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W A S H IN G T O N COUNTY H A T C H E T though her eyes were brimming. “ Now , say so much, so very much, i f you would come, anil now I w ill hear what it is that isn’t that Mr. Hearn all over?” only listen. I f you would only release stands between us. God knows iny love But G eorgia Marshall hail not gone me from that promise! I was thinking and honor have been your» a long, long into the dining room. Mabel found her but yesterday how I blessed the day that year. God knows there can be no con o ver at tho end o f the veranda gazing at m y pride broke down and gave me Fred tent or jo y for me if your answer lie the distant night lights across the dark and happiness. Sometimes I cannot but final. You have bound m y life in yours. and silent valley. think that o n ly pride— foolish, unwar You won m y whole heart, my deepest September came, and the Eleventh rantable pride—stands between you and gratitude. N o; you cannot check me By CHARLES KING, U. 8. A, by impatient gesture now. You must Jkmthor of “ The Colonel’ a Daughter," “ 77n w ould soon bo on its homeward march. a life as blessed as m y ow n .” L etters to tho regiment made frequent Dmorter,” “ fr o m the H a n k »:' ''D u n - Im patiently the letter was hurled upon hear. You told mo there was no other raven Ranch,” “ Two Soldiers.” mention o f old K enyon’s devotion to the gras«, und, h alf turning, Georgia man. Is that true?” Miss Marshall, and even Hearn had to buried her wan face on her arm. Of “ P erfectly,” she answers proudly “ And yet you would not listen to me. v h a t was she thinking? Surely tho«e ht, 1800. b j J. B. Lippiocott Company. hear occasional bits o f conversation that Philadelphia, and published by special arrai^p»- told him that in qu itting R yan he had w ere hot tears trick lin g through the You would not be m y w ife.’ BWOA with Uietu^ abandoned the field to a rival. But lon g w h ite lingers; surely there was “ Yon forget it was just after the tnal. She did know, and yet could not tell. when orders reached them there was little evidence o f stubborn pride in the You seemed to think you owed me such I t was her penanoe fo r breaking faith other news: Miss Marshall was to re abandonment o f that silent, lonely a world o f gratitude; and—do not nu*u w ith Georgia. Tho latter had forbidden turn to tho east at once. “ Despite every sorrow. A ll day she had been at leisure, sometimes mistake gratitude for love? that she should tell to any one the fact plea,” w rote Mabel, “ she persists in it, “ Oh. heaven!” he interrupts her im the fam ily and children aw ay in town, that Mr. Hearn had indeed offered him and adamant is no more yieldin g than and. though neither her duties had been petuously, hia han ds outstretched.^ “ Y ou self and had been refused. is her determination. I am utterly very onerous nor tho trials o f her new do not mean you doubted me, Georgia? But Lau e learned it soon enough. heartbroken, but cannot prevent it. position very great, sho had drooped ali I f that were yonr reason is it not ban From the moment o f his return to the She has been m aking arrangements for ished now? Look—look up into m y eyes, w in ter long. This was the first real day regim ent the young soldier spent most a new position o f some kind fo r the last my darling, and tell me, if you dare, of rest: yet, w ith all its sweetness ami that it is gratitude, not deep and fervent o f his tim e, when off duty, in the society six weeks, and sho w ill leave before the sunshine, hud it not been fu ll o f tears?— love, I offer you. Nay, you shall see. o f the captain, and one night in the fu ll regim ent gets back.” fu ll o f vague unrest and longing? An d And before she could retreat his strong, ness o f his sorrowing heart he told his An d when the Eleventh came march now even tho sunshine was going, and trembling hands had seized her drooping friend o f the b itter disappointment that ing in to R yan late in the month, and a the gloam ing was slow ly settlin g down head, aud between them her face, with hail com e to him. He loved her deeply, host o f tanned and bearded troopers its dark, lustrous, swimming eyes, with upon the valley. had asked her to lie his w ife, and she rode in behind the band on its dancing Far over the eastern heights the sil oheeks still