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1 A DILEMMA. fj . l,& ffiililvn hair. 'M JIT lut - A , Beast glallce. DIOQFU Sir. Hi r ) " "re u'u" ""J wn,t nJ shn J,,,, k huh no null nor coquetry. llrr maiden heart, her foul serene, in all l r word and louke are wen. Tti inure I tlittik of her. Ilia wore Ail her perfection I'd adore If fr one hour I could forget The k in 1 h ha B,e her net, Wlicnstduskv hair, whose saucy saiil And ipty caprice my heart beguilrl (.he has each fault w hich I abhor. " t.ne'n"l 'be girl I'm looking for. Ala'! the more I disapprove The mora I frowo, the more I love! Vogue, HER LOVK LETTERS. jeanie Campbell came Lack from tho jailor's ttliop where alio worked and (omul ii comtinny of boys and girls con gregated round the doorstep of the tall tint tin iit house In which sbo rented one imull buck room. They were booting iud jring nt 8 ,llan ""-'"'ed bis shirt ileeves mi the doorstep placidly smok ing a huge German porcelain pipe. The man did not seem in the least disturbed at their jeers and shrieks, but smoked on with bin Je "cd nl,on ",e 01,8 6,riI) ' ititiM t sky Visible above the gnuiy roofs. Jennie pushed her way iu. What's the matter?" Yah. Diitcbyl I'u't 'e a bloouiin ift? (iivo n boy a sbillin to go and Mill 'in soinetbin to eat and is w'itin Vrofor'm! I'n't 'o a style? Wonder 'ow long bu'll w'ite!" Who lube?" A blooming Dutcbyl 'E carn't ipriiknu English, 'e carn't 'as to mike menu and nobody 'ere carn't speak Mliink else. I'n't 'e a softy?" Tim (.'if I paused and looked at the man. There was something in his pa tent altitude that aroused her pity. Seine softer renifiiibrance of the duys tefuit) she came to this great, wicked Loudon came over her. The man's eyes, lobluc. l b ur iiikI biigbt.and the healthy tinge of bis wholciMiiue face smote upon i, r with a pang of xerollectioii of the liuiiret Scottish faces she had left with contempt for their content when she had started forth to see life in London. Shu went up to the man aud signed to liim to follow her indoors, hi lie tried toinaku him nndeistund that he bad been rubbed. The soft, gentle tones that answered her wete quite unintelli gible. He smiled, shrugged his shoul ders, spicud his bands and looked at her with that calm trustfulness one sees iu dugs and children. Sho smiled, nodded, pointed up the itairs and then ran out of the bouse. Sht) returned with a loaf of bread and i half pound of suusuges for him and roll for herself. She would make that do. He was a stranger, alone and friendless. She put the things in his band, point ing down tho street nsif to indicate that the bad brought tbe things from the buy. Ho seemed to understand, took her hand and raised it to his lips. The action was so simple, so grateful tbat ho felt ashamed and ran np tbe stairs to h r own room. Her comfortless breakfast of a dry roll the next morning made her a little regretful of her charity the night be fore. "He must shift for himself, as 1 bavo had to do," the thought, aud she went out to her day's work. When she returned iu the evening, he found him stunding outside bis door. He lowed and smiled, opened bis door and showed bis various purchases on his table. He bad evidently found his way round to shops. She went up the stairs, feeling the least little bit dis appointed tbat be did not require ber help any more. He seemed different from the jaded, vulgar men aud wom en she came in contact with in ber city life. The air of tbe fields seemed to cling to him still. She thought as she toiled up the weary stairs how sweet the country must be looking now. Was the sun shining on the bills at borne aud making the waters of the loch epaikle, the bonny bills that she would never see again? Friends were dead, aud to a tniloresa at 13 shillings a week it was indeed a far cry to Lock Awe. Something was on ber table, a little keteh of a sweep of wide hills, with fir forests clinging to their sides, a little cluster tif bouses with wide overhang ing roofs and Bhutters to the windows. A figure was standing in tho doorway of ouo of the houses. "That is his bouse," said Jeanie to herself. "What a funny thing to do, to give mo a picture of it! I wish 1 could end him back one of Loch Aweand our bouso up on the braes." The next day was Sunday. She uhu- lly passed the morning in bed, tired out with her week's work. When she emtio down ifboutthe middloof the day, he met him coming In, evidently in his Sunday best. Could he have been to church? Well, it was clear be bad not learued the manners of Eureka court Jet. She tried to express ber thanks by looks and smiles. He seemed to under stand and laughed, and then she felt ith a quick touch of dismay tbat be Itlanced in surprise at her untidy dress uu tousled hair. Jeanie did not "tidy herself until afternoons; then in an euurmous bat and feathers and much becurled head she nerambiilated the ad jacent streets in company with girls of Ber acquaintance, not yet vicious, only iK'ioiaiit, vain aud craving for a little " that happiness which seems to all (iris their birthright. That same bair was In papers now he blushed as she recalled tho fact her hands were grimy, her face un washed. His eves noted it. They did not meet again during tbe eek, but next Sunday morning found Jeanie with her hair out of papers and her hands washed. She was loitering at the street corner when became back in hi sprnce clothes. She gave him a lrt