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f THE ROSE THAT BLUSHFO. A single raw Ml downward tbroufb theatr, From wber lihln ber ofwra box aba mi, Wilb ouu-iik-a facw o woodroua calm and fair. Tbat all liw aingers paused to gate Unreal. "Now by the aura," thought L "if aver truth. Add modeaty, and sxlna niaklen grac Wer wedded to lb heart of beauty you lb. Heboid Uioin iher upa thai oobl fc ruaa that's falleo from yoo cluster whit, Tbllil I treasure chough itaday be dead." stooped to lift tba rosa-alaa, the olghtt Tue real went while, but tlila waa at-arlet red: The fae won gulM Mill lu all tbat light; AJid jet thl perfect nxe had blushed and (lad - W J HeodenoD Id One a Weak. OLD SIKfiEL AND HIS SON. Many yearn ago. while making a tour through that Uuunful tractor uiountain scenery In tin south of Kimiria known Oil the SullzkiimiiieTjfiu. I slaved for a fortnight Hcrcliiosgudcii I spent much of my Unit' there In lisliing for gray ling and in talking t the chamois hunk-nt, with many of whom I hail made acquaintance during o previous viit. I used often to til for hours listening to their hunting stories, una on onu occasion 1 hunted with them. The mountains Immediately around Bcrchtesgailen are kept an a royal cham ois preserve, and an the king waa ex pected to arrive shortly, none hut his majesty's own jaegers were allow ed, dur ing tlie time I wa there, to disturb the chamois. 1 was, however, very anxious to have at least one day ort, and arranged with old Siegel and his son Franz, chamois hunters whom I had known for some time, and on whom I could depend, to have u "jagd" on the morrow, Siegel persuaded t jotting, a friend of his, to come with us. Wo started early In the morning, and jiftcr toiling for several hours up through the dark pine woods, which liecame more scant and scrubby the higher we went, emerged at last on the open snow fi. Ms. We now separated; Franz and (lotting Uiado a long detour to the left, while Siegel und I hastened on to reach some commanding Mwiiion above In case any chamois were driven up. After an hour's more climbing we halted on the top of a precipice, which, shaHd in the form of a crescent, made a complete cul de sac for any chamois driven up by our friends Mow. We had hardly been watching ten minutes when two chamois oppeured in sight, bounding up the mountain aide and coining directly toward us. When the foremost had come w ithin range 1 lired und missed, us most men would have done, firing as I did ut so small an object froi.tnt height almost perpendicu larly above it. Tlio beasts turned, and, springing with wonderful t.ecd over the sharp rocks, were soon out of sight. 1 lired u second shot just as they were disappearing, und think 1 struck one of them, but It con trived to get away and wo never saw it again. Siegel and I, somewhat crestfallen, trudged on up the mountain, keeping a sharp lookout on nil sides and halting now and then to give the others time to overtake ns. Suddenly we heard, far down below us a shot, ami then all was again silent. We were much surprised, as it is ono of the first rules in this kind of limiting never, except when absolutely necessary, even to raise the voice, much less, of course, to lire a ride, which scares the chamois completely. We knew that Getting and Franz, di rectly below us as they were, could not possibly have seen a chamois, as our shots must have driven them quite out of reach. After a minute's nnxiety listen ing, we fancied we heard shouts, and fearing we knew not what, called loudly Franz's name. Wo then heard nnd this time quite distinctly the voice of Gotting sayiug, "Come down! come downl It is all overt Franz has ahot himself!" Siegel and I were standing together ankle deep in the snow. I glanced into his face, nnd think I shall never forget the look of misery 1 saw there. Before I knew what he was about, he had seized his rifle, hail presented the muzzle to his ! head, und was feeling with his foot in a i frenzied manner for tlie trigger. 1 snatched the piece uwoy just In time, j he did not try to recover it, but throw- ing himself on the snow, buret into a I most passionute, most eloquent torrent ; of praise of his son's many virtues. He - told me what a good son he had always , been to him, anxious to fullill his slight V est wish. I at length succeeded in partially sooth J ing him, and In rousing him to action ' We scrambled down as fast as wo could. guided by Gotting's shouts, i It was a long time More we reached i them; to me it seemed an ago. I accused f myself of being the author of all this 1 misery, and my anxiety was heightened i by the reflecticn that wo were in reality poaching, and we should very likely, in I consequence of this misfortune, get into ; trouble on our return. We found poor Franz lyingshot through I the back and in great pain among stunted j "knieholz"-a plant something like our I whinbush. It appeared that he had, con trary to all jaeger rules, carried his ritle i capjied, and that in walking through the knieholz he had stumbled und fsllen, and ! his rille had somehow or other exploded. l' causing a severe wound, i We stanched the blood as well as we could wilh our handkerchiefs, and then t held a consultation. Gotting said he : knew of a chalet some way olf to which he thought we might manage to carry Franz. , I lifted him up ascarefully as possible. 