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TUSSLE IN THE DARK. What Caused a Country Parson to Shut up His Hymn Book and Swear. Arkansaw Traveler. While Col Glint wu In the city he w&i the . guest of the Iter. Mr. Mulkittle-that Is, a part of the time. In the Mulkittle home be spent several nights very quietly, but after the fourth night be engaged board at a cheap lodging-bouse. "Are you ready to go up to your roomT asked Mr. Mulkittle. "Yes," the conolel replied. "I reckin I can sleep, but 1 don't know. Lying around town don't agree with me. I am used to work, and if I had a couple of trees to chop down I tblnk I could regain some of my lout physi cal force." "Don't you call preaching workr asked Brother Mulkittle. "Well, it is work after a fashion, but it don't loosen' up the joints like splitting rails. Did you ever split railxf" ; "No, and I hope I never shall" "I hope you do not consider yourself above such workf "It's not that, Brother Glint I dou't con sider myself above milking a cow, but I do not rare lo engage in the exorcise." "Why did you single out a cowl" "Just happened to think of a cow, that's all." "Didn't somebody toll you that I milk the cows at hornet" "I have never heard of anything of the kind" ' Then you are certain you meant no disre spect to me when you referred to the cow" ' "Why, my dear sir, such an idea is pre posterous." "Not so preposterous as you may suppose, -sir. I know town people have a disposition to make fuu of people who live in the coun try, and I want you to understand that if I am a country preacher I ain't a slouch. I can preach all around any man In this town." "I think you are over-sensitive, Brother 'Glint, and are disposed to be quarrelsome. This should be an occasion of great brotherly love, and understand me when I say that I .shall not be instrumental in making it other wise. Your bed is ready, and there is a lamp in your room. Good night" Col Glint, without replying, sought his room. He lay on the bed and tossed awhile, and then remorse began to seize bhn. "I would go down and ask his pardon," he mused, "but he's gone to bed. Hello, what's tbatr and he listened. "Somebody outside quarreling with Mulkittle. I'll go down and maul the wretch." Just as Mr. Mulkittle had stretched him self on the bed, his wife, in a great fright, ex claimed: "There's somebody trying to get In at the front door." Mr. Mulkittle went to the door and de manded, "Who's there!" "Me," replied a voice. "Who's uief" "I don't know who you are," replied the voice of a drunken man, "Must have been out mighty late with the boys if you bafter ask every feller that comes along who you are. Who do you reckin you are. auyway I" -and he laughed and slapped himself. "If you don't go away from there I'll come out there and hurt you." "You're the man I want to do business with." "lam, eh?" and Mr. Mulkittle threw open the door. The fellow ran away, Mr. Mul kittle following him to the yard gate. Just as the preacher re-entered the door, he was confronted by the colonel The colonel mis took Mulkittle for a burglar, and it flashed across MulkittL's mind that the drunken dodge had been a device to get him away from the door so that a robber could enter. The two men did not speak, but grappled with each other. Mulkittle is not slow in a "tus sle," and the colonel, a fact proudly recorded by historians, is at home in a baud to band encounter. There was just light enough in the hall for the men to see each other, but not enough to admit of recognition. Selecting his opportunity with the circum spection of a physical scientist Mr. Mulkittle planted a stunning blow between the eyes of his adversary, but ere be could follow up the ad vantage thus gained, the colonel, violating the international treaty, struck Mulkittle below the belt shutting him up like a knife. The colonel sprang forward to avail himself of the point gained, but Mulktttle straightened up with the colonel on the back of his neck. Then followed a series of scramblings with a view to proper adjustment Just at this time Mrs. Mulkittle rushed into the hall with the handle of a duster. She leveled a blow, she did not know at whom, but it struck the colonel across the ankle bone. "Hold on!" he yelled, "I pass. I can stand a good deal, but when I get a era :k -cross that bone I'm done." "Great heavens!" exclaimed Mr. Mulkittle, "is it youT' "Oh, no," replied the colosol in agony, "it's not me. It's the feller that keep the tollgate." "Bring a light This is very unfortunate, I declare." "Yes," the colonel replied "its d d unfor tunate. I don't use such expressions, as a rule; that is, I don't swear by note, but when a man deliberately sets a trap for me, after speaking contemptuously of my milking cows, and then gets his wife to hop oat and whack me with a