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I may not tritynph in moooM, D<wpit« my Mrneat labor; I may not graap rnaulta that bloaa The efforta of my neighbor. But though my goal I never aee, Thia thought aball alaraya dwell with Bet I will be worthy of it. The golden glory of Ixive’i light May never fall on my way; My path may alwaya lead through night, Like eome deserted byway. But, though Life's dearest Joy I miss, There lies a nameless strength in this: I will be worthy of it. Ella Wheeler. Sybil’s Economy Drifting—drifting away into the qniet land of dreams—half uncertain whether he wan awake or aaleep, with a pleasant semi-consciousness, the while, of the clear Are then glimmering on the wall, and the gray kitten purring a drowsy monody on the hearth-rug, Grant Ray mond bad a very narrow escape from a aound nap, when hia wife came in, with fluttering dress, and light, elastic foot fall. “Grant!” “Well, Sybil!” He was wide awake in a moment, and ready to take oath that he hadn’t had the least idea of going to sleep. “What is it, little busybody ?” he naked, lazily stretching out his band to play with the Wnoribbett at her watch an she came toward him. “Oan yom spore me five dollars to night f” “Of course I can—what is it for?” he said, leisurely opening his purse and -toHning the bit of crumpled paper to his wife. “The grocer’s bill--he will be here early to-morrow morning-^thank yon, 'dear!” Mra. Raymond sat down on a little vilytl cricket, close to the sofa, when she had deposited the money in hei Ftown leather purse, so that the firelight played genially on her delicate oval face with its shadowy masses of dark hair, and large, violet-gray eyes. “Well, Pusay, what are you thinking about?” questioned her husband, after a few momenta of unbroken silence. Mrs. Raymond looked up smilingly. “To tell you ttie truth, Grant, I was wishing thut^instead of coming to yon for every thiug I want I had a regular allowance of my own 1” “ ‘A regular allowance of your own?’ Really, that is very complimentary to to my generosity !” “I knew you would laugh at me,Grant —yeti do wish it very much indeed.” “And pray why ? Don’t I give you every tiling you ask for?” - “I know you do, my love; yot I should somehow feel richer, more independent, if I had my own resources—if you would allow me just such an amount every month.” “How much would satisfy you, my little miser?” “Well, I think I could get along with fifty dollars a month.” “Do you happen to know that I have handed over to you j’nst one-third more than the sum you sjiecify during the past four weeks? It strikes me you would not be much of a gainer, pecuniarily speaking, by thia new system of 11 nances. ” “But I believe I should, Grant, for it would teach me to calculate and econo- Ing some half-forgotten melody to her usual shook the windows and roared down the ehimnfy.. "I hopeitien’teny difficulty in- hie bneineea matter*. He has looked very grave lately.” The words had scarcely passed through her mind, when the door opened, and B*y»«»i entered. He did not speak to hie wife, es usual “ Grant 1 ere yon ill, dearest? Whet is the matter?” He made no reply. She roes and came to his aide, reiterating her inquiries. “Ask me no questions,Sybil,” he said, it length, in a tone so strangely altered dial she started at-its sound. “Yon will learn evil tidings soon enough.” “Tell me, my husband—are not my joya years — your sorrows mine? Surely, we have notoeaaed to be one?” ^“Sybil,” he said, rising, “I did not intend to olood your happy brow with ray griefs; bnt it is too late longer to dissemble. I had hoped, dearest to ■ .mride thftastona of disastcr, whiqh has- wrecked so many of our wealthiest mer chants, in its whirlpool of failnre. To morrow, however, a heavy payment falls due. I hsd relied on receiving debts from a distant firm, which would fully liquidate tbw amount. Instead of money, the Western mails to-day bring me news , of the failnre of the firm on which I had so wholly depended!” “Bnt can the amount be raised in n. other way?” “By borrowing here and there- b\ sjruiuiQg my credit to the utmost, ami scraping together every cent of avnihdih funds, I can raise the sum, all eicci five hundred dollars. But it might as well be five miliions. Unless the whole amount is met, my note will be protested, and I am a rained, disgraced man. To think that my whole future life should be darkened for want of a miserable five hundred dollars!” “And is that all you lack ?