1 and walked for some way over the abominable knieholz, which threatened to trip one up every moment, i man aged, I think, to go about two hundred yards with my burden, and then, ex linnt i.i.l in l.i r him down. His father tried to carry him next, but un nerved and half blinded by his tears, had also soon to give it up. Gotting was the only one of the party ho could carry Franz for any great . Imgth of time over the rough ground we were new compelled to traverse; he was a small man. but seemed to be all w ire and muscle. It was. however, evident that at the slow pace we were obliged to go we should never, even if we knew the exact direction-which. by the way. none of us did -get to the chalet before nigliuau. Some other arrangement must be made. Getting proposed that he should stay with the wounded man, while Siegel and 1 should go forward and attempt to reach the chalet Gotting was the only one of the party who had ever been there, and that was years before, Be gave us directions how to find it We were to pass to (he right or left of certain peaks he iiiited out to us. and then he suid we should see a lurge Held of snow were to cross this, und the rhateuu was in a hollow about half a mile aliove und to the left. Well, we -t.irled-Siegel and 1-leuv ing nil the provisions except a few sund wicnes with rranz and Gotting. A weury walk brought us to the peak w uere, Becoming to Hotting, we were to sen the snow Held. Hut there was noth ing of the sort there; cak rose upon peak, but there w as no great, level snow Held si retching away at our feet, such as he had desciilicd. We looked at each other In disninv To add toour distress the weather, which had hitherto la-en beautiful, beiran to ret overcast Light wreaths of mist were settling on the higher summit of the uiountain. sure signs of a coming storm However, there was no use in coini: back. We should x rliaps not In able to find Franz and Gotting uguiu if, bewil dered as we now were, we uttempted to get hack to them. Our only chunce was forward. Tired and dispirited we walked on turning round only to look at the gath enng clouds which were now piling themselves dark and threatening behind us. The wind, too, began to rise. We determined to go dow nward, indeed we were too much exhausted to go any luglier or waste any more time in look lug for the chalit. The ground seemed to get more rough the lower we went, and the tremendous gusts of wind which whistled round us made the descent most dangerous. Great, spattering raindrops now began lo fall anil we hailed on a ledgo of rock utterly worn out. The storm increased and In a short time was at its height. The ruin came down in torrents, completely drenching us. The lightning with blinding Hushes played all round, hissing and illumining for an instant the awful grandeur of the scene, while the thunder iicalcd nnd crashed overhead, each crag und wall of rock echoing the sound and increasing it an hundred fold We had thrown our rifles away, afraid that the lightning would strike them, and stood waiting for the storm to abate. When we resumed our descent wo were trembling with cold in every limb. The air, which was warm enough before, was now piercingly cold and the wind drove snow and hits of ico against our faces with blinding force. I went llrst. and for along time neither of us s)oke. Only when a particularly dangerous place was crossed 1 gave the warning, "lok to the right!" or"Tothe left! ns the case might be. Siegel led tho way when I was tired, and thus we proceeded with the greatest caution, as a false step would havo been almost certain death, till we got to more level ground. Hero we again encountered thickets of knieholz. We wero already congratu kiting ourselves on having got the worst over, when we were suddenly sloptied by a precipice or "Wand," down which it would have been impossible for a goat to go. It was a sheer descent of at least eighty feet. This waa a dreadful disappointment. We walked along the edge for some way, but as far as we could see the Wand ex tended for miles. I had already thrown myself on the ground and had given up all Iio;hs of life, when a shout from Siegel, who hud gone on a little way made mo once more spring to my feet. I hastened to him. Ho was standing over it narrow hole in the rock almost hidden by bushes of the knieholz. "Wo are saved! we are saved!" he cried. He explained to mo how, when 1 had given up in despair, ho suddenly thought that he renieiuliered the place we were in, and had remembered, too, that if it were indeed the part of the mountain he supposed it to be, there w'.s a circular hole in tlie rock forming the Wand by which the chamois hunters scaled the otherw ise inaccessible place. He had gone on, had found the opening, and fearful of losing the spot hud stood over it and called till I came. Wo slid safely down this chimney like hole, which is not much more than twenty feet in depth, and easily descend ing tho lower part of the Wand, which is hero much broken, arrived, famished and half frozen, at 10 o'clock ut night, at a woodman's hut Siegel knew of in the valley Mow. Hero we obtained warmth and shelter Three of the woodmen immediately started up the mountain and returned in a few hours wilh poor Franz, who was very much exhausted, not so much from cold as liotting had contrived to light a lire, and they had provisions as from loss of Wood. I once asked Siegel what be would have done if he had not found that open-inir- "We should," he said, "havestruck our alpenstocks into the ground, and have walked round them all the night to keep on sleep, which if it conquered us would, of course, have been fatal. If we lived till day broke we should have tried to find our w ay luck to the others." Whether w e were likely to succeed in SO doing. COIU. Hungry uuu eaimuoieu u we were, the reader may judge. As for Franz, he completely recovered from his wound and I have hunted many mime with him since that memorable day. -The Marquis of Lome in Youth's Companion. Artirirlal Honey. Artiiii ial honey, which is more eom- Ulo:l l.l Hie lliuraei uiuu wuouioio know , is made of iotato starch and oil of viiriol. Some rasn optimists tinna th at tin v are sure of getting tliegeu- ine nr-odtict of bees and flowers by pur- eh a-siiu- honey in me como. im-y uu i ,i- ileit theexouisite white comb not that plc:iM them is often made of par-; afiiu wax. -Herald of Health. Ti ur Addrcava. Not I 'M,- a.'o a letter came through this s postoffice addressed, to "laru aiuis, II.," which fonnd it proper destina- tion at Oil Mills, u. a leiwr vi- dressed to -Roast Ilg, Mass.," was de ciphered by the Booton mail clerk to be intended for Dedham, and there it was delivered to the person for whom it was intended. Concord Monitor. A rimiM tVoiaau. "What! yon love another! But yon said yon'd marry me if your father dis owned yon." 