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t Vi..5 ' --4 -we ' . EATO INSBR0 L.~M~ JAUR2 8 ~t 9' 4 'M an -j N(OT L98T. t I a promise oth lhe bade t i doti niot ginA sthe hol' id fragrance wh0h they J i-odght. To us a blesing st IT or count as .ost $he seeds we sow Id faith Upon 4'bstren land, t1 rea "not. - Doth not Go1 the purpose know, And iless the sower's hand I purwitot the vow the eager spirit inakes That Weak doeh cantot keep; he ocean bubbles break, but underneath - There dows a current debp. \'ite buds that blosson' not, the withered seed, Ihe vows we leave undone, ye gems we drop; yet angels mark their fall; ad raise then to the crown. "NO PEDDLURI ALLOW ED." In the good olty of Philadelphia ther< was, in the conveniently movable porioc If once Upon a Time, a certain plao alled Coppersmith Court. It was n< horoughfare, being only a sort of baj ut of a great fashionable riyer of I oeet. It held six houses, twoon eaol ide. and two aoross the/ond, and thoro oas a placard bearing the words, "N * d<Uers permitted to enter." .umber one contained old Mr. Flaol d his wife, but they were sevent; ' and rheumatic. Number tw< tr \red the deformed little librarial tlhty-tain religious library in the city a a consumptive young sister three held-how, they alon k iMothodist minister's widow an o . ghters. Number four was ocoi o y an old lady who had a son v e 1 lcor on a vessel in the nav3 11 lways being expected hoi4 U11 hes of coral, Ouinose curios tie oxes of foreign jOllies and co ser ted to the fact tiat no di 9 rett ionally, but the chances wer th uld u iu mid-ocoau at au iNumber five was ocol Wie iss Cornelia Coppersmith, sing3 of eight -and-forty, and a voi old And number six, bei ItUna a- left to - its 'ghost. Pr bab! of patronage rather than tl I itaL ished the poddlers. Tll on why the Copporsnil h Court soet their facos so stern wol sUkinl (era was that they were n goetL id the people of Copp( mit rt were genteel or UOtILU its , its all lived on limited i ti 1 COm1 not one of the ladies i over d a penny in all her lil Mr had a pension under govea o e librarian was connect with tlerfully genteel sooity, av or's niother j'ot ~ rson of - 'a py M4 idow. A F. M.' m -ga was . onu . (-V In e t< J. A. Sgned as "nMy Into na." . .Meldom vulgar, though sol 'l F. lrmi.g, and the 81ost at m - was that of a bankrupt ba J. R. &a shot himself. Ricolnalsumily a carriage, with 5evI L. Jivory piched upoll it, pause< trance to the court, and a an fine clothes, and a thin gen1 with a great dniaonut on ,eutered Miss C)rnelia Oop to 6i' 's door. It was then whispe su1t 1gh1 the court that thiat ind t\ ,jily" ha oalled Upon hor. Ius all migt av cotiue ,v years but that Murs, RIooney ea her grandfather' proporty, at .\?aaving quite given up tle idea of Leocease, for he lived to be a auid: d ifteen years of age; and teid 8rself entitled to be a landd propi r, employed an agent to buy her a .a house. The agent having looked about hi ' .Orpos.ed Number six, (Juppuran ,ourt. Mr. Oopp~ersithi, nieary ot nant whlo paid no rent-we~v allude o banner's-giaost--agreed to the pri tired, and one morning the hona oers of the court peeped ihrou car green~ blinds upon the arrivad rs. itooney's household gods ; al1 o boarders came with Mrs. IRoone tie was a young mian who habitual 18 -a red shirt. Theii other was a 10 nier in shabby black. IHo look< .uteei, but alas iappjearances are U *tful. On thie morning azter his arn he was seen to leave the court ben r. a small tray, on which were raug< nI meersohanis, china pipes, wa: 4 ite flwes uonthem, biro let wood, and the hunable clay (du Veddlers ware not admitted to tl . -t, but one had come there to ar h 'at I amn alive to-day," said ti )' p r's widow, ''is a prool that one0 oi iihoughs anLything." \-or Muss Coppermmiths, she shi u tp in her flowery chltat bowe. I 0 maed inonnited to renanin there to, k passed. One night Aliss (ooj th wVa awakeed b.y awlul grnoum arted up in bcdt ande 1lOisten catng wvas at her wmdacow ; shi a rd raps. I went to the window. Within ardon, but I have some eolios." ' KJ coica?" repeated Miss COPp) 4 0y bad,"~ responded tho neighibr q*~ opaIu, and Mad ame Rtoona cos'schild to the funieraJ k ~z ose is iro one. Pwrrlj~ AtaIleale eate devie -braund. prhnimadame ?" *isaid Miss CoIpperamit'h amemory of genteel Staken i her