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EUGENE CITY GUARD KOHODI'h ni'SBA5D. A knock at the squire's door. An eager "come in" from the squire, to whom any outside diversion in an in estimable boon, ho having reached that uncomfortable stage of masculine conva lescence when life becomes a bnrdon, not only to the so-called "pationt" him self, but also to those unlucky fominine relittivoA, whose duty it in to officiate a "ministering angola." Mary, the servant, came in. "Please, Mr. Hosloy, thore'a a woman down stair who Hays sho must . ace you. She's been hare beforo ainco yon waa aick, and now aho won't take no for an anawer." "Show her ui. Mary "said the aauire. cheerfully, straightening himself, and assuming as much of legal dignity aa dresaing gown aud slippers permitted. Mary disappeared. Presently tho door oponedaguin. "Why, Nubby," suid the squire, "ia it yon? How do yon do?" V- xi- il - il vii I iijuouiin .uuuiuiiiiij, mu Yes, squiro, it a me, said Nabby, I ,i ; ,i, '; dropping down,' with a heavy sigh, into. SVmd JZ chair, "and I don't do very well." , ?!'L7t'". Nabby was a short, squarely built wo man of fifty, with considerable gray in the coarso, block hair, drawn stiffly aud uncompromisingly back undor a bonnet about fifty years out of doto. Hhe had aharp, black eye, and a resolute, go ahoad niannor. Evidently a hard working woman; yet in looking at lmr you could not holp the conviction that Homothing more than hard work had i 'lowed the wrinkles which ran across or forobead and threatened to lift her oye-brows up to hor hair. Nabby had lived with tho squire's mother iifteon years from the time Mrs. lIoHloy took Lor in, a ten-yoar-old orphan, who wan, aa 1110 goou lady sometimes expressed it, "more plague than profit," until aho had grown into tho steady anil ruliublo hand maiden, who finally, with overy ono'a good wishes, married young Josiuh Oould, and sot up in the world for her aolf. Old Mrs. Hosloy hod long sinco gono to her roward, but the family still kept up a friondly interest in Nabby and her fortunos, the squiro in particular bo ing for hor, "guido, philosophor and friend," in all tho omergoiieios of lifo. "Why, what's the matter now, Nabby?" said tho sqniro, good nuturcdly. "Are you sick?" "Yes, I am," said Nubby, emphatical ly, with a snap of hor black eyes. "I'm sick to death of Josiah. I cuu't stand it any longer, and 1 ve como to talk with you about gittin' a divorce, You boo he's boon growing worso aud worse now for a good whilo. I'vo.kept it to myself pretty much, boeause I was attained of it, and then I kept hopin' he'd do bettor. I've tulked and tulkod to him, and said and done everything a woman could, but it aooiiiod as if tho more I tulked tho worse ho grow." Tho squire lookod at Nubby'a ratlior aharp, hard fuoo,und perhaps was hardly eo surprised as Ncbby expooted, thut Josiuh had not been roforuiod by the vigoroua "talking to" ho had undoubt edly rocoivod. "Ho grow more and more shiftless and good for nothing," continued Nubby, "till finally ho didn't do much but set around tho kitchen ilro, half boozy. If Uioro's anything I hate," -burst out Nab by, "it'a a man forovorsottin' around the house undor foot. Aud there 1 was takiu' in washin' and a alavin' early and late, to bo kinder docout and forehanded, and liiui no hetter'n a dead man on my hands, so far as holpln' any woh con cerned. And so I told him, again and again. Ho workud jest enough to keep himself in drink. Ho know he oouldn t git any of my money for thut. But I stood it all till about a fortnight ago. I d been workiu hard all day, holpiu' Miss Harbor clean house, and it seemod as if every bono ia my body aohod, I wos so tired. I came along homo, thinking how good my cup of tea would taste. Tiro first thing I saw when I opened tho kitehen door was old Hank Slater, settin' thoro in hit rockin' chair. Ho and Josiuh woro both drunk as hogs," Buhl Nabby, slandering an innocent auiniul iu nor iiohto lor a simile pleasant to him, and I warrant he'll stay. Give him another chance, Nabby. Jo siah isn't the worst fullow in the world by any means. He baa bis redoeming traite. after all. I believe be will do better if vou try to help him. You know Josiuh is one that bears encour agoment, Nabby." "Well, squire, I'll think it ovtr. Any how I'm obliged to yon. You talk ao sorter comforting to a body. Your mother's own son; just the same good hoart. Would you be able to eat some of my cheese, squire?" "Try mo and see, Nabby," said the squire, smilingly, not iiuiiervious to Nubby's compliments. Nabby made hor exit just as Mrs. Hosley rnshed in, fall of wifely indignation that the