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TIIE MEBriSO WATERS. Cloee beiide the meeting water long I itood e In a dream, WaU-hing bow the littla river Fell into tli broader itreain. Culm and (till the mingled ourreut Glided lotbs wailing eea, Ou iU breait serenely pictured Flnatiog cloud tnd eklrting true. And i thought, "Oht human aplrit, Huong and deep, aud pure and bleat 1 Let tbe Bin-am of my exulence Blend with thine, and find it ml." I would die aa dlei the river Jn that eunentdeep and wide; I would lire aa lirea iU walera, Flashing from a ttionger title. AFtUAT ON A Ft MACE. 'For nearly week we wero on a flout ing furnace," said Capt. Charles Nichols yesterday. "For noarly week with the deck timber scorching under our feet, and nevor a chance of popping below without suffocation." . He aat in the cabin of tho steamship Neckar, jant arrived from Bremen by way of Southampton, with one of the men who had tutored with him along aide. These two, with five other men, had boen taken on board in mid-ocoan from a burning vessel which was not ex pected to hold togethor for two hour after she wat abandonod. "My craft was tho barkentine Mary Lizzie.of St. John's, N. F.," the captain continued. "She wae owned by F. A L. Tcssier of that port, and on the 3d of January we loft it with a cargo of cod fish for Bah la, In the Brazils. The weather was fair. We bad a fresh breeze from the northwest and made good headway till we were out of eight of land. At eight o'clock next morning tho wind hauled around to tbe south west, and at four o'clock tbnt afternoon it was blowing a gale. We took in double roefs and kept on till the follow ing day. At 8 o'clock I oallod all hands on dock to shorten sail. We clewed up the foretopsoil and haulod down the standing jib. The ship was brought to the wind. It was blowing a heavy gale from the northwest and the toa was running high. The men wore busy balance-roofing the mainsail, when I chanced to look forward. A whiff of moke caught my eye up toward the bow, and I sent one of the mou to soe what was the matter. He csme running back with bis face white as a ghost. 'The ship's aflreP be criod. 'The fore castle's all in a blaze!' A lot of ns went forward In a hurry, I can toll yon. There was a sight for us there. "Tbe wholo of tho vessel bolow dock wat in a blaze. The flames wore rush ing np throogh the foresouttlo, aud the moke wat creeping up through the tim bers. 1 tried to go below, but was met with a blast that teemed to come from a furnace, and saw the forecastle under me a mass of fire. We never found out how it oocurred. I suppose tho lump must have fallen down and theoil caught in the bogy. The whole place had sprung into flames in a twinkling. I called all hands forward and we tried to get at the tire. It was no use. The fore hatch was filled with flames, and no one eould get down. We got sails and can vas together and covered tho forohatch and ventilating boles to keop tho draught off. The smoko was ooming up still, and we could hear tho roar of the fire under neath; but it seemed a bit stifled, and we out small bolos in the deck and kept heaving buckets of wator on them. All hands worked with a will. The mou knew their lives were in peril and they worked in downright eartietit. "The wind was still blowing, und it would go bard with ns if it crept through any loop hole. We used tho oanvas to cover everything and made every effort to prevent the fire going aft. We bat tened down the after oompanion aud sky light, and closed up all the vents we could find. It was of no avail. The moke still kept coming up, and we beard the craokling of the flumes as they worked doeper and deeper iuto the heart of the vessel. There was no escaping the truth. We were aboard a burniug vessol an actual floating furnaco in mid ocean, and we could do nothing to help ourselves. Our lives depended on the speedy appcaranoo of a passiug ship. We got out the boats and kept theui ready for an emergency, but niado np onr minds not to take to mem till tue last moment, when every hope was goue. Our spirits were low enough, I can toll vou. But there was little time for re- flootion. Every man was busy. We were safe while the flumes could be kept below, but we knew that at any moment they might burn up through the deck tinibora, making a vest, and then all was ovor. It was this we hail to tight against, and we bad to be at work inoesaautly to do it. The dock had to be kept salt watered, and day and night through all that dreadful timo the men were never pared a moment, but went rushiug about with buckets, plashing the water over tbe canvas