ON THE THRESHOLD.
Now once more Jo our feet
Stand on tlic threMiuld sweet
Of diiys Unit show the yenr in lier fair pilme.
O'er bloirotn-fpnngled od
Spring's flowery paths we trod
And fo liavo come again to Summer time.
Uy violets March displays,
Ily April's primrose Mnjs,
By tbc freMi frntrrnncc of May's consllpix-d
ground.
We rencb at lentrth Hit day
Towards wbkh Mareli. April, Mav,
Lead on the footsteps unto Summer bound.
Through tbo door now ajar,
Sweet, mvect tlic visions are
Of treasure which tlie precincts do eontoln:
Precincts where ro?s red
Are cally garlanded
O'er diu'uty realms where sllrcr lilies reign.
O days of golden balm,
O nights of sllcut cnlui,
Right well may ye the souls of men cnthrnll.
Spring tide the promise gave,
Fulfillment now we have,
And royal Summer Is the queen of all.
J?. F. Jf. in hi. James' Gazcilt.
Sandorf's Revenge.
A SEQUEIj TO JUTWAS SAXnORP AM)
DOCTOR AXTKKIItTT.
Jy 3Tiilo.s Verne,
autiioh or "jounNrsv to the ckntiui
OP TUB HAimi," "Tnir TO tub moon,"
"ajiound the would in isioiity
DAYS, '' " MICIIAEIj STItOOOIT,"
" TWKNTV THOUSAND I.EAOU1W
UNDEIt THE BEA," KTO. , KTO.
Translation copvriijhtcCl by O. II. llanna, iss
CHAPTER XXm-Co.vnNiJi:i.
Situatod as thoy were, there would
Biiem to bo almost insurmountable difll-
cultiob in carrying oil' Sarcany or getting
bavu away from Sun Hu.iim's house,
Force was not likely to succeed ; would
Btratagem? Would to-morrow's festival
in any way assist? Probably it would,
and thin was tliu plan which bad been
suggested by Point Pescade, and had
been under the confederation of the
Doctor, rierro and Luigi during; the
evening. .In executing it Pescado would
risk his life, but if ho could enter the
moqaddom's Imunu h might succeed in
managing Sava's escape. Nothing
Bccmnd impossible with his courage and
cleverness.
It won, then, in execution of this plan
that tho next day the Doctor and Pierre
and Luigi wero on the watch among tho
orowd on the plain of Sounrj-Ettolnto,
while Pescado and Matifou were pre
paring thoir parts.
There was then no sign of tho noiso
and excitement with which the plain
would bo full beneath tho glare of innu
merable torches when the evening
arrived. In the compact crowd they
had b'care.Oiy noticed tho Sonousists who,
in their simple costumes, communicated
with each other only by masonic signs.
But it is desirable that we should
fcnow tho Oriental, or rather African,
legend of which the chief incidents wore
to bo reproduced in tho feast of tho
utorks, which is the "great iittr.ictiou "
for tho Mohammedans.
There was formerly on the African
continent a raco of Djins. Undor tho
name of Bou-Chobris, these Djins oc
cupied n vast territory situated on tho
borders of tho doner t of Hammadu,
between Tripoli and tho kingdom of
Fezzan. Thoy wore a powerful people,
fearless and feaved. They wore unjust,
perfidious, aggressive, inhuman, and no
African monarch had bcou able to sup
press them.
Thero camo a day when tho prophet
Suloyniau attemptod, not to attack,
but to convert these Djins. And with
this object ho cent one of his apostles to
preach to them the love of good and tho
lintrod of ovil. .Vain effort 1 The fero
cious hrdo poized the missionary and
put him to death. Tho Djins showed
bo much audacity because thoir country
was isolated and diflloult of access, and
thoy know that no neighboring ruler
would daro to vonturo thorn with his
tirmios. Besides, they thought that no
messenger would carry to tho prophot
Suleymun tho news of what thoy had
done to his upostlo. Thoy woro mis
taken. Iu tho country were a great number
of storks. Aa wo know, storks aro
birds of good manners, of unusual
intelligence, and "ubovo all things of
treat common sense, for tho legend
affirms that they never inhabit a coun
try tho jiaine of which appears on a
piece of inonoy for money is tho soureo
of all wickedness aud tho great power
that drawn all men to tho abyss of their
ovil passions.
