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rt--WEEKLY EDITION. WTINNSI0110, s. CA IANS.X)O 1, 18-VOL.IV o .PU.1..-No. 29. LORD KEEP MY MEMORY GREEN. My feet approach lifo's western slopo, Above mno benid the noonday skies; Beyond me spreads the realm of lope, Before the land of nemory lies; I know not what the yoars nay bring Of dankers wild or joy serene, But turning to the east I sing, "Lord koop my motnory groen." 0! land of Winter and of bloom, Of singing bird and moaning pinto, '1 by golden light, thy to'idor gloom, - Thy vales and niuttainu all are mine; The holy loves of o'hor yeats With beck'ning hands towar<l mo lean And whisper throug;. their falling tears, 'Lord keep ny memory green. Dear Mlemory,-whoso uncloud.:d eye Can pierco tho darket-t wilds of space 1 soo her watch-liros burning higi, I feel her broezos fan my face, I wouhl not give the light sho Ilinga Across my future's landscape scone For all tle ponmp and po)wor of kings "-Lord keep my memory irecn." Let totuory near my soul abide, With eye and veice to warn and win, i'i 1ope and Memory, side by sido, Shall waik above the tides of sin - 'T'ill -rom life's western lakes and rill, ''ho angel lifts the suiset shcon, And han's it o'er the easf.era hille, "Lord ke. my memory green." The Stolen Will. When they told old Ethan Vanwrit that his days were nmnbered, the first thing he said was: "Sean*l for Miss Work, I must Nee Laura Work before I die. Singular as the demadui seemed, no one thought of tluestioning it. Miiss Work w-ts sent for. Iatuta turned lquite white' when the strange, imlperative sumaaons first Camtle, and si(he vas told that he who sent it wi dying. ")yintr?" she whispered, her blue eyes tilling with tears. "'What can he watnt? Will you go, Laurat?" asked Pauhl Ituble, who was visiting her. "Ol, yes, yes! Penr ol man! I am so sorry for hnt. Certainly I will go. Bitt I am frightened, I'atuiline. I never 'saw any one die." The pretty, childish creatture was Irent bling from head to foot. Pauline put her arm rotund the slight figure, and direw the golden head down , upon her shoulder. She was several inches taller than Laurat, and far handsomer, in her own opimion. "Litt le fool, "I siae I houight, as :she caressed the fair, llower-like face witlh her slim white handl. "Of Course it is something about Lewis Vanwirt." Aloud she said, insinuatingly "I had better go with you, dlear. Don't you think so?" "Oh, if you only will!" iLaura cried eagerly. Mrs. Work was quite an invatlid, and could not accompany her daughter, so she, also, was very glad to have Pauline go with her. As the carriage <i-ove off with the two girls, she sank hack upon her sofa, with a thoughtful look. "It nmust he something about his grand son. 1 hope Laura won't be silly." The young ladies were shown at once into Mr. Vanwirt's apartment. '1it sick man frowned at sight of Pauline. ."I wish to see 3ou alone, Latura, my child," he said. "I will wait for you in the next room, darling,'' Pauline volunteered, r omp)tly, and1( dlepartedh. "M~r. Lewis hats come, sir," the attendant said( as he was leaving the trom, in obedi ence to an impatient gesture from his mast ci. "Let htim wait," the ole man said, grinly. Th~le night 'wats warmi, and1( the wm.itdows were all openu. The sick-room and the one nlext to it both 1001ked upon03 a wid1O veran (ia, which ran acr'oss the entire front of the grand old manR1sion. It was an casy thting for Pauline to step out uiponi this veranda 'wit hout attriacting attenitioni, aiid pass8 along to the wl'ilow of the sick-roomi. "I want to know what he wants 'with heri," she said to herself; ''and Laur'a is such an oibstiniate little chit sometimies, as likely as not site would not tell me1.'' "'I have sent for you, Laura Work," the dying man was8 saying, ''to ask you it you hove my grandson." Laura's sweet face clouded( with. ct'imson and1 then grew whtite again. She was trgmn bhing so, poor child, she could scarcely stand., "'Iy dlear," lhe said, "'f am dhying, or I wouldh not ask you such a quest ion. Lewis was my only Boin's only child. If I die without a will, the whtole Vanwirt property will fall to him as the ni'tural heir; but th'e hoy has taken to bad courses lately, I anm afraid. IIe gamtbles, I have heard. IIls fathetr did hefore him. VTe taste for it is in the Vanwirt blood. It camue near being my ruin, at his very age. But I promised the 'woman 1 mnarred that I wvould never touch a card again, ir she wouldi haive me1, and I never did. My gr'andoson loves yotu ats only a Vanwirt can.. In that is my only hope for'him. Anm I wrong~, my child, in believing that you care for' im?" Laura's pale 1l1)s opened, but she0 would niot uitter -a word. ''Little fooll " thought Pauline., "Listen to 11101 01( ollthltan awirt said, lifting himself uipon lis elbow, mn his ex citetment. "If youl love Lewis, and promniso 111 that before you consent to mtar'ry hhn1), you.will exact, from him the stame pledge *my wifo di -fr'om me1, he shall be my heir. If nlot,.te mnoney goes away fromt him. 8 peak, chihdi M~y lawyer waits nowr to make my will." Laura burst into teat's. "I 'do love him11!" she stammleredh. "I will 'promise ainyting rather tIhat you *should do such a dlreadlful thing. Ilt-. 