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VlUT TUB BVKBOVK WAS HOOD FOB A f,.rEOlMu.."lhrarmrTiald. . . ' 6.h?ii be lh. uUt II no doubt, JS,. wdr, Vfe.n.1 .iron sud Ull. ,.r a home." crlfl lha Hum tud. K"p''i d4rk aul ',retu S, i u.f."l" lud ol . lr.fr wrww JJIfburt w pllnlr nl for mc." .,nA for crop;" the pldcr tbmirbt, !?,dWiS fro rllb t, b. wroimil. .'r. i Klful l-lnmps of ikU!; fl a naiud idl'ii hi: Jhl.inder lurktd In bin c .ruer dim; ?M tbi wu.0 lbs MUM for him. -Good for Pl7." ' lld prp!f zt l know wli' fro "J " comlu nci; .he "t""1 the burr. ib.t .11 de.plw.1, ud bi'r cl'T plymi qull urprHed 7vu;d be md b ln:" n(1 f '. , . Ti, trrmuicd tbmr trtMvire. .round wltfi prldo, Aod plTd 411 d by lb buratcW .Ide. Vaihina la lot In thii world ol our: Ho ml com from ibe Idle a icr: The WHd wblch we P In uittr cora, iur lifa bf snoiber mnru. Wooden .ir.lt u i "'uru- We mut txs .Herd i"l K'"dljr l-rn, v0 nmai for reealewn tu ud nbuee, J. .nee tarda Is we. 8t NicfcolM A LESSON' HH)M A WOLF CHASE. Bubo Wexford ouc;bt to Lave been a banpy fellow. Ho was certainly consid ered one on tho day when Kato Wilde becarao bis bride. Uo was tho envy of every young man iu tbo rude western hamlet where tho ceremony took place, nd many wore the good wishes sbowored on the beads of tbo newly wedded pair for thoir future bapiine33 and prosper ity. Still tbero were tbote who not only insinuated but boasted that the help mate of her choice was unworthy of the woman bo bad won. Kate's father and mother were particularly opposed to the match and did all in their power to pre vent it, but the girl, beside her unwav ering love, possessed a determined will which, when onoe aroused, carried much boforo it. Rube Wexford was never ac counted a strictly tomperate man. In deed, there bad been tirnea before bis marriage when be was for days under the influenco of liquor, and Kate bad seen bim in this state and therefore knew fully tho extent of bis weakness. But the woman loved tho mnn, and within herself resolved that bis reclamation should be her duty. That success mnst crown her efforts she littlo doubted. Autumn drifted away, tho crops bad been gathered iu, and all the indications pointed to an early and severe winter. Rube's sprees continued. No wind was too cold, no snow too deep to keep bim from Washburn's, a not distant tavern. One evening in the latter part of Decem ber be took down bis loggings and gun from the pegs where they hung and was preparing to go out. Kate went to bim and suid: "Rube, you must not leave mo to night, (live iu to me this time and stay at homo." "I am ouly going for a jaunt," ho ro plied, "I'll bo back soou." "No, you aro going to Washburn's! To night you will, you must gratify mo. I am afraid to remain here alono." "Afraid?" ho answered. Such a thing ns four was almost unknown to Kato Wildo. She clasped her arms around bis nock, whispered into bis ear, her cheeks flush ing brightly, iben sat down in tho rocker and cried as if her heart would break. Rubo stood tho gun in a corner, threw aside tho leggings and cried too. Tho next morning when the winter sun beamed upon tho cabin, tho littlo log shelter held threo souls, instead of two. A wee stranger had come in the night, a bright-eyed baby girl. Her weak cry seemed to movo nil the better part of the husband's nature, aud bis wife looked on with a now born confi denco in ber face. After a week, when Kate was able to sit up, Eabe went to relato tho happy event to the grand parents. It was tho first time be had visited them for somo months, ycry early in tho morning bo started,' and when tbo afternoon shadows began to lengthen Kate looked up eagerly for his return. It was near daybreak when he appeared, bis bunds and feet almost frozon, aud his seuse3 stupefiod by liq uor. The wife's new hopes were des tined to be short lived. Freshly made promises marked the morrow, but days went by only to see them unfulfilled. Now, there was a new torture. Rube bud forsaken Wasbburn's, and made his visit to Pineville instead, where Kate's father and mother lived. It was almost more than the woman's nature could bear to know that her parents were the frequent witnesses of ber husband s disgrace. This was a sort of thing whiob she could not and would not long brook. Little Kate, the baby, was a month old to a day when Rubo made preparations one morning for a trip to Pineville. Kate looked on silently for a few mo ments, and then said: "Where are you going?" "Only to Pinevillo." "What for?" "To seo about some powder and stuff." "That is untrue. Yoa are going to spend the day with worthless compan ions, and yoa will come back studid ;l. li'mmr Ruliw listen to me. I have stood all which it is possible for me to endure. 