ALCHEMY.
rjh 'itft I Hat of th (olden tun,
" r to lag their branctne bare,
!uWP- of their leafag frwlr aod fair,
looSy: T heart U full of earn,
'j I wub that tb day wr don.
ebetr; no comfort, kit grief to deaden
I 7,d tot com I nod tb day It leaden.
Boi" , . . .
wcloudtooftirayf
7- keen nd P"1 ta """'J
-k,dfU.-t brenche softly away;
rt -hid 0 M 0 lwl M I
- Jietfily lb hou speed away
d my bart baa neer a car,
. . u rh liard sray and olden.
alaa II came! Aod tli day la voldea
" Hotuekeeoer a Wi
A'eekly.
CIIKCKMATE.
Old Mr. Archer wa" a devoted chess
, rertnd a" expert, nt tllat- 1Ie I-'I1
' to be ilie only Kue fit for a gen
fliere were few of his ucquuint
a lio could coe with liim, unU but
1 of theiu who could mutch liliu fair-
flat was Jutues Kilties, lawyer.
'f4,a close contest between the two
ahead and then the other.
Bjlte stood '"'K'1 Bt t,,e bur but
ny won and retained Archer's con
ice by ability ns a chefes player.
..ibarelv 40, and Archer muiiiUiin-
tii.it bv the time he readied CO ho
" II .n,mj
.mld surpass uii hiuoo
trcl,er had a daughter his only
U itr father had married late in
inJ ten yearn after the birth of the
rl hr mottier had died. Letty held a
in lib heart next to chess itsell. A
liht, iieiy "iJ PreU-v k'1' wus '"y
lier, and she would be an heiress to
artliinK over a million. Uer father
irej she would become tlie prey of a
lrtune hunter, and endeavored to avert
b tlie provisions of his will. He neg
tfj to execute his testament, how
TfT, until Letty was nearly twenty
vjriold.anda spinster still. It was none
oioon, for the week after he died sud-
of an apoplectic fit.
ffben the will was opened it was found
at Ditties was named sole executor and
instituted guardian of Letty until she
I toiutiui rt ull tfio outntn I
til 1, 1NU liuaww ..
,d personal. The conditions of the
ust were tlini, li a-euy luurneu wim
t consent of Bittles, tlie trustee was
L Urn over to hor all the property on
rtdarof the wedding, nnu so long as
: remained unmarried after 21 to pay
erllie rents and the interest as they ac--ml-
but if alio married without his
Lnsent, she was to receive only five
wusand a year, and the residue or me
t-ute ueyonu mai iiwfiwuijr wkvuid
his payment was to be conveyed to a
,irJ party or her heirs. This third party
lias described as: i
-Catherine Sinclair, daughter of Gor
ion Sinclair, now or late of the city of
liltimore. and the state of Maryland, if
. be still single; or. if she be a married
Toman, then to the said Catherine bin-
iiir, by whatever name she may be now
known, to her and her heirs forever." .
A further provision was that in case
:k oid Catherine Sinclair, by whatever
ins she might be known, was dead,
Lid had li ft an heir or heirs, the proper
torer and above the reserved amount
j the contingency mentioned was given.
etued and bequeathed to liini, her or
letn. Who Catherine Sinclair or her
,iher was. Lettv could not tell, nor
Luld the lawyer, but it was suggested
at it was an early Uanie of Archer s.
vme thought that the possible legatee
imnvthical, and brought forward to
Lire Letty from making an imprudent
utich. Dut the power of Gittles in the
alter was as absolute as pen and urn
miM make it
Bittles proved himself to be a vigilant
rurdian and a careful trustee guard
Z hU ward against adventurers, and
wiagins the estate with prudence and
ior. Everything went well until about
m months after Archer's death. Then
current of affairs rippled a little,
Utyand Bittles both fell in love Letty
;tli Carter Cooke, a young man who be-
ongtd to what, before the late war, was
snewn as "one of tlie lirsl famines or
ircinia," and Bittles, in spite of his
!ortv-one years, with Letty, who did not
caret snap for him, looking upon the
middle aged bachelor as a venerable per-
jh. and bestowing her heart upon his
.tounger rival. Love is like the measles,
tad if we be attacked with it in middle
& the disorder assumes an aggravated
ivut. Bittles bad a very severe attack
.Meed.
Letty might well be excused for recip
rocating tlie feelings of Carter Cooke,
Tlie young man was not only by blood,
by culture and associations, a gentle
"an, with no censurable habits, and
ith polished manners. lie had a well
proportioned figure, as well as a pleasing
'w; and he did not even drop his r's, as
many of the tidewater Virginians do.
tie was well liked In New York, where
spent about half of the year; and
tegb not by any means a fifth as rich
n Letty would be, was possessed of a
'andsotne competence. Bittles pro
aounced liiiu to be a fortune hunter, and
fawned upon his suit, really because it
tottr,'ered with the one he wished to
wke. Letty was not of an age to re
't on the serious consequences of her
Swrdian's disapproval, and, had she
her cheerful temper would have
w Uer to optimism. Then Carter Cooke
skillful chess nlaver. and Letty,
"l bad been taught by her father, was
as expert as he, w Inch strengin
-ftl the bond between them.
The wooing went on in spite of the
fowni of Bittles, and the latter began
10 lw tlie bitterness of defeat. This
seen wheu tlie young lover, with
kT'i consent, made a formal proposal
" guardian for the hand of his ward.
o, sir; decidedly, oof" replied Bit
''I have nothinsr acainst you per-
""all. Mr. Cooke. Your respectability
undoubted; but I do not consider vu,
Billuy cne else, a matdi for Mi
Artuer in fortune. I have examined the
dement your counsel laid before mc.
find you liave barelv four thousand
Tear, while the property of my ward
- tweive times tnai unoun. ujw
'I 10 rPal iul.. K I . In VfllllP. 1
i 1 IBIUn "
j u 1 be falsa to mj duty if 1 api roral
a" tl mat-u und . -i, circumstances.