'what-if 110 dloes not care for m1 alS'yeou tthik?" "I will risk that; I know ho does.' All Iask'cof you is yottr p)romlise not to marry *himtfllhehas sblem'nly sworn Ito 'will never tQlec . a pr4 agajty. . Give n10, your hand, child, and say the words over' after m)1,'' 1Laura ?hoyed him,iore calmly than igtdi bei oxpectedt I herhl-y. terical stato ~ ruil.ms As Latira quitted the rooni, sobbing. Pauline was about to Join her, when s le heard the sick man mutter: "1. am not sure, after all, that a will would not make everytning safer." 'l'hen he ordered the attendant who had just come in to go and bring Mr. Scribe. "Can he be going to make a will after allP' wondered Pauline. "I'll wait and se." She resumed her listening attitude, well screened Irom view by the shrouding folds of the heavy silken curtains. To her amazement, she heard the sick man dictitl ing a will to his lawyer, in which he left everything he possessed to Laura Work absolutely. Mr. Scribe ventured to remonstrate, but it was of 11o ulse. "I know what I am about," the impe rious old man said, and would hear nothing. The will duly signed, witnessed, and sealed, he told the lawyer where to put it in.his desk, which stood within his view. ''Is it safe here?" Mr. Scribe asked. "I see no key." "Who would touch it?" the sick man asked, irritably. "It would benefit no one but Lewis, and the Vanwirts are not thieves whatever else they may be. llesides, how do you know taat I may not change my mind at the last moment anid (destroy it yet? to now, please, and tell some one to m1 my grandson to inc.'' Pauline would have liked to stay and witness this interview al5o, but she di'd not dare. Laura must be wondering greatly now where she was. Snhe found that Laura had come ont of the sick-room so agitated that Mrs. Becket, the housekeeper, had made her lie down, and was now s.tting with her. The iight was by this time so far ad vanced, and Laura seemed so ill, that it was decided that the two girls should remain till morning. Pauline took the housekeeper's place be side her friend, and ini a short time Laura fell asleep. As Pauline sat there watching I the white, childish face of the girl she pre tended to love, her brain was full of wicked and envious thouights. Laura was aiready rich, she was poor; and yet to her who already had so much, the whole great Vanwirt property had just been given. She cavied her the fortune, and she envied her the handsome lover, with whom she was herself more than half in love, and whom, hithertb, she h1ad not been without hope of winning away from Laura yet. 'min wyfo "But of course tie will have to marry her now," she thought, bitterly. Suddenly, as she sat there, the deep silence was broken by the sound of some conuniiotion ini the house-she heard hiurried(I steps and excited voices. 'What c'an It be?" she wondered. "'Mr. t Vatnwirt must be worse." She sat listenng some moments, then she rose softly. Laura was still sleeping. Pauline succeeded In opening the door with out disturbing her, and stole out ito the hall. From the landing, she could see the ser vants below hurrying about with awe-struck looks. An impulse of ungovernable curiosity seized her. She wat ched her chance. and, gliding down the stairs, slipped through the open door without being seen, and passed swiftly along the veranda, till she cine to the wmndow where she had already Spent so much time. One glance at the bed told her what had I happened. Ethan Vanwirt was dead! A sudden awe and horror seized her. She was about to flee the spot, when her eyes fell upon the desk in which she had seen the will placed. "I wonder if it is there yet?" she thought. No one was in the room at the moment, though the door into the next one stood i op)en, and shi' could hear voices. "'I am sure I can reachi it from here. I should know it at a glance," she mused. Shie p)ut ther hnd in and lifted the lid. rITere it was. A wicked thought crossedt her. Wilit if she took it? No one would ever- know. 1 Tihe lawyer wouild think Mr. Vanwirt had (test royedl it, as he said tie might, andI Laura could not get the Vanwirt fortune without it. Besides, that will in tier possession m)ighit somehow help tier to win Lewis Van-t wirt, after alt. At that thought she snatched the wilt, and hiding it in the folds of tier dress, hur riedly ret raced her step)s. She was too llurriedl now to be as cautious ais she was when she came out, buj as5 itt hiai)penedl, she regained ther r-oom without I any onio seeing hier. Laura still slep)t. Ethain Vanwirt had been (lead about a muonthi. Ilis grandson had entered into 1 possession of his estate without hmndrance. r ITiere wveie rmnnors about a will; buat, whoea it couldt not be found, Mlr. Scribe concluded that the old man hiad dlestroyed it, and( 'rc ftused, when qJuestionedh, to tell who was named in it. Pauline Ruble was still vIsiting Laura I Work, although, truth to tell, tier welco.no s had grown somewhat cold, both on Laura'st part and Airs. Work's. Laura was very unhlapp)y. Lewis Van- c whrt scarce ever spoke to ther, excepit in the a most formal manner, though ho came to the house as often as formerly. Apparently t It was to see Pauline now, and though the 1: gentle