1 nave prayeu ami eu- tAafnl vntl n nlmi.ilon a habit which hat disgraced us both. My pleadings hve brought nothing. I cannot and I wilt not Viiiva onr child to crow up to hnnv a fuller who is ft drunkard. - If in stav at home. I have said mv loa aav fin to Pineville if vou in sist on doing so, but if you are not here sober by sunset, l snail go wu iuu oju; to father's and in this house I will never set foot again. "That's all talk," Rube answered in a rough joking and ball senors iasnion. "Why, it's fifteen miles to Pinevile." "No matter," wos the firm rejoinor. "I will make the start if the ohild und I freeze to death by the way." "TiAi nnt tnr wnlren " Rube laocbed .train "ThnrA Vi ATA been half a dozen seen here Utelv. It La been a hard winter for them, and they're almost starved." " Wolves or no wolves," mattered Kute, "IU go." TnkA Vnnir hnnt Hi a hAT.nA nnAiRilr MUUQ w.ww . for an boar or so, then silently rigged i i 1 ; - I. JT . 1 mmS'jJl OUl, leggings, uuiiaiu cui, euu MaMnawMMHWnwaBwawDawawai and all. Knto worked away and said nover a work. lie opened the door, and without looking bock remarked: "I'll be here by snnset." "See that yoa are," was the reply. "If yoa como here lute the house will be empty." The wife watched bis form across the clearing and saw it disappear in the heavy timber whioh circled the cabin. She turned to ber household duties, bnt had no heart for them. Well nho know that Rube Wexford would break hi last promise, as be bad broken others before it. If so ho must abide by the result. She was determined. The day went by at a snail's pace, and the ofternoou seemed never enuing. Kato fondled she buby, listured to bor crow and cry, and fed ber a dozen times. Then sho prepared supper, and sunset came when it was completed. But it brought no Rubo. Another hour and still be was absent. So the moments passed until the clock struck 10. Tho baby was fust asleep. Kate roso from a chair at the cradle's side, a look of lirni determination on ber face, and opening the cabin door, peered across tho clear ing. Not a soul was visible. She closed tho door, went to the chost, and took from it a pair of old-fashioned skates whotc steel runners gleamed in the fire light. Sho laid them ready for use and proceeded to wrap herself as warmly as possible Then she bundled the baby in the same manner, lifted her tenderly in her turns, and with the skates slung over her shoulder, started across tho clearing. After rcaehirg the timber she left the beaten path and made for tho river. It was coated heavily withice, and the strong winds had blown it almost entirely freo fron snow, leaving a nearly naked surface. Kato laid the baby down for a fow moments whilo she fastened on bor skates. Then sho lifted her baby once more and startod for Pine ville, 15 miles away. The moon shone brightly, Bho was a wonderfully rapid skater, and sho kuow no slightest sus picion of fear. Rube Wexford sat near tho warm fire which was surrounded by half a dozen men beside himself, flu bad been there for hours listening to the anecdotes of hunters' lives, even adding to the gen eral fund with some of bis own experi ences, but though bisoompanionscoaxed and persuaded, they could not prevail upon bim to taste liquor. This was something so entirely new that many a laugh and joke was had at bis expense, lie answered all persuasions to imbibe in the samo way, saying only, "Not to day, boys; not to day." When sunset came be was fat ill in bis seat. He wauted to bo home, wanted to kern bis promise, but ho thought ho would wait awhile and start later, so that it would not look to Kate too much as if he were giving in. So thinking, be went to a oniet corner by himself and had not been there loug before he fell asleep. It was elven o'clock when he awoke with a start, and said burriodly: "What is it, Kate?" A loud roar of laughter brought him to his senses, and a rough voice cried: "Rube, guess you have been dream ing!" "yes, l.e replied, loonsniy; "i thought my wife was calling mo." lie glanced at tuo ciock ana saw: "Rcjjs, I must go." "Have somothing boforo you leave,' was tho genciul cry. "No, no; not to-night. Then he wus