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MY WATERLOO.
None Bat Coachmen Need Apply
If right I mute, 'twos at Long Branch
In fclithty-two or three
I met the girl whose fairy face
And form enchanted me;
I sougl.t a friend, waa introduced. "
And thought at once to woo
. This siren with a seraph's grace
. And eyes of heaven's bine.
1 met her oft, and in the dance
Would softly presi her hand;
And t 'outrh the gave me but a glanoe
Woul J softly understand;
She listened to mv lay or love
The summer eea-ton through,
But when 1 wished to name the day
1 struck my Waterloo.
TU sad a giit mill sweetlv smile.
And likewise -oftly tlh,
In concert witii a fellow 't 11
Sl.e s drained his wall, t dry;
Or toucher still to have her let
iiim di-t-m she holds him dear.
Ami on proposing have her get
Kxcus-e me on her ear.
I argued, hut to no avail,
she waved me irom her side.
And wlih her tirei ian noe upturned,
Hade me peif irm the glide;
1 think s te m niion d asI glode
A man s'lould kn.tw his place.
So back to town I went next day
Tj v lvet, silk and lace.
Once since we met. 'twas on the street,
1 Mushed a naming red.
And then grew coid and white by turns.
w ueu sue nan cut me aeaa ;
So youth. I fain would ever urge
You ne'er to woo the irrand
Unl a vou wear the livery.
And drive her "two-ln-hand."
Robert Lortman. in Texas Sifting.
1CIBINDA.
An Eccentric CharacterWhy She
"Must Hev John."
The river had freed itself from the
Ice chains which had bound it so long.
and this morning the little village in
the backwoods rang with its melody.
which was as delicately joyous as one
of Mendelssohn's spring songs. There
was a soft wistfulness in the pale
northern sky, a faint fragrance of
budding leaves and springing grass in
the air. The bluebirds were singing in
the woods; youths and maidens were
gorng Maying. A pretty Swedish girl
Irom the little colony beyond was driv
ing'a cow through thesunny street, sing
ing a quaint old herd song of the
father-land as she went along.
Tint tr a ivnmnn in fl stiinr linI
without a servant, the charms of Sprin g
fire not wholly satisfying, ana Airs.
Winsor. the wife of the ornithologist.
Mood in the porch of her cottage and
looked about her with a dejection
which was akin to despair. Now the
handmaiden who had accompanied the
family to this out-of-the-way region.
onlv throe short weeks before, left yes
terday, without warning, protesting
that to live so "far beyant, where the
frojrs grave ve misery a-singin' at night.
'n' the people were so quare fur Chris
tians," was not to be endured another
day; and there seemed to be no immedi
ate pro.-pect of finding any one to take
her place. It was useless to try an
other c.ty.ira den. for though the mel
ody of the frogs might not be as objec
tionable to all as it had been to Nora,
there were other drawbacks in rural
life which one of these fastidious and
eminently social beings might find in-
upportab'.e. I here was not one Swed
ish girl in the colony who was disen
gaged, and the nat'.ve-born damsels
were prejudiced against city folk, and
tould net be induce,! to accept a situ
ation where there was the faintest sus
picion that thy might not be regarded
"as good as one of the family."
The breakfast dishes were unwashed;
dinner loomed up darkly and well-nigh
impossible in the near future. "What
f-hall I do?" said the lady, speaking
aloud in her distress. And then, as if
in answer to her quest'on, a tall, nia-jestic-look'ng
young womaa turned in
to the lane which led to the house, and
came striding toward her, her red
skirts brushing the low branches of the
gray willows. As she came nearer,
Mrs. W insor forgot her deprivations in
Wonder and admiration of the stran
ger's appearance. She moved some
what heavily, but her shape was like
that of a young goddess. Her skin
Was smooth and white as marble; her
eyes were large and dark, with a sort
of sleepy brilliancy 1 ke those of an
animal; Iier mouth and nose were l.ke
a beautiful bit of carving, though the
chin was a trifle sharp and prominent,
and the general expression of her face
as calm and imperturbable as that of
the unreadable Egyptian lady, the
6ph:nx. Her garments were hardly of
the harmony and moderation of color
which taste demands, being a mixture
of warm purple, fiery scarlet, and pea
cock blue, and had the appearance of
having been fashioned by the wearer
fancy free, but she wore them with a
grace and dignity which were truly re
markable. "M.s' Copelin was a-tellin' me haow
yeou was put tew it fur help," fiie re
marked, haughtily, stopping suddenly
in the walk while st II a good distance
from the door. "I'm leibindy Owen."
"Oh yes, I remember Mrs.Copeland
d d speak of you," said Mrs. Winsor,
brightening; "but she said she thought
it very doubtful whether you would
care to go out to service.
"I shouldn't leave home only I can't
.stan the talkin' there is there.
Marm'n' Luella Maria keeps their
tongues agoin' from mornin' 1 11 night,
ai' when pa'n' the boys come hoiffe,
there's such a laughin' an' teeheein'
3 eon nigh abeout lose yeour sensible
ness." "But don't you like to have them
laugh and enjoy themselves?" inquired
the lady, curiously.
