DAVID SWAM.
r indeed know all tho viois-
.rv. f nr fortunes, life would be
too full of hope and foar, exultation or
disappointment, u8i
2 of true serenity. This idea may
tfl illustrated by a single page from the
Scret history of David Swain.
vr have nothing to do with David
, find him at the age of twenty.
on the high road from his native place
to the city oi isoston, wuere ui uiuie,
I small dealer in the grocery line, wan
to take him behind the counter. Be it
enough to say that he was n native of
jjeW Hampshire, born of respectable
parents, and had received an ordinary
L,nnl education with a classic finish of a
I toe. But thore was peril near ''the
sleeper. A niouster of a bee had been
waudenng overhead buzz, buzz, buzz
now among tho leaves, now flashing
through the strips of sunshine, and now
lost in the dark shade till finally he ap
peared to be settling on the eyelid of
David Swain. The sting of th9 bee is
sometimes deadly. As free-hearted as
she was innocent, the girl attacked the
intruder with her handkerchief, brushed
him soundly, and drove him from be
neatn tne mupie untie. How sweet a
Dance-Music.
No other kind of musio is so much
played as dance-innsio ; no other kind
has a popular demand so great and con
stant. Composed primarily for the ball
room, it is made to do service on all oc
casions, publio and private, whore in
strumental masio is a means of popular
entertainment. It is heard with delight
in conceit hull, theatre, drawing-room,
and street ; at watering-places, publio
meetings, weddings and parties, liven
picturel This good deed accomplished j Thomas, whose ambition hu always been
., nt Gillmouton Academy. After
Lnrnflvinir on foot from sunrise till
Lrir noon of a summer's day, his
-oarinfisg and the increasing heat de
termined him to sit down and await the
coming of the stage coach.
As if planted on purpose for him, there
soon appearea a 111110 "lump ox mapies,
ith a delightful recess in the midst,
.ml nch ft fresh bubbling spring, that
it really seemed never to have sparkled
fnr nnv wayfarer but David Swain. Vir
gin or not, he kissed it with his thirsty
lips, and then flung himself along the
brink, pillowing his head upon some
shirts ana a pair oi pauwiooH uu up iu
s striped cotton handkerchief. The sun
beams could not reach him; the dust did
not yet rise from the road, after the
heavy rain of the day before, and this
grassy lair suited the young man better
than a Doa oi aown. iuo spring mur
mured drowsily beside him, the birds
floated across the sky overhead, and a
iIppd sleep, porchance hiding dreams
within its depth, fell upon David Swain
While he lay sound asleep in the
shade, other people were wide awake and
passed to and fro on horseback and in all
sorts of vehicles, along the sunny road
by his bedchamber. Some looked
neither to the right nor to the left, and
knew not that he was thore; some merely
glanced that way, without admitting the
slumbering to their busy thoughts; some
laughed to see how soundly he slept, and
several, whose hearts were brimming
full of scorn, ejected their venomous
superfluity on David Swain. A middle
aged widow, when nobody else was near,
thrust her head a little way into the re
cess, and vowed the young fellow looked
aharining in ins sleep.
A temperance lecturer saw hini, and
wrought poor David into the texture of
his evening s discourso, as an ftwlul in
stance of dead drunkenness by the road
side. But censure, praise, merriment,
scorn, and indifference were all one, or
rather all nothing to Lrovid (swain.
He had slept only a few moments
when a brown carriage, drawn by a
handsome pair of horses, bowling easily
along, was brought to a standstill nearly
in front of David's resting place. A
lineh-niu had fallen out and permitted
one of the wheels to slide off. The dam
age was slight and occasioned merely a
momentary alarm to an elderly merchant
and wife, who were returning to lioston
in the carriage. While the coachman
and servant were replacing the wheel,
the lady and gentleman sheltered them
selves between the maple trees, and there
espied the bubbling fountain, and beside
it David Swain. Impressed with the awe,
which the humblest sleeper usually
sheds around him, the merchant trod as
lightly as the gout would allow, and his
spouse took god heed not to rustle her
silk gown, lest David should start up all
of a sudden. i
"How soundly he sloops," whispered
the old gentleman. "From what a depth
he draws that easy breath! Such sleep
as that, brought on without an opiate,
would bo worth more to me than half
my income; for it would argue health
and an untroubled mind.
