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Women' In (iermsnj. Everywhere in continental Europe there ii contempt for and an oppression of women. Everywhere there is laiil on her the menial drudgory that must bo done, but what men will uot assist in joing, nor ior me periormanoe of which will they provide mechanical appliances. American men do. Everywhere sho in robbed of proper compensation for her Wor. But Germany, the land of literoture, scienoo, scholarship, music, art, culture to whose nnivorsities we tend our Bona ior thorough mental quipmont the land that boasts of its advanced civilization this Germany leads in mean treatment of women, anil has a pre eminence in that kind of civili zation which leaves nothing undone to exalt man, but is content to regard and treat woman as a serf. The country was in the perfection of its midsummer beauty ss we journeyed through it. But I conld not enjoy' its beauty, ior iiore, as in Virginia years and years ago, women were forced into employments ununited to thom.degraded to extreme menial labor, and robbed of all that makes life worth living to a woman. Eighteenths of ail tho agricultural la borers were women. They were hoeing the immense sngar-beoi nolds, or, on their hands and kneos, wore weeding where a noe coniu not oe solely nsod. Stoxcrering under heavy loads of manure. which they brought from a distant plane of deposit, they tiislributod it as it was needed. Ihey were mowing, raking, pitching the hoy on carta, or loading it as it was pitched. They were reaping end stacking the grain in tho fiolds, or bearing it home on thoir heads and ' shoulders, which Lad been so loaded that we scrutinized long and closely be fore we discovered the motive power of -the peripatetic grain stacks marching away, jn nolds where tue first crop hod been removed, wonion were driving the ox or cow to plow for we saw no plow ing witn a yoke ot oxen or tue ox or cow was dispensed with, and one woman drew the plow while another held it. If there was extra hard work to be done, loaded carts to be hauled away, or heavy wheelbarrow loads removed, the work was assigned to women, who bent themselves to the task with patient and persistent energy, while men looked on, smoking their eternal pipes, without so much as lifting a finger in help. Scantily dressed, generally bare-headed in the blazing sun, quite as often bare-footed and bare-legged, thoy were bronzed in complexion, thin of flesh, bent and in elastic in figure, without joy iu their work or hope in their faces. For the work of a day, 12 hours long, when these women board themselves, they are paid an average, of 25 cents. When they oro boarded by their employ era their wages average 10 and 12 cents a day. Men doing the same work, work ing side by side with these women, re ceive twice as much. Hard as is this farm work, women prefer it to house service, when they have the strength for it as the great majority of house ser vants work for board and clothing, and very meagre board and clothing at that. When we went to the German cities we Raw what was more repeilant! Wo men, barefooted, or wearing modern closrs, were at work everywhere in the streets, with brooms cf rods, and stiff brushes, with hoes and Bhovels and Land-carts, directing the floods of the gutters, clearing them of debris, shovel ing it into carts, and repairing whatever damage the heavy rain had wrought. We took an early drive through Mun ich, before the city had awakened. Early as was the hour, the sun only just touch ing the lips of the majestic Baqaria, wo men were astir everywhere. They were collecting the offal and refuse from houses and stores; sweeping yesterday's -dirt from the streets into piles, which other women shoveled into hand-carts, cleaning the tracks of the tram-cars from -obstructions; harnessed into bakers and milk carts, and distributing their sup plies to thoir customers ; scrubbing the floors of shops; moving in all directions to prepare for the busin9Bs of the day, that men might not only find their break fast ready, on rising, but tho streets and shops in tidiness and order. Wandoriug among the architectural wonders of Vienna, where everything old and ugly is displaced by modern and beautiful structures, we halted be side a magnificent building in process of erection, to study its dcNign. Immedi ately, we came upon men and women mixing mortar, and far above ns at a dizzy bight, saw other women climbing ladders bearing on their shoulders and Leads hods of brick, stone and mortar, lor