girl strove to feel the same towardl tier falso frIend, she could not quite. Mirs. Work, beholing the defection of young Vanwvirt from tier daughter, wvishied t most heartily they had nono of them evert seen Alias Ruble. There was a certain rejected suitor of I Laura's, namedI Robert Lester, who about 1 thIs time took advantage of the situatIon to a irenew hus devotion to hier. Laura had never' lIkedt him, and likedl himn hess than over a now; but in spite of tier coldness to was1 always beside her now, and more than once c she hiad fancied that Pauline had deliber- a aitely contrlvedl to fasten him upon her for the eveniing.. "I must bring matters to a crisIs sdob,'' I thought Pauline, one nIght, as she wreathed a tier brillIant face with smiles, antpretended not to perceive Mirs. Work's unusually cold manner toward tier. Presently whien Lewis Vanwitrt called, she was watcting for him, and drew him att once liuto the garden. "I1 want to tell y'ou something," she saId in tier softest voice; "ad besides, Laurat and her lover are so happy in there by' I thiemselvetr, w.oitld be a p)ity to distur, them," Lowis Ytnwlrt's hiandsome face turned I quite white. . 'a . -. "Has she con*sited to marry him At I last?" he asked, bltoiy. . 1 "Oh, of course; I Iold you she *oud~ lie I180401l. A Yory moral young many ai I lear Laura is s) very striet in her ideas. 1 lielieve she thinks he has not a vice in the world; and I know, if she thought Ie had -ver touched a card, she would not have limn [ow." Lewis winced. "Mr. Vanwirt," Pauline said, suddenly, "do you know to whom your granlaft her Ieft, his money, in that will whieh has never Leen. found?" "'I do not.' "dI can tell vou. "You?" He stared at. her. "It gave everything to I.aura Work. " npossiblet How do you know?" "Never mind, 1 do know," l'auuline said, ifting her beautiful black eyes to his in the nooniligit. "Moreover that will is in existence. He t lie stared at her harder thanii beftore. 11 know where it i,. You do/" "Vou1,1 you like to see it?" slippin. I''r land Into her pocket.. "I certainly should." "How will you like to see Laura and Robert Luster lording it at Vanwirt I louse?" Lewis ground his teeth with invohmutary -age. That decided the false, bold girl be :ide hiu. "L'ewis Vanwirt," she said, "if that will ,ould be put, int(o your possession to d1o whmlt ,ou like with, would you marry i woma - vho loves you better than Laura Work ver could?" She felt him start as she leaned upon his u"rm, and her hand tightened on what was n her pocket. 1li8 faee was slight ly averted lo that she could not see its expression. Llia answer catme after some momt"nts, but n i voice so huky and elinnge(d she wtoul : Icarcely have known it." "I would." Trembling with joy she drew out the olded paper. land put it into his hand. lie held it up in the moonlight a moment. naid then thrusting it inside his breast, turn d suddenly and began to go swiftly toward he house. Paulin~e could scarcely keen) upl vith him. An awful misgiving seirel her. "What tire you going to do?" "You shall see," he answered sternly, and she read his determination in his eyes. "What at fool I was" she muitte'red, lbut nace one elfort, more. "Laura and Lester won't th..nk you for ntcrrupting them." No answer, as he strode on and entered he drawing-room through one of the open "'rench windows. Laura sat there, with ter mother. She had been crying. No one Ise was in the room, lie laid the will on ter lap. "'I fId,'" lie said, huirrie<dly, nd in ai haking voice, "that my gran'dfailther left us money to you. There. is the will that as been missing so long. I hope, Laura, hat you will be a great deal happier with 1r. Ltster than you would have been with iic. But lie will never love you any better hani 1 do." Laura was white and speechless with he vilderment. "Laura detests Robert Lester," cri<!d Irs. Work, taking in the situation at once. 'She has never cared for any one but you, .ewis Vanwirt, aid you ought to know it." 'Oh, my darling!" ejaculated Lewis, yildly, extending his arms, "is it true?" In another instant, Laura was sobbing on tis shoulder. Pauline went quietly to leir own roomu, Ind spent the night in packing. When, lie next morning, she announced her ap iroaching departure, no one ohjected. e Lewis Vanwirt looked soniewhat, embair assed, when Laura told hhn of t h' promise lie had made his grandfather the nigiht he lied. "I don't think I am in any danger of be onlung a gambler," he said; "but I am t"illing (o pledge myself never to play gain." Which lie did( and1( kept his wvord. Thle Und Boy.,i Those gentlemen who miounat a dry~ goods ox to (deliver a pohitical sp)eech have no I uile in theIr hearts. They simply wanlt to tost up the workingmen, brush up the ideas f merchants, and do good to 'ill. Th'leyt aike no heed of the small boy lurking onl lie outskIrts of tile crowd, hut thought less y begin: ''Friends anld neighbors, let. me ask you vhat causes the hard times of which you .re all loudly comiplaining ?" ''Want of coanfldence ini the mule !'' veils lie small boy, as the speaker pauses for an nattant.