*’ “All? But what'is the use of dwell ing farther upon it. I appreciate yom symjpathy, Sybil, but it is vain.” He sank back on the sofa, his hands on his dosed eyes. He must have lain there motionlees for five or six minntes, when Sybil's soft hand was placed on hia forehead. “Dearest, look np a moment. Do yon remember onr childhood's fable of the lion who waa released from the net by the little moose’s tiny endeavors ?” “What of it?" he asked, with a vague apprehension that Sybil’s wits had been a little mfcettled by the sudden news ot their impending misfortune. “Well, I am the little mouse—you the snared lion. Here are five hundred and twenty dollars. Take them, and may they prove useful in your tilneof need.” He sat suddenly upright, staring al ternately at her and the roll of neatly folded billl. “But, Sybil, how—when—?” “Dear Grant, I saved it from my al lowance, a few dollars at a time. I thought perhaps the moment might come when it would be welcome. Be lieve me, my husband, it gives me ten thousand fold more pleasure to place it in your hands than to expend it in crown diamonds.” “My darhng wife!” faltered Grant Raymond, “you have preserved mo from ruin. This crisis once passed, I oan bid defiance to misfortunqj” And at that moment Sybil seemed to him to wear the lovely guise of an angel of rescue! Later in the evening as she sat by his side, her head resting on his knee, she could not forbear whispering, with s touch of loving mischief in her voice: 1 Grant—who was right about my short, you want to try the m mize, and to — 1 “And, in experiment.” “That’s just it,” said Sybil Raymond, cnaxingly. “My dear, this is all nonsense. Be lieve me, I understand the oare~of money better than you.” •Then you are not going to indulge me?” Thera was such a plaintive accent in Mrs. Raymond's voice that her husband checked himself in the midst of a Ire mendoua yawn,-to look full into tb. grieved little faoar- - , “My child,” he said langhingly, “1 hsve never yet refused you anything yon chose to ask; and it isn’t^likely I ahull l»egin to assert my independence at this late hour. Take‘your fifty dollars a month—take what you please; but I’m a considerably mistaken man if you don’t come to me teasing for ‘just a little more money,’ before the four weeks have ex pired.” “Now you shall see 1” said the de lighted litUe wife. “What shall I reu- der in payment of your docility, Mr. Prophet?” “A kiss—and now be off about you*' business, and let me finish my nap 1” • - • • • * * How often, during the next twelve montlis. Grant Raymond rallied his wife within an inch of the “crying degree' about her financial schemes—how often he alluded, mischievously, to the prob ably exhausted state of her puree, and hjs entire willingness to hand over any amount of money the moment she would confess nereelf to be wrong, arid him to be right, until she was nearly tempted to abandon her cause in despair. But ‘he persevered so bravely that after a while Grant declared that be believed Ms little wife con id get along with a smaller sum than he had previously any idea of 1 “But I know you are denying your self soores of feminine fol do roll sst the word, and we'll oall it seventy-five dollars a month, instead of fifty!” “No, indeed,” quoth Sybil, deemvely, “Didn’t I loll you that fifty should be enough. And it is!’’ Nearly five years had passed.a+ay. It was a stormy night in March, the donds flying Vefont strong gale, and tho air oMU and taw with oeoasiouel gusts of clasping - financial abilities, you bfT f* “Little tease 1” said he, laughing. “But I don’t think I ever realized before what a blessiner it is to have an economi cal wife I” A Way tf.liliimleHag Bator Rata are wonderfully dean animals, and they dislike tar more, perhaps, than anything else, for if it once gets on their jackets they find it difficult to remove it. Now, I had heard it mentioned that ixmring tar down at the entrance of their holes waa a good remedy:* But these remedies are not effective. The rats may leave their old holes and make fresh ones in other parts of the boose. They don’t, however, leave the premises for good. I thought I would try another experiment—one I had not heard of be fore. One evening I set a large wire- cage rat-trap, attaching inside a most seductive piece of strongly smelling cheese, and the next morning I found, to my satisfaction, that I had succeeded in trapping a very largo rat—One of the largest I bad ever keen—which, after I had besmeared with tar, I let loose into bis favorite run. ' t The next night I tried again and suc ceeded in catching another equally big fellow, and served him in the same man ner. I could not follow these two tar- besmeared rats into their numerous ram to see whst would hsppen, bnt it is rea sonable to assume that they summoned together all the members of their com munity, and by their crestfallen appear-. anoe gave their comrades silent indica tion of the misfortunes which had so suddenly befallen them, or that they had frightened their brethren away, for they one and all forsook the place and fled. The experiment was eminently success ful. From that day, 1875, till now, 1888, my house, ancient though it is, has been entirely free from rats, and I believe there is ue remedy equal to this one, if you oan oatoh your rat alive. They never come back to the house alive.