squire hail been permitted to see a client. Nubby'a home was over at the "Cor nors," tii roe miles from the village, She Wilkod rapidly along in the fast-thickening darkness, with the strong, steady gait becoming tho self-reliant woman that she was. Yet oven her unimaginative mind was not proof against the depressing influence of the chilly, raw Novembor evoning. The wind whistlod through the pare tree brunches, which creuked and moaned mournfully, and waved wildly branches over- mod to cherish a special spite against Nubby. It blew hor bonnet ou" and hor hair into hor eyes, strngglod madly with her for her shawl. took her breath away, and firmly resitted her every step. Finally it begun to send spiteful dashes of cold rain-drops in her face a rain that socmed almost to freeze as it fell. "Josiuh used to como after mo with un umbrella when I was cifught out in tho rain," thought Nubby. "lie was always kind and real good to mo, after all. I dunno's he over gave me a cross word in his lifo, ovon when he'd lieen drinkin'." Hero the driving, sleety rain and pierc ing wind pounced down upon Nubby with renewed firmnoss, hustling her madly in tlondish gloe. "An awful night to be homeless, Nab by," something sccinod to say . "I don't euro." suid Nabby to herself. beginning to feel cross again and gen erally ill used, as she giew wetter and colder. "It sorvos him right. He's made his bod, and ho can lio in it." The wind wailed and wailed, and Nabby thought and thought. The fact of bavins- "freed hor mind" to the sonira relieved hor long pent up indig nation, and now she felt more sorry than angry. Up before her seemed to rise a picture of her life; the youthful dreams and hoes, the change and disappoint- menta, and love turnea mio wrangling. Hhe even thought of Josiuh with pity. For the first time she put hersolf in his place, and realized how almost impossi ble it was for one of his weak naturo to resist unaided, tho temptation which would cost a stronger will no effort. "I'm afraid I've been a little too aljorp with Josiuh. thought she. "I ve sor ter took it for granted I waa a saint, and he a sinner, and Molded him right down hill. A nicesuintlaml Aa proud and high strung as Lucifer himself. Oh, dear!" sighed Nabby,"a pretty mesa I've made of living. If wo only could go buck and begin over again, seems to me things would ko better Just then there was a fuint noise Jiko tho clicking of the door latch. Nabby started and lookod around. And all was still again no one waa visible Yet Nabby could not rid hereslf of tho unprosMon thut somo ono wua neur her, tlio odd sense we liuve of another's indi viduality near us, though not present. 'There's some 4ne liangin' around hero, I know," she suid to herself The "School for Scandal." DlbernUo Courtship. Homesickness. The commencement of Sheridan. managerial campaign was most disas trous. It oiened with his alteration of Vanburgh a Itelapso, which he re-cbria- tened A Trip to Scarborough it was the first attempt at Bowlderizing the old A.myliai .nl Kim 11.1 an WHS one of the I rr rathar In a linvnl in An eVCrvdaV 00' first to discover that thoir wit evaiiorawa currence there. It ib snppo&ou mat uie with thoir crossness. It waa emphati- Irish are very susceptiblo to the tender cally dumnod the first night. The pro- passion, but we doubt this being the duction of a mangled version of the I case, especially among the peasantry of Temnest fared scarcely' better. The the present day. who are too wise to let prospects of tho new management were their heart get the better 01 tueir neou cloomv indeed. Cut in the meantime V0 man of sense will allow himself to Hliorklun was hard at work upon a new fall in love with a girl however charming commedy that was destinod to retrieve I gue may be, unloss he has ascertained the loriuncs 01 me uiouicr ana to couhu- that sue bus some worldly advantage to Oalway is one of the few towns of Ire- Perhaps there is no sensation so dij land that still clings to its primitive aim- Heartening or so demoralizing to tin plicity in dress and customs. The "love mental and physical system aa home matches of Connaught" are spoken of by sickness. It is not necessary that on, the more civilized provinces with su- should be in a foreign land in order t preme contempt. "Love in a cottage," experience the sensation. In fact om tute an era in tho annals of dramatio literature. On the Cth of May, 1777, a as first performod tho School for Scandal. Tho cost was exceptionally strong. al pole says: "There were more parts ad mirably performed in the bchool lor Scundul than I almost ever buw in any play. King, Smith, Palinor, Dodd, Par