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THt BllBOUDED fobs. J. I,. BatuKicfc Islands, in 17- , I A'Ji to ship. wm high time as ft.bi wasup toab.gnngure, S"j 1 had no chewing tobacco. Lind I " in tmrt worthy of lrXrwl.V . a English whaloMho ' Hh Sbl Captain W.ugh an old tar !jjad yea" onusllfeon ''SlSrnpod l the North Light ami fA?w we went tumbling out of the draiwr w Kt. Ooorcroat "Snb-lf hidden by the smote of ;;STpoodor,with which we had f "l'n ut the wheel, on thin , occasion I nth-a more stripling in fuct, Y '.. WiUflg. noted for bU skill in .r n., ami hia arentle. amia- him liked .11 hig BUipmaies o" uu ''.Jteadv there 1" shouted the skippor, .voting man allowed mo snip to W u i t a tnin tt'n all wi'ro - ; .nMmn error, but glancing W Son divined the reason On the JU"""" . . y 1.-1.-1,1 nnn lHhfaire4'creature8 that ever blessod ' w. miA u'aa a nosseniror for Kcarloswith her father, an old doc -ho now biuou uj uw '1: , . Wiit ff Ella Morns I rouu be obligod to translato that in 1 Jnsble sweetness of expression per- rtdinfT every lemuru mo 4ftu. .Uw L,ul within anu wuo cuu givo jwuv iJeioftDair tr. 6 It We lOOl U, uub uvw vnu frame it into words? -t..;n Ifimla of iniisia which mere ..- trith mystio, inexpressible sound, seem tODCfl W declare WUAW wu4lta um; uu, jmasio of a mellow flute at night on thi wattT eXClies in uio mo Buuio iDiuiuj ' ... i;V. T van inunirflil 1)V Ella's ilia nun-" - i ti Ibeanty. . , , ,., , . Well, there stooa uen v wes, uis eyes ...i'i,,tl nnnn the TOiinir eirl. who tuIBcu u r o -, . , Lined fairly to so entrance so bewitch tin ttiat be scarcely anew wnamo was boot. . ,. ghe turned, saw mm, ana uiusaeu. TT. .. m-il.1 nAnnlinr-lnnkinir vonntr HH" r- T i Tit with fierv eves, coal-black hair. Ld lithe active figure, with the magio power which woman feels the moment she comes near one of the other sex thus in. fVrvtnin in a. nxininn nt. mirth in. Merent steering, rushed aft, and, pick- . 1 . J " 1 At 1 1 4 1 t- ing up a nanasaiae, iuruvouou iu mutt thejoangman down if he did not do better. d.h novpp hnfnrfl hppn snoken to XJCU u"" " - I iitbis manner, and it galled him very ducd, especially as iiie bjicouu wm iuouu before a young girl. 1T.A .am nlav af 4liaf friimA ' llA ATI swred, indifferently, and quietly drew hii sheath knife from his belt. With a terrible oath Captain Waugh iihoi Hia hnnilsiiiko. and the next mo- Uiv " 1 1 - ment tho young man muBt have been l ii . ?a booted down uui ior ine mierposmen of Ella Morris. In vnina thdt finltloil lilfA the lllllsicftl chime of bells, she besought the captain to stay bis hand . She pleaded with him I earnestly that the rougn sailor was .),.ma,1 ami InvAi-inir liis handnnike without a word, turnod away, coloring to . i msverv orow. feivoral Imnra aftr whnn ihoi oirl liad ittnaKalAv Ron voa iiftiinrr thfk fnrft- castle deck when the Captain called bim into the cabin, and held him with a lengthy conversation. Ha annlrA tin.llv Ktlf firmW tn IllTTI ltd Ben promised that he would be more careful in future, acknowledging at the 11.-4 :t 41. - 1 4 f T?l I - wue uuie lliui it ww mo uuouvr ui j-.ua Morris that put him out while at the wheel. A week after, the third mate having been killed by a blow on the temple from the flukes of a sperm whale, Ben wu promoted to the vacant berth, ibis pre him an opportunity to bo nearer Ills; in fact he was soon on such friend ly terms with the girl that hs would Beck her side and converse with her whenever came up from the cabin. Pleased with each other the young people soon learned to love j and then what happiness to them whenever they met. The old doctor soon discovered the state of his daughter's heart soon heard from her own lips, in fact, that she loved the handsome third mate, Den Wilkes. Mr. Morris was a stern, haughty old man, who could not bear the idea of his daoRhter marrying an officer aboard a thaleship, i. e." blubber hunter. The captain, overhearing him thus con temptuously expressing himself, could not help "giving him a piece of his mind" the moment the doctor came up from below. 