the use oi masons. We spout a day in the picture frallory at Dresden : I stepped out on the street and found myself launched in a stream. of women, all bending under tue loads of the baskets strapped to thejr backs, each of whioh is made to carry CO pounds. Some were yonng.buf many were middle aged, and some were white haired, and tottering under their load , their sad eyes looking into mine wearily and hopelessly. - In some of the towns of Wartemberg there are brigades of women water carriers attached to the fire departments. They buy their own equipment of fire costume and tin water pail, and at statod times are drawn np in line before the district inspector, to go through a drill and sham fire, to test their etliciency. In short, there is no sort of menial work that is not done by German women, and Austrian women as well. I have seen them sawing and splitting wood on the streets, and then carrying it on their backs up several stories into houses. I Lave seen them molding brick; unload ing freight ears at depots; building the road-beds of railroads; getting stone out of quarries; yoked with dogs, cows, and oxen, pulling heavy loads along the b;guojB, liM&iiig aud uieuujug the roads; repairing the embankments of canals; dredging rivers and small streams for the sake of the fertilizing mud; doing any drudgery that men are glad to be rid of. The German universities, to which we send onr sons, each of which numbers its students by thousands and its emi nent professors by hundreds, are not for German women. Hardly is a "higher education for women" thonght of. The German woman is completely subor dinate to the German man, Who treats her as his intellectual inferior, and evi dently so regards her. He is willing she should share the beer garden with him and the theater, bnt not the university nor the field of literature. Mrs. Liver more, in The Woman's Journal. "Hlddlemarch" 1 1 Mexico. 'I WAS in the southwestern nrt nf ; AvxuB iisi ueoenioer on my war to Mex . ico, and just before loaviea Ran Antonio. had read in the press dispatches of vji.-ii(jo taiuv uvbui. a iew uuys later. wuiio uavuunK wim iuy companions luwurii i-agio rasa, on tue mo Uraudo, we were overtaken by night uear a little stream within a few inilo of the Mexi can border, where we camped close by the dwelling of an old frontiersman, the only resident apparently in that neigh borhood. The region generally is an un settled, sparsely inhabited country, only occupied ueie a nil there iy a lew pio neer, who usually dwell mile apart from each other, curium for tuir thicks and herds. The frontiersman's hut was a structure of tho simplest sort. Tour low stockade walls, roughly plastered with mud, covered by a thatched roof, in closed a space which was divided by a siocKaue partition into two apartments, having no other floor than the hard-trodden earth, and into which the light and air were admitted through port-holes wnicu, witiiout winuows, were closed, whou deeired, by pieces of rough boards. In these two apartments, one being used as a sleoping-room and the other as a kitchen, eating and gen eral living-rooms, dwelt the ownor with his wife, a stout, hearty and cheerful old woman, togothcr, with many of her pets, comprising a lot of very young, mother less kids, depending, in their struggle for existence, upon their mistress' care and the nursing bottle; soma little Iambs. one or more little cats and dogs, and a number of young chickens, ducks and other fowl. On our arrival the old man was iiway from home, looking aftor some stn j cattle; but his wife kindly invited ns to make use of her kitchen and its an purtenances for cooking and serving our supper. On entering that apartment I found it cleaner than might have been expected, considering the number and varied character of its occupants. A oooking-stove, a plain, rough tablo, and two or throe rudely improvised wooden stools were tho scanty furniture of tho room. Some shelves, ranged about the walls, cave place to a small snnnlv of crockery and cooking utensils, and hero and there, in convenient corners, were piles of books, mainly of the cheapest paper-covered or wholly nncovored edi tions. I asked our hostess if she were not lonesome. She replied that the care of her kids and lambs loft her but little leisure, and that she novor knew the feeling of lone someness so long as she could get books enough to read. 1 asked her how she contrived to supply herself with books. She said she occasionally sent money for that purpose to San Antonio, 