nod. She felt annoyed with bim for some nnkuown reason and that even ing made herself as resplendent as pos "hie in her cheap, gaudy finery. "He shall see that I can be smart. too," she thought, aud tossed ber bead ne appeared. He atotiitril. mill drawing a notebook 'foui his pocket rapidly sketched a church front upon it. She shook ber bead. H looked puzzled. Then bis 1'ilck fingers drew the ontside of one of the commonest tyjw of meeting bouse, kue abouk her head again and moved -&. Somehow she did not like to show biui bow she spent ber Sunday evenings. The weather became very hot. Jeanie drooped more and more in tbe unhealthy Workroom and stuffy streets. He seemed to notice It, for on one Saturday Eignt sue found a drawing of trees and a path I and figares walking about, aud under neath the figures 2:30. Could he beask lug ber to go for a walk? She waited in to see. At 2:80 a knock came at her door. There he wus, with his square, ngly, goon namre.1 race smiling at ber. She felt awkward going down thestairs with him. What could they do during a whole walk if neither could speak to the other? But tbat walk did not take nlacn. The miart tie around her neck had beeu the price of ber dinner. She turned faint and reeled, then sat down on the stairs and burst into tears. She hardly knew if she was vexed or pleased to rind herself picked up like a baby and carried np to her own room and laid njion her bed. She sat up and drank tome water, while he stood look ing perplexedly at her, and she blushed that he should see ber untidy, disorder ly room. He went out. In a few minutes she beard ber door open and something pushed along the floor. It was a little jug ol hot coffee and milk aud a plute of Herman rolls. The next day another picture was left. It represented a large workshop. with men sitting at tables, all busily engaged over some mechanical work. Underneath was wtitten the figures i)0 shillings. With nnskillfnl fingers she drew an outline of a cout and waistcoat aud a needle and thread and posted it at his door as she went out, but she bad to come back again, she was so ill, and all day she luy there alono waiting tor what was the only friendly signal in the world to her the scrap of paper of the foreign urtist. She heard it pushed under the door at last and feebly rose and groped for it. Her head wus throbbing so that she could scarcely see that it contained a whole line of portraits au elderly man and woman aud younger faces, among which was his own. his fauiily doubtless. She made a rough outline of ber hat. with a sharp oval for a face underneath. She wan too ill to get it down to bim. She pushed it out and trusted that be would fetch it. She heard hini in the morning come np again, and then she heard no mote, for the fever seized upon ber, and when next she woke to con sciousness she was lying ou a hospital bed. For duys she was too weak to speak or think, but when she was able one of tbe nurses asked ber if she would like to see Home papers which had been brought to tbe hospital for ber, and the unrse spread them out before her. The first wus of a man following a stretcher through the streets, then the same man Kitting alone in a solitary room with liis head bowed upon bis hand and weeping; the next, the same man at a door, evidently asking questions of a porter within; the next, the man was beside a bed on which lay a deathlike figure. " Has he been to see me?" "Yes; it was when we thought yon were dying be came every day, but we could not tell bim anything. No one could speak bis language, but at last we found it was Wendisb, from the bor ders of Saxony and Bohemia, and one of the doctors here got him a book in it by which be could study English. Yon will see by the sketches." The next one represented the man with the book in bis band. The next showed the wan in a train, and then on board a steumer, and then iu another train. Jeanie dropped the papers. "Ho is gone!" she said, with a little wonk cry. "Oh, why have I got any better?" "There is another picture," said the nurse, and she unrolled it for tbe trem bling girl. The man bad arrived at the little vil lage Jeanie remembered in tbo first sketch; then the interior of a bouse was shown; a coffiu lay in the middle of the room; an old woman, two girls and three men knelt around it. "His father is dead," suid Jeanie. And she turned to the next. The man was at the hospital door. "Oh, ho is coming back!" sbo cried. "See, this is the last, " said the nurse, and as she held it up she laughed. It was the man on ono knee before a girl Jeanie In her outrageous bat but there was in a little sketch up in the right hand corner, as if it was yet in the distance, the same little village with the pine forests around, the two figures the man and Jeanie walking arm in arm np the village street. Tbe uurse held ber sides for laughing. "It's the funniest thing lever saw in my life!" ehe said. Jeanie gathered her papers together with some dignity. "I don't call it funny," she said. "1 think it was just tbe nicest thing that ever was done to any girl." "My loofe!" said a voice at her side. And theie was the man. Jeanie gave a little cry. "My loofe!" said the man again. It is tny first English to yon, and it will be my last. My loofe!" And Jeanie, with all tbe dreams of ber girlhood back npon ber, put her arms round bis neck, and sobbing said, "And I don't even know your name, but I dou't care for anything in the world but yon." New York Tribune. "A We Pupil!" 