'I know. Bat h didn't disown me, yon seer American Grocer. The Florida Congregational associa tion, which in ISM had three or four churches, had in 18S9 thirty-eight churches, with a membership of nearly sua MAMMOTHS IN ALASKA. VALUABLE D'SCOVERY MADE BY THE ALASKA FUR COMPANY.' ManMrr 1 miiuna Tumi) trrt High and Thirl) tVrl In Icniith-Tiuka Writhing t.10 t'lmmU tlttrilrn "mmn and (,1a rlrn Mil It) kid. "Alaska is a country of paradoxes!" That is what Mr. Cola F. Fowler, of the Alaska Fur and Commercial com Will v . said in unswer to the question of it reporter resiecting his late Held of jperalions. Hiring all that time, up to two mouths ago, when I rcoigned and started for home," said Mr. Fowler, "l have had my headquarters ut Kodiac, which is the most northern station occupied by agents of our company. We have our head quarter in San Francisco, and trading stations all over Secretary Seward's pur chase. As yet Alaska is ulmost a terra incognita. The country immediately sur rounding some of the princial rivers like the Yukon, Snake and Slickecr has licen explored, and a few miles inland from the coast line, hut the great in terior is almost unknown. What we have learned of it is a surprise, nnd wus the foundation of my unswer to your question. "Alaska is certainly a country of par adoxes. You who live here in the states look upon it its a land of perpetual ice ami snow, and yet you would lie aston ished if I told you that 1 grew in my garden at Kodiac abundant crops of rad ishes, lettuce, carrots, onions, cauliflow ers, cablmgp, peas, turnips, otatoes, beets, parnips und celery. Within live miles of this garden was one of the larg est glaciers in Alaska, and between the fertile coast slipnnd the Interior is reured along the entire sea boundary a contin uous mountain of perpetual ice and snow. "During your twelve years' residence in Alaska w hat was the most wonderful thing you ever saw or heard there'" Mr. Fowler smiled at (his question, and, after a moment's hesitation, said: Two years ago last summer I left Ko diac for a trip to tho headwaters of the Snako river, where our traveling agents had established a trading station nt nn Indian village. The chief of this faiuilv of Iniiuits was named To-lce-ti-mn, and to him I was well recommended, lie received me hospitably, and I ut once liegau negotiations for tho purchase of a big lot of fossil ivory which his tribe had cached near the village. The lot weighed several thousund iwunds, nnd was composed of tho principal nnd infe rior tusks of the mammoth, tho remains of thousands of w hich gigantic unimals nro to bo found in tho beds of interior Maskan water courses. I subjected the ivory to a rigid insieclion, and upon two of tho largest tusks I discovered fresh blood traces und tho remains of partly decouiosed flesh. "I questioned lo-lee-ti-ma, and ho as sured inn that less than threo months before a party of his young men had en countered a drove of monsters about lifty miles above where ho w as then en camped, and had succeeded in killing two, mi old hull und a cow. At my re quest he sent for the leader ifc the hunt ing pariv, a young and intelligent In dian, und I questioned him closely about his adventure among it race of animals that the scientific coplo claim are ex tinct. He told a straightforward story, and I havo no reason to doubt its truth. K1LUNU A MoNSTEK. 'He and his band were searching along a dry water courso for ivory, and had found a considerable quantity. Onu of the bucks, who was in ndvnnco, rushed in upon tho main body ono morning with the startling intelligence that at a spring of witter atxmt aiuilunliovo where they then were ho had discovered the sign' of several of tho 'big teeth. They had come down to the spring to drink from u lofty plateau farther inland, und had evidently fed in tho vicinity of the water for some time. Tho chief imme diately called about him his warriors, and tho party, under tho leadership of the scout, approached tho stream. They had nearly reached it when their ears were suddenly saluted by a chorus of loud, shrill, trumpet like calls, and an enormous creature came crashing toward them through tho thicket, the ground fuirly trembling beneath its onderous footfalls. With w ild cries of terror und dismay the Indians fled, all but thechief and the scout w ho had first discovered tho trail of tho monsters. They wero armed with large caliber muskets und stood their ground, opening flro on the mammoth. A bullet must havo cno trated the creature's brain, for it stag gered forward and fell dead, and subse quently, on their way buck totheircamp ground, they overhauled and kffled a cow big teeth, w hich wasevideiitly the male of the first one killed. "I asked the hunter to describe the monster, and, taking a sharp stick, he drew me a picture of the mule animal in the soft clay. According to his de scription it was at least twenty feet in height and thirty feet in length, in general shape it w ag not