—Chamber!'t Journal. A • “Oav you give m* a bite or two?’ asked the tramp, “Oertainlv,” replied the tenser. ‘‘Hem, Towsap^TowMr r “Heifer mind,” said the Jump, as he cleared the well, “don’t fRo say trouble about it I thfugfct you had it handy. wUi.-not ahow any improvement of the morale of the army, so ter of desertion is oonoerned. Several officers of high rank, who have recently visited military posts in the Territories, say that at many of the smaller posts so many of the enlisted men are! detailed ^Working parties, etc., thatqor months there has been no company drilinar dress parade, and that, in foot, the soldierla^uraedTBfo a me chanic or day-laborer. The soldiers who are thus detailed and who get “extra doty pay”—85 cents per day—do not complain, bnt their oom- randa who do the same or equally bard work without the extra pay do complain, and many of them become disgusted with the dradgery imposed upon them and desert There is reason to believe that the soldiers hsve, or think they have, another excuse for desertion. In vim Mm cam tubs savn*. On the 26th of September, 1848, the ■hip Minerva, four hundred tone, ot Hew York, Gap tain J. X. Bowen, op her pas sage homeward from the Mediterranean, was off the Western blende. As the ■on went down, a lookout on her deck saw a dark object on the horisou, about five miles to windward, which the glass .discerned as the hull of eome wreck. A close scrutiny showed no signal of dis tress, end Oaptain Bowen, thinking his duty to the owners of the vessel more argent than curiosity respecting what seemed to be a useless hulk, concluded not to interrapt the voyage. Night waa coming on, too, and there wen dangers to be apprehended in difpatching a small boat. Bnt the first officer of the February last the Surgeon-General is- - _ .. . . sued a circular, to. the medical offioere-of 70UDf - the Army, giving them very minnto in- ■tractions for making post-mortem in vestigations, and enjoining npon them the doty of making a full and careful report in every case. The blank form soldiers wererttf be subjects of such investigations. This circular, it is asserted, did not pass through Army headquarters, but was sent direct to officers of the medical staff. The interpretation given to it by some of the surgeons has prompted them to acta which have caused no little in dignation and some loud complaints among the soldiers. Several months ago a soldier was accidentally shot in the head and killed at a military post on the frontier. The cause of death was disclosed by a superficial examination, bnt the ambitions and scienoe-loving surgeon carried out his instraetionfl faithfully and completely dissected the body. The remains of another soldier, who was killed by a stroke of light ning, were about to be subjected to the same process when the post comnamde» interfered and prevented the autopsy. It is said that the bodies of a number of deceased soldiers have been sub jected to the dissecting knife, in accord ance with the instructions contained in the circular mentioned. De Long and His Officers. Twetily-tliree yean of age, felt different about it. He kept the ship'* log, and was ambitions to chronicle something that the newspapers would be glad to print on hia arrival in New York. He ■ItftdjJao a atrong dmire to get a sight of a wreck at sea; and, more than this, his heart was touched at the thought of pos sibly deserting a fellow-being in extrem ity." The captain was inclined to adhere to his opinion, but, after urgent appeals, reluctantly consented to call for volun r'.f.w A aocn> mind4a a aoond body; if the inner be the glory of the latter, the Mrs. De Long has published the journal kept by her husband during the Jeannette expedition. Captain De Long •peaks of his companions as he found them Shortly after leaving San Fran cisco:—“Chipp is as he always was and always will he—calm and earnest He has always something to do and is al ways doing it in that quiet, steady and. sure manner of his. He smiles rarely and says very little, bnt I know where he is and how reliable and sure he is in every respect” Danenhower is “the same as ever, does his work well and navigates correctly,” . Melville is “as bright as a dollar and as cheerful as pos sible all the time. He sits on my left at table and helps mo to carve and serve out We broke a pump rod s tow days age. Some engineers would have wanted to stop the . ship a few days for this,' or, perhaps, turn back. Not he; he says tell right; we will ran without a pump rod, hey, brother; and when we get in I will make you a new pump rod or fifty of them.