MItS. J.'B MOM TOWX.
Ob, Jotiei will now q freedom itray,
t'mm mndown imtoitawn,
And with tho boya at tokiir play
Till his Ittntdoikr in gone
iln. J, ii cut of town.
For three gimd moiitLi in fapcy free,
He'll fo it with tlio boya,
Jo loiifr trouliM with latch Iter,
, Or with the dread of nuiae,
Mr, J, iioutnf town.
He'll wander home fur night galore,
As lull ai an; tick,
And rerldiualy in orirnort four
II ii Oxford tie he'll kirk,
Mrr. J. la out of town.
. He'll havo liii cocklaila served in bed,
In bod ho'll iinoko also,
For lime or tide won't cure red,
But lay, "Old boy, you know,"
Mrs. J, if out of town.
And to tho iitmmer time will M
And Jontft will havo hit llmg;
But there ii, tad to tay, alas I
p end to everything;
ii ra. J. couiiia back to town.
An I Jonet fa one mora uioek and mild,
Al buabanila ought to be,
or In tho itiuiiiiir only wild
J lliil old boy ynu aee,
When Mm. J.'i from town.
And little kuow liii better half
Of Imlf her hmbund'a in,
Or how ha givet h-r iiiiui the laugh,
And flings atlxxit the tin,
When ahe iaoul of town.
Now, guy graaa wldowt b the eea
Ami neur the mountain cleft,
JUmuinlH-r thut If you are free
Your hubby don't get loll,
When you are out of town.
Tho ITor Pre dent's Wife.
Mary Lincoln wus the daughter of
Hon. Hubert Tod J, of Lexington, Ky.,
and married the illustrious martyr I' ton
idont November tb, 1842, iu Springfield,
III. She was ouo of four sisters.ond wuh
womuu of unusual talents, accomplish
mnnt and ambition. When as Miss
Mary Todd "he became known in tho
oapitel city of Illinois, she attracted ut
teution an one of the leading belles, and
also acquired not a littlo notoriety
through hor satirical artiolus written for
tha local press. Una of these articles,
holding nn General James Shields to
rulioule, almost led to a duel between
Shields und Lincoln. The offensive pub'
lication was made under a llutitious Big-
nature, and when Shields demunded the
name of the author tho editor gave thut
of liiueoln, who was thereupon ohal
longed by Shields. The parties went to
Missouri to tight with broadswords, but
aftor considerable negotiation the see
onds and friends succeeded in settling
the difficulty und preventing the
hostile meeting. This incident oo
onrred a few months before the
marriage of Mr. Lincoln and Miss Todd
The death of tho widow of the
lamented Pre sidont opons to pnblio at
fastion tha history of young Lincoln's
aiugular and romautio love affairs. It
ppeara that his llrst strong attachment
was for a Alms Ann Kutlodgo, who was
one of the famous South Carolina Itut
ledge family. She had a lover named
McNeil, who, however, passed under tho
uame of MoNatnar. lie deserted her,
leaving the State aud never rodeeming
his promise to return and marry her.
Under this disappointment she pined and
died of grief. It is uncertain what placo
young Lincoln filled in her feelings, but
Jto was iuconsolable upon her death. Tor
nevcral works he was almost insane, and
was taken by his friends to a secluded
retreat, whore he could receive tho kind
est eare and atteptioo and at the same
time bo scroonod from observation. A
Min Mary Owens is inontioned as Lin
coln's next flame, but neither she nor
any other woman spin are over to have
obtained such a mastery of his feelings
a did Miss ltutlodgo.
Miss Todd is described as a young wo
man of grout personal uttraotious, witty,
brilliant, of high and imperious temper,
nd cherishing much persoutd and fam
ily pride. Una of hor suitors wus
SUvibou A. Douglas; and being once
asked which of tho two, Lincoln or
Douglas, she intended to havo, it is said
ho replied: "The one who has the boxt
ihnee of becoming President." Accord
ing to another story, she said sho
refused Donglus on account of "his bad
habits." It is said thut her conquest of
Lincoln wus a ca.se of "love at first
wight," but if so, his feelings subse
quently underwent singular rlteruatious,
for beforo the long delayed marriage
took pluce we tlud him attached to M iss
Matilda Edwards, a sister of Hon.Niniau
W. Edwards, of Springtluld, who had
married one of Miss Todd's sisters, and
with whom she resided iu Springfield.