( '"The hard times are0 uponf u1s, want, stares is ini the face, woe and wvretchaedness are broad, anid the laborig mian, the mierchtatt nd1( the CapIitallst ask eachi othier the cauiset ud( the remiedy."' "'Same speech lie got off last nighlt, with , he p)oetry left out!1" yells the boy. "Somie folks say that we hlave lived too aist as a nation," cointliues the speaker, >rctending to have heard nothing, "'ot,hers ay that the currency has been sont,ractedl c Do much; others declare that ti Ire arc-" s "'Ther's yar elipse on the mioon-Vul- t an walking right over her I" breaks in the j mall boy. Hie Is driven away by a cItIzen who came hero to hear i4 speechl, but 11e mferehly changese is location for a hetter onec. "Sonme folks say that there tire too many 1 ion In the coumtry," says the speaker. "Too many menol I Great IIcavens 1 Can t here be too many men in a 'country like hIs, whose fertile p)ralries "I'll go 11011e and kill miy dad 1" solemn ir puts In the small boy, and the speaiker egins to lose part of his crowdl. When lie tarts off again lie says: "What has made money so scarce, labor I 0 scarce, anid want and woe SO p)lenty ? s Yhat has tumL-led the price of property t neo-third ? What mecans these bankrupt ales ?' "Moans they are beating their creditors?" queaks the bad boy, and a dozen more I carere nod their heads In the ahlrmative nd start for thue market.r "Have we a currency?I' suddenly de. nande the man oin the box. "If we hadn't, how could I buy thIs 'ereo ~un ?" relies the bad boy, retreatIng before ho cane of an ofilee-seeker.. "We have a ctirrency,- but, what is 1k?" sk the speaker. Is It money or rage? When lie laboring miani has a dollar in his pocket,t s ho certain that-" "Not much, " ories out th.o boy. This is too much. Trho tsrowd make for '1 din ma body, leaving the speaker a lone, ad they forget to return. If ho can talk ong sough ho may draw some new ones, I n4 hoeoBnerHy buttone his collar and goes I le n' to the inarket afttwa egg-plant for iI* Bidair dinner. A young I)nke is naturally an attractivi Ilgure to the popular n'agination a1,n specially wien lie leaps to the fnll splen ior of his position f'romi it coinparativeh 11unb1le estate. Thie new pr"oprtieli)r ( WVelbeek Abbey, tile Duke of I'orlhunl will not, 1Ind1eid. enter inlO the entin (ingdol over which h is )rt hcessor reignet mupremle and invisible, bit he will hav mnough to miiake hitt on. of tlie six greales lobiles inl the realm, andl to emiphasiz! tin !oiltriast bet ween the two lots which he wil inve experienced. 1111d ti' uullippy 1111r" tuis of Iastings grown to Iniu's estate w. t iommoner, it is likely endgh that hl vould have iver gone to se.b tragic an rremediable grief. As a boy he hia goot endencies ain(d fair intelligelne. IILut ii ife, from childhood upward, was th1e re. rd of the easy victim of pimps aid piar tsites, flitteriiig knaves and Iawning ad enlturers. It is an inestimal.'e :l vanitag or the future possessor of the purse ol 'oi I niiiatus, when supplieiltid by tIi iighest dI:nities of the peerage to hav'e h he training of i i asil)le commoner. Thi, ins only fallen to the lot of three-D1)kes o1 ie United'iigtom. Ilis iace of B el. ord wtas platin M1r. Itissell; ithIe Duke (A )evonshire was unialorned Mr. (ave;aulis Ohen he becatne second wrangler at CaI.n nri(ge; and (the new I)uke of i' rtland was, ifornight ago, Lieiteai Caven(ids: lentinek of the Coldstream (.uards. 1t meah the fortluiate individual had solie rea Onl to congraitubite limself on not btin' aurn actually in the ptrple. The wondel n this country is, not that SO small, but lat so large a perceitage of the titled art iso racy rise siperior to the enervating andlc nischievous conditions of their station. 'romi the lust dn II of consciousness, thc eir to a peerage ' )iir$ned by paliiites mld toadies. 'T1-- it.mosphere which lt >neathes is impregnatted Witi the mean in ense of a<hlatuion. The Duke of Itichinond, 4r1 t'resident 1(f the council, is strii ciesl >i tiestions tla ectie:g the eattle pi lanue; 'el his eloquence even 11po11 that 1i( carcely sulliees to save the peerage, so nll s its Dukes are concerned, from the chirgt if poverty in regard to the sp-aking poVer. l'he ulike of Argyll is an orator of i) n1e1ain >rder; but. somehow his hian 1ig1tes, ranre erve a better purpose than ito recall II; ate Lord Derby's joke about the black m1ith, and in no (legree lesseii that siln,rll air prejudice against the MltcCallim Jlh)r< vhichl prevails tiiiversally, except in Wi-st rn Scotland and around Cupden Hill. ;m1(liestionably, the most able of our living )ukes is His Graec of Somnerset, though it these degenerate days he his beeii left igh and dry by his party, aid is known o the new general ion chiefly as ai crotch ty old 1(ogv, remarkable only for a mnke p which associates the costume1i11 of the ltianger withl a facial resenblance of the itartyr King. 61hrewd as he is, the Duk f Somerset has fallen under Ihe inlluenet f (lie Earl of ieaconsileld whom he de ended some tiime ago as a mau who "w-l1 1anted to leave an honorable unnme in his. ory," and was therefore-etuated by the 'bst intentions." I)etractors of all sortl tere to be silenced by the observation th( 'rcnier ''would not be likely to want to eave a dishonorable name to desecnd. hInts"--an1 amiable argument advanced by he Duke