1..tonn Ttrna a trreat soldier, bat be could not spell. His handwriting was .i .i .a tn oivn rise tn tho rumor inu ki ui - dial be used undecipherable characters to conceal tne fact tuai ne, me muster ... . I. of Europo, could not roaster rreucu or tl.,.i,iinh In the early days of the empire a man of modest apec presented uimsen ut fore the emperor. "Who are you?" asked Napoleon. "Sire, I bad tho honor at Brienue for 16 months to give writing lessons to your majesty. " v.... ,..r,,...l nnt a nice tiunill sntd mucuiyv.", "-- i... ... ...nr nrees!" Nevertho- emperor, with vivacity. conK" umiu juu v. j less he conferred a pension upon his old tuanter. Youth's Coiupan ion. aflsundaratoail. A plou and Saco lady, who felt that ths end of her mortal existence was . 1 .... ,u.iliiiif her bill witb ' close a. un", , . ! ber Iceman one day aud took occasion to I . . . . .1.,,,'t .niv rei;irk in nn I now loshall take ice of you another year. I Xiwrx to s over the other aide of the river before long." 'Oh no trouble, no trouble at all. r plied the enterprising Iceman a team ovrr to Hiddeford evrry day. Then belH-K.n slowly to grasp the real nieao I,, ,d muttered a be picked op hU "n and went out of tbe door, ow. JSU, would bebsppytobsva pleceof U-over there' anyway, I guess. "-Uw-latuuiMe.) Journal. DO MEX DIEOF FRIGHT? A Symposium by Medical Men and Military Officers. HOW FKAU iniXTS THE HEART. If That Organ Ia Sot Hound, IKrath May Tattle, Though tow Surh t'awa An Ur-cordvil-llow Rulillrra lb-ha In Halt la. Cowanllra a I'hjralral M'rak A group of aclenll.tK, soldiers and ntntca men went gossiping at the ('imiiiim club, In Washington, when sonieUxly nkcd a fa mous unity siirircon, who served through two wars and Is How iiniii the retired list, whether It was poKi-IMe. for n iiinn to be scared to death, and they fell tutu rem. nlscenees, says W. K. Out la In the Cliieagu Kecord. Keur hits often sought and guided KKI'IIKSKNTATIVE IIKMHIISOS. the fatal Instrument of the suicide, but can fright or terror or any other violent emotion stop tho boating of the human heart f Kx-Surgcon Cieiienil Mmro of tho army said: "It Is entirely posslblo for a man to ho scared to dentil. Ho may Ihi killed by Joy or by grief or by any other Intense emotion, it ho has a weak heart or Is keen ly susceptible to external Impression. I havo within my own knowledge a case of a man who tlliil from Joy usm the receipt of a message of great luiMirtnnco. Ho wim so nffivted that ho fell dead. I huveknowu men also to he teinsmirlly disabled by ex cessive four. A mail turns utlo when he is frightened. I'aleness Is a sign of a disor dered condition of the hlisxl. Tbe blood Is forced hark uisin tbo heart, and If tho ves sels of the heart are weak they burst, and death onsiuu. Fright or any other strong emotion might cause apoplexy." Keprosontatlvo Henderson of Iowa re port a case, wliliii was told lilm ny lila brother as having occurred In a medical oollege at which the latter wim a student In Aberdeen, Scotland. An old professor wiw obnoxious to tbo student, and to tmulsh him thevarntnunl a practical Joke. Entering his room at night musked, they bound I1I111 and tisik him to a carriage, which wim driven around for half an hour to make him believe that ho was Mngcar rlvluutof tbe city. Then they took him to a ro.1111, where a mock trial was held, and ho was sentenced to dinth. They pr pamd nn executioner's blia'k, compelled him ti kneel and place ins noun upon 11 ami tlvn si rue K mm acroxa tno luua. 01 his neck with it damn cloth. Thoslus-'k produced apoplexy, to tho consternation of tho students, who hiistlly carried hi Issly to his own om and left it ou tho tbsir In such a position a to lead to tbo belief that lie bud fa! leu In a tit lien alone. Dr. John .S. Hillings, curator of tho United States Army Medical museum, who Is recognized as authority on any subject ho undertakes to discuss, says " Yes," with a proviso. "No niso has ever como under my per sonal observation, but 1 know enough of tho power of mental lmprcssl"iis upon tho vltul organs to lM-llevethal the numerous Instances cited by writer m-v,- i,e tune that convulsions or anilysi-t and even death from failure of tho heart's action may be caused by strong emotions. The sudden frightening of a child In Jit bus frequently caused fatal llluoss und epilep tic convulsions." "Have you ever known of a soldier being frightened to death In battler" "No." "Do you believe such a thing ever oo-curi-cdf" "I do not know. It is possible, but I don't seo how a man who could bo fright ened to death could lss tho physical tests necessary to liecomo a soldier." "In all of tho records of the surgical and medical corps In tho late war has any such caso lioen brought to your attontlonf" "No. Hut 1 will admit It to bo posslblo that In certain diseases of tho heart a strain ur shock will stop its action. Tho exercise of walking up a flight of stairs might re mit fatally. You can readily seo I10W an artery that was ready to break would, when a strain was put usin It, rupture easily. Apoplexy Is produced by abnormal pressure upon the arteries of tho bruin. Bevoral cases are on record where tho fear of surgical operations has pnaluced death. Tho London Lancet retKirta a case of a col ored man of middle age, robust und In gixsi health, who was lulsirlng under