4 1 FIELD BATTERY. JIM POULDER’S MISTAKE. ■elf satisfied gentleman, and the apace by his side was occupied by a handbag of crocodile leather and a spring overcoat. In the other was another young man not quite so extrava­ gantly dressed, though nea’ ly clad, and not so handsome as the first, though he had an open and intelligent countenance. The far­ mer looked around, and, motioning his daughter to the vacant seat, said: “There’s a place for you, Lucy.” Then, turning to the young man with the sachel, be asked: “Seat engaged P The young man looked up, curled bls Up superciliously, and mid: “Man to fill it’ll be here presently, I dare say.” •Ah!" said the farmer, coolly removing the gripsack and overcoat and placing them on the young man's lap; “then Fll occupy it until becomes.’’ And he seated himself accord­ ingly, while ths young man glared at him. The one on the other side looked amused, annvcreation with the younger, ■’• showed that he was quite well inforn -d. Boiling was glad ef a confer­ ence so entertaining. especially when, as his eyes were ternt in that direrHoa, he caw the young lady was an interested and, be hoped, a pleased listener. There was something very sweet in the expreatooa of her coantenance— an inexpressible imprena of modesty and inno­ cence on bvr features. They ehatted away, and the elder, an dexterously that the younger never perceived it. drew e«rt of the other his position, prospects and intention« Bolling was frank by nature, and the ques­ tions of his interlocutor, who was as ingeni­ ous as the other wan ingenuous, were craftily put The sharp granger soon learned that Frank Bolling bad been engaged for some time in the study ot law; but that his father having met with reverses, and having two younger daughters to educate, the young man determined to make his burden less, and bad set out to support biinself. abandoning his law studies and taking a situation as sales­ man at a country store in Grifftoe, a thriving town about five miles from the main line. “I get but beggarly pay, of course,” said Frank, gayly. “I am only a raw hand; but I have a promise that, when I am better quali­ fied. my wages will be increased." “You are rather a singular person," said the farmer, bluffly. “Most young men would have talked of their salary.” “1 rather prefer the old style of English,” said Bolling. “I am to be a hireling; and the compensation of a hireling to called wages. Rut wages or salary—the terms are indiffer­ ent to me." “My place is within a mile of Griffton," said the old man. “I have a notion that I knew your father once. Wasn't be at Har­ vard in his timer “Yes, sir; and so was I. We are alumni of the same school." “I wonder if he remembers his old chum there—one George Carter—George 8k Leger Carter, ns tirey have it on the rolls." **Yes, sir; I’ve beard him speak of him often, though the two have drifted apart since then Judge Carter, you mean. He lives at Griffton. Do you know bimC “Um! yxe! After a fashion.* “Papa!" whispered the young girl, but Boiling’s quick ear caught her wonto, “I know the jmlge better than you d qy agwm Sm xtae caxttaxxi give« a sign. What a .'•.tecrody is placed in one of these the door of the ajiartment is hermetically sealed. Running from these apartments are tubes which bring air into the deadrooms and also carry it downward by a forced draft to a central furnace below, where are consumed all gases and fluids escaping from the bodies. Deaoing in the mausoleum will not •xcqtKL that of a respectable interment in any well known cemetery. Families could be ac­ commodated with sections, including as many single apartments as desired. The fronts of these ajiartments can be adorned as elaborately as a tombstone, and with fully as great variety of ornamen­ tation. An ordinary mausoleum could be placed within the limits of a city as well as on the cemetery grounds, and be far less ob­ jectionable if built and managed as proposed; than the average brewery or sugar refinery. —New York Tribune. The American Way. As a rule the American never wants to re­ tire. He has an idea that it is his duty “to die with thé harness on.” Accordingly ho keeps aimself in the traces, he works day and night, his hours of recreation are reduced to a mini­ mum, he doesn’t even give himself sufficient, time to eat his meals in such a.Way that his food can be the most easily digested, the ten­ sion of his nervous system is rarely if eve» entirely relaxed. He has his wish, ho dies “with the harness on,” but his death takes place eight or ten years earlier than it would if he had known how to do his work without excitement, and to give himself the.r^pnse which advancing years require.. It is true that