I "Verv roml ir " rotnrt! Cooke. "Far
pit from me tosavlbat disappointed
iP'fttflsioria of your owo prompt your
frfusaj. I iiu ndmit t)iat it is a mere
duty, U tliat admission pleases
But I am authorized by Letty to
I.' that when she arrive tth0f
J aliould your consent to our marriage
refuted, we will marry without it
j :,"t ill be the next move on the board.
I-Bitltes.-
1 .J0" aw playing a costly game. sir.
I -N at all, air. At all event. I aba"
jJonUie bishop to capture your que"
KTiied ru. j i 11 ani
bowed himself out of the ofllce with
mock courtesy.
When Utty heard of this positive re
fusal, in tp,toof her avowed contempt
for money, she was disposed to be down
cast. But Carter whispered to her a se
cret, a proverbially dangerous thla to
do to a woman, and Letty, after a look
of astonishment, burst into a ripple of
livery laughter.
"Oh, you dear, delightful Curterr she
exclaimed. "Who would have thought
And Letty renewed her laughter, for
the secret seemed to her the most comical
thing in the world.
Bittles did not desire at all to exact
the penalty; but ho did very much de
sire to break the disagreeable connection.
But how? Lettv went Into am-Iet un,l..r
the cluieronage of Mrs. Burroughs,
Bittle's own sister, a well to do widow,
who was four years his senior, and liked
the mild kind of dissipation which she
enjoyed by virtue of her olllee. At all
routs, kettledrums, parties and the op
era, or wherever Letty went, Carter
Cooke was sure to lie; and Letty suffered
him to assume the right of rosective
ownership in a way that drove all other
suitors from the Held. Letty made no
secret of her feelings, and w ore her en
gagement ringopenly. Mrs. Burroughs,
who liked Cooke, tacitly aided and
nlM'tted. It soon became known that
Bittles frowned on Cooke, and folks
were curious to ham how the affair
would end, ns though, in such a case,
with two willful young persons, it could
end in any way but one, Bittles was
duly informed of his open courtship, and
the lectures he bestowed on Letty in con
sequence only increased his ward's di
liko to himself, until it deepened to posi
tive aversion.
Bittles trusted to time and the chances.
He diil not believe that Letty, when the
pinch came, would sacrifice so lurge a
portion of her property for a mere girlish
love, which might lie destroyed at any
time by a lover's quarrel; nor that Cooke,
whom ho had brought himself to believe
had mercenary motives, would care to
take her with so much less money. Nine
thousand a yVar to one of Letty 's expen
sive habits meant almost exclusive rural
residence; and ho knew that Letty did
not like living in the country, except
during the time of flowers and sunshine,
and then varied by Newport and Sara
toga, Bittles waited, not without hope.
He had calculated on an ally in his
sister, and, to insure her cooperation,
told her of his hopes and fears. She
laughed at him.
"James," she said, "this Is the most
absurd thing possible. She is about half
yonr age. Ydu have staid, old bachelor
habits, and Letty, though she's a good
girl, is fond of life, society and racket.
She'd drive you mad in six montlis, and
put you in the grave in less than a year.
If you must make an exhibition of your
self matrimonially, choose soma rich
widow of SO to 40, who would suit you
better."
"Hang rich widowsr
"Quite polite and complimentary, con
sidering that I am a widow with a com
fortable income. You had better givo it
up. I have sounded Letty to the depths,
and know that alio loves young Cooke;
and he is barrinj fortuno a capital
mate for her. 1 would lave preferred
her to have mado a richer match, but
they will have enough between them."
"No, they'll not; for I will novcr givo
. ... . i i.
my consent. I ll iaKe ner irom you iuua
her up, if need be"
"You are a lawyer, and know better,
Jamei You may refuse your consent,
though every one will penetrate your
motives and laugh at you; but as to the
locking up they do such things in plays
and novels, not in real life."
"She is under my control until she is
21."
"Oh, ves doubtless; that is, nominal-
yfor three months more. Then she II
marry in spite of you. If you strip her
of all but five thousand a year, you'll in
cur general reproach and gain no satis-
fnption in the long run. 1 no best you
can do is to keep off the wedding for a
short time. Give in. If you were ten
years younger I might strain a point to
help you not as it is."
As the Irish peasant girls say, "she
was as stiff as ho was stout," and Bittles
fell back on his move of the forfeiture,
which he thought would deter both par
ties for some timp, and, in the mean
while, no one could tell what a chance
quarrel, a newer face or the whims of a
woman might do.
Just then fate seemed to come to the
assistance of the guardian lover. It as
sumed the shape of a new suitor, or
something like it, and, to the delight of
Bittles, it was also a Virginian-Maj.
Boiling. . . .
"Fire fight fire," thought Bittles.
Maj Phil Boiling was considerably
older than Carter Cooke, as he should
have been, since he had fought in the
sectional war. ridden with Job Stuart,
and tasted the horrors of prison life at
c-i.: rviin'illv in comfortable cir-
Cllimu. vy. .h j ' , , , . t
cumstances.the war had stripped b'tu of
much, nnd reduced mm to a piauu. . ...
on tidewater, large but not profitable,
and some houses at Richmond, whose
fn,ml his income. Tlie major
was of the old school, popular with the
hdies. to whom he showed a respect
almost reverential, and .liked to oonn
north for two or three months-his win
tering there, and his summering at the
wi.it Sulohur. consuming his surplus
n a wrv much attracted ty
ri It'll IIS. aiv ""rf , ...