"And youth beside," said the lady
"Healthy and quiet age does not sleep
thus. Our slumber is no more like this
than our wakefulness."
Thus did this elderly couple feel inter
ested in the unknown youth, to whom
tho wayside and the maple shade were as
a secret chamber, with the rich gloom of
damask curtains brooding over him.
Perceiving that a stray sunbeam glim
mered down upon his face, the lady con
trived to twist a branch aside so as to in
tercept it, and having done this act of
kindness, she began to feel like a mother
to him.
"Providence seems to have laid him
here," whispered she to her husband,
"and have brought us hither to find him,
after our disappointment in our cousin's
son. Methinks I can see a likeness to
our departed Henry. Shall we waken
him ?"
"To what purpose ?" said the mer
chant, hesitating. "We know nothing
of the youth's character !"
"That open countenance!" replied his
wife, in the same hushed voice, yet
earnestly. "This innocent sleep.
While these whispers were passing.the
sleeper's heart did not throb, nor his
breath become acritated : nor his features
betray the least token of interest. Yet
fortune was bending over him, just
ready to let fall a burden of gold, ihe
old merchant had lost his only son, and
had no heir to his wealth except a dis
tant relative, with whose conduct he was
dissatisfied. In such cases, people
sometimes do stranger things than act
the magician, and awaken the young
man to splendor who falls asleep in
poverty.
"Shall we not awaken him?" repeated
the lady, persuasively.
"The coach is ready, sir," said the ser
vant behind.
The old couple started, reddened, and
hurried away, mutually wondering that
they should ever have dreamed of doing
anything so ridiculous. The merchant
threw himself back in his carriage and
occupied his mind with the plan of a
magnificent asylum for the unfortunate
men ol business. Meanwhile David Swain
enjoyed his nap.
The carriage could not have gone
above a mile or two.when a pretty young
girl came along with a tripping pace,
which showed precisely how her little
heart was dancing in her bosom. Per
haps it was the merry kind of motion
that caused is there any harm in saying
it? her garter to Blip its knot. Con
scious that the silken girth if silk it was
was relaxing its hold, she turned into
the shelter of the maple tree, and
there found a young man asleep by the
spring.
Blushing aa red as any rose, that she
should have intruded into a gentleman's
bed-chamber, for tnch a purpose, too,
she was about to make her escape on tip
with quickened breath and deeper blush,
sho stole a glance at the youthful stran
ger for whom she had been battling with
a dragon in the air.
"He is handsome!" thought she, and
blushed redder yet
How could it be that no dream of
bliss grew strong with him, that, shatter
ed with its very strength, it should part
assunder and allow him to see the girl
among the phantoms? Why, at- least,
did no smile of welcome brighten np
bis face ? She was come, the maid whose
soul, according to tho'old and beautiful
idea, had been severed from his own, and
whom, in all its vague and passionate
desireB.lie yearned to meet, ilim, only,
could she receive into the depths of her
heart and now her imago was faintly
blushing in the fountain by his side ;
should it pass away, its happy lustre
would nover gleam upon his life again
How soundly he sloops ! murmured
the girl.
She departed, but did not trip along
the road so lightly as when she came
Now the girl s father was a thriving
country merchant in the neighborhood,
and happened at the identical time, to be
looking for just such a young man as
David Swain. Hail David formed a
wayside acquaintance with the daughter,
he would have become the father's clerk,
and all else in natural succession. So
here again had good fortune the best of
fortune stole so near that her garments
brushed against him ; and he knew noth
ing of it.
The girl was hardly out of sight when
two men turned aside beneath the maple
shade. Both had dark faces, set oil by
cloth caps, which were drawn down
aslant over thoir brows. Their dresses
were shabby, yet had a certain smart
ness.
These were a couple of rascals who got
their living by whatever tho devil sent
them, and now in the interim of other
business, had staked the joint profits of
their next piece of villiny on a game of
cards, which was to have been decided
hero under the trees.
But finding David asleep by tho spring,
ono of the roughs whispered to his fel
low:
Hist ! Do you see that bundlo under
his head i
The other villain nodded, winked and
leered
"T'll bet vou a horn of brandv." said
the first, "that ohap has either a pocket-
book of a snug little horde of small
change stowed away among his shirts.