pole, then I shut up the hymn book and swear." "You are entirely wrong, my dear brother-" "Don't brother me. I'll take you out here and break you against a tree. Lemmeget the balance of my clothes and I'll leave you." When he came down stairs again, Mrs. Mulkittle, seeing that her husband had failed, attempted to effect a compromise, but he wnved her off. "No, madam, your husband may be a good man, and may walk beside all the still waters be can find, and loll in all the green pastures in the neighborhood, but when a man instructs his wife to whack my ankle bone, I'm done. Good night," and he sought the cheap lodging-house. Cutting a Shaft fader Difficulties. Chicago Herald. The work of cutting a perpendicular shaft from the 2,900 level of the Mexican mine in Nevada to 2,700 level is very difficult and dangerous. The rock is bitterly hard and it does not blast well With all this a perfect torrent of hot water Is constantly pouring down npon the men. It is difficult to con ceive how they can work at all in such a place. They must go principally by the sense of touch murt feel their way like blind men. Not only is it impossible for the miners to look up, but such is the force of the pour ing cascades of water that they cannot climb the ladders without danger of being beaten off, and it has been found necessary to rig a hoisting apparatus by which to hoist the men up to their work. Comprehensive. Over the door of a cabin in Monlarj, on the line of the Northern Pacific road, is writ ten with charcoal the words: "Ouly nine miles to wtter and twenty miles from wood. No grub in the bouse. God bless our iouid." THE CUP WHICH CHEERS. Varloua M ays of Drinking ll-Anier-Iran Way and Foreign t ustore. American Queen. If many cups of tea Lave tbo reverso of a beneficial effect on the system, on accouut of the reaction ami sense of ex haustion which they invariably produce, yet the first cup of tea offered is as in vigorating as it is welcome, and the tea is as closely associated with English and American women in the minds of Frenchmen as is coffee withtho French in the minds of Americans. As to the accompaniments of tea cream and sugar a recent writer boldly asks: Why don't we forswear thera both? as at this hour of the day they interfere far more with the digestive organs than does the tea itself; he considers it wonld always be as rational to add cream and sugar to wine as to delicately flavored tea. This is rather going ahead, writer, and if we are inclined to sacrifice our sugar we have not yet mode up our minds to give up our cream ; in deed, gentlemen who drink tea are very free with the cream, both when help ing ladies and when helping themselves. Sugar is decidedly going out of fashion at afternoon tea, and out of ten ladies, perhaps, only three will say yes when it is offered; but it may be tliid is rather the result of fashion than fancy. The French, on the contrary, take sugar lavishly; they even dispense with the use of sugar-tongs, which the Americans consider so indispensable at the tea-table, and help themselves to sugar with their fingers. We draw npon the'Russians for many of onr customs connected with the din ner table, but have not yet taken kindly to their idea of tea drinking; that is to say, substituting lemon for sugar and cream "fragrant peel and a hint of acid," a slice of lemon no thicker nor larger than half crown. This, ac cording to authority already quoted, "neither disguises nor flattens the aroma of good tea, as do the conventional ad ditions, sugar and cream, but combines with and heightens it." The great fault of using lemon cousist iu adding it in excess. . whereas a very slight shaving containing both peel and pulp is the correct quantity for an ordinary cup of tea. But this custom has yet to take root, and with us this process is but a slow one; we are not too ready to take up anew idea, but once we have done so, it is remark able with what pertinacity we cling to it. When lomon is substituted for cream and sugar, slices of the prescribed size are handed with the tea. Any one who has once tasted the Russia caravan tea will understand the term good tea, but this is a luxury which only the wealthy care to invest in, as it costs up ward of $10 per pound. There is, of course, a medium in all things, and there is a wide margin from which to choose, and economy in this direction is soon detected. It is the province of the master of the house to buy the tea, and the one is far oftener celebrated for the wine he gives his guests than is the other for the choice tea offered to hers. Xeed or a Better Kdneatlon. Demorest's Monthly. Nearly every one who testified before the senate commission which sat in New York recently, as to the best means of benefiting the laboring classes, agrees that vital changes must be