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M)BOUY TUEKE. T bojt wautl IMetMns tool TVk. iaUer th iju, U the plea J.h boiiituJ blu-frend bully Mr. woou-nt lor Uie "14 boy" Itier. . .,jihf walk "neath "vet "00 iuen orchard wall looklnil o hl(h: w Here m plundrr. climb t ouod." "'nVm Wo blH boy wl h ihe Wacierteye. .hl r.muy ou Dd how you art! "url you; ooboOy i there." knew ibe place for scaling well, .rid r ad "P wlu helr hodi. inn ovmbllni add (HI Ihclr victim Ml (7b5 broil leOg. ueri.n tb. IMIalr l.udi . i crod trt 1I do D lit t iwir." jje, luid m. al "t we-rlgoi Were. a i.ht there, ana' OD that atalrway iwun B iucbS II" ord emll lb leaves! f . rubt, left h " ,nJ" huD, oil IM 8r nd fair! ol auiuinu ve; rri0 .ud rxd in a aUtref air, apple nu eppW. P P- j,t wttbla reach of my umptlrg bold, tm air ",lh l',ol, "Ul,!r wre,u- iil,,be ol crlmMio. pendant of ld: hat wa w binder lnlu-rlD Sell? silent 1 buunon 'be old-ire i(lr. A tJieol lb orchard-nobody lbre. ituh lo the Beevna bung the harreat tanou. L raoiie but ll broiiKtal me mother- Mille; ,J I n H Unit bappeua, aud write m eood," Vtae Mild Ihroiieh mllei nd eer lb wblle, TbVra wrw two ol ui oo.y -, Uod took on 1 "iter. lb under the iuu. Somtbow Into that HI very huh , Came lb murmur of mother prayer, And mt rm Bjld bjik of ruU Uauebl the ini of my il.u-i bair. Htlll crlmton and fold In a allfer air Budi appl on apple, Pt on poir. l)ow In lb dark autre liny thing, Under lb delslrtailsen tood. Smote the qul.t with bell Hie rlM. BrlDilug an atuwer oul of Uie wood. Toloniher-irym',enn1- , , . , Jwrniui In euoru not ileal I" The tw'eWe In waiting law me bound O'erlhew.uwllh empty handi, Panting, brraiBleM". Uiey fled Ibe groundi- Far behind lay the lemp.lBg land'. -WUB"l."iuked Ibe bJt'l.r olJ Bo. Ulif Seltber " 1 anewered. "U jd w Were ! THE YALLEY OF M1TRIM0SY. mi mnra rri 0,11 Vie 88 tank that j uoro 10 m u.-.- ; --- r . cao fall to the lot of middle-aged Bpin- ater with qniet lasies man iuhi. i oujji of tnr consid- erble perwrnal attracUons across Eu- rope, me ironuio uogu uu Bpmer in the shape of a captain of the United States navy. At Faria it was a big Frenchman witn a nature ue mat of a Newfoundland dog; at Marseilles it presented iUelf under the guise of a dreamy eyea uerman; an iwm it wan Innonail Ttjllian: at NaDlfS it ooDcentrated iteolf in '.the most violent and virrulent lormin me person w a Tonng American doctor. - ,,...1 1 H nnnkla.l Willi m. cough on entirely natural and appro- i,tnn ia n mnnir wnmnn who ex- posed herself to all kinds of weather on ship board simply to know how the sea UrXaA in a ainrm. The idoa that that cough needed a physician's cure was en- trely preposterous; dui, an vuoouiuo wo hid not been in Naples ten days before liss Sutherland's lungs were as much ai object of solicitude to Dr. Manning if she had been in tho lant stages of consumption. What a delightful thing ootiEh is one, that i8, which is quite siflleiently Blight.does not keep the sul fever awake at night, or otherwise inter fere with the comfortable progress of enstenoel There was jnst enough real ity to Miss Sutherland's congh to pre- Hia fa ti 17110 of a fJUfc UDl umivi tuiwuQ o . jurney up Vesuvius, but not sufficient io interfere wnii any numuur ui .xbursions to San Martino, Capo di ilonto, or anywhere else that might be accomplished within a reasonable num ber of hours. That cough contributed to Miss Sutherland just the one element of attraction she did not need. The rather firmly Bet lips took on quito a gentle piteous expression when the irri tated throat was trying 10 relieve iic by a fit of coughing, a slight fever gave theusuallv colorless cheeks and clear eyes a brilliancy, and the exhaustion tlmf fnl I nor A1 rm lunml the voung lady from her usual attitude of sturdy inde pendence to a most fasciating condition of womanly weakness. It very soon came to be understood that Miss Sutherland's carelassness in reeard to her health, her ignorance, and mine also, of native1 "patois" the rieiousiiess or donkeys, and the cupidity of guides, made a male escort almost a necessity in the neighborhood of Naples. nnetuer tlie necessity grew uun ui mo reaiir nrnvininn ta meet it. or the pro vision out of the necessity ,it is not worth winle to argue. Judging irom lueinue- nAniionAA if aiiiov inrtv travelers, ma fV.BV.VUVt) VI VI". I J " w former theory seems the most