aud emptying it on tun timbers. At tbo start we got soiuo pro visions up on the deck from the cabiu, and it was lucky we did, for before long would have boeu beyond our reach. Tho mate and I gut what clothes we had out ol tbe cabin, and they had to serve us all, for the crew had their kits iu the forecasts, aud nous of them were able to save a stitch. Boor follows! they had to suffer a great deal. The weather was bitter cold, aud sometimes tbe sea mould splash over them, wetting them through aud through. Some of them were cov ered with ice as they bandied the buck eta, and it was bard work for them to keep their feet. No one dated to go be low, and there was no place to soatch a moment's rent. Indeed, that could not be thought of anyway, for there were ouly eight men all told on board, and not a eon I eould be spared while the Ore was liable t break out uudor ns. For three days that unceaMOg struggle was keptup without a change; uo sail in sight, no hojie of assintaner! Nothing but the swathing of water about the deck, with the smoke steaming up aud choking us, the wind aud rain beating down a good part of the time. "On Saturday, Uis Cth of the month, I noticed signs of great danger forward. The ahip was getting very weak there. 1 anpposed she was fairly gutted sod all the ceiling and timbers were burned There waa no tolling whether she would break or not. To guard against it we had to cot the two anchor adrift from the bow and let them go. This eased her for the time and we weut on with our work. We did not hoar the flames crackling any more, but the smoke still kept rising, sometimes in a dense vol ume. It iillod our throats, but we were too much occupied to mind it, and toiled on without rest and with very littlo food. On Monday, tbe 8th, a strong gale blew from tbe southwest. Tho rain came down in torrents and a heavy tea tossed us about and seemed likaly to smash the vessel to pieces. To lighten her we cut away the foretopgallaut masts, the roysl mast and jib boom. The Mary Lizzie was now little more than a bulk, without anchor, with little timber stand ing, at the merer of the winds and with a blazing fire shut up in her. It was no wonder some of ns began to sink under the excitement snd suffering and came neai loning our senses. Tho smoke, too, always coming np about us, always frightening us with a snare of fire here or there, wherever it wssthickest,scemed to have gono to our brains and crazed us. I was the first to foel it. I had made shift to creep into tbe oabin on Sunday morning. It was thick with smoke and I could not endure it long. I triod to go on dock, and waa going np the hatch when the place got dark and I foil down senseless. They carriod mo up on deck, but it was a quarter of an hour before I recovered. From that the men were more or less prostrated in the same way. I remember four who bad severo attacks. They wero William Lis comb, the oook; the mate, Daniel Kane, and two seamen, John Thompson and John Adams. They were working on dock when it came upon them. Their faces would get as white as a sheet, and In a jiffy they would be down on the dock working in a fit. It was dreadful to soe them rolling about there, raving like madmen, and looking the picture of death. It was the smoko and the work and exhaustion did it. All we oould do for them was to hold them down and keep putting oold water in their mouths and rubbing their foreheads with it. I suppose that the thick smoke was the chief cbusj of the trouble, and we bat tened down the oompanion and secured all tho hutches for good, and from that time so one was allowed to leave the dock. . "Our little provisions were going out now. We bad boon able to bring up only what we oould readily look after in the first instanoe, and it would not hold out long. The men looked like ghosts, and were barely able to trudge about and koep the decks wot. Two of them LiHCoino and luompson were frost bitten, and all wore suffering severely from exposure. On the morning of Wednesday last the smoke was coming through the timbers from stern to stem. The water began to steam where it foil upon the docks. It was hot uudor foot, and we could foel that the fire bad traversed the vessel, burnod up all tho inside and would soon break out. We looked at the boats and dreaded tbe mo ment we would have to take to them on the open sea in suoh bitter weathor. We were all exhausted. Homo of the men. after their hard fight, were for giving up. It was two hours after midday, and we all belioved the vessel oould not stand two hours longer. The flre even then was rushing to the cabin, and it would soon be all