Letty Archer, and she liked to chat with
him and draw , out his old fashioned
courtesy. They moved in the same set
'r Sis-at this time called
business, and tho major
alii into his Phce in fpite of his years
and displayed an attent.veness tnaneu
people 'to .aspect that he bad preten
sions. To the surprise of Mrs. Bur-
i.. .i.,-. m into an almost contl-
denUal intimacy. Cookejeemed to have
lieen forgotten in his absence, and Bit-
chuckled. The gallant exfficer
showed himself to be under a spell, and
expressed I.U admint.on in the most
positive U-rmi.
"I assuan you, v - T , , ,
he to the widow, "that Ml- Ahchuh i .
Toun- lady, tliat. beside, her youth and
& ha. mo' of the cotely manual, of
the ful it families of Virginian than any
'emiewomaoexcept you self, that I hav.
hadthoodfawebun. to maet yet in
S"and the major got along fa-
0Te spliea th. absence of Cooke
. supplemented by the a teo-
...lv. and litt aou""-"" -i-- ; J
This was suppiei
tiof her guardian, who became kind
and bland again- ....
,tr,nt-first birthday earn
inn m - . i
, ,ml Mrs. Burroughs suuiy man-
" thrown open in bonor of tb
It iu aa tnlonnai recwj
! daring tb -vy-
l buuu
specially invited; so was Carter Cooke,
w ho had just returned from hi place at
Higbover.where be had been superin tend
ing repair and alterations in the old
family mansion, Bittles was there, of
course, gorgeomly arrayed in honor of the
occasion. ...
About noon Letty was missing, and
the absence of the major was noted.
Cooke had not yet come. Lrtty was not
t? be four.) in the house, but one of the
servants had noticed tliat .he and the
mujor hn.l gone out together, entered a
coach in wailing on tlio comer, and been
driven away. It wa. most extraordi
nary, and Bittles grew excited over the
fact. Tlie guests present heard of it, and
admitted that it was a singi(ir thing at
such a time. It was, probably, a girlish
freak, to result til sumo surprise; and so
It proved.
At 1 o'clock a number of coaches drew
up before the door. From tlie foremost
of these descended the major, who handed
out Letty, w ho was followed by Cooko.
rroui the other coaches there alighted a
number of "the sot." ' It was auite a lit.
lie procession that filed In, the major at
the head, as proud and self appreciating
as a drum major at the head of a street
parade.
"Well, h"re you are," said Bittles.
really begun to foar, major, that you
and my ward had eloied.
"Nothing of that kind, sah, I assualt
yuh, replied tho other. "I was me'lv
the best man on this joyful occasiou. 1
have the honah to introduce you to Mr,
and Mrs. Calilah Cookct"
"Married!" cried Bittles, aghast.
"es, sir, responded Cooke. "My
bishop in the shape of asurpliced clergy
man lias enabled uio to capture your
queen. And he drew Letty s arm with
in his own.
"Very well, sir. Miss Archer is of age
and has a right But, as she has mar
ried without ray consent, she has thrown
away a large fortune for a leggnrly five
thousand o year. I shall search for the
heirs of Catherine Sinclair to-morrow.
You have taken the queen; I cry check
to the king, sir!
"Excuse me. sir," retorted Cooke, "but
you utterly mistake the situation on the
board. Mrs. Cooke will have a target
allowance of pin money. I shall make
it ten thousand, with an unlimited com
mand of a check book, which your ac
tion has made equal to a heavy drain."
"My action! pooh! stuff!"
"Oh, no, sir! You need not hunt far
to-morrow. My cousin here, Maj. Boi
ling, who is the genealogist to both fam
ilies, can show you by the record that
Catherine Sinclair, daughter of Gordon '
Sinclair, married with tlie fourth Cartel
Cooke, of Ilighover, and unfortunately
died three years since, four years after
her husband. She left one iieir, a son,
the fifth Carter Cooke, whom I have the
bonor to present to you as the husband
of your ward and the happiest man on
earth. Mr.Bittles, checkmate!" Thomas
Dunn English in New York Ledger.
Thinning Anpln.
The following advantages are given by
a successful orchardist of thinning the
apples on heavy bearing trees while the
fruit is small: (1) You get rid of the knot
ty and wormy apples before they havo
grown long enough to occupy the places
of better ones. (3) You thus destroy, be
forejthey can increase, the insects in such
as are stung by the curculio and infested
by the codling worm. (3) The best ones
being left, they hare plenty of room to
grow into large, fine, salable specimens.
(4) You are not obliged to gather twice
as many small ones, the labor of picking
depending on number and not on size.
(5) The bad ones are removed in time at
less than half the labor required for hand
picking when they .become large. (6)
You avoid much labor in assorting the
gathered crop and in separating the
scabby and knurly from the best fruit.
(7) The moderate crop which is allowed
to grow will exhaust the trees less than
the heavy crop of poor and seedy speci
mens. He thinks that to allow all the
poor and worthless apples to grow is
like the practice of tlie farmer who
would permit all coarse weeds to grow
in his corn, to be assorted from his grain
after harvesting. Country Ocutleman.
Mnilcal Flume.
The well known experiment of mak
ing sounds by holding a tube over a jet
of buring gas (usually hydrogen) is often
omitted in chemistry classes because nc
suitable tubing is at bund. A fact nol
noted in any text book 1 have seen, and
unknown to all teachers that I have con
sulted, has been brought to light in my
classes, viz.: a bottle will serve in place
of a tube, A "philosopher's candle"
properly burning will yield a fine sound
if capped by a wide mouthed bottle, as a
quinine bottle or a large test tube. Of
course, this is according to the principles
of acoustics, but It seems strange tliat no
text book give it. I should like to know
if this fact Is known to any one elae,
X. Berry Smith in Science,
A Cl'r Monopoly.