'See here !" quoth the sturdy skipper, Mizinir the man of physio by the button hole, "why, blast ye, what d'ye mean, r, by runnin' down whalin', which for urtain is the honorablest callin' of ns two, seein' as you deal in castor ile, and l ilea! in sparm, which is the most use ful of the two." "Let go of my button-hole!" ex claimed the doctor. "Why by the mast 1" exolaimed the Uipper, "I'm a respeotable member of wciery, seein' as I have killed one hund fcd and fifty whales in the course of my h e-mark ye that! one Hundred and Jfjy, sir. I rather calculate yon haven't failed as many patients !" "Let go my button hole!" exclaimed h doctor, louder than before.and turh aS quite pale. "Ay, blast your eves!" exclaimed the Dtain; "whalin" is the honorablest, Bost respecktublest callin', and if yonr "rter, sir, should have turned an eye pon me, who have killed my one "andred and fifty whales, you sartainly 'ouldn't think that any digrace!" 'Let go my button hole!" shouted ?,!?':lor' g"'ing red in the face. Well, then," added the skipper,'Ben wilkes is as promisin as me; so you Jjedn t feel at all bad about tho choice "your pretty darter." , go my button hole!" roared the 9(tor, in voice of thunder. Ay. ay! let go it is!" said Waugh, re gretfully, as he complied; when the doo J?r yarning npon his heel, strode majes ty into the cabin. Meeting Ben Wilkes, he drew him JM, and told tim that he would not Pmit him (Wilkes) to speak to hia wghter again while ahe was in the dSy n promise autr' criad Bon' The doctor glared at him, then passed .ithont another word. Next morning, after Ben had drank hia coffee, he was taken siok. He lay in bis bunk, raving in a wild delirium. The doctor would not allow his daughter to go noar the young man. Tale, half wild with anguish, the fair girl begged and pleaded in vain. The irascible doctor, unmoved by her plead ings.thrust her into her room and lockod the door upon her. In the middle, of the following night a shriek and a spluxh were heard. "Man overboard 1" rang dismally through the ship. Ben Wilkes had come up and flung himself into the sea. A ben coop, several spurs, and nn empty barrel were thrown over, that the swimmer might have a support if he wished to save himself. Then a boat was lowcrod, but iu the fog and darkness the unfortunate man could not be found. Tho boat's crew returned disconsolately to the ship, and now the doctor, making his appearance, was observed to look very uneasy. "lie is lost Ben is lost!" said the skipper, disconsolately. "Wo shall never see him again. He handled a harpoon hotter titan any man in the ship," continued tho speaker, with a re gretful sigh. When Klla heard of the loss of her lover she ntterod ono wild, despairing shriek and fell sonseless. The doctor soon restored her, but vainly endeavored to console her. She tore her boautiful hair, and raved In cessantly of her poor, drownod lover. For two days the captain cruised near the spot where the tragody had oc curred, but ho met with no success; no sign of Bon could be discovered. On tho third day, however, just at dusk, a fog. which for many hours had obscured the sea, having cleared, the watch on deck behold a human figure, lashed to a spar, showing distinctly right ahead. "Ben Wilkes! Bon Wilkes!" resounded on all sides, when, among those who hurried on deck was the doctor, looking straugoly agitated. Soon a boat was down, and the form of Ben Wilkes, lifeless and chilling, was deposited on the main hatch. ' The doctor gazed at the still features; then staggered back, loaning against the rail for support. "He is dead!" exclaimed a number of voices. At this the doctor advanced, scrutin ized the features closoly, and felt of the heart. ' "I am afraid you are right men," he gaspod. Toward night the body was sewed np in a canvas to be launched into an ocean grave. Ella Morris came frantically np from the cabin, as the men were about to place the shrouded form npon the gang way board. "Let,,me see his face once more!" she exclaimed. "I will see it! I must see it again!" Tbo canvas about the face was there forefore ripped open, when gazing with inexpressible anguish upon the still face for an instunt, Ella stopped dewn and kissed it. As she did so the doctor started back; the next moment Ella, with heart rending sobs of anguish, turned and tottered against the mast. "Do your duty, men!" she screamed. "Do your duty, but I shall precede