over. It was just thon, in our worst extremity, that help caino. The Neckar bove in sight. We hoisted tho ensign upside down, and ran np underneath it tho ponnant aud square flag, 0 and E, to show wo wero in dis tress and waute 1 assiHtanco. The steam er saw us and lay on our woathor bow till we launched our boat and wont out to her. We were taken on board aud treated by tho Captain with the greatest ktudness. Tho smoke was rolling up from the Mary Lizzie, and tho fire was Iwginmng to break out. Our rescue had been timely. In ten minutes we lost sight of her iu tho thick weather." N. Y. Herald, January 15th. A Droll Trial of Memury. Memory was a favorite subjoct with Mucklin. He asserted that, by his system he oould learn anything he wrote at once heariug it. This was enough for Foote, who, at tho closo of the lecture (Macklin was lecturing at the Great l'iazza rooms, now the Tavistock hotel), banded up tho following sentences to Macklin, dosiring that be would be good cuough to road them, and afterward re peat them from memory. Here it the wondrous uonseuse. "Ho she weut iuto the garden to cut a cabbagoloaf to make an apple-pie, and, at tho titmo time, a great she bear com comiug up the street pops his head iuto the shop. 'What! no soap?' Uo he died, and alio very imprudently married tho barber; aud there were presout the Piouinnios and the Joblillies, and the Oaryulies aud the Grand l'anjandrum himself, with the littlo round button at top; und they all full to playing the game of catch as catch cat), till the gun powder ran out of the heels of their boots." Tbo laugh turned strong against old Macklin, and the laugh has been echoed from tho Oreat l'iazza Room by thou sands during the century that has elapsed siuoo Foote's drollery put out Mackliu'a monstrous memory with these straws of ridicule. (Loudon Society for January. Am UautuTKtri, Owl. A well-known place of physical refreshment iu Con cord, N. 11., is presided over by John Adams, a man of such tender sensibili ties that when, the othar night, just as he was shutting up shop, ha discovered a half frozen owl on the doorstep, he took tho bird in aud made it comfortable. When he retired for tho night he left the owl perched upon the safe, to which one of its legs was fastened by a stout oord, and blinkiug with extreme gratitude and devotion. As soon as ho had gone the owl bit tho cord in two, devoured every fragment of food on a well-stocked lunch eounter, sampled every kiud of liquor in the saloon, broke all the bottles aud de canters within reach, and in the morning when the doors were opened, was stand ing solemnly behind the bar ready for business. Worcester Oazettv. Jealousy recently induced a large Ber lin doff to attack a five-VMr-oM lxir. Tbe boy was potting a new lsp dog when tue utg nog jumped upon mm and knocked him down. The lap dog, going to the boy's MaUUnoe, was killed. Oood breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a DM1N t a 1 rra n n t ... a n n m If the price of beer goea np there won't be go much of it going down. Thought oi Fames. Mary is loo universal to be distinctive. Her name is at wide as nature and as fertile as spring. All sort of condition! of women are Maries, from tbe best and noblest to the basest and most degraded. Laura was once the sign-name of lady, emphatically una bell donna, whom a turn of the wrist made into a Madonna. Tbe aroma of Petrarch's un fading lanrel hung round that name for centuries, and poetry powdered tbe image with gold-dust that shone and sparkled in the sunlight of imagination and harmonious association. Lucy is always lovely. It would seem impossible for Lucy to bo unworthy. She must of nncossity be iunoocnt and pure, gontle and serene; and we should give her golden hair naturally breaking into curls about ber pretty head, toft blue eyes and a wild rose faoo. We have never seen a Luoy who wat brunette. Some must exist, of oourse, but we our selves know them not, nor have we ever known a Lucy who niade us regret her name, enshrined aa it is in one of the loveliest niches of memory and associa tion. Luoilla is another creature alto gethnr; to is Lucinda. These are doubt ful persons in point of wisdom; certain ly they lack simplicity; but Lucy may be wise aa well as innocent, and she has no afllnity with finery or folly. Sophia was once in the outer circles of romance, She and Matilda, she and Clarissa and Theresa, togother with Julia and Arabella, Oeorgina, Wilhelmina, Augusta, Thomasina and the like were of the tame clans as are how Hilda and Uelon, Edith, Eva, Ella and Nina, Ada and Maud that is names of distinction falling