tenable. uoring the first ol Uiese excuraoun Miss HnllrUnrl had something of My-guard about her. Three or four Hands at least were put out to neip ucr over every rock and up every height. Presently the number was reduced to one. Dr. Manninar had. in fact, as- nmed the same jurisdiction over the wt of Miss Sutherland' movements that .m -liil nvor tlia nonirh. That ail- lent had been his especial oharge from 1.8 beginning, and he seemed to be rap 'dlj assuming the responsibility ol what "er else appertained to the young lady. Otters bad been in this shape for about nonth when it became apparent that 'onething had begun to go wrong. By aang the united intelligence and experi- that have fallen to my lot I arrived the conclusion that as Miss Suther- ud had regained ber health sne aesirea o discharge her physician. I ws npt -Rpared, however, for the manner in hieh h n,iortvik to doit. The plan as revealed in the simple announce ment that she intended to change her isrters to the island ol upn. Pnt, :i ..l.tlnni In Mitts DUth- rland are such that for me to hear is to !ey. I looked at the bleak- mass 01 ik frvm mw win.lnw and shuddered, it 'ing lebruary.and the vaunted olimate f r.?i l :'... ...kill an F.n- ah May. The effect of the announce nt upon me was, however, mild to winch it produced upon ur. . sg. They were sitting very quietly -en it came she half buried in a big a-chair, he playing with the tassels of ' shawl. I "Agnes!" it waa a daring venture with her first name -"yon are not 'ing over on that bleak rock! It will absolutely dangerous for you. As i ar physician I will uot allow it." 5 Xow at this moment the doctor had vantage. Had he pushed it, dainty :. Sutherland, with her assumptions 3'gnity and firmly carved mouth, 1 have yielded that point and the ' He blundered, for Le added, very y. "Don't go, dear." 1 - "t the room. I always do at this stage. Mies Sutherland is a thorough American in regard to ner lovers. An English or a Frnnoh girl woild have nej alter me. Tim young tatty in qaes iinn tlimtirrttl1 tk nnila tYfia Hint I should retire. The matter in question I ! . t A- I 1 . I . was quite personal vu uerscn, auu re quired no interforence from outside par tina. Tim ilnctnr wont on bluuilfirintr nu questionably; for au hour later, when she came into my room, we sad tne 101 lowing conversation: "Well?" "Yea." "Againr "I believe so." This with a yawn, after which, to all apiwarances, her whole at tention was given to getting the hair nine nut ni lioi hair. Capri is a beautiful island. The old Romans had good taste; and Xibenu linilt roralvA villn on it wherein ti amuse himself during leisure hours. At tue same time middioagea women wu 0ot IIia rtinnmaliam in ilamil nlntia W had not token more than a dozan don- key-rides, ascended Mount Solano, and mmln tdn trin In Annnntiri. when certain twinges in my joints warned me of the probability of being laid up six weeks in a little pension perched on one of the steeneat rocks in the Mediterranean. Mv experienced eyes also informed me that aiiss antiieriand was not precisely uer self. My diagnosis of the case was soon niftdo out to mv own satisfaction. She was trying to live up to the lines cf hor mouth and at tue same tituo giging way round the heart. The doctor's stupidity had undoubtedly cost him a rejection. But when a yonog lady flees to an almost desert island to avoid the proximity of an obrfoxious suitor, and then spends mos , of ber time gsxtng across uie sea in the direction of where he is supposed to be, it may explain the matter per fectly to say that she is admiring Vesu vius; but if It does, the person whoso cepts the explanation has not muck ex perience of young women. Is there anything in this world rnnoh more excruciating than an attack of in flammatory rheumatism? This was pi o cisolywhat Miss Sutherland's caprices in regard to her lovers had brought me to. For two weeks I lay upon my bed a hideous mass of red flannol, racked with pain,and hating Capri with the intenity of one of the captives of old Tiberius. Tlnrinnr thin timA Miss SuthorlllUli devel oped into one of the gentlest apd tendor- est nurses tnat ever iook care 01 me victim of her own imprudence. The nnvoia nt Inrtnro was CoiniT OD. SIX weeks being the alleged period for the inflammatory demon to hold sway, when one morning the familiar face of Dr. Manning appeared above my bed. For two minutes I