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A MOMENT'S PAUSE. A moment's pa ase for longing and for dream ing. A moment's looking backward on the way ; To kiss my hand to long past turrets gleaming. To stand and think of life of yesterday! A little time to dream of sunlit hours Spent where white towers rise against the sky; .To tread again that path of too sweet flowers, ! To hear again her greeting and goodby! What is there, say-you, in that faroft* city i Of my past living and past, loving left, "Wrapped in its golden haze, *o stir my pity And call the bitter sigh of the bereft? The memory of a touch warm, trusting, cling ing. The memory of that touch grown cold as ice? A voice hushed that was pure as wild bird's Binging? A love whose bright flame burned in sacri fice? ?Only a grave? Life of today will teach me Its stream fleets fast for sorrow and regret, jLeyond this turn ita sweeping wave will reach me; 1 must go with it, as we al) gol Yet A moment's pause for longing and for dream ing, A moment's looking baclcward on the way; To kiss my hand to long past turrets gleaming. v To stand and think of life of yesterday! -L. Marion Jenks in Donahoe's. .DAKE BEFOEE DAWN. Miss Collier looked up into the lieu tenant's face as he stood before her and asked "Shall we dance or sit it out?' Stanley said. "Your pleasure is mine/ and, guessing what her pleasure was, ?he added. "Will we go on the steps or stay here?" She rose, and they went out into the warm spring night "I knew you did Dot want to dance. " said Miss Collier. For reasons best known to himself Stanley was in no gracious mood. He answered uncivilly enough, "But per haps I did. "Then. " with the softest inflection of her soft voice. "I am more interested in your welfare than you are yourself. If you are to start at reveille, you should rest now- Indeed you should really not have come tonight " She knew why he had come. She knew that it was because Mauricia Meredith had told him that if be were going to be too busy to take her she would release him and go with Mr. Kendall, which was tantamount to com pulsion. Stanley now contrasted her in difference with Miss Collier's gentle, solicitous tones. Of a sudden he won dered if Miss Meredith were selfish, "which wan what Miss Collier meant him to wonder. A still, smooth voice often flows over unsuspected depths. "But, of course, " continued she. gaz ing off into the blue black sky and seem ing to' meditate aloud, hardly even aloud. **you had to bring Mauricia. " Stanley was up in arma "I beg your pardon. Ti: was my wish to do so. Miss Meredith offered to excuse me " "Did abe? But, of coarse, she didi She is always considerate I fear I my self should not have been so generous. I am not of a generous nature But. then" -the thought seemed just to occur to her-"I suppose Mr. Kendall stood ready to bring her. I think he is in Jove with her. Don't you ?" She turned-her head and ?coked into his eyes with a vague sort of specula tion They might have been discussing an interesting but impersonal question "It would not surprise rae. " He was too obviously cool "I hope so. because she deserves to be happy, and I think she cares more than a little for him. " ".What makes you think that?' Stanley asked, with exceeding careless ness. "A great many little things which a man would never take into account, but which a girl knows from her own experience"-the impersonal eyes grew very personal for one short instant, then dropped in confusion-"or from her own observation Have you seen it? I think you will if you watch. It is either that or a desperate flirtation. Bnt I be lieve Mauricia to be above flirting. I have never thought that she deliberate ly went ?bout breaking Will Hender son's heart or Lieutenant Cook's Any man would naturally fall in love with her. I should if I were a man. I won der that you can see sb much of her and remain simply her friend. Your heart must be of stern stuff. " She checked a sigh and resumed her gaze at the Etars. Then, as if following out a train of thought she recommenced: "That in itself is proof that she is not a flirt She has never flirted with you. Of course, though, it may be that she has been engrossed with Mr. Kendall " Neither view was comforting to Stanley. The little things which Miss Collier had insinuated began to recur to him. They were very small things, indeed, so he enlarged them, since love, when it may not be as happy as it would like, prefers to be as miserable asjt may. Miss Collier's gaze was not so fixed upon the stars that she could not see into the hallway. She watched it, and she watched Stanley, and almost imme diately she was rewarded. She saw Miss Meredith and Lieutenant Kendall com ing down the corridor, and she saw that Stanley did not see. She turned and faced the latter and