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f GRANDMOTHERS ADVICE TMjont _ TIm worli it bright To«aK h««rt« ligbl \ And loaig, teog —y y— I——*y T«* Kr* lift for }oa k hard boor. LUt, «1mii ii oomf«, M com* It will, The ilow deny or raddMi blow, Toko np poor burden M>d be •till, ; tot the world row eorrow know. owe; Nipb three-ecore jean and ton hare Ipjd Tbelr pa gee open to my view; i're joarneyed on through light and lhade, And thin Are learned and proeed it true— That be who aenda n« grief to bear la near ns in onr deepest, woe; We never are ao much his care Aa when his hand hath laid oa low. And ao, whenever griefs befall, Still hold them asrred, all your own; Nobeart bnt one can feel for all burdens on our shoulders thrown. Bo, when the friendly darkness falls And watchful eyes aia \eiled in sleep, Bring forth each care with silent pray'r And (tv* them all to Ood to keep. HDSBA.ND’S CONFIDENCE **1 ahoold like to know who ought to have a man’s confidence if his wife ought not,” whined I, in my ill hnmor, having just made the discovery that my Albert had made a very im)K>rtant change in hia business arrangements without hav- ng in the least consulted me. It was a l<5w way he had fallen into, for npon <>ur union, and even before, he had ap peared to take great satisfaction in con fiding to me all that he was doing, or •bout to do; and in telling me all his plans for the future. Indeed, he had often said that it was his belief that men ought to make their wives intimately acquainted with all their affairs, in order lhat they might consult and sympathize in store and office matters, aa well as in matters pertaining to the house. This was pleasant to me. It gratified my curloaity snd mj vanity. I delighted in Itoasliutr to my leas honored married rntnpauiona of the confidence that my liuslMud reposed in me. And that was not all I did. Many things that Albert fdlfl me, under charge of the strictest secrecy, I repeated; and that, too, in the hearing of the very once that he dreaded, as spies and meddlers in regard to his affairs. It was some time before mv liusliand'a eyea were opened; and he went on speaking out his inmost soul and thoughts to me as freely and confidingly as to hia God. But the truth was revealed to him at last. I could not at all understand the stunned and disconsolate look that settled down npon Albert’s beautiful and ex pressive face when the conviction was Ixtrue in upon him that the treasury into which be had so trustingly poured his most valuable things was but a sieve. F had no line by which to sound my husliand’a deep and sensitive soul. I did not know that he had taken me for one like unto himself, and that now he had discovered that our natures were radically different Dreary and desolate was the look that was in his eyas for very many days; and I was altogether out of patienoe with him. Though gentle and affectionate as evsr whan he did w“ko up, he aeemed to be in a sort of a dream; and it was not long bafore I began to notioe that Albert seldom spoks to me any more about hta When I questioned him he returned siv# answers; if I insisted he put me off by some joke, or by turning my at tention to some promised pleasure or present. ■' By and by I discovered that an elderly unde of my husband’s was much with him; and by questioning and cross questioning I became satisfied that the old fellow knew more of Albert’s affairs than I did. This tonohed my resent ment and my jealousy; bull said Utils then. Thne went on. I was sure that my husband was embarrassed in hia affiaiv —and I knew of hia getting large sums of money from Unde Joe. Then Uncle Joe came to our house evenings and ha and Albert went and shut themselves up to have long talks in the library. I tried to listen at the door, but could 'utch little of wbat they said. That lit tle 1 speedily repeated to my cronies, and we all agreed that my husband was a vexy strange, unkind man; and that he was treating me in a most injurious manner. "His own wife I” cried my sympa thizers. "Think of it 1” and I did think of it, and fretted myself almost into ■ brain fever in consequence. This again I laid aU at my cruel husband’s door. One evening, when there had been a private session in the library, I sat err ing in the parlor when Albert came in. He tried to draw out the cause of my