unlike an ele phant, but its ears were smaller, its eyes bigger and its trunk longer and more slender. Its tusks wero yellowish white in color and six in number. Four of these tusks were placed like those of a boar, one on either side in each jaw; they wero aliout four feet long and came to a sharp poinL The other two tusks he brought away. "I measured them and they were over fifteen feet in length and weighed up wards of 550 iwunds each. They gradu ally taiered lo a sharp point and curved inward. The monster body was cov ered with long, coarse hair of a reddish dun color. I took a copy of the rude sketch made by the Indian. "By the way, our late governor, the Hon. Alfred I. Swincford, ho pretty carefully investigated the matter, and he is certain from a thorough sifting of na tive testimony that large herds of these monsters are to he found on the ninli plateaus in interior Alaska about the headwaters of the Snake river." Phila delphia Preaa. Pronunciation of "lilalio." George Riebold, an Idaho pioneer and mine owrwr, sa't tbat Joaquin Miller named th terrlUiry "Idaho," being a pure Bannock word, tnmning "Om of the Viuiitaiua," Milltr biinwlf tayi the word should be pro uiunfi w:Ui the arrent on the second fyllv tie, I -da bo, the "a" having a brood sound. Ha Ought la Haia Kaowa. Cochran I sappose your nam on this umbrella indicates that it belong! to yon? GUroy Which, the nam or the um brella? CVichraa Tha acme, of course. Pock. " LONG AFORE HE KNOWEO, 1m' a hula bit o' fHlif-l irninoir mil- Cat toalmmt cry trr I'bnMniat, Ilka a rouagaur will Fourth u' Jul) a U'HunT to II '- New Yar alnt a micU; Eaotrr huuday-Ciri'iu djy - jm' all dal In tin abill: borly. though' at Dit'lit. you liww. to art aiuuntl and lirar TbaolJ fulka anrk lb uorj off about tbaalalgr ami ilivr, And "Sainy" slioolin' ronod Un nrnf, all arapp! lu lur ami fuu Long afora I luoard wbo Hanly Claus" una Cut to wall, ainl U late. atvli rr two ahead; I'wililn't hanlly lvi aaako, Der aouluu't goto I.-.I. Kitik- in' on ill flro, and Sloih.-r rttin hir liarinn' auel, and rurkiu' lu I ho tm-ky rovkio' chivr; rap pip', and auuuVr wbrre It wus the uiowy went. AuU qu.ir I wilb bul fiutnl bwk and autll tiia biiiini'iil; AuJ iiit- a ilnxiuiib' ailk'b baua wbi-o Uisclovk 'ltd alnraml buu, Imu-j afoiv I knoarj who "Sauty Oaua" arm' Sl tin- flivpLui1 ui, and ttggor bow "Old Sauly" eouUl Ma&uv lo eonip do u lha vbuubly, Ilka Uuty aaal be aonld; Wtuht I but 1 eould huh) and ara blui -wundrrad wh.it I f d nay F.f be kt'U'ln-d a lill'T la.vln' fer tilin tliataway ! Bui I M on li i in. and bled btui, aama aat'f be bad Turned lo ma on tba baek and aay, "Look hen, in y lad, lli-rr'auiy twn k-Jea' be'p yourar f, lika all good bo.isdnea:" Long afore 1 kuowad wbo "Sanly Claua" wui' Wuht that yarn lru about bliu, an It 'pearwl In la- Truih made out o lnw W. Hint uu a good euongn fer me' IVisht I still win ao cimfMlir I mold Jea' go w Hit Over bitiium' up my sinekla a, lika Hie litUe doll I'lunliin' In my hip lo uicht, and Ih-fkIu'uu) to U-n "llout llieni reindeer, nud "Old Sauty" thai aba kivea ho well, I'm hulf aorry fer thin lilUr girl sweetheart of bla toug ulore She knowa who "Santy Claua" ki! -Jamea Wbitcouib lUley. Tba KnglUli LMiigiiagab English men of letters lire H'rpetually leolding and uaggiug at one another for leaking and writing bad F.nglish, or for pronouncing it erroneously, and the fault tinders make, as a rule, as many mis takes as do the writers and seakers whom they profess to correct. And then step in, forsooth, the Americans, clad from top to loe in the shilling armor of self coutidenee, nnd they airily tell us that w e know not how to speak or pro nounce our owu language, and that to mend our ways we should take lessons of llosti niles or the Ihiteli-lrish Eng lish und altogether cosiuoHilitan ieoplu of New York. We may needs w ince a little under these strictures, for our withers ale not by any menus tinwrung, ami to the car of a foreigner who has made only a literary study of English it is certain that our pronunciation, or rather our many and discordant methods of pronunciation, must npiear very il logical and very ludicrous. It is not alone clergymen who drawl the church service and mumble, their sermons; it is not alone school children who are (aught to read in monotonous sing-song; it is not alone young ladies who, through alfectalion, lisp or mince their words, but it is the great body of English H'ople aye, of educated Eng lish Mople who habitually stammer be fore they can Hud tho right word, who rarely pronounce their final consonants, who slur and shiilllo their syllables into one another, who almost Invariably put the wrong emphasis on e chief mem bers of a phrase, and who, If they do not absolutely chew and swallow the ends of their vocables, us the modern Greeks do, utter them in such a disjointed and slip shod fashion as to make them more than half unintelligible to the foreign ear. This is why it may he quite feasible for a Frenchman to live seventeen years in England without being able to under stand English. London Telegraph. A Marin Hero, Among tho inmates of the National Soldiers' home at Togus, Me., is Richard Rowley, w ho was captain of the guns on the Kearsargo when sho sunk tho Ala bama olf tho harbor of Cherbourg, France, und icrforiuedaii act of bravery which probably saved his ship and her crew. Tho Imttlo had raged for over an hour ami a half, when a 100 pound rille shell from tho Alabama struck the gun which Rowley was sighting and fell on the deck, with the fuse still burning. In an instant Rowley picked it upund threw it into tlie sen, where, it exploded just as it touched the water. Tho sailor's beard ami mustiteho were burned olf by the