positively lost sight of the pain in my joints to wonder if he for. Miss Sutherland took tho first opportunity to inform me tnat no nan not. wuiu iuuduku his presenoo to the fact that somo resi- Aant nf Hanr! Vinil tnlll him that both till! English ladies at the pension were ill, the elder one very Hi. Tf onviliinff will alleviate the panes of acute rheumatism it is having two young people about one both of whom are clearly in love with each other, while each is ready to die rather than make the first sign. Tho attitude of the doo- tor was magnificent, lie Had oieariy come irv r,ri cava it tinssil)l the lives of v ,v . . . two women imperiled by the abominable wilfulness of one. llis recovery iroin the effect of Miss Sutherland's fascina- llnnn annonrnrl Cnmnlcte. Be had administered a cough mixture which nauseated tho young laay, out toon no further interest in her ailments. Me he nursed with an enthusiasm and devotion not to be described. I doubt if any rheumatic bpinster in red flannel was ever so cared for before. For four weeks I was tho object of the most assiduous attentions from two young people scarcely on speaking terms with each other. At the end of two weeks more I was able to walk about. Another lort night and I was pronounoed able to ride a donkey. By this time it might uave been supposed that as Dr. Manning felt no interest whatever in Miss Sutherland the attendance of a physician might have with. The Baroness Burdett Contts had just married a mau forty years younger man uerseu, vu uo sure, but the case was not parallol. No body on earth would have imagined for a moment that the doctor was in love with mo. . i i i There is nothing to do at Capri but make excursions on donkeys. My re turn to health was to be celebrated ny a stnnVav 0Tnrflinn. and the arrangements for it finally brought out from the doc tor that after the day was over he would betake himself to Naples. Up to this time Miss Sutherland's imperturbability had been almost equal to that of her lover. TbU announcement brought a feverish color to her cheeks, and from the magnificent repose of her usual man ner she took to exhibiting what in an elderly woman would have been de scribed as "fidgets." The objective point of our excursion was the villa of Tiberius that is in the best repair. There is a great choice of them, each one more like a mass of di lapidated brick cellars than the last. We started on a sunny morning, on two of the most obstinate and refractory don keye that Capri produces. The doctor preferred to walk, whioh be did by my side. Each donkey was conducted by'a peasant woman with immense ear rings ind oo shoes. Now to these creatures bad been given the directions by an obliging landlady to take ns through the most beautiful portion of the island to the villa. The donkey woman of Capri is an indescribable mixture of man, wo- i v..f T)i ara as strong as men, as loquacious as women, as stupid ' . . t ,1AnVAWa In and obstinate as tneir nw, Uuuj- this instance, however, they did as they were bid. We had been riding an nour or more. Misa Sutherland in advance, and the doctor with his band on my saddle, ex hibiting all the devotion that a young mau naturally feels toward a Hed spinster of fifty, when there was a bait on thewt of the donkeys and a chorus from the women: "Signora! S.gnor! Val di Maiimouia, signora! val di Mt- Misa Sutherland had not caught the words, and indignant at t' outburst of patois, inquired: W bat is the matter with them? Is it anything extraordinary?" . ... I have a wholesome terror of Miss Sutherland's moo!s, but the doctor had apparently survived his, for be answered , , coolly: "We are apparently upon the verge cf the Valley of Matrimony, and tie ilonkcv womcu are calliug our attention to the fact." There was a silence that under the cir cumstance was painful. Miss Suther land tried to look dignified from the top of ber donkey an impossible thing evttu for ber. The doctor succeeded without trying in looking savagely bitter from his positiou at the tail of mine. To relieve the situation I opened Bae deker. "'Tho so called Val di Mitrouionio, sometimes calle l Matnmouy by the inlanders, descends eastward to the sea at the bane of the Tuoro Urande.' "Ah," said the doctor, "it certainly does descend eastward." 