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NO. 33. ? Forwar<1* BT 8U8AH COOUDOE. I ?m ? tttU*wc*rr at tho strife. L*tme stand mill ?while, nor oount It aln To aool my hot brow, out the travel ?aim And then iMiwum to the road i|tlD. f Lo&i wu the way and steep and hard the y . climb j Mr i Sore are *sy limbs and fajh I em to reM, Behind me lie long sandy tracks of time; "^MHngini _ _ __ [ most go forward, or must baokward gol I will go up, thon, though tho limbs mar tiro, A*?oSkt?...??{. doubtful UU And karo the morning strength, the upward ttrawii ,, ?*?. , >? The dlstanoe conquorod, la the end made "*?? Ab, blessed law I fbr rest Is tempting sWoot, And we would all 11* down if io w? mights And few would struggle on with blooamg And fow would eror gain tho hlghor Bxoept for the stern lew which bids us know We must go forward, or must backward go. ?Indopondont. NIB8A. A Pronoh Story. Gaston lighted a cigarotto and paid: ?'It is not a long story, but you will find It tragio.,. By Jo vol it makca mo ?hirer to think of li You romomhor that the Department of Fine Arts sent me to Persia two years ago.. I was to writ* tip the Province of Irak-Adjemt ,1 began by taking np my quarters in Ispahan. At the end of throo months would never have believed that I was ? man of any depth! I was just about bored to death, when luckily there was ftohange of Governors. The Shah sont, in plaoe of the former Govornor, his <Kmsln,Maleom Khan.1' "Tho ono who travolod Tn FrancoP" "Yos. And no doubt you remember meeting one of th? heroes of my story, Mohmod-Aga; he Was the Prince's offi cer of ordnance. He has the rank of General, gfc rather, that of tertip, to the Porsian term." ??I remember him?ft. young maa of ftboft 80, * gentlemanly fellow, some thing of ? swell, who dinod with us eovoral times." "You ?an appreoiatc my Joy in meet ing him again away off thero. Besides, there is ft peouliar oharm about theso half-Parlsianizod Orientals. Thoir na tive wildness is, so to spoak, refined and softenod by oontaot with our ways of life. In a week the $ertip and I were insoparablo." "And the storyl" ? "You are in too much of a hurry. I ha^p not finished the introduction. One morning I was dreamily riding through the city, giving myself up Id* the hundredth time to the fooling that I was in fairyland. Imagine im mense avonuos, bordering on the right and the left, with aroades, and sha rd0d by giganUo plane-trees at whose foct are streams of running wator. Farther on- " "A description! You aro not work ing foe. the department, old fellow. You jgromised mo a tragedy. Go on with tSie story, and, as you lovo me, no descriptions) ? ,.. Gaston gave a sigh of resignation, and said: ??I was nearlng the Kiosk of Tohe oral thing Persiah women on tho street ? u^:kin<Fof iWWoMjNYew the faoo. _ i, the woman whom lot entiroly oonooal h( rhich was {slender and ? Id X could, see hfer large _ gleaming llko ooals of fire. My horse was walking, and 1 mado him follow very slowly the bearer* of the litter. It seemed to me that the unknown looked back onoe or twice j but, after ftll, as adventures of this kind In the SWMBfjjgfes 1days after, J'j| ?^e. Mehmed-Aga was walking n.?? me. At the first glano* I recognised tho veiled lady, and especially remembered Moh wore' mmm mvsw*v| ah? l(H)kOd time the action wae more 1 glanced at the Berlin, I tended to have noticed noth ted Jj^g in this way for Ion I in this wi iTlho'Dj This bridge is one of the most sights in the world. It has eeenormous arches, and spans It in November, whloh Wiethe ?tory, the waters are aatwtft 1 anMlplno torront, is somewhal y>f a es, my pro ?J ? sTu her pari Suddenly she leaned e Utter, and dropped " the patemont." ft Word. Yon are astonishing ytm Parisians I You think tft.M;.,...8?r ftftme.ia Pi hun ts ft Vorff whoro he lives. It is be who occupies that homo on tho rivor batik just at the end of tho bridge.' " 'And Hissa, what is said of her?' j " 4<Of. my firenobmanlv We do not talk aoont women hero, or. rathor, thoso whom wo do talk about . Ah, well! thoy pro sewn tip in sacks and thrown into tho rivor." t ^ f'.'How frightful!" " ?Ont we are civilised now,' ropltod tho Scrtip coldly. *Formorly a live cat would havo boon added to tho con tents of tho saok. Whon maddened by tho wator tho cat would tear the wo man's faoo. This is no longor dono. At loast, it is not customary. Tho in fluonoo of Europo!' ; 4"This littlo convocation Boinowbat dampened my ardor. Moreover, Moh mod-Aga had tho good tasto to drop ith&gMttor thcyro. . 1 dined with him, 5iArjjJ[ tho ovffolng to callod in musi cians, who played for us Eastern molo* dies. But I waa prcocoupiod. Con stantly boforo my oyos that gracoful figuro was bending out of tho littor, and a littlo hand was dropping a hand korchiof. > A porsintont voico was sing ing in my oar, liko tho rofrain of a bal lad, 'KlBsa! tylssal' Naturally I suffer ed all that night from nightmaro. I .droamod that some one haa givon me an iuimonso oat, named Astoulla, which was trying to toar my faoe! I waked al 11 tho next morning complotoly dls cnohantod. n. "In tho ovonlng I was promonading upon tho tcrraco, in tho roar of my houso, whon a horriblo-looking old wo man, suddenly ontorod from tho lowor door. Sho wishod to spoak to mo. Bo foro tho sorvant hud timo to ask mo if I woro willing to seo her sho was at my side. And when sho had mado euro that wo Wfenb alono: ?? *Aro you bravoP' sho said, in a broken English Which I oould hardly understand? . ? " it * ?> "I ?tailed with that solf-concoit which a man always fools when askod suoh a question. Sho oontinuod: " 'I oamo to propose to you a walk. It if night >a, No ono own soo us. You aro to follow trie. Whon half way I shall blindfold you. but you must swear to mo not to attompt to find out whoro I am loading you.