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?> % POETRY. )M j ; :Wa*eMngi Maiden. wi Mirrored fi lxluas g w.J jr- dark blue eyes, ranter skies SO #fe; \ Maiden, do 70a know me? Fa the brook from yonder hill ? ; i* The id. ico that feeds jour lather' e mill, Aad aH y<?r fishing ba?k? fa fiil ? ' Pair maid, jea see I know thee. I atari from distant mountain spring, V ? And trickle slowly as I sia:g, TErwigfc wooded bowers where breezes bring Soft echoes nghing ? dying. Bien dancing into Tight again, ; . jl I'm welcomed by the lark and wrea, V j And hurry toward |pte haunts of men, : ^ O'er rocks and pebolea rifins. ? I Uke crocus and the 'era, : And pnt oci fires* not meait to born, ?$>r rills as well jt* men w ust learn, To db whit goodlbey can. ? :? Ufah cooling draughts I mbmPfmB, Revive the caUle, feed the grain: ? : i[ ' 1 rise m rapor, fall in rain ' Thtxs ever reririxm man^ DR. TAlMAGE SAYS OIULY 1 H? CHRiS ^ T!AN CAN APPRECIATE IT. .\{ - *? v. > ;** ? ?> , " v ? rJ i: *be Xen on. Bartb are Those ^Wboie Bo*toe*s It ?? to M?k? Fun for ^ ji j I f Othcr?^-ClirlatJan Socdetr la Witfler '!? ?n<fc More Hnmomtw Than Any | ^ " otbw. %00KLY3f, Jan. 2$.? Rev Dr Tal mage this forenoon preached to a great audience in the Tabernacle on "The ^uosbine of Religion," the text cfaoec^ being Prqpfcrbs iii, 17, "Her ways ire- ways of pleasantness/' ' ^ " Yon have all hear' i of God's only begotten Son. Have you beard of, ?||t Gal's daughter? Side was born 4n ?}j ?\ heaven. She came down over the bills of dor world. She had queenly. ! step* Oo ber brow was celestial ra* ^^^ieace. : lier voice was music. Her name is Eeligion. My text intro duces he*. "Her wiiys afe ways of jiieasaotneae, asici ali ter paths are j?eaee." Bat what & Keligion^ The fact is that theological study has had a differ ent effect upon me from the effect S aometiioes producer. Every year I ; tear another leaf ??wn my theologv ' until X have only three or foar leaves ? left? ia other word* a very brief and plain atateWit of Christian belief. ? A^/iged Cbrisian minister said: ! i "wfa I was a ymqg man, I knew everything; when ]. A to be thirty ;; five years of age, in my ministry I I had only a hundred Jdoctrines of re ligion: when I got to oe forty years of j / only ?fty doctrines of re ( ligjon; when I to be sixty years of' ji age, I had only ton doctrines of re [ xl^iOaij^^now I am^dying at seven |i $y-five years of age, and there is only . due thing I know, and that k that Christ Jesus cas5$jfijito the world to P flave fMujers.'fe^E-d so I have noticed iithft study of Gcd'a word and in my wotempSsiddn e? t)ip character of God and ^tha elerxal world that it is **tmpr$>ksw? to drop thi*; pert *t my bejwfaad that parU^my belief aaxl ?Sara& i^jgs Almighty &k1 tfty know where to begin so many thoughts that c m & A mother saw m&ied on the door in aaci with a spotfn in her w4, ?My darling, what i "Ok," relied 'm getting# spoonful of l> Would God that to pawntyon with agJwfea f tJ'is glorious, everlast lavs of anatomy and physiology, but* they had this supernatural vivacity of the Gospel in . th-eir soul, and that kept them alivs-' ; Pat ten or twelve Christian people in a roofai for Christian conversation, Vid yon will from S to 10 o'clock ^ear more resounding glee, see more bright strokes of wit, and find more thought and profoeiwi satisfaction than in any merely worldly party. Now, when I say a "worldly party" I mean that to %hich yo* are invited, because under* all the circumstances of the case itis the best; for yon to be invited, and to wh&h - yon go because under all circumstances of the case it is better that yon go, and leav ing the shawls on the second flow yon go to the parlor to give formal saluta tion to the host and tip hostess, and then move around spending the whole evening in tie discussion of the weather, and in apology for treading on long tpol*> and in effort to keep the corners of the mouth upto the sign , of pleasure, and in going arriund with an idotie he-he about nothing, until the collation is served, and then after the collation is served going back again into the parlor to resume the weather, and then at the iclose going at a v<jr f late hour to the host and hostess an$ assuring them that you have bad a most delightful evening, and then passing down 68 the front steps, the slam of