Those storks, then, Booing tho per
verse May iu which the Djins lived,
mustered one day iu deliberative assem
bly, ami decided to despatch one of
thoir number to the prophet Suloymau,
bo as to procure his just vengeance on
tho missionary's assassin.
And so tho prophet called tho hoopoe,
his favorito courier, and ordered him to
collect m the upper zones of tho African
sky all tho storks On earth. This was
done, and when the innumerable Hooks
of theso birds were gathered Iniforo tho
prophot yuloyman tho legend says they
formed a cloud which put in shadow all
tho land between Mor.da and Mourzouk.
Then each one, taking a stone iu its
beak, flow towards tho country of tho
Pjius ; and from above they stoned to
death tho unhappy raco whoso souls aro
now imprisoned for a! eternity iu tho
desert of llammada.
Suoh is the fable which has given riso
to tho festival of tho day. Many
hundreds of storks had I wen got to
gether undor huge nets stroUhod over
tho Hiiifiii'o of, the plain of Soung
Ettolato. And there, for tho most part
standing on one leg, thoy waited for the
hour of their deliverauuo, mid the chok
ing of their beaks caused a Bound in the
uir as if a tamliouriuo was being beaten.
t tho given fcignal they would be ot
a to ily oil', dropping harmbss atones
'My among tho orowd of tho faithful.
JTSCADE AM) MATIKOU AT
amid the cheers of tho spectators, tho
uproar of tho instruments, tho reports
of tho musketry, and tho light from tho
torches with colored ilames.
Pescado know the programmo of this
festival, and it Mas from it that ho re
ceived the Hiiggcstiou as to tho part ho
intended to play, nnd by the aid of
which ho was to obtain admission to
Sidi Hnzam's house.
As soon as the sun seta gun from tho
fortress of Tripoli gave a signal so im
patiently expected by tho peoplo on
Soung-Ettolate. Tho Doctor, Pierre,
and Luigi werent ilrst almost deafenod
by the frightful noise "which arose on
every side, and woro then nearly
blindod by tho thousands of lights that
sprang up all over tho plain.
When tho gnu was hoard tho crowd of
nomads wore still bus' at thoir evening
meal. Here the roast mutton, the pilaw
of fowls for thoso who Mere Turks and
wished it to bo seen ; thero tho oous
coussnu for tho well-to-do Arabs ; far
ther oil' a simple bazinu, a sort of barley
Hour boiled in oil, for tho poorer people,
whoso pockets contained more maliboubs
of brass than mictals of gold j nnd every
where the "lagby," tho juice of tho
date-palm, which, when it is'takon as an
alcoholic beer, is productive as tho M'orst
excesses of intoxication.
A few minutes after tho gun had been j
heard, men, women, children, Turks, '
Arabs, and Negroes had finished their
meals. Tho instrument of the barbaric
orchestras necessarily rejoiced in alarm- j
ing sonority to make themselves hoard
above tho human tumult. In places '
horsemen were leaping about disoharg-
ing their long guns and their saddle I
pistols, M-hile fireworks Mere thrown
about amid an uproar it would bo im
possible to describe.
Hero in tho torch-light, to tho rattling
of tho wooden drum, and tho intonation
of a monotonous chant, a negro chief.
fantastically dressed with a rattling belt
of bones, his face hidden beneath a dia
bolical mask, Mas exciting to the danoo
some thirty blucks, grimacing in acirolo
of convulsionary women who boat thorn
with their hands. And then savago
Aissassouiis, in the last stage of religi-
oub exaltation and alcoholic intoxica
tion, with froth on their faces, and eyes
out of their orbits, Mere biting at wood,
ciiowuig iron, gashing their skins, iiik-
gling with live coals, and wrapping
themselves with the long norponta which
bit their hands, their cheeks their lips,
and like them devoured their blood.
But soon tho crowd hurried with
extraordinary eagerness to tho house of
Sidi Hazam, as though some new spec
tacle had attracted them.
Two men Mere thero ono largo, tho
other small two aorobata whosoourious
featfl of strength and agility amid a
quadruple row of spectators wero calling
fortli tho most noisy eheora that could
escape from Tripolitau throats.
It M as Point Pescado and Capo Mati
fou. They had taken up their stand
only a few pacos from Sidi nazam's
house. Both on this occasion had re
sumed their characters as foroign art
istes. 'I heir dresses cut out of Arab
materials, they Mere again iu quest of
success.