him!" So saying, she sprang to the gang way and must, the next instant, have gone over but for the doetor.who, clutch ing hor arm, exclaimed: "Hold! Hold! He lives! He lives!" "Impossiblol" exclaimed the skipper who could not see the slightest sign of life in the man before him. The doctor, however, drawing from his pocket a vial.npplied it to the nostrils of the prostrate form which.immediately after began to move. Then the canvas was torn away, and the next moment Ben waa upon his feet, staring around him in a bewildered man ner. Tho young man was an instant nfter clasped to Ella's bosom. "Take her! take hor for your wife!" said the doctor, "thore is no holp for it now." "Well, now, who'd have thought," said the captain, "that there was any life loft in that young chap. These doctors are cute fellows, and no mistake." Long after the lovers were married, however, I met Ben Wilkes, who told me that tho doctor, on his death-bed, had confessed that he had put into the young man's coffee on the day that he was taken sick, a liquid which he (the doctor) sup posed would keep the offender to his bed until after the ship had reached San Carlos. The physician, however, had unfortunately given the young man an overdose, whioh was the cause of his falling into the trance so much resemb ling death. Perceiving what he had done, the doc tor concluded to allow the young man to be launched into his grave, asthelest way of getting rid of a suitor so distast ful to him. Hard as was his heart, however, he still had enough affection left for his daughter to change his pur pose, when he saw how the girl was distressed. Blunders or Acton. A famous Lady Macbeth, "starring" in AmnrW hiul lmen accidentlv detained on her journey to a remote theater. She ar rived in time only to cnangs uer ureou, ramMiv ami Imrrv nn the scene. At the conclusion of her first soliloquy a mes- . . . xl. senger should enter to annonui-e iuo coming of King Duncan. But what was her amazement to hear to her de mand, "What is your tidings?" not the usual reply, "The king comes here to night," but the whisper, spoken from be hind a Scotch bonnet, upheld to prevent the words from reaching the audience, "Hush! I'm Macbeth. We've cut the messenger out go on, please!" Another disconcerted performer must have been the provincial Richard III, to whom the Radcliffe of the theater who ordinarily played Harlequin, and could not enter without something of that tripping and twirling gait so pecu liar to pantomine brought the informa tion, long before it was due, that "the Duke of Buckingham is taken! ot yet, you fool," whispered Richard. "Beg pardon; thought he was," cried Harle quin Radcliffe, as carried away by his feelings or the force of habit, be threw what tumblers call "a Catherine wheel, an 1 made a rapid exit. THE DETKOIf (i7)MOX. Jl'ST TUB 8TORV. "Is me Tommy in?" It was the voioe of woman at the door of the ttation-houso, and Bijah saw that sho was poorly dressed and wore an anxious look. "Is Tommy your hnsband?" " "Indade he is. Have ye got him locked op hero? Ye'll know him by his red oomfortor and a scar on Lis noHo." "Xo, he isn't here. "Is ho on a sproo?" "He is that." "I'oor wotnaul And you are no doubt hungry for broad." "And you are no doubt a fool!'- she sharply n-tortod. "If me Tommy wants to go on a bit of a spree it's all right. As for bread, I could spare you a loaf the poorest day I ever saw." Bijah sat down on a chair to get a fair look at hor, and she continued: "If ye should arrest nio Tommy ploase sind me word at once, as I want to bo on hand to pay his fine." With that she bounced out and the old man watched her through tho alley window until sho turnod the corner, and thou resumed his sweeping with the soliloquy. "She sat in the gloaming. There was no fire. The room betrayod the pres ence of abject poverty. Sobs of grief broke the stillness as the poor woman remombered that her husband had pawned the bod- to raiso money for a spree. Yes, it's junt like a story iu a yallor-kivered novel in a horn." don't count here. In answer to the call for Daniel Smith, a middle-aged man with long hair, greasy look and shabby dress, stopped to the front, placod his hand on his heart and bowed until he nearly bumped his nose