140 miles away by one of the drivers of the moil coach between that place and Eagle I'ass tho route lying near her door; and in the same way received such books as she could afford to buy and liked to read. As it was Sunday afternoon, and a day of leisure, she had been reading; and her book was lving still open on the table as she had laid it down on our arrival. Curious to see what it was I took it up, and much to my surprise found it to bo the second volume of 'Middlemarch' I asked her if that book interested her She said that it did very much; and that she had read other works by the same writer with interest and pleasure. She had not heard of George Eliot s death; and on being told of it, expressed her sorrow in simple and appropriate words, I read the other day of the inscription over George Eliot's grave; it rocurrud to my mind, quickening my apprehension of' the fitness of the words 'Of those im mortal dead who live again in minds mado better by their presence. Cor respondent Fall Mall Gazette. The Ex-Khcdlio's Harem Dear Kaples. The Nouvello Revue publishes an in teresting account of a visit by Mme. Della-Rocca to the Palace of the Favor- iti. near Naples, where the harem of the ox-Khedive of Egypt is at present lodged. "Between Naples and Custellaniare, says the writer, "at a little distance from Uie anciont Herculaneum.now callod Resina, one may perceive a great palace, very simple in architecture and paintod red, together with the numerous outbuildings that surronud it. That is tue I'alace ot the Favorita. The name was given to it by Mary Carolino, Queen of Naples, wife of Ferdinand IV. and sister to Mary An toinette. This voluptuous Queen, with her very dear friend Lady Hamilton, took np her residence in tho Palace of the Favorita and gave there a series of splondid fetes, balls, concerts and come dies, with more friendly entertainments for those who were in the circle of royal favor. The spectacle from the windows of the Palace is incomparable. Capri, Sorrento and Cape Myceme are mirrorod in the blue and limpid sea. Vesuvius may be seen anil sometimes beard; but tue life of the Palace is no longer what it was. instead oi tue aristocratic uames ahd cavaliers and the elogant Conrt that once peopled these gardens, now only a figure in white appears from time to time in the deserted walks. Is it a phantom? No; it is one of the Egyptian Princesses or a slave taking a walk. For two years past the chateau has been the dwelling of Ishmael Pasha, ex-Khedive of Egypt. He lives at Resina, as at Cairo, witn bis wives, bis children and a nu merous suite, observing abroad the ussees of his country and his faith. A European is rarely admitted to visit the Princesses, but having requested this honor, I obtained it for a certain day, and was told to call. I drove through the entrance gate and drew up before a large and elevated iron railing opening on a stairway. Opposite to this was the private entry of the Khedive. Two small domestics wearing the tarbonch were waiting for me on either side of the m iwnt wa ATwnAfl lw lr i n ! ai giant, and was locked behind me as I walked in. The creature.without speak ing a word, made me an Oriental salute, and then gave me s sign to follow him. The habitation of the women is on the second story. There I was received by another personage, big, black and fat. He opened the door, and, lifting a heavy screen like those used in Italian churches, led the way into a gallery or corridor, from which opened a great number of doors, just as in the con vent. These were the rooms of the women. Near one of thqse doors were fourteen slaves ranged in a row, who bowed to the ground as I appeared. This wss the apartment of Mile. Ott, a Swiss lady who' acts as interpreter to the Princess Tchechimi-Afet. Mile Ott conducted me up another corridor with a gloss roof to the apartment of Her Highness. Her Highness received me standing with her adopted child, the Priucoss Taika, daughter oi tbe Knedivo, by her sulo. Behind her stood her reador, a beautiful Circassian with dark eyes and ivory Kin. ieueehmi-Atet is a woman of liu posing aMiui-t, with the bearing of a queen. She offered me her hand and invited me tako a seat beside hor. Mile Ott made a speech to tVauk mo iu the name of tho Princess for having given myself tho trouble of coming to see her. Tchcchiiii-Afot does uot speak the French, but she understands all that is suid to Iter in thut lauguug. Sometimes she takes uourage and when wo ure nloue (I go there very often now) she replies