gone. His conseiense smote bim as bo trudged through the - . i 1. snow. It would oe uuer a oi-iuua when horoacbed homo. One thing con soled him somewhat; he was sober. But would Kato bo in tho cabin when he returned? Of course, sho must bo. Nothing short of madness could tempt her to keep the rash vow sho mado in morning. So thought Rubo. This wa9 because he was incapable of estimating the great suffering which he had caused his wife. On. on he went until through the stillness of tho night was borne to his ears the sound of falling waters. It proceeded from a spot which marked tho half way between Tineville and his owu homo, aud was caused by the river tumbling down a deep descent of 15 or 20 feet of rugged rocks. His road at this point lay close to the river bank.and soon be wa9 in full view of the cascade. As he possed it he noticed with a sort of thuddor how cold and dark the water looked as it tumbled down. For thirty feet above the falls there was no ico. It broke off abruptly, and the current rushed from beneath with terrible ve locity. Beyond in tho moonlight glis tened an unbroken surface of clear ice for fully half a mile before there was a bend in the river's bank. The sight was an old one to Rubo, and he paid little heed to it, but be stalked silently on still thinking of Kate, and wondering if the cabin would be tenautless. Sudden ly bo stood stock still and listened. Many an ear would have beard nothing but the.sound of rushing waters. Rube's acute and praotichd ear detected some thing more and be felt instinctively for his amnnition and looked at the priming of his rifle. Then from a distance came the sound again a peculiar cry.followed by another and another, until they end ed in a chorus of unearthly yells. Rube muttered to himself one word wolves and strained his eyes in the direction of the curve to the river's edge. The cry proceedid from that direction and grew louder and louder every instant. Before be could determine upon a plan of action there shot from the bend in the river what looked to bim like a woman" carrying a bundle and Bkating for dear life. She strained every nerve and never once cried out. Next came a wolf, followed rapidly by others, which swelled the pack by the dozen, all ravenous, yelling and gaining closely on their prey. Rube raised bis rifle, fired and began to load as he never loaded be fore. Th cries came nearer and neaver. Great Ood! the wolves were upon the woman! It seemed as if no earthly hope could save ber, when, qnick as an arrow from a bow, she swerved to one side, the maddened brntes slid forward on their bind legs, and she bad gained a few steps. Again she Cew onward, and again she tried the ruse of swerving aside, the man on the bank in the mean time firing rapidly, and picking off wolf by wolf. A fresh danger arose. The mr.man evidentlv did not see the abrupt break m the ice above the falls, and the dark, swift current which ly beyond. Perhtps she was too frightened to bear the rushing waters. On sue went, max icir straight for the falls, the wolvea al most on ber heels, and the man's TOice crying in tcrriQed accents; as be dropped on bis knees in the suow : "Katel Kato! My Ood. sfcve mo!" Tbo woman was on the brink of tbo ice, whoa she made a sudden sweep to one side. Nearly the entire puck, un able to check their mad flight, plunged into the water, which carried them swiftly over the rocks, aud Kato Wex ford was flying toward the river bank, whero she fell helpless in tho snow, her baby iu her arms, while Rube's rifle frightened the remainder of bor pur suers. It was somo time before sho could uuswer her husband's voioe. When strength enabled ber to do so, she aroso feebly ia the snow, ber resolution to ga to ber father as strong as over. Rube took ber hand, knelt down and said : "Kate, bear with me for the last time. As Ood is my judge, I shall never again taste liquor. This night has taught mo a lesson which I cannot forget." Kate believed bim and accepted bis promiso. Thou they started for Pine ville, Rubo carrying tho baby and more than half carrying bis wife. When thoy arrived there Kate-told her parents she had been dying to show them the baby, aud taking advantage of the moonlight night, had made the journey on skates. Rubo kept his vow, tho roses bloomed again on Kato's cheeks, and to-day a happy family of boys and girls feel no touch of shame ub they look up with pride to their father. Vandorbllt uid Garrison. I