on tho iron railing. "Yon wore found sleeping in a hog shed in tho rear of a store," said his Honor. "Yes, sir." "And search of your pockets show that you have neithor ready cash nor draft on New York. Have you a home to go to?" The old man pointed in the direotion of Heaven. "Too fur away." replied his Honor. "I shall be compelled to charge you with vagrancy." "I'd like to put in a plea of insanity, your Honor." "Very well, but I must inform you that insanity is no excuse in this court. How orazy are you?" "Well, I have often folt it my duty to break show-windows, upset baby-carts and throw brickbats at policeman. "That's simply deviltry, and counts against you? Anything further?" "Well, I sometimes foel like jumping into the river. 't "That's because you haven't had a good wash in three or four years. Go on." "Isomotimes feel inspired." "That's nothing but the effects of beer or whisky. The difference between boing gloriously inspired and gloriously drunk is generally too thin to be distinguished. I shall send you up for three months." "How high up?" "So high up that you won't get down a day soonor than your sentence expires. It will bo twenty -five minutes yet before tho omnibus leaves, and if yon want to astonish the world, Bijah will hand you some bar-soap and a curry-comb and show you a wash-basin. Don't be afraid to bear right lard on, and if you need sandpaper, don't hesitate to ask for it." NO TROUBLE AT ALL. "Snrrv that I had to trouble you." re marked Giles Smith, as he faced the clock. "Oh. no trouble at all. Mr. Smith. Let's see; the warrant says you were drunk." "I'm afraid 1 was, and I m grieved to think how muoh annoyance I have caused." "Don't feel bad, prisoner, for I assure you that your presonce is welcome. If t ilidn't want vou here I should say so at once. You were drunk." "I expect I was. "Is it anything strange for you to get that way?" "Not in the least. If it wasn't for trespassing upon your valuable time, I should tall you why I broke the law yes terday." "You may give your reasons. "I discovered that my wife had eloped." ."Ah, ha!" "Yes. left the oity with a patant-right man, and now " "And now what?" "Would it be asking too much of you to elevate me for thirty days?" "Oh, no; I think thirty days in the wofk house will calm your agitation." "Yes. and make me torget my sorrows. Am I sent?" "Yos." "Thanks. I shall never for cot your kindness to me in my hour of adversity." HIS MOTHER WAS DIAD. "Well. Charles Miller, what brings yon here?" anked his Honor of the next. "l)o Douceman, was tne answer. "And what do yon think ailed you?" "I felt very badt." "Where abouts?" "All aofer me." "But the officer says you were drunk." Vhell, maybe, I hav a leedle peer in me. "And you were fighting in a saloon." "Vhell, don't you fight too when some pody calls you a liar?" "I am not in this case. You were drunk and disorderly, and I want to know the reason? "Vhell. I git a ledder from Shermany, and I find mudder was dcadt. Dot makes me feel badt all over. After I feels like dot I goes oudt for some peer. I pnt ten cents on der counter, nnd der man says I vhas a liar. Dot makes me foel badt some more." "And then you tried to make him feel bad. too?" "Vhell, I punch his head so, nnd bo, und so; but I tell you it vbas awful to lose your mudder in Shermany." "Yes, but I shall fine you five dollars." "Vhell, I expect like dot, und Mary, she prings it down here last night. Couldn't you make it tree dollar?" "No; couldn't do it." "Call it four." "Not a cent less than five." "Vhell, here ish der monish, bnt it vhas pooty atheep won a man loses his mudder nnd feel badt all oafar. Shall I go oudt now?" "Yes, you can go. Don't come again . " "If I do und don't you forget it! Goo! pye." 1IK KNEW IT. "Vagrancy," said the court, as James Clyde stood at the bar. "That'a me." "No money?" "Not a red." "No work?" "Not a stroke" "I guess you're convicted of tho charge." "I know I am." "And np you go for ninety dns." "That's me again. I'm tirod of the alloys and dry goods boxei. Thankoo, Judgo; that fixes me." (npltol Chips. Last night tho silenco of tho Senato Chamber was suddenly broken by flow cry Florida, who callod out: "I Call tho Senate to order." "That's a Dumb good one," remarkod