caught his bands in hers and leaned toward him. The soft voice had never been more sympa thetic more low "But perhaps," it murmured. "I have only just thought of it when you were so silent. Perhaps I am hurting you Are you a mere friend, or do you love her too?" Woman cannot play at chess, they say, because abe cannot plan her moves .or determine those of her opponent far enough in advance. It is not the case when men are her pawns. She work?, on the supposition that fate will not play into her hands, but if it chooses so io do it is all the better, and fate noto riously favors the fair. Miss Meredith's approach could not J^ave been better timed Stanley was worked to the requisite pitch of annoy ance with her and himself. He was also irritated against Miss Collier for caus ing his suspicions, even though they might be just So he answered as she bad planned. "I am not so fortunate as to have any right to love her." His voice raised itself in exasperation at having to ad mit it "Miss Meredith and I are mere friends. " Miss Collier drew away her hands. The lieutenant looked up, and then he knew that Miss Meredith was standing on the steps above. The soft voice picked up an imagi nary, conversation in th? miA?i* -nfl went on with it, but Stanley los head. He said that he had somethi attend to at the barracks, and \ Miss Collier excuse him ? "Mere friends I" Mauricia sa: herself over and over. "We are friends." "Mere friends!" she us the watchword to pass the gates o: tation, and for the rest of the ev? she made Kendall happy and Sti wretched, and herself-well, she intoxicated with the wine of retali; and was radiant. "I will go home with Mr. Kend you want to pack your field kit get a little sleep, " she told the lat? i Stanley determined not to deser post. He would do his duty to the -this once and never more. ! "My kit is packed, and I do no peet to sleep tonight. So, unless your wish to dismiss me, I shal main. " He was aggressively civiL "Certainly, if you like, " Miss A dith said, "but ? mean to stayi the end I have the dance before last with Mr. Kendall, and I can't it" Stanley assured her that it immaterial to him if she chose t< main until daybreak ; that he wa: tirely at her service. But Mies Meredith did not ren until daylight At 2 o'clock she \ home and sat in her room at the ? dow looking out into the night T was not a sound in all the world, mountains rose, deeper shadows aga the shadowy sky. The stars twin and glittered above the silen?*garri? She could see quite plainly the barr? across the parade ground, and tl was not a light in any window. E in the quarters of her father's ti there was no sign that the men wer be marching at daybreak, and still fi the silence rang in her ears as they rung in the music's strains the bi words. "Mere friends, " and still bel her eyes rose the picture of those 1 as she had seen them when she had g out upon the stepa She bowed her h on her bare arma to shut it out, and a long, long while she did not move. ! When she looked up again, the t racks were gone and the black pile the mountains was not to be seen. O all the land was the darkness wh comes before dawn, and* in her he was a hopelessness as blank. How da how inky the night had grown I It m be very late She was cold, but she \ not tired She would wait now ui morning. In a little time the hoi would be astir. She must breakf with her father. She put a heavy ct about her shoulders and went back the window. By and by she heard so: one moving. A match was struck in 1 next room and a ray of light she j through the blinds. There were hea footsteps that tried to fall softly up J the stairs. Every one fancied her aslet no doubt A man came out from t J front door and went down the line. S ce?id just see the black figure in t I blackness for a moment then it w I lost, and she only heard the echo oi J quick tramp on the board walk. By a: by the man came back again and in the house Her father opened her dc softly and tiptoed into the room. "I have "taid up to take breakfa with you." she hastened to explain. "In a ball gown. " he said j "After "or before 6 o'clock it is cc I rect, " she told him gayly. I "Stanley will be here," he said j "For breakfast?" i "Yes. I sent Moriarty down to h quarters to ask him just now. It is ha past 4. We will be ready in ten mi: utes. " He went out, and the girl look< again into the darkness, which gre thicker before the dawn "Me: friends I" Well, she would meet him ? a mere friend She would have it to < often enough in the dull future might be best to begin at once The tinkling of a silver bell came 1 her. sounding ' weirdly through tl night, and out of that night emerge another figure. It ran up the steps, an the front door opened and closed. SI drew the cape around her shoulders an groped her way out of her