learn that the loug standing differ ences between tbo Vuudorbilts and Gar risons have at lust been settled. The story of this feud and its origin bus never been told before in print. It com menced in 1810. That yeur captain, now called Commodore Garrison, went from the Mississippi river to Now York, huv ing had a difficulty in 1818 which resulted iu bis killing his antagonist. Tho dead raun had many friends, aud Willium 0. Ralston, his clerk, persuaded Garrison that bis life would be constantly in dan ger if he stayed there and thereforo be li id better quit the Mississippi for good. Having quite a fortuue, Garrison took the advice, and wont to New York to bo gin anew. At that time Commodore Vanderbilt owned a line ot sailing vessels from New York to San Francisco. Gar rison proposed to buy this line, and after some negotiation a price and terms were agreod upon. Before the first payment was made, gold was discovered in Cali fornia, and the line at onco boenmo enormously valuuble, and Com modoro Vanderbilt, though bo bad made a contract, flatly refused to coneludo the sule and turn over the property. Garrison did. all he could to get possession, but to no effect. One morning be went to Vauderbilt's otlico and, laying down tho sum agreed upon as tho first payment of tho contract, asked Vanderbilt to tako the money and sign the contract. He refused to do eo iu rather harsh words. Garrison delib erately went to tho door of the room, locked it, and put tho key in bis pocket. He then drew u six inch derringer pis tol, cocked it, and said: "Commodore Vanderbilt, it is now five minutes to eleven by the clock on your mantel. I will give you fivo minutes in which to sign that contract. If it is not signed when that clock strikes eleven, at its last stroke, by tbo God that mado me, I will spatter your brains all over this floor!-' Tick, tick, went the clock. Garrison's pistol, with its huge, yawning black muzzle about eighteen inches of Van derbilt's brain. He could uot move, for Garrison's eyes were as cold and bard as those of Alropis, the pitiless fate. A motion would be certain doath within tho instaut, with no ono near to keep time. It was four minutes, threo min utes then only two minutes beforo he had to die. When it was thirty seconds to eleven, Vanderbilt picked up bis ren, took the paper, signed it, blotted it, and handed it to Garrison. As the latter took it tho clock struck the first stroke of 11. Garrison unlocked tbo door and went away. That afternoon the news of Vanderbilt's capitulation caused much wonder. Garrison was asked bow it bad happened. "Oh, I suppose the old man saw he had been wrong," was all the ro ply he over mado. The episodo of the pistol and the dramatic incident attend ing thesignatnro Garrison nover spoke of. Twenty years after it occurred, Commo dore Vanderbilt himself told the story. For years everything Vunderbilt could do wus done to thwait the stout old commodore who had compelled him to do what be had promised. But Garri son throve wonderfully in California. He made the bouse of Garrison, Fitz Sc Ralston a power on the Pacifio slope. His old partners are dead and ho is fichtine diseaso with an indoraitablo eourace. Garrison has lived years and years longer than bis family could have hoped for. The loss of his eldest son a few months ago greatly shocked bim, and in bis last days be has forgiven all bis enemies, and, as I hear, there is peace betweeqtim and bis great rival's lamiiy at last. vvasuingion ueraiu. An Alarming vil. One of the saddest and most alarming evils among us is the want of parental discipline, and tho lawless spirit re suiting from it among the youth of our land. American children generally govern their parents. When they got beyond the period of infancy they almost become yonng gentlemen and ladies, isoys ana girls are generally, to a very slight ex tent, uuder the oversight of their par ents. Not unfrequently tbey are sent into the streets that the mother may not he troubled with then, and anch boys verv quickly acquire all the accomplish meats which belong to young men of the period. Tho girls walk the streets ar raved in tin fashions of the day, and read the illustrated papers, and before thpv enter upon womanhood often bave their minds corrupted with false views of lifo, and imaginations excited by iinAges ruinous to tnmd and heart. Why, with such an eduefctron as onr young people generally obtain, need ono be supriw-d at the