You have not got rusty r" Point
Poscado had previously asked Capo
Matifou.
"No!"
-Aim you win not annul: irom any
thing that may amuse the imbeciles i"
"Mo I Shrink!"
" If even you have to chow pobbles
with your teeth and swallow serpents 1"
"OiHiked?" asked Capo Matifou.
"No, raw,"
" Baw ?"
"And living!"
Capo Matifou nindo a grimace, but if
necessary he resolved to eat a snake like
a simple As.sa.ssou.
The Doctor, Pierre, and Luigi min
gled in the orowd of spectators, and did
not lose sight ot tho two friends.
No! Capo Matifou was not rusty;
ho had lout nothing of his prodigious
strength. At llrst the shoulders of tlvo
or six robust Aral, who had risked a
fall with him, were laid on the ground.
Then followed the jug ding, which
astonished the Araks, above all when
the lUmiiiK toioheti were launched (mm
IWuaile to Matifou, coming and re- !
coming in their sigxags of tire. I
And th publio might well ho critical. 1
Tluiru wow tho a goodly number of the
iidiuirorv of the Toimrs, thoto semi.
savHrttw " whiwo agility is equal to that
uf the mott formidable auuiiaUi iu thuvo
Till: I'EAST OK THU STOItKS.
latitudes," according to the astounding
programmo oi me lamous uraeco troupe.
These connoisseurs hud alreudy ap
plauded the intrepid Musiapha, the
Samson of thoDosert, tho "man-cannon,
to whom tho Queen of England hadsont
her valet begging him not to continue
his performance for fear of accident
But Capo Matifou was incomparable in
Iub feats of strength, and feared no
rivals.
At last camo tho final exorcise which
was to raho to tho highest pitch tho
enthusiasm of the cosmopolitan crowd
that surrounded tho European perform
ers. Although it had done frequent
duty in tho circuses of Europe, it seemed
that it was still unknown to the loungers
of Tripoli. And tho crowd crushed
moro and moro round tho ring to look at
tho acrobats who woro at work by torch
light.
Capo Matifou seized a polo nearly
thirty feet long, and held it upright
against his chebt with his two hands.
At the end of this polo Point Pescade,
who hud climbed up like a monkey,
began to balauco himself in attitudes of
astonishing audacity, and made it bend
alarmingly.
But Cape Matifou remained undis
mayed, shifting about gradually so as to
retain his equilibrium. Then, when ho
was close to the wall of Sidi llazam'a
house, he summoned strength enough to
lift the pole at arm's length while Point
Pescado assumed the attitude of a favor
ite actress throwing kissos to the public.
Tho crowd of Arabs mid negroes
roared in transports of delight, clapped
their hands aud stamped their feet.
Never had Samson of tho Desert, tho
intrepid Mustapltn, the lnddest of tho
Touaregs, been raised to such a height!
At this moment tho report of a gun
echoed over tho plain from tho fortress
of Tripoli. At tho signal tho hundreds
of storks, suddenly delivered from tho
immense nets which kept them prisoners,
rose in tho air, and a iihowor of sham
stones began to fall on tho plain amid a
deafening concert of aerial cries, to
which tho terrestrial concert gave back
an equally noisy reply.
This was the pnroxj'sm of tho festival.
It seemed as though all the mad-houses
in tho old continent had been emptied
onto Souug-Ettolato 1
Hut, as if it was deaf and mute, tho
moquddem's house had remained obsti
nately closed during thoso hours of
public rejoicing, and not one of Sidi
Haznm's pcoplo had shown themselves
at the gate, or on the terraces.
But, strange to relate! at tho momont
tho torches wero extinguished, after tho
flight of tho storks, Point Pescado hud
suddenly disappeared, as if he had been
borne upwards to tho sky by tho faithful
birds of the prophet of the Suloymau.
What had become of him ?
Capo Matifou did not seem at all eon
corned at tho disappearance. Ho threw
tho polo into tho air, caught it adroitly
by tho other end, and turned it as a
drum-major does his cauo. Point Pes
cade's performance seemed to him to bo
tho most natural thing in the world.
Tho astonishment of tho spectators,
was unbounded, and their enthusiasm
displayed itself iu an immense hurrah,
which extended far beyond tho limits of
the oasi. None of them doubted but
what the active acrobat had jumped oil'
into space, on his way to the kingdom of
the storks.