room, throng the hallway, down the stairs. A candi was burning in the lower halL Sb went on into the dining room. A qua: I termaster's lamp sent out the uncertai light that a lamp always gives in tb j early morning. Her mother was pom ing the coffee Her father and his firs lieutenant were already seated Th lieutenant rose ! "Good morning again," he sail cheerfully. He was too much filled wit] the excitement of the occasion now t remember his injuries "You reproacl our garments with the splendor of you attire, but our mission is to march oi to victory and not to be beautiful. W? can only hope you will excuse us." "Certainly, and I will even be si gracious as to wish that the contras may prove a seasoning to your bacon. ' There was a roaring fire in the grea1 j fireplace, andi she threw back the cap< j from her shoulders. Her neck and anni shone white, and the lights glittered oi her hair. From the crown of her head, with its wilted flower, to the torn rufflt of her skirt she was in sad disarray. But Stanley thought her very beautiful, and memory came suddenly back tc i They talked gayly, for all that thej were quite unhappy. Then Moriarty, the striker, reported that the first ser geant was at the door and would like to see the captain. The captain went out, and his wife followed him. "Mauricia will take care of you,' Bhe said to Stanley. She had many things to attend to. And then a silence that would not be broken came upon the two. Stanley racked his brains for a sentence. Miss Meredith sought vainly for words. Stanley looked across the table at the pretty, disordered head. Miss Meredith studied the light effects on his brass buttons and shoulder straps and the knot of the handkerchief that stood him in lieu of a collar. Then she affect ed to yawn. And still no words would come. Speech and consecutive thought were not And still the lieutenant watched the j sweet, tired face until the shadowed eye3 turned and looked out of the win dow. A shutter was open, and Miss Meredith saw that the darkness waB passing, that the light and tho dawn I Were near. One faint bugle note trem bled on the gray air. The trumpeter was about to sound first call. And then the call pealed out, and the light in creased, and the last star died slowly 1 away. ; The lieutenant pushed back his chair I and rose and went toward her. Miss j Meredith sprang to her feet and. backed against the wall. Bnt Stanfav hml ?IA minci to let her rest against' anything so hard and unfeeling. Nor did he mean that she should keep her eyes upon the floor. He turned her face np to his, and by the light that was quickly coming he saw all that he had been so long hoping to see. Yet Mauricia could not resist reminding him as she tried faint ly to free herself, "But we are 'mere friends, ' you know. " The light broke in, too. upon Stan ley's mind. "So that is it. is it?" was all the ex planation of the luckless words that he ever gave or that was ever asked. ' 'Well, supposing you make U3 more than that. " he suggested . **???? A girl who is watching her father and two troops ride off at reveille to a scout which is likely to last all the spring ought not to look radiant. Nei ther should a girl with ordinary good sense stand bare necked and bare armed and bareheaded in tho cold air of sun rise before the astonished view of sev eral scores of troopers Mrs. Meredith checked her own in clination to weep-which 20 years of beholding the outgoings and incomings of scouts had not mastered-and be thought herself of her daughter. She laid her hand on one of the cold arms. "Mauricia,, how can you be so im prudent, and." she looked at the beam ing face, "how can you look so happy?' Manricia's answer was not wiser than might have been expected "It's such a beautiful dawn, and it was so dark. ' she explained.-Denver Republican. The Woodchuck's Kaine. Woodchucks are familiar creatures on every farm in New England, and they | have extended their settlements beyond the Mississippi One of their most no ticeable traits is the throwing up of large piles of dirt in front of their bur rows. According to the author of "Fa miliar Life In Field and Forest, " it is from this practice that the woodchuck got his name. In olden times-probably in the time of JEsop-the lower animals used to ? live in one happy country with a judge over them-the dog. One day a rabbit, whose burrow adjoined that of a mar mot, complained to the latter that the little rabbits* eyes were continually fill ed with the dirf which he threw out of his burrow. The' marmot paid no heed to thi3 re monstrance, and the rabbit was com pelled to appeal to the judge. His honor immediately sent word to the offender ? that greater care must be taken in the ! future But the insolent marmot noto- j rions for his incivility and indifference, ! replied