And if not there, we shall find it in his
pantaloon s pocket.
f At 1lt ll
"Hut how n he wakes r said ine otner.
His companion thrust aside his waist
coat, pointed to the handle of a dirk and
nodded.
So be it 1" muttered the second vil
lain.
Thev approached the unconscious Da
vid, and while ono pointed the dagger
toward his heart, the otlior began to
search the bundle beneath his head.
Their two faces, grim, wrinkled and
ghastly with guilt and fear, bent over
their victim, looking horrible enough to
be mistaken for fiends, should he sud
denly awoke. Nay, had tho villains
danced aside into the spring, even they
would have hardly known themselves as
reflected there, Dut David bwain had
nover worn a more tranquil aspect, even
asleep on his mother s breast.
I must take away the bundle, said one.
'If he stirs, I'll strike," muttered the
other.
But at this momenta dog came scenting
along the ground, came in beneath the
maple trees, and gazed alternately at each
of those wicked inon , and then at the quiet
sleepor. Ho then lapped out of the fountain.
'Pshaw!" said one villain. "We can do
nothing now. The dog's master will bo
close behind.
'Let's take a drink and be off, said the
other
The man with the dagger thrust the
weapon into his bosom, and drew forth a
pocket pistol, but not of that kind which
kills at a sincrlo discharge. It was a flask
of liquor, with a block tin tumbler screw
ed upon the month. Each drank a com
fortable dram, and lett tno spot.witu so
manv iestsand such laughter at their un
accomplished wickedness, that they
might bo said to have gone on tneir way
rejoicing. In a lew hours they nau ior
gotten the whole affair, nor once imagined
that the recording angel had written down
the crime of murder against their souls in
letters as durable as eternity.
As for David Swain, he slept quietly,
neither conscious of the shadow of death,
when it hung over him, nor of the glow of
renewed life, when that shadow was withdrawn.
He slept, but no longer quietly as at
first. An honr's rcpof e snatched from his
elastic frame the weariness with which
many hours of toil had burdened it. Now
he stirred; now he moved his lips without
a sound ; now talked in an inward tone to
the noonday spectre of his dream. But a
noise of wheels came rattling louder and
louder along the road until it dashed
through the dispersing mist of David's
slumber; and there was me stage coacn.
He started up with all his ideas about
him.
"Halloo, driver! Take a passenger?
'Room on top" answered the driver.
Up mounted David, and bowled away
merrily for Boston, without as much as a
darting glance at that fountain of dream
like vicissitudes. He knew not that a
phantom of wealth had thrown a golden
hue upon its waters, nor that one of love
had siehed softly to their murmur, nor
that one of death bad threatened to crim
son them with his blood, all in the brief
hour since he lay down to sleep.
Sleeping or waking, we hear not the
airy footsteps of the strange things that
almost happen.
to interpret, with his famous orchestra,
the best works of the greatest masters,
has never beon able to resist that popu
lar demand which requires a Strauss
waits on all of his programmes, except
thoso of the few severely classical sym
phony concerts.
It may, then, bo interesting to know
who are tho composors who held this
sway over the masses, and contribute so
much to their amusement. It is singu
lar that the great majority of those who
listen with pleasure to the strains of a
waltz, a polka, or a gallop, have no
idea of what is the title of the compo
sition, or the name of the author. This
is explained by tho fact that music of
this kind is so often heard when there is
no programme to indicate what the band
is playing. Indeed, tho musicians are
often no better informed than the audi
ence, since most of them are in the habit
of reading the notes without noticing the
name of the piece or of the composer on
the printed sheet. And yet there are
half a dozen or more composers of dance
musio whoso names aro scarcely less fa
mous than those of the groat master of
musical composition. Noither Italy,
which has delighted tho world with its
grand operas, nor France, which
has token' the lead in the pro
duction of opera bouffe, nor ling
land, whose popular songs have won such
wido celebrity, has made any consider
able contribution to the general stock
of dance compositions. Littlo Italian
music of this kind reaches the Unite
States. Jnllien'9 pieces have been
played by the bonus oi an couutrios
but ho composed littlo. Metro's musio
delights tho French, but "Les Roses
Waltz" is the only one of his composi
tions that has won a world-wulo popu
larity. Dan Godfrey is the most pop
ular Lnghsh composer of dance music
but only a few of his waltzes have been
heard outside of England. When we
say that neither Italy, Franco nor
England has taken a prominent part in
the production of niusio for dancing
we refer to compositions primarily
written for that purposo, and not to