to mo in Freucii. TchecLmi-Afet seems to be a favorite, for she alone re ceives visitors. She is ulways elegantly dressed in Parisian toilets from Worth's. The Princoss wears neither rings nor bracelets, though I am assured that each Priucess has several million dollars worth of pearls and diamonds. The Princess Taika is 20 years old, a delicate and graceful creature, with beautiful blonde hair. She speaks trench well, talks with naivete and with no embarrass ment. At the end ot a Quarter of an hour seven slaves came in and ranged them selves in military fashion. The one in middle carried a large tray, upon which were the little Turkish goblets contain ing gotlee; the other slaves carried the things takon with the coffee. After tho ooU'oo they brought cigarettes which were exquisite, in spite of their mildness. I supposo they oon tuiued a little opium. Tchechmi-Afet sees all the illustrated papers, and what she does not understand in thorn she asks to have explained to hor. One day I talked to her about her existence in the harem, and asked her if she did not find this perpetual seclusion wearisome. "Should you not like to soe Naples and the neighborhood?" I said; "docs not this confinement woigh on your spirits?" "Oh, no," she replied. "I am aoens tomod to a sedentary life, and I could not live otherwise, unless I was in my own country. The very thought of going out without a veil is revolting to mo. Besides, it scorns to me that abroad one feels much more shamofaced than in one's own country." These sentiments are rather inexplicable, for this same Priucess has given me her photograph, allows me to show it to my friends, and even asks me if I think she is prettier than that. I askod her if it did not make her suffer to see tho Khedive offer atten tions to other Princesses. She roplied, with a smile: "You get used to it. I ad mit that somotimes it annoys one. When a new princess comes among us we at first treat her like an intruder, but as soon as she is marriod we consider hor as a bister and try to live on good terms with hor." Everything passes in strict silence at the Favorita. No noise trou bles tho harem. They speak by signs thore; they salute by carrying the hand to tho brow. A Touching Incident. A good sailor went as one of tho orew of a passenger steamer down the river to the sea. Over ttie ocean bung a threat ening fog. They went forward into it. Near tbe chimney was a youth shivering, evidently in great anxiety. After a while he asked of a sailor : "Shall we have a storm? "Do not allow yourself to be anxious, since the Lord knows in what condition mini! nr.il lib a ah a futlier nitinth his children, so tho Lord pitieth them that fear him. With those words he turned away to work. Years passed, and the sailor bo come a captain. On one of his voyages a well dressed man drew near him, with the quostion : 'Shall we have a good voyage, cap tain ?" 'That no captain can tell, but He who holds the water in the hollow of his haud, and measures the heavens ' with a span." "Thanks, captain; it delights mo to hear yon come quickly to tho main point. You remind me of a sailor who spoke encouragingly to me on my first vovago. "What did he say?" ' "I was terrified at the rough waves, and ho told me, 'like as a father pitioth Ihb children, so the Lord pitieth thorn that fear him.' I was then a Jew, so the text was not unknown to me; but I could not call God my father. Yet tho suilor was, I plainly felt, quiet and happy as a child ou his father's knee. First, I won- dored what could give a man such con fidence; then I prayed and sought for it, and am now a Christian and a missionary to my own people. Lot me give you my card." How long is it since you wero on tho high seas?" 'Seventeen years. 'Would you know the sailor if you saw him?" "Oh, certainly; I have thought of him so often!" "He stands before you now. "Impossible, captain! He was a com mon sailor." "Is not yours a more remarkable change? You were a Jew, and ore now a Christian and a missionary. Why, then, in seventeen years time, should not a sailor become a captain?" The Bright S de. Look on the bright side. It is the ght side. The times may be hard, but will make them no easier to wear a Innmv and haiI rnnntcimnco. It is the sunshine, and not the cloud, that gives beauty to the flower. There is always before or around us tnat whicn suouw w anA All tlia heart With warmth and gladness. The sky is blue ten timos where it is black once. You have trou bles, it may be. So have others. None aro free from