to the messenger that he "would ; chuck" his dirt just where he pleased 1 I That settled it The dog has been hunting for the gross offender ever j since and the name "woodchuck" has etnck to the whole tribe of marmota i Rende'? Dramatie Failure?. It was not until 1856, when Charles Reade was 42, taut he obtained reputa tion as* a novelist, a reputation to which he did not aspire, for it was his ambi tion to be a dramatist From the be ginning of his career until the last year of his life he wrote play after play, ev*ry one of them a failure and he alone refusing to believe it. He attributed their want of success to every c&z*e but the right one, and j he went on squandering the money gained from his more snccessfuJ*novels on the production of bad playa "The actors are duffers, sir." he would say. "who have defiled my composition, mixed ditch water with my champagne n ordered my work," and he would pcur out maledictions on the heads of all who had anything to do with the unfortunate piece, fiom scenic artist to super, never conceiving that he him self was the sole culprit. And yet as his novels show, he had dramatic abili ty of a high order and could produce the most thrilling effects and situa tions He wrote two or three dramas in collaboration with Tom Taylor and Dion Boucicault that had a brief suc cess, but apart from these he never wrote a play that met with the slight est degree of popular favor.-Chicago Post. _ In Some ot Them. Farmer Haycroft discovered when it was too late that bis favorite cow had pulled his vest down from the barnyard fence and eaten off a portion contain ing a pocket and a good sized roll of bills "You needn't tell me," he observed sardonically, "that there isn't any money in cattle. "-Chicago Tribune Advice. Hicks-Here I Take this 2 cents Wick3-What for? Hicks-Take it, I say There I Now fo buy yourself a better cigar than that rou're smoking.-Somerville Journal. A Truthful Kindergartner. Two little boys from a kindergarten in Boston went into a barber's shop to have their hair cut. Two men were there awaiting their turn. An exchange tells a good story of what happened The barber said to one of the boys: "Run over to the store across the street and see if my assistant is there. Tell him to hurry up and come back;'there are four men waiting. " The boy went, found the man and gave tho message, except that he said there were two men and two boys wait ing. Then he added, "The barber told me to say four men, but I wasn't going to tell a iie for two men. " "Why ?otV" asked the man. "Why, " responded the boy, "don't yon suppose we have a picture of George Washington over in our kinder garten?" The teacher declares that she shall tell the story of the "cherry tree" with renewed interest and frequency. He Knew Them Doth. She-You only know the worst side of my husband He-Why, certainly yon cannot deny that I know his, better half?-Yonkerf Statesman. Rev. Iv Edwards, pastor of the English Baptist Church at Miners ville, Pa.; when suffering with rheu matism, was advised to try Chamber lain's Pain Balm. He says: aA few applications of this liniment proved of great service to me. It subdued thc inflammation and relieved- the pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Pain Balm a trial it will please me." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - If you want to get a chip off the old block ax the block for it. AN ODD AFFAIR IN BANKING. A Singular 'Transaction Whick Will Probably Sever Be Explained. "There isn't a great deal cf romance in my business. " remarked a prominent Chicago banker, "but now and then something turns up ont of the ordinary. I recall an instance -which is as yet not explained and will never be. I fancy, as the chief actor in it was killed some time ago in a railway accident. I never knew the man personally, but he was a depositor in our bank, whose account was a personal one to the extent of $10,000. He curried that much asa rule, and the few checks that he made against it never indicated what his business was. He was about 50 years of age, and very rarely came to the bank Naturally I never gave him a thought, for $10,000 is not a large deposit in Chicago, and beyond his deposit I had no interest in him. "It happened therefore that when one day I received a personal letter from our depositor I was a bit surprised, and was still more so when I had read it. I do not recall the exact wording, but it was to the effect that within a day or two a woman would present a check drawn by him for $5,000. and that as she was unknown he wished me to see that she received the money without trouble, and that she would bring with her a means of identification in the j person of a little girl, who would an ! swer correctly the questions I must-ask , her, as directed in his letter, with