dissipation of our vonne men. and the fast habits of some of onr young women? The evil seeds that are being sown every day in our streets must be expected to lake root and in doe time spring up and bear deadly fruit. Has not the time come for parents to watch more closely the impressions, for time and eternity, being daily made upon the minds ot their children? A wtg says of a toper: paased the rubicund "Hit nose La LIKED TO HIS DOOM. It was a very singular, mysterious uud complicated case. In a bare room of an old house in the vicinity of London Bridge railway tttu tiou a man was found doud, banging by a small cord to a hook driven into the wall, bis feet resting on the floor. Ha was discovered some days after bis death, und bj reason of the strong smell sent forth from bis decomposing body. He was a stranger, who no ono knew, and why he should bavo como to that place to commit suicide was a mystery. He was well dressed, bad a gold watch in bis pocket, to whiob was uttachod a heavy gold chain; ho bad a diamond I ud iu his shirt front, aud a cluster ring of diamondi on one finger; be bad also a pocketbook on bis person containing over -00 in bank notes. It was, therefore, evident that bo bad not committed suicide on aeoouut i f poverty, nor been murdered for bis money. Was it suicido or was it murder? There was no scrap of paper on bis person to tell who the stranger was nor bis motive for tho murderons deed, if ho did it. Tho room, which was an uppor story of an old building, the lower portion of whioh was occupied by a commisiiou agent, contained no article of furniture. It bad been routed aboutton days pre vious to a rather venerable lookiug man, who walked a littlo lame and wore gog gles, who suid that ho wanted it for n office for the sale ot a patent that would soon become very popular with seagoing people. When questioned about tho patent ho said be would not then expluin it, but would have somo things on baud for ex hibition iu the coutte of ten days or two weeks. Tuo dead man was not the one who bad tiken the room, however, and how and when ho bad got access to the apart niont no one knew. There was au old fashioned fireplace in the room, and some paper ashes in this attracted the attention of a detective, who happened to bo no other thau my bumble self. In turning over theso asbos I discov ered two or threo bits of paper not en tirely consumed, and they had theso words writtou ou them, though now burely distinguishable: found ber and locked private room meet jou station U Now, after reading these disjointed senteuuos, I begun to etuily aud ponder them. Mieht this not be a portion of a mes sage sent to tho dead man, to lure bim to tho city for the purpose of putting bim out of the way? But for what motived Ah. that indeed I could uot kniw that was something only to bo fouud out after a serious investigation, in ca io one should bo mado. 1 examined tho charred paiior as well as I could, and reached tho conclusion that what I had read was a part oi a tele gram which bad boon sent by somebody from London, and received by eoniobody at a distanco, and that either the souder or receiver intended to destroy it. Now, if the dooeused hud received it,it must havo been sont to him by somo- body, und that Bomebody intended to meot him, and probably did meet him, at the railway station. Well, then, where was that somebody, and why had ho allowed his correspondent to visit that out of tho way room alouo and commit suicide without ever going near him afterword? And why should the man come to such a plucc and kill himself ? And could no navo lounu mo room without u guide, and got acoess to it un known to any one, if bo were not the man who had routed it in the first place? But then it wus certain that ho wus not that man, unless ho was iu disguiso whon be hired it; and why hud be gone to all that troublo merely to hang him self, when ho could bave done it quite as effectually in ten thousand better plucet? No; look on it reuson as I might I oould not bring mysulf to believo that the stranger hanging in that bare room bad put the rope around his own neck. I told tho coroner of my belief; but whether be coincided with me or not, it is certain his. jury did not, for they brought in a verdict of suicido. The body wus placed in tue mortuary for recognition, and I requested that it skould.be kept thore as long as possiblo for I bad a desiro to r-co what I could do in working up the case. I