made in our common school education. Boys and girls mnst be trained to work as well as to read, write and cipher. France, Germany, and especially Switzerland, are far ahead of the United States in technical and art education. Hence the immense su periority of the foreign workmen in all our shops and manufactories over the native employes. The American is naturally the most intelligent, quick-witted, and inveutive, but he is left hopelessly in the rear when in competition with the trained European artisan. We must rid our selves of the superstition that our com mon school system is perfection. As a matter of fact, it is wofully deficient as compared with the industrial education given by continental European nations to their working classes. Apart from our scientific schools, the Cooper Union, and the Boston Technological institute, no provision has been made in the United States to do work that re quires intelligence and artistic skill. The PrenldenfB "Mghtnln' Wood." New York Tribune. The other day a large hogshead, sent from North Carolina by express to the president, was delivered at the White House. A colored domestic who took it in charge explained that "Dat dar bar'l is full.sah, ol lightnin' wood, or as yer might say, split pitch-pine kindlin's fur de ninking ov tires. Sence Mr. Ar thur hez been presiding we hev been a-gittin' on 'em ebbery munf durin' de fall an' winter. Mister Arthur nebber goes to bed in cold wedder widout a big blazin' fire in his room, wedder here or out to Soldiers' Home, and we as has ter clean up and look arter de fires hez ter take up a bundle ob dis hyar light nin' wood ebbery night, so as be kin frow it in de fire an' moke er blaze, an' sit dar an' tink while a-watchin' ob de shadows on de wall. When he uses de lightnin' wood, he rebber uses er light, an' when he gets tired he jumps in de bed an' watches de flames flicker till he goes ter sleep. He's mighty perticker ler about dis lightnin' wood, an' if de supply gins out, dar is some fun tilldar's more put in de bin." Plantation Philosophy. Arkansaw Traveler. De simplest truth is de truest truth, fur it am un'erstood by de most people. Fear ain't based on judgment. A hog will run quicker from a brick bat den ho will from a gun. De thoughts what rise in man longs ter hisself, bnt de thoughts w hat he gits frum books, 'longs ter somebody else. TonrgiienefTn brain weighed, it is said, 2,012 grammes, and was the heaviest human brain ever weighed. The average weight is 1.3IM) grammes. Cuvier's brain weighed 1,500 grammes. Cider is so plentiful in France this year that drivers refresh their horses with pails of it in the rural districts where it is handier than water. AT A FLEA THEATRE. The Performance of Trained Flea Behind the Footlights, Which Uor to Know that "The lo niestle t'lra Is Creature of Considerable lutein genre." Dantzig Letter in Pall Mall Gazette' There was a fair going on outside the gatei of this most picturesque old city. Wander ing among the booths, our curiosity was ex cited by one which bore the following in scription: "Pariser Floh-Theatre." Tempted by a man who told u the performance wai "just about to begin," we accepted the tick eta he almost thrust into our hands, and crossed the threshold of the tent There was certainly no reason for delay, as we found some what to our embarrassmeut, that we consti tuted the whole of the audience. But, as the famous flea theatre was about the size of an ordinary tambourine (which instrument it greatly resembled), we should scarcely have had so good a view of the performance if the 8eetators bad been more numerous. Taking our seats as directed about a small round table, we looked with interest at certain card board boxes which stood beside the theatre. One of these was open, and showed a number of tiny vehicles, carriages, bicycles, engines, Roman chariots, all as minute as possible. The other boxes, with lids, contained the ac tors themselves. The enterprising manageress, a stout lady in a cotton dressing-gown,' placed herself op posite at the table, and prefaced the enter tainment with a short but interesting ad dress. "The ordinary domestic flea," she be gan, "is a creature of considerable intelli gence, and capable of a high degree of intel lectual cultivation. We have no less than three hundred in this establishment They are not hungry," she added hastily, hi an swer to some slight expression of anxiety that doubtless portrayed itself on our counte nances. "I engage a man to come every day and feed them. He baree his arm, the three hundred are placed thereon, and they suck uutil they are satisfied. " Our immediate ap prehensions thus allaved, the lady pro ceeded to explain that the first pro cess in thegreat work of taming and educat ing a flea was to fasten an invisible gold thread