sons, Baddoley, Mrs. Abington, Miss Pone wero seen in characters that fitted each like a glove. The success of the production was nover for an instant doubtful. It roso with each act nntil it culmiuuted iu the inimitable screen scene. "On the first night of the School for Scandal, writes George Iredorick recommend her besides her face. Con sequently the same bartering goes on about marriage as about other matters. In a certain village we knor of, it used to be the ouhtom to era ploy a confidential friend, con sidered suitahlo for the purpose, to look out for a wifo for any one desiring to settle in life. The usual stipulation was that she should have "threo F's," namely, family, face and fortune. Thcso requirements were not easily obtained, as may be imagined. A man would re main a bacholor all his days sooner than marry a penniless girl. Indeed, to do thoso wiseheads justice, we muHt own may feel at home in the Arabian doscr or among the ruins of Baal hoc. It U ti,. uncongeniality of the surroundingi which predispose ns to the maladj rather than removal from familiar sconei and faces. The disease has no reaped for persons; it more often soizos th, idle than , the busy. .The king on tu throne suffers, perhaps, from ita qualm, whon he remembers the halcvon dnv. before the sores of State beleaguered him; the poor house tenant may feel t sickening yearning for the home she had never known, which has nevor existed for hor; the little child droop away from his mother; 'tho with ered crone has moments of unutterable pain when she recalls the hearthstone whore the embers have been ashos for half a century; tho old are homosick for their youth, the days of thoir youth, the days of their strength and their prime when the "world was all before then! whore to choose," when success was not so assured, or failure not so certain the days when children hung about their knees, tho daily anxieties environed Nubby was one who always met things Koynolds, in his "Memoirs," "returning that there are very few cases on record thorn; homosick, perhaps, for tho very y g fumblud under tho mat for the door key, fumbled with stiffened fingers for the key hole, and finally succeeding in un locking the door, and felt her way in through the littlo entry. Thoro is always something "uncanny" about going ulono at night into a dark und shut-up house. F.ven peoplo of the best reguluted minds experience a vague suspicion of something behind them, a seuMO of possiblo ghostly hands to clutch them in the durknoss. Nabby wus a woinau liko Mrs. Edmund Sparkler, with "no nouseuso about her;" but, novortho less, a cheerful tulo sho hud road only yesterday in tho Chronicle, about a bur glar und a lono woman, kept coming up in her head, and sho carefully avoided tho blucknoss of tho corners and tho pan try door, as sho groped around tho kitehen for a cundlo. Of courso tho flro had gono out. "Two hoads are better than one if ono is a sheep's head," Nabby miglit have been heard muttering out in tho wood hoiiBO as she stooped puinfully down, picking up chips, by which oracular nt torunce I suspect she was thinking what a good supply of kindlings Josiuh ulwuvs kopt on hand for her, and how much moro comfortable it was in tho times coming homo to a house bright with light and warmth, and Josiuh 's welcome. For Josiuh chorishod tho most pro found admiration for Nubby an admi ration not unmixed with awo. Ho thought her a most wonderful woman. She was just as beautiful to him now as half way. Accordingly hIio Wulked to the outeidu door, and opening it quickly, J eered into tho durknoss. There stood osiah wet, sheepiNli, sorry. Onco he hud started to go in, but his courage fulled, and ho lingered iu dubious hesitU' tion on tho doorstep, "Why don't you como in. Josiuh?" askodubby. "I didn't know thut you'd want mo, Nubby," replied Josiah, with all the meekness becoming a returning prodigal "Want you' Of eourso I do," suid Nubby, heurtily. "Como right along iu. I'm goiu' to have griddlo cakes for supjier, and you must to ml them whilo I set tho table n.' 1 it i uruuno cukcs wore ono oi iiosiuu s weaknesses, and Nabby know it Josiuh cumo iu. If ho over gets into heaven, probubly his sensations will not bo ono whit more delightful than they wero now, as from tho bleakness and of us wretched wanderings, ho tho cosy brightness of tho kitehen At tho "Corners, light streaming l 1 !..!.. .. cneemiiiy out into mo night irom other B.Mm t)t tha niilt. .,, fnrl lomes modo Nabby s httlo boase pur- flig wret(.l.cd wanderings, ho came into well," who was then called "Lady Tine iiuuiuriy Kioomy una uninviuucr. isuouv n. .. i. .... .. i.:...i... ... , well." win