dfor the only satisfaction of | the evening: ?H006E THE BEST SOCIETY. . J y oh, young many- come from the J country to spend your days in city life, where are you going to spend your- evenings? Let me tell you, * while there are :many places of inno cent worldly amusement, it is most wise- for - you to throw your body, srpind and .soot into Christain society. Come to me at jthe dose of &ve years and.tell me-what has been the result of this advice. I Bring with you the young man who refused to take the advice and *ho went into sinful amus^nent. He will come dissipated* shabby in ppparel, indisposed to look acy one in the. eyes, moral character 85 per cent oC You wiU come with principle settled, countenance frank, habits good, soul saved and all the in^ habitants of heaven, the lowest angel up to the arch&gfel and clear past him to the Lord God Almighty, Your coadiutors. This is not jthe advice of a miaan tbrop. There is no man in the boose to- whom the world is brighter than it ? to me." It is not the advwof a dyspeptic ? maldigestion is perfects is not the advice of a man who cannot j understand a joke or who prefers a ftmeral; it is not the- advice of a worn out man, bat the advice of a man who can see tfcus world in all its brightness, and, considering myself competent in judging whit is good cheer, I tell the multitudes of young taeriinthis house this morning that there is nothing in worldly association so grand and so 1 beautiful aid so exhilarant as in Christian society. I know~ there j? a great daj of talk about the self denials of the Christian. I have, to: tell yon thai where the has one self denial the man of the world has a thousand self! ^M^^Tie^ristian is not com Bsaoded to l5rre???^? siting tiat ia worth keeping. But what man deny himself who denies himself the religion of Christ He denies himself | pardon of sin; hie denies himself peac ?^-apHscience; he denies himself the joy oi the Holy Ghoet; he denies him aelf a comfortable death pillow; he de nies himself the glories of heaven. Do not ' talM to me about the self de nials of th$ Christian life! Where there is one in the Christian life there are a thousandin the life of the world. "Her *wayt are ways of pleasantness." Againj I fad a great deal of re nous sunshine in C&rii6an and de vine explanation. TVa great many people life is aa inexplicable tangle. Things torn out differentljrfroor what was supposed. There is a useless wo man in perfect iieal th. There is an industrious ?nd consecrated woman a complete invalid. Explain :: that. There is; a bad man with $30,000 of income. There is a good man with $800 of income. Why is that? There is a foe ol society who lives on, doing all the damage he can, to seven ty-?ve years of i^e, and here is a Christian fetber, faithful in every department of life, at tiirty-five years taken away by death, his family left helplesB. Explain jfchatL Oh, there is no sen tence that oftener drops from your ?I cannot understand I cannot understand it" * THE JOYS' OF KKLIGXOJT. Well, now, religion comes in just at that point with its illumination and its explanation. There is a business man wno-4ias lost his entire fortune. ; The week before he lost his fortune there weje twenty carriages that stop ped at the door of his mansion. The week after he lost his fortune all the carriages you could count oxs^ ope finger. The week -before financial trouble began people all took off their bats to him as he passed down the street The week his financial pros under discussion people mat touched their hats without any "^rise beading the rim. The week that he was ptronounced insolvent people just jolted their heads as they passed, " *g their hats at all, and the sheriff sold lam opt. all >his ?ere loottog in the stbre wini dows as ^y down past Sim, y ; Now J while the world- goes away ? ' man when . he is in financial the religion of, Christ comes and says: "Ton are pk& and [ you* skfajese is to be moral jpurifica ; tion; yoji are beaded; God mated in some ! ?ay ;to take yoorjiuoilj to i heaW vdterimhMfi somewhere^ and so be took the ?ne that ,*as mart beautiful awi was moat to go-*' IT da hot say that religion explains ever^S g in thisljfe, but I do say it \m <&wn certain principles whick are grandly consolatory: You know - - jften tefes**ph m in San Fran to ^e merchant in odt _certaia iu&nnation in Ich no oUSer man mtfcat line o i business can understand, but the imercfcaf^ In Saa Francisco has mew *Yerk has t?a key to; on tint. ?R^.1 | volving hundreds of thousands of ; dollars. 