tear wet, yet burning with had gen tly, even tearfully, but positive grays, G eorgia Marshall had vanished bln,lies chasing each other to her very very shield o f the soft M ay moon was ly, said no, it simply could not be. He from the scene. brows, her soft red lips quivering and peeping into v iew ; but the fairy shafts trem bling at the dimpled corners —all— had begged her to g iv e her reasons, and Presently Kenyon took a long leave she refused. She assured him o f her and disappeared. “ H avin g it out with o f her gentle ligh t could not yet pene all now lifted to his worshiping gaze; trate the gathering gloom here in the and she can repel no longer. One swift faith, respect and esteem, but pointed his newspaper friends in Chicago,” was out to him that in every w ay possible M artin’s suggestion. But the next thing grove where swung the hammock. Still glance, and i f ever vestige o f doubt re mained it vanished then and there. No the hot tears came trick lin g down bc- since the trial she had striven to avert heard o f him he had turned up in Cin- woman on earth could have looked into the declaration which she frankly con einnati and M abel knew well what that twee.i the white fingers and, yielding his eyes and denied the love that burned m ournful influence fessed she could not but foresee, lie.* was meant, and waited w ith bated breath. at last to the within them—all her own. all her own forced to admit this, and cou l• no For a month there came no further new» , o f the d yin g day, G eorgia Marshall “ Speak to me, Georgia. Do you 0#- longer press her for reasons, since she ami then he was reported at St. Augus wept unrestrainedly— w ept w hile great lievo me now?” sobs shook her fram e; and w h ile one “ Yes,” she whispers, and her face had plainly discouraged his suit. Y e t it tine, more crabbed than ever. fluffy kitten, disturbed in her intended would have hidden itself but for those was hard—very hard. “ Then he. too, has been rejected,” said nap, stretched forth a fu rry paw and strong hands again. Lane sim ply could not understand. Mabel. And she was right. Kenyon “ An d you have no love to give iu re “ Is there any one else?” he w rote to M a did not rejoin until long after the Christ lifted up a querulous note o f remon strance, her companion, suddenly dis turn?” bel, and M abel said she was sure there mas holidays. A little silvery beam is peeping through lodged from her cozy nest in G eorgia’ s was not; but she was equally sure G eor the foliage now. Tho kittens, forgotten, Old Blauvelt by this tim e had been g ia meant no. Mabel herself was even sent before the retirin g board, which lap, clawed vigorously back upon the are rolling over each other in mad frolic m ore perplexed than tho captain, since recommended him for permanent shelv heaving folds o f the summer fabric, at their very feet. The last chirp of G eorgia had gently but resolutely for ing. and he was still on leave until the glared around in excited search for the drowsing bird has died away. The si possible cause o f such seismatic disturb lence of the sweet summer night has bidden any further mention o f the sub needed vacancy should occur. Hearn je c t between them. A n d now, w ith the meantime remained in command o f his ance. and instantly set back a pair of fallen on all surrounding nature, yet he can hardly hear her whisper----- utter inconsistency o f her sex, pretty troop, no longer encumbered by the tiny ears, arched a furry back, bristled “ You never asked it—until now.” Mrs. Lane was all eagerness to discover presence o f Trooper W elsh, who had her stiffening tail, and gave vent to “ But it is mine, really? Georgia, tell and demolish the barrier to a match j been form ally “ *ent to Leaven w orth .” spiteful challenge at the fe ll disturber me,” he implores. w hich a month ago she would have op Corp. Brent had won his sergeant’s of her peace. There stood a man. “ It has been—all yours ever since the A tall young fellow , erect and power posed because it seemed inevitable. chevrons, and was looking forward to ful in build, clad in civilian garb, but night I heard your letter—ever since you wrote that you would follow the Then came a jo y in which Mrs. Lane examination for promotion. fo r the tim e being forgot her perplexities, I E verythin g was goin g blithely at tho striding