n " kriiw Knrfnon" i.ir - w . . w i niu v. wn t in il: ii i nrnn iii iiim riu iiimi . hiiii i 1 v nwu uuti l- .T i ... from Lincoln s Inn Fields about U o'clock, and passing through the pit pass' age from incgoryard tolirydges streot, 1 beard such a tremendous noise over my bead that, fearing that the theator was proceeding to full about it, I run for my life; but found, tho next morning, thut tho noiso did not arise from tho falling of tho bouse, but from the fulling of the Hereon in the fourth act, so violent and tumultuous were tho applause and laugh ter. Many years afterward Shoridan told Uyron that on that night he was knocked down aud put into the watch houso for making a row in the street. and being found intoxicateJ by the watchmen. The first sketch of this com ouy, oi wnicn juoore gives a long account in his biography of Sheridan, was quite different to tho finished play; there was neither a "Sir I'eter " or "Lady Teazlo."uor "Mrs. Candour, nor any othor member of the scandulons coterio, save "Lady Sneer- of men who have so fur forgotten what was due to themselves as to full in love with a penniless girl of obscure family. No, the bride-elect must have cither cut tle, or farm, or something to recommend her, or, be she a very Venus for beauty, she may remain all hor life unsought for, and "waste all her sweetness on tho desert air." Tho pioneer rent out un this delicate matter of investigation must be a man of experience, prudence and judg ment, who will go about his work cau- worries which ther have outgrown rn j o wi the little trials which belonged to the hours of their activity, for tho hopes that time has dispellod, for tho caresses of dear dead bunds, "the sound of a voice that is still." To-day seems alien and sunless to the homesick heart which lives in the yesterday. Lut if age is sometimes smitten, neithor is youth ex empt. The young sicken for what the future may bring for tho fame that is so long in coming; for tho recognition, tiously. But even the most experienced the happiness, the romance it promises. felt that he was homo onco mora. How good tho tea smelted ! Tho flro roarod aud snuppod, tho tea-kettle boiled and bubbled und bobbed its lid up and down. and from tho gi-iildle the savory odor of tho cukes ascended like a homely mceiiso. Josiah's fuco shining with mingled heat ami happiness, as he turned tho griddlo- cakes, was something worth seeing. Nabby stepped briskly uround getting supper ready, it seemed so plousunt to set tho tublo for two again, to huvo somo one to appreciate her cooking. The November wind might howl ite worst now. Its hold on Nabby was gono. In pluco of all tho bitter sadness that hung neaviiy around nor heart, was u warm foehng of happiuoss, of comfort and of hopo. All tho explanation they had was this Josiuh drew from under his shabby coat an exceedingly awkward and knobby UllUlllU, , "I've brought somothin' for you, Nab by," said ho. The "Bomethin' " undone, proved to be a vory handsome britannia teapot. The teapot might have known that it was a peace offering, with such preternatural brightness did it Bhiue and glisten. Something in Nubby's eyes shono and glistened, too, although sho winked hard and ccornod tho weakness of a pocket handkorchiuf." "Thank you, Josiuh," sho said, "it's a regular beauty, and I shall Bet lots by it." Which, bo long as they understood each other, was, perhaps, as well as if Josiah had mudo a long-worded speech oi repeuuinco aud reformation. nn,l I a dozen different names beforo ho settlod down to his immortal cognomen. Nor does it contain any suggestion of tho Bereen scene In a second sketch the Teazle" und "Sir Oliver," hero called hir Kohiud Harpur. aro brought in Tho condensed polished wit thut flow spurkles in every lino wus tho effect of in this line of commerce are liuble to err, as the following anecdote will show: A father wishing to got his daughter, who was portioned, married to a wealthy man, sent out the village oracle to investigate. After somo little time the pioneer returned with a bril liant account of his success: he had heard of just the man that would do. Accord ingly on a given day the father went to the desirable personage to inspect mat ters. True enough, there were plenty of cows grazing in the moadows, carts full of hay ready for sale, a sty full of pics. flocks of geeso, eto. No sooner was the marriage accomplished' than all the bridegroom's possessions melted into air. and it was discovered thut he wus as poor as a "church mouse." Ho had gained a rich wifo, and had nothing to give in return; the cattle, geese, hay. . ., ill .'hi l jii reiuru; me cume, geesi