around its neck, by means of which it could be lifted at pleasure or harnessed to any of the vehicles displayed in the box before us. A well-nurtured specimen will often live to the age of 8 years; and with evident pride she remarked, "We have several among our troup who are already o years om, and so saying, she handed us a powerful microscope, and gratified us by the sight of one of these venerable fleas (magnified to the size of a wasp), kicking and plunging vio lently, in no wise Impeded by the weight of its golden collar. The entertainment began with a chariot race by fleas of various nations. The Rus sian was attached to its native drosky, the Siberian to a sledge. England, France and Germany had each their representatives, the former harnessed, I think, to a common Lon don omnibus. Each comietitor was supposed to be able to draw' a body of six times its own weight. The stage was slightly tilted, however, in order to assist the runners. I re gret I am unable to give you the exact result of the race, which would doubtless be of in tense interest to your sporting friends, but the start could not altogether be considered satisfactory. The English steed went off at a steady trot, without waiting for any one else. The German lay down to have a nap by the way, and most of the others bolted off the course. This being over the lady resumed her lecture. "It is not every flon," we were informed, "that is gifted with the power of saltation. So for we had seen only, as it wore, the beasts of burden docile insects, indeed, but with no other special accomplishment Now we were to be treated to a ballet, as danced by some really superior artistes." So saying she opened one of the cardboard boxes, and extracted theuce with a delicate pair of pincers a dozen of dancing fleas, each ele gantly attired in or rather, I should perhaps say, covered by a petticoat of tissue paper, red, blue, green, yellow all the colors of the rainbow. Each dancer was announced by name as she entered upon the scene: Meess Elizabet, Frauleiu Anna, Mnmzelle Barbo, etc. ; and each and all, encouraged by the voice of their directress, performed the most astonishing evolutions, whirling and hopping, skipping, leaping wildly into the air in a way that was comical to behold. It was as if the minutest of ballet girls had been cut in two at the waist, the lower half performing minus the head and shoulders, or like a Sab battical dunce of fairy lampshades be witched. Now and agniu, after some unusually pro digious leap, an artiste would be upset. Then, beneath the gay voluminous skirt, the strug gling insect was for a moment visible; quickly replaced on its legs, however, by the watchful care of its mistress. Now came act the third, when the interest was supposed to culminate; and with much verbal flourish of trumpets, a female rope-dancer was produced, second only in renown to the famous Blondiu himself. This young lady's name was Eliza. She lived in a nest of cotton wool, with one other companion, who was prob ably in delicate health, as she was not called upon to perform. Eliza not only danced on a rope, but twice traversed an imaginary unfathomable abyss on a nearly invisible wire suspended between two pins, finally to conclude the exhibi- tion the box of cotton wool was held upside down at a distance of nearly two inches above her bead, and at the word of command, "Jetzt Elisa, springe!" (Now, Eliza, jump!) the intelligent insect sprang with one bound into its warm and cosy nest We were charged for this entertainment the not ira moderate sum of 5 pence apiece, and as we walked away, remembering the man who fed, and the lady who taught the fleas, we could not but marvel at the variety of ways in which it is possible to earn one's livelihood in this our worka-day world. Sir. neeeher'a Knbatltote for IlelL Interview in Galveston News. "Mr. Beecher, when the dogma of a hell it knocked in the head, how are you to appeal to men in such a way as to lilt them out of their boots f "Preach retribution," answered the great thinker, in a very emphatic manner. "No in telligent person believes in a literal burning bell, but when men come to learn that their sins will find them out and there is no chance of escaping the punishment for wrong-doing you have got a moral lever that will control the violences of human nature and send it on through the ages of eternity in the right di rection " The Menate Bar-Tender. The new "caterer" (bar-tender) of the United States senate is Richard Francis, colored. He is worth $40,000, and can under stand a wink a mile away. The three funds already collected for the erection of a monument to On. Lee in Rich mond now amount to about fciS.Ouu THE VARIETIES OF LAUGHTER. From the He-He lilggleto the Thon-and-Ae re-UnlTaw. Brooklyn Eagle. There is