across the law n w ith the sw ing old flag to the end. ” T H E END. a? a trooper, halted suddenly not ten feet Capt. Fred obtained a seven days’ leave I post, but for th * sadness that seemed to from the regim ent and flew as straight I have clouded one young soldier’s life, aw av and lifted from his shapely head a A M o t h e r ’ s E x p e r im e n t , hat banded h eavily w ith crape. The to her anus us ;, circuitous railroad route j and for the anxious look on M abel Lane’s “ I am trying this w in ter,” confided next instant he had hurled this aside, could carry him. He greeted Miss M ar face when P ortia was asked for, as stepped quickly forward, utterly ign or one of a group of mothers to her listen shall as cordially as ever, but he did not P ortia often was. “ Teaching children ing pussy’s hostile guise, had throw n ers the other afteruoon, “ the Chinese call her P ortia as he had intended, lie- all the fall and w inter was tellin g on himself on one knee beside the ham plan to prevent sickness in my family. cause M abel warned him in a letter that her,” w rote an old school friend, and 1 mock. and the drooping mustache a l You kuow they pay their medical ad it served to revive associations which when A p ril came sho was reported ill, most swept the soft, w h ite hands as he visers only when they are well. With were not all joyous. “ I called her Portia though her own letters made no mention impetuously seized them. illness the fees stop. Ho far there has not long before she m et Mr. Hearn,” was o f it. The fam ily would move to their “ G eorgia.” he whispered. been a cold aud only oue slight attack of Lane’s stout reply; “ but i f she doesn’t country seat in a week, and she would Heavens! what a start! In her wild iudigestion among my five children. like it, that's enough.” M aj. Kenyon be so glad, she said, to see the trees and consternation she recoiled from his I ’ve offered a prize to each one of them was bidden to dinner tho evening o f his birds again. touch, strivin g at the same instant to sit who w ill preserve an unbroken record homecoming, and o f course many of * * * * * * erect. Hammocks are not made for of health till the first day o f May, and the garrison people happened in, and so The first o f M ay had come. The combinations so eccentric. The noxt With this end in view they listened pa there was nothing but general chat. lovely suburbs o f a bustling c ity were instant the flimsy thing had slipped from tiently, and, what is better, beedfully to But tw o evenings later, when the m ajor shrouded in the richest, freshest green. under her and she fe lt herself going. my brief lecture at the beginning o f the was sitting in the b ig armchair and dis The sweet breath o f tho early summer, D row ning men catch at straws; drown season on how to keep well. They don't coursing on some o f his favorite hobbies, laden with the perfume o f lilac* and ing women seize the hand they would follow their friends to the door and lie broached anew the matter o f Judge honeysuckle and o f m yriad blossoms, have shunned. But for his sudden stand in the cold for a little more talk Hearn’s letter urging his son to qu it the was sighing through the foliage o f a spring, but for prompt clasping arms. | ing ; they don’t sit on the stone steps as service. park o f grand old trees and rippling the she would have gone headlong to the they did in July and as they are apt to “ Have yon never heard Hearn’s nn- Burface o f a grassy lawn. Robin and ground on the opposite side. F o r a m in do throughout the year. M y 9-year-old iw er, major?” said Lane. “ H e read it bluebird, oriole and crested woodpecker ute she was held in close embrace, aeon- boy actually came in and changed wet to me lie fore sending it, and I thought it flashed and flitted through the sunshine, fused m in glin g o f dusty braids, o f throb- stockings fer dry ones the other day, •o good that I kept a copy. Here it is.’’ BOW Sploshing in Hu* basin o f tin- touut- biug fem ininity, o f h otly blushing, tear something unheard of ou his part be Miss Marshall was sitting at the table ain, now chasing each other in chatter wet face, o f cool linen lawn and clinging fore. I feel that for this winter, at under the bright lam p as Lano began to ing glee through the slanting ligh t and hammock netting. Then her hands re least, w h ile the novelty lasts, mine has read. M abel noticed that she leaned shadow. The drone o f beetle and hum gained their cunning and found his been a happy thought. ” forward, shading her eyes with her o f dragon fly fell soothingly on the broad shoulder» and she pushed herself drowsy ear. hand. free, and then hysterical laughter came H o w to M im age a B u rg la r. The little knot o f Jerseys browsing in to her aid and the shaded grove rang to “ I have thought it all over, m y dear Miss Lena Burns knows how to man father. The offer you make ine is one the paddock dow n the eastward slope a jieal that, i f not m erry, was at least for which I thank you w ith all m y heart. huddled together sleepily in a shaded irresistible, and at last, as she sat there age a burglar. W ith a revolver held F ew men could quit tho service under corner. The tennis court was deserted, restored to equilibrium and striving to against her head Miss Burns had suf better auspices, or return to a home the mallets lay sprawled about the regain her w h irlin g senses as he stood ficieut courage to resist a burglar who more loved or friends more loving, ami croquet ground, and a pair o f Maltese patiently bending over her, h alf praying entered her room at night and who has yet— I cannot. Ten years o f my life, kittens that had lieen scampering about that the inspired hammock m ight yet since been arrested for his pains. The young woman was asked by a re perhaps tho best ten, have been spent in playing hide and seek among the currant attempt some new freak, she glanced up a profession which w ith every year pre bushes, seemed at last overcome by the at him through, smiles and tears and dis porter to give a few general instructions on the treatment o f burglars to women sents new fields, new studies and new langorous spell in which all nature was ordered bangs only to s a y readers o f The Times. Tersely put, this requirements. I have worked honestly, hushed, send w ith the confidence o f kit- “ H o w utterly absurd!” is her ad vice: have won friends and, in all modesty tenliood proceeded to clam ber into the T o which philosophical remark he Think quickly. may say, a good name. A d m ittin g all slow ly sw inging hammock, hung well vouchsafed no reply whatever. N ever lose your presence o f mind. you writ© o f this recent attem p t o f the back in the shade, wherein was reclining It is a fu ll minute before she recovers, Use a ll the weapous nature has kind papers to blacken it, m y friends here the one human being visible in the en even partially, either breath or self tell me that it but proves the strength tire picture—a tall girl with big dark- possession. Then she holds forth her ly giveu you. Hold your breath when you are being o f m y record that even concerted news eyes and a wealth o f somber braids of hand, and he assists her to rise. chloroformed. paper assaults could not harm me in the hair— a g irl whose soft cheeks were al “ This is not the welcom e I should give Don’t let a little thing like being ga g most as thin and pale as the slender white you. Shall w e g o to the house?” eyes o f righ t thinking people. “ I love the duties. I am deeply a t hands loosely clasping an open letter that But even as she asks and her eyes ged divert your mind. I f you can’ t scream, throw things at tached to many o f m y comrades. I can lay in her lap. A u d it was this that the glance nervously, shyly, up in to his face, be a very fair soldier, and m ight only foremost pussy, after clam bering by she knows he w ill accept no invitation the w indow to attract «ttention. Remember that w h ile you may not be make a very poor law yer. For these s w ift springs up the pathw ay afforded that w ill peril this tete-a-tete. She sees reasons I think 1 ouglii to stand where 1 by the trailin g w h ite skirts, now im pa how the Hues have deepened in hip as strong as he is, ten to one you are tien tly i>awed to ono side and curled her frank, soldierly face, anti that a sadness much brighter.