mum iuiwi. J.UUIB IB MUl U IiaL'U. BttVB u n l.n.l nil Vn !. .l I ;!. r till 11 it ' V - viv,, uim mi ucdu uuilUDDU IfW UU1UI1- Mooro, hat does not bear testimony to bors, and set out for inspection on tho euro wnu which he se- .law timt. i.A in,.r,; . i. J W W mny ti iracKoa mo muii an over my clean lloor. Tho cooking stovo waa all crammed full of wood, and roaring like all possessed. I wonder they hadn't burned tho house up beforo I got thoro. And they d got my best teapot out to heat some water, and tho water d all boiled away and the bottom como out. But tho worst was too boo my husband consortiu' with suuh scum of the earth as thut mis erable, low-livod Hunk Sluter. I tell you, siiuiro, 1 wua mad. I just tluni? that kitohon door open, and bos I : vw tuia Ul'linu, tll'BlUU WOI1U1, in tho old courting days, beforo tho brightness aud quickness of tho black eyes had degenerated into sharpness: be- foro tho smiling mouth hud acquired its Nabby another of forgiveness. I wh hard, firmly set expression, beforo thoro oould Bay that Nabby never scolded wore any wrinkles m tne smooth foro- J 0H"di again. But I can't. However, head. 1'ooplo hud thought thut Nabbv "sho drew it mild." and there as a mm. .. . " ------rf 1 , cj ernl understanding between them that was only a sort of exereiso mudo nocessory by Imbit a burking by no involving means biting. And Josiuh wus so accustomed to. it, that ho would uavo missed it, and not felt natural with out being wouud up and sot goiug for One day luto in tho winter, Nubby was wanning ur jurs. iiosiey had dono well iu marrying Josiah Oould a pleasant, good-natured young iciiow inut everyone iikod; a young tieehauio, not very rich, it is true; but with a good trudo aud with such a wifo as Nabby, there seemed nothing to pre vent his figuring as "ono of our first citizeus." Anybody can bo somebody iu this country, if he is only determined. But that was exactly tho difficulty with Jo siuh. Ho never was determined about anytldng. Ho fell into the habit of drinking ttecauso ho lacked sufficient strength of will, to avoid it. Then Nub by's sharp words, and his own miserable and don't never let mo see your faco in- 80 mfmwM n f W-intomiit, of side on't agaiu. " . lwuroonont and despair, drove ) again. "Soi ho, meek as Moses, 'Whoro shall I gq to, Nubby ?' Bea I, "I don't care whoro you go to, so long as you don't como near me. I've always boon a respectable woman, and don't want nono of Hank Slater'a friends around my houso." "Well, queered the squire, as Nubby's narrative came to a pause. "Well," aaid Nabby, in a rather sub dued tone, "he wetit off. And he hasn't come buck. And I want a divorco." "Now, Nabby," remonstrated the old squire, "you can't want a divorce I know you better than that. You aro not tho woman to give Josiuh up, and let him go to the bad without a struggle. Yon feel vexed w ith him now, and I don't blame you. It is had, very hard. But you know you took him 'for better, for worse.' Do you think, yourself, it is quite right to break your jrt of the contract because it proves the worst for you because you are the strongest ouo and he the woak one of the two? That doesn't strike me as the good Bible doo triuo, Nabby. We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, ami noi w please ourselves, you know." "Well, I dunno,Msaid Nabby, twist ing Uie corner of her shawl doubiously. "I had'nt thought of it in that light, I must say. It's so aggravating to have auch a man for a husband. Besides, I dunno aa he'd come back if I wauted him to." "Hasn't ha Leon back at all?" "Why, yet, he came lack once for a pair of pantaloons. But I didn't take no notice of him." "Now, Nabby, you may depend npon it, it wasn't tha pantaloons ha was after. n wantedto ao if you would not re lent. II he comes again, U a litti him iuto tho slough of despond without enori or nope. Nabby was ambitiousnd proud spir ited, willing to work hard, to save, to do her part anxious to get on in the world and stuud well among the neighbors. The fact, gradually realized, that in her husband she hud no help, no- support, only a drag and a burden, and finally a disgrace, had boon a disappointment em bittering her whole nature. To have a husband that no ono resected, that even tho boys around town called "Si Oould," was dreadful to Nabby. Per haps it was hardly airango that sho grew naru ana iutr. Meantime Nabby hail succeeded in starting the fire, and having changed her dross, sitt down to dry her feet until tho tea-kettle boiled. But even the ruddy light and warmth with which the kitchen glowed oould not muul off tho dreariness or the night, 1 he rain "tuppod with