those which are selected and arranged
from other works. Uf course evory
popular opera furnishes its quota of
waltzes, quadrilles, etc., which are
played in every ball-room and concert-
hall wherertr the opera is known
number. One of his earliost waltzes,
"Oeruisn Heart.-," Bhowed that he had
the genius of Lis f.ithor Hnd brothers,
l rom him the supply of new Strauss
waltzes mast chiefly come, sinto Johanu
has devotod himself in recent rears to
the composition of light operas. The
published compositions of the Strausses
number about one thousand two hun
dred, of which betwoon threo and four
hundred are waltzes. Much of the most
popular danco-musio of tho last twenty
years has Wen written by Carl Faust, a
bandmaster (f Ei-si-hiii. His nmnrrtit!i
galops have beon more widely tdnvod
than those of any other composer. Among
utiiK-wriiers iveior jsom is taiuni:
a rank next to that of tho Strausses and
Gungl. His musio is aboriginal as it is
oeauuiiu. ao waltz composed in tho hist
ten years has won a wider popularity than
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"Where is your other shirt?" she asked,
in tones of concern. "I have it on," he
replied, calmly, and then he looked into
his wife's face with a look of qniet en
durance and went down to the office to
get out the paper. Burlington Hawk-eye.
But
selections of this kind form noither
large nor the bost part of the supply of
dance-musio.
The country which supplies the
world with danco-musio is Germany,
which also takes the lead in tho produo
tion of evory other kind of instrumental
music. Here almost every orchestral
leader and band-master is a composer of
light piecos, but the number of thoso
who have become famous by their dance
compositions is exceedingly small. Less
than a dozen names will be recognized
by the goneral music-lover in th
country, but somo of these aro as familiar
as household words. Ihe bost known
are Strauss. Lanner. Labitzky, and
Gungl. Tho elder Strauss, Lanuorand
Labitzky, who wero contemporaries,
have been dead for about a quarter of a
contury. The two formor wero V lennese
and the latter a Hungarian. Thoir or
chestras wore heard all over Enropo,
and everywhere arousod the greatest
enthusiasm. Each is the author of Borne
thing like 300 compositions, including
everv form of danco-musio. Many oi
these are the most lovely waltzes, which,
in spite of the universal demand for
new musio of this kind and tho great
amount of it produced, are still played
and listened to with delight and enthu
siasm in every civilized country. Gungl's
band has long been one of the chief at
tractions of Munich. He is now an old
man, still creating tuose compositions
which soon find their way into the
repertoire of every orchestra. Many of
the waltzes written in his prime are not
surpassed in originality and beauty.
Perhaps no composition of its kind has
boon more played or more enjoyed than
his "Immortellen Welti, composed in
remembrance of the younger Strauss.
Scarcely less popular in this country has
been "Dreams on the Ocean," the waltz
which Gungl composed and brought jut
when he visited the United states with
his band in 1848-9.
The name of Strauss is everywhere
familiar. For half a century Strauss has
beon recognized "waltz king," and
Strauss waltzes have been played by
every band in Christendom. It is not
however so generally known that this
namo is Dome by lour persons, ait
famous composers and leaders of
Vienna. They are all of one family, the
elder Strauss, of whom we have already
spoken, being the father, and the other
three his sons. It was the bewitching
waltzes of the father, Johann, who died
in 1849, that first gave celebrity to the
name. His charming "Songs of the
Danube" was not less popular in its day
than the "Beautiful Blue Danube,"
written by his son, while his "Sophie
Waltz," whose plaintive strains have
moved evory lover of light music, has
been made still more famous by
the romantic story of disappointed
love associated with its composition
and first playing. Johann, the
eldest son and the greatest of all dance
music composers, was born in 1825.
When a boy he played the first violin in
his father's orchestra, but he soon or
ganized a band of his own, which rivalod
that of the elder Strauss, and which has
won the plaudits of every capital of
Europe. Of his published compositions,
numbering nearly four hundred, the
most widely-known and popular is "On
theBeantifnl Blue Danube;" but many
of his other waltzes are equally charm
ing. Jost'f Strauss, the second son, died
in 1870, at the age of 4 i jean. He left
nearly three hundred compositions. His
waltzes have a lx-anty and freshness all
their own, and they deserve their great
popularity. His "Village Swallows"
waltz is as lovely as any of the Strauss
mm-ic. Eduard, the youngest of the
family, is now delighting the Viennese
with nis magnificent orchestra. He has
published more than two hundred com- J
positions, and is rapidly increasing the
The Dismal Swamp.