the answers as he gave them. "These questions were simple enough, being only the child's full name, her j age to the month, where born, the full ? name of her mother and her father and j of a little brother who was dead. Five thousand dollars was a good deal of money to let go on that kind of evi I dence, but that was all I had, and the depositor was in California, so that I could not see him personally. "The next day the paying teller came to me with his eyes bulging, saying ? that about as hard a looking case of beggar woman as he had ever seen was at his window with a check- drawn to the order of Mrs. Blank by Mr. -. I sent for her to come into my private office, which she did, bringing a little girl with her who was no less a picture of abject poverty than the mother. "All she could say was that she had received the check by mail from a man whose name was not familiar to her. with instructions to present it at the j bank and the money would be paid to her if she would take her little giri with j her. I asked the child the questions I had been requested to ask, and she an swered correctly each one, which re lieved, me of further responsibility, and I ordered the check to be cashed ; ' "The woman did not seem to be great ! ly overcome by her good fortune, and 1 went back to the paying teller's win j dow. She asked for the money in $50 ; bills and. wrapping it up in an old newspaper, went out of the bank with out a word to anybody. "She was no longer, at the address she gave when I sent a messenger there to make inquiries, and her benefactor 1 never saw again, for he met his death on his way east from California. "-Chi cago Tribune. The Bottle and the Message. ! A form of ocean drift of special hu man interest is the bottle bearing its message from the shipwrecked or about to be shipwrecked mariner, and of these perhaps the most remarakble is that which told of the burning of the Kent in midocean. The ship was on fire ; the end was approaching: there seemed no hope of rescua An officer on board wrote a message to this effect and com mitted it to the sea in a bottle. Some months afterward the bottle was picked up near the shore by a fisherman, and the message it contained was sent to the very man who wrote it. He had been rescued at the last moment and soon after received promotion in India. But the bottle thrown overboard has also been used in the scientific study of ocean currents. Many such bottles have had remarkable voyages and greatly in creased our knowledge of the move ments of the ocean. Sir.James Ress, in his famous antarctic voyage, threw overboard a number of bottles in lati tude 5-4 degrees south to learn some thing of the great currents which run in that little known region in an east erly direction all round the globe. One of these bottles actually traversed the greater part of the earth's circumfer ence, having come ashore off Cape Lip trap, in South Australia.- Gentleman's Magazine. Jenny Lind and Goldschm?dt. When' Jenny Lind first sang in Leip sic, she appeared al: a Gwandhaus con cert, under Mendelssohn's direction. Naturally there was a great demand for tickets, despite the fact that the prices were raised. It was therefore de cided that the students of the Conserva torium must waive their usual right to free admission to these concerts. But the students objected with vigor. They were as anxious as anybody to hear the "Swedish Nightingale. V A protest was made and young Otto Goldschmidt, aged 1G. was the student depu ted by the others to interview the authorities. In the end he won tho day. He little thought then that in half a dozen years he would be equally suc cessful in winning the singer herself. Lifting Power. The lifting power of a youth of 17 is 280 pounds: in his twentieth year this increases to 320 pounds, and in the thirtieth and thirty-first years it reaches its height. 305 pounds. By the fortieth year he has decreased eight pounds, and this diminution continues at a slightly increasing rate until the fiftieth year is reached, when the figure is 830 pounds. Some Other Malady. "I have dyspepsia, but you never hear me growl about it. " "Never growl about it? Well, then, you haven't got it. "-Chicago Record - A recent suit brought in Louis ville to recover a Kentucky coon dog occupied llic attention for an entire day of a judge, six attorneys, the plain tiff and defendant, thc jury (which in cluded two Baptist ministers) and a room full of witnesses. During the lu aring of thc case the dog slept under a table in thc custody of thc sheriff. - England, Russia and France pur pose spending $(?0.000,000 on war ships this year. YACHTS OF ANTIQUITY. Qnc?r and Cowtly Pleasure Craft of Classical Times. Most historical records dealing with the sport of yachting commence with the well known quotations