The other forenoon a messenger bof wbo
was going up Woodward avenue stopped
for a moment in the shade of on of tb
Circus park maples. He was sopping np
the sweat on bis bands and fac when an
ice wagon came along.
"Gimme me a biiLkV called th boy.
The driver shook bis bead.
"It may prevent sunstroke," continued
tb boy,
"For ten coU." replied the driver.
"Then lemma ride."
Tb driver shook hi head.
"It may v my life."
"For Ave cents," grimly replied tb
driver.
"That' clear- monopoly, and her goe
to down it!" said th boy, and b bit tb
driver in th back with stone aod cpd.
-r Detroit Free Press.
How t Fo4 Ont.
Leisurely Stranger J suppose, now, you
don't sell sucb fin young spring chicken
a these to boarding bouse keeper?
Proprietor of Meat Market Not ofUn.
Mra. Irons, though, who keep a boarding
bona io the next block, buy a ball dosao
of tbem every morning.
Btrmnmr (with alacritv)- Thank rou.
(Disappears in the direction of Mrs. Iron'
boarding bouscjtbicngo i noun a.
(Mar Poul.liBirot.
Captain Sergeant, nou down Private
Oraagrnn three days oa bread and waur
(or slovenly turn out oa parade.
aemuot- Bet pardon, captain, 1 bat
won't make tbe slightest difference M aim
W a vxretanaa:
Captain What r Then put blm for tbrt
days oa meat and soap! Chatter.
Ores! Iaprnint.
Jndklns (to Black, wbo is preparing for
a mntlnental trlo-How do TOO et OB
arUb roar languages, old fellow I
uusj.
Black Capitally. v or, i n got m
. .. iB FMB.
jadUna-Wli. that'i a blaiog, lor It'
more taaa you foiua tt w u .;inn
irauopra
KITCHEN TRAINING.
A WORK WHICH HAS HELPED MANY
POOR AND RICH FAMILIES.
VThaa "Ktteh Card Training," lUana,
How It Waa HartoU nnd by Whom.
Ml nntlntoa' Crat Warn tor He
Lsa rortunal SI tier in n I! If City.
"There is so much to find fault with
and so much to wbh for in such a great
big, dirty city as ours that sometime
the good, sweet, modext fact connected
with ourcharitablo institutions are over
looked," said a visitor to the Wilson In
dustrial school and mission as she came
away from there the other duy. The
building at 1.'5 St. Mark's place wa
turned, nearly forty years ago, from a
factory into the pleasunt school house
which it now is. This school, which wa
the first institution of tho kind in Amer
ica, U not endowed und is maintained
entirely by voluntary contribution. Mrs.
Jonathan St urge is the firt director,
and many familiar names are on the list
of managers.
The matron of the school is Mis
Emily Huntington, the originator of the
system of kitchen gardeu training, a
branch of work now carried on not
only at the Wilson s-'hool and elsewhere
In this city, but in other American citie
and in Canada, England, Ireland, Scot
land and France. Miss Huntington has
made tho mission house her home, and
here she watches day by day tho result
of tho method which she bus estab
lished. It Is with a fascinating interest that
one listens to the tale of how by the
merest chance Miss Huntington, at
eighteen, just ont of school and ready
to be ushered into fashion's pleasure,
chanced to be taken by a friend to visit
a "ragged school," and how the only
daughter of fond parents put society
and the nsnnl amusements of youth
aside, awl not In the same manner, bnt
with the same motive as her cousin, Fa
ther Huntington, set herself about mis
don school work.
Nobody could work with Miss Hnnt
ington's energy and her capacity for or
ganizing withont developing new ideas
which should bring forth more com
plete work, so as time passed on and she
gained experience, not only among the
poor, but with her own class, she made
various discoveries. One was that the
leisure of some of the young girls of her
acquaintance might readily bo put to
eood account, and another that kitchen
gardening might with profit be adapted
to the rich as well as the poor,
She obtained the co-operation of some
of the mothers and the intorent of the
girls, so that a meeting was called for
the purpose of developing a plan of
movement Fifty girls mot at the hous
of one of the elder women, x ma waa la
1807. It was proved that most of them,
no matter how well vorsed they were in
Latin and geometry, knew absolutely
nothing about domestic science, so ar
rangements were mado for forming a
normal class which should be divided
into companies, these companies to go
to the mission for regular days or teacii
inc.
These young women, as their paths
divided, removed to Boston. Chicago
and elsewhere and set up kitchen gar
dens of their own, with the result that
the system ha spread everywhere. It
might even he said with truth that the
other thought, that of the Working
Girls' clubs, emanated from this mis
sion, for Miss Grace U. Dodge was one
of the fifty young women who joined io
tb work there, and it was no doubt be
cause of the experience she gained at this
time hor idea was conceived and devel
oped.
The girls became kitcnen gardeners
themselves, and afterward, when mar.
riage had placed some of them in home
of their own, they wrote to the founder
of the lystein, "You have no idea how
kitchen garden helps me witn my serv
ant and uiv housekeeping, and to
other it gave the mean of livelihood
when unforeseen reverses of fortune
made them dependent upon thoir own
resources.
It must be conossed that "kitchen
garden" i a rather misleading name,
for it suggest to many a pmce wuere
Tegetable are grown for kitchen use.
When Mis Huntington wa asuea aooui
th name, she said: "It means a system
br which all tlie intricacies of domestic
science are taught sweeping, dusting,
washing, ironing, waiting at table, etc.