Ihe Dismal swaran is not a vast bos
suu in mo ground into which, tliu dram
ago of the surrounding country Hows, On
the contrary, it is above the ground somo
fifteen or twenty feet, us whs demonstrated
Dy actual surveys. Instead of be nif a re
ceptucie into which rivers and streams
enter and flow, it is, in rcality.au immonse
reservoir that, in its vast spongo-like bulk
eathers the waters that fall from the
heavens and pours them into the fiv
different rivers that flow onward to th
sea. Any one would imagine that tho
1'ismul" was a veritable charuel house
that spreiids its miasma throughout the
country. Un tho contrary, it Is the health
lest place on the American continent
j no owanip is loitucd entirely ot green
umber. There is absolutely uo decom
posed wood; one sees trues lying all arouud
in the forests and swamps. The two prin
cipal woods that grow in tho place
a re tho juniper and cypress, which never
rot. They fall prone on the ground like
other trees, but instead of the wood de
composing it turns into peat, and lies iu
dissoluble by air and water for ages per
fectly sound. There is nothing in tho
swamp to create miasma; no rising of the
tide and discom position of rank voguUible
no marshes exposed to the burning ravB
of the sun. AU is fresh and sweet and
(ho air is laden with a pungent scent of
the pmo and dogwood. In the 'anti-bcl
lum" days all planters were anxious to
hire their slaves to shinglo-makcr in tho
swamp on account of its health. Mr,
Kodlnck, a well-known contractor, says
he worked a gang of fifty bands for fifteen
years in the Dismul making shingles, and
in all that timo there was not a case of ague
and fever. I have seen numerous atlldavits
of overseers and agents who have lived in
the swtunp their whole lifetime, and they
never knew a death caused by miasma or
a solitary instance of ague and fever
The air is pure and sweet and the water
tinned to a faint wine hue by the juniper
is as potent a medical drink as aro the
famous wutering places of the Virgini;
"mountain bpiih." It Is often used by na
val vessels going on a Ions foreign cruise
on account of the healthful properties and
also because it keeps fresh and clear for
years. It is a strong and invigorating
tonic, with a very pleasant taste.
Two Laws.
Sovcral days ago a whito man was
arraignod bol'oro a colorod justice
down tho country on charges of kill
ing a man and stealing a mule.
"Wall, said tho justice, "uo lucks
in do caso shell bo weighed widcavo
fulness, an' of I hangs yor Hunt no
fault ob mino."
"Judge, you liavo no jurisdiction
only to oxamino mo.
"Dat sorter work longs tor uo
raigular justice, but yor bco I'se been
put on as a special. A special hez
do right tcr mako a mouf at fcpronio
Court ct ho chuses ter.
"Do tho best lor me vou can
judge."
"Dats what lue gwmo tcruo. 1 so
got two kinds ob law in dis court, do
Arkansaw an do Texas law. 1 gon
orally gins a man do right to chooso
fur his sof. Now what law docs ycr
want; de Texns or do Arkansaw f"
"I behove 1 11 tuko the Arkansas.
"Well, in dat caso I'll dismiss ycr
fur stealin do mulo
"Thank you. judge."
"An' hang yor fur killin' do man."
"I bcliove judge, that I'll take tho
Texas.
"Wall, in dat caso I'll dismiss ycr
fur killin do man '
"You have a good heart, judge."
"An' hang ycr for stealin do mulo
I'll jis take do fusion hcah tor re
mark dat do only differeuco 'tween
do two laws iz do way yer state do
case." Little Rock Gazette.
