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A VALENTINE. yhat would I swid JO, O frind of rolnet CluaUT cf bliataoms To smile ud (bio. panslea I" Kladdm. Htaira lo blea. Lille lu bend In Their froll loveliness. But smtwilrlfta hav hlddea All beauty away. Vt a untie' In lb oouutry ' Thin winter day. ErvrytMnK' waiting To uIU by BnJ Ly-Hln-n summer' returning With bluu auuny sky. But. dear, I can nver Forget you, you know, 1kii winter U frowning And chilly wtniU bluw. Ho I am cmllng, ls-ar heart, to you Hinhm nioitt tender And lv. mwt truo. Womankind. THE MAIIATMAS. I . ........ nhnwoil no sians of abate- iDt. Tim miow, tlrlvuti by the wind, id (uuii'l it wy n,,r8 hml ,nt're Iroogh "' "chiiikiUK' of the cabin ? ! y in miniatare drift upon the If tiif tiiiP, dry crystal sparkling in T, jn iiuht. We were fairly warm and Xutortablo where we Bat on our rolU i blankctx, placed upon the rudely Jj ruh hearthstones, hut ton feet k from the lire the air was bitterly and culi I. J Tired though we all were from the L i mugb journey, there was hat lit- temptation to leave tbo comparative -alert .f the fireside for tbo hard, vfiy bunk which awaited us, and Alum and I mill sat drowsily listen ju to tbo theosophist ns he discoursed .uuMnously of rcincaruution, Karma fa, and kindred topics, jiiowas a fidgety, clean shaven little Ln, with wcuk eyes, long iron gray hir iuid a pasty complexion. Ho spoke .confidential half whimper, lest ha oalil awakeu hi unsympathetic litiio, the professor, rolled in his blaii innt'ar by, ami provoke controversy. -A nialiatma," ho raid hesitatingly, i answer to my inquiry, "is a being Il3cnlt of exact or satisfactory dcfiul , d to a mind unfamiliar with nt least J.9 elements of esoterio philosophy and urtniit'd to the harmonics of oriental ionclit. Ho has been tersely but inude tuitily descriliod as 'one who hy in line tolf absorption hnsnt'aiued super iatnral power and faculties. Ho is of ft 'Illuniinati,' of the 'Brothers,' an Uilfjrt,' in the occult sense. Developed inJ perfected by ft spiritual asceticism, ks finds himself able to read nature' prolt law, to pas unhindered from sm distant place to another in tliu tiinkliug of an eye, to molt from view M reappear at pleasure, to surround imtelf with phantasms" "What do you call 'cm what does all Ibii?" quuriod Ca!kin9,witn awaieuiug tercet "M-iimfinas." rather snappishly ra llied the theosophiit, not relishing the terruptiun. 'I run aKainst a pair 01 em once ,1 .1T VUI Wll - - Ionian's Snrinirs. and I recollect well jiow they done mo. That' why I Lkwl," explained Calkins. J "A pair of mahatmasl 'Done' you 1 Impossible!" exclaimed the tbeoso- JMst "Well, if yon say it's impossible I feekon tint settle it." said Calkins, ud he spat aggressively into the white ashes in the fireplace. 1 "But, my dear sir," remonstrated the Hieosopuist in a conciliatory lone, i id not, of course, intend to suggest any Oonlt of the perfect sincerity of your lwrtion. But the idea of your having irt two of these pheuomcnally gifted btlngs and of their having, a you say, 'done' you struck me for the moment, Jon know merely for the momont as -well as certainly most remarkable." : "Well, it wait just that," said Cal ins, softened. "It was, as you ay, the fcnwkablest racket, considered all (onnd, 1 ever was in. and I'll allow I've wii more nstonishin things iu my time iian most men." "Would you mind giving us the par culars of your experience, Mr. Cal ms?" urged the theosopbist, with gen uine interest. I "Well," said Calkin after a wo aieiit' pauso and with tho tono and air of ovprcoining a roluctance to speak further ou the subject, "with a mail W-hn fli.lu't .i.. lia liltrl met tild w ll.llll M KIIUTT lit U ' ' ..- theoMiphist that evening for tho first A.1 . . 1 fimo "aim hmlirt the loariim mm tree to allow I'd hesitate to give 'em this account But with you it seems OitTereut somehow. You II see tne near in' of it as p'r'aps some wouldn't i "1 hnd a elnim nKnnf A( milus south east of Old Woman' stirinus. and there was a rock 'tank' within a mile where I could gut water for camp use. I'd rig- mri tin nn n.n.-l.n iu. ' ntirt had been packin ore down from the claim with the one mule I bad, and Ihon turned him iutoharnes to run the rostra, out it made the work hard and linn- hnth f.iw a l.t... ' "ia unit null. "So after I'd made one pretty good uu uui ui aoout a ion and a qunnri V ...A II II. . ...LI.L inree nans or amalgam, wniuu, - ' luwikun nun lJillUl..v.v ' Weighed risin ten ounces I started to o in from the desert, cash my bullion nd buy some buno to pack with. I "It was well into November when I'd flnwnA . i .. ..n.H tii come u'ucti utj tun U1IU BlWi'i h, and the nights was gettin too sharp frr sleepin ont with any comfort. I linn,l . U TTi..ni..a WnllS first y-.iiivil 1 11I.1H.O AAJK(la ' i(ht out, for there was an old stone abin there, half built into the side nui, Vithnnt ...K .( In lua anre. but fur- H . Ill l.t AJ . 'V ' nhin lonin cover and givin a shelter f '1 the wimL "Well, I cached my tools and po flu straightened things out ai cmU f o leavin, aua so tnHI-...ll ..! r.n IttOOkalKlUt , ' i nuuuu tunwu - - '2ht hours steaily hustlin to get to tn Vil. ... .. i - f I.ni1 a moon td I -'Clin, dui i kiicyt Jtrsvcl with when the sun went down, j t ... r I didn't foel hurried, though the flays gettin short . I "About suudown it grew raw right way, and then the mountains to the -t and every little knob and butte tood out sharp, with a chilly dead light Sn 'cm, like they was gettin purple with "taecoid. There wasn't a cloud nowhere o bo seen, nor a breath of wind stirrin, ad I knew u vfat goin to be a still, Tincbin, frosty night, and I buttoned ,to7 coat up tight, and for the first time " tne trip begun to burry up my """ i . i . . , .k.rn I Jott alter sunnowc on cioai. r en, b " Than I could ' . . i ibf. the lcmeaomeat time to be trav- wake another run OTtwa Tb" teen granted. -Un on tin dasert when jm'n by yov .tart la with enu.Wtf.Wt ox a i"" self. With the dusk comin on and the red fadin out in the sky you feel some how like everythiu iu the world but Just you and your mule had teen .tons dead for a hundred years, and feelin that way your animal get to be great com pany. When tbo moon come op, it was some choerf uller, but I felt glad enough whou I seen the bntte where the Well and the stono cabin was and thought of fire and blankets. "When I'd got to within p'r'ups a quarter mile of the cabin, I see some thin I never seen before and couldn't no way account for. It was like a long, wavy line of mist, comin from the east, movin through tho air just above the ground and makin for tbubutte fastur'n a locomotive and straight' a beo flies! "It didn't look like mist exactly neither, but more like a string of misty figirei, with long, while streamer blowin out behind 'em on the wind! I scarcely had timo to sc'lute what it was, when just by the cabin it melted away and disappeared altogether. The air was clear and as dry as a bone, to I knew it couldn't be just a fly'u vapor I'd seen, nod besides there was nary breath of wind to drive it " vt mie i was wouaertii at nil this, a light broke out of tho cabin door and through the little window, like some ! one had just started a fire inside. Then 1 next i see a camwirn name up, just down tho hill by tho Wells, and m "' aud animals movin about near by. I thought it was queer I hadn't seen 'em till just that minute, for the country was open all round, and up to now there hadn't been a sign of life anywhere. "Then I says to myself, 'Most likely it's a prospectin party, and they was bid by the willows growin round the Wells,' bnt somehow this explanation didu't satisfy me, and I rodo up toward the cabin, feelin glad at the prospect of company, but still wouderin considera-1 ble. The place hnd got to be sort of public property ever since old man Ilig gins died, and I didu't feel no kind of delicacy in ridin right up to the door, even if there was some one ahead of me. So I dismounts, unsaddles, aud after hobblin tho mule stein in. "I'll never forget how all struck stiff I was by the sort of old man I see stand in by the fire aud just startin to como toward me, with both hnnds stretched out and a smile on like he'd been ex pectin mo. But when he teen who 1 was ho stopped short, and tho smile died out, and he looked sort of disap pointodlike, and his bands dropped, and then I see he'd thought I was some body else he was waitin for. "He was dark complexionod aud very old. judgiu frow hi long white beard and the wrinkle on bis face, but he was tall and as straight as a tampin stick, and his eyes, though deep in the sockets, was a bright as a hawk', but kind and friendly, I thought He was dressed out queerer'n any man ever I soe outsido of a the a ter. His head was wrapped all about with great strip of whito muslin, which bulged out all round in a roll. Ho was buttoned up close in a long dull yollor colored, quiltod silk overcoat, with a broad fur collar, and his shoes was red and turued up in long point at tho toe. "I seen at tho first glance he was somethin out of the common and wasn't no prospector, but what ho was I couldn't mako out neither. I said 'Good eveuin,' and bo said 'Good evenin' back, pleasant enough, but speakln queer, like he wa'u't much used to speak in English. Then ho motioned mo, lookin very hos-pit-able, to take a seat in ono of the three old rawhido bottomed chairs be fore tho fire, which I done with a 'Thank you. ' for somehow, without bein any- way uppish, tne oiu man acie imu ur owned the whole place, and I felt some how liko ho did too. Well, when I set down, he set down and mumbled some- thin I didn't just make out. bein in a language I'd never heard before, and, though lookin pleasant an smilin, he seemed sort of absentminded aud kept lookin toward tho door, liko he was ex pectin some one. "While I was gnssin at him and won- dcrin who and what he was and where he como from, aud was makin up my mind how to lead tho conversation round bind nf rtnllcato UD to them points, was startled clean through by seeiu the old man's chair suddenly got empty that's the clearest I can put it and fiudiu him standin Just outside the cabin a ..mkin off over the desert He hadn't got up from that chair, so far ai I could see, and there ho was. 20 feet away from it, without so much as stir rin a leg. Naturally this excited my cu riosity considerabla And I got up and t tn tho door. too. to see what tin old man might be up to next Ho wm gazinoff toward the south, and I hadu t more'n just lookod that way, too, when I see what took my breatd away. another of them misty, vravy processions kitin iu through the air from tho south and mnkin dead for the cabin. Before I'd a chance to rut my eyes and look again it bad got ciow ,w,r melted away, and anothei queer dressed old man was embracin thc J... tho tn of 'em standin there within five feet of me. Next second trn sittin tocnther inside the cab in in the chairs before the fire, novel bavin got there in no nntural manner, with me standin just in and flllin up the doorway and only realizin where they'd gone to when I heard 'em talkin foreign languages oeiium "I was gettin sort or useu iu n. tlo ioker' business and begun to feel ready for most anything in the srirprisin line. But I hadn't seen just nothm ye to what was comin. Scein tho two old gen'lomcn wa. busy talkin ever a roll of parchment with queer letters and fignres on it. which the second old roan had brought along with him. I thought it would be considerate to lot m be alone together for awhile, and I stepped out and down toward the camphre to try and pick up some point, there and take a look at the animals. "I found four men staudin close round the fire, tryiu to keep warm two of 'em dressed .oroethin like tho old. gen'lemon I'd sen when I first come I ;l nlainer. and two of 'em tw like the other one. with black sombrsros and wrapped up iu garments lookin lifco Mexican serapos. There was about a dozen animals, all told-three white mule and one coal black one. and the rP,t wa fine, stout, big necked burros. My mule had got friendly with three of the finost in the whole outfit, and they was nibblin round apart from the rest, like they'd Uen ralw-d together. Kight iw.y lWthlnkinthat if I could get bold of Them three it would make jus L packin outfit I wMloo in o, .and tbenT could quit wy trip in off the de- .rt. bo right back to the arastra ;!, . . Tkn I rnnin and not have to come right away back. as I'd Uen iutendln. so, huvin this in mind, I told lbs men by the (ire what I wanted auj showed em the bigrfe.t tall of bnlliou l bad-weighinch onto five outlet -and ofTered it for the three burros, poiutiu em out Aft. r alsmt a minula they set-wed to catch on. uud ItH.kui h.w- erful s.,lcmn jHa.it.d up to the cabin. a much a to sa.' I d have to o the boss, ho I jut went m nP. aud steppia U found the old geiri. lmu where I'd left cm still talkiu ill to the dozen over tho roll of parchment with the I (im-er llture. on it They didu't pay uo 1 atteution tome comin iu i.t all, they i it u W)0llIvll luliUl-kT aud worse than was so to.,k up with what they was nm.lne to try to aave the life of a talkiu of. but I Mood hy waitin f.ira llrowuillK p,,r,lin lir t0 nu.jtuto him. lull in the conversation, aud when it , kJ1),1, r or Uwr ,lu u tomid to do yon come I cut iu, aud addressin the old mie UIVM mtu. wan in the yeller silk overcoat I Midi u i an..ther tine of those old super him, plaiu a I could, what I wunted ,,i,jolll( i,ua,.,i ,ov,n from generaiiou and showed him the five ounce ball to , t0 K,.mlliou frow car Luro-un umt's let him know 1 meant business and was , nii ,,. u..i,.h mimui Uuuw a tlie ler- I willin to pay well for what I got. "Ho looked at me iu tho tamo tort of abst utniinded way he did when I first I seen him. but ho smiled aud nodded like lie meant ic ami taut someinin I didn't just get onto, but it teemed clear to me from bis wnv of goin on that it was all right about tbo burros, and llien I handed him the five ounce ball, lie , i, ... i,.,,,i i,, iiisistin, mid tho second old I man gettin impatient at me interrupt!!! their talk, I reckon ho bowed and smiled auuin very pleasant and dropped tho bull kind of carelessliko into a little fancy cloth bug ho woro for a pocket fastened on the belt round hi waist Then ho went right on talkiu again with tho other old wan jost liko I wa'u't round, and bed clenn forgot me and my business. Findiu I wa'u't in it with the old men, I started to go down and see tho btirros I'd bought, feeliu very well pleased with the trade. Just then the uecro mancin begun all over again, only this time for keeps, as you'll tee. They was. as I've said, both talkin together very earnest, sittin iu the chair Is fore the fire, ami when I turned to go out they wa there still, but us I stepped outside thero they both was, miraculously, out- tide, too, ahead of wo, cmbraciu and carryin on like they was savin goodby. "Then things begun developin pretty lively. When tho old geu'lemen had wound up the goodby net, they stands faciu each other, both of 'cm holdin up their hands and lookin up into tho sky. Thou they say some foreign words to gether, like it was a verse they was re pentin, and then thero wa'u't no old men standin there at all. I looked down toward tho campflre and all about, and thero wa'u't a liviu thing in sight. Not a man, nor a mule, nor a burro) But coin through tho air like a slrcnk ono toward the east and ono toward the tonth was two of them cloudy lines of figures, with tho misty streamer wavin, like I'd seen 'em when tho old men first come. "Yes, sir, everything was gone, pretty near, but me, ami tne cumn, ami me campflre. Not only them two designin old men and their circus outfit, but with 'tin tho three burros I'd just bought and paid for, my five oulicn bull of bullion mid actually tho wulo I'd come on. When tho rest of the party blew off in that interest in way, ho'd somehow got caught in tho draft, I sup pose, aud had to go along too. "Next mornin enrly I started out on foot, packin mv blankets, for Old Worn au' springs. Thero I hiredabnrro and went in to stay for tho winter. Now von can see. sir." concluded Cnlkins, addressing tho theosopbist impressive Iv. "I wu'n't far off when I said I'd met a couple of them gifted beiu's you wa talkin of. and that they didn't use mo no wav square any way you look at it" "A most extraordinary experience, Mr. Calkins, most extraordinary!" ex claimed the theosopbist, with somo ex citemeiit "I shall want, with your per mission, to tako notes of the occurrence for submission to our littlo Society For Psychical Research at Iteacousvillo, I believe, thongh, that through even my limited acquaintance with occult sub ject I cun put tbo conduct of those veuornble men, whom you were so for tunate as to encounter at their desert rendezvous, in quite a different light from that in which you now regard it that is. when I have had time to digest fully the particular of your most re markable narrative. " "I said you'd see the bearin's of it, as p'r'nps somo wouldn't, yon recol lect," snid Calkins, as, yawning, he arose with his blanket roll nr ' turned to his bunk. A ho moved from the fire I thought I heard a low, husky, littlo laugh, but when I caught hi eye ho coughed un pleasantly aud regarded me with a va cant, solemn ttare. Edmund Stuart Roche in Argonaut Wlilatlrr and tha Boaton Library. The correspondence between the Bos ton Public library trustees and James MacNeill Whistler with respect to the decoration of Bates hall i said to indi cate a complication quite in the line of some others with which Whistler has been concerned. The trustee wrote tc him somo time ago informing him that they could not have tho pleasure of buy ing a decoration from him, owing to lack of funds. In reply he totally Ig nore the tenor of their remarks and tell of bit progres in the work, and how much ho values the opportunity to do this thing for Boston, etc. It i evi dent that be iuteuds to decorate the li brary whether the truvtee order it done ' . r,. ,. ..I I tVI.iutli.r- if or not. wen, g" "' "... i the work is good, yno will ge, your r.u nrobnhlv in time. nn tn work for Boston anyhow. And if the affair winds up in a qnarrel. why, it will suit you still better and give you a chance to write tome of your delicious letters, in which wit i sea soned by a thinly veiled waUca. Boa ton Transcript K'ljah Walhrr. Elijah Walker of North Carolina is one of the oldest Confederate veterans known. He is now 101 years old ami enlisted when he was 07. He fought all through the war and was severely wounded several times, having been shot in both hands, which latter wounds partly disabled hun. Notwithstanding this fact, however, bn has refused to se cept tho pension he wa entitled to from tho state on the grouud that he "did not think it right a long a he was able to support himself." Now, how urnr lit anm thut he U do longer uhle lit mu ke a living. . , . , j - - a lie ftijuiti iut Jhe ,un fljr tue f olore, but for uo ..bick arrearages." His application hat ' . OL. l.a nK U .T.U UNLUCKY TO SAVE FROM DROWNING, 'a. ur Sup,r.titio.. of iw lb. i World o.r. !t HvaM tlIKe ,ht swimmer tlll,nU (e ,,.,, mllH. ,.t it i .... m,r u ,t alone the small buy who K.-ahu (s,0,,mui11 gkjIlt, Utio a watery grave l(lIlt mtemptu.g to rescue him. whether he sunk Uvause he wa not an lx,K.tt ,, fc,llt ... ,u.,ht tir . u.-thrr he wu iM i.Hl with crauii-. It vnill rj,iienlon. to think of. and uo ,iujt it win MVe . M11H.p.tition. p,.railU fri,m risking hi own n.vk ty i.,...,, .wi .....i... i ii.u u-eiuht mid .tru.,!,, . .irowuiuu im.u to kuow Vat ian. Tiaet of it are found among ,1U iun mii.t her tribe of the Indians j ,),,, wwli w lu, , mv, inherited tlm, Mwt ,i jr lorefalliets along with so many othorquaiut things. They still believe, unci it' a putt of their need, that iu bunting the body of a drowned erou you ran discover it resting plaits by floating a chip of cedar wood, which will stop,, even in the strougest current, aud tutu around over the exact tot. Iu (heat Brituiu the belief that you must not rescue a dr-wuu.g s isou is most prevalent in CVrnwull und vurions parts if tH-othind. The French sailor I and the boatman of the Dunube bow to the decree, together with the Russians, and let the leople dmwu. Dr. Taylor, in h' "Primitive Cul ture," declare this liugeiiiig fondues for this old creed is becnuse the water spirit is angry at being despoiled of it victim, ami should tiie unlucky pcrtou who has dared to fiustrate him trust himself to the water's power he will drowu as sure as fale. Tho Bohemian fisherman shrinks from matching a drowning mini from the waters, fearing the water demon will tako away his luck iu fishing and drowu him before he gets to shore with the would lie victim. Iu Germany, when somo one is drowned, they say, "The river spirit claims hi yearly sac rifice, or, "The Nix has taken him." Tho belief i current not alone in those conn l lies dliovo meutioued, but the Kuiuchatkuus, rather than help man out of the wuter, would force him under, and if he should fsca)e to the shore no one would daro receive him into his house or dure to give him food, no i supjiosed to be dead after ouce fulling iuto the water. THE SARGASSO SEA. A Wonrirrrnl Region la tha Atlantic Wtalrh No Man Has Eiplorad. Tho surface of the Sargasso sen seems liko a crfcct meadow of seaweed It is supiKised thut this enormous umsa of gulf weed may huvo lceu partly growu at the bottom of the shallower part of the sea and partly torn from the shore of Florida und the Bahama island? by the forco of the gulf stream. It ia then swept arouud by the same agency iuto the Surgasso sen, where it live aud propagates, floating freely iu midocean. And tlm store is ever increasing, Isith by addition and propaga'inn, so that the meudow mows more und mote compiu't. , and uo doubt tit the inner part extend to a considerable depth below the auf- face, ! Nor is this ull. for at least two-third i of all the infinite flotsam which the gulf stream carries along with it iu its course sooner or later find a resting place in the Sargasso sea. Here may be seen huge truuks of tree torn from the for ests of Brazil by the wuter of the Ama zon uud floated down fur out to sea until they were caught ami swept along by the current ; logwood from Honduras, orunge trees from Florida, canoes and boat from the islands, staved in, broken and bottom upward ; wrecks and remains of ull sorts i reupe d frow the rich hurvest of tho At- I lantic; wbolo keels or skeletons or ruin- i ed ships, so covered with hanim-lm, f hells and weed that the origvul out lino is entirely lost to view, und here aud tlx re a derelict ship, transformed from a floating terror of tho deep into a mystery put out of reach of man iu a museum of uncxpluiuud cuigwu. Chamber1 JonrnuL John lluikln'i Hum. Bruntwood, tho chosen lakeside home of John Rnskin during the last quarter 1I tl till II IHinmil llllaHIM 1H Har-li .a., a century of his l.fe. occupies one of tho - ......... most favored sisitsiu all Knglmid. Sit nuted on the bonier line of Lancashire and Cumberland in the hike district, it overlooks the smallest of the water in that "hike country" with which the names of Wordsworth, Southey, Cole ridge, Lamb, Lloyd and Wilsou are In delibly connected. Set in the background of a half encir cling wood of exquisite grace and mys tic bcautv. a seen in tho green half of its tranquil shade. Uruntwood liuht is protected from the east winds by tn open, lining moorland thut stretches far to the reur and facta a long slope of lawn that sweep down to Collision water's edge. Behind tho green and pnrplo moor tho wuter of Its overflow ing wells runs swiftly down the rocks with all the fuss of a real cascade, and the exalted rock of "Naboth" rises just beyond the Isjrdera of his estnto a sort of natural pulpit which is rented hy Rnskin, so that from its greattr height, which he loves to climb, he way gam noon the wider view. In frout the nar- row -. - - " " "rr Then the rising banks beyond of broken green, with whito faced honses blink ing behind tho trees, and the gray vil lage of ConiMton nestling away to the right, close down by the head of the lake, and Li vend the "Old Man" him self toweis abovo the smaller bill that I rise close about hi knee. McClure' j Magazine. ! Ilia Login, Sunday School Boy Isn't there lots of life In ginger, teacher F Teacher ie. "And bread i supposed to be the ttaff of life, teacher)"' "Yes, my boy." "Well, then, it has occurred to we that perhaps Methuselah lived ou gin jerbred." Vouker Statf.man. II aoolbra Him. After a man ha pounded on the door fur half an hour it mukea him feel plea nit to be asked by his wife if be wsnt tooums in Los Aogele Exprea. BULGARIA'S GREAT BISHOP. CUmrat ! a lowrr la Pollttca and Trurklra to Ruaalaa ravor. The Uiuu totthom 1'ulgariuu look fur i icconciliutii'ti wiih Ru o.ia is M. CIhiu-t-iit, metropolitan ti Tiruovu. Pre vious to 170 lUilgnria hud bceii under l!io Tmkish yike lor live centuries, and tlie uinssacroof Ilulgariau Christians by the trot-ps of the snltau was oue of the rauM that led Kui-sia to declare war gnir.st Turkey. Turkey's course against Bulgaria, Montenegro, Ronmauia and fervia somewhat resembled her present ci'iirc u.vn-t Armenia. Russia's speedy victory gained for h'orviit, Koumunia stid Montenegro their absolute independ ence, and hulgnria was also practical ly lwt. By the treaty of llerlin, Bulgaria wo made a tributary rinrimliry under the suzerainty of tbo sultan with a Christ iau government, a national militia and the right to miike it own law. It wa also provided that a prime of Bul garia should l elected by the people and ciinninitd by ilio sutilime porte with the consent of the powers. Iu I SS3 the Bulgarian nationul assem bly revived the constitution of Tirnova, and Alexauder, the firt prince elected by the people, con tinned planning for complete emancipation. Thi displeased Russia, and Priuce Alexander wa kid naped by Russian agents lu and forced to abdicate. lriuce Ferdinand wa elected a his successor in 1S87, and MKTI10H)LITA!f CI.MKST. be was heartily supported by Clement, tbo influential metropolitan, so long a he accented the wishes of Russia as commands. When, however, Ferdinand began to have more independent ideas, ho wa dmerted by Clement, who ap parently believe that the very best thing Bulgaria can do is keep uuder the thumb of the czar. Not long ago the national assembly and Prince Ferdinand dispatched a dep utation which was expected to pave the way for a wore friendly feeling on the part of Russia. At the head of the deputation was the Metropolitan Clem ent, and the alleged object of the visit to Rnssia wim to place on the tomb of the late czar a beautiful golden cross as a tribute of esteem from the Bulgarian people, Clemeut Is uaturolly very popu lar in Russia, and bi deputation wa received wiih open arms, bnt his visit only mado Russia more firm in its re solve tiever to accept Prince Ferdinand as ruler of Bulgaria. A Wondrrlol Vlaw. "It was a wonderful view I had last flnniiHV." mmarketl a memlier of the w10 bus just returned from a two numthH' tramp through the southern part of tho stale. "I got into Coopers- t,,wu utM,t nism, und ufler dinner slnrt- ,) ovm- (be hill to Richfield Spring Cm the way I slopel ut the obsorvutory located on Mount Otsego, and the view from there wa worw extended. If not linor, than any I ever beheld. You re weiubor how cool it wus, aud the air wa a clear anil steady as 1 ever saw it. The oWrvatory has au elevatiou of about a, 000 feet, which is about 1,600 feet above Utiea. "Five lakes can bo counted with the ,.j,.m1 ere. and two more ciiii lie added wjtn n (leldgluss. Lake Otsego, the fu- .,.. 0imlerKluHJl, of Osiiior 'Deer- ibver,' lies at the foot of the luontituiu, 'hiie on the horisnn alsivu it cun be p.,. the Cutskill niountaiiis, with Black , Diiuio und Smith mountain, I5 wile , awur. on which th Cutskill Mountain House showed us a little white ssit To I the northeast I saw the Adirondack, 1 with Mount Maroy, the highest point of laud in the state, sitnaled ut a dis- tanco of 110 mile. Iu the east I law 1 mountains in throe stales. Ono was rep- rewnted by Bald mountain, near Ben i ! Jk nii'gtoii. t . a foil U0 mile away, and - . L. t. t. ,,,. Sf iiomli.iw-lf 111 IIW another br Mount Momidnock lu New (iHiniifliirn. a distance of 150 mile. It wa indeed wonderful. Not so mnch the view of the mountains, for that showed merely like n cloud against the sky. but thut tho unaided power of liu Iman vision should be able to bridge such a distance. "Of course hundreds of people visit ' the observatory without seeing any of these distant mountain, for there are probably not wore tbuti half adoen duy in tho year on which such e;i ex tended view can bo had a that which wa mine last Sunduy ufternoon. "Uti ea Observer. Tha Snail lias Thirty Thousand Tealb, Don't believe a woid of It, do you? Well, that mukea but little difference it i on tho authority of ono of tho most noted of the modern school of natnrul Ists, und that i sufficient. In the pe culiarity of teelb and mouth the snail la the most wondf-rfnl of all the created rrentures, and it has been truly said that it Is fortunnto for mankind l'ut some of tho larger of the wild animals are not similarly constructed. Tho month of the tuail I armed with a won derful organ in the ahupe of a rusplike tongue. This tongue resembles a long, narrow riblsm, coiled In such a manner that only a small pint ion of it i in use at anyone time. Ibl sly tiistriouu a over thocntirestirfaceof tills rlbbonlike organ are au iii'iiiense number of very minute but strong and fluitp teeth, u 'ligned in a milliner which admirably Induct them to the purpose for which they lire Intenditl - viz. that of rasping sff the edible portions of the vegetution ' anon which tbi owner of the rasp feeds. The number of these teeth, as hinted in the cpening and also In the beading, is nerfectlr Incredible, tno species bav lug been sb.wn by actual count under the microscope to in.- not h. tbsn 1)0,000. St. Louis Republic. A ud Cra.r. TU.1ul.ii a n.nn train eork to crow gilutt ech other. One trained rooatet In Belgium ha crowed 117 time U aa how. THE MILLIONTH OF A SECOND. Thlt Aituulbliiljr Small Amonal of Tlm UaurrU bj tilmrlrlly. lustaiitiincoii photography has wade a familiHr with tho fact Unit very mi nute subdivisions of time ate ioible. Successful negatives are now frequently taken wbefu t -xposuie lasts only the one thousand!., part of a second. But at the tirst blush the statement that tingle tick of the clock tin) three thousand six-hundredth part of an hour can tt) divided into millionth seem almost inciedible, to infinitesimal i the fraction of time to be determined. This is a scientific age, mid science i nothing if it is not exact. Man has measured and weighed the ahytsca of the great ocean that cover three-fourth of the surface of our migratory planet and can give approximately the number of drops of-ivatiT and grains of sodium chloride of which it is made up. lie bus also computed the sie, meas ured the distancca und analyzed the couis.iitiou of tats so distant as to be Dot even visible lo the naked eye. Alt er tliis it re(Uirm a very UU or a very ignorant individual to set any limit to human ingenuity. That extremely minute fraction of lime could N acenutteiy determined was Incidentally discovered by a cele brated electriiiiin while milking some famous ex pet i incuts with regard to the velocity ol electricity. For the purosu of his experiment he caused an electric discharge from a ley- den jar