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-- *.. . ~V - _r __ _EOPLESOR A_ F S , _ SPICKENS S. C., TIHURSDAY, MAY 9.19 No. 17. "-Nevr, SO long as'nt is a bause, So long as my brothers continue the strug gj0 I will be with them. " "Then so long as the Union army is fightin ye Oi'll bo in its ranks." "You'll do no such thing. You will go home, whoro your presence is moro needed-to your mother, to your ten ants. Ireland needs all her landovnors such as you at home. That is your coun try. You have no interest hero. " "And the United States is your Qoun try. You have no other." "Ratsl" "Darlinl' There was a silenco between them for some moments. Ratigan laid his hand on hors while she was lo9king, with a pained expression, out of the window. In her eyes was a far look. Her oem "Darlin," he sald. panion had strengthened certain doubts which had at times come up to trouble her as to the ultimate success, the real motives which underlay her cause, and with her intense, devoted nature had led her to feel that all this vast effort put forth by her people might in the end avail nothing or would only, if success ful, perpetuate a wrong. Her lover saw her troubled expression. He did not at tempt to comfort her by recalling what ho had said. Ho pushed on further. "Darlin, " ho said, "ye're right when yo say Oi'n needed in Oiroland. Go with me, darlin. Bo me wife. Let all this intense effort, this sacrificeo yo're put tin into a cause, which Oi foresee is dooied, be given to me tonants. The estato is a large one, and thoro aro hun dtoos of people for yo to bofriend. There yo can work to a purpose. There yor ef forts in behalf of a really downtrodden peoplo will be for good. " "And loavo my brothers in tho midst of this horrid struggle? I will stay hero till the last gun is fired, till tho last blow of the hammer has rivoted our chains." , Born and bred in the south, Miss Fitz Hugh had never seen except with south orn eyes. Hero was a Inali who was giv ing her views never hoforo open to her. She had a mind capable of grasping them and saw the strength, the solid senso, boneath them when properly pre sented. *"Darlin," said the young baronet, "the world moves on quickly. If yer peoplo succeeod in this wvar, in less than a quarter of a century ye'll either free oer slaves or be a blot on the lace of the earth.'' "Oh, Rats," she exclaime~d, "why lid I ever meet you? You've sapped the strongth I possessed for my wo'rk. I can pover again do my duty as I have done it thus far. " "Darlin,'" ho said, drawing her nearer to him, "OI'll r-eplaeo what Oi've taken. Oi'll give ye other duties, the duties that belong to the mistress of a fine es tate, the duties of a woman of high de gree in a country wvhoro birth is re spected far more than )ere. With your vigor, your strong impulses" ''Guided by your mere steady light. " ''Ye may hocome one of the most in fluential women in the three kingdoms." In her eyes camne thamt humorous twinkle ho had once seen before when she steed in her buggy in the road upi in Tennessee and tantalized him for hi~s stupidhity in having boonm duped by her. "'I6 would be nice to be' "'To be what, diarlin?'' "'Lady Rlats,'' and s he hid her blushes in the pillow on which his head rested. * * * * * * The sun setting over Leookout moun taini shone directly in the faces of May niard andl his party as returning from Ringold they rode into Chattanooga. It was a glorious October qvening, and the heights towering them, covered by un seen Confederates, reposed about thc town like huge lions watching a wound. ed animal, confident that at last it must fall into their power. Dismounting before his tent, Maynart entered it, and thore found a lettel from his wife. S3ho begged him to comn to her if it w~oro possible, and if not ti write to hor. HoI road and reread th letter again and again, and then mad an attemplt at a reply. After writin, half a (d0zon, all of which ho tore uj' lhe abandoned the task in despair. i position was too uncertain. The ser tence of the court martial hung ovc him like a sullen cloud(. What could Ii say to her to comfort her? Ilo we knew that the onily comfortinig sli needed was to know that lhe was ii miserable, and of that ho could nmot al sure her. And so matters hung for a wool Having no duties to performi, I lie tin passed all the more slowly. The1 CIol federates wvoro senidin~g occaisional shmel froem Lookout mounitaini, and as the were harmless the repiorts woero som thing of a relief to Maynard, breakli the monotony of the silence, Ie spe: 2much1 of the time thinking of what would do in ease the sentencoe of ti ourt wore approved and~ carried in offeot. Ho formeod many plans, whi were all abandonedl. At last hie setcl paup anQ, 1894 SY aMEnICAI* PRESS ASS5C6Mfigyp down to the res6lvo thdt lie would go t