. "This hain't a laughin' world.
Laughin' don't mix no hetter with
it than Lor.ey with vinegar. Folks hed
better keep quiet, fur there's always a
a biow a-coiuin' this way or that."
"Well, you ceit n'nly could not be
troubled w.th much laughing and talk
ing here; vou would be almost entirely
by" yourself. But do you think you
could do the whole work of the farMly?
There are four of us, and what with
the cooking and cleaning, there Is, of
coarse, a great deal to be done.'
"I reckon I can do the work fur any
ten folks livm , el l can hev my own
way'n' not be meddled with.. The last
place I lived at was Elder Jones's, she
Was an awful sarcy woman, 'n' was
alwavs askin' what I was a-goin tew
don, 'n' advisin' raour.d. 'n' putteriu
over a bit o cookm thet the old bov
himself wouldn't eat. n' usin' a bit o
white rag fur a duster. She warn't
able to set up nohaow; but .seem' she
was a elder s wife, I s pose she cal-
kilated she'd got tw set an example
ef nothin' more. But ez fur me, I'm
pertickler. 'n' I couldn't stan' her
cookin' or eleanin'. I don't know
whether veour wavs would suit me or
not, but I thought 'twouldn't do no
harm tew nether ov us ef I should
come 'n try it a, spell, seein' as yeou
hain t got nobody else.
Mrs. Winsor gladly accepted thi
offer, and Icibiuda commenced her
reign at one?, tuk ng posess.on of the
kitchen with gre.t majoty, ask'njr no
quest'ons. and shutt'ng her. ears to all
information. I he family awaircd din
ner with misgivings, but were happily
tl sappointed. Jf somewhat eccentric.
it was savory, and served with liberali
ty and neatness. ' The master of the
house voted the pudd ng a ruaster
p'ece; the m'stress pra'sed everything
from a full and thankful heart. But
the praise was received with niagnficent
indifference, and the only remark which
the new hand-maiden was heard to
make that day was to the end that she
"couldn't stop to eat anything herself
until snegot me nouse into some Kinu
of decent order; she couldn't stan' such
a looking place nohaow.
Mie scrubbed and scoured and re
arranged for several days, never paus
ing' in her work for a moment from
dawn till bed-time, never speaking or
going out for a breath of fresh air; and
theiu evidently being more satisfied
with her surroundings, she arrayed
herself gorgeously one twilight and
went to walk in the graveyard. And
thereafter, whenever she took her walks
abroad, it was to this lonely spot a
little inclosure on a hill-side pasture.
where groups of silver-birches stood
like ghosts in the midst of dark ever
green trees.
"Have you any friends buried there?"
Mrs. V insor ventured to inquire one
day.
"Nobody thet I know of," was the
reply."
"Don't you feel rather dismal wan
dering about there in the dark.- I
should think you would rather go and
visit vour friends.
"JYiost things is dismal, but l a a
heap rather listen tew the whip-poor
wills a-singin' there than tew hear folks
a-gossipin'."
The family were quite satistied with
the appearance of their door-vard.
though it was still in the eloquent dis
order of nature. The mistress would
have liked a flower-bed, but there were
so many stumps and rocks imbedded in
the soil that it seemed hardly worth
the while to attempt such a thing.
Then, too, there were wild -flowers
violets, anemones and dandelions
peeping through the clustered ferns
everywhere, and gay marsh-marigolds
following the footsteps of a brook that
came creeping in under the fence rails
and danced off to the river. But
Ic binda, after renovating the house,
announced that she could not "stan'
such a lookin' place another minute.
She was a-goin' tew clear it up 'n1 hev
a flower-bed by the front door. The
door-yards of the back folks warn't a
bit wuss, so ez fur her part she was
downright ashamed of it. Whereupon
she set to work with a good w.ll,
pruned every tree of its decayed twigs,
covered the stumps with creeping v.nes
brought from the woods, scraped every
s!raw and splinter from the ground,
and then proceeded to spade up the
flower-bed with her own strong hands,
but though the llower-ued proved a
great success, and was the gayest thing
in the neighborhood from late June
until the frost came, it was not wholly
satisfactory in some respects.
Being in the front of the house, Ici
binda's presence at.racted the atten
tion of loiterers, and more than one
ivmnirmin 1rrn t Vi n villa era 1 i n rroro 1
by the gate to gain an opportunity to
speak with her. Icibinda was certain
ly attractive to the other sex, though
she treated male and female alike w.th
haughty silence. There was one, a
dark shadowy youth, who looked more
like a cravon drawing than a real flesh
ind blood man, who was particularly
persistent in his addresses to the gate
and the back of h:s farr one's head. He
was the j.ropriteor of the traveling pho
tograph saloon, and had be.n brought
up in the same neighborhood with her.
