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FRANK P. BEARD, Publisher. Liffi ; '-. ',' -"FWM 1 .. . ? i$-M: il t vol. xi. tiiiiMii? TWO DOLLARS A YEAR .'I' ;"*-!T 1 !*' J A * ?v * : iDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1883 ftt a nicl'aitcholy tone, "Tm getting quite discouraged oVor this dourr' ?quoth' I, pausing i? my musical effort. "You ; surprise me 1 ,Whe*v you, view that ?. (jhero I took an oratorical ' zfy attitude oh the ^hearth-fug amfc-waxed ^ tragical in 'Voico and gesturdjl Vou should feel tho joy that acatn^treMcs feel g?r?.nnoU?c?a, hen difficulties get too obtrusive and generally looks like a rather solemn I'll tell you^ what ^ve decided on," :d a momont lateiV poking my head vwo door, "that "we get married I I ?shall go down to tho Metropolitan bazaar Smx* y.Wss g "Donl I ?lns aim very I'll go for said1 broken ^ *t. ; aw thai 'would have been reassuring, bat th*L instead of going, he gazed at his hand on which there was a Bleeding out about a quarter of an inch long, and raurmufing something about the sight of blood always making him sick, sank into a chair with as, pallid 'a face as his com panion. " Oh, mother, mother 1'?- cried I, rush ing through tho hall and opening thd Chris, " said around; "Were husbands?" "Yes, I was," I thom both down. racket you made coming in, B^erry, without looking you tho other has swooned." "What is the matter? dragging in our 'u "I knocked ours is dead, and What does the child mean? " cried the two at once, but without waiting for a? 1 ?***' I drew thom down ny further the bfflp and thrust them into the parlor to see for themselves. Merry is a born niireO, and Boon she. was flying around with bandages and pitchers of Water, while tho physician (who I believe only came home with me because he thought me raving mad and to bo re ,r with, ondering if ?nd all of it all.tovpd around theidtckon, all the doprs tightly closed, wonder "t could have killed them both, as the while almost distracted by a silly rhyme Will Clare had warbled to us tho night bofo?p. Over and over it went in my mind: ' jpSBbI? laying violent for mon 44 The Q rand Marnh'jah of- Calcutta, &'saiaa>sw?.,,',,sutu' "Oh. Mcrrv said I. hands on her as she came for mdre water, "is he Acad? Havo I, like Lamech, 'slain a young man to my wounding, and?'" ? ? " How can you laugh t" ub began, re proachfully. " Why, you're crying I" "I should 'think I might," I said, heavily. "I never killed auy one be and tho other li Poor fellow I he's just had a in his hotel with a broken arm, anc it's broken again, I'm afriM," ^^mg And so it wasj and a low, nervous fever accompanying, ho didn't leavo mother's kind care. It wasn't likely sho was going to sond him to his hotel and tho caro *>f hirelings alone whon hOr daughter had caused it all. Q jL aA^ . r * do tixB wnvio itself to tho new state physician cumo regularly, a trained nur$o glided around with potions of all kinds, and Frank Oakley ran in afad out, bring* ing to his suffering friend all sorts of delicacies that . he couldn't eat, and exhibiting through jt all' a cheerfulness thnt I considered heart less, while Merry Bald it was best to be cheerful in a sick room. I believo " Roy," as the rost used to call Wild that it required two or tbreeto give him ahything ho did not want. $o mother and Merry used to rwisist . tho nurso, make ministering calls and lave his fevered brow, but I, novor. ; It was enough for mo to be haunted by the remembrance of hi* ghastly faco upon sofarpillow As I had seen it last, add then, too, how could I be sure but that there was method in his mad ness, and ho might greet mo with Mr. George Sampson's sublimo reproach : " Demon, ^wltli oil rcspect for you, behold But thero was an end put tq that* One fa^ed day I was prowling around mny; listening to his ravings when %ith >he , dreadful havo mo Conla and HmSF7 iBa JPdP help ine givevhhn is taklnga |S hands off ? - Bute enou, witiii: that vdor. Tho nurse Merry out ridid| riend under the momont frenzied " Mabel." From tlfc bottom ot lttyhoart I ochoed their fervency. ;How I wished Mabel would appearand tako my place* then, of my bowildcttteWii * ifc I LI put a s; sand said, soo Pita is, and sho's 1 to help your poor ed his mouth for that agitated meekly as a lamb, and, after g to me that ho was *0 glad I uo/he couldn't trust? one of these 'oiks, fell into a t* ubled ale AwthtmoLlHm niHWfav jlore me nc*. to leave him, Mother med to think this a fortunate whim, to mo It was Intently embarrassing. ??[ aii the sweet othor young I told you Sho was his Iforyeara," soberly fc* i hall after meant sehd tot Mahol. relatives. hair that nil once when to marry and ^"SartaUy'P ?UggHng with an Obstl ton until I was b] Merry, thought out her beautiful do you remember laconically, shoe but mm "unless, as usual, blunders by^conaoling that poor downstairs, It occurred to ^finished 1 it I popped < had hut asleep not mo aftotward that Merry her remarks that time, out tho Hght aftd was o minutos*|^nyway, sho Offered to consots our poor to do that myself and dnlualonl b," bo wall W for a but those [ ooeddered that the youth was out of hla I Mind, but after "reason resumed her ?we j* the hallucination remained all through the long, Blow convalescence that lcould sheke up pillows more sci entifically than any one else, compound more delicious drinks, and was an extra" Ordinarily good nurse generally. I must say that Merry bore my exalta tion to her particular office with remark able composure, and I tried not to grow vain but carry my honors meekly. But it was good to be to appreciated, even if ! I was conscious that it was but a delusion to which there must come an end. 