1 ? . ] Now the providences of life some times seem to be a senseless rigmarole, | a mWerious cipher, bat God has a key fco^hai cipher, and the Chnstian a key to that cipher,, and, though he may hardly be able to spell oat the meaning, he gets enough of the mean ing ?b understand that it is for the best. Nov is there not sunshine in that? Is there not pleasure in that? Far beyond langhter, it is nearer the fountain of tears than boisterous demonstration. Have you never cried :i for joy? There are tears which are eternal rapture in distillation. THE SOBBOWFUL MYSTERIES. j ? : { " ' ? | ?; .. There are hundreds of people in this house who are walking day by day in the sublime satisfaction that all is for the best, all things working together for good for their soul. ?-! How a man can get along through this life without the explanation is to me a mystery. What! is that child gone forever? Are you never to get it back? Is your property gone forever? Is yoursonl to be bruised and to be tried forever? Have yon no explanation, no Christian explanation, and yet not a maniac? But when yon have the religion of Jesus Christ in your soul, it explains everything so far as it is best for you to understand. You took off in life, and your soul is foil of thanksgiving to God that you are so much better off than yon might be. ? *3 A man passed down the street with out any shoes and send: "I have no shoes. Isn't it a hardship that I have no shoes? Other people have shoes; no shoes, no shoes," * until be saw a man who had fid feet. Then he learned a lesson, j You ought, to thank God for what he >does> instead of grumbling for what he does not God arranges ill the weaiher in this world? the spiritual weather, the moral weather as well as the natural weather. "W&St kind of weather will It be to-day?" said some one to a farmer. The farther replied , "It will be such weather as I like"' "What do you mean by tha??,rasked the other/? "Well," said the former, *it will be such weather as pleases the Lord, and what pleases the Lord pjjSsk.me." I Oh, /the sunshine! the sunshine of I Christian explanation! Here is some one bending over the grave of the | dead. What is going to be the con aolation? Hie flowers yon strew upon the tomb? Oh,, no! The services read !at the grave? Oh, no. The chief consolation oc that grave is what fails from the throne of God. Sun shine,] glorious sunshine. Resurrec tion sunshine. Again, I find a great deal of the sunshine of this Bible and of our re ligioniin the climacteric joys that are to come. A man who gets np and goes dot from a concert right after the opening voluntary has been played, and bfcftoe the prijna donna sings, or before the orchestra begins, has a bet ter idea of that concert than the man has who supposes that the chief joys of religion are in this world. We here have only the first note of the eternal orchestra* We shall in that world lave the joy of discovery. We will in five minutes catch up with tfe astronemer8, th<J geologists, the scientists, the philosophers of all agft, who so far surpassed us in this world. We can afford to adjourn astronomy and geology andjnany of the sciences to the next world,, because we shall there have better apparatus and bet ter opportunity. F must study these sciences so far as to help me in my work, but "beyond that I must give myself to 'saving my own soul "and saving the souls of! others, knowing that in one flash of eternity we will j catcfty it all. Oh, what an observatory in whuth to study astronomy heaven! will be, not by power of telescope, but by supernatural vision; and if there be something doubtful 10,000,000 miles away by one stroke oftha wing you are there; by another stroke of the wing yon are back again, and all in less time than I tell you, catching it all in one flash ofetenrity. * ; ; i t&e scissec op heaven. And geology! What, a place that ; will be to study geology; when the world . is being picked to pieces as easily as a schoolgirl in botanical les sons polls the* leaf from 'the corolla! ^hat a place to study architecture, amid the thrones, and tbe palacee, and the cathedrals? St Mark's and St ; Paul's