"he won t have anything to say to
him: she's kind of cracked about . an
other feller," said Mrs. Copelai.d, the
ne ghbor who had been the means of
sending feibinda to Mrs. Winsor. "She
n' Joe il.nton was promised to each
other; but he got jealous, 'n' in a fit o'
tamper went oil n merned 1-izy Din-
kins, a sh.ftless, nighty, good-for-noth
ing erirl irom down-river, she
leads him a pretty dance, they say; 'n'
I guess he Wishes his cake was dough
if ever a man did. As for leibindy,
she hasn't been the same girl since he
left her. She was never very lively,
I ut she ued tw be sociable enough.
n real kind of smil.ng and pleasant
as a general thing, though there was a
st. eau of oddity born in her. 'n' she
sometimes acted rather curious. Folks
thought the affair would end tragical
at first, but 1 don t see as she s any
thing more than struck dumb. Her
grandmother before her was a great
hand for graveyards 'n' being
alone, 'n' her mother's almost as
masterfulas she is, though she's al
ways jolly and goou-natured. John
Barker began to court leibindy before
she ever saw Joe, V p'r'aps ef Joe had
never turned up she would have had
him. But lots and lots of men wanted
her; 'n' Deacon James, that is worth
property, and 'Lisher Hurd, that is a
good deal higher up in the world than
joe, would he thankiui enougn to git
her now; for, you see, she s not only
remarkable good-looking, but smart
n' capable as a bee. 'n' her folks are
as well to do as almost any farming
folks in the county. I kind of pity
poor John Parker," for I think he real
ly Lkes her so much that her treatment
is wearing upon him."
The 0un2 man certainly looked as
if something was wearing on him, but
Icibinda' s heart was evidently not at
all moved by the sight of his sufferings.
When she saw him approaching she
usually turned her back. If he ad-
dressed'her, she either regarded the
sunset clouds in a fit of abstraction or
applied herself to her weeding in a very
frenzy of industry, and he was often
obliged to take his departure without
eliciting one syllable from her lips.
. She always kept pins in her mouth.
It was quite the fashion to do so
among the "back folks-" They all ate,
drank and slept with several of these
useful but dangerous ai tides' under
their tongues; but one night, when
equipped for her garden work, she was
discovered emptying a whole pincush
ion between her small white teeth, aijd
the mistress of the house regarded her
with astonishment and alarm.
"Icibinda, aren't you afraid you will
swallow some of those pins?' she in
quired. "Oh, lor, no; I sha'n't swaller any.
'n' I'm gittin' my mouth chock-full, so
ef any fool comes 'n' asks me to go to
the circus with him to-morrer, I sha'n't
answer him unawares," she replied,
speaking with a spasmodic effort. "I'm
dretful tried by boldness."
The result of this, experiment was
never known to the family, but it is
true that she and John Parker were
the only young people in the commun
ity who did not attend the entertain
ment which glorified one summer day
at Willow Falls.
Time wore on. The columbines and
double buttercups and blue spider-wort
in Icibinda's flower Jbed had given
place to a crowd of showier blos
soms. There was a blaze of scarlet
poppies and yellow marigolds, and.
jostling each other with friendly fa
miliarity,airy colonies of lark-spur,
roses of Sharon, lupines, bachelor's
buttons, asters and spicy carnation
pinks. The river had grown sleepy,
forgetting its spring joyousness. The
wheat was nearly ready for harvesting,
filling the broad fields with waves of
splendor. The corn ears were be
ginning to show their burnt-gold
through the bleached and bursting
husks.
Icibinda was evidently suited with
the ways of the household, for she
had never manifested the slightest in
tention of taking her departure, and.
in spite of her somewhat severe rule,
the household regarded her as a treas
ure. Every nook and corner of the
house was white and fragrant with
neatness, and in her constant upheav
als in the way of cleaning she was
silent as fate. The food which she
saw fit to provide was well cooked
and daintily as well as liberally
served. Nothing was out of place.
and every branch of household labor
was performed with the greatest skill
It is true, there was a mournfulness
about the tall tallow dips with which
she decreed the house should be light
ed, and in the sort of penitential fast
which she ordained should be kept on
Sunday, beginning with brown. Dread
and butter at cock-crow In the morn
ing, and ending with milk porridge at
quiet sunset.
There were also objections to break
fasting in the dimness . of che dawn.
The raw early taste of the air would
mingle with the rolls and coffee, and
regrets for lost and broken dreams
made a dreary opening for the day.
But there was nothing lax or capricious
m Ic binda s laws, so there was. noth
ing to do but submit, and pray for res
ignation. Then, too, great embarrass
ments arose on account of her aversion
to company, which she invariably called
"clutter, and a way she had of bolt
ing the doors upon all strangers during
the absence of the family.