to In-sent throuuh half a mile iif copr wire with a break in the ecu tel. This gave use tit time sparks, which were reflected ill a lapnlly rotat ing mini r revolving at the enormous rate of H00 times a second. The Kitinn of the sparks in the tnir ror showed that the central spark was slightly out of line, or wus slightly re tarded as compared with the other two. which were strictly simultaneous. The mirror, therefore, had moved forward somewhat while the electric charge was truveling through tho quarter of a mile cf wire to the centlal break. The difference Ix twccn the position of tlm sparks tt'H" found to ho one-fourth of a degree, and as the mirror revolved through 810 degtees intheoneelght-hnn dredtb of a second the actual retardation of the central spark amounted to the one one million one hundred and fifty-scC' ond thousandth part of a second only. This is the smallest frui tion of time ever determined. It is obvious that by simply lengthening tho wire through which tho t lectrio dischtuge is sent less niinuto fractions of time can lie accti rately determined in a similar manner. If it takes an eleettic dischurge the one-millionth part of a second lo travel over one-qnartei miloof wire, it takes tour times as long to journey a mile, or, to lie exact, the two hundred and eighty eighth thuntandth part of a second, lu other words, electricity travels UNH.noo miles per second. It is by the above method scientists have been able to asceitain the velocity of electricity and duration of electric flash, tho speed and duration of light niug, the velocity of light ami mm b other valuable information respecting the ptoperties of these forces of nature. Boston (ilolie. ALEXANDER TAGGART M'GILU Cams ol tha rmocratla Candida ta roc Oovaroor of Haw lry. Alexander Taggart McGlll, who wa reoently nominated for governor of New Jersey, is a renu ylvulan by birth, but ha been a resident of New Jersey liuce be was 10 years of age. He was bom in Alio sheny City on Oct SO, 1848, HI futher, Dr. Alexander T. Mo Oill, was an edu cutor of high standing, and in A. T. st'dlM. 1854 accepted the professorship of ecclesiastical, homlletio and pastoral theology at Princeton theo- loglcul seminary, a position be oocupiea for 20 year and until hi retirement in 1883. Young McOill wa graduated from the college of New Jersey in 1804, and ha since received frow the Institu tion the honorary degree of LL D. Aft r leavlnir colleuo McGlll began the tndv of law at the Coluwbla Colleg Law school, from which he wa grado ated in 1800. He continued his itudie with Edward W. Scudder of Trenton, and wo admitted to the bar a an at turner In 18)fl and a a counselor in 1807. . He began the practice of hi profession In Jersey City, but resided In Hayonne, aud was corporation counsel of the town from 1873 to 1870. In 1878 and 1874 ha wa elected a member of the lower house of the legislature, In the proceed inns of which body he took eonsplcu ous rart. From 1878 lo 1888 he terved a prosecutor of tha plea of Hudson county, and in April of tha latter year was appointed law Judge of Hudson county, a position he held for about four year. In 1887 hi college friend, Governor Green, appointed him to the high office of chsncollorof the Now Jemey supieme court The appointment was somewhat criticised at the time on account of the youth of McGiU, but the now chancellor speedily demonstrated that be wa the right man In the rignt place. Aimrswv in i7 seven yeurs. doling which be smash' ed the Reading coal combine and voted against tho pardon of the Hudson eoun It ballot box stuff era and the" Big Four' of the Guttenburg race course, be was reappointed for another terra of seven .par, which term will not end uutll May 1, 1001. Oratlluda. Gratitude i a short cut to sincere and lastinu friendship. Some people cow pluin that they huve uo friend. Have they never hud a favor done to them? Whr. every man ha had a core of fa vom done him every day of hi lift Those w ho bear it iu wind, who say word of hearty thanks, who watch chance to do a favor in return, never lack friend. Aa Eaay Mark, "May I awsk what you haver' re quested the toudurfoot politely. "Ace high," said Alkull Ike grimly. "Oh, deur we. Aud I've only got three kings. Booms to we I neveh bare tjiree kUK. Btwms to me I neveh bava .... In. k at rnkah. " I Tlnt all luck, mUter. It's peri - ' enoe. You'll 1'arnarterawhlla." New t York Recorder. THE LAST CARTRIDGES." KrlUeoo Thai Alphaaaa 4a Naartll Mad a MUlaaa la Hla ramaaa ftotara. The recent anniversary of the battle of Sedan, which wus celebrated with uch patriotic ardor in Germany, has caused the French newspaper to pub- h accounts of several little episodes of the fight, which were not known gen- ully before. Everybody who ha stop ped in frout of tha picture shop on Broudwav ha seen the prints of L Dcrnlere Cartouche," by Alphonse da Neuville. The picture represent the iu- rior of a house ou the outskirt of Buzoilles, where a handful of trench marine, under Commander (now Gen eral) LunlsTt, made a beroio Hand against tho Bavarian. The house ituud today just a it stood after the light It i something of museum at present, where tourist aud artists love to linger iu order, they tuv, to have the pleasure of walking into Nenville't painting. The hole