fuse, but he stepcd back to his gun and sent n shot into tho sinking Alabama. Cupt. Wiiislow at once gave the order to man the rigging and give three cheers for Quartermaster Rowley. The latter was greatly lionized after ills return to this country. Congress voted him a gold medal; he received other valuable gifts, and President Lincoln personally thanked him. For several days before his inter view with the president, Rowley had ac cepted frequent invitations to drink champagne, nnd probably showed the effects. As ho arose to go Mr. Lincoln gave him a hundred dollars, saying: "Now don't drink too much liquor; drink just a little, but not too much. I know you old sailors all like a little grog, but be careful and not drink too much." Tliera la Illfferenoa. There was a jolly little group about a table in a down town cafe last uigh' shaking dice for the lemonade. The man who threw the lowest number had to iiy for the lemonade and ti ll a story. All at the table had been "stuck" but one gentleman who is noted for his keennes of repartee. Tlie gentlemen who had been "stuck" told nothing but anecdotes and antique tale, Not a new story had been recited; and they wero all chest nuts. When the gentleman noted for rep artee had been "stuck" there was ap plause, a rail for drinks and a demand for a uew story. "I can tell a atory," said the gentleman, as he ordered the proper thing, "but I'll ask you a conun drum. "Oo ahead," he wa told. "Well." he went on, "what is the differ ence between a turkey and a man?" Thin odd conundrum floored tlie crowd. Tlie questioner was appealed to for an answer. "The difference between a turkey and a man," he explained, as he rose to leave, "is that a turkey isn't stuffed with chestnuts until it's dead" The crowd comprehended. Cincinnati Commercial. Wagea nf a Japan farm Hand. An unskilM Jainese farm band, accord Ini to a corr.udent wbo wntw from II oco, receive only from flva to ten cnU a day tor bis lukir, and out of tbi small sura le it Mctd to board bimatlf, Skilled firm UUr rommanda from ten to flftB ceula a Uay.-.Naw York fcvatuu World. LOSSES OF FREIGHT. CLAIMS THAT ARE MADE AGAINST A RAILROAD COMPANY. A dial la lha Odd. and t nda liart. Bient Way of Ilia 1'rolrxlonal Nwliw Uler Varloua fraudulent Methods l,uat f reight old al Aurllnu. "We linvK, all the time, a large amount of ! itnlT w Inch uecmiiuliitea on our hands," wild the "lot Uue" agent ( one of tho mil Mud lo a r'rter; "but meat of the pn erty left ou our ears by uivideiit i aiire to I quickly railed for if It tins any rticulnr value. " "Any trouble in Identifying applicants a proper tin ner of t ho Uigi;iig clniiiiedf'' "Xol trtieulnrlv. Our mint frequent trouble la the adjustment of fnlss rliiiina, Veciin tell by a Tna manner whether tho elniiii in a just one or not. Tuko tho pro fis,ioniil aw uuller, for linliiniv. Uidca linv- j ing a hrupi nuiiiner, In i-Ihiiii ianmdo in a mdflhiito way aa to number of check, stylo of n knp and the contents thereof. The true i liiiiiiniit-llie ieriu w holms really Inst anmctliiiifc- baa a reis-tful and anxious laMiring. 1!" iiiturmhly gives an aivurHto description of the Inst Htrii'l, in id la very low with throats of suit to lisnvvr dam- j "I ptuppoie Unit overshoes and umbrella I are the article must frequently left III curst" "No more fivquent tlinii mull (mrivla of ' clothing, shaw l und mimll vahsva, but, at I any, these are always quickly clainnsl. it i with fraudulent claim for lost Uigugo tbut we have the must eiierienco." rit.M 111 l.KVT CLAIMS. "What ure I ho fraudulent met hod f" "Must iiunieroiiH, and sonio of them, most ridiculous. Now here's an old claim which, while not fraudulent, la worthies and most bull lu-uded. Several weeks aiinv a barrel of whisky and it case of canned goods were ahlp ped to a gnxt-r In tin) interior of tho stale. About the time of th shipment the grocer dusl Immediately, his entire stock was taken by a wholesale KiiHvr wbo bad a chattel mortgage thereon, nnd no without leaving a family or any propert.v, he was buried. There w :ts no estate und accordingly no executor, ilcanw hilo the gislsship.sl over our nmd luy in the fivight house, tliera lieing uo uno to deliver them to. 1 infilled the sl.ipa?r of the situation and ha replies by any ing that our couiwny must kivp the gcssla and that ho will bold u nH)iiililo theivfor. "1 hud a ti-aveliiig man try to get 15 nut of in for damage done to a pair of very raro and tine window curtain. Damage done, a ha cluiiuod, by snow inviting through his ample case, which had bevu cnri'linsly dumped iu a anew bank by one of our bag gagemen, and ao staining the curtains. " "Had the wimple case been ao iluuqiedr "Possibly. At least we didn't dispute that feature of the eliiim. All we nsked wus that he present a ivivipt from Ida employer, bowing that he had imid them, as lie eluiiuiil, the fs for duuuigo done, and which bo bud to make good to hn linn. Ho failed to produce the nsvlpt, and ao, of his own voli tion, the ca niidropied. "Another case caiuo fiMiu a mail who put iu a claim for $" for new east ingsund freight thereon, and for lalsir in putting them into u stove slupiel over our road and broken while iu transit. 