in ignoravce of tihe fact that B in amin Disraeli "has no chihdren." Nc tore than two Dukes are at present en aged in administering the affairs of the mpire; and the value of the aid rendered y the Lord Privy Seal, t.he Duke of NoIth. iberlantd, may be imagined when it it emembered that, intellectually, he is prol. bly a less robust personage tihan Eal ercy. As for the Duke of Buckingham, ie may be presumed to have made a re peetable ruler of a peaceful province, inns auch as nothing has been heard to the ort.rary. The man would indeed be mad vho should think it wvorth wvhilie to shoot at he Governor of Madras. Th'Ie D)uke ol ledford achieved success oven greater I hari hat, aittainedl by the D)uke of Westminister as a silent member of the IIouse of Conm lions; and in his higher carleer as Chair. iianof the bucolic meetings lie continues 0 maintain slilnce, if iiot, ini seen langut ges, att least wvithi dignify. With regard o (lie Dukes of D)evonshiire and of Aber orn, they may53 be said to have no title tc amlie, except as fathers of unuuailly promn sing children, thiough (lie formei' may lann to b)0 a more tho4rouigh educator oh 'outh than (lhe latter. .The Duke of Rut. tad comupetes with Mr. MacIver for the lorious post. of Chaimpion of Reciprocity; lie D)uke of Cleveland excels in prosiness f speech. Th'Ie D)uke of Suthierland's fanicy or lire-engines is iiot nearily so strong as lie D)uke of Wellington's preference for lie miore atncient four-wheel cabs to be oh. tiined ini the meitropiolis. The D)uke oft larlborough hias donie the State sonme ser. ice-perhtaps most by his retirement into eclusio--antd so has lihe Dutke of St. Al ains; but biothi have faded iuto obscurity, ad the lattet is only remiembered as5 a conl etionm of ani eineniwt Baron of the Ex. heluer. Of the rest noting is known in r>ciety. It is littinig thatL the ductal exis ace shotuld lbe placidl antd serene; that )tukes may be over-chillident and modest, owev'er, is evident Iromi the life of thie ite D)nke of Portland; and from the ten. ency of 1him1, in whomi centre the honors f Rleicmnd andl of GIordoln,. to spea1k of imiself simply as "'I, for one," lest 11001 umanmity shouild faint nmder (lie weight. of io great authority.. Jornsaleim I Whol ii aOt I A few evenmngs ago Alvy was pai'ng a I-sit to hIs dulchmen. She had smuggled um Iato the parlor, and( thie darkness only Lrved to conceal her bhtlhes whilo Alvy :d the story of his love. Trhe muttered words reached thie p)arent('s ar, and cominig suddenly lpto the room lie cimanded to know of Mary wvho It wats she ad1( with her. "It's the cat, sir,'' was the mdfmbhhig eply. "D)rlve it out of hero I'' thmundercd pater tnilias. "Scai!" screeched Mruy, and thien, sotto olce: "Alvy, meow a little." Alvy set up a woeful yell. "Confound it I Bring a light and scare lie thinig out." This was too much, and poor Alvy madle leap for the window, carrying glass and ratmo with him. "Jerusaalem I what a cat I exclaimedl the >arent, corttemplating the ruins aftoi' the Ighit ws brought. "I have nhever seen any. lung like it,' And, confourid it. - it's tail ia nade of"broadeloth I", as hei~twed .a flunt 9ting remnai hanging from the window. "Boi-sle(ii by moonlight, eight or ten i a "bob", has been the epidemlic fun in Ientvwood dIttrilit t he cold Spell. Every. hluly his it, and clhiIldrei crv for it. No (iignity witlistlnlds it, no primi sense of propriety is still enoiugh to resist it. Ladies, ge',t!lelnen, boys, g.irls and iuiscellaneolts t Iurchis, pinks of (dc."oru )11 1111 i romping hoydens. till hob" withi the very Wiliness 1; of jolly elltlisias.. )ignilied reader, did you (ver see ia hii'" X Wh:at, neveriI Then your ( life has beenl was)tedl. Fanlev two iron-. th( ilnd Sleds teli feet apart, Willi i sI tro11g pink, lifteen in ches wide, lashed oil toI [ of thun, with a cross-piece on the front - ond for lie crnluctor, the steerer str-(l(1 linr the plank just over the hind one. Th:at's a ''hob." imigie at ste.,p mtoulntain-side of ice ar,d frozen snow, slick us if it 11a11 Ieent greased, andll ia half a mile down. Eight, ten or a doeI ladies ait gentl, eii, alI seated on a plank, horsealuck falshion,-clothes-pin style. I.It go: Track! trei'k: And in the Iwink ling of an eye you ar* lIlying (lowlINwa'd at therate of sixty niles an hour: Your eves pup out. Y'ou1r ha1it 11ies off. Vour false t .1aiir blows to K aml8hli1 k., Your c1ockery- , ware1,( Itet are whisked out through the back of Your neck. "tream of fire Ilash 11 'roi the icy track at every hound. You ehld your brethI, and cling Hie grim death 'to the plnlk and/i your next neighbor. You t shlout. 