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A Mystery of the Sea and the Romance of a Wreck. ALONE %IONG MANY. When Miss Denham had finished her account of the 3hipwreck. Beckweth, with all traces of his lighter mood gone, expressed a deep interest in Hattie Harper's history. He said that, al though he had known her for but a sin gle summer, she had always been asso ciated in his mind with the recollec tions of his boyhood; for during that time she had been his constant and only playmate. One little incident now came to him as clearly as if he' had heard the statement made but yes terday. He remembered the vehemence with which little Hattie used to declare on all possible occasions that Mrs.: Harper was not her "own mamma." "Where is she now, Miss Denham?". he concluded. "I can not tell," she replied, after a. moment's hesitation; and, had her face not been in the shadows of the deep, high-backed arm- chair in which she sat, her questioners might have seen the color come and go from her face. "I knew her well in Chicago, several years ago." she continued, , seeing that Beckweth was great ly interested to know more. "Her father and mother by adoption both died in the same year, when she was about sixteen years of age. They had no relatives in whose special charge they cared to place her, so she became the ward of an old friend of the family. The latter saw that she had a good home-even a luxurious home-and that she was liberally educated. When of age she came into possession of what for most persons would be a lib oral fortune, willed her by Mrs. Har per, who, surviving her husband, had been made the recipient of all of his wealth." "Poor child!" said Mrs. Horton, "I am glad to hear that she was well pro vided for." "Well provided. for! yes, in one way!" said Miss Denham, speaking with a suppressed energy not uncom mon with her. "She appreciates the natural benefits that she enjoys; but they are nothing compared to what she has been deprived of. Do you call it, in the true sense, being well pro vided for? Can one's full measure of true manhood or womanoodbe devel oped by ing denied the priceless as sociatiou of home and kindred, except for a abi period in childhood, when one's nature is less appreciative than at any other time?' Can a home pur-. chased with money, however much kindly feeling, or even love, ac companies it, or can friendship, warm-hearted and true though it may be,.ever fill a mother's, father's, -brother's or sister's place in the heart? Are there not those whose tempera ment is such as to cause them at times to experience untold anguish at wit E _ YSL AN ORHNYUNW nesin th bessng thtIhaemn so, nee thi angis neesriyb nssn enhae blenstame 1onsavus men thoe, anprsd which tfhe arearened. Bta wowars thn alose whf thistouebursy they noaderoe wh hunteda bye. Shoughte tha poscibing the misfortund bentrlrigh to the bly eptssn. ofhe hr onee thei agushrcesareishown shorn fenvy or the um pcatter. o fis"cs me"sesiclrn deeply "I alway becme onsciudly ethsawsco the loemef ths outurs ofrer friedo sh hamed pthel beeand sire othe verys ownpthofgher heArtA HaC YOR TrUbeo culyBEOen ape dweltn on- intr end patheta y with some reluctance, "that I have Shared those feelings with her to a cer tain extent. I am myself an orphan, you know." "I do not wonder," said Beckweth, "that a person whose mental charac teristics have led her ato such a channel should have developed in ehildhood a desire for the proper recognition of her true relation to those about her. Hattie's early solici tude for her 'real mamma,' never left her, it seems." "No. She loves and reveres the memory of those who supplied the place of her natural parents; but it is still, as it ever has been, her most sacred wish to know who the latter were, and to learn something of them." "It seems to me," said Mrs. Horton, "that, although it may be a diflicult matter after so many years have passed, it ought not to be impossible for her to at least learn who her par ents were. Did Mr. Harper ever make an effort in that direction?" "He made several efforts; but some persons have not the gift, you know, of conducting a thorough investigation in any thing. He was one of that kind. I presume." "Hattie Harper," said Beckweth, musingly, "I should really like to meet her again after this, and renew her acquaintance. Aunt Alice. did you see the sketch of Fisher's Island that Miss Denham made? 