On one occasion the venerable- aunt
of Mrs. Winsor, who had arrived unex-
pectedly by stage, was discovered sit
ing upon her trunk in the door-yard, a
gentle shower falling upon her unpro
tected head, while Icibinda, who pro
tested that she thought her a "lunatic
or somethiu'," was calmly regarding
her irom the window. Un another oc
casion, beholding the approach of the
Free-will Baptist nrnister one sultry
summer afternoon, she proceeded im
mediately to slam the door, which was
open, in his face, and twitched hastily
down the window-shades. He took his
departure in deep wrath, and gave a
vivid account of his treatment to a
neighbor. Tfce mortified lady of the
house ventured to question her as to
the why and wherefore of this proceed
ing1.
"Why, yeou see," said she. "I kneow-
ed bv his eut that ef he cot in he meant
tew stay tew supper, 'nI hedn't noth
in jest fit tew set berfore the Oospil.
My custards 'n' biscuit were both
kinder poor; 'n' then ef he'd 'a got me
alone, he'd 'a ast me ef I was on the
Lord's side, jest ez ef he wae 'lec
tioneerin' fur county sheriff, or some
thin' of thet sort, 'nI might 'a sarsed
him, fur it makes my grace dretful
lyeak tew be meddled with, thet way."
Her own mother once sat a full half-
hour upon the door-steps before Ici
binda could be induced to admit ner
nto the house, and even peddlers passed
by the gate with mournful reluctance.
She never smiled, she never sang, she
never spoke unless obliged to do so;
she never manifested either joy or
grief; she never glanced, into the pages
of a book or over the columns of the
village paper. But it was evident that
she had sometimes used her eyes to
erood advantage, bhe knew the precise
aunts of the shyest birds in her native
woods, their note, their color, the very
marks upon their wings; she knew
where and how they built their nests;
and though she aid not hesitate to be
tray her contempt for what she evi
dently deemed his "dretful shifless
callin'," deigned to be of great use to
the master of the house in his orni
thological researches. And the mis
tress, whose mind was somewhat given
to the pursuit of botany, found that
there was no w.U flower in the region,
however rare, to whose hiding-place
Icibinda was unable to guide her.
One damp, misty morning in late
August a great outcry from the river
wa i heard, and in the space of a few
minutes several raftsmen appeared,
bearing a dripping burden to the Win
sor cottage. One of their crew had
been hit on the head by a piece of loose
timber, and wa9 knocked overboard,
and as soon as they had succeeded in
pulling him out of the water they mad
haste to bring him to the house, where
they might find means to resuscitate
him, if such a thing were possible. Hot
water, blankets and brandy were itn
med ately procured, and the victim of i
the accident, a youn fellow witlr reg
ular features and a blonde beard, was
1 , . At 1 2 A. 1 .
piacea upon me lounge m wie siiung
room. Icibinda was absent on an errand at
the time, but soon returned: and catch
ing a glimpse of the pale, apparently
dead face of the man, into who e
nostrils a stalwart river driver was try
ins to blow the breath of life, her own
face changed to something so wild and
piteous as to be hardly recognizable.
"Oh! Joe! Joe!" she cried, rushing
frantically toward him. "Speak to
me! speak to me jest once more! Oh!
he can't be dead! He must hear me
speakin' tew him!" And with
majesty which trembling Mrs. Winsor
had never seen equaled, she waved his
comrades aside, and taking the cold
hands in her own, rubbed them with a
tierce enersT. But still there was no
sign of life. Then placing her arm
under his body she lifted his chest with
a quick spasmodic effort, and suddenly
there was a little flutter of breath from
the lips, a faint twitching of the eve
lids.
"Hurray! he's all right, after all!"
shouted the river men. "Jest wet h's
lips with brandy, 'n' he'll be pert as a
lizard in a few minutes.
This injunction was obeyed, and the
man almost immediately opened h:s
eyes and looked about him in bewilder
ment. Ihey fell upon Icibinda, and
the blood sursred into his cheeks. Her
face assumed its usual sphinx-like im
perturbability, and she hastily fled from
the room.
A half-hour later the mistress of the
house came in search of her. "Ici
binda," she said, "the man who nut
with the accident, Mr. Hinton, wishes
to speak to you."
"Is he all right naowP" the girl
de-gned to inquire, looking very pale,
but as majestic as ever.
"Oh yes; he seems qu'te restored;
only a little weak and languid. Air
Winsor has lent him some dry clothing,
and he is going to be taken o the
house of a friend who lives in the
neighborhood."
"Wants to see me, does he? Can't be
'commodated, then." And Icibinda
fell to scouring knives with calm hau
teur. r
"Oh, Icibinda!" remonstrated the
lady. But nothing that she could sav
would induce her to change her mind.
The youn r man was not to be foiled,
however, and before Icibinda was
aware of it he had found his way iuto
the kitchen, and was standing by her
side.
"I wouldn't a b'lieved you'd treat a
feller like this, ho said. In a vo ce
husky with real feeling. " 'Twas
your voice soundin' like a angel's
a-callin' mo tew paradise thet brought
me tew, 'n' somehaow or 'nother I
knew yeou was a-bendin' over me be
fore I" opened my eyes 'n' see yeou in
the room. : 'Lizy, my wife, died lait
spring, IciOindy, 'n' I come up this
way a-purpose tew see yeou."