1 thought a little or changing me nam
at ona time because it wa confounded
with th term vegetable garden, but 1
found nothing that quite took Its place,
and 1 soon discovered that the fact that
th name bad to be explained gar it
additional importance."
The school hours are the same her a
elsewhere from 0 to 8. There are about
SOU girls, ranging in age from five to ten,
and there are the tumul lessons in read
ing, writing and arithmetic, which com
under the head or study. I tie training
in the kitchen garden branches is little
1m than a systematized form of play,
and this take np a proportionate pan or
the school day. New York Tribune,
Klekal Armored Ship Cua't C North.
Th remarkable discovery of the ef
fect of temperature on the density of
nickel steel is likely to have an im
portant bearing on its nse in the con
struction of war vesseb. After thU va
riety of itei 1 ba been frozen it ta read
ily magnetUed, and, moreover, Its den
ity 1 permanently reduced fully per
cent, by the exposure to the cold, (t i
atntod that a ship of war built In tbe
tomrjerate climate of ordinary steel and
clad witn say b.uw ion oi u;ci ni
armor would be destroyed by a visit to
the arctic regions, owing to tbe con
traction of the steel by tbe extreme low
temperature. New York Journal
Caaal frojeeU In Franc.
There are now nnder consideration
rwo project, which If carried out will
have an immense effect on the trad of
France, Tbe first l the project of
making Paris into a port by canalizing
tbe Seine, so that ea going vessel can
make tb passage from Havre to Paris.
The second proposal Is for tbe construc
tion of a canal to con net t th Mediter
ranean with the bay of Biscay, with th
Intention of intercepting a great part of
(h shipping which at present passe
through tb trait of Gibraltar. lw
York Comtnerdal Advertiser.
The Plnkert .n detective agency, whick
U attracting so much public attention
Just at present, bas been in exiatenc
cine 1812. when it wa rounded by Allan
Pinkerton la Chicago. Hardly half a
iuitn men were employed by tb agency
at that Urn, but today tb detective
at serrit tuna sinnii
"SHE BROUGHT HIM AROUND,
A'Tnrllllug Story of Man's HathfulncM
and Woman' Tet.
Softly shone the subdued llubt of th iol-
llit-ygos jet in tbe parlor of th Bilcler-
badic mansion on too uvooiw, an 1 soft was
thelceof the abashed young KraMnus
Sbarluslford, wbo sat on tb edge of bis
chatr. mopped bis heated face and smiled
ith kind of paplermach smile at the
nintuciug young woniau, in tbe daxillog
aureole ot wbos auburn balr b had flut
tered In agonUing captivity fur month
and months.
'Mis Viola," he said, clearing hi throat
and sneaking with every lnfliutlun of a
man about to say something, "you will not
be eurprUed, I presume, if 1-lf I exprvas
the tho feeling, tbe tbe opinion, as it
were, that that it's pretty bot this even
Ingt"
hratmue gave bis faro another frenzied
swipe with bis hamlkervhief aud subsided
Into palpitating silence.
No," replied Miss iola, with a smile
that brought a lar and ecstittie lump of
something or other up into his throat, "I
am not surprised, Mr. Shackelford. You
mado tlie same observation earlier in tb
evening."
"V-yes, he gasped. "1 believe I did. It
it was not nu entirely uetv remark. In
fact it wa a klud of a of a chestnut, I
suppoKe.
1 he agitated youth uiade another effort
to crush down the lump in his throat.
'And I-I feel. Miss llil-Vlola-as if I
were a a klud of of observation myself
that waa getting tiresome. Haven't I
been been olvrved hero a little toooftenf-
Do 1 seem to be a a chestnut" nnd as lie
moved his handkerchief over his glowing
faee In tremulous jab his vole took on a
despairing sound "a sort of of routed
chestnut?"
'No, Krasmus," slowly answered tb
maiden. "When a chestnut is roasted it
pops."
The conscientious historian Is bound to
record the f.U't that at this point Krnsmu
immediately poped. Chicago Trlbuuo.
Feeling of a Monk,
A native of India was sitting in bis
garden wheu a loud chattering an
nounced the arrival of a large party of
monkeys, which forthwith proceeded to
uiako a meal off his fiuiis. Fearing the
loss of hi entire crop, he fetched hi
fowling piece, and, to frighten them
away, fired it off, as' he thought, over
the heads of the chattering crew. They
all fled away, but. he noticed, left behind
npon a bough, what looked like one
fallen asleep, with it bead resting upon
its arms.
As it did not move, be tent a servant
up the tree, who found that it wa dead,
having been shot through the heart.
Uo had it retched down and buried be
neath the tree, and on the morrow be
saw sitting npou the little mound the
mute of the dead monkey. It remained
there for several days bewaillug its loss.
Robert Morley in Natnre Note.
Til llnniana Did Not t's Hoop,
Tlie Romans were not acquuintod
with the use of regular soup, but they
employed uu alkali, with which the
greasy dirt was dissolved out of their
clothes. This alkali, called nltrum, if
referred to by Pliny, but the cheapest
solvent was urine, which waa mostly
used. The clothes were put in this,
mixed with water and then stamped
upon with the feet. This process was
perfonuod by old pooplo, while boys
lifted the clothes out of the tubs. Th
white garmoiiU, after being washed,
were subjected to the vnwr of sulphur,
being stretched on a frame and the sul
phur burned beneath. Poor people in
Rome cleansed thoir bodies with tnoal
of lupins, called lomentum, which, with
common meal, is still used in som
place for that purpose. Knowledge.
Earlv Printing and llluntratlug.