* ?'I promised. ?'She grinnod in a way that mado hor still moro hideous. I had agreod to hor proposition lust as I have told you, at onoo, impollod by an irroslstiblo im pulse. Tho day, you soo, had passed ovor my (ears,'tho ofTeots.of tho night-, maro woro littlo by littlo fading away, and I hoard that porsistont voioo still singing in my oar, 'Nissa! Nissa!' Tho old woman evidently oamo from hor. 1 huvriod up to my room and got a ?mall revolver. Five minutes lator we were on our way. It was mad, ab surd; I confoss it frooly. But thore aro lollies about whioh ono does not stop to roason. Nissa, that unknown wo man, possossod ovor mo somo mys terious powor. I had not evon soon her, ana yet I madly longod to meet her. Hor liery ?lahbo was burning my heart. Whon wo had como to tho DJoulffa'Brldgo tho old woman stoppod and took from hor pockot a thick l^and korohiof, whioh sho proceodod yory deftly to bind over my oyos. I could soo no longor. Thon sho grnsp'od my hand, ana I allowod hor to load mo. By tho inoroasod ooolnoss of tho air I conjocturod that wo woro crossing tho river. Thon I hoard all about mo tho voices of tho nromonadors. It did not | occur to mo tnat thoy might notioo us. I'was walking, wholly absorbod in my droam, ththKui^ of tndJ ftupplo fi^uro of tho young woman, of hor littlo hoad and her llashing oyos. . In a fow soo onds tho old woman turnod to tho right, but wo woro not quitting tho banks of tho Zond-Dohroud. I could, ! hear" its turbulont wntors rolling by ' and broaking for an Instant against tho arohos of tho bridgo. At last my 'guldO prtusod, a koy gratod, and in af| whisper sho saids-< I'Fivo stops only, and thon I folt that thy feet woro pressing a soft, thick oar pet. At tho samo timo she romovod tho bandage. I found mysolf in a small room, dimly lightod by *,ooppor lamp. urdinarlty in Porsla tli'6 walls are oare, but lioro it was vory different, license, was burning in a rlohly-ohasod perfuming pan, rosilng upon a tablo of rod and groon mosaic, and filling the rpom .with thoso Oriontal odors whioh itttoxloato one like tho fragranoo of old #in&^Ag*inst tho trails, hung with yellow cashmere, wero musical instru ments-?tho ns/lr, whioh Is like our hautboy, kettlo-thrums, two kematche?, a kind Of viol?and here and thorn arms in tho midst of pendent ohalns and neoklaoos. And, bolow, the dull and regular murmuring of tho rivor. Br lifting a little tho drapory from the *2ss Immediately I hoard a light rustling ment.. Shonpuld not havo boon moro Ihital7'6r id. Her thiok,vdark hair, falling upon perfootly-formod nook and shoulaors* remindod mo of tho 'Sa lome,' by Regnault. Her faoe, slight ly ambor in color, had nil the chsiiglng I lights of mother-of-poarl. But 1 was | topooially struok by tho strange oon-t trast between tho exooodlng whitoness of hor teeth and tho blaoknostf of her' eyes. The eyeltslfes, tho tips ot lids and her lips wore palntod. Bhe United as she gazed at mo with her still smd burning ny??. I thought of tho tat^'Twttrds, and said to mysolf that that w9nren oould not be oasily frlght onod. However, she took my hand and mWlo mo sit upon tho divan. ?? fcfy husband bus started for Toho inm/shrsudt 'and wo have the time ^*^IMrifidftmgllsh with tho marked ittural aooent Then sho rfttuok allt wlth a copper rod, and ooffto rht in. Sho began to it$k Idly, tolling me that nor life was jr dreary, and that sho had boon th at first sight At tho ., v expression of hor oyos wm booomlng moro and moro tender, E sops braood me, fixing her Hps upon mine. I WM boglnulng to loso my hoad, whon I heard a nolso in an adjoining rdfem. In an instant she sprang from my and stood ereot and trembling. oaressts and her lowed oaoh other so no timo to analyse With tho same unfaillhg animation sho ran to the without hesitation took down littlo dagger and half oon i in her sleev*. Bho turned to ian emphstlo gostoro saldi vanished behind tho ;? 1 v If* stole ovor me, I ro J* $ertip'? warnings. Possibly Tfrarboen a littlo Imprudent! Sudden ly I again hoard a noise in tho next from; there were sounds of voloos, thon a sh61* struggle! i^HnKllnnoe. ipery was pushed Mlde and Nissa reappeared. Sho waa very pale, M palo as the pearls upon her nook. "She bad leaned against tho wall, looking llko a whito statno against tho background of yellow drapery. Sho waa still smiling, and in hey smile ro Tealing teeth as sharp as those of a young wolf. Sho took a fow. stops Into the room. Hor knifo and bands woro red.. - w. ?? ?c '"Groat God! What haa happoftodP* I exclaimod. " 'Nothing,' sho ropliod. "Sho tossed the dagger Into a corner, and, with porfoot calmness, said: " 'It was my husband. IIo would havo killed us. I proforrod to antici pate him. pome, nolp mo throw his oody into tho watorl* ? "I romained motionless, gazing at hor in astonishmont Then sho tlxcd hor eyos upon mo, with an expression Of comploto contempt. And, in a tono that I shall novor forgot, sho said: " *Oh! theso French muni What norv ousnossl' "Sho shruzgod hor shouldor, and oalled a maid whom she commanded to opon tho window. Thon, as if thoy, woro doing tho most ordinary of acts, thoy lifted tho body and dropped it Into tho rivor, whoso waters olosod ovor it. Upon my word, tho adventuro was bo coming too Oriental for a Parisian. I oonfess that I was solzod with a wild terror?without waiting longor I ran away liko a madman. Where I wont, 1 havo no idoa. In ton minutes I found mysolf again in tho city, and I ran through tho stroots as if pursuod by a legion of dovils. When t had reaonod my apartmonts I fastened mysolf In with a double look, cursing Nissa and all tho houris of tho Orient. ILL ''What a night! I did not sloop U morning. And thon my sloop was liku load. Whon I awoke the sun was hig.. and stroaming into nay ohnmbor. I was