trouble, and to comfort me; but I sul lenly refused to make known my grief, or to receive his sympathy. In a very unhappy frame of mind we retired for the nilfat. I bad overheard considerable of that evening’s conversation, and was resolved to "pitch into” Uncle Joe the first op portunity. Chanoe favored me with an eerly one. Albert had hardly left the house the next morning when Uncle Joseph entered. He had come to speak with my husband on matters of import- wioe, and was sorry he had left so early. "You can tell all to me, Uncle Joe; and that win do just as well,” I said, trying to’speak pJnyfuily; but, in reality, much provoked. "Women are not fit to be trusted with business,” was Uncle Joe’s onuty reply. "I told Albert so in the first place when b* was f«U of hia romantic footer? of spirits, and mutual coofi- . nod all that sort of wmwmImm He woelffiu’t behave me then; bat he tMdfcHMMtemyviewaatlatf. You'll find that yaa am not to be "Tut, tat, Mm Phosbe.duat keeyoar temper now. That would bt bed liar ytmr good looks. XU tall yea who has a right to a man’s aoufidanot: It k«M person who is worthy to asesive ti Bo- cause you era a man’s brother or wife, or mothes, is not a reason why ha should give his secrets into your powsr. Only thoae who prove themselves equal to keep ing it inviolate are worthy of any cos’s trust. Theiwfort, it is not strange that my nephew ahoold keep Ms confidence from one who wheedled him oat of it only notoriously to betray it—thus rendering the foohab ooy a laughing-stock among thoae who are not worthy to4» named in the same year with him, and wounding him nigh to death in the moat sensitive part of hia soul. It was a lesson he will not be very likely to forget, I fancy. And now that wc are oa the subject, I will Ml you that unless you am willing altogether to lose your husband’s respect and love, you will entirely change your behavior toward him. Try if you ean become a sensible, faithful, worthy woman, and helpmeet for your husband, whose worth you now no more appreciate than a goose would appreciate a diamond necklace. Rcmemlwr my words, Phoebe; if yon do not change you will lose the love of your husband; and it will be an unufc-' terable and irrevocable lots. Good morning, my dear." Uncle Joe was gone. I sat aghast; stupidly staring at the door through which he disappeared. Hever had I heard him make so long a speech; never had I seen him so in earnest. The bit- tor meaning of his words grew constantly •ipnii me. till I groaned in verv anguish of spirit. The heavy and harsh blows that his unmerciful tongue had dealt me; and already I felt the bubbling up of thoughts and feelings from depths of which before I knew not. Bit bar a Me hitherto sealed was opened, or a new life was l>om in me, for, from that hour, I waa an altered woman. I hardly knew myself; and I am sure my husband hardly knew me. Instead of hating Uncle Joe, I began to feel a real affec tion for btm. For a whole year my improvement held out; and tnen the trouble was all gone out of Albert’s eyee and the ab sence from hie manner. And gradually, month by month, my has band began to tell me things in the old pleasant way. When he found what a revolution had taken place in my habits, in regard to repeating what be said, how gladly he took me once more into his perfect con fidence, and accepted me lor his faithful and beat friend. The Death Blew. The Lafayette Courier saysIn con nection with the death of Gen. Steed- man, who instituted the order of the Sons of Malta in Lafayette, the follow ing is interesting : George Harding, an employee in the wholesale grocery estab lishment of Reynold*, Earl A Hatcher, a brave and brawny Scotchman, deaired to become a mem 1 ter of the order, and the order was too glad to "taka him is." A night was set apart for his initiation, and, as he was a particularly powerful mao, the gathering of the clans waa un usually large. The initiation proceeded amid uproarious fan up to tba elevated railway and 'a plunge into (be seething waters of the lake. A wet blanket was in the hands of adoaen strong men, in which the aspirant was tossed about until they became exhausted. Harding waa an intensely earnest man, and took the initiation to l>e a aerioua affair. Being told by the grand conductor that from the elevated railway be should be plunged