short of startling originality hillocks of individuality, not mountains of notorioty.. She was a personage in ber timo our graceful Sophia; but So- Iiby was a dwarf when compared to her. lophy did not challenge respectful admi ration as did ber elder sister. Sophy was plaything, but Sophia might have been something belonging to a court; and the bad a swooping action with ber skirts which always suggested trains of feathers. She has lost a littlo of her prestige of late; but she is still distin guished, and not to be oonfoundod with a Tilly, a Polly or a Clary. It is strange how diminutives uhange the character of a name. Constance sug gests a grandeur of womanhood which might easily rise into sublimity; but Connie is a light-minded little puss, whose brains are no better than feathers, and whose heart retains an impression no more than does the sea-Band below high wator mark. HoHter, liko Esthor, is beautiful ; she may be a little gruve.alinost Puritanical, indeed, in her sweet sev erity; or she may bo aimply gontle and womanly and charming all the way through. Bo that as it may, she can never be aught than savors of meanness or smallness. Hetty, on the contrary, may fling her cherry-ribboned cop over the m'.ll at her ploasure, and no one will think her conduct out of harmony with her namo. Flossie and Florrie go band in hand in frivolity with Cissy and Lottio and all are of a kind of whom we would not prodiot the wearing of a crown won by morit. But Flora may be a noble, broad-shouldered queonly creature of the nature of a modern Ceres plentiful, womanly, suporb; Cecilia has potentiali ties of nobleness within the circle of hor fair existence; and Charlotte still justi fies Werther. For Carrie no man would commit tuioido; but tbo is an eminently correct and lady-like person, and one of those who guide tho social team straight as a die, and keep tho domestio reins taut and firm. Maggie is of a nobler type, and Lizzie doos not lend herself to levity. Maggie may be quite as grand a creature as Margaret, who is queen by tbe royal right of nature. Maggie may also bo a wiusome lassie of the butteroup type in any case she ought to bo sweet and dear aud trustworthy, a girl to love, a woman to admire, a human beiug to reject and honor. Neither does Elizabeth mate herself well with ignobillty. Eliza is a shade more flashy, more approaching fastness and perhaps.frivolity; but Eliza beth should remember the traditions of her name. The high flown days when roigned Ara mint and Amanda, Thoodosia, Arothusa and Dolubellu have gono, togethor with saoques and farthingales, putohot and high heads. Clorinda no longer suggosts an acrotttio beginning with "Come heavenly muse!" aud onding with "Adieu, sweet maid!" Chloe in a Wat tout! oostumo, leaning on a crook adorned with ribbous, lias ceased toposturize bo fore a couple of lambs washed in milk and fed on flowers. Sophonisba forgets to lot down her back hair, while she iuks her uuwashed fingers over epios empty of heroics, and olegios void of pathos. Jacinta is afraid of damp dews aud cold winds, and therefore romaius comfort ably indoors working "crash" by the fireside, instoad, as of old, snouting sentiment under the moonlight. And the whole, large-eyed, lauguid troop who once hung on the skirts of Roso Matilda have faded into nothingness, which is the inevitable end of folly and exaggeration. Uoine Journal. A Bey Murderer lUngtd. Philip Matthews, a Germr.n boy of eighteen, was hanged at Belleville on January 12th, in the presence of a small gathering, He ascended tho scaffold dressod in broadcloth and slippers. lie said: "I wish you good-by all, and then whon the black csp was adjusted ho said to the jailor, "Good-by." In falliug bo struck against the side of tho pit dug nnder the aeuffold and rebounded.but died game. Matthews murdered his sweet heart, Annie Gier, iu May last, when she was at work arranging tables in the woods for a Sunday school picnic that was to take place the following day. He claimed to have'hold conjugal relations with the girl for a year before he murdered her. Just before the killing, stories of evil conduct on the part of her lover came to the ears of Misa Gier, oocasioniug her great distress. He visited the house on one occasion while drunk, but the poor girl whose pride waa thus outraged still allowed him to visit her after he had made a solemn pledge that he would ohange his course for the better. He violated bit pledge, and again called on Misa Gier while intoxicated, and on tbit occasion a quarrel eusued between tnera. Matthew left Belleville, coming to St. Louis, where he secured