oompletoly unstrung. What would happonP A man oould not disappoar without tho law's taking oognizanco of tho affair. Nissa had not oven mado an attompt at ooncoalmort Tho sor vant had soon and aidod hor. I should bo implioatod, and at tho vory idoa of boing assooiatcd in suoh a orimo I folt my hair standing on ond with horror. Should I confide everything to tho Fronoh Minister? Unfortunately ho had just loft, and tho first Secretary was too young for me to think of haying ro courso to him. In any ovont my future was ruinod. It was a fino commission, that from tho Dopartmont of .Fino Arts!' "All that day I romainod in tho samo oondition, keenly anxious and not dar insj to go out. Tho ovoning oamo and still I had formed no resolution, and no news vet of Nissa. Had, she boon arrostodP What had booomo of horP I rotirod oarly, but could not sloop. On tho sooond day I oould enduro it no longor and dooidod to soo my friend, tho aertip. Anything was preferable to tho torturing uncertainty in whioh I wad living. I was suro that Mehmod Aga would not go out boforo break fast. I arrivod at his palaoo about noon. Thoy told mo ho was in his study as usual. I was announcod, and thon ontored " 'Ah! it is you,' ho said whon ho saw mo 'Aro you wollP' " Thank you, vory wolL' " 'By the way!' ho said, 'havo you hoard tho njpwsP}, , , .. 'The nows?tho nowsP No, I?I havo hoard nothing.' " 'You romombor Astoulla, tho rioh morohant in tho suburbsP' " 'Do I romem?P' '"Why, yos?Nissa's husband, whom 1 told you about.' "I folt mysolf blushing to tho roots of my hair. It was all ovor, tho orimo was known, ancfl did not daro to think of tho ad venture. I muttered an al most lnaudlblo 'yos.' " *Tho poor dovll,' continued thoaer tipi 'my tfoar friond, ho has suddonly dlsattteit&d.* '"A "Sly throat was choking, but I man agod to flay: " 'What! ho has?ho has dlsappoar odP Jovol It is vory?very strango.' " 'Yes, very strange. "And tho aertip lookod at mo intont ly.njl could-bear it no longor, I was about to confoss everything, whon ho said: ' "Ho was just sotting out for Toho ran. And suddonly vanishod. Noth ing liaa boon heard of him.' "For tho sooond time tho aertip look ed Into my faco. Thero was a short al lonco. Thon, puffing out a long thtoad of smoke, he added calmly: "'God is groAt!'"?Revue da Deux Uondea. : r ? . Burglars Should Not Fumble Around. A stout, ablo bodlo dy was arousod the other night by n . tie in the hall way, and on going down stairs sho dis covorod a man fumbling around in the dark. Tho lady immocuatoly assailed htm with the ferooity of a tigress and ejected him from the houso in qulto a number of sooonds less than no timo at ail; and slammed tho door after aim. As tho man tumblod down tho steps onto the sidowaik ho was gobbled by a pollooman and promptly marohod off to the ooolor. The noxt morning soveral of hor friends oallod and congratulated her upon tho horoism displayed In Jft'ly. growing palo and agitatod; "was that a bttr^arP" "Why, cortainly, didn't you know UP" "Know ill Heav ons, no! I thought it wan only my hufe band homo again lato from tho fodgo, or I wouldn't havo dono what I did for tho wofrld."?iflexa* Siftiny*. ^ . The WondorAtl Sunsets. f ? ' " -i i ntv'tT. ,? . Tho strango sunsets and sunrises, with longlastlng ruddy twilights, groon and blue sun, / and strangoly tin tod moon, continue deservedly to attract attention, Tho strangest thing of all is that thoy continue still to bo soon. Thoy Imgan in September, and now as I write, lato in January, I soo aftor sunset a rod glaro reaching to tho northern horison. Consldor what it means. For tho northern. skios to bo roddonbd in this Way after sunsot, tho region of dust or whatever olso it may 1)0 which is llluminfttod with ruddy light nttist bo at least twonty miles awovo tho oarih'rf s'.ijrff.uf*. I.have noihio;; i? ?,;u io tho various' Suggestions whioh havo boon affordod, exoont to noto that if tho whole oarth had boon popporod with voloanlo dust from Kralcatoa, tho ovldonoe rospoo* ting moteorio dust on which tho view* Ireointly accepted have been ohiefly based mtist be rooonsidorod. For it beoottfes clear that one largo voloanio outburst can do 'moro to bring matter Simulating tho appoarancn of metoor dust to the earth's snrfnon that would snfftoe for fifty years of meteoric sup ply as hitherto ealotilsted. Tho small er voloanio explosions taking plaoC evory year would thoroforo out to easily aooount for every partiole of supposed meteoric dust hitherto oollooted ?Prof. 21 A. Procter, , _ ri f yfrto tho Tmotltyw Void. Suuday-aohool book bite it right, and the wlcJcod man gets \?Viaro Q no?o. Wrong and wickedhoas do not always boat too snoot, aa it wore, ?rf tho up right man. ~ ^ 1 vo known sovoral Instances mysolf wlioro suoh wns not tho caoo, and I deairo at this mornont to glvo one w ?thoso Incidonts to tlio civilized world. In tho winter of '76-80 thoro waa quito a party of us oncampod on tho Mussolsholl, traders and buffulo-hunt ors, somo in tents and soruoiu ?'shacks." I griovo to say that tho majority of tho party kept right on through tho oold woather fighting against the rattlosnako Dito of tho proooding summer. Only ono man of tho gang soemod to havo conscientious soruplos against slioop-dip and tlio julco of Na tion. That whs Wyandotto Smith of Ubot Ho said whon ho got roady to soak his soul in tho liquid of the dovll ho would tako his chances in duo form aftor ho had shod mortality and put on immortality. Thoso waro tho tcnofa or I Wyandotto Smith. Ho proposod to oflor a resolution onco in a whilo as to what should go into his internal econo my to steal away thq gray .mattor of his corobollum. . ,M ? Ono night whoafllo ooiu-silvor slioo or moon rodo hlglTathwart tho azuro domo, a band of bnfialo-slayora and ' "muskratrskinnors," flllod