the army in the east, onlist under ai assumed name and await the coming o some missilo to end his career, as h< had intended at Chickamauga. Ono morning an orderly rode up t him and handed him an order to repor in person at General Thomas' head quarters. Calling for his horso and foi his own orderly, Jakey, to follow, hi mounted, and in a feverish nAood dartei away to obey the order. What did the summons mean? Some thing definite in his affairs had comi about; that lie felt reasonably sure of Perhaps the papers of the court in hii case had been found. Perhaps they ha been mado out in duplicate. The latte: supposition was the mo'st likely. Hii offense could not be ignored. Indeed hi could not afford to have it ignored. Th sentence must be either set aside or car riod into offect. Dismissal would be fai moro desirable than living in suspense, All these matters rushed through hil mind while he rode to respond to th suninons. The nearor he drew to head quarters the less hopeful he became, After all, was it not absurd to expeo anything except that now papers ha bon made, the sentence forwarded "ap proved, " and lie was now to be inform od that he was no longer in the army General Thomas could do much for him, but there was not a general in the arm3 who had a higher sense of a soldier'i obligations than he. How was it possi ble that so great a leader, so rigid a dis ciplinarian, one with such high concop tions, could do aught n his caso bu approve the sentence? And now lie wai sending for him to inform him of lii degradation. Following this reasoning, by the timi he arrived at headquarters his expocta tions were at the lowest ebb. He dis mounted, and so preoccupied was ho tha lie left his horso standing without fits toning her, but Jakey rodo forward an seized the rein. Maynard gavo his inami to an orderly and in a few minute: stood before the man w'hoso very pros once was quite sufticient tostriko torr: into tho heart o! a delin(glont. But the first face on which Maynard' eyes rested was not that of the general Another was thero to greet hini, on who, ho knew, whether ho woro honor ed or disgraced, would never love hin the less. It was his wife. Tio though flashed through his brain, "She is her to comfort o when the blow falls.' Ho wanted to fly to her embrace. Th impulso was checked. Ho saw that si burned to fly to him, but she, too, ro strained herself, for there, betweei them, towered the figure of the general Maynard gave hin a quick glance, bu could discover nothing in his counto nanco to indicato what his fate woul< be. Theso glances, those surmises, last ed but for a moment, for the genera spoke: "I have sent for you to inform you o your status in the army." Afaynard bowedl his he el andt waited ''The offense for which you wer< tried, '' the geinral spoke slowly ai impressively, "'vt i gievous to 1 overlooked. It would h: ve pleased nm in the case of so bravo a man to set il aside, but such a course would have con. donod that which, if it should go unpun ished, wouldl strike at the very founda tion of military dlisciplino. In liberating a spy intrusted to your care you violat ed a sacred trust and assumed an au thority such as is not accorded to any one save the president of the Unite< States." Maynard did not raise his eyes fron the ground. lie knowv what was coming and a shiver passed over him. "A nowv set of papers were prepare< and sent; to me. I forwarded them" Mayn ard 's eyes wvere almost startinj from their sockets. "'With my approval." "Oh, general!'" gasped the strickei man, catching at the tent poleofor a sup port. Laura could wvithi difilty kool her sent, so cager was she to fly to him "'They have also been approved by th president, and you have boen dismiesse from the service of the United States with forfeiture of all r.y and oimolu ments." Maynard triedl to speak. Ho wishei to say that he could not complain of thi sentence-that, considering the offense it was merciful-but his tongue wouli not obey him. "'So much for your p~unishmont, '' th general went on after a slight pause "There are other matters, however, t (saigo ne ccrs be cnsidred.Thes areyouryou besonsidoto. sav aihe and inu yobo sonce to your owni intert 1wtation of u ye yduty in rep)ayinmg a tsnereud oblligati( a- Wilo these comnsiderat ions dlo not gstroy the act or its pernicious effect an oxamipho, they show conclusively ti Sit did not spring from baso motives, 1 Srathe~r in ohedience to a strong sense o honoer, whioh a soldier should hold mhighest esteem." A When the aonoral boaan to sok theso palliathig oiruinstauceds, Maynard did not hear him. As ho proceeded, howover, his attention was arrested. "Furthermore, thoro are your bril liant services, both as a so'out and yet moro recently in tho battle through which we have just passed. I have taken 