1 went on: " 'The Grotto di Mitrouionio, or Grot to of Mithras, a shrine of the Persian god of the sun, to which one hundred and thirty steps descend -' " This time Miss Sutherland was ready with a remark. "We must see the gratto, by all means." To this I objected on the score of the one hundred and thirty steps, and the doctor agreed with me. I shall always think that it was the peculiarly chilly and disagreeable tone of the doctor's voice that suut Miss Suth erland so precipitately toward the brow of tho hill. In half a moment sho was off her donkey and explaining in her ohoicost Italian to a group of women aud small boys that she would cot have either their assistance or their company in descending the raggod steps. The peasants Bhouk their heads doubtfully, and shrieked, half in warning, half in fury, at being disappointed of their soldi. The doctor never moved a muscle, and in two minutes more tho girl was out of sight. By way of relief to his mind and my own nerves, we began to discourse eloquently on Italian scenery. Finally the subject could not be avoided any longer. "Doctor," said I, "fiud out if you can from these women how long it ought to take to descend to that grotto and come back again." The labor of this investigation was dreadful. The doctor talked and the women screamed. Tinio enough was consumed to have lost a dozen Jives, when he announced as the result of his struggles that Miss Sutherland should bavo returned long ago. "Doctor," I exclaimed, "that girl has broken her neck." "Weill" "Well!" I shrieked. "Is it possiblo you don't caro anything about it?" "On the contrary, I am rather pleased at snob, an appropriate denouement. She has broken my heart, nearly lost yon your life, and what could possibly be more suitable than for her to flu tab. by breaking her own neck?" This was a pretty speech from a man in lovo. "Will you go down and look for her?" "Certainly, if yon will go with me. We will probably find her sitting on a rock politely indifferent to our feelings, and meditating on her next new bon net." He positively declinod to go unless I went with him. Further solicitude on Miss Sutherland's behalf it was not in Dr. Manning's programme to bostow. Hand in hand, and assisted by a sturdy peasant woman, we scrambled down that horrible precipioe. The shrine of the Persian god, a cave with arches and walls of brick, was passed, but no sign of Miss Sutherland's presence. Presently, looking over a small cliff, we saw the voting woman halt sitting, half lying, on a rock. H "Is anything tue matterr tue uoctor called out. "No, nothing not exactly. The words were exactly those Miss Sutherland woull have liked to utter in her firmest tone. The tone she did utter them in was one that denoted an agony of suppressed pain. The doctor heard it quite as well as I did, but he did not move. "Will you come up, or suau i come down to you?" By this time we could see the white, drawn face. Tho doctor took two steps forward and stopped. Miss Sutherlaud.Spartan that she was, bad borne all she could bear. Both arms were stretched out, and the weakest kind of a vcice answered: t "I cannot come. Come to me.' Tlmro wasreallv "nothing not exaot ly" the matter with Miss Sutherland but a broken ankle and a dislocatod shoul der. What a pieoe of work it was carrying hernp that dreadful bill. And how ever did we manage to get her all the way back to the pension without killing her? Tears stood.in the doctor's eyes as be handed her first to ene and then the other of the stout peasants that helped him with his burden. That was the only sign of weaknes on either part. The doctor manages his wife; there is no doubt about that. Just precisely what system of disoipline was inaugur ated among the lemon gioves of Capri, when Miss Sutherland's ankle wae fully mended and her shoulder settled in its ioM iilanA. I don't pretend to under stand. It is all very well for him, but as for me, when I undertake my next charge, I hope she will be a common place young person with red bair and cross-eyed A Miner's Story. n.mA OmrA waa none. We could not break camp now with our weak men nnn nnp lianda. and it onlv remained for some one to tempt the desperate journey across tne can luan xuuge, j . . n ii.o TWira Paa. to Animas, and return with food, or a rescuing party. Failing in that, spring time wouiu nnu onr cabin inhabited by corpses. We drew lota among ouweives, mere- I - .!! men In decide who should undertake this perilous journey, and the risk fell upon me. It was