with mis- 1 chief and valley tan, stolo forth to haro Borno fun with Wyandotto Smith. Whon a man's hoad bogins to on largo with an alcoholic idoa, you will gonerally find him soarohing for a tomporanoo man with whom ho can arguo while ho breathes at him with that odor of tho cynioal bung-starter. Md trios to convince him that total abstlnouco Is vitally wrong. Thoso boys dooidod that thoy would monkoy with tho Quoon Elizaboth fire place oonnootod with Mr. Smith's shaok. Insldo you could soo through tho ohinka Wyandotto Smith frying bacon or Porkopolis quail. Tho plan was to sift somo gunpow der through tho intorsticos (whatovor thoso are) of tho ruatio chlmnoy into tho firo, and, surprise Mr. Wyandotto Smith with .tho forthwith and oxtrome ly consooutivo manner in whioh it M'ould sputtor. Tho party would then laugh softly and do it somo more, t A young Swodo, callod by tho party Twoquart Kottloson, took the kosr of Ppwder and bogan to sift it into tho big broad ohlmney, while tho rost stood around looking into tho shaok to watoh Wyandotto Smith when tho fire should boffin to stammer and spit at him. Wyandotto Smith waa singlne ??Oh. what shall tho liarvost boP" and Ja? bing tlio bacon ovory little whilo with a pair of old-fashlonod bullot-molds. Kottloson siftod in somo powder. It did not mako any romarks. Ho siftod in somo moro. It aotod as though it might bo damp. Ho lot in somo more, and finally rot disgusted and poured tho wholo blarnod thing in; but it novor ovon flashed. ? ' Wvnndotto Smith wont on: "What shall tho harvost bo?o?e?oP Oh what shall the harvest boP" ' S?1#. bi?1.1 c' Two-Quart Kottlesoa shot through a jaok-pino ot?ti into tho groat trackless void, into the silenco and tho night, into tho other bluo, aoross tho placo whero thoy hana up tho robo of night athwart the ut most rim of tho horizon wont Mr. Kofr Wyandotto warbling his inquiry as to what tho harvost should be. It turnod out that thoro was a larrro ?helving rock in tho wido ohimnoy that hold the wholo kog of powder till Wyandotto strupk tho high noto in his song, and that passed a littlo Into tho . T'l?n.^r- Kottloson took his flight Wo failod to find him. Wo trlod a oortiorarl and a requisi tion from the Govornor, a soaroh war rant, and a quart of bonzlno: but wo did not find him.?BiU Nye in Pud Goats, Oamols, and Beee. "A onmol can oarry a ton." Robert Eldrldgo, of Cincinnati, who has Just returned from Russia, where he has been roaring goats and oamels, says ho has soon good paok camols orvtry more than a ton on their baoks, but a ton is oonsldorod a fair burdon. . . "Aro there many o&mols ronrod in RussiaP" "Tho industry Is not important in a eommeroial point of .view. I have been engaged at it for four years. I have figured that thore are So,000 oamels In tho Kuldsoha and Erivan distriots, tho Kalmuoks have about 20,000, and the Khirgoso not far from 180,000. Oamels aro brodfor their labor principally, but also for thoir hair ntid milk. Aoamol will shoar from eightoen to tweiity-two pounds of ha!r. This is worth in the opon market about $2.60 a pood. "You atso raised goats P" "xes, I had about 800 on my ranoh whon 1 loft. Thore aro ovor a million and a half of goats in European ttus t*\n. .The Industry Is tho most Im portant in the mountainous portions of tho Caucasus. Tho Angor* and Cashmere breeds aro bred in some of tho governments for their milk, meat and hair. In 1880 tho export of goat down amountod to 188,000, while the ooarsor qualities of hair about doubled It Tho largost oxport was in 1876, whon It roaohod $400,000 for down ana ooarse hair oomblned." "What do yon know of boe oultnro in RussiaP" "In Liltlo Russia and Lithuania, tho groat lindon forosts rendor beo-keoplng very profitable. Tho finest honey 1 evor saw is produced in Kovn& Tho largost quantftios oomo from the gov ernments of Yokatorlnoslav and Fol dova. Thoro aro over 460,000 hives in thoso two dlstrlots. Kaluga prodnoos annually about 1,760 poods of honey and 6,600 poods of wax. A pood con tains about thirty-six pounds. This annual prodnotlon In tho Don Cossack oonntry amounts to $60,000 In round numbers. "In Volhynia and Bessarabia tho oomblnod yield of honoy rOaohos a value of nonrly $200,000 a yoar. Tho annual yiold of tho whole omplre Is not fat from $4,000,000, or about 18,000 tons. To this must bo addod noarlv 6,000 tons of wax, worth $2,000,000. This is about all consumed in Russia, tho oxports bolng vory small." 1 How muoh is "quite a number?" Wo glance ovor our exohangos and road of "quite a number of pooplo," "quite a I nnmbor of hogs" (though possibly wo here Indulge in ah ttaneeosiptry repeti tion), "quae a number of years," and ono bibulous writer with urtotuoqs on- i thusiasni rofors to "quite a nu(fiber of f;lasses of beor." As noarly as We can udgo from tho context in oaeh of these oasos, "quito a nuthbor" means?woll i *-in short?qtllto a numbor,?Ilookland QourUsr-Jourfia!. - *?. .. ? ? ? J | In Washington's [ Two or. threo hundrod steps to tho right and up agonoral incllno and you i stand oft. the broad, high porch of Mount Vcrnou. Tho grout river croops oloae under neath, one hundrod toot or two below. You might suppose that you oould throw a. Stone, standing ou the poroh, into the Potomao as seen through the trees that iiUg tho hillside and the wa ter's bank below. All is quiet, so quiet. Now and then a barnyard fowl, back in tho roar, stralnod his glossy neck and oallod out loud and oloar in the etornal Sabbath here; a tino shaggy dog wal lowed and romped about the grassy door-yard, and while far out over the vast river some black, wide-wingod birds kept cirollng round and round. I wont back and into tho barnyard to in quire whit kind of birds they wore. I mot a very rospeotiul but a very stam rnory nogpo. Ho took his cap in his hand aan twisted it all about and open ing his mouth many times, ho finally said: / j'W - w.,T T ? t "Do-do-doso burds was created by de Lord to p-p-pu-purify do yearth." "But what do you (fall thorn,unoleP" ' 'Tur-tur-tur?