iu (lie roof and the old chest against which Captain Lambert leaned to rest hi wounded foot are still there, just as thrv are in the picture; but, unfortu nately for the historical accuracy of the work, there was no Tnrco there. The mail who fired the lust cartridge wa 'a plain Aubert of the Marine corps. Whether the artist wished toglorify the Tnrco. even nt theexpeuseof accuracy, made a blunder, nobody can tell ... ... now, lint tiiesnnMantiai accuracy 01 ine matter cannot b. disputed, a it is how u iu the nOli-lal report of Captain .mnbert to General Vussoigne, com manding the division of murine infantry at Basel Ilea. Thia i the part of the re port which refers to tlieepistsle in que- ion : In order to continue our defense with greater advaiitugo we let i red iuto an isolated house, situated upon a cul minating point in Baeilles. I had with me Captaina Aubert, Uourgey. Picard. Dalanny and Lieutenants Kscouliet au I St. Felix und about 100 wen. Thank to the activity of Captain Auliert the house was quickly pnt iu a state of de fense. This brave nffierr took up a gun and placed himself at one of the win dows, and by his marvelous skill excited an emulation among the men which wa fur from excluding coolness. Neverthe less In spite of the considerable losses which the enemy suffered, they ad vanced constantly. Netting that our house was ulsmt to bo surrounded and finding it impossible to walk, I asked the olllcers who were with we to leava me there with a few weu and to fall back upon the was of the division. Not one would consent to tlo it, and all de clared that they would fight with me until the last. I yielded to their desire, especially as we had not lost a yet all hope of an offensive movement by onr troops. We did not then know that they also were kept very busy, aud, hearing tho incessant noise of the mitrailleuse we fancied that they were approaching. In the village also they were holding out still, and we could distinguish per fectly the difference between the deto nations of our cbassepot aud those of the Bavarian gun. It wa tha brave Captain Bourgey who wo continuing hi desperate defense in the village. "After about two hour wa were sur rounded completely by the Fifteenth Bavarian regiment. Boon our house waa in pitiablo condition. The doom aud window were riddled with bullets and the roof had been hulf torn away by a shell which wounded four or five of our wen. Iu spite of all till the struggle was continued with determination. It censed only when our munitions were exhuusted. Then we began to think of surrendering if thut was possible. Our enemlo were shouting, 'Kill them!" Aud we hud little hoi of receiving any quarter. Onr soldier were not doceived in this matter, ami tiiey wautod to cow out in a last charge with their bayo nets. I stopped them, saying to them thut I wonld go out aud thut if they killed we then it would be time enough for them to sell their live a dearly they con M. "The moment I atepped out of tha door about 30 bayonet were pointed at wy breast, und unquestionably I would have been uiussucrcd bad not the Bava rian Captain Limduguolo rushed be tween we sud his wen. Thut waa an act of bruvery ou hi part, for his sol diers were so much exasperated over the enorwou louse which they bad suffered at our hands thut in their blind rage they could hardly discern any thing. I shall never forget that I owe wy life to that chivalrous enemy. Nei ther can I forget the generous words which he spoke when be shook my hand." New York Sun. Lawyar Who Maka Tbalr Owa Wllla. Many celebrated weu have neglected to settle their affairs. Ben Jonson, Dry den and Sir Isauo Newton all died in testate, Bacon insolvent, and the epi gram on Butler's monument in the ab bey sufficiently explains why he aud many others like him never made a will: Tha port's tat Is her tn aniblsm shown t 11 asks far bread and ha racoirw a stona. "Wills," said Lt-rd Coke, "and the construction of them do more perplex a man than any other, and to make a certain construction of them exceedeth jurisprndentium artem." An old prov erbsay that every man is either a fool or a physiciun at 40. Sir H. Halford happening one day to quote the saying to a circle of friends, Conning humor ously Inquired, "Sir flenry, mayn't be be both?" At any rate experience teaches that lawyers who draw their own wills sometimes wske great mistake. Sir Samuel Romllly's will was improperly worded, Chief Duron Thompson' will iMtcume the subject of chancery proceed ings, while the will of Bradley, the eminent conveyancer, was actually set aside by Lord Tburlow. Temple Bar. His Grrat AaiUty. Athlete Did I brcuk it, doctor? Doctor I will be pluin, sir. The arm Is broken, the collar bone crushed, the kull is fractured Athlete No, no, not The did I break the "What, my son?" "Record!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ult Idas of Martyrdoaa. Child of 8 (returning from school) Mamma, we have been reading of such dreadful lwes. I should not liked to have lived theu, aud I aw sure you would uut, for people were tied to a leg tf mutton aud after gunpowder had been put rouud they were all blown up. aiawma Are you sure u wa not a . 'take they were tlea tor I Child Ob, yea, mamma, it wa a Weak I I knew It waa weal ol soma kliid, Exchange, 4