'No?' Well she made one the other day, and I am go ing to beg it of her, frame it, and hang it up here in the cottage as a memento of my little childhood's playmate, and of this evening." "Really," said Aunt Alice, "von have disposed of that picture, which is not yet even yours, with all the assur ance of a Gil Blas. How do you know that Miss Denham will give it to you? 'Always catch your turbot before eat ing it!' used to be a good motto when I was young. Come now! one of you., finish reading ' The Neweomers to me: we have not had any of Thackerav for two or three days." CHAPTER IV. A CASE OF PSYCHOLOGY. +. Back from a continuous line of wharves, and running parallel with them, is a long, narrow street of a great commercial city. The latter now contains a few of the oldest bond ed warehouses, but for the most part has long since been abandoned to a miscellaneous collection of small stores, ',eer saloons, sail-lofts, truck men's restaurants, shipping and tow boat offices, junk shops, "sailors' homes," ship-chandlers' shops, and the like. On this street, hemmed in on either side by tall brick structures running many stories higher than its roof, stands the last of the old wooden houses of a century ago. This relic, for some unaccountable reason, has withstood both the ravages of time and all dangers of destruction attending the increased value of the land on which it has so long stood. The out side front of its story now emits a warm and somewhat cheerful glow un der the combined influence of a bright winter's sun and a fresh coat of red paint. A small anchor hangs as a swinging sign in front of the doorway, against the casing of which are nailed, with seemingly stud ied irregularity, some dozen or mnoi e metal letters and figures of various pat terns and sizes. Over the door is a weather-beaten fragment of wood-carv ing, that evidently formd at one time a part of a ship's figure-head. All these indications, together with the display of odd ships' blocks, bits of tackle, a rusty boat-hook or two and a pile of row-locks in the one large window of the building on the grorund floor, serve to notify the public in general, and ship-masters in particular, that here is shop to which their old junk can be brought, and almost every thing per taining to ship-chandlery procured at second-hand. Standing before the door of this shop is Arthur Beckwcth, trying to persuade himself that his desire to enter is not a surrender to a foolish whim or fancy. For many days now he has not been able to drive from his mental vision the picture of certain of those metal letters that are now staring down at him from their place on that door-cas ing. When, in the pursuit of some busi ness matter a week or two previous, he had passed this little red-front shop, i naturally observant eye had tot failed to bestow a casual lance on its swinging anchor, its window display and the uniquely decorated doorway. These made the same impression on him at the time as did all other objects of no es pecial interest that he saw during his walk on that particular street. All was driven from his mind as rapidly as it was received, to make way for new impressions that were forced upon him by the rapid succession of scenes in a crowded city. A few hours later, however, when he was not especially preoccupied, a mental picture of the junk shop arose involuntarily before him. Every detail of its exterior came before him with a minuteness that it would have been impossible for him to have survived a moment after his first and only sight of it. Most prominent of all the picture was the doorway, with its phantastic decorations. Of these, the vision of three letaers, of a peculiar shape and style of finish, and diff'ering from all the others there, refused to be dis missed from his mind as a passing im pression. Perhaps their peculiar ar rangeent, P E X, so niej:ly atp 'proachinig a word when pronounced to gether as such; their peculiar style, or, possibly, a previous acquaintance with +heum may ave ha something hey maintaired. on his memory. Cer tain it is that, before their imago had been supplanted, they had, by some dim association of ideas, forced the thought upon him that somewhere be fore he had seen those letters, or some like them. His memory reiused to aid him in realling where and nuder what circumstances. Not