*^ l'_believe he could make an engine out of a few barrel hoops if he tried hard. He is one of the strong points of this expedition. “He and Dr. Ambler are nraefa alike in some respects. The Doctor is all I would. hayeJjUn, bright.jmd-oheerful under all circumstances. During our bSi -weather he was around all the time, cheering up Collins and Newcomb, hold ing up the Chinese cook when necessary and facing the music like a man. Ho and Melville have christened "Newcomb ‘Ninkum,’ and occasionally I hear one of them sing out on seeing an albatross, ’Here, Ninky, quick I Come and catch a goose!’ ” Mr. Collins suffered a good deal from seasickness, but he soon got all right. ‘ ‘Collins is the same Collins, getting off puns all the time—some of them good and some wretchedly poor. For a while we steadily refused to aee bis pans, and would all look at him as innocently and inquiringly as babies when he got one off, asking him to ex plain it two or three times over, .until he finally exclaimed that our intellecte must bo weakening in proportion as we in creased our distance from San Francisco. Now, however, we let him pun away, praise the good ones and condemn the bad." leers. Four strong sailors responded, a boat was lowered, a oonlpass, lantern, and jugs of fresh water were put in, the young officer gave the order to pull to ward the wreck, and the boat mdved out into the stillness and darkness of mid- ocean. When, soon after the start, the little craft was found to be leaky, more than one murmur escaped the lips of the rowers. Cheered on by the officer, they continued their exertions, but he him self wavered, as, after rowing the sup- posed distance of five miles, no trace of the wreck ooold be discerned^ Bat at this moment an unusual odor waa’per- ceived, which, becoming more pungent as they advanced, convinced him that it proceeded from the object 04 their search. “Give way hearty, men !*’ he cried. They promptly responded, and rising in the stern of the boat, the officer sent oat across old ocean a manly “Wreck ahoy 1” No answer came, though the wreck then rose and fell on the billows in full view. The sailors lay on their oars in silence, and npon each and all of them came a mysterious feeling and dread which could pot be expressed as they glided toward the hulk. “Wreck ahoy I” Jen nings shouted again, more to arouse hia companion^ than in hope of reply. But, after a moment’s waiting, a response did come, faint, and hardly to be understood, “Boat ahoy, for Heaven’s sake save us,’* ’By this time the little boat had reached the side of the wreck, and one of those scenes followed in which surprise and thankfulness commingled, in the breasts of those about to be rescued, reader speech almost powerless. Five men were on that craft, alive, but with so little life remaining that they seemed like spec tres. Ten days had they been withont food or water, and at the close of that day they had laid themselves down with the expectation of awakening never again in this world. Sips of the water brought for their benefit revived them. Four were assisted from the hnlk to the boat, and upaaJhfi inquiry, “Are there others on board ?” came the reply, “Yes, one, but he may as well be left aboard; he cannot possibly live till morning.” Rut the officer insisted on taking all, and the helpless, apparently dying man was aTIdcd loTSo roscaedr^ When all were A Pleasant Way. A superb rider, Mr. Thomas Jefferson exercised himself on horseback till the last year of his life. The University of Virginia was his pet scheme, and he was very proud of it as being his own achievement At its first session I en tered as a student, and Mr. Jefferson was always pleased to have us students at his table. Upon these occasions we were generally seated around the table, when Mr. Jefferson would enter and walk straight to an adjoining side table specially prepared for him, and upon which ware placed two lighted candles and a small |ial by his plate. He would then say: **My daughter, I perceive