occupation for aix montha. He seems then to have gone to the bad. Returning to Belle ville, he called again upon Mist Qier stupidly drnnk, and this time the finally and fully discarded him, requesting him not to visit the house in future. Then Matthews left Belleville and went to New Orleans, returning, however, in the spring. From there be wrote her letters telling ber be was coming back to kill or marry her. Agreeable to bis promise, he returned and aonght out bis tweet heart, whom be found in the woods. Aa toon as bo taw ber, he said to Miss Row, one of her girl companions: "She will nover loave this place alive. I loved her once, but I hato ber now." Mat thews then drew his pistol and dis t into thn breast of the helpless girl. She sank to the ground with a bul let through ber heart, and men in a tow minutes. There was the greatest excite thn nicnio eroundt. and only tho firm attitude of the oflicers after the ar rest of Matthews saved him from tbe nniiiilann. The murdered frirl was uni versally loved, and the crime of ber taking-off was so brutal and unprovoked, that it waa resolved to lynch her slayer, but better counsel prevailed, and punishment was left to the law. A TToinan and Her Accouuls. A student of bnman natnre who writes for the Atlanta Constitution, says It is a touching sight to see a woman make np her expenses, having firmly re solved to put down every cent she spends, so aa to find out where to eoonomize, and were all the money goes. Procuring a small book, sue makes a due entry, and on Monday after the first Saturday in which her husband brings home his pay sue carefully tears tne margin off an newspapor, and with blunt pencil ttrikes a trial balance something in this way: John brought me home $18 40, and $1 34 cents I hod is 849 83, and $1 09 cents I lent to Mrs. Dixon is 850 93 but bold on, I ought not to enter that, because when she retnrns it, it'll go down. That was 849 93, and what have I done with that? Then she puts down the figures, leav ing out the items to save time a process which enables hor to leave out most of tbe items to where a round turn is in volved, on tbe supposition that they have already been put down. &s thus: Six dollars and fourteen cents for moat and ten cents for celery, and ten cents on the street cars, and a bad five cent piece I got in exchange, and 82 81 cents I paid the milkman who owes me 19 cents that's 83, and fifteen cents at church, and the groceries they were either 815 CO or 810 50, and I don't re member whioh they were, but I guess it must have boon 815 UO, for the grocer said that if I would give him a dime he would give me half a dollar, which would make evon change, and I oouldn't, be cause the smallest I had was a quarter and 82 75 for mending Katie s shoos, which is tbe last money that shoemaker ever gets from me, and 10 cents for cel eryno, I put that down. Finally she sums up the trial balanoe sheot, and finds that it foots up $04.28, which is about 815 more than she orig inally had. She goes over the list sev eral times and checks it carefully, but all the items are correct, and she is just about in despair when her good angol hints that there may be a possible mis take in the addition. Acting upon the suggestion, she foots up the column and finds that the total is $44.18, aud that, according to the principles of arithinatio, she ought to have 85.05. Then she counts her cash several times, the result varying from $1.40 to 81. 47, but then she happily discovers that she has been mis taking a 82.50 gold pioce for a cent, and that she gave the baby a trade dollar to cut its gums with. On the whole she carao within 86 cents of a balance, and that, she says, is close enough, and Bhe enters in one line of the acoount book: "Dr. By household expenses," so much; and is very happy nntill she remembers, just before going to bed, that sho has omitted JjImo for ber nuBband t hat. Cold Feet. It is, as wo have often labored to show, a mistake to suppose there is any warmth in clothes. Animal heat is the direct re sult of changes going ou within tbo body itself. Nutrition by food and the dis charge of energy by exeroise are the efll oient causes of heat. Clothes "seem"gool and warm becanso they prevent tho cold air and objects with a capacity for heat which surround the roily from attracting the heat gener ated within its organism. The clothing is simply an insulator. It follows that it should bo light in woight, and above all things that it should permit the free and full circulation of blood through evory part of the system to the end of every finger and toe and that the mus cular