deeming it of any importance that he should reminhe'r, he had dismissed the whole matter from his mind forgood, as hesupposed. The question: "Where have 1 seen those letters before?" has, however, kept involuntarily recurring to him. Each time it has presented itself with icreased force, so that his efforts to drive it away have been unavailing. As he now stands before that door. it is for no other purpose than to rid him self of what has become an annoyance to him-to find an answer if possible to the question: "Where?" CAPTE V. I THr JUNK SHOP. "Sir!" said Beckweth, who has final kv entered the little ree shop and is addressing its proprietor, "have von any more letters like the three larrest of those on your door? If so, 1 should like to see what ones you have.'' "An' what would yea be wantin' wi thim?" said Mr. Flynn, the self styled "junk merchant." This method of saluting his visitor was due to his suspicion and curiosity getting the better of him for a mo ment; for his practiced eye told him at a glance that Beekweth was out of the run of his usual line of customers. "For my yacht," was the brief re ply. At this answer his questioner men tally acknowledged to himself that for once he had "bin lid asthray" in his estimate of a customer. "Faitl" lie soliloquized, in an undertone. "I niver thought of that;" and then added '7A THE JUNK sliGP. aloud: "-Dropped, a letter fron'ccher stern I suppose? What was it?" "She has not had any put on yet; sho is being built." "Thin you should have new ones. I've nothing here that will it. aloyd: that, afe alet ic fir sun'her ern ups? Wa was ithe" "he fathasrot had t onhvet Mr. iFlyeng busintehbto"smtne obTin a pope sholdge nof.n e-. came imli thereoe tohb wary ofial" nnown customes hAftoier lrtl Flynn shkirmishingl, Beckwerth fzs~inll hsucceee n grettiand mttesdon to ac business bin by w on in oh cautiou s inle th at e pariur t that o thosne oletters thad hefantd happened oe knbedg er muchtb cnne hime themefohre, bhetvo ad, morke to rmakhis yaceht' neh souceduete in tigeftersnce to a ing new onesiest by conig tcareb a witout sueer that the patreeon' te dortern l of the equdatersn wand szhaened ld be found. Much e tor is taeexste He this- iner onel themo eleee hessumedb thie otror aehct's neade, the ciruldmstnem i praerncevo tof hy thoutsccyo thatteP e tnde on the door-casin all me urd patre sand onring path ofr one ad asuen bey cirmatve ad rhame i fao pofintt express considcrable amusement ani wonder at the inature of the wares tha he saw. --How could sutch a miscel aneous collection of apparently useles stuff' ever have been brought together?' he asked. "It wottld be interesting,' he added, " to know how far somec a these odds and ends have traveled be fore reaching this resting place." A somewhat derisi'e laugh fron Mr. Flynn followed t his outbutrst a what lie considered romance on th, part of the "young swell." "Sure there's no mystery about it at all,' said lie. " That pile was picked u] about the city by men with their hand carts; andl thait big lot came from thi schooner 'Flying-Cloud.' that I bought the hulk of. I b~urned it, dowii ti the island, and got otut of it whatt yot see there The r'ope-yar'ns and cables, my) boaitmen collect in theiu bo't from the captains and matet (we do the best business with thi maites) of vessels. All these whole 'ice 'ae sorted from everyv lot thai comes~ in, and are nmostly sold again at second hanmd. But como, now! Somt of these ot her letters will do you au well as any," he exclaimed, retturning to the business in hand. "Don't wani any otheris?" he continued, in response +o nee,.t.h's mrfsano onsiera enui, a proposition. "Well, I have it, thin Bay tl.imu letters on the door for a pat. tern! Sure, you can't git any made like thini widour a pattern! Come, now, if von will, I'll tell you wheri they was from." This iast inducement was thrown in as A facetious rminder of his Cistomler'i desire to know 'where on earth" al! his wares ii come from. "I've n doubt they trvelI.l a good bit before 1 got them." he ad led. grinii ingly. Seeing that Beckweth still hesitated, he souiiht to fui her whet his cnriosity by saying. m1 yteriously: "Tim Mur, piy brht thim to me-Tim Mur, phoy, on k:ow, that works for the dregllingr com p:y dtown below here." A glamee assured him that leckwetlh hl sirrnderel, and his answer to the quetion: ""W -here did Tim get thiem9" w:as :as iudiilerent as it was lo. quawious: "Sire I don't know." After areuig upon the price, the letters wen- taken down and Beckweth lef' the now voluble M:_". Flynn and his "A' WTIAT WUTD TEZ BE WANTIN' w'ID T1113M shop. He could but acknowlcge to himself, as he did so, that he had gained nothing to his purpose by the visit. The dredging company's office was on his way, however, and having gone so far.he determined to humor his whim a little more and interview Tim Murphy. should he happen to find him at that place. '"2iurphy has been out of our employ for over a year." said a good-natured appearing individual of whom he made his inquiry at the ofice. "Did you want to see if he had any more letters to sell like those?" he asked, with a nod of the head towards Beckweth's purchase. which he held in his hands. "Did 1 ever see them before?" he said, in answer to the question. "Oh, yes! Murphy found them one day, when we were widening the Rockberg channel two or three years ago. We saw them sticking out of a lump of mud that we had scooped from the bottom. They were probably a part of the name of some vessel wrecked on Fisher Island. I remember them, be cause I had them nailed up in the house of the dredger. They were after wards stolen from there, but I have seen them since at Flynn's." Beckwe'" explained to him that he had just bought the letters for the pos sible purpose of comparing them with others. Mr. Flynn had told him that they camne from Murphy and, as he was going by the ollce, he thought he would inquire if there were any more like themi to be had? "No, I don't think there were any ri re found than what you have." As Beek weth left the dredging comn pauy's (ilhic'e, the association of his nmd with the letters he carried in his hand had become perfectly clear ati last. A dawning of their significance had also begun to break upon him. "I mi'st make it a business to obtain the rest of themi," he said to himself. [TO BE CONTINUED) Tall Stories, but True. A gas welwas struck at Zenia, Ind., the other day which has a flow of 14, 003 ,000 cubic feet. The flame is seventy five feet high. In Augusta, Ga., a tree felled in early morning was before nightfall of the same day converted into paper and s.ent out beasing the current news. An immense locomotive has just been constructed at a Paris foundry. its builder predicts that it will realize an approximate speed of ninety-three miles an hour. A. R.- French, of Kansas City, had pretty good luck in tishing the other day. IHe seated himself on the pier at Sanita lBarbara, Cal., and with a hook and line caught five sharks, averaging in length five feet and nine inches each. The finny monsters fought gamely for freedom and it took the combined efforts of three men to get each on terra firma. Wind-rolled snowballs are often seen on the Dakota and Wyoming prairies. Sometimes millions upon millhons of the blls are in sight at one time. Mfany are of the of an orange, some as big as a canneon ball, while others reach the pro portions of the prize pumpkin of the county fair. These freaks of the storm leave a person under the fanciful im pression that great armies of school boys have been battling over the snowy spaces. Crows are comimoniy said to live for a htndredi year-. and the turtles are reported ho have Ceen longer life: but if Professor lird lbe riaint, the greatest animal longevity is possesseli by tishes. Professor Baird says thait as a 11,h~ has no maturity there is noth ing to prevent it from living indetiitely and growing continually. H~e cites in proi a p'i?e living in Rlussia, whose age dtes back to the Itteenth century. In the royal aqualirIim at St. Petersburg there are la that have been there a hundred and f rty ears. The Uald Knobbers, ,John Nathews, WVm. Waiker and Wiley Matthews, who have recenitly been convicted at ( zark. Mo., for ihe murder of Charles Green :una~ William Edens in one of their night ndjds in Christian county, abotut a year ago, have been sentenced to be hanged at Ozark The Vegetable Beefsteak. This funs iFestulina hepatica). which reseiblie.s a great red tongue protruding from tree stams. uhen once known can ever be mistaken fir any other species. When young it is a <kil, pale purplish red. but. bccsi. umore red, and passes thr'uthi browU to black as it decays, the uir c side cre:m color with minute red points occ:.ailly, becoming yellowish red i it 5ir,;;s. It generally confines itself to l n(od often prostrate) oaks; but i :1 ig forest it is not uncommon on the he ChI. and it has been observed on tie chs air. :alnu:. willow and other tres-.! .though such a large fungus, fremema "weighiig from four to six pnl~nds. is gro'-th is very rapid, soon ap pearing and again disappearing, on an cient trunks in the autumn. When cut, broken or bruised, it distills a copious red juice liko beef gravy. 