a nioder- DR. JO" I BILLINGS, ate sized aneurism of the femoral artery. An operation wus proposed to him, to which ho readily assented, but usm enter ing the theater ho falnt.sj and finally died from fear. And such shocks havo cured disease as well. "The Washington Post of Feb. 7, 1H8M, .nnminrad that Mrs. Slblev. theaed wid ow of the late General Sibley, died of grief and disappointment upon the refusal of cotigrc to pa? a claim sue lutu nm the government. "The Nashville Journal of Medicine and c.,-,.rv IS72. n-tsirts a caso of one Maze, a private In tbo Confilerat anny, whce limbs had brt-ome so stiffened by acute ilin that he was absolutely help less. At tlie battle of Oslnr Creek, Max was sitting In a wagon when a shell burst a few f.vt from him. He Jumped from tbe wagon with an ability tlutt would have re n.wt rntlli on the soundest limbs and 1 .ir.l at a oace tbat few ablebodled men ! could have kept up with. The cur was ouiuiilcta." rnirgeoii Chnrlisi 8nmrt of tlie aurirnin general's ufJIeo aitid: "1 have xvn limiijr lueli very tuully frlKhtcueil, but I cliut niv that I evi-rwiw one frightened to dcnlh, althoiiKh 'I can readily belle a soldier could Iw, provided lie wiw .uttering with w lint ws call Irrltiil.lllty of 1 1... h.rt It was common In the war. wluu aoUUen. were miller extraordinary exertion aueli na going at a doul.le quick In onler to gain a ioliiin Mum Iho enemy r.mldg.-t toll thai wiiiie of them would U utterly out of bnth, and their hearts made to U-at no rapidly that they would Ik totally n- haiMi-d. ThU tnrted a dUiw. which tl.eni.fter prevented them from enduring even a slight en Ion or any mental lex- nn abnormally nervous l.m.i, hmrlng the llrst shot and knowing that Ida tiiiimny was soon to be nigngvd. mliilit U m-led with luilnliailon, and In (lit rush to the front drop with benrt dlscw frightened to ileuHi. His ilntiil of bring klllisl would set hi limit to Issuing rapidly, and tho exertion to keep up with the command would cause death. I cannot think that a maii In u-rfivily sound health, Isith men tally and physically, could tw frightened I'aptiiln Purmau, at pn-sent an examln- er In the Vnlled States patent i.lllee, who commanded a coniiuny In a n Istinisln rcg- 1 nt at the I at tin of Mdloh, relates Hint a man of hit command nannsl l'eao was frlKhleiiitl In tho "hornets' nest" that bo was srl.ed wild hysteric or convul sion, and U'lng taken to n hospital died two dav afterwnnl. He h id no dlmo and no wounds, but the intending pbysl clans rcirtcd It to lm a ciimi f nervous pnwtnition pnsnuvi ny nir. 1 I don t think I ever knew a citso where a Man wiw seartsl to death," said lienend Khollcld. "lout qullo sure 1 never did. 1 I bavo .een men ,mlvml so a to lie nit- solutely unconscious of what they were do-j liigand yet not show any dliwlt Ion to run away. They were daml aud would haul their gun and fire them Into tho nlr, ' knew a soldier to be scared to death. never lurd of such a case, but 1 can real- lie that one might occur. 1 know from ex-1 Mrleiico that men, and women also, under great excitement or under thecondltloiis of 1 fmr, fnsiiently are atltvtist with jMtlplta- I lions, which when thrown upon a diseased heart lulxht result fatally." tietienil Daniel K. Sickles said: "I would mullly N-lluvo such a thing to lie Msslble, although I cannot say that I ever knew of a cose." (ielientt JiHeph Wheeler, the famous Confederate cavalry commander, said: "J lr-i GKSKIIAL JOSKI II W 111.11. Kit havo never known a man to Ihi frlghteniil to death, but very frequently I have sis-n soldiers totally Minily..sl by frnr, so much so tbat they were lneauibleof using their museles or of uttering ttcohcrolit Hi-ntence. These were coses of w hat I should call teniKimry imntlysls. I do not know wheth er the effects were snnanent, as I did not sue tho men afterward, but I would not Ihi at all urprlstl If some of them resulted III permanent disability or even fatally. I re meuilsT one ease In uirtleular, where a soldier Mug c xMiwd to unexss'ted danger was so paralyzed that he sbssl motloulis with a blank expression lisni bis face while Ids comrades retreatisl In dlsonler. This man wits shot standing like H stutuo with his gun In his hand, as flted its If ho had Imvii frozen. I havo known other cases In which men have Ihi-ii oalTicted by fear that they lost the power of sssvh, although they were ablo to use their muscles." (jetiend I law ley says: "I think It Is en tirely sMslblo to scare a man to death, al though I must say that 1 havo no knowl edge of any particular case. A man of strong Imagination and susceptible to ex ternal Influences might lsj easily fright ened Into convulsions, or bis mind might ho so worked Umih as to drive him Insane. I havo known several men to die of In sickness or uitalgla, which 1 n distinct disiMtso and one of tho most terrible that a Tson can lw afflicted with." General Charles F. .Mnmlerson said: "I havo known men to bo dreadfully scared and I havo heard of cases where they Were frlgbtemsl to death, hut I never saw one. I lmvti known men to die of Insignificant wound, when I was sure that tbo cause of their dmth waa only fright, anxiety or homesickness, which, as all may know, are very aggravating Inctksesof Inflammation. Certain issmle lire so constituted that they are naturally onwards, Just us others havo uncontrollable teniK'rs. "In my own regiment there wit a ser geant