there are several young gentlemen at the table, bnt I do not see well enough to distinguish who they are, so you must tall me their names. ” Whereupon his daughter would lead him up to each young gentleman, who would in turn rise, when Mr. Jefferson would shake bands and pees a pleasant word with him. At the dose of the repeat, as his own hand was too trembling, his daugh ter would poor from the little vial into a tumbler a fan: drops of medtoine to pro duce slumber in oaee he should be wake ful, and then he would take up the tum bler and a candle, make a stately bow to the assemblage, and retire to his bad- room. . He always had company at hh home, and observed the - - : snugly in the boat the prow was tamed toward the Mfucua, -which op being sig nalled bore down toward them. Under pressure of r a fresh breeze the ship soon reached the boat, and when the famished" men had been cued for, OaptauTBeweu grasped the hand of young Jennings, and said: “Never again will I be inclined to pass a wreck without investigation.’ The five men finally recovered from t,lie terrible ordeal through which they had passed, and told their story. Their vessel was the brig Rienzi, one hundred and fifty tons, of Bos km, Captain Small, of Provinoetown, with a crew of twenty men. The brig bad been knocked down during a heavy , gale, dismantled, and decks swept. Fifteen men had died from starvation, and five remained. Several corpses were in the brig when ■he was left to her doom. The smell which led to the discovery was that of fish oil from wholes which they had cap tured in the waters of the Atlantic. Forty Tears Ago. Forty yean ago wood ashes were saved and sold to the farmers for fer tilizing material; it served also as an Im portant factor in the “leach-tab. v Every family kept a “leach-tub” for the manu facture of “lye.” “Lye" was made by allowing water to drain through the ashes at the top of the* leach barrel and accumulate in a cavity prepared for it at the bottom. Once a year the family called this into requisition in the making of their barrel of soft-eoep, for which the refuse fat (soap-fat) hsd been 'saved. Soap-making, putting up sweet-meats and hog-killing were important periods in the yearly family history. “Spare ribs” and pig’s liver graced the table on hog killing days. Sausage-making fol lowed. The family sausage was put up in long bags and hung in the cellar. The ‘sausage waa out off for eooking in slieea the doth adhering to the rim of each slice. Nor were these ssneegim reck- ieesly and mechanically pat together. The proper fixtures of beef, pork (fat and teen), and other seasoning with sage, savory sad other herbs wire to the housewife of deep sad ireful study. SocaaTM began the study of only when ha was sixty. We oompsad this fact to the young lady who ftvea in i earn the truth that fruit m much eera in the culti vation of the soil m a eon orop, and sa mash ears in the pruning sad care of the tree M in the eultfvetkm cf the soil, we shall than have regular scope of fruit Aa e rale, oreharde are griavoady neg- lontod nr —JHo plow ehoald ever be put into the ground of sni er- sherd. A cultivate which wffl afar fake surface ie required rattier than a plow. Indeed, the surfaoe needs stirring only to prevent weeds. One of the finest and thriftiest apple trees ever seen was one whose age went bade beyond the re membrance of any living men and grew in fate paved yard of a rained old En glish abbey. The pavement was ar ranged around the tree, epeee being left among the broad flagstones to give room for the still sound healthy trank. Thera no oodfing moth could find a harbor, sad the soil was always cool and moist This we think better than loose soil, and_the jteri^bretmng would bft-to THE WHIPPING POST. vrjra run -cat-’w-nink-tj straw the ground about the tree with the surplus atone of the farm, A low- branched tree is in every way the moot desirable. It.itfar more pleasing to view than the high, trimmed tree, whose itmbe are bare and straggling. Thelow, The prisoner had been dreading the infliction of the Iseh, but had not been informed of the impending whipping until the medical officer entered the jail about 5 p. m. When told that the lime had arrived Doyle trembled violently, He was directed to strip to the waist, which he did. With a swinging walk he approached the dreaded triangle. The sailor who was to do the whipping stood there quietly puffing a cigar, apparently thinking very little of the Work before him. He held in his hand two slender “cats.” The whip beyond the handle was a little over a foot in length, the nine tails at the