rookeries in comparison. * ? Sometimes you wishyou could make the tour of the wiiole earth, going around as others have gone, brat yon have not the time; you have not the means. Yon will make that tour yet during one musical patese in the eternal anthem. I say these things for the comfort ot ihose people who I are abridged in their opportunities ? those people towhom life is a hum drum, who toil and work, and toil and work, and aspire after knowledge, hut have no time to get it, and say, "If I had [the- opportunities which other peoples have, how I would fill my mind and soul with grand thoughts!" Be not discouraged, my friends. You are going to the university yet Death will only matriculate you into the royal college of the universe. What a sublime thing it was - that Dr Thorn well, of South Carolina,, ut tered in his last dying moments! As he looked up he said, ?>It opens; it | .expands; it expands^' Or as Mr Toplady, the author' of "Rock of Ages y in his J^t moment, or during hiaifet hours; looked up and said, /as though be saw something supernatu ral, "Light!'' ) and then as he came on ; nearer the dying moment, his ^n tenance more lumtofoos, he cried, "Light!" and at the; very moment of his departure lifted bbth hands, some thing supernatural in his countenance as he cried, 'tLightT \ Only another-! nansefor son&ine. 1 ? Besides that we shall have all tB)f pleasures of association. We will gtf gght np ia the front of God withouf any fright ' All our sins gone, there ' will be nothing to be frightened about* : There our old Christian friends will troop around us. Just 4s, now one of your"" sack jfriends goes away ; to Florida, the 4and of flowers, or to th? south of France, and you do not setT him ibr a j long while, and after a ,] ?while . you mjeet him, and the hollows es are all filled, and the back, and the crutch has been thrown away, and be 4s so changed ym tardily know him. Yon say; /Why, I never saw you look so welL" He aaysr "I couldn't help bat be well. I haw been sailing these rivers and climbing thesemoun tains, and that's how I got this elas ticity. X never was so well." Oh, cpy friends, your departed^ lored ones are only airay for their health ini a better climate* and when yon meet them they wilt be so ch&nged you will hardly know them ? they will be so very much cfeangdd, and ; after awhile, when you are assured that they are your friends, yopr departed friends, you will jay: ""Why, where ? is that eough? Where is that paralysis? Where is that pneumonia? Where is that consumption?" And he will say: "OH, I am entirely well! There are no sick ones in this country. I f have been ranging these hilfci, and hence this elasticity. I have oeen here now twenty ^ears, and"not one sick one have I seen? we are all well in 4his climate" A v 'v'.j 1 : ' ' 1 ? { ; I the ETEKSAi JOY. <> Anrl then I stand at the gatoof the celestial city to aee the procetaons come out, and I see a long procession of little children with their anps fall of flowers, and then I see a procession of kings and priests moving in Celestial pagean try ? a long pro<$s8ionj but no black tasseled vehicle, no mourning group, and I say: "How ;strange it is! Where! is ydur Greenwood? Where ig your Laurel Hill? Where w your Westminister abbey?" And they shall cry, "There are no graves here " And then listen for the tolling of the old belfries of heaven, the old bel fries of eternity. I listen i to .hearp them toll tor the dead, but they tcM not for the dead. They only strike' up a silvery chime, tower to tower, j east gate to west gate* as they ring out, "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which i| in the midst of the throne shall lead therafto living fountains of water,, ami God shall; wipe away all tears.from their eyes.", ; Oh, unglove your hand and give it J to me in congratulation on iha? scene! I I feel, as, if I would shout I will shout ha&eluiah! , Dear Lord, forgive me that -Si ever complained about any thing. If all this is before us, who cares .for anything but heaven <and eternal brotherhood? Take theScfaps off the doorbell.: Your I loved ones are only away for their 1 j health in a land ambrosial. ^Come, Lowell Mason; come Isaac Watts, and give us yoor best hymn about Jpy celestial. < , What be use postponing our heaven any longer? ; Let it begin now, and whosoever hath a