Women as "Spotters" on Rail
roads. Women, it seems, are employed
as "spotters on tho New York Central
Railroad, and are provuiou wim now
books and ingenious little mirrors by
which, with their bocks turned to the
conductor, they can see just how many
passengers on a coach givo up money or
tickets for fares. The veils and wraps
worn by thorn readily conceal their move
ments and disarm suspicion. A few days
ago one of these spies got on a train go
ing out of Utica. She took one of the
front seats in a coach, and was seen to
keen her hand to her faco and poor into
the little box which containod two mir
rors set at angles, so as to reflect all the
movements made behind her. The hon
est conductor passed through the coach,
collected tickets and received money,
giving, as he always does, a punched du
plex ticket as a recoipt for the fare. Af
ter he had left the coach the woman
responded to the flirtations of a drummer
who had noted her performances anu
wished to have some fun. The woman
received his attentions cheerfully, and
made room for him to divide her scat
with him. The drummer was persistent
in his attentions, and succeeded in induc
ing her to leave tho tram with him at
one of the stations. Before he did this,
he succeeeded in turning her jacket
pocket bo that the little mirror, note
book, her instructions in her trade,
schedule of fares and other articles of
her trade, fell on the coach seat. The
train passed on, and the "spotter" did
not mis her " kit" until it was too late.
The train boys captured the articles.
One man eloped with another's wife at
nnllint? b in Tennessee. It seenii a
spelling-bee has iu ating as well as other
bees.
The City as it Domicile.
Wlill.) tin' ililllcultv of trotting a place
to live in lu.s materially deeivasod within
tho pt few years,
tn.;:ei to ex:..;., mi
Whoa things aro at their worst, they are
apt to grow less bail. The domioility
means of living wore, until recently, at
thoir very worst iu this city. Tho im-
p:'o.oii.v'Uw, iiouuor, Iiuh ln-i: muoli It-t-s
than is commonly thought. It is sup-
posed thot, with tho erection of apart-
iii.-:r.-!i-i I.-, '.,.. v. n:i-; ? tho e.VvVv!
railways, and tho luuhtiuir ot small
dwellings in tho upper wards, most of
tno obstacles in their way of securing a
comfortable roof for a reasonable price
would be overcome Somo of these,
perhaps many of them, have been over
como; but Biich a superabundance has
been left as may well intimidate the most
hopeful and couragoous shelter-seeker
on Manhattan island. Where shall we
live? is a question not infrequently
asked in other cities. Whore can we
livo? is the question peremptorily and
perpetually askod hore. As a rulo. no
Now Yorker can guess this year where
he may bo next year. Whatever his
oroed, ho is far loss concerned about his
condition in this world and in this city
after tho next twelvemonth. He may bo
living in Thirty-fourth street or Two
Hundred and Fifth streot, at Carmans
villo or New Brooklyn, at Washington
Heights or Gowanus, at Hoboken or
Staten Island, anywhere, indood, within
a radius of fifty miles of Union Squaro,
and yet have changed his atmosphere
and surroundings as effectually as if he
had crossed tho continent.
All tho territory is virtually within tho
municipal limits. Tho metropolis ex
tends to any and every point that may be
reached in two or three hours of ono's
placo of business, and so long as tho
New-Yorker can abido within this circle,
ho is taught that ho should bo content.
Ho bids you good -by o hurriedly in office
or counting-room, saying that ho must
bo off in timo for dinner. You wonder at
his IhiHtn. ninon it niiw not bo much after
3 o'clock, forgetting that tho spot ho calls
homo is quite likely to bo sixty milos up
tho Hudson, in the remote valleys of New
Jersey, or on the eastern shore of Great
South Bay. li.s breakfast and busings
often lie so far apart that to connect them
involves a coiihiileralilo journey. lien
he shall bo bodily transported us he now
GENERALITIES.
' ho fashion of paper colars is much
iwer on account of the high price o
Hart the pedestrian won by his legs
ono week $21,000; . This is enough
mako Lydia Thompson green wi
envy.
UlOI.4Ul.li iOKO.
which it woul.
'l orcn
be uo small Job to count-
transmits thought, ho will probably slit
dowii to Quito for luncheon, and uttond
evening parties at the head of 15attlu's bay.
Outsiders lniagmo that the iow iorkor
relishes this ceaseless traveling hither
and yon, this constant shifting of quar
ters.'this lunching in Tino street and
sleeping iu Putnam county; that it is his
idea of domostioity and repose. But it is
not a matter of election with him; it is
sheer noeessity. He would like to have a
habitat; most animals havo ono, but to
him it is doniod, bocauso tho vicinity of
Manhattan docs not, or will not, furnish
him with any. Ho occupies any spot ho
can hold, and so long as he can hold it,
with tho pormission of his landlord. His
domiciliary fortunos, or misfortunes, aro
beyond his control. Ho abidos, not
whore ho would, but whore he must. His
existence is consumed in following the
load of furnituro vans, in moving in and
moving out, in playing n grand gamo of
pUBsy-wiuits-tlie-eornor wnn a inuiiou or
two of his noiirhbors.