earlier 12' 4~~ a~(r'4 but a fafus Sdon't ~ w respo~~ Miss Coppersmith brought the brandy -about half a gill in a cologne bottle and presented it on a small fire-shovel. The neighbor, thanking her In bi pro fusion of complimentary French, re tired, but -soon was heard to groan again more dismally than before. "Are you worse?" called the lady through the shutters. "I am vera bad," piped the sufferer, in anguished falsetto. "Perhaps a mustard plaster might re lievo," suggested Miss Uoppersmith. "Per'aps,"' moaned 'the Frenchman. Miss Coppersmith, who was really a tender-hi.arted squl, instantly rushed to her tiny kit'hen, and soon approached the winctow agoain with the plaater be two soup dishei. Placing them on the shovel she waved It before her neigh bor's window. "The plaster," she said. The plaster was taken with many thanks. Shortly the groana ceased. Was L. (lead or relieved of pain, this a man who had called her an angol ? She i called softly : 6"Are you better ?" >"Ahi, yes," replied the voice. "Zo plastaire is 'eavenly, like madame." Miss Coppersmith retired. Early the r next morning a tap came on her door. ) Lt was her neighbor, with her platei I well washed and her bottle rediled. He had come to overflow with gratitudo. He declared that be should have ox pired but for her most amiable conduct, ier delightful mustard-plaster, and he ended by a narta-ive of his own life, his t fallen fortunes, and how he came to I peddle pipes. "I say to myself what matter vero no ono knows me?" he said. "Still, ma dame, I am a gentleman ; zat I vould Li 'ave you know." 0 "1 am sure of It," said Miss Oopper. Y smith. 1- Her guest departed, Misa Copper. a" smith sat thinking. What handsome Y eyes he had I What a nice nose I How g romantic to fall from the aristocracy t< : pipes I How ho had looked at her LO Ah i Miss Coppersmith, who had hek nerself too aristcoratio for every suito I t her youth, fodud herself blushing ly That evouing her neighbor called again -)t lie brought with him an offering, ai ir- ivory nut thimble, in a case shaped lik 9- an acorn. Shortly, a sort of scandal sprea, d through the neighborhood. The pod dier, the vulgar peddler, called on Mis * Coppersmith I Ho took .tea with her o xd Sunday afternoon! Oould such hing A be I 10 The family heard of it. It called i "d its coach, with ts red-co El foot S* They allled Miss' j sififth's chii t A covered room to Verilowing. The no- occupied all the chs, while she porch 1im- ed on the small ro I stool before th ker 1ij)hI'4lt piatno, and they addressed her "Oornolia," sail the old lady, "w( tal hr trighitful ne r you; that yo1 Iat are visiLed by a ofSi jpeddler?" fat "11t iau't a cigar peddler," replie< tu- 0:>rmha. "H9 0 Monsieur Blanc. H lhi 50i1 p pOs, nutity." ler- "iml is fippant," said the old lady red "A pL!ddler i We call to remonstrate.' y'ts ."o hear you are engaged to him,' said stout lady number one. for "Aut we cadl to warn you," saidstoni me lady niumbor two. Wtr "Dismiss him at once," said the thin his nlest genltleman, "or we discard you." 'ed "And disown you," said the otheci ug thin geitleman, "since you have for. 21 0 otten yn are a CopIeramith. bit Poor Mias Corneha, meekest of 'w mnen, burst into tears, a, "1 wias so lonely," she sobbed. "You t neve.r even invite me to teat, and he's a a~ ---a gontieman." to "Weo sano more," replied the old co lady. ' os, or no-Will you dismiss e- him ?" And she looked an anathema inar'anathaa. of ia Miss Cornoeta coula not endure the y. exeonm nicnjationt. She said "Yes." ty The faily then arose and departed, r- She was left alone, F'or an hour she :d bathed( the' pnod Ie'su heaid with hier tears. a- l'laen ,aje hard a knook at the door and .i. arose to open it. Monsieur .Blanc on r.. tered. tt --Agai 1 arrive myself, my angel," ythe rat~rked. ~. "Oh, you must go I You must never Ia comie againa I" sighed poor' Cornelia. "I have roised my family." h-"4, ze famtily I" or ied Monsieur Blaub "Aristocrats. But, bah I never Le maic Mademoiselle, I adore you.' - ( h I" sighted Miss Coppersmith. -$tus fly 1" said Monsieur, "Let o us go hive-somnevere-avay. Ye vill be n 'nppy. Ahm, bath I zat family I Zese p.:oyle of ze court so arintoeratique. it doic, ye vii: fly. Marry me to-day." '. Io klissed her. Neither of them were vcy old1 or ugly, and that which had never luapponed to