into a lake, be had contracted hia muscles and nerved himself for the battle with the waves. When heotroek the blanket the shook wss too much for bis nerves. He wss taken to his home a paralytic. He lived a year, suffered in tensely, and died in gnat agony. The order paid out over $3,000 in his behalf. All that medical skill could do wasdooe, bnt to do purpose. He was a nobleman, and bore his sufferings like a hero or a martyr. He never oooe complained or spoke harshly of those who caused it all. His sufferings and death wen the death knell to the Bona of Malta, not only in Lafayette, but throughout America. Befisrmatioa First m cbaxy fuiur gbasi* to step no I was invited to a wedding the other evening, but could not go. The invita tion was extended by the groom ip per son. He came in, and, having acted shyly for a moment,, asked me out in the hallway. Than other peraoos in the room, but I con sented. The gae waa burning and he nrned it down. If I hadn't known him as well as I did, I should have felt some misgivings. Thus shadowed he stated his esse at once. He said he war going to be married. He had known her a long time, and they had both outlived their foolishness. He had no deubt about her. Bnt he had been practicing to be good himself. "One year ago,” be said, "I just con cluded not to drink nor run around town at night. I never took any oath or anything of that sort It got to be kind of natural to me after that, and 1 didn’t want to knock around. Then I concluded I would go to church. I bed not been in one for fifteen yearn. I happened around one Sunday, and aat down just aa quietly and naturally m a deacon. Whan they got to singing I found out that I had joined the chorus. I’ve kept it np, and without restraint. We’re to be married to-morrow, and tba little home la already fixed up and fur- nfched.” He went away, and I stood watching him. There was noneed of the side walk for him. His heart waa ao light that it might have buoyed Ms body above the earth. There waa a genuine reformation X would net be afraid to tie to. with a whole ouit of slothes. In fret ovarytMag I’ve got ou beghw to look Uka the remnants of aa antiquated porous plaster. Haver had any sup mil e« with a lot of ladies who have get an attack of eraay bad quittf Of conns not I aright have known better than to have asked, ae it never strikes any but good looking old bachelors Hke myself. When a mao has been there cnee he is satisfied, uh- leee be is a hog. The raaeou they sail these new tangled quilts eraay, is be cause everybody for twelve miles around a house where one of ’eat is started is set eraay by the lady demanding a piece of silk. "To-night 1 thought Fd go out to see some ladies, old friends' I hadn’t more than got into the door, before one of them, with a pair of seiaaors in her hand, snatched my hat and made a dive for the lining. She got left. She handed the hat back with a disappointed look, as she realised that somebody bad got in their work ahead of her. Why do I keep my coat buttoned np to my chin ? Well, when ahe found the lining of the hat gone ahe made a dive for my neck scarf. There’s nothing left but the collar-button and a piece of the scarf about the siae of a ten cent piece.” The man-who-had been-there then took oat his silk handkerchief to blow his nose, bnt hie hand miaaed the ami* aa it went through a hole Mg enough for a eat to jump through. "Wall, HI b blamed, if those women haven't carved my Mower. They even raided the sleeve lining to my overcoat. In fact I haven’t a whole garment on me. I am cmay ao they’ll have a eraay quilt sure. Why, they gat the lining out of every hat they ean lay hands onto. It isn’t safe to leave your hat in the hall, if you expect to gel it again in aa aound condition as wl yon bong it on the rack. A man who has had any experience foals like taking to the woods every time he sees a lady eonring, especially if ahe looks smiling. "It’s not so rough on a man to take his hat lining, bnt if ever hlgh-buttooei ▼eels go out of style, nine-tenths of the young men will have their reputation for sobriety and peaesfulneea ruined el on account of the dilapidated condition of their neckties, ao many samples ba- fog cut out of them by the ladies for these oraxy quilts. Why, they even cut the lining out of a claw-hammer coat It’e a mighty good thing