The first printing pross in the United
State began its civilizing work at Cam'
bridge, Mass., in Harvard university In
1031). The first American made illus
tration, it is still believed, is in Tully'i
Almanac, of Boston, in 10US. The first
American copper plate portrait pub
lished in this country was in Increase
Mather' "lchabod." published in 1703.
The first three engravers were Paul Re
vere. Benjamin Franklin and Isalab
Thomas, wbo distinguished himself at
tbe battle of Lexiiigtoo. New York
Sun.
WUy lorn liable Cry.
A groat many babies cry out of puit
cusaeduoss. They have no reason what
ever. 1 have seen them stop playing to
begin to howl, refusing both food aud
drink. Often child will wake up, tie-
irin crying, and full off to sleep again.
Bubios show individuality, and cry just
a adult grumble, scold, lecture, bang
things about and swear. Thar may or
may not be cause for tb outburst, but
there is a certain amount of relief which
ba a physiological if not a moral value.
-Cor. Baby.
H Wa Frightened.
"Ob, no, let' not gal" exalalmed lb
little bor aa hi nurse proposed icolng oa
board a yacht, and thn th youngster
burst Into tear.
"Whv. Willie, what In th world i th
mnttr"
"I lust h h heard one m-ra-man Ull an
other to set th M-apauker."-Provldsne
Journal.
Ilia Llllls Kthem.
Cholly-Fweddy, old boy, what' thl I
heahf Have rou wcally and twnly been
ued by a onhsty bahbnh foh a shaving
hill?
Fweddr Don't ion fwet, ole chappl. A
lot of beastly cads, you know, ay I eawn'l
wals a beahd. Bab Jove, they've got to
take It back nowl-Cblcago Tribune.
Kindness to th Canary.
Tb canary seems to be uneasy,
aha von ii cr man.
I'Vmm i.ll4 tli Tnnnff ladv. "Ha al.
, .... .hut war if th room Isn't er
drk after it o'ciocg."
Vnnno Mr. Hankinson considerately
turned tb light down ud staid an hour
or two longer Chicago Time.
A Matter lor Congratulation.
Ab, Mr. Itnmee, allow me to congrat
ulate tou. Your sou I understand is en-
eaoeil. and to a verv fin ladv."
"Fluel Mairnlllcentl And b love ber
devotedly. She's worth 810D.OOO, but Adolpb
I that fond of ber I believe h would hav
taken ber if aba wasn't wortn mors loan
KO.OOO." Flicgcnde Cleetter.
Wanted It Natural.
A man, with bead as destitute of hair
as a watermelon, entered a druggist' and
said be wanted a bottle of balr restorer.
"What kind of hair restorer do you pre
fer!"
'I'll Lake a bottle of red balr restorer,
That was the color of my balr when I wa
eboy."-Judy.
A Dellcat Baggtl).
"1 think thee kissing same ar tuch
foolish thlngi," be said, petulantly, a they
left tb cbildrn' party and sutmeu out on
tha lawn
"Ye," b answered, "kissing I always
fH.V. U an ran 1 locking an."
WWl J IWVUWM w . w
Xw York Herald,
UNDERNEATH FLORIDA.
THE
EXPERIENCE OF A NEW
LANDER UNDERGROUND.
ENO-
Tw Collrg rioy la search of Plum
sad Skint Into lit Mytrlon Abjri
f Moonlight Vfondar Oalor Oelow
Florida'! Iiirfae.
Tbe train from South Florid brought to
Jacksonville two young men en rout from
the KlHalmmrerivrrtn Portland. Me. Their
name are .linnet Dlcklnoon and Roland
Brown. Thev affably explained tbeir mi
slnu and unfolded the narrative of their
Florida experience. Mr. Brown said:
"Well, to NWrt at the lievlnnlng. we ar
from n little Maine village on the coast,
unt fur from Portland Dlrklnwn and I
werrhoth preparing foreollexe In the nam
Portlnml ncNilrmy. hut we saw thnt onr
funds were nt a low ebb, and that although
we IimI worked our way through up to thnt
time, we would have to atop awhile and
pitch IntONOmethiiiK to benble to get back
Drat yrnr ami llnlah up. We had rend
great deal of Florida, and Florida hunting
In particular, a gunning wn. our common
bobby, nnd au article on gnthering heron
nit eicrel plume in mime msKiulne put a
new idea Into onr head.
We went by rail to Kiailmmee. Ilerew
fitted out the enoe, and with nil will up one
breer.y afternoon alnrted down the Ink
hlch commence near Mwlmmee. e
pnxheil nn through the rnimla into Ivike
Kiietinimre nnd on down the river. We
at retched a tent over the rami nlulits and
got along very comfortably. Down tills
mnrhy, alow flowing river we heitan to
find the heron and enret nod commenced
our plume harvest. You are the plume
are worth from fl to I I..V) each, and thl
waa w hat we were counting on to help us
out.
FLnmnA' woNPKits.
"After twUting nlmnt the creek w final
ly ran rlttht by a bluff, nnd nlmtit ft o'clock
we hauled our canoe ont on a sandy beach
and climbed to the top, where we found an
Ideal enmping ground, carpeted with fin
needle nnd abundant In firewood.
"We eoon hnd our tent pitched, a fir
blaring and thing fixed In comfortable
atyln. Our supply of water, however, wa
abort, the crwk being muddy nnd brack
loh, and our metal tanks, which were tilled
the week U'fore, were nnarlyempty. I heae
nc tanks were mado to lit In the In and
stern, nnd I took one of them nnd atnrted
off throuirh the high pine- wood to find a
spring. Theahort twlllnht waa over, but
full moon uav plenty nr light. After
walklnu nhoutamlle I heard murmur
Ing, ruahlivg sound at my right, nnd heed
nl for the water evidently In thnt direc
tion. "Preaently I saw a good sized streniu glim-
merlnK through the tree, the silver river
seemed to end abruptly, and It looked very
pussllng until I reached th hank, when I
aawthat I had run nuti of Morula'
natural wonders, ol which I had often read.