harp let hlr thrum it, and whosoever hath a trum pet let iiim blow it, and whosoever hath an organ let him jjive us a full J diapason. They crowd down the air, spirits blessed, moving in cavalcade of triumph. > Their chariot wheels whirl in the Sabbath sunlight. They come. Halt, armies of God! Halt until we are ready to join the battalionj of pictures that never die. Oh, my friends, it would take a ser mon as long as eternity to tell the joys thai are coming to7*us. I just set 3>pen the sunshiny dooj* Come in, all ye disciples of the world who have j fodnd the world . a mockery* Come in, all ye disciples of the dance, and all the bounding feet of this heavenly gladness. Come I in, jfe disciples of worldly amusement, and see the stage wh^re kings are the actors, and burn- j in$ worlds the footlights, ^and thrones 1 the spectacular^] :??$? Arise, ye deJRI in sin, for this is the morning ressurriction. The i jpysT of heaven submerge our I pull out thfe trumpet stop. In tbjr preseace.J there is a fullness of joy; at thy righr| hind there are pleasq res forevermore. " L..' ' ^ ^ ? ri- '%?<.- ' | Blessed are the saints beloved of God: Washed Are- their robes in Jesus' blood; Brighter than angels, lo! they shine, Their glories. splendid andisublime. My soul anticipates the day, ! Would stretch her win# and soar away To aid the song, the- palm to bear, jAnd bow the cbief of sinners there. ! Oh,thewiia line, ti e . glorious sun Aine, tb^verlaetingsoDsfainel 7 ?^Cleveland Ride* the Goat. New Yore, Jan. 26.? President I . h ? elect Cleveland was initiated into the Sigma Chi college fraternity this morning. A badge of the fraternity Was presented to him. It was accept ed and worn by the President-elect With an interest worthy of the. en thusiasm of an undergraduate. ~ j -4-*- ? ? ! ' ; "Cum animo fuiandi," is what (he burglar saia when asked the ques iino, "Fq| what are you nere?" Bus^ess Sympathy. A bright Sprinter's cilerk who was instructed to ivrite a letter of condolence to a firm, the head x>f which had recently died, did it in this way: "We are greatly pained to learn of the loss sustained by your house, and extend to yoif our\ heartiest sympathy. We notice that the circular you send us announcing ^[r. 's death I was lithographed "in the North. We regret that you did not see ? your way clear to let us estimate "tor the work. The next time there | is a bereavement in your house we shall be glad to quote for your printing, and are confident that we can give you better work ^at less cost than anybody! in the business. Hoping soon to hear from you, we remain | with pro found sympathy, touts truly. >r Good Horse and Plucky Rider. The greatest feat in riding ever performed by a woman has re cently been accomplished by an Bngnsh girl, Miss Thomas son, .who rode on untrained horse over t 251 miles in sixty-two and one f*lxalf hours through the wmimtftfog. 1 o? the Tyrol *a the firstf day: she went from Innsbruck over the Brenner Pass to -Bozen^ seventy oeven and one-half mites; on the ueosod, ! from Bdben, by Meran, Vintschgau and tbs Mauser Heide to St Valantin, fifty-six miles; on the thitd, by Bochfinstermuna end Landeck, baokto* Innsbruck, this i being eighty-eight miles. Rider and horse are; in perfect health, though the tou* was a novel experience to botlL ~ - *') .. *? :*1 ' ' TO FIGHT /fHE DISPENSARY LAW iN ? THE COURTS. A Committee tolUlw runds,*mploT L?**l Co?nael Out and Conduct ft Plan of Campaign. Charleston, Jan. 24. ? About one hundred peraons attended a conven tion of liquor dealers, which met here to-day. On a call of the> counties the following delegates welre found pres to fc e ? Richland ? J. H. Mancke, J. P. Mee han, J. F. L, Habenicht. Sumter? Frank O'Donnell. H. Ma heim; J. H. Wineberg. Abbeville? J. P. O'NeiL " Barnwell? Mike Brown, J. -B. Cole man ;j ?? Berkeley-? J. G, Linstedt, H. Frank, C. Mappus. & -?i Colleton? W. B. Sanders, A. J. Sanders, J. D. Elliott, G. W^\Surrtitt and H. Feentuck. r ^js, Darlington ? J. R. James, C. Alex ander, L. LowenthaL * ^ Florence? C. Morgan, J. R Tajlffr. Kershaw? W. Garsenheim. Lancaster? J. W. McWhcirton. i Orangeburg ? S. H. Link, J. S. Harley, A.0- Linstedt, J. B. Josey, fl. Fenchel, J. L. B[unting. About fifty delates from Charles ton were present j " Telegrams and letters were read from dealers in Greenville and