'It was good to care for jentlean invalid, one so wonderfully grateful for the least attention. And so the winter wore .away, and the leaves Were swelling in- their Stooiifci " ltow lovely it is to-night!" said my patient, trirmng slowly away from the window at my stern command. . "I will not bo tyrannized over so any longer, Hiss Ohrissio. ? I'm nearly woll, and the frerhair seems so good. It's so long since I've been' outdoors. ' Why, it was show ing that day. and now its Bpringtimel" - Nearly well I Bo he was, aud would be ["going away. Strange I had not thought of tnat before. It didn't -^matter, of course. If only that boy outside would stop that dreary whistling and go away? | "Oh, t dare say," I remarked, turning nes8.^3fff , !!SHSS "Miss Chrissie, you must not spe&kin ] that way. Don't knock that fire entirely to pieces. Come here ; I want to tell you something." That waq pretty good, wasn't it! After I I had ordered him around for so longana ,| had never been used to minding any one. But I went, though I etill kept the tongs that I might clatter them if the "some thing" should be, of an exciting nature. But somehow I lorgot to clattcr them. Would I, could i take this that was offered to mot Only the old home? wouldn't they miss naughty Chris? and hadn't I promised Merry never to leave her? " What is it ?" said 1/ UgMly, looking stonily at the outstretched hands. . " Oh, the tongs ! Yea* you can have them." So he took the proffored tongs and the, trembling fingers that held them, request ing me at the santijfjtnoment to "be seri ous a moment, my?" "Oh, don't you aak mo to be serious. I never could, 1 don't wish to," I broke in, hurriedly. "Hear Merry and Mr. Oakley laugh 1 They areb't sorioue. I'm going over there. tSook out. you'll drop the tongs I" and I ran quickly across the hall to the parlor door. - * speared, without doubling him h? Mia' "Is it you,, sister Chrissie ! MetMhas been telling ipe the object of your 6$jj>e dition.on that day I first had the pleasure of beholding you. It wa* kind In you to take so much trouble for Hoy, but you'll mind, I'll forgiyo you/' You may come 'and kiss if. you like." t ? , . '? m t'Wm blushing like a sweet blush-roso. j HOW haypy tnoy were J how horribly cheer ful i * v.- 'V. And through the half-oloscd door across tho lm!l I could sea the firelight gleaming on tho bent head supported by | ono thin, ywhito hand. Turning swiftly, I went and, entering tho room holselefcbly, kholt beside the motionless figure, laying my check against the thin hand lying so still on the chair arm. "An It please you, I've cOmo back," I whispered, laughingly, with quivering ftps, " and I feel horribly sorious. May I stay?" Now this is R4 far as this *tory is going', J for, iff you don' t soo how Merry began it, you never will. Merry says that, after rafting at stories. I have ended this by ? >?arr i env|wfj|(ke| ut I don't think that I've observed that to mention two girlB w.: never to marry. Never I o A Bi^fceW~3t6ck Trrintn/) correspondent describes tho waiters at the Yellowstone Parte hotel in this way: The men who wait on the tables have never done similar service, before.* They m-0 taken from the stabled, ffom the sawmill, from tfo mines, f^qm God knows where, and they seem to perform tho service witha co only eqyaled by the freedom M-zir^h.tharra?iissj led, It seems, and are quick to re sent any insult, fancied or otherwise, ' to theMjonso of maohoo&| 6uoh,<;crtainly, i was tho experience of one of our friend^ a peace-loving, inoffensive Dutch mer chant la tho India trade, who happened id arouse in a father curious mannor tho or fifteen minutc?, |?tietotly waiting for Bomd ono to remove the dishes which had accumulated lh front of him, In order to reach some dessert which lay hlddon underneath a pllo of plates. Innocently enough, snd with the best intention, I am sure, he placed some of the dfshos on the floor at hi* tide, ate his pudding, or whatever It was, drank his coffee ami de parted, content with himself snd At , p$ace with alVthe world* fa At this crltf eal moment the waiter arrived upon the scene. You ought to have seen the anger and disgust depicted In his face as he oeheld the plates at his feet. The foreigners who saw him, I dare say, fully expected him then and thoro to draw a revolver from his pocket and avenge the indignity offered to his person in the blood of tho poor Hollander* Who was Jutt then enjoying a quiet smoke on the plana outside, littlo8ii*]>eetlng the storm 1 raised Within. Tho waiter gen re to do anything violent, himself by muttering In a loud enough fbr everybody feet of him to hoar, Tib he the dishes: " If I was a Dutch prince rd have banners, blamed if I< wouldn't; Just feel like hitting him in the jaw. with a.platet"(^ v "!?. 