Mere wan a law xtreum of water flowing
between low hnnka for a longdlntnnce, and
audilenly pouring Into the earth and disap
pearing from sight, was a subterranean
river.
"But I waa after the water, which wa
elenr and cold. So I stepped down th
bank nulteadlatance above the cataract
and tried to unacrew the cover of my tank.
The oliHtreperoua piece of metal wan stuck
tight, nnd while I waa wrextllng with It
th crumbly clay hank gave way and I
lipped Into the water, ntlll clinging to my
water tank, which buoyed me np ns a life
preserver. I clung to It and kicked out for
lb shore.
INTO TDK IARTH.
t had about a hundred feet to drift, and
although I could touch the bank nt time
I con lit find nothing to gmxp hut thetreacn-
ernuacrttmhlinii clay Buoyed up by my
life DrfMerver. I swung round In a swirling
eddy, and with one hut cry for help and a
kind of dreamy wonder nn to bow tar down
I would (Iron, my lireatb left ma After
the first agonizing plunge down It seemed
to me hundreds of feet my head "hot ont
lute tbe air for a moment, and I saw that
th stream waa running horizontally
through the black, raylena cavern on wbon
walla the apray waa splashing. I caught
my breath when my head struck th roof,
nd I wnx borne violently under ngnln, and
In th mighty preaaur of wnter bocam
unconscloii.
"When my sense returned I wn floating
au ol v on the Nurfcof a body or water,
my anna atlll held by tb strap or my lire
preserver, which had Indeed saved me,
holding me up while I floated uucouscloua
I paddled slowly to tb nearest shore, and
fell down in theirraaa. bruised and wearied.
Id the moonllubt I aaw that tb pool I bad
juat left waa circular, and nbout a hundred
yanls In diameter, black and deep, but
Itbout a ripple.
"I lav down under a hlg pin tre to get
rented and wait for daylight, as l oaa en
tirely loot my bearing. Th pool wn vi
dently a stuk hole, fed by th subterranean
stream, and with probably an underground
outlet. I hadiweu drawn Into tb river,
anrried uoderuround and born through
th opening Intoth pool, and could hav
been In th water but a vary tew minutea,
aath roar flush in th western aky bad
Dot faded.
M1DR MONXT, KEVERTIIRLKSI.
Th Quantities of water which I bad
awallowwt mad ma weak and alok, and I
fell aalep, and wok up to find th sun
juat rUing. I picked up my water utna,
determined to tnk It back 111 led, and start
ad In tb direction I thought I bad coma
After two hours' tramping I beard a gun
fired right ahead of me. and In a few mlr
dim wa near noiik'h to Dickinson to oall
nd attract bla attention. II waa nearly
frantic al niv mysterious dlaapi?rano,
nd thought tbat a panther had taken m
In. I told blm my wouderrui auvauiur.
nd w mad for camp, as I wa nearly
atarved.
"Wa remained lucaniD 00 tliUWuJ till
tb plum neaaou wa about ovr. Then
1 1 I. L' I - I ...
ww eruu j ones iuvo n .ui.w
without anr more adventure and re
in I nod our abarni In lak Jeasup. W
secured (DOUM-h baron and egret plumes.
bird skin and alligator bides to ennui ua
to dear a uood alaed aum after paying all
our expense. W shipped our booty to
New York, and sold our enure cruising
outfit and both bout to two F.ngltshmen
an the unnar SL John' for agood orto.
W bad a glorious time, ar neanoy ana
bard a bricks, and hav niad eoougtt
money to carry us through college. "-Flor
id Time-union.
A Remerketil rind.
Mr. John C. Smith, of Middle street, lost
a aa aote nn Ubo etreel Sunday eveulug.
Early on Monday morning b went to th
olac where b remembered taking om
money from his vest pocket and there near
tbat vary spot he fouud It Tb rain dur
ing tb ulght prevented It being blown
way, and fortunately no on wbo fancied
a needed It more than Mr. Smith did bad
pawed tbat war I wbiun JnumaL
Oav 111 a ih ranaral.
A man in Waterville. Me., according to
tb New York Sun, who had aprut moat of
hi earnings for rum. received a prbk
and back pay a few mouths ago, aod de
voted lb greater part of bla money to a
prolonged debauch, from lb ffcte of
Which be died, til family, although pov
erty stricken, took U.e DUO remaining
from pension cr. 1 n for a caaket
gad aaaay back fnr t'.c ue.
I i-r T
Tb chambermaid la talking to aenelf:
"If tbat Ban'"""" young lieutenant that'
vUltiog hr dam to kia m taln h.'U
rt a pUo of my mind. I wonder why u
' o lateW'rt
ODD ACCIDENTS.
Mr. Katid'a Flight from Horn InU tbe
Klfi r and Oilier Uapiwulag,
They may have been duo to tbe eocene
tricitks cf tho aean or merely to tho
wanton malevolence of luck, but not a
few extraordinary . accident liuvo oc
curred in Connecticut within a day or
two. Somo of tlio casualties were at
tended Milh odd circumstances.
William Rind, of Groton, got out cf
bed in tho mot matter of fact way at
Iiia home the other morning and stum
bled into the kitchen to build the kitchen
fire tt- usual. lie went in to touch It off
with naptlin fluid, a method he had used
t hundred limes before. He remember
now that ho had the naptlin can in one
hand and was rlowly tipping it to let tho
fluid trickle into tlio stove. There may
havo Ufii a live coul in the kitchen
stove, or the nnpiha may have been an
unuMiully wicked kind of fluid; at least
the m-xt thing he knew with any lucid
ity was tlmt one or two of his neighbor
were pulling him out of tlie Thome
river.