'ains to learn of your services in the ranks on tho 10th of Soptombor and was myself a witness to your gallantry on the ridgo on the 20th. I cannot find it in my heart to fail in my aoknowledg monts to any man, however ho may have erred, who engaged in that dosporato strugfle, which was a turning point in our fortune and may be said to have saved us all from rout or capture. "Besides for more than a year I have watched your caroer with interest. I am sure that you are possessed of un doubted military talents, perhaps of a high order. I believe it to be true wis dom on the part of the government to retain those talents for the country. Therefore, in the interest of the United States and for gallant and moritorious conduct at the battle of Chickamauga, I have suggested your uiamo to the presi dent for tho appointment of brigadier general of voluntoors. A batch of such appointments, including yours, was yes terday sent to the sonato, and I have a telegram announcing that they were all confirmed. " Suddenly it seemed as if there had been a loosening of invisiblo cords that had been holding husband and wife apart. In the fraotion of a second they were looked in each other's arms. Tears, the usual mode of expression of deep feel ing in woman, did not come only to the wife. Yet in a measure the sexes were reversed. Laura was moro smiles than tears. Maynard only wept. Soon remembering in whose presence he stood, Maynard disengaged himself. Turning to General Thomas: "General, " he said in a broken voice, "I cannot-thanks are nothing-timo must show how well I approciato what you have done. Is there another man in the army who could afford to take so enlarged a view in such a case? Is there one with so farsoing an eye, so keen a sense of a soldier's duty, tempered with so kind a boart?" Maynard paused for a moment. Then with a sudden burst of enthusiasm: "But who shall reward the man who on that terrible day held together the Army of the Cumberland? Can the president bestow an adequate rank? Would the title of full 'general' avail? NoI It is for the people to reward you with a title, not given by an individual, but by the common consent of vast massos-not only for a day, but so long as there shall bo a history of this war the Rock of Chickamauga. CHAPTER XXVIII. A SINGULAR CEM)NY. Laura Maynard, after a long period of solicitudo as to her hushand--detain od at homo by a temporary illness of her child-had at last found it possiblo to go and eck him. She had arrived on the morning of the news of his appoint ment and at once sought Goneral Thomas' headquarters. Thoro sho had boon informed of the status, and a mes songer was at once sent for her husband. Leaving tho tent whero Maynard had first been plunged in despair only to be elevated to a condition of mind border ing on ecstasy, the two sought a hotel, where Laura could be made comfortablo till the next day, and there passed the time in going over the period since they had parted and rejoicing at the outcomno of the singular complications which fate had been pleased to bring down up)on the husband. But all meetings must have an end, and at last the husband, departing, redo to his tent. There he found a messenger waiting for him. "'Flag of truce' wants to see you on the picket line, sir." Without dismounting, the newly oreatod general rode in the direction of Mission ridge and met "the flag" at its base. There stood a mounted party of Confederates, one of them bearing a white flag, headed by an officer, a son of the south whlo spoke every word as though it were of momentous impor tance, neovor omitting the word ''sir." "Are yon Colonel Maynard, sir?" "I am, or at least I was. I hardly know what I am just now. I should not be surprised to be informed that I was to command all the armies of the United States. " The oficer looked puzzled. "I am the bearer, sir, of a mnessago from Corporal Sir Hugh Ratigan. Ho is to be married at 7 o'clockc this evening at General Bragg's headquarters on Mis sion ridge." "'The devil ho ist'' "That Is his intention, sir. Hie desires your presence." "Whom does he marry?'' "Miss Carolino Fitz Hugh.'' "I have been muoro surprised at other announcements, I confess. I dlon't won der ho invites me to his wedding, since I helped him to a wife." "Shall I transmit your acceptance of the invitation, sir?'' " 'On one condition. '' "'Please name it, sir.'' "I fear it will be unacceptable to Colonel Fitz Hugh, who will doubtless be the host or 0on0 of the hosts. He will not likely 7iold in a matter of etiquette which I miust insist on." ''Colonel Fitz. hUgh cainnot be pirOont, sir. H~o is no0w in your rear with our cavalry c'omlplet ing the starvation of your armiy in Cha~ttanooga b~y destroying your li nes of sulpply."' "Hm I wais not aware of aniy hungcr inl our1 ran1ks. Indleed