that brides maids go into church first or the groom’s coat-tails would look like a ragged sig nal of diitrees. There wouldn’t be enongh of the lining left by the time he roaohed thu altar to make the tails of his seal hang in any eort of shape.” i the much-sampled man asksd for the hay of Me room and went to bed dream how "pertaetly lovely” his eon Mbutious of silk looked in a crazy . AUA QUllK at a time. I Hunt bnt ones was a paper. Horace _ ( "How was thatf “Tn tin awmmir irf 1857 I worked os the Tribrnte, and one Sunday afternoon with sever*] others, in (ho of tbs reporters. Mr. Orestay’s little room was roughly partitioned off flfem one corner, bnt on r known to) be m Taking a largo quid of from my mouth, I offered to wager—the lemonade—that I could hit a knothole in the partition. 3. W. Wot-, the author of ‘ Beautiful t glad to Sexton. MDy ought to id a Yesmootar at the Sher ds ioaga, annnrfifrg to The Xtaffrjfrirs of that ohy." of rnfhtttatohr to is Qottypg kmr **7- To profoss frisodthip and act enmity U a sure proof OfM da- pwitj, V< An AaMiican lastttutloa. These are the days of that glorious American Institution, pumpkin pis. The hotel or rastanrant pumpkin pie is not the rimon pars article. It has had too many foreign airs added to it. It mg be good and it may pern for what it intended, bnt it can’t hold a candle to the pumpkin pie onr mothers grandmothers made. Just look at the difference in the two brands. Mother’s had a nice abort erbst with an edge abou i an inch deep and this was a plump ure of pumpkin “pulp" mixed with nice fossh eggs, milk and just enongh spies to give it flavor. It was a picture of Moomtag, healthy pie. It makea man’s month water to think of ii The store kind of pumpkin pie has a sort a sickly second cousin countenance and to scarcely over an eighth of aa inch ^frk, with a crust on the bottom that almost breaks a tinner’s shears to cat it As for taoie, that has to be imagined, m it ie a sort of go-se-you-plesse flavor between tan bark and cinnamon. Then again, one hundred store pies will be made out of an ordinary twenty-cent pnmpkin. Each pie is cat into eight pieces about the aim of two fingers, which sells for fire cents each. This brings forty oenta lor s pie, or forty dollars for the product of the pumpkin. That leaves the atom- keeper thirty-nine dollan and eighty cents profit on hie pumpkin and aa the to thin with no shortening in it, eighty cents ought to cover this cost, leaving an even thirty-nine dollar* profit on tba transaction 1 A alios of mother's pnmp kin pie the rise of your two hands, that’s the regnlaiion out in heme aude pie, and an inch and a half thick contains more real pie than a dozen atom pies, and there is no danger of trouble from indigestion after eating it. There should be aome action taken by the legislatures to prevent the degeneration of this great Americas institution—pumpkin pis. If this is not dona, ftttme genenltai* will read in history of a dish now ao htyhty prlaed fay patriotic eitisem and grieve to think that the baJUbg of the pump kin pie of their fortathem is a lest art.— Pock't iSton. Baud Guaonr ato Tokatom.—Um the ehtakan beflad for the ehieken and tomato soup; after taking the chicken fro* the soup wipe ii with a towel, mb Hall it with salt and pepper, snd pJaee H in a dripping-pan; wash and dry a fromfeatop Mtida; arixR wtih aa aqwal quantity sf a Mgh saasimtsg af after removing thn skewart tt stnee Baow’—I’ve never forgiven him lor it- accepted my propositioe. I oalouhrifed my distance and fired, making a ball’s eye, but before I could demand pay the most fearful profanity was heard within and in an instant Mr. Greeley appeared with the tobacco that had won the lem onade adhering like a plaster to his otherwise immaculate shirt bosom. To the fierce interrogatory, ’Who threw that tobacco?’ I was compelled to enter a plea of guilty. Mr. Watson indorsed my statement that it waa a pure accident, bnt Horace was dressed for a reception and couldn’t look at it in that light. He discharged me on the spot. ” nn wine avxjnr rm "I am very sorry for you, sir, but my daughter has been brought up to a life of luxury, and I ean never allow her to become your wife.” "But you forget. I am a prosperous broker.” "Yes, I know; but the markets are very uncertain, and you may be a poor man to-morrow." "But I own a rolling mill, too.” (< 8o I under*t|Dd, but the iron busi ness is subject to great fluctuation.” "And I have three woolen factories, sra a moiabor of a jobbing firm and own a large amount of real estate.” "All of them uncertain properties. Eton real estate is being rained by high Have you nothing else ?” "Yea, I Own a newspaper.” "Ok I 1 beg your pudon. Taka her, my dam boy. She is jcnn. ,, —I , Mladel- oMa (MU. , av ou> urrrxm. "My dear,” said Mrs. Popperman to hsr husband last evening, "I was look- fr^ over a bundle ef old letters to-day, which you wrote to i married, when you were young and sentimental.” "What does it my?” "Ill lead it.” "Sweet idol of my lonely heart. It thou wilt plaee thy hand in mine, and say, dear love, I’ll be thy bride, we’ll fly away to some far realm—well fly to sunny Italy, and ’neath soft, cerulean ektye we’ll back and and 4«mm of, naught but love. Blah end costly paint ings by old maskers shall adorn the walk of the castle I’ll give thee. Thy bath shall be of milk. A box at the open ahall be at thy command, and royalty shall be thy daily visitor. Sweet strains of marie shall lull thee from thy morning slumber. Dost thou accept ? Say yes, and fly, oh! fly, with me.” —- \ "And I flew,” said Mrs. Popperman. "Butif I had been as fly as I am now, I wouldn’t hPu' flown.” — Boston Herald. af Te-Day. William B.. Aster lived a quiet, un eventful life He was married, aaya a New York paper, to a daughter of Gen eral Armstrong, President Madison’s Ssentsty of War. They had six ahil- dren, three sons snd three daughters. He died in 1875, and two yean later i marble memorial titer costing $300,000 was erected hi Me honor in Trinity Ohureh. It is aalmated that hie estate was worth at lent flO,000,000. He left 1800,000 to the Aster library, and large rams to various pubho charities. To every member of hia family he left a handsome legacy. The bulk of hia for- tnne he bequeathed to his sou WUham and John Ja<xfl»,~aud between them be divided equally the fortune left him by hk father. Hk tlilrd son, Henry, had retired to a handsome country seat on the Hudson, paring little for the possee- rion of great wealth. William and John Jacob are thus left the present represen tative* of the great family and fortune founded by their grandfather. They are fetiay worth probably more than $70,- 000,000 each, and thair wealth to steadily increasing. They are interested in no and own npt a share of stock in tty corporation. AU their wealth is in real estate, in Hew York city mostly. block upon block in the richest business part of the city, sad block npon Mock of the finest blown stone palaces on Murray Hill. Tfrtit Mirinam k to collaet their rents end buy more pnepwrty. They n It wee no fool off a job, But BUly could always pfryMl- Hhe the old Nick. I I was in a pmeev cuuKijr gk % in. He wee Arises i to ME ‘Shine, sir?’asked Billy, fie tallow said perhaps he would have Ms shoes brushed up a little. Af- shine was obtained he spoke in a iefty kind of manner aad aaked if there Was anybody there who would like to play him a game of billiards for money. Of Course, he being a stranger, nobody dared pick up the challenge. The chap stood there smiling half a minute, snd then started out. " ‘I’ll play yer,’ shouted BUly. " ‘You! . Why, you little sinner, you’ve blacked my boot*. I don’t be lieve you’ve got a quarter to your name.’ " ‘Never mind,’ put in the hotel clerk. TU back him.’ "The drummer said be didn’t want to take his money on a sure thing, but he would play a game for $10. The money wee put in niy hands, and they went at it. It was 100 points, three-ball game. They played along just about even till they got up to eighty points, and Billy ran out the game. The drummer waa somewhat chagrined, but thought it was a mere accident, and said he would Hke to play another, thinking he could get his money back. ‘“All right,’ said the cleric, ‘and we’ll make the stakes $50, if yon say so.’ ' ■ ■ \ "The drummer was wflltag, and the tiooey was put up. Well, sir, it was a great sight to see that little boot-black play against the elegant gen tleman. BUly hadn’t played hk best tiie other game, for the bartender had winked at him not'to. But this time hk backer told him to go in for all he was worth. Well, the way he paralyzed that drummer was a caution. Why he ■cored 100 in just four runs, while hk opponent had twenty. I tell you it was funny to aee the drummer watch him May. I afterward heard that BUly got his start as a professional through that identical drummer.” ■OTwtoTMvflstNet, and theca —. MmnK frnm o» the ground for • dee^ He hud kin there about ten mtantm a bey about nine yuan old, Ms ‘ ‘ h cold, and Ms hair iha crown of hk old t as if in eeereh, t ikard. The lad vigotonaly, and directly the ‘ a tamo# foe Ms •Tfs Jimmy, want wiz me T’ > dad—it’s Uttie Jim/ C: ... The War Chances. Although th* general beltaf to that the ef a war between China and men who maintain that fight EUstory shows at Paba will bourne i the eleventh hour, i When it ifdkoovetwd has realty made up hk mind to fight, the Celestial statesmen deem discretion the better part of valor. Time* without number, since the last'English war with China, hostilities with Rngtaiw^ Qer many and France have been iunfaum* but have never gone farther. At the same time, the French are unlikely to press their claim* too strongly. They bare already discovered that they have embarked on an undertaking out of which, oven with complete sneccas fall ing to their lot, no tangible advantage k likely to arise. The French make very bad nolnniek, and the Tobquin district will not entice many colonists to settlr down in ii Once it is opened np to trade, lEngtaad and Germany will reap the commercial Advantage*. 'Hie French have little aptitude for trading, while the CMneoe rre born merchants. The French, therefore, Are fighting on what may ba called sentimental grounds for, given that they make themselves msoteri and possessor* Si aU the Tonquin what wiU be the cost of necessary army of ooeup . _ __ when they hate seized tba country, what will they do with it ? Franee will prob ably soon grow modest in her demands, the Chinese will grow modest in tyh- refusals, and both will settle down and rejoice at the victory of the pen over the ■word.—New York Hour. "Why, dad, don’t you know zm I Fta jour own hoy. Mz sent zm to bring you horns. Oaa you walk ?’’ ‘1 guem’sr aaa,” mumbled the man, and ha tried to rak* up. The boy gave him all fra aid possible, but ha waa not half up whan ha lurched over and rolled a* Ma hack. ' "Oh, dad!” vailed the boy, breaking down til of a sudden, "you are drank.” "Yae, Fm junk.” " I can’t got you home, and ths police will put you in jail! Oh, dadl what madayoaf* " Thai mam me?” sleepily answered the man. “ Bay, dad,” continued the boy as he bent over him, "little Katie’s awful sick.” • • 4“ " Zhas so? Wall, I can’t help shas.” " Can’t you-go home?" " No. Yon shtay here while I go’er sleep.” "Oh! I can’t—I ean’t ? Everybody knows you’re drank, and everybody will hoot at met” " Whas ?” exclaimed the man, az he raised on hk elbow. " The boy* are hooting at me now, and the men across the road are laugh ing I Oh 1 dad, it’s awf titoagH drunk I It's awful when you are ashamed to look any one in the face!” The boy leaned against the wall and hid hk face and cried. The drunkard rubbed hk eyea, braced to a sitting petition, total by careful management reached hk feel "Jimmy I” "Yea, dad I” "Shame—perfeok shame! Fm ’er brute, I am.' I’m sorry, Jimmy, you know Fm sorry.” "Yea.” "Fm goin’ home.” "I’ll help you.” "No, shur; you go shat way—111 go shk; than er boy* won’t hoot at you. Com—go long.” Um boy crossed to Fourth street, and when he waa too tar away to btf sus pected of relationship the father braced up and started up the avenue mutter- ‘Tm er brute, I am, an’ I orter be kicked, I had, an’ if I drink any more I hope er be shot, I da."—Detroit Free NOTES AWMJDMMiEircS. Tn coach I* uptata Beoh** Jam won „ Philadelphia ktnroHng in Fwnsyl. VantawThi. family k dmoribed by »u exobaage: "Tbs ootaida has asatafol thrss in front Msd two back; two large lamps are on each side of the front and one large head light is on the dash . board. Hare also aro a elook, an am | a knife, a pistol, and other things. ty u the left siiaof fhe eoaeh, near the ho«, to a private looker eontainiDg riand*. On top is a large willow trank, immediately back of which the tent, camp chair*, and blankets are tiered. Under the baric steps k a place for another large willow trank, banging behind which is a stepladder to be need by ladies when taking seats on the outside of the