Tho mutch between Lincolu and Miss
Todd wal desired by the Edwurds.while
ono with Miss Edwards was opposed by
them. Lincolu, lilio &u honorable man,
iuforraod Miss Todd of his chauged feel
ings, and was by her released from his
engngemout. Iu this situation his mind
was prey to doubts and troubles, and we
gain find him in such a condition thut
be was removed by hii friends, lie wu
cut to stay with kind friends iu Ken
tuc.ky, aud at this period bis olioiiution
was so great, according to - Ward
II. Lumon, author of the wcll-knowu
"Life or the President," that his self
destruction wus feared. Knives, razors,
tc, were removed from ttis roach, und
very precaution adopted to son he
wrought himself no tisrm. He con
tribuled some verses to the Sitngumou
Journal, entitled "Suicide," which were
afterward well remembered. A stay of
six months or so in the Kentucky ret rent
restored Lincoln to his normal stale ol
wind, and he returned to his home.
Moon aftor.aecordiugto the Edwurdses,
ha began to have secret meetings at the
bouse of a friend with Miss Todd, aud
the marriage finally occurred very sud
denlyupon an announcement of only a
law hours. According to another ver
sion, and the ono Mr. Lamou seems to
prefer, the mutch wasenti.idy made by
tha Edwardaea. who draw! Lincoln
into it. One of his friends says he eveu
looked like a pan going to so execution
rather than a wedding. Hut it is painful
mad unnecessary to dwell upon these
lories.
Mrs. Lincoln seems during the earlier
year of her r. arried life to have excited
ante of thosa feelings of hostility whieli
Jtnrward attaohed to her as the wife of
President, for when Lincoln became a
candidate for Congress soon after bis
arrige, he was charged with beiug an
"aristocrat" and with having deaerifd
hiaold friends, tha people, by marrving
proud and ambitious woman, iiut
sho wus in tnuny respects such a wife as
Lincoln needed to help bim forward in
his career. She possessed the social tal
ents in which he was so conspicuously
deficient, and no doubt contributed more
than is generally bolieved to his snocess.
A single instance of her acnteness of
Judgment may be mentionod. During
jincoln's absonce from Springfield he
was made oue of the candidates of his
party for member cf the Legislature. At
the same time he intended to come be
fore tho Legislature as a candidate for
United States Senator. Knowing this,
Mrs. Lie coin had his name stricken
out of the published list of candidates in
tho newspapers, but when Lincoln came
home ho suffered himself to be per
suaded to have it reinserted, strongly
against his wife's judgment. His party
obtainod a majority in tho legislature,
and when the content oame to be made
for senator, Lincoln found his position
as a rueuibor so embarrassing that he
was forocd to resign a tardy acknowl
edgment of his wife's superior foresight.
As already said, Mrs. Lincoln excited
some enmity wbilo mispress of the White
House. It is probable, however, that
this was due to the trying character ef
the times. In a season of peaoe -there is
reason to believe she would have shone
as a Prosidont's wife, and her social tal
ents would not then have subjected hor
to the roproach of too groat gaioty or
frivolity. Some of her acts since
Lincoln's death have also excited un
friendly comment, but these can bo left
to a charitable oblivion. It is only a few
month since Congress voted her an in
crease of the pension which was settled
upon her soon after her husbund's death.
Lore Marred by Ilreechfs.
"I had rather an amusing love affair
myself in Texas, which I should like to
tell you, if you do not feci bo rod with
my long anecdote," suid tho New York
man, throwing away his cigar. "I wus
staving ut a ranuhe on the ltio Grande,
and fell in love or thought I hud fallen
in love, with a beautiful little damsel
who resided with her father at a hocion-
da twonty milcB away. I was tho pos
sessor of a new pair of buckskin breeoheB
which I had purchased iu New Orlenns, I
but hud hitherto nover Worn. One
morning I put them on. They fitted
perfected ly. and I was so delighted with
tlio appearance of my nether limbs, that
I determined to pay a visit to Donna
Isabella. When half way on my ride, it
begun to rum in torrents and my
breeches begun to stretch, and the
stretching continued uutil they bung
Imlf a dozen inches below my boot heels.
arrived in the . young lady s
prcsonce in rut nor a worso looking con
dition thin that of tho drowned rat.
However, sho received me kindly and
conducted mo to the kitchen, where a
roaring fire w.w blazing. I sat talking to
her while mv clothes were ilrvmir. and
was too much occupied to think about
my now brooches, whan my love making
was cut short by tho aunouncemont of
supper. I gave my arm to tlio donna
and entered the next room. We were
greotcd with shouts of laughter from a
largo company of men and women who
were seated at tho table. I glanced
lownwunl and my eyes fell on the cause
of their mirth. My breeches had shrunk
with tho heat until they had rollod
above my knees, leaving a wide space of
Hire flesh botwen them and my socks.