the hearty laugh, tho con vulsive litugh, the he-he laugh, and the uproarious, al most-tumble- out-of-t he chair laugh. Thore was the laugh of Prince Hal, who was said to laugh "till his face is like a wet cloak ill, laid up." There is the incipient laugh, which is not a laugh but a smile. The late Charles Backus, the minstrel,who,it will be remembered, had a very large mouth, was once having his photograph taken. The operator told him to look pleasant, to smile a little. The famous minstrel gave an elaborate smile. "Oh, that will never do !" said the photographor, it's too wide for the instrument. Speaking of a western actress the re- fiorter wrote : "Hor smile oponod out ike the Yosemito valley in a May morn ing." Whon Miss Mario Wilt n, the English actress, played nestor Graze brook in. the "Unequal Match," her laugh was said to bo of the character that first as it were looks out of the eyes to soo if the coast was clear, then steals down into a prettv dimple of the check and rides there in an eddy for the while; thon waltzes at tho corners of the mouth like a thing of lifo; thon bursts its bonds of beauty and fills tho air for a moment with - a shower of silver-tongued echoes and then steals back to its lair in the heart to watch ao:ain for its nr?v." How different from the kind of laugh of Prince Iloaro, a friend of Hayden, the painter. This gentleman was a delicate, foeblo-looking man. with a timid expression of face. and when he laughed heartily ho almost seemed to be crying. It mns in families sometimes to dis tort the countenance iu laughter. Mr Labouchere speaks of a family who laugh a great deal, and who always shut their eyes when they do so. It is funnv at the dinner table, when some thing witty is said to look around and see the same distortion of every face. There is not an eye left in tho family. A trio of sisters is spoken, of who show half an inch of palo pink gutos when they laugh. In their presence, like Wendoll Holmes, one "never dares to bo as funny as one can," for fear of see ing their applauding triple of gums. A laugh is sometimes only a sneer. Diogenes, of tub notoriety, saw a good deal of this kind of laughter. Some one said to him, " Many peoplo laugh at you." " But I," he quickly rouiarkod, " am not laughed down. The "Store" Pumpkin Pie. Peck's 8un.l The store kind of pumpkin pie has a sort of sicklv second-cousin coun tenance, aud is scarcely over an eighth of an inch thick, with a crust on the bottom that almost breaks a tinner's shears to cut it. As for taste, that has to be imagined, as it is a sort of go-os-you-pleoso flavor between tan bark and cinnamon. Then again, 100 store pies will be made out of an ordinary 20-cent pumpkin. Each pie is cut into eight pieces about the size of two fingers, which sell for 5 cents. 1 his brings 40 cents for a pie, or $40 for the pro duct of the pumpkin. That leaves the store-keeper $ d'J and 80 cents profit on his pumpkin and as the crust is thin with no shortening in it 80 cents ought to cover this cost, leaving an even $J'J profit on the transaction. A slice of mother's pumpkin rjo tho size of your two hands, that s the regu lation cut in home-made pio, and an inch and a half thick contains more real pie than a dozen store pies, and there is no danger of trouble from indi gestion eating it. Death from Pension. Cases in which death results from the physical excitement consequent on mental passion are, according to The Lancet, not uncommon. A recent in stance has again called attention to tho matter. Unfortunately, those persons who are prone to sudden and ovor whelming outbursts of ill temper do not, as a rule, recognize their pro pensity or realize the perils to which it exposes them; while tho stupid idea that such deaths as occur in nation, and which are directly caused by it, ought to bo ascribed to "the visitation of Ood," tends to divert attention from the common sense lesson which Buch deaths should teach. It is most unwise to allow the mind to excite the brain and body to such extent as to endanger life itself. We do not sullicioiitly an preciate the need and value of mental discipline as a corrective of bad habits and a preventive of disturbances by which happiness, and life itself, are too ouen jeoparuizeu. Insert Destroyer. Chicago Tribune. 