best.perbsps, that it rhould have been so, for of all the party I best knew the trail. Without waste of words or time, I prepared my self for the journey, and, thoroughly primed, early one morning, before the Dala moon had fallen behind the west- w a i I I m aw ern mountains, i Daue goou iy w bj .ml atitriml. Tnrnins: mv back upon the camp, I settled my course by a atar, and at a brisk pace steered Booth- ail A at T Aontinned on the trail. ever with watchful eyes for Indian signs for I believed our oia enemum .4.11 In 4Iia vij-in itr but all day unmo- n,l at but. wearv and worn, as HVIVUf - v i the chill shadows befan to creep icruw : . t i. l.:. I ... 1 .wl fi. T It ibe great wnite pim homing urK, . . T . .1." Vvu luooau J throuch tht horrt""0 Korge once little else, and the rorVe7f?r ittt,, comparatively easy. . M? A,?m" " hopefully. pmta ro As darkness came fairly dowtiv4 myself just at tne mouth of the cJ'J. which led up to the pass, aud dcctuiriR it a most sheltered place fur a campin,; spot, I soon gathered a neap of dead limbs beneath an overhauing rock w here tlieannw had not yet come, bu.l'. a roaring fire, which warmed am' cheered rue, and prepared for the night I felt httlo tear, for the narrow, frown ing canyon walls would hide the light of my fire from all the plain country The only disturbance whic'j I mijir look for would "be the howling of tbi wolves, who threatened, but dared Dot attack me; and I cared not for them. With these comforting reflections, theroforo, 1 ate a hearty supper, drank a little molted suow water, lit my pip?, and rolling myself in my blanket, crowded close- to the wall behind me, now well warmed by my fire. Aud to, iu the flickering light, projected upon all 8kles,I gave myself uuhesitatiugiy ru to slumber. How long I slept I csnnot say. It wns deep in the night when I woke with a sudden chill. It was as it some one hid touched me with a cold and clammy hand, but even before I was woll awake my frontiersman's caution returnod, and I opened my eyes slowly, and didn't move. Tho fire was ell but out and tho ghost l.v light from its dying embers touched the suow and rocks aud trees about with astrango color like thick blood. The air was growing chill aud still, too, ex cept for tho cry of a coyote far up the cauyon wall opposite, who whined aud barked incessantly. There was somelhiug almost oppres sive about the silence to me, whou sud denly from jwt beyond my smoulder ing fire, the sound of a stop startled me, and before I had time oven to move there was bending over me a hideous painted face the face of a savage. And in his hand, already orcer.ing toward my heart, was his heavy scalping knife. To describe my sensations is impossible-. Some torriblo spell seemed to bind me. Not only was I facing a dan ger whioh meant instant death, but I was nimb'.o to move, pvea in the attempt to save myself. It was as if I were fas cinated. I tried to reason with myself. This was but a single enemy if 1 should spring upon him I might kill him and so be freo; but although tho reasoning was all right, the action I was unable to bring about, and all the time the terrible kuife drew nearer. The redskin knew that I was awake, ond that I saw him, but ho gloatel over my helplessness and delayed his fatal blow. At last, however, I saw the gleam of bis eye, the tightening of his muscles, and knew that iu an instant more all would be over, when a suddon harsh, metallic rai,tle sounded, as if it wero in my very bosom. I felt something glide from my sido a long, scaly, snaky body shot out to meet the on-coming arm. There was a blow, then a cry of horror, unu, as me kdiio iuu ringing to mu earth, a rattlesuake crawled slowly away, aud tho Unoompuhgro, wkh his now nerveless ban! outstretched and the blood slowly uripping from bis parted fingers, with a long, wild, death shriek, turued aad disappeared in the daikness. The rattler whioh my tiro had drawn from his wintor quarters bad raved my life and the lives of my com panions. A week later, with a party of good fellows, I recrossed tho San Juan run go and rescued my party from starvation and the Indians; aud it is because of what that snake did for me ia Devil's Pass, nigh on tweuty years ago, that I let the critters live to-day. A Singular IUU way Accident. Now let me tell you of the most re markable railway accident man ever looked at, says a newspaper correspon dent : I haven't seen anything about it in the papers.