— Philadelphia Times. an». But there is still another reason. “ Father, when I bound m yself to the self up in its place; there she was not all o f his recent bereavement has A P o i n t e r o n I>re«H. U n ited States as a cadet I received at prom ptly joined b y her playmate. S low le ft its traces there. She would lead A pointer— the more yon Ret yourself the hands o f the nation a schooling such ly the thin w hite hand was lifted and him from the shaded grove to the par as I could g e t at no other institution in gen tly stroked the fu r o f the pretty, lor, where tho lamps are already begin np to look as i f the materials had been the world, a ml was molded by the na graceful creature. ning to tw inkle, but he w ill not budge draped abont for yon for that particular occasion, as if the neckband had been tion for its service. I f in after years I “ It is a holiday for us. isn’t it. Fluffy- one step. H e stands confronting her. found m yself better fitted to serve in kin?” murmured the girl. “ The children “ N o ! I have come solely to see you. tied a fe w minutes before and would some other w ay. then there m ight be ex and doggy both goue, and it s almost Is there any reason w hy w e cannot stay become a straiRht piece o f ribbon when cuse for tendering a resignation. But tim e for us to be thinking o f tea— tea all here a moment?” A n d she can think of untied, the more yon can look as if yon when I feel and know that I am far more alone. There’s the whistle o f the sunset none. Oh, w hat infamous fate that he coaid command maids enough to “ com soldier than I can ever be anything else, train n ow .” should have found her weeping—bathed pose” yonr toilet from morning to after noon and from afternoon t ill evening, it all the m ore convinces me that my F or a moment the wooded slopes on iu tears! efforts lielong now and for a lifetim e to both sides o f the valley echoed to the “ I hardly thought to see you at all, and the less you look as if yonr things the nation tuat trained me and tn.it > rattle o f the incom ing cars, the sharp especially a fte r—t»io great—sorrow of were made np and finished off to last the have sworn to serve. hiss o f steam, the distant sound o f voices your father’s death.” she falters, her season through the more Parisian and “ T h e dear ones at home know me best, at the little station down the w inding heart leaping and bounding despite her “ stylish ” yon w ill be. it is true. The class in whose supp-**ed village street, arched over w ith rustling effort to be calm. It doesn’ t matter whether there are internets I have been so unjustly assailed, foliage. Then the clang o f the bell and “ I am taking mother north,” he an four plaits or three, whether they are six it is also true, is very d ifferent from that the hurrying engine again pushed north ■ w en simply. “ It was a cruel blow to inches apart or five, but there must be au in which w e move. But, in the broad ward, im patient o f delay. A few ligh t her and a hard one to me. I t was all airy, fa iry grace, an evanescence about ligh t o f a soldier’« duty, neither the love carriages and pony phaetons came driv over before I could g et home. Mother them— in effect— to make them quite np o f the one nor the nnreasonin ' hat * «•: in g s w iftly b y; a fe w o f the occupants w ill spend the summer with her sinter to the acme o f fashion reached by the the other should sw erve me. The hard w aved hand or handkerchief to the re on the Ht. Lawrence, but she has to rest Parisian masters and mistresses of" the eat knocks a soldier has to l>ear com» clinin g figure in tho hammock, but far in Cincinnati until to-m orrow night. I art o f dress. sometimes from the very men whom h more passed by on the other stde without le ft her w ith old fnends this afternoon V e r y L ik e a T « l l . is sworn to defend. You w o »Id n.*t a sign or token, and presently silence and came out here to find you. I must Smith college has no “ yell. ” Its pres have me yield because »if a atiirriir; and solitude again settled down upon go back this evening. And now liave wound or tw o, nor w ould I be w orth y ot the shaded lawn, and the last rays o f the you no word o f welcom e for me? Did ident annonneed this officially some your name i f I faltered now. It is my w estering sun kissed the tree tops good you not know that I would come, loving tim e ago, but the yonng ladies of the college are sometimes, in moments of belief that, despite apparent apathy, n igh t and slow ly died away. you as 1 do?” excitement, heard to ntter a cry which there is still north o r south a pl.n-* in “ Surely there should be another letter W h at answer can she make? H er head runs thus: “ Rah, rab, rah— Soph-i-ah the hearts i»f the people fo r e very soldier from Mattel to-night; this one is a week is drooping low, her hands are clasped Sophia Smith was the w h o seeks faith fu lly to serve them, and old n ow .” said Portia. But, old as it together, her bosom heaving, her breath — S m ith ." In that faith —G<><1 helping me— 1 shall was. there seemed ono page which d e fluttering away, and yet how w ild a joy, founder o f the college, and i f this is not a college yell, what is it?