'When grilled." says Dr. Badham, "it is searcely to be distinguished from broiled meat:" and Berkeley describes it as "one of the best things he ever ate when pre ntred by a skillful cook." Thereisa very sih_t acid flavor in the fungus when cooked. which adds considerable piquancy to the dish: it is extremely tender, succu lent and juicy, and resembles tender steak or tongue in a remarkable manner, the juice it distills being in taste and ap pearance like gravy from an excellent! broilcd rump steak. Of course it should be gathered when quite young, fresh and clean. and at once prepared for the table in the following manner: Wash and dry, cut into inch slices half an inch wide, soak in scalding water for five minutes and stew with. butter and herbs; yolk of egg may then be added, and serve hot or simply stew with a good steak, adding a. scallion and parsley, salt and pepper. English Mechanic. Entered the Wrong House. "It's the easiest thing in the world toI nake a mistake," said an uptown resident to a reporter the other day; "and those. poor fellows who go home late at night and happen to get into the wrong house are entitled to a good deal of sympathy, in my piniona. Two years ago I took a first !moor in a row of new fiats in Harlem. :Ie was the only family in the house, and we had no immediate neighbors. Win ter cam:e on and we sufferedmuch discom fort. being unable to properly heat our iap::rtoments because of the cold air which en me un through the shaft from the base m:int. My wife :-owed she would move, and one morning as I started for business Th went out on a house hunting expedi tion. Somehow I was delayed in getting ho.f:ic tint lighit, and it waspast midnight when I r.eached the house. .\scending the steps, I unlocked the outer amd inner doors. walked along the tile" hall. and opened the door of ;our pri aie hall, which was usually left un f.' -toned for me. Judge of my surprise when I found the carpet had been re moved. I entered the dining room; it was empty. By the nponlight that struggled through the blinds I could gee that there was not a single movable thing remain ing in the flat. Then it flashed upon me that my wife had secured other apart ments and played me the trick of .n0oing without my knowledge. I was amazed. I le ned against the wall and thought it over for awhile. Finally it occurred to me to make a light. I struck a match and attempted to turn on the gas. Then I dis covered there was no gas in the pipes and decided to go outside and look at the num ber. Then I learned I lived next door." New York Evening Sun. Storage of Silver Dollars. Last spring the treasury department be gan the construction of a huge vault for t'ie storage of silver dollars. There is now a vault of considerable size in the mn~ent of he treasury building, but as long ago is December last its capacity be cime practically exhausted. Hundreds .f visitrs go down on the elevators daily to -ae inl open! eyed wonderment at the cords ot "catrtwheels"' pied up in mathe minllyP even rows. This vault is small cn rewi:hi the one now being con . iicad The new one will hold by care fu stoag 105,000,000~ silver dollars. Large a this suim is. it isstated at the treasury tha~t there is nerly enough sil yer now seekingt storage to lilt up the new vault. it is in the court between the four walls of the treasury building. It is 89 feet long. ->1 feet wide, about 15 feet deep, Itiud rises at few feet only. abgye the ground. Tihere ar'e nine compatmntil-ts, separated by iron lattice work partitions. and rivet ed to-ether w th thousands of iron bolts. htween the compIartmenlt s are arranged stragt, narrow aisles, with sniall doors oeniing into the different sections. The necessar'y gaslight will be stationed in these 'aises. When the silver dollars are in the vault the pressure is all upon the dloor. as the bags are so piled as not to lean againust the partitions. The greatest silis recuired in piling tihe bags, as the le'st une~ivennessC might result in upset ti' the whole pile, and perhaps' causing themi i f ial outwvard upyn the visitomor e'mp)loyes.