who at the Isittlo of Itlch Mourn talu. W. Va.. conducted himself with eX' ceptlotial cisilness, and as a result of It was pmmotial to he a lieutenant, but at Sliiloh ho wits so f rlgliteiiisi mat lie actual ly flisl from tho field and did not return to the reuimeiit for several days. He was such au excellent olllcer In every other ro-siss-t that wo thought wo would give him another chimin, but whenever wo went Into a light no exercise of tho will power or anv amount of entnuty or persuasion or Intimidation could bring him to his senses, and ho wits finally placed in. a posl Hun mi tlie stuff where It was not necessary that bo should 1st In the Hue of battle dur ing au ungagement." lliittom of I'crslninion needs. Perhaps in nothing more thun in the art of iniikiiiK buttons illd our southern women show their skill and Ingenuity. Smut were cnn-heted and were of all sizes, ensilv mado of blin k and white thread and very durable. Others were covered buttons, hut the molds, which have since those days been furiildied to us in such abundance by our 'oiinectlcut friends and brethren, were then Uisde of pieces of pasteboard or old Isixes, the cloth Used to rover them Is-lng filled up with small locks nf our own white Heeey staple to give them the desired roundish Hiwnrsuce. Hut the tirettlest a well as tlie mimt durable of all our buttons were those made of per minion seeds. 1 Iii-mi are a beautiful dark brown color, very sinis.tb and glossy, and needed only to he washed and dried aud have holes bored III I hem to Iss ready for use. Out of tbe fruit of the persimmon tree we made beer, while the buttons Just seemed as If made for ns aud put down among our wood to l bsd for only tbe trouble of picking Slid wnsiimg mem. We talk sometimes of Yankee skill and Ingenuity, and yet. as we lk back upon the bast and think of kow we managed when thrown upou our owu rcoourcee, It is sa If while trying to separate our j selves iruiu turui wn, "n , selves, lu tusuy ways, to be of the sains I blood aud lineage. Ulu and Cray. but a man with any trouble of tho heart I j,.r,( tmt everybody was iu want of havo no doubt mlulit U killid very quick-' K,ai, mil,- tl) ,1U ,.i(.1.t, century, ly by f.rorany other imensoexe lenient. ltVrtlll, j (ro, r ,ir).aorvu4l As slant Adjutant (ieneral Mncvnt of ...... . ., . , ' ; ' . . ,' ,. HenenU Si holleld's staff said: "I never Bl U "" 1"'t 1,0 '.Kh U' e,",hil, EARLY LIFE OF PAUL JONES. Da Cam la Anirrir la luhartt mm Katal In Virginia. There is no record of bis having; at- t.,,,,1,.,1 un school except that of the ,,arUI of KirUcan. but he developed a , , , f , J , ' r "" He went to sea when 13 years ' aud made two voyage during his minority iu a slaver, but haling the trafllu he left ll and tho ship t.Hi. At 20 ho was iu roiuimuid of a flue brlgittitili& About this time otvui red what ho calls, , lllu.r t0 iM.r, Morris, "a great lu,,fl)t,llno " Uug. "lam under no "" wbutovcr that this or any other circumstance 01 my pnt life will sink mo III your t pinion. 1 no trouble was a tiir aleiied criminal prosecution for having had a carpenter flogged, which ww tho usual mole of punishment In lliose (lays, tne mailer was invesiigni- rd, and Paul Junes was fully acquitted. It is worthy of remark that tho tuag- istratowho I no 11 i red into that matter ' '" IMuUoi.es exposed great ,lifprovciL lie returned to Scot laud om-e . after this, mid although affectionately 1 riK-eived by his owu family his friends 1 and neighbor seem to havo treated him coldly. Tim smart from Ihi injustice tntned the Inilifferelico ho full for his native land into hatred, and ever after ho considered himself quite free from any responsibility for having Is en boru ul,, having spent the llrst II years of ,jf0 u 0 inbospitablo a country. . i,L ,....,,..... 11. r.,,.r . , , , ,,, i,,,., ,.,,.,,i ... 1.1, "'"'" ''V""'! )X V " ,liMl ;,".,1,;.r"t" ed to irginiit ami tiled lucre, icn nun an estata inerois no iiouot unit raui Jones was olteu afterward Iu want of ready money, but it must be reinetu- "u iHHiuning oi tne war a mill of lllilesnilent fortune, Tho two years of his life in Virginia are obscure, as might bo expected from B tnuti livjnti the life of a provincial conlltrT uT iitleman. which tho records concerning him prove. At tho outbreak of war with the mother country Paul Jones hastened to Philadelphia, and through Mr. Joseph llewos, a iiiemlsr of congress from North Carolina, got his commission as senior first lieutenant In tho infant navy of the colonies. It was then he mado tho acquaintance of Uobert Morris, to w hom ho felt a pas sionate gratitude and affection, and whom lie named us solo executor lu his will, Mr. Howes being then dead. Miss Molly Elliot Keawell lu Century. IN THE FUTURE. When Ih Olrl Who r.arna kVI.OOO a Yens Will lie Itralrable Wife. 