As the roof of Mr. Rand' dwelling
had 1h-i n raised somo inches at the time
of bis quitting his homo, so thut he was
not obliged to 1m? fired squarely through
it, and as ho found himself suddenly iu
the river, distant several rods from his
house, und as he recollects nothing about
going to tlie river in any way except by
a dim uraUilio curve, it- is reasonable to
infer, ho thinks, that the naphtha can
exploded. Ho was very dangerously
hurt.
Homer Willis, a 12-year-old Yf illlmnn
llo lad, was lounging along the road to
school a day or two ago when lie found
an odd looking shell by the wayside, and
he picked it U. Ho scrutinized it close
ly, and his curiosity wa excited. Ho
idn t know but it might lie a new kind
of tropical nut. So ho laid it down on a
nck, Bihl, getting a stono, whecked the
shell aevrrat times with great force.
Then suddenly tho air turned black, the
queer lint mysteriously disappeared, and
moment later, when Homer had re
gained his right mind, he found himself
on his back in tho road. Ho discovered
that a couple of queer round hole bad
been Itorod through bis upper tip. The
surgeon who dressed the boy' wound
said he gtieased tho odd nut was a dyna
mite cartridgo, and that it had belonged
to Willimanlio ewer men at work on
Valley street
A man waa sauntering along Main
treet, In Hartford, tho other day carry
ing a long ladder on hi shoulder, and
from tho rounds of the ladder dangled a
paint pot nnd several crooked steel
hooks. Bight behind the painter came
William Harper, who lives on Pleasant
street, who was walking quickly and un
guardedly, for he was going home to
dinner. Tlie rear end of the ladder wa
not six inches from Mr. Harper' nose,
and in this queer procession the painter
and the other man strolled on for about
a block at the tame gait. Then sudden-
y tho painter stopped to examine a
'bargain in wool undershirts" in an ad
oining shop window, "that were gelling
for fifty cents less than cost," but Will
iam Harper neglected to stop voluntarily.
Instead, the ladder punched him a foot
into tho air clear of the sidewalk and
flung liini down on the sidewalk with
mushed jaw and a banged and bleeding
The man with the ladder squared
around in astonishment and aw and
then helped Mr. Harper Into the drug
store of Dr. Root, who plastered and
fixed tip bis wounds, and Harper waa
taken home in a hack. The painter say
be fails to seo how bo is responsible for
the uiixhap of a man who pitched into
hi ladder and waa squarely knocked
out.
John Welch, of Portland, met a simi
lar mischance, except that be was wal
loped by a wheelbarrow instead of a bid
der, and it was his own barrow, too. II
waa wheeling the barrow through hi
hardware shop when he stumbled, and
then in a swift and unaccountable way
be got mixed up with the barrow, and
before lie could separate himself from
the legs and wheels and Iron of the ma
chine It had thrown blm and broken hi
arm. Tho fracture waa a very bad one,
and he will not be able to do business
with a wheelbarrow again for several
months. Norwich (Conn.) Letter in New
York Sun, j
1 i
Km In aa Adventurer.
A pamphlet has been published In Con
stantinople, in which a Turkish writer.
Ebhuzla Tuwfik-Bcy, doclurea that Emin
Pasha is nothing but a vulgar ad
venturer. Dr. Sclinitiiler thut was
Emln's name before his conversion to
the Mohammedan religion waa the
guest In 1809 of Ismail Pasha, governor
of Erxeroum. When the latter was sent
to Scutari Dr. Schnltiler accompanied
him to bis new residence, and also utter
to Trebizond and Constantinople, wher
lab ail Poaha died in 1871 The doctor
then embraced Islamlsm, married tlx
wife of hi benefactor, Emin Uanum,
and took the name of Emin,
After staying ome time longer in
Constantinople Emin went to Stettin, In
Germany, taking with hiua but wife and
her four children by her former hus
band. One day Emin went to Nelsa to
attend a relative' wedding, and since
then ho ha sent no tidings of himself to
bis wife, who wa left with her children
In extreme poverty. Moro than thl h
carried away with him his wife' jewels,
worth moro than .'0.000. These be old
to get money with which to go to Egypt,
whence he reached th Soudan, th cra
dle of hi wlehrlty. Transatlantic. j
j
Influencing th Jury.
A coincidence that Is very rem arkabl
I reported from Boston, A teamster
who iiuu ureu i.uit vj at v iuuuiu
into his wagon brought suit for damage
against the railway company. The casa
came up a few day ago, and tb jury de
cided to visit th cne of the collision
a stcen bill They embarked in a car
belonging to the defendant, and bad
1ut reached th bill when tho car ran
ii to a furnituro wagon, breaking two of
tho window and shaking up tb Jury
men. Th teamster received a rerdlct
for f 1,100. Philadelphia Ledger.
Hat Prefer.
Taer "ood oa thi brach bj kOJo" , I
And It aaenird that th swift noun reoKl:
For b waa la low and k
And hhi arm w are d ear waa
Thov watched Ih natt ta tb moMg-
As th ah If went aaiUag by.
And they aoftly vned - wblanera km
A wi many a leader atgn.
"Ob, ko I wbh thai w owned a T."
Bald In a wletul t .
-How nappy we'd be. and horn Wig eur lea,
waa Una right th k aa B d k he.
Her pretermc I aow
Tor my par " aald aba, "I Ink Ti Bretw
- Awu?i kjtaiow