-WXashlington Letter. Metasurement of Clouds. 'The most important work in the measuremnent of clouds is now done at the universtiy of Upsala, Sweden. by Messrs. Ekholm andl ilgstromu. When oppor tni~ VOIXers the heights of clouds are de termineld thice dIaily by simultanieouis o> Servt ti 'ns at twVo telephionically connected statIi nabout a miile apart. Th'le angles of conspicuous points are carefullly noted gI'ing muchv more satisfactory data for iiin the~ distances than have been ob tained hy the phmotogramphic method at tmipted at Kew. The greatest height of anyt clou'd yet measured is 43,300 feet, and the highest velheity is 11~2 miles an hour for' acl 'it 26000Q feet. The most im p.or.t t result this fer reached from these metasuremienits is the fact that cloudis are quite reguliar.ly distribuited in t bree layers, the maean smsnmer levels for Upsala being: low clouds-stratus. cumnultus, cumulo nimbius. 2.000-6J.000 feet: middle clouds strato cirrus, 12,000-15,000. feet; hg clou5sirs, cirro-strtu't~ts, cirro-cumu [u. ).0-2I,000O feet. -Arkansaw Travele-r. A New Nervous Diseasec. In the Dutch lIndies a niew disease0of an (id .mi0echairactecr has male its ap pearance.c ht is called the berri berri and cusd greait moraltIuon tile Lunda islandi. The Dutch goverminenlt sent' Professor-o Dri. Pekelhmarin~g to ranke an ex 'mi nat..in. and lhe has just madpe is re port. e coniders it a dliseasc of the nerve's and thinks a paticular kind of b wteri. wihilibe found to produce it. In aiii o dog's andt rabbits produced eti ccrs differenit front the symiptoms sh >wni by mens :ittacked with the disease, buo the peculiar degeneration of the nerves was sismilar in man antd beast. Chica~go News. The str..n::est friendships have be formed i6 muttuail adversity, as iron is mocst- strongly united by the liercest flame.. ...(Mlton. HE BESTED MORRISSEY. Jim Fisk's Office Boy'. One Itound that Lcd to Hi. Success in LUfe. C. X. White, chief paymaster of the N\ew York. Lake Erie and Western railroad company for many years, has resigned. He is succeeded by Peter F. Donoimte, who was Paymaster White's assista1.:, When Fisk and Gould were in control of the Erie, Peter Donohne was l-'ik' ofiice boy. He was a slight-huion boy, but ' is eye was always on the right side of busi nss. One day Fisk gave orders to Peter, who sat at the outside door of Prince Erie's office in the Grand Opira Iloule bullding, that he would be enigaged in somic partic ular matters, and must be out to every applicant, no matter who it might, be. At that time John 'Morrissey antd Fisk were great friends, and Morrissey hap pened to want to see Fisk that day on some important business. Peter knew of the high regard Fisk had for John Morrissey, and the latter w'as in the ha-it. when he called at the Erie building, of walking into Fi-k's office lun:lumofunced and with out cCrelmonOty. On this day he was n:;-s inrg. when tie three-fI o-and-a-half OiliCC boy ro-e up and told the e.r'gressain that he con1in't pass. "H1wow's that' .(aid .forrisse'y. "Mr. Fisk is h).. pd can't see any bod),'' rep.lie'd P1tl er D)eoohue. li 'l l -ee me," I . orissety. " lN.. h. wIl.'' inl.eed Peter. I't per.-istecie of the boy rather net tled the ex-prize fightin'g statesman. and h. said. Itetily, and taking a step toward the <ioor: --o von know who I ani" e' said Peter, coolly, "you're John Morri-ey." "Well," said M1orrissey, "I guess Mr. Fihwill s"e m ie." With thn he swept the diminutive of flee irk a-ide and strode towanri the doir. Uis Laiu wa- 1n the knob, but he did not turnt it. Peter Donuite sprang on thle bro:ad back of the former athlete and elimie-l uy it like a monkey. lIe threw his ::ril around Morrissey's neck aid gave it a sueei'ze that. shut the big ma wind fif. and freed him to give all attenii on to freeing himself fro:n the d ternmined li'ice boy's grasp. He finally sCce''ed, buat when the novel struig l as over the oilice hoy stood :iWnini be twecn the cangressman and Fisk's dbor. "Mr. Fik gave ife orders to let noibody in there." exclaimed Peter. "awl you can't go in. 