there is another alternative to which death would be preferable, for, with enfeebled mind he exists during the latter part of his life in a mental condition requiring the watchful care of his friends or his incarcera­ tion within the wall of a lunatic asylum. I have said that this is the fault of the average American, not by afty means in­ tending to imply that there are not many who are wise enough to act differently, and also many who, notwithstandingztjieir sins against the laws of their being,*'manage to escape in this world, at least, tnefull punish­ ment for their offenses. But I do mean to say that sucb cases are infinitely more com­ mon among us than, among any other nation on the face of the earth, and that Americans, ' more than any other people, are so consti- ' tuted. either from birth or education, that undue mental excitement is a necessary fac­ tor to their existence.—William A. Ham­ mond in New York Mail and Express. -— « ‘ Up in a Hal loon. Our ship goes softly on its way—higher and higher, the earth seems bigger and bigger, as the circular line it makes with the sky grows larger and larger. With two and a quarter tons’ weight, still our bird mounts rapidly upward—now two miles, now two and a half. We sail far above the fields of yellow wheat Mid dark green com of Illinois. Rivers are men» white threads, and lakes are patches of silver set into a carpet of many hues. The forest trees are bushes that look as if a small scythe might easily mow them down. The thin airland our rapid upward flight makes my’head roar, as if with the sounds of noisy drums; I feel dizzy—like one about to faint away. Now we are 15,000 feet high—nearly three miles. ‘ Our ship has not yet cone to the extreme top of her flight. We are far above the clouds. Over the edges of the thick white vapor we gaze at the earth spread out below like a map, with green and gray and brown and yellow spots thereon. From the dis­ comfort of 96 degrees of heat in the shade when we left the earth we have come to the chilly comfort of 37—a drop of nearly 60 de­ grees in less than an hour. This is a quick turn—one that never comes to man or beast below. Yet up here, where we are sailing softly, the air is so dry that the cold affe<-ta us much less than would the same tempera­ ture on the earth's surface.—St Nicholas. Journalists. If I wanted to get good square judg­ | ment on something I had jione I would rather go to a newspaper office than to any other court of justice. I know that the newspapers probe into men’s char­ acters, and the pure need not fear all the presses in America. The way to be safe from so called newspaper attacks is to be a Christian. The reporters are the best detective force in this country. They have brought more criminals to justice I and punctured more shams than all other agencies combined.—Rev. Sam Jones. Coin of the World. The London Economist estimates that there are 15.000,000,000 of coin in th« present circulation of the world or avail­ able for circulation. Of thia magnificent total $3.200,000,000 is in gold and tl ■ 800,000,000 is silver. ADVENTURES OF BICYCLI8T IN THE CHINESE EM Saved from a Howling City lg flerviooa of th« Yamonl Bau Distinguishing Mnrkn—Air El Trip Through Tn-ho. ft Taken all in all my tour thn was about the toughest bit p< ax the whole journey around the i bicycle. Nothing to more certain 1 should have perished at the hag bowling city mob in the interior f the good services of the yameq| under whose protection I travel«* last two weeks I was in the count The yameni runners of China to the zaptiehs of Turkey and th Persia, Afghanistan and other a countries. Attached to the goi every city or district are a certai these yameni runners. Their dut dispatches, convey prisoners, pi •rty, act as escqgL and otherwise in the service of the mandarins. TWO WHITB “BULL’« IT The yameni runners wear tl Chinese garments #ith the excej coat, Which is embellished With - tinguishingappendage«. Them« of these, and by which the yai . mayfreadily be distinguished fro . . AJ/(m*as can be seen, are two “bull’s feyes,” one on his back an in front. These round white | about eighteen inches in diame markfkj withJjjgred characters ’ cate tlfe districtUIU wearer.belon The real Object of these ll^rge d is to form a fitting ground work t| spicuous display of the character^ ropean residents of the treaty | ever, facetiously call- them “bulli account for their adoption as foil A Chinese soldier can never, circumstances, hit the bull’s eye q Observing this, and in their egot ing that what the celestial warri do the soldiers of no other com the authorities conceived the idea ing bull’s eyes, front and rear, to| runners, so that, in ca: