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Till: SAND HILLS. II.Ti. now. trailer, aisy, nitty. Quick (U i ve seen along the sayshore, an "t mo halfway I've been in wan, i,i a double an twist In tho to to II 1)10 OUt, OUt sucaiu aauu ill wio FJ , :.. tnulcr. aw. the like o' open I pi am - niver a bit, aw!" So said .1.... no. Macavoy. the Riant, when the thing , disCUSSOll Ill l IMoaa-in-o. i Will. I toll you it iron, ana not throe tulle from Fort nicn don't th7'n Mw:1.trv. The company talk alx.ut it what's the use? Travel n uro few ,lmt way wuI you cmi B(,t In.liiuis witliin miles of tbnm. Fret knows all about tbom, better ty pit rro rlne. almost He'll stand rwa l it-h. Pierre took 'o uotieo and wan silent for a time, in t,ut on Itirt cigarette, 0,1(1 1,1 ,he Pauso Miivle.v,thetruppcr,snid: "Pierre's gono ik i-u you. trailer. Perhaps yon haven't paid him for tho last lie. I go 0I1 Utter, you stand by me my trout that's the game!" "Aw, the like o' that," added Mac tvoy reproachfully. "Aw, yor tongue to the roof o' your mouth, Mowleyl Llur all in. li may be, hut thut' wid wimmin or landlord. But, Pierre, off another man' hat Hko that aw, Mowloy, fill Tor mouth wid the bowl o yor pipe!" ' ujen-o now looked np at tho throe mm rolling another cigarette on he did . but he wemod to bo thinking of a distant matter. Meeting tho throe pair of eve nxiil i' b'1". ,liH own huld thom for a Hionieiit musingly. Tlion he lit bin cigarette, and half reclining on the Uni h where he nut he bogan to Bpeak, talking into tho tiro, as it were: "I wan at (luidoti Hill, ut tho com pany' post there. It wus tho fall of the year, when you feel that there is uoth iutf w Bh1 l'fu aml 11,0 ttir 'Irit'H like wine. You think that Found like a woman or a priext? Main, no! The H-awm are strange. In the spring I urn lazy and wid; in the fall I am gay; I am for'the big thing to da Thin mutter was in the fall I felt thut I muHt move. Yet what to do? Thoro was tho thing. ( arils? Of course. But that'a only for times not for all seasons. Bo I win like a wild dog on admin. I hnd a good horse, Tophef, black as a coal, all raw bones and joint und a roach like a moose. Hi leg worked like piston rods. But, a I said, I did not know where to m nr what to da So Ve used to sit at the post loatlng, in the daytime watch iug the plains, all panting for travelers, like a young bride waiting her husband fur the lirst time." Macavoy regarded Pierre with rich delight. He had an unctuous spirit, aud hit heart was soft for women, so soft that lie never had one on his conscience, though he hud brushed gay aiuilva off the lips of many with his own. But that was an nmiablo weakness in a tmng num. "Aw, Pierre," he said coaxing!', "kapo it down, aisy, aisy; we heart's goin liko a triphammer at thought av it. Aw, yis; aw, yis, Pierre. " "Well, it was liko thut to me all inn and a sweet sting in the air, at right to sit and tell tales and such things, and perhaps a littlo brown brandy, a look at the stars, a half hour with the cattle the same old game. Of courso there was tho wifo of Hilton, the factor fine, always fiuo to see, but deaf and dumb. We were gmxl friends, Ma and inc. I had a hand in her wed ding. Holy, I knew her when sho was ft littlo girl ! Wo could talk together by sign. Slio was a good woman bo had uever guessed at evil. She was quick, too, liko a flush, to read and understand without words. A face was a book tc her. "Very good! One afternoon we were all standing outside tho post wheu we saw some one ride over the Long Divide, It was good for tho eyes, I cannot tell quite how. But horse nnd rider were m sharp und clear cut against the sky that they looked very large and peculiar there was something in the air to magnify. They paused for a moment oil the top of the divide, and it seemed like a messenger out of tho strange country at the farthest north, the place of legend. But of courso it was only a traveler liko ourselves, for in a half hour she was with us. "Yes, it was a girl dressed as a num. She did not try to hide it. Sho had dressed so for ease. She would make a man's heart leap in his mouth if he was like Macavoy or the pious Mowley there." Pierre's last three words had a touch of irony, for ho knew that the trapper had a precious tongue for Scripture heu a missionary passed that way wnl a bad name with women to give it point Mowley smiled sourly, but Mao viiy luughed outright aud smacked his lips on his pijMj stem luxuriously. "Aw, now, Pierre all me littlo fail iu's aw!" hosaiiL Pierre swung round u the bench, loaning upon the other 'buw, and cherishing his cigarette presently continued: "She had come far and was tired to th, so stiff that sho could hardly get from her horse, and the horse, too, was ''aily to drop. Handsome enough she locked, for ull that, in mail's clothes and peaked cap, with a pistol in her belt. She wasn't big built just a feathery kind of sapling but sho was set fair her fog,, like a man, and a hand that as good as I have seen, so srrdhg ad fine, and like silk and iron with a nurse. Well, what was the trouble, for 'mw that there was trouble? Her eyes a hunted look, and her nose breath 1 like door's in the chase. All at wee. when she saw Hilton's wife, a cry " from her, and she reached out her iiii1s. "Wlmt would women of that sort do? Tacywore both of a kind They got "to each other's arms. After that there nothing for us men but to wait. A'l women are the same, and Hilton's W as like the rent She must get eTit first; then the men should We had to wait an hour. Then Hilton's wife beckoned to us. We went k'i'lc The girl was asleep. There was ething In the touch of Hilton's wife . Ip itself, like music. It was her that tonch. She could not speak h her tongue, but her hands and face language and music, Bion, there m the girl aslnp, all clear of dust and and that fine hand. It lay loose ? '" r breast, so quiet, so quiet F.n n, tlm real Btory, for how she lay there not matter, but still it was good 2? wh111 knew the story." The trapper was laughing silently to m-lf to hear Pierre in his romantic "ood. a woman's hand It was the en were like deer spoils for the hunter. Pierre saw it, but "he was above petty anger. Ho merely said: "If a mau have an eye to see behind the face, hn understands the foolish laugh of a man or the hand of a good woman. That is much. So Hilton's wife told ns all. Kho had ridden 200 miles from tho southwest and was making for Fort Mieuh, do mile farther north. For what? She hail loved a man agaiust tho will of her people. There had been a feud, und Harrison that was the lover's uame was the last on his own sido. There was trouble at a Hudson Bay company's post, aud Garrison shot a nan ureoiL .Men say ho was right to 1 Put a I'Mol ut his head, gagged and shoot him, fur a woman's name must , ,lim- Then I got my Topliet. aud be safe np here. Besides the hulf breed , away w,"t to tlie spring. The girl drew first. Well, Garrison was tried ' WttH waiting. There were few word. I and must go to jail for a year. At the ' KMed her hand, gave her another pis end of that time ho would be free. The'0' n,"l thou wo got away ou a line girl, Janie, knew the day. Word had moonlit trail. We had not gone a mile coma to her. She inailo everything 'n,'u 1 lllr,l faint yell far behind, ready. She knew her brothers wore , MJ 8;""e ,ia,l found out. There watching her three brothers end two 1 other men who had tried to got her love. She knew also that the five would air- ry on tlie loud against the one man. So ono night she took the best horse on tho ration and started away toward Fort Mieuh. "Alors, you know how she got there, after two days' hard riding, enough to kill a man, and over GO yet to da Sho was sure her brothers were on her track. But if she could get to Fort Mieuh and lie married to (arrisou Is fore they came she wanted no more. There were only i two horses of use at Hiltou's post then 1 -all tho ivst were nway or not fit for hard travel. There wuh iny Tophet and ! a lean chestnut with a long projielling gait and uot an ounce of lisise skin on him. There was but one way tho girl ; must get there. Alloiis, what is tho , gmxl? What is life without those things? Tim girl loves the man. She must have him in spite of all. There ' Allliu , was only Hilton and his wife and mo at tho post, and Hilton was lamo from a full, and one urin in a sling. If the brothers followed, well, Hilton could uot interfere, he wus a company's man, but for myself, as I said, I was hungry for adventure. I hud un ache in my blood for something. I was tingling to my toes; my heart was thumping in my throat All the cords of iny legs were straightening, like I was in thesuddle," Pierre sat np. It seemed ubsurd for him to siH uk as one who could be hot and shivering with excitement, for his movements were always quiet aud pre cise as a hammer. But in his eyes there was a furnacu burning, aud his small, iron hand caught tlie nir with a snap. Macavoy had seen Pierre wheu dangers crowded around them both, and ho kuew that tho littlo mau was worth throe of himself, in spite of his own great height. For tho others, tiny did not know, and if they hud lived with Pierre all their lives they would never have understood him. "Aw, Pierre!" said Macavoy admir ingly. "Aw, tlie ache in yer blood that's it! Aw, yis, yis, an yer thighs all bendin like wire, an the prairie be yaut, an the lady there asleep wid the hand fallin soft where the heart beats np like the swell of a tide! Aw, yis, tlie liko o' thut swate, swate, an you wid the acho in yor blood, nn tlie long chestnut pawiu tho ground aw, yis!" Pierre nodded at Macavoy pleasantly, for after his fashion ho cared for the gi nut, aud a little mun loves tho udmira tion of a large man, as Pierre himself hud said more than once. He knew man's vanity and his own weaknesses. But he turned his hxiks ou tho trapper now, for it was his way to conquer at tho points of great disadvantage, not by many wonders showing, but by a deep persistence and a singular personal force. "She slept for three hours. I got the two horses saddled. Who could tell but she uiiglit need help? I hud nothing to da I knew tho shortest way to Fort Mienh, ewiy foot, and then it is gixxl to be ready for all things. I told Hil ton's wifo what I hud done, Sho was glad. She made a gesture at me as to a brother and then began to put things in a bag for us to carry. Shu had set tled ull how it was to be, Sho had told tho girl. Von see, a man may be what is it they call me? a plunderer, and yet a woinau will trust him, comme ca!" "Aw, yis nw, yis, Pierre, but sho knew yer hand nn yer tongue niver wiut ag'iu a woman, Pierre. Naw, niv er a wun aw, swate she was, wid a bcart a heart, Hiltou's wife! Aw, yis!" Pierre waved Macavoy into silence. "The girl waked after throe hours, with a Rtart. Her hand caught at her heart. 'Oh! she said, still staring nt us. 'I thought that they hud cornel' A littlo after she and Hilton's wifo went into another room. All at once there was a sound of horses without and then a knock at the door, and four men enter ed. They were tho girl's hunters. It was hard to toll what to do all in a minute, but I saw at once the best thing was to uct for all and to got all the men Inside the house. So I whispered to Hil ton and then pretended that I was a great man in the company. I ordered Hilton to have the homes cured for, and not giving tlie men time to speuk I fetched out the old brandy, wondering whnt could be done. There wus no sound from the other room, though I thought I heard a doa' open once. Hil ton played the game well and showed nothing when I ordered him about and lied with me wheu I said no girl hd come, laughing when they told why they wore after her. More than one did not believe at first; but, pshaw! what have I been doing all my life to let such follows doubt me? So tho end of it was that I got them all insido tho bouse. There was oue thing their horses wore all fresh, as Hilton whispered to mo. 1 fresh, as Hilton whispered to mo, hey had only ridden them a few mile. Ii. y had stolen or bought them at a .nch to the west of us. I could not Tlv Til. U11W. . make np my mind wnat to oo. u. .. was clear I must k.'P thom quiet till oiiiething shaped. "They wore all drinking brandy when Hilton's wife entered the room. Her face was, mon Dieu, so innocent, so childlike! She stared at the men. and then I told them she was deaf and dumb, and I told her why they had come. Voila, it was beautiful-like nothing you ever saw! She shook her Soldsiinn.x-e.itly and then told thom like a child that they wrre wicked to fI V"V: "she ' fUTthem f,t .f7toJ7mh the She said would they not sunn !,.. She said all through me, on mr house? che sain And I "1 ,bem fingers rics by ign- But the told something at once. the last man came in. had mounted the chestnut and would wait for me by the spring, a quarter of a mile away. There was the danger that some oue of the men kuew the finger language, so sho told me tliis thing in iKn mixed up wiui oinor N'liteiuv. "Good! There was now but one thing to do for mo to get away. So I said. laughing, to one of the men, run and u-nu-ill K,i- .ii,. .i.i i .i we will Kmk aft, r the hor.. and the others cm wanl, tho phue with Hilton.- ou w wi"n out to wni re tut horses were tied to the railing und led them away to tho corral. "Of courso yon will understand how I did it. I chipped a hand ou his mouth. y, a "o'hiiig to do but to ride for it now, and to fight, if uoci-ssary. But fighting was not good, for I miuiit bo killed, and then the girl would bo caught just tho sumo. We rode on such a ride tho horses luck and neck, their feet pound-! lug the prairie liko Diston rods, ruwbona ' to rawbom... a ilii.gd.mg gait. I know they were after us. though I saw them ' but once on the crest of a divide, about tlitce mtloi UhimL Hour after hour like that, with 10 minutes' rest and uow and then ut u spring, or to stretch onr Wo lianlly spoke to each other, ' "Vo. my heart was warm , - Kirl. wlio had ridden 1 50 miles in "" before dawn, whiu I was uegiii... ng ro uniiK tuai wo snoui.l , easily win the race if tlie girl could but holdout, if it did not kill her, the chest-' nut stuck a log into tho crack of the I prairie, and horse and girl were on tho I ground together. She could scarcely , "v". "' was so weak, and her hue ...... was like death. I put a pisud to tho , . , , , r , , K ' , ' " ! chestnu s head aud ended it. At that J tho girl stooped and kissed tlie poor boast's neck, but spoke nothing. A 1 face certainly Justillea Martenu's cheerful helped her on my Tophet I put iny lips raillery. It is iirsve to a fuult. A long, to the sleeve of her dress. Mother of strong face, with lonKitudinal lines from God, what could a man do, she was so ' noetrl1 to mustache wblch are deeper than noble! I bit years might warrant. . . , ,. , "What are you Kolng to dof" be blurts Dawn was just breaking oozy and 1 out raluer uurrtHlly after tbe maimer of gray ut the swell of the prairie over tho ooetowhoroqueatioutareabhorreul. "Uo Jumpiug Hand hills. They luy quiet and lug to thootr" shining in tho green brown plain, but I Martenu's quick blue ryes flash round I knew that beneath there was a churn which couM set those swells of sand iu motion and make deadly sport of an ar my. Who cau tell w hat it is? A flood under the surface, a tidal river what? i INo man knows, uut tliey are sou mon- sters ou the laud. Every morning at sunrise they begin to eddy and roll, aud no man ever saw a stranger sight Bien. I l.xiked back. There were four . horsemen coming ou about three miles away. What wa there to do? Tho girl and myself on my tired horse were too mnch. They suw ulso and hurried ou. There came to mo a grout idea. I must reach and cross the Jumping Sund hills before sunrise. It was all a deadly chance. "When wo got to tho edgo of tho sand, they were almost a milu behind. I was all Biek to my teeth us my poor Tophet stepix'd into the sand. G.xl, how I watched tho dawn! Slow, slow we toiled over that velvet powder. As wo reached tho farther sido I felt that it was beginning to move. The suu was showing liko the lid of an eye along tho plain. I looked buck. All four horsemen were in the sand, plunging ou toward us. By the time we touched the brown green prairie on the further side tho Band was rolling behind us. Tlie girl had uot looked back. She seemed too dazed. I jumped from tho horse and told her that she must push ou alone to the fort; that Topliet could not carry both; that I sliould be in no danger. She looked at mo, I cunnot toll how, then stooped and kissed me between the eyes, I hnve never forgotten. I struck Topliet, und she was gone to her happi ness, for sho reached the fort and her lover's arms. "But I stood looking back upou tho Jumping Sand hills. So was there ever a sight liko that those hills gone like a smelting floor, tho Bunriso spotting it with rose anil yellow and three horses and their riders fighting w hat cannot bo fought What could I do? They would have got tho girl if I had uot led them across, und they would have killed me if they couhL Only ono cried out, and then but once, in a long shriek. But after all three were quiet us they fought until they were gone where no mun could see, where none cries out so we caii hear." There was a long pause, painful tc bear. The trader sat with eyes fixed humbly as a dog's on Pierre. At last Macavoy said: "Sho kissed yo, Pierre aw, yis, she did that! Jist betune the eyes. Do yes Ivor see her now, Pierre?" But Pierre, though looking at him, made lio answer. Gilbert Parker. The LarfMt Medical Library. A writer in the Washington Star says that the largest and most complete mod ical library iu the world is the collec tion of medical works located in the Army Medical museum, In that city, nndor the care of the surgeon general's office of the wardopartuiont and the im mediate supervision of Dr. John S. Bil liugs, U. S. A. It may be laid thut the card index system of medical publica tions used by the library is the most thorough and practical indox of medical works iu the world The library now luclados about 1 13,000 bound volumes and alwut 150,000 pamphlets. It is es timated that this collection oomprises three fourthi of the medical literature of the world, aud t least nine-tenths of tbe medical literature which has Doen published within tbe last ten years. A Quick Retponta. Old Oashly (giving his son a check; -Xl J Remember, a fool and bis money are toon p.rtd. a Cashlv Yes. sir, and thank Jf""""''- ,1.1 ! ntA mi an nrnfnntly. 7 ,or baTiD hU8ei BQ proBiptl' Scribner'l Magazine. THE SILENT MAN. "Ormao, of all men, on board tba old UabinaUdyl" "Yea." Oruiao, a person of great gravity, as cends tbe Ukt two stet of tbs Ksuirwar U1 blumrlf ou I lie blatorio deck of in .imnnunoiiy. ii aiiakea uanus wnn k7" 1 Mu of lh. falkhs, aud Uxjks round to n that the triBlI1(, bti UBKaKe. ..ow t)rulIini ?, , ,m ff. i. emu a ever tool What briug you wan dering to llombajrr" "Old curvts restlemiiiew." Martenu Iniigbt and lluks amis, lie It frauk, boyish, spontaneous, draplta bi heavy mustache and a few gray bniniover bit clime emptied temple. "Coma aft, old mau, and tell me all jour uewt. Tbe deck it quite deaertetl abaft the smoking room. We fan bnve a long talk. You're going boine, of course! " "Yet." "Tbst'tall right to b msrriedr" "No." There It souiethiug curt In the mouo sjrllable that ten et to check for a inomeut Martenu't easy, social flow of questlous. They walk aft together and take pomu-a- tlou of two deck chain which do uot Ite long to them. "Are you married f" asked tin taller man. with the gravity which uotblugaver ruffles. .... " ' c,'"" wltn r ''rT 1UKU,; Martenn ends bit generality with a cou veutlounl little wblch is not echoe.1 by bit bearer, lu fact. Orman looks sud- denly brltthUT. Ha changes tbe aubject calmly. These solemn men, uever tbrowu k",c by exuberant laugbtei or - JJ "."' "JJ " wlluw- ! ..j h,v, lbr0U(h lnm T(lllh. kend," be says. "An Interesting Jour ney." "Is mlueeoeniy going to write a book t" "Not If be know III Are you golug home on leave, Marteuur '... x mouint. an a grateiui coun- f r will nw t " v, , : . , . . Orman dt uot appear to Ixs llttenlug. n u tlm.ully , th ,orrM of matta that covera tbe inner harbor. His for a moment. "At Stauemblenf"-"Y'e-ea, or elsewhere." Martenu pushes the big, fair mustache upward with bit knuckles retlectlvely. "Don't kuow. Not likely. 1 bad uot thnnulit nf It " They sit aide by side lu silence for some mluutet, while coufiisiou accumulates strength on tbe forward deck of tbegaug- wy Martenn Is tbe first to apeak, looking ' critically at the toes of his own aboes, "What a good tiniewabad at btaueniuleu a tiptop time." "Ye-ea." "With Sir Henry- g.xid old boy awcar Ing at us If we uiIbw.I a bird or pasted the decanter by, aud Lady Faaaett and aud Edith." "Ye-ea." "Best girl that ever stepped." That awkward silence comes over them again. Martenu puta it mentally down to bli companion's lamentable toleiimity. lie breakt it, however, with an etTort. "I always thought, you know, old cbap bad an Idea may have been wrong, probably was, though don't tea why 1 should have been that you were rather taken wltb Kdlth Kusaett." "I bad tbe same Idea about you." Martenu gives an awkward little laugh. draws iu bis feet and pushes them out again. "Yes, quite right But then I'm that tort of fellow, you know. I'm liable to It. Get it often, but never very badly. Yea, I watfundof Kditb Fassett, butall tbe time I knew aha waa too good for me too much on the top of tbe basket, while I'm very ordluary stuff In tbe lower middle of the same. I sot over it I always do tome- bow." "Got over what?" Murteuu glances round sharply. "Oh er proposed to her, you know." "I didn't kuow that" "Ob, yes, and abe was very nice about It. I think tbe knew that I was the sort of fellow to get over It. besides, she knew ber own tulud so Jolly well. I er there wst some one else. She did not tell me, but I uuderatood that It was so. It waa after you bad left, now that I corns to think of It." "Yes, it was after I bad left." "You went off In a hurry I remember." "Yes, I went off ta a hurry." They lapse Into penaiveiiess agatu. It is Orman who breakt the silence this time. "I wish I had known that before." Tbs color slowly leaves Martenu't fact. He lookt atralgbt lu trout of blm with painful inteusity. "Hut perhapt it It not too late," the sol emn voice goes on. "When we get to Eng land, I shall go aud have my try." Quite tud.lenly Martenu gets up. He ttaudi, almost turning hit back upon bia friend, looking forward toward the coufu tlon of embarking passengers. "Do you not know that she it dead?" There it a long, alow tilence. "No, I did not know that," says the solemn voice. After a little pause Martenu walkt tlow ly away, leaving Ortuau alona. Naw York Telegram Marrlag of tha Dead. A atnuii custom nrcvuila among a certain tribe in the Caucasus. Wheu a single young man dies, some ouo who has curried to the grave a marriageable j...,.,i,( ( tlm course of the year calls upon tlie bereuved parents and says : Japan's wonderful agricultural rowiumr "Your sou is sure to want a wife, j and the fertility of her soil. The exhibit I'll give you my daughter, and yon of agricultural implements, however, la shall deliver toino the marriage portion crude, and to an American seems ridio In return. " uhras. In machinery the display if also A friendly offer of this description is comparatively small, and there appeera never rejected, and the two purties soon como to terms as to the amount of the dowry, which varies aooonliug to d,n ndvuntnirc tswscMsed by the girl In her lifetime. Cases have been known where tlie young mini's father has given a ..o,. l. km !10 cows to secure a deuil wife for his dead soil Buch fur Alio. Crouulcra. Tlie cronpiers of Monte Carlo have a school of gambling iu which they learn the ins and outs of the games, tho meth od of defeating trickery, manual dex terity iu clearing the bourds and paying the stakes, rcadiiio iu reckoning and iu dealing and shuffling the card and so ou Most of them como from Alsace. Venezuela nieni "Little Venice." The early explorea found the native ' living In house planed on pill iu the tuarttioa. i I Comparative Aallqaltr. I "Mrs. CWiman has ceased to notice Mrs. Jones Brown. IXj yon know why?" I "It is because her son in law siamuy Is so very much older than the family of Mrs. Jones Brown ' ton la-law, "Life DAUGHTERS OF CUBA. Fair KiIIm OrgmnUad to AtaUt I lie Ittrltt Arntlr. The colony of Cuban exiles iu New York city embraces a largo number of patriotic women who wear the tingle starred flag of Cuba a n symbol of their ullcgiiiuco lo its cause. Alxmt 100 of these charming rebel have organized a club which they call tho "Hi jus do Cu ba," or "Daughters of Cuba," for tlie purpose tif giving eiiiMurageiuout and assistance to the patriot armies. The club ha already sent several thousand dollar to the insurgents, unci nt a re cent fair over f S00 wiut taken in ut the booths and tables, where dark eyed Cu ban beauties sinil.-d on tho chivalrous public' generosity. Among the more mature member of tho Hijas do Cuba are s.uuo who have sorrowful memories of tho revolution of 1MIS, widow and daughters of hens' who fell or whoso fortuuo were broken iu that disastrous contest. The vice pros- MIIS. V. IAYAS 1IAZAM. ideiit and one of the loading spirits of the club is Mrs. V. Zuytis llazau, the wifo of mi ardent sympathizer with tho Cuban cause. Mr. Baan is young, strikingly beautiful and un acknowl edged Ixdlu among tho young matron of the Cuban colony. She comes of a fine old Mutunza family Gaicia do MauoHcu and her giundmother was known it "tho richest woman iu Ma- tunzas" before tho ruin of the lust war. Mrs. Bazau was sent to Paris to be educated und there was niiirriod. She is mistress of four languages the French, Gorman, Spuuish und Knglisli , -has contributed to the Paris journals I " ... . . on literary topics and has acquired much of tho French woman's charm of mun uer and tho mental brilliancy thut is broil iu tho Paris salons. She has uo memory of her native laud, which she left as a littlo child, but tho Cuban blood mus warm iu her veins, und she plies the needlo iu these days of war on tiny silken flags with tho single star of Cuba wrought thereon, to bo worn by her patriot sisters. THE NEW JAPAN. It Is Mirrored lathe National Kihlbltloa at Kioto. Kioto, aptly termed tho heart of Ja pan, and the most interesting and fasci nating city iu the Mikado's domain, is now holding a national exposition. This your is culled tho"Hoianeuto Ki ueusui," und tho fair commemorates tho elevoii hundredth anniversary of tho establishment of tho ancient capital at Kioto by the fiftieth emperor or kv un mil. Tho qutiiut old city, always a beehive of industry, is now busier than ever, and from end to end is pro fusely decorated with banners and nt night illuminated with colored lights. From tho top of every house flies the "rising suu" flag, and on tho front of each is a hiiiteru. While tho exhibition us viewed by ixi cideutnl eyes is not grout or particularly extensive, it is full nf interest and thoroughly representative of Japsuese genius, handicraft nnd industry. The building are large, airy and clean, and the grounds well kept nnd admirably urrangiHL Though grout crowds are hero gathered, the utmost gixxl order pro vails. Tho prieo of admission is ouly C son, about G cents of American money. The exposition excels iu fabrics, there being a very extensive display. One of tho most interesting things is the crea tion of silk through the various stugns, KNTKANt'K TO KIOTO EXIIIIIITION. from the cocoon to tlie completed fabric The embroideries, wonderfully rich, bcuutiful and artistio, are su.di as ouly the Japanese con produno. There la a splendid and attractive exhibit of oor am ies, iu which Japun loads Uie world. Iu the art department are seen some ex- cellcut paintings, many of thom origi- nnl, from the brushes of native artist. ! A department devoted to fish, fishing apparatus and bouU is very oomplete, and attracts great attention. ' Tlie extensive cereal display shows nttie mat is new or suggestive, una department demonstrates the imitative faculty rather than inventive genius of tlie poViulo, thongh there is in evldenoe strong determination to achieve better things. Outside the grounds are a number of war cyoloramas, one ropnsamting Uie taking of I'ort Arthur. Altogether the Kioto exposition faith fully depicts the "new Japan," and shows the marvelous advancement which has Usui made sinoe the last national fair, IS years ago, Likely to Itemeniber. Proud Mother Yon haven't kissed the baby. Bachelor Uncle Um r I'll try to remember next time. I ll kiss her wheu Ier come back from Europe. When will that be? "Let mo u. About 18 years." Kew York Weekly. Frederick the Great hud a sharp, hat chet face, with a cold, blue eye, that, a i ,.. ,liM 1.mmmlriH suid. "irleain lik, . ri.fltction of Ught from a bay 1 .. I i "-sSSsftbs----1 t . a WHAT TWO SAW. IWIbly there la not hlnit In It. Probably you will sy that it l lmpolblethat theri could l more than notliing In it. Yet for dava and days and nitilit after night It never left my thought, nor csn I.lnvt It from me. And now, aiit-r a mpe ol ten year, I have but to clixe my rye and It it all Just it. mil to me a l bough it had happened yes terday. I 'Tuna a gl.iri.iiiH Htarlit ulgbt lu May, aud my friend anil I sere In t.-hed out on rugs In the nnnl.il of the old rectory, tmoking mir after dinner rigar, when be suggested t lint I go Into the church and play fur blm. We went In through the cb.iirnNim door, of wblib I ImJ a key. nnd going to the orgau 1 brgsu to play, while my friend nt.Mxl nn the U'lich Ix-n.le me 1. Hiking out over the church, which waa lighted solt'ly by the I iiiooiilM-aiiin that stole In through the stain ed gla wIii.I.iwh. I wit playing little wisi of uirhsly and scraps of old familiar times, when my friend said quietly: "1 see shadows moving alsiut iu one pew and out at another, and then diapwartng In darkened corut-nt. I wonder if they ran be the shade of past parishioner who have come back to visit the place where they have so often hnpttl and prayed t" 1 smiled at his conceit and went on play ing, when suddenly placing bis hand on my hnulder he said, agitatedly: "Ixikl Is that n man?" I turned and looked where be wa point ing, and saw, or thought I saw. what seem ed to Iw a man, dressed in an old blouse and troiiKersof some liglitcol.mil material, half standing and half kneeling In tbe center of the church. There was a nimbus of light above bis brad, and be was looking straight at me with eyes protruding from their aock el. "Great God!" I exclaimed, "what can It be?" Not taking my ryes from the apparition, I reached to the aide of the organ and pressed the button that turned on all the light lu tbe church. A 1 did so the figure , disappeared. We then decided to searrh the church, to my friend went down one aisle while I went down the other, looking In all the pews, but there waa no oue lu the church but our two selves. I Keeling rather st range, we left the church and walked out Into the country. Coining Iwck, we paswd by the walls of Woodland cemetery. e untl passed hy the malu en trance, which wan closed for the night. when my friend, looking through the bars, said: I "There la something I have often heard nf and always bwu auxious to see. liookl the Ignis fat mis." 1 followed Id icaze and saw what ap-1 aiiBiieniled directly over a larue irrauite tomb, that bad for iu vista a small clump of tree. "l-et us go In." tie said, "I would like to 11 closer." , .K'ing on to 11 tie gale that was fas - teued byachsiii nnd hook, we uufaatened t ue iIIB and entered We walked up t he path until wa came to aside path that led ua back to where we bad seen tbe light. As we turned Into the side path a large while dug came toward u. making no sound on the lMe gravel of the path. He came toward Us wagging hi tail, and tlopiml within a few feet aud looked up Into our face. I called: "Here, doggie; here, old fellow." Wheu be turned and vanished we both paused and looked at each other, and I need not ow n to cowardice wheu I nay that 1 begsn to feel cold and creepy. Finally I said, "Do you still want lo see tbe light?" "Yes," answered my friend, "let's go on." So we went on toward where we bad seen the light, ami suddenly 1 said, "There it is." And there It was, not SO feet away, shining with a dull, unearthly glow. "1 must go nearer," said my friend, and be started toward the light. Aa be got to It It went out, "Do ynu see it now?" be called. "No," I answered. "Come, let's get out of this." And we hastened from tbe spot, nor did we stop until we had chained aud bonked the grating on the outside, "What do you suppose It was?" I asked. "It would be KM'tic to say that It was the light of some tired aoill gone out to the vast unknown," lie answered, "but, what ever it was, let's get borne," The next day 1 had a strange feeling that tomethiiig I knew not what wa going to bnpieii, but I accounted for It by tlie event of the ulgbt before and told my story to no one. As I was coining out of towu in the afternoon 1 bought an evening paper, and the Hint thing that met my eyt wa the headline: "Suicide in Woodland cemetery." Kagerly I scanned the column, and even now I recall the exnet wording: At an early hour thli morning as two men were going t hrough Woodland ceme tery to work at Gray's Ferry, they came across tbe Ixsly of a man suspended from a tree, wblch It one of a group of trees situ ated between the twogates, tbe only group of trees lu this part of the cemetery. The Ixsly was cut down and taken to the Uiorgue. Tlie coroner's physician la of the opinion that the man died between 11 and Uo clock lost night." I Immediately left the car, took a crosa- town car and went up to the morgue. ('an I see the man who banged himself In Woodland Cemetery laxt night?" I asked tba keeper. "Yea," lie answered, and led the way to tbe corner of a room, and going to a slab ou which was a form covered by a sheet threw down the covering and said, "Ibere he Is." And there, with eyeballs protruding from their markets, waa the body of tilt man whom my friend and I bad aeeu In tbt church the night liefore. tit. l'aul (J lobe, Tha Mirage. The mirage can bo soon nearly evory day In the plaint of lower Kgypt, and also to a limited oxent In the plains of Hungary and southern France, Now and then toinutbliiRof the kind can be seen In sum mer by stooping down and looking along our tsndy coasts, such at Morocambe bay and tbe coast of lKivonahiro, or over tha Fen district, at that season dried up by the summer beat We must remember that the mirage of the desert creates nothing, but merely In vert Ixsllet that actually exist a littlo dis tance off, though In the Sahara tkyllght rayt doaouudlng are bunt upward by the hot air noxt the eanu, and the eye it actu ally deluded by an Impression resembling the reduction of tkyllght from water, the illusion being Increased by the dickering due to convection currents, tuggottliig tbe effect of a braeae on the water. Many of the descriptions given of the nilrago art "travelers' talea" In the un complimentary sense. Ono of the moat absurdly extravagant examples of thli it the following: Thlitretchcrout phenom enon deludet tho traveler'! eye with a reg ular luoceMlun of beautiful lake and thady avenues, and then, again, wltb an expanse of waving grits around a pictur esque villa. Here Is presented a grove of towuriiiH trees, there a flock of browting cattle." Chum bora' Journal. Pranklla't TrlbuU to l'aul Jooaa. From the beginning of hit acquaint anoe with Frunkliu a mutual respect and a doop affection sprang up between them. The wise rranklin saw at glance what manner of mau Paul Jones was, and inoua uouie sentence uuxcriixia him bettor than many volume could, "For Captain Paul Jones ever loved clow fighting. "Molly Elliot Seawall in Century Iu 1839 the first patent for water gal was taken out iu England by Crnlok' HOW CHRISTY PAID A DEBT. . The MiDntral'f OenrrMlty ta Maa Wha . . ... , , . . Tuo ll0n(l of ,ha fal",u Christy niln- ,,rcl ,rooP was uut George, but E. P. Christy, who uriginateir the oouipuuy lomo time back iu tbe forties, and the following ttory of the latter it interest ing: Christy, then a young mau, was a passenger ou a Lake Erie steamboat commanded by Cuptaiu Folger and bound to Buffalo, whore tbe first show was to come off. But the miuttrel had not even a dollar to invest In the hire of a collar for the performance. Cap tain Folger, to whom he made known his want, generously banded blm a $20 bill, tolling hi in that he wa welcome to it, and that bo need not trouble him self about paying it back. Un the strength of this f 20 Christy began busi ness and iu a few years bocanie success ful and rich. Iu tho meantime misfortunes overtook Captain Folger. Losing his employment ou the lakes, he resolved to try again tho salt water, on which he wa brought np So he came to New York to see if he could obtain a situation as master or, failing thut, as mate of a teafariug vessel. He bethought himself of Christy, whom ho supposed might possibly know iomo shipowner to whom he oould rea eouiiuoud him. Tho minstrel received him most cordially, but told him thut ho hud no acquaintances iu that Hue of business. "Why don't you buy a ship?" he asked. "liny a ship!" answered Folger. "Why, I haven't a dollar iu the world. All I want is employment." "Soe hero," returned Christy, "how much would a vessel cost?" "Any price," replied the Captain. "A pretty good one could be bought for, say, $'J0,000 or loss." "Well, uow," exclaimed the big hearted showman, "you loaned me I'JO once, and I am ashamed to say I have forgotten to pay it, bnt I will pay my debt uow. Go and buy a 130,000 ship ' and tend tho seller to mo fur tho money. I I will owu her, and you thall tail her. If H,n ninko anvtlilnu. von nlmll hava it. If she don't, I shall stnud the loss." This is the conversation, word for word, as Captain Folger told it to me. I had Just returned from an East Iudlnn . voyago in the Vandnlin, a ship of about 400 tons. One day Captain Folger came on board at the dock and Introduced himself. He said he would like to buy 1 u,0 ,,,, ,, .,, , prloo u 0 hap. ... i ,V., .,n nnn..fi.. 1 1...I ,io pouod that $ JO, 000 was tho sum I bail de- c"lca ,UP- Aru,r " ""Le offered me tl8.000, aud I accepted it io my asiouisiiuieni, ne roiurreu me to K. P. Christy ns the purchaser, aud j thon he told mo the story as I tell it. Wo went together to see Christy, and the result of tho ititerviow was that I gave him a bill of sale of the Vandulla, taking his nolo in payment, the note to bo paid in inntullinout, aud every morn-'' lug after one of his eutortaiuuients I called upon him and received a hatful of bill, quarter, shilling and six pences until the indebtedness was can celed. Captain Folger made a successful voyago to California iu tho Vaudalio. The ship was then sold, aud Christy bought a larger and more expensive ship, ou board of which Cuptaiu Folger eventunlly died at Calcutta. John Cod man in the New York Herald. Only Human Nature. An incident occurred a day or two ago lu a dressmaking establishment not far from Fourth and Market which af forded no end of amusement among bevy of seamstresses, while, on the other band, a bride to bo, her mother ami sister were completely crushed and loft tho place in disgust Aud the brido elect cuused it alL The mission of the mother and two daughter waa to In spect tho wedding gown and have the garment fitted 1 he ono to wear it put It on and for HO minutes posod in front of the mirrors, admiring herself and be ing complimented in extravagant torm by the mother and sister. The gown was pronounced just too tweet for any thing. "Oh, my, Isn't It lovoly?" en thusiusticnlly exclulmod the wearer, fol lowing with the remark, "Muilam , If you had some ono of my type of beau ty aud form like my own, 1 would be delighted to too how I will look whon I bocomo a brido tomorrow night" Tho tnodisto gave a wink, and her assistant hurried up stair and returned with oue of the sewing girls, a blond with pretty face and faultless form. It did not require long fur her to attire herself lu the bridal costume. When she reappeared, sho looked like a qnoen. Hardly a word wa spoken. Tbe modiste and her assistant, including other In the room, went Into rapture over her beauty and how exqnisite she looked, but the mother and two daughters said not a word Tho Bowing girl' charm bod overshadowed the brldo'a. The mo diste' bill waa paid, the marriage 1 now over, and the papers, in compli ance with the time honored custom, told bow beautiful the bride looked. Louisville C'ourior-JourunL agar. Sugar, the modern commodity, whloh we class among tho indispensable neoea taries, was wholly unknown to the an cient nations. The word "saccharum" occurs but once iu the Latin translation of the Bible, and the eqnivaleut for onr word "sugar" i first used by Pliny, whose writings are almost con tempo ran eons with the ministry of Christ He call it "honey collected in (from) reeds" aud ay that tlie Roman first became acquainted with it use In Ara bia Felix. Statins, in hi aooonntof tbe old Sat urnalia ceremonies, montion "vegeta ble honey" as being used and winds np hit account by saying that "this same honey i boiled from Eloaiun reeds. " Dioscoridos, the Ureok physician who flourished In the first or second century of the Christian era anil whose great work, "De Materia Modica, " treat of all the then known medicinal substanoc and their properties, say that "the name of sugar ha been given to tbe honey which is produced by reed with out boos," and Strabo, writing concern ing it, ay. "They (the people of Ara bia Felix) make honey without bee from reeds, and it sometime resemble salt "St Louis Republic, Two Kxparlaa Abbott I have never been in Chicago, but I have been through the town a few time. Babbitt I have been in Chicago, bnt the town went through me. Indian poll Journal