^* and ho twistod his cap, baokod out, came forward, wlnkod his oyes, but could not go on. "Do yea mean turkoy-bussardst" "Ya-ya-yas, sah; d-do-do-doso burds oats up do oarrion of de yearth, sab.1' Down yondor the tomb, the family vault, ploood in tho roar of the two marble coffins. Whore about thirty of the Washington family lie burled, is looked up and olosod forever. Tho key has been thrown into the trusty old Potomac to lie there until the last trump shall open all tombs. Tho thing, however, of the most sin Salar intorost here, is tho key of the astile, presented by Thomas Palno to Lafayette, who brought it to America and presented it to Wash ington. It hangs hero in a glass case, massive and monstrous. It is a hido ous, horrible thing and has, perhaps, moro blood and misery on it than any other pleco of iron or steel that ever ! was Boon. Let no ono horoafter complain of having to live in a garret alono and without a lire. For here, with all this spacious and noble house to seleot from, the widow of Washington chose a garret looking to the south and out upon his tomb. This is tho old tomb where ho first was laid to rest, and whore the fallen oak leaves are crowd ing in heaps now and almost filling up tho low, dark doorway. This garret has but one window, a small and narrow dormor window, and it is otherwise quite dark. A bottom corner of the door is out away so that hor oat might como and go at will. And this is the saddest, tenderest sight at Mount Vernon. It seemed to me that I oould soo this noble lady sitting thoro, looking out upon tho tomb'of her mighty doad, the great river sweeping fast beyond, her heart full of the mem ory of a mighty nation's birth?wait ing, waiting, waiting. Her work was done. Sho had lived quite the allotted threo score years and ten. Her com panions wore in the tomb, and so she ohoso this garret, Just above the bod In ?which her immortal husband had died, ns a saorod placo in whloh to sit down and oliorlsh hor memories, and wait with folded hands tho end. And so hero, aftor a voar and a half of wait* ing, tho angel of death found'her; the hands wero foldod forovor, and tho na tion mournod hor as its mothor.?Joa quin Miller. jfrr" ? . Not After the Jug. A day or two ago a report w*? whim pered along tho docks that a Jag con taining four gallons of brandv had sllppod off tho wharf at the foot of First stroot, and w(M at the bottom of tho river. Within an hour, after the information had reaehed the first pair of oars a man oame aauntorlng down upon tho dook with a sort of grapnel attaohed to a.clothes line, and as he caught sight of the owner of tho ware house ho said: "Being that tho ico is all out; Fd like to gra^lo for that gold watch lost here He Was told to go ahead with all his might, but he hadseatoely made ready when a sooond man arrived. Ue had an iron hook fastened to a stout pqrd, and he promptly oxplalned: - "Boing as I had nothing to do to-day I thought I'd try and look up one o' thorn grindstones that tdmbled In here last ail." The two were working away with their linos when a third man put m an appearanoo. He seemed considerably surprised to find any one abend of him, but as he got hlf grapnel ready he calmly observed to the pair: "I've dreamed three nights running down hero, I hook H utfindP that there wasa and IthouMf?' JPL?- _ r --- sell It for f9 I'd be <0 muOh aheal* It wasn't over a quarter of an hour before a fourth mac arrived. He had an iron fake attaohed to * long pole, and ** he fouud the trio at work he *ttng!out: , "Well, now, but if any of you fellers The fifth man cauw' down to lopjt for Tho sixth titan had just found time to dsag for tho body Of his nephew, supposed to have been in the rftlrtiiw months. Tho seventh oame down, saw the six at work, and ttirntng to tho Warthotu* man he growled t ' - T \ ? ??Always the wayl Last night drefcmed of fishlag tip a %26 oook-stove from the bottom hero, and Ioom4doWn to find a whole gang ahead of me. Hang itt an hones C hard-working man has no show whatever In this Jhtroit Free Vrtu, '' ? ? V'!",<# i#" Afoee ftohamnfttirg'i Dilemma. Therein wasooming down bjr tfhu barrolful, as Ollhooly utopnnd Into Mono Sohaumburg'rt ntoro. Moso wore a very gloomy loo*. ??Why, Mose, what makes you look so blno?" "No vonder I looks pine, Mlshter Ollhooly. It raini so much all do tiraoa and I hat got a pipf stock of umprollae on hand." ??I should think that rainy weather would be the very time lor you to make hay while the sun shines,* so to spoak." < , >, "No, sir; dot ves a great mistake. You seo it rains so stoa<fy dot de pee bles can't put tholr umprellas long enough down for them to be stolen." "Wolir "Yell, don't you see? . If the peeblee don't put down doso umprellas on the corner dere ves no new ones ponght." Just at this moment the sun shone out from behind a oloud, and its rays foil on the hoad of the smiling Israel ite, who looked Ilka one of tho pictures of a saint with a boatiflo smile, with a halo about his hoad by on6 dt the -old masters.?feta$ Biflinq*. f ? ?' ? < ' - * THE SOUDAN. A Prea( JMr .Who Has Traveled in Th*t Country. The Bar. H. If. Field, editor of the New York Evangelist, in a peaking of General Gordon's minion to the Sou i dan to a representative of tho New Or* lean* Times-Democrat, saidi I have travoled in Egypt and been up tho Nile to Amu an, tho first eata* raot, and afterward* went to Sues and down the Bed Sea to India, and so I am familiar with that ooast Two yean ago I was in Egypt and . went across the desort to SinaL From being so muoh in Egypt I hare beoome with