bleeding Kansas. "I'll enter it in my Kol-logg," sung out Louisiana, the femalo privateor. "That's Ferry good," responded sturdy Michigan. "I'll give him a Garland," sang out the Arkansas traveler. "Oh, pull down your Vest," criod merry Missouri. "Hale fellow well met Bhako," shout ed Maine, still full of the happy New Year. "La-mar, aren't theso folks cranky?" simpered Mississippi. "Don't Teller, don't Teller," shoutod Colorado, the mountain climber. "I ad-Vance the proposition that a Ransom is necessary," said old tarhcal North Carolina. "A Butler is a good thing to have in the hou-e," suggested aristocratic- South Carolina. "Oh, Pugh 1" sneered Alabama. "I prefer a Miller," volunteorod golden-haired California. "I've got a Hill that'a hard to climb," boasted guscouading Georgia. "I can Walker log !" yelled Ar kansas, the toothpick wiolder. "I can Groomo him, if I am a Gor man I" cried My Maryland. "If I can't, Logan, or I'm a suckor," shouted stalwart Illinois. "Windom up 1 Windom up 1" scream ed Minnesota. "I'm a Morrill young man 1" vocifer ated Vermont, the Green Mountain boy. "I Dawes n't interfere," explained cautious Massachusetts. "Oh, Frye, Frye," exclaimed Maine in deprecatory tones, that sent them into a Brown study. "I'll sharpen your wits on Mahono," said readjusted Virginia. Just here Texas, fearing a Hoar frost, quietly put some Coke on the fire to pro duce a Maxcy-nium heat, thinking no one was looking, but Wisconsin cried out exultingly: "I Sawyer, I Sawyor." 'iThat's not Fair, expostulated silver top Nevada. ''Hawley," chimod in steady-going Connecticut. "If it is I don't Se-well," joined in sandy-headed Now Jersey. "Now, you've Don it," put in Penn sylvania, protoctingly. "Let's all Wade in," shoutod irascible South Carolina. The oonfusion began to Grover-y great when the great Blair from the White Hills recalled them to a proper sense of their senatorial dignity just as Kentucky was about to Beck-on to Rhodo Island for a game of Anthony over, and silence once more brooded over the scene. National Republican. Justice for a Daiicing Master. The London Daily Telegraph is au thority for the following: Considerable interest was excitod in the Russian capi tal a short time ago by a curious case tried before the Chief Magistrate of the Eighth Policp Distrlot, both plaintiff and defendant being persons well known in the upper circles of St. Petersburg sooioty. The former, Michael Grusdin ski, a noble by birth, is a fashionable dancing master, patronizod by tho Court and aristocracy; tho latter, Capt. Bre senski, a staff officer of the Imperial Guard. It appears that Grusdin-kis had given twenty dancing lessons at the rate of 2 rubles per lesson his regulur charge to the Captain's youthful daugh ter, and had appliod repeatedly far the payment of the bill, but in vain. One evening he called upon de Bresonski in person to collect his 40 rubbles, and was shown into the dining room, where the gallant guardman whose speech and de meanor exhibited nnmistukable symp toms of vinous excitement, greeted him affoctionately joviality, and in rely to Grusdkinski's respectful request for a settlement of account declarod himself ready and willing to pay np on the spot to the last copeck, npon one trifling condition that his creditor should there and then dance the "Kam arinski" for his (Bresenski's) special and particular delectation. Thia the terpsichorean professor steadfastly de clined to do, whereupon Bresenski's cheerfulness incontinently forsook him, and, summoning his servants, be com manded them to "throw the dancing dog into the street." They fulfilled his orders to the Utter. " Charged with assault, Capt. de Bresenski attempted to excuse his conduct on the ground that he intended to pay Grusdinski a compli ment in asking him to dance, and, on his abrupt refusal to comply with the re qnest, had been moved by natural indig nation to tnrn him out of doors. The Court, howeverr, failod to recognize the force of this argument, sentonced Capt. do Bresenski to suffer three days' im prisonment and to pay the outraged dancing master's claim in full.. Public opinion in St. Petersburg is unanimous in approving tho justice of this decision. The same indifference with which Prince