started out with the bun of paper, 1 had discovered, to see if I oould und at any telegraph office any message reoently sent oil, embodying tue words i nun transcribed in their consecutive order I was soon fortunate in getting pos session oi wnat i Denevcd to oe tuo original message. It was addressed to Horace tiranger, 187 street, Manchester, and read as follows the words found among the paper ashes I enclose in brackets: I have f found ber and locked J ber up in a private room J. Come on und use a parent s antuontv. lane me lasi nay train, and I will meet youj at London Bridge station. J Judging from thii, it was a oaao of a ruuaway daughter, whom "G." bad fol lowed and captured in Loudon, and whom tho anxious father bad eome on to see aad probably take back with him. As tho dead man appeared to be not far from'five and thirty years of oge, it was natural to suppose that no daughter of bis could be beyond ber teens. A school girl, perhaps, who bad pluyed truant and run away. But, then, if she had been caught and locked ut, it was not reasonable to sup pose it bad been in that bare room, in a mercantile building th-1 contaiued no other lodgers. And then again, if the f ithcr boil come on and found h-r, what bad becomt of ber. and if "G ." who bad sent the message, and why bad tne father re mained behind to hang himself? O' bad the mrl, assisted by "0.,'' mnrdeted ber father? In any event the affair was one of great mystery, and on privately reporting my discoveries to my chief, I received the welcome order to work it ont to the end To do this properly I immediately went to Manchester. The address took me to large, ele irant mansion ii the suburbs, which led me to believe the owner was a person of means. I did not ring, enter and state mj bast nuns, bnt linited the noarmt apothecary, as the man uio.t likely to kuow the geu eral fauts about bis neighbors. "Would you be kind enough to answer a stranger ia this city a few qui s tioiib? ' I said to tho dispenser of medi cines. "Proceed," be replied, looking curi ously at me. "Do you know a gentleman by tho name of Horace Grungei?" "I do." "What isbisbiisinos?" "He is a broker." "Is h't reputed wealthy?'' "He is." "His be family?" "A wife aud daughter." "About what ago would you judge him to be?" "About thirty flte." "And bis daughter? ' "About thiiteon." "Is Mr. Granger now at homo? ' "I cannot say. I have not seen bim for more than a week." "I bis daughter at boms?" "I think not. I thiuk sho is away ut a boarding school." "Pardon mo, sir, if I teem too inquis itive," said 1, "but I have a reason bo youd mere curiosity for all tho qm stion" I ask, and HouictMiH1, it not just ut this moment, you tdiull know all. Could you tell ine if' ho is on good terms with his wife?" "tl.:" ho said with a start. "Istlii. some scaiiiUI for a luw court to which I may be called us a witness.' of id No. sir. On my honor, no no yoi:r uaint shall bo made iu connection with any information you may give me." "Well, thtu," ho answered, with a peculiar smile, "it is rumored mind I siy it it oily rumored Hint ho is jealous of a certuiu gentleman of whom be has no reason to bo, and that bo has nil oocfl lonco iu ono who may yet turu out to bo treacherous villian." This was btcomiug vory interesting to me. "May I venture to ask tho name of this second prt?'' "Well, sir, as you aro a at ranger to mo," repliod the druggist, "1 will not nmntinn unv name: but if you should ever happen to havo business with th i,wl nlurli nf Tloruca Gransor. it is or oninion vou will bo within a bundroi miloa of the party." "Thank you," I said, fooling now pretty suro of my course. Afier somo further questions I left the apothecury and repaired to tho office of Horace Granger, the stroot and number of which I bad ascertained. I found a lull, durk, muscular, sinister looking clerk, about thirty yours of age, standing at his desk behind the counter. "Is Mr. Grauger iu?" I asked. "No?" was the curt reply. "Will ho be in soou?" "Don't kuow." "lias be been in to-day?" "Cau't Bay. ' 'Wus bo in yesterday?" "Can't say." "Will ho ever bo in again?"' The mun sturted, and looked at mo for tho first time, tu u quick searching way. "What do you mean?" he asked. "Hub ho come back with his daughter?" I questioned iu turn. He again started, camo forward, and sharply scrutinized my person; but, bb 1 uneied, witu a guniy cousuiimuu. "Who aro you? What do you want hre? Aud why theso impertinent ques tions-" bo demanded, in a fierce wuy. "Don't vou know that Horace Grauger is dead?" said I, fixing a look upon the fellow that made him quail. "Dead I" he exclaimed in well ussumo.l Btuuzmont and horror. "Good heavous! How? Whon? Whore?" "How? by hanging; when?