— Hartford fo llo w the old flag to the end.” served re-reading, and the white hands how exquisite a hope is throbbing in her Times. “ B y J u p ite rr said Kenyon, as h* sought and found the letter and lifte d it heart o f hearts! sprang to his feet and strode excitedly before her ryes: A W o m a n .J e w e le r . “ G eorgia” —he speaks impulsively, his np and down the room, “ isn’t that “ Mr. Hearn has been gone a week deep voice trem bling— “ you ma<le mr Miss Annie B. Dyer o f Belfast, Me., enough to make one damn the 1* ierty of now. and wo miss him sadly. He haa accept your answer then and bear my entered a jew elry store a year ago, in- the press, to think that a month ago it almost made his home here w ith us dur b itter disappointment without a word; tending to learn the business thorough was boldin g np that fine fello w for in g the w inter, and rarely spent an even but I have borne it too long now Had ly Site already repairs clocks, jew elry, •re ry th in g that was low and contem pti in g any where else. His fath er’s death you been at the other end o f the world I eyeglasses, etc., w ith moch skill and ble! Miss M arshall, i f 1 w ere— W h y. aeems to have been v ery sudden, ami it must have follow ed you. for the longing w ill soon begin on watches. She says she’s go n e!” was a great shock. H e lias a m onth’s to see yonr dear face, to hear you* voice she likes the business and shall take a “ Just stepped into the dining room a leave, w ith permission to apply fo r au j to look into your glorious eyes, tea over (n il course in it and also learn engrav- m om ent,’ said Mrs. Lane promptly. extension. G eorgia — P ortia— I could mastered mo tim e aud again. I had to mg. IN ARMY PORTIA. Tb. Lrcium or K .«dlu« I* »* - Lecturus, or reading desks came into nse at an early date. There is freqnent mention o f them in ancient writings and renresentatious of them in ancient Vignettes. They were placed in ‘ *« ter of choirs iu large ecclesiastical hut Id ings as early as the seventh eentury. and the choristers were arranged in rows on the right aud left o f them. Ih ey are of various forms, but the dneed iu a very large number. Vi ith out spread wings aud mounted ou a «ten. at . convenient height for a reader, this grand bird, from an early date, wa made to serve the purpose of supporting the framework on which the large and heavy volumes used in the services were placed. There was. probably, some ref erence iu the thoughts of those who first used them to the fact that the eagle soared to the most elevated regions, and. therefore, iu a fanciful way. would be likely to carry the words of the readers or choristers nearer to heaven than they might otherwise ascend. In some instances the inclined frame work on the back of the bird was made to accommodate two books, ono above file other, und furnished with movable brackets to light the reader. Frequently the eagle is represented standing on an orb, and sometimes ou a dragon, and the base of the stem on which it is placed is often raised on lions. A more simple form, without tho i-uodc-Mop of the eagle, consists of an inclined book board raised to a convenient height ou a stem. Next to this are examples that have two slanting book boards, which meet at their upper edges like a roof, aud there are others with clever groupings of four desks or book boards. These are generally made of oak or some other hard wood. They nearly all turn ou pivots, and some of them are enrich ed with mnch carving. Sometimes tlie eagle is of wood and the framework of iron. In the handsomest examples, base, stem, bird and book board are of polished brass.