1 invottigiiUsl the case and found tbut a leg had been broken out of the stove and that the man had, instead of get ting new castings, id a village blacksmith tM for riveting the old leg buck in iu pluee. No new easting had beeu bought, no freight had licvn paid, and the entire cost to him hud been less than fj. Yet he claimed tt.AU fniin us. "We biidnnolher com where one of our agents delivered some freight with an ex pense bill calling fur eleven cast of. good, ilut ton cuwa 'showed up,' aud the rtiea to whom the good were delivered, while they seemed surprised at the deficiency, at one explained that the missing ease contained books, a silk dress and more books.' That was their very indefinite inventory, and they stuck to it quite llrinly. Investigation allowed that but ten ciues had been shipied, that our agent had luado a nilaUike on his way bill and so on tho eiiense bill, and finally that the people at lust confessed tbut they hadn't lost so much as a tin sitoou of tuuir house hold goods shipiHil." NOLO AT AUCTION. "Wbut become of 'lost freight' never claimed f" "Wc sell It at auction. It seldom has any value except to the rug and Junk dealers. Of course we sell iaekagus according to the way lu which they are billed. We cannot tell aa to their vulue. Once iu a while a purchaser gets nicely taken In. I recollect at one of our siilea we got IU for a large crata billed 'crockery.' A well known physician was the purchaser, and when the crate was opened it was found to couUilu a lot of plaster of paris image, such as Italians jsxldle about the ati-weta," "Worth t- lerliai, to one of those pod dlerr "Possibly, but not worth five cent to tli doctor. Once lu a w hile, however, a good deal may lie made. 1 recollect we sold a con signment billed 'two boxes and one barrel of dust.' It brought HM, and when oieiied the barrel contained I'aris green aud the boxes held two dozen uckagea of a patent Insect (Kinder, 1 understood that the pur chaser sold tho lot to a wholesale druggist for ft). Another box billed as 'one box of sun dries' sold for t'J, and when onisd by an ex pressman who bought them th 'sundries' were found to consist of a very complete out fit of cutlery sample fifteen or twenty pocket knives, a dozen razors, several pairs of shears and scissor, two or three carving sets aud a variety of ease knives. The name of tho manufacturer wus, of course, found on the goods and the expressman, by corre spondence, returned the goods to the manu facturer and received therefor a t-il check." "Doe the income from the sale of un claimed property come near meeting the cost of tracing up lout freight f" "No, but In the avoidauca of well Ijasod claims by the exercise of greater cure In handling freight and in the ejrpoaure of fraudulent claim, the system i'.aclf mors than pay. Now look here." Just then a brukemnn from a train which hail Just arrives! entered tba "lost freight" ollice bearing In bis arms an old umbrella, worth perhu titty cent, aud a good w illow basket, In which wiia a badly amused lunch, a button hook and a pair of soiled cuff. "Tint's the way it gin's," said the agent "Now it i prolwil.lu tbut somebody will call for this Sj'.i.ket to-morrow or next day, but tlie umbrella is a llilure until sold at auc tion." Del roit Fn) i'rwa. Aa Odd Will. John Newgate, of Boston, a merchant, selectman and constable of the town, who waa admitted a freeman in 1633, and elected representative at the March and Sepleuilsvr sessions of the general court, in I0:W, and who died in 1003. left a will duted Nov. 23, 1081, In which he gives to his w ife Ann, his "farm at Itumly Marsh, with all my land belong ing there vnto .... she the said Ann continuing in the state of widdow hoode, paying vnto the Collcdge in Cam bridge the sum of Ave pound pr ami. during the said time of her widdow hoode, for the security of which pay ment my said farine is already bound and ingnged. Hut if my said wife should happen to marry agnine, then my will and wind is. That an shall have only the thirds of all my said houses and lands in toston and of my said farms at Rumly Marsh, but not the thirds of my said house and land in Charles Towne, for that the said annuall pay for th Colledge i after such marruiga of her, the said Ann. to be tiaid br others." HOW SIR RICHARD DIED. Stalely aa krlditrnaiiu tu a feaat bir Kit bard I rod lha scaffold stair, And, Ism lug I i tlie crowd, untied Tba love Us ka from hi aahla balrt Took olf bit wulcb. "liivo that lo Nodi I'veil'ino wilb lime," b proudly said. Twa bluer i old - It nuikea bliu abaka. Nnd one. "Alii see Ibe vlllaiu'a look!" Hir llieliard, wilh a m-ornful frown. Tried, "1'rost. not fear, my body ahonk!" Ulvlug a gold piece lotbe alava, lie bundled, "Nuw prab ma, master kiisM'!" They point'-d, w h h a anecrlug smlla, l utoa blai k ls., loug and grim; But no w bile shroud Dor luide of death Haul power to draw a tear from blia. "It ueisla no ba k," be said lu Jest, "Tlila chamber where to-night I real." Then it) hot oiil, "IIikI save tba king!" Ill state of Ills nd shout nd frown; He at ripped Ida doulilet, dnipMsl bl cloak. And nave Ibe beuiUiniui's man a crown: Then "Uu for heaven!" he proudly cried. And Imwed bla head - and so hedlrU. - Waller Tborubury. A t'alarart In l.abrwilar. The Interior of librudor undoubtedly is the largest unexplored area on this continent. L'p the tlrand river, which empties into the Atlantic ocean at Ham ilton inlet, are the tlrand falls, which, if everything is true ulsiut them that is reported, are the most stupendous falls in the world. They are only about 160 miles up the river, but only twvbito men have ever si-en them. Mrflt. F. Holme three years ago went from Kng land to visit the tlrand falls. He organized a little party to accom pany linn inland, and arrived withiu alsuit lifty miles of the falls, when he was coiiiHlleil to return on account of the failure of his provisions. The Labra dor Indians say theso falls am haunted, aud they carefully avoid them, believing that they will die if they look n'Hiu them. The two while men who have seen them are Mr. Maclean, who, a he was ascending the river in 18110, was stopped by the falls, and Mr. Kennedy, who over thirty year ago had charge of Hudson Hay post, in