lmy reqIuest is, knowing tha~t your own larder in thoe Confedleracy is not exactly abundant; that thle horn of plenty is niot burying you like 11Ierculaneumi under the ashes Sof Vesuvi us; that~ the blockade'" ro "Th b''i~ilockalde is nmot elective, sir," Sitterrupltd oth e oflicer stiiflly. h' "Ha Is sometwhat, reduiced "our wino ur cellars, liy condit ion is, I say, t hat. T 0- may13 bo permi tted to brinig hllf a dozeni lo' cases of chiampagnio for t ho wedding as feast." mat "I assuro' you, sir, that it is not nec* *ut essary. Wo are getting cargoes of wine of from Hlavro by a regular lino of steamn in oe. It is your own mecss tables at Chat tanooga that are doubtless hoveft of hov of eragos. owimr to the fact that our (Gen oral Wheoolo f4 circus riding In 1i' nossoo, leaving no road or railroad op to you. " "Do you consent that I shall bri the wino?" "I do, sir, but shall clahn for t host, a general officer rolated to t bride, the privilego of supplying : equal number of cases. " "Agreed. I will meet you hero at 0'clock this Ovening, when you canl cc duct nio aid my party to tho place wh< the coremony is to take place. You mi say, if you please, that I shall consid the invitation extended to my wil whom I will bring with me. " "Wo shall feel highly honored, s at Mrs. Maynard's presence. Am I infor, sir, that your wife has been at to roach you over the burned bridg and trestlowork in.your roar?" "She has found no difficulty wha over in joining me." Maynard failed to add that Laura hi only come a few miles to meet him. "Good day, sir, " said the officer, ral ing his hat. "I shall expect you at 6. "Good day. I will be on time. " And each rode away in the dirooti< of their respective camps. Maynard's offer of the wino had cor about in this wviso: Jakey, during t: previous wook, had been investigatii such empty houses as lie could find Chattanooga and had loaded hims down with knickknacks, such as chi: orniamenoii ts, pictures, crockery, cutler including even daguerreotypes. On o: occasion ho thought he had discoverod box of muskets. This ho reported Colonel Maynard, whom he persuad to go with him to a -iellar near by at mako a search for concealed arms. TI muskets wore found, besides half a do on casos of champagne, which had doub less been there since the beginning the war. Upon leaving the picket line Ma nard rode to the house where he hi son the wino and secured it for t: evening, placing a guard over it. Th< he went to the hotel and bade Laura g ready to attend a wedding. There was consternation in the Co federate camp when the ( -Arer return with the information that the Yank had tried to bluff him by claiming t privilege of bringing champagne wi him, and that ho had claimed the rig for the hosts to furnish an equal amoui The telegraph was sot in motion at on< directing search to be made in all t neighboring towns for the required be erage. Dalton, Cloveland and oth points wero ransacked without succo About 2 o'clock in the afternoon, despair was settling on the Confodoratt a telegram was received that sor chaimpagno had been found in Atlant Tho authorities thero wero directod1 seud it by special locomotive, markii it: "Annunition. Forward with di patch." At 7 o'clock Maynard, accompani by Laura, and Jakey, who was alwan with him, besides a wagon cointaini the caso of wine, were at tho appoint place on the pickot line, whero th wero met by the Confederate "flag Transferring the wino to the backs pack imiles, all started up the side Mission ridge to General Bragg's hea quarters. As they approached the crest a bo< of Confederate officers, a gay cavalcae in gray and gold lace, rodo out to me them. They wore recoived by the rol tivo of the bride-an uncle-referred by the officer who brought the invit tion. lHe was an elderly man, of a di nified and serious mien. The party we coniducted to a largo marquee sot up f the wedding feast. There they alighte anid the wine was unloaded and earri inside. A few minutes before '7 o'clock t guests were conducted to a knoll, on t summit of which had been erected cainopy of flowers, and where stood group of Confederates of high ran On the eastorni horizon stood the ft moon. Below to the east was the battl field of Chickamauga. To the west, t. Army of the Cumberland, besieged Chattanooga, on half rations. As t guests approached, the groom, still his uniform of a corporal, attended his best man-a Conifodorato noncou missioned officer of good family, dota ed for the occasion-was seen movi: from the north toward the knoll.. the samio moment the bride, attired ir dress miado of a coarse white stuff, me ufactured in the Confederacy, and tonided b~y several bridesmaids, who hi come from a distance to officiate, 1 preached from the south. The two ni oni the knoll under the canopy. An o1 cor of high