1 ; Cotton ^ California The first cotton factory in California is to be erected in AUmodif? county, company's capital is 1600,000- Most of from Call CAPTTJBB OP JEFFEB D??crlb?>d brthelYTntaSrcrelarroll the Coulfderoto frwrtiwii. Buxton N. Harrison, Jefferson Davis' private secretary, was an eyo-witnesa of the Confederate president's capture: and describea.it in the Century aa follows: 4i We were taken by surprise, and" not ono of ua exchanged a shot with the ene my. Colonel Johnson tells mo that he was the first prisoner taken. In a mo ment Colonel Pritchanl rodo directly to me, and pointing across tho creek Md : 'What does that mean? Have yoU; any men with you?' Bnpposing the Wiring was done by our teamsters, I replied : 1 Of course we have ? don't you heat tho firing?' He seemed to be nottfod at the reply, cave tho order, 'Charge,* and boldly led tho way himself across tho creek, nearly every man in his comniand | following. ' Our camp was thus left de- j sorted for a fow minuses, oxcept by one I mounted soldier near Mrs. Davia* tent | (who was afterward said, to havo been ; stationed thero by Colonel Pritcliard in passing) and bv the tfowf troopers who stopped to ptun-l dor our wagons. I had been sleep ing upon tho samo side of tho road J with the tent occupied by Mrs. Davis, nud was then standing very ncatf it. Looking there I saw her come out 4nd heard her say something to the soldier mentioned; perceiving she wanted to move off, I approached and actually | perauaded.thc fellow to move away. As tho 'soldier moved into the road, and I walked beside his horse, tho president I emerged for the first timo from tho wit. j at the side farther from us, and w?n' away into the woods to tho eastward, And at right arigles to the road. *? Presently, looking arqpnd and ob- . serving somebody had come out of the tent, .the soldier turned his horse's head | and, reguphiog the ppot he had first < again approached bjr; id him incpnvc one or pbrhapatwo'pl either had lagged. I and weft Apt Oomir had atiihftt moment the other (tho west) , " them had itilah to P stefcd, instead oharging creek. Thoy remained 04 back) and soon became, violent language with Mw. Davis. . >""* to Hial t'- was called out . by one < to the president. It was not obeyed, was ouiokly repeated in> lout" several times, it least OP* of tt then threatened to flro^^flMjiil (Mlrbino at tho president. " Mrs. Davis, overcomo with. out in apprehension, and tho (who haq now walked sixty or paces away into the unobstructed w< turned around and came 'hack rapidlv hit wife rttfar the tent. .. At least 6no of | t^i. ' soldiers continued his violent lan guage to Mm. Davis, and tho president re proaohod him for such conduct toi her, When one of them, seeing the faoe of the president, as he stood near and was talk ing, Sftid: 'Mr. Davis, surrender! Ire cognize you, sir.' Pictures of the presl- i dent were so comiribn that nearly 6r ulte every man in both armies knew his ?c?, , ' "It witfs, ad yet. scarcely daylight. " The president had on a waterproof | oltrtk. He had used it, when riding, as a protection- against tho rain during the night and morning preceding that last halt: and he had probably been Sleeping I in that cloak at tho moment when the camp was attaokod. "While all theso things jjero happen ing, Miss Howell and* tft chlM.cn remained within the otWr tent. Tho gentlomon of qur party had, with the single exception of Captain Mood^, all slept on the west side or the road and in or near the wagons. They wore, hq far as I know, paying no attention to What was going on at tho tents, I have since talked with Johnston, Wood and Lub bock) and with others, about these mat-? tote; and t have not found there Was any one except Mrs. Davis, tho single trooper at her tent, and myself,' Wl^o saw all that octfafrod and heard all that was said at tho time. Any ono else who' give* an account of it hashed to isly upon hearsay or hlsjmaglnation fgjjjMfr l*17" ,? ?? The Bage fot Old BuWfcr Shoos. . 'Another singular object of interest1) ^gtolorw.g MMi6 of ftnd mrlty, ta olfl .guw shoes; not the gum shoe as knows tho pyosent generation, but the gum i. ? , . *ir4*?Oitroduc6d and1 Woib . hy, our fathers and mother^. Perhaps nWo ten ths of tho living of to day in tho Uni ted States never Baw.oijo of them. They I ci pally from Ilrn7.il, ancl'Jyere i tho Indians, casting tho fluid ")cr jin clav molds shaped Something like a foot* Tho outside was then fcorcd in some way with all torts of fantastic de signs, the shoe smoked tilt it yas blaek, These than , to get thcin rvrever, 4$ cut when | boilod, was then fit for expo shoes were doubly, of moil thoso of to them on ahd a Worse lal off. They were much by tho boys, who foun nicoly into thin tWpe, wound into balls'and rolL made 4' bouncers" that far exceeded the primitive sturgeon's nose with yarn wrap pings. These old-fashioned india'rnbbor | shoes are now nearly aa scarce as the fabled hen's teeth, but aw yet to be found at rare intervals, stowed away in lofts or forgotten rubbish holes in houses In the seaboard cities. A pnir found re cently in the wino vault of ftn old man sion on Front street, above Lombard, after passing through the hands of sev- 1 eral persons Ignorant of their commer cial value, were Anally picked up at 4 trlflo by a dealer in bric-a-btao, who sold thorn for $60 to a well-known banker, and they now aid to decorate the draw ing room of one of the costliest, and most richly furnished mansions in WestJ Philadelphia. ? Philadelphia OdU . Nothlrtf in II h Tho Spanish h<ivo a proverb: "The man who stumbles tWlee on thb Hne stone is a fool." There may be some thing very profound in that, but wo fail to seo It. We can't see why one good Atone, that will outlast a dozen lifetimes, isn't just as good fv?r a man to do all his stumbling over a* a groat expensive col lection of miscellaneous stones, so widely I scattered that a lost car agont couldn't ] keep track of half of them. The Span , lards ate a well-meaning People, but you can't expect very much of a people who spell ?' Hortay" with a "i?~D*rUngton VmuUtit. .j ^ I The north cent to elevated platea *" ove * . .. . . A Family of Headsmen. M. Delbler, the French executioner, If a man of forty-eight years, -with an ener getic face, mustache ana thick beard. Ho looks like a peasant in a great cost. M. Deibler succeeded his father-in-law, the celebrated Rooh, who died a few years ago. He began his work in Algeria, when he married; then he was executioner in Brittany, but now since he succeeded M.Roch he attends to all 'tne wOrkin Trance. Fortunately for him and for the criminals he has very little to do, for President Grevy is op posed to capital punishment, and during the past five years he has signed only eight death-warrants, In 1871-72 and *78 bis predecessor "operated" forty-three times. Formerly the French executioner was paid $1,000 a year, but the pay has now peen reduced to $1,800. . When, by chance, M. Delbler operates ho is allowed so much a mite for traveling expenses and a perquisite of $40. lie has two aids ana a third laborer, who is specially charged to see that the guillotine is kept clean. He is called " the washer." An other perquisite for the headsman is that Us oldest son is exempt from military duty. . . wtikv, l - M. Deibler lives in onslfttf the popu lous quarters of Pur is. near the Saint Louis hospital. This nouse, in the Rue Yicq-d'Azir, adjoins the police headquar ters of the tenth arrondissement. "Mon sieur de Paris," as -he is' called, lives on ,the second floor in a small and modestly furnished apartment. The servant who opens the door with a timid air, is th? of One of the headsman's aids. At comer of the chimney place sits the other-in-law, a small and shriveled old lAdy Of ninety-one years. Then oomes Mme. Deibler, a buxom woman of forty, with an open and attractive countenance, and who must have been Very pretty in her. younger days. /We have said that sho was H. Koch'a daughter*, all ths headsmen belonging to the samo family by succession or by alliance, fathers: ana sons, always marrying inaldo the famjly,' S, as not to allow the family inheritance escape from , their hands,-^se<o? Ga ulle. i ' .wA'U ""I'''1*#, Shot The followingjile one of the most affect ing incidents in*t?e history of the tole graph: " Howard An go, an operator pKWfi sixth corps line, met With a partiouiarly sad fate in tho Shenandoah valley in Au gust, 1604," writes J. D. Cluindlcr in the Washington Pott. " General Sheridan had taken command and moved whead quartera from Harper'? Ferry to Gharlea ton. The sixth cojgDft was out on the Berryvillo road above Halltown^vhere tho two roads and lines met. Arapv had been stationed with his wagon and in m - enemy* be near, and wagons and troops were constantly, passing; therefore no guard was left with the operator. Ono warm, drowsy afternoon the operator at Sheri dan's headquarters was receiving a mes- . sage. from tnq sixth corps through Ango. Suddenly the instrument stopped. Then it went on a half minuto spasmodically \j and incoherently. A short pause again ; then it slowly but olearly spoiled oui ?S ? h ? o? t.' V ' Good heavens!' cried the head quarters operator, ? poor Ange is shot.* , " A How do you know ?' demanded an aide who was near. " ' Becailife his instrument has said so md stopped.* ''fifcfrift horsemen quickly leaped over the four miles to the place. They found Ange's wagon ? standing Quietly in tl|0 shade. Tho/ looked in and saw tne oporator sitting dead, with the nerveless hand which had. sent its last messago still upon tho' Jay. HO- had been shot through thd breast bV?non vylio fired through the cover of the wagon and escaped.' Apart, from the startling character . of tho fatality itself just described, and the sublimity of ,a sudden fall at the 'post of man's last word uttored distinctly a dis tance of four hdjes. ? YotUhU Companion, wl BlWTT"' ~ * morning;, it will day, turn sorrcfw hold business S Along more the one who* f t6 the on o ? WW ? Speak kindl; kindly at-the even hou*, for ti!