— Chambers' Journal. H a m let anil Hysteria. Hamlet learns from Horatio and his companions o f the apparition of his fa ther’s spirit. His prophetic sonl already presages fool play, and through the darkness of his suspicions now rises the blood red sun of revenge. Up to this point Hamlet has been a perfectly sane and rational yonng man. Iu the meet ing with the ghost, again, there is noth ing ubnormal iu his attitude— he is over come with awe on beholding his father's spirit iu arms, aud is prepared to follow him regardless of perils. In tho second ghost scene Hamlet is overwhelmed with grief and indignation on learning of the infamy by which his father met his death. To the actor this is a scene of intense und prolonged excitement, more exhausting, because peut np, than per haps any other passage in the whole play. I have sometimes asked myself, with that second conscionsuess of the actor, whether thus to waste one’s vital force conld have any compensating effect upon the audience, for Hamlet’s eyes are fixed on the ghost, his face is averted from the public, and probably the actor's ex citement is lost upon them, bnt never theless conclude that it is necessary for the actor to undergo this strain of self excitation iu order to reach that condi tion of hysteria which overcomes Ham let after the ghost's departure. Here, again, Hamlet, it seems to me, behaves jnst as any highly wrought young man would behave on hearing of the terrible fate which had befallen a beloved fa ther. He is all on lire to sweep to his revenge with wings as sw ift as medita tion or the thoughts of love. But tho fire is too fierce— it perforce burns itself out. Aud here the actor should make clear to the audience thut physical ex haustion prevents Hamlet from carrying out the impulse of his mind— the weak ened physical machine is, ns it were, unequal to respond to the promptings of the mind.— Beerbohm Tree in Fort nightly Review. E x tra va ga n t Voting Britons. M y ! % hat some of these young men spend on their clothes! Yon would open yonr eyes i f you saw some of the things got ready for them I Fancy a pink silk uightshirt, with roses embroidered on the chest. Others have open worked fronts, and one that ma and I saw was trimmed with lace on which forgetme- nots were embroidered. Lace fronts to evening socks are another item Sncli extravagance as they indulge in must make them conceited creatures. There’s my young man. Ma and I and Emmie aud Miste went for 5 o’clock tea to his rooms the other day. aud when we went into his sleeping room to settle onr hats and wash onr hands we found the dress ing table a mass of gold and silver and turquoise. He had his monogram in dia monds on the tortoise shell hacks of his brushes A gold box of lovely workman- ship held his rings, and a perfeetly ex- qmsite old carved ivory casket was hung on the w all for a medicine chest. I'm afraid I shall have some trouble in breaking that yonng man in. He has spoiled himself, aud the aimoving part of it is that he has Riven himself mnch handsomer things than he has ever aiv en rne. It w ill take me years ,o make d o n T ^ th 8" ‘ “ “ W light. Lon Th« Turkish Wuj. The late M Carnot, president o f the French republic, died from a stroke of apoplexy ! Nobody ever heard o f thrt S T ? ,hV nb^ » < * 'ho sultan and this is explained as follows in La Jeune Turqme, a bimonthly periodical printed in I a ril by the Yonng or Liberal Turks ■ Everybody has known the criminal at m " 'P ,R n "Ch cn‘ 'he life of M. Car- no*. Bnt as soon as the news reached C onstantinople the papers were o r £ r* not to mention it. s till, as the » „ b „ I ^ i b £ lte ' ° nD,V h of >W h r ^ X ta," i ,hat 11 im- U fa° * lik* ,h" ‘ «» «he «»«•dent of the h,lc' Abdul Hamid, answer a l,£ , • R " ,at that hp « the « e from apoplexy. He T feared ven. m^ght suggest to one of hi. subject, the id ea o imitating Caseno. ’ IT WORRIES MR.s A SMALL RAILROAD THAT CAUSta* MUCH TROUBLE. IlM * p h o t o g r a p h « M a d « o f Q|( S h o w in g One C rew Thou* N le e p lu g or C am ped by » F lr «= th e P o u g h k e e p s ie a m i E iu tem , Russell Sage is the propria,, railroad 40 m iles long that gv more trouble than a ll his other i und his m illion s put together. It, ed the Poughkeepsie and Eastan as its name im plies, oue end of it chored in whut people who lit, call the (Jneen C ity o f the Hud** other end is at present located io, field ill tho direction of Boston, time Mr. Sage gets ont of sortsajj Vanderbilts or annoyed at the Nett aud N ew Haven people he stretch; Ins Poughkeepsie and Eastern , and employs several men with pick Then his surveyors squint doc through theodolites and there i. bi| abont the Poughkeepsie and “ paralleling the Boston and Alhg Threats are also made o f uu eIl^ H west to Chicago. go Mr. Sage decided recently to active part iu the operating uf road. T h is determ ination was J inhumation he received private];!