the Eastern question, and know ing General Stone, Nubar Pasha, and other loaders well, it has been some* thing of a study to mo. The Soudan Is a term hard to dofine geographically. It is ft vast territory upon the Nile, and the provinoes claim* od by Egypt extend almost to the equa tor. Thoyhavo annexed all that part of Asia. Egypt has appeared boioro tho world as extondlng; civilization has Sushed it up to Khartoum and to Gon okore, and I think quito to the Vioto ria Nyanza, if not quite to tho equator. Tho annexation of Egypt inctydod not only tho Soudan in its proper sonso but Karfodan and Darfour. I know very well a Colonol in New York, a Colonel Prout, who was an American offloor in our war, who went out and took servioe with tho Khedivo, and was sent up the Nilo and was undor Gor don. He said he was himsolf put in oomtnand, by Gordon, of tho equato rial provinoes, whioh shows how far they havo extended their Claims. ? Egypt's claim of breaking up the slavo trado and extending civilisation is not founded in truth. What she did do was to put over the country annexed a sot of Egyptian governors who were tho curse of the country. These governors woro mostly bad oHaraoters; but thoro was ono interval of good government, and that was when they sent Chinose Gordon up tho Nilo to take charge and break up tho slavd trade. Our knowledge of this great soldier was derived from this Colonel Prout, who was up there for throe.years. Gordon soon saw tho terrible state of tho oountry, and how the pooplo woro oppressed, and he immediately set to work to uso h^s powor to relievo the burdens of the pooplo, releaso them from oppression and to govern them wisely and kindly. Tho Egyptian gov ernment gave him a salary of $20^000 per year, nut ho gavo it all away, do ing everything for tho poor. In ono sense he ruled with a rod of iron, and euforeed obodionoo, but ho rulod with such Justice that he acquired an almost supernatural reputation. Ho is a man utterly ignorant of foar, and exposes himself constantly, and the natives have an lfloa that bullets oan't hit him. Ho has groat oxooutivo ability and pow ers of administration with his courago. With all this ho Is an oxtromoly relig ious man, and a man of prayor, and ail his aots are as if he was a man of God. Ho is porfeotly capablo of praying all night and thon mounting his oamol and going alone Into the dosert His, missioq Is to restoro ordor and mako poaoo, and this ho oxpodltos by displacing tho Egyptian governors who are inlmioal to the pooplo. As I under stand tho matter ho intends to re store the old Soudan governors instead of tho Egyptian governors, but ho don't Eroposo to givo up Khartoum, but to old on to that. I havo a thoory that to roaoh that coimtty perifianontly Is from tho Rod Soa, and X ihlnk ultimately that thoro will bo a railroad constructed from Su akim to Borber. I think tho dlstanoo aorosB to tho Nilo Is about 240 or 250 miles. Then at tho orotoh of tho Bluo and White Nile is Senna, a fertile coun try. If they had a railroad to Suakim, thoro is no reason why England should not got her grain supply from tho Rod Sea, as now from the lilaok. In ten, twenty ojr thirty years I think there will For the moment tiie whole future of1 the Soudan depends upon tho courage, firmness and judgment of one man? General Gordon. I look on Gordon as the hero of our century, ? The Doctor has seen not a few ohsnges in foreign government, and was in Paris when the revolution of 1848 overthrew Louis Philllppe. so ho is ft oaroful observer of national move menta t * Polar Orography. Knginoor Melrillo laid: "You havo no Idea ho# groat is the fasoination of Arotio exploration. When onco in dulged it becomes as difficult to give tip at gambling." "Whon do you intend to go to the .a.*-.*. when it starts on the Greeljr relief ex pedition." "Do yota think Lieut Gceely iisafof" ? '^^4 thltak' ^at the north pole will everbe Ksaobeat" ? "I do, if wo attempt to make a pas sago by tho way qfc-Yfans JOSOf land." S^JWaal are" the advantages to be gained^from all thesuffering an<T low "Theto are xhany adVantagesTif the fog the Iaws of storms and wind waVes, We will be able then to complete the geography of the world andmtasure tno flattening of "the earth at the poles. Additional knowlodge >1*111 be gained of astronomy, motoorology, ooean los and natural history, the ragfc understanding of all of whloh tly and indirectly adds to the oomfort and safety of man. Bnt do fkot ask mo to onnmerate all the ad vantages that result from Arotio ex plorations. I am an enthusiast on the subject, and 1 am willing to devote my life and time In its service."?Interview In Brooklyn Union, m ? m ( High chimneys ftiir factories are now becoming unnecessary, bvYoMon of the introduction of a new Kind of oven. Any manufacturer, it is assorted, oan plaoe one o| these ovens in his wort I, and obtain fir6m every ton of slack ho uses coko worth $9. tnr mid ammonia worth $1, and 14,000 foot of gas to gen erate steam. The ooke, tar, and am monla will thus, it Is olelmod, oonsidor biy more than pay for ilaok, wear an4 tear* etc. The Salt Lfcke Tribune disputes the correctness of the police statistics fre quently paraded to prove the superior virtue of the-Mormons. The Tribune explains by saying that when a police* man finds is mtoxloated Saint he kind* ly escorts him to his home, while ? Gentile it run into the station Oonfuoitis wasn't far out of the w< when ho settt "Woman it the piece/' Oonfnoius must h* married, else he WOUld ? made the discovery. ? NursomaUt m m Heroine. ft haa booomo tho habit In these days to rank men and womon as horoos and herolnos on small provocation. Tho title haa been acooruod to many per sons less worthy of it than Katio Mo Donnoll, tho yonng nursomaid who was ahot by her drunkon suitor