a ghostly finger-tip upon the window pane,' and the wind howled and wailed around the house like the spirits of the lost, pleading once more to lie taken buck into human light and warmth. Such a ind stirs even iu the happiest heart a "So you have taken Josiuh back again, after all," said Mrs. llosley. "Well, yes, I have," said Nabby, giv ing a lust twist on tho sheet she was wringing out, "Josiah mayn't bo very much to brag of, but then, you seo, bos my own, aud all I'vo pot. Wo're getting to bo old folks, Josiuh and me, and wo my as well put up with each other the littlo while we've got to Btuy horo." "How has ho been doing sinco he cauio PUCK? "First rate. Ho's walked as straight as a string ever since. Ho'a a good uro- vider, and now he's quit drinkin', and a master mum lor nxin up things around tho houso and makin' it comfortable. I tell yon what 'tis, Mrs. Hosley, we've got to niako 'lowances for folks iu this world. We can't have 'cm always jest to our mind. We've got to take Vm jest as they aro, aud make the best on't." "I'm glud to see yon so much happier and better contented, Nabby." "Well, I used to fret and complain a good deal because things hadn't turned out as I expoctcd 'em to; but lately I've thought a good deal about it all, and l'vo made up my mind that there's considera ble comfort fur every oue in this world, after all. We mayn't git jest what wo want, but we git somethiu'. ' In this piece of philosophy I bclievo Nabby was about right. Was No Ji rxia. Tkora ia a Judire in Galveston whose head is as bald aa that .r ... ... .. -picsi near, a of aa Amprioiul A ,itu h of loss, or change, all of inff nMt . h ' . .. . ' ,.'", vague sens that which goes to make up the uusutis- factories of life. Dead sorrows creep forth from their grave ou such nighu and stalk up and dowu the echoing clumbers of the heart. Nabby could not help wondering where Josiah waa to-night. It was so lonely sitting there with no one to Mak to, listening to the moaning wind, tha creaking of -the blinds, tho ticking of the clock. "And Thanksgivin's a-coming." mused Nabby. "A pretty Tbanksgmn' I shall hava." ing next door, has got it into his head that lack of hair is inseparably connect ed wim uie line oi Judge, consequently when a lawyer whose head ia densclv covered with hair, called, and waa dressed as "Judge," little Tommy shook his head and said: "You ain't no Judge. Can't fool me." "Why am I no Judge?" "Cos yer hair ain't parted wide enough," was the guilelea reply. , education for debating aocioty : "Was the hair by which the sword of Damo olea was suspended red or black ? And if ao, why not 1" bargain was pleted. It must bo owned that one's sympathies go with the improvident uonnaugut boy," wbo marries the girl he loves without thinking of her por tion, even though love in a hovol iu the midst oi bog, and a swarm of healthy barefooted children, be tho result. Leisure Hour. A Ghost In Connecticut. A gentleman of this city, whose vo racity is unquestioned, and who is thor oughly skeptical on tho subject of visi tants from the spirit world, relates this strange experience, which haunoned to him on the evoning of Friday last. His home is on Ocean avenue near tho Great Neck road, and ho had been spending the evening at a friend's residence in town. Shortly after 10 o'clock ho bade his host goodnight, and mounted his horse, which stood tied in front of the house, for his homeward journey. As he neared the first onon lot bevond. Mr Daniel Lee's place, the horse began to net strangely, and evinced an unwilling ness to proceod. Tho nicht was clear i i . , v . ----- uuu turn, uuu oojecis could be soon at a distance, standing out in relief against the bright moonlight. Looking around tho fastidious lectod and arranged and moulded his languge, so as to form it into a trunspar t chunnel of his thoughts, which it is at prosent." Every part with ouo ex ception, wus rewritten and repolishod sometimes six or seven times, and then with conuiderablo interlineations. Tho exception referred to was tho lust act which was not written until tho play wus announced for representation. On the lust leaf of the originul manuscript was scribbled. "Finished at last, tlmnk uodi to which the prompter addod, "Amen. W. Hopkins." All nr familiar with the School for Scandal that it would bo almost importinent in so brief a sketch as tho present to descant upon its merits. Tho screen scene is probably tho finest situution in tho whole rango of comedy, ancient or mmlorn. But Sheriduu, liko Moliero, took his property wherever ho found it, and ho found miioh of his School for Scandal in "Lo Misanthropo," and more in Wych