| bhat -before dawn of ' inothor day Tho following dftHSlbns ftro given for the preservation of fiOWSW in their form , and color; Insert fholr stems in water | in which twentyrfive grains ofvaipmonl* urn dhloride (Sal ammonia) have been dis solved. Flowers- can be preserved in this way from fifteen to thirty days. ? To preserve them permanently for sovoral months, dtp them Into perfectly llmgtt gum water, and then allow them The gum forms a Complete coating on tho stems and petals, and preserves their shape and oolor long aftor they have be come dry. ? ? - ' ? - : A Green Ann. M A remarkable phenomenon has been observed lately at several places in the Madras and Bombay presidencies, and has oaused much interest ? (ihe Indian correspondent of the T%m*t says), min gled with not a little alarm among tho Hupertftitious. For some days the sun presented a distinctly green color. Sev eral explanations have been put forward, of which the most plausiblo appears to be that offered by the government astron omer?that It Is due to the passago aorosi Southern India of clouds of. sulphuroui vapor from tho Java volcano. From tfie point where the Sfeloe enter* Paris at BorCy until It leave? tho oitj limits again near Auntenil, i distatieo oi about eight miles, both its banks art bordered by a Continuous line of quals; well paved l^i out stOne, and its wateri are spapnod by ho fewer than twenty eight bridges, {he newest of which w?? only recently completed, at a cost of about $*50,000. RISs&H. ? ij n ii Mii i i'f ir ii ri .? ? k'AA factory In Savannah, ?a., Is making fourths a day of wrapping paper ont oi h( Oats ire ***? *'?" * ** "**????? ? that tivilL. V*.ds/ ' >1!: "'V. A ' '?/ mw 3Eht % *? * : %' A. Feathered Shepherd. In South America there ia a very beautiful bird called the agami, or the golden-breasted trumpeter. It la about an large in body u one of our common barnyard fowl, but aa it hits longer lege and a longer neck it seems much larger. Its general color is black, but the plumage on the breast ia beautiful beyond. description, being what might be called' iridescent, changing, as it con tinually does, from a stcel-bluo to a rod gold, and glittering with a metallic luster. In its wild state the agami is not pe culiar for anything but its beauty, its ex traordinary cry, which has given it tho name of trumpeter, and for an odd habit of leaping with comical antics into tho air, apparently for its own amusement. When tamed, however? and it soon learns to abandon ita wild ways ? it usu ally conceives a violent attachment for ita master, and, though very jealous of his affection, endeavors to please him by a solicitude for the woll-being of all that belongs to him, which may fairly bo termed benevolence. It is never shut up at night as the other fowl are, but, with a weu-desorved liberty, is y rmitt ed to take up ita quar ters where it pleases. ? In the momlng, it drives the duckajjg* tho water and the chickens to their feeding-ground ; >#nd if any should presume to wander they are quickly brought to a sense of duty by a sharp reminder from the stroma; beak of the vigilant agami. At night jpe iaith ful guardian drives its charge home again. Sometimes it is given tho care of a flock of sheep; ana, though it may seem too piiny for such a task, it 'is in fact' Suite equal to H. The misguided sheep lat tries to trifle with tho agami soon has cause to repent the ' experiment; for, with a swiftness unrivaled by any dog, the. feathered shepherd darts after the runaway, and with wings and beak drives it back to its placo, not forgetting to im press upon tho olfender a sense of its error by pecks with its beaks. ?" Should a dog think to tako advantage of the seemingly unguarded condition of the sheep ana approach them with evil design the agam&makes no hesitation about rusliiug at him and giving combat. And it must be a. good dog that will overcomo,the brave Bird. Indeed, most dogs are so awed by tho fierce onset of tho agami, accompanied by its strango cries, that they incontinently turn about and run, fortunate If they escape un wounded from tho indignant creature. At moal-times it walks into the house and takes its position near its mastor, seeming to ask for his caresses. It will not permit the presence of any other pet in fhe room, ana even resents tho intru sion of any servants not belonging there, driving oi^t all others before it will be contented^ Like a well brod dog, it does not clamor for food, but waits with dignity until lis wants have been satis fied. ? St. Nicholas v , Thrown Into the Potomac. A Washington letter to tho Cincinnat Commercial Gem ita says: It is believed by man&,that tho dredgers now at work in tho Potomac river improving the flats may find the marblo block presented to this country by Popo Pius IX, for the Washinprton monument, which was stolen during the Know Nothing excitement in 18J54, and' thrown overboard. . The Pott prints the following account of the affair, as related by ono of three survivors of the nino who mado away with the stone : "Nino of us did tho job on