A lovo for theawthetio did not flourish in
those days, at least not in Mnxioo, and I
woo glad to hido my legs under the table,
and for tho rest of tho evening I wrap
ped a mantilla round my limbs. 1 wus
too nnoomfortable to resume my love
making to Isabella, besides, she laughed
whonever she looked at me, I slept
thore thut night in a room on the ground
Hoor overlooking a wido meadow.
Thinking tho fresh air would restore my
breeches to tlunr normal condition, I
took thera off and spread them on
tho grass, and then jumpod back
through the window and went to
led. Iu tho rooming I arose early
and looked for the cherished garments
dreadful sight met my gaze. Two
cows were contentedly breakfasting off
them, and only a portion of the seat and
the band with tho buttons remained, I
did not know what to do, and lay in bed
waiting for the appearance of one of the
inhabitants of the house. Presently Isa
bel's father went put my window. I
hailed hm and told him my plight. Ho
aughed and said he would fetch mo a
pair of his trousers. Now I am tall and
spare; my Mexicau host was short and
enormously fat; the trousers bo produced
mo were patched in every direction with
loth of divers colors, imagine my ap
pearance when I put them on. The rest
of the house had been told of my misfor
tune, k that when I left the room I
found alt the nu n and girls in the place,
including Isabella, awaiting my debut.
shall never foriret the wild veils of
anghier hieh gieoted me, and it struck
mo that IsuU'lla launhed louder than tho
rest. I made a rush for the stable, I
hastily saddled mv horse, and without a
woid of farewell rode olT as hard as I
onld. I never w nt to see Isabella
again. Noluing ki la love so badly as
ridicule."
HOW SlLTKH tl.WAVS Diiives Oouu
Orr. ' The shipment of gold for Italian
account, which -till cotitiuuo in a small
way in spite of hii udverso rate of ex-
limine, remin l mm nf what happened
when we w'r p eparing to resume
specie piv,vmeui-, mi,' also when the Itul
mice of trade w.is tfr-atlv in our favor.
England at I hoi, irut s managed to force
1'iaiu e and O nnsnv t.m. nd us tho gold
we needed. N" she forces us to send
what Iialv mo ils Rut it is our own
fault that we i v
-n put in this posi
'iliiced au embargo
which retains it in
ire-, we hIiolM have
nv by selling out
ning tho gold
tion If Wo Im i i
upon silver t u 1
this couu'rv f"i c
settled the bain
thut metal m. ,1
1 11 iston Adver
Mns HrowsM
eelil iro'.i, u , i
Kev. H FA
street ehur-1 , i
his wife, Mr i-
tied, ' To .
Birthday " It u
ing from it
f Mi's Slotte's i
in her work- -
the hands of G ":
Mra. Al en
A I'lllM l-alll
J'lPt U v
And e n il :
Win
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I 'A (MUTER,
Mrs,
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H'rw. the
r of the Florence
liein written by
daughter, enti-
n hor Seventieth
i vuliurlr intt'iest
i 'iiht being that
e eviction that iu
in instrument in
lie first stanxaof
ii esrlh
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' 'te angels trod,
I 'W
intent
bsud of God."
Jilt 4. BMITHEB S IXFATUAriUM.
To make home beautiful is a duty.
Mrs. Smithers had always felt it to be so.
She had.tliorefore.knit tidies.embrolder
ed lamp-rugs, worked paper racks and ta
ble clothes and filled the bouse with little
womanly kick knacks. Her husband, Mr.
Smither, was a solid, respectable man,
wbo had made money in trade, and could
afford to spond lt.Ue Lad no artistic taste
and scaroely ever opened a book, except,
perhaps, the bible Sunday afternoon. It
was an old habit his mother had taught
him, and be generally got half through
the psaliujhe selected beforoho fell asleep,
lie could not Lave told you the differ
ence between the masterpiece of a great
artist and an auction 'pot boiler, but
bo had, from' dealing in goods a long
while, acquired a certain appreciation of
color iu upholstery and catpots, and ho
liked to see things handsome about him.
The house was full of soft, well-stuffed,
puffy chairs and sofas, with comfortable
seats; there were bods into which one
sank into s downy paradise, a splendid
steam-heater kept up a summer-like tem
perature all winter. The dining room
table, with its big claw feet, was bos
pitally personified ; the side board, with
curly carvings, held nico, round silver
water pitchers, tea pots and jugs. On
the mantle piece were the orthodox
clocks, vases and bronzes. There were
heavy cornices above the window cur
tains, and they looped back with massive
cords and tasuls. All were perfection
at least its owner thought it to bo so; cer
tainly it was comfortable and costly, and
very showy.