What charms the multitude most? Is
it not that which thoy aro uuable to
explain?
CnAPTEll XXIV.
TTIK HOUSE QV 8101 HAZAM.
It was about nine o'clock. Musketry,
music, shouting all had suddenly
ceased. Tho crowd had begun to dis
perse ; noma went back to Tripoli, others
regained the oasis of Meuohio aud the
neighboring villages. Iu an hour tho
plain of Soung-Ktioluto Mould lo silent
and empty. Tents would be folded up,
camps Mould lw raised, negroes aud
Berborn wort already on the road to the
dilVoront Tripolitau districts, Mhile tho
Sonouists woro oft towards the Cyrenaic,
and more especially towards the vilayet
of Men Ohazi, to join the concentration
of the Caliph's forces.
The Doctor, Pierre aud Luigi woro
the only peoplo that did not leave the
place during the night. Heady for all
that might happen since the disappear
anet of Point I'twoado. onoh of tluin had
eUoktm his uost of obrrvatiou at tho
bnsn of the walls of Sidi Hnzim's house.
Point Pescade had given a tremendous
leap, as Matifou held the polo up at
arm's length, nnd fallen on tho parapet
of one of tho torruces at tho foot of tho
minaret which commanded tho different
courtyards of tho house.
On that dark night no ono within or
without had noticed him. Ho was not
even observed from tho ski fa in tho
second courtyard, and in which wero a
few Kliouans, some of whom wero
asleep, nnd some ou tho watch, by order
of the moqaddem.
Point Pescade, be it understood, had
really no definite plan. Tho interior
arrangement of tho houso was unknown
to him, and he did not know in M-hat
part tho girl was detained, if sho Mas
alone or kept out of sight, or if ho had
suflicient stivngth to help her escape.
Hence he must act a littlo at a veuturo ;
and this is whnt ho thought:
"Anyhow, by force or stratagem, I
must reach Sava Sandorf. If sho cannot
come with mo immediately, if I cannot get
her away to night, sho must bo told that
Pierre Bathory is alive, that lio is hero
at tiio foot of theso M'alls, that Doctor
Antckirtt and his companions aro ready
to help her, and that if her escape must
be delayed, sho must not yield to any
threats! I may of course be found out
before I reach her ! But then I must
take care of that."
Pescade's first caro M-as to unwind a
slender-knotted cord that ho had hidden
under his clown's dress ; then ho tied
one end of this round tho anglo of ono
of the battlements, and then over tho
other, so that it hung down to tho
ground. This Mas onlv a measure of
precaution, a good one, nevertheless,
That done, Pescade, before going fur,
then lay down on his stomach. In this
attitude, which prudence demanded, ho
waited without moving. If ho had been
seen the terraco would soon bo invaded
by Sidi Hazani's people, aud then ho
would have to use the cord on his own
account, instead of that of Sava Sandorf,
as he intended.
Complete silenco reigned in tho
moqaddcm'H liouse. As neither Sidi
Ilazam nor Sarcany, nor any of their
people, had taken part iu tho feast of
the storks, the door of tho zaouya had
not been ooened since sunrise.
After M'tiitiutr some minutes Point
Pescade moved tow-ard the angle from
which arose tho minaret. Tho stairway
which led to the upper part of this
minaret evidently ran down to the
ground in tho first courtyard. Iu fact, a
door opening on to tho terraco gave
admission to tho stairs leading to tho
rooms below.
This door was shut from tho inside,
not with a key, but with a bolt that it
would be impossible to slip back from
the outside unless a hole wero mado
through the wood. This labor Point
Pescado would have attempted, for ho
had in his pocket a mauy-hladed knife,
a precious present from the Doctor, of
m Inch he could make good use. But that
would boa long, and perhaps noisy, tasl.
It was unnecessary. Three feet nbove
the terrace a window in the form of a
loophole, opened in tho minaret wall
If the window was small, Point Pescado
was not large. Besides, was ho not liko
a cat who can elongate herself to pas3
through where thero seems to bo no
passage? And so ho tried, aud after
some squeezing of tho shoulders . ho
found hiiiHt'lf in the minaret.
"Cape Matifou could not havo done
that!" he thought.
Then feeling his way round, ho
returned to the door, aud unbolted it,
so that it remained unfastened in caso
ho had to return by the samo road.
to iu: continued.
An Unsuccessful Failure.
The habit of failing with full pockets
got something in the nature of a back
set not iong since in a small Texas
town.
The unfortunate man kept a small
grocery store, lie sold out the stock
for cash, put tho money in his pocket,
and settled down to have a nice quiet
tune oi it. ins principal creditor, a
Houston merchant, having arrived in
the town, called on the bankrupt. IIo
Mas a well dressed gentleman, but
thero M as a gritty sort of it look about
him.
"You say thero aro no assets," ho re-
mar.ked.
"Nairy dinned asset."
"I think there should be some assets,
and that I ought to bo a preferred cre
ditor.
There are no assets and all my cre
ditors are deferred creditors. The only
unci inn: i ve got lor my creditors is a
Wiitorbury Match, and it will take six
months to Mind it up. You can have it,
you M aul it.
I want no humbug about this.
Where is the money vou got frotn the
sale of the groceries r"'
"It's right here iu mv pocket," said
the bankrupt.
" ell, ou are a eool one.
"I've irot tho nionev riirht here, nnd
I'm going to keep it,'1 replied the bank
rupt, tupping Ins pocket.
"dot it iu your pocketr '
Yos, iu greenbacks."
The creditor placed his hand In Jils
own pocket, and looking steadily at the
bankrupt, said:
"I've got my pistol in mv Docket
lou't you move ami it never lails. If
you don't give nie the contents of vour
pocket I'll give you the contents of
mine,' and before the ast in shed bank-
upt could reply lie Mas looking down
the muzzle ot a pKtol that seemed to
us big as a Hour bnrivl.
i'lie Houston man got his nionev.
I'he uniortiinate baiikriiut savs that
his failure whs the most complete fail
ure on record, and ho feels as soro as a
man who has pounded his linger with
a tack hammer. Tenia SiiliiKH.
Some of the dix-tora he were called to at
tend the jioikst i Ulcers Injured In lie Aimreb
Ut rlut la CUlesitu are endeavoring to obtain
generou portions at the relief fund fur tbeui
tclvo, UIU tin liljtli e fftX) mid &00 for their
toivlci'i having 1hcii nrw?iitd.
A chrciw can lm LUcWihoI Uy a turtiff of
the ihoulder. Jltirtte HUittJanl.
SNOB-SNUBBING.
Worth ! said to have made this re
mark to a lady who was dowdily
Jrossed: "Madame. I cannot risk my
reputation on you."
An nnx'ous inquirer r.sks: "Whore
ivould you advise me to go to learn how
to play the cornet?" "To the woods,
lear sir; to the deep, dark, damp, dan
gerous woods."
"Why are old maids so devoted to
their cats?" asked a voiing coxcomb
of an elderly huh: "Because, having
no husband's, they take to tho most
treacherous animals," was the reply.
"I declare," exclaimed Brown, "I
belie! 1 have forgotten all I ever
knew." "Sorry to hear it," remarked
Fogg. "However, you can take tin
hour some day and 'learn it all over
nga'n."
Yaas," sa'il young Smythe, "I sup
pose everything created has some use;
but, 'pou me honah. it is deuced hard
to believe sometimes, don't cher
know?" "Yes," sho replied, looking
him over critically, "it is, indeed!"
'Friend: "What on earth aro you
photographing the umbrella for, dear
boy?'' Amateur photographer: "You
said you wanted to borrow it to go
home w.th, and I'm getting something
to remember it by, that's all."
An American millionaire, who was
looking at a level tract of land which
he had just bought at an extravagant
pr ce, said to the agent who had sold it
to iiim, "1 do admire a rich green Hut.
"So do I," significantly replied tho
agent.
He .slipped quietly in at the door, but
catching sight of an iniiuing face over
the stair-rail, said: "Sorry so late, my
dear; couldn't get a car before." So
the cars were full' too." said the wife;
and further remarks wero unnecessary.
At dinner sho had a doctor on either
hand, one of them remarked that they
wero well served, since they had a (luck
between them. ' Yes," she broke in
ker wit is of the sort that comes in
llu.-dies "and 1 am between two
quacks." Then silence fell.