Sunday night, Maroh 5, 1904. Wo attended a meeting of the Know Nothing order, to which we all belonged, on the Tuesday .night previous. There was a good deal of speaking going -on about the shame of. having, a stone. from any Hing or1 poten tate inserted in the monument of a man who had fought, against royal tyrafiny, and finally it was agreed that ni$6 men should be selected * Dy lot to destroy the stone. I got ono of the pritosv Bc tweoj* 12 and 2 O'clook on tho Sufaday nightJ'tf following! ; we went over to the monument. It if as pretty dark* but t wo of u* Were blacked in the faoe. and' detailed to look after > the watchtnatf %i the box. One of the men'WeM tip to .tho box, looked in, and found the watchman reading by a lamp. He rammed his nistptin the hole, ahd told hinTto keoplUfNjeat and he Would not be harmed. The otftfir man i tied a irope around the box. The' mata with the pistol stayed there until our return. Tho other one helped u? in the work of *'hg the stone away. It was about feet by one and a half foot in size, a peculiar kind 6t ,white looking Iftatfile, striped, and with* Latin in scrip, tion, in gilt letters, on it. With soriio ekids, bars and blocks, which wo fpund On' ' the grounds, ?? we rolled it from where it. was, lying in an Old shod at the foot of the monUv ment, down the^ill, t? a ?co\y that was moored in tho canal bAsin, now known aa ?Babcock's Lake.' After some little troublowogot it safely oh board and started out of fhe basin and idto tho river and down the Washington channel until within about fifteen yards of the Long Bridge draw. While on tho way down we chopped a piece off one corner of the stono, about the *lze of two bricks, with A slodgo hammer, each taking a small pleco. When we got near the bridge a cehfedorato gave us a signal that all was 0. K. by swinging a red lantern from tho bridge. We then eased the stone over tho side of the scow, and away it Went with a splash to tho bottom of the river. We then went back in a scow to the i monument, relieved the man who wm standing guard over the watchman, out the rope around the watoh box quietly, and scattered in different directions for our homes. That's i he true story of the Khole transaction. The stono has never ton found to .this day, but I guue? the dredges will get It when they commence to deepen that part of tho river." Southern loftgevlty. ? .Southern longevity should famish a good field for tho lifo companies, .if cen tenarians are any evidence of average longevity. A correspondent of the Mobile (Ala.) writing from Baldwin county, says: just thiuk of a county con taining threo living beings whose ages aggregate 886 years. Their names aro: Sylvia Lambert, 118 years; Mary English 110 years; and Peter Hall, 118 years. I obtained the ages from the judge of pro bate for Baldwin oounty. a man of un doubtod integrity, who. by the way, is a remark ablo man himself, being upward of eighty years of age, and still croct and aetive. He thinks nothing of riding thirty-six miles on horseback to marry a couple, aba then fettirn to Howards in time for mpper. Again, there is Howard HOW MAILS ARE LANDED. ??' ' r y *?>? Tiny craft that Ce-Operntc* V l(h the Ocean Carrier*. A Now York Telegram man recently \ sauntered down tho wharf o? tho Cuuartl j lino. The big steamer had been reported | carY on tho provioua evening, and her . mail had already boon distributed ' throughout the city. Tho reporter ox- ! pected to find the ship snugly docked I and tho passengers disembarking at the i hour of 10 a. m., but such was not tho i caso. At tho end of tho wharf was lying tho William Fletcher, that ubiquitous steam- I boat met at steamship arrivals, depart ures, regattas, excursions, fires, wrecks, I etc. In tho pilot house that ho has filled j for nearly fourteen years sat Captain J. G. Emmons, and him tho reporter ac- ' coeted : " Where is tho steamer ? "Outsldo tho bar." " Why is sho not in ?" "Tho tide was too low when sho arrived there, and when it roso tho foe shut lfbr out. " "But her mail is up ?" "Oh, yes; we brought it from her near tho lightship and landed it hero at 9 o'clock last ovenlng." And then tho captain explained that tho European mail was brought to town ' and placod in the hands of readers while j yet the stoamor that brought it was far j out at sea. * 'When a eteamor is due," said tho captain, " we aro ordered to be at the wharf of tho company, to which tho telegraphic report 'rom Flro Island or Sandy Hopk is immediately eont. We must have steam up and tho crow on board when lying for a steamer at night, as tho competition is so great between ?tho fast mail linos that they will broolr ho delay. Bo you soo that lam virtually a prisoner here much of my timo. "We start immediatclyi no matter what tho weather? ice, anow, gales, fog ?wo must at least ui&ko an attempt. But. wo soldom fail to get tho mail up ahead of tho stoamor if tho telegraph gives us prompt notice of arrival. Thoy I do not always do this, howovcr. "Our first stop is at tho bargo offico, I whore wo tako on board an officer of cus- j toms to see that nothing but mail is takon from tho