erly's "1'lain Dealer,'1 whilo it has boen suggested, vorv nluusib v: tlmfc TYmi Jones and lthtil suggested "Charles" and "Joseph." Tho dialoguo was cer tainly molded upon that of Wv elierlv and Congrcvo; but, brilliant as it is, it does not equal that of tho author of Love ior iiovc loinplo Bar. About Lovc-Thry Tell I's That it is terrible to bo obliged to love by contruct. Thut you can trust your dog to tho end; nxiety, and resolved to pay no atten niraiuu mini uer nrsi opportunity. That of all hoavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman thut we huvo ceased to lovo. That it is aliout as hard to hide your lovo as it is to hide a sneeze; noither can bo suppressed. Thut before promising a woman to love ouiy uer, ono should buve Been them all or see only her. That love pleases moro than marriage, for the reason that romance is more pleasant than history. Thut tho woman who protends to langli w .uvo is uko tno child who sings at nigut when lie is afraid. fei. ii. - i. . i . i ni. mo iiigucsi mars oi esteem a wo man cau give a man is to ask his friend-' snip, ami the most signal proof of hor lniinierence is to offer him hers. That lovo makinir is ilrea.lfnlU in,. oesuie a Hot a;r register or a steam radia tor. ihat may be the reason why so iMiiiii icuihiiih Hinirio nowuiinva in ".o olden time," when lovers toasted their shins before a log Ore, the cracking of i iu ioa mien up uli uwkwur.l gups, and things went on so smoothly that one hud nam win your and the other "yes," bo foro they knew what they were doiug. Tho longing, baffled feeling which haunts us wiicn some good that has boon prom ised or paid iu squandorod or with held is a form of the disease familiar to most of us, which comes to us upon some train of music which "the incense of tho meanest flower that blows" may revive. Who has not been touched by it in revis iting scones that were once a part of our everyday lookout the old homestead that has passed to strangers, tho orchard where we learned the sweetness of stolon fruit, the church where we ropeated our littlo prayers, the school houso where we made acquaintance with fractious and the ferrulo, or the garden gate whore we parted with our first lover? It may be that the masculine mind is less suscepti ble than the feminine to this sentiment of homesickness. Man is often master of the situation. If his conditions displease him, he has the power to re-arrahge them to give the kaleidoscope of life an other turn; if the "madding- crowd" offends him, ho can pack his valise and go on a ranch, where "the sound of tho church-going bell the valleys and rocks nover heard;" and if the oountry life grows distasteful, ho may seek his for tune abroad, and medicine homesickness with the infinite variety of the univorse. Ben D'ymlou. Semolina was the Empress of London, of fashion and of the Tory party. She was always at home to her intimates, so she did not get much exercise; at this moment she was reclining on a brilliant sofa, a majestio footstool at hor foet, supported by romantic oushions. In a low chair just in front of her, with bib and pinafore on, and catching up every word that fell from her lips, sat a great personage. A couple of bishops and a cabinet minister were playing at cat's-cradle in an alcove; while, more re mote, some dumes of high degree were surrounded by cavaliers of ancient lineage, whoso every word was a bon mot and every movement a whole volume of society etiquette. Servants glided about in muffled skates -over the shining parquet, distributing shorry-cobblers A .M:w ICEVt-LHIVB. Dr. Cotltiiru.r. ... uruuiK io a iimion journuf, recom mends the usu of a new revulsive, ob teinod from au extract of red iiimtmr. ttiien ruiiiN'd up with any of the ordi nary vebichles, ami spread on thin MM'r, it is readily employed in the same manner an blistered piumt. Tim .,-t;,n of this revulsive is rapid -tho kio soon Inm'ouics reddish, warm and tho f.it of pricking snnsation: theno svinntiitni continuing fr aboot ll.nwi hours, but never amounting to anvthinir in lU ture of pain, nor does 'tho action wf the revubiivn extent to thn kin. It may. in fact, 1 comparfd to a sinapism, continuing to act equably for twenty four l ours, after liinr V..- duce a moioty of the usual effect. From the account given it fnrthnr appears that that this red pepper rvuUi u indi cated in all oanea b-r tho utfdical at tendant desirva to produce rnvnUiva rapidly, and kiyp it up for a conulra ble time in acute or rhrooio inflamma tion, for example, of th U,rot or i,r.,n chial tut, m eongeUioD of various organs, eto to discover, if possible, the cause of tho Bnd 8l?