'Thit's all there is about it." lar rissey's a.:er quickly gave way to .iiratioiiltxn of the boy's pluck aid faith fuiiress. :ad. :i hing heartily over his -e t, le wn 'lt awy.. lie told Fiskt next dayi ab',at his cntn1. iter with Peter. :rf how the latter had "downed him.'' Noth ing all Fisk's remarkable career ever ildeased him as mucr as the "marinl. as ie called it. lbttween Morrissey and Donolhue. The boy was rapirly advanced by Fisk. and one of the direct results of this affair with -Morrisey is his present place at the head of the most important bRanch of the Erie railway's financial departinent. New York Sun. Politeness of the Japanese. Talking of politens, the Japanese have that til-Icle in their composition to a very extraoriiary extent. Men are always exce-rnively polite to one another. They he: od their backs and bow their heads and put their t wo hands back to back et1 i ween their knees and have a great time. IUhit the motet auliising 1ih1ing1 is to see two old lalies in lapan i ie ting one arnot-her og the street. The street is empty, we'll say, and they catch sight of one another three or fotur blocks apart. They irnned iately berii to make obeisance at one atiotier, and they keep bending aii bowing at short intervals until they come to:.:ether, when they make that peculiar lhis by drawing in the breath and keep on sayimg "Ohro'' for irut two niiites. The younrg iis the "M\f t Orimais."' are v.ery charminrg and gtrict fnl ini their gre- ing of one anlahier, buit the old ladiies are ornate mdn' el:thot.r:te in their address. Andl the languarge has been framed with a view to thre niecessitres of poiens and of difference in rank. "A\re,'' wvi;h lhe accent ''n the e, is the verb to be. If yout tre trlking to a cioolie. somnebidy veryv much below you, "are'' is gotod (eni ntrch for "is." If you are talking to one a little below you, or you wish to. he pite to an untlerling. you1 use "rtimas.'' if von are on formial termns with an egual, you)1 say "goz.arimars."' and when- you aid dress a mart high above yotu in rank yt u make it "gozarimnasurut."' It 's an ehrst re Ilrniuaige, andl putls ont to niost :mly lenrthi. -Sran Francisco Chronicle "i'n detones." G.ermaniy's Armly Cormaniders. The empleror of Germany is the coni marnder-rn-'lrief of the army. whose mot to is "'For God. iKing atnd F'atherliand."' The allied soiver'eignis, Iavatra, Saxotny. (etc., appont thecir oticers of the ('(iltitgenlt wihch they frurnish, but they hnave to be approv.ed by the emnperor. Tie minister of war is Gen. Von Schiellendorrf. I he superriteunds the different commruamds for Priie-ria anrd the ~confederrrrcd .ttes. Fi'eld MIarshrd Von 31oitke is at tihe hec~rd of the gzeneral staff. which is made upa of the oiliet rS of tihe different armies tempo rarily dotaced m. They form seven divis ions. Thle first three study each a theatre of war, tile fouirthi ccupins itse'lf with the ril'ro ui". theO lifth devotes. its titue to mili tatry histry,' thle sixth stuidies geography andit stat istieis and the seventih geodosy and topography. Field \larsharl Viot. MIoltke can call ta his assistance the miost distignied civil engineers in the empire wherever ihe wishes. The general strie has a liibrary, begun in 1s16. which now etnmprises nearly 60.000 volurmaes.- Berlin Co'rnian Frncisco Chronicle. Take Time at the Tahte. Anwr-icans live at, too high a pre~ssur. No mr'n ih::s any business having funic ti':-ntl:d yrep-hr. r.mnie dyvsnppin is differct:. Tha:t is du~e to tttmeer or' som oter r-pelde d~ isease of the stomachei ir other inter'nal- organs. ERipidh eating eften groiws cut of tire habit of eatirng alone. I iea-rant c'omnpany at tale atid oo fo i '-r' exel-lenrt prievtntnives if raipid eain:.t s~trlowiyi. enjoy yoiur aduth ou r' Iee di''1io their Shrve of thle workiiei of puttingi the wihl jobl on the sti'm::c. ii y ou don't enjoy your mals tacke v 'ittrou ertntueh (eeiSe to mae you huinry. IIunze~r is tihe best sac1 That is th ayi to pr'evenlt dy. peiif you h-aven't it. arid ithe wayn to cure" it if you hacve.-New Yor'k World Interviewv.' The itnie of. Thllree. Frirst dledical Sti-uen-Aw.-dot~ctor, whit. is. thec suitjeict selected for disen'ionl'f at our nex\t mee'tinig of thle MedIi sci -set', dii rt r. A w-yes: "I i--tlved, Th'art if a ihoy frlls from tt secndi~ .stor tin. WIdow and blrak-s one leg, wouitl hie break two lees if he fell fronm erna fot'h try windowe'.-.The 1Enoch.