end of each bearing sev eral small, hard knots. The material was of no greater thickness than an or dinary fishing line, but very tough. Walking over to where the sailor stood, overhanging branches shade the soil, keep it cool and moist, and prevent grass and weeds from growing. The feeding roots are tinder the branches of the tree and spread far and wide. If the soil is ever stirred, it ia there the work should be done, and not claw to the stem, which the plow would wound, and every wound so made would throw up root sprouts. To see a roundheaded tree with the limbs arching over and sweeping the ground loaded with fruit which can be picked with ease, is a pleasant sight, and a great convenience to the grower. Space enough to pass along between the trees, with a sled or wagon to gather the fruit, is all that is required, and this may be made by regular pruning of toe now growth. Some believe thatj Doyle grasped him by the hand, shook the bearingin alternate yean is a pro vision of nature. It is no such thing. It is the result of mismanagement. Ex haustion of a tree in fruit bearing and in the production of new wood and leaf buds must necessarily weaken the tree and render necessary a year's rest. If the fruit is thinned out severely, and only as much left as the tree can bear healthfully, the fruit left will be finer and far more valuable. If, then, the new wood is out back in the fall, when the new buds are ripening, the whole tree will be invigorated, and a stronger growth of bearing wood will be pro duced. Why should not a tree, often as ram pantly and profusely productive of wood as a grape-vine, be as , carefully pruned, and the fruit as carefully thinned out as with the vine? A fruit tree should be a work of art just as the high bred animal is, and until we manage the orchards under a system similar to that by which we manage the herds, we shall never have a satisfactory product from them. An orchard most not be left to nature, to grow and spread wildly and without restraint, any more than we shoold leave a herd to breed and increase promiscuously. The Rske and the Dude. The following story is told of an Eng lish nobleman, recently deceased: “The Duke was once in church whan a col lection was announced for some chari table object. The {date began to go around and the Duke carefully put hia hand Into his pocket and took out a florin, which he laid on the pew before hto, ready to be transferred to the plate. Beside him pat a little snob, who, notic ing this action, imitated it by ostenta tiously laying a sovereign alongside the duoal florin. This was too moeh for his Graoe, who dipped hia hand into hia pocket again and pulled out another florin, which he laid by the side of the first. The little snob followed suit by laying another sovereign beside the first. His Grace quietly added a third florin, which was capped by a third sov ereign on the part of the little snob. 6nt came s fourth florin to swell toe Duke’s donation, and then the little snob triumphantly laid three sovereigns a. ones npon the board. The Duke, not to be beaten, produced three florins. Just at this moment toe plate arrived. The little snob took up his handful of sover eigns, ostentatiously rattled them into the plate, and then turned defiantly to ward his rival, as if he would say, ’I think that takes the shine out o( yon.’ Fancy his chagrin when the Duke, with a grim smile, put one florin into the plate and quietly swept the remaining six beck into his pocket” A Botod Bank Suit. The auditors in the celebrated osoe of the Dexter Savings Bank, Bangor, Me., against the estate ot the late J. Wilson Barren, the former cashier of the bank, made their report to the Supreme Court Barren was found one morning in the vault of tiie bank, shot deed. The offi cers of fate bank asserted that he bed committed suicide to cover up his pecu lations, while Me friends and the greater pert of the community believed that he was mtuderad by robbers. The auditor* report state that the balance due from the Barron eetote to the bank is 12,011, iuolndiag interest, end concludes as. follow*: “We do not feel celled npon to form any opinion upon the qaestien of murder or suicide of Barton, because we ere satisfied from the evidsaee that then wse substantially no money in the bank at the time of Barron's death, and Barron came to Ms death by or otherwise, the ■mrmni of [mmraMnn in the hank at BO < ga not to materially egret the fatnetton of the partiee litigant, or change the resalt of foment above mentioned in the He 4 tetter from Hefafex, N. &., says; Tor the first time in the history of