coach. Tnaid* the boot til kinds of cooking utensils are packed. On the sides of the coach are willow esses for canes, umbrellas, fishing rods, and guns. Inside are two roomy scats facing each other, accommodating six persona. In the cushions of the doors af* map pock ets, and on tbs cushioned walls hang a thermometer, a barometer, a com pas*, a dock, night lamp, a match box, and near the top are racks filled with note paper and envelopes. The vehicle weighs only 1,370 pouuds; and the reins are handled by the owner, who generally makee from twenty-five to forty miles daily. The party go into camp at 12 o’clock. The horses are then, picketed and the camp fire is kindled.” Grnm usumtsprmousiiT supplied by Ban Francisco Chinamen to their coun trymen in the Sandwich Islands, where it i* forbidden. The drug brings $80 to $90 a pound, and the smuggling of a few hundred pounds makes a Chinaman rich. In numberless ways they contrive to introduce it A large safe waa con signed to a merchant An officer de manded that it be opened. The China man declared that he had forgotten the combination. That night the safe, weighing four tout, was taken out of the bonded warehouse, carted away several miles, emptied, and left in a sugar cane field, where the offleen found it the next day, with evidence that it bad been crammed with opium. A man hada con tract for washing the linen of tbePadfio Mail steamers. -Hundreds of bandies, saee containing a can of opium, were pitched from the steamer’s deck to the wharf, and carted to the laundry. He happened to be sick on one occasion, aud his assistant, who was ignorant of the contraband trade, handled the linen ta such a way that the opium can fell out A great number of sewing ma chines were sent to Honolulu, and by accident it vos discovered that the legs were hollow and packed with opium. Opium has been delivered ta the islands ta fruit cans, the can being divided into three compartments, the two outside ones filled with fruit and the larger once with opium. Itorge quantities have also been shipped to the islands in stove wood, each piece of the wood being bared. Mi sens ofeoti have done ser vice ta the seme way. f Twenty-four Hear Cfreks. “ There is something new,” said a downtown clock manufacturer to a New York Sun reporter, as he pointed to a queer-looking dock hanging near Mi door. "That k a twenty-four hoar dock, and I think the first one in the eity. It marks ths hours from one up to twenty-four. It has just been fin ished, and is of the kind which is soon to be adopted by several raOroada "The most eoospiotoous innovations aro ta the meriting of the dial and ike movements of the wheris wMeh drive the hands. The minute ham to all thsir teuatota. But on tba they an very tirtet in the odtootien of Hke thefr taiher end grand- fother, they an plain and nil seen mfwg. They live in twin brick houses' op Fifth Maplzfnsnd unpretaad- ta ap^ serenes, but spacious and riahty funfrhed. Thera k no show or The two hroitosts af the ek—ih, ef ^ * •“ ***** “‘*•1 "Yen would be surprieed to see how ef merit, end me liberal petrous people take to that dock. I have bed W7 Btomheref effOT frr It, hot X de not •rates* it, as it k the only we I In a taw days every twenty-four rovotutioae, while the hour head peraes around onee. The lettering oa the dial k in Arable Instead of Roman numerak, and the spaces between the figures aro only half as groat as on the dial of the ordinary twelve-hour clock. The marks half minutes and whole "Thk elook will do away with the ‘A. M.’ end ’P. M.,’ which Whet Dexter Cert A raimuun wm> warns for the Con tinent about the curative powers of na ture to positive ta hk conviction that it k better for e consumptive to stay at home, where he ean be comfortable, than subject htmerif to the discomfort of hotel life, or to the greeter ineouven- ienee of e camp. He says that the Bobert Bonner told a friend the other day how the fomons hone Dexter came into hk pomserion. "I may ray that from the first day I took the lines in my ban*,"Mid Mr. B., "I made one resolve which I have_i-camp cure may be fairly tried by sleep ing on oneT own housetop. Another medical man replies that the summer conditions of spruce forests are emi nently favorable, and consumptives havu recovered in the most surprising way living under canvas in them, wham