Icibinda calmly scanned the sky from
the open window.
"leibindy, hev yeou forgot yeou
used tew like me, anyhaow. P'r'nps I
was the most tew blame, but "
"I hain't been most drownded, but
I reckon I hain't been in my proper
mind, 'n' I'm comin' tew myself, tew,"
interrupted the girl, with a little gaq.
And she walked majestically out of
his presence.
"I dew declare!" exclaimed the lover
to himself, looking after her with as
tonished eyes, and twitching nervous
ly at his curling blonde beard. "But
it must be she's only makin' b'lieve
mad. She was in an awtul takin' when
she thought I was dead, that's cer
tain." After this episode there was a per
ceptible change in Icibinda. Her face,
sometimes softened into an indulgent
smile. On several occasions she was
known to speak of her own accord, and
the "majesty which had attended on
all her steps" was gradually becoming
subdued,
One evening she was discovered
actually talking with Johu Parker at
the gate. The next eveningshe allowed
him to walk with her in the shady sad
ness of the grave-yard. The next eve
ning, which was storm', they spent to
gether in the kitchen, which presented
a comparatively festive appearance,
with the radiance of two candles in
stead of one, and a huge bouquet of
flowers.
"Mis' Winsor, I'm a-going tew leave
yeou," she announced, about this time,
"Not thet yeou ain't furst-rate folks,
but yeou see I must git merried."
"Must get married," echoed Mrs.
Winsor.
"Why, yes; yeou see I must hev John
for fear I might hev Joe! I did like
him I"
"But why shouldn't it be Joe?" ren
tnred the lady, who had been greatly
taken with the young man's winning
smile and pleasant blue eyes. He was
certainly more prepossessing in his ap-
Searance than the crayon-drawing-like
ohn. "I am sure he cares for you.
Icibinda."
"I ruther calkilate thet the most o'
the likin' Joe does is fur himself. It's
come acrost me lately. Some folks
realizes things slow, but when they
dew realize, they realize 'em thor
ough." Susan Hartley Sweet, in liar-
per's Bazar.
The Battleford (Manitoba) Herald
says that rabbits are periodically
about once In seven years aflected by
a disease which nearly exterminates
them. For years past they have been .
increasing in numbers until they threat
ened to become a nuisance, but those
killed recently bear evidence of the re
turn of this disease, and if it is as fatal
as usual very few will be seen for some
years to come. ine gianas in me
throat swell just as they uo amongst
men in cases ol "mumps, ana iew
seem to survive an attack.
-Tlo-orldaa PflVp- One and a half tea-
teacunful of sour
m lk, three teacupf uls (level) of sifted
. m a a A 4
hour, one-hall cupiui oi Diurer, one lea
spoonful of soda, one-half teaspoonful
prli nf ninnnrann trrated nutme?. One
tcacupful of raisins, chopped and well
flavored. noston uiooe.
-In localities where buckwheat is i
largely grown farmers find it an excel
lent plan to feed the bran from it to
milch cows. It is not fattening, but
makes a large quantity of milk, more
and better than the feed from wheat--
San Francisco Chronicle.
THE MACKEY ROMANCE.
Tlie Poor Nevada Widow YVho.e Daughter
II as Ju4t Wedded the Prince Colonna.
Some twenty odd years ago there dwelt
IsCaliforn'a a family of three persons,
father, mother and daught3r. The
latter was a mere child. All were
young. The father was a physician.
Unfortunately he injured ; his not very
extensive practice by intemperance.
His habits begame so dissipated that
his poor wife, despairing of his reforma
tion, and also of the possibility of in
dependent action on her own part tb
secure the support of herself and child,
proposed a separation, i The man
agreed to it; but he was not put oat
like Kip Van Winkle. He was assured
that while he 1 vd she would never
cease to help him, and th it when he
mended his ways their old relations
would be restored. He departed to
cure himself, if possible, and become
worthy of the woman . w ho, sorely
beset, undertook the maintenance of
the family. Encouraged by his wife's
praye s, letters, and heroic conduct, the
doctor redeemed himself. At le.ist he
thought so, and his poor wife was
more than w.lling to believe it. He
returned to her home and heart,
warmly welcomed back to both. Un
luek ly, he had either miscalculated his
will power, or the demon of indul
gence was simply asleep, and by
no means dead within him. ife
went back to his cups, and very soon
the' skeleton linger of poverty was la d
upon h:s domest'c affairs. The de
voted w fe, unwilling to undertake an'
experimental separation, and uuabl. to
remain where she was, determined to
try what change of scene would do for
th's miserable man who, naturally kind,
talented and wholesome, seemed to Le
insanely abandoned to. the devil of
strong drink. Just at th's crisis ru
mors had reached California of the
C'omstock lode discovery, and thither
many ot the mining population drifted.