Cornelia before hap panedf~i~ then--she fell desperately in love , il the spot. ."I don't caare for one of them,'' she LA id. "I will marry yeo." After dark thuat evening two figures tolo out of the court arm in arm. They .ore those of M., Blanc and Miss Cop persamith. There Is no difiloulty made oy the clergy in miarryng runaway couples of eight-and-forty, and they were wed. 3hortly after the first ercitement of thec elopement haid ceased to thrill the court a~ parson duly 'authorized bore away the furniture of Number Five and i the houato. and no one of the gen te- occnpants ever saw Miss Copper. sm again. Tha mily disowned her, and the old Aunt w - ery partloular that Cornehia's inamie sho~c hovuuer be mentioneod in her hearing. And hideed Cornelia would no ide ee uiad beings for the A little house- over a small shop whsere pips. of all sorts are sold, she liv44 with hsir husband. She has grown q'te oly~ and never was so gay lpr oto te'heap pl~nsaUso at~ WbOWe thing, and they have ni3e indigestible little suppers at ten or eleven o'clock. In fact, Cornelis is no longer genteel, but she is what Is better, exceedingly happy. Although the tale of -her ,fall ing off, and how she, a resident of that place to which peddlers were. not .ad mitted, married one, is still a fearful legend in Coppersmith Court. capturea ati iiaten. "The River Putumayo is one of the many which run from the eastern slope of the Colombian Andes about which little is known. Rising in the moun tainous districts of the upper altitudes of Pasto, in the State of Cauca, it runs nearly 1,000 miles, receiving in its course the tributary waters of more than thirty streams. Its banks are partially kuown. but the world is yet in complete ignorance of the secrets contained in the immense territory it drains. It serves an the boundary between Colom bia and Equador, and Colombia and Peru, while the extreme confines of Brazil run up to its mouth-1,200 me tres in width where it rolls into the Amazon-where the Brazilians are aux ious to seize another slice of territory to add to that vast empire whose pro ducts, population, and above all, pro gress are not on a par with its ambition to obtain possession of the soil of its neighbors. In past times this same spirit of aggrandizement existed, and the Spanish authorities were so well aware of the fact that they kept a garrison ninety miles from the mouth of the Putmayo, wiuch was always pro - pared to prevent the Portuguese as conding the river in order to reach the southern districts of the former vice royalty of Santa Fe do Bogota. "Within the past few years adycnta rous residents in Pasto have endeavored to turn the riches of the river to ac count. . It is navigable even in the up per part by canoes. After frequent petitioning, Congress passed a law per mitting the entrance of merchandise by the river free of all duty, with the re sult that some portion of the imports came by way of the Atlantic, were car. ried 2,000 miles up the Amazon by steamer, and thence by launch and ca noe unt.1 they reached a% market, within 800 miles, as the crow flies, of the PA a citio Ocean. Messrs. Reyes were the first to engage in this enterprise. and by treating the Indeans well along the - route, have been establishing a ver) " fair trade, exporting ivory nuts, india rubber, vanilla, casoarilla, sarsaparilla 1 and other raw products in return fo the goods brought in by them. Theii success induced a young merchant o - Barbacoas named Porten to engage iL Sthe same entrprise, and i oj u y,- kcm%.. gna~tffu4,4i ery oot of ground. They had ereOco -- j house, made a small clearing, au- a, r ready saw their way to a profitable busi - neas when they were visited by a nun 3 ber of Jovonetes Indians, who came Os telisibly to trade. They were receivec i weH, and were apparently satisfied, bu L suddenly they attacked and killed th< Colombians and afterwaid cooked ani I ate them. The Indians have novel visited the Putumayo' before, and nt one has ever fallen iu with them on the , Amazon. Other tribes have also madH their appearance in different places, and it is believed that some mere powerful tribes are driving the weaker ones from the hear t of the unknown forest regions, or that they are voluntary emigrants who will murder and plunder whenover opportunity offers. IResidents on the frontier alio suggest that they may havo been driven from their homes, wherever they may be, by the slavers, whose ves sels ascended several of the tributaries of the Amazon a few months ago in search of slaves and produce. 