-bix days aero: where? London l answered, cut- egoricully. "You take away my oreatni no aimosi gasped. "What is your namof 1 queried. "Goorge Orenham." "Ah, yes the 'G.l'" I thought. "You know Mr. Granger went to Lon don nearly a week ago to find bis daughter?" I proceeded. T uon II. n man turn iiftln and shudder. A bw n .... . as ho answorod iu a mumbling, confused wy: "I beltovo he did go eomewiiwre. "But his daughter wus not in London, mi Irnnw?" J . . t T T 1 said tins at a venture, lor i iuuuiuu x bad divined tho whole plot. "Why, bow did you know that? that is I mean "Never mind." I interrupted. "His daughter was not tbero, but you were . . ... ... i "Man!" anil III. AVAR IiLiriT SflUrHd. Vnn Iiuva liAnn thorn bnfiire. in the iuonian nf an old man. I went on: ..on i,o,i nnfrofrnri ft rnnm in a enmmer ciaT bouse to exhibit a patent; you went i t on again, and teiegrapueu w your em ployer tlial nis uaugiuor was iuuuu aau rf&A nn und to come on the last train. and you would meet bim at Londou . . J ... mw . 1 1 . ii Bridge station, xouuia nieot uim; u tu in the niabt: vou took bim to the room you bad previously engaged; you f..ll nnnn liim- vntl parroted him: TOU hang bim ap to the wall; yoa burned tue telegram, anil men you umuiuuu v...lr hin fn i.Iut Itin mlfl nf innocence." I went through with my accusations so rapidly, giving tue viuaiu no urae for consideration, or even interruption I plied one fact upon another so quickly r. i .. . 1 11. - Ml.. and sureiy, tuui i geenjeu io iu Ruin ..rnidi ti'liA an AVAvitneis reUtinir what I bad seen; and I brought the whole damning scene so vivioiy to nis roiuu that wiih a facA distorted with hor ror and covered with the sweat of men tal agony, he staggered book, then sank down.aod half groaned and half shrieked out: 'ClnnA liffivfns have mercv Wnlt I had mv clew: but before I could make much lire of it the mar nWnnn anmindrel bluW Out blS OWU brains. It turned out that, in s. ttling the es tate of the murdered broker, that bis murdeier bad been bis confidential man of busiuens and trusted friend; that the lHo. aratammatinallv robbed bit employer ol many thousands of pounds; that ha had been too intimate with bi a-lfa wliila rtniAnniiKr the -Mff) J' a mind against a true friend; and thaw, not aaiaflAi villi .11 this, he had concocted the hellish plot of murder, which I bave thna revealed. tt (Via nff.iir mida onitn a ten W 1 is-.u.w, 1 sation in certain circles at the time, bat . it. i 1 1 wu kept as mucn a possiuio irom m publio at large, and was soon hashed ap and forgotten by everybody not in sny manner interested beyond the mere ca riosity and tcsmlul of the boar. W.iut part the wife bad in the wicked plot I do not know. I. o course, won tho distinguished ap proval of my chief for the part I bad taken 'in the dark affair, and that proved of much importance to me in the future of my profession. The New Mode of Taetlnathuu The British Medical Association bas lately bad undor notice Dr. Moor's new tnvthod of veceiuation. His plan is to make with a perfectly ''leun sharp lancet, five or six single soarifio-ttions, holding the lancet as a pen is bold, resting se enrely but gently on tho arm of tho per son operated on, which is held with the left band. Thus performed, tho oora tion is suid to occupy scarcely two seo onds, and when done lightly, but suffi ciently, dot's uot waken a sleoping infant nor cause a child to cry, provided the at tention be diverted by gently stroking tho arm, or otherwise engaging tho atten tion. Tho lymph from the arm of an other child, preserved in tubes or on points, is then gontly rubbed with the fl it of tho lancet or charged points across tin littlo wound, which may ba mado by slight traction of tbo adjacent skin. The result of this mode of operation is found to be ciiti or more, inually two, separate vet-ides or an oblong compound, ono at the sito of each pair of scratches, and ono at the site ol tuo single scruicu, or ruoro if six wero iu . lo in all, or if they won mud" longer thun nsnol. It is neither necessarv nor desirable that tho incisions be mado ut all deep. Ju4 in Time. knv lino in annimnr nnn rrniv timet mij i.i. j '. - - - j . around the ferry dock an obi lake captain who was onco crossing Saginaw Bay in his schoouer with snob a galo bowling after bim that no one expected the craft to reach harbor. As tho g ih re lohod its climax, the captain aunouneed to tho mute beside bim: "Mr. Thomas, if wo como safe out 01 thii I am dono with whisky." 