Bismarck displays in his choice of political allies is shown by him in the selection of his medical advisers. When at Varzin or at Frederichsruhe.he always consults physicians who are acknowl edged allopaths; when pursuing hia ar duous labors in Berlin, he consults as regularly a well known physician of the homoeopatio school. He probably knows that the doctor who tells the best stories makes tho best cures. Arkansas lands are now somewhat in demand those located in the cotton belt by capitalists who intend engaging in cotton culture. ' lledins. "What a creature!" The words sprang involuntmily to the lips of the observer ns an old woman hobbled past. Ago had rendered de crepit her franio and wrinkled her face, but there was a look out of her hollow eyes that umdo one shudder. "Yos, a strange womau, and with a history, too," said Mr. F. "You know hor, then?" "Yes." "Who is sho?" "A murderess." "Is it possible?" "Perhaps I should not say so much, bnt I will tell yoa her hUtory. It has not been many years ago since sho lived with her husband .honored and respected by every one. They had no children of their own, but they had adopted a child from an orphan asylum. It was a win some croature, with laughing blue eyes and a merry smile that won insensibly on your heart. Years passed away and tho orphan girl grew into a leuutiful woman. Every ono loved her, and so ciety lavished on hor caressos which only its hollos receive. But tho graces of hor mind were not excelled by her personal beauty. Brilliant and fascinat ing, thore was about hor that charm which wins on the heart whilo it pleases. It is not surprising that her protector lovod her as if she had been his child; but it was tho loyo of a father only. But somehow the wife grew joalous of the child she had reared, and this sentiment once excited can never be appeased. She may not have boen a bad woman, yot that passion made her insensible to every just and charitable emotion. Unsuspect ing and loving as one so circumstanced would be, the girl lavished upon both the affootion hor real parents would have obtained. But it had no power to dis arm tho fatal cruelty of a heart maddenod by suspicion. Hor caresses were tor ture and the s'ght of her at last beoame insupportable. Strange to say, the girl never dreamed of. its existence And as- "trifles light as air are to tho jealous-minded confirmation strong as proofu from holy writ," so the natural affection and innocent love of this young girl were made the means of con firming suspicions that at last destroyed her life. You havo often seen the homo whero they livod. It is a small two story dwelling. The dwelling of Louise ad joining that of Mr. T and hia wife, but the door to it opened from the hall way whioh ran alongside both of them. The only means of accoss to the room was from a window which looked out into the court yard. This could only be reaohed by moans of a ladder. One morning the whole community was startlod by tho announcement that Louise Raynor had boen murdered. Mr. I. and myself were among the first who entered tho house. Tho door had been broken open, but everything romainod as before. The young croature, scarcoly 20, lay npon tho bed as if in sloop. The golden hair lay like floss (upon the nil low; the face was chill and white, but never more beautiful. The long lashes rested lovingly on the cheek and the blue-veinod lids, so palely tinted now, looked as if they were ready to lift from the sunny eyes. No sculptor ever chiselled a form so fair. The drapery that hid ber form could not conceal its dolicato outliues nor the con tour of the rounded limbs. A gash in the bosom and a crimson stain disclosed where the treaoherous blow had boen dealt. It had found her heart that sharp, avenging steel even as sho slopt. The young life had passod almost with out a struggle, and the soroam that tho lips had opened to utter was lost in a smile. Tho door of her room had boon locked, and no answer being returned whon she was callod in the morning, the door had been forced open. Tho key was on the inside. The window, however, was open. The murdorer must have gained aoceBS through it, many thought. My conclusions led to a different theory. I soon became satisfied from all I could loam