'i'his supposition will appear exageeratedl to all who are now~ aware that .indians are captured on all the interior rivers and earried off to different out-of-the-'way regions, where they are compelled to wort on the plantations which have been established far a way from any thing bearing even a semblance to civilIiza~tion. It is probable the death of honor Portes and his friends will attract the attention of the Colombian Government to those long-neglectori regions of tihe .tepubilic." Tryiag to Hos-rowv a IDalf Dollar. Pete Freer is always hard up for money and is everlastingly trying to borrowv fromi his friends. Colonel An drews has got plenty of money, but ho does not like to lend it to Poto for fear he would forget all about it. On the first of the month P'ete met Colonel Andrews afid said to him : "Oan you lend me half a dollar for a few minutes'? I want to pay my landlady." "I am sorry, Pete, but yesterday 1 let Ooorge Hornier have the last half dlollar I had~i about me, otherwvise I would be proud to lend it to you.'' Next dauy Pete made another attempt to borrow half dollar from Andrews, who said1 he had on the day before paid out his last cont for taxes, but for that he would let Pete have hie money in a minute. On the next day Pete made another attempt to get that half -(dollar, but Colonel An. drowvs said he-had, on the day previous, been paying his pew rent, and it took the last cent he had, other wise lie wouid take pleasure in londcing lPete as much money as lie needed ; that there was no man in Austin whom he respected as much as lie did Pete Freer. On the succeeding day Pete once more tackled Andrews, who remembered that he had on the day before contributed the only half dollar lie had to the erection of an Alamo monment, otherwise he would be proud to advance Pete the cash. Pete began to Jose hope, and yesterday, when he met Andrewa on Austin avenue, Instead oi asking him for the half dollar lie merely Inquired, "I say, Colonel, what did you do yesterday with that half dollar you can't lend me to-day ?" Asnrous farmers do not value olover bay as lzIghly as the Enoglieb do. Timto. thy is considered much inferior to clover by them much superior by us. Olover mor4 th n .frabu twedty p odent, moetntm y roperly ouredl it la 'i.aluable crop; Mark Twain's Baromeer. Somebody was asking a Harttord man iow it hAppened I bat Mark Twaim wrote tA md published so little nowadays. '' e writes F a nuch as ever," was the reply; "but his barometer ia out of order, and i hie does not know what to publsh ; so he publishes nothing." I "What in the world has his barometer to do with his literary activity " " His barometer is a man-sortant named Jacob, who Is remarkable for hs deficient sense of humor. Mark never con judge of the merit of his own performaauce. Years i ago he fell into the habit of tenting every- I thing that he wrote by observing its effect 4 upon Jacob. If Jacob llsteapt to, the I reading ot the article, jest, or* tIory with I unmoved constenance, or meoij . In a perfunctory way, Mark w . and sent the manuscript to 1, printer. But if Jacob laughed outrigh ,. ave any other indication of genuine nierrtiment., the humorist concluded that the stuff was hopeless and withheld it trom publication. He regarded Jacob as infallible and came to lean upon lils judgment. "About three years ago, it appears, Jacob learned for the first time from solue outsider that his master was a professioual humorist. He telt greatly honored that ho shoukl have been ch:>sen habitually to enjoy the first freshness of every new pro duction of genius. He did not exactly untlerstand why he should have been thus chosen, but felt In a vague way that a great humorist must need sympathy and appreciation, and must naturally look for it to the fellow being nearest at hand. He also telt that lie had perhaps failed to be at all tirnes suffillently appreciative. So Jacob kept his alscovery to hinkeelt as tar his master was concerned, and resolved to be as oppreciative in the future as anybody could riesire. "One day Mark called Jacob In and read him a sketch entitled ''heu Cow and the Lightning-rod