"I like to eome home to a house like
this," Mr. Kmithers used to romark
rubbing his hands, and standing befdre
tho fire. "There is no nonsense about
this
So. Mrs. Sinithers thought herself, un
til she went ono morning to an amateur
lecture on "Haste on Furnishing."
When the speaker, a rod-haired young
lady in a purple dress, without a
wrinkle, like a pre-Raphaolite figure, had
finished hor lecture, of which not ono
word was original, poor Mrs. Smithers
was in despair. Taste was evidently
something she knew nothing about. She
m been proud of hor home: now she
felt that she should be ashamed to lot
this purple young laxly enter its doors
How many things were there wrong
there her carpets, hor curtains, Lor
doors, her mantle-pieces, her very
chairs. Ohl if Mr. Smithers had but
been there! What would he have said?
But Mr. Sinithers was always traveling
on business. He would be gone a long
timo; would ho learn while away that
this bouse was all wrong? lie might.
Then it came like an inspiration to poor
Mrs. Sinithers that, as her dear husband
nevor was "mean about money, " she
might make his houe right before he re
turned home.
Mrs. Smithers, though she prided her
self on good tasks was not a literary wo
man, and funciod that the Terence
Shook so often alluded to was some up
holstorer. Probably the purple young
lady hoc her own house furnished and ar
ranged by him.
Mrs. Smithers, on going home, looked
in vain for this famous unholsterer in
the directory. Finally, she ventured to
ask a better informed friend, wbo Ter
ranee Shook was, and where his
"Earthly Paradise," that the pur
pie young lady had spoken of, could bo
found.
Having received the revelation that
the "Earthly Paradise" was a book, and
in this the sayings bo often quoted
were to bo found, Mrs. Smithers at once
procured it of a bookseller and sat down
to study it.
The rosult was such a house cleaning
as the world never saw before. Various
strange men and women, all the ser
vants, and Mrs. Smithers hetsolf, toiled
from morning until night for six weeks,
and at leugth,on the very eve of her bus-
UH till O IUIUIU, 1U.IB. OU1UUUIB, IIUII IllUM
with her success, went through hor home
and declared it perfect.
And now a carriage drives up to the
door. Mrs. Smithers flies down stairs.
and in a moment quite vanishes in the
recesses of an enormous ulster. A
trunk is bumped into the hall, a port
manteau follows; the door bangs, and
Mr. Smithers looks about for his hat
rack with big mirror, round knob aud
solid umbrella stand. A long, thin table
with a rail atoach end, moots the eve in
stead, flunked on either side by a rigid
chair with a marble seat and mirble
slabs let into the bottom, Tho whole
uspect of the houso was altered. The
heavy carpets and broad, silvered rods
aro takeu up from ball and staircase.
There is no sign of tho register in the
polished oaken Uoor. J. be heavy wainut
banisters nre gone, and replaced by
spindly oak rsils.encb one conspicuously
fastened by a brass rivet.
What s the matter? Had a fire?"
asken tho bewildered gentleman. He
doesn't look very much pleased; but
Mrs. Smithers is confident of the effect
of the parlor She elides forward and
draws buck tho "portiere." There is no
door now.
"You didn't toll mo anything had hap
pened," says Mr. Suiithors. "Well, you
shall have it fixed up nicely again.
What was it? Furnace flues, evidently
the furnace isn't going. All your
Jiretty carpets, too?" and he glanced
town at tho expanse of polished oak, re
lieved by Turkish rug, and stops before
the mantel piece. When he last saw it,
it was marble, carved elaborately. Now
it was replaced by one of oak, which
ran up lo the ceiling in a series of shelves,
interspersed with small looking-glasses.
Tho portraits of Mr. Smithers' jolly
old pupa and prime-looking mamma,
which, in massive gold frames, had filled
either recess, had t,on banished. The
portrait! of the King and Queen of
storks, on lonp panels, in inoh-wide
frames of oak and gold, filled their
places. This was too much for Mr.