Evon our rich citizens havo no easy
timo iu obtainius residenoos. Many of
them are afraid to buy lost they be taxed
to death, lost tho neighborhood chango,
or tho locality prove unhealthful. They
are often forood from ono quarter to an
other by unmanageable circumstances,
by the endless mutations of triulo and
town. Thoir grout wealth docs not afford
thorn protection; they have no guarantee
of pcrmanonco or peaco. go where they
muv. Millions will not iiisuro, in this
city, a tranquil and pleasant homo. They
who would live hero couienuHiiy aim
comfortably must, as ono of our Celtio
fellow-citizens might put it, go some
whore olso.
If it bo bo with the rich, how much
worse is it lor men oi sinau moaim:
especially for those who havo only what
they earn, with no prospect of tho small
est surplus. When apartment-houses
began building, everybody saiu: ow
we shall have what Iuib boon bo long
nooded. Dosirablo flats for small fami
lies can bo routed for $500 or 000 a
year." Flats can bo had for buou a price;
but they aro lar irom uosiraoio in in
terior arrangoment or as to situation.
Situation in Now York must be paid for,
and paid for handsomely. There aro not
here, as thore are in other citioB, decent,
respectable neighborhoods which lay
claim noithor to elegance nor fash-
Everything in Manhattan is in
oxtromos. A decent neighborhood is
Konorally o fashionablo neighborhood,
and correspondingly high. We have
scoros and scores of streets in which no
educated Amorican oould or would reside
In many of the nicest and pleasantest
quarters there aro blocks on blocks Biraply
uninhabitable for woll-regiilatod folk,
and wholly surrendered, therefore, to
noisomo tenements, groggenos, squalor,
rioting and ineffectual vsitations from
he police.
Noothortown of anyBize in civilization
which we can recall is so ill-provided in
this rospoct. It would hardly be an ex
aggeration to say that tliree-qnarters of
the built-up portion of the metropolis is
cither unfit for respectable residents or
unattainable for persons oi ordinary
m ill.t i
means. A. comiortaoio noue or avarv
mont capable of accommodating from four
to six persons cannot be had in a good
neighborhood below Sixtieth streot for
mnch less than $1,000; and the bulk of our
middle-class citizens do not and cannot
arn more than $1,500 a year. The shape
of the Island is partially responsible lor
this; but other eontrollable causes are
gravely at fanlt. We are, as has been
said, growing less bad, but there i soma
probability of New York becoming, as a
domicile, what it should be, during thia
oeutury at least. N. Y. Timet.
Mv dearest uncle." savi a humorous
writer, "was the most polite man in the
world. He was makiuu a voyage on the
Danube and the boat sank; my undo was
just upon the point of drowning. Ha got
bis head juxl aDove me water ior once,
took off his hat and ssid: 'Ladles and tea
tlemen, will you please excuse mvT and
down he went."
The Secretary of War ha recom
mended Congress to appropriate $100,
000 for the establishment of new
military post. But what's the nse? We
haven't enough soldiers to lean against
th posts already established.
dress with the sinister purpose, we sus
pect, of resn-jneting that old controversy
about Jeff c. is.
When Boston man comos home
at 1.30 o'clock a. m.. and smashes the
furniture, they say he is in an iucono
clastio mood. Out hore the samo man
would be doscribod as "bilin."
"Anthony Comstock, iu St. Louis, was
sovorolv criticised for improper re
marks, and yet this Tony would arrost
for having a bare thought.
The season of the year has now arrived
whon a man who has not beon able to
afford an all wool undershirt begins to
wondor how ho's going to get his porous
plaster off.
Always manago to live so as to leave
something at death. A Chicago man of
93 years of ago married the other day
because he thought it far better to leave
a widow than nothing.
Hanlan, tho oarsman, is a vory moral
man. He does not drink liquor of any
kind, chew tobacco, smoke, nor row
races.