Man.' In composing it Stark had flattered hinself that he had struck a pretty line streak. To his amaze ment Jacob put back his head and roared. With a half suppressed ejaculation Mark dasbed the manuscript into the waste basket, Then Mark waited Six weeks or two months to collect lia forces (for he is never precipitate in anything he does) and achieved a romance called 'flow I Bounced the Baby.' Ile summoned Jacob and watched his face with obvious auxiety as he read the touching narative. Jacob's nurth was painful to observe. Mark tore up the st.ory and then tore lils hair. " Two or three experiments of this sort, with unvarying results, persuaded Mark Twain that the malaria, which he has been dreading ever since it began to creep up the (mnecticut Valley. had re tched him at last and destroyed hii power of useful ness. l1e fell into a settled i elancholy. His friend, the Rev. AMr. Tw ciltill, tried in _a ch r-hiu e.'Alark irshook his h borowed ye or .Jonafthan Edwards' serions from lils .riend's library. Be copied out a long passage from the discourse on ete nal pun. . ishment, and pal)ted it off on Jqcob as his ownt latest elfort. For the lUrSt ime In l his tory, the gloomy periods provoked pess of laughter, Jacob held his sides aid shook all over. 'Ien lie suddenly stopped, his countenance becaine h!nnk, turned pale, and he ncontinently tied. le had seen m)urder in his master's eyes. "That," saId the Hartiford man in con clusion, "Ia why Alark Twain does no write. Be hung his reputation as a bu mon.st upon his barometer, and his barom. eter no longer works." A cUevnr Ciail,aig*n, Jim Changlo, a o aliiiios laundry man in St. Louiw, is something of a genius. He possesses a knowledge of painting, clock making, engineering, engraving, fancy sewing, and ia full up in the arts and sciences, iioluding chemistry and other b~ranches of learning. At present Oban glo is engaged in completing what lie i'leases to term the " World's Fair." T1his curiosity consists of a miniature Uhineso house, containlag towers and verandas, and Possessing other features peculiar .to Mongolian architecture. The structure rests on a table. It is about four feet high and five feet long, and its rooms are all open on one side, in order that the spectator may see what is tak ing place within. Directly in front of the house is a yard in which two Ohina men arc represented as playing at a Mlongohian game, andI two others in the not of builing a brick wall. On the steps twvo ladios~ are standing face to face, in the act of saluting each other. Three Ohmiese ladies sit on the veranda en gaged in close conversation, wile the meni on the veranda dirootly over their heads are leaning forward and endeav oring to overhear what the~y are saying. A bout the building byttertiles, that look as natural as life, nre seen with wings outstreched in the act of flying. This is whlat the observer finds on the exte rnor of the building, but lie becomes moure deeply interested'whenhle inspeots the contents of the apartment within In one apartment he sees an army of aol diers mnouted on horses, in anothier a solemn procession of priests, aind xa an other a lot of wild animals, etc. When the clock work that operates this vast establishment is wound up and started, the effect, produced is deoidely striking. The butterliies tremble on invisible wires, and appear to be flying aboutin the air, the men at the brick wall work vigor ously. the charaeters in front of the main entrance bow gracefully, with their hands clasped before them, Chinese fashion, the soldiers move around briskly, the animals run swiftly, and the women on the verandla over the main entrance vociferaty wildly, In fact, averythiing connected with the establish mont Is natural and life-like, "How long did It take you, Mr (ihau lo, to make that concerni" "Oh it took me longer than a month, * [ work very fast and can make such things very quick. The house you see e is composed of wood"*All the trimmings a are of silk. Those piottues you see on ti the ta ble cloth there,''he said pointing to ,i s table cloth hiding the legs of- th, table b~ "I painted. They are oil paIntings, 8 )n. repreaente a Chinese castle> The e thor two are landscasp* representations I >f -mountens, There arne li4 the by 4~o ng and yard infaront af t Jst.100 t tres, which atove when hue bu.if1 