them and perhaps it is well that they should uot bo. They give sinew and tone to life fortitude and courage to man. That would be a dull sea, and the sailor would never acquire skill, where there is nothing to disturb its surface. It is the duty of every one to extract all the happiness and enjoyment he can from within and without him; and, above all, he should look on the bright side. What though things do look a little dark? The lane will have a turning and the night will end in broad day. In tbe long run the great balanoe rights itself. What appears ill becomes well that which appears wrong, right. Goetne'i Limitation as a Man an J roet. In reading Grimm's Life and Timos of Goethe we have wondorod anew at thot defect of the great man's nature which renders him, to us, an almost incompre hensible, half-human being, we mean the absolute coldness of heart which seems to huvo served to advance his giant intellectual growth, while it kept him morally dwarfed. It is bard to con ceive of a man born without a heart, but on close inspection one is forced to look on Goethu as a being as roallv destitute of the uoruial human affect ion us though ho had actually come into the world un furnished wilu the genuine llsh and blood organ, but with souio subtly-woik-iug mechanism iu its pUco, which na ture put them for once by way of an ex periment. Our minds do not readily lake in such a singular conception of a nisn, and at first we interpret his speech uud actions as meuiiiug what thoy would mean in any ordiuary mortal. But the delusion discovers itself aftor a time. As students of human character we know tho difference between sentiments aud affections proper, and we discern that he, supplied with the former, was yet a very pauper in his lack of those feel ings which enrich the commonest of mankind. He never felt his poverty; was never eonscious of wanting that which most men value as among the most precious things of life. Tho joy springing from tho interchange of affec tion, like all things most worth having, must bo paid for with a prieo the possibility of exquisite suffering; and if Goothe lost the satisfactions of true and enduring love, he also escaped its corresponding pangs. His coldness was the antiseptic that kept him from decay; it does not astonish us to learn that at eighty-three, with his marvelous faculties still alert and his body com paratively unworn, his enjoyment of more living was full aud fresh as it had ever been. Neither his own losses, nor the pains of sympathy for others for his friends or for mankind at large had over bruised or scarrod his soul. It may be said, iudeed, that losses of his own he never had. From the bo ginning the world gavo him all that he most craved. One estrahgod friond he could always replace with another. His so-called friendships wero either comfortable intimacies or profitablo in tellectual companionships; even his re lation with Schiller was rather ouo of this latter sort than a giving of heart for heart. Schiller took the plaoo of Her der, from whom, after an intercourse of long years, Goethe "silently turnod away." The difference of character be tween Schiller and Goethe in this re spect is shown in a sentence of Grimm's. "As oriticsf useful literary companions he could henceforth 'wholly dispense with Korner and Humboldt, but they remained ever dear to Schiller's hoart.1' After a ton years' intimacy with Frau von Steiu, during whioh she had been "made the arbitress of hts fate and of his intolleotual achievements; with un varying fidelity surrounded by no end of flattering proofs of his care; all hor best faculties developed by him; raised to be tho envied participator in in his mental life of all this she sees herself, wholly unprepared, and without apparent fault of her own, suddenly de prived, and cost down from her exalted position into a gloomy void which she could not fill by any effort of her own." Goethe had simply had enough of her, and after a short period of con strained intercourse, most painful and inexplicable to her, Frau von Stein hast ened from Weimar and Goethe, who sent aftor her a farewell letter, in which she "felt that she was dismispod." Tue man's personal fascination must have been great indeed whioh could make a woman forgive such conduct, and re ceive him in later years into her society again. November Atlantic. Micoverj of Bilk and satin. The discovery of silk is attributed to ono of the wives of tho Emperor of China, Uoang-ti, who reigned about two thousand years before the Christian