Smithers. lie fell into a long legged
Eastern chair which stood twfur a Biuall
wood fire, perched upon tall, brass
andirons, and took out his pocket hand
kerchief. "I wouldn't have parted with pa and
ma's pictures, now they are getting so
old. for any money," said he. Tell me
all aK)ut it, sis." '
"Oh, tha pictures are quite safe, Jere
miah," said Mrs. Smithers. "They're in
the hedrooin. Thera hasn't been any
tire, bat I found out that we were fur
nished all wrong -no taste shown at all,
yon know I went to a lecture, and
I really folt abanid, and how I've
worked to get things perfect before yon
came ! Don't you think tU 9 dado is ele
gant?" .
"What's that?" asked IU. withers,
in a queer tone, spooking softly, "
might to a baby.
"The border around the room, you
know," said Mrs. Smithers.
"Urn 1" groaned Mr. Smithers, "I'd
have thought it was a dido. Well,
where're the mantol-pieces ?"
"Down cellar," replied Mrs. Smithers,
"with the doors."
"Oh T groaned Mr. Smithers, "bow
hard these chairs are I I must walk
about to rest myself a littlo. Are the
chairs and sofa down cellar too ?"
"No, I stored them," said Mrs. Smith
ers. .
After that the married pair walked
about tho house and looked at the im
provements; but Mr. Smithers never
smiled.
"Don't you like it, my dear ?" asked
Mrs Smithers, tremblingly.
"Very nice I very nico I" said Mr.
Smithers, in a soothing tone.
"I'm sure it must le porfect," said
Mrs. Smithors. "I've acted on Teronce
Snook's advice all the while."
"Eh ?" oried Mr. Smithers, sharply.
Then he added: "Don't get excited, my
dear. Oo to bed quietly and take a good
rest, and you'll feel hotter to morrow."
"I'm sure I'm very well, indeed, Jere
miah." said Mrs. Smithers.
"But you ore tired, you know tired,"
said Mr. Smithors. "Go to bed -there's
a dear. I'll send Faunio up with you."
"Why should the chambermaid go up
stairs with me? cried Mrs. Smithors,
beginning to feel mysteriously terrified.
"She shun t, then," said Mr. Smithers,
"No, sho shan't, Kitty."
Then ho himself accompanied Mrs,
Smithers to her compartment; saw that
she retired, tiod a handkerchief wet with
spirits of camphor about her band, and
loft her to herself. Poor Mrs. Smithers
was afraid to resist, fearing that her bus
band might be insane enough to be dan'
gerous. She lay staring into tho dark'
ncss in the greatest misery of mind, not
knowing what her husband might take
into his head next. Meanwhile that
gentleman had rushed in haste to the
family doctor.
"Doctor," he said, sitting down in the
physician's study, "I've got a terrible
thicg to tell yon. When I went away
from home I left my dear little wife as
well as I could wish, in as snug a house
as woman need have but you know my
house, doctor. I come home to night and
find the poor soul quite out of her mind
quite out of her mind, doctor. She's
packed off all comfortable things, I don't
know whore; had the doors and mantel
pieces taken down cellar, and hung my
horse-blankets on rings; sent away the
carpets, and rubbed up the floors and
scattered about a few fuzzy rugs. She
won t have the heater or the gas; and
there's a log of wood on some of my
grandmother's old brass andirons, and a
few candles perched here and there.
And she's taken down the family por
traits, and hung up pictures of long
legged birds; and she's stuck pistes and
bowls and cups and sattcers all over the
wall somehow; and the place is full of
the queerest old spindle-legged things,
chairs that make you say Ouch I when
you sit down en 'em,and tables you can't
got your legs under. The placo is like
a charnel'bouse; but I wouldn't mind
that, if she was all right iu her mind,
doctor. What do you think of her saying
she did it bv the advice of some fellow
or other4 that' u mental delusion, un't
it?"
The doctor looked at his friend with a
solemn countenance, but his soul was
full of fun. He knew very well what
little Mrs. Smithors had been doing to
her hoUse, and why she did it, and quite
understood tho effect it had produced
upon his spouse.
"Smithers. my dear friend, he said,
solemnly, "don't be alarmed. It'B an
epidemic; half the women in the city
havo it. Your wife will recover. Take
my advice. Send her into tho country
for a week, and put your old things buck
into the house, You can sell the new
ones at auction very readily. Let Mrs.
S., as I have said, visit your mother the
while. When she come s back she'll see
everything all right again, and all will
be well. Don t talk to her about it.
There will be no relapse."
"Yes, yes, said Mr. Smithers, "I
hope you are right. And you'll go over
and see Kitty? I've put her to bed and
tied her head up. You'll go this even
ing doctor."
"At once, said the doctor.
He went. Toor Mrs. Smithers lay sob
bing in hor spindle-legged bed, with the
handkerohief still about her brows.