OWoud U? History or a Lost ViX. One of the wildest stampedes that ever Dok place from Alder Gulch, Montana, ras caused by the simplest thing one could veil imagine. It was in '64. Everything vas flush. It was noirly two thousand mules to the nearest railroad and settlementi n between were scattering. Now, it ii haracteristle of human nature to sigbi Siter the unattainable, In this particulai iase fresh pork was the unattainable L'here was plenty of bacon and pickle( )ork, but no fresh pork. Oariboo Tin was the only one in camp who over owne< k pig. Tim was a very visionary sort of i mes, who was not satistled with workinj tloag the gulch at fifteen or twenty dollar % days 'ut was eternally searching througi * mountaina iu- that - region for. a plao w.6ile .he could gather up 'gold by th 4hovelful. One day Tim returned to caml to learn that his pig had tsosped fron it pon under his bunk. Ho did not tarry al hour, but, packing all his proviilons, start )d on the pig's trail up the mountains. Straightway two or three hundred mei decided to follow Tim, supposing that h had 'truck it magnlfacently rich. Th leade- of the stampede kept track of hit -one man keeping him in sight, a secon keeping the first in sight and so on unt the gang stretched back for half a mit behind this came the rabble. Tim seome to know where he was going and Rel steadily on, This but served. to confirn his followers that lie had already made ti rich tind and was returning to it. Whe night came Tim camped, His followel did likewise, a halt dozen'men being di tailed to take turns standing guard, i that he might not slip away in the nigh Early next morning the march was resuti ed. On yard went Tim, unconscious < the men on his trall, for no noise wi made, the necessity of silence having be( impressed upon all the stampeders. Fro camp they passed down the range to il Madison and on toward Norwegian guIc again they camped and again were guar stationed. The night passed quietly. T1 first of the stamnpeders to awake in ti morning crawled up the' hillside to point wherohe could see Cariboo Tin camp, and ' looking over saw that ti guards were asleep and Tim gone. .T guards and the remaidor of the stahpe ers were awakened. A scene of great e oltement followed. The guards we cursed up hill and down for their neglei which the poor fellows took with me submission The gang now started hurriedly in t direction which Cariboo Tim bad be folowing on the previous day, hoping overtake him. Each mau tried to I ahead of hi neighbor and the rapid til made down the mountains was remarkal All this time Tim had gone leisurely 4 his head doubtless filled with visions roast pig. Alter a march of an hour t .w-0). 4 n. a log to ret W, opening in3t"Tleinber&e1 the blanket and grub laden brigade pass rapialy along a half mile away. "A stampede, by the eternail" he eja, lated, springing to his feet and hurryi off atter them, with no further thought his pig. After going two or three mi he overtook the hindmost of the band a from them learned that a new gulch b been discoyered, rich beyond compa they didn't know where it was nor w was leading and didn't care a tinke d--n, only it was sone fellow whom th had been trailing for a day and a half. halt was soon called at the front, and t stragglers, including Cariboo Tim, cal up. As Tim approached the leaders, w. at conrse knew hini, he was immediate surrounded and earnestly besought t,) ta: them them to his new diggings. " Why, the ones that you discovered your latt trip and that. you have bei making for,'' was the reply, and they th, related to him how he had been watchl and finally followed, together with the su seqtient cicuimstances of the stamped When Trim explained the true object of k search anid wound uip with "titampedeI d-d I I was only looking for me losi pig!" theo remarks tat were made th< and there were ot. too emphatic a natn tos ho appropriate for the columns of paper. isiedgang in To The North Poio. Thie most northern district of the Daii settlemsents in Greenland is Upernavik,< Upornivik, whose extreme northern trad lng post is Tasiusak, in N, latitude is dej 24 min., about 1,100 ntIes duo south< the pole. 01 this place It as clammed the 'It Is the most northern abotie of civilize meni and women." The northern coast ( Greenland has never beeii circumnavigatet but it as generally