Labrador. Mr. Holme says the height of the falls is not certainly known, but in some respecta there is little doubt they are the greatest in the world. (loldthwaite'a Oeographi ral .Magazine. Houaseau rfca Landaeap Painter. As wo stand licforo a great landscape by Rousseau like the "Ruviuca of Apre motit," lately in the collection of M. Marmontel, or of the "Hoar Frost," in that of Mr. Walters at Baltimore, one must call up n powerfully built man of middle size with a full brown beard; a wide, high forehead, which bis friends declared Olympian; a shapely, straight nose; hair worn rather long, after the fashion of forty years ago; direct limpid gaze from eyes of unusual largeness and grayish blue in color, and a month whose lines indicate the absorbed man and the reticent. Ho was an extremely thought ful man. not by any means siuileless and tho furlheet remove from stupid; ha was one of those who are hard to win for a friend, but once a friend, eminent ly tho person with whom to pass weeks in the pursuit of a worthy stndy. There is the sympathetic man who talks, aud tho sympathetio man who is silent. Housseau was the latter. Vet be could talk, and talk well, on nature, art and music, and he wrote a charming letter. Charh's De Kay in Century. Niiiall Karma. One of the mistakes of the times ia the popular belief that everything in a busi ness way must be big. The idea has grown out of our haste to grow wealthy and from suMrflcial calculation, such as, if ono acre pays $100. 100 acres would pay flO.OOO. Men seldom make such money out of vary largo orchards, and while a source of envy to small holders they are often, iu fact, just holding on or are running ahead on borrowed capi tal. The men who make money and are getting rich out of horticultural pursuits are those who do not attempt more than they can lsk after personally. From ten to eighty acre are the sized tract which pay the highest percent, of profit, if they are pmrly couducted. The idea that a living cannot be made ont of small place has retarded many from go ing Into a business in which they might now be making an independent living. California Fruit Grower. When riuek Waa Hang. This word affords an instance of the way iu which slung words in the course of time lieciuue adopted intocurreiit Eng lish. We now meet with pluck and plucky as the recognized equivalents of "courage" and "courageous." An entry in .Sir Walter Scott's "Journal" shows that iu 1H,'7 the word had not yet lost it low character, iie says (vol. II, p. 80), "Want of that article blackguardly called pi nek." Its origin is obvious. From early times the heart has been popularly regarded as the seut of cour age. Now, when a butcher lays open a carcass he divides the great vessels of the heart, cuts through the windpipe and then plucks out together the united heart and lungs lights he calls them and he terms the nnited mas "the plnck." Note and (jueries. AaMdot of Michael Algal. Michael Angi lo, at a time when Italy paid so much attention to ancient art that modern had no chance of being judged fairly, bad, it ia said, rfsort to a stratagem to teach the critics the fallacy of shaping their judgments by fashion or reputation. He sculptured a statue representing a sleeping beauty , and break ing off an arm buried it iu a place where excavations were being made. It was soon fonnd and landed by critics and the pnblic aa a valuable relic of antiqui ty, far superior to anything done foi centuries. When Angelo thought it had gone far enough he produced the broken arm, and, to the great mortifica tion of the critics, revealed himself a the sculptor. New York Ledger. Mistakes of Prejudle. Populur feeling against anything like a spurious article Is always remarkable, though it la not always rational A few years ago, when glucose began to be used In the manufacture of candies and sweet stuffs, firms w hich made no secret of the fact that they were using it, lost quite a large quantity of trade in consequence. The wiser ones had their can labeled, "Italian sirup," and no one was any the wiser. Ask any physician today why children suffer less from excessive indul gence in candies than formerly, and lis will tell you that the substitution of glu cose for what might be called more or thodox commodities ia the cause. So much for the common sense of prejudice. -Interview in Globe-Democrat Th sale if diamonds in Nw York ar finmUd to fout up ttt.QUU.OUO a year. ; CROSSINT, THE STYX. HOW GREEK MEETS CREEK IN THE OTHER WORLD. OM Charon Still In tba ferryboat BuaU a nniiei'lliiii llelueen the Iflllen lam of Ilia Tu! anil of the I'reaeiit A I'aluful Mulil. When a death 1 evwted, the attendant mourner in the Oris-k Islands have ninny hltlo customs -uliur to themselves. The moribund is bunded a bow 1 of water, Into w hlch he put a pinch of will for each 'rwni with whom he ia at enmity, saying a ho doe ao: ".May my wralli -rih a this salt;" for it is considered d.vadful for a man to die leaving nn enemy Is liind him. lim spirit, it ia believisl, will not rest, but will wander atsait u a xir ghost, sucking the blood of his friends, like tho sluidi- In ancient hades, to gnin strength for hi earthly wandering. If tho complaint is ennriimption, they sni pisw that tlinii Kriiniyea stand ready to iiue on children at the corners of the room; hence the young are kept out of tho way hen the dying is iu extremis, and a lioe is 0ned over his head to allow the Krinnye to ecaie. Fever are Issst cured by priestly lie-nutation; the mono of the disease ia written on a slip of ler, and wilb prayer and much incensing this la bound to a tree, hoping thereby to transfer tlie nui lady. Incense ia much used by the prlt lu hi visitation! to tho sick; the whole room I thick