apparatus of the extremities should be in perfect working order. If we will wear foot-coverings.'wbether boots or stocking, which compress the feet aud reuder tho separate action of each toe impossible, it is simply absurd to expect to bo warm-footed. Heat is tho complement of work and nutrition. and if a part of tho organism is so bound that it cannot work, and its supply of food is limited, it must bo cold. The resort to stouter and heavier clothing undor such circumstances is simply ridiculous. Generally it is the stockings that compress the feet. The garter acts as a ligature, aud diminishes the blood supply, while the stocking itself acts at a bandage, and impedes the circulation through the extremities.! Lon. Lancet. The tt Reporter. The no reporter said he was parti cularly strong on reporting lectures. He never took any notes, be said.but trusted to bis memory, which never failed him. Here is a specimen brick of his first es say: 1 here is no tolling, said tueleetur er,"where we might have ,been to-day ,bnt for tne persistent study oflsewtonin astronomical science, resulting in the discovery of the secrets of the solar sys tem; the inventive brain of a Fulton, which gave us our knowledge of the law of gravity; the untiring energy! of Galileo, to whom we are indebted for the printing press; the mental activity of a Franklin, who produced the first steamboat, and the clear-sighted intelli gence of Columbus, who robbed the clouds of thoir electricity. Although the editor admitted that the reporter had evidently got it all in, the report, for prnaenuat reasons, waa not pnntea. The yonng man is now encaged in look ing up a new place. When he geta it no doubt ha will be fitted for it. The Eoth or an Enflne to a Tire. You aro Bitting at tea when the alarm rings. Yon don't know tbe box, but you rush out on the street and stare around yon In a moment the ominous rush comes on the ear. The horses canter out out of their stables, the firemen, nibble as cats, leap to their stotions, the wide door are thrown open, three policemen dash out of No. 1 to tee the start, and bangl ding! whisli! rush I OlangI crack! look out! ding, dong, ding! away they go like a tornado. Crash! a baby may be burning. Bang! sleeping children may bo smothering. Ding, dong, ding! An old man, feeble and rheumatio, may be staggering in smoke. Look out! the strong man, blis tered with flames, is yelling for bit ba bies! Look out, tbenl look out! stand aside and let them pass. Here they com, like a storm. The driver stooping down with slacked rein, speaking to the ;onf .tno.la that hicr-flved. wide-not- " JU" BVVBW 1 O J I trilled and strained, go thundering on. Tbe foreman sitting by ma siue, erect and defiant with arms folded, looks lion faced at the sky, searching for the omin Thn firnmeu behind him clinging like cats to a ladder, dressing themselves as tue macbine tunnuors ou. The ubiquitous reporter taking notes on the boomplate of the lofty ladder. Bang, boom, bang! look out! They pass a crossing like an earthquake on wheels. The horses alive and stnngwith tbe same enthusiasm which fills the firemen, spurn the rough street aud dash along as if a f rairie on fire was chasing them. They neod no whip, they need no lash; their big arteries are churning with hot blood; their big musolos are strung to tbe task they love. Tbe wild horse, fol lowed fast by red flre, never sped like they. With ears laid back, with eyes standing out from the bony fuoe, with nostrils red aa if with blood, they gallop on untiring. The branchman geta out his key, the foreman is all ready. Ding, dong, swnsh? The firemen gather themsolves for the final jump. Bang! "We're near the fire, lads" look out. Crash! All right. Bang! Here's the box. Jump for your lives! Bang! bang! bang! They jump. The horses' sides heave like big bel lows. Their noble head t fall between trembling knees; the sunk tails quivor; the pointed ears droop like limp leather, and the firemen, eloquent with enthusi asm, dash into the street, 'and an old woman, wiping her hands in ber apron, comes ont on the Bteps and says "tbe Lord bless you, gentlemen, but it was only our ohimney; and the Lord blesa you, I" and the gang go home and play dominoos. The horses stand wait ing for the next, and just as willing to jump as the man who has been waiting an hour for a shave. Toronto World. Tbe Washington Slave Hart. Washington was, in 1843, the greatest slave mart in the United States. Within sight of the Capitol, not far from the lower gate, and near, if not upon the land where the pnblio gardon now is, was a building with a large yard around it, inclosed