Across the S erras to Virginia C ty
this l ttle and mot wretched family
journeyed. I
The doctor pulled h'mself together
for a while and did some bus'ness, but
his health was gone, and1 very soon he
died. Widow and orphans were left in
the ver depths of poverty. The gen
erous doctors had clubbed together to
bury the doctor. They made up a
pursi for m ther and child from t me
to time, and thus aved' both from ut
ter deprivat'on of food, shelter and rai
ment. There was at that time, super
intendent of one of the mines, a stur.lv
young Irshman, who. from the lov st
rounds of the ladder, had begun to
push his way to fortune. He was not
then more thai moderately well off,
and l ttle dreamed of the Monte ( "hristo
casket in store for him. He used to
carry the weekly or monthlvstipend to
the widow, and his visits to her be
came more and morn fre juent. Atlast
he marriei her, and her days of fearon
the score of .1 overty were over. She
possessed a well-to-do husband, who
was the master of his possess ns, and
certain to make his way in th ? worl I.
But in the days of d stress the unhappy
woman had resorted to the morphine
habit, and could not, of her own effort.
release herself from it. A youn":
physician at Virg'nia City, who had re
cently graduated in France, informed
her that 'll she would visit l aris and
put hersell lrapi.citiy under the' care of
jiis old master there, her cure would be
guaranteed. While the husband re
mained to uncover, w.th the present
junior Senator from Nevada, the rich
est s:Iver deposit the world has ever
known, the wife crossed the sea and
Fubmitted to a rigorous medical treat
ment. It was successful after many
months of endurance. Meanwh le, the
famous California and Consol.dated
Virginia Mines were penetrated by the
husband, and the .world-renowned
bonanza, of which he, was princ'pal
owner, made him at least forty tim.;s a
milliona re. The wife in Paris, now
peifectly cured and blooming, at once
rose into prominence and celebrity, for
how could the marvel-loving Parisians
help adoring a woman whose talents
and beaut' were matched by suchfal.u-
ious wealth so romantically discovered.
For years this lady, who is no other
than Mrs. John Maekey. has been a
silver queen in the most splendid cap
ital of Europe, bhe has lived In pal
aces. Noblemen and men of genius
have paid court at her shrn.
Now all Par's,- and therefore all the
universe, is in a ierment over the mar
riage of Miss Mackay and the Prince
Colonna. The drift is nupt ally to
Rome, the City of the Soul, and to
Italian nobility. It is j a m raculous
bridg'ng of the chasm that lies between
the m n.ng gulch of the Nevada Moun
tains an I St. Peter's Church, wtticre
stands in supernal splendor "the grand
est dome that mortal hand has painted
against God's loveliest sky." Little d d
the widow of Ihe wretched doctor of
Virorlnin. f?itv iniarrinfl that chn wnu'rl
fairty roll in wealth, dwell in palaces,
be courted by Church and State. Le fa
miliarly associated with the proudest
names of the descendants of the eiu-
saders, and finally become the mother-
in-law of a Prince Colonna, whose no
bility dates back almost to the time of
Saladin. The family name is as famous
as any in history, and the heir of the
Colonna family has, at twenty-seven
years of age, wedded the daughter of
the poor doctor who fell by the way
side in Nevada, and sleeps his last sleep
in that stony desert. Augusta Lonsti
tution. i
WAYS OF WALLl STREET.
How the Few Insider Kptead Information
for the Itenefit of the Qutaldern, f r
Whom They are Lay In p.
To those who watch the Wall street
fluctuat'ons in stocks,
about the causes, th's j
and wonder
week's quota-
lions must have been mystifying.
Speaking generally, it may be sa'd that
there are not more than a round dozen
men who are able to be controllers of
the changeful figures, and even they
sometimes fail in their attt mpts. Their
nanus begin with Could and include
Sage, M ils, Woershoffer, Cammack
and Vanderbilt. The smaller opera
tors are gamblers, pure and s mple,
with no power for manipulation. Dur
ing this week the processes of stock
boom and depressioa have been in ui-
usual use, ana it is good time to
explain them. The cardinal principle
is iue uisseuzinacion oi m:sieaa nz
t. . . .
ruaoH. secrecy is me second doc
trine. Quite as often as not. Gould
aoes not trust more than one
agent in a movement, and it is not
until the activity has been increased
by a renewal two or - three times of
this order to buy and sell a big lot
that he begins to work his wires.
There are in Wall street half a dozen
agencies for the distribution of news.
They send out every hour printed
sheets l.ke small newspapers, or
manifold copies of their information.
These agencies are then used by Gould
to put his information before the
public.
It runs something like this, as the
Union Pacific deal begins to develop:
"The recent activity in Union Pacifi:
is attributed to buying by Mr. Goaid.
His friends say that he is very bull
ish on the stock, whose earningi for
the six months just ending will show
a very large increase." A half hour
later this announcement is made:
"Some of the largest capitalists in
the street are with Gould iu the Union
Pac'fic deal, and very much higher
prices are predicted for the stock."