"Oh, doctor," sho sobbed, "I am so
thankful you've corao; Jeremiah has re
turned home in such a strange oondition.
I am afraid his mind is affected. He
would have mo go to bed at once, as you
see. Did ue seud lor you.' xnere was
nothing the matter with me until he
nearly frightened me to death.
'I ve seen your husband, ma am, said
the doctor, solemnly. "He'll be all right
in a few days. It was the shock of see
ing things changed so about him that
wn all. Do exactly as he bids yon, aud
everything will be well again."
Mrs. Smithers promised and obeyed,
and went mildly away to visit Jeremiah's
mother in tha country, on the following
day. As soon as she was gone, tho anx
ious husband packed off all the expen
sive purchases to the auction rooms,
where they oreatcd quite a "furore,"
and brought more than they cost, re
stored his door and mantol-pieces,
hunted up his old furniture, re-huug his
gas fixtures and set his boater to work,
and then went to bring his wife home.
He watohed the effect of her entrance
into her home with anxiety, but all Mrs.
Smithors said was:
"Uowcomfortablo!"
"I thought you'd think so." sighed he,
wonderfully relieved.
lie has never quite understood the
matter yet; but Mrs. Smithers does.
Jurats i us Smoking. In London has
been founded a national society for the
suppression of juvenile smoking. One
of the leaders in the movement is the
eminent teetotaler. Dr. Benjamin
Ward Richardson. Letters in ap
proval of the society's aims were
read from the Earl of Aberdeen.
Mr. Samuel Morey and others,
Dr. Richardson said the use of tobacco
by the young was a grave and increasing
evil, and that tha effects f it upon them
were destructive both to mind and body.
Ua was convinced that tha need for the
society was large and real.
A Story of Russian LIsclp'.Iiic
One need not be surprised at anything
that happens in Russia. Tha othor even
ing while smoking a cigar with one of
any old friends, who has seen, read and
i jravolPd a great ueai, a was toiu oi nn in
.tMhit that occurred some forty years
ago at Novgorod, quite as sinister as that
which recently twuurrcu omiKuu.
Th nl nel of a cortoin Russian rogi
ment ferociously tyrannical and I may
say merciless toward his soldiers, was in
the habit of tr eating this human flock
Ilka a nnck of .brutes. He disciplined
ith tha knnnt: sentencing men to whip
,,in0 for havimr one button insula-
ninntlv nolished: wb.'PIing a nou com
miHKinned officer for the stain on his
cloak; striking veterans of liarodino in
the face for saluting wo siowiy; seuuing
poor wretches to Siberia for giving too
free an answer. In short during the
lapse of yoarsthis colonel had made him
self so detested by his men that he
reaped a frightful vengeance from seeds
of hatred he bad sown.
One morning during parade he sud
denlv saw file off from the regiment, i
company of soldiers bearing, instead of
muskets, those long rods which out
deenlv into tho flesh at every blow.
Nevertheless, he had given no orders!
There was no soldier to chastise.
"Who is that for?" he domanded.
A grsnudicr advanced from the ranks
and replied witu terrible coolness:
"For thee!"
The entire regiment, non-commissioneil
officers and soldiers, were in the plot.
The whole regiment was prosont at tho
terrible spectacle. Tho colonel wus
seized, his uniform torn off, he was tied
down before the ranks of the grenadiers,
armed with rods, all of whom struck and
insulted him.
The oflioers who attempted to aid their
colonel was immediately seiacd and bay
onets pointed to their throats. Some
were taken away; othors garroted. Only
one soldier attempted to take part with
them. Then a sergeant, still pallid from
the effects of bis last whipping with the
knout, put his musket to the soldier's
temple und blew his brains out.
And all tho regiment suw its colonel
pass uuder the rods.
When it was all over they opened a
kiln oven. The colonel was flung into
it. all bleeding.togothor with the olHcers
who obeyed him. Aud when the furnace
was well fed, the soldiers heated it
slowly und slowly until at last that hid
ecus, heavy and revolting smell of
burning flesh arose in the air, which the
savages of the Russian frontier inhaled
some days ago at a Jewish cemetery at
Smurgon.
An imperial courier bore to the Czar
the news of the mutiny. Nicholas lis
tened, became white, Out said nothing,
except to order four uuttei ies of artilery
in Novgorod. Ten davs utter u white
haired und gruy-woustaohed major-general,
accompanied by a single aide-decamp,
knocked ut tuu door of the bur
racks which the soldiers had never left
since the murder of their chiefs.