'Don't yon think it about time for Maliel to consider the subject of matri mony?" lie asked hesitatingly. Oh, thorn is plenty of time," replied his wife. "Mabel is very ambitious, yon know, and sho is used to certain so culled luxuries that she would dislike to givo np. " Well, frankly, I think she is work ing t'KJ bard. " Oli, no, she isn't. It will do her good. Ami siucu sho Woii that caso iu thu supreme court her Income hits beeu steadily Increasing. It sho continues to do ns well in Iter profession, she limy be able to think of uiurrtuge in a year or sa You seo, things havo changed since wo were married." "Indeed they have," be sighed "Then a girl's beauty, tumperament and accomplishment had more to do with her matrimonial chances, but it is cry ii liferent now, very different iu- deed. Mabel is not yet the prize that I wish bur to be, ami I doubt if she could be sure of getting thu kind of husband that I desire her to have, Tho best young men are very particular, you know. "Very true," he admitted. "Many of them will hardly look at a girl whose earning capacity is not f 4,- 000 or o,000 a year. Malsd agrees with mo thut it is last to wait until she has reached that point, and thou she Is uro to be sought ufitr by the very best and must desirublo young men iu the oily. " Chiougu Post. Large Nailing Ships. Tho largest sailing ship afloat Is tho French live master La Franco, launched In IbUO on tho Clydo and owned by Messrs. Ant Uoin Hordes et Fils, who possess a large fleet of sailing vessels. In l HO l sho came from Iqttiquo to Dun kirk In 103 days with 0.000 tons of ni trate, yet sho was stopped on tho Tyne when proceeding to sea with B.fiOO tons of coal aud couicllcd to take out 000 tons ou the ground that sbo was over luden. There Is not a singlu II vo masted sail Inn shin under the liritish flag. The United States has two live masters the Louis of tt!)0 tons aud the (Jovernor Ames of 1.77S tons both fore and alt schooners, a rig peculiar to tho Amer ican coast. HIiIih having five masts can lie counted on the fingers of one hand', but, strange to say, the steamship Cop tie of the Shaw, Savill & Albion com pany, on her way to New Zealand in Decern Ur, ISDO, passed the t Jovernor Ames in 14 degrees south 114 degrees west, bound for California, and two davs later in 8 degrees south 81 do grees west the French Ave muster La France, bound south. Passengers and crew of the Coptic might travel over many a weary league of sea and never again seo two sum ex cellcnt object lessons in the growth of sailing ships In quick succession. Ths largest three masted falling ship is the Dltton of 8,830 tons. Chambers Jour nal. Steal Inland Marking Hooka. Men ati-nl library Issika. Women mnrk them with pencil marks, and the libra riana of the large free libraries deplore tbe mutilation more than the loss, as maiiy people regard them with the same antipa thy that tber do a Mcotidhsnd tooth brush, and eventually lb Issika have to he r. nlliced. Ill every art of rule and reg ulaliona the III bred IsiiTnwerls cautioned aualnst defacing the volume. An extra rule marked N. 11. Ill fillllnen letter was seriously considered, Is-gging the borrower lo refrain from using red Ink or crayon Thl, however, waa voted down by the Isiard, who wisely derided that the object of the lost It lit lou was to educate, and Hint under no circumstance should a Inste for readlug -even with a red pencil In baud be discouraged. Mutilated Issika are set aside for denning and renlra, and those that cannot lie erased are destroyed ri. -...I. I,. i n(T..f iinmt from brackets parallels, uiHierscoruig ami uihihii.w, m..- , romances, love sloriea and poems ol ' passion. New York World. She Spent $5,000 to Catch the Man Who Swindled Her. HE HAD THE MIKItYINW I1AR1T. White Was Not I'artlrular A haul Con forming la the Law and t aually Made Monry Out of Ilia Matrimonial IVnturm. Widow Tomllnann III Nemeala, "I'd rather have Detective llngnitrollo aflerme Ibitn tbat I'onniiilcut w idow," said DUtrtet Attorney Itidgway of Hrook- 1. .. ... I ....1 I.- ul.L.I. . ,irlnK Uw k Wm J. While, an alleged blgiiiuM. from lliiebaiinii, Mich, Mrs. Nancy K. Tomlluaon of Ansonla has sieni mrly l.'i.ism in tho last 18 month to brltiu- White to Justice. She so- c.msl bl. Indie, t for bigamy by tho " '; wl(,w ,uu,B.H.t . ln s-otliind 1 ....1 . .. . 11.. .. ......n .. 1.. u 1. ,.i . 1. ...... null tft!l"iniiiii ih nru om in i. iiuii ,,...-ii U'.f.tPII Mfl.l.M Ilk tn.p IlllfSlllIt Itf tlllkllllkll who, she mivs, whistlled her out of f IS, Mm and diverted her two dny after a marrliiKO ivn'uiony. She purposes to bring all the other Mr. Whites to Hnsiklyn, xiylng their eN-HMst from Glasgow nnd Chicago and Ohio, and from the cud of the earth, If mill ls White's cancr In this country, according to Detective Dcltseh's story Ion New York World reisirtvr, Is-gan In lssl, when In- went to llnsiklyu from Glasgow and U gan selling furnace governors. He wo," married In County ('man, Ireland, II years ago and has a son 1'J years old. His wife returned to her father's homo lu Ire land, w here she how I. White went lo Michigan In IKSHnnd sold cash register. In Chicago he met Ida Parker and married her. She says ho ttsk 5O0 she hud lu hunk. He diverted her aft- MIIS. TOUI.INBOM. er a few days, and In a small Ohio town met Itoso Klngoliw, daughter of a physician. Tho date for tbo wed ding, was set, and w. t. WtllTK. then White announced that It must no iswlsimsl. Ho sulci ho had lost his money lir tho falltir of an eastern bank. Dr. KlngolM mortgagod his horse and gave his daughter 1700, which White tisik un the day of tho wedding. Theu ho iiihi. While tisik an isiytu voyage, and when lm returnml from Scotland Agnes Arm strong Malcolm ramo with him as his bride. Tber lived In furnished nanus In llnsiklvn. White had three furnished nsimi In illlTcrent mrts of tho city at one tlmo and kept a trunk In each. Onu of three trunks wits afterward taken to Ansonla and was osms! by Widow Tomllnson. It was filled with