rooontly. Katio evidently has remarkablo will power as well as a gontlo and loving nature. This is shown by tho (aot that whilo she had given hor affections to Dennis Honnolly, tho bruto who at tempted to tako hor life, sho listenod to tho advico of hor brothers and ro fusod to marry him until ho had re formed his bad habits. It was for this rofusal that ho shot hor at tho door of tho houso in which sho was in sorvico. Dangerously if not fatallv wounded, Katio did not shriek and fall as an or dinary woman would havo dono. Sho know that tho ruffian would Iiavo com pleted his work had ho supposed hor to do wounded, so sho told mm sho was not hit, and bosought him to run away to avoid arrest. Then sho ontorod tho houso, foil at tho top of tho stairs, quickly rocovorod horsolf, wont to her mistress' room, steadying horsolf by a chair, spoko to hor, took tho baby, as was her custom,-to hor own chamber, got into bod, and laid all night suffer ing and blooding, in tho hopoof scroon ing hor lovor and affording him time to oscapo. Sho actually got up twico during the night to glvo tho child a drink, in tho fear that its rostlossness might call soaio 0110 to hor room. When found, in an apparontly dying condition in tho morning, sho still tried to scroon hor assailant; and now, in tho hospital, sho bogs that Douiiis may not bo uurt, taking all tho blamo to horsolf. Somo such story as thii may bo told in romance. It is a part soldom aotod in roal life. What woudorful powor of will tho girl must lmvo possossod to conceal hor wound from hor assailant, thus probably provoriting him from in stantly completing his bloody work! What will powor, dovotion, nnd solf saorilico to go through hor ordinary duties, couoealing hor suffering, and to lio all night without appealing for liolp in ordor to scroon tho wrotch^who had woundod hor! Talk about tho horoinos of romanoo! Katio McDonuoll is a horoino of roal lifo. It is foarod that hor wound is fatal. Indood, tho doctors givo but slight hopo of hor rocovory. If sho dios, a bravj, good woman will havo boon sacriflcod, and it is to bo hopod that hor murderer will suffor tho penal ty of his crime. It will bo dillioult to got up a jubilco of cnut and flowers over suoh a bruto.?N. Y. World. MoCullough and Ills Man "Bob." ?'That is BobPrilohard, hotter known as "McCullough's bob." Uo isthogov ornor'a drossor and has boon with nim for about thirteou yours. Hob weaknoss for tho aftlent, an\ time* gots a littlo too much on whon tno govornor will tUsoliaj But ho is always taken back, knows McCullough'a ways so ^ thoroughly familiar with his wif and Is roally such a valuably ,c,TT that his occasional shortcom<Jii(4i forgiven. An iustanco of his yWVW* shown last yoar: ?'You romombor that Mr.MrtMiluJWrc played Ingomar at tho Boston Thfoolra to Mary Andorson'a Parthonm. Well?* the morning of tho day that tho gov ernor was to leave New York for tho Hub Bob turnod up rather tho worso for wear, and the govornor summarily dismissed him; told him to go off aud never show bis faoo again. Bob wont away and immodiatolv sought Billy Connor, to whom ho rofated his misfor tune. "I'm ftrod for good, now," ho said, with toars in his oyos. "Tho gov ernor's awful mad." Connor know better, and so ho told Bob to go homo and sloop until . afternoon ? and thon oomo back and soo him. ??In the meantimo tho govornor had started for Boston without taking a bit of wardrobe and was In a horriblo stow to know what he Bhould do. -"Miss An derson, who was on tho train, suggest ed that the next day they could got up early and go to somo costumor s In Boston and get something that would do. This did not ploaso Mao muoh for hois not an easy man to fit, you know, but ho thought that was the best thing that oould he done. He roaohed Bos ton in ah unenviable state of mind, and pot up at the Tremont House." "Whoro was Bob, all this tlmoP" ??Hold on and X will toll you. Bob went home and slept, and went to soo Connor in the afternoon. Connor told him to get together everything that tho governor would want in "Ingomar, and go to Boston on the night train, and go to the governor at his hotol In the morning as though nothing had happened. Bob did so, and whon tho governor oame down stairs early tho next morning thero was Bob sitting at the foot of the stairs. "Hollo, Boibl said Mr. MoCullough, "havo you got everything all right for "Ingomar*,r ??Yes, sir," ropllod he, "Just as you told me, sir." , ? ?You ought to hoar tho govornor tell the story. "When I saw Bob sitting there-that morning," says he, I felt thtft I oould have put my arms around him and huggod the Scotch ouss. ? WcuMngton Republican. ?air- ??? Paris OuHodltlea Among the ourlosltlos of dom" In Paris Is an old man who plies his trade on horsobaok, beoauso his logs are paralyzed. His "Roslnanto la a familiar Object In cortain ?trootfl. A woman appoars ovory day. to tho Rue Montmatro pushing a nest HtUo baby-carrlago containing <V?ry P?