'ott screaitl. You I ltigh in the t wiidest glee, witi every hair on end. A 8 twist in the n>a(. A crash. Ten thousandI 1shl ieks in a pin-point of time. And ladies, gentlemen and youogstter"s are rolling, ulng, slidlilt:glying in every direct.ion, f Int all dowI grade, I n,it )O niles at mintite, withli n(Iling for a sled. '('hat's riding on t ie r(1 co. 1{ l" o ' n I(" . I _I Never ' "smaek' while takin;g a "holion - 1 ('r" o' beer. "Don't 11111 after famuous people." t It i4 11mdi,tni11ed. W1alk brisM:'y, but dlon't run. "A natn's dress should not he relnark. a a?hte,' No I rue gentile n will appear at a dress iurly, in i red vest, a green coat, at sky-blue necktie, yellow palnt:lons andl ,4 an 1t iron ring in his nose. It would matike hin e,mspicuou3, a thing which rite politeness 11 never seeks. ''In going i1) and down stairs precede t the lady." It is 114) longer considered neces-it sary i llpp(.r circles t( step a lady's train, causing her fu ttmble to the boltomin of the stairs in yulir comlpany. Youi tti.. ble? "Girls who part their hair on the side r look fast." And it is also noteworthy that though they grow fast they very Sel dom get tired. "Never lake hits out of your mouth with your hand.'' Nor with your feet, eit her, we would a1111. Use at pair Of dlntist's forceps. "Adhlress your wit 'M'rs.' ad1 husband as 'Mi.' Such terns as "old bricktop" and "lh)wder-heall'' somind very affected be. fore sirangers. "It is impalite to keep a mui1lsicinn con stantly playing." Send the hired ian out and let him kick the organ grinder over the fence.k "'There is Ioo mhleli promiscuous kissing( inl t he eoluntry." That is- gigantmic t rut h, 1 and the womuen folks had better stop oscu. Ilting those sore-eyed poodle (logs. ('. young lady should not siretch her feet out in company." Especially if she is at linigor gir., and the 00.11 is needcd fori dan1)1cill pIpose. I I Al Al('1'*4'i Kii g 1 1 >It)vI1y . When thie Spaniards, under' he famous (ortes, cllme t) Mexico in 15H9, they found the country inhabited by people already civilized. About 100 years before the ' zetteans, te most enlightened of thle niativo tribes, had a Prince whose history lhas a striking resemblance to thatL oif the H ebrew King David(. Hius nalme 1i aiihard one, buta by dividinug it into double syllables we may malster it-Nez/a-huial-coyot I. In his youith', like D)avid, he wvas obliged to1 lIce for his II lift' from t.he wrath oIf ai m1orose mlonhi'l wh'lo occupied Ite t hrione, and lie met with : t 1ma1ny3 ,r'omaniti 11e ad vent uires 11114 hatir-h-readtl h~ escalpes. 4 Once, when som1e1 5oldie'rs cnme to take . him in his o)wn hious~e, lie vanlishetd in a P cloud( (If inicense, suclh as at tenidants bur'ned " befor'e P1rineos, and eoncealedl hlimself in a RI sewer, unt il his enemies we're gone. Ie Ic lIed to (lie mlounittains, whler'e he skipt in P caves and(1 lhiekets, and livcd on1 wildl fri'ii, 11t occasionally ho(winig himself i'n the cot. talges of (lie poor)1 pl)e, who befrIended L their1 Pr'ince at. thle peiril of their own lives. Once, wvheni closely pulrsuled, pas~sinig a glirl who was reapinlg in a1 field, lie begged her' to cover himii fromi sIght with the3 stalks of aC Il into a false( path1. AL anothieir timei, ho look 111 re4fuige with some1 soldiers who were fi'iend- at iy to him, and( covered him with a war- I drlum11, about which they33 were daninllg. No V bribe co)utld induce his t'atithul peoplc to be- eI tray him. 1 "WVould( you not dlehlvet'-lip y'ouri Pince if lie canmo in yo41r way ?" lie once asked a " yo)tng coutry '3-fellow, to whom his p)ersoni ai ''Never!" repIlied lhe~pleasant. "Not for a fair bidy's 1hand( and a great foi'tune l''11( ide Pince. "'Not for all (lie world!" was the answer. Thel Princoe, whio wa'ts rIghtful heir to the throne, grew ver di~(ay In thie favor of thie peole, and1( at last lie found himelf at the fc head (if an army, while the had Kiig wvas et more and more detested. A battle wtas i fought ; the usurper's forces were r'outedi, c( and he was afterward slai'in. T1hie Prinice, who soe lately led f'or lia life, w~as no0w (>ro- b' claimed KCing. rI Ue at on1ce set abotut, reforming abuses, di and( mauking wise laws for his kinlgdoml. lie establishied a society dlevotedl to thweon- di couiragement of science and art. lie gave prlizes for the best lterary compositions di (for these people had a sort of icture wri- b; ting), and lie was hinself a1 poet, lIke King David. His p)oems, some of which have di been preserved anid translated, were gener ally of a religIous character. la ftavorite di themes were the vanity (of human greatness, b; p)raises of the Unknown God and tihe bless mugs of the fututre lIfe for such .as do good d1 in this. Trho Tkezenceans, like the Aztecs, were idioIators, who idulged in the l'drrld of rites of humnan sacrifleo to their awful vi deIties; butt this wise and good J(lnk dotest ed suth thIngs and endleavored to wean hIs of peole from themi deoclarinlg, lhke David thiit above'all idols and over aill uien ruled di an unseen spirit, who Was the onq . ' M The King used to di ~iItohi and go about among his peo ,inor etbd'r .0 ho were huppy, how his laws were 11( iinistered, and what was thought of his overinment. i one occasion, he fell in ,1th a boy gathering sticks in a fild. "Why don't you go into yonder forest, here you will find plenty of wood ?" sked the disguised monarch. ''Ah I" cried the boy, ''that forest belongs the King, and he would have mue killed I should take his wood; for that is the 1W." "'1 he so hard a man as that ?" "Aye, that ib is-a very hard man, in eed, who denies his people what God his iven them !" "it is a bad law," said the King; "and advise you not to mnind it. Come, there ( no one here to see you ; go Into the forest nid helli yourself to