats of dark straw. Handsome “Roman” and “Egyj> tian ” jiens, clasps, jeweled bands and buckles, made in the United States, are a prominent feature of millinery and cloak garniture this season. The jiroper colors for elegant wrajv pers are cream white, pale blue, pale rose, shrimp pink, mauve, terra cotta, hussar blue, dark reds, dark blues, gray and black. The trimmings should be embroidery, ribbons, velvet and lace. The center parting of the hair is now made as inconspicuous as possible, and many ladies obliterate it altogether by cross jiartings taken above the fore head, while the greater part of the ehevelure is combed back without any parting at all. Small capotes of white or tinted satin, completely covered with soft fluffy white ostrich tijis, are worn. They are very pretty and becoming to youthful ladies. For their elders the same fashion in black, bronze, brown, garnet and dark green is much fol lowed. The European custom of carrying infants on lace-trimmed pillows is adojitedby American mothers; and the nurse wears an Alsace cap with a bow of ribbon a fourth of a yard wide, with ends that hang bt4iind nearly to her feet. The nurse’s dress is of the color used for lining the lace of the baby’s pillow. Stuffed birds are again in requests ami are shown in almost numberless varieties. These embrace not only the small birds of f he American forests ind the highly-colored South American and East Indian birds, ffjiprojiriated to millinery purposes, but certain of the aquatic,Uird3—sea-gulls and ducks, for instate. Birds for millinery trimmings are now stuffed softly, and when applied varying, however, grtWliy ill size, a about five broad * it is oblorig, blunt and is marked with ten elevated ribs running lengthways, and is, when ripe, of a bright orange yellow, with a hard shell. Although authorities state that the fruit contains from fifty (y one hundred seeds, wc have never Veen able, to find one containing fifty ; the aver age is from thirty to forty-five. These seeds are imbedded in a white, ; semi^ acid pulp, and in size and shape aomef what resemble almonds; it is from these seeds that the cocoa and choco late of commerce are pfepared. The fruit is, when ripe, gathered by hand, and broken transversely by ft Large knife; the mass of pulp and seed is taken out, and is either left for a day to slightly ferment or is at once put into a “ tipici” and jiressed almost dry; it is then dried for from one to three days in the sun, and is then ready for market. A “ tipici” is a tube of wick erwork, about eight feet long, with a diameter of about ten inches; the top is open, and at each end there is a loop; the tube is filled with any sul> stance to be pressed, hung upon a peg or branch by the upper loop, while a lever, ujxm which a woman sits, is in serted in the lower loop, and the juice runs out through the interstices. The juice running from the “tipici” is called “vinho da cacao,” or “wine of cocoa,” and is a most refreshing and delicious drink; it is slightly acid, aromatic, and possesses a flavor especial ly its own. Unfortunately, it soon fer ments, and can be preserved in its freshness for only a single day ; by boiling, however, fermentation is checked, but all the delicate aroma of the wine is lost. It is almost worth a trip across the Atlantic to drink the wine of cocoa in its freshness. This drink is very healthy, and one can consume an im mense quantity. A superior white vine gar is also prepared from the cocoa. The juice is also boiled down into a sauce which in color and taste much resembles Shaker apple-sauce ; and a most delicious amber-colored jelly, far superior to guava jelly, is made from the wine, from which also a strong and very high-flavored brandy is distilled. The husks contain a large amount of potash, and are burned to yield a lye which is used in making soaji. Great quantities of the cocoa fruit are an- niudly destroyed by monkeys and par rots, which are very fond of the seed. —American Garden. Carp and Turtles. Judge Bridewell, at Beauregard, had seventy-five or eighty beautiful carp in Ids pond, but as a big turtle was seen 1 in it, suspecting the fellow might be de predating on his young fish, the water was drawn off and nearly half of his carp was found to have been devoured. Rev. J. W. McNeil found one carj) in bis jiond and that showed marks of vio lence from the depredations of turtles. Young carp are tlie biggest fools among the finny tribe. If the weather turns cool they stick their heads into the mud and a turtle comes along and cats them up. The only remedy to keep these carp- eaters out ftf your jionds is to fence them around with a plank fence. If it only reaches two er three feet from the ground it will answer, as turtles can’t climb. If they are not in the ponds alreaily they can easily be kept out by this simple method.—Southern Htock Journal. England has statistics showing that out of 139,148 of her people engaged in literary pursuits only twelve be came lanatics. e i t) Boston Transcript. The title of the lesson was: Rich Y<mg Man,” and the golden text was: “One thlftg thou lackest.” A teacher in the primary class asked a’ little tot to repeat the two, and looking earnestly into the young lady's face the child said: “One thing thou lack est—a rich young man.” ' \ “Where are you going, anyhow?” asked an Irate conductor oft the Central Pacific the other day to a “beat” whom he Had kicked off five or six ;imes, but who always managed to get on again just as the train started. J Well,” said the fellow, quietly, “I’m going to Chicago, if my pants hold axil."-^Chicago Tribune. A contemporary tells a yarn about a setter dog which trotted up to a small boy and drojijied from his mouth into the boy’s band a new jackknife which the dog had just found. This is, how ever, no circumstance to the Philadeb phiadog which trotted up to a boy and drojijied at his feet a tin can and a piece of string.—Fhiladtlgh ia News. The Fox's Advice—A Fable. A Horse owned by a Peasant one day refused to draw his load, 1 raving be come tired of the tyranny of Man. “Perhaps I have lieen too hard with him,” soliloquized the Peasant, “and I will now make his burdens easier for a time.” The Horse was therefore given lighter loads, his supply of provender increased, and his master never ap peared at the stable without a lump of sugar in his fingers. A Fox who had observed how the thing worked jiaid a visit to a Mule owned by the same Peasant, and asked: “ Do you want more oats and hay ?” “ I should murmur,” replied the Mule. “And would you like to loaf half your time away in the clover field?” “ I’m blessed if I wouldn’t!” . “ And have some one rub you down with a piece of velvet and feed you cut loaf sugar ?” “ It makes my mouth water to think of it,” said the Mule, as he nibbled at the fence. “Very well, then,” continued the Fox. “All you have to do is to refuse to budge when hitched uj). The Horse played that game and the result is that he has become sleek and fat.” Next day when the Peasant hitched the mule to his cart the animal refused to move. “ What! rebellion in my old Mule, too!” shouted the Peasant. “Indeed I jannot permit both animals to defy my authority. Having exhausted my kind words and Sugar on the Horse, I will try the virtues of a club on the Mule.” He thereujHin jiounded the animal until he was glad to sjieed faster and draw a heavier load than ever before. MOKAU The Fox hail been watching the affair from a fence coi ner, and as he saw the result ^ie chuckled to him self: “ A rich man may have his fence in the street, bat a poor man must keep his sidewalk in rejrair to escape the Law.”—Detroit Free Press. The metropolitan board of works In London controls an area of 122 square miles, covered by a jiopulation of 4,000,000. The royal parka 1,742 acres and other ope 1,076 acres. nearly cover sjiaces Albert Schwill is an Indianapolis man who has had nineteen lights be cause somebody said: “Give him to the