era; and sinoe that time a special spot has been alio tod in tho cordons of the Chi- neso royal palaoo to the cultivation of the mulberry tree and to the keeping of silk worms. Persian monks who came to Constantinople revealed to the Em peror Justinian the secrot of the produc tion of silk, and gavo him sonio silk worms. From Greeco tho art passed into Italy at the end of tho thirteenth con tury, When tho Popes loft Rome to set tlo at Aviimon. Franco, they introduced into that country tho secret which had boon kept by the Italians, and Louis XI. established at Tours, a manufactory of silk fabrics. Frauois I. foundod the Lyons silk works, which to this day have kept the first rank. Honry II. of France wore, at the wedding of his sister, the first pair of silk hose ever mado. The word "satin" whioh in the trigi nal was applied to all silk stuffs in gen eral, has since the laBt centnry been used to designate only tissues which present a lustred surface. The discov ery of this particular brilliant stuff was accidental. Octuvio Mui, a silk weaver, finding business very dull, and not knowing what to invont to give a new im pulse to the trade, was one day pacing to and fro before his loom. Everv tiun he passed the machine, with no definite object in view, he pulled lit tle threads from the warp and put them into his mouth, which soon after he spit out. Later on he found tho little ball of silk on the floor of his workshop, and was attracted by the brilliant appearance of the threads. Ho rcpoated the exper iment, and by using certain mucilagin ous preparations, succeeded in giving satin to the world. Beautiful Idea. In the moant r Tvrnl it is the custom of the ains women and children to come out when it is bedtime, and sing. Ibeir husbands, fathers and brothers answer them from tho hills ou their return home. On the shores of tho Adriatic such a custom pre vails. There the wives of the fishsrmen come down about sunset, and sing a melody. After singing the first ttanza, they listen awhile for an answering mel ody from off the water, and continue to sing and listen till the well-known voice comes over the waters, telling that tho loved one is almost homo. "There is no place like home," but nine men ont of ten will leave it six months in the year for a 82000 Govern ment office in Washington. And the tenth man will accept a 3 1000 position. The Baby's Sermon. Tho children hail been up in their mammas rooms, after breakfast, that Saturday morning, leaning their text, and when they had it perfeotly.and were coming down stair again for a rnu in tho garden, while uurso was buy, Nan nie and Frank fell to disputing. And what do you think about? Why, who should carry the great rubber ball down stairs. Nannie wanted it bocanse she thought of it firsthand Frank wanted it because he was the oldest. "Vou'io u mean, seliMi boy," said Nilltiie. " You'iii a pi,," said Fran K. "I'll just tell papi wh it a horrid boy yoa are," said Nannie. "And I'll tell mamma 1 wish she'd soli you to somebody. I don't wuut such a sister," answered Frank. "I don't lovo you one singlo bit," said Nannio. "And who wants you to?" inquired Frank. So thuso naughty children wout on from bad to worse, saying all sorts ot unkind and unpleasant things to one an- othor so very unkind that they wero ashamed enough whonevor they remem bered them aftorward. At this time Baby Bon was coming dowu stairs behind thorn. Slowly one foot at a time, holding fast to tho banis ters with both fat, small hands, tho little man made his way, and wider and wider oponod his big blue eyes, more and more surprised ho lookod, as he heard tho an gry words. ihe children stoppod to finish thoir quarrol at tho foot of tho stairs. Frank was trying very hard to gut the ball away from Nauuiu, and she had got as far as pulling bis hair, tho naughty girl, whon tho baby stoppod on tho lowest stair, aud preached his sormon to them: "Icklo ohileu. said hs. "lovo one an- odder." That was evory word he said. It was tho text the children had boen learning in thier mother's room such a short time before. Naunie drooped hor hands, hor fuae flushed, aud she turned half away from Baby Bon, and nobody said anvthiug for a moment or two. "Hero, Frank," said Nannie, at last, holdiug out the ball. "You may have it. I'm goiug to be good." "So am I," said Frank. "You shall have the first toss, Nannio, I'm I'm sorry I was cross. " So the two wont off to tho garden hand in hand, ashamed enough of having boon so naughty, whilo the baby ourled him solf