rank, who was also a bish in the church, stepped forward, and C< poral Sir Hugh Ratigan and Caroli Fitz Hugh wore made one. The on lamp to light the nuptials was the ron: moon in the east. The only canopy, sa that composed of flowers, was the bro; heavens above, in which the stars h oiily just alpoared for the night. T only wedding bells were occasion booms from gunis on Lookout mountai The ceremony over, the bride a: groonm repaired to the marquee, light with candles, where they took positi to receive the congratulations of t company. All gave way to Coloniel a: Mrs. Maynard, who offered theirs fir: " Wo must give you up, I suppIoso said Laura to the bride, "just as would like to know you bettor. You abroadl, I suppose." ''No, I remain hero." 'But Sir Hugh will go?'' "Yes, as soon as lie can got his (1 charge, lie goes to Virginia from he1 whicre lie will pass through the lincs Washington and will put his cas the hiands of the British mini::ter.J ant icipates no trouble in getting a d charge from the Federal army and ho1 ~to sail within a month for Ireland."' ''And you?'' asked Laura, in soi surpriso t hat the bride couldl boar to pi s0 500on withI lher husband. "'I? I remiain with my people tillt last gun has beent ired. We have argu that (quest ion, anid such is miy dooisioni "Moi decisiolis, '' observed the groo: "'are a thing of the past." L eaving the newly married pa~ C4oloniel M'ayniard approached the inns of cereo~ies(, the bride's uncle. "G(enecral," ''li said, "'I esteem i privilege that you have waived y< right to furnish all the viands for i wedding feast and hatvonormitted ,n- to contributo. There," pointing 'to tbo on boxes of wine he had brought, "are six cases of champagne, which I bog you brol 1g to accept as a contribution from the witi Army of Chattanooga. " the I he At a signal from the officer addressed figu [io a negro removed a blanket covering a otho %i dozon boxes in a corner of the tent abo which had como a hundred miles ana tioni 0 had not boon in position ton minutes. man In- "I see your six cases, general, and go upor ro you six cases better. " whoil ly "Having no further resources at sion or hand, " said Maynard, bowing, "I retire with' o, from the gamo. " volu "Hannibal," said the Confederate, ring4 r, "you may advance the force in the first Ply to box to a position in line on the table." gon0 10 "Yes, sali, " said the person addressed. tion es And seizing a saber standing in the cor- bofo ner he unsheathed it with a flourish and t- and pried open a box of the wine. In a arrai moment a dozen bottles were standing the ; id on the table liko'a platoon of soldiers. hus: "Now, Hannibal, you may fire the life. s- opening shot." nors Hannibal b'oke the wires, and a cont "pop," a far more welcome sound than brok )n those that had bean so recently and fro. red.. quently heard by all present, announced to that the feast was not only set, but TJ to begun. capil Ig "I must apologize for our glassware," than In said the master of coromonies. "Our trou If champagne glasses were all shattered by blo, in the concussions at Chickamauga." and y, And well he might. The array oon- cour to slated of tin cups, wooden cups, glass pros, a cups and tumblers, all either cracked, nOv to broken or dented. And as a circle was migI adpeol A 'thor 10 1* som Z. soul A does ~ your .- fall d bane 103 Men )n mati t of it you - writ dyou 00 who 103 man th war it Jakey stepped up to the bride and groom. for I t. formed to pledge the bride and groom soul e, one Confederate screened himself be- onoi 'to hind his comrades to avoid being soon of it v- drinking from a gourd. When the con- in il or tents of 18 cases-a regiment of "doad but, s. soldiers"-lay on the table, the guests kooi: 1s prepared to depart. The last words had confi ., been spokon by General and Mrs. May- live, 10 nard and by Sir Hugh and Lady Rati i. gnu. Jakoy, who had thus far wander to od about unobserved, though not unob- It ig serving, stopped up to tho brido and (ays s- groom. Though ho had not tasted the ill I wino, his eyes glistenoed with intoxica- it c 3d tion at tho union of his two frionds, mer< ys whose attachment lie had noticed from ho h ig the first. and ed "Miss Baggs, air you uns 'n Sir Rats foot Dy goin ter rido roun Tennessee some moro his . " in the chicken coop?" coat of There was a burst of laughter from ing of the party, and Lady Ratigan, with a serv d- blush, informed Jakey that the chicken cial coop was broken in pieces. od a 'I " didn't know nuthin 'bout that. wori le Reckon Sir Rats'd find it handy in Iro- to g 3t land. It's kind o' funny you uns start- they 1- in out way up by th' mountings 'n lyne to fetchin up down hyar, nigh ontor th' lie c % Georgy line." And Jakey surprised the It company by giving the only "ha, ha" thor< re that had to