the mari time provinces the “oei-o’-aine-tails” has been need on the back of e civil pris oner. Andrew Doyte, a man well known about Halifax for his brutal disposition, and who wee convicted hut October of aa aaaealt on a fax-year-old girl, received the punisfon yard of die County Jail, teoeed to nine months' doting which time he should receive twenty lashes on the here beck. The whipping, which was administered in the jail yard, waa performed by a sailor belonging to Her Majesty's war ship Orifln, now at this port. There ware only fax persona present, including two newspaper men. An iron triangle, con sisting of fame ben, each about nine feet in length, was erected in the yard for the purpose. * . IBS HUMOROUS PAPERS. “Are you sure that this tee hone?” asked e man of eootored tieman, 60m wfaqin he wished to; chase e buggy hone. “Gentlest hoes in dis town. A child ken dribe him. My wife is » mighty skeery'omen, bnt she ain’t afeemd ob dis hose.” “Sorry to hear it,” mid the wMte I.... «jk gentlemen who is running against me tor office gave me money to buy a horse for him. I don’* w * n * J 0 ® to my anything about it, but I want to get a horse that will-ran away with him and kill him.” “Den dis is de boss, sah. Tore a 'sprees wagon all ter pieces day aforej-' yes tidy, an’ kilted a oullod genlemen. Jes’ suit yer, sah, for he will kill de on- fortunate white man lemona oeek.” “You trifling liar, I wanted the horse for my wife, and merely tested your honesty. I don’t want him. ” “Who's a triflin’ liar ?” * ««Tan'are. w “I ain’t no vruss den yerae’f, boss; case yourse’f tole a lie jes' ter see ef I d tell one. White man’s got ter git outen ^ de bed mighty soon in de mawnin’ ter beat me tellm’ ob a lie, lemme tell yer.” —Little Rock Tranter,-.— A FRAUD. A colored gentleman sought the signal service officer and said : “Got a little business fur yer. I want’s a pension an’ I ; want’s yer ter gin me de papers. ” No thin and pak. They don’t thing to Uv* <m but due. it heartily, and asked him to be aa easy aa posfable and not tostrike in one place. Immediately -the work of securing Doyle to the iron triangle was per formed, his feet and knees being ■trapped apart, each to one of ithe iron ban, and his hands bound together, be-* ing held over his head by a suspended cord. His coat was thrown .over a wooden bar crossing just at hia chest, and on this the prisoner leaned. Doyle called out that 1m hands were tied too tightly, when they were looeened slightly, and he said that would da The seaman called, “Now,- then, are you ready ? Who’s going to count? Read the war rant.’’ “No, never mind the warrant,” said Doyle; “harry np.” But the Sheriff, producing the document men tioned from his pocket, hastily read it. Drawing back a couple of feet from the^tcj^ngle, the sailor rolled up the right sleeve # of his jacket, and, taking one of the two “cats” in hie right hand, it was raised above his head. “Count,” ho cried to one of those present, and the whip doeoend'ni with a sharp report on the prisoner’s naked back, striking right serosa about four inches below the shoulders. At once the lash waa raised again, and the seaman continued to per form his work as calmly aa possible until twenty lashes hsd been inflicted, the time occupied being little more than half a minute. A spectator called each stroke aloud as it fell. On the lash be ing lifted the second time a narrow streak was visible on Doyle s back and a slight shudder passed through his framed' bat he at forced composure, lug fsTtefnhr writhe wed squirm. *- v , Though he as yet had uttered no sound his book was beginning to look rather -red. but no blood had appeared. On the thirteenth, however, an agonized cry was beard, and during the remainder of the whipping Doyte shouted with appar ently increasing pain. The twentieth stroke haring been laid on the man was untied and the doctor, taking a sponge soaked in water, washed the lacerated back. Only one small stream of blood waa descending on the left side of Doyle’s l>ack. bnt after, the sponge bad been applied the surface looked very badly and the marks of fhe “oat”-were plainly seen. Thewhipper had struck in almost the seme spot at every stroke, and the effect of the lashing was only visible over a limited surface. Before toe whipping began a small piece of hard rubber had been placed in Doyle’s mouth for him to bite, and now, removing this, he took the sailor’s band and said: “Goodby.” “No, not goodby,” said the tar. “I hope to moot you again, in another place, old fel low.” ' No, you won’t,” rejoined Doyle, “not after such as this,” and patting on bis-coet he walked into the jail budd ing and sat down. Doyte afterward said that his suffering daring the lash ing had not been so greet as the specta tor* supposed, ee he had feigned feel ing intense pain for fear the sailor would Uy the whip on heavier. The acaman who performed the whipping /eceived $5 for hie task. once regained his But on the lash hav- wbo ~ Bats thb Ship.