- We left St. Louis at 7 o'clock Saturday evening, by the Van- dalialine. At four o clock tue next morning, when we were 20 miles west of Indianapolis.I was awakened in my Pull man oar by a great knocking and bump ing, and in a few moments the car came to a stand still. Wheal got out I be held this: The engine was two hundred yards ahead by itself, the tender being off the rails. At the place the track is on an embankment eight or ten feet high, and there is a vaoant space of land between the bottom of the line and the fenoe. The ground was covered with long grass, snow and ice. The whole train was spread out back of the engine, the ears retaining their relative posi tions, but the line extending down the bank and along the bottom in a curved line like a snake. The two mail cars were on their sides and without wheols; the ex press cars and two freights had no wheels, but stood on their bottoms. A passenger car came next; some of its wheels were gone, one end was on the line and the other at the bottom of the bank. The Pullman I was in, had just left the rails, as bad another, and two that followed it were on the track. The mail bags hid caught fire and wore burn ing, but were afterward saved. Now for the strangest feature not a single per son was hurt. The ground waa so Lard that the wheels ran on it until they were torn off, and then the cars began to slide and went down like boys a coasting. The oauie of the accident was a sharp frost, which had broken the steel rail as sharply as a piece of glass. A train came for as at eight o'clock, and we made such good time after that, that we wore only four hours late in New York. The American gentleman didn't seem to make much of it. The conductor stayed abed. aun range, A Sew Way to Fij Old Debts. Few persons know that there is a law in Pennsylvania punishing profanity with a fine, and that one-half of the fine goes to the person making the charge. But such is the fact, and Charles Hoist, a tight fitted citizen of the first ward, remembered it to his own ptofit and the discomfiture of an honest neighbor, Charles Gibbs by name and a shoemaker by profession. Uibbshad a billot $7 60 against Holat for shoes msde and mended. Gibbs is mach inclined to profanity, and interlards his conversa tion with words that do not look well in prnt. Gibbs is rxcitahle. Hols', is iol as a cucumber. (ji,h dunned Hoist, who replied that th p wer. good for n.-tl-iu. and M wu loptv ftii'bsrot m.i.l ui d mvi t ,r down ' J'! fr'ivi lUil tie n:.ri tl.!ltl I'ei. alull .......Ml l.t.-U.,.. .t i.a , v mui luiiiMt or pay the ru N miy -rvTeii rV.. for every sitcU prr sow onr cr oath." Aud thtu t the l.iw givl'.g tho iufornier half f the flues. A wsriaut was issued, Gibbs wss arrested; lKdst Uwtitlvd to the number of oaths, ai d the floes, amoitntiug lo $1G OS, col 1 v i .l, one half of which, $8 01, was paid to Uolht, the informaut, who then paid the shtHMiiuker $7 lit) in hit own money, aud had foity four cetits left, with whih ho "sot 'tm up" for the countable in the n -urest beer saloon. Hoist ought to ap plv for a position under the I,av and Or der Krointy. Ho posne-me lare qualities for mi informer which tii.it associhttou niiiTht titiliz:'. Philiidilnliia Item. Ifrtby U Ileal "llil.y u dead!" Three little words pii-xing aloiii; I lie telegraph line, and uopicd tfoineaticie aud soon forgotli-n. But after all was quiet again I leaned my head upon my baud and fell into a deep reverie nf all that those words may mean. Soiuowhere a daiuty form, still and cola, nncluitped by a mother's anus to ni,'bt. Eyes that yesterday were bright and blue as skies of June, dropped to night beneath whito lids that no voice can ever raiso again. Tf o soft bands, whose roso-leaf fingers were wont to wander lovingly around mother's neck and face, loosely holding white buds, quietly folded in conflued rest. Soft lips, yjslerday rippling with laughter, sweet as woodland brook falls, gay ss a trill of forest bird, to night un respoiisive to kisi or call of love. A tiny mound iu some quiet grave yard. A silent home the patter of baby feet forever hushed a cradle bed tinspread. Little shoes half-wot n dainty garments - shoulder knots oi blue to match those eyts of yesterday, foldod with aching hoart away. A mother's groping tohoh in uneasy slumber for the fair head that shall never