from tho servants and tho confusod statements of Mrs. T that she had committed the dood. Still there was no proof of it, and I was equally satisfied there would be none. Sho had been far too cunning to loave a trace be hind. She had, no doubt, oonoealed herself in the room, and, after Louise had rotiied, accomplished hor purpose, and then, to avoid detection, had swung horsolf from the opon window to the brick oourt beneath. No impression of her feet on the ground; no bit of torn apparel; nothing was left to give a clew. People wondered; the mystery beoame an item ' for the papers; and, after a while faded out of the publio thought. Bnt although she escaped man's justice, retribution found her out. Her husband died, and the property he bequeathed her took wings and flew. Her face, once fair, become haggard, and, Medusa-like, was evil in its sorrow. Her sex avoided her, for strange suspicions had crept into people's minds. The face was hardened now, and the evil expression played npon the wall. Year by year her wretchedness increased.and scorn and opprobrium fol lowed in her path. She returned it with all malice. She loves no one, lives with no one; but it is said that strange cries issue from her doors at night.and it may be that the brain of the old woman is crazed at last; and the phantom of the fair young girl, whoso life she took, comes to disturb her repose. But it has no power to soften the evil face and hide tho cruel gleam of the cold, gray eyes. "And thatis her history?" "Yes." "It is a strange one, indeed !" "It is a true one." WAusTArnr Aoaih. Wagstaffo is in corrigible. Fifty summers have not suf ficed to tame down his exuberant spirits. Mrs. W., on the other hand, has a proper sense of what is due her, and has a rooted antipathy to being "had." Wag staffe came home last night, popped his head in the door. "Nance," says he, with a face full of horror and alarm, and sinking his voice to a hoaitoe whisper, "have yon heard anything of a double murder and suicide next door?" "Graciona merciful powers, no 1' cries Mrs. W., jumping her spectacles ipto her tea, and knocking her bad leg against the chair, "not a word." "No more have I," saya W., cheerfully. "Once more and got the money I" That'a the reason of the coldness in the Wagstaffe family circle. -Judy. Sain ana Mulstare. Water is nocessary to all animal and vegetable life. No seed starts without and no plant grows without moisture. The period of vitality of seeds is yot a wide Hold lor soieutitio experiment, but certainly moisture has rauoh to do with tho vitality as woll as growth of all kinds of seeds. Moisturo is applied to plants in these wsva ruin. dew. evaporation from the soil and irrigation. It is concodod that frequent light ruins are tho most promo tive of plant growth. Dow is but restricted ruiufull. The moisturo ascending from the soil raised by the sunbeams is precipitated at night, when the air is free from solar heat, and precipitated upon plants. Dews are heavier in tho valleys than on the hills, because there is more moisture below. As moisture or evaporating water ab sorbs boat and produces cold, so for tho same cause frosts are more common and moro severe in the low lands than on the mountain tops. For this reason, peach os and other early blooming trees and shrubs should be placed npon high grounds. evaporation from the soil is the main support of plants. The roots of plants must not only have water, but air also; ever covered with water they perish: benoe the necessity of deep plowing and drainage. Again, loose, pulverized soil. uy capuiary attraction, uoiusmore water than hard, solid soil; neither do the roots of pluut well enter into hard ground. Hence deep plowing and fre quent stirring of the soil are the best for plants. I am now eating early Mexican sweet ooiii that has hardly had a rain npon it since it was planted. The ground wan rluoly plowed, and during all the drouth it was cultivated with the hoe, without regard to woods. Watermelon vines, grass, and all other vegetation, are all dead around, but the corn is green as ever. Dew not only descends from the near air, but is formed by contact with the cooling soil; as the moisture ascends from bolow, it reaches the cold surface, and is