paving stones and bricks wmpissl In newsuiS'rs to keep tliem (rum rattling suspiciously. On a business trio In IMOS White met Mrs. Tomllnson at Ansonla. Her father Is cx-Stato Senator llelijitmln Nichols, a lunik president, wealthy and prominent Tho widow, who was alsuit at that time, hail several thousand dollars tn real estate and mortgngii. She wits matronly hsiklng, had gray hatrand wore eyeglasses, hut White courted ber promptly. Mioau mils sho loved bim even ls-tter than the deutrtisl Thomas Tomllnson, who left her a snug fort mm. Itcfore their marriage White got 13,806 from the widow to start tho New tlceldon tnl hotel, at Ynsllantl, Mich., In partner ship with Frank J. McCaffrey, who had been a salesman with him lu tne wcsi. a few hundred dollars of this sum was so- cunsl by a chattel mortgage on furniture and Istr fixtures. Then tho widow is gnn making him presents. Shogitvo him a seal lined overcoat that cost Her sural ami on his birthday handed bim a 11,000 govern ment lsuid. The first tlmo I met Whlto waa In S-p teinW. IM.'I." said Mr. Dletsch. "I was employed ln Ijtwyer Hontiossy'solilcc, and White came In for advice, lie sain ne was married, but had not seen his wife for nine years. Ho hitd advertised for her and searched for her hero aud III Ireland. Could ho lawfully marry again!" Mr. Hen nessy told Mm he could, and theu White asked If ho would rcisul tlutt to airs. Tomllnson. to whom ho waa engaged. He brought tho widow next day, aud tbo legal opinion wits rentod. W hlto utlil a loo, and they Isith thanked us. "In Noveinls-r of that year Whlto came to me and said Mrs. Tomllnson had agreed to lend him f H),0(SJ to buyout a hardware store on Myrtle avenue. They were to lm married on Don. 11, ho said. Hciwanhsl inn to draw nromlssory notes for him. Ho asked If there was any place where money could 1st desmltisl and withdrawn without tho formalities required by a luttik. I told him to get a Isix in tho vault of the Long Island Trust company. "Mr. Tomllnson called In a 910,000 mortgage and placed It), '.'00 In bills In an enveloisi. White bought a safe dcismlt box lu her name, had a duplicate key mado and then tisik her Into tho vault and had her deswlt the envelope aud bs k the box with her own band. "Ho sold, 'Ho very careful, Nannie, and don't loso tho key, or you can't get the money.' They left tho vault, but Whlto atomssl outs du and remarked that ho U out tor go bark and mnko sure the box was balked. Housed his duplicate key, ksi the envelope, sulmtltutcd onu like It stuffed with tmisT. and tho lob wits oompietisi, "Ho and Mrs. Tomllnson went to De troit on Nov. S3 and were marrlisl foil days later. The day after the wisldlng he left her at tho hotel, and she hasn t seen Ii tin since. "We learned that White had transform! his Interest In tho Ypslbtntl hotel to Agues Armstrong Malcolm, and that she bud turned It over to McCaffrey. Then White and she went to her brother's ranch, In Australia. Wo found the original Mrs. While In Ireland and had her write a let ter to McCaffrey, saying an undo hod died halving her an estate, and that her only desire was to have her huslsthd return and It with her. Th decoy Mter did ll work. "Altogether White got IIS, 600 from Mr. Tomllnson, but she Is imrfoctly willing to loso that and all the money she has s'nl tn tracking him If she can only land hUJi lu Sing Hiugr ( IlkUM liitjratlluU. After the high tribute we paid to that diminutive but plucky little bs-otnotlvs which rune between Hartwell and Hower- vllle the Nancy Hurt the manager of the Hnrtwell road has advised us to reuse publishing the ached u In of that road. This Is a heavy blow to us. The remuueiation thst we received for printing this schedule was a psss over 10 mill of narrow gauge read which we never used. It Is true that tbe spnee occupied by the schedule waa worth about 1 10 per annum but what Is that paltry sum in coioiwrlson with tb privilege of wearing out, by carrying around In our breeches pocket, a pass cyer tbs HartwsU rsUroaur 1r A DREAMLAND DETECTIVE. The aingular Manner In Which an Kugllih Miinlarvr Wn Ileovred. In the bunion Mirror nf Literature fur June, lslt, there la au sacoutit of a dream that was reiusrknble In many respects. It Is given u ;w ii the authority of a clergy man of the Church of Knglnnd, tbe Kev. Mr. Alexander, who speak from personal knowledge of soiueuf the facta. It appear that a young man of g'ssl reputation, named llorns ks, was found robbed and murdered. His bend hail been Is-aten in, apparently with bludgeons. A vlgllnnt search was made for tin-assassin and after several months abandoned, nn clew to the crime having Is-eii discovered. One night a gentleman who bad Is-eii well acquaint ed with Horns'ks awoke and told his wife that be had had a dream lu which he had Is-eii assured that one Siuiurl lougsiiiltu, of Itoliun was tlie murderer. Ijingsiulth lived some 'JO miles away and was a srsnu whom the dreamer had met but once nr tlce. Ilia wife told him to think no more nlsiut it, hut to goto sleep. A second time he awoke from the elTerlsof the same ilrenni and announced bis resolution to take steps tbe following morning to see what would come of It. Acroriliugly he nelit to llollon the next lay ami sought a warrant for the arrest of luigsuiilh. The msgistrate, however, re fused tograut it Usiii siu li evidence. Pass ing through the market place, he met Uuigsmlih and Invited