with a high fence. Thithor slaves were brought from all the slave holding region like cattle to the Chicago stock-yards, and locked np until sold. There were regular auction days for those not disposed of at private sale. The Chicago fire destroyed a hard craoker which I had preserved as a speo imon by whioh purchasers tested the age of slaves. And to this day, if there is anything that the average Southern negro does not know is his own age. The slaves were placed apon a block, and when a question rose as to age, the auctioneer requested them to bite from a cracker, which all slave auctioneers kept for such occasions. The theory was that while a slave could mas ticate well, he could work. Nearly all the labor of Washington was performed by slaves, many of whom were hired from neighboring States. The slaves were expected to collect thoir wages monthly, and take them home on some Saturday night. One morning I missed my boots, and when I went for the bootblack he was missing also. After a few days I saw a procession of captured slaves, who bad sought their liberty in a Potomao schooner, chained two and two, conduct ed toward the sluve-pen, and there I no ticed my boot black trndging along in my boots. I had made a successful can vass for Congress in those boots, but they failed the slave in his canvass for freedom. He was sold for the Southern markot, as was customary with all cap tured fugitives, and my boots wont with him. But whether they wero worn out by him upon some sugar, rioe or cotton plantation, or by his new a aster, it was useless far me to inquire. I was a Dem ocrat in those days. An anti-slavery friend, who stood by me at the time, ob served that the slave ought to have known that if evor got into Demo cratic boots ho would have to go South, whereas, if he had only stolon his boots instead of mine, they would have landed him safely in Canada. A Bloody Superstition. During the reign of Philip II of Spain the government spies in the province of Malaga made a curious discovery. In the highest valleys of the Alpujarras, and surrounded by a population of re cently converted Moors, they found a tribe of mountaineers whose vernacular waa as different from the Arabian as from the Spanish language, and whose neighbors believed them to be descend ants of the ancient Iberians. The Ghabirs, as the Moors called them, were a most primitive and harmless race; their food cousisted of the vegetable producta of thoir peaceful valley, their only religions function in sacrificing milk and fruits to the spirit of the mountains. A few weeks after the dis coverer hal made his report to the holy office, a detachment of troopers and monks invaded the Alpujarras, the Ghabirs were dragged to Velez Malaga and burned by order of the Grand In- Snisitor. Their crime could not be con oned; they had disregarded tbe pro clamation of 1552, and evaded tithes and baptism for seven years. In vain they pleaded their poverty, their ancient cus toms aud their ignorance of the Spanish language; "They were all invested with the 'sanbenito,' " aayt the chronicler, "and broiled to death with the proper 001068." The thriekt of the victimi were heard at Loja, and for three daya the harbor of Velei vat filled with the stench of burned human flesh. It waa a most edifying "auto da fe" "an act of faith." The same faith Lad filled te Netherlands with blood and horror, hao. raged like tbe Black Death among the' hnlnlftna ahnrio-inea of the New Worht and had orthodoxed Spain by the tys- temaua supireeuju ui iimuuui, vuuiuiua aenso, manhood, industry and science. And yet that monstrous superstition had undoubtedly supporters who honestly mistook it for the purest and most benifioent of all possible creeds. But we may be equally sure that mere ignorance would never have produced such delusions. The worst delusions are not the primative ones, not the crude nnnrstitions of a primative people. The dogmas of an Asbantee rain-maker are harmless compared wun mose. oi a Spanish Inqu isi tor. Wo find priests and ignorance both in Asbantee and in Spain but with this difference, that in Asbantee ignorance produces the priests, while in Spain the priests produce ignorance. f Felix L. Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly. Washington Hoxtier'i Method or Getting a "Free Drink." A few evenings ago, while half a dozen gentlemen were standing at tbe bar of one of the most fashionable up-town saloons in Washington, a well-dressed, good looking stranger entered the room and walked straight to the bar.and addressed the barkeeper in language like the fol lowing: "Stranger, I am in a very, very bad condition. I want a drink; I must have a drink, bnt I am compelled to make tbe humiliating statement that I am unable at present to pay for it. If you yon will be kind enough to favor me in my ex tremity, you shall be paid, sir." "We don't keep whisky to give away here," was the blunt reply of the bar keeper. The stranger begged, bnt the barkeeper was inexorable and even rude. The mild-mannered stranger turned to tho gentlemen who bad been witnesses of the conversation and said: "Gentlemen, yon are all strangers to me, but would one of you be kind enough to loan me the prioe of a drink? I will pay it back." One of the party addressed handed the stranger 15 cents. He stepped up to the bar and said: "Now can I have a drink?" . "Yes," eaid the barkeeper, ''anybody can get a drink for the money here." "I thought so," said the stranger. The bottle of "red licker" waa placed on the bar; the stranger filled his glass liberally. "A little bitters in hore.if you ploase," said the stranger. Then when the bit ters were furnished he asked for a larger glass of water, which was also set np. The stranger drank his beverage and then turned to the man who had loaned him the money and s&id: "Stranger, I make it a point of honor to pay borrowed money before I pay whisky bills; here is your fifteen oents; I am greatly obliged for the loan;" and so saying, he walked out. The dazed barkeeper, seeing that he was sold, and that the laugh was on him, ran to the door and called to the stranger to come back. The stranger promptly returned and inquired, "What do you want?" The barkeeper replied, "That was a cute trick you played, and I own np that you caught me. The drinks are on me. What will you take?" "Excuse me, sir," replied the strangor, "I drink only with gentlemen; I cannot drink with you," aud the mysterious stranger walked away, leaving the bar keeper to wonder whether it would not have been better to give a stranger one drink than to be caught by a trick and have to "set them up" to a whole crowd. Jlj stcry of Mlislng Men Solved. One of tho best men I ever knew here a man of sixty-five years, who loved his home and family, and had no reason for eccentricity slipped away one after noon, went to Boston and then to Wash ington, and for two years drove a cart there, remaining away because he thought his wife would manage his affairs better without him. He never intended to re turn, but was seen by chanoe, arrested as a lunatio, and given his choice to be confined in an asylum or to do his duty as a man. He oame back, and, after two t happy years at home, died in his wife's arms. In another case that I remember, a gentleman was supposed to have com mitted suicide by jumping from a steamboat. His wife made no fuss, but kept the matter quiet, because she alone never gave np the idea that his suicide was. a sham, and for three years she hunted him down, and finally restored him to his homo and his busi ness. A third case of which I bad per sonal knowledge was that of a dry goods merchant who was absent for twenty years, and who returned wealthy, made hiniBelf known to the wife, who had mar ried meantime, sought out his son and gave him $10,000, and then went his way as he had come. He said he had left home because he wanted to; had not married or cared for another home, and liked the life of a wanderer much better than any domestic ties. These instances go to show that the cases of alleged mys terious disappearances may sometimes be accounted for without any necessity of presupposing robbery and murder. ' Correspondence Philadelphia Record. Choosing His Hire. A young man was courting two young ladies at one time, and loved them both so well that he was in a considerable quaudry which one to marry. He was certain that he could get either one, for they both encouraged his attentions. He finally concluded to try a little strata gem. So one day be mounted his horse, rode out to see his fair friends and hitched Lis horse at the gate of the first one. Going into the house in pretended haste, he told the girl his horse was sick, and asked if she could give him any bread scrapings out of the tray, as that was a good remedy. "Oh, la yes, lots of 'em." waa the answer, and going to the kitchen she soon returned with a panful of dry dongh. He took them and dis posed of them iu tome way, concluding that a girl raised to such waste in the kitchen would be neither a neat nor economical wife. The next girl had the same trial, but this wts his answer: "No, sir. I always wash out my trajr when I finish making up the dongh. 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