sticks.'' "Not I!'' exclaimed tihe boy. "You are afraid some one will come and mn you. lut I will keep watch for you," rged the King. ''Will youm take tlie punishment in mIl' hace, if I chanuce.to get caught ? No, no ' ried the boy, shrewdly, shaking his head. I shoulld risk my ite if I took the King's '00(1." ''Bit I tell you it will be no risk," said me King. "I will, protect you ; go and get )Ine wood.1' Upon that the boy turned and looked il holdly in the face. "I believe you are a traitor," lie cried, l enemy of the King I or else you want > get mie into trouble. lut you can't. I how how to take care of myself; anmd I nl show respect to the laws though they re bad. " 'lie hoy went on gathering sticks, and i the evening went homie with his load of 'l'he next day his parents were astonished receive i summons to appear with their m before tihe King. As they went treni lingly into his presence, the boy recognized le man witi whom he ha(1 talked the day ('fore, and be turned deadly pale. "If that be the King," he said, "the we re no better than (lead folks all I" But the King descended from his throne, lid smilingly said: "Come here, my soul 1I Come here, good eople both 1 Fear nothing. I met this id in the fields yesterday, and tried to per 11de hum to disobey the law. But I found ili )r.of against all teml)tation. 5o I sent )r you, good people, to tell you what i -it(, and honest son you have, 1111( that tiie w is to he changed, so that poor people ii go anywhere in the King's forests, and ither the wood they find on the ground." lie tlieu (tismissed the lad mnd his parents 'ith ham< sole pr ' emts, which made them eim for 11iL reu1mier of their lives. mot01o. Age of fee. l'ru alge, in a recent adldress dlevel. el, tmong mnany other theories, the be ef that the great ice period tht ground to rocks into soil had been1 att ribited to a me too reimote in the earth's history. 1111 iid it had been the quite universally lie ptel opinion that the great ice caps were )mtiued by i climate rendered cold by reat 'n of chulged cosmic relations. It was nown that the eccentricity of the eartli's ath arlndcl the siunm wats subject, at long erii)ds, to considerable cht)nge, resulting i carrying thme earth out from tme sun 1some 'tueon millions of miles farther at times 1u1m1i nmW. 'T'le ear"th's great aphelion, to ether witi changed conditions attribuable mthe procession of the equinox, wa'I be eved to have produced the great periods f ice in the past. From this stlu(lpoint f reckoning, Clifford claims that. main has cen on the earth two million years. The rofessor said ie believed tie modern ten micy of th ought was in favor of at different iew. During the winter, in our northern etnisphere, we are two and a half million I ilies nearier to the suni than ill time summer. 'his helps to equalize our ciimate, remnder ug thle winters imichi more mild, aind time mmmer's hmeat faur less than It wiould be if' me cond(itioms were reversed. Ini time umthlernm hmemisphere time exact r'everse ate oif comnditionis exists.. Thley tire neairer me sun m i sunummner, and1( further off in win r. Th'ley hamve cold winters and1( hot sum11 ers. At time south pole there is ai vast ceuss of ice ovier thamt of time north pole. lie vaist, aiccmumlatlon of ice itt tIhe souith >Ic attracts the waters of time ocean, chanimg ig the equiilibriumi of tihe eathl's centre, .oviing time equaimtor to time sIouth, dirawiing T the w~aters (of the semi from the north >ie toP time south pole. Th'is taccounmts for lcecle-trly niotmceable subsidencee of time liters imi time northm, and1( for' time fmact thmat core is but little dry ln ini1m thme soumther'n 3imisphmere. If the ages of lce cani be0 mrmgedl up to these cauisesu, a glaciil period1 appr)moaching ini time soutihrn hemnisphmere, ad iil be at its greatest height In about 'e thmoliuinm live liunmdred yeamrs. TIhe last 3r1od of ice ini time northern hiemisphee is I so of equatlly recent daute, occurring prob0i uiy about six thoiusanid years ago. Thme etuirer was of oipinioni that, if these recent ews proved correct, there would be a re mmrrence of thie ice period In about sixteen iousandi( years in the niorthern hemisphere; is view womuld also shiortehi the thnci of, anm's existence omn thie giobe. It wvas prob uiy saife to saty thant man has nlot existed ore thman fIfty or a hundred thoumanid' tars. . For flidinmg tihe interest on any principal i any numbmer of -daiys, the answet' In each so being In cents, separaute thme two right. uid( fIgures to express It in dollars and I 'its. Four Per CIent.-Multiply time priacipali the number of (lays to ruin; separate (liet ht.hand figure fromi (lie product, and vidbe by 9'. Five Per Cent.-Multuply by nutmber of mys and( divide iby 72.'. Six Per Cent.-MIultiply by number of yS; separate right-hmand figuire and dlvd EIiht Per Cent.-Multipiy by numlier of j 13yS and divilde by 45. Nine Per C'ent.-Multiply b)y number of (1 tys; separte rIght-hand figure and dIvide I r 4. Ten Per Cent.-Mltiply 'by number .of t uys and divide by 86. Trwelve Per Cenit,-Multip1 by n tmber ( da jsepa1rate rightld 1ihmgite1r a dI dO F1~ii P& Oor..