Then comes something like th's: "The
January earnings of Union Pacific
show an enormous increase over tl oe
of a year ago. and they justify the
predicted increase in the March" divi
dend. Friends of the Road say that it
never was so prosperous."
Then it is that the average specula
tor beg'ns to wonder whether he had
not better buy a little U.ion Pacific or
increase his holdings if he has bought,
and while he contemplates, in rushes a
w de-awake young man waving a slip
of paper about the size of an ordinary
bank check, shouting: "Sell you a put
on Union Pacific for thirty days, 100
shares n'nety for 125. The stock just
sold for n'nety-one. Cheapest put you
ever saw. Signed by Sage. 100." This
announcement simply means that Sage
w ii insure anyone who will give him
against loss from the decline of
Union Pacific below ninety for the next
thirty days. It ' prettv conclusive
proof that Sage believes that Union Pa
cific is to advance. Just th?n another
?sews Agency slip is handed in. It
pays: "Instead of an increase in the
regular-March dividend of the Union
Pacific Road it is now sa'd that there
w.ll be" a stock or a scrip dividend of
about twenty per cent. Mr. Gould is
very much annoyed because this infor
mation ha? been made public before he
and his fr ends have acquired all the
ttock they wanted. It is evident that
there is "to bo a great ri?e in the
ftock."
And so all day long flows the news in
a dozen d fl'erent ways that Union
Pacific is to boom. The put and call
brokers carry it from office to office.
The newspaper finanKal articles all
discuss it. The stoek;;s very act ve in
the Exchange and i advancing. It
looks as though it would neVer stop
going up. Everybody who speculates
at length has purchased. If he d dnot
fret in at the beginning of the deal he
s sure to at the end. If he did not be
lieve the stories about the magnificent
pro pects of Union Pacific when they
lirst came out he is sure to now, foi
they have been reiterated hourly from
Ihe first. The stock has advanced from
!1 to yj. The reports are that it will
go to 105 or 110. . The reports have-all
proved true thus far; why not prove
Iruehereafier? So he buys. The stock
holds very firm for a day or two, but
does not advance any more. The good
pews begins to fall off. The put and
call brokers are offering privileges on
lome other stock. Nothing more isJ
heark of an extra dividend. The pr ce
begins to decline. Now it is U4, now
1)2 8-4, now U2 1-4. now U3. "What's
the matter with Union Pacific?" cry
the speculators, in alarm. "Oh, Gould's
unloading," say the bears. The specu
lators rush to get out. Down goes the
market under their offerings. They
have sold at a In s. Gould had unload
ed on them. He had so'.d them the
Stock they had bought at 95, and ten
to one he buys it back of them when
they unload at U3 to 92 1-2. Ar.d so the
Wall street game goes on year in and
year out. It is a losing game every
time for the beginner, and usually for
the veteran speculator. V. 1". Special
to Courier-Journal.
WILD TURKEYS.
The Curioun Way Hunter nave of Get
ting a Shot, at Them.
Hunting the wild turkey is cons d
ered very good sport, but as they are
only in season during the cold months
it requires a hunter of endurance to
liud them. In the mountains they
have a curious way of gelt ng a shot.
After building a "blind" of boughs to
h'de behind, the hunter throws a quan
tity of grain upon the ground with'u
easy gunshot, and drops a few grains
in lines radiating probably for a hun
dred yards in every direction through
the woods. There is then a plan upon
the ground like the hub and spokes of
a wheel. Early in the morning the
wandering flo:-k of turkeys will find
one of the -e spokes and run along it,
eating as they go. until they reach the
feast of corn at the hub. This is where
the hunter is concealed, and you can
imagine the rest. They get to the
feast, but like Polonious, it is a fea3t
"not where they eat, but where they
are eaten."
Another device for luring them with
in gunshot is the turkey call, a sort of
whistle made often from a wing bone,
and with which the voice of a turkey
can be very well imitated. The male
b rJs ans.wcr and gradually approach,
amid breathless interest on the part of
the sportsman, until bang! bang! oil
go both barrels, and it frequently hap
pens, off go the turkeys with ouly the
loss of a few feathers.
The gobbh r is an ill-natured churl
and w 11 break up h's wife's ne -t and
smash the egg every time he gets an
opportunity. Worst of all he kills the
ioung, not alone of his own fa mi y,
ut also of his ncighl ors. This teaches
mother turkey to h'de her ne-t away
and to guide her young so they will riot
be discovered by the male. 'Jho in
stinct clings to them in donie.t cation
and they require close watching to pre
vent the nests from being h;dilin away.
Brooklyn Eagle.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A.Connccticut woman sent a feather
cushion to emlow a chair at Princeton
College.
The recent earthquake did a good
thing at Rocky Glenn, Conn., where it
had before thut been impossible to reach
water by digging wells. After the
shock the wells lilled and the supply
has since been abundant. Hartford
Punt.