this moment ever beeni heard ouste or to issue from his serious lips, field r1, As the guests descended the side of tipt >d the mountain a cheer was heard in the coat direction of Chattanooga. They stopped ease 10 pnd listened. A man rode out from the to al 10 Union picket line to meet thenm. out a "What's that cheering?" asked Gen- burd a oral Maynard. oom k. "Olo Pap's in command of the Army the 11 of the Cumberland." mea -TBE END. 36The Mdission of the Newspaper. In The clergymen of the period have had gatl y much to say, first and last, about the sede ai- mission of the publiconewspaper. None, be f LI- however, has better set forth its work suit ig than the reverend gentleman who was trac it the orator at the Attloboro celebration. is a . a Said Mr. Wales, with perfect truth: plot n- "It is the mission of the newspaper whoc it- to publish news. NoTw, it is a fact that, cent id from the miani who wvators his milk to and p. the cold blooded murderers, all degrees vontl ot of criminal mankind want news sup- for t ri- pressed. Liars, thieves, scandal mon- we op gors, deceivers, burglars, fighters, adul- has ir- terers, gamblers, drunkards and gentlo- tianu no men rascals all cry out against the neOws the ly publishers. Their business is disturbed laci ad by the enterprise of newspapers. But no o ve one who is open and honest and free it, id from any taint of transgression wants A id news suppressed." erati 'io It would be a blessed thing for morefat ual than one congregation if those clerics Chir n. who are acoustomed to carp at modern am id journalism, in season and out of season, to 3d would put themselves in possession of conm m1 Mr. Wales' remarks on tihe province of ste do the newspaper and read, mark, learn --F id and inwardly digest them.-Boston ;t, Globe. -_______ ye The Air We Breathe. en I go A now and novel instrument is the pcoo koniscope, or dust testing apparatus. It tihe is not a complicated scientific machine, final being solely intended for estimating in shar s- an easy and simple manner the amount own o, of pollution and number of dust parti- tho to ales in tho atnmosphioro. The action of Worl in the instrument is based on certain color som Jo phlonomona associated with what is call- mist is- (d ''cloudy condensation of air, '' and stor 'Cs which canl be produced by stoami jets, boy, high or low temperature of the air, tile Not no increased anumbeor of (lust niuoloi, etc. of c< rt In working the koniscope the air is reil drawn into the apparatus by moans of fu~ bie a comimon air pump and quickly pass- utoi ed ed to the ''test tubes,'' which are fitted the "with glass at both ends. When the tube os n, thus chargedl is 1hold toward the liIght, It 01 various colors, from pure white to near ir, ly black blue, according to the purity or lie or impurity of the sample under test, are tihe inidicatod. The dust particles also formi 1 a an important factor in thoe tests, the war ur variation in their number causing the trul he mirror to throw all the colors of the vid, rainbow.-...M Louni -nannunLo. Genoa Mlarriage Brokerm. I (enoa thlero are regular nlltrriLgo :res, who have pookftooks tilled i the names of marriagonblo girls of :lifferont classos, with notes of their :es, personal attractions, fortune and r circumstancos. Thoso brokers go t endeavoring to arrange connco i in the samo offhand mercantile nor which they would bring to bear t a merchandise transaction, and ix they eucceed they got a commis of 2 or 8 per cont upon tho portion, such extras or bomuses as may be Litarily bestowed by the party. Mar ) at Gonoa is thus oftentimes sim matter of business onloulation, rally settled by tie parlents or reol i, who often ldraw up the contract ro the partios havo soon one another, it is only whon overything else is' uiged and a few days provious to I uarriago ceremony that the future 'and is introduced to his partner for Should he find fault with her man or appearance he may annul the ract on condition of defraying tho' erage and any other expenses incur -London Sun. Lovo Letters. ioro ought to be a law making it a tal crime to kool) any letter more six months. More than half the blo in this world-tho sort of trou I mean, that breaks peoplo's hearts is occasionally aired in the divorco ts-is caused by letters foolishly >rved. Of courso sonsiblo peoplo .r writo letters that all the world it not re d. But all tho sensible lo are de d, for I venturo to say D is not one of us who has not at period of his lifo-pourod forth his in a letter he'd give his oars never we written. If you are a man, it n't so much matter, for ovon if ' letters to your old swootheart do Into the hands of her presont huis it isn't at all likoly he'll rend them. haven't enough curiosity in the or. Honorable soruples? Noti a bit -simply lack of curiosity. But