the air k impregnated with the healing emanations peculiar to the nondeoid- uous tree growths. There aro oousump- lungs crave the salt of the ocean; others to whom the dry atmos phere of Colorado is infinitely sooth- rigidly adhered to. It was that under no circumstances would I allow a horse owned by me to compete on a race* track for stakes Az soon as a bone enters my stable hk public career is over. It the knowledge of thk foot which pre vented my semiring Dexter earlier in hk career at a much lower pries than I sub sequently paid for him, and thk k how it was: George Alley, as I dare my ymr j tires whose know, bought Dexter for $100 odd, the original check with which be paid for hk patehase being ta my possession to day. Under Alley ’• ownership Dexter soon began to develop hk wonderful powers of speed. Well, one day Alley, who waa suffering from pecuniary pres sure, earns to me and offered me the hone for $15,000, stating that he had made certain time, which was then below the record. I waa not then very eager foe Abe kerse, but totod Mr. AHcy that if he would make that trine ta my presence at Fleetwood I would buy hunt We went out to the track, but the well known driver who then had him ta hand did not want ma to become hk owner, aa ha knew that would ba tanta mount to the home’s retirement from the raee-track. He accordingly pulled him in when making the trial, and ro- to repeat the experiment. I, of course, said the bargain was off,, and a short time after Alley sold him at auc tion to a man from Chicago for $14,000. A friend of thk man about a year after •eked me if I would give him $2,000 , supposing he obtained the for $88,000. I assented, and thus realty paid $86,000 for the home, who is now in my stables, as I suppose you He rooted It. At • Catholic anniversary in Paterson, New Jersey, the following story was told: One dar when Father Bulger waa walking along the highway on a long journey, toe waa overtaken by a tanner who invited him to a seat ih hi* wagon. After aome casual oou venation tin far mer asked: "Aro you a farmer?” "No,” answered the clergyman. “A merchant?” "Na” "AkwyarT "Net” "Well, then, may ba you’re a me- Net T*m not a mecbeMe.” Than, for goodaera rake, what yew?” "I am a Oatbotic priest.’ The fivuMr stopped his bones. Mid bet "Get off at He heretic ean ride with me.” Ftiher Bulger was obliged to returns hk iouxuav flto foot. tag; and other* again who aro benefited by the climate of Florida or southern California. "To proscribe Florida 'lot one person might moan death, while it ho went among the northern paradise of spruce recovery might follow.” T n Wist has drawn the young out of the Green Mountain State. The .BgiljMaO/ierflM, uys: "There are many deserted farms and decayed towns ia southern Vermont; at least, that is the testimony of an intelligent farm-bred lawyer who recently personally visited the towns that touch both sides of th« Green Mountains from the Massachu setts line to Addison county. The wood- lend has so encroached upon these de serted farms that our friend k confident that there is more woodlsnd to-day in the mountain towns of Vermont there has been at any previous time in (he past forty years. In the old coun ties of Bennington, Windham, Windsor and Rutland there aro many deserter^ farms snd decayed towns along botfa sides of tire mountain range, and theas deserted farms aro not being reooeupied by any returning wanderer, although most of the towns aro piaoes of muob natural beauty and ittrmtiTsnaBB ” That is a lcrid picture of crimin life in New York that is unveiled in the story of the killing of two thieves in a terrible fight ta • Sixth avenue resort typt by a criminal for criminals. It ia startling to think, says ths <Sun, that such desperate men come and go at will, mingling fay day with the throngs of honest men and women in the bray thor oughfares, and at night gathering to plot crimes agaitMt society. The report that detectives kept nightly watch on their meeting piaoe affords some assurance of protection, hot it would seem aa tk—«gq ot snob character might by aona means be driven from the city. Hb Tbhkblis. — When the United States Army private bean of ths mar riage of * yrtonfeCe* he trembles, for T her the baby Aud yet there to more or lern surprise that theft ahoold he aq Jwtrtioqi tom theomy,