—On board the Pacific mail steamer Australia is e rather vener able Chinaman called John Tuck, ia nearly blind, and dose only light Many yean ago one of the company’s ships waa taking a cargo of gold from California to Hong Kong. A fire broke out, the Chinese sailors were demoral ized, and this man controlled them. It was owing to hia that the crew did no seise everything for a piratical expedi tion. The company would not pert with John Took after that. - I have nothing to do with it.” ’Ain't yer de man what has charge ob de weather business ?” ■Yes.” ‘ 1 Wall, yer's de man I wants. I has been crippled an’ want's a pension, ’sides dat I needs it powerful. I was blowed sgin a tree by a storm." •The government doe* not grant pen sions in such “Wall, de atom was in de guber’menl an’ I’se a citizen.” “That makes no difference.” “Den dis ’stablialunent ob you'n is a fraud, sah. Go up der an’ take down yer flutter wheel bustnees an’ quit dc- oeibin’ de cnllud fokes. It takes a man ed long ter unerstan’ dis Newidted States dat he’ll die wid ole age 'fore, bit gets nntbin’ outen it."—Arkantaw Traveller the wrong pclpit. A good and true story is going the rounds of Boston about the adventure of a worthy Congregationaliat pastor who ministers to a subnrlxui church. He had agreed to supply a Roxbury pulpit for an absent brother. He came into Bos ton and promptly took a Highland car for the scene of his evening’s Isbor. In due time ho descried a steeple, and, reaching the church, got out, walked in, took off his overcoat in the vestry, and- went straightway to the pulpit. He glanced around on the congregation and proceeded, after a minute or two’s de- tey, to give out a good old standard Congregational hymn. The congre gation proceeded to find the place, the organ gave the tune, and the singing began. While it waa in progress the sexton walked np the pulpit stain and said to our suburban friend : “Mr. —^ Will be here in a few min- utek.” ' ~ - The situation flashed upon him, but suppressing his emotions he asked: “Why, isn’t this Mr. ’s clrardL?” “No, sir,” calmly replied the sexton; “this is the Universalist church.” There was on exchange of places a few minute* later, .The frieadAof the sab- Avne*.—AteaBte of tbs Western fain this yearn “greetsscret” ie sold in a ■sated enufaope at tea easts a piece. The foilowiag te the secret: “Never buy an it* H you had you would sot have a worthless envelope urban minister jLtfi_now fond of asking him how he came to enter the Uuiver- salist ministry. He laughs and so himself with toe remark : “Well, I got them tb sing a good Orthodox hymn anyway.”— Boefon Traveller. HR FORGOT THE STIFF EKl’X. A day or two ago, as the pasaengen were leaving ono of the ferryboats, a g»ntlflm*n who stood beside a custom* officer, remarked: “When i tee a poor fellow like that I am consoled for not being rich."—“ ^“Wfoo? 7 * “Why, that men with a hump on his back. < I had rather be poor all my days than be deformed and have millions of money.” •T oan cure him in about five minutes; come and see,” replied the officer, as he walked toward the unfortunate and in- vited him to pass np stairs. There a kick, but he had to go, and thiee or four minutes’ time sufficed to remore his deformity, which consisted twenty-two yards of flannel and six pairs of socks. “Party smart 1” growled toe smug gler, as he was allowed to ga “Not so very,” was the reply; “a man who carries a hump on his back should carry a stiff neck. Y on didn't ”—Detroit Free Prete. */ AjpFT ANSWER. Twaa past twelve At midnight when be rolled foorae and prepared to concoct for the lateness of his return, however, wee awake, end with noes detected an oder of gin. “ What email ie that, my dear?” she remarked ^ “ Otevre, my Idke.” w , * “ But the other odor, sir ?” " Allspice, my sweet/’ “ Bat I smell something else.” - “ Oh, that’s cinnamon.” L - " But I am certain I smell something that isn't spicent all” Oh, that's hi apple I ale before I in. “ Well, I should think,” she replied, “ that if you’d just tsksn e good drink of brandy before you earn* ia and a ham sendwteh you would have had all the ingredients nsnssrary for a good minoepie.” He fa^fcnd as he dropped to steep, end he -d*H rr7 Vr.*;