if are a woman doesn't it make you be in spirit to think of thoso letters wrote Jack or Will or (eorgo a you were sure he was the only in the world? Of courso the girl ho riod has road them-trust a woman uhat-and she has made fun of your 's out-pourings, and-woll, it's igh to turn ono's hair whito to think . Love lettors ought to be written ik that would fade in a fortinight, so long as they are 110t; people wiho thei ought to be lut( into solit:ry noment. for all the rest of their --~Washington Post. hesterfleid anid tie Valls yl em. will bo renmmhered tihl; i the of the great Lord Cisvterfield vii is ondoni had reached sich a pit ici ti hit. st a inan11 of position 1 or 1) guimn:e; 4y to dine out. As ho left the h use ad to run tho gantlot, of tihe bIl hor un(lerbutlers and half a6 dozen 11111. One han110(dd hii his caIn, on hat, another his gloves, a fourt h his , and so on, and so on, ('eh (XpeCt a crown in acknowledgmont; of his ices. Lord Chosterilold saw that so intercourse was boing ruined, vall meeting of the chief peoplo ill tihe ld of fashion and got theml to agroo ive nothing to tho servants when dined out. It is truo 110 wois nearly (ed by a mob of irato footmen, but rried his point. is said that at tio present imoelt is a tendoncy to re~vive the odious )n thus put down by Lord (Chester and that the mallsher has1 begunm to he 11o01 whlo put hinm into his great after dinner. If that is so, a clear exists for a c~~lommo agroomnt niot low the infootion to spread. Dininlg wvould become a more intolerablo on than it is already if it also wore plicated by the question, "What is least I can give without looking n?'"-National Review. Eisuing of Stones. round the center of Jerusalem, ro the religious growths of centuries icr like crystals around a rod, a half ntary, half floating population is to uiund, whose chief object is the pur of piety and the veneration of the os of Jesus, the Nazarone. Hero world within a world, a CJhristianl ure in a Moslem framol. In this city, ro the religion of Mohmanlunod, 18 urios ago, overcame thnat, of Chrlist, whlere at presenit its fol lowers pro the rival Christianls fromn figihting ho possession of tihe voneratod spots, nave a little area of grouud wvhich been arranged by the sects of Chris ity to suit the brief descriptions of restamnent, but in which no single m exists thlat can be proved to have the sconIo of the events ascribed to 1 things which are offered for yon en are venerated in this place of i, where both native and European stians become seized with whlat I ~onstrained to torm a lithophilomnat nania, since they iaro seen1 to ho). tantly ongaged in kissinlg ennshrinod os of the most doubt ful authout icily. ortnightly Review. Stea~ing Hfs Own) P'roperfy. reckless manm left an1 a1pp)1( ini a bag nis d10sk in a room where several >lo sat. An offloo~ hoy "pleeped"~l into1. bag, hovered longingly aroundli it, lly brought alnot her bory arloun~d to o the temnptaition, asked0( if anlybody ed thin apple, and( then(1 a5ssured that0 applo beilngedl to nlobod~y iln thlo .a prompjtiy fell. Tlhoiri 5seems to hio ry, loves comnpany, for the5 younig divided tile apple withi till otiher making him1 party' to tihe theft. COnltent withi this, lie placedl a picco >al in tile paper, closed t ho top iand [1c(d the bag Onl the dlesk. Th'le right >wneri of tihe app1)o camo10I i a11min latter, and seeing~ the ofico boy and11 bag containling thlo apple, as. lhe sup1 il, ho( picked up tile latter and held it. Hero's an apple I saved for you,'' aid, and lhe hlanded over tile hag to boy, onlesty' is tihe-hunt every body knows it it is, anid that oflico boy looked y conscience stricken that iho had di >d the applle when~l ho miight have it all t-Now York Tribunn. The Stork's Devotion. Tho storki hns given numerous proofs of bor maternal afoctions. Sio propnres her nest with caro, linos It with dowp, deposits her eggs, haLtcho theo tenderly. and nover for a moioment leaves her ohorishled progeliiture. Wlon tho littlo ones oemrgo from their sholls, other labors begin. Tho father undortakes to provido their food. Tho niother takes oliargo of their education. First they havo to ho taught to fly, which is no trifling affair. When inl attempting to walk our own chibidrin fall, thero is no groat harmi, but the( little storks havO to try thmir wings by leaiving their nosts and venturing into qmvv. Thoroiforo how timid aro the young ones and how anxious their iothnr! And yet the first losson passos ot wit hIout aclcident, and 1oon you Will so the youig generationi gayly fluttering around their airy homo. But thioso motherly instincts aro coin mon traits. Tho stork carrios hor dovo tion much further. Sho loves her ohil dron enough to givo up hr lifo for thom, of which hore is a muomorablo oxamnplo: At Dolft a houso is oi Jiro. Tho flainos haivo reachod the roof. A young brood of storks havo just como to light. They aro still undo alid unablO to fly. T110 mot her understands the p 8ri1. She moves about, flaps her wings aid Iakes a des perato chatter to attract assistance, and when at last her nest catclies firo sho reorlutely settles down into it and por ishes with her children. It is only just that in return for such devotion the young ones should love their paronts. Thoreforo, when old ago has Comtie, whon the old storks, eri ppled with rhum imiatisii, Coi 1 loiger veituro far out in soarch of food, the cibiriin provido it for hini.