The general gazed coldly on those
pale men; all neatly and faultlessly
uuit'.iruied, who gave him tho military
saime. ,
Not ono reproach not one useless
word. He only said to them:
"At six o'clock to morrow morning
tba regiment will assemble in undress
Huifonu and without arms at the Tartar
camp, upon the Littlo Square. Order
of the Czar."
Not one voice replied. But the next
day upon the carrow square, all in ranks
without arms, in their long gray coats,
their sergeants at their usual posts, all
the mutinous soldiers were there, in
lines regular as if adjusted to a string,
with a double lino of lunto bearing Cos
sacks before and behind. Then all at
onoe, from every far spire, all the great
bells began to toll. The Cossack horse
men withdrew. Only the unarmed in
fantry remained upon the square, with
folded arms, waiting. Then there came
a long, low roll of drums, and with it
from all the avenues leading into the
square came volleys of grape-like iron
hail.
Then nothing was hoard awhile, but
the thunder of the cannon in that city,
otherwise silent as a cemetery when the
men, women and children, knee'ing be
fore their holy images, were praying for
the soldiers they ware shooting down in
tho square. And during an interval in
the canonade, a hymn rolled up from the
square; for the soldiors were dying with
the prayers of their childhood upon their
lips. The cannon thundered for hours.
Then all was silent. Powder and iron
rested awhile. The cannoneers entered
the square and Teeoiled at the sight of
those ranks of men mown down like
wheat. From under the dead tbey pulled
out a few still breathing victims, able to
live awhile.
What shall be done with them,
General, shall we put them in the hos
pital
Put them under the knout I
The Influence or Women Iu Kgjpt.
The strong-minded sisters, who are
fond of asking the questiou whether
those who disagree with them would
not like to see the women of America
subjected to the Moslem stylo of bond
age, would do well to study the domestic
relations of tho present Khedive of
Ezypt, Tewfik Pasha. Tewtik has been
running h:s government under feminine
inspiration until he has run it in the
ground, or, more properly, the sand,
which answers that purpose in Egypt.
Tewfik is the son of a slave, sod bis
father, Ismail in changing the order of
succession,' never intended that he
should be the heir. The ex-Khedive
gave the place of legitimate spouse to
another woman who is now staying with
him in Naples. Ismail intended to es
tablish the Napoleonic distinction be
tween a civil and a royal family. He
was encouraged to hopj thut he might
purchase the riirbt to do bo from tb late
Sultan. But when Abdul Asix found
there was no more money to be extracted
from the Khedive, and learned that
lowfik was eaiy tempted and very ig
noraot, he insisted upon his right of
primogeniture being respected. Only a
few intriguing friends who bad secretly
backed his luck when Ismail was at
Cairo, knew that he was not so ignorant
as ha made believe. One of them was
Signor ilartino, the cousin of his
Italian friend, and now his private sec
retary. Tewfik was supposed to be in the
hands of Martino. This was an error.
He had a very clever wife and was uxo
rious. The Hanem Eraeneh' t .
riral. It was she who
war. an Anglo-maniuo. N
the Khedive give, an audience Kv?
istor or foreign Consul the Hanem P 4
neh is posted behind a screen of r.l
wood, where she hears and saw k .
mains InviMil.la fs... Bee8 bH h
tion between the French ?.lnen
and Tewfik wo. suddenly VSgf?'
sn altercation behind the Su Tr
disputants were Emench tDVi f
mothei-in Inw tvhn i. -., n
jowuus oi her i.
fluence, and is a sunerstitmn. 2
tempered old woman .:.. .!
was by the virtues of her incanUtl
Ismail was disposed. ,ut8tiCll
AVith his favorite wifoond mother i.
law quarreling behind the screen 1
Arabl BeV delvinar Ida . !..:. Z' m
is in a bad way. And when in addiT
to an tins it is known thut Arabi him
was incited to revolt by his own ityZ
vita, who hurl titkmi o
against Emeneh because the latter b!
ferred the society of her English frienl
to that of Mrs. Arabi, it will, appear &
the sex is capable of making a good Z
. A Ship Brake.
An apparatus has been invent! h..
introduction of which, it is claimed 'til!
preveut any further anpullinir
caused by the collision of vessels in ri.
ers, channels and at sea. John V,.