up in papa's big chair in tho study, aud tliero nurse found him. Kintr Hal and his Housekeeping. King Henry VIII. sooms to have had some troublo with his household as well as with his wives, if wo may judgo by the regulations for the former which have boon unearthed by tho London Land and Water. "His Highnoss," as the King is culled, begins by strictly for bidding the practice, apparently com mon among his attendants, of stealing furniture aud othor property from houses "whore he goos to visit." Coal being au expensive article, was only to be burned in the royal apurtments.aud straw would also appear to have boen scarce, since grooms are prohibited from stealing that belonging to his Highnoss. Great care was to be takon of those precious arti cles, the "pewter spoons;" the King even had regard for the wooden oues used in the kitchon, which were on no account to bo broken. Breakage by servauts, in dood seems to have greatly troublod the monarch, and he therefore placed his ban on "romping with the maids on the stairs, by which dishes and othor things wero often brokon." Nothing is said, howovor, about cats, and we muy there fore assume thut in the days of bluff King Hal Mary Jane had not invouted hor favorite feline oxouse. Adulteration appears to be as oommon then as now. for while the brewers supplying the royal housohold were warned "uot to put any brimstone in their beor," the bakors were threatened with the stocks if thoy durod to use eithor alum or flour made from rye, oats or bran. In some other respects tho Palace arrangements soumed to have dissatisfied his Highness, the royal barber haviug it intimated to him that he must be more "cloaulr, for fear of danger to the royal porson, ' whilo the master cooks were not to employ "such scullions as to go about naked, or lio all night lcforo th'- kitchon fire." ! h of the SoiUler Jloy. A poor woundod boy wai dying in tho hospital. He was a soldier, but a more boy for all that. The lady who watched by his bedside saw that doath was com ing fast, and placing her hand upon his head she said to him: "If this is death that is coming upon ou are you ready to moot your God?" The large dark eyes opened slowly, and a smile passed over the young sol dier's face as ho answered: "I am roady, dear lady, for this has long been his kingdom, and he spoke ho plaood his hand npon his heart. "Do you mean." questioned the lady gontlv, "God rules and reigns in your heart?" "Yes," he answered; but his voice sounded far off, sweet and low, as if it came from a soul already well on its way through tho dark valley and shadow of death. And still he lay there with his hand abovo his heart, even after that heart bad ceased to ,beat, anil the sol dier boy's soul had g'ono up to its God. 1 Poetic Kecostlilatlon. Some time ago a man came into a Baltimoro lawyer's office in a stute of . ...It.-...! mVm.i I..M maw. git, UAWbVUlOUb. HU. NaRlrtl U.u. WWIM mence proceedings for a divorce. Mr. Dobbin heard him through, and then said : "I think I have something that will exactly suit your case. Sit still, and I will read it to you." The man remained seated, all ear.snp posing he was to listen to Blackstone or Kent, when Mr. Dobbin began to read IULst and I are Ont." Br the time be had ended the man's eyes were full of tears. "I believe I will go home,"" he said. And be and his wife have lived happily ever since. Editor's Drawer in Harper's Magazine for October. Dsre to be true; nothing can need a lie. "George Herbert. -5 ail sours. All barbers can't razor beard. The proof-reader does the oorrect thing. Tho man who knows the most is not an owing man. A man finds himself in bad company whon he is busido himself. SUwberry short-cake is so called be can so it is short of strawborrios. A bunghole is a very necessary thing in a barrel, bnt, after all, it is nothing. It is beiug whispered around that Adam wa an "Ohio man," and thereby the whole race is tainted. When does a budding young damsel burst into fruit? When she becomes the apple of some ono's eye. "Is this tho Adams House?" asked a stranger of a Bostonittn. "Yes, till you get to the roof; then its eavos." Why isn't the missionary devoured by cannibals as well off as the man crematod? It's a case of in sinuor-ration. Ice oresm is said to contain trichime. Every young man should send a copy of this issue to his girl. Generally speaking, outside of tho legal fraternity thore is not a great deal of clothing in a law suit. Said Fitznoodlo, "My wife is fairly crazy over the spriug fashions. She