1 Frof. C. V. ltiley, in a recent address before the American rroniological so ciety, said that if he were asked to enu merate the six most important sub stances that could be used for destroy ing insects above ground ho would men tion tobacco, soap, hellebore, arsenic, petroleum and pyrethrum. Tho first three, he said, were well known, and comment on their value is unnessary. But it has only lately been learned that the vapor of nicotine that is tobacco vapor is not only very effectual in de stroying insects wherever it can be con fined, as in greenhouses, but that it is less injurious to delicate plants than either the smoke or the liquid. (Graves of W Irs anil Sirs. Murratt. Exchange. In secluded parts of Mount Olivet cemetery, Washington, but far apart, are the graves of Mary E. Surratt and Wirz, the keeper of the Andersonvule prison pen. Wirz is buried under a tall hickory tree, in which squirrels chatter and gambol. J. all, rank weeds and un kempt grass surround the spot, and the simple word "Wirz" on a small block of marble at the head of the grave is the only thing to denote his resting-place. Mrs. Surratt's grave is ennallr obscure. A small, plain bead' stone has simply the name, "Mrs. Mary E. Surratt. Overdid It Inter Ocean. An Arkansas minister prayed for rain, and that night they got it and a flood that set the neighborhood back ten years. A vigilance committee has notified him not to do it again. AN IOWA GIRL, rhe Story of Belle Clinton, the Brave Dakota Homesteader. A l.lttle Mnnny-llnlred Lass' Hue- resNftil Notation of One of the Mrrloun Problem of Life. Nevada (la) Representative.'! Belle Cliutou's fame has touched two oceans. To the people of Nevada she is known as Same Hambleton the grave, gen tle maiden who, since she came here a little sunny-haired lass In the parental ark, has glided quietly among us from the door of her father's pretty cottage in Linn street The catechism she learned in the Methodist Sun day school, the three R'l in the old school house, and the ologioa were pursued at the Agricultural college till broken health called a halt One long winter (he studied this problem of her own. Given physi cal unfitness for the avocations by which Iowa young women ordinarily earn a livelihood, how is independence tb be se cured I and in the following summer, ISM), he set about IU practical solution. An expe dition, inspired by her teal, and consisting of herself, her mother as chaperon and commis sary of the party, ber sister May, aud two young friends of the "male persuasion," set out in a prairie schooner for the great north west Two weeks of journeying over a cir cuitous route, brought them to the home of her college classmate, near a station which was ringing for the first time with the shriek of the locomotive. This was tbo nucleus of the now booming city of Mitchell, the mart of southeastern Dakota. Near the residence of her friend Miss Ham- bleton selected her homestead and, timber lot, and iu the land office of Davidson county entered her claim. After a week's stay the pioneer party returned, brown, vigorous, and enthusiastic. The spring took our home steader again to Mitchell, and she supervised the building of ber shanty, the breaking stipulated by law, and the planting of ber timber. Her cabin was supplied with such comforts as circumstances allowed, and the place became known to passers-by as "the school ma'am's claim, where the flowors grow." Just before Thanksgiving of that year she rolled the stone against the door of her cot and turned for winter shelter toward the old roof-tree. A t Boone, chance then led the senior editor of The Representative, then pencil- pusher of The Boone Republican, to a seat beside her in the railway car, and the two friends discussed her experience as a home steader until the train reached Nevada, The main points of ber experience were embod ied in an editorial for the next issue of The Republican. Eli Perkins was, at that time, on a tour which included several towns on the line of the Northwestern. Whether he caught Miss Sallie's story from hor own Bps or others, f ouud it in The Republican para graphs, or in his own fortile imagination, deponent sayeth not; but true it is that In his next published letter to Tho Chicago Daily Tribune was Incorporated, with slight enuwllishments, the outline of the pioneer girl's doings, It was given as a railway con versation between himself and ' 'Miss Belle Clinton, of Nevada, the smartest girl I mot hi Iowa." In those days young lady home steaders were rare, and the readers of The Tribune in this vicinity Immediately referred the alios to Miss Hambleton. Eli Perkins' letter was copied by the press in the east as well as in the far west In December letters began to arrive ad dressed to Belle Clinton, and they were un hesitatingly assigned to Miss Hambleton. They hailed from all points from Maine to California, a Bingle mail often bringing half a dozen. Before winter was over the num ber received bad swelled to several hundred, They were from old men, young men, wid ows and maids, and with rare exceptions, were honest inquiries for information by persons desiring to become homesteaders. Of course, they were honestly and faithfully answered, and with the opening of the spring of 1883, a considerable number of llelle Clin ton's