Young wife: "I am determined to
learn at just what hour my husband
colnes homo at night, yet, do what I
will, I cannot keep awake, and ho is
always careful not to make a particle
of noise, is there any drug which pro
duces wakefulness?"" Old Mife: "No
need to buy drugs. Sprinkle the lloor
w.th tacks'"
An old gentleman finding a couple
of his neices fencing with broomsticks,
-aid: "Come, come, my dears, that
kind of an accomplishment will not
help you in gett.ng husbands." "1
know it, uncle," responded one of the
girls, as she gave a lunge, "but it will
help to keep our husbands in order
when we have got 'em."
She wanted to break her husband of
tho habit of drinking brandy, and be
gan to cook his food in a little of it.
having heard that it Mould prove ell'ect
ual. He did not .say anyching on the
lirst day; he' showed no sign of noth
ing tho change on the second day. but
alter .supper on the third day he said to
her. "Maria, jou don't know how
vou've improved iu our cooking dur
ing the last three days!" Lhtcuro
ucdffer.
Attention! Candidates. '
"Speaking of hoss-lbcs," said tho
blacksmith as he brought his hand down
upon an old pioneer with green head
uid blue-tipped wings, "this isn't a
fust-rate jcar for 'em not nigh as good
as last. Jhe idea that thoy don t flour
ish and grojy fat in tho city is all bosh.
though I do reckon they bloom earlier
and grow bigger in the country. Look
at them! '
He mashed another which was fasten
ed to the left .shoulder of a truck horso
and continued:
"The country bosses bring 'em in bv
the dozen, and ono thosi.eof that feller
will bite to lift 'em right oil' their feet.
In dune I sent my sorrel out to pasture.
1 was out to seo him about the 1st of
July, and he M-as all right. I went out
agin the loth, and he was all run down.
lie .stood in green grass a foot liMi.
and I could not understand what tho
trouble was until 1 hung around a bit.
Then I saw it. was hoss-llies. A drove
of about seventy-live of 'om tackled
him while 1 was there. Tho niiiiit thoy
lit down that boss started, and he run
cigh times around a ten-acre lot before
he let up. Then 1 went over and club
bed 'cm oil'."
Clubbed?"
Exactly, young man. Pm tcllin r
you straight that soino of them flies
was as big as springchiekens, and you'd
better have had a bull-dog bite you.
Some of 'em actually turned on mo
nnd showed light, and when I got
through mashing 'em that boss was a
bloody sight to see. There's a country
plug oyer in tho corner. See him hump
and gather. It's luxs-tlles at woik on
mortal spots. Come over and exam
ine.
Thero wero seven big horse-flies ,
drawing blood from tho animal, and
the blacksmith brushed 'em oil' with
the remark:
"They've taken a clean pinto blood
out of his .system, and live bushels of
oats won't put it back. It's a wonder
to me that vou ncM'spapor men fool
around so much with the ICiusteru ques
tion, the Mexican n flair, earthquakes
nnd sich, to tho utter exclusion of the
hoss-llv. Where does he come from?
What good is ho? Why doesn't he
chuw grass or grain instead of hoss-
flesh? Jest you open up on these vital
questions and you 11 incrcaso your cir
culation bv '-'0,000 in no time at all.
Tho hoss-lly subject is ono of national
importance, aud I'll voto for no candi
date not pledged to keep clown the
green heads."
And he made a wicked pass with his
sledge hammer at a fly sailing over
from a grocer's horso to" one owned bv
baker, m sed him by an inch, and
went back to his work on a new shoe.
iJctruit Fire I'rets,
Tribute to u Great l'nliitur.
Tin so nuigiiiHeent early autumn ann
us do not hold a oundlo to th suporb
Hrimuo lute wuJi s- eh SooreUrv
Ihi.vHrd's liirwl muu. Arthur (!. SmI
w ok. pn 1 1 ted the litem rio old City
of Mexico. VhieatjQ Sews,
LEGAL TENDERS.
Mag-no-li-a who said she was?
A too that never kicks mosqui-to.
Hazel eyes sometimes witch hazels.
The young ladies' tree tho gum
tree.
A net warmer than a shawl tho
hor-net.
If vou sow bird seed will you raise
birds'?
The bravest of birds Is tbc fly
It's bound to get there or die.
Tho suti shines it cannot do any
else. Should have been a girl's name
Thec-a-dore.
The newspaper men are the nation's
videttcs.
it's the pill-age of war that suits the
doctors best.