a got tbe delirium trimmins. Time is money and nionoy is timo, for when you givo twenty-five cents to a oouplo of tramps it is a quarter to two. The goneral verdict of the hotel men along tho St. Lawrenco river is that the tensou just closed has been an excellent one. An exchange offers a prize for the best article on milk. Tho best article on milk of which we know auything about is cream. It is now beliovod that the oleomarga rine factories put hair in their goods, thus rendering it more difficult of detec tion than ever. He had boon telling hor stories of him- solf and had done a groat amount of bragging. When he had finished she kissod him and murmured. "This is a kiss for a blow." Perpetual motion is porhaps impossi ble to obtain; but you can approximate it by putting a boy on a chair at a funeral and tolling him to be still. What are the wild waves saying, sis ter, tho long, long day? They say if yoa don't want to freeze, bub, you'd better stay away. A thief in Rochester robbod seven con tribution boxos and got twenty ocnts. And he thought that for contribution boxes thoy panned out wulL You'd naturally think a girl would like to have it known that her complexion is lovely, but somohow a girl blessed with a fair skin tries to keep it shady. Tho owner of a large cranberry farm at Berlin, Wis., employs lOOJgirls, and he promises to marry the one who picks the most berries this season, providing she wants him. She was decorating her room with pic tures, and she porohod his photo up on tho topmost naif; then sho sat down to admire her work, and remarked quietly: "Now everything is lovely and the goose hangs hisli!" Postollire inspectors at llurnside, Ky., arrested ltobert Rich, mail messenger, for rifling registered letters. Depreda tions for the past six months amount to over$100,000. The evidence isconclusive. Rich is Bald to be a desperate character. President Grevy stated Thursday in the presence ot several members of the chamber of deputies that he would call (jambotta to take office, lea v Inn him the fullest latitude as to programme and choice of colleagues. Ustnbetta said he would take otllce when called on. The board of trade voted to admit non residents of Chicago to membership and to increase the rate of commission for handling corn and seeds to one cent per bushel, the previous rate being half Cunt. This commission is entirely dis tinct from brokerage charged for trading. Gen. Boulanper, a French guest, cap tured "Buffalo Hill," a notorious criminal, in his room at a Chicago hotel, and de tained him with a sword till the police arrived. He was taken before the grand jury, which at once found a true bill aga'inst him, and he wui tried, convicted and sentenced to three year's imprison ment. FA-MIIO' R0IES. Spanish laoe is goiug out of fashion. All ooats and sacnues show longer skirts than formerly. There is an ingenuity of uglinoss in the imported cuttle-fish for plush and velvet hats, aud doo's legs for fur hats. All drapery is very soft, very full, and begins higher than any worn for several seasons. Some of the new jackets are cnt out in points around the lower edge, and a wide Land of fur plush is set undernoath them. The revival of great-coats and polo- nniiuMt will ffivrt varietv to toilets. OS basques have been almost exclusively used lor two or turee seasons. A nw favnr for tho German cotillion is a tiny Saratoga trunk made of Russia leather, gold bound, ana line a wua padded and porrumod suit. M.ilnrialu urn liflnvior than those of lost winter, and consist of plush, velvet, sutiu, moire, cloth, Cheviot, and the heavy qualities of cashmere and camel's- hair. Pink toiliita aro verv fashionable, and are stylishly set off with black silk t,wl-Intra ib.vniil of nmbroiderv. block satin sandals worked with jet beads, . .. . i i I 1 aud lunar block Kioves oi unuressuu am. TLaA U lilcelv to be in hich favor for several months to come, but red in many sbados, such as copper, mahogany, sul tone, and other brick-dust colors, be sides claret, ruby, cardinal and garnet hues. Mnllier TTnl.lmr.l cloaks are much 1)S i:l. wAnw .anil nlthnllfrll shirred cuffs and collars appear on many handsome wraps, tne shirring is aone in the trimming rather than on the cloak itself. . . A great many vests are used again, but these are seldom the whole length of the front of the basque, bnt are either con fined to the bust like a plastron, or else thtv do not appear at all until the waist line is passed. . 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