-ktaihi to the visitors, while at animal's uneasiness, the gentloman saw lniers mysterious and no- standing in an angle of tho wall, a few le-l00j"ng strangers appeared at the rods ahead of him. what was. annarnnt.lv d0.or .flew . to Semolina's outstretched tho figure of a man. He uruod tho borin PaIm- sprinted an impnssioned kiss on forward, ashamed of his own growing Wr.J0weied hnger, and then suddenly anxiety, and resolved to pay no atten- Vtt,n'8'f J nto airl tiontotho singular notions of tho man , ,, ; want yu to see." said Sem- unless he should make somo hos- 1 onI-y yu're 80 incurably obtuse, tile demonstration. As he passed 18 reaction is the law. of life, that the corner whore tho figure stood ?,ouan ,soi n wMut the Temple and it mnvml ramMl 1 n ' the liar, that the intrnil TIPfiltn tt rrna mill and took up a position beside the moving . ,,tu0 Crown. that Public Opin- horse. No word was spoken, nor was any ri?,18, , Lumbng.that changes are suspicious movement made on the part of JiKev to uaPl'e unless things go on as the unkuown. Tho ridor said nothing "f y are..ttnd that on the Eve of change aud for a moment or two keot hi l.o. Adamautine F ortitude is imperatively de- at a walking gate, as though oblivious of t i, 1 l0Peyu clearly follow me?" the other's presence The singular si- , , , 0 Great Personage had fallen lence of his strange companion at last Ie01) nd was snoring. Semolina Proved too much for his patience, and .18gU8ted- , Ink Yiv.t.wl 1..- 1 . . . I llA D ITA et T l.Al: t .... ,.ou ui uiuwtuiHin uas comer sho exclaimed, and kicking the low chair ne urged Jus hor so. into u !,.,; ,. The figure still kept close beside him. Thoroughly alarmed, he finally put spurs to his horse and galloped him for nearly a mile at the top of his speed. At oue time ho thought ho had distanced his mysterious shadow, but turning to look in the other direction found him still at his side, though ho had changed his position from the left to the right hand curve. " Just as tho light from my kitehou window began to glimmer around the curve of tho road," aaid the gentle- main " Min i . . ...i njiwa, or whatever it uoi rapidly alieoil nf v rom under tho Great Personage. xwuuvvu UlAL Ul rilH Ulintttnnn .1 Punch Prtftlbeui,ui ner.-London til V horse and disaniuiam.1 ,1,,-.. beach, was. galloping the road leaving me to A "Numerous" Salut. The body of the Apostlo St. Bartholo mew, says Littledale's "Plain Beasons," is declared in the Boman Breviary and Martyrology to have boen translated from Beneyento to Koine by the Emperor Otto III (983-1002, and isalleged to bo v-uiuo. lt lg attested by an.ler TTT 0,i c;.i if ------ -un uuma j , bulls ot Alex- But the church TY ., l oi . VT. J rom iieo -y "ipnen ix., Uenedict XII., Clement VI., Boniface IX. and Urban ,' curue? 01 wn,cl1 Popes reigned fifty years after the death of Otto III Here. then. nr turn i .i- ' then. Monte nt toward Elliot's hi stumble into the house' more dtad than ,f nto MegeTth The onZy ahve Ho utterly bewildered was I with of Bartholomew is there sUH and the stranKo apparition, that it was over Fences bulls to that effect from u uour oeioro 1 remembered that I had i "ft P0? ouUiJo wituout opting tho sUble door that he might find his way into the stall himself A tern and went out immediatelv tn ni poir beast nn. and fm.n.i i,;. .i..C"': but ' a 11 -- ... aa.m OUIIUIIlJir I " in iront of the bum l.n un...i.. iMtMnn cold or fright, of course I couldn't tell " lf t!lo dv '"Kuemaa who relates this story is besides, three hea,ls-one at T,!,,re :'.iL d were one formerly at KeiSenTu end oulTLXv""'' V..!: 8kM 2 . A1?"! t-o crowns of tho I . . . " muir iucreiunty. I i raiiKlort and Finer... r f I No London, Conn. Telecram. 7 the skull at XlJX.'l . Part .of . . : z. ri.i i . t jw at sstem- "oast Duck. Duck. l.- must U cooked rare; for 'this reason it U Tnff .h0t 40 ,l?' LoM. Jon do i-nl .- . "'J IO are two Cassino of a ana so entire bodiesi claims the large part noes Kheims. ,, i'uil ui m law at eM.n a ; Colno-n- ...1 'i- " :"tt. -ojawBin D f muu j liu. ..1.7 Pl '"to the ifore ik. - - - -, uiiiit ni i n n r. ii.M. -. i enrrant Ull 'i . wun for iTrki.' UC atd "mo M a lower iav a m.,k .u. anarm.nl l.i .i A m .-.ia uersiac, a second armalfmSflet,at Bethane. tnirJ arm at Amain, a large part of a fourth rm at loppens.a fiftfand rt l?l sixth at ;:V'.' 'ogne, a Mvetlth- -t . I"TPer aud flour, and roast ,f liZlnV igu rm st Eb. e jr. forty minute., aud if'i. Ptof uiiiiw ni i n n i. . u ... - - . t-. . . hiiii niu na. -1 . tn - --D I'm. ui Brussels, ind nti Ju j portions of the y77 v 6 trifle, lik. .ir,- .J?1 ?' , 7: ckonmg other piice.. ' " 1 CWr m twont7