-M%uititly by number days and.divlde by 24., Elr l teo Peonte - ul pIy by ~umbr 'lient P 6 r by nemberc BRIEFS. -Vermont has 217,800 much cows, valued at $5,445,000. -Out of 577,353 persons of school age in Iowa only 261,702 attend school. -New Hampshire has 800,080 acres in grain, potatoes and mowing land. --Over seven million watch glasses ire sold annually in the United States. -The first Iceboat on the Hudson River, N. Y., was built at Athens in 1818. --There are now 1,000 Sabbath Schools in France, 2,000 in Germany, and 1,200 in Italy. -LOI(lont has 872 churches. In New York there is onie for every 2,013 in habitants. --The crop of castor beans ralsed in Kansas last year, is estimated at 10,000. 1100 b>ushels. --The Parnell (lemonstration In Phil ldelphia, Pa., yielded $3,000 for the Irish sufferers, -The cost of the Hayden trial Is esti matted at ovor $25,000. The Jurors re ueived about *200 each. -The debt of English towns and .lties for sanitary Improvements ilmount to $230,000,000. -Of the 134 members of the two rouses of the Louisiana Legisizture Dinly 13 are Republicans. -The amount expended on public schools inl the United Kingdom during the year 1878, was $13,677,000. -A man in Eatton, Maine, has this year harvested 10,000 bushels of pota toes from forty-Ilve acres of ground. -The South raised last year 600,000, [00 pounds of tobacco, which is 12,000, 100 more than she ever raised before. -The total debt of Boston at the close of last year will be $42,359,816.2:, being |i decrease during the year of $9,720,624. --Within the past five years the acre tgo of cereals in the United States has lucreased Irom 74,000,000 to 95,000,000. -A Virginia pap'r estimates the an nual loss to that State by the destrue tion of sheep by viclous dogs at. $1,000, [00. -Mrs, J. J. Astor, of New York, in 1879, provided homes for 077 friendless children in the west, at an expense of f9750. -The Sisters of Charity in the United States numbered at a recent enimera Lion 1,171), ia charge of 1100 establish 1l1e11ts. -Nashville, '1'enn., points to new buildings worth nearly $900,000 as evi lence of subatalitial growth (luring the past year. --Queen Victoria has ordered a quan tity of decorative furniture In Dublin for Windsor Castle and Osborne, to be made of Irish material3. -A medal has been struck to com memorate Mr. Gladstonle's seventieth birthday anniversary, and a copy in gold has been accepted by Mrs.. Glad stone. --There are 1,038 public schools in Connecticut, attended by 30,594 pupils. rihe school revenue amounted last year to $1,300,972.54 and the expenditures to $1,375,881.01. --There are now nearly 100 lumber tnd shingle mills on the Saginaw River, with an estlimated capacity of 810,500, )00 feet, and giving employment to wer 1,000 mon. --Lyons, France Is going to raise a .tatue to the memory of Jacquard, the llventor of the famous loom bearing 'ls name, who was born there in 1752 md died in 18:34. -''ho decrease In the number of pu pils studying German in the St. Louis )hile schools is since last year nearly ro0. Nevertheless 20,128 pupIls out of 18,485 are still taking the language. -Recent statistics Rshow that about wo thiousandi Russian soldiers comn )letely lost their sight during time late var with VLurkey. Only about eighty locamne blInd through the direct action >f warlike causes. -Th'le area of the Blaek 11ills proper a 6,000 square miles, running in a forthieast andJ Southwest direction a listamnce of about 100 miles, and an tverage width of 60 miles betweemn the 'ork of the Cheyen ne. -Thme woolen tradle has grown rap dIly in Franice of late years. Ia 1851 here were only 850,000 woolen spindleR n that country, but now they number ,270,000. Tme valute of the goods pro uced Is 504,000,000 francs. -Harvard University owns in Bos on p)rop)erty exempt from taxation of hie value of $104,300, and taxable prop rty valued at $893.000. 'The uni 'ersity's property in Cambridge whioh s exempt amounts to $5,325,000. -he Cossacks number 4,309 officers and 152,514 mon. T1hey render military orvice without remuneration, in lieu if paying taxes, and have a small al owanco in lieu of rations together with their arms and ammunition. --The ten orphan childr$n of Gen. Fohn R. Hood are to reside in Austin L'xas. They will be under the especil are of Mrs. E. R. 1hennen, to whmomi hey were consigned by 9en. Hood mly a few hours before his death. -The reading-room of' (ihe British ~Iuseum contains three miles of book ases eight feet high. The dome vhienee the electric lighit irr.adiates the past room is, next to that qf the Pan hicon at Rome, the largest extant. -TIhere are about 00,000 Mennonites n A merloa. They have. 600 meeting lousos, onie-eighth of thnt. jiumber be ng in Canada. They abftain from aking the oath, do not inflct punish nent, do not accept piublic' office, and iever go to law. They:are nearly all armers. , ,.,. -Boston has a mulatto,'longshore- , nan, a native of Cape Yqrde Island A ,nd formerly a sea 'gpdh who can peak Portuguese,. Spanish, Italian, renehdl Germ..ir,MEnglish, Russian, / Iwedish, Norwgiaf ma e the variouis li1lets of the Hlawalian apijl South Sea < -hfty-ann of the flt'fo'ur ?urnaoes. hat compoe thme Lekh,khPa., group, om faihare he,j aret. yet i'W6fie atie i l~ast "R~( l'i24 nteifW f ' 'aho.Np9a Id'