from other counties,, pledging co-operation. , In calling the meeting to order; > Chairman Mantoue said that^the one purpose of the convention wa^to fight legislation that was in direct o|^osi tion fto personal liberties. No politics would enter the convention, it ^simpily to protect private rights. ^ * After ihe temporary organization, ft permanent -organization was effected with the fifllowing officers: President, B. MantOue; secretaries, E. E. Wel man and J. H. Welbrook; treasurer, Simon Fogarty. Hie following resolution, offered bv'i Mike Brown, was adopted: "Resolved, That an executive com mittee be appointed by the i chair, to consist of; fifty members; that the chairman and secretaries, of this con-.| vention be ex officio members of that committee, seven of which members shajftxmstitute a quoruio, with ^Er| authority to retain counsel and obtain opinion as to the validity of the Evans dispensary bill, to advise as to the course to be pursued; the committee to have full power to take such action as they deem proper." The chairman said that he would appoint the committee at; his leisure. Some names were suggested to him by out-of-town delegations., j - A report of the treasurer was read, and showed that $1,500 was in the treasury and $2,000 couM be secured. For the information of the conven tion, it was stated that the legal fight that they proposed to make might cost $10,000 to $12,000. j A gentleman from Colombia asked just how the war was to Ve carried on, and was informed that tl^ committee would employ the best counsel and see thatr there was a good case; then fight the law in the courts. jThe convention then adjourned. (The executive committee to be ap pointed hereafter will conduct the fight, which will be to a finish. I ? 4 ?? Bale or Nutall's Doable. * * . Atlanta, J an. 24. ? In the superior court to day, the lady who has been known as Mrs Walter Dale was given a verdict in her suit for divorce. The case is a remarkable one, and is of especial importance, as its effect is to declare that Walter R. Dale, a Biaptist preacher, ia* as it is alleged, in reality J. O. H/Kutall, a sporting who deserted lus wife and ohil m in North Carolina.! Nutall (or le) was once tried for bigamy and convicted, but is now out on bail, pending a new trial. If Dale is not Nutall, it is one of the most remark able cases of mistaken identity on record. , The Ideal Woman, ! They were talking about ideals and whether or not it is possible to realize tnem. From this they fell to discussing the ideal men and the ideal woman, but especially the ideal woman, since women tfi&e-otat of mind have been ex pected to be idea^while nothing of the sort has been required or ex pected of men. A well-known banker who had not expressed his opinion was asked what his idea was or what might bid .termed an ideal woman. \ . . "My wife asked me the same question the other daj," he replied, 'apd I told her my ideal Was em bodied instbe latter part of the thirty-first chapter ot 'Proverbs. She wen? and read the chapter, and when she came [back she said -she wasn't going to try ip be my ideal, and I was rather *lad of it, for I think perfection might be as ^ hard to get along with as to gain.'! Anybody Can Fix This Corner^ Every household needs a loung ing Dlace, and the following plan can De adopted wherever a restric tion in funds would place a reg ularly made sofa out of reach: Buy an ordinary cot with woven I wire springs. Cut off the legs two inches and remove the head and footboards. Buy a hair mat tress to fit and cover it ^with cre tonne, buttoning it down at inter vals -of fourinshes like a, cushion for a seat Tack a box-plaited flounce of the cretonne around the edge of the cot on the four sides, finish the top with narrow gimp. Make four or five feather pillows two feet square, and cover them, with material that will contrast prettily with the cretonne. The result of these simple directions wffi evidence the truth of my opening remark. Mrs. Buffalo Bill. Mrs. "Buffalo Bill" is said to be an amicable woman, very pop ular in ihe neighborhood of " North Platte, where she - lives. Her home, Scout's Resit, is a long, low building, four miles from the town. ; large and roomy, and quite like a j hotel, and it is surrounded by 300 j acres of* prairie land, magnificent sjablesl. and fine' pasture lands, i