't'K.i mniii muM it wan I lie name with AIIU luutu " " " - him, and tho captain preseutly contin ued: . .. "And I'll never uttor another oath. Tho mate agroed to also stop swearing, and thm warmed up tho old man to promise: "And I solemnly docluro, Mr.Tbotna", that I'll linvo off chewing and smoking." "There's another thing, captain," shouted tho matn after awhile. "Whut'H that?" "Yon might promise to leuvo off ly- iK. "Yos I bold on Hold oni jno, in irn.l if T .In! Tlwim's bine ukv over tbero and wo'vo soou tho worst of it! Git thoso meu on deck ready to put bor about, aud U you ever uui oi mis m pulverizo you to a jolly I" Do Long and McItIUc'h Cigar. mi . u rH.iuHA tTvntiiiriAr aava- 1110 HUH X miii-nw j-- Jnst boforo the departure of tho Rodg ers in search of tho Jeanettoa number of friends of Do Long and Wolviiio, among thorn Major J. K. Duncan, of Vellojo, wer with several of the Rodger officer. in tho Occidental hotel saloon,an rran- n . n x Aiinni illinium uunuuv iwu uuawb offino cigars, and placing his card in side enoh, directed ono pox 10 umui,. io t .i it. .i iii inn- iii F. pi pi n oo r Melville utility u u" ' rl T - . placing them iu caro of Dr. Jonoa, to be delivered in case tuo jeannciwi jipupio r,. , ,1 After thn bnrninK of the Ridgersit was found that both boxes of cigars bad been saved. vuou itm men ran out of tobacco in tho native villages, it was suggested to smoue tue cigais, but ur. jonos uihimou ui wj Bhould bo savod aud thoy were brought back on tho Corwin. Aiojor uuuuuu :..n.ld In fnrvmr.1 both bOXOS Witt UUff mn'liun Vvj - a brief history of thoir travels to Lngin- err ftlolvilio. ueiermmea urn. mwi fur und waitinir so long for him ho shall ut lost ou joy thorn When the Horn View. ml.- fAl1.i..nw erAiiff rt nna nf flirt nnnr J.UH JUUUfflUg DW1T wt I m childroD flont into tho oountrj by tho . ..... V. -1 1 II 1 1 .. 1 1 Now XorK Uity I'rosn Air muu m iuiu i ii... lMiiiiu'l.nriT Tnlno-ram: "One of tho little girls was quartered with a kind . - . in. ml.- Kill.. family in iuornsonvuiu. iu uuu uuu i 1.1. r,t Imr nnmiinninns the dav after sho arrived, and in giving an account of . ' i. anil - ii a. .1.:.- her experience, saiu: -mo nrss iiuug -,l.r. no rrnt (liarA tllA llOrn bleW Und WS had breakfast, lots of good things to oat. Then wo went out to play, and befora long tho born Plow agaiu uuu wo uuu lice dinner, we went oui again uiww mnnr. aud in a littlo while the- horn I.I.... nfiiin ami HA hail SUDDCr. AftOr supper we went ont to play again, and prettvsoon the born blew again. We went'in and the lady ssid it waa eight 0 OlOOk and time W go W ueu; uut imiore we went ahe Rave ns a bowl of splendid bread and milk. Wbed I went no staira I was jnst as sleepy aa 1 could ue, ana nl,l tn irn In tn. tlArl l-iffht aWBV. but I told them if that born blew again to be sure and wane me up. . . - -i Lots or Eyes. Home of the lower orders of creation are not satisfied with two eyes only, bat bave them by the thousands, wnai seems to be an eye on oacb side of the head or trie ny very large, is a oumpuuuu eve bavins- four thousand fooets or eyes, each one of which is a perfect eyo but not moveable like ours. Ihi is like a pepper box, tho small eyes eorrespond- bus alsj three ia the front of the head. all making H KX) eye just tor one small creature! But, there are other creatures still richer in siitut. xne i..,. I... RfMin tlia bnttertlr has 34. 000, the dragon-fly 48,000. fu beetle 40,- 000. It H not strange, men ioi, uu i. i.. nnl a.iv tn armrniuih AOV of these an uvD v j ""I I oroatnres without being seen, since every one of taeno eros w po.uuok m a umwr- ... i II I il..A a. ent direction lue a pision u inewuwr tires were compelled to wear gold-bowed i nad been too luumaie wnu ui glasses tor eaou eye, m---while poisoning the husband's guru of money would be necessary to . .... I - 1 ... a r-ian.Y - anil Ilia.. Tint I 1. .. 1 1. . BHnnM vujr uv .uj'ijij. There have been many definitions of a antleman, but the prettiest and most poetio is that given by a lady. "A gen tleman says ahe, "is a human being combining a woman'a tenderness witfl a man's courage."