correspondents became Dakota settlers; and the influence on emigration exerted by the press report of her enterpriso is indi cated by the fact that, on the strength of it, one Greene county old German alone started on sixty young men; "For," said he, "what a girl can do, of course they can." In rec ognition of her service the officers of the Milwaukee railroad readily passed hor over their line; and the second six mouths, short ened by a long visit from ber mother, was spout on the claim. In April last the third half year of occupa tion was begun. The right of a brave, gentle woman to strive honorably for independence had made ber cabin a castle impregnable to either open Invader or secret foe; but destiny no moat or fortress walls can stay. Iu au editorial room in Kan Francisco, a native of the city of brotherly love, whose kindred were still beside the - Schuylkill, prepared "copy" for The Journal of Commerce. His home, the fireside of a friend, was one day broken up by death, llelle Clinton, the Iowa maiden, pursuing a worthy purpose in a path unbeaten by her lex, had been namod In numberless exchanges; and, in an hour of loneliness, he sent ber a word of encourage ment The kindly message drew a courte ous response, and it is the old, old story thus started, the moving shuttle was unhin dered until it bad woven fast two lives. In June, after Mrs. Hambleton had joined hor daughter in Belle Clinton's rustic shanty, the prince first beheld his princess "face to face." His visit to Mitchell was followed by one to ber parental home; the engagement ring glittered on ber finger, the Dakota claim was proved up, and in the George Hambleton cottage, in Nevada, rejoiced a reunited house hold. A few weeks of busy preparation fol lowed, and then, September 1, the nuptials were celebrated. Belle Clinton's romance Is complete, and from the marrige sacrament go forth Mr, aud Mrs. Robert Jarden. Parisian Artichoke. Boston Folio. How "the shop" will obtrude itself occa sionally in an unconscious wayl I was din ing the other day in company with P aud E , two well known artists, when from discussion of cauliflowers au J "mountain oys ters" a step was taken in an opposite direc tion. "Did you ever eat artichokes in Paris!" asked P of L . A heavy wagon was going by on the street just then, and E could not have heard distinctly, as bis reply was: "Oh, yes! when I was in Paris I used to read all the art jokes, but I am out of the way now." And then there was a shout facta Paper. Enterprises are on foot In Mexico for man ufacturing paper and textiles out of the wild cactus which grows so abundantly In that country. The Denver Republican calls at tention to the fact that the same thing might be done in Colorado. The Dakota lands set apart for educational purposes are valued at t-,0U0,OOOl ABDICATED. Nora Perry, In The Manhattan. So I step down and you step up; ny not wny now I dnimel the draught, flung down the cap; Aim you nave got The little place I once called mine, And vou will mial! The wine I qualTod aud call it fine It makes me laugh. You'll get so weary of the thing Before vou're through. The shows, the lies, the paltering ur an tne crew. I wonder if somewhere beyond This earthlv track. When w have slimied the fleshly bond, We sha'n't look back With lust this kind of glad relief, Aud lniigh to find That we have left the grind and grief Bo far boliimU CAREER OF AN OREGON PIONEER. MBnrkkln Jim" Vet Tired of Stw York In Twenty-Four Hoar. New York Times.) One of the most remarkable of the 117 mem- liers of the Oregon Moneer association, of Portland, Oregon, who arrived in this city from the west on Thursday night and who are domiciled at the St Nicholas hotel, is "Buck skin Jim," an old western settler and trapper of the Leather-stocking school, who derives his nickuame from a costume which bo usually wears, made of dressed buckskin in the real Indian style so familiar to the readers of dime novel literature. "Buckskin Jim's" real name Is James Hearn. He is over 70 years of age, well-to-do In the world, and few men are bet ter or more favorably known on the Pacific slope. His story, as told to a reporter last night had best be given in his own words: 'I iuu away from my home iu England," said he, "when I was 18 years of age, and sailed for the Pacific coast The brig I went in was wrecked on the coast south of San Francisco, and the few who were saved, in cluding myself, fell into the bands of the In dians, who treated us well. I staid among the Indians, wandering along the coast fish ing and hunting. At Guaymas. in Sonora, in 181111, 1 think, I was taken by a party of Santa Anna's soldiers, who bad orders to arrest every white man that could be found. We were marched thence to Tepee on foot, and put In double . irons. We were con fined without