"What struck you as the most touching
thing at tho academy?" asked a lady of a
youth who hail been expelled from a
boarding school. "The teacher's
rattan," sadly replied the boy.
Tho fact that nature only put one
elbow in a man's arm, is sufllciout to in
dicate that sho nover intended him to
fastou the collar button on tho back of
his neck.
Camkls anp Arch lTRi'Tuuu. Did you
ever observe on tho Nile how odmplotely
thi'xt! lofty animals fit into tho narrow
avenues of airy palm trees with thoir
tops of synclinal fan-tracery. Who
knows whethor tho first pointed arches,
built thousands of years ago in tho laud
of camels, wore not formod in close imi
tation of thoso much-supporting animals.
Tim large quilt, gaudy with tho pattern
of a tinted cathedral window, on the top
of youdcr camel's load, is a very suitable
drapery, and when seen during tho son
orous concert, though not "heard for
miles," of a loading or an unloading car
avan, easily hires you into tho belief that
you hear tho grand organ in a colossal
"Gothic" abbey. This harmonizing of
tho camel's shape with architectural de
sign in the Orient seoms merely one in
stance in a gejioral law. I am thinking
of the lovoling tendoncy of nature, which
compensates in relative height for alti
tude. Animals, plants, architecture all
see in to conform to the law; pyramids,
elephants, obelisks, giraffes, palm trees,
minarets, grasses, and wading birds.
Ami tho camel, carrying a mountain on a
body tall and narrow, and with the broad
feet of a wadiug bird, and knotty thin
legs like grasses, seoms to combine nioro
forms of this compensation in itself than
I will further detail. This loveling ten
doncy of nature is tho only explanation I
oould give to an irritated friond, who
askod mo, "Why do all the tallest mon of
tho United Kingdom keop walking in
everybody's way in the London Strand?
It is their fate, you soo. being so tall, to
koep in low places. itooolloctions of
the Soudan.
No Company or Mood Company.
This is a mo! to worthy of the attention
of all, both young and old, for human
character is of such an impressible nature
us to becasily effected by those with whom
it comes in contact. The fellowship of the
good is not only advisable, but desirublo
fir tho young whoso aim should always
be to higher standards than thcmoves.
Direct personal intercourse with uui.i and
women of high intelligence and refine
ment, and contact with those whoso ten
dency and inclination is good, nover fails
to bring some happy effects and beneficial
Influence. Better far be alone than Iu
the society of the lowmindud and impure,
as oven gazing upon debased specimens of
humanity, will in time taint, as it famil
iarizes and gradually assimilates (he mind
to such a model.
The habits of those advanced in life are
rarely changed, then bow absolutely nec
essary Is it to form good ones whon young,
as then from sympathy, unknown to them
selves they gradually imitate and imbibe
the tone and style of their associates.
Such being the case, too much care cannot
be taken in the selection of companions,
who will have a beneficiul after influence
on tho character. The most pure and
beautiful admonitions and the bust of rulos
with bad examples avail nothing; hence
the great importance in the choice of
thoso who are to be with and influence
the young by contact and example. More
genuine good and profit will be derived
f.om even a short contact with tho Intel'
ligoutand educated, than from constant
poring over books. Contact imparts
either good or bad according to whom it
is with.
A Dinner with the Queen. Rogarded
from a gastronomio point of view, it ap
pears that there is nothing particularly
dosirablo in dining with the Queen, al
though it is a privilege much coveted by
ambitious men. A distinguished divine,
who occasionally preaches at Windsor,
and dines and sleeps there afterward,
said the other day that the dinner was a
remarkable unsatisfactory affair to a
hungry man. It is not considered eti
quette to continue eating of any particu
lar course after the Queen has partaken
of it to her satisfaction, and as Her
Majesty eats very little the courses are
hurried over. After dinner there is
iiardl v time to take one glass of wine be
fore coffee is brought. The Queen does
not put her cup on the table, bnt sips a
little as the servant holds it on the sal
ver. Then Her Majesty rises, aud of
course the gneata all rise and stand back
from the table. The Queen then makes
the round of the room, stopping to talk
for a few minute to any one of the
guests whom she may delight to honor,
and then goo out, leaving the guest to
amuse themselves as they like for the
evening. uour
A householder in Troy, in filling up hi
census schedule, under the column "where
born." described one of hi children,
"born in the parlor," and the other, "up
stairs."