In Ceorge Washington's day the sa
loon was a groggcry.
Honor is not bought, but earned,
peace may be bought.
Men are very lo3altothc source of
the r bread and butter.
Never deserted by hope tho politi
cian aud the old maid.
What is more dismal than the store
that doesn't advertise?
If you are rich enough at a thousand,
don't" try for more.
The rain falls this way because it can
not fall any other way.
When tho halter threatens, how
lamblike are anarchists.
Women that paint are born to blush
unseen" if they blush.
The sailor pilches to float. The basc
ballist pitches to bat.
If our work woro in a lino of pleas
ure it M ould be better done.
Is John Bright, English orator, tho
inventor of Bright' 8 disease?
Bridge-jumping is a summer com
plaint; they don't havo it in winter.
When the rain doesn't come, needn't
blame the rain it will come when it
can.
The eye is tho organ of sight, except
in tho potato, where it's tho organ of
sprout.
Tho vidette who has forgotten the
countersign may got it right from tho
lirst passer.
Little boy (in u-swimining)-Say, mum.
look not this way; hero is a sea you
don't wanter see.
Mr?. McLano must bo a lover of the
male race, us she has ono hundred
mail routes in daily practice.
There is something very suggestive
about coll'co-beans. Something ails the
co flee. Perhaps it knows beans.
' Make hay when the sun shines."
Tho hay grows when the sun shines.
If it were not for sunshine there would
not be much hay
All London is agog over Mrs Win.
lv. Vanderbilt's i 00,000 necklace. A
barrel of crackers would beat it in a
time of famine. Cliicmjo Ledger.
QUEER DRUNKS.
A dilutee lor it Prophet to Dlstlii
;:uls)i iTlniHelf.
'There seems to be something in the
atmosphere that drives peoplo todrink."
said a tall, slim policeman as he stop
ped on tho corner of Chestnut .street and
Broadway last evening, and watched a
typical swell who had a frail hold on
his power of locomotion trying to cro-s
the street. "But it may be sometime
before it is discovered just what atmos
pheric cond.tion most .stimulates tho
convivial tastes. It is not the extremes
of heat or cold, for 1 have seen drunk
ards go in shoals when tho mercury
was neither shivering at 'JO degrees be
low zero or taking a recess at 10I5
above. Hut whatever it is the problem
can lio solved only by watching tho
street, for you can never tell by the
police court record, when a time of
drunkenness is on the town. The po
lice court has its regular attendants
tho gonus tough who gets a trifle too
much and sets out to paint the town
but beyond theso it seldom handles a
man on the plain charge of drunk. It
is the 'genteel,' the 'merry-go-round, '
the 'harmless and amusing drunk' that
becomes numerous by spells, and no one
knows anything about it but those who
aro close observers of the streets and
tho public resorts. Now, a rage
for stimulants has been on the drinking
mou for nearly a week, and during that
timo there have been moro men under
the inlluonco than for four weeks be
fore. Scores of young mou and not a
fow who arc not young pass along
Broadway every evening, silent, and al
most unablo to Malic, or, if it effects
them tho other way, singing or talking
loud and fast, as they wear" an air of
importance that thoy would not think
of putting on if they had been taking
ico-water straight. Thoy arc clerks,
bookkeepers, business men. and some
profess onal men, and they seldom be
come quarrelsome or too loud. If thoy
do some of their friends succeed in
toning them down or elso take thorn
home.
"It is very easy to account for a pe
riod of drunkenness during excessively
hot weather, but when thoy conio on in
the cool autumn I am puzzled. You
see, men do not eat much in very hot
weather, and they get thirsty often.
When they drink it is almost always on
an empty stomach, and they aro clown
ish before thoy know it. They don't
Mailt to go homo early, nnd they take
another drink, and about 1) o'clock thoy
conclude not to go homo before morn
ing, and if their companions arc out tho
chances aro ten to one they will not."
-Vow York Herald.
A Father's Advice.
"Learn any trade, my son, that you
may dosire, but there is ono trade that
I wish you to avoid."
"And what is that, father?"
"Tho carpenter's trade."
"The very ono I would prefer," ex
olaiiucd the son.
"Take my advice and give up the
idoa of beluga carpontcr."
Kindly toll mo father why that
tnulo is objectionable."
"Tho ourpontor, my son. tins moro
vlow than any other man!" Rational
Weekly.
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