bim logo ton pub lie house to hear something he had toriuii miinieate to him. There, lurking thedonr, he charged him Mil Ii the crime, liug sinltli was stsggereil and faintly denied the nrciisatloti. In bl rnnfiisiou be said he was innocent, for be did not strike tbe blow. "Then you know the innti who did," replied the accuser, and l jingsinith was arrested and examined, lie prevaricated at the examination and was remanded for three days. At the end of that time, aud fter many hours prayer, he confessed that be had beeu ludurrd to loin three men lu a robbing expedition, when, meet ing llorrocks, who made some resistance, his three roinpanlolis murdered bim. This confession mine out la-fore the grand Jury, ml lingaiuith was brought to trial. Ins fact of the dream was not offered lu evl- euce, hut other testimony siillleleut to run vlet hi ill was produced, A few days Is fore the execution he mado a full so kuowledgmcnl of his guilt. Klrrtrle Unlit Kalha. There are a few tHsiple who believe thai electric lights possess great curative pow ers. It is known tbat the transmission of the electrlo current through the atmos- ihere converts the oxygen into ozone. A thunderstorm (leant the sir. On such es tablished facts as these the electricians lutae their claims Hint the electric light has a curative pniis-rty. When tbe rays are directed from a prosrly devised ap paratus to any part nf the Isidy, the effecl s to Increase the clrculatlou aud to tiring on a copious perspiration where the light striken. If It Is desired to treat a partic ular part of the body, screens aud reflect ors are adjusted so that (he electrlo light Is thrown lo thst place alone. If general treatment as well as local an- illratiou Is wnutcd, the patient sits with his bark to tho apparatus. The spec-lllo rays are thrown upon the diseased spot, and the general electric light Is thrown Usin Hie whole Issly. DIITcrelit colored lights are employed for d liferent diseases. For some rases the electric light Is thrown through blue glass. For special ellert ou the IiIikhI red electrlu light Is used, and for results on tbe nervous system the color is yellow. Sun Istths are eld as ths hills. Klectrio light baths are something en tirely new. The astonishing claim Is made by the electricians that this treat ment is more rapid In Its action thau drugs. There Is allium! nothing to which the eleo trln treatment Is not applied. If the trou ble Is in the head, a blue or violet ray la turned on. For tbe extremities the red tight Is s lled to help the circulation. Dormant livers and bowels are brought to a sense of duty by the yellow or orsng ray. I pen Inflammation the blue Is turn ed on. Wavorlcy Magazine. Start and Slums. Much of tho beauty of the stars de pends upon their scintillation. Ths multitudinous flashing of their tiny rays gives a wonderful life and bril liancy to a winter s night, lue grest itar Hlrlus excites the most admiration when near the horizon be coruscates with raiulHiw hues, lint the astronomer -would be glad if be could put a stop to the scintillating of the stars. That na iteadluess of their light is one of the chief obstacles bo has to overcome iu Undying them witb the telescope. Scintillation has generally keen re garded as due only to slight disturb ances In the atmosphere. Hut as recent observations havo shown that red stars cintilluto less than white ones it baa boon suggested that tho causes of some of the essential differences in the scin tillations of diffeient stars may be in the stars themselves. There is no doubt, however, that the main cause of scintillation dopeudsupon tbe conditiou of tho sir. Most people suppose that when tbe stars appear to lose their liveliness of light and shine without twinkling as minute bright points in tbe sky fair weather Is in prospect. Studios lately made lu France and Switzerland seem tocontradict this popular belief. It has been found there that when the stars sre feeble In their scintillations foul weather Is at band. The night before a most violent storm In Franco, for In stance, the stars bung so quietly iu tbe sky that they seemed to bave entirely lost their scintillating power. This Is said to be only one Instance among many which show tbat an un usual steadiness in the light of the stars precedes the appearance of storms. Youth's Companion. A Story nf Everts. When Mr. Evarta was called to Wash ington by President Hayes as secretary of state, his predecessor, Secretary Fish, gave a dinner in bis honor. Mrs. Fish waa seated at Mr. Evarts' right band. During a lull In the conversation Mrs. Fish turned to Mr. Evarta, speaking so clearly as to be board even at the foot of the table, saying, "Mr. Evarts, I understand that you have sent two of your sous to college." "Yea. Mrs. Flab." "They are twin brothers, ire tbey not, Mr. Evartsf" "Yes, and they bave been playmatei aud schoolmates until now." "But is it true tbat you sent oue to Harvard and the other to Yale, al though you are a Yale graduate your self?" "Ys, It is quitotrue." "Then I supKwe you bave done that, Mr. Evsrts, so that each of them can take first honors?" Here Mr. Evarts looked curiously at Mrs. Fish for an Instant aud then said veiy earnestly, "Mrs. Fish, you bave dl riued correctly." Philadelphia Press. T Ih Manner Dora. Grubber What a well bred man Mlxorlsl Dumloy (who doesn't like bim) He ought to be. His father Is a baker. Ouios. ....... 4