with it, aud perhu coutagiou is thus often avoidisl. Where the death hu occurred the women rush on to the ttat roof or some other conspic uous place, where they rend the air with their erica, tear their hair and give way to unbridled h'ricf. Tlie town crier is sent round toaiiiiotiuce the fui't to the neighbor and to summon friends to tho death wail, which lakes place an hour or two after tho spirit has left the Issly. After the body lia been w ashed in wine it is laid out on a bier lu the center of tho onensuned house, arrayed In Hie deceased's best clot lie, deckedout with Hon em, and w ith lauiia burning at the side, reminding u of the ancient custom of placing the core thus in the uiiilst of the bull, dressed in a handsome a rol as the family could afford, in order, according to Luciau, tluit the dead may not Is' cold on the passage to hade and may not be scon naked by Cer berus! Theu lagina the death wail ceremony, a ait'iio of heart rending grief, such as took place lu Iriam's paluce over the dead body of Hector. Those dmth wails are, in fact, on of th must atrikiiig bonds of connection between the Hellenism of the past and the Hellenism of th present, and iu tho Greek islands, de spite the strict nesa of the mora civdUed niemU-niof the orthodox church, they cling to them with surprising tenacity. A body which die tiii!.iinontd cannot enter hados, and wanders alsmt lika that of I'utrociua aud Elfieiior in misery in th upper air, neither belonging to the living nor to th dead. Consequently, tha dvulb wail and the burials lako place a ooa possible after dmth that the unto of bade may b o ncd to thorn aa sis in a may bo. From these death wail we leiu-n how much that is heal hen is incrxiratod in th belief of today rviocting an after life. Tboy sing of bade a a frozen, miserable place, wber tha dead wander forever, anxious to return to the upper air, and endeavoring to steal from Charon, the lord of tho lower earth, but key, but ineffectually. Charon plants th bone of Die departed iu his garden, aud they coiue up as weird plant, liis tent peg era hens-' bones, and tho rope are made of nutideua' tresac. Hu ride on a horse to col hvt his victims, driving the young and strong before him, dragging tha aged after him by rosa, and carrying with him on his saddle the little children. Bouiellnun, when a man die who has been conspicuous for his good fortune during life, they will cut off his nails befor the corps i removed and tie them up in a bag to be preserved among th other sacred things which are hung up lu tho sanctuary belong ing to every house. Before tha corpse leaves tha house a vase of water i broken on tha threshold. When any ona start on a journey, it is customary to spill water a an. earnest of his succeas and sufo return, and w hen tho body goes on its last long jouniey tha vase is broken. Th bier is curried by four mala bearers, and about a bier tha Greek islander hav this most grewsome riddle: What is that which hs who make doe so to sell, he who buys does not use himself, and he who use doe not seel As the fuueral procession posse through the village street tha priest chant t!i olllcea of the dead, and from time to time tha mourners, who go in front, break forth into their hideous wail, and women com forth from their house to groan iu concert with the others. Of a truth a Oreek island funeral is a pain ful sight to wltneaa. On reaching th church the corpse is left In the porch, and while the liturgy la proceeding th mourner cease to walL Then come the vory impressive atlchera of the lost kiss, which is chanted by all the congregation, and begins, "Blessed is th way thou shult go to-day," whereat each mourner advances and give the lost kiss to the cold face of the jrpse, and otic more the extravagant demonstration of grief break forth. Finally tha corise is lowered without a cofiln Into it shullow grave, and a each bystandor cast on to It a handful ot soil Scottish Review, Meal Dow Obeys Order Literally. The Federal and Confederate forces were preparing for a battle. The Fed eral commander and his staff, seated upon their horses, were consulting near the right of the line drawn up in the edge of tho woods. Gen. Neal Dow wo standing in front of his command, a very sum II man with a tremendously big hat on his head and a monstrous sword dangling to the ground at hi tide, a picture such as one seldom see outside the comic collections. An aid told Gen. Dow (perhaps be was only Col. Dow then) that the commander wished to see hi in. Gen. Dow strode down the line, the soldiers laughing at the sight. "Gen. Dow," aald the commander, "you will march out into that opening yonder, take a position on that knoll and hold it until further order" some thing to that effect. In sight of the entire right wing of the army, Gen. Dow went marching into the opening, his long, heavy sword clanking on the ground behind him, his big hat making him look like a grass hopper under a toadstool. The com mander heard the army laughing and looking for the cause. "Who is that walking across the open ing?" be asked. "That Is Gen. Dow," said everybody. An aid was sent to bring him back. "Gen. Dow," said the commander, "why did you go out there alone? Why did you not take your command with you?" "Dear me, general," said Dow, "I beg a thousand pardons. I didn't know you meant for me to take anybody with ma You didn't say so, you know." Wash ington Post. Mia Minn I Apulia' Opinion. "The subject of a national flower is being discussed a great deal now. Mis Minnie," remarked a visitor at Minne apolis to a maiden of that city. "What do you think about it?" "Well," replied Mis Minnie, "I think papa's Fancy Winter Wheat Flour ruthut takes the biscuit," New York Sun.