__ tilings were not go in g on all right locom otive engineers were euxe their allow ance o f three quartan i pound o f coal per train mile, and^ running freig h t trains over the length o f tho road iu less than two the schedule tim e, or ticking i just as caprice dictated. Then regularities w ere discovered. At annual inventory, Jan. 1, three pins and one chamois leather wi were missing. “ The w h ole root o f the di: laziness," said President Snge. things w ill alw ays happen toani whose employees tire uut indi Discharge all the lazy men wehatii present and get m o re.” Hut this was more easily sud done. They cou ldn 't locate th. men. A fre ig h t crew wonld set out: Boston Corners w ith every a| o f wakefulness aud energy, hat soon as it got around a curve w! master car builder or the divuii perintendent cou ldn 't see it, tbe ueer would run it on a siding tod crew would go to sleep or fall to ing blackberries. Mr. Suge at om even thought o f stringing wires the truck, so that lie might team his trains were, but this invoh large outlay, und he rucked bil for some sim pler plan. He ut length evolved a whet» which the division superinteudatti master car builder and the track» man should hide in a cabixtse and tabs ou a sample train. Bnt he out that the d ivision snperiDteni the master cur builder aud tbe foreman, who was oue and the person, had to attend to tho toil at Boston Corners and couldn't le» work. The trains w ere getting aud slower. T h e Cannon Ball era which was put ou as a menace to N ew Haven company, occupied hours in running over the road. President Sage took counsel with self and decided thut something be done. He consulted n firm o f detective* told them that lie had ballasted bonded the road in a style that bn it np to date, and he wanted tbea| find ont how the employees spent time, aud w h y un np to date n did not bring np to date speed gave him every assnranee that would bring the men to time. Equipped w ith a camera, a di who makes a specialty of railroad went to Poughkeepsie. He kne* the presence o f a passenger on a Pc keepsie and Eastern train would eta suspicion, so he disguised hinisel! • tramp by a m arvelously small n»r of artistic touches, and began to along tho grass grow n line of tb e » The result o f his labors, it is a » an immense collection of cabinet (IT graphs. They w ere taken by tbe taueous process, but they might Jr easily have been done w ith a tint! posure, for they show that emphj^ the Poughkeepsie and Eastern move. H om eof the pictnres are» istic that one w ho sees them canm hear the conductors and brakemen Ono especially good view tept* the “ L igh tn in g B u g ” freight * which brings m aple sim p d o v *l Vermont regu larly every day. at ease on the track w h ib h e r ^ ^ ^ camped round a log fire, are to tbe fireman, w ho is r e a d in g * » ; novel. There are cobwebs o n th t^ A ing wheel o f the locomotive. Au interesting physiologic^ brought out by the detective i* «h* ployeesuf the Poughkeepsie and have the rare facu lty of s le e p iijl'J standing up. The pictures p c*® » prove this. The open months a n d d »' eyes eloquently describe a oondM *^» sound slumber. W h en this < * ■ * » evidence that insomnia was not^J bis maladies was shown to a br**^H he s a id : “ That's the w a y I always «ct- I " roy eyes shut so as not to _ ont, and my month is one o f d*4** falls open a ll the tim e and only when I remember to shot it- a habit I learned since I cam. « Poughkeepsie. ” .1 Mr. Sage does not know oxtew to do with his bundle o f pb— There is some talk o f his part«« bp in the Poughkeepsie -t»P<* warning to the employees in The men know a ll abont th. and are very mnch alarmed. “ They took me eating a pi*** said a freigh t handler, “ when# the dinner hoar, and I should chucking p ig iron on a flat cat they’ve got a picture o f a bate in the roundhouse, whea should have been cleaning tb. I —New York World.