rest upon hor bosom. Tho low sob, the bitter tear, as broken dreami awaken to sad reality. The hopes of future years wrecked, like fair ships thut Buddeuly go down in sight ofJand. The watching of other babies.dimplml, laughing, strong, and this one gone. The present agony of grief; the future empti ness of hoart, all bold in tlioso throe Ht tlo words, "Baby is dead!" Indeed, it is well that we can copy and soon forget the words so freighted with woo to thoso who receive and Bound them. And yet it cannot harm us now and then to give a tender thought to those for whom our curdesi pen-stroke is preparing such a weight of grief, De troit Free Press, wit A.n trispow. Tl beat nil., for g,l(,a J,i, u io i-.-.j. iippy and cnliivv, k ml ,.,- -e n-nevl.-nder rrv. r mfcl.cu 'hi flea., Ho taken all t. mru-i he f-U. ti tl slighter, of the poet Longfellow jotiur d as students at .N'tuu.n, .;t, Englaud. li re are only two beautiful thiE h! world--wotm-n ud rosr; tB(l it iwcet thiugs ttcn.in ami usel- fivc birth to a desire, to nonrii-li if Mod it. to iliei-edBH it. In imi fV" I '0 satisfy it thin is a whole "iXmy ,,,nD'" uwn: Kh" "Youra . t:iiarleT lie Pitnvh. y"rbi - London A Potent Argument. A man died ut Evergreen tho other day, from the effects of intemperance, whose caso is a fur more potent argu ment than any we can advauoe in favor of onr board of supervisors standing firm by tho licenso ordinanco recently adoptod by that tjody. The person ro f ci red to had fallen under tho liouor habit, and having some money had no difficulty in obtaining at .tho corner doggery all the liquor ho could hold. Having, seemingly, no power to rosist the influence of tho habit, he coutinuod to patronize tho bar nntil he drunk him solf to death. Tho whisky-soller, who would sell whii-ky to spoor, helpless inebriate, thus drifting down to a drunkard's death, would, we doubt not, for a considera tion, furnish a child a lighted bomb shell for a toy. This is by no means an isolated case. There are many such within the knowl edge f f every observant oilizon. The work of ruiuatiou and death is going oo all arouixl us; and our boards of super vrsors are responsible for it. Ia this oounty they have the power to cIobb many of these dens of damnation and death, by enforcing the ordinanoe they have manfully and wisoly adopted. Wo trust they will allow no influences to oause them to retrace- the brave step they have taken. A Uenlle Horse. "Are you sure that this ia a gentle horse?" asked a man of a colored gentle man, from whom be wished to purchase a buggy horse. "Gentlest boss in dis town. A child kin dribe bim. My wife is a mighty skeery 'omso, but she ain't afeard oo dis boss." "Sorry to hear it," said the white man. "A gentleman who is running against me for office, gave me money to buy a horse for him. I don't want you to say anything about it, but I want to get a horse that will run away wUn him and kill him."- "Den dis is yer boss, sab. Tore a 'suresfl wagin all ter pieces day afore yes tidy, and killed a colored gen'leniao. Jes' suit yer, sab, fur be will kill de cn fortunate white man lessen a week." "You trifling liar, I wanted the horse for my wife, and merely tested your hon estr. I don't want him." "Who's a triflio' liar?" "You are." "I. ain't no wuss den youse'f, boss, 'case youse'f tola a lie jess ter see ef I'd tell ono. White man's got ter git outen de bed mighty soon in de mawin, ter beat me tellin ob a lie, lemnie tell yer." Arkanaaw Traveler. Widows. Widows don't fare so badly in the matrimonial market as some peo ple suppose. The great Napoleon mar ried a widow. Scarron's widow became a court favorite. Kouaseau went crazy after a widow, and Gibbon, the historian, made himself ridiculous over one. Disraeli married a widow, and three of the most distinguished widows in Europe to-day are the Empress Eugenie of the French, Queen Isabella of the Spanish, and Qaeeu Victoria f the Lngliali. If there is s.y good to mau . ' bound to conio it; but it should i." come out at once ucd leave the roan ' empty. "Yes, my wife Is a k-hJ poker pbyer," any a a Lieg Maud rariuei; and tin n Le adds: "SlmUalKo j-jt u bandy with tlietougs." A wmiin is never diKphand ii we please several other women, provided rho is puferrod; it is many mom tri umphs lor her. Society is eompo-ed of two aunt classes those who hare more appi ute than dkiuer, aud those a bo have