A Bostonian writes: "I cured my
self of an annoying habit of stammer
ing by iniialing a deep breath between
every few words, and bv never allow
ing mvself to sneak unless the limes
were fully inflated. A little careful at
tention soon made the practice a habit.
iiml now l never stammer unless much
excited."
Connecticut papers relate that In
two instances at least in that State,
during the recent campaign, young men
applied lor marriage licenses to lown
Clerks Whose heads were turned by poli
tics, and were given first naturalization
papers, the mistake not being discov
ered until bride a-ul groom had pre
sented themselves to the clergyman.
A man started to ride home re
cently from San Jose, Cal. His road
lay forj miles through fiVlds of pump
kins and squashes. The constant
tnimpkin panorama finally dethroned
lis reason, and he reached home a ma
niac, crying: "See the squashes! see
the squashes!" He had to be straight-
jacketed and sent to the asylum. San
rrancisco Vail.
Lace is lavishly worn again, but in
this century the demand for it is con
fined to woman, whereas In the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries men.
too, expended huge sums oh rallies and
wristbands, in 10'JO the expenditure of
William HI. for lace was S'8.015: in
1CJ4. nearly SIO.OUO; in 16L5, 312,000.
Quejn Anne also lavished money on
Mechiin and Brussels.
New York raises annually five
bushels of Indian corn for each of her
inhabitants, six and a half bushels of
jot atoes. over two bushels of wheat, a
half bushel of rye. seven and a half
bushels of oats and a ton of hay. She
supplies each person with nearly two
KHimls of cheese and twenty-two pounds
of butter annually, and a pint of milk
every day in the year from her dairy
lerds. .V. Y. Tribune.
The effect of cocoaine. the new
anesthetic, upon the eye is to produce
insensibility to pain. A drop is put on
the eye-ball, and within a mliort time
the surgeon is able to perform, without
hurting the patient, what would other
wise be the most agonizing operation.
The drug has been "cornered, and the
small quantity in the country is held at
$6,000 per pound. Chicago Journal.
The good people of Rochester, N. ,
Y., were awalo ned out "Vitfir dreams
one nlyhf recently "1'aSVuiid hfeh re
sembled that of the "firing of a cannon.
Rushing to the spot from whence the
sound issued it was found that a barrel
of cider had exploded, sending cider,
staves and hoops in all directions and
actually undermining-one of the brick
piers of the house under which the bar
rel of cider was situated. Buffalo Ej
prcsH.
It is much easier to be polite and
neighborly than to fly into a passion
when things do not suit you. Take this
note as an instance, addressed by a lady
to a neighbor: "Dear Madame Your
children, who are numerous, and nppcar
to be disorderly, no doubt deserve the
frequent floggings you give them; but,
as my nerves are weak, I write this to
ask you if you can't do something to
deaden' the sound say strychnine!"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The territory of Russian Siberia,
one and a half times as large as the
United States, has belonged to Russia
three centuries, yet of the 4,000.000 in
habitants nearly one-half are still pa
gans. Paganism is fostered by the home
Government. The pagan priests are al
lowed to collect ami burn the copies of
the Rible with which the misssionariC3
supply the converts, and no missionary
may baptise without the authority of the
pagan civil authorities, who are allowed
to do almost anything to drive Christians
from the country. .
CONCERNING PATENTS.
Information on a Topic in Which Every
Person In the Country Is Interested.
The United States Patent Office, as a
rule, rarely refuses a patent for any de
vice that has not already been patented.
Although the law provides that any de
vice oflered for patent should be new
and useful, yet there are thousands n'
articles patented that are certainly not
new, although Jhe doubt of their useful
ness may ' be waived. To procure a
patent, an inventor, or one who claims
to be an inventor, files a specificatin
and drawing of his alleged invention,
which he may possibly have copied from
some old book or device long in use,
and presents these to the Kxaminers,
who pass upon it. A Patent Office Ex
aminer is not necessarily an expert.1 for
he is appointed more from political
motives than from-any other qualifica
tion, and as tl 2 fees of the office are the
most considerable object the patent is
granted as a matter of course. The
consequence is that a deluge of worth
less patents and a great many fraudu
lent ones are spread like a Hood over
the country, to the great inconvenience
of the public. It is in this way -that
thousands of articles of domestic use
and of use in agriculture are patented,
notwithstanding that they have been in
service for scores of years, and those
persons who have been using them fur
a long lime are threatened with claim?
for royalty, or suits at law to enforce
rayment If the claims are objected to.
n siich cases there is no help but to pay
the sm ill sums demanded, although in
the' aggregate these amount to millions
of dollars every year. A patent costs.
In all, about S'GO and this is all the out
lay required to give an unprincipled ,
person the jover to tax the public at
Lis will. The patent system has been
no doubt of incalculable value, but this
irritating and injurious defect in it has
grown' to such proportions that the
whole system Is suffering in popular
estimation. Probably a change will be
cffectHl very soon and relief will !e af
forded. In the meantime- patience
must be exercised, although it U hard to
be patient with such an evil. Xew York
Times.
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