belIeved by Arctic nay. gators that it lies not far north of the higli eat latitude reached by Nares in 1875 d about 88 deg. north. Some scienatisms sti. clIng to the theory maintained by Dri Kane, the great Americqln explorer, tha between the northern hoadilands of Greein land and the pole there is an open sen If so, that wouldl set a limit to sledge ex peditions. But Nare amid other explorers who got still nearer tho pole, declare tha a.s far as they couild see to the north al was ice. The Jongest sledlge journey im the Arctic regions on record was made b~ [jtent. Frederick Hochwatka, U. 8. A., who in 1878 and 1879, miade an overland search for the lost records of siir John Frankline extiedit~Ion. ils small party was landed by a schooner near .Depot island, in fHud, ion's bay; passed the winter in camp oir ah're; became accustomned to living much ike the natives, andi In the spring started, ilah some Esquamaux assistants, mnuiedges irawn by dogs, to explore the northern md western shores of King William's mud. They wore gone on thins expedition il(evean months and twenty tdays, during vhleh time they traveled 8, 931 liinglisha tat ute imiles. It would, probably, be a nuch more serious matter to travel in the arthest north, provided -land or ice fields ire continuous from Upornavik to that ong-sought point, the North pole. flow. 'ver, there seems to be about as mnuch eason to ecpect thnt it will be reached by ledges, as by any other means,, and the >man of establishing meteorological and iploring stations an the northern latitudes, nd-depending largely an eledgo expedi. tons to extend our knowledge o1 the Lretic reglonr, has been adopted by learned odies, and in some measure by the United hates and other Glovernments. Our Gaov rnment has one such permanent'st ation at 'ranakl bay, in the norithern extroniite I MAltske. Therq is po~son to believs ist thare vath be a line of suon statiooy slore long, along the etern eoast of reenland. A Buargars Compre@e Outn. mong the handbooks still to be written the "Burglar's Complete Guide" has yet to appear. Pending the publication of that useful compendium of the experience gained by the veterans of the craft, it may not be amies to say a few words on the outfit required by any person who ven tures'to earn a iveiihood by the profes. sional art of housebreaking. Burglary is rather a difflcult as well as a dangerous prpfession to pursue. The ordinary thief may contrive to be fairly successful with mediocre abilities. More vulgar filching only requires. quickness and cunning and a fair shaie of brasen impudence. The burglar, on the contrary, must not have a fair stock of courage, but more than ord nary resources of skill; Not untrequeitly he is an experienced mechanic-a qualifi cation which stands him in exceedingly 3 good stead, in the manufacture of the tools I of his craft. For it is one of the disad vantages of his calling that its implements cannot be purchased in the market-place, but must in many cases be surreptitiously Ls manutactured in the closet. D The Instruments required for the pur. 1 pose of burglary are not many in number, I but it is often necessary to expend upon . them much skilful workmanship. While being as effective as possible, they must t also be hlht and handy. The accomp. t lished hanse-breaker will never toad him i self with so many or such wassive tools as 0 will either excite suspicion when he sets n out on a nocturnal . ramble, or will act as 's serious-impedimnaw. In case of rapid fight. I Like all other specialists, the buralar 0 makes a study of his craft, and nine parts . of his success are due to the skill with - which he adapts his means to his ends. )f The kind of implements vary according to Is the kind of robbery to he committed. A n burglar does not, as some innocents seen U to inagine, set out prepared to rob any 10 house that may seen to offer a temptation. 1. The choice of any particular "crib to be Is cracked" in a matter which calls for great le care and discrimination. Generally the 'e thier has fonnd means to inform linself,| a at least approximately, as to the difficul '5 ties ho may have to encounter and the .0 sort of booty which is to be expected. It le there is a safe or a strong box to be broken d- open he provides himuself with a large 9- crowbar, amown.in the profession as a re "jimmy." It Is made in sections, which I, screw on to eane other much as the rods of k- a sweep's ibrusi We screwed together for a chimney. Whel' a ciowbar of this kind he is distointed a .voinan can conveniently on cary it undet her apron to the Intended to scene of Qperations. It Is seliom, how ;et ever, that suoh arge "Junitmes'' aro em no ployed. 