mere, dinner than appetite. "A baby," says tho New York Journal, "is the oasis of married life." This doee away with the notion that an oasis is ft quiet phiOK, The life of a womsn can bs divided ' into three epochs: in the first she dream a of lovo, iu tho second she exttericnecs it, ' in the third she regrets it. "Dar is many a rule," says UocieSam, "wat won't work bofo wiys. Whisky will produce n headache, but a headache won't produce whisky." ' "No," said Mr. B.vrnraraonkoy, "I ' shall not vote. I'm bonud to be on the off side, aud for the life of me I can't ' tell thia year which aids that is." It is only a coward who reproaches as a dishonor the lovo a woman haa cher ished for him, since she caunot retaliate by making a dishouor of his love for her. "Yes," said Miss Tcnu, "I rejeoted Mr. Uogg. Nice fellow, but I couldn't have tho announcement of my murriage appear in the papers under the headline Hogg-Peon." A scientist says that, properly speak iug, color is not a property of matter, but of light. We remember when color was a property of matter, and that was about twenty years ago down south. On Got. 13:h Jupiter's moons were all hidden by tho plunot for tho fifth time in the present century. Uorr Holtz bos found that steel tubes retain more than twioo as much magnet ism as stcol rods, aud are therefore but ter for permanent mngnets. Recont iuves'.igations by Dr. L. J. Clarke fail to confirm the idea thut atmos pherio electricity is generated by the evaporation of sea wntor. Dr. Koch, who claims to have discov ered tho germ of cholera duriug investi gations into the epidemic in E'ypt, re ports Hint the uiintite otganisrj reauuiblea that seen iu Odsui of c.iusiimption. ' An I bil iuu writer averts that some miotites before the first shock of the great earthquake was felt iu the island of Isohia symptoms of terror wero ex hibited by the doiuestie animals, rab bits, birds, Qshes and even ants and rep tiles, Professor Huxley thinks thut three years may be regarded as tho adult age of oyhteis. Their natural term of life ia not kuown, but there are reasons for be lieving that it may extend to twenty years, or even considerable- more in some cuscs. A Dug's H.tgaelty, Tho othor day some Wisconsin poople wore astonished to oe their dog come into the home with a piece of paper tied to bis tail. They paid do further attention to it, except to laugh at hia oomical appearance, until he began Go ing around to different members of the family, always tail first, and sticking it at them. This ludicroui action at last made them see that there was writing on the paper, which proved to be as fol.ows: "My legs are broke. Please help me." They oarefnlly examined his legs, but found ihem all right, when somebody recognized the writing of a wotnau who lived half a mile away. They went to her house and found her helpless from ft fall which broke her legs. She could not stir, nor attract .rty body's attention, and she might have starred or frozen to death, but luckily ' the dog came in: and crawling to a table, she msnagnd to write the note and fasten it to his taih A relic from the battle of the Wilder ness was discovered by Mr. It. A. Lar kins of this city, who has just returned from Chancellorsville, where be haa spent a few weeks. Mr. Larkins stated to ft Bepublican reporter yesterday even ing that while he was forcing his way through ft dense thicket on the tragio baltlefluld last Thursday, digging bullet out of trees, ho suddenly came across the skeleton of a confederate soldier, who had evidently crawled into the thicket after bring wounded. The skel eton was bare and white. The clothing bad decayed and the only mark of iden tification was the waist-belt, with its "C. S. A." buckle. The skull still reclined on a knapsack and tbe remaining por tions of a gray blanket. A Catholie Bible wss also found, but the inscription on its fly leaf waa illegible. The ske'e ton was buried near by the gloomy thicket where the soldier died. St. Louis Republican. Mrs. Thomts Coooh, the wife of a wealthy retired powder manufacturer of Pottsville, Pa., died recently from the effect of burns received while she was boiling apple butter. Knowing that she could not recover, she requested that the mamage of her daugbter, which had been set for October, should take plase at once. A minister was sent for and tbe couple unite.. A few houra later Mrs. Coooh was dead.