condensed on and within the finely pulverized soil. This is all proven by placing boards over early beans; the radiation of the heat is prevented being returnod by the board, and frost is pre vented when outside of the board the beans are bitten. Irrigation, to be profitable, must be continued during all dry seasons. When flower vases are watered daily they will keep up the plants, but a single watering of outside plants sets up an immediate growth of succulent roots and stoma; and if the watering is not continued the plants perish at once. Nature, by the slow process of subterranean evapora tion, continually and gradually decreas ing, carries the plant in a half dormant state through the drought. So it is bet ter not to water at all than to water freely and then suddenly ceaso. Pot plants should be well drained by holes in the tub at the bottom; over those pieces of broken crockery or stones should be placed to prevent tho outflow of soil, but aid the escape cf water. It is better to water pot plants at eve, when the heat is mostly gone; this prevents scalding by the sun's rays, and gives them a night of cooling growth. A lit tle sand or fine gravel mixod with tho pot soil also aids ventilation and the es cape of surplus water. Occasional sprinkling of the leavoa with a pot rose greatly refreshes the leaves by clearing off the duBt and aiding the functions of tho leaves. If the water stands awhile and assimilutos its temperature to that of the plants, so much the bettor, as sud den changes of temperature in plants, as in animals, endanger the vital func tions. StnithornPhintorand Farmer. The Glory or Webster, . The longor I live and the more I study the Constitution of the United Statos.tho more I am improsBod with his claim to be regarded as its defender, and as the greatest of its expositors. It was not merely that he had a chief and most im portant influence in settling many of the speciflo questions of interpretation that arose during his day. It was in his re lation to the paramount quostion of the nature of tho union, as established by the Constitution, that his power was mnuf ainrnnllv ATAl-nifted. anil lllH lUOHt U.U..V - , , enduring laurels were won. In this re spect it may, I tuinic, ue truiy saiu oi him that there has boen no statesman in our age perhaps there has been no one in all tho agos of modern civilization, whoso noble intellect hum mnra imnrcnspd itself UDOn the des tinies of a great country, than the intel lect of Daniel Webster, 'uere nave been men whose will, whoso ambition, wlinaA flali infArpfitg have enormously affected the fortunes of millions.for good i in t. or for evil, isat wuere naa mere ueeu a nAllnf a n art tram all passion, has determined the character of a great government, in snoh a manner as to furnish the basis, the justifiable, legal ami mnrnl hojiia of iciril war of StUDen- doua proportions, waged for the asser tion oi lawiui autnoruy r xuu m alnrv tha nnlarninhfld the nnmttched glory' of Daniel Webster, whioh will carry his name and fame lartner uown the course of the centuries than that of anw S.I1.UP AmartAAn at.oiAHman of OUF time. From George Ticknor's Eulogy. " Railway Mall Service. It is true that the sorvice is to some i.nt in a rnthnr had shane at the present time; but with ns in this section It IS OWlUg IU MIO 4UIj mw tion is increasing very rapidly, and there is a corresponding inoreaso in mail matter, which has grown so large that it cannot be properly handled with onr present force ef employes. In my judgment the only way to place the service on a good and square footing at the present time is to urge on Con gress the necessity for making addition al appropriations at once, large enough to enable the postoMice authoritiea to increase the number of employes and establish additional railway postoffioe lines and increase the car services on some of tho lines already established. Our men are at present working exceed ingly hard, many of them from fifteen to seventeen hours a day, and they have been unable to distribute all the mail tbey receive. What is true in this re spect in regard to the railway mail ser vice is equally true in regard to the large distributing postoffices throughout the country. Superintendent White.of Chicago.