4 Ao A burglar's. Inary outfit can be - car It, red in his poc If he designs to enter of a house by a hich is Ilocked on the or inside, 4e.11 "III H * Ide himself ilLe wit" n :1: 'f the todi' uofe.T it Loi 'not, it aisVsy to pare ag away enough of the wood t( allow Of -tle Insertion Of the vice which i' fixe!d on the 3u- h-ad of the key and screwed up with so Ug nmuchi firmness as to make it in1 excellent Of handle. By means of this SlI .p!e resource le the burglar can enter at his pleaure, close nd the door bellind him,aud proceed in search ad of the roois which lie supposes it to be ; Most feasible meanus of entrance seems to ho be an up-stairs4 window, he will require a V ladder. Sometimes the Confiding house e holder is suficiently oliging to leave a A ladder In the yard, but this cannot always 4e be depended on. The burglar must there. no fore be prepared for contingencies, and to 10 a practised nand it is by no means dificult ty to make a ladder - which shall seem no Ce more suspicious than a more bundle of wood. A dozon pIeces of half-inch timber, n each piece of about fifteen inches long anti three inches in breadth, will, when bolted ' together, make a ladder of sufficient )d length to reach any first-floor window. b- uion a means of ascent rolls up into conl. -. voment compass, and (can be carried1 under Ia the arm. When about to be used it is 0straightened out, and attached to the win tdow-ledge by means or hooks Inserted in in one end. Trho joinings of the wood, lap e ping a little over each other, serve the pur. a pose of Steps, up which a nimble buimlar can ascend with toierable easo. Blurglurs shouldl always be Ilgt-.wights-a. fleshy man will seidom make a living as a house Ii breaker. Window fastening-it, indeed, rthe wimdows hiappen to be fastened--are .easily deait with. Almost any thin piece .(of iron mnserted between the sashes Is i equal to shooting back the bolts. Once a nside a house, the burglar requitres a box 1 of matches. As few housohohuers turn oft Stheir gas at thme meter hefore retiring for ,the night--a device which has hof, ro now - deleatedl the object Gf nmany burglars-th~o - dark lantern has been laid a'ulde as cum b ersome and suplerfluous. Sk~oleton keys, 'i though still used, are bieoming equally . oolte. A "jinurny" of abJni a oo in t length, a hunting-knife, and a scrow-Llriv . r, generally affordl sufhcient mecans of dealing wvith looks and faistemnng,. These .umy almost be said to coinplete the burg.. lar's equipmnen'. The''jtmumy" ia usually a delIcate Instrument, finishedi with pecu liar fluness at the ends, and with tongues of Well.-tempered stool. Whether the burglar carnies firearms or not depends on tihe direction of his taste, lie Is most likely to do this 1f ho works alone. For half a crown or so ho can pro-ure a pistol which may bo disposed of in his wvaistcoat pocket, and which yet would be dangerous at close quarters. But he would not be likely to carry such a weapon unless he had previously contemplated its use. In the hands of most burglars fire-arms are Intended to serve as a threat in ease of an alarm rather than as a means of doing bodily injury, and for this purpose a fair. sized revolver, sucn as can be purchased of a gunsmihi for about 12o. 6ti., would be preferred to aniy weapon which mIght b8 equally dangerous but less terrifyIng, Ir you dip your uruwm in clean, hot' suds once a wek4r then shake it till it is almost dry, and thou hang it up, or stand It with the handle down, it will last twice as long as it will without thIs operation, Gaumq boll peppers make a doloate I relish if eaten with salt, (Jut the pep per in narro w stras, after removing the seeds and rinsing in cold water; dip the strings in salt as you do celery, tiorve on a plate or ina a shallow gisse. WEBNx about to bttttonhobe the bottom of a fiannel shirt, wheotar for a *hmld ot' wohman, double theo Aamul as it you wer, to hem its and batt .it in. plaee. 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