*1/ and, woll-drossod baby. The mother has a sweet volco and roallr.os quite a sum by singing In tho court-yards of | the houses. u Another woman frequents the Kuo des Martyrs. She is haggardandlean, meanly olad, and drags about with her | an unhappy little boy, whoso dally mis sion It is to sing a Bacchic outasion oalled "Mv Jonny," ?ud {M poor little wretoh's hoarse voico dally ImparU, the startling news that "Jonny tiitshor glass" or "'Jenny s glass Is broken I 0?In August of last yoar, the littlo fellow, who goes to sohool a certain numbor of liours each dsy, took a prlto, and ho was soon on Sundays on his lyrlo "boat" with a wreath upon feishoad. ' ' Monsieur X:, one of tho most dis tinguished lawyers in Paris,,who livos near tho bourse, lore# to tell a story of of oourao. The nnrse who had charge of him used to hifehlm out to* pro fessional beggar. V* *, wheti " WIT AMD HUMOR. An oxohango spooks of "Limburgor by tho ton." WoTiave frequently goon Limburgor by tbo Teuton. ** m * Vorlly, wondors novor ce?st.rWo havo had a poem oxprossly telograpfeod across tho occan, and now hay? rAd* ings ty Cable. A molo on tlio noso indicates that a man will bo a groat travolor?probably to got out of tho way of pooplo who ruako porsonal romarks. ? "Do birds thlnkP" asks a writer in opening a curront article. If Ihey do, wo would liko to know wh^t ft ponary bird thinks of tho woman who stands up in a chair and "talks baby" through tho brass wires of tho cage. "Clean tho stroots!" shouted a Cin cinnati papor, and tho next w< rent liko a rivor was rushing half tho stroots in tho town. cannot bo too particular about down light in their demands. A Tribune attacho tho othd hoard a skilled vocalist sing " tho Clouds Roll By." Sho ft* "Wnh tah tho oluw raw baw, Jwy W?h v*ta tho olaw raw baw; Jawy. 111 a aw traw law wab, WaU tab Uio claw row baw." A young beau at his aistor's otI party bogau to sing, "Why am I wea and weary P" when a llttlb brothor brought tho porformauco to a sudden closo by calling ouN "Aunt May says it's 'causo you como homo so lato ovory night." It is Yory doslrablo to bo a good roador. A clorgyman is said to havo onoo road tho following passago from tho Biblo, with tho emphasis thust "And tho old man said onto Ms sons, saddio mo tho ass; and thoy saddled Aim/" M An article is going tho rounds of tho pross which is ontitlod "Tho Umbrolla, in Franco." That sottles It then. For a whilo wo cherished tho hope that wo might regain possession of that um brella, but as it has orossod tho oooan to ovado us, wo might as . well givo it up. A couplo of piokpookots followed a gentloman for some blocks with a viow of availing themselves of thb first op* portunity to reliovo him of his purso. Ho suddonly turned into a lawyer's office. "What shall wo do now," asked one. "Wait for tho lawyor.V said tho other. Putting tho namos of tho streets on tho slrooi lamps is a good thing. Moon light nights, if tho lamps are not light od, by gottlng out ot tho tram-oar, climbing tho lamp-post, and striking a match, you may roud tho name of tno 8treet distinctly, if tho wind doesn't blow out your match. Tho motto of a young Roman's ao? cioty in Tonnossoo is "'Total abstinenoo or no husbands." It is said that tho mombors are showing a wonderful do roc of dotorminatlon, as tho organiza ?,>'*JMadaitti yjjrtVj worth' of* ^noMfc^ markod a dude to a lady, as, sEb soated horsolf In a chair, in which no had de posited a now Dorby hat. "Sorvos you right," alio roplied, slowly rising from tho ruin; "you had no business to buy a %b hat for a 60-cent hoad." "I sco you'vo got a colored servant girl," Hiiid a man to ; ftnothor tho othor ay. '?Yes," was tho roply. "You sco my wife's slstor has just lost hor husbiuul, so, as wo had to got Into mourning, wo discharged our whito girl Kr.illiirod a colored,one, Sho har moni/.o i with the mourning, ,ps It woro." "Why, Jimmy," /pajdone-profosslon al beggar to another. o . you going to knock off alroadyP Xt*6 only two o'olook!" "No,'* responded tho othor, who wns ongagod in unbrtckling his orutcli; "I am only going to put It on tho othor knoo. You don't supposo a follow oan bog all day on thosamo log, do you. Ethol: "I can't soo what Maud oan soo in that ungainly, awkward Capt. Hoavitroo." 'Madgo: "My doar, It's* becoming porfoothr absurd. Only think. Tho gardoner tola the oook yosterday that no hoped tho Oaptaiu would stay anothor fortnight, for positively thoro was no nooessity to roll tho gravel walks while they kept perpetually promenading up and dowm" Walt Whitman, speaking of Amori-*. oan poetry, sayst ("Think<of tho ab? sonce ana ignorance, in all oases hith erto, of the Vast onsomblo, multitudln ousnoBfl, vitality and tho unpreoodontod stimulant# of to-day and horo." Wo frequently think of It Wo iiometimos wako up At midnight to' think of it. We alio think of tnoso things, in all tholr multitudinoslty, .In, oonnootion with tho stimulants, of yesterday and then fnd therp. It was at tho Cataroot House In Sloox Falls. A son of tho Emerald bio was usherod into the dlnlng-r<6om at tho dinner hour and the * pollto steward took hold of the back of tho ohair to push It into plaoe. Tho guoat looked around susploiously for. a minute, and thon said loud enoutth to be heard all oyer the room: "Bytho hbwly Mosoa, if yor. Jerk out thai ohair i from nndor mo I'll knock the wholo top of yor head off o* yen." "What do eiroas folk#do in winter?" askod a oontomporary.. Tho olown do votos tho season to gloaning a frosh orop of jokes from the altrianaos print ed prior to the American Revolution, and occasionally writes for tho J/ondon oomlo weeklies; and the "strong man," who spllntora rooks with his flst, so* oures employment in a cheap boarding house at hammoring tough beet No donbt the others And employment adapted to tholr respoetfro talents. Norrintovm Herald* "Vos," said old Bllmber, "Feathsrly playod a moan triok on me this morn. Ing, but I'll got even with him yet." "What did hedoF" asked * bystander, "Why, I am aplumbor, you know," he '.??piled, "and ho took a ?lgn from tho real estato ofllco around tho corner add put it in niy shop window, and it was two hours boforo I disdovored it ??Nothing vory moan about that that 1 oan see. What did the sign read?" "It read i ?Housos for salo and to rent in all part* of tho olty-'-4' ? "Is your sister in, Johnnjf" "She Is. flno's In tho parlbr wSitfn' for yott Say, what'll yor givp*me if' 1 tell/ yon What she said last ntrfht when yon went kyF" "I'll give you 10 oents." "All it Thank yer. Well, I guess ?he'j/ oln' to bo awful kind, to you, and . , roll when youHj ,-ortrsolf a ra ilf an<tf your folfi?