Adorns, of Boston, has perfected an ..
rangement which he asserts will brim
soy vessel, however large and fast steam
ing, to a aeau siop in irom one to ten
foot, and will hold her steady as a rw
with full steam on. This invention bt
terms a "ship brake," and attached to
this novel contrivance is a self-acting in.
pliance which during dark nights, thick
or foggy weather, will render impossible
in his opinion, any collision with floating
bodies, such as boats, ships, icebergs or
with submerged bodies in the shape' of
mud banks, shoals, rocks or piers. The
patentee, who is an experienced machin
ist and inventor, conceived the idea n
insuring the safety of steaming vewwU
immediately after the Narraaaosett and
Stoning ton disaster nn Long Islnj
Sound, the thrilling details of which
caused such a horror at the time of iu
occurrence. A sister of Mr. McAdana
happened to be aboard of one of the ill
fated vessels, and it was while listeniu
to the recounting of her terrible experi
ence that he determined to set bis mind
to work. The simplicity of nature
his guide, a fish being t'.io subject he
choso to work upon. He built "tins" (or
his ship, but placed them at the rear in
stead of oo tho side of the ship's bodj,
and kept on experimenting until assured
that the desired object was attained.
The construction of tho device is verr
simple, and cousists of a pair of iron
shutters or "fins," hinged one on each
sido of the stern-post of a vessel, and
shutting close to its sides from the stern-
post forward. The "fins" are kept tightrj
closed by a simple apparatus on dccl,
which is connected with the pilothouse,
and when "let go." the stavs connected
with the "fius" allow them to open it
right angles with the ship, bringing it it
once to a stand-still, and holding it list
as if anchored. The arcaoi the "tins"
in direct ratio with tho size of the ship,
and the immediate stoppage of the vessel
when they are suddenly opened is a cer
tainty. "Fins" much larger than ire
needed may be fitted to all vessnls with
out looking out of proportion to the si
of the ship. For example, a vf sel k
quiring "fins with a superficial areaot
100 snnare foet to stop it, could be sup
plied with "fins" of an areo of 600 feet,
and they would not look large or dispro;
portionate to the ship. When the "fiw"
are released tho experiment prorei
that no jarring or shoik is ex
perienced, such as is felt on a rail
road when the brakes are applied.
The water being a yielding bodycts as a
spring or cushion, ior ioggy earner
or darkness, a self acting guard is rigged
ont nt tho bow of the vessel, and should
it meet with any rigid body in the path
of the ship, when touched it at once re
leases the "fins" and stipe the vessel be
fore it can roach the obstructi "B.withont
any movement or direction on tl.e part of
Hir nilnfc or navicntincr officer. WhfD
closed the fins-follow the outline of the
vessel, and beingflusb with the sidescan
in no wav diminish its speed. The in-
veutor's first experiment was made wim
a 37 foot fast stoam yacht, to wuicn
was fastened a pair of "tins 4 lect oj ,
feet wido. The power proved to oe
least twice as much as was needed to
stop the vessel instantly when ut full
' . . ... i - ....... A flm
speed. A seconu iriai ueiuuu.-i'
fact when only ono was used. The space
traveled after'the brake was applied was
so small that It could not be discerned tir
persons watching the experiment irom
the shore. ' , , .
To ascertain what sized tins woniu w
required to stop a certain steamship of
1400 tons . measurement, a rattornu
was constructed to carry a pair of fins M
nnt firinir them to 0 VCSSPI,
The float and fins were towed out by a
f..i t i . i,n;nn ntf.mlied there.
PUWCIIUI IlllgUlJUl', I'DIIIK ,
by a new six inch Manila hawser, wo
the tnghoat was going at full speed,
full stara on, the fins were released, ana
the effect was to snap the hawser inw
piece of thread, making a report l'S'J
cannoj. xue nns reinameu m .
breaking strain of a six-inch hawser
siid to be 27,000 pounds. The tins n
on this occasion were each 9x8 feet,''
together an area of lii qnr? '
When they were triod with tho 1W
vessel, they proved to be abumUDliy
lurrro utnnnin(T tllA shin instantly, SBS
holding her fast against oil her pw
within a less distance tnan nve ier..
In the opinion of the inventor a
ision like that of the Stonineton ana
Narragansett could have been averted , u
the steamers had been prov,ded11.T.i!
brakes. The Stonington-the o'u'l,n
vessel had several minnles in hico
stop. The name nniuot-r ol TT'Ti.
would have been sumeieni - .
brake to bring her to a
Another case in point was thai
steamship Bohemian, which was wll",
on the southern point of Mizwn Hwi
by a collision with rocks. Ont , of K T
seven on board thirty five perished,
eluding the officers. One of the
vivors stated in evidence that u"
tha look-out and gave warning
breakers ahead" ten minute belore
ateamer struck.-N. Y. Herald.
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