--French of Alaurico Ealigle hart. -An OdIty. Joubert, the Fronch moralist whosO "Thoughta'' had great suocess, waS so odd and original that i witty wotman deolared ho gave her the idea of a soul which had met by chamico with ia body that it had to put up with and (10 with as well as it Could. His friend and editor, Chateaubriand, described himi as ant egotist who was always thinking of others. I is ambi tion was to bo perfectly calm, yet no ono betrayed Ho m hu gitation as ho. In itilgy iid ilI aintg oerciso ho was as incoistatit. as a coquette. For sov eral days he would livo eli uilk; theni for a week he would eat nothing hut hash. Ol one day It would be jolted In a carriago a full trot over the rouglost roads; on the nex le wobd h1. drawn Slowly throngh tiht sit bst allevs. -1h a lia t a l 'tu if U1 1 il hoks, for whlii h re I . t ' i l i-ar )it; of a book t lit Imues t Itileasd him(. youth's Comluparitiz. Thero art numy h:Whmrs who will not towl a whiit h1iuolb- ratr becauso of an old suipit'itioni that h:1(1 luck go's with it. A razor is to 0w h hrhe. what a locomitiv i<t~ t ihe .amir, :n1 thero aro moro thing',s to lem-n about it thau on( would suppose. ' 'or instanco, thero aro razors thato will (ut crtiin qualities of hair bot ter at certain st01eas than at others. Climato an'd wea1t0he' havo a groat deal to do wit I razors. 80oM will cut bet-tor in cold we"ather and so1o In hot. Thes are only a fewr of the onuses that affect razors, and they and many more alt toetul to natike the harbor whb does iuch work keep acculnulating ra zors until he hats all sorts to pic0k from. --Kansas City Jounrnal. Our naturail and hap11piost life le why~ we lose ourselves in the oxquisi torbh Sorptioni of home, the dlelicious ret ir moent of independenit love. THE BRAIN AND THE HE'ART. If Properly Ulsed 'Wic'y 1.arnely Esaep setilie FanlurnI. In1 hIs work onl the senile heart Dr. BalfourL tells uts that there ar~e t wo parts of the hiimiatn orgisi:m, whtich,. if wisely used, "largely esca pe :;il e fail uire," says the Troy Tl izmes. Tl h ese t wo are the brahind 1( he hwa rt. P'ersons who think have often worttlered whyt brain workers, grea t st a t esmien uinid others, sihouild contf it tO woruk wvith almost un iitimpired mntaln act ivityV anti energy up3 to ai peiodu (1 wen moi st o the org.anis antd fiunct i, nis of th bt' ody 1ro ti a condtit ioniit o it mvt ed senile dec(a y. Theire is ai pih .s l ial r;.on for this, and. 1)r. laltfom- t0it-; ii:4 wvhat "'remitints v'igorus. to the la:," ~ andu that " becautse its numtrvi i t isI , 'sially3 provided for." Abot mbhillie tlieor (i' little later thle genterm 1a: arteri sof t he body biegini to lo.se I heir 1hN ieii y anrd to slowly but. siurely (diiti'. Th1ey tb. iome, ot the nut riet blood t o - tihe en ihiIary areais. lut thIt is ntiet h e eni:,i wit hi thle nut ertnal ('rotfids, wihl suplyt: f h li pil larv atr(asof the brini. Oni t the coot rary'~, thoise large vecssels "continu:' tosr er thaniiiwithtin the iiapilary areai of loods pathIs binig I thui kepit topen, theo brta in tissute is k ept h1ter ~li i nouied thani the other fisss oiCf ihe btody."' Whlo is there amon thi~ ose whoe hauve reaciihed( ori passed c mbbiltI i; e hiat will niot hte rejoicesd to find sneh aira~iiiblo p~hy. siogiI a warrantt for1 thIo belief thtit the brain ma:y iton:tiue to werk, and iehven toi impirouve, ahnoitst to the very.\ last. hsour of Iile An Obes'tit*~a (tina. .\lottheri ~.\l pi nitn sr! Ar ou Yti i than1 iit andy againi. I tol yotu not to en t caii t y oni til ciiptiy at omtach. b it~tle l'et-I in't. My 'tmuiilc la full. An ingeioit wittimver. A priactical mant la'tely btcame aL widl owier. lie wasi devoited, in his owni self Ishi way, to his; wife, so thlist her friends were'(. surpiised whint they heard that lie load sold( alil her weddingf gifts-prin ciplally silver-without delay. Iils 11n genlius excuse wals this: "I ncdod a gootd wvatchi, as she well kcnow. The pr-esenit s wvere of no uso tot me, an~d I thought that, If I sold them and used *thie prI~ocds to get la watch, it ys~ould be like having It comio from her." Ce * .la~ly a cuirious way of getting around the fInOt