the slightest pretext in a loathsome jail, and suffered greatly during the six mouths we spent there, in Irons and persecuted by vermin. The British consul said that if every one of us would declare himself an Englishman he would liberate us at once. One of our party, the celebrated 'Yankee Jim, declined at first, and said that nothing would induce him to declare himself a Britisher, but he came around and wo all were liberated. Mr. Saunders preferred a claim against the Mexican government for damages, and he was so sure of getting It that he paid us $300 per man and oil we went "I then took asaillug vessel to Alaska, where I lived among the Flathead Indiaus. In '48, I caught the 'gold fever and dug for gold in California Oh, I struck it rich, you bet Sometimes I bad as much as 000 pounds weight of gold all at once, but It never lasted very long. I have no idea how much money I have dug out of the earth in my time, but I never could keep it 1 ou'U never see an old forty-niner who has a cent Since then I've given up mining, aud have been engaged in real estate and stock raising in' Idaho and Washington territory. I am going abroad next week to buy some Durham and Muloy calves, and when I get back I shall migrate to Suake river, the wildest place in Idaho. Do I like the city! Not nmcb. I have been bore twenty-four hours aud I'm sick to death of it There is not room enough for ma To morrow I am going to Bridgeport to try to find my sister, whom I haven't seen nor heard of for fifty years. I don't know whether she's alive or not, but maybe I'll find soma nephews and nieces." The aged pioneer suggested that it might be a good idea to go down Broadway to-day in his buckskin suit, but a friend advised him against it, on tho ground that he might be mistaken for an advertisement Old-Time Letter Writing. New York Tribune. It Is a common but unjust complaint that cheap postage killed the art of letter writing. In the last century the dispatch of an epistle was an affair of some moment The expense of the post was not to be incurred without consideration; and since it was the receiver of the missive who had to pay for it, every gentleman who valued his reputation was anxious that his friends should find bis cor respondence worth the money. The knack of composing an elegant and entertaining letter was one of the first accomplishments de manded of a man of wit and culture. The broad pages upon which he expended bis pains took the place, in some degree, which has since been filled by the newspaper and the magazine; every letter-writer tried to be an essayist, a chronicler of politics and business, a critic, a gossip. Hundreds of volumes of private correspon dence have been collected and printed in out time, which rank with the most valuable materials for history and the most entertain ing illustrations of the tastes, opinions and manners of past generations; and no Incon siderable (art of them possess besides a posi tive literary quality. It is true that as soon as we go back to the fashionable era of letter writing, to the time of Walpole and Pope, we find ourselves in the midst of insincerity aud artifice; but these were characteristics ot the society of that day, and the letters would not be prized so highly as they are if they were not faithful reflections of the life from which they came. Waste Place In Michigan. The burned regions of Michigan have been visited by a correspondent of The Detroit Free Press. He says: "Every half mile brings to view, as you sail on the Au Sable, an open space in the forests many acres in extent There are thick blackened tree trunks on the ground, protruding in all di rections from their shroud of green under brush. A more impressive spectacle are the dead pine trees still standing in these open areas, black around the roots, and reaching asstralghtasa dart a hundred feet In the the air. These are tbs gaunt skeletons of what once were splendid living pines, now killed by the forest fires that periodically sweep through the Michigan woodlands dur ing drought Not far below the mouth of the Au Sable, and on the other side of Sagi naw bay, is the region where the deadly fires, two years ago, devastated the woodlands, destroying hundreds of lives and millions of property. A Parental Pun. San Francisco Argonaut "Does a goose lay eggs" inquired Rollo, one brisk morning in breezy March. And Rollo's father, sitting behind the stove, eat ing quinine with a spoon, and trying to shake his whole skeleton out of his pockets, made reply: "Yes, my son, ague slays everything. It has slain your father." Too Attractive. Exchange. A Brooklyn merchant made his signs and windows so attractive that the gaxers blocked the streets and his competitors asked the courts to haul In his attractions, and the court actually made the order.