were are kept maiy thousands of j fine blooded horses and cattle. . . . Detective's Charmer Was * Man in Female Attire. - Ha Was Alao a Thief for Whom the Detective Was in Searoh. A Blonde Wig Brought Mat ? ters to a Climax. "J- my sweetheart to the Deriitentiarj two years a go" said Ij. A. Juhnng, a successful detec tive to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat man. "For a year or more a very slick young crook had been work lag the * country banks of the ooutn for considerable amounts. I wa? put on his trail and tracked mm tc a hotel In Memplns. He Wa* a handsome you ng~ fellow, small of stature and had a hand and foot like a duchess. The moment I got sight of mv man X suspected that he was not a stran ger to female disguises. My evi dence against him was a trifle ***ky? .so I coucluded not to arrest at onoe, but to give him an opportunity to make a play that would surely bag him. - "That evening a very '-styhsh young lady occupied the seat next Jo me at the supper table. She charming^ "I fell into conversation with her, a**d learned that she was from if Pr*eans and a daughter a wealthy banker on Canal Street j "forgot to watch my man and ^ spent the evening with the young Par^or- SheVas an ex pert at jife .piano, had a beautiful contralto voice, and sang senti mental songs to me until my heart | just crawled over to her. ? "She intended to go away ' the next day, but I persuaded her to I P?gtP?ne her depar tafe and paid *6r. assiduous attention. Opera tickets, suppers, carriages and flowers spoiled a $100 bill in two clays. "I suddenly discovered that my otok worker had flown, but I didnt wory about him much. -I- ne banker's daughter interested me lar more than the banker's robber. "The evening of the third day she was playing the piano and I I was Playing the fooL I was beg one ?f those beautiful vellow which hung over her shoul ders like a shower of gold. She re fused, and I made .a pretence of cutting one off. she sprang up from the piano in playful resent ment, the curls caught in the mu sic rack, the wig came off and my fly check manipulator stood before me, 'I was the worst sold man that ever played the sucker, but I had sense enough not to show it I coolly took a pair of handcuffs from my pocket. 'What, ' said the fellow with a sneer, 'would you subject your sweetheart to this indignity?' Then he laughed as he slipped his dainty hands through' the jewelry and allowed it to fail to the jioor and tangle itself with the yefiow curls that I^had learned to love so well But I ran him in, and he got on the various counts fourteen years in the pen. " The Queer Japs. In Japan everybody carries a lantern. By day and night it is dangling at his belt. ? It resemble? a thin, flat box. . Each end of the box is fastened to a sort of paper, Which, lying in folds, forms, when drawn out, a lantern. The Japan ese usually carries also a tiny wooden box, shaped like a Cylinder, to hold his candle. A small medi cine chest, with Half a dozen little lx>xes, each containing a small ?portion of medicine, a tan, a pipe, and a short sword, all form part of the outfit. The belt of a Japan ese is, therefore, a very important part of his dress. His slippers consist of a sole with a worsted thread at the upper jend, through which the great toe is thrust to keep it on the foot. His pillow is a framework of whalebone, or some such sub stance, into which the back of the j peck near the head fits. This is jfco keep his knot of Jiair in order, to? he does not have his hair (dressed every day, and therefore ia obliged to take care. of the piece, which is greased and bound into a queue, the rest of the head being closely shaven. The rich Japanese send their children to school in inferior gar ments, in order that the children of the poor may not be ashamed to wear their afcabby clothes. ii ' Do You Know. Do ?ou know that you can drive nails into hard wood without bending them if you dip them first in lard ? That a lump of camphor in your clothes-press will keep steel orna ments from tarnishing ? That stale bread will clean kid gloves? . v That bread crumbs cleanse silk gowns ? That milk, applied once, a week with a soft cloth, freshens and pre serves boots and shoes? That gloves can be cleaned at home by rubbing with gasoline? 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