in Evelyn and Pepys. Reference to Thucydides and Polybius, however, proves beyond doubt that small craft built for pleasure purposes only were common enough with the wealthy Hellenes as far back as five centuries ago. The early de cades of the Nineteenth century are but dimly lit up, while the previous centuries are enveloped in almost total darkness. Here and there we come across occasional data, in old prints and books, but a connected history does not exist, and plenty of scope is left for the imagination. Suetonius is our authority for the statement that the luxurious Romans well knew and appreciated the pleasure to be derived from roaming about the seas. This writer describes at some length the display of luxury on board the Emperor Caligula's yachts. Along the upper decks there were built what would correspond with the modern deckhouses, which were fitted most sumptuously with paintings, statues and mosaics in the principal apart ments, while the bath rooms contained baths of bronze and marble, and even a library of books was carried on board Covered walks ran alongside these deck houses, with fruit trees and rows of vines planted in flowerpots, which leads one to surmise that the Romans were fair weather sailors rather than daring navigators cf choppy seas. Of the earlier Grecian yachts, how ever, our knowledge is more scanty. All the existing evidence from written sources, supplemented in a few isolated cases by evidence from material sources, still leaves ample room for deduction and conjecture. The sails used on Grecian ships were sometimes made of linen, but more often of the fiber of the papyrus and various other rushes. Thus even the American invention of ramie cloth would appear to have been forestalled The edges of the Grecian sails .were bound with hide, a system which if adopted nowadays, though perhaps not conducive to speed, would insure a ves sel sailing with sails of the same di mensions as given in the Yacht Racing association certificate. The skins of the hyena and the seal were in particular request, since sailors considered.these a sovereign means for keeping off light ning. Topsails, as part of the ordinary rig, apparently came into use about 50 A. D. The ancient mariner, who knew that he increased the ship's speed by carrying sail as high as possible, attain ed his object by hoisting up the yard, bu t seemingly did not understand the cause of this phenomenon. The style of rigging use"? on the earliest Greek vessels can be gleaned fairly accurately from the Homeric poems. The mast (histos) was support ed at its foot by a prop (hispodede) and held by two forestays (protonol) and a backstay (epitonos). The mast carried a yard (epikrion), by means of which the sail was hoisted. When the mast was lowered, the hispodede was obvious ly a kind of tabernacle-it lay in a rest styled histodoke. The presence of hal yards and brailing ropes is implied, while different terms are used for the running gear, though no definite infor mation is given as to its nature. The mast and yards were generally made of fir and occasionally of pine. The outer planking of the hull wa9 covered with a mixture of tar and wax, some paint being usually melted with the latter. Sometimes a sheathing of lead covered the outer planking, layers of tarred sailcloth being placed between the wood nnd the metal. Wooden pegs and bronze nails were used for holding together tho timbers of a ship, while girdles of cable fastened horizontally round the ship were frequently used to strengthen the hull externally. At the bottom of the hold gravel or ?stone bal last was usually carried, while the bilgewater was emptied out by means of an Archimedean screw, which wa3 worked by a kind of treadmill. Students of Virgil's "-?Eneid" will re member a particularly spirited account of a race between four Trojan men-of war off the coast of Sicily. But the earliest recorded yacht race, in the mod ern sense of the word, was one in which Charles II took part. The Merry Mon arch had a pleasure boat built for him after a Dutch model (the word yacht or jaght seems to be of Dutch origin), but with improvements, and the little ves sel earned the approbation of Samuel Pepys, the diarist, who, as secretary to the admiralty, may be supposed to have been a keen judge, and who described her as "very pretty" and as "one of the finest things that ever I saw for neat ness and room. " On Oct. 1, 1661, the king sailed her against his brother, the Duke of Yt>rk's yacht, for 100 guineas, from Greenwich to Gravesend and back, and won his wager.-Pull Mall Gazette. A Donbtfnl Sword. A story is told of a former mayor of Birmingham, England, that he gave or ders to have his robes of oifice lined with "vermin." When the late Alderman Sturge was mayor, he received a royal command to dine and sleep at Windsor. This, of course, meant court dross and a sword The court dress was reluctantly sub mitted to, but as a member of the So ciety of Friends, and, moreover, one who had greatly distinguished himself in the cause of peace, for he had formed ono of the,peace deputation to the czar before the outbreak of the Crimean war, Mr. Sturge would not consent to wear a lethal weapon. A compromise was hap pily effected. A scabbard and hilt of the usual kind were at his worship's side when the presentation to royalty: took place, but tho sword was a mere' lath of wood. Fortunately, the worthy Quaker was not called upon to draw in defense of his sovereign. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of - Have a purpose in life, and having t. throw into your work such strength if mind and muscle as God has given you. FEMALE PICKPOCKETS. They Are Meaner and Par More lie in oraelea? Thau the Men. "A woman pickpocket is a meaner thief than a man in the same line," said Detective McQuaide. "A man is usually looking for a pocket that is worth while picking and one that will not miss what is taken, hut with a woman it is different. She plies her calling among women who can ill afford to lose a dollar. The female pickpocket hangs around the market houses, large I stores and places of that sort. She is ! conscienceless. She will steal the purse of a poor woman who is buying food for her family, perhaps take from her a week's income and leave the family in want for that period. "The professional female pickpocket will do more. She may find in the purse she steals a few trinkets of trifling value, a pin or a locket containing a lock of hair, a child's ring, worn may be by a little one that is dead, worth less to her, but priceless to the owner. She will immediately take the money and throw the purse and trinkets down the nearest sewer opening, where they are lost forever. Money cannot be iden tified ; the purse and trinkets could be. "I recall with satisfaction an inci dent in which a female pickpocket fig ured She stole the purse of a poor old woman, and I arrested her shortly after the act She had disposed of the purse before I got her. There had been about $7 in cash in it and a small piece of jewelry that belonged to a dead child of the woman. The poor woman would have willingly given :the thief the mon ey in the purse and more for the return of the keepsake, but it was lost to her beyond recovery. "I worked np a fair case against the pickpocket. I got her in court, did my best to convict her, but because the purse was not found in her possession she was acquitted. Sympathy for a wo man had much to do with the verdict, but there was no sympathy for the wo man who had been robbed. It was with great regret that I saw the pickpocket walk out of the courtroom i ee. "In the corridor she met one of the jurors. He smiled, and she walked up to him and thanked him for the ver dict He assured her that that was un necessary, for he never for a moment doubted her innocence. That evening he reported to the front office the loss of his gold watch The woman had picked his pocket while thanking him for acquitting her. She got away from us. "A female pickpocket I had recently was boarding in a house on Ninth street She would say grace before ev ery meal, and she went to church at every opportunity. Her arrest was an nounced as an outrage by the family with whom she boarded They believed her to be a religious woman. Her home is in Ireland Her husband runs a small store there. She makes regular trips to the United States for the purpose of picking pockets, shoplifting and open ing satchels. She had with her when we arrested her blank drafts on an Eng lish bank She sent her stealings reg ularly to her husband in Ireland She operates almost entirely among poor women. Jurors have so much misplac ed sympathy when a woman is the prisoner that it is difficult to convict her. yet a professional female thief is the meanest cf all thieves. '"-Pittsburg News. The Peasant Waa Taught. A peasant presented a parcel for dis patch to an official iu the central post office of Triest and was roughly told that it could net be received, as it was improperly done tip. The peasant in quired how it ought to be done up. and the official sharply replied that it was not his business to tell him. Here a gentleman intervened on the peasant's behalf, but was told by the official that if he had any fault to find he had bet ter complain to the superintendent The gentleman did so, but was told that postal officials could not be expect ed to teach the public and that if he was not satisfied he had better com plain to the director. The gentleman thereupon pulled out a card and said: "I have no time to go to the director. 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