ship. Then wo mako all ha8to toward tho ship, mooting hor at quarantine of beyond tho bar, as tho case ? may be. If a gale is blowing wo tako tho windward shore for smooth water, j If tho ice is runrJng we try to avoid it ; ! if we cannot got around it wo crash through it. I was onco about two hours j getting from tho Battery to tho Cunard dock with a mail on board. If it is foggy we proceed at half speed by com pass, sounding tho whistlo frequently, ! listening for bolls, horns and whistles, j and occasionally using tho lead. I had J * qtieor experience once in tho fog. I ' , towed a vessel to sea safely and loft her , off tho lightship. Wo then groped our i way back to tho Hook and steered for a j steamer's anchor boll in tho lower bay. I It proved to be tho Parthia, for which we I were to wait that night. Tho officers 1 thought we camo down to look 'for them and congratulated us upon our skill in a fog. Vvo put tho mail 'on board and found our way to the city before tho fog lifted. But sometimes wo go to quaran tine or sea upon a falso report. Occa sionally wo find tho stoamor aground or disabled when we reach Her, and so aro able flfo render immediato assistance. Yes: wo frequently tako off tho mail outflido in a heavy sea. I nevor lost a bag of mail matter. " Aftor tho mail is all on board and Bnugly stowed away out of tho wot wo take an officer of tho steamer on board and mako all hasto for tho city. The mails aro taken ashore and loaded in Hugo trucks and rattled away to tho post offlco. Wo havo or many as 800 bags at onco. Tho ordinary number now is 800 to 400 bags. When I first wont into tho mail business in tho Goorgo Birj^back, twenty years ago, $horo was not so large a number. J'hon tho steamer would anchor in the stream, fire a gun, and we would -go for her. Wo would take tho dozen bags or more to the old barge office." throw thom into an express wagon, and, if no horso was ready, run them to tho postoffico ourselves. Tho Australian and Now Zealand mails usually doublo tho ; quantity of bags. Sometimes wo take these malls out to a stoamor bound for Europe," _ ~T ? ? . A Barefooted Groom. About twenty years ago a young fol low named Johnson, In the wilds ef tho Cheat motfn tains In West Virginia, made up his mind to bo married. "But you have not a penny," remon strated Ilia fricrul H. ? ' I havo my hands. A man wa* given hands? one to scratch for himself, the other for his wife," he ?aid. ' v On the day of the wedding Johnson appeared in a whole coat ana trousers, but; barefooted. , "TWf la' hardly doctfhy said the cler gyman. "J will lend you a pair of ?hoes.". ? ? "No," said Johnson; "when I can buy shoes I will wear thorn? not before." And he stood up to bo married with out any. thought of his feet. The same sturdy oonduot showed it self In his future courso. What he had not monoy to pay for ho did without. Ho hired himsolf to a farmer for a year's work. With tho monoy he saved ho bought a couple of acres of timber land and apair of sheep, built himsolf ? a hut, and 'went to work on his grouqd? His sheep increased. As time flow by ho bought more,' then ho sold of! the cheaper kind and Invostod In Southdown ?. ? merino. His neighbors lived by turns raising cattle, horses, or gave their attention to experimental fanning. Johnson, having once found that sheep-raising in his district brought a handsomo profit, stuck to. It. Ho had that shrewdness In seeing the bwt way and that dogged ponrlstattoe lp following it which aro the surest elemotit* of suc cess. Btook-huyers froT> the Eastern mar ket found that Johnson's fleeces wore tho finest and his mutton the sweetest on tho CJhoat. He never allowed their rep utation to fall; the end of which couwo is, the man who married barefooted is now worth a largo property. The story is an absolutely true one, and may i>oint a moral for tho hordes of stout, able-bodied men who crowd tho cities, complaining that thoy must starve for want of work. . x.: ! ijf ; ' total *feA of German empirt la ?! totA* populations nn"vmI rtvenrie about $165, 000,000 ; nnntial expenditure about '?% H n Soven now hotels, .four with i.ooo tooma oach, ate being built in Tendon. tawfe? / The Gazette Job Printing Office . U wrras prepared ttan wr ??** e?*s la tsva. tomidWU tt*nxeet?tti*etlviet?lee#vwf ?wwHf Moo or Job PrtaMof. tucta m FwphleU, I BtU Dudis Uttw u4 Mote netdi.' Utr'Mta, < vsssaattiissatsssg',;- : Av. ????* ? ? v ' Work ton* In BrooM, Bad, BbMUOlM The public nuit remember U?t the bMt l? ?lwv? tb? CftMpK. We do work ?t Cherlirton Wwi, mad rumata* entire ?attstactiou to our petrous. . ~ . We keep coustaatiy oo hud fee l?HS*t i>ai> o? l^pera aoil 0?n'?lu tonu. WAIT* '*,? .? Tho winter scaroe is o\ er, ( Borne snowflakes tarried yet; When in a garden oorner A little root I set The friend who seat it promised That it would surely bring: To me bodm" fragrant treasures Boforo the flight of spring. And patiently I waited, A a April came and went, And May taught all the aong bird* A song of sweet content. But bonny spring de-parted, And Juno tho roses brought, And, savo two tender green loaves, Tho rootlets gave mo naught. * 4 An'd so my m?m'ry lost it, And summer a'so passed, When in tho garden oorner, One day I found, at last, A very pearl of lilies? A snow-white flower gem Wit h conscious beauty trembling Upon a graceful stem. Oh I weary hearts, tako courage, With Faith and Fationcu wait ; Though sown to blossom early, Full many joys bloom late. The blessings due iu spring-timo May lingor on the way, And, liko my pearl of lilies, Make sweat an autumn day, , ? ? Margaret Eylinge. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS Used up-? A -weather vane. Church music is not difficult to ? choir. Not leveled by love ? The rank o ? an onion. The . for putting the } has , again. ? Boston Star. The balloon that wilt not go up la not good for ascent. A stitch in Time must make the ol4 chap feel sow-bow. " bhut up for a season ? Tho pepper-box? ? New York Journal Takes tho cako? tho tramp'. ' He also takes anything else ho can fasten hia talons on, from tho hon-house to the clothes-line. } A million bats arooaid to live in the dome of tho court-houso at Brenham, Qa. What a bonanza for a baseball club.? Oil City Bliezard. Darwin says that tho monkoy can blush. IIo certainly ought to when he sees tho way his descendants are cutting tip. ? Burlington Free Pre*". It is Said thero aro 20,000 Bpurious sovereigns In circulation in England. France has hud Bcvcral, but most of them have died oil. ? Loicell Courier. The baseball season is over, but, thank' ncavon, we can kcop up our supply of cripples bo long as the banana remains in tho market. ? New York Dispatch. A Georgia woman has finished ft bed quilt containing 1,000 yafds of thread and 2,400 patches. Tho quilt has also just about finished the woman. ? Hawk eye. "Thoro was a great deal of floating capital at tho sonside reBortalaBt fummer," said a Wall street man. 4 'Do.' you mean millionaires' cash ?" "No, sir; I moan tho hieiroPSC9 in bathing." ' Ilerr Fleiszig wanted to leavo tho city by tho last tram; not knowing, when it left ho sent his servant to seo, saving: "John, go down to tho depot and see when the last train goes, and hurry back and toll mo." . John went off, and did not return for ' more than two houss, when ho rushod back into tho rootaj all out of breath. " Whero in tho namo of Gambrinus have you been all this timet1' demanded tho master. "Train Just loft, sir ? this vory minute, " waa John's brokon reply. ? New York Neioa, A White Mountain Joke. During the past summer a handsome young man and a mischievous, young lady were among tho guests at a White Moun tain hotol. The young man was teased by his frionds on account of his hablt^f lunching just before going to bed. One evening he found a large paper bag of crackers on his table. Ilasnly [jumping to tho conclusion that the mischievous yonng lady had made him tne gift, he went on tiptoe to the door 6t tier room and tossed a cracker through' the open transom. Tho room was dtttkj but the crackor's fall was followed ; by a slight scuffling. Ho pausod a moment, ana then threw a second and a.^hlrq* Kach time a rustling was heard, r but no one spoke. Having tossed tno entire con tents of the bdg into the'room, the young man stole away, and as/ to 'left the corridor mot the young ladv coming to her room. Troubled In his, mind, he made inquiries the next morning as to the effeot of his bombardment, and learfiod to his horror that the first craoker .^hrown had landed on the head of the foung lady's grandmother, an infirm old lady of noarly eighty, who . wa% at tho moment kneeling by her bedside engaged In her devotions. Much alarmed, sho had risen to hor feet, only to t'ecoive a second shot. She had then retreated to *, a corner; ^ut being further assailed, and not being able to form any idea of the nature and origin of the mysterious missiles, . she had finally crept under the bed, where sho was discovered in aforlorn contWtlOft'hy her astonished grandchild. ?Bfnton AdurtUer. - v 1 ' - '? i ? v Seeing with a Rabbit's Byes. A remarkable operation was perform** by Dr. Eugene Smith yesterday, like subject was Fred Meyers, aged nineteen. Who had been totally Wind for several years on account; of An inflammation which cattsed thd lowor lid of eaoh eye to grOw over the, ball and pxipil. Dr. Smith's operatfift" yesterday consisted first of dlaseotlHV%Way the overgrown lid, In dping this tho , conjunctiva, or mucous membrane, necessarily camo away with it, leaving tho oycball unprotected. The patient was under tho influence of chloroform, attd a livo rabbit had been procured and also piaccd under an an aesthetic. Skillfully removing the con junctiva from ono of tho rabbit's eyes Dr. Smith piaccd It over the bait of the patient's eyo and sowed* it Into plftoe. The operation sfcetned cntifoly successful, and after Meyers has recovered and ia able to use the ?ye the ofh6r will be operated upon in a similar manner. The transplanting of tho conjunctiva* or 1 mucuous membrane, from the oyo of an animal to that of a human Ming has been successfully performed in a few rare case* In. Europe, but yesterday's operation Was the first of the kind ,w*